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City attempts to untangle stifling tax mess for small businesses Findings from a city report show West Side businesses in the lurch John Kurucz

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What’s been heard time and again anecdotally over the last five years was made official Tuesday with a City of Vancouver document that cost $100,000 to produce.

In news that isn’t really news to most in the commercial sector: Small independent businesses can’t withstand ever increasing property tax bills or arduous turnaround times for permits.

Not only that, but small, independent business retention in marquee shopping areas such as South Granville and West Broadway is becoming harder and harder to achieve.

Those are just a few of the highlights of a city staff presentation that looked at six neighbourhoods across Vancouver to gauge everything from business climate and impediments to vacancy rates and triple net leases.

The study began last year and focused on areas that have relatively similar zoning, are each experiencing neighbourhood-wide

changes and stretch across both north-south and east-west corridors in the city: South Granville, West Broadway, Marpole, Collingwood, Commercial Drive and Hastings North.

Business improvement associations offered input, along with individual businesses, employees and members of the public.

Consultants and city staff also canvassed neighbourhoods on foot to supplement the research process.

All of this turned up seven major red flags: • affordability, property taxes, assessments and lease rates • safety • parking and street access • permitting and licensing times • labour costs and employee retention • lease issues such as triple net and demolition clauses • changing neighbourhood demographics.

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areas, vacant storefronts have become more prominent in many of the study areas,” said senior planner Matthew Bourke.

As reported exclusively in the Courier last fall, South Granville is taking major hits. At the time, the Courier counted about 25 for lease signs along a 10-block span that saw longtime tenants the Ouisi Bistro, West and Plum all close within months of one another.

It had by far the least independently-owned

businesses of the six areas studied, and it wasn’t even close. Forty-seven per cent of businesses in the area fall under that distinction, while the nearest comparable was West Broadway at 66 per cent. The high water mark was Commercial Drive, where 80 per cent of businesses are independent.

South Granville lost 11 per cent of its indie shops between 2006 and 2019, a number that again led all neighbourhoods in the study.

The study used a 10 per

cent vacancy threshold as an indicator of viability in business neighbourhoods.

Only Collingwood and Hastings North met that threshold, though the other four areas hovered between 11 and 12 per cent.

And while property taxes and available parking are quantifiable indicators, others are not. Vacant storefronts add to perceptions around the viability or safety of neighbourhoods, the study found.

Consultants who helped author the report noted the volatility of the retail sector and how no two neighbourhoods will yield identical findings. In some cases, a larger big box retailer is welcomed by a business district because it’s seen as an anchor tenant that will attract more shoppers and parking.

The opposite can be said in other neighbourhoods.

Exacerbating the issue is a formula commonly used by retailers that measures rent to sales ratio. If the rent is 20 per cent of the bottom line, retailers typically abandon ship. Vancouver

is seen as the second most expensive city in the North America, if not the world.

Though not part of the study area, city planner Peter Vaisbord pointed to some of the challenges facing Point Grey and other businesses on the West Side.

Changing demographics are such that family sizes are smaller and less money is spent. Anchor business are leaving the area, taking jobs with them. A huge chunk of money once spent directly in the neighbourhood is now being spent at UBC. Several councillors proposed a vacant storefront tax, similar in function to the tax on empty homes.

Staff said it was an idea worth exploring, but not something that could be endorsed right now.

NPA Coun. Sarah KirbyYung suggested that vacant storefronts be used by struggling arts groups on a temporary basis.

Tuesday’s report was seen as phase one in a larger study, while phase two is expected this summer. Each report will cost $100,000 to produce.

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Downtown Business Association calls for ‘safe supply’ of drugs Mike Howell

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The Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association is calling on the federal government to expand “safe supply” drug programs in the city and across Canada to prevent further overdose deaths.

Charles Gauthier, the president and CEO of the association, said Feb. 5 in a short YouTube video that such a move is needed to complement current life-preserving measures available to drug users.

“Although naloxone kits and overdose prevention sites have helped decrease the number of overdose deaths in our city, the DVBIA believes that a safe drug supply is what’s needed now to truly make a difference,” said Gauthier, noting the association has long supported the city’s four pillars drug strategy of harm reduction, treatment, prevention and enforcement.

“But it’s time to include a safe supply in the mix.”

The term “safe supply” is commonly used to describe

medical-grade drugs such as prescription heroin and the painkiller hydromorphone, which are prescribed to chronic drug users enrolled in clinic-based programs.

The aim of such programs is to have users no longer depend on poisonous street drugs, get healthy and reduce the need to commit crime or participate in risky behaviour to feed their habits.

Gauthier’s video comes after the association’s board of directors recently approved a policy that demands expansion of safe supply programs.

He described the policy on Twitter as “bold and courageous.”

“This is a national public health emergency and indeed a problem faced by many large cities throughout the world,” he said in the video.

“What’s needed now is for us to allow cities to implement innovative pilot programs that prioritize diversion to safe supply.”

