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Vancouver mayor proposes up to $600,000 in new funding for one-night fireworks event to replace this summer's Honda Celebration of Light (dailyhive.com)
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[-] TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Why we gotta keep simping the corporate sponsor when the event has been cancelled? It’s the celebration of light, if Honda still wants their name on it they can pony the fucking cash up themselves

*right yeah because it’s the daily hive, the literal hub of corporate ass sniffing and copy-paste journalism.

I remember an article they wrote last year about some restaurant closing and the copy-paster started going on about “recent streetview pictures from Google Maps…” recent fucking streetview pictures? motherfucker take a short drive and see for yourself

[-] jaselle@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Where are you getting that it would still have the Honda name? The article clearly says that it would replace the HCoL.

[-] TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

I’m talking about the daily hive insisting on continuing to call the dead, unfunded celebration of lights the HONDA celebration of lights, despite the fact that if it WERE the Honda celebration of lights it would PROBABLY not be cancelled but since it IS we can just stop slopping corporate sponsorships onto it and just call it by its proper fucking name.

[-] jaselle@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Was it not the Honda celebration of lights?

Anyway I sympathise, I'll never call Science World the TELUS world of Science lol.

[-] jaselle@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Maybe we can make this an every-few-years sort of event, make it more special that way.

[-] otters_raft@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

I would be good with that too!

I'm not sure what the return on investment from tourism is like, but I do look forward to the event in the summer. Even when I don't attend, there's a nice vibe to it all 😄

[-] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

Neh fuck that noise. We have better uses for that money than giving wildlife ptsd.

[-] lettruthout@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Yes, noise AND pollution. Stupid move on their part.

[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

They should move to drone shows. Fireworks is so 1800s

[-] fourish@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago

Can always tell those without kids can’t you. Lol.

[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

A lady I met called the fireworks festival a Circus for Stupid People, and I have never laughed that hard in a longtime.

[-] fourish@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

Ya she’s pretty stupid isn’t she.

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