Brace yourselves, it’s another article about selfish, entitled Vancouverites.
Let’s open with the title that the local Vancouver rag, The Province, gave to this article, shall we?
Breastfeeding Mom Barred from Bard
Surely this will be a story about the discrimination many women face with regard to feeding their infants in public, you might say to yourself. But before I confirm or deny that, let’s start with a bit of backstory:
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 …
Back in January, news broke here in Vancouver about a group of condo residents who were protesting the placement of a hospice next door to their million-dollar apartments. The protesting residents, all of whom were of Chinese dissent, claimed that the fifteen-bed St. John’s Hospice where the sick and elderly can go to die in comfort and peace was bad luck. In their culture, they explained, living near the dying meant that the spirits of the dead would haunt them and cause poverty, sickness and death.
One woman explained: “It’s very disturbing. My kids and I are going to feel so frightened and angry just to think there are dying people so close to us.”
My natural response at the time was: I wonder how the …
On Sunday May 15th, the Slut Walk marched its way down Vancouver streets and while I know a number of people who are happy about it — and I know a few people participating — I feel as though I’ve been biting my lip about this whole issue for a while now. And for good reason — it seems as though anyone who opposes this movement is labelled as a victim-blaming slut-shamer instantly. So it’s a rather difficult minefield …
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