Morning Brew: August 30th

Canada Up for Grabs. "Montebello proved 'deep integration' should be a big election issue". Just like the environment should have been an election issue 20 years ago? Man, I think they've won on this one. Nobody knows about SPP man, fuck it. I mean, people hardly even know about TILMA. And as soon as you start talking about sovereignty people get all weird. At house parties. When I go to all the parties. And talk about SPP. It doesn't go down very well. At all the house parties I go to.

Given the Liberal government's propensity for subterfuge and politicization of the bureaucracy, the possibility these shortcomings at Elections B.C. are intentional cannot be ignored. I got one. I like looking at maps, so I can't really give you a good opinion on it. There were some pretty great maps though.

Labour relations strain under NPA reign. "Civic workers in Vancouver are not greedy thugs out to pillage the city's coffers. That place in the city's ecology has already been filled by developers and P3 contractors busy running up the metre on construction of the RAV Ravine and other disastrous Olympic legacies. Civic workers, in contrast, deliver value for money every day, when not kept from their jobs by city stonewalling". OH SNAP!

Union rhetoric and political agendas in which you immediately contradict yourself by offering your own rhetoric (or Peter Ladner's) and your own political agenda.

Vancouver hotel workers vote to strike. I wonder if those dudes declare their tips?

DTES Dirty Sanchez What's a Dirty Sanchez? Really? That's gross.

Oh no! The dog had to be lifted over stray needles, broken beer bottles and rubber gloves lurking amid the grass. "Each time we went for a two-block walk to a coffee shop we were panhandled at least eight to 10 times, sometimes very aggressively." Yeah, that sure is "A wasteland of despair and deprivation". Are you 12? Is this your essay on what you did this summer?

I dunno, I kinda like the jerseys. (since that's all any of the news sites seem to be talking about)

photo by Juliakoz in the superbad Beyond Robson Flickr pool.