by Sean Orr | What a concept: NDP would take from corporate executives, give to working poor, kids. Cue massive smear campaign organized by corporate executives and facilitated by a fawning, cash-starved press.

Related: Coffee with Tom. He drinks a double espresso, too!

Meanwhile, Mulcair just called Harper an idiot. Can I quit now? Mulcair calls Harper’s response “idiotic” after PM gets laughs at his expense. Welcome to question period, where questions are seldom answered and often derisively mocked and where our Prime Minister cracks jokes about international law. How amusing.

More funny: Alleged 2013 Canada Day terror plot inspired by Rambo III, court hears as jurors try to suppress laughter. Hilarious! It took 240 police officers countless hours and planning and one very determined undercover agent playing a jihadist Arab businessman in order to get two unemployed heroine addicts living in a basement in Surrey to come up with a bombing plot based on a Sylvester Stallone movie and a passenger train that doesn’t exist. What’s funny is that the CBC made Schitt’s Creek a show and not this…

Art is dangerous: B.C. airport evacuated over suspicious package that turned out to be a painting. An interesting critique on the intersection of art and terrorism.

‘Roller Girl’ Angela Dawson wins $15K damages from Vancouver police. And with that, Roller Girl makes it into the Vancouver Lexicon.

Can’t-believe-I-missed-it of the day: City of Vancouver revisits definition of social housing. Top comment: “Eventually Vision will define a project as “social housing” if a homeless person can sleep in a doorway…” Yeesh.

Obligatory Nicholas Ellan post of the day: “Cheap Wine for Me, But Not for Thee” – Suzanne Anton. “Of the 12 Lower Mainland VQA stores that will enjoy this massive competitive advantage, none are located in ridings held by BCNDP MLAs…” Jesus, I need a drink.

Syrup Trap of the day: Entire country possibly located on aboriginal burial ground.

Craigslist of the day: Tall White Bookshelf evocative of Uma Thurman circa 2003.

Honour Bound: Family, friends of Vancouver man trying to raise $400,000 for leukemia treatment.

Bonus: Here’s what Canadian festival posters look like with the all-male acts removed.