Former city councillor, Woodward’s champion, anti-poverty activist, urban guru and nearly-mayor Jim Green is battling advancing lung cancer at 68, The Globe reports.

Mark Donnelly, the famously rotund anthem-singer for the Vancouver Canucks, has lost 172 pounds using a controversial hormone/starvation diet, The Sun reports.

The Metro Vancouver bus drivers’ union has warned the public following two random attacks by a hooded white male on Surrey transit. A bus driver was choked last Saturday and a 41-year-old man stabbed Tuesday as he exited a bus at 4:45 p.m., The Sun reports.

The Sun takes a decidedly cynical look at a leaked report evaluating methods for funding transit in Metro Vancouver. Topping the list is an extensive tolling regime, but as The Sun’s Don Cayo gleefully observes, “They have many other ideas on how to extract, over time, hundreds of millions of dollars from taxpayers.” I want more services and I want less taxes and I fail to see how the two might conflict.

Meanwhile, gas prices hit $1.41 per litre in Vancouver, the highest in Canada, CBC reports.

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