Morning Brew: February 12th

While the Province has a whole section on 2010 featuring such winning journalistic insight as:
The Little town that grew gears up to host Games. A quirky one-act about the town that dreamed big, the people that would make it happen, and a romance that was as icy at times as the oval they skated on, but as golden as the medals they fought for.

And: Picking up the pace: "Like a skier in the final stage of a downhill race, the pace at Vancouver 2010's Vancouver Olympic headquarters is accelerating". I feel like I'm on acid.

But don't condemn Canwest to the role of mere cheerleader. They stick to the issues to. You know, like the campaign to Free Mukmuk from the vast expanse of cyberspace. Of course, they leave it to the much more liberal Vancouver Sun to do all the dirty work.

While Keefer unearths a rarity from the Canwest vaults.

Olympic volunteer program kicks off Tuesday: 25,000 jobs for grabs. And when you're done there, Satan could use some more help too. Its getting really crowded down there.

BC's Homeless Numbers War. Housing minister slams studies, but won't order his own, cites traumatic experience in Grade 9 math when he all of a sudden got an erection during an algebra lesson. He hasn't been able to look a numbers ever since.

But what about the artists? Won't somebody please think of the artists!!!

This is how to make the B.C. transit system one that's truly world-class. Yeah so you and all your SUV driving soccer mom friends can take the Skytrain instead and... Oh, I'm sorry. I'm just so used to the Province publishing anti-environment rants. Oops.

Like this one: It's time to turn on lights and lay bare grim reality. "Instead of shadow-boxing with the imagined horrors of tomorrow", we should be ignoring problems that already exist, like poverty and stuff.

BlackBerry outage sweeps nation. Panic and mayhem in financial districts everywhere. Reports of mass suicide, looting on Howe Street.