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STORY posted on March 2, 2010 by stimulator
In The Shadow of the Olympic Flame
A Report From the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, the Poorest Neighborhood in Canada
The 2010 Winter Olympics have wrapped up in Vancouver, Canada. The Olympic flame has been doused, and a return to normalcy has begun for a city thrust onto the world stage. Democracy Now! producer Aaron Maté traveled to Vancouver to produce a segment about an issue lost in the two-week spectacle: the struggles of a low-income community in the Olympics’ shadow.
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