Less than a week before their scheduled Pride night match and the Vancouver Canucks still haven’t confirmed they will be wearing dedicated warm\u002Dup jerseys, something they’ve done since 2017.
“We’ve had some members that are saying ‘if they don’t wear the jerseys, we’re going to walk away from this whole relationship,’” Roy-Bertin said.Photo by Brennan Roy-BertinFlorian Gassner, an associate professor in the department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies at UBC, said that while the Russian law allowed for financial penalties against individuals and organizations, there are “more nuanced society pressures the government can apply to people.
“The spirit of the law is censorship,” Gassner said. “It’s custom tailored to keeping certain information off of the airwaves or out of the internet.”Article content“We have no information that would suggest there is any material threat that would exist related to a Russian player participating in a club’s Pride activities.”
“We’re still further ahead than we were 10 years ago,” he said, but noted that if the Canucks decide not to wear the jersey it would be “a step back from last year.” “We would be disappointed,” he said, calling it “a political decision” that some supporters have suggested could be seen as a betrayal.
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