Hunters to cull hundreds of trapped narwhal. Fun!

Dog's nose for whale poop big help to B.C. orca researchers. Like I said yesterday, from now on everything is going to be cute. All. The. Time. LOOK AT HIS FACE HE IS SO HAPPY!!!

Actual conversation with older brother:
"Hey did you hear, the world's oldest living polar bear died"
"No it didn't"
"That's good, you should just use that reply for everything".
"No, I mean, there is still an oldest polar bear alive, always".

Farming just first step of local food system in Metro Van. There is also charcuteries, don't forget the charcuteries.

One could even say its getting Dickensian.

While ye olde metal scrappers face hard times.

Rail in the Valley. The Industrial Revolution is really coming along here.

Bring on the Real Estate Crash. Yeah! I mean, er... except for fancy brick lofts in Gastown.

BC's German Ferries May Be Lemons. Will this finally put the Fast Ferry scandal to rest? Are you guys still keeping score? Because I'm pretty sure the Liberals have matched all of the NDP's scandals and mismanagement, but who are also awful social neo-conservatives cutting welfare and raising tuition.

B.C. election should include senatorial nominations. Actually I prefer my shadowy overlords to be appointed.

Anti-Olympic activists woo world press attention in Vancouver. A press conference? Those poverty pimps and anarchist thugs have gone too far.

Canada's supervised 'drinking sites' for street alcoholics. Holy shit I thought this was totally going to be a rebuttal to criticism of the safe injection site by mocking situation on the Granville Strip and the influence the Granville Bar Owners Association has over City Hall, but no, apparently these actually exist.

Video of Downtown Ambassador at work. Hey thanks for the new hobby! Every single time I see one of these geeks I'm going whip out my camera and start filming.

Vancouver's new magic wand mayor.

"Can you say 'class divide?" Our very own Red State/Blue State!

Kashmir Dhaliwal defeat a difficult one for the team. Really Vancouver?

Developer crashes the Vision bash. "Long after Gregor gave his first speech as mayor-elect — where he promised everything from the end of homelessness to a formula for cold fusion — the party kept roaring. Even condo mogul Francesco Aquilini dropped in for an appearance".

Suspicious timing: City's CFO resigns conveniently after the election.

Explaining this swing to the left, in which they do anything but.

While Jamie Lee Hamilton blames the electoral system for her loss and not the fact that she's crazy.

Villagegate all about open gov't. Village Gate? Fuck that. Its called Millenium Watergate.

Council candidates to vote for who weren't soiled by Olympic Village loan.

Hundreds of security experts gather in Vancouver to rehearse worst-case 2010 Olympic scenarios. I wonder if they practiced holding emergency closed door meetings?

Your dose of lunacy: VanOC asks businesses to temporarily close down. Well, if its to help out the cause, then only the business owners who voted for the the Olympics should close.

Meanwhile, 128 More affordable housing units to be lost in Kensington-Cedar Cottage

Quick! Look! We built a fancy train! Holy crap I hope Gordo won't be always driving. Because, you know. Remember? That time? With the thing?

To all those hit hard by the financial crisis, Rudolph Giuliani Vancity Buzz beckons us to go shopping.

Bed Bugs still a major pain.

Straight Slate

Former Vancouver mayors resuscitated the Olympic Village bailout story by pleading with reporters to let the story die. Also, local blogger Sean Orr resuscitated the story by repeating the phrase, "Olympic Village bailout story" 17 times: Olympic Village bailout story. Olympic Village bailout story. Olympic Village bailout story. Olympic Village bailout story. Olympic Village bailout story. Olympic Village bailout story. Olympic Village bailout story. Olympic Village bailout story. Olympic Village bailout story. Olympic Village bailout story. Olympic Village bailout story. Olympic Village bailout story. Olympic Village bailout story. Olympic Village bailout story. Olympic Village bailout story. Olympic Village bailout story.

Metro Vancouver's housing market will bounce back. The only thing we have to fear is the thing we're told not to be afraid of, especially when its by a paper notorious for its fearmongering hyperbole.

The only thing we have to fear is feet by themselves. Another severed foot washes up in Georgia Strait

A City Soft on 'Slumlords'. Soft+slum= Gross.

West End Apartment Evictions. I wonder if they'll be privy to these sweet Houses in a Can? Or are those just for the Warzone?

Memo to next mayor: Leave the real estate game to the moguls. On second thought: BC home price drop will be biggest in Canada.

On Friday judges elected Geri Tramutola of the Work Less Party as winner of Last Candidate Standing. Or were they just voting against Fritz the Cat? "He's entertaining and disgusting: not unlike some of the people I'm running with," says Michael Geller. Running with or against there, Mike? Either way, I love it.

Of the US Monarch and Republicans Seeking Refuge in Canada. "Citizens make haste, before droves of beloved Texans ride north." But at least we'll still have our teeth. Oh, and don't forgot about this group of pissed off Americans, many of whom may also be itching to relocate to Vancouver.

29 year old law student charged with stabbing an old friend 30 times outside of a West Van country club found guilty of... manslaughter??

Forget Geller, candidates gathered at the Creative City Cabaret on Saturday to offer irrevocable proof that the current state of local politics is indeed more painful and absurd than a poorly timed serial-rapist joke.

Ah the eternal wisdom of Vancity Buzz: "The Olympics are coming in a little over a year, by that time the economy will be out of its current "sad" state. However, I ask you when there are help wanted signs plastered all over the place, how bad is it right now"? Um...

The rise and fall of the Vancouver high-rise. From condo to condon't.

City planners eye Mount Pleasant. Of course they do. "What's that, some young people made the area habitable? Let's wreck it!"

Name the new Seabus. 1) HMS Rust Bucket 2) Misery Barge 3) Boat to Nowhere

We even have our own bailout.

B.C. leaders praise Obama, but await policy details. You guys are still gonna buy our oil, right? Right?

Change Everything asks, "do you think Obama will be able to significantly change America"?

Follow live on The Hook, or not. Man, I have to work tonight. Hopefully Obama takes Indiana and Virginia right off the bat. Or you could always watch it LIVE in a room full of beautiful young people in Chinatown.

Obamamania grips Vancouver.

Although not all of Vancouver is on board because apparently we have our share of paranoid, neoconservative, fundamentalists espousing so called Family Values, wallowing in their own cryptic semiotics and white, anglo-saxon, protestant superstitions right here in our fair city. Hooray for diversity!

Speaking of, Gregor Robertson: he's the people's candidate.

$1.6 billion project planned for Surrey, once the financial situation changes. So... never? I think I'll be investing in some urban wakeboard stock instead.

Can't really be cynical about this one: the Davie Village Community Garden.

Housing the homeless? Ladner vs. Eby.

RCMP officers, school board chairmen, zamboni drivers: GROW UP and... lead the province?

COPE and Cadman pander to the hipster demographic? Likely the funniest civic election ad you'll see for awhile. Beards > Tapdancing, George W. Bush Limericks.

Immigrants ruin Halloween. Not fair! I want more candy.

Society should eradicate certain behaviour rather than condone it. Same-sex relationships, unwed mothers, racially mixed marriages, and homeless people in tents.

Homeless plan to pitch tents in Vancouver. "It is absolutely unfair that homeless people should be allowed to camp out in tents. If that is the case, then everyone should be able to do the same. Why should lazy people who don't bother to work like the rest of us to earn a living be given special rights, compared to us regular tax-paying folks?" Um, I think you are allowed to camp out in tents. ITS CALLED CAMPING.

Views in peril. Its absolutely unfair that people with more money get to have a better view than me.

Open up investment suites for rentals. Unfair times infinity.