RCMP pose with women and handcuffs at UBC, photos show. Hey RCMP, stop doing stupid shit.

via Tyee:

Burnaby Mayor Corrigan on Gateway: "Kevin Falcon and Gordon Campbell decided to court votes in the Fraser Valley by ruining the livability of New Westminster, Burnaby and East Vancouver."

Falcon replies: Surrey to Coquitlam in 23 minutes, "That's how you get people out of their cars." I'm sorry, on a bus? Nobody takes the bus in that city becuase they come every 20 minutes. Everybody drives. And now generations of young Surrey kids will buying cars and driving over the Port Mann. You see, the environment doesn't really work that Mr. Falcon. It doesn't give a shit if the Port Mann is full right now or in 10 or 20 years, it just cares that the Port Mann is full of cars. Don't you see? We're just trying to learn from other cities. Whatever. Votes matter more. Its not like there's a new report that says Building more highway lanes increases GHG emissions or anything.

Also from the Tyee, Advice to Canada's 500,000 homeless: "Lay off the drugs and alcohol, and you'd be able to defend yourself... heh heh heh." Hey, I wonder if that's a Fraser Institute intern.

Meanwhile, Downtown Eastside loses 76 rental units. Another one bites the dust. P.S: Does anyone know what's happening to the Dominion? Because somebody bought it and threw out all the art that was in the boutique hotel (including mine). Is it still an SRO?

Canada not living up to global poverty goals. Yeah, but that's before they invented neoconservatives.

Olympic Sized Prices for 2010. I've already got my ticket to the other party, sorry.

Expert says city may let dispute fester. It must also be, in all fairness to the reader, made evident that the "expert" in question is one of new breed of highly, highly intelligent rats who have taken over major sectors of Vancouver's financial and political centres, and his opinion may not necessarily reflect those of the publisher.

Hey thanks to everyone who contacted me through the facebooks and the flickrs and whatnot to say they are reading the Brew, just that the comments are broken. I like to leave comments too. So.

Remember that link I posted about the dude arrested for feeding the homeless. Well, he was found not guilty. Just so you know.

More strike news here

What? They sent Shannon down to the minors?

See ChalkedUp for stuff to do tonight.

photo by The Blackbird in the BR Flickr pool.