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This is why.

I couldn’t believe I was having such a hard time finding a cohesive video about #OccupyWallStreet. That’s why it took me so long to post something like this.

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Carolyn Weatherson wrote on Facebook: “The Omnibus Crime Bill is not just a financial disaster, it’s a social disaster as well. Fighting crime by building prisons is like fighting cancer by building cemeteries. We are creating victims of crimes by cutting funding to prevention programs and putting all those resources (and much more) into building for-profit jails for wealthy investors. If you want tougher sentences for certain crimes that’s fine, so do I but this is NOT the way to go!”

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By now the Golden Pheasant Tea art is littered with holes. Hence the “holy.” Get it? I don’t think you get it.

Photo by Jedediah Photo

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Photo by Jedediah Baker

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This is painful.

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The building itself is almost ageless having survived three city fires including the Great Fire of 1892. Now part of the side that has for years prominently showed this colourful art is being renovated.

As seen in Google Street View

It was only a few years ago (2004) that this wall was restored after having lost some of its 74 year lustre. It was a $10,000 restoration contract issued by the city.

The same city that is shutting out condos and big businesses for proposals that interfere with downtown St. John’s heritage is allowing this? How two-faced.

From The Scope: Golden Pheasant Tea mural - Link courtesy of Ryan Pugh

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A friend of mine asked today where Victoria Park. I was going to be a dick and send him a Let Me Google That For You link but when I did the search I realized it didn’t up, at least not in Google Maps, as I expected.

I created a map for anyone looking to go to Victoria Park for some sliding now that St. John’s finally has snow.

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The top of the hill is on Hamilton Avenue.

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