Morning Brew- December 20th

Morning Brew: Trump gave it a second chance.

The Tyee enlist in the War on Christmas. I mean, the whole thing came from Zoroastrians celebrating the brith of Mithra, which morphed into the cult of Osiris who worshipped the Sun, which later became the Cult of Dionysis, joined the Roman festival of Saturnalia, then got synthesized when Constantine wanted to include the german pagans, innit?

Garr on Insite, science over politics.

Pivot shut out of city hall. That looks good Sam. You won't speak to the guys who make those calendars of the DTES? That's just bad politik.

"This Christmas season thus sees a re-mounting of a pantomime Vancouver has seen many times before: an annual joint production by our political left and political right that repeats the same sad plotline year after year: "Let's park the poorest in a drugs slum." Care of Price Tags.

CBC year in review.

Issue for adding microformat support in the Location module for Drupal. Um, sorry what?

Another reason to buy local for Christmas. Thanks to Crows to Burnaby.

Miserable village installs giant mountain mirror to reflect sun into town square. Now that is a project my tax dollars can get behind. Grouse would be perfect.

Teresen gas customers face rate increase. You mean ALL gas customers. Is there another gas company I don't know about? Thanks a lot "free market".