The DVBIA went on record in May 2018 to support supervised injection sites downtown, noting they

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would reduce the number of injections in business bathrooms and give users access to drug treatment programs.

The association’s call for a safe supply is in line with demands from Mayor Kennedy Stewart, the Vancouver Police Department, Vancouver Coastal Health and drug users’ advocates.

Vancouver and the rest of the province have been hardest hit by opioidrelated deaths, with Ontario close behind as the nation grapples with a crisis that claimed more than 9,000 lives since 2016.

Gauthier pointed out that in 2016 a total of 232 people died of an overdose in Vancouver, a 67 per cent increase from the previous year.

In 2018, the overdose death toll increased to 395 people in Vancouver, more than double the 138 deaths recorded in 2015. In 2010, there were 42 deaths.

The most recent data from the B.C. Coroners Service, which captured statistics from January to October 2019, showed 210 people died in Vancouver.

In Vancouver, the Crosstown Clinic in the Downtown Eastside is the only facility in the city that operates a program where drug users have access to prescription heroin, which they use on the premises.

A few blocks east of the facility is the Molson Bank building, near Main and Hastings, where the PHS Community Services Society runs a program where users are given hydromorphone pills on site.

Last month, Dr. Mark Tyndall launched the MySafe Project, an 800-pound dispensing machine secured to a floor in a Downtown Eastside building that allows registered users to access free hydromorphone pills and take them home.

While preventing deaths was at the forefront of Gauthier’s video, the connection between property crime downtown and drug users is also a reality he’s discussed with the Courier.

Gauthier lamented the vehicle break-in problem in a Courier interview in February 2019, acknowledging what police have long said about the direct connection between break-ins and feeding a drug habit.

He said police enforcement, patrols by the DVBIA’s Downtown Ambassadors and education campaigns can only go so far.

“We may be at the point where we may need to look at other options, which is providing people with access to the drugs that they need and taking the wind out of the sails that’s fueling the property crime,” Gauthier said at the time.

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Back in 2015, the City of Vancouver’s Urban Design Panel rejected Cadillac Fairview’s proposal for the 26-storey Waterfront Tower it envisioned for 555 West Cordova St. The site, which has a relatively small footprint and is currently a parking lot, is between Waterfront Station and The Landing heritage buildings.

The UDP’s concerns included the location of the proposed building on the site and its proximity to Waterfront Station, that not enough sustainability measures were featured in the project and the relationship between the property’s private and public realms.

The UDP is only an advisory body and doesn’t approve or deny development applications, but its concerns helped lead to a redesign of the building.

Criticism of the building, which some dubbed an origami tower, also came from other quarters, including Courier columnist Michael Geller, former city planner Ray Spaxman and heritage activists.

The redesign, which was just released, includes a public plaza at street level, a public viewing terrace on level four and bicycle facilities.

Gordon Gill + Adrian Smith Architecture, an international firm based out of Chicago, is behind the design, while B+H Architects is the local collaborating firm.

Charles Gauthier, president and CEO of the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association, has already stated the association supports the proposal, which he said will add much-needed office space to a major transportation hub.

The Courier spoke to Tom Knoepfel, senior-vice president for Cadillac Fairview’s western portfolio, about the new plan for what the company is calling, ‘The Crystal at Waterfront Square.’

This has been a long time coming — almost exactly five years since the last design went before the Urban Design Panel. Why did it take so long?

A few different factors.

We engaged with the city and really wanted to understand what was important to the city. We took the feedback that we got from the Urban Design Panel and we were very consid-

Is that why you chose that firm?

Yeah, we’ve worked with this firm before on other buildings and other cities and we’re very pleased with their approach, especially in situations like this where there are heritage buildings nearby.

Cadillac Fairview wants to construct a 26-storey building at 555 West Cordova. IMAGE CADILLAC FAIRVIEW VIDEO SCREEN GRAB

erate of those things and wanted to make sure we put forward the best design possible that addressed those needs and concerns.

What are the main changes that were made from the previous design to this one?

I’d say there are two main design changes. One, we shifted the tower further back away from the street and tucked it in behind the station, so as not to impact the street-front facade of this station. As part of that, we turned the core by 90 degrees in order to be able to accommodate that.

Secondly, we also lifted the lobby up from the street level to make the building much more transparent. The result is that there will be much clearer vision, even around the building and through the building, to the views to the north of the harbour and the North Shore mountains.

Our real focus was to create a beautiful urban plaza — 85 per cent of that space that today is a parking lot is going to be a new urban plaza that can be enjoyed by people who work in the building, people who work in the area and visitors to our city.

Will the new building still overhang the station? That was one of the concerns in the past.

I don’t have the plans in front of me, but believe it may overhang the building a little bit. But it’s far less intrusive on the neighbouring building.

There’s no parking in the building, correct?

No. And, in terms of sustainability, that’s a key component as well. We’re adding zero net new parking stalls to the facility. The building couldn’t be any better located

when it comes to transit.

