by Sean Orr | Demolition near for 122-year-old building in Vancouver’s old Japantown. Which is a shame, but then if someone was to restore it, and say, put in a restaurant, that would be waaaay worse, right? Sigh. Maybe they should have put a freeway through there when they had the chance.

Bombs not food:

Interesting thing about Vancouver. Each year, CBC holds a fundraiser for foodbanks. And every year a group comes to protest that fundraiser.

— Matthew Lazin-Ryder (@Lazin_Ryder) December 6, 2013

While it may seem like they would be toting Randian placards with Ebenezer Scrooge’s famous declaration against charity, these people are actually on the opposite side of the political spectrum. I mean, I get it, charity serves to reinforce the inequalities inherent in the system, but that is the system we have. What is their end? Starvation in the name of ideological purity? Bah! Humbug.

Why would a tabloid newspaper want to beat up on Vision Vancouver? I dunno, maybe because they didn’t get invited to this swanky do. “It’s pretty clear to me that some Province editors get a rush of natural opiates in their brain every time they get a chance to kick the shit out of Vision Vancouver”. Could it be that they are just old and out-of-touch white farts?

Speaking of which: ‘White powder scare’ at the Fraser Institute. I didn’t do it, I swear. Like…don’t even joke about that.

Desecration of Indian memorial outrages Lower Mainland’s South Asian community. I think it’s safe to say that this outrages the entire Lower Mainland.

IPA took my baby away: Brian Hutchinson: Surrey better hope the $20M ‘masterpiece brewery’ it just built for a private company doesn’t go bust. Or as my frenemy Nicholas Ellan says, “Surrey even does neoliberalism better than Vancouver”. Maybe, but neoliberalism never tasted so good.

Drilled: B. C. can look to Alberta for environmental safeguards. Upon closer inspection, this letter in the Vancouver Sun was written by the CEO of a drilling company. Thanks to QI Vancouver for that one…

LOL. Letter in @VancouverSun by reader supporting pipelines is actually written by CEO of drilling company Departure Energy @dogwoodbc

— QI Vancouver (@QIVancouver) December 5, 2013

Smoke ’em out: Marijuana fortress sprouts up along Vancouver Island highway. “The grey building is surrounded by security fencing and has an unwelcoming air about it”. Yeah, I’m sure they might have had a few problems if they’d put a huge neon “welcome” sign on it.

Bonus: We saw an owl on the way to The Electric Owl.