Morning Brew: November First

I think I figured out why the comments aren't working; they all get sent into the spam folder so all I have to do is go in there and un-spam them. Go nuts!

B.C. government says no to increase in minimum wage. Obviously, it would totally get in the way of their Thatcherite social engineering campaign. Do you really think they want you to live in a Coal Harbour condo? Nope, they want you to move to Surrey, buy a house at a particularly un-Surrey like price, fall massively into debt, blame it on immigrants, read the Province, complain about gas prices, get wasted every Friday night, then forget why you were mad in the first place and do it all over again starting on Monday.

And if you happen to live on the Westside, you'll make sure there will never be social housing west of Cambie and reward the Mayor for keeping the RAV line off of their precious Arbutus rail corridor by giving him fistfuls of cash.

VPD looks to bridge gap with mentally ill. As much as they are maligned, by myself included, they were pretty gentle with me, as I stood at Main and Hastings with my shirt off in a pair of VGH pajamas screaming that there was going to be an earthquake. They could've easily taken me half a block to the jail.

'The public doesn't want a cop on every corner,' head of security for Winter Games declares on his second full day on job. Which is true, don't get me wrong, but we probably also don't want throngs of pro-Olympic suburbanites waging war with hard core anarcho-punks. Actually no wait, that would be tons of fun.

Taxpayers get hammered: "Most First Nations and aboriginal people would like the ministry to focus on more important things, like maybe reducing the number of aboriginal children coming into ministry care". Yes! Sarcasm rules!

How not to do sarcasm. Obviously you're not going to say no to a raise, you're just being derisive. The point is, what did it take to get that raise? Has it affected your family, your health, your relationships? And what are you going to do with the raise? Probably spend it on junk that, as science proves again and again, is unfulfilling.

While the Sun asks Whatever happened to the pursuit of leisure? It was hijacked by the Thatcherites. I keep telling you, "down with a world in which the guarantee that we will not die of starvation has been purchased with the guarantee that we will die of boredom".

Anti-war activist told to get out of Canada. We got enough of you guys up here as it is.

Loonie hits 130-year high vs. greenback. This is it! Here we go! The decline of the American Empire! Woot!

Telus land-line rates going up for many customers. Good thing monopolies are illegal.

Do you think there should be a moratorium on the use of Taser stun guns?. Wow, the results are 50/50, therefore I have no opinion on the matter.