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It's Friday July the 2 around 1:31PM and

Let Stanley Park be Stanley Park

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Honestly, are there not better things for people to do that go around suggesting we give ridiculous names to things? The Squamish First Nations want to us rename Stanley Park, Xwayxway, apparently pronounced kwhy-kway, which sounds like we just elected Tim Burton, mayor.

The hell you say? This is what we are talking about in 2010? Like, really? The argument goes that we've already done this for other landmarks (Queen Charlotte Islands), so we should for this too. But the truth is nobody cared or even knew where that was anyway, this is an actual place that people you know, actually use. Granted, the idea isn't as bad as the whole let us hunt bald eagles one, but it is pretty close.

And if we are going to change the name, we should be getting some cold hard cash and selling it off to a company willing to pay, big time.

No. on second thought, can we just stop with this BS?

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