Joel North released a video on YouTube Monday to address the reaction he received after he tweeted to a local woman streaming herself playing video games that she would "get more viewers if [she] were stripping." North said he wasn't sorry for what he tweeted and that those who called his tweet dismissive or "dehumanizing" implied that strippers are less valued as people. North said his tweet was a "simple observation," and a joke that may have been distasteful to some people. The tweet reading "you'd get more viewers if you were stripping" is why Joel North is no longer an employee at Coast 101.1. The tweet did not violate "any law, in any way" according to North, and was a form of self-expression on his part.

Source: CBC News September 27, 2016 11:15 UTC