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Aznavour named to Order of Canada

The Canadian Press

Latest comment posted at 3:19 PM EST 04/07/08

Legendary singer, described as the Frank Sinatra of France, gets special designation reserved for non-Canadians ...Read the full article

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  1. Jack Robertson from Toronto, Canada writes: I don't care if the Order of Canada is given to Charles Aznavour or not. I don't recall him advocating the slaughter of the unborn. Like millions of other Canadians, I care very much that the Order has been debased by being awarded to a doctor who chose to take lives rather than preserve them. Perhaps Dr. Morgentaler should reacquaint himself with the Hippocratic Oath.
  2. Paul I from Rochester NY, United States writes: Dr.Morgentaler is known as the Charles Aznavour of Canada.
  3. bj sutherland from Victoria, Canada writes: I have no problems with awarding this OovC to a French singer, he's probably as deserving as hundreds of other international entertainers who have been appreciated by Canadians. But do we have to rehash the controversy of the Morgentaler honour on this thread? Let's keep to the subject. Why do we give this award to non-Canadians?
  4. West Coast Guy from Canada writes: The only thing I know about Aznavour is that he was a special guest on the Muppet Show way back when. Highlights included him whispering sweet nothings in French to Miss Piggy (actually talking about garbage pickup) and kermit's pronunciation of 'Aznavooooor'. Heck, if that isn't worth the order of Canada I don't know what is!
  5. Randal Oulton from Toronto, Canada writes: I like Aznavour, but I'm confused....

    I thought Canada was against foreign honours, but here we are dishing them out.... I must be missing something, 'cause surely that would be hypocritical, otherwise....
  6. jim aikens from Toronto, Canada writes: As was briefly noted in the article, Charles Aznavour actually lived in Canada for a couple of years in the 1940s. He and his partner, Pierre Roche, were abandoned here by Edith Piaf as she pursued her boxer-lover, Maurice Cerdan. During that time, as Aznavour commented in an autobiographical book, he 'learned English in the restaurants of the West island' and was tempted to stay. His partner, Roche, married a Canadienne and did settle here, but Aznavour wanted to get into the movies -- and Montreal was an unlikely place to do that in the 1940s (though he did make a movie in Toronto much later!) So the connection is long and admirable.
  7. Ricky for a Centrist Canada from Canada writes:
    You guys are losers.

    Get a life.
  8. Paul I from Rochester NY, United States writes: Ricky- You need to get in touch with your softer, more sensitive side.Maybe you should listen to some Aznavour or Piaf records tonight just before you drift off to sleep. Nighty-night big boy.
  9. Eric Kirkpatrick from Canada writes: Canada is generally opposed to honors of a political nature or one that expets certain roles to be undertaken by it's recepients. Such as a peerage to the House of Lords. But has not argued against it's citizens being honored by foriegn governments or organizations for exempary contibutions such as the Noble Prize or Literay prizes or other professional honors. The Aga Khan, the Queen, Nelson Mandela and John Kenneth Gailbraith have all been made honorary members of the Order of Canada. It's amazing how some men will use any excuse to vent their zenophobia, misogyny or outright bigoty. They won't be happy until the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant's rule is written into the constitution and Canada the way it should be, women back in the kitchen, darkies in the fields and gays in the closet!
  10. Bert Russell Paradox, BC from Canada writes: Eric Kirkpatrick: some men?? - Eric is there something you haven't told us? Do you have some unresolved issues or are you just painting the whole white race bigots as a right of your minority persecution.
  11. Paul I from Rochester NY, United States writes: Eric Kirkpatric- 'xenophobia' and 'bigotry'
  12. Mark S Noel from NT, Canada writes: I have never heard of this person, and that would be why the Order of Canada has no meaning or value at all.
  13. Bob Cajun from the glorious nation of coboconk, Canada writes: Hey, the whole Order of Canada thing lost its meaning way back when one of its recipients disparaged Canada and renounced his citizenship, yet got to keep the award.
  14. Dude Rancher from Toronto, Canada writes: The Order of Canada is a waste of money...does anybody really think it has any meaning?
  15. Paul I from Rochester NY, United States writes: Mark S. Noel- Check with poster jim aiken from toronto. He can fill you in on all the details.
  16. Paul I from Rochester NY, United States writes: Maybe the Order Of Canada can be a Roll Up The Rim To Win prize next year.

    'Damn', I got the Order Of Canada again', I was hoping for a Fruit Explosion'

    I wonder if Aznavour ever had a fruit explosion?

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