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Tea & Two Slices: On Dripping Sleaze, Bug-Eyed Journos And A Statue For A King

by Sean Orr | Call girls, cronyism and corruption: backroom dealings in B.C. Rail sale revealed in B.C. Supreme Court. “There are no major revelations in terms of the breach-of-trust charges in the newly released documents, but the sleaze drips off hundreds of pages, as does the profanity”. Great, now I’m forced to picture bug-eyed, balding journos staying late in dimly lit offices masturbating to BC Rail documents. Thanks.

Welcome to Lotus Land, where developers hire people to stand in line for a condo sale. Meanwhile, Bob Rennie gets the cover of Friday’s Sun. If Detroit got a Robocop statue, we should have one of our Condo King.

Welcome to Lotus Land, where we hate small business: Canada Line civil suit overturned.

A similar situation: neighbours fume over flooding around Golden Ears Bridge. Don’t think of it as flooding. Think of it as habitat reclamation! You guys got a free lake!

Tolls unfair to already heavily taxed drivers. Aw, poor drivers who live in the burbs for whom housing is cheaper and where they only have 2 brand new bridges and a third coming soon and a wider freeway and 3 skytrain lines with a 4th one coming soon, and for whom we dismantled our streetcar line which decimated the DTES which allows you to justify living in the burbs in the first place. Aw…

Jimmy Fingers on The Homeless Problem. This is some of the hard-nosed pragmatism we need to take it to these big-government loving Liberals…

We built this city…on anti-orientalism.

CiTR joins the 9th Annual Homelessness Marathon. That seems so very mean. Y U make them run?

There are 3 comments

  1. come on, you can do better than be a cc of propaganda that feeds its self interest in marginalizing the truth and disparging working people, are you truly such a cardboard cutout of a hipster in need of shedding your middle class guilt.what a joke

  2. I don’t think I’ve disparged working people, namely because I don’t know what that means, and I’m quite certain I’ve never disparaged them. Also, not sure how I can be marginalizing the truth when I’m blaming the media for doing that very thing but ok. Finally, the H word. Great. Very original.

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