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The New Year’s Eve celebration was supposed to be a family-friendly event, completely free to visitors in every way. There was going to be fireworks, multicultural events, live music and other entertainment, all offered at a central, accessible location.

It was supposed to be Vancouver’s answer to New York City’s Times Square party. Instead it is Vancouver’s answer to a farmer’s market in Brigadoon.

The event was being organized by local news and culture website, Vancity Buzz, in conjunction with the city. It has been a year in the offing, with Mayor Gregor Robertson promising a party last December to end the city’s reputation as a joyless locale.

“Every year, in late December, the messages start flooding in, the questions come up: Why don’t we have a New Year’s Eve celebration?” Robertson said last year, according to the Globe and Mail.

“Now we will. It’s waiting a little bit longer, but it is coming.”

Read more : https://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/sorry-vancouver-there-will-be-no-new-years-eve-143810340.html

Maybe next year!

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What's the point of having the party when it doesn't even countdown at midnight.....

Get a huge disco ball made, hook it up to a chain and a small track and slowly lower it down in the last minute before midnight over a large digital clock. For the low sum of 25-30k, Vancouver could have it's very own New Years Eve ball drop.

Get drunk drinking out of expensive huge bong-like cups with giant straws while wearing a goofy hat and new year numbered glasses and walla, you have yourself a city wide party. Buffalo has had one for decades.

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It's all because people can't handle themselves. People used to drink to loosen up. Now people aren't happy until they're punch drunk. And literally that's what happens.

It's not the city. It's the people. Seafest, sandcastle competitions, and other big celebrations are all gone.

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Is this in any way surprising?

This city lost that privilege after what happened in 2011.

Too many idiots live here.

wow, everything goes back to 2011 because of some drunken fans and small group of idiots rioting? Are you kidding me? Might as well just cancel all the major events because of 2011. Vancouverites are too uptight about things that are common in any other major city and there are way too many hippies and environmentalist that try to interfere with any events that might cause even an insignificant disturbance to the molecules of air or the grass on the front lawn. The depression level in Vancouver must be through the roof.

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wow, everything goes back to 2011 because of some drunken fans and small group of idiots rioting? Are you kidding me? Might as well just cancel all the major events because of 2011. Vancouverites are too uptight about things that are common in any other major city and there are way too many hippies and environmentalist that try to interfere with any events that might cause even an insignificant disturbance to the molecules of air or the grass on the front lawn. The depression level in Vancouver must be through the roof.

I blame the weather.

But I'm all in favour of it.

It was well known the 2011 riots were gonna happen. I told my wife after Game 6 you watch, win or lose after Game 7 they're gonna riot in Vancouver. I regret not putting that on video. If I could have predicted that (and I guarantee plenty of others could too), certainly authorities there should have been able to. Should have taken note from Toronto during massive protests. I think it was the same year when they had these regular G* protests, Toronto police were out in force, and they basically said.. you come down here and start stuff, our jails will be filling up. Nipped that in the bud before it became a problem. The issue to me, going forward, isn't so much with rowdy people as it is the police's ability, or competence, to prevent a problem like that. I think we can all agree that everyone else shouldn't suffer for the problems a select few cause.

It would be nice to have a big yearly celebration out west. And not some retarded gimmick like the Times Square ball-drop -- something original. I think there are plenty of people like me in North America west of the NYC Time Zone are tired of that recorded/recycled crap (from the lame recycled Times Square show to the lame drop).

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It was well known the 2011 riots were gonna happen. I told my wife after Game 6 you watch, win or lose after Game 7 they're gonna riot in Vancouver. I regret not putting that on video. If I could have predicted that (and I guarantee plenty of others could too), certainly authorities there should have been able to.

Yup, there was like zero chance it wasn't going to happen.

I was taking painkillers and on crutches during the SCF, went downtown for games 1-5, once there was a chance of the series ending I stopped going, didn't want to get caught in the mayhem all hopped up and crippled.

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wow, everything goes back to 2011 because of some drunken fans and small group of idiots rioting? Are you kidding me? Might as well just cancel all the major events because of 2011. Vancouverites are too uptight about things that are common in any other major city and there are way too many hippies and environmentalist that try to interfere with any events that might cause even an insignificant disturbance to the molecules of air or the grass on the front lawn. The depression level in Vancouver must be through the roof.

May have been a "small group of idiots rioting" but it was a huge crowd that didn't disperse, which made it dangerous. Rather than take pictures and videos to post online, people should have left so the cops could contain it better...but they had to weed through to find the perpetrators in a where's waldo way.

"Hippies and environmentalists"? You mean those (like myself) who care about the important things, like the land we all occupy? Nope, can't blame them either.

Bad apples do spoil many things...hell, even at the game last night there was an obvious attention monger who, while at first was slightly amusing, grew very monotonous and annoying after the second period. When he shouted out "Mark Messier was the best Canuck ever" it became painfully obvious that he was reaching.

Anyhow, a lack of funding was the reason. So none of the above.

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Even though I don't live in Vancouver, this saddens me.

I think of the excitement of Times Square and the thousands, waiting for the ball to drop and I can't help thinking of those poor Vancouverites, standing around downtown, waiting for Gregor Robertson's balls to drop....

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It's all because people can't handle themselves. People used to drink to loosen up. Now people aren't happy until they're punch drunk. And literally that's what happens.

It's not the city. It's the people. Seafest, sandcastle competitions, and other big celebrations are all gone.

It's a chicken/egg scenario for me. I always wonder how much the anger-below-the-surface in Vancouver is linked to a lack of city-wide festivals.

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wow, everything goes back to 2011 because of some drunken fans and small group of idiots rioting? Are you kidding me? Might as well just cancel all the major events because of 2011. Vancouverites are too uptight about things that are common in any other major city and there are way too many hippies and environmentalist that try to interfere with any events that might cause even an insignificant disturbance to the molecules of air or the grass on the front lawn. The depression level in Vancouver must be through the roof.

No it's the morons who stand by and let the idiot out of town hipsters run the riots, instead of joining in with them, how bout kicking the snot out of their beret wearing heads?

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It's all because people can't handle themselves. People used to drink to loosen up. Now people aren't happy until they're punch drunk. And literally that's what happens.

It's not the city. It's the people. Seafest, sandcastle competitions, and other big celebrations are all gone.

No, it isn't. It's from lack of funding.

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