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Tea & Two Slices: On “Harrowing” Escapes From Terrifying Arabs And Beautiful Ironies

by Sean Orr | Vancouver police report identifies potential terror threat. Apparently, there are hundreds of businesses in Vancouver that sell boxcutters.

Check out this in depth Province piece on the struggle for democracy in Libya: Nanaimo teacher makes harrowing escape from Libya. “We could hear clapping, chanting and shouting of Allah Akbar and lots of yelling in Arabic…it was scary and heart-wrenching”. Oh noes u went 2 a scary country and they were talking like terrorist omg R U OK?

Meanwhile, chaos in Arab world could be bonanza for oilsands. If you don’t see the beautiful irony in this I feel sorry for you.

Furlong’s Russian vote ‘deal’ concerns IOC. Man, who needs Wikileaks when you’re as dumb as Furlong and write it in a book?

Water damage plagues Whistler’s Athletes’ Lodge. Oh, schadenfreude! You cover me like a warm, soggy blanket.

Seafield tenants win the fight, continue the war. Great, now we’re romanticizing shelter as war. I wonder though, what are the rules of engagement? Because I have an RPG launcher left over from the Olympics… [ed. note: but not really]

BC Hydro looking at rate spike over next three years. “Cobb also said the demand for electricity in BC is expected to grow by 40-per-cent in the next 20-years”. Then why are we exporting energy to the USA? I’m confused.

Ken Lum exhibition review by The Cheaper Show.

There are 2 comments

  1. Re: Selling Energy to the US. They sell it at a premium, and buy the unused power back at night / seasons where they don’t use as much for pennies on the dollar. It’s a good deal for Hydro. 😉

  2. OK cool I was actually going to write: “No I’m asking, seriously. Sorry if it sounded sarcastic”. It wasn’t anywhere in the article I just remembered that we are exporting energy but then they said we are running low on capacity, so. I’m rambling, my point is I was being earnest. Thanks.

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