It’s immediately adjacent to Vancouver’s primary transit hub and we expect significant use of public transit and insignificant impact on the city in terms of additional vehicles.

In addition, we’re going to create one of Vancouver’s largest bicycle storage facilities with first first-class shower and change rooms.

Aren’t there parking minimums through the city or are they just waiving that requirement?

We are fulfilling the city’s requirement. We also have an adjacent parkade, which we own at Granville Square, which today is underutilised.

People that do need parking, we will be able to provide it in existing facilities. The key is we’re not building any new facilities. (Note: The City of Vancouver told the Courier after this interview that 555 West Cordova is seeking zero parking through a Transportation Demand Plan [TDM], and is in alignment with the 2019 amended parking bylaw.

“TDM plans contain measures used to manage traffic and parking demands, promote transit, walking and rolling.

This is one of the many proposed elements of the project that are currently being reviewed by City staff.”)

While you’re not the architect, how tough is it, do you think, to design a modern building like this next to heritage buildings on such a constrained site?

We feel that our architects, who have designed buildings around the world including European environments where this kind of situation arises on a regular basis, we think they have done an exceptional job of bringing a new building into an environment with exist-

How concerned are you about the reaction, from the public, the Urban Design Panel and the heritage commission, on this design given the reaction to the last one?

We welcome public input or feedback. We were very careful to consider the feedback that we received in 2015 and we’ve incorporated that feedback into the current design.

In the past it’s been described as an origami tower and now you’re calling it, ‘The Crystal at Waterfront Square’?

With respect to design, I believe the origami moniker came from the first three to four floors of the building — the design. Those floors have changed, in design, fairly substantially — far straighter lines at the base of the building.

What’s the timeline at this point if everything goes smoothly?

Ideally, we hope to commence construction later this year.

Is there anything else you’d want to say about the new design?

We’re excited about being able to put this building forword. We’ve seen tremendous growth in our city and Cadillac Fairview is very much committed to the city of Vancouver, including this building. Our investment [is] over $600 million dollars in the city of Vancouver for both employment and commercial purposes. We’re looking forward to creating more job spaces in the downtown core in a sustainable manner and located directly adjacent to transit.

Note: This interview has been condensed and edited.

The project goes before an open house from 3 to 7 p.m. at Fairmont Waterfront Hotel in the Mackenzie Ballroom, Feb. 18. The development permit application is currently scheduled to go before the Development Permit Board May 25.

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Tse added he is extremely concerned because the magnitude of the restaurant business suffering will drag down other sectors like produce suppliers and service labour staff, noting that — if more restaurants decide they cannot sustain the daily costs and shutter operations, other owners and operators will take that lead and create an exodus of restaurants.

“It won’t be just the restaurants affected,” Tse said. “It’s an entire business ecosystem.”

Lin said he doesn’t foresee the industry recovering until at least summer, and the market will see “an overhaul” of players — but the ones who remain will be “stronger than ever and highly adaptable to market changes.”

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“I personally don’t see things taking a 180-degree turn in the short-term,” Lin said. “What will likely happen is that the outbreak will end, consumers will slowly drop their fears and regain their trust. Things will all go back to normal with the flow of time, but 2020 will undoubtedly be a very, very tough year — not just for us in the restaurant business, but all businesses in general.”

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The Chinese restaurant and food services sector is facing a dramatic downturn in business as fears of the coronavirus outbreak in China have spread to the Lower Mainland community, heavily suppressing the number of diners looking to dine out at these establishments.

Groups such as the B.C. Asian Restaurant Cafe Owners Association — as well as several restaurant owners, managers and food-servicessector observers — have started ringing the alarm bells as restaurants who depend heavily on Chinese clientele are reporting as low as below 10 per cent of the restaurants’ capacity being used by diners since the outbreak was first reported in January.

On Monday, Chinese authorities said another 2,478 cases of the coronavirus have been confirmed in the country — adding that the additional 108 deaths reported pushed the total death toll to 1,016 and case count to 42,638. So far, four cases have been confirmed in B.C., all within the Vancouver Coastal Health region.

Andy Lin, chief representative of two MeetRice Noodles restaurants in Metro Vancouver, said he and others locally are seeing many nights of customers staying away. A canvassing of local Chinese restaurants shows most places having

an ample availability of open tables, even on weekends during this period of the year (usually flooded with Lunar New Year diners).

“I think the coronavirus outbreak could be called our ‘black swan event’ for the entire global Chinese culinary industry,” Lin said, noting that MeetRice Noodles’ more than 800 locations in China have also seen business decimated.

“People have to understand that the restaurant business is heavily dependent on daily cash flows — if there’s no one coming to dine, then restaurants have no income. ” Officials from the Asian Restaurant Cafe Owners Association said as many as three local establishments have suspended operations in light of the downturn in business. Association director William Tse said he understands the concern running through the local Chinese community, but the restaurants are doing everything they can to encourage people to dine out.

