by Sean Orr | BoingBoing has posted this handy list of reasons people were arrested in Toronto during the G20. Scout favourite? Bubbles.
Guest column: Mentally ill need more than DTES housing. Why have we never thought of that before? Let’s try and build some treatment centres in Kits and Kerrisdale. Hell, let’s even build some in the suburbs! Genius!
Stormy Skies for Canada’s Middle Class. What is this? A frickin’ weather report? (Sorry, I’ve been watching too many Boston Fan in Vancouver videos).
Gregor Responds to emails re: Red Gates. Unfortunately, Red Gates doesn’t qualify for the grant without a lease; the landlord can’t give them a lease without an occupancy permit; they can’t get an occupancy permit without doing the repairs; and they can’t do the repairs without applying for the grant.
Prohibition in effect: BC Liquor stores downtown closing early for Game 6. While the part of me that lives in Gastown above an alley in which seemingly everyone urinates in is happy, the Surrey-born alcoholic Irishman in me is raging, full-on.
Photoshopped ‘Stop Harper’ sign at Stanley Cup finals signals birth of a meme. The birth of a meme? Great, now your dad is a journalist…
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VPD didn’t shut down the liquor stores. Ministry of Public Safety/Solicitor General call
Only if you read the SGO’s press release as Holy Writ. Shirley Bond might have final say, but it’s always the VPD’s call. They’re the ones dealing with the douches on Granville at 3am, not her.
With them on the wearing of a Jester’s hat.