by Sean Orr | Dziekanski 2.0? Mexican woman who died after CBSA arrest hung herself rather than be deported. No one is illegal. Rally today.

Taking a page out of the Ken Dobell playbook: Chuck Strahl oversaw government spies while registered as an Enbridge lobbyist. It’s weird. I saw this on Vancouver Observer and I totally ignored it. It must be how they write their headlines.

And if that doesn’t get you outraged: B.C. government conned parents and students. “It’s a tale of a government secretly wanting to provoke a strike that year for political reasons”. It’s enough to bring down an entire government! Ok, but only if that government was somewhere other than British Columbia.

Ramping it up in The Province: Bus driver’s refusal to lower ramp for elderly woman with walker draws complaint. “From there, both Hummel and the woman with the walker were left at the side of the road in the gritty Hastings and Carrall Street area of East Vancouver” (why does this paper jump at every chance to reinforce the stereotype that the DTES is dangerous?).

Property boom in Vancouver’s east side yields calls to rein in speculation. And who said gentrification isn’t happening? Oh wait, I did. Damn. “It could be a new demand for light industrial in the city. Or it could be speculation”. So now we’re speculating about speculating? Related: This Is the Williamsburg of Your City: A Map of Hip America.

Don’t take away our weird little downtown dome! 25 storey office building proposed for 601 West Hastings. The reverse bedroom-ification of our downtown core?

Fantasy Gardens: Vancouver Airport releases drawings of luxury outlet mall. Yeah, that’s going to look great in the rain. “Vancouver’s Sea Island is an emerging aerotropolis”. Now you know why we paid for all those Canada Line stations in the middle of nowhere.

Blogra reads comments so you don’t have to: Wow, you really hate cyclists in Vancouver. Meanwhile, The Vancouver Sun does its best to stoke the hatred by corroborating the driver’s story, and not the cyclist’s: “Allegedly the cyclist reached in to the driver’s car and grabbed some personal belongings”. This was after the driver assaulted Edward and uttered threats. Nothing was stolen. “The cyclist then rode away, he said, and the driver pursued, got out of his car and began a physical altercation with the cyclist in an attempt to get his property back”. Nope. The bike was unrideable because the driver had forced Edward off the road. Not only is this irresponsible journalism, it also suggests that if you want to beat someone up, just say that you think the person might have stolen something from you.

Oh, and there is no war on cars: British Columbia’s Traffic Delusion. In fact, they are disproportionately rewarded with infrastructure.

This is going to piss off a lot of Vancouverites. Detoxification is just a popular myth, experts say. I love that the guy they talked to for this story is named Troll.

Bonus: Eating Out Goes Back to High School in “That’s My Man” Video.

Photo credit: Norman Fox