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It's Thursday October the 5 around 8:28AM and

Vancouver Papers: The Return of the Super Fans

The Sun brings to our attention what we already saw at 8:07 this morning. That with the Canucks opening up their season tonight, there is going to be a lot of game day jersey wearing. They lede with "Fan say Playoffs Yes, Cup No". At the Vancouverite we have a strict no jersey policy. Then as a little pick me up, there is the "Risky lifestyles cost B.C. $1.8B a year" story about how our smoking, weight and other bad behavior is costing the province money. Good.

Over in The Province the good times just keep coming with their headline story, "ICBC wants brain-injured crash victim declared dead." And call me crazy, but having Ed Willes tell me "Just relax, Vigneault has a plan" doesn't fill me with confidence. And then there is the most obnoxious promo ever: "Evil versus evil Two movies. The evil Jack Nicholson in The Departed versus the evil Bubbles in The Trailer Park Boys: The Movie. FRIDAY IN E-TODAY" Yeah. Okay.

24 Hours tries to give 'er. It is completely out of control. I thought it was Kiss on the cover. But no, this is the winning team from the eighth annual United Way Chili Cook-off that took place at the City Hall - which is perfect, since no actual city business ever seems to get done there why not turn it into a chilli cookoff zone. The winners, Detroit Rock Chilli were the City of Vancouver's street design engineers. Meanwhile the Sam Sullivan totally burned some condo owners in False Creek with a 700 percent leasehold payment hike proving that he may in fact be evil. This is by no means scientific but I think the paper's biggest article is about Battlestar Galactica. Which is nice. Chilli and Sci-Fi.