by Sean Orr | Will the real Christy Clark please stand up: Christy Clark imposter makes Family Day anti-poverty ‘announcement’. When I originally saw this I was like, “too little, too late, you populist twit”. Boy, was I ever red-faced! But then I read her spokesman’s reaction, “A job has always been the best way to fight poverty”, and I couldn’t tell if that too was satire and I was led into a wormhole of deception and lies from which I was unable to escape. I sat huddled and shivering in the pale-blue glow of my laptop while this song played, repeating to myself “A job has always been the best way to fight poverty.”

Rent increase for low-income Chinatown seniors could set “terrifying precedent”, says Pivot lawyer. “A job has always been the best way to fight poverty.”

Cities say Stephen Harper government getting ‘cold feet’ on fighting poverty. “A job has always been the best way to fight poverty.”

Flaherty cites terrorism when asked why CRA is auditing environmental charities. An audit has always been the best way to fight terrorism.

Security officials defend snooping on wireless information at airport. “Government lawyers have told them this kind of surveillance is legally sound – and not the same as illegally wiretapping phone calls or steaming open letters”. So what the government is basically saying is this: if you use WiFi at an airport, “you were asking for it”.

Canada’s first crack pipe vending machines come to Vancouver. Do not read the comments, Sean. Never read the comments!

Which brings us to the Tweet of the Day:

Ironically a crack pipe vending machine is the kind of progressive program you get when your mayor is not on crack. http://t.co/AnkdDwFiHI

— Steve Burgess (@steveburgess1) February 10, 2014

“You guys do high rises very nicely. But you are sort of drunk on high rises. You don’t need towers everywhere”. Well, that backfired.

Ignore the awful title: Dude, Where are my Toll-Paying Cars? “6,000 fewer cars per day using Port Mann Bridge since tolls. 20-per-cent shortfall in revenue anticipated”. Well, that backfired, too.

OMG, paint chips! Build a new bridge now! Pattullo Bridge crumbling in places. “Guard rails rattle, bridge deck trembles as large trucks cross”. Have you people never even been on a bridge before?

Another independent bookseller falls: Oscar’s Art Books announces it’s closing. Way to go Vancouver. Just fold your arms and stand at the back. #fyastb

Bonus: The Real People Of Vancouver Episode 1: Ken Foster.

Photo credit: Norman Fox