by Sean Orr | Original city-builders vs. the new city builders: CP Rail orders Arbutus corridor community gardens, property, businesses to be removed. It’s rumoured that the trains will be outfitted to roll some coal.
And in other land-grab news: Will Conservatives pay a political price for handing over Granville Island to Port Metro Vancouver? A little background on the Granville Island Trust.
Transit police don’t like it when you tweet about fare checks. They’d rather you join this Facebook group! “We remove hundreds of criminals from the system each year after finding them without fare”. Um, not paying your fare is not a crime. Why am I surprised a cop doesn’t know the law? Also, this.
ESL students in the majority at more than 60 schools in Metro Vancouver. “Use our interactive tool to compare rates of ESL, special needs and gifted children”, so you can decide the appropriate level of outrage that you should be feeling!
Alex G. Tsakumis: Breakdown of Gregor Robertson’s Marriage. “In Vancouver, the fifth estate does not trade on the vicissitudes of human misery for the content of their publication, or broadcast outlet, and neither do members of the political class…” Me, too! I’ll trade on a tweet instead…
#Vancouver @MayorGregor separates from wife http://t.co/we4Gn4U5aO Is engagement to Bob @RennieVancouver close @visionvancouver? #vanpoli
— madlove (@CryingWolfe) July 5, 2014
Meanwhile, Activists take control of COPE, filling most executive positions. Is “activist” in this context supposed to be an epithet? Maybe the federal NDP could learn a thing or two, instead of praising Tony Blair’s Third Way.
Will new agency help Vancouver’s affordable housing crisis? “We have some of the worst housing prices in the world in Vancouver. If we want to deal with that, we have to be innovative and quick on our feet…” Um, I’m pretty sure you guys were elected like…6 years ago. Getting on your feet would be a fine start.
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Related 2: Twitter parody account of the week: Trent Boderian.
Bonus: Vancouver Building Age Map.
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Just to be fair, re: tweeting about fare checks… the “hundreds of criminals” the transit cop was referring to aren’t arrested for the non-crime of skipping fare, they’re people with outstanding warrants that were found during fare checks.
Dudebro,
You are missing the point. Sean is the provocateur who musn’t be provoked because….well Andrew will tell you.
The point of this site is to entice you to click on the jungle of ads that surround each “story” so that the Champagne Socialists that own and run the site are able to jet off to Paris again next Spring. Please, do try to keep up and keep on clicking!
Cheers.