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Tea & Two Slices: On Roofs That Don’t Close And Pyro Beavers

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by Sean Orr | Over $1 million in fireworks damage on Halloween, prompting a call for restrictions which will probably just do the complete opposite and make people angry enough to do over $1 million in fireworks damage on Halloween next year.

We may be a little late, but Canada finally has their own creepy wiretap bill, Bill C-47. Canada: It’s our time to lead.

Ugh, and we even have our version of the Tea Party. Who are Canada’s ‘freemen’? Based on the article it appears the Freemen of the Land are a group of Cosplayers who accidentally heard about Ayn Rand through an article in High Times and decided to make a cool club where you don’t have to pay child support because you believe that the government has been hijacked by a criminal corporation run by Jewish bankers. Sounds fun! Where do I sign up?

Canada, only where the following could possibly be a headline: Beaver blamed for causing fire.

Maximize your doctor appointments. Ask probing questions about diagnosis, treatment. Obviously, this person has never been waiting in line at a CarePoint clinic when some cranky know-it-all starts asking probing questions about diagnosis and treatment.

New BC Place roof can’t close in rain. Maybe it just doesn’t feel like it. Did you ever consider that?

Why I find the BC NDP so irritating. Written by the completely non-irritating Green Party.

The first rental housing project since 2007. Meanwhile, City Caucus is trying to STIR the pot.

There are 2 comments

  1. “Based on the article it appears the Freemen of the Land are a group of Cosplayers who accidentally heard about Ayn Rand through an article in High Times and decided to make a cool club where you don’t have to pay child support because you believe that the government has been hijacked by a criminal corporation run by Jewish bankers.”

    Fucking Gold

  2. I think you might have linked to the wrong article..

    The City Caucus article on STIR was dated November of LAST year not as a response to this BOSA project but likely as a response to this Rennie/Millenium project that has qualified under STIR for providing a handful of market rentals in their luxury tower (*location is the former Maxine’s Hideaway spot)

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