by Sean Orr | Living wage required for Metro Vancouver rises to $20.10 per hour. “These people won’t be able to own a house, save for retirement or save for education”. Property Virgins for life!

I’ve always wanted to live in Mount Pleasant Uptown SoMa Midtown. “Midtown is an ideal home base. This is an honest neighbourhood; a place with a noticeable lack of big-box stores and designer dog jackets…” Um, you know…except for Bow Wow Haus Dog Boutique & Small Dog Daycare not even half a block away. “But you really shouldn’t take advertising as gospel…” Ok.

Not sure why nobody cares about the wholesale gentrification of Granville Street, but it’s almost complete: Low-income Clifton Hotel residents face evictions. “What do you expect?”, owner Abolghasem Abdollahi is quoted as saying. “I’m not a charity…” Nope, you are in fact what is colloquially known in Vancouver as “a scum-sucking slumlord.”

Downtown Eastside SRO units become pricey microlofts. “Are young professionals being left out of debates around affordable housing in Vancouver?” Or, won’t someone please think of the children poor yuppies?

I, for one, am sick of being just a regular millionaire: Seven secrets of self-made multimillionaires. Thanks awfully, Globe & Mail!

Vancouver will be the first BC school district to charge teachers for parking. Wait, teachers can afford to drive? Next they’ll be complaining that they don’t get paid for extra-curricular activities…

Mayor weighs in on CP Rail possibly running trains along Arbutus. “Robertson adds it would be a ‘huge concern’ if dangerous cargo were to be carried on the tracks given it runs through the middle of several residential neighbourhoods.” Yeah, man! Keep that shit in East Van!

Bear attack at Suncor site kills 1 worker. Yes, even our bears are against the tarsands…

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