Morning Brew: August 14th

Don't kill me. I'll stop doing Morning Brew.

City staff predicting strike to last till fall. Morning Brew predicting full scale riot by Labour Day.

So sign the five-year contract and shut the fuck up.

Or, to put it from a Westsiders point of view: Some areas of Vancouver kept clean, other parts may face stench and rats. Other parts "may" face stench and rats. Hmm, I wonder if its maybe the same parts that "might" be facing epidemic levels of Native alcoholism, overdoses, homelessness, HIV and Hep C?

...as reflected in the results of CKNW poll? Garbage, what garbage?

One upside to the strike.

While a local blogger makes a plea: Take Your Garbage to the Dump, Not Our Parks.

And because everyone's doing it, Lower Mainland highways workers on strike.

Homelessness in the Pacific Northwest. Mild Weather, proximity to ports, and a bad habit of electing total fuck-ups.

Vancouver restricting church's mission to help poor, charges pastor. Awesome, so not only are we going to not help the poor, we're going to make it impossible for you to help the poor. It really is looking like legislated poverty, isn't it?

No Money for P3s? MacQuarie Bank is one of the biggest P3 financiers and has been hard hit.

Remember yesterday, when I posted a link called "hate mongering floods online?" And remember how I said "Alan Ferguson has a new blog?", because it was funny? Because I'm funny? Do you remember that? Well, The Province just introduced "The Newsroom", so I wasn't actually that far off. Scary.

Hey remember yesterday I mentioned that OD deaths in Vancouver were up? Well, I said it was because of the bottle bonanza that has resulted from Sam's Strike 2007. I would like to add that a rash of SRO hotel evictions, no respite to some of the harshest welfare cuts in history, the steady gentrification of the DTES, real estate prices booming, and rental stock disappearing while minimum wages remain frozen as a possible reason for this disturbing trend. Not David Berner, he'd like to point out that Insite is lying. What? We got that from the same article?

A declaration of Journalistic Principle.

This will make mummy proud: On-line petition: Protect Riverview Lands.

The Scar! Visual blight resulting from Eagleridge bypass.

The Province gets down to its redneck roots and publishes a pro-polygamy editorial.

"EA vancouver is a bit different. they celebrate with roof-top barbeques and unwind with 'vintage' video games. its also possible to get your shoes shined, car washed, hair cut and pants hemmed all at work so you'll never have to go home. Thanks for the link Gregor.