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July 17 2015 Vol. 106 No. 56

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ROAD RASH Eamon Lucas with iRT Racing holds his ribs and avoids the peloton after crashing on a turn in the Global Relay Gastown Grand Prix July 15. For the first time since 1984, three Canadian men reached the podium of the historic criterium. See story page 21. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

Homicide shuts down city works yards Mike Howell

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The Canadian flag at city hall was flying at half-mast Thursday and police scaled back its presence at city buildings after a City of Vancouver sanitation manager was murdered Wednesday outside his home in Burnaby. Officials would not confirm the employee’s name but the victim’s house at 7988 Wickham Pl. has a phone number registered to Hanif Jessa, who is listed in a city staff directory as a night shift superintendent of street cleaning. In a statement issued Thursday morning, Mayor Gregor Robertson said he was shocked and saddened to learn of the man’s death and extended his condolences to family and friends of the victim. “This is obviously a very disturbing event $

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for city staff, particularly those who knew and worked with our colleague,” he said, noting counselling and support services were being offered to employees. After the man was shot Wednesday afternoon near Canada Way, the Vancouver Police Department quickly mobilized its officers, some carrying high-powered rifles, to stand guard outside city hall, the works yard in south Vancouver and other city buildings. Sgt. Randy Fincham, a VPD media relations officer, said the police presence was necessary because the department was worried about the safety of “multiple employees based on something that happened in another jurisdiction.” “Police attended those job sites and made sure that Vancouver city employees were safe,” Fincham told the Courier Thursday. “As last night progressed, some

of those job sites closed down. So there was an ongoing risk assessment into the night as to whether police were required at all those buildings, or not. Today, we do believe that risk or that threat to Vancouver employees has been drastically reduced.” Fincham wouldn’t elaborate on why the threat was reduced and referred the Courier to the Integrated Homicide Investigations Team, which had not returned calls before the paper’s print deadline. As of Thursday morning, none of the agencies had released any information on whether a suspect had been arrested. Rena Kendall-Craden, director of the city’s communications department, said the investigation was in the hands of the police and declined to comment further on details tying the homicide to the City of Vancouver. Continued on page 6

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Five community centre associations are accusing Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation of contempt of court over the new cloud-based program registration system. Hastings, Kensington, Kerrisdale, Killarney and Sunset are resisting the introduction of the new ActiveNet registration system. Their lawyer, Dean Davison, says the rollout of the system violates the Jan. 17, 2014 court order by Justice Gregory Bowden, which prevented the park board from evicting the associations over their refusal to accept the OneCard pass. Davison ﬁled an application July 10 to be heard July 23 in B.C. Supreme Court to stop ActiveNet. The associations claim the park board did not allow them to review or approve the contract with ActiveNet. The board, it claims, is breaching the court order “by increasing maintenance and transaction fees paid by the [community centre associations] and taking control of the CCAs revenues through the forced implementation of a new software program.” The associations claim they would face higher fees and relinquish control of money they generate from programs and services and they may not be able to offer the same level of service to the community. Community centres paid $1,500 a year, plus one to two per cent of online sales and controlled their own funds under the Safari registration system. Under its successor, ActiveNet, they would pay up to $23,000 a year. If ActiveNet is allowed, the documents say, “the applicants will have lost a great degree of independence they have had for many years, they face delays in being able to pay their bills and staff due to the park board holding their funds.” Park board general manager Malcolm Bromley said, via email, “[The park board] is comfortable that the implementation of ActiveNet is both necessary and urgent to sustain operations across the network of community centres in our city and not in contempt of Justice Bowden’s order.” Continued on page 5 $

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12TH&CAMBIE Mike Howell

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OK, quiz time. How many prisoners did the Vancouver Police Department house in its jail last year? Was it 1,000? 2,000? 3,000? None of the above? Hard to believe, but it was 14,439. That’s roughly the seating capacity for the Paciﬁc Coliseum. And do you know out of all those good people (I’m guessing some were return guests), only two inmates complained in 2014 about the conditions in the jail. Sheesh, that’s a better satisfaction rate than the last hotel I paid to stay in. But then again, I don’t think there’s such a tattletale site as TripAdvisor for inmates. Hey, wait a minute… a TripAdvisor site for inmates? Anybody got a pile of cash they want to invest in a sure-thing startup? Anyway, some guy — whose name has been kept

The Vancouver jail on Cordova Street was the subject of a complaint from a prisoner, who took umbrage with cells being soiled with feces, urine and blood. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

private by the VPD — was so irate with the conditions of the jail this year that he complained in writing to the Ofﬁce of the Police Complaint Commissioner. In January, he had a 14-hour-and-20-minute

stay in three different cells at the crowbar hotel on Cordova Street. In his complaint, he said the cells were dirty, never cleaned and soiled with dried blood, feces and urine. Well, like any good hotel

manager, the VPD reviewed the complaint, including an examination of the prisoner observation log, where notes about the complainant’s status are kept. That would include writing down whether he was awake, asleep, ill

or — in this case — lodged a complaint about dirty jail cells. Investigators also interviewed nurses, guards and the complainant — who couldn’t deﬁnitively say which cells were ﬁlthy — and viewed almost an hour’s worth of cell videos. “The videos were reviewed in an attempt to corroborate the complainant’s allegation,” said a VPD report released this week. “Further, the observation log does not make any notation about a complaint from the complainant regarding unsanitary conditions of those two cells. The third cell [the one he was lodged in after the bail hearing prior to being transferred to the North Fraser Pre-Trial Centre] is a cell that is controlled by the B.C. Sheriffs and they control access to the videos of those cells. Unfortunately, those videos are only retained for a period of 60 days and could not be reviewed.” Regardless, the VPD recommended the Vancouver Police Board dismiss the complaint, saying “there is no information that cor-

roborates the complaint; however, as a proactive measure, jail management has reminded all jail staff to inspect a cell before lodging a prisoner in it, and if the cell is not clean, then they are to use another cell.” The police board was to review the report Thursday afternoon, after the Courier’s print deadline. The report added that the VPD takes the health and safety of the prisoners “very seriously and will continue to be vigilant in ensuring the health of prisoners is not compromised by placing them in unsanitary cells.” The department also noted the International Red Cross’s Detention Monitoring Unit visits the jail each year to view the conditions of the cells in which people detained for immigration purposes are kept. The unit visited the jail in May “and did not express any concerns regarding the cleanliness of the jail,” the report said. Over to you, prisoners. Give me a call. @Howellings

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News System to cost $2 million Continued from page 1 Bromley claimed Safari does not meet payment card industry standards for online security and the program is “very fragile and vulnerable to crashing.” The park board’s April 9 update on the ActiveNet project said the initial capital outlay for Safari was $515,000, of which $315,000 came from associations. ActiveNet is projected to cost the city $2 million and was ontrack for a spring pilot and summer launch. A February park board presentation said ActiveNet would also afford the city better data collection. The legal action came four days after the two sides hit an impasse in the Vince Ready-mediated joint operating agreement negotiations. The community associations have met with Ready and city ofﬁcials, including Bromley and city manager Penny Ballem, since before last November’s civic election. A new ﬁve-year agree-

ment with three two-year renewal options and 90day escape clauses is on the table. A draft agreement seen by the Courier contains a Brand and Brand Protection clause that says “the parties agree to respect each other’s brand and public image and to communicate about each other in a constructive and respectful way in all public materials or forums.”