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10 ways to commemorate 2010 Olympics Free skating, curling, cauldron lighting John Kurucz

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A hockey championship was won on Vancouver ice for the first and only time and, in what was likely another first, people seemingly went out of their way to talk to one another.

It was almost like all of Vancouver was having fun — at least for a brief, fleeting moment.

Indeed, the 2010 Winter Olympics was unlike any other time in our city’s history, and now it’s time to look back at those magical days, 10 years later.

Commemorative events running until Feb. 22 will include a slew of activities, including curling, family skates, pin exchanges and a large object being lit aflame that’s not a doobie.

1) Until Feb. 17: Park board community centres across the city will play host to “Community Living Rooms.” Watch event highlights and be reminded of what the Olympics are all about, minus the rampant corruption and doping: friendship, solidarity, peace, fair play, optimism, inspiration and empowerment.

2) Feb. 14: Is there anything more romantic to kick-off Valentine’s Day than throwing rocks around an ice cold rink while yelling “Hurry hard!” Of course not. A free try-it event to get to know the basics of curling runs 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Vancouver Curling Club at Hillcrest Centre. All equipment is supplied, accredited coaches will be on hand and the day ends off with a mini game to put the numerous skills you’ll learn to the test.

Pre-registration required.

Info at vancouver.ca.

3) Feb. 14 and 15: If nothing else, you can earn street cred with young people by proclaiming you’re going to an event that’s “lit.”

Illuminate Yaletown runs 5:30 to 9 p.m. on the 1200 block of Hamilton Street and Bill Curtis Square (behind Yaletown-Roundhouse Station). All-ages activities include games, light shows, installations and endless opportunities to light up your otherwise uninspiring Instagram feed. Super. Info at yaletowninfo.com.

4) Feb. 15: Do people still collect pins? Find out from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., when the 2010 Winter Games Pin Exchange goes down at the Creekside Community Centre in Olympic Village. All ages, free. Info at vancouver.ca.

5) Feb. 16: Move over Columbus Blue Jackets, you’ve got company. The 2010 Blue Jacket Volunteer Celebration runs 10 a.m. to noon as a way to give thanks and share memories among those who worked behind the scenes during the Olympics. Free coffee and snacks will be offered at the Creekside Community Centre’s multipurpose room 4. Info at Eventbrite.com.

6) Feb. 17: It’s the kind of event that has “groin tear” written all over it but, as they say, fortune favours the brave. “Train Like an Olympian” runs from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at the Creekside Community Centre’s fitness centre, giving participants a chance to take part in a 10-station, 10-round, highintensity Olympian inspired workout. Pre-registration is required in person, by phone or online. Make like Joanne McLeod and Hal Johnson and “Keep fit and have fun!” Good luck. Info at vancouver.ca.

7) Feb. 17: A host of “Wear Red” Family Day skates are planned at rinks across the city. In case it wasn’t obvious, participants are encouraged to don the red and white. The Hillcrest Arena skate runs 9:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m., the Killarney skate goes 10:15 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. and the Trout Lake event is scheduled from 10:45 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The cost is $2 per person over the age of six. Otherwise, regular Leisure Access Program rates for things like skate sharpening will be applied. Info at vancouver.ca.

8) Feb. 17: Give wheelchair curling a go from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Killarney Community Centre Gymnasium. The event is free and will be adapted to curling on the floor versus the ice, whether standing or sitting. All equipment will be provided. Info at vancouver.ca.

9) Feb. 17: The B.C. Sports Hall of Fame hosts a humdinger of a free Olympic celebration from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at BC Place. The newly refurbished Vancouver 2010 Gallery features the largest collection of 2010 Olympic artifacts in Vancouver, including an official podium from the games. Equipment, memorabilia, live demonstrations and game-worn gear from Olympians will be in the offing, along with a chance to emulate Sidney Crosby’s “Golden Goal” in the Hall’s participation zone. And, of course, no event would be

penultimate celebration will include Olympic and Paralympic Athlete meet and greets, sport demonstrations, main stage programming, face painting and more. The cauldron will be lit at 5:30 p.m., followed by live music. The event is free.

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10) Feb. 22: The warm and fuzzy feelings of nostalgia get ramped up to 11 at the 2010 Games 10 Year Anniversary Fan Festival at Jack Poole Plaza. Running 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., the

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Opinion

Were the 2010 Olympic Games good for Vancouver?

Mike Klassen

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Exactly a decade after the Olympic torch finally arrived in Vancouver for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games, it is fair to ask what Canadians got in return for our multi-billion-dollar investment, and to consider who won and who lost.

In the weeks immediately after the athletes all went home to their respective countries, there were some who believed Vancouver had pulled off a miracle.

On the face of it, the event had become a spectacular success. However, the Games got off to a deadly start, when a fatal accident in Whistler took the life of Georgian luge athlete Nodar Kumaritashvili.

