The fish fights back

After failing to do their masters' bidding in confronting last weeks Anti-Poverty Committee occupation of Ken Dobell's office, Gordon Campbell's media minions snapped back to attention and continued work on defaming the APC. Columnists accused the APC of drawing attention away from the issue of homelessness and on to themselves like so many spoiled children. A CTV reporter asked people living on the street such delightfully loaded and simplistic questions as "Do you think you're homeless because of the Olympics". The best piece was an astounding defiance of quantum physics: Jim Green was brought four years into the future from 2003 to defend the previous City Council's agreement with VANOC on social housing.

Unfortunately, no one bothered to tell Green before he went before a microphone that any commitments made by VANOC or the City for Social Housing ended up under the wheels of Sam Sullivan's wheelchair a long time ago. Either Green was disoriented from the effects of time travel, or perhaps he wasn't the best choice for Mayor in the last election after all. It also doesn't appear that Jim Green 2007 was able to meet up with Jim Green 2003 and warn him about his namesake appearing on the same Mayoral ballot, because the commentary you're reading at this moment would no longer exist.

This page recommends its readers to check out The Tyee's week-long feature on the Housing Crisis in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, and throughout the Lower Mainland. While VANOC, City Hall, and the BC Liberals are sneaking around the airwaves and op-ed pages to discredit the legitimate concerns of the APC and the Downtown Eastside Residents Association, Authour Monte Paulsen is shoving their hidey-holes full of factual information. If that information gets shared around, there won't be any place for the Olympic oligarchy to hide.