As you may have guessed from my many, many Vancouver news-specific posts, I live in British Columbia. And, living in BC, it’s hard to have a conversation with anyone right now that doesn’t involve this pastWednesday night’s riots following the Canucks’ 4-0 loss to the Boston Bruins in the Stanley Cup finals.
Many international news outlets carried the story of the destruction, but it’s unfortunate that more aren’t talking about what happened the next day — the thousands of people who came out with brooms and paint to help clean up the mess. So many people, in fact, that my friend was told at 9:30 in the morning that most of the cleanup hadalready been done. There was a sweet story about a cop car that had been stationed outside of one of the attacked areas that people began covering with sticky notes, thanking the police for their work during the riots — riots which resulted in nine officers being injured and two cop cars torched. The borded-up windows of the stores all around town (and believe me, I mean all around town) have …