Bromley claimed Safari does not meet industry standards

No new dates for talks have been scheduled, and Riley Park Hillcrest and Sunset are no longer involved in negotiations. “Vince is out of the country for two weeks and we are awaiting his return to set next dates,” Bromley said. During talks, the park board tabled a June 30

KPMG report called “CCA Current State and Contribution Fund Impact,” which said professional services and marketing expenses grew substantially faster than facility generated revenue between 2009 and 2013. “While CCA profitability from facility operations remain positive, high overhead in recent years have reduced margins,” said the report. “Operating costs and revenue have experienced steady growth, leading to relatively stable facility profit margins. Increases in costs not involved in generating facility revenue have reduced total profits from $663K in 2009 to a loss of $62K in 2013.” John Coupar, chair of the majority NPA park board, did not respond to an interview request by the Courier’s press deadline. Most of the city’s 22 community centres agreed to the OneCard, which was introduced by the majority Vision Vancouver park board in 2012. @bobmackin

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Yard on the False Creek Flats, who declined to be named in print, said workers were immediately told to park vehicles and go home at 2:45 p.m. on Wednesday. Police told workers they hoped the incident would be resolved by 11 p.m. The worker said they were informed the matter

involved an unspeciﬁed threat by a former city worker against a manager. The worker said a photograph of a person of interest was circulated for security reasons. Warren Williams, president of CUPE Local 15, which represents city workers, said he was

shocked by Wednesday’s events, saying “you don’t want to think that that could happen in your community but it has.” Williams said he had no information to confirm public reports that the shooting may be linked to a disgruntled employee. “There’s nothing coming from our end on that,” he said, noting he wasn’t aware of any previous grievances that would have led to the manager’s death. “If that’s the case, I wouldn’t be aware of it because it’s not coming from our Local.” Williams said his knowledge of the shooting and the motivation for the crime is limited because of the police investigation. But he said he was confident security measures were in place for workers. “It seems that the City of Vancouver and the VPD are doing a really good job of ensuring that our members are safe, and work is going on as usual today,” he added. @Howellings — with files from Bob Mackin

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Restaurant patio season brings in a whole slew of customers who want to eat, drink and enjoy the outdoor weather. And, this being Vancouver, sometimes those customers want to enjoy the experience with their dog. An online petition to allow dogs on restaurant patios has been gaining speed, collecting 413 supporters as of July 15, with more than half the signatures written in the last 24 hours. Danielle Bauer, leader of the petition, has noticed a crackdown on restaurants that used to allow animals on their patios. Bauer, who has an eight-year-old Chihuahua-mix named Beans, said it happened seemingly overnight and without warning. “For years it seems that this regulation hadn’t been enforced. Suddenly it is… it’s kind of curious,” Bauer said. “[The petition] is sort of asking Vancouver Coastal Health to perhaps relax as they have in the past and leave it to the restaurant

owner to make that decision.” Tiffany Akins, a Vancouver Coastal Health spokesperson, said its environmental health ofﬁcers will conduct regular inspections but also visit restaurants when there has been a complaint. “The risk is minimal but animals can transmit some communicable diseases, such as gastrointestinal illnesses, to humans,” Akins wrote in an email. Catfe, a “part cafe, part foster home for cats” and those who love them, according to its blog, has to comply to the same health and safety regulations as well, said owner Michelle Furbacher. The cafe, which opens in the fall, has to be completely separate from where the cats will be, and customers will have to get “take-out” in order for them to visit the kitty side. “I understand and agree with concerns about keeping animals completely separate from where food is being prepared,” said Furbacher in an email. “But it would be nice to see the rules relaxed a little so some establishments could at least set aside

a space if they choose to, to provide service for their animal-loving customers.” Opening restaurant patios to allow dogs could present difﬁculties in other areas as well, such as staff and consumer safety and overall customer fairness as some dogs may be more disruptive than others — a liability that Bob Parrotta, provincial chair of B.C. Restaurant and Food Services Association, said he personally wouldn’t be willing to take on. “I don’t think as a restaurant operator you want to put yourself in a position where you’re going to have to make those decisions,” he said. However, Bauer pointed out that having a dog tied up right outside a patio is not a signiﬁcant change than having them actually sitting inside the patio walls or fence. A marginal difference like this, she hopes, might give way to some slack for restaurant patrons who may have their dogs with them during dinner. “We like to think of ourselves as a progressive city and it seems a fairly rigid rule,” said Bauer.

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In Buddhist tradition, Obon is the time when the spirits of ancestors are said to return to their earthly homes, welcomed by ﬁres and lanterns. In Japan, families visit cemeteries and tidy the graves, even share a picnic and make offerings of food to the returning ancestors. The festival dates back to a narrative in which a disciple of the Buddha realizes that his deceased mother is in the Realm of Hungry Souls, a hellish place. Through good deeds, the monk is able to free his mother’s soul and a dance of thankfulness and celebration erupts. Last Sunday, on a closed-off street adjacent to Oppenheimer Park in the Downtown Eastside, that ancient dance was celebrated again. Earlier in the afternoon, at the Vancouver Buddhist Temple just east of the park, hundreds of people lined up to bow before an ornate shrine and burn incense in memory of those who have gone before. Yet, despite the emphasis on those who have died, the commemoration is not sad. The memories of those who have passed, and gratefulness for their lives and their selﬂessness, is cause for celebration. And while the ceremony inside the temple was more solemn than celebratory, outside people were eating, laughing and dancing, with many wearing vibrantly coloured traditional Japanese attire.

According to Dr. Bob Akune, a “sensei” at the Vancouver Buddhist Temple, there are numerous celebrations and commemorations throughout the year, but Obon is probably the most widely observed. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

“The idea of death in our teaching is that at the moment of your physical demise you’re considered that you have entered the Pure Land,” says Dr. Bob Akune, who is known as a “sensei,” a teacher, and who ﬁlls a role at the temple similar to that of a minister’s assistant. “For all intents and purposes you have become a Buddha. Buddha, very simply, is one who is all-knowing. It is an individual, whether in that person’s lifetime or after physical passing, [who is] completely free of human

passions, ego.” Obon is celebrated by different branches of Buddhism in different ways. The Vancouver Buddhist Temple is part of the Shin Buddhist tradition, or Jodo Shinshu, which is the largest Buddhist branch in Japan. It is a fairly small group in B.C., with maybe 700 or 800 individuals across more than a dozen temples and fellowships. While there are numerous celebrations and commemorations throughout the temple year, Obon is probably the most widely

observed, says Akune. The main sanctuary of the temple was packed and scores more watched the service on a screen in an adjacent hall. While Obon is a big deal for Buddhists around here, in Japan it has seeped seamlessly into the larger culture. “Probably today, whether you’re a practising Buddhist or not, in Japan people just know that it’s a summer event and a holiday occasion and families get together,” Akune says. The Vancouver Buddhist Temple was founded not

far from its current location 111 years ago by Japanese immigrants. Now that most of the temple’s members are third-, fourth- or ﬁfthgeneration Canadian, the service takes place primarily in English. There are sutras, scriptures, read in Japanese, as well as chants repeated and songs sung in the original Japanese, but the service proceeds mostly in English. During the Second World War, Japanese-Canadians were forcibly relocated from the coast and interned in B.C.’s interior. After the war, some remained in the inte-

rior and some went further east, but those who came back to the coast mostly did not return to what had been known as Japantown. Today, almost none of the temple’s members live in the area. But they still gather there as generations have done for a century. The coming together to commemorate the lives of ancestors is deeply tied up with the commitment to learning. “We gather as family and friends to listen to the dharma, the teachings of the Buddha,” Akune says. “Most of our temple gatherings have to do with remembering, or using the memory of our lost ones as a means of gathering to learn the dharma.” While dharma teachings enrich the individual, they are also a means of honouring the memory of those who have left this life. Obon is a time when people who have experienced a loss in the past year make a special offering of incense, but there are similar monthly services for people marking the anniversary of the passing of loved ones in that month. After the service Sunday, the crowded temple poured out onto Jackson Avenue. A yagura, a scaffold, was erected and a huge drum lifted onto it. To the recorded sounds of traditional songs, dancers moved with synchronized motions in counterclockwise processions around the yagura while members of the temple and neighbours who happened to be passing by or hanging out in the park observed the ancient celebration that continues to live on in a corner of our city. @Pat604Johnson

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Get outside and get active at the renewed Empire Fields and the new Plateau Sports Park Saturday. The Vancouver Park Board is celebrating the transformation with an all-ages sports day. There will be Volleyball B.C. adult and youth drop-in beach volleyball, a Night Hoops youth basketball tournament, B.C. Soccer presenting a FIFA grassroots soccer festival, parkour demonstrations, BMX jumps and races, a skateboarding contest and B.C. Soccer cross-border tournaments. Face painting, food trucks, crafts, circus performers and a photo booth will round out the festivities. The ﬁrst 250 visitors will receive free mini cupcakes. The sports day runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 2901 East Hastings St. Admission is free. For more information, see vancouver. ca/HastingsSportsDay.

••• Marpole celebrates the sunshine with the 15th annual Summerfest on Saturday. Festivities include a classic car show, a kids fun zone, arts and crafts, food, sales, music and magic between 63rd and 71st avenues on Granville Street. The free event organized by the Marpole Business Association runs from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more information, see marpoleonline.com/summerfest.

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Tuesday night, you can watch Bryn Evan’s documentary, Hip Hop-eration, about a group of elderly New Zealanders who set their sights on competing in the 2013 World Hip Hop Championship in Las Vegas. As they pop and lock, the dancers, aged 65 to 96, break out stories of their long-lost love affairs and anti-nuke protests. DOXA Documentary Film Festival’s Motion Pictures Film Series, with support from the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association, or DVBIA, presents the ﬁrstever free outdoor screening

at Robson Square, 800 Robson St., north steps, at 9 p.m. Concession will be available during the screening. For more information, see doxafestival.ca.

