Here’s a typical liberal media/liberal Canada scenario: The Vancouver Sun (liberal; Canwest Global) dutifully prints a photo alongside a story. The photo purported to be one of the horrid impact of a new residential tower complex that was built over the sacred (to hippies) Wreck Beach in Vancouver.
Another one of those many left-wing environmentalist industry groups—this one called the “Wreck Beach Preservation society”—opposes the development and wants it stopped before “tower two” goes up.
It should be noted that otherwise beautiful Wreck Beach has been arguably taken over by a bunch of left-wing nudists, pot-smokers, and sundry hippies and peacenicks, mostly. This is not a family place. Ninety-nine percent of the beach-going public would never think of going there, for that reason. The Wreck Beach Preservation Society represents their hippy interests.
The naked pot-smoking hippy society is against UBC building more desperately needed student housing. However, I remember going to university, unlike most of the Wreck Beach crowd, and needing “a place to live”. I’m a nut.
Here’s the picture the Vancouver Sun ran with:
The next day, the Vancouver Sun had to print a correction—because darn the luck, the photo was a fake. It turns out it was a computer graphics program fabrication making the buildings appear as though they were towering over the beach, effectively wrecking Wreck Beach and its solitude. It turns out it was supplied to them by the Wreck Beach Preservation society. Gee, oops.
SETTING IT STRAIGHT:
A photo-illustration published July 15 inaccurately depicted the size of proposed student residences at the University of British Columbia. The image was also incorrectly identified as having been supplied by UBC. It originated with the Wreck Beach Preservation Society, which opposes the development.
They then provided us with the actual photo as actually supplied by UBC. Here it is—complete with tower one of the two tower development already built. No, you can’t see it. Once again: YOU CAN’T SEE IT!
At issue, really, is the fact that the second tower will enable people to see the beach—actually just a very tiny part of it—and only when the tide is low enough that you can go strolling way out. That’s bad why? Because the people on the beach, who think they own it, don’t want anyone to see what they do there, and don’t want anyone to see them smoking pot naked. Of course that’s why they go there—so that everyone will see them naked—and to openly smoke pot, but never mind logic. This is a liberal thing.
The real important thing to the liberal-left nudists is that nobody sees their beach and what ungodly business goes on there. Students and their petty, ridiculous, “place to live” needs be damned. Priorities!
The building’s planning director says the tide is low enough to expose that part of the beach for only about eight per cent of summer daylight hours. I figure that’s a few minutes a day, only in the short summer months, and only to top-floor residents presumably. And in no other place in Vancouver—nor, I would think on planet Earth—is “seeing part of a beach” reason to cancel an entire tower development to house students. But in la-la-liberal-land, a whole 18-story tower (was supposed to be 20 be they already caved to hippy pressure) should be entirely scrapped.
That’s “progressive”!
A follow-up letter to the editor from UBC pointed out this:
A critical columnist writing in The Georgia Straight last month inadvertently provided the most telling evidence of this: Casting his eyes to the heavens, he lamented that his view would soon be sullied by student housing. All the while he was blissfully unaware that the completed tower was already in place, and that he was staring right at it.
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