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Scared residents still want temporary homeless shelters shut down. Aw, come on, watching the drug dealers and toy-dog walkers vie for bench space at Emery Barnes has made year two of life in Yaletown existentially bearable.
Meanwhile, Pivot has a petition going to save the shelters, which run out of funding at the end of this month.
B.C. issues first smoking-in-the-car-with-your-kid ticket. $109?? Come on, the guy was clearly under the influence of alcohol and far from framing any rational decisions. And any parent-smoker knows that a passenger side 13-year-old (not to mention drunkenness) causes cigarettes to light themselves. Have the police no mercy??
Plans for six new waste-to-energy plants around the Lower Mainland. "Instead of seeing garbage as garbage, we're seeing garbage as a resource that we can actually use." We of the Morning Brew firmly support said perspective. Only meta-Canwest-phorically, of course... burning our garbage is probably not the best idea.
Marijuana activist Tim Felger shunned by Abbotsford. I'm convinced this guy was hired to make Marc Emery seem intelligent. I mean seriously man. I still call dibs on that bike when it turns up at a police auction though.
ALERT: Two local reporters and three UBC studies confirm that Immigrants who speak English find better jobs. Meanwhile, cabbies and convenience store clerks continue to enjoy higher job security than Sun staffers, provide more for community than UBC Geographers. Literacy is so overrated...
Big piece from this month's Megaphone is now online: Eating Below the Poverty Line... "what if it's not the drugs? What if it's the poor diet day after day after day that's slowly killing people?"
Local Iranians sleepless and frightened for friends back home.
Surrey bank robber busted after passing the teller a note written on his own personal cheque.
The implications of eHealth. Your medical records are (finally?) going electronic. Forget about the higher powers having access to last night's facebook photos... how about the post-party gastric lavage and levofloxacin?
Some local love as Canadian Design Resource highlights the internationally acclaimed art of B.C. Bud. Just wait until they start cataloguing the endless amount of ecstasy emblems created here on the west coast.
So it looks like a "no-election caper" may have been pulled off by the "Parliamant Hill Gang" (that'd be Iggy, Thugsy, Frenchy, and The Stache...) Bill Tielemen would like to see an election this summer. Presumably because it's become a lot easier to drink on the job as a pundit on a blog. But seriously, did Thugsy break the law with last year's vote or what?
Canada's forest industry world's worst performer in 2008. Don't worry guys, I think I smell some new jobs over in the garbage-burning sector.
He saved a bear with CPR, but what's the fuss? Yeah yeah, just shut up and sign you movie deal weirdo. I mean honestly who's not always up for a good bear movie? I would also very much enjoy a t-shirt involving bear CPR.
The "preternaturally subtle" drypoint work of Milne & Hartman is on display at the Burnaby Art Gallery for another month and looks quite enticing.
The Straight also offers nice guides for summer arts and film festivals. Also a thorough roundup of music to avoid (folk fest, you're cool).
A textbook case of social neglect: the untimely death of Frank Paul.
photo courtesy of the ever wonderful Simon Clarke, in the BR flickr group
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"sticking homelessness right in these faces may be the best first step"
I have to agree with you on that one, but only if it's actual homelessness. If these places just offer an easy base of operations for the pushers, who then attract the stereotypes their business produces, isn't throwing this in faces counterproductive?