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Re: Canucks tickets are skyrocketing, so is sports and entertainment now the exclusive realm of the rich?
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To answer the question posed by JJ Adams: The answer is yes, sports and entertainment tickets have always been a luxury item for the wealthy and anyone else willing to max out their credit cards to catch an exclusive show or sporting event .
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I’ve lived in Vancouver since 1988, after arriving from Winterpeg as a teenager, and to this day I’ve never bought a ticket to see the Vancouver Canucks, nor spent money to watch some mega-celebrity sing at crowded place.
It’s a pleasure to see the UBC Thunderbirds and other college and school teams that need the support and cheers of loyal fans, or even buy tickets for the St. James Academy of Music, which offers underprivileged children the chance to learn to play music and they host wonderful concerts throughout the year, especially their annual Christmas concert.
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Let’s hope that one of those kids from a single parent family who gets the chance to learn the cello or violin can play concerts around the world one day and there are CFL alumni like Gray Cup champions Angus Reid, Sean Graham and Louie Passalia who, like many of us, came from humble backgrounds and played at SFU and UBC and who became champions on and off the field and continue to inspire others to succeed.
Leslie Bennis, Vancouver
Re: The Liberals have a chance to reverse their fiscal death spiral. Expect them to pass
Many media commentators fall prey to a common fallacy—that the federal government is like a household whose spending is constrained by its debt burden. But since Canada has a state-owned central bank that can create fiat money at will, the defining constraint on spending must be the resource capacity of the economy, including available labor.
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Canada currently has over 1.3 million residents actively looking for work – people whose talents can be used to increase the availability of goods and services and thus help fight inflation.
Our children are threatened by a lack of job opportunities, growing inequality, a fragile health system and potential food crises resulting from climate change. Solutions will require urgent public action and should not be burdened by hysterical debt ideas that are inapplicable to monetarily sovereign nations like Canada.
Larry Kazdan, Vancouver
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