by Sean Orr | The $10-billion question: why isn’t the F-35 scandal on the front page of “important” newspapers?. Ooh, I know! Is it something to do with the Military Industrial Complex and an enabling media? Or maybe we’re all just super jaded because this kind of shit happens all the time.

Just bad optics: Premier missing from her own party’s donor list. Maybe she just couldn’t afford to donate at the time, what with the cost of living and all. You know, because it’s so expensive to live here and whatnot.

Because some of the stereotypes are true.

Speaking of which: Real Housewives of Vancouver star Christina Kiesel says she played ‘character to the max’. Do not watch this. Not even as a joke. Not even for irony’s sake.

The Missing Middle: New housing types for a changing city. Yes! This is what I’m talking about. People often balk at my love of Toronto. “It’s got a middle,” I retort, and people scoff. Then I say, “You know, it’s got patios,” and people nod.

“You know how to make the reservation, you just don’t know how to hold the reservation”: Developer signs deal for 600 acres of ALR land. “Proposal would turn productive south Delta farmland into a rail yard to service the Gateway Project.” I’m guessing getting rid of the Agricultural Land Reserve is not one of the Tyee’s Paradigm Shifts.

Meanwhile, in the Greenest City on Earth: Plans for bike/pedestrian network connecting Stanley Park and False Creek postponed. Speaking of which, when is Carrall Street going to connect with the north seawall? When they get a private developer to do something with that massive piece of land? Oh.

Maple Ridge Impossible: VW bug placed on Golden Ears Bridge pier. And it didn’t even have to pay a toll.

Peak predictions: What happens if we hit $1.70 per litre at the pump? Nothing. We will just keep filling up our cars and whining about it.