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TEA & TWO SLICES: On Fighting For Happy Hour And Paying For The Vancouver Sun

by Sean Orr | ‘National dream’ of Northern development happening now: Harper. I suppose it’s easy for him to dream when he only sees in dollars, but what happens when his priest finds out that he’s taking credit for God’s work?

Falcongate: Falcon’s feigned ignorance on ICBC file hard to take. But don’t just take The Province’s word for it, let’s hear it from the donkey’s horse’s mouth: Out-of-control executive compensation at ICBC “hiding in plain sight” – Cummins. Oh, let the dragons do battle ’til they be flayed by rhetoric!

Reading the Province and the Vancouver Sun online now costs money. They gut their staff and now their readers? Oh noes! Where will we get our free cleavage galleries, mindless boosterism, celebrity gossip and blatant right wing propaganda now? Oh, yeah…everywhere else, and for free. Seriously, these papers had 43 million page views on their websites last month, and yet they can’t come up with a workable revenue model that doesn’t include foisting the tab of their failures on their readers? Even more amazing is how they’re trying to justify the move by comparing their new “system” to that of The New York Times and The Guardian. Talk about delusions of relevance and grandeur. Let them whither behind their little paywall up to their rickety knees in dinosaur poo!

Meanwhile, The Province runs an editorial from BC Federation of Labour president Jim Sinclair (on its blog, of course): Liberal policies have failed B.C. forest communities. True, but so did the NDP. Running for the Green Party (have I said that enough times yet?), I learned all about something called stumpage-fees and the export of raw logs. Their position sounds an awful lot like what Sinclair is talking about. Not saying. Just saying.

Would a Happy Hour make us more Happy? The only thing I can see it being good for is that all the assholes will blow their proverbial load and slither back home to the suburbs early, just as the rest of us are getting ready to leave our fancy lofts.

Fazil Mihlar asks: Why do I run? Hopefully it’s because you are being chased by a pack of working class families hell-bent on showing you how it feels to be marginalised by the espousal of your free market fundamentalism. And when they catch you, they could sell the $300 sneakers that you’re bragging about to help pay the rent.

Psych assessment ordered for man who terrorized SkyTrain passengers. The obviously distraught man was lucky to have been taken down by civilians. If they had left it up to the cops they might have shot him in the head.

This makes me happy: Beekeeper’s ‘manager’ Rockin Robin confronts Megaphone editor Sean Condon.

Check out this girl crushing it on a skateboard in front of the Bamiyan Buddha craters. Local girl makes good!

There are 3 comments

  1. “Would a Happy Hour make us more Happy? The only thing I can see it being good for is that all the assholes will blow their proverbial load and slither back home to the suburbs early, just as the rest of us are getting ready to leave our fancy lofts.”

    Wow. Just. I mean, you guys run a great site, but the regionalism is tiring and vaguely offensive.

    So poor schlubs like me who live in the suburbs aren’t as awesome and cool and rad as I assume, are the ‘real’ Vancouverites? That there is a postal code associated with authenticity or creativity or wit or anything that makes life worth living?

    Maybe this is just an accepted party line on the site. And if that’s the case, that’s fine, I’ll just slither on out. Just thought I’d register my distaste for it.

  2. No, I’m tired of the regionalism. I grew up in Surrey. I got called a faggot all my life, now I live in Vancouver and the only time that happens is when a pack of obviously suburbanites (again I know because I used to be one) decide to visit the Blarney Stone or The Bourbon or whatever. It even happened the other day as a car full of Lions fans with Coquitlam dealership plates drove by and yelled “nice hair homo”.

    I dont see anything wrong with seeking a more sophisticated life. The point is though is that our relationship to alcohol is historically puritan. This opening up can only be good!

  3. Niteowl you are completely correct in my opinion. The article’s written by this bloger are always crushingly elitest and betray a childhood of want and jealousy of a mythical urban utopia that he now pissess golden rain upon the readers from a bully pulpit.

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