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Tea & Two Slices: On Corporate Welfare & Cops Policing Cops

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by Sean Orr | Lies, damn lies and corporate welfare. Is it just me or do you love it when money columns are all of a sudden totally relevant? Also, Fortune is saying that most people have forgotten about the Gulf Oil Spill already.

And like an absurdist Fellini movie, the VPD investigate the RCMP. In other news, the Pope has just excused the Pope of all wrongdoings and apologized to the Pope on behalf of the Pope.

Perhaps confusing “News” with their other show, Spectacle, CTV interviews psychopath Robert Willie Pickton, adding more misery to the victims’ families. You’ll love the faux-earnestness at the end…

It looks like Beyond Robson got themselves a writer: A Short History of the BC Spirit Festival, or, How to Rob Peter While Spitting in Paul’s Eye. “We filled our Olympics with culture, then slashed that same culture to within an inch of its life”.

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  1. Too bad Tyler didn’t write that sentence you quoted.

    He’s a good writer though. In this case I suspect the reader is more at fault.

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