Morning Brew: July 24th

Morning Brew recommends Stateris, Tetris with US states

Washington Post documents Vancouver's Olympic Challenge. "City Faces Pressure to Fulfill Social Pledges That Helped It Win 2010 Winter Games". Hey, isn't it great that American media are doing a better job at covering our city than Vancouver media? Then again, America is well known for its superior journalism and unbiased news.

While the only Vancouver media talking about why we have so much garbage in the first place, as opposed to say, how destructive strikes are, is a free commuter paper: 24 Hours- Culling the herd of garbage.

While Page A11 of The Province mentions that Vancouver breaks wet record for July. Innocent enough. But over on page A17 the headline reads: We contribute to changes in rain patterns. You guys couldn't have made the connection? You couldn't have even hinted that our recent shitty weather might be man-made by running both articles on the same page?

Then there's the paper's star columnist, Michael Smyth:
B.C. politics are anything but predictable -- just ask Bill Vander Zalm and Glen Clark -- but there were a few familiar patterns you could always count on to repeat themselves." You mean there are a few mistruths and stereotypes that you'd like to exploit:

"Consider the Liberal-NDP schism over business. Now that the interminable Canada Line construction is ripping up Cambie Street and driving local retailers into the ground, look who's the champion of business now! NDP MLA Gregor Robertson". The NDP are anti-business? Weren't they the ones who started the privatisation of our public assets?

"Back in the mid-1990s, you'd have been hard-pressed to find a fiercer critic of the NDP government's treaty with the Nisga'a First Nation than Campbell... Now we see...Campbell's astonishing turnaround on First Nations issues -- a metamorphosis that seems to have benefited him politically". Weren't the NDP the ones who sent in 400 tactical assault team members, five helicopters, two surveillance planes and nine Armoured Personnel Carriers into Gustafsen Lake? And furthermore, I'd hardly say Nisga'a and Tswawassen are comparable. Campbell wants his Gateway Project and will do anything to get it, signing a treaty is just a bonus.

And finally, they take on Michael Moore's journalistic credibility, then suggest he is taking bribes from the Canadian government. All in a day's work for The Province.

While Metblogs defends its integrity.

And Google Maps misses the park. Some Vancouver parks absent from popular map service.

photo by Bhlubarber in the Beyond Robson Flickr pool.