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Tea & Two Slices: On Uniformed Ambassadors & Organized Crime

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by Sean Orr | Tribunal hears former downtown ambassador removed homeless from city park. They didn’t know that public parks were public property? Wow. Just…wow. Although I shouldn’t be surprised, one of them tried to fight me once.

B.C. warned of organized crime’s reach into gambling, not because, you know, its organized crime, but because the government has a monopoly on that shit.

Play Crack Shack or Mansion! It would be funny if wasn’t coming from a bunch of Hawkpanthers, and much funnier if it wasn’t totally true.

Alienated in Vancouver: The Comforts of Cannibal Corpse.

Meanwhile, a new casino design was presented to council, while a “no parking, no frills, no speculators building planned for the empty lot just east of Woodward’s” got an OK. I don’t really have anything to say about either development, nor the Marine Gateway which was also referred to in the article, I merely wish to pass the article on to you, dear reader, in hopes that you find them relevant and timely.

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  1. Man the comments section of your description of an altercation with a DA is AMAZING. Being flippant to people who are pushing people around doesn’t sound like a problem to me. Why are so many people so willing to defend the bully state?

    Anyhow, favourite quote:

    — sean Orr said:

    “phil:
    Sean, your constant holier-than-thou bitching is tedious and uninteresting.”

    Thanks for being the 50th person to comment on my tedious and uninteresting bitching.
    Thanks for taking the time out of your day to tell me that.

    Genius.

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