TENNANT: An MLB team in Vancouver just might work
Interest alone does not guarantee a team, and recent history across Major League Baseball suggests that market size and enthusiasm are only part of the equation.
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Interest alone does not guarantee a team, and recent history across Major League Baseball suggests that market size and enthusiasm are only part of the equation.
For now, the city is doing what it has always done best: hoping, quietly, while trying not to jinx it.
Critics who see only the party labels are missing the point — and forgetting our own history.
We have the institutions, the talent, the location, and the quality of life that cities around the world are spending decades trying to create.
The premier is at war on all fronts: with his own caucus, with First Nations, and with public opinion.
Rather than following the treaty process, the government simply occupied the land, thus leaving BC with vast swaths of unceded territory that are now the subject of land claims centuries later.
It’s time to unlock the promise of Canada again — but we can only do that if we re-engage citizens as the drivers of positive change
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