Morning Brew: July 23rd

Morning Brew is NSFW.

Strike, Strike, Strike. Marsha, Marsha, Marsha. Here's a good dialogue as to why civic workers refused the city's latest contract offer.

While 24 Hours focuses on the fireworks. "The Celebration of Light will go ahead Wednesday but with civic workers on strike, there may not be anyone left to clean up the mess.The annual English Bay fireworks competition... generates about 40 tonnes of garbage along the beach each night". So, instead of focusing on how evil the unions are, shouldn't we be asking if its acceptable that an event like this produces that much waste?

Green Party candidate for Vancouver Quadra: We need labour courts! No more strikes, no more lockouts, no more strife.

While the Province demands 'rebate' on service not provided.

And Schultz says It's about trying to make the current Mayor Sam Sullivan and the governing NPA look bad. Which isn't exactly difficult to achieve.

Deltaport Debacle. "This isn't a "NIMBY" issue, like a halfway house in a residential neighbourhood, but the radical alteration of an entire community with a very long history". Yeah but we need to get all our awesome shit over here from China, so Delta is going to have to take one for the team.

Even John Cummings is against the idea. And that guy is a first class dink.

Talks over ceding club to Musqueam band 'testing friendship' with Campbell's key fundraiser. Why does it take a golf course for people to get upset with Campbell? Tripling the number of homeless isn't enough?

Heritage festival battles to survive as Cracktown gobbles up Japantown. Because calling it names like "Cracktown" is really going to help improve the place.

Canwest's Global Warming denier of the day.

Broadway bus lanes a bust. I have no opinion on this story.

Sustain in the membrane. Awesome headline, boring story.

I Hate Downtown: a Rant. I like people who hate things.

Photo Radar Possibly Returning to Vancouver, City's radio hosts rejoice.

Pivot Calendar. "The top 40 photos taken in and around Vancouver's Downtown Eastside over three days this year are now on display and waiting for your vote. For the fifth year running, the Pivot Legal Society handed out 200 cameras to people on the Downtown Eastside - and "three days later, [most of them] came back - we developed them and then had some professional judges go through the 40,000 images to choose the top 40," explained Paul Ryan of Pivot Legal Society".

Photo by Skye Nott in the Beyond Robson Flickr Pool.