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It's Tuesday September the 19 around 9:36AM and

Vancouver Papers: Afghanistan, Fall Fashions, Canucks Conventional Wisdom

For a minute I thought I was reading The Province, but no, it was The Sun which ledes with this: "Soldiers die giving kids Candy." The fact that it is right under the "Fall Fashion Preview" sure felt like The Province, but that was their story on the four Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan yesterday. It just seems a little too tabloid for The Sun.

I subjected my self to Rebecca Olser's fashion column so you don't have to. I feel sullied for having read this opening graph alone: "Introducing the modern material girl.She's Madonna meets Monroe without the pink, the shoulder pads and the lethal cone-shaped bras. She layers not belt upon belt, but sweater dress upon leggings. And she uses volume to dress up her womanly curves, not box them in." They actually paid for that? Pass the barf bag.

And then you have The Province acting like a real newspaper, sort of. But their headline on the Afghanistan deaths is "As Cowardly as You can Get". And remember, they're both the same story from CanWest, just different headlines. The fact that they also chose to put butterface Fergie on the cover kind gives you that Province feeling, but still, it's wierd. Everything's topsy turvy. Meanwhile on the back its "Chemistry Lesson". No not another tale of the Sedins bunking with Jan Bulis. No, this is about Matt Cooke and the possibility of playing on what The Province still has the nerve to call the number one line. Meanwhile I love where Tony "Skeletor" Gallagher's head is at this week with his non-stop Canuck commentary. Today's suject defense and scoring. Question: Is this real concern and "journalism" or is he simply dishing out the conventional wisdom for us or is he lowering expectations to such a level that that when the Canucks actually score a goal we'll literally piss ourselves in complete hysteria?

24 Hours as usual ledes with the deaths in Afghanistan - taking another angle "Toll reaches 36 dead" - but then decides what we really care about is Eat BC!