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by Zbigniew
They arrive weekly, if not more often: emails espousing some unachievable policy aspiration, or an invitation to a highly circumscribed “dialogue”, or plain, run-of-the-mill, propaganda.
What to do when out-of-touch, developer-financed civic officials hand you a sack of lemons? Well, you make make lemonade, of the unsweetened variety.
Ergo, a poem, comprised of Vision Vancouver mass email subject lines.
To wit:
Subject
This Earth Day, Vancouver has a lot to be proud of
Homelessness in Vancouver
How can we create affordable homes in Vancouver?
Will I see you at Vision’s Spring Fling?
Will you join us at the Vision Spring Fling?
Tomorrow night, will you join us?
Will I see you at our forum tonight?
Our forum on immigration
Join the Conversation: Kinder Morgan and Vancouver’s economy
Kinder Morgan and a Broadway Subway
The results are in!
The Greenest City Plan is working
A clear choice
VISION:PROUD – we’ve got a lot to celebrate!
VISION:PROUD just got even more fabulous
Walk with us this Sunday
Let’s go
The campaign we’ll run
Taking a stand on oil tankers
Will I see you there?
Support the Subway
Here’s what’s at risk in November
It’s a risk
You’re the first to know
Awesome poem! Vancouver (Metro or City) will never become the greenest anything when another 35,000+ people a year are crowding into the lower mainland.
It took over 120 years for Metro Vancouver to reach a population of over 1+ million, but it has taken just the last 20+ years for the Metro Vancouver area to exceed 2+ million.
It is hard to believe that it has never occurred to the city or any of Metro Vancouver’s municipalities that ignoring unending population growth could be catastrophic. Is it possible anyone could be so unaware? So critics should feel no qualms about describing the green ambitions of Vancouver and its suburbs as mere green-washing fraud and outright hypocrisy.