by Sean Orr | Talk Green To Us – Share Your Ideas – City of Vancouver. Hopefully we will continue to experiment with affordable condos, even though that sounds like an oxymoron. I don’t think anything will have as big an impact on Vancouver as a London-style congestion fee. And why not? We take the nation’s homeless, we take suburbia’s bored (despite it being more expensive to live in the suburbs), the office workers, students, sports fans, and everyone in between, and we pay for it.

The real trouble is this: how do we avoid becoming a bedroom community that over-regulates everything to death, like drum circles and smoking on the beach? Seriously, you are not even allowed to have an inflatable craft at Third Beach. You’re not even allowed to throw a ball. I say we protest by going topless, because that’s about the only thing that is legal. Come on ladies, it’s time for collective action. Do it for the City.

Outrage at Red Light Robertson. So a drunk driving premier gets a free ride but a simple bicycle infraction is a front page expose?