{"id":38197,"date":"2025-06-26T10:00:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T17:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/?p=38197"},"modified":"2025-06-26T18:08:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T01:08:01","slug":"ucs-59-whats-a-waste-of-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2025\/06\/26\/ucs-59-whats-a-waste-of-money\/","title":{"rendered":"UCS #59: What&#8217;s a Waste of Money?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/UrbanCartoonSyndicate.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-36965\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/UrbanCartoonSyndicate-600x72.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/UrbanCartoonSyndicate-600x72.png 600w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/UrbanCartoonSyndicate-300x36.png 300w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/UrbanCartoonSyndicate-768x92.png 768w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/UrbanCartoonSyndicate-940x113.png 940w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/UrbanCartoonSyndicate.png 1250w\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"72\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>See our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2024\/05\/20\/urban-cartoon-syndicate-introduction-and-call\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Launch and Introduction<\/a>&nbsp;about the launch of the \u00a9 Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cityhallwatch.wordpress.com\/2024\/05\/20\/launch-of-urban-cartoon-syndicate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announcement by CityHallWatch<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><em>Related Readings:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Hosting 2026 FIFA World Cup games in Vancouver could cost up to $624M, says B.C. government<\/strong> (Jon Azpiri, <i>CBC News<\/i>, 24-Jun-2025) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/vancouver-fifa-world-cup-costs-update-1.7569591\">https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/vancouver-fifa-world-cup-costs-update-1.7569591<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Shocking to learn that FIFA has gone over budget again<\/strong> (Vaughn Palmer, <em>Vancouver Sun<\/em>, 25-Jun-2025) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/vancouversun.com\/opinion\/columnists\/vaughn-palmer-shocked-fifa-over-budget-again\">https:\/\/vancouversun.com\/opinion\/columnists\/vaughn-palmer-shocked-fifa-over-budget-again<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>World Cup windfall fades into fantasy as costs keep climbing<\/strong>. B.C. taxpayers are pouring millions into seven FIFA World Cup matches while tourism payoff remains wishful thinking (Kirk LaPointe, <em>BIV<\/em>, 26-jun-2025) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biv.com\/news\/commentary\/kirk-lapointe-world-cup-windfall-fades-into-fantasy-as-costs-keep-climbing-10870049\">https:\/\/www.biv.com\/news\/commentary\/kirk-lapointe-world-cup-windfall-fades-into-fantasy-as-costs-keep-climbing-10870049<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Vancouver city hall ordered to release more information about FIFA World Cup 26<\/strong> (Bob Mackin, <em>theBreaker.news<\/em>, 3-Jun-2025) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/thebreaker.news\/news\/oipc-fifa-ruling\/\">https:\/\/thebreaker.news\/news\/oipc-fifa-ruling\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Tense Vancouver park board meeting follows mayor&#8217;s shutdown demand<\/strong>. ABC Vancouver commissioner Jaspreet Virdi says board meals an example of wasted taxpayer dollars (David Carrigg, <em>Vancouver Sun<\/em>, 10-Dec-2023) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/vancouversun.com\/news\/local-news\/tense-vancouver-park-board-meeting-follows-mayors-shutdown-demand\">https:\/\/vancouversun.com\/news\/local-news\/tense-vancouver-park-board-meeting-follows-mayors-shutdown-demand<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See our&nbsp;Launch and Introduction&nbsp;about the launch of the \u00a9 Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the&nbsp;announcement by CityHallWatch. *** Related Readings: Hosting 2026 FIFA World Cup games in Vancouver could cost up to $624M, says B.C. government (Jon Azpiri, CBC News, 24-Jun-2025) &#8211; https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/vancouver-fifa-world-cup-costs-update-1.7569591 Shocking to learn that FIFA has gone over budget again (Vaughn Palmer, Vancouver<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2025\/06\/26\/ucs-59-whats-a-waste-of-money\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;UCS #59: What&#8217;s a Waste of Money?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8579,"featured_media":38198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25,26,6670],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-infrastructure","category-neighbourhoods","category-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>UCS #59: What&#039;s a Waste of Money? 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