project to be dedicated to city park services.  But in this case, councillors decided that the resurrection of the roof at B.C. Place, which was also part of the deal, sufficed in place of the levy, as a service to the city. News of the casino expansion project on prime city real estate broke last March.  At the time, some expressed outrage at the change in policy by a Liberal government that had promised not to expand gambling in B.C., noting that gambling fed addictive behaviours which were not in the public interest.  The sudden turnaround in the province's policy towards gambling stunned some and baffled some. Frances Bula blogged about it soon after the news came out, stating what seemed to be on the minds of many: Isn't it kind of strange that Vancouver would have a big casino downtown? That's usually something that you see in loser, rust-belt cities that can't figure out what else to do with their depopulated downtowns. Then she appealed to other reporters to look into the issue more deeply, a rare call from one reporter to others. ...I appeal to people with more time on their hands to do research than I currently have. Is there another healthy Vancouver-like city that has a big-butt casino in the middle of its downtown ? The Vancouver Observer's reporters have not been able to locate a "Vancouver-like" city that has a big-butt casino in the middle of its downtown. If any of our readers know of