by Sean Orr | Revising the revisions: History: B.C. teachers’ strikes are so last century. Hey, check it out! We’ve always treated teachers like shit, so let’s keep treating them like shit! Besides, as a province, we are totally broke.

In other news, B.C. is totally not broke.

Pending spending: Minister Ida Chong defends $3 million in unallocated discretionary arts funding. And in doing so, she leaves us with this insight: “If we decided we were not going to expend it and felt that all dollars that we wanted to spend on arts and culture for the year were complete, we would have just returned the amount to treasury”. Holy shit that is brilliant! So, for the next budget she should announce that she’s “allocating” ONE BILLION DOLLARS to the arts, spend only a fraction of it, and then just magically absorb the rest!

DOXA’s Open Letter to Canadian Heritage Minister, James Moore. “If Canadian Heritage’s funding criteria have suddenly changed, how have they changed?” You’re fooling yourself, DOXA. If it doesn’t have Canadian Geese, a moose, an orca, or has nothing to do with hockey/Tim Hortons/the War of 1812, then it isn’t “heritage” enough.

War on Kids: Jobs recovery for young ‘almost non-existent’. Read it and then look at the VPDs latest riot poster. Now, watch this trailer.

Free Ride: Eliminate all tolls on highways and bridges. Oh, and demand more highways and bridges (a reaction to something the mayors never requested, unless Frances Bula is living in an alternate universe).

Fresh scabs, old wound: Rocky Mountaineer workers face another lost year. An interesting tidbit: the owner donated passes to all Oscar nominees, oblivious of course that all Oscar nominees belong to a union.

Smoking the equity pipe: Vancouver’s Demographic Time Bomb. That’s awesome. It also reminds me of going camping at Chehalis Lake in Dean’s truck listening to Rancid the whole way up.