by Sean Orr | Changes to Vancouver tree bylaw reveal ‘green’ agenda. I love these fake news pieces that Mark Hasiuk does in The Courier! He’s right up there with Stephen Colbert: “But alas, he penned that famous ode in 1914 BG (Before Gore), long before reverence of nature morphed into fundamentalist religion”. Haha! Those crazy hippies! Next they are going to make us switch to unleaded gas and fancy long lasting lightbulbs! Oh wait…

Canucks fever reaches West Africa. Which is way better than the usual fever they get.

See if you can spot the difference between these two headlines: Homeless politicking already underway and Metro Vancouver homeless count shows more using emergency shelters. Politicking? You mean advocacy? Why don’t they call it politicking when the Fraser Institute releases a report card on schools or when the VPD ask for more cops? Oh right, those are editorials. Got it.

Province to cut HST if it passes referendum. To make the deal even sweeter they should raise the PST if the HST doesn’t pass.

Busting the myths of Vancouver real estate. Featuring…Vancouver’s real estate! So we’re not actually being invaded by wealthy, absentee Hong Kong businessmen? That still doesn’t mean we’re building healthy communities…

Letter of the year so far: Let Vancouverites ‘practise’ their public drinking…

Courier letter writer Lynn Perry believes that we require police in Vancouver because “we cannot handle” our booze. However, this reasoning is based on a rather bizarre logical inference. It doesn’t make sense to denigrate someone’s ability to do something if they had never been allowed to practise. Europeans have had a lot of time to get comfortable with how much to drink in public, so logically they will perform better than someone imbibing for the first time.