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A community meal with food by Anton’s Pasta Bar will beneﬁt Community Builders, an international network of humanitarian organizations that operates in countries that include Canada, Haiti and Burundi. $10 will get you a salad and your choice of pasta. Baci Ristorante’s Friday night regulars, Palma D’Andrea, Michael Jay and Emidio Serrambana will perform. Proceeds are to go to Community Builders, which carries out its mission of supporting communities of extreme poverty in Vancouver through supportive housing projects. The community meal runs from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at 3475 East Hastings St. For more information, search for “Hastings Community Meal” on Eventbrite.ca. Email community happenings to events@vancourier.com.

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Two TransLink firings When cows, bedding amount to bupkis and furniture attack Allen Garr Columnist

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You can knock off all the TransLink executives you want, but it won’t do a darned thing to fix the two major problems facing the regional transit authority. They would be: a lack of long-term capital financing and an unacceptably undemocratic governance structure. You may believe that unloading executive vice-president Bob Paddon and B.C. Rapid Transit Company president and general manager Doug Kelsey this week are steps in the right direction. After all, Kelsey was responsible for the implementation of the Compass Card Program, which is, after almost five years, still not done. And Paddon is the guy who was supposed to keep an eye on TransLink’s image, and that has only gone downhill since the 2010 Olympic Games. Paddon, we should note, will not be replaced in what has been reported as his $276,000-a-year job. Kelsey will be replaced at $335,000. You might take delight in public sector people who make more than you ever will getting the axe; even more so if they are not replaced, seeing this as a significant savings of your tax dollars. People who supported the No side in the disastrous plebiscite may celebrate this, ignoring warnings that, as a result of the vote, existing transit services will have to be cut and promised ones not implemented. But seriously folks, in TransLink’s 2014 budget with $1.5 billion dollars in expenditures, a couple of executive salaries amount to bupkis, or what an accountant might refer to as “not material.” And none of this gets to the root problems that regional mayors have been on about and Christy Clark’s Liberal government continues to ignore. By the way, have you heard one peep from the premier about the plebiscite since we got results? It was her idea. But then, so was that downward facing dog debacle on the Burrard Bridge along with her tweet addressed to those who opposed her as “Yoga Haters.” I’m told her staff thought it best to send her off on vacation to keep her away from microphones and cameras for a while. But it is utterly irresponsible to say, as she has, that TransLink is broke and

then do nothing about it. The B.C. Liberals created this mess, and Clark is just the latest premier to pretend it is not her problem. It was back in 2007 when Gordon Campbell was the Liberal premier and Kevin Falcon was his minister responsible for transportation that the current TransLink structure was created. It grew out of the province’s frustration over regional politicians taking their time on deciding whether to push the Canada Line proposed by the province ahead of the Evergreen Line, which was the top regional priority at the time. We now have a board of directors, admittedly with two local mayors added recently. But, as a result of the legislation Falcon introduced, it is a board that effectively determines its own replacements and is responsible to no one, not the regional government of Metro, not the TransLink Mayors Council and not the provincial government. While we wait for the province to act or watch as they continue to stall, matters are being made more complex by the actions and statements of Surrey’s Mayor Linda Hepner. She was the one who, during the plebiscite campaign, assured the good people of Surrey that no matter what the plebiscite outcome, she would deliver light rail by the end of her ﬁrst term. Thanks to a deal struck by her predecessor Dianne Watts, as part of her agreement to run as a Tory in next October’s federal election, Hepner expects an announcement shortly from Ottawa (to be matched by Victoria) giving her a chunk of change so she can go ahead. Hepner also says she wants the portion of Surrey’s gas tax, which all Metro mayors agreed would fund TransLink, to come back to her for her transit project. You can bet that Metro’s mayors will not support that because if public transit is in trouble now for operating funds, well, you ain’t seen nothing yet. North Vancouver mayor Darrell Mussatto is likely not alone in again expressing his frustration over all of the above and threatening to quit the TransLink Mayors’ Council. Between funding and governance problems he says: “We are falling behind and we’re going to completely fall off the map.” @allengarr

Geoff Olson Columnist mwiseguise@yahoo.com On a trip a while back through Washington State, I stopped at a gas station to use the washroom. The paper towel dispenser displayed a warning in large red lettering: “MANAGEMENT NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR INJURIES SUSTAINED WHILE USING DISPENSER.” I stood and pondered what sort of Cirque du Soleil performance with this wall-mounted unit could result in serious injury. Perhaps if I beavered away at the dispenser’s business end I’d have some part of my anatomy hanging by a thread and a ticket for the Paper Towel Litigation Train… next stop, Compensation City! Our neighbours to the south have some unique ideas about lethality and risk management. For example, in spite of the persistent media fascination with shark attacks, this species of fish has killed an average of one person per year off American coasts between 2001 and 2013, according the Center for Disease Control’s database. Cows presented a relatively greater menace for the same time period, killing an average 20 Americans a year. That makes Bossy 20 times more lethal than Jaws, but there is no Discovery Channel Cow Week. In fact, cattle outpace all annual U.S. deaths from bears, alligators, venomous snakes and spiders, put together. Insects are even more dangerous. Stings from bees, wasps and hornets resulted in an average of 62 deaths a year in the U.S. from 2001 to 2013, mostly from anaphylactic shock. Just ahead of cows, right wing extremists have averaged 337 attacks in the decade after 9/11, resulting in a total of 254 fatalities, according to a study from the United States Military Academy’s Combating Terrorism Center. That works out to an average number of 23 deaths per year. Using different definitions of political violence, International Security Program at the New America Foundation comes up with 39 annual fatalities from “nonjihadist” homegrown extremists and 26 fatalities from “jihadist” extremists. This isn’t including deaths of unarmed black citizens from U.S. police, the depressingly predictable result of racial profiling gone mad. The upshot is this: in post-9/11 America, right-wing extrem-

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ists apparently killed more citizens than homegrown/foreign jihadists; many more if you include white law enforcement ofﬁcers into the extremist mix. We haven’t touched yet on the storebought sleeper cells inside U.S. homes. An astounding 43,000 consumers were injured and 349 killed (84 percent of the latter children) between 2000 and 2011, when TVs, furniture or appliances toppled over onto them. That’s an average of 32 deaths a year from household objects, according to a 2012 report from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). “We know that low-cost anchoring devices are effective in preventing tip-over incidents,” CPSC Chairman Inez Tenenbaum told The Atlantic in 2012. “I urge parents to anchor their TVs, furniture and appliances and protect their children. It takes just a few minutes to do and it can save lives.” It was always thus. The greatest risks to life and limb are invariably mundane and mostly domestic, as noted by travel writer Bill Bryson in his 1998 book Notes from A Big Country. “Every year more than 40,000 Americans suffer injuries involving beds, mattresses or pillows...That is more people than live in greater Coventry… In the time it takes you to read this, four Americans will somehow manage to be wounded by their bedding,” the author observed. Once you put upholstered chairs on wheels and add fossil fuels, all bets are off. In 2013, an astounding 32,719 people died from automobile accidents in the U.S., for an average of 89 deaths a day. This ﬁgure has consistently hovered in the 80s to 90s, year after year. To sum up, sharks represent a laughable threat to American citizens, unlike cows, which beat out all combined fatalities from bears, alligators, venomous snakes and spiders. Islamic terrorists are just ahead of cows, but slightly behind right-wing terrorists. Home furniture and appliances kill within the terrorist range. But four-wheeled deathtraps are 67 times more fatal than all of the above added together. Considering the stats above, architects of the so-called “war on terror” should be directing resources against bad drivers rather than jihadists, who present an existential threat somewhere between unanchored household objects and paper towel dispensers. Take note, Ottawa. @geoffolson

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The percentage housing starts in the month of June increased from May, with construction starting on 25, 390 new units.

