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The number of reported bike thefts in Vancouver went down by 38 per cent in 2016, but thieves still manage to steal thousands of bikes every year. Metro asked Vancouver Police Department to compile a list of the top spots for bike theft. Granville Island as a whole nabs the top spot although Athletes Way in Olympic Village is the number one most reported location for bike thefts. Various points along the South False Creek Seawall make it onto the list as well as Chinatown. Stanley Park
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into something. It’s just so much more potentially impactful.” In the past, he said, when educators or school counsellors learned one of their students wanted to experiment with cocaine for instance, there was likely time to act and engage David P. with the student constructively. Ball “Of course we were conMetro | Vancouver cerned,” he said. “But we didn’t As New Westminster School Dis- expect that they would risk dying trict students continue to grapple from a single exposure. Whereas with a tragedy that took the life today we really don’t know.” of one of its 16-year-old students Steinmann also manages the this week, and nearly killed an- VSB’s School Age Children and other, experts have said their Youth (SACY) initiative, a partoverdoses are a “call to action” nership between the Board and for all schools. Vancouver Coastal Health. It has Both teens overdosed on an seven “youth engagement” staff “unknown” substance they in secondary schools working wrongly believed was the party directly with youth, plus four drug MDMA, local police said. family support workers. In Vancouver, several schools It also runs a teen engagement and teachers have been issued program that builds up older stuoverdose reversal kits and dents’ capacity to offer leadership training, Metand mentorship ro has learned. to students in Several districts’ Grades 7 to 9 substance use — a proven efFeeling connected counsellors are fective strategy raising awarefor adult-leery is critical to ness of fentanyl avoiding problem teens-at-risk. overdoses, and But some substance use. changes are some teens even trained on overstill needed in Cindy Andrew dose symptoms many schools and first aid. on a policy and cultural level. Increasingly, teenagers trying “If a kid comes to school high, recreational drugs are witnessing it seems to be that’s an opporfirst-hand the devastating impact tunity for some conversation of the ongoing public health and involvement, not a punitive emergency. But with most sub- kind of response,” said Cindy Anstance use happening off school drew, Helping Schools Program grounds, what can educators do consultant at the University of to combat the crisis? Victoria’s Centre for Addictions “It is urgent,” explained Art Research of B.C. “That doesn’t Steinmann, the Vancouver mean there aren’t consequences, School Board’s manager of sub- but chances are the kid … would stance use health promotion. benefit from some nurturing of “Of course, fentanyl is odour- relationships. Feeling connected less, colourless and tasteless is critical to avoiding problem — one can’t know if it’s mixed substance use.”
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Nearly five people die daily from opioids Jen St. Denis
Metro | Vancouver “It’s so demoralizing,” admitted Leslie McBain, whose son Jordan, 25, died of an illicit drug overdose three years ago. “And it’s just getting worse.” British Columbia’s illicit drug overdose epidemic reached new grim records Wednesday. Overdose deaths in April are the second highest ever recorded with 136 killed — nearly double April’s deaths last year. The numbers mean that near-
ly five British Columbians died from drug overdoses every day in April across the province. “For all of us who work in advocacy for policy changes, for all the front-line workers and people doing evidence-based research to move things forward, this stops us in our tracks,” said McBain, cofounder of Moms Stop the Harm and family engagement lead at St. Paul’s Hospital’s B.C. Centre on Substance Use. “We’ve been working so hard on this especially in the last year since B.C. declared an emergency. What’s making this happen? It is the black market and the war on
drugs.” B.C.’s hard drug market has become contaminated with the painkiller fentanyl, and its evendeadlier successors carfentanil and furanylfentanyl, which the B.C. Coroners Service said is the main reason behind the spike in deaths. This year, 488 people have died of overdoses, and if the trend continues could reach 1,464 by the end of year — a nearly 60 per cent increase from 2016. Efforts to fight the epidemic haven’t succeeded in bringing the numbers down. But chief coroner Lisa Lapointe said no deaths have occurred at Vancouver’s two
supervised injection sites, Insite and the Dr. Peter Centre, neither has anyone died at overdose prevention sites opened across B.C. “I strongly urge those using illicit drugs to do so only at a safe consumption site or drug overdose prevention site, if one is accessible,” said Lapointe. “If one of these sites is not accessible, please use only a small amount of the drug initially and only in the presence of someone willing and able to administer naloxone and call 911 if required. The risks associated with all illicit drugs in the province are extreme.” with files from david P. Ball/metro
