Morning Brew: November 30th

NDP MLA says Bill 43 = higher taxes, higher fares. "I am not going to withdraw this bill, and I have nothing to apologize for," Falcon said. Who do you think you are, Hausmann? Le Corbusier? Caesar? This is highway robbery of our highways. High treason on transit.

EcoDensity won't cut house prices. So not only does it not prevent urban sprawl in the form of Big Boxes at the city periphery, costs $500,000 to promote and trademark, and doesn't do anything to ease the ridiculously expensive housing market so that people have to go even farther out to find cheap housing? What's the next suburb? Merrit?

And if you live in a condo you get little protection from strata pitfalls. "In B.C. there is no effective agency or other mechanism to ensure transparency and accountability of owner-developers and strata councils. There should be".

But An arrogant government shows it just doesn't care.

While Chretien dodges any blame for homeless. Yeah, he didn't go into Iraq, he was perfect, don't you remember?

Carole Taylor will not run for provincial Liberals. That's because she actually was a liberal, not this neo-con mash-up of Reformatories.

Matasi's killer found guilty.

Cops investigating cops: No fault found in Ian Bush shooting. Remember kids, if a cop shoots you in the back of the head, it's self defence.

Now that the whole taser thing has died down, the Province can continue to question climate change.

Vancouver Municipal Campaign finance reform hits road block. "The meeting deteriorated into name calling, amid allegations of improper conduct and even suggestions that corruption had entered into our municipal electoral organizations". And Hamilton wasn't even the ones calling people names!

Vancouver Social Media Scene: Transit Camp and Free Geek Drive.

Canada's New DMCA Considered Worst Copyright Law. I know nothing about this. Geist?

photo by me.