by Sean Orr | Everybody’s favourite windbag Bruce Allen calls sex-assault victims at the Jian Ghomeshi trial bimbos and fame-whores. When are the likes of Michael Bublé and Jann Arden going to fire this fucking troglodyte?
Flipping flip-flop: Suddenly, Premier Clark has had enough of Metro Vancouver’s real estate scams. Hey, remember on Tuesday when I flippantly said (see what I did there) that the market would fix itself? Yup, she wants the industry to fix itself. “They’re a self-governing profession, just like doctors or dentists. We’re giving them a chance to fix it themselves.”
Psst! Follow. The. Money.
Meanwhile, the reporter who broke the shadow-flipping story does an AMA on Reddit.
Um, they’re called Drunk Tanks: Vancouver health officials plan new “sobering centre” years after homeless man’s death. “There were 18 in-custody deaths between 2006 and 2010 that could have been prevented if B.C. had more sobering centres”. Yikes. That’s a sobering statistic.
Scan of the Day:
#Vancouver Police are responding to the PNE for reports people are filming a pornography on a playground.
— ScanBC (@ScanBC) February 9, 2016
Foot found on B.C. beach was detached naturally: coroner. First comment: “Definitely something afoot here”.
This Vancouver bus driver broke the rules… “Any bus driver would have done it,” she said. “We do things like that all the time.” Um, this is Translink you’re talking about? Have I been living in some alternate reality? Was it Berenstain Bears the whole time? Was it the gravitational waves disrupting the fabric of space-time?
Oil spill in Burrard Inlet? Drone pilot takes images of suspected fuel leak. Transport Canada responds: “Nah, that’s just your everyday pollution!”
Alberta of the Day: It Doesn’t Get More Embarrassing for Politicians than the ‘I Love Oil Sands’ Campaign.
Craigslist of the day: Bedroom Available Commercial Drive. You know this guy is legit because he didn’t say “Jamesons”.