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Inbox LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Key concerns over potential love locks locations

BRIDGE CONNECTION Two romantics known only as Chiubie and Mishbie chose the Burrard Street Bridge as the location to symbolize their devotion to each other. Reader Frances Dietz doesn’t share their enthusiasm for so-called “love locks” in public places. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

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Re: “Locking up love locations,” July 8. I would suggest that “love locks” be in a designated area where it’s not so easy to get to, just so that the concept “labour of love” can be infused into this weighty superficiality. And I hope a bin is also a part of the sculpture where keys can be thrown away environmentally, and where metal thieves can have another lucrative location to get their material. Please don’t even consider putting love locks in some beach or park or ANY spot that is already a tourist attraction for another reason. Excuse me for expressing, what might seem to many, such a negative reaction, but honestly, I think love locks are ugly. It’s the connotation, too. Something that is locked away (and with the key thrown away, to boot) is imprisoned, oppressed, deprived… and I just don’t see true love that way. I bet that if we could track down all the couples who have participated in love locks (let’s say since the year 2000), we’d find that a very good percentage of them are not even together anymore. Tradition? Especially in this day-andage, I see it as a trendy, gimmicky piece of frivolous behaviour. Which is fine. We all can have our funny, silly side and it has a right to display itself, too. Yes, absolutely, I think that making a fanciful love lock piece of art and installing it somewhere is a great idea. “The Ontario capital now has a designated place to lock down love in the Distillery District.” I think that that is a perfect spot. Frances Dietz, Vancouver

Complaint cycle continues over road rules column

Re: “Different rules of the road apply to bikes,” July 10. I applaud your modest proposals visà-vis the cycling clauses in the Motor Vehicle Act from way back in the 1990s. Myself, I can’t see that far back in the rear-view mirror. But you should have included other “benign acts” that cyclists would applaud were they given permission to perform. It’s OK, I’ll list ones that you’ve omitted: cycling while holding one end of the leash with pet dogs running along-side; cycling on the sidewalk, pedestrian-laden or not; cycling with adult or child on cross-bar; cycling without brakes; cycling while talking/texting on cellphone; cycling guerilla (blacked-out at night); cycling into a U-turn in the middle of the block; cycling through stop signs and red traf-

ﬁc lights; cycling two or three abreast; cycling with ear buds in ears; cycling into a car-drivers’ path from the right without warning. Gee, I’m almost out of ink and I’ve just remembered that I’ve come across all of the above, while walking, driving, and cycling. You’re welcome. Mike Topp, Vancouver

ONLINE COMMENTS A Boffo performance

Re: “Kettle hopes to reach new heights,” July 8. Sorry folks, the claim that the project “doesn’t work out ﬁnancially with lower height” is the usual BS from developers. What it really means, is that the lower height won’t give Boffo the full proﬁt it wants to make from this project. This is not some benevolent offer on their part. We need a fair taxation system with corporations paying their fair share. The needed services that the Kettle provides are part of our health care system. So why isn’t the government providing it? It’s absolutely wrong that the only way to provide these services to the most vulnerable amongst us is by allowing a private corporate entity to make a bundle of money. And, to make matters worse, every cent that Boffo puts into the Kettle expansion will be tax deductible for them further denying the public purse. Sandy, via Comments section

Spelling out the gospel

Re: “Did the Arts Club really need to resurrect Godspell?” online only. “But a lot of water is under a lot of bridges since 1971 and, God forgive me, the message feels naïve. Love thy neighbour as thyself — even if your neighbour is an ISIS terrorist, a drug dealer, child pornographer, wife-beater or drunk driver?” Answer: Yep. NealeA , via Comments section

More homework required

Re: “Social housing costlier than condos,” July 10. Wow. The article actually goes into detail about the types of support, staff, training and facilities that are made available to the at-risk residences of these housing projects, but then throws all that out the window to just do a straight cost comparison to a studio condo. What’s worse, they even factor in ongoing support costs (like subsidized rent and taxes over 10 years) into the base cost per unit in order to get the housing unit costs to appear artiﬁcially higher. Barley_Mowat, via Reddit

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News ‘Interesting’ piñata maker shares smashing success Cheryl Rossi

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Meaghan Kennedy really wanted a piñata for her 28th birthday, so she checked out a how-to book, fashioned herself a poodle piñata and trotted it out at Paul Anthony’s Talent Time, a live monthly variety show. “Because they had a monthly piñata and I thought that was kind of awesome and it kind of inspired me,” Kennedy said. “Everyone put down their phones and really interacted in it,” she said. “It was just like really violent but adorable smashing of this thing that had taken me, like, three weeks to make, but it was awesome… And then just something sparked and I started making them for everything.” That was seven years ago. Kennedy shortly broke from her career in high-end retail and now crafts dinosaurs, unicorns and human ﬁgures full time. She and Harrison Lee, the yo-yo trick wunderkind, will teach those who attend Interesting Vancou-

Meaghan Kennedy will demonstrate how to make a piñata “cooking show style” at Interesting Vancouver’s DoShop event, July 25. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

ver’s ﬁrst DoShop, July 25, new party tricks. Kennedy’s piñata-making career took off when requests started rolling in. First she was asked to make a piñata of Steve Martin for a “I Hate Steve Martin” party. “It kind of just started happening more and more often,” Kennedy said. “Like, ‘My friend just broke up with her boyfriend, could you make her as a piñata so she

can get over it and ﬁll it with, like, dildos, booze.’” She added, “What pays my rent is businessmen. I make a lot of the CEO of a company, like white, bald dudes in suits… If your boss already owns his Rolex, he owns his yacht, what do you buy a guy that has everything? A custom piñata, of them.” (Such piñatas are less likely to be smashed, but

she’s willing to rebuild them for a fee.) Kennedy’s creations gained attention across North American when a likeness of Radiohead’s Thom Yorke she created appeared in GQ magazine. “[GQ] came to Vancouver for Fashion Week and they hated it and so they all went and got drunk at Aphrodite’s at brunch, looked on the ceiling and were like,

‘These are cool’ and ended up just featuring me in their magazine instead of Vancouver Fashion,” she said. Her piñatas have been featured on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and in the Globe and Mail and Elle Canada, and Kennedy has provided piñata-making workshops to tech industry heavyweights in the San Francisco Bay area. One tech top dog was adamant he wasn’t creative. “He spent two-and-a-half hours longer than anyone else making his thing and made like the dopest piñata I’ve ever seen in my life,” she said. “It was like this crazy octopus with like a jellyﬁsh coming out of it and an alien.” Kennedy encountered a similar lack of creative self-conﬁdence when she invited adults to draw with sidewalk chalk at English Bay last summer. “Every single grownup that walked by said ‘I’m not a very good drawer,’” she said. “I mean it’s Vancouver. It’s going to rain in like 45 minutes. It’s sidewalk chalk, so who cares? “That was really upsetting and really interesting,” she

continued. “We’re so based on validation and rules and being good at stuff that we don’t allow ourselves to just goof around and be silly at something and make a mess, and who cares.” At the DoShop event, Kennedy plans to demonstrate how to make a piñata “cooking show style” with each participant leaving the session with a unicorn or head they’ve decorated. “It’s like $30, you leave with a piñata and you get lunch and a beer,” she said. She hopes those who shape a piñata at DoShop won’t take the session too seriously. “The cool thing with making a piñata, even if you’re not creative and it’s super ugly, you just get to ﬁll it and break it, so it’s ﬁne.” Interesting Vancouver is an annual community event that showcases “ordinary” people sharing fascinating stories about their hobbies, passions and obsessions. DoShop runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at MakerLabs, 780 East Cordova. For more information, see interestingvancouver.com. @Cheryl_Rossi

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Two Vancouver Courier columnists have received honours for their work unrelated to weighing in on Vancouver affairs. Long-serving columnist Allen Garr, who picked up the coveted City Mike award for commentator of the year at the 2014 Webster Awards for B.C. journalism, won a Greenest City Award Leadership (Individual) at the City of Vancouver’s annual Awards of Excellence held last week at the Orpheum Theatre. Garr, who doubles as a master beekeeper, was honoured for his tireless advocacy for bees’ needs for more than 20 years and for increasing public under-

standing of the threats facing honeybees in the city, which included successfully lobbying city council to amend a 1927 bylaw banning beekeeping in urban areas. As a result, hobby beekeeping is now allowed in Vancouver, North Vancouver, Delta, Burnaby and Richmond, and there are now prominent apiaries at the Vancouver Trade and Convention Centre, Science World, UBC Farm and VanDusen Botanical Garden. Michael Geller, whose contributions as an architect, city planner and property developer have helped transform the face of Vancouver and who recently celebrated his ﬁrst year as a regular Courier columnist, is being

honoured for his lifetime of work by ORT [Obchestvo Remeslenogo Truda: Association for the Promotion of Skilled Trades], an international non-profit organization that promotes education and training in communities. As Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation’s Special Coordinator-False Creek, Geller oversaw approvals for the non-profit and market housing developments within the first phase of the city’s South Shore False Creek community. In four decades in urban design and real estate, Geller has played key roles in projects including UniverCity at Simon Fraser University, the south shore of False Creek, Steveston Village, Bayshore

in Coal Harbour, Deering Island, Furry Creek and a variety of residential and mixed-use projects around Vancouver. “I was shocked when I was approached, but very much honoured,” said Geller. “My ﬁrst thought was of all the other people who are probably more deserving. But, that being said, I agreed to do it because I am familiar with the good work ORT does, particularly in the ﬁeld of education.” Geller will be handed the hardware at a Sept. 1 gala event called Building Minds held at the Richmond Country Club. Both are expected to continue informing and/or infuriating Courier readers on a regular basis.

