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TEA & TWO SLICES: On Lost Tanning Bed Consequences And Incoherent Crime Policy

by Sean Orr | Even the National Front Post disagrees with the pudgy-faced cowboy: Harper’s incoherent crime policy. The only prisons you need to build are already built. They’re called retirement homes.

I told you not to take away their tanning beds: Tires slashed on more than 100 cars in Surrey. Unless this is part of some sort of doomsday cult, “I warned ye, I warned ye didn’ I“?

Axis of Evil: “If you’re not with us, you’re supporting child pornographers”. So that means the 90% of people who DON’T WANT THE GOVERNMENT TO READ YOUR EMAILS are with the child pornographers. And I’m one of them! I disgust myself. (Here is Vic Toews email- [email protected]. Go tell him what you are doing on the internet right now).

The sequel to Dude, Where’s My Car: ‘But You’re the Premier!’. “I know, ain’t just soooo bizarre? At first I was all, but then I was like…
Starring Yeardley Smith as our Palin-esqe Premier (and probably John Goodman as Bill Good).

Son of a bitumen: Jump in Alberta Disability Benefits Leaves BC Far Behind. “Work exemption rates have doubled to a minimum of $800 for a single person”. Holy shit! That’s close to what I earn a month! I don’t know what I hate more, my brain or the BC government.

Dark Side of the Sun. Man, I can always depend on these guys for a good link. Interesting to note that both papers left the DTES for their new digs at 200 Granville, which was supposed to erase most of…yup you guessed it, the DTES.

Zoned Out: Does Vancouver need to rezone when it already has lots of zoned capacity? Just tell me what the answer is.

Pet n’ Eat. Stanley Park petting-zoo goats may have been slaughtered. You see, that’s a real opportunity wasted. The Parks Board could have really put an end to their budgetary constraints if they had just marketed this better.

Bonus: Tribute to the Pipeline.

On Ken Sim’s So-Called “Swagger” and ABC’S Class War

Sean Orr is back from his hiatus with a rundown of the local headlines that have been running on a ticker tape through his mind over the past six months...

On Post-Election Recuperation, Platform Paradoxes and Refund Communities

In his latest read of the local news headlines, Sean Orr finds irony in "safety, affordability, and sustainability", and shouts out a bunch of amazing local organizations working on the frontlines.

On Running for City Council, Playing Whack-a-Mole with Homelessness, and the Public Washroom Deficit

In his latest read of the local news headlines, Sean Orr finds a park ranger with a grudge, a gross misuse of air quotes and Tripadvisor slander.

On Living in a City Preoccupied with Street Cleaning, Chandeliers, and Campaigns Against the Homeless

In his latest read of the local news headlines, Sean Orr hones in on the recent Langley shootings, and the ongoing criminalizing and dehumanizing of the homeless population.