Morning Brew: November 16th

  • Posted by Sean
  • Filed in News
  • November 16, 2007

111607_mb.jpgGreen Party the only ones calling for a moratorium on Tasers, while Stockwell Day dismisses demands for public hearings. At least Vancouver made it to the upper echelons of internet stardom with 1315 and counting Diggs.

King: "Quite aside from the visions of a flaccid and boring little town that the name conjures - let alone the Burkean language that surrounds the project - Project Civil City has accomplished absolutely nothing".

Langley residents opposed to shelter. Is there an echo in here?

Critics line up against neo-Translink Bill 43. There's even a new website. Although not much good it'll do, they managed to privatise BC Tel, BC Gas, BC Liquor, and BC Rail. BC Transit's change to Translink was a foreshadow of things to come. Hydro can't be far behind either.


Canadian Tire big box blasted as "ecological bigfoot". Didn't we already do this a couple of years ago?

24 Things to do to prepare for Peak Oil. Handy.

Skytrain should run longer hours. We've only been saying that, oh, since it fucking opened.

Vantopia Flashbacks: April 1-2, 1980. Same shit, different decade.

Kripps Closing: "It's as much a fixture of Granville Street as those drunken 19 year-old suburban kids and Bruno Gerussi’s plaque on the Walk of Fame; Kripps Pharmacy is leaving town, and the famous neon “DRUGS� sign that's stood there for decades will be taken down".

image by Standard Grey in the Beyond Robson Flickr photo pool.

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Thanks for posting the image, bro.

The cops in Vancouver have been pretty notorious for various shenanigans, the RCMP as a whole have been steadily losing their credibility---both police forces seem to think they are not accountable for their actions. I genuinely hope this acts as the tipping point. Seriously---heads should roll whether in the RCMP or among airport staff for letting his happen, or to be specific: letting it escalate via complete negligence to such a tragic point. No excuses. I don't want this incident to be lost in the 24-hour news cycle's collective amnesia.

Posted by: christopher (standard grey) at November 16, 2007 4:43 AM | Quote Comment

The taser incident is *the* hot button topic this week. People at my gym stopped and stared at the monitors when it was played on the news, and workers at my friend's construction site stopped working to debate about it, when someone brought it up.

Posted by: Agasel at November 16, 2007 10:04 AM | Quote Comment

Great idea. Wonderful. Let's completely abandon a non-lethal weapon because of a few bad seeds.

Taser's get used as an alternative to guns. Perhaps it *would* be better if cops had itchy trigger fingers instead of an itchy finger on a power button.

This incident doesn't look good, and the officers involve should be disciplined appropriately. Abandoning tazers is likely to wind up in more bullets. That's not a good thing.

Posted by: Darcy McGee at November 17, 2007 8:57 AM | Quote Comment

There it is! Finally, somebody said it! Yes, a few bad seeds. What a cliche you are.

Posted by: Sean Orr at November 18, 2007 1:37 AM | Quote Comment

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