by Sean Orr | Northern B.C. has no love for the carbon tax. You found some people who don’t like taxes? That is some amazing investigative journalism! Mayhaps you should go write for the Vancouver Star (in Australia).

But then every once and a while The Province actually gets it right. In the case of Amanda Todd they say the following: “We don’t need more feel-good, anti-bullying campaigns; we need more and better mental-health programs for kids”.

So is this simply a symptom of a new, network society – a reflection of our cut-throat economic system that leaves no room for aberrations? Are our children simply emulating the adults they see “debating” on TV, flaunting themselves on reality television, and fighting in the streets? And while perhaps this crude photo is taking things too far, so too are the calls for retribution by Anonymous.

Related? Is Canada flexing its muscles in the spying world? Like a spotty teenager with short-man-syndrome experimenting with creatine…

Meanwhile, CCPA mythbuster Erika Shaker uncovers the ugly truth behind “Right-to-Work” legislation:

But for those just a wee bit uncomfortable with the challenges to social hierarchy that over the past few decades have been enshrined in legislation (like the Rand Formula), a return to an “I know my place” earnestness and other “please-sir-may-I-have-some-more” displays of gratitude from desperate workers must seem almost charmingly retro…in a “fetch me my pipe and slippers” kind of way.

Christy Clark’s communications director leaves post. I guess now that whole Hipster is not a Real Job slogan is ringing a little too true.

Condos to the rescue: Vancouver condo project the next generation of social housing. A new model for housing or a new model for the collusion between capital and consensus politics? You decide. No, really – please tell me the answer. I just don’t know anymore.

For example, I thought the rent bank sounded like a pretty good idea but apparently it’s “being used as a political tool by Vision to gloss over their inadequate efforts to provide real solutions for Vancouver’s tenants. Added to that, the Radcliffe Foundation and the rest of Vancouver’s elite are using Streetohome as a tax-haven”.

So is there credence to local founder of the Decentralized Dance Party’s plan to by-pass the global financial systems, or is it simply an exercise in rebranding the Occupy movement?

World’s biggest geoengineering experiment ‘violates’ UN rules. But they wouldn’t let Robert Smithson cover an entire Gulf Island in broken glass? Hmmm.