Showing posts with label 2022 Vancouver Civic Election. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2022 Vancouver Civic Election. Show all posts

Monday, August 22, 2022

Walls and Bridges


"'Views of Vancouver is us, I started it,' he told me."

So says developer Peter Wall to reporter Dan Fumano in a Vancouver Sun article yesterday concerning a series of until-recently anonymous ads that alternately praise the city and attack current mayor Kennedy Stewart for his failure to deal with issues (crime, homelessness) that market-oriented developers such as Wall have a hand in creating.

A remarkable run of pronouns -- from "us" as "I" to "he" to "me". Much of what ails this city can be traced to lines like this.