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Friday September 21, 2007

+20 Holy Snicker Bars everybody! Finally! At long last! The wait is over! The Canadian Dollar! Is equal! To! The American! Dollar!!!!. Go buy a car!

- 2 The Straight releases their annual Best of Vancouver issue, and mega-props to them for finally getting it right. It’s true! Mountain Equipment Co-op is the best-new-sporting-gear shop in the city! Take that, SportCheck. Your sporting-gear shop is for LOSERS.

+5 Some say that 6% of the power produced by BC Hydro is being used to grow pot. Others say that BC Hydro is financing their coke habit by sellin’ weed on the side.

- 1 Students in a Winnipeg high school are selling banned junk food out of their lockers... And the seeds organized crime have been planted.

- 3 Bill O’Reilly calls the “don’t tase me, bro” guy a wimp.

+5 Vancouver sex workers are working on the development of a co-op brothel. The development is being marketed under the slogan “Imagine a World Not Littered by Used Condoms.”

- 7 The Downtown Business Improvement Association wants to get rid of dumpsters because they are filthy, vandalized and filled with needles. Their reasoning is “[the dumpsters] tell people that are intent on committing crime that nobody cares about this particular area and let’s continue to do what we do.’‘ Oh yeah, how does that old saying go? “If your trash isn’t nice, people will rob your store.”

Today: +17 This Year: - 39