by Sean Orr | It’s the current year, so shut up: A national child care system…because “it’s 2015”. I like how his glib, ad hoc response is coming back to haunt Trudeau. A national housing program…because it’s 2015. Repeal the TPP…because it’s 2015. Hoverboards…because it’s 2015.

No pipelines…because it’s 2015: Justin Trudeau ‘disappointed’ with U.S. rejection of Keystone XL. ‘Oops, I know I said no to the Norther Gateway but you see the very popular Mister Obama is against my original plan so there’s nothing I can do, which is good because I never set any emissions targets. Or we could always wait until someone other than Obama is in the Whitehouse and try again. I mean, they have built the ‘equivalent of 10 Keystones’ since 2010‘…

Meanwhile, Paul Hillsdon calls for a Trudeau-style populist approach to triple-deleting Christy Clark: Why isn’t Christy Clark facing the fight of her life over triple-deletes? A good question to be sure, but the onus probably lies more on the media than on the NDP. “Can you even name the leader of the NDP? No?” Yes. Yes I can. The writer’s appeal to ignorance is patronizing, and part of the problem.

Here’s some really slick greenwashing that appeared on my Facebook page, featuring Orwellian-esque double speak, “better is better. ‘So, we know for sure there is lots of water. That’s why we wrote “water” in huge letters at the top of this infographic. And we know that it’s blue. And there are also trees and some of them have pointy bits and some of them have round bits…’

And here’s a Craigslist ad for a $1550, 470 square foot 1 bedroom at Main and Hastings. Unfortunately, they corrected the part that listed this as being Kitsilano. But what housing crisis?

Related: Dorms for Grownups: A Solution for Lonely Millennials? FOMO as a catalyst for design. God help us all.

B.C. Housing no longer recording shelter turn-away numbers. The article does mention the data collection process is faulty but a commentator on Reddit blows that out of the water:

Unemployment data is problematic. How’s about instead we just record the number of people with jobs? And let’s stop recording the number of murders, and instead report the number of people who weren’t murdered? Your cup is half full. Unfortunately, we have no data on how empty it is.

On the West Coast our rap beef is grain-fed, organic, and raised without hormones, antibiotics, or steroids and it’s cooked sous-vide: A rap beef is threatening to tear apart Western Canada. Is it a publicity stunt? Who cares? It’s perfect. It’s theatre. It’s the Society of the Spectacle and I’m obsessed with it. It’s so Vancouver – all facade. Here’s a guy standing in a wrecking yard smashing car windows without a shred of irony. And here’s the other guy with a battle ax face tattoo, whose scooter you can now buy, apologizing about a tweet. It’s amazing that there’s this person named Madchild – whom I often see driving around in Gastown – and he says with a straight face, “I made a complete life-changing choice when I got off oxycontin. That’s why I’m allowed to live in America and why I’m cool with the police…” That’s an actual thing that someone said.

Maybe miso fries can heal the divisive wound that this rap battle has instilled in all of us: Can miso fries bridge Vancouver’s cyclist-pedestrian divide?

Vancouver’s West End wins best neighbourhood in Canada. As Trevor Risk notes, they “must have taken everything into account except the bed bug registry“. It’s expensive, transient, and horribly served by transit.

And it doesn’t have a Benny’s: Benny’s Market witnesses century of change in Strathcona.

Worst idea out of Calgary since Peeple: Reflective fashion could reduce vehicle-pedestrian collisions, driving expert says. Not one person is going to a) wear one of those, and b) put it back politely for the next person to use.

RIP: Vancouver’s 3 Inches of Blood calls it a day.