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Morning Brew: The Plan
Poorest to Pay for Campbell Plan? Isn't that exactly Campbell's plan in the first place? No. but. seriously.
James' plan. Meh. C+
Gregor's Plan. Where's da money?
Rotberg's Plan: We're so inward-looking here, and we're so narcissistic about how wonderful we are -the best place on Earth- that we're reluctant to look into Ontario, or anywhere east of the Rockies or anywhere south of the border, where they have dozens of affordable-housing inducement programs that are working wonderfully"
Bedbug solution touted. Solution= actually doing something about it.
Vancity Buzz offer some advice on the financial crisis: "This cycles has just begun and panic has set in, it will be over when people stop talking it". Phew!
Endowment fund bolstering 'struggling' Olympic Village: Ladner. I love his spokesperson's response. He's all like, "isn't that public knowledge"? Isn't that what a slush fund is for?
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Apparently a picture IS worth a thousand words..
Those mediocre snapshots of the Insite really tell the story.
Tents erected on a major arterial road during rush hour. All of Hastings street essentially shut down. Thousands of commuters disrupted. Dozens of VPD officers on paid crowd control duty. A rag-tag turnout of the usual suspects: poverty activists and Hastings burnouts - who already support InSite regardless of the free burgers, stilt walkers and concert.
And the last frame - most telling of all, where an actual InSite user is turned away..
Why? Because Mark Townsend chooses to disdainfully thumb his nose at everyone and anyone in his single-minded Machiavellian self interest. This cheezy publicity stunt could have been held elsewhere at any one of the dozens of PHS owned buildings in a two block radius. The police offered a more suitable location barely round the corner.
If we as tax-payers are going to continue to support Insite, and attempt to better the situation in the DTES. I think we need seriously need to re-consider who we are letting run the show. The PHS is clearly not part of the soliution.