The death, which happened during a training run just hours before the opening ceremony at BC Place stadium, had the potential to cast a pall over the 2010 Olympics. Then, only two days later, Quebec skier Alexandre Bilodeau made sports history when he became the first Canadian

to win a gold medal at an Olympics held in Canada.

Hearing O Canada ring out at the medal ceremony for Bilodeau’s men’s moguls win was one of the early turning points of the Games that prevented it from becoming a costly public relations bust.

The late Jack Poole, who spirited along the enormous Games effort as chair of the Vancouver Olympics organizing committee (VANOC) until his untimely death from pancreatic cancer, described the whole endeavour as a “pressure cooker.”

The weight of the world sat on Poole’s shoulders, as much as it did VANOC’s president and COO John Furlong, and then-B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell. Together, all three men risked the huge public investment, their personal and professional reputations, and the reputation of our city and country if the Games was not a success.

This week’s Wet’suwet’en solidarity protests in Vancouver, and across the province, are an echo of the comparatively loud and angry

Thanks to dozens of free or low-cost attractions and activities, downtown Vancouver teemed with more than 100,000 visitors on a daily basis during the Olympics, impressing veteran Games organizers and global media. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

demonstrations that gripped the city for months leading up to the 2010 Games.

The chants of “Homes, not Games” and “No Olympics on stolen native land” rang out, but ultimately did not sway public opinion.

Some blamed VANOC’s clumsy, top-down management style for the rift with social activists. While it is true Furlong often looked like a deer in the headlights when met with angry dis-

ruptions at Vancouver city hall and elsewhere, no one can fault his efforts to be inclusive of First Nations.

In fact, VANOC’s partnership with the four host First Nations — the Lil’wat, Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh — were a significant part of the Games’ success. Canada’s Aboriginal cultures were featured at several popular pavilions in downtown Vancouver as well.

Thanks to the powerful Own the Podium program, Canada impressed the world by winning medal after medal, coming in third place overall behind the U.S.A. and Germany, but topping the standings for the number of gold medals including the pivotal men’s hockey game.

And while the Olympic events captivated the world, something significant began to happen on the streets and in the surrounding boroughs of Vancouver. The general public — many who could never afford to attend an Olympic competition — made Vancouver’s Games their own.

Thanks to dozens of free or low-cost attractions and activities, citizens ignored the recommendation of city officials to stay at home. Instead, downtown Vancouver teemed with more than 100,000 visitors on a daily basis, impressing veteran Games organizers and global media.

As luck would have it a humble online guide for those free venues — prepared by me and longtime collaborator Daniel Fontaine — attracted millions of views online, and gave tens of thousands on a

low budget the ability to join in the celebration.

Some have asserted that Vancouver’s 2010 Games — the most expensive peacetime event in our nation’s history — was a defining moment for Canada, both in terms of our national psyche but in the eyes of the world.

But what do we have left from our 2010 experience besides new roads, buildings and the Canada Line?

While our region attracts much more tourism and business investment today, we also have watched our real estate prices skyrocket and putting home ownership out of reach for many.

And the men who led the charge — Campbell and Furlong — both have retreated from the limelight.

Did Vancouver and Canada come out ahead?

For me the answer is yes, but the debate on this question is sure to continue. *** Listen to the Vancouver Overcast podcast for Mike Klassen’s 2010 Games retrospective with reporter Bob Mackin. @MikeKlassen

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10 moments from the 2010 Olympics Like most Vancouverites, Courier reporters and photographers experienced the 2010 Games on the streets of the city.

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Ten years ago this week, the 2010 Winter Olympics came to town.

Looking back, our reporters and photographers covered the Games the way most Vancouverites experienced them — in the bustling streets, on the newly launched Canada Line, celebrating in pubs, screaming at screens at outdoor viewing areas and mingling with the international crowds at various Olympic houses dotting the city.

While the Olympics are about athleticism and international competition, for the majority of people living in Vancouver the Games felt more like an event where the average person was a participant rather than a spectator.

With that in mind, we’ve gone through the Courier’s photo archives to remember what the Olympics looked and felt like at a community level.

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Downtown Vancouver was the epicentre for patriotic Canadians to mingle and celebrate with thousands of international visitors.

3. Remember Miga, Quatchi, Sumi and Mukmuk? Super fan Tasha Bukovnik sure did. She even assembled her own mascot-adorned Olympic shrine.

4. Scalpers from around the world descended on Vancouver for the Games, including “Bobby from London” who was on the hunt for tickets to the coveted Canada vs. USA hockey gold medal game.

5. This patriotic spectator celebrated Canadian curling gold on the big screen at David Lam Park’s Livecity venue prior to a performance by Wintersleep.

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6. Stephen Colbert visited Vancouver during the first week of the Games for a live, outdoor taping of his satirical show The Colbert Report, near Science World.

7. A unicyclist escaped the crowds along Robson Street.

8. At public viewing areas across the city, throngs of people watched and celebrated Team Canada’s accomplishments.

9. Protesters attemped to disrupt the Olympic torch relay on Commercial Drive. PHOTO JASON LANG 10. A rare quiet moment for False Creek and the many Inukshuk’s erected along its shore.

