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[Mike K.]

Councillor TJ has quit her role as the Canada Day council liaison after council voted to end Canada Day celebrations as we’ve known them.

Staff will now take on the role.

[Victoria Watcher]

how are we to celebrate canada day now?

[Nparker]

how are we to celebrate Canada Day now?

All residents of the CoV with a European background will be made to self-flagellate on the lawns of the Legislative Buildings for an hour on July 1st.

[Mike K.]

how are we to celebrate canada day now?

 

Take the RapidBus to Langford.

[kitty surprise]

All residents of the CoV with a European background will be made to self-flagellate on the lawns of the Legislative Buildings for an hour on July 1st.

Now, now, those residents with any European background but who do not present as European would be exempt of course.

The activists only care about the color of your skin.

[spanky123]

Councillor TJ has quit her role as the Canada Day council liaison after council voted to end Canada Day celebrations as we’ve known them.

Staff will now take on the role.

 

I thought you were joking until I read the COTW agenda. Are you saying council voted down the $25K to plan for a celebration in 2022? Video not posted yet.

[Victoria Watcher]

Take the RapidBus to Langford.

 

with a 7 month start for planning indeed they might pick up the ball.

[Mike K.]

I thought you were joking until I read the COTW agenda. Are you saying council voted down the $25K to plan for a celebration in 2022? Video not posted yet.

 

They want to re-contextualize it, but left staff wondering what that actually means. Thornton-Joe just said that's it, I'm out.

 

She's served her community well. She will leave politics with grace, and part of this means not pursuing a Canada Day plan that will be divisive and understandably field frustrated complaints.

[Mike K.]

with a 7 month start for planning indeed they might pick up the ball.

 

Big living Canada flag at Starlight Stadium, fireworks over the lake, etc.

[Nparker]

They want to re-contextualize it...

Standard woke BS. 

[JimV]

It would be a good opportunity for some other organization (maybe Tourism Victoria?) to organize an event on their own.

[JimV]

how are we to celebrate canada day now?

I suggest wearing a hair shirt, sticking pins into an effigy of John A. Macdonald and dancing around a bonfire of your Canadian flags and history books.

[spanky123]

It would be a good opportunity for some other organization (maybe Tourism Victoria?) to organize an event on their own.

Here is an idea. If one of the high profile business candidates rumoured to be running steps up then he/she can organize a dozen or two businesses to put up the $100k to put on a proper festival and fireworks. It would humiliate the current Mayor and council and provide a platform for a guaranteed win.

[Mike K.]

Or the event can just move to Langford and sponsoring businesses will not have to wage a war of optics.

I can see Langford offering to take on festivities while the downtown core becomes a protest zone in the vacuum created by people diverting their attention to the West Shore.

[spanky123]

Or the event can just move to Langford and sponsoring businesses will not have to wage a war of optics.

I can see Langford offering to take on festivities while the downtown core becomes a protest zone in the vacuum created by people diverting their attention to the West Shore.

 

I most certainly agree that you wouldn't want to identify the businesses that backed you.

[Victoria Watcher]

Victoria Coun. Charlayne ­Thornton-Joe has stepped back from Canada Day event planning after more than 20 years.

 

She told fellow councillors last week she no longer wanted to serve as a liaison to the event, after councillors opted to pursue an event without fireworks that is oriented around Indigenous culture and performances.

 

Thornton-Joe said she felt it was time to step back because the event was moving in a new direction and it became a struggle “of trying to be all things to everyone.”

 

“You can only do so much with so much funding support, so because we couldn’t achieve everyone’s desires, there was often criticism,” she said.

 

Hearing some councillors talk about the need to make the event as inclusive as possible was frustrating, because that had always been the goal, said Thornton-Joe, who first got involved with the celebration in 2000 as a board member and president of the Inter-cultural Association of Greater Victoria.

 

“My heart’s been involved with Canada Day for 22 years and some of the comments broke my heart, I guess,” she said.

 

 

https://www.timescol...y-heart-4738090

 

 

 

 

 

 

councilor spends 20 years making the event extremely inclusive, but it's not enough for the woke council.  sounds like they want some groups uninvited.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 09 November 2021 - 06:15 AM.

[Spy Black]

Together Victoria, along with Isitt, Loveday, and Helps have literally sucked the life out of the fabric of the City of Victoria.

 

Now they've also reached a point where they're sucking the life out of their fellow COV Councillors, those who don't support the TV agenda.

 

The Westshore is indeed on the cusp of assuming its rightful position as the leading community on the South Island (if it hasn't already).

[spanky123]

Helps has said it and I am sure that others are thinking the same way. That is that they won't be running next fall so there is now an urgency to ram through the remaining set of ideological projects before staff lose interest (new bosses new rules) and everything grinds to a halt. 

[JimV]

I wish I shared your confidence that they won’t be running.  Hard to see how some of them, especially Dubow, would ever find another job, even given the deep pockets of the poverty industry.

[Nparker]

I must agree with you JimV. Sadly, I can't imagine the TV/Benemy cabal have any intentions of sitting out the next election.