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It's Tuesday August the 22 around 6:37AM and

Vancouver Papers: Rolling Stones, Toy Helmets, Nicole Richie

The Sun, in a simingly unintentionally fun front page use a huge "Paralympic Venue Nixed" above a massive photo of Mick Jagger. Those little scamps. The Mick Jagger coverage was for the news that they sold nearly 40,000 tickets in a few hours. Floor seats are now selling at $1500/pair on eBay. Dear god. And these are the two most important issues in Vancouver this morning? Ouch.

The Province talks about the creepy killer that is back living among the family of his victims at a prison in Abbotsford. Meanwhile Michael Smyth answers complaints about aggressive panhandlers in the city with what could be the quote of the week by MLA Lorne Mayencourt (always good for a laugh) who describes 'mainstream panhandlers': ""I'm talking about people who spend the day panhandling and spend the night partying. There's a growing perception that you can do that in Vancouver." His solution. Don't give them money. But none of that matches the editorial siding with Nicole Richie. "Young women these days, especially those in the public eye, are under enormous pressure to have the perfect body. They need all the support they can get -- not hurtful remarks from passersby or paparrazi." You have got to be kidding me. Somebody actually wrote that. And The Province ran it. Oh to be a fly on the wall at that editorial meeting.

Metro Vancouver goes with the three former Vancouver mayor's backing the Insite injection site but we'll get to something about that in shortly. 24 Hours uses their cover to talk about toy helmets, and how dangerous they are. All of this in light of the fatal accident on the Pattullo Bridge. Sure he was weaving in and out of traffic, but its those damned toy helmets! But I guess we can all be thankful for the wisdom of Tamara Taggart who promises, "Our great summer weather continues."

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Posted by: James

August 22, 2006 10:22 AM

I'm waiting for the weather people to switch from "Beautiful weather" to "we are running out of water and the situation is dire!" Happens every dry summer it seems.. Still, at least Tamara is a hottie. Thank gawd the days of enduring gnomes like Norm Grohman (sp?) reading the weather are over!

Posted by: J

August 22, 2006 05:44 PM

24Hrs left-winger columnist Bill Tieleman again dis-informs the public regarding Canada's Conservatives. Marriage definition is to be put to a free and democractic vote Conservatives want-not the way the lefter columnist wrote it. And no Conservatives don't want kids in jail. For consistant big trouble making kids a detendition centre-gets them away from street drugs too. So often left wingers the Liberals and NDPers mis-inform the public regarding what Conservativism really is!.