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On Crashing Cop Cars & Condo Developers Starting To Eat Each Other

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by Sean Orr | BC Liberal intern takes heat for Tweet impersonating Opposition leader. Apparently the tweet has been triple-deleted.

Speaking of which: Former B.C. ministry employee charged for alleged false testimony related to “triple delete” scandal.

The cookie and the cutter: Developer sues over alleged copying of its upscale Vancouver condo design. If the developer looks deeper, he’ll find his design was actually copied a whopping 1,137 times all across the Lower Mainland.

WWJD? (Where would Jesus develop): First Baptist Church proposes tower development for downtown land. “We really want to build a space that is inviting to the community and that is caring for the community”. You know what is a good way to care for the community? Build more than 66 “below-market” units, whatever that means. You know what’s even better? Paying taxes.

Post modern: Developer unveils plans for downtown Canada Post site. Now this is a good design. It completely retains the Canada post structure.

Hero of the day: Woman steals Vancouver Police car, crashes it into dollar store. Damage estimated at $6.99. The story says she somehow “bypassed the police car’s immobilizer”, which sounds an awful lot like cop speak for “Todd left the keys in the ignition again…”

Photos: Metro Vancouver windstorm offers a peek into a future with higher sea levels. I’ve always wanted to live on an island.

Bern unit: The New Democrats want a Bernie Sanders to call their own. And Bernie wants an NDP of his own. But just the fact that Sanders has unsullied the word socialism means Mulcair could embrace it. If he doesn’t he’s in trouble.

Meanwhile, the Liberals cozy up to a monster…

Inside Vancouver’s communist cult Fire This Time. I’d love to see a Big Brother-type reality show of the FTT house.

Satire of the day: New $100 bills featuring iconic Canadian women to be worth just $73.

Art of the day: Vancouver Artist Wins €110,000 Hasselblad Award.

Sports of the day: Why Nikita Tryamkin is worth all this hype. Canucks sign a guy that looks like if Zdeno Chara and Pavel Bure had a baby.

Bonus: The Vancouver Bathhouse That Just Won’t Die. Interesting micro-history of the DTES.

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