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Monday April 16, 2007

After a short absence, small-town Vancouver shows up and starts bumbling around…

- 5 A gutless Vancouver Art Gallery pulls part of the Huang Yong Ping exhibit due to complaints of inhumane treatment to insects and other critters.

- 5 Small-minded media hounds Green Party candidate / Courier Columnist / Mag Store owner Kevin Potvin until he is forced out of his candidacy. Because anyone who thinks 9/11 was an opportunity to deal with the root causes of anger in the Middle East is obviously a terrorist himself. Ooooh. You guys are such Woodward and Bernsteins.

+15 Operating an SRO Hotel in the Downtown Eastside is like owning an old car.

± 0 A Vancouver firefighter is caught running a grow-op in his house. Which goes to show that firefighters are just regular joes.

+20 City staff, incredibly, are asking council to stop the loss of rental units by making each conversion subject to council’s approval. This is so simple, so incredible, so workable, and so against everything the Non-Partisan Association stands for. The ball begins rolling at Tuesday’s meeting.

+15 For the life of John Henry Colwell, who just died at age 90 in Nanaimo. “Colwell was one of the Great Escapers who tormented Nazis by continually tunneling out of the escape-proof POW camp. The story was made into the film The Great Escape and bastardised as Hogan’s Heroes.

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