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Vancouver Papers: Vancouver Gets Mixed Grades

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The Sun checks the city's vital signs. This should be fun. It goes a little somethin' like this: "B+ The Good - A desirable place to live - Ethnic diversity D+ The Bad - Homelessness and addiction haunt our streets" Oh my! I can't believe we totally flunked Homelessness and drug addiction. What a bummer man.

And even though The Sun went for the letter grades today, The Province's cover of "Guns & Gangs in BC" with the sassy looking gun on the cover seems to beg the question on why the guns and gangs didn't get a bad grade. Meanwhile the City of Vancouver is planning to attract even more films here. Here's the best part: "A task force, headed by Vancouver film producer Shawn Williamson, was announced yesterday and is to report to council early next year on how to attract more lucrative productions to the city in a competitive industry." Who doesn't love a good old-fashioned task force?

24 Hours ledes with "Help for homeless?", about the new $40 million plan to create a housing-allowance program. "But that program is controversial because some say the government should be focusing more on building social housing - the government's traditional solution to housing the poor."

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