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Her book-length poetry collection, ''Lobotomy Magnificat'', was nominated for a 1998 [[Governor General's Award]]. Critic [[Wendy McGrath]], writing in the ''[[Edmonton Journal]]'', praised the poetry for how it "effectively relates sacred images or text to present day events and images."<ref>{{cite news| last =McGrath| first =Wendy| title =Poet relates sacred images to today's views| page =F6| publisher =''[[Edmonton Journal]]''| date =1998-12-06| }}</ref> In contrast, the Montreal ''[[The Gazette (Montreal)|Gazette]]'''s reviewer was critical of the book's "diet of smart phrasing... and fabricated insights."<ref>{{cite news| last =Starnino| first =Carmine| title =Five poets in search of a prize| page =J5| publisher =''[[The Gazette (Montreal)|The Gazette]]''| date =1998-11-14| }}</ref> |
Her book-length poetry collection, ''Lobotomy Magnificat'', was nominated for a 1998 [[Governor General's Award]]. Critic [[Wendy McGrath]], writing in the ''[[Edmonton Journal]]'', praised the poetry for how it "effectively relates sacred images or text to present day events and images."<ref>{{cite news| last =McGrath| first =Wendy| title =Poet relates sacred images to today's views| page =F6| publisher =''[[Edmonton Journal]]''| date =1998-12-06| }}</ref> In contrast, the Montreal ''[[The Gazette (Montreal)|Gazette]]'''s reviewer was critical of the book's "diet of smart phrasing... and fabricated insights."<ref>{{cite news| last =Starnino| first =Carmine| title =Five poets in search of a prize| page =J5| publisher =''[[The Gazette (Montreal)|The Gazette]]''| date =1998-11-14| }}</ref> |
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Shaidle and Catholic journalist [[Pete Vere]] |
Shaidle and Catholic journalist [[Pete Vere]] recently wrote and published ''The Tyranny of Nice'', a critique of the human rights tribunals that exist in Canada. |
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== Controversy == |
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Kathy Shaidle (born 7 May 1964) is a Canadian Roman Catholic author, columnist and poet.
Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Shaidle studied at Sheridan College. Since the mid-1980s she has worked in Toronto, eventually talking up a post at the Catholic New Times magazine. In 1991, she left the publication to pursue a writing career, only to discover that summer she contracted lupus erythematosus.[1] She was on the left as a self-described "anarcho-peacenik" in the early years of her writing career but, prompted in large part by the attacks of September 11, 2001, has become an outspoken conservative. [16]
Shaidle wrote the blog relapsedcatholic.com[2][3] and a column for the Roman Catholic weekly Our Sunday Visitor. She left the latter post in April 2007 after the newspaper refused to publish a column she had written criticizing Earth Day. [17] In September 2007 she stopped posting at Relapsed Catholic and began a new blog, fivefeetoffury.com, a reference to her petite stature and often pugnacious writing style.
Her book-length poetry collection, Lobotomy Magnificat, was nominated for a 1998 Governor General's Award. Critic Wendy McGrath, writing in the Edmonton Journal, praised the poetry for how it "effectively relates sacred images or text to present day events and images."[4] In contrast, the Montreal Gazette's reviewer was critical of the book's "diet of smart phrasing... and fabricated insights."[5]
Shaidle and Catholic journalist Pete Vere recently wrote and published The Tyranny of Nice, a critique of the human rights tribunals that exist in Canada.
Controversy
The following are controversial statements made by Kathy Shaidle herself regarding minorities.
On Islam: "...your religion is fucking retarded...ungrateful beligerent foreign savages...These are people who love watching beheading videos on the internet...A sick, sick religion. Basically Scientology with bombs. Pathetic whiny losers."[6]
On Muslim and Pakistani immigrants: "Muslims...most of them can't even read...What we really need to do is stop immigration from Pakistan and other crazy Muslim countries filled with illiterate, violent tribal peasants..."[7]
On Muslim children: they are "parasites."[8]
On a group of Muslim students who object to some statements by Mark Steyn: they are "motherfucking parasites."[9]
On Muslims: "Muslims always have to be on top, in reverse proportion to their ability to do anything with competence or creativity."[10]
On Indians: they are "parasites" who "extorted tax dollars [for] booze, smokes and junk food. Not to mention free everything else, including university educations they don't bother getting."[11]
On blacks: "...there is nothing ‘compelling’ about a black man impregnating a white woman. In more than one Toronto neighbourhood, that's what they call Saturday night."[12] On the only people who can get excited about Barack Obama: "black, stupid or both."[13]
On Jamaicans: "Just think of how much Jamaican immigrants contribute to our culture and economy: monotonous, illiterate music that all sounds the same, filthy hairstyles, those little tricoloured Rasta doohickies."[14]
On the blacks of New Orleans: they are "pathetic losers" who cannot have their IQs raised "a single point."[15]
On the poor: they are poor because they are "too lazy and stupid to a) finish high school and/or b) keep their pants on.…I don’t care about the poor. They’re no more real than Bigfoot."[16]
On AIDS: "From the beginning, AIDS activism has been more about mainstreaming the gay "lifestyle" than saving lives."[17]
On Sikhs: "Backward foreigners [who] shit on hand that feeds them...Unable to invent their own iconic product due to too much time spent worshipping monkeys and cows, setting women on fire and obsessing over imperceptible differences in each other's skin colour..."[18]
On blind people: "Giving blind people real jobs...is not working out."[19]
On Chinese: "[They are] spitting and shooting snot on the sidewalk...throwing broken crates of rotten bock choy all over Spadina Avenue [and] eating dubious, illegal foodstuffs" [and cause SARS.][20]
Awards and recognition
- 1998: poetry finalist, Governor General's Awards
- Canadian Church Press: four awards (humour, best national columnist, etc.)[21]
Bibliography
- God rides a Yamaha: Musings on pain, poetry, and pop culture, Northstone, 1998. ISBN 1896836240
- Lobotomy magnificat Ottawa: Oberon, 1997 ISBN 0-7780-1070-8 (hardcover), ISBN 0-7780-1071-6 (paperback).
- Acoustic Ladyland: Kathy Shaidle Unplugged
References
Notes
- ^ Shaidle, Kathy (13 December 1998). "Illness a harsh but welcome teacher". Toronto Star. p. 1.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|1=(help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ "Giggles and God-stuff: Hooting with the Maker on the Web". The Ottawa Citizen. 8 April 2001. p. C16.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|1=(help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Shaidle, Kathy (unknown date, after September 2001). "My life as a (mediocre) Catholic". CBC News. Retrieved 2008-01-28.
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- ^ Carpenter, Rebecca (December 1998). "The triumph of Kathy Shaidle". Quill & Quire. Retrieved 26 January 2008.
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Further reading
- Weisblott, Marc (10 March 2008). "Kathy Shaidle live". eye. Retrieved 8 January 2009.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - Audio: Shire Network News Interview Kathy Shaidle and Kate McMillan] discuss the law suit filled against them (and other Canadian bloggers) by Richard Warman, 22 April 2008
External links
- Kathy Shaidle official website, accessed 20 July 2006
- Relapsed Catholic, Shaidle's former blog, accessed 20 July 2006
- Five Feet of Fury, Shaidle's current blog, accessed 25 September 2007
- University of Toronto: Kathy Shaidle profile, accessed 20 July 2006
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