by Sean Orr | Front page news! Kink party turns kinky! Liquor branch looks into allegations of drug use, sex acts, overcrowding at Vancouver arts group’s city-licensed party. It’s too bad that The Province ran video from within a party with a ‘no photography’ policy. Would they do this at Wreck Beach? Is this some weird viral marketing for a Footloose remake? Did Homer take the pictures in his big hat? Is the inspector forever scarred, “always thinking that just behind some narrow door in all of his favourite bars, men in red woollen shirts are getting incredible kicks from things he’ll never know?”

Of course, I’m not qualified to speak on behalf of the queer community. Here is a [sic] Facebook post by Chase Porter:

Backdoor was created as a safe space for the queer community of Vancouver. If you’ve ever been to a Backdoor party you know its jock straps and drag queens galore; its a place where you can be whatever the fuck you want to be. That’s what makes it alive. Because it happens so rarely, I know I look forward to every backdoor event, as do many others coming from all over… It’s a living, breathing, installation; promoting artists and performers every event. VAL has atmospheric tones of the underground clubs in Berlin and New York City, something that no other club delivers in Vancouver.

Well, sure. It did.

Here’s an Instagram of the VPD supervising the City throwing away the blankets of homeless people! Nice job, none of you.

If that gives you anti-cop fantasies? Maybe someone will make Vancouver the next Grand Theft Auto city:

I want to see Vancouver BC as an upcoming city of GTA. Imagine causing havoc on Granville, running Hastings, and driving 200 over the Port Mann bridge in a chromed out Bugatti.

Black Cows Matter: Cow shot 24 times by police: Incident under review. Yeah, if it had only just cooperated with the police this wouldn’t have happened. It remains unclear as to whether or not the unfortunate bovine was known to police.

Significant arrest made in Surrey’s low-level drug trade. I suppose this is better than an insignificant arrest in the high-level drug trade…

Canada warming at twice the global rate, scientists tell premiers conference. Well, at least there’s one province that’s doing something about it. Alberta, take a bow for once.

But yeah, let’s all be upset that a yoga class was cancelled: Yoga class cancelled at University of Ottawa over ‘cultural issues’. I can’t say shit though, because I’m sitting here in a full headdress listening to Awesome Tapes from Africa while my girlfriend cos-plays as Sailor Moon.

Hictoria of the day: Feminism campaign sparks controversy at Vic High. “A group of students ripped down the posters, tore them up in the girls’ face and replaced them with several anti-feminism posters with “hateful language,” one of which included a photo of a decapitated woman. Students posted anti-feminism statuses and comments on Facebook as well”. Go home, Victoria. You’re drunk.

Here is a crow on the skytrain. Of course he has his own Facebook page.

Speaking of Facebook pages, here is the UBC White Student Union page, which is somehow allowed to exist.

To counter the awful display of internet humanity, here is a group called “Help build a skatepark for the community that saved our lives” by the survivors of the ill-fated whale watching expedition.

Headline of the day: Uranus might be full of surprises. No shit?