by Sean Orr | Bigger subsidy, not higher fares, needed. Yup, it’s just that ridiculously easy for The Province to go from unabashed promoter of all things free enterprise to a stolid defender of the public realm.

Sent to me from Chad Bucholz, our newest T+TS intern: Something fishy about global-warming study. “It’s enough to put a working stiff off his fish and chips”. The only thing about you that resembles a “working stiff” is your upper lip, buddy.

This is the jock in your science class who thinks he is being super clever and subversive, but then prof goes, ‘actually any change in the ecosystem, even the slightest, could and will have disastrous consequences for others higher up on the food chain, including humans whose economies are dependent on them. This combined with the myriad of other possible outcomes- such as increased acidification, a loss of co2 munching phytoplankton, an explosion in the numbers of jellyfish’ – when the jock interrupts, ‘yeah, but they caught a massive sturgeon out in Chilliwack the other day’ and everyone in the lecture hall just rolls their eyes.

This headline is not about immigrants: Folks asked to be on the lookout for Asian invader to B.C.. The Stink Bug is the new Africanized Honey Bee.

Meanwhile, Where does Kinder Morgan’s oil go? Guess what? It’s not to Asia. It’s to California, so you can stop with all the xenophobia towards China. I’m looking at you, Mitt.

We have The Chin to thank for that one: Mulroney Praises U.S. Free Trade Deal 25 Years On. “Canadians have become the happy warriors because they’ve competed head to head on the American battlefield and they won.” That sounds pretty, pretty, pretty gay there, Mr Roni.

Institutionalized racism is sinking into the general population: Vancouver homelessness survey results surprise organizers. Patrick Stewart “speculates this may be because of false perceptions of the supports available for aboriginal people, such as beliefs that housing, education and even gas, are free for First Nations people”. That’s the chair of Vancouver’s Aboriginal Homelessness Steering Committee, not the actor who played Captain Jean Luc Picard, so don’t think of the “Why aren’t there any natives on Star Trek? Because they don’t work in the future either” joke. That’s racist, but not as racist as reality: “while aboriginal people make up only 2% of the general population, 27% of homeless people are aboriginal”.

The party of morals: Another BC Conservative bolts to the Liberals.

“You never like to see these things you don’t go into politics to make enemies and cause disruption and it is never pleasant when these sorts of things happen as I say I have a lot of respect for Ben as an individual I think he is an outstanding guy it is just unfortunate that we weren’t able to come to an agreement and continue to work together.” I’m going to enter that in Geist’s One-Sentence Memories contest.

Bonus: Strathcona Soccer Social Club member Amy is this year’s Hope in the Shadows winner. Congrats!