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Tea & Two Slices: On Sami Salo’s Testicle And Private Power Gold

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Canucks look for a new beginning. Not to nitpick or anything CBC, but that is a tautology. A beginning by definition is new. You know, like a free gift.

Taxes, housing solutions and NHL hockey wagers. Funny though how the first paragraph of this story sort of contradicts the second, but that’s OK. It’s Mike Howell and he comes up with gems like this

“And what better place to watch a grey whale swim in False Creek than from the Olympic Village. No, condo-king-Oly-Village-marketer-art-gallery-owner-bon-vivant Bob Rennie did not pay me to write that sentence”.

Sami Salo’s testicle takes off on Facebook. So we don’t really have to do our jobs and report on the actual facts. We can just link to a Facebook group.

We’ll leave the real journalism to The Tyee: General Electric and BC’s Private Power Gold Rush. Yeah, I mean why would we need power? We have so much of it we might as well give it away.

The pain of victory and the agony of defeat: Man attacked after crossing Sun Run finish line. So, he didn’t run fast enough?

RIP Babz

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