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It's Thursday February the 16 around 6:19AM and

Morning News Feed: Beer Wars

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24 Hours has another amazing cover. On the one hand they want to be taken seriously. The true top story, "Cold spurs rush to shelters" is about the cold snap we're having and how that effects the homeless population. On the other hand, they use the cover to show a can of Budweiser and a can of Molson Canadian with the headline, "Beer Wars."

The Province, naturally, goes for the Todd Bertuzzi $19.5 million lawsuit on the front & Olympic coverage on the back.

Over at The Vancouver Sun, the cover is an unruly mess. They couldn't really decide on a top story per se, and throw everything but the kitchen sink on the cover including the Juno Award nominations, the twinning of the George Massey tunnel, the ex-Vancouver man who won Olympic Gold for the Aussies, the Todd Bertuzzi lawsuit, and the finding of a missing girl's body near Prince George.

The Metro Vancouver freebie balances Canadian Olympic Bronze glory with the $19.5m Bertuzzi lawsuit without openly trying to make Chewbacca jokes about speed skater Anouk Leblanc-Boucher's unfortunate nickname "Wooky", in an effort to look far more credible than 24 Hours.

This week's West Ender fronts their 13th Annual "Spring Hot Tickets" edition - giving shout outs to every Tom, Dick, and Harry of the arts community, although damned if I can figure out if they have new content up or not.

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