by Sean Orr | Canada won’t fund abortion in cases of war rape, child marriage. “There are plenty of measures that can be taken and Muskoka demonstrated that and we’ll follow it in a consistent way with Muskoka.” So, as in the case of Muskoka, we can fund things like pudding cups, or band-aids with Canadian flags on them, because Muskoka. “Harper has said he does not want to re-open the divisive debate.” Or, as Oilers assistant coach Keith Acton so succinctly put it it the other night while visiting Vancouver…

Regarding the other divisive debate that Harper doesn’t want to re-open: Downtown Eastside crack kits working, says health chief. “But the report does not recommend what drug activists have requested for many years: a legal facility where crack smokers can smoke their drugs”. So harm reduction works. It’s just the we don’t want it to work too well.

In fact, Cutbacks to healthcare on Downtown Eastside. Remember that the next time you read a Postmedia Op-Ed describing the DTES as a “wasteland”.

Meanwhile, lost in Conservative clucking over heroin is a serious spike in prescription painkiller deaths. “Moralistic instance of single-minded ideology run amok” … “The neophyte minister may want to reset her public image”. Looks like we got a winner!

Speaking of winners: The cost of being a Canucks fan. Funny how the story doesn’t mention the extreme emotional and psychological costs.

Why Christy Clark’s bridge to Delta threatens the Agricultural Land Reserve. In the article, Richmond Councillor Harold Steves characterized what was happening as the “Richmondization of Delta”.

Related: Province tells transit riders where to get off. Also related: A fifth of transit riders fail to tap out in Compass card test. Also also related: New Westminster council to consider asking province to deter trucks from using Patullo. Gosh. How exhausting.

It happened in Yaletown: Woman arrested after accident sends 9-year-old cyclist to hospital. As a crowd of bystanders rushed to lift the other car off of the kid, she went home to chill at her “False Creek area” home? Wow.