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Tea & Two Slices: On Blown Budgets, Police Databases And Meth Heads In The Park!

by Sean Orr | One adroit budget, one more Conservative government. Wow, I think I might have read this entire article! My favourite bit was the part about “gossamer promises” (I think I once saw a Creed cover band called that).

Burnaby MLA slams provincial police database. If I’m not on that list I’m going to be really upset. Or, as Joe Bowser tweets, “Yes, this is a real government document! Yes, that is Comic Sans! Yes, 8 out of 10 British Columbians have a file”!

Retail sales in B.C. decline most among provinces in January. We need to sell more red mittens!

Man shot at Royal Oak SkyTrain station in Burnaby. I suppose $28.9 Million a year to police the Skytrain with dogs, Tasers and CCTV isn’t enough. Maybe the new turnstiles will double as metal detectors?

Meth clinic having difficulty finding a home. “I think that having people who could potentially have a little bit higher risk in the community interacting with families or kids, that’s something that we kind of want to limit those interactions as much as possible”. I think that maybe you might want to actually kinda just say that you possibly want to avoid the probability of perhaps having…METH HEADS IN THE PARK!!! Which is, unfortunately, the entire point of having a clinic in the first place.

Cargo trikes set to hit Vancouver bike lanes. I had a vision of Vancouver as some cool future steam-punk city for a second there, but then I remembered the suburbs.

Meanwhile, in Calgary: Two arrested during white pride rally. I think the Herald summed it up nicely when they said “[the marchers] lapped up the attention of media and counter-demonstrators like so many kittens at a saucer of cream”. And then I immediately thought of…kittens!

Nardwuar vs. Odd Future Wolfgang. Bacon soap!

There are 3 comments

  1. First — MethaDONE, not crystal. These people aren’t “meth heads.”

    Second, people with addictions are in Strathcona anyway; why wouldn’t we want a clinic that helps them get OFF the drugs? Enough with the “not in my neighborhood” crap.

  2. Ooops. But the point stands. Harm reduction works. I’m not sure if that came through, but my point is exactly the same as yours.

    Secondly, let it be known that I personally hate tilt-shift photography. Blech.

  3. Again with 60D “creative filter”. I always thought tilt-shift was video, no? Point taken, regardless.

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