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Quick hits

Posted by Jonathan Ross

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CTV continues its annual hatchet job on the taxi industry

Posted by Jonathan Ross

These kinds of images provided by CTV are deceiving and fail to give the entire picture about the state of affairs within the local cab industry.

Every year around this time, CTV does a story about how the local cab industry is not serving the public well, and how there are not enough cabs on the road.  The latest two installments of this annual series can be found here and here.

But as per usual, their analysis is slanted towards the sensational, and the depth in which they cover the issue is a centimetre deep.

Here are some realities when it comes to the local cab business.

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Quick hits

Posted by Jonathan Ross

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City Caucus sees controversy around every corner

Posted by Jonathan Ross

The City Caucus Vision Vancouver inspired Halloween mask is slated to hit stores next year.

Trumped up indignation and outcry about what they consider as transgressions by City Council (meaning just about every action taken) is something that the City Caucus boys have mastered into an artform

The latest?  The way in which they are characterizing these t-shirts – which are a lighter way of showing support for a policy that the party campaigned and were elected on – as akin to making fun of terminally ill patients.  But, as they say, they try really hard.

Which brings me to my next point – their recent elevation of the mundane to the scandalous with regards to the noise exemption letter signed by Mayor Gregor Robertson.

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Tue Feb 07, 2012

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FACT OF THE DAY

In 2010, Vancouver had fewer than half the number of murders than it had in 2009.  There were nine homicides within Vancouver’s city limits, down from 19 killings the previous year.

Quote OF THE DAY

“Perhaps it was my silk dress or the new perfume I’ve been wearing lately. When I asked Suzanne Anton what her New Year’s resolution was, she replied, “To kiss a pretty girl!” and pecked me on the cheek.”  – Writer Emily Barca describing her encounter with the lone NPA City Councillor on New Year’s Eve.

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