For more photos, go to vancourier.com. PHOTOS BY DAN TOULGOET

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IMPORTANT NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS: LAND ASSESSMENT AVERAGING

Current year without averaging

Prior year

Since 2015, the City of Vancouver has used targeted land assessment averaging to calculate property taxes as recommended by the Property Tax Policy Review Commission in 2014. While averaging does not increase or decrease the City’s tax revenue, it affects the amount of taxes paid by individual property owners.

The City transitioned from three-year to five-year targeted averaging in 2019. Under the targeted averaging approach, only those properties facing significant year-over-year increases in property values above a certain threshold (“hot” properties) would be considered for averaging. For eligible “hot” properties, the program calculates property taxes for the City and other taxing authorities using an average of the assessed land value for the current and prior four years, plus their current assessed improvement value, provided that this averaged value does not go below the threshold value.

All other properties continue to pay property taxes based on their current year BC Assessment value.

The table presented shows the estimated effect of the targeted fiveyear averaging program on the City of Vancouver’s general purpose tax levy for sample properties based on the thresholds proposed for 2020 (10% above class average change), subject to Council approval. The program requires an adjustment to the tax rates such that properties below the threshold would pay slightly higher taxes to provide tax relief for those “hot” properties above the threshold.

Amounts levied by other taxing authorities such as provincial schools, TransLink, BC Assessment, and Metro Vancouver are not included in the analysis.

On March 10, 2020, Vancouver City Council will consider whether to use targeted five-year averaging for residential (Class 1), light industrial (Class 5) and business and other (Class 6) properties, and determine the appropriate thresholds for these property classes if targeted averaging is adopted. Should Council decide to use targeted five-year averaging, a by-law will be adopted.

Taxable value ($)

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Taxable value ($)

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Current year with averaging Taxable value ($)

Est. 2020 taxes ($)

Sample Residential Strata (Class 1) properties Targeted “hot” property

585,000

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686,000

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748,000

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686,000

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686,000

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Sample Residential Single Family (Class 1) properties Targeted “hot” property

1,297,289

1,733

1,560,000

2,455

1,328,200

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Other property not targeted

1,719,000

2,296

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2,468

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2,484

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10,549

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2,500,900

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Sample Light Industrial (Class 5) properties Targeted “hot” property Other property not targeted

Sample Business & Other (Class 6) properties Targeted “hot” property

427,200

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846,000

3,650

533,200

2,393

Other property not targeted

795,100

3,396

831,900

3,589

831,900

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The report, which details the program and how it could impact property taxes, will be posted on our website at: vancouver.ca/averaging FOR MORE INFORMATION: 3-1-1 or vancouver.ca/averaging COMMENTS? Contact Council: vancouver.ca/your-government/contact-council or write to: Mayor and Council 453 West 12th Avenue Vancouver, BC V5Y 1V4 SPEAK TO COUNCIL: Prior to adoption of the bylaw, you may speak in person at the Council meeting on March 10, 2020.

Email speaker.request@vancouver.ca or phone 604-829-4272 to register.

PUBLIC HEARING: FEBRUARY 25, 2020

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THESE APPLICATIONS INCLUDING LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTIES: vancouver.ca/rezapps or 604-873-7038 You may participate in the Public Hearing either by speaking or submitting comments that will be distributed to the Mayor and Councillors. All spoken and written comments will be publically accessible on the City of Vancouver’s website with your full name attached.

Tuesday, February 25, 2020 at 6 pm City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Third Floor, Council Chamber Vancouver City Council will hold a Public Hearing to consider zoning for these locations: 1. Simplified and Expanded Zoning and Development Regulations for Passive House Projects To amend the Zoning and Development By-law provisions for Certified Passive House projects (except laneway houses) to respond to directives in Vancouver’s Climate Emergency Response report and remove barriers to building to the Passive House standard.

2. 3495-3505 Commercial Street To add the existing building at 3495-3505 Commercial Street, known as “The Broadhurst and Whitaker Block”, to the Vancouver Heritage Register in the “C” evaluation category and to designate the exterior and structure of the existing building to secure the long-term protection of the heritage property from inappropriate alterations and demolition.

Submit your comments online at vancouver.ca/public-hearing-comments, or by mail to: City of Vancouver, City Clerk’s Office, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 1V4. To speak, please register individually beginning at 8:30 am on February 14 until 5 pm on the day of the Public Hearing online at vancouver.ca/speak-to-council or by calling 604-829-4238. You may also register in person at the door between 5:30 and 6 pm on the day of the Public Hearing.

Copies of the draft by-laws will be available for viewing starting February 14 at the City Clerk’s Office in City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, Monday to Friday from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. All meetings of Council are webcast live at vancouver.ca/councilvideo, and minutes of Public Hearings are available at vancouver.ca/councilmeetings (posted approximately two business days after a meeting). For real time information on the progress of City Council meetings, visit vancouver.ca/speaker-wait-times or @VanCityClerk on Twitter.

