by Sean Orr | Dear Chicken Little: The World Is Not Falling Apart. You don’t get a lot of page views, subscription sales, or ratings telling people that everything is fine.

Everything is not fine: Man shot and killed by transit police in Surrey. ‘Stop stabbing yourself or we’ll shoot!’

Meanwhile, Man allegedly phoned in threat to kill VPD officer because he wanted mental health help. All jokes about being in a mall during Christmas aside, it’s clear how much we immediately need a mental health czar.

‘Madame Butterfly’ displaced with removal of Vancouver bus shelter. “To her Chinatown neighbours, the homeless woman was known as Madame Butterfly or Cocoon…”

Controversial! Who Killed the Portland Hotel Society and Why? And there’s a lot more post-structuralist ontology where that came from!

Related: Jenny Kwan considers federal NDP run for Libby Davies’s seat in Vancouver East. No surprise there.

This is so bad that I didn’t want to give Rex Murphy the page views: Rex Murphy: The year in activist feminism. Wow. Let’s give this one to Miranda Nelson: 2014: What a wonderful year for women!

The following article has been parading around the paranoid corners of my Facebook, masquerading as news: ‘Catastrophic’ earthquake and tsunami brewing off B.C. coast. “The pressure has been building for more than 300 years”. Ergo, not news.

It’s 2014 and this is a thing: Public editor: Why profanity appeared on the front page. My band once got kicked off the bus in Hictoria because we mentioned we were opening for Fucked Up. Lighten up, people.

Seems legit… Vancouver actors wanted Unique opportunities. ” I think when some people read the description they think it will be a sleazy bikini movie…” Uh…

Honour bound: WiFi for SROS.

Bonus: Professor Says Elf On The Shelf Is Preparing Your Child To Live In A Dystopian Police State.