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Families rally against school board over immersion cuts David P. Ball
Metro | Vancouver There’s no détente yet between upset parents and the government-appointed Vancouver School Board over its decision last week to cut five of the district’s roughly 20 kindergarten French-immersion classes next September. On Wednesday evening, roughly 20 parents met with the board’s government appointees who axed the classes without consulting them. Hundreds of them were on French-immersion wait lists already. Affected families are issuing a cri de cœur to fight the cuts ahead of their next meeting with
authorities, set for June 21. In the meantime, they’re writing letters to appointed trustee Dianne Turner and the district superintendent. And they’re pushing the proposed Greenbacked NDP government to either hold new VSB trustee elections or restore the previously elected trustees fired seven months ago over a budget dispute. “The scope of these cuts is completely unprecedented,” said Glyn Lewis, executive director of Canadian Parents for French. “It’s shocking and outrageous. “Now about 1,300 kids will be turned away from French immersion in Vancouver. For the Vancouver School Board to turn all these kids away is simply unacceptable; that’s how parents are seeing this.” No one at the board was made available for an interview on Thursday. But a report from the district’s director of instruction, Adrian Keough, was presented at Wednesday’s meeting with parents defending the cuts.
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Metro | Vancouver “Don’t litter” is a mantra many people are taught at a young age but several tons of garbage are still dumped on some of B.C.’s beaches, lakes and mountains every year. Hundreds of volunteers and non-profit groups take it upon themselves to clean up the mess. Teams pick up three tonnes of trash from Cultus Lake alone every year. But preventing it in the first place will take education and community engagement, observers say. B.C. recreation officer Alistair McCrone said people need to understand that garbage and food is not just an eyesore – it attracts bears and other wildlife and may force authorities to close trails and camping grounds to protect both people and animals, said. The Ministry of Lands, Forests and Natural Resources has already had to close one trail near Pemberton after several bears charged visitors this year. McCrone wants all students to learn camping etiquette and bear awareness before
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graduating. “It would be helpful if it was mandatory in high school so everybody is learning about this before they leave school.” Some school districts in B.C. offer programs that focus on outdoor education like Vancouver’s TREK program. Aside from the dangers of attracting bears with garbage, trash left in parks and beaches
also pollutes the surrounding ecosystem and kills wildlife. It’s all around bad for B.C.’s reputation, says one non-profit group. “We are trying to improve our coastline and maintain the economic value of our tourism and recreational industry,” said Matthew Unger, director of development at the Vancouver chapter of Surfrider
Foundation. “You see birds eating cigarette butts, filing their stomachs with plastics and toxins.” Surfrider organizes shore clean-ups for various parks in the Vancouver area, like English Bay and Lynn Cannon. Its next shore clean-up is scheduled for World Ocean’s Day on Saturday June 10, at Habitat Island in Southeast
False Creek. It’s a notoriously dirty area, said Unger. “People can tuck away in there – there’s lots of grass. You see tons of cigarette butts discarded. That tends to be a pretty bad area.” But community engagement can lead to a drastic reduction of garbage, said Surfrider Foundation’s Vancouver chair,
Yura Kulikov. Volunteers comb through a 1,500 square metre area at every shore clean-up to create a dataset of garbage volume over time, he explained. In January 2015, crews found 1460 cigarette butts in an area that size at Wreck Beach. The local community rallied after results of the 2015 cleanup became public to ensure their beach would perform better at the next clean up, explained Kulikov. One year later, Surfrider only found 640 in the same spot. And a couple of months ago, they found 17. That transformative change in the amount of litter at Wreck Beach shows what a little awareness can do, he said. He hopes the same thing can happen at other parks. But for popular tourist destinations, better signage would quickly and effectively remind visitors to not litter, Unger said. “If you walk down to the beach in Tofino and see all the signage about garbage, we can tell (Vancouver) is behind in that area. Education is a huge part of it and the city could definitely do a lot better doing some positive re-enforcement.”
