Morning Brew: Tough Times

Posted by Sean
Filed in News
March 18, 2009

Subprime mess comes home to B.C.. Nice delicate touch there with the "FORECLOSED" stamp. Real subtle.

Credit Check: -1 CBC gives a free ad to a condo developer but calls it news. A tribute to urban duress

Meanwhile, not unexpectedly, The Province has a raging boner for the Whitecaps.

BC's minimum wage soon tied for Canada's lowest. Hey good thing we're no longer a have-not province, eh?

Falcon won't testify. 'Parliamentary privilege protects Transportation Minister'. Oh, so then I guess he'll be testifying, oh let's say, some time after May 12th.

Gay community rallies against Vancouver pub attack. So wait, the guy didn't know he was playing pool in a gay bar? The pink bus stops weren't a total give away? Again, although it will solve absolutely nothing, I hereby challenge Shawn Woodward to a fight.

Suck City: Vancouver band Theory of a Deadman captures the zeitgeist of a city. Again, although it will solve nothing...

Upscale bistro says they're "a little ashamed". Check out the tough guy in the centre.

Twitterazzi: "I know when I get to any event, I make sure that my makeup is done, my hair is done - I learned the hard way that people take pictures when I'm not ready." Me too Jenn, me too. Except that nobody has ever recognized me ever.

If Twitter is how my generation communicates, check please.

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I think I'm the only one on the planet that doesn't have a twitter. and I don't care. what did we do before twitter?

Posted by: gina at March 18, 2009 2:54 PM | Quote Comment

your CCAP link is broken, is a working link.

Bias is an interesting thing - where Sean Orr sees an aggressive stance - I see a defensive stance - indeed the "tough guy" in the photo is surrounded on all sides by poverty activists, outnumbered seven to one - and having seen Wendy Pedersen in action she can come off as a very judgmental, shrill and angry activist - certainly, I don't think the "tough guy in the centre" is the one doing the confronting here.

The CCAP is a big part of the problem in the DTES, their entire platform hinges on ghettoization of the neighbourhood. They've vowed to prevent any redevelopment in the DTES until their demands for 5,000 additional new units of social housing are built, they reject calls to build social housing outside of the DTES ... and richest still demand that these new tax-payer subsidized units be larger than 400 sq.ft.

Considering that your average small downtown condo is less than 500sq ft - and is barely affordable by working people. To outfit free housing in the heart of the city for people who don't or won't work, and to keep a large chunk of downtown Vancouver as a ghetto clearly comes from people who have been feeding at the government trough for too long.

Posted by: jerry Incognito at March 18, 2009 3:17 PM | Quote Comment

jerry Incognito:
Bias is an interesting thing - where Sean Orr sees an aggressive stance - I see a defensive stance

yeah I kind of think I was out of line on that one.

Posted by: sean Orr at March 18, 2009 4:05 PM | Quote Comment

Once I woke up in the middle of the night and urinated in the dryer.

Posted by: beckett at March 18, 2009 5:56 PM | Quote Comment

So not only is $8 now the lowest minimum wage in Canada, but we still have the $6 training wage too, don't we? Combine that with the explosive cost of living over the past few years and it begins to make sense why Vancouver sucks so goddamn much. It makes me sad.

Posted by: jen at March 19, 2009 1:17 PM | Quote Comment