Top headlines from Vancouver and beyond for October 27 2011:

Metro Vancouver’s civic elections just got a little more interesting, with Langley City Council candidate Randy Caine being charged with possession of marijuana for the purposes of trafficking, and Vancouver Council candidate Jason Lamarche generating headlines with an old blog post titled The Date Matrix, wherein he proposes a system for rating women based on their attractiveness and sexual prowess.

Meanwhile, The Globe suggests that the ongoing #OccupyVancouver protests are offering Vancouver voters a unique look into the leadership styles of the two main mayoral candidates.

And in Toronto, embattled Mayor Rob Ford claims he called 9-1-1 while being interviewed by the CBC comedy show This Hour Has 22 Minutes because he was with his young daughter and felt threatened. “It was pretty dark still and my daughter was with me and these two people, there was a black Jeep or something outside of my door, I sort of looked at it … two people who didn’t identify themselves came running up,” the Globe quotes Ford. Unfortunately, the video of the events in question don’t match his description.

The venerable Rio Theatre, one of the few surviving single-screen movie houses in the city, will have to stop screening flicks following their approval for a liquor-primary license. An antiquated provincial law prevents alcohol from being served in movie theatres, restricting its sale to “live performance venues”. District 319, another single-screen theatre recently approved for alcohol now has its state-of-the-art 3-D projection system gathering dust as well. According to the City, a change to this regulation is part of a shopping list of adjustments they’re seeking from the provincial government.

A recent survey conducted by Stop the Violence B.C., a coalition of doctors, police officers and academics who want the provincial marijuana market regulated, shows that 87% of British Columbians believe that gang violence is linked to organized crime’s efforts to control the marijuana market.

BORED AT WORK BONUS: David Graeber, the Anti-Leader of Occupy Wall Street