Because our 'open' and 'honest' government is on such a roll, what with the Basi-Virk trial and the Ken Dobell scandal, they're now planning on Withholding of key info surrounding curious or peculiar deaths. Good optics guys.

Cops: A drug dealer's best friend. Buy some shares because Foxy Methoxy sales are going to skyrocket. Also, since when is Scott Rintoul a cop? What's going on here? Oh well, I guess jocks and cops have always gone hand in hand.

Someone's Always Watching Me. What an awesome theme for a wicked 80s tune. Too bad nobody named Rockwell never wrote that. No but seriously, 12,000 fucking rent-a-cops? Someone get VPSN on the case yo.

Hot real estate market uprooting working class tenants in Vancouver. "Real estate investor Robert Wilson has fared well, too. He's sold seven SROs to the province for a total of $27.8 million, which is an estimated $11.7 million more than he paid for them less than two years ago. And he stands to make millions more when he resells his recently vacated apartments as condos". I wonder if smokes a cigar and gets chauffeured around by a greasy little mustachio.
We need some of those little alien spaceships to come in and save us from the evil developer.

The city of Vancouver is considering doing away with all parking metres. So while Translink pussied out on the parking stall tax and now has to transfer the burden to homeowners, they're now going to get rid of metres because they hope everyone has a cell phone? Am I getting this?

Protesters pan private power. "OK, but only if done by government, they say". Not to get all Communications 101 on you, but just listen to the way they describe these citizens: "About 200 hooting, hollering protesters gathered in downtown Vancouver yesterday to oppose the privatization of B.C. rivers". But when you assholes do the same shit, its called an editorial.

And then all the way down on page 16: Metro homeless not just the jobless. Allegedly. According some random group of volunteers. Pfft.

So CBC is finally getting 2.0, while Globe and Mail still won't let you read their articles. Like this letter: About B.C.'s name .... "Perhaps B.C.'s Aboriginal Relations Minister, Mike de Jong, could go further than propose a name change for the Strait of Georgia to Salish Sea and start a discussion on changing the name of British Columbia itself". Good idea, but the suburban peons will be having nunavut.

While we're on the subject of naming things, this blogger wants to rename her floppily doppilies to dopplegangers.

While Nanaimo is rebranded the Capital of Google Earth. That's good because I don't think the former slogan went over too well. Nanaimo: Where we sent all the homeless during Expo 86.

Urban Diner on freedom to dis. Figures it would be an Irishman to win the right to trashtalk.

Stephen Rees: Pollution 'alters brain function'. I knew there was a scientific explanation for the Fraser Valley.

Meanwhile Berner's got your back. He's huntin terrorists. Who owns the word terror David? Nelson Mandela was once considered by the US a terrorist. China thinks the Tibetan Monks are. And what about Reagan and the so-called freedom fighting Contras of Nicaragua?

Jamie Lee Hamilton manages to write an entire blogpost without slandering anyone: Fireworks at Park Board Meeting Last Night. Apparently the politicians were doing it to themselves.

photo by SP Clarke in the BR Flickr photo pool.