Morning Brew: January 14th

This is what it sounds like when cops cry. Poor guy. He'll never live this down at the department. I hate it when cops act like humans, it makes it so much harder to hate them.

Group turns up heat on Catholic Church. "Organizer Kevin Annett says they are demanding that these burial sites be exposed and that the remains be returned, "If you do a conservative estimate, then you're talking at least 50-thousand children". Holy shit, 50,000? Quick! Take them to a hockey game!

Michael Smyth: Are you prepared for a carbon tax in B.C.?.
"The committee heard that if a carbon tax is applied across the board, there would be negative impacts on particular groups, such as low-income earners, rural British Columbians and those without access to public transportation," it said. Oh yeah, because they've really showed a ton of concern for low income earners *cough* 6 dollar training wage *cough*. But, and for all the wrong reasons, Mr. Smyth is right. A tax is just another temporary stop-gap. We need to completley restructure the economy, starting from school textbooks, and ending at an economic system that tells the true price of all that we purchase.

Let's not stop poorer people from being able to drive cars. They should have every right to be total, self-obsessed, dicks like the rest of us.

Whistler warns greedy landlords. Evictions and tourist-gouging won't be tolerated, councillors announce. If you wanna do that shit, go to Vancouver or something.

A never-ending tale of political neglect of actual journalism: "But there's good news on the housing front largely because of the B.C. government and Housing Minister Rich Coleman. Politicians will have plenty sod-turnings and ribbon-cuttings to attend over the next five years because there are 3,200 units of social housing on the drawing board for Vancouver". Oops, she forgot to mention that we've lost hundreds of SRO hotel rooms, or that this number includes housing stock that already existed, namely the 10 hotels they bought. Oh but who has the time to do actual research nowadays?

City gussying up Granville Street. Read: Why we chose to destroy Granville with years of construction on the Canada Line, just so we could rebuild it in a shiny, new, brand.

Who Crowned Gordo?. 12 years of NDP rule?