Morning Brew: November 28th

Live@Five with Mike Roberts has a theory.

The Only has some social theory: "Maybe we're just soft, but the idea of taking someone's land, destroying their culture and then paying respect to what may remain of it by using it as a promotional tool for a sporting event is ridiculous".

But I think they perfectly sum up Vancouver. A bastardization of Asian culture and the appropriation of First Nations culture. The complete dearth of identity. A chimera of parts, like the city itself, stuck in a perpetual adolescence. The anthropomorphism of nature while holding on to delusions that we live in some sort of West Coast utopia while we twin bridges, taser immigrants, and arrest protesters and panhandlers. Oh, and isn't ironic that one of them is named Sumi. That's just what they're going to do.

Vancouver developer pulls out of condo projects due to financing difficulty. Not because of the mascots.

Rise in tanker traffic sparks fear of spills. But no fears about looking like a total hypocrite on climate change, eh Gordo? Play the awesome Oil Spill simulation game!

While he stocks his climate team with special interests: Ms. Slusarchuk... acted for "clean technology companies on a broad range of corporate and commercial matters" as a partner with McCarthy Tetrault.

Narvey: Racial profiling at YVR? Just be glad they didn't taser you.

Canadian Tire wins big-box victory. Man, just the other day I wanted to go to Home Depot, you know, underneath the skytrain there, but I had no idea how to actually get there. VCC Clark is bounded by Burington rail yards, and I don't think there's a bus. So I went to Rona, which is Canadian anyway, at Renfrew. How the hell are you going to get to this Canadian Tire?

Meanwhile, the NPA still think that EcoDensity is radical.