Apparently the City of Vancouver and/or VANOC (the Vancouver Olympic Committee) are gunning for anti-Olympic graphics again. More links on that BoingBoing story, but the ongoing efforts of the BC Civil Liberties Association during this runup to the Olympics have been heroic.
This collection would cause VANOC to collectively crap themselves, especially the VANOC logo redone [...]
Posts Tagged ‘politics’
Exciting Olympic Links, Round 2
Celebrating The Olympic Legacy!
Debt!
Erosion of civil liberties!
Biohazardous Waste!
Oh, and some sport somewhere in there. Yay.
Automotive Entitlement (Again)
Bryant’s story shocking and sobering – but also far too common
Michael Bryant charged in cyclist’s death
Bike courier and car driver clash. Bike courier is killed, run over by the car. Car driver is charged with only “criminal negligence causing death” and “dangerous operation of a vehicle causing death”. Fuck that. If he’d met the guy [...]
Biking to Democracy
Although it’s much overshadowed by the clown show to the south of us, there is in fact a federal election going on here in the Great White North. Thanks to some oddness of the Election Canada database, I was no longer registered in the riding I’ve been living in for the last five or so [...]
Locked Out, And Other Symptoms of Delusion Among Politicians
Citizens of Victoria, welcome back to the Dark Ages.
Spineless and cowardly local politicians have decided that actual negotiation is too much like work, so they’ve issued a lockout notice full of BS and misinformation instead to the library’s employee’s.
Victoria’s library employees have always been underpaid compared to their counterparts at City Hall – the fact [...]
