The World Takes Notice
Vancouver's Olympic Challenge
City Faces Pressure to Fulfill Social Pledges That Helped It Win 2010 Winter Games
By Doug Struck
Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, July 23, 2007; A11
VANCOUVER -- Rob Skish is looking forward to the 2010 Winter Olympics. A "binner" who plumbs garbage containers to fill his shopping cart with food for his stomach and cans for the recycler, Skish figures that when the Olympic crowds come to town, the pickings in the bins will be good.
"They'll be full," said Skish, 40. "But there will be a lot more people picking. They will come from all over the world."
Skish's prediction is the stuff of bad dreams for Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan.
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1 comments:
I'm glad that the story is getting international press but the Post totally bungled that story. It's unsurprising though considering that it's in the right wing of the American propaganda machine. I wish that the author had treated the subject more evenhandedly instead of exploiting the poor on one end and giving page space to quotes like "the highway of death" remark by our illustrious mayor.
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