Morning Brew: January 29th

$11 million bet on B.C. Pavilion. Oh I get it, its a Gateway! How cute. So we can 'bridge cultures' and whatnot. Man, you'd think child labour was a sensitive topic, I guess we're just bringing that sucker out into the open.

Credit Check: - 2 A troubling new poll shows that an estimated 66% of Canadians couldn't name Vancouver as the host of the 2010 Olympics. VANOC, however, remains upbeat, believing that Canadians were unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don't have maps, and that our education, such as in South Africa and the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and our education over here in Canada, should help South Africa and Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future. For our children.

What would a revitalized Downtown East Side look like? Hey Peter, you do realize that the head of your party has totally shit the bed on most of what you're proposing, right? Just join Vision and get it over with.

Follow us. Its easy. All you have to do is restructure some taxes, be seen with Al Gore and David Suzuki, make massive cuts to social programs in your first year, ride a budget surplus wave with the help of some sweet real estate and commodity prices, implement the transit plan that you've failed to do during the entire tenure of your Premiership, and then go ahead and just keep building freeways through mountains, across rivers, and through bogs while making tons of cash off oil and gas and run of the river hydro projects. Boom.

Taking the Vancouver Blogger challenge I think I'm just going to go ahead and keep writing awesome shit instead of trying to get pings. Game on!

World's First Weed ATM. I thought we already had one? Oh no wait, that's just what I call my buddy Ryan. Dude is always carrying.

Success rates drop as crime rises. Let me get this straight. So, you're telling me that if something happens more often, then the opposite of that thing is happening less often?

College students seek fare treatment for passes. I gave it a shot too, but they wouldn't even recognize my school. I guess that's what I get for attending Wikipedia.

Retractable roof for the Dome? Too bad we couldn't retract building the thing in the first place.

Park board topples tower, and curtain of trees remains. Damn, it would have been such a good vantage point to launch RPGs at City Hall.

Vancouver History: The Lions, The Two Sisters.

photo by some racist called seanorr in the Beyond Robson group on Flickr.