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 Friendly Sausage-Makers Gone Bad and Raising Glasses to Park Board Ineptitude

In his latest read of the local news headlines, Sean Orr likes the border closed and marvels at City Council's lameness.

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On the Coming Wave of Evictions and Cops Who Don’t Think They’re Racist

In his latest read of the news headlines, Sean Orr finds cops living in mansions and the NHL looking elsewhere.

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On American Death Cults and Numbered Companies Not Catching the Coronavirus

In his latest read of the local news headlines, Sean Orr finds ancient shafts and landlords still being terrible.

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On Viaducts Closing for Deadpool and Looking for East Van’s Autonomous Zone

In his latest read of the news headlines, Sean Orr sees surveillance trailers and the threat of jail for those partaking of the CERB.

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On the Comical Protestations of Old White Men and the Possibility of Defunding the VPD

In his latest read of the news headlines, Sean Orr finds sneaky loggers and drinking on beaches still a crime.

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On Bears Running Scared and Making Jim Pattison Bag Groceries for a Year

In his latest read of the news headlines, Sean Orr finds freed beach logs and a way to defund our militarized police force.

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On Watching Rents Fall and Albertans Getting Angry About Our Campgrounds

In his latest read of the news headlines, Sean Orr learns of untaxed art speculation and the perfect time to build a pipeline.

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On Getting Sick of Being Cooped Up and Washing Dishes in a Minefield

In his latest read of the news headlines, Sean Orr finds at least some good news hidden among all the bad.

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On Hurling Insults at Nurses and the Rich Wanting the Poor to Risk Their Lives For Profit

In his latest read of the news headlines, Sean applauds mutual aid and finds new a reason to bang on pots and pans.

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On Being Held Hostage by Elites and Shedding Zero Tears for Panicking AirBnB Hosts

In his latest read of the news headlines, Sean Orr wonders at conspiratorial convictions and the immediate future of restaurants.

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On Keeping It Up and Big Chains Determining Vancouver’s Restaurant Recovery

In his latest read of the news headlines, Sean Orr finds little sympathy for malls while wondering at our sudden disinterest in UFOs.

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On Bad Decisions by Art Directors and How a Virus Revealed Vancouver’s Best and Worst

In his latest read of the news headlines, Sean Orr finds a broken system working and the right way to build a new Vancouver.

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On Scolding Unenforced Rule Breakers and the Unforgivable Absence of Rent Relief

In his latest read of the news headlines, Sean Orr finds a few positives peppering an overwhelming onslaught of negatives.

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On Turning the Cows Off and Generous Tenants Providing Landlords With Housing

In his latest read of the news headlines, Sean Orr gives himself a mullet and suggests satire is easier for some to swallow.

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On Being Treated Like You’re Expendable and Telling Your Landlord to Get a Real Job

In his latest read of the news headlines, Sean ponders the time it takes to get organized and the chances of goats running our streets.

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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.