This is a disturbing development - everybody on the government side of the upcoming Pickton inquest gets taxpayer-funded lawyers, but not the sex workers' groups, aboriginals or residents of the Downtown Eastside. Hmm - that's just a tad obvious, isn't it?

OK, there's never going to be enough public money to go round, but it's just a little unsettling when ALL the money goes to one side of the case and none to the other. The scales of justice seem to be tipping rather firmly in one direction....