-1 Credit Check can’t quite make out what the reporter is trying to say in this piece about a proposed 22 story residential building in the West End. She keeps bringing up it’s a rental and that neighbours are horrified. Is she saying a condo is the Canadian way or does she not realise that most flats in the West End are rentals?

0 Can a band of First Nations voluntarily give up their right to be status indians? Does the Canadian government have the power to do remove a birthright?

-1 A cousin of a park commission shoves an actor at PNE Fright Night so the commissioner quits the PNE board.

-30 Name the baby Beluga As it is the Vancouver Aquarium, the only fitting name is ‘Temporary.’

Today: -35 This Year: +163

+1 Sam Sullivan takes over a super-secret civic think tank.

-1 Thank goodness CanWest bought up some many weeklies and relieved them of staff or else you would not be able to read stupid Langley stories in your Vancouver Courier

-1 The City hands over the Olympic village to Vanoc, to be returned covered in sweat and cum and planned to be sold off to millionaires. Yay, business.

Today: -26 This Year: +198

-1 Surrey citizens ask how big should a family home be? They already know the answer: if you are rich, as large as you like. Unless you are non-white, then it seems your house is already too large and too many people live in there.

+15 Vancouver finally getting a handle on the idea that if you don’t force developers to create affordable housing (like parks and schools), then they won’t do it.

-1 Today’s ad disguised as a news story is presented by the CBC and some carbon offsetting guys.

-10 Oh, isn’t this just magical. The BC Ambulance Service will be prioritised on an Olympics first, everyone else second system.

Today: -22 This Year: +224

-1 Even though they had the name Vancouver first, Vancouver, WA wants to change its name to Fort Vancouver. Credit Check says no way. WE must change our name to Fort Vancouver WA, BC.

+5 Good News: Surrey is looking to the public for ideas to stop looking like a patchwork, unloved, hellhole. Bad News: they think the coliseum-style Vancouver Central Library is a model of good civic design.

+20 People who wanted to rent out their condos for Olympic visitors are getting screwed.

Today: +19 This Year: +246

-1 Oh, more dangerous things found in Hallowe’en goody bags. Credit Check calls shenanigans: every year papers report a few instances of what can be called attempted murder of children – yet nobody is ever arrested, much less charged. It’s not like the kids don’t know where they tricked and/or treated.

+5 Marc Emery still not extradited. The Federal Justice minister still has not signed the papers – here’s hoping it stays that way.

+20 City engineer says what has been obvious from day one: Burrard bike lane has been a success.

Today: +19 This Year: +227

-15 Foreign welfare recipients receive first class holiday in Canada, paid by the Canadian taxpayer.

+5 Har. Commenting on the BC Government’s new force-homeless-persons-into shelters bill councillor Andrea Reimer tweeted Thinking about introducing a motion requiring police to pick up Minister Coleman next time he’s in Vancouver and dropping him off at Jenny Craig.

-5 New polluting thermal power plant will only be used for back up. Like income tax is only for the duration of the war, Federal election dates are fixed, and transit cutbacks are temporary.

Today: -20 This Year: +208

-10 A seventh foot in a shoe has been found.

-20 Another large BC employer is shutting down.

+25 CanWest’s War on Satire.

-15 Of course it has come to this: the Vancouver Park Board looks into banning smoking on beaches and in parks.

Today: -20 This Year: +228

-10 Vision councillor Raymond Louie, on the Vancouver liquor law, says restaurants should should encourage their patrons to do more than just have a nice bottle of wine What? Nachos? Maybe an extra dessert? Time for the City to grow up.

-20 Headline: Transit Police looking for man after indecent act on bus Yeah, he paid $2.50 for a bus ride!

Also, check out what the cop said in the article: “This type of anti-social behaviour could lead to something else.” What that phrase “anti-social behaviour – that’s the new phrase for implementing new laws.

+25 60 per cent agree that the monarchy is nutty.

Today: +35 This Year: +248

Only needs you get get circulation data for the Sun, Province, Globe & Mail, National Post, Toronto Star, Montreal Gazette, La Press, Ottawa Citizen, Calgary Herald, and Winnipeg Free Press for 2004 – 2009. The easiest place is to find it year-by-year is CARD (http://www.cardonline.ca) which is in the library.

Only has a spreadsheet here where you can stick in the data. Yes, anyone can edit it. We trust you.*

But Only, you ask, why don’t you just haul your own asses down to the Central VPL and look it up yourself?

To which we answer, that is indeed a very good question.

We’ll put the chart up as soon as we get the info.

UPDATE That worked well. Why are you still reading Only? So, 2004 – 2009 is done and we need 1999 – 2003. If you are near the library, please chip in. (Also a good resource for this: World Almanac.)

* We don’t really trust you.

-10 Bad Lieutenant Beat One to watch – the shooting of a White Supremacist in Nanaimo.

+20 Human rights should not be traded away for the Olympics. Although, cart before horse, closed barn door, etc.

-5 Yet another BC big business booster closes their doors.

-5 For some reason, the Vancouver Observer is appalled that David Suzuki gives speeches for hire

Today: -10 This Year: +213

-10 A woman becomes a politician in a backward place and the Province calls her the new Sarah Palin.

+20 Restaurants whose hours were actually cut back by the City’s liquor license extension fight for their right to stay open to 3am.

-5 Knowing full well that CanWest has gone into bankruptcy protection, the CRTC gives them yet another station.

-5 Condo guy Bob Rennie attempts to rehabilitate his image from tasteless condo purveyor to class art guy. First step: Sympathetic article in the Globe & Mail.

Today: +25 This Year: +223

-10 Olympics Mounties investigated Cowichan First Nations because they believe official Olympic sweater designs were ripped off from them.

0 And Pandora’s Box goes to Ottawa: BC Government asks Supreme Court how to close the top on the polygamy mess.

+25 Remember, we do have the right to resist the City’s Olympic bylaws.

-5 For those that loved the old Coast 1040 station, here’s a video of the tear-down of their old broadcasting towers in Delta the other day. (Coast’s frequency was long ago taken over by Team 1040.)

Today: +15 This Year: +198

+10 The march to a divesture continues as CanWest delists from the Toronto Stock Exchange.

+5 Rafe Mair apologised to Olympics activist Chris Shaw – will Jim Green apologise next?

-25 For fuck’s sake, the head Olympic Mountie was part of the RCMP team that caused the Gustafesen Lake crisis. (Here’s a Terminal City interview from 1995 that gives some of the background.

Today: -15 This Year: +183

-1 Molson buys Granville Brewing Company. So that’s that. You should be buying kegs from R & B or Storm Brewing anyway.

+5 Ha ha. Vancouver is being colonised by Yankees

+5 If market rates are good for rentals and transist, maybe it should be applied to parking spaces

Today: +19 This Year: +198

-1 Province headline: Mystery surrounds discovery of body on Surrey sidewalk The mysterious part is not the identity of the person – it is where do you find sidewalks in Surrey?

-25 Good god, Premier Campbell, have you no shame? The premier continues to push Private-Public partnerships to New York institutional investors even after they have been shown to be fiscally useless.

0 CityCaucus goes through the old blog of the mayor’s new assistant back when he was known as the Vancouver Kid.

Today: -25 This Year: +179