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TEA & TWO SLICES | On Speaker Safaris And The Hubris Of Housing The Homeless
by Sean Orr | Housing staff on spending spree. No, this is not an article about the PHS. It’s from 2012. “According to a shocking and secret audit of company credit cards, B.C. Housing workers blew...
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TEA & TWO SLICES | On Market Demand & The Man With The Hardest Sales Job In BC
by Sean Orr | A Kinder, gentler Morgan: The long road to earning the public’s trust over pipelines. Earning the trust just means showing videos of the BC coastline with some softly spoken platitudes...
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TEA & TWO SLICES | On Art Poodles And Gastown’s Permanent State Of Transition
by Sean Orr | Christy Clark partnered in Enbridge lobbying firm before becoming BC premier. No surprises there. Frankly, I was more outraged that she was a CKNW host. Eve Adams’s fight over $6 car...
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TEA & TWO SLICES | On Fear Mongering & Avoiding All Culture To Afford An...
by Sean Orr | This is what plutocracy looks like: Elections Canada In Conflict Of Interest For Promoting Voter Turnout. Right, because consulting the electorate = manipulation. Because championing...
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TEA & TWO SLICES | On The City’s Biggest Eyesores And Quantifying Our Own Racism
by Sean Orr | B.C. NDP’s Jenny Kwan, who represents one of Canada’s poorest neighbourhoods, buys $1.9M home in another riding. This is the same sort of petty indignation as when a climate change...
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TEA & TWO SLICES | On Rebuilding After The Earthquake And The Silliness Of 4/20
by Sean Orr | Guest editorial in the Vancouver Sun: Earth Day is cult indoctrination. Wherein it only takes them one paragraph to mention Stalin… But yeah, Carlin said it better: “The planet isn’t...
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TEA & TWO SLICES | On Cracking Down On Foreign Workers And Very Silly Dog Owners
by Sean Orr | Labour movement versus bowel movement: McDonald’s Canada CEO calls foreign worker controversy ‘bullshit’. Which is not at all what their food is made out of, right? For more on the TFW...
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TEA & TWO SLICES | On Our City In Decline And Oil Spills Being Good For Local...
by Sean Orr | The front page headline of The Province: Asians Eyeing B.C. farmland Wow. By “Asian” do they mean Han, Yamato, Ainu, Samoyeds, Korean, Tibetan, Uyghur, Kazakh, Manchu, Mongol, Persians,...
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TEA & TWO SLICES | On Mayoral Mistakes & The End Of The Chinatown Night Market
by Sean Orr | NIMBY’s in Gastown? Go figure! Vancouver Whitecaps captain’s victory parties enraging neighbours. Or, the trouble with density and the infinitely privileged. Mea fucking culpa: Vancouver...
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TEA & TWO SLICES | On Anti-Oil Bears And The Reasoning Of Scum-Sucking Slumlords
by Sean Orr | Living wage required for Metro Vancouver rises to $20.10 per hour. “These people won’t be able to own a house, save for retirement or save for education”. Property Virgins for life! I’ve...
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TEA & TWO SLICES | On Taking A Stand Against Tipping And Wreck Beach Erections
by Sean Orr | RIP, Wreck Beach: Wreck Beach goes the full Mountie: RCMP to erect tent at famous nude enclave this summer. Let’s hope for everyone’s sake that the disappointed naturalists don’t go The...
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TEA & TWO SLICES | On Peacekeeping And Our Civic Election Being Decided By...
by Sean Orr | From middle path to middle finger: Canada’s ‘Middle-Path’ Foreign Policy Days Are ‘Gone’. Yeah? No shit. Canada as a peacekeeping nation is a myth. But I guess it’s at least comforting...
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TEA & TWO SLICES | On White Privilege And Canadians Against Alcohol In...
by Sean Orr | I, for one, will not be celebrating Canada Day this year: Campground booze bans supported by most Canadians. What the article doesn’t say is that when polling companies use the words...
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TEA & TWO SLICES | On Turks & Caicos And Stephen Harper Being Prone To Fits...
by Sean Orr | The Province newspaper weighs in on the Isla Vista shooting and misses the point: We all should fight women-hating losers. “Most men aren’t rapists, respect women and are turned off by...
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TEA & TWO SLICES | On Supersucking And Desperately Seeking ‘Ultra Rich Asian...
by Sean Orr | Hedge your bets: Vancouver: Superstar city or just a safe haven for global investors? Some people might say that we supersuck. Besides, it’s all about to come crashing down, right?...
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TEA & TWO SLICES | On Bad Heroin And The Steamy Back Pages Of The Georgia...
by Sean Orr | The writing on the wall: Police raid house in East Vancouver, with guns drawn, on pretext of anti-pipeline graffiti. Right…it was about the graffiti and not monitoring spying on...
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TEA & TWO SLICES | On Hidden Marijuana And Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangster!
by Sean Orr | Why is that all the very best headlines start with “Cops not pleased with…”? It’s a mystery, but Cops not pleased with Vancouver’s hidden weed. But…it’s not illegal if it’s free, right?...
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TEA & TWO SLICES | On Homeless Spikes &‘Real Housewives’ As Civic Embarrassments
by Sean Orr | The power of positive negative thinking: Why are so many Vancouver-area yoga studios closing their doors? Or, have we reached peak yoga? Is this a truer economic barometer than the...
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TEA & TWO SLICES | On Street Vending & No Money For Teachers (Because Oysters)
by Sean Orr | Deceit on the half-shell: B.C. taxpayers on the hook for iTunes downloads, oysters and Hooters. Who uses iTunes anyway? Typical elitist. Why cant she just download tracks illegally like...
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TEA & TWO SLICES | On Making A Mess Of “Happy Hour” And Spilling Irony...
by Sean Orr | Oil spill clean-up ship hit sandbar en route to government news conference in Vancouver. What the article doesn’t mention is that the ship accidentally spilled 36 megatons of unrefined...
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