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Tag Archives: olympics
The Games opened yesterday with the start of what I suspect will persist throughout the Games — agitators doing everything they could to dampen the party.
As the ceremonies occurred, protesters tried to push their way there, and the inevitable clash with authorities ensued. Two cops suffered minor injuries, but no protesters were harmed.
Here’s my thinking, okay?
Vancouver’s [...]
Hi. I’m Steffani, and I’m a lifelong Vancouverite.
I voted “YES” in the Olympics plebiscite “back in the day,” when we lowly democratic peons had the chance to vote on the once-every-four-years-party that, you know, would cost a few bucks to put on.
Now, I know, that voting day was such a sunny, beautiful day so many years [...]
Posted in Current Events, Society, Specifically Steff, Steff Rants, keeping it real Also tagged 2010, 2010 vancouver, bc, canada, olympic games, protesters, protests, vancouver 2010, winter olympics 43 Comments
Sep
08
2006
When Will It Change?
I work a couple blocks away from one of the nastiest parts of my beloved city, Vancouver, Canada. It’s like a whole other world when you stumble into the Downtown East Side, just two blocks east of my office, a place that held, in the early ‘90s, the highest urban rate of AIDS and HIV [...]
Posted in Current Events, Dimestore Philosophy, Journalling, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Politics Also tagged 2010, AIDS, Crime, des, disenfranchised, downtown, downtown east side, Drugs, hastings, HIV, main, murder, pickton, poverty, Vancouver, willie pickton 2 Comments
Olympic Autopsy