Proposed Changes to the Single Room Accommodation By-law On July 22, 2015, a Standing Committee of Vancouver City Council will consider amendments to the Single Room Accommodation By-law (No. 8733), which if approved, will be enacted by Council. At the Standing Committee meeting, anyone interested may make their views respecting the proposed amendments known to Council. You can sign up as a speaker by emailing the City at speaker.request@vancouver.ca. The amendments would clarify the deﬁnition of “conversion” or “convert” so that any repairs that involve the relocation of a permanent resident during the repairs would not be considered a minor renovation and would require a conversion permit. The by-law amendments would also increase the amount Council may require as a condition of approving an SRA permit for the removal of the room from the SRA By-law from $15,000 to $125,000, as well as provide other recommendations to improve building conditions, provide supports to tenants and maintain affordability. FOR MORE INFORMATION: 604-871-6046 or vancouver.ca/people-programs/protectingsingle-room-accommodations

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STARS OF VANCOUVER: What was once a series of awards celebrated throughout the year in council chambers with very little fanfare, the City of Vancouver’s Awards of Excellence is now a leading date on the civic social calendar. Seventeen individuals — adults, youth and children — and organizations were feted at the sophomore edition of the awards ceremony staged at the Orpheum Theatre. Paying tribute to those who have excelled in making Vancouver a greener, healthier, more diverse and accessible place to live, work and play, the awards program saw more than 600 guests file into the downtown music hall for the festivities. The Courier’s Allen Garr was among those feted. The journalist and master beekeeper was bestowed the Greenest City Leadership Award. An advocate for bees and a greener city for more than two decades, Garr, concerned about the threats facing honeybees in the city and its declining populations, successfully lobbied city council to amend a 1927 bylaw banning beekeeping in urban areas. THE BOYS AND GIRLS OF SUMMER: The Vancouver Canadians Baseball Foundation once again welcomed children from the Boys and Girls Clubs of South Coast B.C. to its annual baseball camp, a six-week program led by Vancouver’s most recognizable personalities and community ambassadors. A record 300 children between the ages of 6-11 were given the chance to play organized baseball at Nat Bailey Stadium. Each child received, free of charge courtesy of sponsors, brand new equipment, complimentary meals and transportation to and from the stadium to participate in the one-of-a-kind program. Equipping kids with skills and opportunities that extend far beyond the diamond, the field of play aims to motivate kids to pursue their own field of dreams. The Boys and Girls Club serves 12,000 children, youth and families annually, providing kids a place to belong when they aren’t at home or at school. HOUSE OF PRIDE: For the past five years, Gary Serra, Kevin Mazzone, Ryan McKinley and Lilliana De Cotiis have hosted the pre-Pride Party in the city. Members of the LGBTTQ community once again flocked to the Loden Hotel for the fundraising gala — another sellout — presented by TD, 1181, Maserati and Body Energy Club and staged high above the city at the property’s Halo Penthouse Suite. Under sunny skies, wellheeled guests got their Pride on exchanging air kisses, kibitzing and enjoying craft cocktails, while supporting the Dr. Peter Aids Foundation. With an open bar, shirtless raffle boys and delicious nibbles by Tableau Bar Bistro, the spirited $135-a-ticket soiree netted $35,000 for the Dr. Peter Centre, British Columbia’s only HIV/AIDS day health program and 24-hour nursing care residence. Vancouver’s Pride festivities officially kick off July 25 culminating in the city’s largest parade Aug. 2.

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Warm winter brings an early start to B.C.’s blueberry season. Debbie Etsell, executive director of the B.C. Blueberry Council, showed off this year’s bumper crop, compliments of the province’s 800 blueberry growers, at an event held at the Shangri-la Hotel.

The Boys and Girls Clubs of South Coast B.C. CEO Carolyn Tuckwell welcomed Andre Avila and Maya Casey, both 8, to the first week of play at the Vancouver Canadians Foundation’s annual baseball camp.

With their coach Donovan Britten, (from left) Tracey and Jude Wilson and Kyle and Aiden Chan were among a record 300 kids who were given the chance to play organized baseball at Nat Bailey Stadium.

Vikram Vij and award-winning art director Aradhana Seth transformed the Roundhouse Community Centre into the Great Railway Food Bazaar for the Indian Summer festival opening gala.

Councillor Adriane Carr feted Courier columnist and bee advocate Allen Garr. Garr was honoured for making Vancouverites more aware of the plight of honeybees and reintroducing urban beekeeping.

SFU president Andrew Petter, along with Indian Summer festival founders Laura Byspalko and Sirish Rao, welcomed guests to the opening festivities of the annual multi-arts festival held at the Roundhouse Community Centre.

Lilliana De Cotiis’ Loden Hotel once again hosted the pre-Pride Cocktail Party. Andrew Taylor was among le beau monde that attended the annual fundraiser for the Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation.

From left, Kevin Mazzone, Ryan McKinley and Gary Serra’s Pride Penthouse Party once again netted $35,000 for Maxine Davis’s Dr. Peter Centre, which provides services and care to people with HIV and AIDS.

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July 17 to 21, 2015 1. Summer keeps on trucking as the 38th annual Vancouver Folk Music Festival takes over scenic Jericho Beach Park for three days and nights of musical delights and more sandals than a Birkenstock factory, July 17 to 19. Performers include Angélique Kidjo, Pokey LaFarge, Richard Thompson, Frazey Ford, Basia Bulat, Matthew and Jill Barber, the Sadies, Said the Whale, Hawksley Workman and the Melbourne Ska Orchestra, among others. Details at thefestival.bc.ca.

2. The Cinematheque heads out on the highway looking for adventure, July 18 to 22, as it screens 1969’s Easy Rider, one of three offerings showcasing the work of independent production company BBS, which was at the forefront of the New Hollywood cinema in the late 1960s and early ’70s. Other ﬁlms include Five Easy Pieces and the Jack Nicholson-directed Drive, He Said. For more info and show times, go to the thecinematheque.ca. 3. Do it for Johnny. The Rio Theatre screens 1983’s Francis Ford Coppoladirected adaptation of S.E. Hinton’s classic coming-of-age novel The Outsiders, starring a cavalcade of young stars, including Patrick Swayze, Tom Cruise, C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez and Diane Lane. It all goes down July 17, 11:30 p.m. Stay gold, Ponyboy. Details at riotheatre.ca. 4. Maybe you remember Rickie Lee Jones for her sweet 1970s hit “Chuck E.’s In Love,” or maybe you remember that awesome tam she used to wear or that crazy cigarette she’s smoking on her album cover. Regardless of your hazy memories, the eclectic American singer-songwriter is still going strong and performing an evening of old and new music at the Rio Theatre July 21, 7 p.m. Tickets at ticketweb.ca.

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“Those blueberries were on the bush just a few days ago,” says McCarthy, handing me the scone in a paper bag labeled “Nooner,” which is one of the bakery’s loaves (according to its website, it’s a sandwich bread that’s “the ultimate lunchtime quickie!”). The scone’s heavy on blueberries and light on ginger, with a touch of coarse sugar on top, and strikes a balance between crisp crust and moist crumb. Good scones are hard to ﬁnd in this city, but A Bread Affair gives me hope.

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including one called Grainful Bread, which makes me wonder if bread bakers have a particularly quirky sense of humour, or if I’ve just found two outliers. For blueberry goodies, you’ll have to visit the café. The fresh blueberry tart is light and refreshing, while slices of blueberry slab pie (served as rectangles, rather than triangles) scream summer. There are big and small pies so you can take the party home, too.

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Bruno Feldeisen, executive pastry chef at the Four Seasons Hotel Vancouver, picks a blueberry off the tart that sits between us, and squeezes it. “At the beginning of the season it’s still a bit starchy. It’s not as juicy as it wants to be, and

the seeds are a bit bigger,” he says, showing me the grains on his index ﬁnger. Feldeisen’s desserts are deceptively simple. The blueberry-basil sorbet arrives nonchalantly, in a tall mason jar, adorned with halved blueberries and a tangle of baker’s twine. But as anyone who has tried to make blueberry sorbet and ended up with a grey muddle knows, it takes thought and technique to achieve the full-boded, luridly purple sorbet that sits in the jar. Blueberry cobbler also arrives in a mason jar, with a cream cheese ice cream that should be made available by the tub. And the fresh blueberry tart is summer on a plate — notably, it comes without the glaze it wears

in most bakeries because it doesn’t need to look pretty for hours. It’s meant to be assembled, served and eaten fresh. One ﬁnal note on B.C. blueberries: while the warm weather means a bumper crop of fruit now, it also means a shorter season. So stock up while you can, because fresh berries — and these desserts — won’t be here forever. @eagranieyuh

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Your “domestic phase” ends Wednesday, when a month of romance, pleasure, creative surges and speculative urges arrives. First, tackle chores Sunday/Monday — two nicely productive days, though the first half of Sunday can bring unwanted duties or puzzles as to how to fix things. Still, you’ll maintain a steady pace, even into midweek, when you can tackle home-related chores or stabilize a family situation or health/financial problem.

