by Sean Orr | Hooray! Vancouver wins injunction to evict homeless campers from Oppenheimer Park. So now they can go back to sleeping on benches and under bridges!
Update: VPD to wear body cameras when ensuring campers clear out of Oppenheimer Park. Let’s hope they have a livestream…
Dichotomy City: Vancouver’s real estate boom: The rising price of ‘heaven’. “The house prices are perfect…” As cringeworthy as that sounds, it’s nice to see some honesty from the rich.
Flipping the paradigm: OneCity proposes house-flipping levy in Vancouver. Just don’t tell these guys…The Flipping Formula team is on its way.
Which leads to the Tweet of the Day:
Affordability proposals for #vanpoli so far: 1. @COPEVancouver: Vacancy tax 2. @OneCityVan: Flipping levy 3. @VisionVancouver: Swim lessons!
— Michal Rozworski (@michalrozworski) October 10, 2014
To be fair however, the NPA’s affordable housing platform doesn’t mention renters once.
But hey, free parking, right? Promises, promises — main Vancouver parties ramp up their civic election campaigns. In a city that is next to impossible to find parking in, what difference does it make if it’s free?
From my cold, oily fingers: Kinder Morgan TV ads attacked as influencing city elections in BC. She obviously cares about the environment because she has dreadlocks.
RED ALERT: Guy at Fraser Institute is pretty sure he just debunked climate change science. Press Progress is my new favourite website.
Not a Nathan For You gag: Shell brings back 1984 gas prices to celebrate anniversary. You really have to admire this brilliant piece of participatory propaganda.
From the people that brought you the Hump Day Hottie: Vancouver men, please stop harassing women. Written by… a Vancouver man. I mention this because a woman on my Facebook says the exact opposite, and that complimenting a woman is not harassment. Vancouver is uptight enough as it is, we don’t need another reason to not interact with each other.
Also, it’s obvious that you should be handsome, be attractive, and don’t be unattractive.
Meanwhile, Four white Sun TV panelists explain white privilege to guy who isn’t white.
Bonus: RBC Branch On Fire Painting Likely Won’t Win RBC Contest. Genius.
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