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Tea & Two Slices: On Evil Spawn And The Idea Of Taxing Tourists

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by Sean Orr | Blog warz: FOI turns up CityCaucus’s Mike Klassen’s invoices to City under Sullivan, but no contract. How’s your glass house holding up Mike?

Council approves gentrification project at American Hotel. Yeah because it was such a kick ass bar these last few years. And that poor promoter is going to have to find somewhere else to put on punk rock shows. Oh shit, that was across the street at The Cobalt, never mind.

Meanwhile, All bids to run Olympic Village social housing rejected. Apparently, yuppies are harder to house than mentally-disabled crack addicts.

Tsunami of spawning sockeye floods into B.C.’s Adams River. Holy shit! Really? There is literally a shit storm of salmon eggs destroying small villages and frightening children. There are whole towns coated in gooey roe. BC has stopped just short of declaring a state of emergency. It’s awful.

This next story is trying a little too hard to be in an Alanis Morrisette song: Former UVic rabbits shot dead after escaping Island refuge. A little too ironic. And yes, I really do think…

Can we do this? Lisbon to impose double tax on tourists.

Another teen commits suicide as result of relentless gay bullying. Man, why are kids still taking their advice from 50 Cent? Ugh, can 4Chan attack his twitter now, please?

There are 2 comments

  1. Sean, it’s been a long time! Where you been?

    Anyway, thanks for taking notice of me here at Scout Magazine (awesome website, btw).

    I’ve responded to the smear by the Vision/Hollyhock gang, which your readers can find here:

    http://bit.ly/ahV786

    Anyway, keep up the good fight. Let’s have coffee some time.

    Mike

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