Morning Brew: August 12th

Because it just hasn't gotten weird enough in Canada recently, Feuding Kitimat families decide to settle their differences by having a sword fight. Severed feet, greyhound decapitations, pride parade hammer attacks; what's next? Random shelaighleigh attacks?

Crash at my pad in 2010 - for $35,000

Vancouver won't get into budget battle with Beijing. "Instead, producers will stick with their original entertainment plan: Loverboy concert on an "ice" stage made to look like Superman's Fortress of Solitude". And if that doesn't wow them... maybe Vancouver's sex trade will.

Hey! Whaddya know? Apparently Vancouver has enough shelter space! Awesome news! "There is room at the shelters. Our shelters run at about 90-per-cent capacity. The issue is not really the shelter space; it is whether the people will go into them or not."

Commercial Drive is so vibrant it could form the hub of the separate municipality of East Vancouver. Yes, great idea. Great idea. That way all that Westside tax revenue can stay in Kits where it belongs.

Design Curtis Sanford's mask. No, fuck you. Do it yourself. Or no wait, I got an idea: I'm a bit of a minimalist, but the colour should be Canucks Blue, with a big white sports font that has the following statistic: 1066-1299. That is the Canucks all time record.

Earth 2100.

HOLY SHIT.

photo by Frozenmeant on Fffflickr.