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3. 1500 West Georgia Street To amend CD-1 (705) to increase the permitted floor space ratio (FSR) from 10.82 to 10.93 and to increase the maximum floor area of sub-area A by 432.2 square metres (4,652.2 square feet) to correct an error in the floor area calculation for the existing, retained office building.

4. 3235-3261 Clive Avenue To rezone 3235-3261 Clive Avenue from CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District (219) to a new CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a six-storey residential building fronting Vanness Avenue and three-and-a-half storey townhouses fronting Clive Avenue, with 68 residential units (62 strata-titled units and six market rental units). Increases to the permitted floor space ratio (FSR) from 1.20 to 2.25 and to the maximum building height from 11.9 metres (39 feet) to 21.4 metres (70.2 feet) are proposed.

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What are we left with 10 years after Vancouver Olympics?

Memories of beer pitcher celebrations, slightly safer highways, the glory of rapid transit Andy Prest

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It was 10 years ago — Feb. 12, 2010 — that the opening ceremonies of the Vancouver Olympic Games were held.

Remember that? Remember Wayne Gretzky riding in the back of the ceremonial pickup truck? That was weird. And very Canadian!

It’s hard to believe that it all happened a decade ago.

In retrospect, the questions surrounding huge civic events such as this all have to do with legacy. What is left behind, physically and psychologically, for the local residents once the party is over? What was the price tag? What will carry on?

Why did Russia leave behind this big bag of needles?

Let’s take this opportunity to look back and examine what remains from those 17 days in 2010.

Memories!

Ah, memories. Misty water-coloured memories, of a beer pitcher. No, you can’t eat or live in or skate on or reduce ER wait times with memories, but what is life if not a series of events and snapshots and experiences stitched together individually and collectively into a never-ending tapestry known as us? Also: mittens.

The Olympics were a lot of fun, for many of us, is what I’m saying here.

Watching crazy Jon Montgomery strolling down the streets of Whistler chugging straight from a pitcher

of beer after winning a gold medal was wildly entertaining. West Vancouver’s Maëlle Ricker crafted one of the greatest moments in North Shore sports history when she won a gold medal in snowboard cross at Cypress Mountain, just a few kilometres away from her childhood home.

The 2010 Olympics also taught Canadians to love ice dance rather than scoffing at it as the fake figure skating pseudo-event that the Russians always fixed.

In 2010, Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir won their first Olympic gold medal and twizzled their way into our hearts. Ice dance fake? Tell that to my tears.

Also there was that golden goal from Sidney Crosby, an instant classic that leaped right near the top of the list of the greatest moments in Canada’s storied hockey history. Celebrations erupted across the country, most of all in Vancouver, where outdoor viewing stations spilled into the streets. A similar setup really caught fire the following year when the Vancouver Canucks almost won the Stanley Cup. Special good times. And no, you can’t eat those moments, but people will be able to fire up YouTube and feast on those memories for a lifetime.

Life is a highway

OK, so memories aren’t a concrete legacy. So what is a concrete legacy? Well… concrete. Lots of it, on the refurbished Sea to Sky

Maëlle Ricker celebrates moments after winning an Olympic gold medal in snowboard cross on Cypress Mountain at the Vancouver Games in 2010. PHOTO JENELLE SCHNEIDER/CANWEST NEWS

Highway, upgraded to increase safety and accommodate all the traffic heading up to events in Whistler during the Games. Once known as the Highway of Death, it is now not known as that, although there are still a lot of crashes on it.

According to recent B.C. Ministry of Transportation numbers, there were an average of 94 serious collisions per year before the upgrade and now there are an average of 70 per year, despite an increase in overall traffic.

Olympic motto: Faster, Higher, Slightly Safer

Go Canada Line

I was just on the Google Map machine and discov-

ered it takes nearly as much time for me to take public transit from my house in North Vancouver to the West Vancouver Community Centre as it takes for me to take public transit to the Vancouver International Airport. This despite the fact that I basically live on the same street as the rec centre, a trip that crosses no major bodies of water, while the trip to the airport includes a boat ride.

Why are these two trips almost the same? Well, for one thing, there’s no rapid bus line into the heart of West Vancouver. But that’s a different legacy story. The big reason is the Canada Line, a rapid transit route

that caused grief during its messy construction phase but has made airport access an absolute breeze since it opened in 2009, ready to roll for the Olympics. It’s like Uber, except cheaper and faster and not evil and reduces traffic!

Buildings and landmarks

The outdoor Olympic cauldron, fenced off during the Olympics to keep out ruffians, now sits free and easy on the waterfront downtown. Nearby, the west building of the Vancouver Convention Centre, completed in 2009, has a fancy glowing globe in the lobby and grass on the roof.

Next time you come for a convention, bring your goat!

