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Homeless people relocated out of Whister, Canada, ahead of Olympics

Posted on | January 8, 2010 | No Comments

Taken from BoingBoing, where  reader Jeremy Gruman says, “Last month, homeless people started showing up in droves in towns 100 miles or so outside of Vancouver. They had been given one-way bus tickets and were forced onto the busses. Local shelters in those communities have been completely overloaded. All so that the world can see a shiny and clean (and totally false) version of our city.” Here’s a related news story.

This is despicable. I am short for words. Simply despicable.

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