by Sean Orr | Insite ruling a ‘historic day’ for Vancouver, say local politicians. Not ‘us’ though. Just some local politicians. “There was a festive buzz in the air on gritty Hastings Street as Eastsiders wolfed down a free pancake breakfast to celebrate the ruling”. Oh cool! Hastings has been upgraded to just “gritty”. I guess it no longer needs to be destroyed, eh, Mr. Baron?

Clark rejects request to ‘fix’ Missing Women Inquiry. Is that an explicit admission that it’s broken?

Yes She Can: Clark’s face could have been Liberal logo. And if that’s not enough to make you gag a little, it was to be “rendered in the style similar to that of an Andy Warhol painting or American president Barack Obama’s “Hope” poster”.

Even though it’s the only way The Province would ever cover the anti-Dick Cheney protesters’ message, they claim that violent protesters ruin their message. So sitting down is now considered violent? I’m pretty sure the violent ones were those who were so intent on seeing an admitted war criminal that they got the cops to push them through a protest line. PS. I love that 9/11 was mentioned in the first few words of the editorial. It’s so retro!

Affordable housing is a hot topic for the civic election. No way! Really? That’s rad.

Opposition slams Baird over golden business cards. Oh man, just look at this guy. He wants his gold-embossed cards so bad that he’s going to cry!

This Day in Vancouver: Isn’t it only fitting that the person described as “a man of grotesque, Falstaffian proportions and green-muddy, purplish complexion, with the gift of grouping words and throwing them away with volubility of a fakir” would foreshadow a city of the exact same description.

According to Mackin, the city only really got going when we built that huge white dome: A stadium reborn.