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TEA & TWO SLICES: On Money For Hipsters And Rex Murphy’s Crush On Justin Trudeau

by Sean OrrRex Murphy: Is Justin Trudeau the Avril Lavigne of Canadian politics? I dunno, Rex. Are you the Keith Richards of the Canadian media? Dude, eat some lemons or something! But seriously, “with Justin Trudeau it is very difficult to see these two streams as clearly discrete, to tell how much of his profile is a product of the buzz of his pure celebrity, and how much he owes to substance and achievement….” and yet the cult of personality has been around since long before his father Pierre. It’s nothing new, Rex. Just the slow return to the bicameral mind.

Welcome to Harper’s New Canada (HNC) where you have to sue the government to do your job: Budget watchdog prepared to take Harper government to court. Clement responds with snakehead-like obliqueness: “it’s not about money not spent, it’s about money spent”. Try and wrap your head around that metaphysical can of worms, Maxine. It’s like you need a degree in dialectical materialsim to understand what the fuck he’s talking about.

Happy Columbo Day: U.S. counterparts surprise MacKay with Thanksgiving treat. And no it wasn’t an F35 fighter jet. Spoiler: it was only pie.

Putting on the Ritz: Should Gerry Ritz resign as agriculture minister? Probably. They should probably all resign. Stop asking me questions!

What’s open and what’s closed Thanksgiving Monday. Aw, man. I was really hoping that they were going to list every single business that was closed but instead they just said, “many restaurants and shops will be closed, so it’s best to call ahead”. Thanksgiving was accordingly a disaster. Thanks.

Tweet of the long weekend c/o Oh No Yoko: “(Retweet) if you didn’t have turkey tonight, you won’t have it tomorrow night & you are lonely”. Of course I retweeted it. (We had ham’b).

This is cute and everything but I also see why blockheads like Jon Ferry are put off by this kind of scare tactic. Breaking News Alert — Fish in Harbour Signal S.O.S.

B.C. government ad campaign runs with “Hipster is not a real job” slogan. I already mentioned this a while back but I guess they decided to do some actual journalism and have come up with some numbers. It turns out that – yes – your BC Liberals just spent 15 million dollars demonstrating how they are completely out of touch with young people.

Speaking of which: Vancouver: An Imperfect But Perfectly Fun City, A Rebuttal. Who had any idea that my gay husband was a writer? Oops, I should have capitalized that. My Gay Husband.

Granville’s last movie theatre closes. Because who needs Spielberg and Cameron when you have the Glowbal and Donnelly Groups?

There are 5 comments

  1. “I guess they decided to some some actual journalism” And then I died from the burning beauty of irony.

    But, yes, the campaign is beyond bad.

  2. I tend to support any insult to hipsters no matter how petty or slight, but having an office in the same building as a large online marketing agency, I can assure transit riders that Hipster is, indeed, a “real job”.

  3. Thank you for calling out Rex Murphy on that. I was SHOUTING at the radio on Sunday listening to him spout off about how Justin Trudeau is only where he is because of fame and social media and FUCKING GET OVER IT. He’s running, he’s a real politician, fucking live with it and report on something of actual substance about the guy!

  4. VIFF Bell Lightbox. It will employ hipsters. All we need is a Trinity Bellwoods Park and a Queen Street West and we’re set!

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