Morning Brew: November 23rd

"I tripped over a job yesterday. It was there on the sidewalk, by the curb with the gum wrappers and the cigarette butts". Oh how poetic you smug prick. "Many look hale and able-bodied," That's because you can't see mental illness douche. "The poor, the addicted, the mentally ill . . . you know, the usual roll call." Oh you're so casual and witty, and oh so quaintly controversial. "Why aren't they hoeing in the fields or washing dishes? Why aren't they pushing a mop or a wheelbarrow?" Why aren't they writing for shit-rags like the Sun? I'm sure many of them have Sociology degrees too. "The problem is worse, not better. There are more street people than ever, more hard-to-employ than ever". Yeah, has nothing to with the feds cutting off the Canada Assistance Plan, and BC making the most drastic cuts to welfare ever seen, as both ride surplusses into the tax-cutting sunset. Hey, maybe the reason is because you and your cunty wife attend your shitty little Coquitlam community hall meetings in an outrage any time there is a proposal for a recovery house. Then, after all that, you come up with one example of a social agency, set up 2 years ago, as not working? You're fired.

What's next? Pouring paint on homeless people?

Lo and behold, prisons! They heard your call McMartin! BC will need room for 700 more pot prisoners every year. Because it's working so well in America. Hey, while we're at it, let's make the prisons private. Super idea. That way they can keep the prison population surprisingly low, while offering a strange new food product called Soilent Green.

Addiction centre site controversial. Of course it is.

Tenants living in horrid conditions: NDP MLA. And these are the working poor. What do you got for them Pete? Oh, right, they are overtaxed.

Tears in courtroom as Pickton's defence wraps up. Oh man! I thought that said "Tasers in courtroom".

Vicious West Coast weather blamed for this morning's trolley fleet malfunction. Idiots.

Council debates ban on corporate and union donations. It makes Vision look good, knowing full well Citizen Sam will nix the idea.

Cap-and-trade system sets the belching bar low. Doesn't Rio Tinto sound like a red wine to you?

More service key to transit use, poll finds. "Well, what an amazing finding, who’d a thunk it, eh?"

Housing First.