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On Harper’s Follies And Whistler Moving To Alienate Australian Youth

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by Sean Orr | Double Double standard: Elizabeth May won’t resign after Omar Khadr remarks. Nice one, CTV. Did you ask if Harper would resign over fraud, corruption, election engineering, or illegal air strikes?

Or what about letting it all ride on a single resource: Oil price plunge could cost Canada 185,000 jobs this year, agency warns. Hopefully all the out of work rig pigs will turn to crime so our investment in the prison system pays off…

When you actually want someone to endorse Harper: Jeb Bush wants Harper to win again. On a side note, I want to make a sticker to put under those Stop Harper stop sign stickers that just reads, “Yeah, but how?”

Not Syrup Trap: One-third of American 8th graders think Canada is a dictatorship. I’m actually in America right now and someone pointed out that the Queen is really our head of state and I was all like, “Duuuuude, thanks. I totally forgot…”

Well, I guess we’re progressing because they didn’t shoot him in the face with a bullet: Vancouver police’s rough takedown captured on video, wherein the reader comments focus on the guy who filmed the incident and not our shameful lack of mental health resources. Go us!

But then again, sometimes I love the internet so much: BC Ferries’ Name Contest Backfires. I want to take a ride on the Spirit of Being Really Bad at Social Media.

Whistler Blackcomb resort bans smoking, including marijuana, everywhere on its property. Well, that’s just too drastic a way to get rid of the Australians.

This was a sponsored post on my Facebook feed about a band that forced everyone to own their album: My generation at U2’s Innocence + Experience Tour. Just read this overwrought, mixed-tense, baby boomer drivel: “In Vancouver, if you wanted to meet a hero, you headed to your local Legion Hall where veterans told gritty stories and drank in droves. But just like today, many around the world were starving, others got rich, and most were ambivalent vegetables…” What does that even mean? Best comment (since deleted): “Retire you fucks”.

I am Uwe Boll, director, producer and screenwriter, back again on reddit – AMA!. I’ll say one thing for him, he doesn’t pull any punches. Which is why I can’t wait to do a video review of Bauhaus.

Best new twitter account: Fat Guy From Gob.

RIP: Seattle Music Community Stunned by Untimely Death of Darius Minwalla. He was also the GM at The Biltmore. Huge loss.

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.