After Expo, Vancouver didn't really change for the better. People were displaced for the building of the Expo site and the aftermath has been pretty gruesome. Highrise condos going in which only the rich could afford. The inequality greatly increased in Vancouver with the government ,(locally, provincially and federally), seeing less value in investing in and supplying quality low cost housing for those in need.
Expo 86 and the 2010 Olympics were a 1-2 punch that knocked the working/middle class out of the ring! Vancouver is now the playground of the global elites and the property-fortunate; everyone else is a servant/renter (serf?).
Wrong … ZERO PEOPLE were “displaced by EXPO …” … I worked on site-planning and design 1984-85 for EXPO’86 - the entire site was rail yards and abandoned industrial lands.
@smallstudiodesiwell, closeted in your studio, fawning over the 'movers and shakers', grasping at your chance at the 'big time', you likely missed the renovict and relocate sweeps in the dtes, to clean up vancouver's image, and supposedly sanitise and free up accommodations for the millyubs of eager vistors expected. But yes, that did, in fact happen. Tou know, when the georgia viaduct went in, to make vancouver a 'modern city' (weird how the same tired wannabe bigshot ideas keep coming around, huh?) the exact same claims of improvement and no displacement were made, equally falsely.
Note to Tom Campbell (and his ilk): Raising consciousness isn't "doing nothing!" The "do-nothiings helped stop a war! Too bad we don't have more of them today...
Tom Terrific...what an utter A hole....and I remember the BS on the news from Jack Webster about dead hippies in Kits from hashish overdoses of all bloody things. I grew up in N Burnaby, then lived in Kits from 68 to the mid seventies.
The funny thing about Campbell is that while he's looked at today as something of a draconian buffoon of Vancouver politics, there were a heck of a lot of Vancouverites who agreed with him at the time. I suppose it's only in fairly recent years, and as the city has changed, that he's become to be looked at this way. And for his own part, Campbell went to his grave never changing his mind or believing he'd done wrong.
@@aaronchapman5094 He's my hero you dirty hippy, and he was right. The only buffoon here is you and this other do-nothing patting yourselves on the back for pretending that sitting around screaming at cops is stopping a war. Im pretty sure the soldiers who fought the war did way more than you two boomers.
I doubt that what actually occurred at the Gastown riot has ever been reported for fear of legal backlash. I was there: I saw police remove people sitting in restaurants and drag them to paddy wagons; a young woman dragged across broken glass by her hair by a policeman on a horse; innocent bystanders clubbed, and badge numbers conveniently removed. Some lawyers were present and witnessed the whole thing, but none of them have spoken of the atrocities committed that day, likely because of the graft they partook of as drug lawyers (getting clients reduced sentences by way of envelopes passed over and under dinner tables with prosecutors in Vancouver's finer establishments).
This video sucks with misinformation : to represent Vancouver as “behind” the USA is simply WRONG. By 1967 there was a HUGE hippy scene in Vancouver - there’s actually film footage ... these interviewees are USA biased.
I don't think the insinuation is that Vancouver lagged behind necessarily, but that there was considerable influence from what was happening along the west coast south of us. There's no question Vancouver had a counter-culture scene wholly its own, but it was influenced by events and culture south down the coast.
i was 12 or 13 during Habitat Forum. i have a metal button still and became an Environmentalists or Wild Salmon Warrior for Alexandra Morton campaign to save our wild salmon from Inductrial Fish farms still fighting to have them transitioned today. 21 Century shame shame shame on CANADA for not savings the Countries unique Biodiversity SHAME!!!!
01:07 Rubbish. There where freeway protests in the 60’s. In 1965 there was an ant-war protest In August, 1965, 39 youth were arrested for blocking Prime Minister Pearson's car in the PNE parade as part of an antiwar protest. Another anti-Vietnam War protest march on Vancouver's West Georgia Street in 1968, one of many around that time.
I think the contention was that while there were certainly protests happening in the 1960s, a number of movements became more galvanized in the 1970s, and those--both organized and disorganized--became more prominent, and more frequent and focused.
Those so-called peace groups were largely organised and funded by Soviet Union operatives. Yes, even in Canada. Meanwhile the SovietUnion was heavily involved in the War in bolstering, arming and training N Vietnamese forces.
@@DS-gg2dp "..Meanwhile the SovietUnion was heavily involved in the War in bolstering, arming and training N Vietnamese forces." No shit. Had the US not been there in the first place, the North would not have been aligning with anyone militarily.
@@danwest1584 Quite the assumption. The Soviet Union, (and also China) was aligning with the North because of the goal of the fight, not because of the US involvement. That alliance existed long before that.
@@DS-gg2dp I said MILITARILY, in response to America's illegal war. Numerous countries (Canada for one), like Vietnam, had been trading with the Soviet Union. For example, the USSR was one of Canada's biggest trading partners.
