by Sean Orr | Vancouver bike lanes draw unnecessary lines. No, Vancouver Courier, you’re the one drawing lines. You’re the one making infrastructure a moral issue.
Leading us to the tweet of the day c/o Joe Hill: “Things I’ve learned are socialist: libraries, schools, health care for kids w/asthma, paved roads, garbage collection, the census, science”. Also: parks, safe injection sites, public transit, taxes, and the CBC.
Oh, behave! VPD officer who struck prisoner in wagon last year avoids criminal record if he stays out of trouble for 6 months. Man, I wished everything in life worked like that. “So if I don’t come in to work ripped on acid, smashing dishes, lighting fires for the next six months I won’t lose my job? Cool!”
The Beat doesn’t go on: Second season of The Beat could be its last. Good riddance. If I want to see the police harass the poor I’ll just step outside.
Repeat Offenders: New EI rules takes aim at frequent users, force workers to accept lower pay. So those people who are most vulnerable, hardest to employ, and the most marginalised are now called frequent users? Do they get Air Miles on that?
Turns out Sullivan can write as well as he can run a city: “I have been intrigued by recent discussions in the media about the theory that foreign Chinese homebuyers are responsible for high housing prices in Vancouver”. Foreign Chinese, eh? OK, sorry. It’s not that bad. It’s just that weird self-promotion he always does.
Remove the Bubble Wrap from Our Public Spaces. By-laws are almost always unnecessary. I’m no Libertarian, but I mean…come on, street hockey? The other day at McLean Park we watched the cops ticket a man in a teepee because his dogs weren’t on a leash. They were bothering nobody.
Gym should have let man work out in hiking boots, tribunal rules. Wow, it took a whole tribunal, eh?
Your skinny jeans might be killing you. Yeah, I had to hang up my Nudies when I kept getting Male Itch.
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So if you’re a seasonal worker or otherwise find yourself out of work too frequently for the Conservatives’ taste, what’s to stop an unscrupulous employer from axing your position, re-advertising it at 70% of the wage you were earning, then letting EI rules force you into taking the job back at the lower wage?
Just asking.
> No, Vancouver Courier, you’re the one drawing lines. You’re the one making
> infrastructure a moral issue.
Did you actually read that article? It ends with this:
> I’m all for improving cycling infrastructure…but it would be nice to see this
> accomplished without other road users being short-changed.
It doesn’t seem like there’s much of a moral distinction being drawn there.
It’s part of a larger antipathy towards cycling infrastructure. The Couriers Mark Hasiuk consistently decries the bike lanes and Gregor Robertson. This author may be slightly more ambiguous, but they draw the same conclusions. Other road users being short-changed? Golden Ears Bridge. Sea to Sky Highway. Port Mann Bridge. New Patullo. Freeway Widening. Fraser Perimeter Road.