thePodcast: When Vancouver unveiled a peace monument

For the week of  Aug. 18, 2024: War drags on in Ukraine. There is no end in sight to the war between Israel and Iranian proxy Hamas. Xi Jinping threatens to invade and annex self-governing Taiwan. A metaphor for the 21st century world in conflict languishes in a state of disrepair, behind a fence at Seaforth Peace Park in Vancouver’s Kitsilano.  The Vancouver Peace Flame Monument’s fountain and eternal flame were unveiled Aug. 13, 1987 to remember the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima. But city crews shut both off in 2018 and the Park Board has done nothing to rescue the […]