Contributor: Sean Orr

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Sean Orr started writing letters to the editor right around when he dropped out of Geography at UBC, although the two are unrelated. Shortly after that, this thing called blogging was invented and he started writing for Toronto (boo) based Beyond Robson. Sean held that ship afloat with his Morning Brew column until Andrew Morrison came to him with Scout. It was clearly the better choice. Other than being really good at stirring things up, Sean is a photographer, frontman in the hardcore-punk band Needs, laptop producer with his project Tassels, dishwasher at L’Abattoir, and proud DTES (Gastown) resident.

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On Feeling Bad for Instagram Influencers and Relying on the Kindness of Landlords

In his latest read of the news headlines, Sean Orr learns how to survive a plague and listens to Roberto Luongo.

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On Rent Payments Being Suspended and Prioritizing Those Most at Risk

In his latest read of the news headlines, Sean Orr sees danger in lackadaisical attitudes and grasps at an all-important straw.

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On Silver Linings Coming in Tall Cans and the Urgency of Flattening the Curve

In his latest read of the news headlines, Sean Orr tries to go easy on the Mayor and hopes for a socialist response to COVID-19.

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On Big Polluters Getting Baffled and Feverishly Stripping Costco of All its Toilet Paper

In his latest read of the news headlines, Sean Orr learns of bureaucratic mazes and comes away with so many questions.

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On Sweet Skytrain Mods and Home-Owning Boomers Lecturing Millennial Renters

In his latest read of the news headlines, Sean Orr wonders at the gall of some developers while dreaming of commuter catapults.

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On Division by Design and Renters Paying More Than Owners’ Mortgage Payments

In his latest read of the news headlines, Sean Orr is glad he doesn't have a phone and asks for keys to a realtor-filled gymnasium.

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On Sinking Luxury Boats and the Deadly Feedback Loop Destroying Vancouver

In his latest read of the news headlines, Sean Orr agrees with Emad Yacoub and watches a naked dude surf a car.

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On Begging for Foreign Ownership and Doing Nothing While Rents Go Higher and Higher

In his latest read of the news headlines, Sean Orr finds stop gaps measures and one nasty landlord getting burned.

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On Luxury Condos Full of Cocaine and Vancouver Hosting the Olympics Again

In his latest read of the news headlines, Sean Orr finds a bait and switch and the government coming down on pop drinkers.

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On Corporations Having Backroom Sex and Not Understanding How Protests Work

In his latest read of the news headlines, Sean Orr finds growth machines and wonders at the timeline of fascism.

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On the Trouble With Terrible Newspapers and Pretending Everything Is Just Fine

In his latest read of the news headlines, Sean Orr likes the idea of banning evictions in winter and learns what 'mission creep' means.

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On Measuring Scumbags and the Burden of Being Temporarily Inconvenienced

In his latest read of the news headlines, Sean Orr learns it's every wall for itself and dreams of turning condos into co-ops.

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On the Cutting Edge of Cactus Club and Living Under a Government of Landlords

In his latest read of the news headlines, Sean Orr wonders if it's too late for Chinatown and laments a future without fireflies.

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On World Class Oxymorons and Wearing Garlic Necklaces to Avoid Coronavirus

In his latest read of the news headlines, Sean Orr finds cabs in bike lanes and plenty of masturbatory public relations.

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On Dissolving Dungeness Crabs and Showering Luxury Condo Buyers With Diamonds

In his latest read of the local headlines, Sean Orr finds trouble in Little Saigon and a Twitter account worth following.

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On Eating Weird Stuff and Not Letting Soulless Opportunists Tell You What to Do

In his latest read of the news headlines, Sean Orr, finds uncertain futures for art spaces and a bleak future under the status quo.

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On Billionaire Power Lunches and Remembering the Fine Dining Guest Who Exploded

In his latest read of the news headlines, Sean Orr finds housing solutions in plain sight and claps for a small town newspaper.

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On Other Empty Skyscrapers and Disenchanted Royals Protesting Bike Lanes

In his latest read of the news headlines, Sean Orr rides an e-scooter and imagines taking paper away from Rex Murphy.

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On the Trouble With Being Doomed and Making Fun of Ourselves in the Snow

In his latest read of the news headlines, Sean Orr finds new music, combs Reddit, and ponders the value of an inbred family.

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On Vancouver’s War Against Millennials and Institutionalizing the Mentally Ill by Force

In his latest read of the news headlines, Sean Orr worries about the next $5 bill and milquetoast media outlets mocking cops.

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On Finally Figuring Out Rent Control and Burning Down the Vancouver House

In his latest read of the news headlines, Sean Orr finds Ming Wo closing and a fantasy music festival with local headliners.

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On the Shrieking Howls of the Entitled and Understanding a Lack of Seriousness

In his latest read of the news headlines, Sean finds flawed tax plans and a new definition of 'working class'.

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On Everyone’s Rent Going Up and Slashing the Police Budget to Fund Culture

In his latest read of the news headlines, Sean Orr is offered a water bottle prize and finds crazy snakes everywhere.

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On Symbols of Oblivious Decadence and Superficial Leaders Who Suck at Their Jobs

In his latest read of the news headlines, Sean Orr finds lobby groups throwing tantrums and Airbnb still screwing Vancouverites.

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On Giant Octopi Eating Bald Eagles and the Indecency of Runaway ‘Market’ Housing

In his latest read of the local news headlines, Sean Orr abhors abstinence and awaits some form of vacancy control.

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On Blue Collar Codes of Silence and a Bummer Map Showing Vancouver’s Insolvencies

In his latest read of the news headlines, Sean Orr finds Christmas cocaine and corporate jerks behaving badly.

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On Hockey Players Demolishing Thieves and the Insufferable Whining of the Over-Privileged

In his latest read of the news headlines, Sean Orr sees major crises intersecting and finds Satan in a Christmas parade.

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On Sympathies for Landlords and the Many Things We Find in Bike Lanes

In his latest read of the news headlines, Sean Orr finds telling immigrant stats and a taxi in the bike lane.