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TEA & TWO SLICES: On Liquor Laws, Real Hipsters, And Pepper Spraying Protestors
by Sean Orr | International news is not within my purview, but condolences to everyone in Boston. And Pakistan. And Afghanistan. And Iraq.Ladies and Gentleman, we have a winner: Dix will ban corporate,...
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TEA & TWO SLICES: On Sophomoric Smear Pieces & Selling Poutine To Confused Folks
by Sean Orr | With all the tact of a rabid pitbull after a head-swap operation, The Province introduces their election Tumblr You Call BS. OK, I call BS.“A writ, when dropped in a vacuum, will...
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TEA & TWO SLICES: On My Big Election & Homeless Dave’s Amazing New Discoveries
by Sean Orr | Uh-oh! Someone got their funding taken away: Vancity in the Downtown Eastside: The Gentrification Drive of BC’s Largest Credit Union. Or all of these things are bad: hiring otherwise...
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TEA & TWO SLICES: On Picketing Fancy Art Galleries And Going The Distance For...
by Sean Orr | If ever an inbox needed flooding: Will social media change Canadian politics? Hasn’t happened yet. Yeah, because Twitter didn’t absolutely explode when he suggested child porn was an...
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TEA & TWO SLICES: On Picking The Wrong Horse & The Gentrification Of Middle...
by Sean Orr | The hubris of the (soon to be) defeated: Confused B.C. Premier writes down two names on voting slip. This goes beyond mere innocent buffoonery. Like George H. Bush seeing a scanning gun...
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TEA & TWO SLICES: On Election Surprises And More Silly Fear Mongering In Gastown
by Sean Orr | Just as the Canucks could neither beat the San Jose Sharks nor the referees, the NDP could neither beat the Liberals nor the media. Or, in another hockey analogy, “the NDP must have...
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TEA & TWO SLICES: On Kids Burning Town Houses And Adults Paying For Crack Videos
by Sean Orr | Maybe next time, instead of bothering with polls, just ask who Bob Rennie is voting for and that’s your winner. Clark thanks condo kings for their support.Resistance is futile: Vancouver...
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TEA & TWO SLICES: On The Allure Of Decay And Taxing Tourists For The Mountain...
by Sean Orr | Senate and robocall scandals different versions of same pathology. Or, for a much more floral take on Parliamentary democracy, read Russell Brand: ‘The whole joint is a deeply encoded...
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TEA & TWO SLICES: On Politicizing Bicycle Safety And Super Delicious Money...
by Sean Orr | Don’t politicize bicycle safety, that’s our job! Common sense needed to end the bike battles. Is that so? Is that why – two paragraphs in – you assign blame to Gregor Robertson? “Vision...
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TEA & TWO SLICES: On Juvenile Protesting And Crazy Angry Old People In Tiny...
by Sean Orr | It seems juvenile because it is juvenile: Pidgin protest ‘pickle’ poses problem for police. “It’s deflecting from the seriousness of what’s happening. People’s homes are under attack, and...
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TEA & TWO SLICES: On The Parachute Club And More Dirty Politics With Clean...
by Sean Orr | Smoke and mirrors: Safe drug injection site rules emphasize local input. Right, because there is just such a long line-up of communities who want one. Because the Conservatives are...
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TEA & TWO SLICES: On Shaving Gentrifying Heads And Riding On The Poor...
by Sean Orr | We gave her a mandate! Christy Clark gets hammered at the Leos. “In Ontario, Rob Ford smokes crack, and here, Christy Clark makes everybody want to smoke crack.”Well then, “actors”, you...
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TEA & TWO SLICES: On Vancouver Without Daily Newspapers And Friends With Salads
by Sean Orr | Wishful thinking: Postmedia boss says it’s conceivable that there may not be daily papers in Vancouver. That’s outrageous! “I tried to get Latin canceled for five years. It’s a dead...
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TEA & TWO SLICES: On Raging Scofflaws And Slaughtering Water Buffalo In...
by Sean Orr | Canada’s former defence minister claims aliens are real. Oh, they’re real all right, and they’re millionaires.Greaseball: Small crude oil spill on Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline...
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TEA & TWO SLICES: On Simplistic Garbage And Threatening “One Hell Of A Good...
by Sean Orr | According to The Province, Global-warming activists ignore good news. I’m not going to harp on the Minter Gardens article that says they are closing because the climate has changed, nor...
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TEA & TWO SLICES: On Looking Beyond Highrises & Two Sad Junkies From Surrey
by Sean Orr | With the rise of patriotism comes its ugly opposite: Alleged Canada Day bomb plot targeted B.C. legislature. Oh, great. So I guess I’m not a Venom fan anymore. Also, don’t even get me...
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TEA & TWO SLICES: On Rainbow Sidewalks And The New DTES Restaurant That “Kills”
by Sean Orr | I was going to self-radicalize but then I got high: Don’t Feed the ‘Self-Radicalized’. “Our real objection to the would-be terrorists from Surrey should not be that they wanted to kill a...
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TEA & TWO SLICES: On Choosing What To Protest And Never Going Back To The USA
by Sean Orr | Speak no evil: Politics viewed as “dirty word” for many Canadians. “Sixty per cent of Canadians say they haven’t discussed a political or societal issue face-to-face or over the phone...
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TEA & TWO SLICES: On Sighing In Relief And Chucking Big Cups Of Water On People
by Sean Orr | Unreal estate: For Vancouver, housing and income don’t add up. Only 0.56 per cent of British Columbians declared incomes higher than $250,000. Oh great, so we are the 99.44 per cent.It...
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TEA & TWO SLICES: On Interpretive Riots And Hysteria Soaring To Silly New...
by Sean Orr | Wherein a third protest protests the original protests’ right to protest. Anti-gentrification ‘bullying’ must stop, group says. And yet if people are still ignorant of the causes and...
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