Interesting article from today’s Vancouver Sun:

Hundreds of grassroots arts groups have been sacrificed to prop up B.C.’s larger cultural institutions.

The provincial government has been scrambling for months to find enough money to maintain grants to the arts — tapping rainy day funds, lottery money and spiriting last year’s budget surpluses forward — but when the music stopped, about 600 groups that normally see funds from the community gambling grant program were left without a chair to sit on.

In contrast, the province’s higher-profile cultural institutions remain protected — at least, for this year — by a firewall of redirected funds, special grants and contingency money. The government has a contractual obligation to fully meet its funding commitments to a core “operating client” base of about 250 arts groups and institutions, and it jumped through hoops to ensure that this happened.

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Also checkout Charting the milestones in the B.C. arts funding meltdown.

As you can see, my good friend Dave Teixeira with Dave.ca Communications Inc. has revamped the website.

After a couple years, it was getting stale so I am happy to have some new style. All sorts of new feeds, etc. will keep the website more up-to-date.

What do you think?

The feds have finally admitted that they have proof that the RCMP officers who zapped Robert Dziekanski conspired to do it beforehand. This news comes after almost 2 years of insistent denials from them. Is anyone shocked to discover that the RCMP havent been telling us the truth? Check out www.cknw.com for the latest.

Still more press interested in yesterday’s Wear Pink Anti-Bullying Day.  I was honoured to be on this morning’s CTV News with the Wear Pink pioneers David Shepherd and Travis Price (the five minute video is below).

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