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TEA & TWO SLICES: On The Skytrain Closing Before The Bars And The Fate of Red Gates

by Sean Orr | Do as I say, not as I do: PM attacks ‘foreign money’ behind oil sands protest, while in Beijing talking to the foreign money behind oil sands.

Pandering to the regime: Harper’s panda diplomacy with China yields cute, cuddly results. “Panda diplomacy has become an integral part of the People’s Republic of China’s relationship with the international community, representing a national symbol of goodwill and the country’s desire for better relations.” Um, hello? They are clearly spies.

Huff, Huff, Po: Harper Was Against Pension Changes Before He Was For Them. No, but really…I love the HuffPo, where else does sensational journalism come with an implied tongue-in-cheek?

Tweet of the Day, c/o Derrick O’Keefe: Christy Clark may be most unfit to govern in (BC political) history. I say this having grown up near a religious theme park where the premier lived.

Mayor calls on development industry to eliminate affordable housing. Fair enough, but don’t you want to get the very people you’re trying to encourage to build social housing to be on board? I mean, I think it’s kind of cheeky to put a guy who is critical of a housing task force on a housing task force.

Vancouver pro-drug lobby doesn’t deserve taxpayer dollars. And how much tax dollars go to fighting drugs? Shit, how much money is spent on Counterattack when the Skytrain closes before the bars? Because the very people we are trying to help (or in Hasiuk’s case, trying to stop) shouldn’t be allowed to have a voice. They should just be silent, moral black eyes that we never see and never talk about.

Why Can’t Vancouver Keep Its Start-ups Here? For the same reasons it can’t keep it’s artists and musicians here, probably.

BIG’s Beach and Howe Tower Proposal.

Red Gates reappears as $13,500 Gastown office space.

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  1. On “Big’s Beach and Howe Tower Proposal”; you forgot to mention that this development will replace the emergency shelter that Gregor trumpeted in leading up to the Olympics. I guess since its been a mild winter this year, build Vancouver build!

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