The World Cup is a dream grift that robs from the poor to give to the rich.
World Cup soccer is just a year away from descending on Vancouver. And while some are thrilled about international football stars coming to their backyard, others are concerned about the potential negative effects of hosting one of the biggest sporting tournaments in the world.
“There’s a concern that the city is really not seeing this as an opportunity to bring the community in … but an opportunity to shut the community out in order to invite particular kinds of visitors to the expectations of FIFA,” Meg Holden, an urbanist at Simon Fraser University, told The Current guest host Catherine Cullen.
