Vancouver attempts to lower housing prices with series of neighbourhood dejuvenation projects

VANCOUVER – After years of struggling with an inflated market, Vancouver is taking drastic measures by using a campaign of dejuvenation projects to decrease housing prices in the city’s mos…

Disgusting! These potatoes were grown in the ground

Everyone loves crispy fries or creamy mash potatoes but this story might have you thinking twice next time you crave some potatoes. And no I’m not talking carbs. Deb and Gord Russel operate a pot…

Spring-cleaning hack: put everything into a black garbage bag and stuff it in your closet

Who likes cleaning? Idiots, that’s who. So this spring-cleaning season be smart and try this amazing time saving hack! Just follow these 5 simple steps. Step 1 – Spend 15 minutes (25 tops) …

Elizabeth May shivs biggest, meanest guy in holding cell

BURNABY, B.C. – Emergency crews have been called to the Burnaby RCMP station amid scattered reports that Green Party leader Elizabeth May has shivved the biggest guy in lock-up following her arre…

Budgeting genius: this man never travels or does anything fun

Sometimes it feels impossible to get ahead, the bills just keep piling up and money never gets saved! But one guy has figured out a surprising trick to balancing even the most perilous of budgets…

Couple at housewarming party successfully pretend they aren’t praying for housing bubble crash

TORONTO — Young married couple Travis and Jessica Kirkman report managing to hide their secret desire for a Toronto housing market implosion from the home-owning guests at a recent housewar…

Netflix makeover show “Scheer Eye” will bring repressed, aggressively tame lifestyle to the masses

TORONTO – In a press conference announcing a slate of new programming for the year, Netflix head of content acquisitions Audrey Gardiner was excited to reveal that Andrew Scheer, leader of …

Removing toxic mold from the workplace is PC culture run amok

By ELEANOR THINKPIECE As a straight, cisgender white person, I know my opinion doesn’t count for much these days. But someone has to say it; the current movement to cleanse our workplaces of toxi…

BC – Alberta standoff has rest of country dangerously close to paying attention to west coast politics

CANADA – With increased tension between British Columbia and Alberta over the Trans Mountain pipeline, including threats of an oil embargo, the rest of the country is scared that they are o…

Bank of Canada introduces first vertical bill after employee forgets to select ‘Landscape mode’

OTTAWA – The Bank of Canada was forced to submit into circulation a vertical $10 bill after a worker at the Canadian Bank Note Company failed to select ‘Landscape mode’ from the print…