I’m loving this new blog that savages the vacuous marketing behind the condos that are springing up all around Vancouver like mushrooms in cow shit:

condohype [via Rob Cottingham]

First impressions are important and Origin’s is one of timeless elegance, thanks to West Coast-inspired architecture and enduring, natural-looking materials like timber, brick and Hardie plank siding.

“Natural-looking materials?” Oh no they didn’t. Oh no they did! You heard it here first, friends. Fibre board is now the new oak.

Fears of Canada-Mexico superhighway driving U.S. critics loco

Are North American governments secretly conspiring to build a “NAFTA superhighway,” four football fields wide, from Mexico to Canada, to bypass regulatory controls and whisk goods swiftly to market?

looks superficially like this:

U.S. Protests Mexi-Canadian Overpass

In addition to facilitating trade between Mexico and Canada, the overpass is expected to increase tourism in both nations by as much as 60 percent. Boasting hundreds of restaurants, gas stations, and hotels, the state-of-the-art overpass will render it unnecessary for Mexicans or Canadians ever to touch U.S. soil when traveling to and from their respective homelands.

I think I prefer The Onion’s vision.