Morning Brew: June 2nd/3rd

Get ready for nasty weather: "If you've ever flown into Vancouver International Airport, you've probably never pictured, as the plane was setting down, what the tarmac would look like under two feet of sea water". Unless of course you are a fatalistic, misanthropic, pseudo existentialist who imagines disasters happening all the time. Like right now, I was just thinking about how fun its going to be when Vancouver gets smoked by a mega-thrust 9.0.

Yeah, free Mark Steyn, but what about Mordecai Briemberg? I guess Free Speech only matters when conservatives piss of visible minorities. What was that Bruce Allen? If they don't like it here they should go home?

Oh and just because this was such a fun topic on May 30th's Morning Brew, Commission begins work examining legacy of residential schools.

Vancouver tourism hopes to withstand future Canadian decline. By building a triple over-budget convention centre that nobody will come to? Brilliant. How about this: get some real culture first, some public washrooms, and maybe some homes for all those people with mental disabilities and addictions running around all over the place frightening the sheltered Americans.

Join the homeless in 2010 and get rich? Maybe not. Damn, now what am i going to with my half-million dollar loft during the Olympics? Hey, maybe I can rent it out as a communications centre to the official Vancouver 2010 Riot...

National Hunger Awareness Day.

Earthquake Relief Fundraiser.

The Impact on Communities Coalition (IOCC) and Think City are co-hosting a free public forum on how the 2010 Olympics are doing in terms of meeting inner-city employment commitments and its impacts on labour in the city. SFU Harbour Centre, 515 W. Hastings St., Wed., June 4, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. Free. No registration is required.

Lest We Forget 1984: Candle-light vigil this Saturday, June 7th at the Vancouver Art Gallery in memory of victims of state-oppression everywhere. It is in special dedication to the victims of the June 1984 Massacre & November 1984 Massacre of Sikhs in India.

Next Morning Brew probably on Thursday by Duran. We'll see.

image by Photocat62 in the BR Flickr Pool.