by Sean Orr | How much does freedom cost? The cost of the new jets is the price of freedom. Oh sweet! Thanks, but what is the cost of lying about the cost? And is there interest on that?

Downtown Eastside residents sound the displacement alarm. Man, is that what that fucking noise is? Does it have to be so high-pitched?

Protesters disrupt council meeting over Downtown Eastside gentrification concerns. it seems they realized that writing “gentrifuckation” in front of fancy restaurants in Gastown was a little misplaced. No, but seriously, anything short of taking over council meetings is “whining on the internet”. Good for them.

Change of ideas: Chinese investors shutter Vancouver neighbourhood while apologists cry ‘racism’. Oh noes, what’s wrong with me? First I wasn’t entirely against Rize, now I’m agreeing with Marc Hasiuk. We need to be able to identify large portions of the population in order to better plan for housing without it being racist. We need to be able to use these abandoned McMansions as an index fossil for the extinction of speculative real estate or we’ll be living in our own debris.

Or at the very least, taxpayers end up spending millions to mow lawns of foreclosed homes.

Speaking of housing our cities: Bricks and Mortar vs. Rent Subsidy. Future directions for affordable housing (since so many of you are so interested in promoting it over that big ugly condo).

Staying on the topic of Rize, they seem to making some commotion down in Vancouver’s better half: Developer opts for marketing over sustainability. Wait, Surrey has a green energy grid?

Oh shit, by the way I forgot to tell you about Rize. Everything is now moot.

Our friends at the Dependent aren’t as willing to indulge in the hockey metaphor as T&TS: “And the hockey-politics analogies continue. The latest offender: Bill Tieleman over at The Tyee, pondering Which Team Changes Managers First, Canucks or Libs“.

No Bus for You: Funding gap forces TransLink to suspend expansion plan. Big deal, the same fools that don’t want to pay for new roads via vehicle levy don’t get buses in their shitty towns.