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It's Monday September the 11 around 5:40AM and

Vancouver Papers: 9/11 Five Years Ago

All three of the papers we normally cover try to talk about the fifth anniversary of 9/11 this morning. 24 Hours gives it the local "On 9-11 i was..." headline treatment. But did we really care what Bill Good or Senator Larry "Injections" Campbell we're doing that morning? Of course, they opted for the real front page story to be "One for the scrapbook" a picture of Canucks prospect Luc Bourdon posing with some young fans. Both Luc and the girl in the photo look completely freaked out. The whole thing kind of confirms the absolute lack of seriousness that this rag has. There I said it.

Meanwhile The Province does a pretty typical Monday morning paper - trying to cram the stories of 9/11, the Dalai Lama, The Seahawks, and of course going with a protestor arrest - a grandmother - at the province's first new metal mine. I think this opening sentence from Ed Willes column this morning sums up the paper clearly in a death struggle with 24 Hours for stupidity: "Quite frankly we're disappointed no one has asked the Dalai Lama what he thinks about the Canucks' chances this season."

The Sun does a pretty decent somber 9/11 front page part. And yet they souround that with "Name me: woman in sex case", "Former SFU track star killed in high-speed car crash" and my personal favorite, "City hall minorities 'window-dressing' for VIP visit" - which tells the story about how at City Hall they moved the visable minorities to more front counter spots for the Labour Minister visiting. The whole thing is absolutely ridiculous.

Metro Vancouver, actually has probably the best cover story about the effects of 9/11 on a Vancouver family who lost a daughter in the World Trade Center. And Dock Currie does another blog profile, this time of Miss 604.