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On Melting Medals & Forcing The Last Low Income Tenants Out

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by Sean Orr | Last low-income tenants at Olympic Village are being “forced out”. Maybe we can melt down all our Sochi medals and turn them in for scrap so we can pay their bills. Or you know, maybe we can come up with a fucking national housing plan like a real country.

Or, how about a basic income?

Related: Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games. We built this city on boosterism.

Government Should Never Come Between Beer and a Hockey Fan. Wait, what? The rest of Canada was allowed to drink during the game? Never has there been a more grievous example of Western Alienation™.

Satire of the day: Harper Worried ‘Pussy Riots’ Could Break Out Across Canada. Perhaps we will have to import Temporary Foreign Cossacks.

Rex Murphy’s pro-oil sands speech prompts CBC to review journalistic rules. The CBC has journalistic rules? OK, but how does that explain Kevin O’Leary?

Meanwhile Derrick O’Keefe laments:

Don’t mean to harp (yes I do) but one week later and there still hasn’t been a single editorial or op-ed in a major media outlet against the $10 billion+ Canada-Saudi military hardware deal. (Hey, it’s only the largest manufacturing export agreement in Canadian history).

How provincial: ‘Populist’ plan to protect rural seat numbers is risky on several fronts. Balkanize BC!

Just don’t call it East Village: Hastings-Sunrise basks in the area’s rebirth. “Bohème’s location and neighbourhood mimic the early days of Yaletown: the next hip, affordable place to live within minutes of the downtown core.” Barf.

The Gill-o-tine falls for Burger285: No-name food truck burger sizzles against the competition. Following the success of my Hamburger 2.85 Yelp creation, I now give you Jack’s Place.

Maybe I should apply for this: Fresh Slice looking for Social Media Person.

Bonus: Black Strathcona.

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