by Sean Orr | GET THE FACTS STRAIGHT. Woah, chill out VPD, I believe you, so ease-up on the caps lock. You literally didn’t know that a riot going to happen. We get that. It’s just…you know, BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY, right?

Attempting to clarify the process? No, there was no discussion about 1994. I’m not exactly sure how that is supposed to exonerate anyone. Isn’t that the entire point? Not enough precedence for you? I mean, I’ve defended the VPD in their handling of the riot, but I’ve also said that closing down liquor stores is more likely to spur a riot rather than prevent one (by encouraging binge drinking).

New pot laws could overwhelm B.C. jails. Let’s criminalize youth just a little more!

Calgary mayor touts arts as key for cities. This is better than any roast, ever.

Meanwhile, Montreal is the top bike-friendly city in North America. So a city with crumbling infrastructure is better than a city that supposedly builds too much?

Actions speak louder than words and other clichés. “Creating the conditions for job creation and income growth is a compassionate act”. Making fun of people who care by calling them BANANAS? Not so much. I guess it’s hard for a free-market fundamentalist like Fazil Mihlar to conceive of, but not everyone is able to work. Dummy.

Almost as bad are editorials that are thinly disguised as business stories: Projects like Keystone pipeline would kick-start North American jobs market. “Oil industry ventures face ideology vs. employment dilemma”. If the environment is an ‘ideology’, then so is the economy.