by Sean Orr | Say no evil: Opposition parties agree to TV debate, PM vows to skip it. Nobody is going to watch the debate and change their mind about Harper. Instead, he’s just letting them attack each other. Brilliant.

Next move: make sure nobody wants to do something silly like exercise their democratic rights: Tories’ bill strips Elections Canada of power to promote voter turnout.

Or he could do what Christy Clark did and make sure that if the wrong party wins, the nepotism that you worked so hard to establish remains strong: B.C. commits future governments to terms for LNG. It’s the Orange Crush Corporate escape shoot!

Speaking of corporate interests: Economist Robyn Allan Withdraws From Kinder Morgan Review. “The NEB is not a national energy board; it is a parochial board steeped in Calgary petro culture, run by corporate interests…” Whoever thought a banker would ever play the hero?

Related: North Vancouver First Nation says pipeline expansion could increase oil spills.

My band Needs just drove past this spill: Pipeline spill on California coast reaches all the way to Canada. OK, that is a really horrible headline that seems to suggest the oil physically reached our shores…

Meanwhile, back at home: Exodus of millennials threatens Metro Vancouver economy, but they simply can’t afford to keep living there. So an influx of millennials is bad because of gentrification, but an exodus is bad because the economy. Please don’t go.

I am sad and confused and just want these self-entitled millenials to tell me in billboard form why they are leaving: These people are leaving London and telling the world why.

Housing is unaffordable because our dreams are unrealistic, not because of the commodification of the housing market by people like Bob Rennie. This according to…er…Bob Rennie: Bob Rennie urges Vancouverites to give up on single family home dream.

Also, didn’t Rennie claim it was racist/xenophobic to suggest foreign ownership was the cause? Now he supports a speculation tax? I’ll just put this here: Mayor’s speculation tax is a set-up.

Related: New Wealth Seeks a “Home”: The Rise of the Hedge City. That’s one for the Lexicon.

Rave in Peace: Stanley Park fall claims life of 23-year-old man.

Bonus: The truth about Music Waste.