Playing the Indian Card

Saturday, June 04, 2005

Pssst--Canadian is Crowned Miss Universe

Canada's Natalie Gelbova won the Miss Universe crown this week. The story was featured on the front page of the Gulf News.

But not even mentioned in the news summaries I get daily from CBC and the Toronto Star. A Google search turns up seven pages of press stories, everywhere from China's People's Daily to the Star of Malta, before I find the first major Canadian media hit--the Winnipeg Sun.

To my mind, this illustrates how limited the Canadian media voice has become--that a Canadian who has bested the world is barely acknowledged in her home country.

And it shows the Canadian hostility to all that is traditionally and uniquely feminine, that deceptively masquerades under the name "feminism."

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