by Sean Orr | A bit of unsolicited advice for our newly selected Liberal party leader. Pretty much do the exact opposite of everything your party has ever done. Also, I’m glad Stephen Hume caught the gross irony of her “Families First” agenda.

The ‘shadow public service’: Outsourcing costs soar as feds slash budgets. Ha ha! In trying to strip down bureaucracy they created a new one! I love it! And by love I actually mean loathe.

B.C. lags behind other provinces in attractiveness to mining sector. OMG! Quick, let’s give them more subsidies because the Fraser Institute told us to! Maybe we should even relax a few environmental laws! We need to stay competitive! That being said, this is the most transparent that the Sun has ever been about a Fraser Institute report. So that’s good I guess.

B.C. may face unprecedented native unrest if rights ignored. Um, duh. Also, I can’t tell if this is a series of unfortunate formatting typos or a conceptual art piece on the language of obfuscation:

As Chief Deneault has said, it’s going to get worse, much worse, because r Height”between 20 the years logo and of other almost graphic elements

Pardon? It’s nevertheless apparent that the Libyan crisis has spread to BC, so we better warm up the F-16s…

Turnstiles: gate-keeping the space of SkyTrain stations. Seems like the only thing that needs a turn-stile is the bankrupt bureaucracy that is Translink.

Vancouver’s Non-Partisan Association postpones AGM for six months. Yeah, apparently Gary’s basement flooded and they can’t do it at John’s place because of the bedbugs. Plus nobody can get a hold of Mark. Encouraging…

Olio Festival goes south. Not south as in like, bad, but south as in Texas.