

"Everybody just saw a topless protester, but they're looking now.

"We created an international buzz, and even if people aren't asking the right questions now, they will be," she said. Junos 2023: The Weeknd wins big, Avril Lavigne confronts topless protester onstage."We wanted to start off with a big bang, and I think we achieved that goal," she said, adding that she chose to disrupt Lavigne "for the headline." Hatherly, who had a ticket for the Junos, said she chose the awards show as a platform simply because of the international attention it would garner. She said she is part of a group called On To Ottawa that will go to the nation's capital in April to demand a citizens' assembly for climate action. This expression and its alternative, monkey about, allude to the playful behavior and curiosity associated with monkeys.A Vancouver woman charged with mischief after a disruption at the Juno Awards is unapologetic about her public protest that garnered headlines around the world.Ĭasey Hatherly, who goes by the name Ever, was arrested after interrupting Avril Lavigne's speech during the high-profile event the 37-year-old was topless, wearing pasties and had slogans for environmental causes such as "Stop logging old growth now" and "Save the green belt" scrawled on her body.ĬBC News spoke with Hatherly on Wednesday outside of the Edmonton courthouse after her bail hearing. Monkey around To fool around to waste time or loaf to engage in aimless activities also monkey around with, to tinker or play with something, usually out of curiosity to interfere with to tamper with. The current British sense of this term ‘legerdemain, jugglery, sleight of hand’ was apparently the original meaning of hanky-panky, thought to be related to the similar rhyming compound hocus-pocus or its variant hokey-pokey. Hanky-panky Monkey business, shenanigans, mischief any illegal or unethical goings-on colloquially often used for philandering or adultery. Now the gremlin seems to be extending its sphere of operations, so that the term can be applied to almost anything that inexplicably goes wrong in human affairs. Gremlins are mythical creatures who are supposed to cause trouble such as engine failures in aeroplanes, a curious piece of whimsy-whamsy in an activity so severely practical as flying.
