by Sean Orr | Vancouver officer charged with assaulting cyclist. Watch the footage above for the damning evidence (of the only redeeming quality of smartphones).

Vancouver mayor and police chief say ‘alarming trend’ of violent attacks signals mental health crisis. Let ’em linger in the margins for decades as governments slashed welfare budgets in the name of austerity, then claim the need for more “understanding of the crisis” before fixing what they broke.

All of them: Which B.C. political journalist do you hate the most? I just cannot believe Jon Ferry is not on this list. I feel like I have so much work to do.

Mike Smyth, however, is nominated. Here he spins the most notorious woman in BC into a cancer-surviving, log-chopping yokel in a male-dominated industry. John Galt eat your heart out: A look at the woman behind B.C.’s controversial Northern Gateway Pipeline. “But, up until Northern Gateway, the oil industry was never spoken about in this province. It was not part of the dialogue.” Really? The Exxon Valdez doesn’t ring any bells?

Meanwhile, crotchety Rex Murphy takes Neil Young to task for comparing Fort McMurray to Hiroshima. Sweet Home Alabama Alberta.

Compare and contrast: How much money do people just like you make? I liked how the average went up when I said I was male, and then up again when I said I was white. It says that I’m supposed to make 50 grand a year. I make 15.

Bonus: Booming Vancouver: The Beginning of the Vancouver Special.