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On Plebiscite-Worthy Expenditures & Batshit Crazy Conservatives

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by Sean Orr | Looks like Harper is no longer able to contain the crazy: Tory MP apologizes for telling women wearing niqab during ceremony: ‘stay the hell where you came from’. The Tories are unraveling like a badly wrapped turban! “I said some horrible things that were horrible. I don’t take them back, but they were horrible. Yeah.” I wonder if it would be different if there were Canadian flags all over the niqab…

Trudeaumania be damned: Thomas Mulcair mobbed in Vancouver by thousands of adoring fans. “I do this for them. I wish I could go out there and give every single one of them a big hug. And maybe even let them touch my beard…”

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out: Bill Whatcott, Anti-Abortion And Anti-Gay Crusader, Has Finished His ‘Ministry’ In Canada. Sources indicated Whatcott felt there was too much competition from the Harper government.

Depressing: Canadian manufacturing jobs plummet to near record low: Statistics Canada. So basically Harper is relaxing the muzzles on the racist wingnuts in his party because it’s a great distraction from how horribly he has managed the economy.

Meanwhile, Microsoft to hire mostly foreign workers for Vancouver Centre? Who are you asking, VancityBuzz? If you’re going to pretend that you’re in the journo game, you have to at least try to answer the questions you pose.

Where is the plebiscite on this? B.C. announces $2.5 billion plan to rehabilitate bridges, highways and roads.

Where is the plebiscite on this? Ferry fares set to rise over next four years.

CBC removes the words “highly addictive” from the headline of this terribly misinformed article about shatter: ‘Shatter’ drug now on police radar in Ontario. It’s just weed, you dummies.

Make it stop! Funeral director begs for an end to the bodies.

Why does this exist? Sweatpants get a new look. Although to be fair, on his Facebook he said he wanted the headline to be “The government wants to take your sweatpants away…”

On Ken Sim’s So-Called “Swagger” and ABC’S Class War

Sean Orr is back from his hiatus with a rundown of the local headlines that have been running on a ticker tape through his mind over the past six months...

On Post-Election Recuperation, Platform Paradoxes and Refund Communities

In his latest read of the local news headlines, Sean Orr finds irony in "safety, affordability, and sustainability", and shouts out a bunch of amazing local organizations working on the frontlines.

On Running for City Council, Playing Whack-a-Mole with Homelessness, and the Public Washroom Deficit

In his latest read of the local news headlines, Sean Orr finds a park ranger with a grudge, a gross misuse of air quotes and Tripadvisor slander.

On Living in a City Preoccupied with Street Cleaning, Chandeliers, and Campaigns Against the Homeless

In his latest read of the local news headlines, Sean Orr hones in on the recent Langley shootings, and the ongoing criminalizing and dehumanizing of the homeless population.