More Olympic theft

A$100,000,000 gift of taxpayers money has NPA fighting to hide all details and information.Beyond belief is the only way Ladner's comments can be described as he wants us to believe that taking this money without discussion or revealing any details is protecting the taxpayer.The only thing being protected is the NPA council and it's machinations that have reduced the social housing component at a time of chronic homelessness and a constant decrease of rental and affordable units.The party of developers is proving itself to be incapable of change.A vote for the NPA is a vote against the poor and the homeless and any chance of those issues being dealt with in a humane and timely manner.Ladner is more interrested in protecting the rich developers and the draconian measures that have been taken by the city to contain these people in the DTES.Ladner says he's staking his political career on this bailout.Let's let him know just how despicable the ordinary people find this arrogant attitude and unethical back room kinds of dealings without remorse.

The Olympics do not represent Canadians

Olympic chair John Furlong was quoted today as saying Canadians were embracing the Olympics:"hook line and sinker".This Freudian slip indicates that Furlong knows he's selling Canadians a line of fish fertilizer.The theme so far has pretended to channel native folklore and art but there has been no native input and artists that have tried to find an outlet for their work have been ignored.The Olympics have so far run a highway through an environmentally sensitive area,broken promises to build housing for the dispossessed,hired private security to "move people along",from the business district,sat back while SRO's have been closed for renovations,worked with police to send to other jurisdictions,people wanted on minor crimes and spent unconscionable sums of money on frivolous things like Olympic clocks and the covering over of Robson Square.Gordon Campbell has finally admitted that the roof is being planned and there has been no public input in spite of Campbell's claims.If the public was to be consulted,Aurthur Erickson would not be trying so hard to distance himself from the project even as I write this piece .Campbell has a habit of starting projects first and asking the people later,after it's redundant.The native people are now claiming their leaders are signing off on projects for personal gain to the detriment of their people.Furlongs hook line and sinker is an old adage used when perpetrating a fraud on someone.His invoking of this is a telling and very enlightening comment.