by Sean Orr | I, for one, will not be celebrating Canada Day this year: Campground booze bans supported by most Canadians. What the article doesn’t say is that when polling companies use the words “most Canadians”, they really mean a lot of old curmudgeons who neither camp nor screen their calls to avoid having to talk to pollsters.

Related: Rex Murphy: Check your bigotry. Ah yes, the old reverse racism card. “You will find its most feverish exemplars in the very citadels of reason, the modern-day university campus.” Too bad he can’t cite a single one. “What part of the great DNA chain, specifically, houses the gene for white privilege?” It’s not DNA, Rex, but history. Remember the Residential Schools, the Head Tax, the Chinese Exclusion Act, Japanese Internment, and the Highway of Tears? It seems as though Rex Murphy is living in a vacuum.

See also: Louis C.K. “If you’re white and you don’t admit that it’s great, you’re an asshole.” I mean, if there’s a Buzzfeed list on white privilege, you probably don’t need a National Post editorial to counter it. And don’t even get me started on “colourblindness“…

White privilege is never being duped into being a Temporary Foreign Worker: Film company accused of foreign worker fraud, extortion.

White privilege means there will never be a covenant against you owning a house: B.C. property titles bear reminders of a time when race-based covenants kept neighbourhoods white. Yeah, but when you write a story about racism, it’s probably best that you omit unverifiable generalities such as “…in a market where most of the home-buying is done by Asians…”

“We have to admit that some of this blame on ‘foreign ownership’ overlaps with xenophobic and racist language”: Vancouver Foreign Buyers- Driving Speculation and Unaffordability? For me, white privilege is my spell-check not understanding the word “unaffordability”.

Let’s call it globalism: Real Estate goes Global. “When price-to-income or price-to-rent ratios get out of whack, it’s often a sign of a housing bubble. But the story in Vancouver is more interesting…” And by interesting they mean utterly depressing: “What hedge cities offer is social and political stability, and, in the case of Vancouver, it also offers long-term protection against climate change…” Oh, cool! I had no idea that we were immune.

Just the tipper: Restaurateur Colin Shandler to challenge Gregor Robertson for Vancouver mayor.

Why do school teachers believe they deserve free parking? Maybe they should start charging parents for extra curricular activities instead of volunteering their time. Then we’ll see who’s really entitled.

Coupland does it again: Vancouver artist Douglas Coupland wants people to stick chewing gum on giant sculpture of his head. Sounds quirky and original, right? Wrong. Local artists Drew Shaffer and Chris von Szombathy did almost the exact same thing two years ago at Catalog Gallery.