Information Morning: Words and Atlantic Canada

information morning: Gerry Mills, executive director of the Immigrant Services Association of Nova Scotia, said the organization was contacted by a community member who was upset by what she'd heard, according to CBC. Words can be weapons' The reality is words are usually taken at their face value and people in the public domain, and that includes bands, they have to understand that words can be weapons and that they can hurt, said Mills, whose organization is one of the largest immigrant-serving agencies in Atlantic Canada. Last week, CBC's Information Morning aired the song A Free Country by the Stanfields, in which frontman Jon Landry sings, I don't think much of strangers, much of you or your kind, you best fit in or you're free to find a better place to be. After Mills heard the complaint, she played the song for about 10 people at a meeting and said there was complete silence. Lyrics meant to be sarcastic The song, which Landry wrote in 2012, appears on the Stanfields's album For King and Country. There are many songs that have racist, sexist or have violent content and I wouldn't normally respond, but somehow when it's a band based in Halifax and when it gets played by the CBC in the morning to thousands of listeners here in Nova Scotia, it gets to be more personal, said Mills. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.