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On Art Poodles And Gastown’s Permanent State Of Transition

by Sean OrrChristy Clark partnered in Enbridge lobbying firm before becoming BC premier. No surprises there. Frankly, I was more outraged that she was a CKNW host.

Eve Adams’s fight over $6 car wash drew PMO involvement. As Derrick O’Keefe points out: “Conservative MP shows that direct action protest works, as she stands up for her inalienable right to take $6 back from a small businessperson”.

B.C. Premier’s office defends $475K credit card bill. Please listen to this entire track as you read the above article. Thnx.

Top 10 TransLink fare evaders owe more than $73,000 in fines. ROUND THEM UP!

Gastown renewal project fuses heritage with hip. As awfully as that headline is worded, what about the part where it’s true? I was at a Gastown eatery recently and heard the owner bum on a neighbour, saying “I can’t wait for them to be gone.” I was floored. Was he not attracted to this area because it was exciting? Because there’s an element of (perceived) danger? Gastown might reek of pee, but hating on it reeks of insecurity. As Gordon Price points out “Gastown, Vancouver’s first downtown, has always been a neighbourhood in transition”.

At least we have a sense of humour about it: The story behind kale-centric Gastown shop Brassica & Co.. Reminds me of the cheeky “Live Bait and Coffee Coming Soon” and “Plus Size Men’s Lingerie Coming Soon” banners across from Woodwards.

You decide on public art on Robson Street. Ok, whatever the opposite of a poodle is, and one hundred of them.

Confessions of an Unfriendly Vancouverite. Part of me is like, yeah, but part of me is like, Vancouverites aren’t rude, you are.

A video game for Vancouver: That’s not a flappy bird, its Nimby Dog! (I apologize for this in advance).

Pair accused of sex mid-flight plead not guilty. I show you this because it has the best last-sentence of a news article I’ve ever read: “Lander lives in the tiny community of West Porters Lake, N.S., though QMI Agency could find nobody who would admit knowing her”. Snap.

There are 6 comments

  1. I live in Gastown and there is no such a thing as element
    Of “danger”, whatever the hell that means.
    It is a matter of perception to come to this the only peculiar
    Area of Vancouver , seat in a restaurant and judge the neighborhood , and to live in Gastown this my neighborhood the one I chose to live and love and we residents are a little bored and yet used to snobs like you, telling us about our neighborhood ,

  2. Monica, I feel like your comment should narrate a vimeo short, filmed on a Canon D5, with twinkly music playing (you know like the kind from movie trailers). The video would have shots of cafes and people riding bikes, and eating at Save On Meats, but also a few token hobos, but not like dirty ones, the ones that make you go ‘awww’.

    p.s I think you’re arguing the same point as Sean, and if not, well I just got bored of writing and don’t care anymore.

    Fuck why do I use the internet.

  3. Because you killed it. THAT’S why you use the internet. I was going to reply but my anger gland started acting up again.

  4. I can’t wait until the new cross-fit studio opens, for the sight of zero anti-gentrification protesters. Maybe they can offer free classes for the more needy denizens of the hood, come on boys it’s all good PR, until it isn’t.

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