by Sean Orr | Another spoiled “corporate marketer for a Fortune 500” millennial doesn’t belong here: The Great Vancouver Exodus: Why I’m almost ready to leave the city. If I had penned this six years ago Vancity Buzz would have told me to “pick up more hours at your job and stop crying poverty” (true story). How time flies!

Meanwhile, the Province re-publishes a piece from Washington Post and it’s not satire: The poor are better off when we build more housing for the rich. Never mind foreign ownership, empty condos, tax loop-holes, tax evasion, the CHMC, or shadow flipping. And I’m sorry, but attaching a photo of Vancouver to the piece doesn’t make it any more relevant to our city. We have a very specific set of problems here, which the Washington Post evidently knows absolutely nothing about.

And with the Canadian dollar so weak, what kind of company buys an irrelevant editorial from an American paper? Oh yeah, this one.

As Gordon Price says, “to oppose new apartments out of principle while shaking your fist at the high cloud of real estate is literally crazy”. But to suggest that in 30 years we’ll have affordable housing from rotting luxury housing stock is to ignore the fact that land owners simply demolish housing to make room for more luxury housing stock. And while more supply is obviously a step in the right direction, what does it matter if the properties are left vacant?

Related: Almost 1,000 homes per year slated for demolition in Vancouver. And guess where the highest rate of demolitions occurred? Hint: starts with “Dun” ends in “bar”.

Meanwhile, BC housing announcement mostly spin and little substance.

Building up to 2000 “affordable” housing units over the next five years is not “historic.” In the 1980’s between the mid 1970s and early 1990s, BC built between 1000 and 1500 units of social housing a year.

Speaking of smoke and mirrors: Christy Clark announces $15-million grant for B.C.’s music sector. Take it away, Harsh Vancouver:

Probably to fund all Hedley/Mother Mother/Dan Mangan videos into 2020 #BCPoli https://t.co/JK6aWYwZvJ

— Harsh Vancouver (@HarshVancouver) February 11, 2016

Park Board Chair concerned about 420 rally’s move to Sunset Beach. It happens. Every year. With or without you. Plan accordingly.

Myles Gray’s parents, haunted by alleged ‘wrongful killing,’ sue VPD. “There needs to be a change in the way they deal with people. They need more training in their de-escalation skills. They just need more training, period”. This woman is a hero. Maybe the VPD can take a trip to Scotland.

Headline of the day: Dead mouse no hit with energy drinker. ‘Here, have some shirts so you can further promote our dead mouse drink!’ “NOS, whose home page exhorts consumers to ‘forego all fear, wake up, walk out and tear today to shreds”, have not commented the incident”. Too good.

Bonus: Ex Cop New Roommate.