Wednesday moves your focus from ambition to a month of social joys. Rest and contemplate Sunday to Tuesday dawn. Get your beauty sleep because a month of socializing, popularity, ﬂirting and friendly romance, of entertainment and late bright nights begins soon. Everything’s smooth and easy, so use this interval to deal with civil servants, institutions, spiritual and charitable agencies.

A busy time ends midweek. Until then, plunge into errands, communications, paperwork, trips and visits. Deal with siblings, read the news, be curious. A refreshing atmosphere of romance winds through Sunday/Monday. A “vision” (as in “a vision of beauty” or a visionary goal) could inspire you midday Sunday or point you toward the right prospect, person. Seek pleasure, gaze on beauty, enjoy a wee winning streak!

You’ve been riding high on a wave of political, career or reputation luck, Scorpio. This is going to switch soon to a year of happiness, social joys and dreams coming true. But it you want to be promoted, your strongest chance comes in the month that starts this Wednesday, and the strongest of this strong period is this Thursday, July 23, to August 10 — a mere 19 days.

The focus subtly shifts this week (technically Wednesday) from money, earnings, possessions, bills, etc. to information, writing, calls, trips and visits, errands, paperwork and details. You’ll be busier than usual, but the only important thing will be these “busy things” — in other words, the stakes are not high (despite appearances) so you can relax even while rushing here and there. You’re a natural at these things (travel, communications, etc.)

You move, Wednesday, from a month of secrets and mysteries, depths and valuables, to a month of understanding, of world-wide vision and higher learning. It’s like being in a cave, then climbing out to see the sunlit world. Be ambitious Sunday to Tuesday dawn, a good, workable period when you can get a lot done in areas of money, organizing and dealing with head ofﬁce, and stabilizing your position.

Your charisma and energy (and sex appeal) remain high, but midweek brings a subtle shift away from “personal power” to the acquisition of money and property. As before, continue to be ambitious, but not aggressive. This is generally an easy week. Errands, friends, siblings, short trips, paperwork, news, curiosity, interesting facts ﬁll Sunday to Tues. dawn. Your love is stable. If you’re single, a “dreamy” (and good) person could appear Sunday.

Your shunt Wednesday from open, honest (whether honestly loving or honestly cantankerous) relationships to the deeper, more intimate side. From opportunities to commitment/funding, from more “public” things to private, maybe hush-hush situations. Wednesday begins a month of depths, mysteries, ﬁnancial urges and intimate yearnings, lifestyle decisions, research, investigation,and health diagnoses.

A month of drained energy, of frustration, will end Wednesday night, when a month of personal presence, energy, charisma and effectiveness will begin. Continue to avoid violence, tantrums, belligerent people, until Aug. 8. After this, Mars will enter your sign, to stay until Sept. 24. During this phase, in case I forget to mention it then, be careful with your own aggression and determination, with far travel, religious/philosophical opinions, and lawsuits.

The past year has been ﬁlled with shining chances to bond with someone exciting, to relocate, to seek fame or a raised public proﬁle, or to grab business opportunities. At least one of these has appeared already. If you haven’t seized it yet, the month ahead gives you one last shot. You enter this month of opportunities Wednesday night, as recent weeks of work and slogging and boring health matters end.

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You shift Wednesday from a month of pleasure and passion to one of work, health and drudgery. That’s okay — in about three weeks you’ll enter a whole year of exciting relationships, opportunities and new horizons. Sunday to Tuesday dawn brings a strong hint of these future trends, with one difference: In the year ahead, opportunities, relationships and new horizons will be lucky, even super-lucky; this Sunday to Tuesday, they are merely good, workable and smooth.

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“The feeling I get when riding is pure joy,” said Seron Mackay, a Vancouver nutritionist. “It’s real freedom when the wind blows past and I have full control over my speed and maneuvers.” Mackay’s response to cycling is the same for many women I have spoken to over the years. In cities around the world, the number of women who regularly ride a bike for transportation is steadily rising. For two months, I have been commuting daily along the 10th Avenue Bikeway and know one thing is for certain: there is a visible increase in the number of ladies on bikes from when I first began riding regularly five years ago. For some reason, though — likely for clicks more than fact — I often read articles claiming that trying to get more women cycling is an exercise in futility. Be it helmet hair, the dreaded “S” word that dampens the brow, or having to go through the arduous task of changing into work attire at the office, the claims are always the same: most women are too vain to ride a bicycle for transportation. The Globe and Mail’s polarizing columnist Margaret Wente made one of the latest offending — and inaccurate — contributions in a July 8 column headlined “Where are all the female cyclists?” Allow me put up my hand. Also, these sweeping

claims discredit efforts to improve gender equality and are more than a little insulting to women everywhere. The bicycle has long been a means for women (and all riders) to get from point A to B. In the late 1800s, as Suffragettes started their campaigns for electoral equality, bikes played a role in invoking a sense of freedom. The “Safety Bicycle,” which included a chain drive, and the wheel size and frame shape of today’s bikes, became the tool that allowed them to break free from dependence on men for transportation. It also gave them a practical reason to wear pants. “Safeties could be ridden with ease and didn’t require a course in gymnastics,” wrote English author Bella Bathurst in 2011. U.S. civil rights activist Susan B. Anthony famously wrote in 1896 that the bicycle “has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world.” Those wheels afforded the rider “untrammelled womanhood,” she declared. Still today, two-wheeled travel represents the power to take control of one’s mobility. When I get on my bike, the only limitations preventing me from getting where I want to go are how fast and far I’m willing to ride. If I need to arrive fresh-faced and ready for a meeting, I just give myself time and ride at a pace that leaves me no sweatier than if I had walked instead. If we are truly interested in increasing female ridership in cities, then that’s the freedom we need to focus on. Continued on page 22

After breaking out on her own and catching up with the back of the pack, Trek Red Truck cyclist Denise Ramsden crosses the finish line in a crowd to win the Gastown Grand Prix on July 15. See photo gallery at vancourier.com. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

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To win the Global Relay Gastown Grand Prix Wednesday afternoon, Olympic cyclist Denise Ramsden put on a clinic. For her team, that was exactly the idea. Racing over decades-old cobblestones with the Trek Red Truck women’s team, Ramsden broke away on the ﬁfth lap and slowly pulled ahead on each of the 35 tours of the 45-kilometre course. “The thing is,” she said, “you have to take your chance.” With 15 laps to go, the Vancouverite had a 52-sec-

ond lead and couldn’t see anyone behind or ahead of her. The pack didn’t chase her. With two laps to go, she closed in and joined the back of the peloton to add an additional $400 to the $12,000 prize. “I kind of expected the first few laps they might wait, but I figured with 12 or 10 to go, they would start go to [after me],” said the 24-year-old UBC graduate who will study law at the university in September. Canadian Annie Foreman-Mackey finished second after she also left the pack. U.S. national team cyclist Shelley Olds, who has finished on the podium in all B.C. Superweek events so far, came third. Ramsden, a Canadian champion and Olympic road and time trial racer, joined Trek Red Truck this season and added her

considerable experience to the Vancouver team. “She always throws down massive attacks,” said teammate Sarah Coney. “When Denise goes for it, she goes.” Ramsden competed with last year’s winner Leah Kirchmann on the Optum Pro Cycling team that nabbed the $13,000 prize, the highest in women’s cycling in North America. “It’s been a pretty good day the last couple years,” said Ramsden, who was all grins after the race. The prize money is split equally among all teammates. “Having someone with the racing experience from being on a bigger team, helping in the race in terms of strategy and believing in ourselves that we can go win big races, because we can,” she said. “It was a good night for the whole team,” she said.

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The number of losses in the Vancouver Canadians’ losing streak, a franchise record. The C’s heartache continued Monday night at Nat Bailey Stadium as the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes (15-11) swept the home team in five games. Vancouver fell to 10 games below .500 before bouncing back Wednesday with a 5-4 victory in Everett.

