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It's Wednesday February the 22 around 6:07AM and

Morning News Feed: Budget Mira-cles

24 Hours gets back to the good stuff, with a cover story on the police really cracking down on the crack - announcing plans to arrest anybody doing drugs on the street. Nothing like a good photo of a junkie to start the day, thanks 24 Hours. And then of course is the continuing drama of Carole Taylor's budget shoes.

The Vancouver Sun does the budget and the coverage includes a Carole Taylor vs Jenny Kwan oped grudge match. I can't even imagine that Jenny Kwan is the NDP's finance critic, but that is for another day. And while Jenny didn't like the budget, the Sun called it, "a fiscally prudent, politically sensible plan for the coming year. Although it may be seen as overly cautious, in the Paul Martin vein." Meanwhile the paper deserves some sort of award for the coverage of figure skater Mira Leung. The headline, "A mira-cle on ice" is amazing, and think of what it will be in 2010 when Mira isn't in 14th place with all the other losers.

Over at The Province they go with a massive "Homeowners get a tax break" - as if to say to readers, we know this wasn't very big tax news, and we know this was about the children but we really loved Carole Taylor's shoes. And the other free daily, Metro Vancouver goes totally Mr. Hand from Fast Times At Ridgemont High with a "Don't do dope in public" headline right beside the photo of Mira Leung - also with a "Amazing Mira" headline which begs the question what kind of headline she'd get if she wasn't in 14th place. In the words of dopehead poet Jeff Spicoli, "Aloha, Mr. Hand".

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Posted by: Susan

February 22, 2006 09:15 AM

With regards to the open drug use crack down....somehow, I don't think that's going to do much. I don't claim to be any sort of legal expert, but how many of these junkies are actually planning to prosecute and give jail sentances to? Aren't the prisions full enough as it is? And even if they do go to jail for a couple of months, as soon as they get out it's going to happen again, and again, and again and again...and so it goes...