Because the 2010 Olympics is not a boon for First Nations communities despite what AFN and a few “Indian Act Chiefs” might have people believe.
Just another tale of,show me the money…
h/t Liberated Yet
The deplorable conditions of the Vancouver downtown east-side,Canada’s poorest neighborhood, are once again in the international spotlight .
Vancouverite Patricia Leidl, describing the Downtown Eastside as “a two-kilometre-square stretch of decaying rooming houses, seedy strip bars and shady pawnshops. Worst of all, it is home to a hepatitis C rate of just below 70 per cent and an HIV prevalence rate of an estimated 30 per cent — the same as Botswana’s.”
Veteran journalist Dan Rather’s is in town doing a report on the DTES.Even the U.N has sent a representative to write yet another report on the conditions in the DTES.
Different decade,different reporter(s),but the story is pretty much the same as it was back when Expo 86 put Vancouver & the DTES under the international spotlight.
Kind of illustrates just how “effective” all the talk and supposed solutions that have been proposed for the DTES over the past 1/4 century have been.
The more things changes the more they stay the same.
Once the Olympics have come and gone the DTES & the people living there will be forgotten yet again.At least until the next big international event inspires a flurry of “concern”.
Nothing much will have changed.More studies & reports will definitely be written,and the poverty industry will continue to thrive & prosper.
And sure as shit the people of the DTES will continue to live,“lives of quit desperation”.
