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On Flipping Houses & Always Believing The Person In Dreadlocks

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by Sean Orr | Hooray! Vancouver wins injunction to evict homeless campers from Oppenheimer Park. So now they can go back to sleeping on benches and under bridges!

Update: VPD to wear body cameras when ensuring campers clear out of Oppenheimer Park. Let’s hope they have a livestream…

Dichotomy City: Vancouver’s real estate boom: The rising price of ‘heaven’. “The house prices are perfect…” As cringeworthy as that sounds, it’s nice to see some honesty from the rich.

Flipping the paradigm: OneCity proposes house-flipping levy in Vancouver. Just don’t tell these guys…The Flipping Formula team is on its way.

Which leads to the Tweet of the Day:

 

To be fair however, the NPA’s affordable housing platform doesn’t mention renters once.

But hey, free parking, right? Promises, promises — main Vancouver parties ramp up their civic election campaigns. In a city that is next to impossible to find parking in, what difference does it make if it’s free?

From my cold, oily fingers: Kinder Morgan TV ads attacked as influencing city elections in BC. She obviously cares about the environment because she has dreadlocks.

RED ALERT: Guy at Fraser Institute is pretty sure he just debunked climate change science. Press Progress is my new favourite website.

Not a Nathan For You gag: Shell brings back 1984 gas prices to celebrate anniversary. You really have to admire this brilliant piece of participatory propaganda.

From the people that brought you the Hump Day Hottie: Vancouver men, please stop harassing women. Written by… a Vancouver man. I mention this because a woman on my Facebook says the exact opposite, and that complimenting a woman is not harassment. Vancouver is uptight enough as it is, we don’t need another reason to not interact with each other.

Also, it’s obvious that you should be handsome, be attractive, and don’t be unattractive.

Meanwhile, Four white Sun TV panelists explain white privilege to guy who isn’t white.

Bonus: RBC Branch On Fire Painting Likely Won’t Win RBC Contest. Genius.

There are 2 comments

  1. Excellent anecdotal evidence, “I mention this because a woman on my Facebook says the exact opposite, and that complimenting a woman is not harassment. Vancouver is uptight enough as it is, we don’t need another reason to not interact with each other.”

    No, complimenting isn’t harassment. Not picking up on body language and a lack of interest in conversation is the issue that the article talks about. You have lived a privileged life where you and your friends have generally positive and safe experiences — good for you!

    That doesn’t mean you should ignore the negative experiences of others. I actually love reading your links and hope that you might consider not limiting your perception to some naive funk where it’s normal to criticize Vancouverites’ sense of entitlement to everything but not men who are enabled to feel entitled to someone’s attention or affection.

    “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”

    Good day!

  2. No totally. Fair enough. I can only offer anecdotal evidence because I am not a woman. The comments on the article itself seem to mostly back this up however. There are douchebags everywhere I get that, but I felt that by Vancity Buzz posting this article they were trying to cleanse themselves of guilt and that it was hypocritical considering how they constantly objectify women. Thanks for commenting!

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