Pee and Poo

Vancouver’s Pee and Poo mascots are an unfortunate necessity

19/05/19: This story was corrected from an older version. The waste management campaign was incorrectly attributed to The City of Vancouver instead of Metro Vancouver. By: Ben McGuinness, SFU Student Metro Vancouver recently unveiled two new mascots: Pee and Poo, who look like, well, an engorged droplet of pee and a hefty lump of poo. Reactions to the pair have included jokes, insults, and disgust at the explicitness of the characters. A sardonic tone underlies the spectrum of reactions, with everyone wondering if the region really needed to resort to such a childish campaign. I’m not a fan of the overexposure of…

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