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Shocking Hockey News Out of Canada, While the American Press Is Still Bothered by Baseball Bible Verses

Brad Slager
Brad Slager  |  Jun 17, 2026
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Artisanally-Crafted Narratives – SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

  • Funny how only one group was being offensive.

The conflagration continues against the players on the SF Giants who placed Bible verses on their hats during Pride night at a game. As usual, the players choosing to either not participate or signify something else are considered aggressive monsters.

Ann Killion describes all the problems associated with this one-way travel. A player who wrote a Bible verse on his hat was said to “hijack” the event, and that the scribbling “defaced” the uniform, as if it were a religious icon.

But that is just the start of the hysterics from Killion.

  • Some of the snowflakes on the Giants, the pitching staff specifically, decided to say a giant F-you to a good chunk of their fan base. On a night that was supposed to be about inclusion, they hijacked the event for their own purposes. In the name of Christianity, they took a decidedly un-Christian stance of exclusion and judgment. 

Huh, so the appearance of a Bible verse alone is excluding, judgmental, and was an “F-You!” to fans. Funny how recognizing Pride night is not considered exclusionary or offensive to anyone in the fanbase, just the passive writing of a tract is all of those offenses.


Reporting On The Mirror – CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION

  • Admit it - this is FAR bigger news than Scott Pelley leaving “60 Minutes”

In truly jarring news, it was just announced that the Canadian broadcaster, the CBC, is losing its landmark broadcast. After 74 years, the traditional show for generations of Canadians on Saturday evenings, “Hockey Night In Canada”, is leaving the network.

Beginning next year, the rights for the sport are moving to Sportsnet. This may be the second most shocking hockey news for Snow Mexico, after losing the Olympic gold medal game to the U.S. of A.


Hoax & Change – VARIOUS OUTLETS

  • Smollet-minds strike again.

For a couple of days, there were select outlets outraged at the report of a burning cross spotted in Chicago. That location alone should have sparked nothing but skepticism over its origins and intent. This is a city with a massive minority population, and hardly the area known for KKK activity. The mayor came out with his expected outrage, and many local news outlets, as well as some national ones, joined in with the chorus of outrage at the racism on display.

Now we have seen the facts: It was done by a 21-year-old gay Asian man, as a form of protest against…President Trump.


Both Kinds Of Standards – CNN

  • And here we thought “Nobody is above the law.”

Gavin Newsom’s wife is the focus of a DOJ investigation. The response to this development is not curiosity and investigations – it is accusing President Trump of targeting his opponents. And just to make this dysfunctional approach all the more ridiculous, CNN brought on the disgraced Andrew McCabe to complain about this case.

  • The existence of that sort of investigation in normal times, the simple fact that it’s targ- It may be targeting a political family, a political person, his wife, doesn't necessarily mean that investigation is politically motivated. It shouldn't mean that. But on the other hand, what we have seen so many times by this administration, unlike any other administration before it, is the very proactive, blatant use of the Justice Department to go after political enemies, to target political people, to try to drum up negative information about the people they don't like.

Once again, we need to ignore the four years of Joe Biden’s DOJ targeting Donald Trump and many other political figures.


Prose & Contradiction – SPIKED

  • Lashing out at those getting details incorrect after you were 180 degrees off target is simply pathetic.

In a development most sane people were looking for, the case of the Scottish teenage girl who was protecting her sister from adult harassment and was accused by authorities of being the aggressor has ended with the adults being charged. The Bulgarian man was found guilty of sexually harassing a 12-year-old, and his female accomplice admitted to physically assaulting another. 

Writing at Spiked, Deputy Editor Fraser Myers admits he got the story wrong. He had initially written that the young axe-wielding heroine, dubbed “Sophie of Dundee”, was all misinformation and the girl was to blame.

Myers does admit to getting the story incorrect, but he could not let that admission stand alone. He passes off his error on the police being too coy with facts and protecting the immigrant adults, so he was essentially misled. But after basically calling the preteen girls the aggressors, he then lashes out at those online who were correctly taking the side of the girls, because allegedly that was rooted in racist assumptions on the adult attackers, because some had their ethnicity incorrect, or improperly assumed they were Muslim.

Considering the recently released reports out of British Parliament about the scope of the rape gangs in that country, it would have been best for Myers to have simply walked away from this story entirely.