{"id":161104,"date":"2018-04-22T05:29:29","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T09:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=161104"},"modified":"2018-04-22T05:29:29","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T09:29:29","slug":"nova-scotia-politician-files-complaint-with-talk-show-host-jimmy-kimmel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/04\/22\/nova-scotia-politician-files-complaint-with-talk-show-host-jimmy-kimmel\/","title":{"rendered":"Nova Scotia politician files complaint with talk show host Jimmy Kimmel"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_161105\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-161105\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Jimmy-Kimmel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-161105\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Jimmy-Kimmel.jpg\" alt=\"A provincial cabinet minister in Nova Scotia has written a letter of complaint to talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel, saying he didn't appreciate a recent segment that made light of the Halifax Explosion. (Photo: Jimmy Kimmel\/Facebook)\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Jimmy-Kimmel.jpg 720w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Jimmy-Kimmel-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-161105\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A provincial cabinet minister in Nova Scotia has written a letter of complaint to talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel, saying he didn&#8217;t appreciate a recent segment that made light of the Halifax Explosion. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jimmykimmel\/photos\/a.1648009658809463.1073741828.1641767806100315\/1991689127774846\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jimmykimmel\/\">Jimmy Kimmel\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>HALIFAX \u2014 A provincial cabinet minister in Nova Scotia has written a letter of complaint to talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel, saying he didn&#8217;t appreciate a recent segment that made light of the Halifax Explosion.<\/p>\n<p>The letter from Labour Minister Labi Kousoulis says even though the disaster happened more than 100 years ago, Nova Scotian families still live with the memories of a wartime blast that killed about 2,000 people in 1917.<\/p>\n<p>Kousoulis&#8217;s letter says \u201cthe wounds are still very deep and very apparent within Halifax and our province.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the segment, broadcast Monday, Kimmel and actor Rob Lowe used irreverent humour while discussing the disaster, with Kimmel saying at one point, \u201cIt was 100 years ago, so we can laugh about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lowe told Kimmel he was \u201cobsessed\u201d with the catastrophe, saying he successfully lobbied to have his character in a new movie named for the deadly blast.<\/p>\n<p>In the new film \u201cSuper Troopers 2,\u201d Lowe plays Guy Le Franc, a former hockey star whose nickname is \u201cthe Explosion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lowe has worked on several projects in the Halifax area.<\/p>\n<p>Kimmel said he had never heard of the blast, in which a munitions ship caught fire after colliding with another vessel and exploded \u2014 levelling the city&#8217;s north end.<\/p>\n<p>Kousoulis says Kimmel owes Nova Scotians an apology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would ask that you please take into consideration the levity of your conversation with Mr. Lowe,\u201d the letter says. \u201cI hope that you would offer an apology to all Nova Scotians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HALIFAX \u2014 A provincial cabinet minister in Nova Scotia has written a letter of complaint to talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":161105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[12714,50097],"class_list":["post-161104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-labour-minister-labi-kousoulis","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}