When I first heard about Pride Week landing federal funding from a conservative government, my head nearly exploded. I started thinking that maybe they are not the narrow-minded evil people I thought they were. After this story broke out, the world suddenly made sense again.
To keep this in perspective, Pride in Toronto generates ~$100 million for the local economy, the Stampede generates ~$345 million and each got stimulus money to the tune of 400K and 2 million respectively. Both needed the cash, and in both instances all levels of government are seeing a return on their investment.
So this really is not news, everyone knows that when the two right wing parties merged, they dropped the 'progressive' from party policy. Joe Clark was even the grand marshall for a Calgary gay pride parade.
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