Morning Brew: December 28th

Orato's Top 50 stories of 2007. Maybe I should do a top stories list. Then again, given the sheer repetitive nature of Vancouver politics, I'm sure its fairly obvious.

Miss 604's best local websites. I'd add Poppytalk for best crafts, Aesthetic Poetic for best art blog, Only for best attitude (that most closely resembles my own), Public Eye for best scoops, the Livable Blog for best environmental, Condo Hype for best condo critique, Price Tags for best Transit, Walter Schultz for most laughably status quo, Covenant Zone for most obtusely anachronistic and semantic, Get Moving BC for best example of astro-turfing, and David Eby for best anti-poverty blog.

Don't Tase me Bro top quote of the year. Oh and whatever Robert Dziekanski was saying in Polish. I'm sure it was something equally hilarious. Oh and this one by Herman Melville: "Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed".

Transit fares going up. That should be number one on the 'seven things we should pretend never happened list.

Mayencourt won't seek reelection. Hasn't ruled out running federally for Harper. Hmm, a gay neocon running for a party opposed to gay marriage. Hypocrite much? Oh but wait he found an army base to ship out DTES addicts, so he's cool, he's with us.

Will harm reduction be a victim in Harper's war on drugs? "In fact, it is very ironic, because the debate is beginning to change in the U.S." Ironic? More like tragic.

CO2 targets enshrined in law - but at what cost? Oh seriously just give it up Canwest. Its getting fucking borrrrring.

Whatever else you think about the Province, the paper boasts one of the best one-two punches in Canadian editorial cartooning. But not for long, apparently.

Burns Bog in the National Geographic.

Sea to Sky Greenbelt.

photo by me again.