by Sean Orr | Plans for new Downtown Eastside housing debated. “We must not go forward with some ideological position”. Yes, but if I argue with you then I must take up a contrary position.

After all, “Nobody likes poor people procreating”: This Is Why Poor People’s Bad Decisions Make Perfect Sense. Also: “Broccoli is intimidating”.

And this is what happens when you ask for help.

Rich people have problems too: Vancouver billionaire pleads guilty to charges after night of cocaine and sex. What’s his punishment? A $5,000 fine. He probably has that much in the lint catcher of his dryer.

Pop goes the world: Housing Bubble? Canada’s Top Banking Regulator Refuses To Say. Because they don’t know. Because they are making it up as they go along (even though one could by a tear-down in Point Grey or 9 chateaus in France for for the same amount of money). Maybe someone should buy the property and turn it into A Fake Slum for Luxury Tourists Who Don’t Want to See Real Poverty.

There is a city three hours from Vancouver that just voted to raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour. Ha! You call that a city?

Youth Community Food Forest Illegally Destroyed by Business Owner. Apparently his name is David Hollands Saruman and he destroyed the forest in order to make an army of orcs. Where is Treebeard when you need him?

What the new Rogers-NHL deal means for the CBC. Hmm, perhaps I can illustrate this with gifs. This is the CBC, and this is Rogers.

Fukushima’s radioactive water to be dumped into Pacific Ocean. Nowhere in this article does the Vancouver Observer talk about what kind of isotopes are in that water, and that is important.

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