by Sean Orr | Where do you go when you lose a 50 foot, $10,000 Vancouver Canucks banner? The same place everyone in Vancouver goes whenever they lose something. Pigeon Park.

Canada considering international bases. We want to more clearly define ourselves as an imperialist target to a growing network of terrorists. Canada: we have the “speaking softly” part down, now we want to start carrying a big stick.

So You Think You Can Run The Grand Inquest of the Nation? No, but I probably could come up with a better pop culture reference. But really, I had no idea people cared about things like this. Sometimes I really love Canada.

Which is why it will be sad to see it go: Leaked cable lays out North American ‘integration’ strategy. OK, I’m exaggerating. I tend to do that, and to quote Joe Biden: “This is a big fucking deal”.

In the aforementioned cable they talk about an incremental approach to deep integration. What a coincidence, because Kinder Morgan plans to dredge Second Narrows channel to allow %50 more tar sands bitumen to flow through our port. I wonder if the eventual oil spill will leak out ‘incrementally’ or all at once.

NHL star Gilbert Brule gave lift to hitchhiking U2 singer Bono in West Vancouver Tuesday. People are so excited they have started driving randomly around West Van hoping to pick up stranded celebs. It’s getting to be a real problem.

The Awl: Dear Vancouver, Please Don’t Boo Our National Anthem.

Unconference on Housing/homelessness.