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The lead held by Point Grey Golf and Country Club’s Stu Macdonald, who made an eagle on his final shot of the second day to finish the round with a six-under par 66 and take a one-shot lead in the 113th B.C. amateur championship at Oliver’s Fairview Mountain with a (-9) 135 score.

“We will race the last stage of the Tour de France alongside the men on the Champs Elysees, in Paris. The women finally have one race alongside the men. That’s the next big goal for me.” — Shelley Olds, U.S. national team racer who ﬁnished on the podium in every B.C. Superweek event so far this year, discussed her future plans after ﬁnishing third in the Gastown Grand Prix on Wednesday.

First all-Canadian podium since 1984

For the first time in 31 years, three male Canadians topped the Gastown Grand Prix. Ontario’s Ryan Roth of the Silber Pro Cycling team won the 50-lap criterium ahead of Vancouver’s Garrett McLeod and Abbotsford’s Will Routley. The last time three homegrown cyclists won the historic race, the winners were Alex Steida, Brent Mudry and Bruce Spicer. Roth broke away on the final lap to cruise to the win. “Being aggressive paid off and we’ll probably keep racing that way because a bunch sprint is always a lottery and right now we don’t have a big, big favourite in those kind of finishes so we’re always going to be on attack,” said Roth, a 32-year-old former Canadian road race champion. @MHStewart

Canada’s new place in FIFA Women’s World Ranking. After reaching the quarterfinals of the World Cup but losing to England, Canada falls out of the top 10 from eighth in the world to 11th. The USA leaps to No. 1 over Germany, which falls to No. 2. France remains third and Japan fourth, while England and Brazil both climb one spot to fifth and sixth, respectively.

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Sports&Recreation Cyclists find emancipation along the way from point A to B

Continued from page 21 Janna Gabrek gave up riding a bicycle after her teenage years. “I’ve never been a particularly athletic person and most of the people I saw riding were athletic men in full spandex outfits, which didn’t exactly resonate with me,” she said. Then earlier this month, wanting to join her partner and his son on recreational rides, she borrowed a Dutch-style bicycle from a friend. The 29-year-old pension analyst never expected how that first excursion would change the way she gets around. “It felt fantastic to get on a bike, especially while wearing a dress. I realized on an upright bike that it wasn’t about flying downhill at a hundred kilometers and hour or getting a good solid workout. It was genuinely a pleasant and easy means of getting to work,” she said. We can too easily forget the emotional benefits of cycling. Instead, many focus on athleticism and sport instead of the sheer practicality of it. Riding a bike is easy, plain and simple. It

Janna Gabrek bikes to work downtown and rides recreationally with her family. “It felt fantastic to get on a bike, especially while wearing a dress,” she said. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

is the great equalizer, one that can be done by a small child, a grandmother, and everyone in between. Melissa Rodrigues is a

Vancouver mother of two. Each day, she rides with her daughters, ages two and ﬁve, on the back of her electricassist Yuba Boda Boda.

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“We don’t have a car so I used to mostly just walk or bus with the stroller,” she said. “Being able to ride with both my girls gives me

much more ability to go farther distances and to get places faster.” Mackay, Gabrek and Rodrigues don’t let vanity

stop them from using their bicycles, and it is stories like these that provide encouragement for the bike-curious. To say that the efforts of policy makers, governments and advocates to increase the mode share among women has been all for naught is to devalue all the hard work being done. The ladies I see on the bikeways are not riding for sport. They’re riding casually, some dressed in regular clothes, the occasional woman in heels, and still others clearly opting to freshen up at the ofﬁce. Either way, they are embracing the freedom and independence two-wheeled travel offers. Especially for women, messaging must stop emphasizing perceived barriers and instead promote all the wonderful things riders can experience. Freedom, control, simplicity and pure joy. Melissa Bruntlett is a cofounder of Modacity and is inspired to live a happy life of urban mobility. Reach her at melissa@modacitylife.com.

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Little Mountain little leaguer Ethan Kwong, in blue, makes a play in a 12-1 loss to the North Shore’s Highlands Little League in the U10 B.C. Championships at Carnarvon Park July 15. Jericho Little League hosts the provincial tournament, which continues until Sunday, July 19. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

Jericho and South Van host B.C. finals LITTLE LEAGUE

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White Rock Little League has emerged as the team to beat at the minors B.C. Little League Championships. The seven baseball teams of nine- and 10-year-old players start the tournament with a six-game round-robin, and White Rock has powered through with a ﬂawless 4-0 record so far. As of Wednesday, the North Shore’s Highlands followed with three wins and one loss. Vancouver’s Little Mountain was 2-2 and hosts Jericho Little League 1-3. Jericho Little League is putting on the tournament at Carnarvon Park each day through to the championship game at 12 p.m. July 19. Three games are played today, July 17, before the top four teams advance to

the semi-finals Saturday, July 18. The top team and fourth-place finisher square off at noon. The second- and third-place teams meet at 3:30 p.m. “The play has been exciting to watch, the weather is exceptional, the field is holding and we have a very competitive tournament,” said the tournament host committee co-chair, Cathy Young. Jericho Little League, which formed in 1999 after the West Point Grey and Kitsilano leagues merged, recently opened a renovated concession, and Young encouraged spectators to check out the action. “I think they’d be impressed with the level of play by these kids who are only nine and 10,” she said. “We’re in the heart of it now.” The minors’ season ends with the B.C. Championships. The Majors, players aged 11 and 12, can advance from

provincials to compete at nationals and then possibly represent Canada at the Little League World Series in August.

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The road to Willamsport, Pa. will first go through South Vancouver. From July 18 to 26, at Memorial Park South on East 41st Avenue, seven teams from across the province will fight for the chance to represent B.C. at the Canadian Little League Championships in Ottawa from Aug. 7 to 16. South Vancouver Little League hosts the tournament. The opening ceremonies begin at 12 p.m. Saturday, July 18, followed by a game between the hosts and White Rock. At 7 p.m., players will show off in a skills competition and home run derby. The championship final is set for 2 p.m. July 26. @MHStewart

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Today’shomes It’s not easy keeping lawns green during a drought Realtors, home stagers, ﬁlm sector targeted by dye-spraying companies

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Pure Luxe Painting CEO Evan Wicklund estimates that he has been painting about eight lawns per week with a non-toxic green dye.

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Ontario and Alberta last year to now being in B.C. Lundy is so busy with Imperial Painting, which paints homes and businesses, that he doesn’t paint grass himself. Instead, he

wholesales LawnLift to painting and landscaping businesses and sells the product online. Evan Wicklund’s rapidly growing Pure Luxe Painting (PLP) is one

of Lundy’s customers. He started marketing its services last month and has already averaged painting approximately eight lawns per week in Metro Vancouver. Wicklund said each

lawn generates, on average, about $250 in revenue. PLP’s revenue last year from painting homes and buildings was about $250,000, and Wicklund projects his three-year-old

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Faced with increasingly stringent watering restrictions, a growing number of Vancouver residents are generating business for companies that paint lawns green. More than 20 local painting and landscaping companies are buying a non-toxic, green dye from Vancouver-based LawnLift Canada and applying them on client lawns, said Craig Lundy, who owns Imperial Painting and three years ago bought the Canadian rights for a U.S. product called LawnLift as a sideline venture for his painting company. “Last year we didn’t sell much at all and revenue was in the tens of thousands of dollars,” Lundy said. “This year we’re shaping up to generate revenue in the six ﬁgures, and that’s from all across Canada.” Sales have also shifted from being primarily in

business will quintuple that amount in 2015 thanks largely to the company opening a second ofﬁce in Saskatoon. PLP’s business remains primarily painting homes and buildings, but Wicklund is impressed with how fast the grass-painting sideline is growing. “We have just started marketing to realtors as well, and we expect an exceptional return from that,” said Whicklund. He anticipates painting 30 lawns per week by August. He added that the product is safe for both children to play on and for pets. “It’s basically a dye so it does not dry hard,” he said. “Obviously, if the grass is already dead and burnt, it will feel as bad as that when you walk on it.” Lundy said the movie business is another sector that has been buying LawnLift. One of his clients used it on a football ﬁeld for a movie shoot last year. @glenkorstrom

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June housing starts up by nearly half Emma Crawford Hampel

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Housing starts increased dramatically in June in Vancouver, according to recent Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) data. Construction started on 25,390 units, seasonally adjusted, in June in the city — an increase of 46 per cent compared with 17,384 units in May. “While single-detached home-building held steady in June, multiple-unit starts trended higher,” said Robyn Adamache, CMHC Principal Market Analyst for Vancouver. “Apartment and townhome construction drove the increase in the trend measure of housing starts this month. “So far this year, townhome building has been focused in Surrey and Langley, while new apartment projects have been concentrated in Burnaby, North Vancouver, Richmond, Surrey and the City of Vancouver.”

