Thumbs up During the Olympics Stephen Harper, Gordon Campbell on the restrictive Olympic red mittens


The full story can be found on the Vancouver Sun.

We've seen, Olympic copy right restrictions, demonstration restrictions, and that bizarre policy allowing the integrated security units to 'remove signs', BUT this is too much.

They soon to be ubiquitous red gloves have restrictions themselves, as
Prime Minister Stephen Harper and BC Premier Gordon Campbell demonstrated on Thursday.

From the Vancouver Sun:

"I like the thumbs up," Campbell said, with Harper at his side holding an Olympic torch.

"You can't put anything up but the thumb," replied Harper.

"He can't give you the finger in those things," he added, chuckling at the reporters in the room.

Campbell responded: "I've never experienced that."

Ha Ha ha .... these Olympics are going to be quite a show

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Stage set to Clear the Streets of Homeless During the 2010 Olympics? - B.C. drafts law to force homeless indoors in extreme weather

The British Columbia government hopes to have a law in place by early this winter allowing police, paramedics and other officials to forcibly move homeless people off the street during extreme weather,

I'm all about helping the most marginalized group of people in Canada, but the whole "force" thing kind of worries me.

Especially with the Olympics only months away...and no opportunity to challenge a new law before then.

Could the government have an alternate agenda? What do you think?

Read the Vancouver Sun Article here

or

the Globe and Mail's coverge here

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