by Sean Orr | The creeping veil of Americanism: Tories may have broken 2011 election rules with US Republican campaigners in Ontario. Wherein parliament will get slightly louder for one question period. Seriously, how does all this stuff just bounce off of them? Or maybe they absorb each scandal and grow bigger like some twisted political Katamari Damacy.
Is it any wonder that opposition to the Tories then resembles that whole Not Our President thing? Not Our Budget.
We want to appear big and tough, we just don’t want pay for it: Border cuts at odds with tough-on-crime agenda, union says. And/or we’ll just lie about the costs.
The only game in town: Vancouver’s real estate moguls share trade secrets. Remember, it’s all about gambling. Vancouver wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for one massive gamble.
What do we want? Affordable housing! Where do we want it? Somewhere else! Vancouver church housing proposal perturbs residents. Hilarious understatement of the day: “’Unfortunately, we don’t trust the church,’ said neighbour MaryAnn Murray”. Oh man, yeah…after the crusades and all the rapes and free meals and shit, me neither.
From our friends at The Dependent:
The Vancouver School Board has pulled the plug on a series of anti-vandalism devices installed at 17 schools in the district on the grounds that they pose a public health risk. The devices, known as “Mosquitoes”, emit an irritating, high-frequency pulse, and were designed to keep teens from congregating after hours. The best part? The frequency can only be heard by people under the age of 25. Next suggested deployment: the 99 B-Line, downtown 7-Elevens, and Miley Cyrus concerts.
It’s interesting to note that the idea can be reversed so that children can start communicating using only this frequency and then we’ll really be in trouble. It would be like Children of the Corn, only they would be Children of the High Frequency Thingy. Or, at the very least, they could just have their own secret ringtones.
Surrey is becoming cooler than Vancouver, Example No. 12: City of Surrey Call for Proposals: Surrey Urban Screen. Surrey is already cooler than Vancouver, Example No. 1: Canucks party slated for North Surrey. Seriously Vancouver, now is your time. I’ve heard you whine for decades about the suburban hordes invading our precious glass city. Let’s see what happens when all of Vancouver shows up to their party.
Public supports keeping A-Maze-ing Laughter in Vancouver. Not exactly sure why, but yes: more public art always. Also more parks, please and thank you.
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No, Sean. People don’t want affordable housing “somewhere else.” Point of information: they want it in Mt Pleasant. Rize is not affordadable housing. It’s luxury condos. (Not to mention one of the most dreadful pieces of architecture I’ve seen in ages.) What is this, reportage from an alternate universe in which everything’s the opposite of how it actually is here on earth? Are you involved with this real estate project in some way? Did you think Vancouverites wouldn’t eventually look at the forest of cheap, generic architectural mediocrity imposed on their city and put their collective foot down?
I was just pointing to the Rize thing because of the discussion on affordable housing.
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So you don’t like it because it’s not affordable housing, and you don’t like it because it isn’t architecturally nice enough? I thought it was something to do with community consultation. It seems you have a litany of generic counterpoints at your disposal. My point, is that if you object to this, you are objecting to development in general I think that’s dangerous, and I think the discourse so far, at least in my experience, has reflected this.