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On Childish Nincompoops and Vancouver’s Growing Inability To Staff Itself

Oh hey, it must be a new week because there’s another article that asks how any local business is supposed to staff itself these days! What happens when people can’t afford to work in Vancouver? I guess we have to raise the minimum wage to $25…

If a young person in Vancouver accepts a $20 an hour job, it equates to less than $2,500 per month in net take-home pay. But the average rent for a one-bedroom apartment in Vancouver is $2,090, and rising.

Oh wait, there’s another one! How to keep young people from leaving Vancouver. While removing a bylaw that prohibits more than 5 people from living in a huge house is good, I think the issue is a tad more complex, Michael Geller.

Just in case you thought the BC Liberals were rushing headlong to relevance any time soon: Watch the BC Liberals Argue Name-Calling Should Be Permitted in the BC Legislature.

Would the Minister of Shitty Failures please stand down!

Meanwhile:

…not homelessness: Homeless Chilliwack woman badly burned in fire was trying to keep warm with candles. ‘The situation is getting dire here in Chilliwack’. I was going to mock this, like ‘um duh’, but I didn’t realize the homeless population effectively tripled in three years in Chilliwack. That’s crazy.

…not the spectre of fascism: White nationalist flyer spotted in Burnaby. Fffffff…

City of Vancouver rejects proposed Chinatown condo at 105 Keefer Street. Again? Stay down, Luke! More from the department of visual metaphor:

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Bonus: American Hyper-Capitalism Breeds the Lonely, Alienated Men Who Become Mass Killers

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  1. So the remedy to loneliness is socialism? Hilarious. Maybe first ask some Soviets (or more contemporarily, Venezuelans) how that turned out. A society in a hypnotic state would please a hypnotherapist.

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.