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It's Monday January the 8 around 7:25AM and

Vancouver Papers: ThunderDome

24 Hours is a little bit too excited about the BC Place dome debacle of '07. I always enjoy when news orgs make themselves central to the news story, "24 hours was first to report in a Friday podcast that ice and snow wasn't cleared from the roof before a panel ripped. A source said ice and snow "avalanched" late in the noon hour Friday, causing a tear in the air-supported fabric roof above Level 4's Section 54. The roof was rapidly deflated to minimize damage." If it was all a reason to revisit the really bad ideas for naming the dome, 24 Hours wins: "Cream Puff Stadium, Excitement Dome, Our Father's House, Pac Man Stadium, Pigeon Place, Rain Bowl, Turtle Dome, Unknown Dome, Vanburger, Whoopee Stadium."

The Sun reports on the BC Place roof as well, but at least they give us hope, "Crosley said the roof will be inflated to its regular dome shape when all the tears are repaired." Phew! If it didn't get back to regular dome shape, this would be a scandal. Meahwhile Iain MacIntyre tries to reconcile the Canucks 7-game win streak with future dissapointments, "For their last 191 minutes, the Canucks have looked vulnerable, no longer impervious to bad play as they had seemed when they began this winning streak on Boxing Day. Yet, they found ways the last three games to overcome their mistakes and win in extra time."

The Province bucks the trend giving the big frontpage story to a Beauty queen trying to save a life. This is clearly done to cover up the Ed Willes tongue kiss to Robert Luongo. "After 43 games Roberto Luongo has established himself as the point through which the Vancouver Canucks' fortunes will flow. This season. Next season. For as long as he's wearing the team's colours. He's the reason the Canucks are respectable now and he's the reason there's hope for the future."

Thankfully there are a couple of remainders from the Sunday edition. like news Joy of joys, word on the new Naomi Klein book "Blank is Beautiful: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism", "The author of No Logo is back with another book that looks at the perils of capitalism and globalization. Klein argues the remaking of the world into the global marketplace is built upon violence and "shock therapy" of various sorts: physical, social and economic. Blank promises to be the thing publicists dream of: controversial." There's also a really amazing What's in, what's out for 2007 list. I say this is a bit of a wash to be honest, "In: Cardigans for men. Out: Blazers over a hoodie. Trend-conscious men are abandoning the trusty blazer-over-a-hoodie look in favour of geek-chic cardigans. Today's cardigans are less Mr. Rogers and more an offbeat style statement, showing up in collections from Yves St. Laurent to Paul Smith."