After Expo, Vancouver didn't really change for the better. People were displaced for the building of the Expo site and the aftermath has been pretty gruesome. Highrise condos going in which only the rich could afford. The inequality greatly increased in Vancouver with the government ,(locally, provincially and federally), seeing less value in investing in and supplying quality low cost housing for those in need.
Expo 86 and the 2010 Olympics were a 1-2 punch that knocked the working/middle class out of the ring! Vancouver is now the playground of the global elites and the property-fortunate; everyone else is a servant/renter (serf?).
Wrong … ZERO PEOPLE were “displaced by EXPO …” … I worked on site-planning and design 1984-85 for EXPO’86 - the entire site was rail yards and abandoned industrial lands.
@smallstudiodesiwell, closeted in your studio, fawning over the 'movers and shakers', grasping at your chance at the 'big time', you likely missed the renovict and relocate sweeps in the dtes, to clean up vancouver's image, and supposedly sanitise and free up accommodations for the millyubs of eager vistors expected. But yes, that did, in fact happen. Tou know, when the georgia viaduct went in, to make vancouver a 'modern city' (weird how the same tired wannabe bigshot ideas keep coming around, huh?) the exact same claims of improvement and no displacement were made, equally falsely.
Note to Tom Campbell (and his ilk): Raising consciousness isn't "doing nothing!" The "do-nothiings helped stop a war! Too bad we don't have more of them today...
Tom Terrific...what an utter A hole....and I remember the BS on the news from Jack Webster about dead hippies in Kits from hashish overdoses of all bloody things. I grew up in N Burnaby, then lived in Kits from 68 to the mid seventies.
The funny thing about Campbell is that while he's looked at today as something of a draconian buffoon of Vancouver politics, there were a heck of a lot of Vancouverites who agreed with him at the time. I suppose it's only in fairly recent years, and as the city has changed, that he's become to be looked at this way. And for his own part, Campbell went to his grave never changing his mind or believing he'd done wrong.
@@aaronchapman5094 He's my hero you dirty hippy, and he was right. The only buffoon here is you and this other do-nothing patting yourselves on the back for pretending that sitting around screaming at cops is stopping a war. Im pretty sure the soldiers who fought the war did way more than you two boomers.
I doubt that what actually occurred at the Gastown riot has ever been reported for fear of legal backlash. I was there: I saw police remove people sitting in restaurants and drag them to paddy wagons; a young woman dragged across broken glass by her hair by a policeman on a horse; innocent bystanders clubbed, and badge numbers conveniently removed. Some lawyers were present and witnessed the whole thing, but none of them have spoken of the atrocities committed that day, likely because of the graft they partook of as drug lawyers (getting clients reduced sentences by way of envelopes passed over and under dinner tables with prosecutors in Vancouver's finer establishments).
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This video sucks with misinformation : to represent Vancouver as “behind” the USA is simply WRONG.
By 1967 there was a HUGE hippy scene in Vancouver - there’s actually film footage ... these interviewees are USA biased.
I don't think the insinuation is that Vancouver lagged behind necessarily, but that there was considerable influence from what was happening along the west coast south of us. There's no question Vancouver had a counter-culture scene wholly its own, but it was influenced by events and culture south down the coast.
i was 12 or 13 during Habitat Forum. i have a metal button still and became an Environmentalists or Wild Salmon Warrior for Alexandra Morton campaign to save our wild salmon from Inductrial Fish farms still fighting to have them transitioned today. 21 Century shame shame shame on CANADA for not savings the Countries unique Biodiversity SHAME!!!!
01:07 Rubbish. There where freeway protests in the 60’s. In 1965 there was an ant-war protest In August, 1965, 39 youth were arrested for blocking Prime Minister Pearson's car in the PNE parade as part of an antiwar protest. Another anti-Vietnam War protest march on Vancouver's West Georgia Street in 1968, one of many around that time.
I think the contention was that while there were certainly protests happening in the 1960s, a number of movements became more galvanized in the 1970s, and those--both organized and disorganized--became more prominent, and more frequent and focused.
Those so-called peace groups were largely organised and funded by Soviet Union operatives. Yes, even in Canada. Meanwhile the SovietUnion was heavily involved in the War in bolstering, arming and training N Vietnamese forces.
@@DS-gg2dp "..Meanwhile the SovietUnion was heavily involved in the War in bolstering, arming and training N Vietnamese forces."
No shit.
Had the US not been there in the first place, the North would not have been aligning with anyone militarily.
@@danwest1584 Quite the assumption. The Soviet Union, (and also China) was aligning with the North because of the goal of the fight, not because of the US involvement. That alliance existed long before that.
@@DS-gg2dp I said MILITARILY, in response to America's illegal war. Numerous countries (Canada for one), like Vietnam, had been trading with the Soviet Union. For example, the USSR was one of Canada's biggest trading partners.