by Sean Orr | B.C. first nations need to embrace natural resource projects. “Smart people understand that life is about trade-offs, and there’s a price to pay for everything”. Holy shit, did Barbara Yaffe just call natives stupid for not embracing an oil pipeline?

Why America needs Canadian Oil. Because of Muslims, apparently. Not really, but they are just so easy to blame.

Oslo attacks devastating for city that has made peace a major industry. That makes no sense. Have you ever even thought about the word ‘terrorism’ that you journos bandy about so much? I mean, does that make New York, Madrid, Oklahoma, London particularly more deserving somehow? Moral relativism at its best/worst.

Let’s change the name of Dunsmuir Street to Milton Wong Boulevard. If you followed that logic, you’d have to rename 90% of the streets in Vancouver. Denman, for example, was named after Admiral Joseph Denman, who once destroyed nine native villages with cannon along our coast, killing 15…

Recent government efforts fail to engage Canadians in activities in Americas. What kind of activities? Like para-sailing? As in Harper wants more Canadians to go para-sailing in the Caribbean? Or does he mean, like, we should care more about why we prop up corrupt regimes in places like Haiti?

Stephen Harper wins national ‘Design new Manitoba Jets logo’ contest. Joke stolen in its entirety from one Charles Demers.

B.C. shackled with private-prison experiment. Fuck it, let’s just privatize everything. Private cops, private judges, private roads, private mail, private tax collection, even private sewers. Remember that Rome built the Cloaca Maxima, and not everyone had access to it.