by Sean Orr | From the Vancouver Sun: Activists set to occupy downtown streets. “Anti-corporate protest organizers plan to congregate at Vancouver Art Gallery and on Howe Street.” A couple of notes on that…

1. I have heard nothing about occupying any streets. A march maybe, but not an occupation.
2. “Anti-corporate” is terribly misleading. Perhaps “anti-corporate-personhood” doesn’t sound as cool.
3. You guys sound terrified.
4. “One of the young left-wing organizers behind Occupy Vancouver”. I see what you did there. Because she is left-wing, then that means so is the entire movement.
5. “It’s unclear whether members of Vancouver’s larger mainstream left – union and active NDP supporters – will join the Occupy Vancouver protest or whether it will be mainly a protest movement of younger activists on the political fringe”. Again, nice try. But the whole idea of the movement, indeed it’s most oft-repeated mantra, is that it is supposed to represent 99% of the population. I highly doubt that 99% of the population is left wing.
6. You’re using the Facebook group as a way of getting quotes? Really?
7. Glittering Vancouver is now the poverty capital of Canada.
8. Maybe it would help if we were Tea Partiers instead.
9. Perhaps we should #Occupy200GranvilleStreet

But then there are the pee jokes: Vancouver restaurant’s ‘ban’ on men peeing standing up creates a stir. Forget #OccupyVancouver. I think The Sun has found it’s true niche: “Within hours, the tale of eatery Edible Canada’s totalitarian and possibly feminist-inspired “no peeing standing up” edict had been splashed across websites around the globe and re-tweeted by thousands”. Wow! Thousands! You guys are so viral!

First the Jets logo, now this: Feds Launch War Of 1812 Anniversary Plans. Umberto Eco’s Ur-Facism seems more relevant by the day.

Are Vancouver Politics Getting Ford-ified?. Please ignore the awful headline. There is no such thing as Fordism. It is not a doctrine. It’s just another name for New Conservatism, which also doesn’t exist. The point is, the NPA hired the same communications firm as Rob Ford. That’s all.

Pickton inquiry has benefit of hindsight, Vancouver police lawyer warns. Think about that for a second. That is a lawyer speaking. Because, and correct me if I’m wrong, almost every single inquiry in the history of law also had “the benefit of hindsight”.

Otherwise why would we even bother? Frank Paul case leads to rule changes on investigations into police-involved deaths.

COPE Councillor against condo’s. All of them. Forever.