Morning Brew: April 30

How to Eat Seafood Ethically... stay away from the salmon and shrimp, apparently. An interesting interview with Montreal author Taras Grescoe about his new book Bottomfeeder, which apparently has quite a bit to say about BC.

But better than the interview itself was finding Seachoice, a Vancouver-based service that'll school you on 'sustainable seafood'. You can also do a quick search for any type of fish and find out its sustainability rating, with all the details. Learnt today: catching Chilean seabass often involves endangered-albatross murder. I'd be liable to double-check most of their info, but it'sa great resource for Vancouver's thriving niche of pescetarian sustainability heads.

iPhones coming to Canada by year's end. Well, there goes our chance at less stabbings in 2009.

Apparently, the City's 'collaborative program' on mental health, addiction, and homelessness that started on Monday ain't so collaborative, as Pivot has been shut out of the discussions. Meanwhile, housing vigils grow across the province.

As an antidote to the cringe-worthy 2010 Mascots animated short, here's VFS grad Ben Meinhardt's wonderful Dancing Animals in Love, which just became part of the the web ether. Only two minutes long and twice as relevant as it was four years ago.

Could come in handy for all your Olympic protest needs: how to start a flash mob, a step-by-step guide.

Watch out for extra speed traps over the next month/slow the hell down!

From the Only Credit Check: "The Vancouver Police got their grandkids to set them up a Facebook page to help recruit new girlfriends or something, but still can't figure out how to change their status to "The Vancouver Police is truly this desperate". Good luck getting laid with them on your little friends list."

Bound to start seeing these around Vancouver... how long before Starbucks starts marketing their own? The Coffee Cuff.

Emily Carr joins in the 'university status' parade... students plan collaborative multi-medium installation based on themes of 'arbitrary semantics' and 'the ability of language to define reality, man'?

photo by photorocker of the BR flickr pool