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It's Monday December the 4 around 6:20AM and

Vancouver Papers: Dion vs Dion and More

The Province starts you off with a Four-day ordeal to fix broken leg. "Susy Horna spent four pain-filled days in Surrey Memorial Hospital waiting for an operation on her broken leg. Horna, 48, a legal secretary who broke her leg shovelling snow, said her concerns were taken seriously only when she threatened to sue." Meanwhile Ed Willes starts the week off smug, and insufferable on sports, "One of the keys to successful column writing is to set small, manageable goals -- and ours today is to be as entertaining as the Vancouver Canucks. If you're still reading, here are the Monday morning musings and meditations on the world of sports." Funny thing, at least this wasn't as lame as the skiing coverage. Finally grumpy old man W.P. Kinsella spends December 4th talking about the supposed threats to Christmas concluding they are just "hype by media extremists".

The Sun is truly miserable this morning. When skiing is the featured story on the front cover you know nothing good can come of it. Mostly it is in the fact that the paper is really focused on the news of what happened over the weekend - the Dion Liberal Leadership victory in particular - that underscores the problem of newspapers in a digital world.

24 Hours tries for heavy Monday morning issue with a Call to Action. "One year after he was gunned down on a Vancouver street, Lee Matasi's family and friends are working hard to turn his violent death into something positive, and fighting to finish what Matasi had started - turning a neglected access tunnel into a skate-park oasis." Although the teaser for a page two story, Britnies undies which goes like this, "Britney Spears reportedly spent $3,800 on a whole bunch of new panties." I do also appreciate the page five Stephane Dion vs. Celine Dion comparisson. Don't forget the wisdom of Tamara Taggart in the weather section, "A bit warmer this week," Wow thanks Tarmara.