by Sean Orr | Wag the dog: Robertson played Occupy Vancouver timing well. Because, as the Province writes, a “violent showdown with protesters won’t happen until next week”. Oh great. The Province now predicts the news.

COPE couldn’t compete in big budget battle between NPA, Vision. As said by the Vancouver Sun, the very same people who completely ignored COPE because, yes that’s right, they didn’t have a big budget. Clearly, it’s a case of unrequited love.

Eighth time lucky for Carr as she becomes first Green Vancouver councillor. I know I should never read the comments after a Province story, but come on guys, she’s hardly a Marxist. “Green is about making sure that we have a very strong economic base in the city, especially in our small business sector”.

Seeking Vancouver. Suzanne Anton describes the moment she decided to go into politics as a light switch being turned on. “Notice the phrase describes the mechanical act of a switch being turned on but declines to mention whether or not illumination was achieved. That sums up her and her parties’ approach to politics quite nicely”. – Beckett Grace.

She goes on to say “I still feel I haven’t achieved what I set out to do in politics, which is to improve our community facilities in Vancouver. I still really haven’t cracked that nut”. Aw, how’s that nut looking now? Turns out being mean to it alone is not enough to make it open.

Lights out for City Caucus. Oh noes! Who am I gonna make fun of now? “I’m pretty confident my decision will be well received by the Mayor and his political team”. Don’t flatter yourself. This is basically an admission that your blog has (a quite narrow) political agenda. If Anton had won you would have quit anyways (and probably to work for her).

The Fraser Institute has finally severed the threadbare string that has tied them to reality: Occupy Vancouver protesters should give big thanks to banks. Apparently, banks “are prudent, profitable and virtuous and the ‘fat cats’ benefiting from their profits are seniors, small businesses and employees”. But nobody is really blaming the banks as the solitary force of disenfranchisement that has inspired the Occupy movement. It’s obviously much more systemic. Their collusion with government (and an enabling corporate media) has successfully created a culture of violent disengagement vis a vis the endless consumption of material goods through the mechanisms of debt. Big thanks indeed.

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Don’t drink the water: Abbotsford P3 water project rejected by voters. They didn’t want to trust our most precious resource with a private company? Weird.