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Tana Copperthwaite once dreamed of having a garden. Now, after a year of living in a low-barrier shelter run by Raincity Housing, Copperthwaite, 56, is staying in a tent in a city-owned lot off the Lougheed Highway in Maple Ridge. “I would like to see them build some affordable housing,” Copperthwaite said of her hopes for the future. “Just regular housing where people could go and live. There’s nothing here, and this town is so full of people who are haters of the homeless and people who are down and out.” After years of hard-fought community efforts against plans to build two provincially funded low barrier shelters in the commun-
ity, residents of a tent encampment in Maple Ridge have literally nowhere else to go, said DJ Larkin, a lawyer with Pivot Legal. A low-barrier shelter operated by Raincity Housing closed on May 31 after funding from BC Housing came to an end. Thirteen people who stayed up until that date have either found other shelter, or have chosen to camp outside, said Raincity in an email, while the organization continues to work with 38 former shelter residents to find permanent housing. The city of Maple Ridge has gone to court to seek an injunction to remove the tent city, which it wants to turn into a city park. Pivot Legal has been speaking with tent city residents about the upcoming court case. It’s common for cities, like Vancouver, to go to court to seek injunction to remove large tent encampments, which have formed relatively frequently in recent years as protests to rising homelessness. Metro did not receive a response to interview requests to the City of Maple Ridge or the mayor, Nicole Read. But at a Feb. 27 press conference prior to Metro Vancouver’s
Tana Copperthwaite is a resident of a tent city set up near the intersection of St. Anne Avenue and 223 Street in Maple Ridge. Jennifer Gauthier/Metro
homeless count, Read — who recently received death threats that are now being investigated by police — expressed frustration with senior levels of government. “We have no plan here in the province of British Columbia to
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SCOHOL misspelling becomes a hot topic Move over, “covfefe.” Donald Trump’s infamous late-night typo may have been surpassed as misspelling of the year. On Tuesday, the City of Revelstoke sparked lighthearted jokes across the province when its newly painted warning for motorists to slow down in front of a local school inadvertently misspelled the word “school.” “SCOHOL,” the contractors wrote. It was, the city explained, the result of the two-letter stencil containing “H” and “O” being flipped upside down. `In fact, it turns out this isn’t the first such mistake. In Florida last July, a road crew accidentally painted the word “SCOHOL” at a school crossing in Orlando. But they did it twice. david p/ ball/metro
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Ex-nurse pleads guilty She had become “overwhelmingly angry” about the direction of her career and life and said God was telling her to kill. On Thursday, Woodstock nurse Elizabeth Wettlaufer pleaded guilty to murdering eight elderly patients at the three long-term care homes where she once worked. When Justice Bruce Thomas of Superior Court asked if she was admitting to fatally injecting her victims with insulin for no medical reason, she replied: “Yes, your honour.” Wettlaufer also pleaded guilty to attempting to kill four other people, and to two charges of aggravated assault. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
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Decision is a blow to global efforts to stem climate change U.S. President Donald Trump has announced his intention to withdraw the United States from the historic Paris agreement on fighting climate change, dealing a blow to the international effort to address a problem he calls a hoax and isolating the U.S. from almost the entire world. Trump added that he would attempt to negotiate a climate deal on different terms, though he did not say what kinds of changes would satisfy him. The absence of the U.S. may make other countries, developed and developing, feel less compelled to meet their own commitments under the accord. “In order to fulfil my solemn duty to protect America and its citizens, the United States will withdraw from the Paris climate accord, but begin negotiations to re-enter either the Paris accord or a really entirely new transaction on terms that are fair to the United States,” Trump said in a speech in the White House Rose Garden on Thursday afternoon. “So we’re getting out, but we will start to negotiate.” The withdrawal of the world’s biggest economy and second-
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Despite wielding the golden lasso and deflecting bullets with her bracelets on the big screen for more than a year, Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot still doesn’t see herself as a superhero. “I’m not there yet,” the 32-year-old actress said in a recent interview. “When I look on playback or I look at the monitor, it’s not there yet. I know it’s me. I understand everything, but I still don’t get that I’m doing this iconic character ... It’s crazy.” Gadot didn’t grow up with Wonder Woman and wasn’t a big superhero fan as a child. A former Miss Israel, she started her acting career there before making her American movie debut in 2009’s Fast & Furious.
