Friday, June 12, 2015

Great letter to the editor and editorial cartoon on Premier Clark's closing of the Burrard Bridge for yoga...

And apparently the closure is going to cost taxpayers $150 K to close the bridge for her folly.

Clark’s yoga stance mocked
Re: Two mass yoga sessions planned for same day, June 6
If there was ever any doubt that Vancouver is a small-minded, parochial village (despite the highest real estate prices in Canada) this “celebration” should confirm it.
Perhaps the idea is to invent a new yoga stance; one can bend over so far as to stick one’s own head up one’s own backside and christen it the “premier position.”
ALAN GRAY
White Rock

And I see First Nation groups are planning to protest the event because it's National Aboriginal Day".
"Be an ally on National Aboriginal Day.  Hold space for indigenous people,  who continue to be systemically ignored  by crashing by crashing Christy Clark's yoga party" one organizer wrote on Facebook.

Good on them for protesting as I think Christy Clark's comments on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report were rather empty and meaningless without any ideas for action.

"Premier Christy Clark told the audience the B.C. government “deeply regrets the harm that was done to aboriginal children and their families and the lasting impact Indian residential schools have had on them.
“Whatever our ancestry, no matter when we or our ancestors came to this land, all Canadians share with aboriginal people a common sorrow at the cruelty and abuse that took place under the guise of education.”

Well,  not quite sure why only yesterday's cartoon appears, not todays,  but it's a good one too so I'll post it.  Maybe later in the day the current one will appear online.