0 Vancouver Canucks banish players with the flu to commercial flights among the hoi polloi.

-50 Slickity Jim’s, Kishu Island, Lugz Coffee, that tax joint, and the Mexican place none of us had been into yet burnt down. (And via Beyond Robson, email ‘mainandbroadwayfirerelief@gmail.com’ if you want to help out.) Credit Check expects the condo development that will inevitably be built on the block to be called ‘The Slickity.’

+10 City removes the 50 per cent food/50 per cent booze rule from restaurants. Although, this is a good news/bad news thing. Sure the rule was stupid – but at least it was written down. Now we are back to the whims of liquor inspectors.

+10 In a rare follow up by the media: The guy who was stopped as a terrorist at the border because he had a Hezbollah ring has been let go. Now he is merely in trouble for trying to sneak in nearly $1 million.

Today: -30 This Year: +117