+10 Are you there, God? It’s me, EmptyPew2341

+10 Richmond buys 55.17-hectare green space from First Nation to protect it from development.

+10 This is not really a Quality-Of-Life audit-able item, but Credit Check has always felt that there was a dearth of good crab joints in our maritime city.

+10 Tofino to ban chain stores.

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Today: +40 This Year: +167

+10 Premier promises that Evergreen Line will be completed. So you can bank on it. Unless it is cancelled yet again.

-1 How journalism works. A group in Seattle wants bars to open 24 hours, so News 1130 headlines their story 24 hour bar openings – Good idea or bad idea for Vancouver?

-10 Arts cuts seem to be around $35 million.

+10 Mayor Robertson tries to parlay his popularity to the national stage.

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Today: -9 This Year: +127

-1 BC Government says HST will spark higher wages and create 113,000 new jobs. Which is exactly the excuse they used to cut taxes.

+10 Simon Fraser Public Interest Research Group to coup plotters: Drop dead.

+10 Neat. Megaphone’s site is hosting videos of the 90s era Frances Street Squats. Spoiler: the Man won.

0 City needs to make $50 million profit from empty lot to pay for Queen E theatre renovations. Too bad that the Art Gallery wants that space.

-5 You think that post-Olympics life is the new normal. You’re wrong.

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Today: -14 This Year: +136

-10 Whatever happened to the fabulous Vancouver House that was promised. And how come the Paralympics don’t get one either?

0 David Black (no relation to Conrad) and owner of the WestEnder, makes a play for the CanWest newspapers.

+10 Shipwrecked sailor ate lichen to survive Vancouver Island wilderness. Credit Check had no idea that there was a Naam in the wilderness.

+10 Conservatives, who opposed the Canadian flag in 1965 and opposed the national anthem replacing God Save The Queen in the first place, don’t like a gender-neutral O’Canada.

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Today: +10 This Year: +151

-10 Thank goodness for a part-privatised BC Hydro.This way, increases in prices, in an age of deflation, is only 33%.

+10 Megaphone has a good story on the W2 media centre.

+10 Globe & Mail writer all “despondent over loss of Olympic excitement. Credit Check hopes that said columnist will continue to ask for pedestrianised streets, loosened liquor laws, and support the many Vancouver outdoor fests that the Globe doesn’t really ever talk about.

-1 Killer bees!

+10 Mario still considers the Olympics his Donkey Kong.

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Today: +19 This Year: +141

-20 New BC Budget allows homeowners – not just seniors – to put off paying their property taxes until they sell their houses, which means no property tax revenue for, oh, 40 years.

-10 This guy says the whole BC Budget is just smoke and mirrors anyway.

-10 The Great Communicator, Victoria Police Chief Jamie Graham, bars one of his constables from speaking out against drug prohibition.

-1 New guidebook for immigrants gives a more Conservative friendly history of Canada. One where unions demand to know how you vote and the fight for health care is something that need not be mentioned.

+10 Chris Shaw has something to say about the Olympics.

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Today: -29 This Year: +122

-20 Please exude the world’s biggest ‘duh’ with the last breath of Olympic yayas. Cuts expected in BC budget.

-10 CTV sent the Ukraine House an $8,000 bill because they had the TV on.)

+10 Housing for everyone! But mostly for the rich.

+1 Streetcar! Streetcar! Streetcar! Streetcar!

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Today: 0 This Year: +151

0 Globe & Mail: It’s time to cash in on Olympic gold.

0 Mayor Robertson: Spending Vancouver’s new Olympic capital.

0 The Courier: Lessons learned.

0 The Observer: Assessing the Olympic

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Today: 0 This Year: +151

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+10 In a delusional moment, Mayor Robertson believes that there will be more public funding for transit because suburbanites got on a bus for the first time in their lives.

-5 Now that Canada has almost finished hosting the Olympics, Ottawa says Olympic funding should be a private sector thing.

+20 Oh ho! It turns out that Translink does have the capability of running Skytrain all night long.

-10 Polish man detained at YVR says he was thinking about Robert Dzeikanski

+10 Protesters to unite for closing Olympic ceremony

+10 Silly writer considers herself an elitist in Vancouver because she is from Toronto.

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Today: -30 This Year: +151

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+10 Some street closures and traffic changes may stay.

+20 Mounties should wear cameras on their uniforms, says Senate committee that doesn’t realise how much it will cost to replace uniforms after Mounties keep losing them.

0 Georgia Straight’s photo of the day: Vancouver 2010 suicide bomber inukshuk

-10 BC Government is looking for an iApp developer. One that they do not intend to pay.

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Today: -30 This Year: +151