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The venison dish at L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon is a celebration of everything Québécois. Renée S. Suen/For metro
travel@metronews.ca Ask anyone for Montreal recommendations and I guarantee most will be food-related. The must-tries are endless: smoked meat, raw-milk cheeses, brewpubs or Montreal-style bagels. I discovered the link between those flavours and the 120 cultural communities who settled along Boulevard St.-Laurent on Fitz & Follwell’s Flavours of The Main walking tour. A trove of knowledge, guide Louis Trudel deciphers everything encoun-
Long-time regular Morti Braustein, pictured with third-generation owner Sharon Wilensky, can remember when the Wilensky Special was only 17 cents, in 1952. Renée S. Suen/For metro
tered on the route. We focus on the north end, navigating through historical and significant landmarks, and taste examples of Montreal’s rich immigrant heritage.
In Little Portugal, I learn the boulevard served as a physical divider between language, ethnicity and class as I bite through the flaky crust of Boulangerie Séraphin’s pasteis de natas (Por-
tuguese custard tarts). “English-speakers populated the west; French-speakers stayed in the east,” explains Trudel, “and immigrant communities... was the bridge between them.” In old-world Mile End, we stop at Fairmount Bagel for a sesame bagel, and watch the staff churn out the iconic honeywater-boiled then wood-ovenbaked numbers. At the next stop, we belly
up to the linoleum counter at Wilensky’s Light Lunch. It’s like we’ve stepped into 1932, save for the updated prices. I take a cue from the regulars and order the special: an all-beef bologna and salami sandwich. It’s incredible. An umami bomb tucked within griddle-pressed cornmeal-dusted crusty golden layers of happiness. On the other end of the budget and culinary spectrum, juxtaposing this backdrop of culture and history, there’s Casino de Montreal’s controversial new L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon. Critics wag their fingers at the rumoured $11 million spent on bringing the world’s most decorated chef here. The perception being that government assistance would better be spent nurturing the local scene. The opening volley of housemade breads uses Québecsourced wheat and cheeses. Buttery fist-sized sea scallops from
the Magdalen Islands are simply seared and topped with ginger and chives. Free-range Cerf de Boileau venison is a marvel of supple rare flesh snuggled close to seared Marieville foie gras, and punctuated by tart NotreDame-de-Lourdes cranberries. Montreal isn’t just bagels and smoked meats, it boasts a sophisticated food scene. Here, an international headliner won’t distract hungry diners from delicious local gems — Toqué!, Joe Beef and Au Pied de Cochon — or its luminaries — Normand Laprise, Martin Picard, David McMillan and Fred Morin. L’Atelier’s ability to fit in confirms that Montreal’s established scene can welcome a highly respected culinary brand, and hold its own. Torstar news service
Renée S. Suen was hosted by Tourisme Montreal, Loto-Québec and the Casino de Montreal, which didn’t review or approve this story.
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