by Sean Orr | Guest editorial in the Vancouver Sun: Earth Day is cult indoctrination. Wherein it only takes them one paragraph to mention Stalin…

But yeah, Carlin said it better: “The planet isn’t going anywhere. We are. We’re going away. Pack your shit, folks.” Maybe the only thing wrong with environmentalists is that they are still offering hope where none exists.

Related: It’s the End of the World as We Know It…and He Feels Fine.

An inconvenient truth: Street homelessness doubles in Vancouver. DOUBLES! Wow. I actually believed Gregor could get the numbers down. What a fool I was.

But it’s cool because we’re getting free WiFi at the beach.

Safe Speculation Site: Vancouver reviews developers’ fees for community amenity contributions. Yup, Vancouver’s developers are still a bunch of CAC suckers.

Shelley Fralic: Does anyone else think 420 is reefer madness? I think 420 is super silly, too, but this is just so badly written that it makes the legalization movement look like it’s run by geniuses: “And, so, on a sober Monday morning, you reflect and wonder about the sheer lunacy of a world that criminalizes jaywalkers but has propelled an illegal drug into an acceptable social movement.” Um, jaywalking is not a criminal offence. It’s a ticketable offence, which is exactly what cops want to do with marijuana. “Forget, for a moment, all the cogent arguments on both sides…” Yes, let’s just throw out all logic and slap some vague moralism across the argument instead. And yet it gets worse: “Why would anyone bother to pass the dutchie to dopiness if it didn’t provide the warm and foggy fuzzies, a release from our cares and woes?” I read that sentence 420 times and it still doesn’t make any sense.

What’s this guy’s excuse? Man arrested for running on Skytrain Tracks. He found the shortcut!

Chinese-only sign stirs language controversy in Richmond, B.C.. I’m going to let unpaid Tea & Two Slices intern David Mattatall field this one: “As a white male I find it very offensive that I am not being targeted for advertising.” Because, according to The Province, white never goes out of style.

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Vancouver Earthquake: We will rebuild.