Far be it for me to rain on anyone’s parade, step on anyone’s toes, upset anyone’s applecart, rock the boat, or otherwise let the air out of anyone’s balloon, but…
For three of seven nights last week, the great unwashed masses descended on Vancouver’s downtown English Bay area to watch a thirty minute fireworks show, branded for some time now as the Celebration of Light. And sponsored by Honda, obviously.
According to a quick google search, It costs about $800,000 multi coloured Canadian dollars to put the whole show on. I would imagine most of that is spent on policing, crowd control and dealing with the huge mountain of garbage that spectators produce and leave behind.