Shaidle Loses Sponser, Moves To New Location

The place is the London City Music Theatre, and it is now being sponsored by some combination of the Forest City Institute, a low-rent version of the Fraser Institute, and the Friends of Canadian Coalition for Democracy, which is Salim Mansur's gang (he too will be speaking at the event).

As this fellow indicates, and contra FiveFoot, the venue is a good deal smaller than the original (Jewish Community Centre).

Shaidle In London: Are We Controversial Yet?

London Free Press has the latest on the Kathy Shaidle saga here:

Her scheduled appearance in London has started a similar battle in the blogosphere. Many of the blogs state the event is organized by the London Jewish Federation.

The federation's executive director, Esther Marcus, said yesterday she was asked by organizers of the event to book the Jewish Community Centre.

That was the extent of her involvement and, in any case, the organizers are now looking at another location, Marcus said. The federation is not a sponsor of the event, she said.

The piece also notes that, Alan Perlmutter, one of the event's organizers, is having second thoughts.

The most important thing to come from this relates to how a figure gets labelled "controversial" in wikipedia. Details as to how it would work in Shaidle's case can be found here, but the upshot appears to be, if I understand correctly, that a MSM piece (like the one above) quoting her more "outrageous" statements should make it easier for a catalog of such statements to appear as part of her main wiki entry. Thus anyone considering booking Shaidle for a speaking event/tv appearance will find them in the course of doing their due diligence research.

Shaidle Watch: What's Up In London

Five Foot insists that her speaking engagement in London on April 13th is still on. One of the London event organizers has apparently told her that

The event has not been cancelled. Due to the huge response we are looking at a larger venue.

So we know that the event is no longer being held in the London Jewish Community Center. What we don't know yet is whether or not the London Jewish Federation is still a sponsor, and that is the real issue. Shaidle suggests that they are, and that the Federation's Executive Director Esther Marcus jccexec@ljf.on.ca is still point-person for the event.

So there you have it.