by Sean Orr | New front runner for #douchebagoftheyear: Federal minister says child poverty not Ottawa’s problem. “Is that always the government’s job, to be there to serve people their breakfast?” Actually. yes. “Is it my job to feed my neighbour’s child? I don’t think so”. Prompting the tweet of the day c/o Charles Demers:

“So? Is it my job to keep Peter O’Toole alive?” – How I imagine James Moore responds to the day’s news

— Charles Demers (@charliedemers) December 15, 2013

But suddenly a new contender emerges! Lucic rips hometown Vancouver after bar fight. “I have no reason left to try and defend my city, and the people of my city”. I would have probably come to the same conclusion if my entire sample population consisted solely of asshole jocks who go to The Roxy. C’mon, Lucic…even Gandhi would get into an ‘altercation’ on the Granville Strip.

What a load of manure: Abbotsford: Homeless Camp Under Siege. Sigh, if only the teachings of Jesus Christ had reached the tiny enclave of Abbotsford…

Put down: Original Response to The Province’s Interview on “Pickup Artists”. Sorry Tony, I know you wanted Scout to review your book. This is as close as it will get.

Why are the economy and the environment mutually exclsuive? ‘Eco-scaremongers’ will kill the economy. Using outdated tropes such as “Third World”, Mr. Tupper laments the loss of jobs in the coal sector (despite their use of temporary foreign workers) saying it would devastate the economy. But of course – and just in case anyone forgot – Gary was one of the folks who led the charge to defeat TransLink’s proposed vehicle levy a few years ago. Since Translink is now bankrupt, I’m not sure we should take his advice…

Green Party interim leader Adam Olsen’s goals include building bridges between aboriginals and non-aboriginals. “It’s economic madness,” Weaver said. “We are pinning all our hopes on one desperate dream. There’s no backup plan. It’s LNG or nothing. “Forget about counting your chickens before they’re hatched. That’s counting them before the rooster has even entered the hen house.”

The not-so-free-market: The War on BC’s Small Pot Farmer. Or, the case against legalization. See Vice’s BC Bud documentary.

Finding Hard Value in Real Estate – An analysis of Vancouver and Detroit. “No other item in your investment portfolio is as full of speculation, cultural zeitgeist, and outright sentimentalism as real estate”.

Canada Post’s secret tunnel faces end of the line. Forget the thousands of posties that are losing their jobs. This is the real tragedy.