Incumbent candidate for Calgary City council Ward Sutherland draws criticism for comments he made at a public forum in which he refers to a “Johnny Jew from New York” as a hypothetical artist hired under the city’s public art policy.

“And as I dove into the weeds, I found that one of the biggest issues was the fact that the committee that was picking the art, first of all, 10 out of the 10 people were artists. And when they were looking at it, they were going, ‘Well, Johnny Jew from New York, he’s the best artist, so we’re going to use him and not even look at it.’ So we tried to have the policy changed.”

Upon being called out for the ‘Johnny Jew’ reference he said,”During our discussion about public art at the forum I referenced a famous New York designer with the last name of Choo.”

Asked why he would refer specifically to Choo, a Malaysian-born fashion designer based in the United Kingdom whose first name isn’t Johnny but Jimmy, Sutherland said he mixed things up in the heat of the moment.

Sutherland’s stands by his Johnny Choo from New York comment but it’s arguable that in his mind and from previous behaviour he was making a knife-twisting gesture towards Johnny Jew from New York.

(May 8/2017 Councillor Ward Sutherland ‘s back-stabbing hand gesture in the direction of a female colleague prompted her to change seats and a fellow councillor to file a complaint to the integrity commissioner. Coun. Ward Sutherland made the gesture during a public hearing, extending his arm and appearing to repeatedly make a knife-twisting motion with his hand toward Coun. Druh Farrell as she was speaking, her back turned to him.)

Exciting discovery of Court Painter Duo 70’s musical melodies with Celine Dion.

WOW just WOW!

Court Painter Says He Is ‘Ready For Anything’ After Talking With Trump & Trudeau in Washington
The president has hinted at a new Court Painter-U.S. deal.

Court Painter takes drastic action with ongoing studio communications strategy after being unnerved by ex Google strategist’s public statement regarding digital communications platforms.

A Hardon MacKay Press Attache and Communications Specialist for Court Painter indicated all digital forms of communication will be banned from the studio and a replacement communications strategy utilizing carrier pigeons will be introduced. This flight forward flying strategy has a few kinks to be worked out however in an off script comment he went on to say, ” when the going gets tough the tough get going.”  The Press Attache when pressed refused to elaborate on what he meant other that to say,”We’ll see!”

(photos) Court Painter is seen working with his assistant and competitor CC (name available upon request) setting up the carrier pigeon Communications system.The pigeons are equipped with non digital cameras and jackets with pockets for hand written notes.The parachute and tin can components of the system are being monitored for usefulness.

What was the statement that unnerved the Court Painter enterprise to rethink and upgrade the mechanics of studio communications?

“If we only care about profit maximization,“we will go rapidly into dystopia.” James Williams said. Williams, 35 does not believe talk of dystopia is far-fetched. The ex-Google strategist who built the metrics system for the company’s global search advertising business, has had a front-row view of an industry he describes as the “largest, most standardized and most centralized form of attentional control in human history”.
In a journey that has led him to question whether democracy can survive the new technological age he went on to say,
“Eighty-seven percent of people wake up and go to sleep with their smartphones. The entire world now has a new prism through which to understand politics.
The dynamics of the attention economy are structurally set up to undermine the human will. If politics is an expression of our human will, on individual and collective levels, then the attention economy is directly undermining the assumptions that democracy rests on. If Apple, Facebook, Google, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat are gradually chipping away at our ability to control our own minds, could there come a point, I ask, at which democracy no longer functions?
Will we be able to recognize it, if and when it happens? And if we can’t, then how do we know it hasn’t happened already?”

“Alpha specimens indubitably!”(author unknown)

 Jagmeet Singh and Court Painter face off in an early 21st century Alpha Match  ….”impossible to separate the two celebrities, ” remarked Press Attache A Hardon MacKay authoritatively.

Both have been called youthful, charismatic and energetic, but also been talked about in less, shall we say, commonplace ways.

Behold what The Globe and Mail’s Margaret Wente said, for example, in a column published the day after she was glad to still have a job. Both have a “brilliant branding device” in drawing attention to their heads, she writes:

“Both have the posture of a warrior — brash, worldly, fearless and also super-manly. Not merely beta males, but both are pure alpha, with full luxuriant beards and serious threads to match.”

At the end of her column, Wente wonders if we could get the two of them in an MMA match. Are you there, God? It’s Margaret, and she has a wonderful idea.

Over at the Toronto Sun, columnist Lorne Gunter describes Singh and Court Painter in a tie because in spite of the age difference both are youthful, smart,  well-dressed and trendy: politically correct symbols of virility.”

“Singh is as distinctive for his designer suits and immaculately tied turban as Court Painter is for his dandy socks and paint splattered smocks.” he writes.

‘Both are dreamboats’

Slide back to The Globe and we find television critic John Doyle writing about Singh and Court Painter as “masterful” in their use of visual imagery.

 

“What emanates from them is cosmopolitan masculinity, virility, style, confidence, ease with themselves and oozing empathy. Both have sex appeal to burn as in sizzling HOT,” Doyle writes.

“Court Painter and Jagmeet Singh are, to a lot of people, especially millennials, dreamboats,” gushed Press Attache A Hardon MacKay.