A similar increase was seen across British Columbia as a whole, as the number of housing starts jumped to 35,001 units in June from 24,113 in May. “The trend level of housing starts edged higher [in B.C.] in June as more townhomes and apartments got underway compared to May,” Adamache said. “Single-detached starts have maintained a steady pace since the beginning of the year. Nationwide, starts increased to 202,818 compared with 196,981 in May. This was driven by growth in Vancouver, Montreal (up 66 per cent) and Calgary (up 54 per cent). Regina saw the country’s biggest percentage increase at 120 per cent. Diana Petramala, economist at TD Economics, said construction is starting up after a slow winter “The Canadian housing market continues to defy expectations, even with the economy contracting mod-

estly through the ﬁrst half of the year,” Petramala said. “A sharp drop in interest rates has proven to be a powerful tool for stimulating housing activity even in a challenging economic environment.” Petramala said housing momentum should stay strong as the Bank of Canada is expected once again cut the overnight rate at its next interest rate announcement July 15. “Overall, vibrant demand and sharply growing home prices are likely to encourage more building activity through the rest of 2015 and into 2016,” she said. “A comforting fact is that construction of units for rental purposes, not homeownership, have been driving the acceleration in new home construction over the spring months, particularly in Toronto and Vancouver. Rental markets in these key cites are relatively tight and the uptick in construction activity among this sector is long overdue.” @EmmaHampelBIV

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Counting Cars star raised with a love of music and anything on wheels sthomas@vancourier.com

Las Vegas-based Danny “the Count” Koker not only stars in the reality TV show Counting Cars but also leads the hard rock band Count’s 77, which plays, fittingly enough, at Hard Rock Casino Vancouver this weekend. Count’s 77 appearance at the Hard Rock coincides with the Ultimate Car Show taking place at the casino July 18, where more than 350 classic, muscle and specialty vehicles will be on display from 2 to 6 p.m. During a phone interview this week from his office at Count’s Kustoms in Las Vegas, his shop dedicated to the repair and restoration of (mostly) classic cars, trucks and motorcycles, the affable Koker shared some personal stories with the Courier. Vancouver Courier: What came first, your love of cars or music? Danny Koker: My love of music came about as a kid because of my father who was a musician, but my love of cars happened at the same time because of my family and growing up in Detroit. Most of my relatives worked at the Ford Motor Company at one time or another. My dad brought me up with music and I used to sing with him. He was also my senior business partner until 2008 when we lost him. I miss him every day. VC: A big part of the show involves you driving around and stopping random people with unusual vehicles or knocking on doors to ask about a car in the driveway. Have you ever had a negative reaction? DK: Without a doubt. I’ve had the police called on me and have met some really angry people, because sometimes they’re just not in the mood. This is something I’ve been doing for years and the producers wanted to incorporate real elements

to the show so it worked. It’s much easier now that the TV show is on. VC: What’s your favourite vehicle? DK: I’m a Cadillac freak. I just love those big, bad pimpin’ bad boys from the ’60s and ’70s. VC: You have an extensive car collection. Is there a vehicle out there you’ve always wanted but still don’t possess? DK: It’s a 1972 Lamborghini Miura SV. The first one was built in 1966 and coined the phrase “exotic car.” That phrase was never used before. VC: What’s your favourite original equipment V8 motor? DK: That has to be the small block Chevy because it’s stood the test of time. It started out in 1955 as the 265 V8 and that platform has been around for years with minimal change. VC: What has been your most touching moment on the show? DK: When we first started this show I never expected it to evolve into being so much about people and their stories. It was the [singer] Barry White episode that really got to me. His wife Glodean asked me to find his final car, the one he was driving before his death. When it was done and revealed to her, the emotions were beyond containment. Even after the cameras stopped rolling we stood in the parking lot and cried like babies. VC: Where do you see your restoration business in 10 years? DK: I see it continuing to grow. We have a wait list of between two to three years. The TV show is a fantastic thing, and I don’t know how long it will last, but even after the show ends Count’s Kustoms will continue. VC: What’s next for Count’s 77? DK: The band has been

together for years and we released our ﬁrst record in 2014. We’ve been in the studio for months working on our second record. I work all week on the TV show, but then ﬂy out on the weekends to play. I love it. @sthomas10

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Counting Cars star Danny Koker (front centre) headlines the Hard Rock Casino Vancouver this weekend with his band Count’s 77.

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Well, the sheets are ﬁnally off and we’ve got our ﬁrst look at the sedan that’ll join the 4C Coupe and Spyder in welcoming Alfa-Romeo back to North America. I have two words, and both of them are humina. Huminahumina! The Giulia is approximately a BMW 3-Series rival in size, but oh sweet Lord does it look bella. You can’t see this, but I’m gesturing wildly to convey just how exciting this car is. First, there’s lots of aluminium for lightness and stiffness. Next, there’s a twin-turbo Ferrariderived V-6 good for 510 horsepower. Then, there’s perfect 50/50 weight distribution, and active aerodynamics to improve handling at speed. What could be better? What single thing could crown this sumptuous red beast like a tiara on a royal princess? Well, how about this: you’re going to be able

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Automotive joins Alfa-Romeo revival Were you thinking of merely buying a Honda Odyssey in Touring trim? That is a puny plan. Instead, build your own version of this SEMAspecial Sienna/Tacoma mashup (obviously not intended for production) and go raid the neighbours for gasoline reserves.

Chrysler Canada gets Wrangler out of the cans

It’s always great when a promotional stunt does a little good as well. In this case, the benefit was two- fold, with a group of 12 to 18 year olds getting to practice their building skills, and the results going to charity. Built on Canada Day (get it? “Can”ada? sigh) the Canstruction team built a full-sized convertible Wrangler out of 4,500 tins of food, with all cans going directly to the Vancouver Food Bank. A little awareness about the food bank during the summer months is much needed as reserves tend to get low this far away from the Christmas and holiday season. For the students involved it was a fun task. The Canstruction nonprofit tries to fight hunger and poverty while also encouraging kids to get into science, math and engineering.

Lexus to bring back SC badged grand tourer

The old SC430 didn’t have a legion of fans, but it was very good at its job. As a grand tourer of exceptional reliability and polish, you could hardly do better. Now, Lexus appears to be mulling a return to that form with a new SC, one that’d take on the BMW 6 Series and Mercedes-Benz S-Class coupe. The car, so it is said, will be based on the LF-LC concept shown a couple of years ago at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Power is rumoured to be the same as the current RC-F coupe, a 450 h.p. V-8. Being a Lexus, there’s a higher-powered hybrid model planned too. The RC-F already feels a little more like a Grand Tourer than a corner carver, so perhaps this a good thing. Expect the SC to be poised, reﬁned, impeccably crafted, and to have a face like a deranged hair dryer.

Cadillac XT5 ready for production

Cadillac, so they would have you believe, is a company built on luxury with a new edgy focus on performance. Certainly, it’s true that they built some very sharp-driving cars, but the sales ﬁgures don’t lie: were it not for the XTS crossover, Caddy would be in the poorhouse; it’s more than half their sales. Thus, the replacement must be excellent. A few spy shots are out, and, well, it’s not amazing. The prototype has the Cadillac cues, but looks more like a Ford Escape than the Standard of the World. Still, perhaps this is only a demo. If Cadillac is to succeed, they’ll need more mini-Escalades than chrome-infusions for Chevy-based crossovers.

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Well here’s an odd one — the Alliance of Global Automakers, a powerful lobbying group representing multiple manufacturers, is moving to apply the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to cars. The idea is to prevent owners from doing their own repairs or performing modifications to a vehicle, claiming that tampering with a car infringes copyright. Remember the old anti-piracy, “You wouldn’t download a car,” ads? Well, this is that same idea made reality. As our cars get more and more computerized and electronic safety systems more complex, it seems as though manufacturers are concerned with how customers might endanger themselves by improperly fiddling with something. Oh, let’s be serious — they’re worried about the legal implications of somebody re-flashing their ECU for more turbo power and accidentally turning off the automatic braking. As patent law doesn’t really cover personal modifications, the DMCA is the only way to go after DIY customizers. On one hand, maybe there’s a point to be made here. Have you seen this whole hella-flush and stance craze, where cars zip around with ludicrously stretched tires and ridiculous camber? Looks cool, makes a car slow, prone to blowouts, and handles like the worst shopping cart at the supermarket. As for repairs, ever pop the hood on a modern car? They already cover

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