by Sean Orr | You wouldn’t download a car: Canadian Parliament: a notorious pirate marketplace. “It’s pretty funny, given that this very same group of people is working on harsher copyright law with Bill C-11″. Super funny.

No harm, no fowl: Why you can’t find heritage poultry. Turns out there’s a posse of farmers armed with pitchforks and torches roaming the roosts with vengeance. “This kind of arrangement is better known as a cartel. Cartels fix prices. Usually, they’re illegal, but not in Canada. In fact, when it comes to poultry, dairy and eggs, not being part of a cartel is illegal – as many an Amish farm wife can tell you”.

In other words it’s The Tragedy of the Market. Something funny happened on the way to the agora.

Euripides would be proud: Former Vancouver city councillor Ellen Woodsworth still waiting on word of eviction. Salt in the proverbial wound.

Another senseless, preventable loss: Man found dead in burned shipping container in North Vancouver. Shame on us.

“Sometimes a headline just speaks for itself”, via News for Youse: Ezra Levant tells Chiquita exec to take his banana and shove it.

Still waiting: Vancouver theatre longs for liquor licence. Our legacy from when our main vice was neither meth nor crack, but booze…

Vancouver Was Awesome: Smoking ban takes effect in Metro Vancouver regional parks. OK. I get it, smoking sucks. But what if it really is the only thing that makes you feel better? Also, just remember, if you’re near a sidewalk you can just smoke there. It’s ok.

Vancouver Was Awesome (actually): Your Granparents’ BC Bud, 1931.

It’s not racist because they’re Asian: Shit Asian Chicks Say.