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It's Thursday September the 21 around 5:49AM and

Vancouver Papers: 24 Hours Gives Us a Cute Overload

Well, 24 Hours really rolls out an instant classic this morning. Not only do we get the obnoxious cover "You otter be in pictures". "It wasn't too long ago that sea otters, with their lovable faces and childlike antics, were extinct in B.C.'s coastal waters." And 24 Hours tells me that the glorious sea rat, I mean otter, is back, oh joy of joys. And on that note it's a double shot of cute with this bit of Spirit Bear news, "The Spirit Bear Youth Coalition will attack the provincial government with cartoon characters if the Liberals don't protect the white bear's stomping grounds." No, not cartoons! Lastly, another goverment report is out, this time about the children in the care of the government getting ritilan 12 times more likely than regular kids.

Over at The Sun, trying to keep pace with the breaking 24 Hours otter story, it's a monkey on the cover. A cute baby monkey. Bastards. For good measure they also front incredible journey of the The Adams River sockeye run. Anyway, now it is The City of Vancouver's turn to figure out that these Olympics are going to cost a lot of money. Gosh! My favorite bit of news was the fact that a Chinese factory that used to make 200 million Mao badges has switched to making Harry Potter and Star Wars ones. Take that Mao! Meanwhile Malcolm Parry gets on his chair and tells us about plans to turn the St. Regis hotel into a boutique hotel.

At least The Province goes hardhitting with "Gridlock City". Okay maybe not hardhitting exactly, but it starts like this, "Lower Mainland commuters are in highway hell, burned up and burned out by traffic congestion that's thickening right in front of their eyes." The article also had this groudbreaking angle: "The traffic picture isn't any prettier from the air. Lara Dewitt, who monitors traffic from a helicopter for AM 730 and sister station CKNW, said congestion is 'terrible. The last two weeks, this is the busiest I've ever seen it. I am very happy to be flying above it all. I don't know how these people do it every day.'"