Der­ick, James and John open 2014 with the city’s recent snow-clear­ing cat­a­stro­phes, the Phoenix Sin­clair by-elec­tion delays, Erin Sel­by’s unsuc­cess­ful taxi­cab-sham­ing, and the fas­ci­nat­ing inep­ti­tude of the Man­i­to­ba PCs.