Live8 Makes World Take Notice, Canadians Settle for B Mulroney

Leaving their walkers discreetly backstage, the world’s octogenarian rockers smeared on their make-up, jiggled their beer guts and screamed into microphones one more time to ostensibly do something nice for starving people in Africa on Saturday, July 2. The crowd of 30,000 (the same number of people who die every day of starvation) attending in Barrie, Ontario can be forgiven for barely registering a ripple on the dancerama scale as the occasion followed by a day the Great White Suburbanite’s Holiday, aka Canada Day.