by Sean Orr | No good-niks! Editorial: Police inaction lets scofflaws prosper. Oh man! I love it when The Province gets all old-timey!

Let’s put the guy who sexualised housing and promoted the lotus-eating lifestyle of Vancouverism in charge of BC Housing: BC Liberals and Bob Rennie tighten grip on housing construction in Vancouver.

The process of philanthropization is inherent in neo-liberalism and in reality marks the privatization of social housing construction, a direction that has been champion [sic] by Bob Rennie for years

But not to worry. Everything is Going to be Alright, right?

Donut vs. Donut: Downtown Eastside restaurants respond to antipoverty activists. Oh, Ivan. I want to support you so badly, but as I have argued countless times, Gastown is a product of stopping gentrification. It began as a program of heritage restoration back in the 70’s. I mean, is Water Street Cafe and Al Porto on your list of “aggressors”, too? Sheesh.

And yet, at the same time, there is truth to his paranoia: 10-storey condo tower at Main & Keefer seeks approval. Photo evidence from yours truly sets up the sad state of affairs.

But calling him a bully probably just lends more credence to his argument: Neighbourhood bully harms Downtown Eastside planning process. Harms the process or is part of the process? What kind of paper prints that kind of thing? Oh wait…

Just as calling the Mayor of Vancouver a hipster makes Ezra Levant look like a bigger tool then he comes off in his articles: Mayor really the Prince of Tides. Oh man, the hypocrisy abounds. Any examination of any political party will turn up, yes that’s right, political contributors. Be it oil companies, the mining sector, Halliburton, SNC Lavalin, unions, indivuduals, and think tanks like Tides, or the one the conservatives used in the last election, Front Porch Strategies.

But it’s the left that’s loony? Why Harper must love the loony left. “When Stephen Harper was in opposition, the left insisted he had a Secret Agenda he would implement if he ever took power. The right hoped that was true.” I’m confused. So…evidence that something hasn’t quite yet happened is evidence that it won’t? And here I was thinking I had a grasp of logic. Here I was thinking that burning government documents was evidence enough. And here I was thinking Harper’s unanimous support for Israel’s siege on Gaza and war on Lebanon was evidence enough. And here I was thinking thinking the single-handed scuttling of the Copenhagen Climate Summit was…you get the picture.

Also: Foreign prosecutors view Canada as an international joke in terms of prosecuting corporate crime. OK, so that’s not quite the headline verbatim, but I think it sums things up nicely.

Bonus: Jeff Wall photo could sell for $2M at auction.

Extra bonus: Pull up a stool at The Bottleneck.