The Hillcrest Centre in Vancouver, home to Olympic curling, and the Richmond Olympic Oval have both been turned into well-used community centres, a far cry from the common refrain of Olympic host cities being left with white elephants when the Games move on. You can still nordic ski and bobsleigh up near Whistler as well, although having those facilities hasn’t done too much to tick those sports past the niche level around here — Vancouver didn’t suddenly fill up with lugers.

So there’s the legacy.

Was it all worth it? I’d lean yes, given that watching highlights of Canadians crushing it in record fashion over those 17 days still warms my mittens. It did cost a lot of money, though.

Billions with a capital B. But other Olympic host cities have spent a lot more and been left with a lot less over the years. And the world seems to have caught on to the IOC grift, with sane (i.e. democratically elected) governments showing a lot more reluctance these days about chasing Olympic hosting glory.

Were we suckers, or did we find some golden fun while avoiding an Olympic-sized hangover?

It probably all depends on your perspective. Was that pitcher half full, or half empty?

Andy Prest is sports editor for the North Shore News.

How Stephen Colbert almost became Vancouver’s mayor for a day Colbert Report visited Vancouver during first week of 2010 Olympics Bob Kronbauer

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The chief of staff for former mayor Gregor Robertson shared a fascinating story on Twitter last week.

Before becoming the mayor’s right hand man, Kevin Quinlan was working in the city’s communications department during the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. His story is about how comedian and political commentator Stephen Colbert almost served as Vancouver’s mayor for a day during the games.

Gigantic crowds formed when Colbert filmed multiple episodes of his Comedy Central show The Colbert

Report in close proximity to Science World, which was taken over by the Russians and named “Russky Dom” for the duration of the games.

Quinlan noted in a thread on Twitter that one of his favourite memories during the games concerned an “event that almost happened, got spiked at the last minute, and no one ever knew about it.”

As he describes it, Colbert’s people called the City of Vancouver’s communications department a few days into the games.

They wanted to do a segment with Mayor Gregor Robertson, and city staff were all over it.

Comedy Central’s idea was for Colbert to have a sit-down interview with Robertson, then become mayor for a day, with actual powers.

Staff weren’t able to accommodate the “powers” part, but offered to do a proclamation of “Stephen Colbert is mayor day” as well as a fake ceremonial passing of the city’s mace (a gigantic gold thing that sits near the city council chamber at city hall and was a gift from the queen).

Staff were going to allow Colbert access to the roof of city hall where he was going to hang out with a megaphone speaking to his loyal

subjects letting them know he was their new mayor.

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However a snowstorm hit the East Coast and Colbert wasn’t able to fly in when he had planned to, and Quinlan says that “they cut a day off [Colbert’s] trip to Vancouver.”

As a result, the interview and Colbert becoming the fake mayor of Vancouver for a day never happened.

Stephen Colbert taped an episode of The Colbert Report near Science World during the first week of the Olympics.

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“Leave me alone.”

Those were reportedly the final tragic words Princess Diana uttered in public the night before she was killed in a Paris tunnel in the early hours of Aug. 31, 1997. Diana was 36 years old. Her youngest son Harry was 12.

On the night of that horrible crash, I was on the CBC Vancouver plaza, celebrating the final broadcast of a groundbreaking radio show called Nightlines, hosted by David Wisdom. Wisdom is a British ex-pat and, in many ways, Canada’s answer to legendary BBC host John Peel. The news of Diana’s death sucked the energy from both the live event and Wisdom, and eventually pre-empted much of the broadcast.

That night, in that tunnel 23 years ago, after the Mercedes she was in spun out and smashed, Diana was still conscious, although critically injured. Some of the paparazzi who were chasing on motorcycles helped as soon as they arrived on the scene.

Others took pictures.

In 1999, a French inves-

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s retreat to Canada’s West Coast has attracted reporters and photographers from around the world. PHOTO ISTOCK

tigation found the driver of the car Diana was in, Henri Paul, solely responsible.

Blood tests showed he was drunk and stoned. Years later in 2008, at the end of a long inquest by the Royal Courts of Justice in London, it was ruled that both the driver and the paparazzi were at fault for “gross negligence.”

The crash killed Diana, her boyfriend Dodi Fayed, and the driver. Only Diana’s bodyguard survived.

Now, here we are, 22 years later. Harry is 35 and, in case you’ve been living under a rotting log somewhere deep in the Great Bear Rainforest, he’s married to actress

Meghan Markle. They have a nine-month-old boy named Archie. You’ll also no doubt be aware that the Duke of Sussex and his wife and child have chosen to withdraw from their royal duties in England in order to live a private life — apparently along the southern shores of British

Columbia.

Keyword: private.

This man didn’t choose the life he was born into, but he did choose to leave it. To honour the memory of his mother, we as Canadians owe it to Prince Harry and his family to allow them to live their lives in privacy and in peace. He and his brother have grown up without a mom because others chose not to respect their mother’s privacy and peace.

“Every single time I see a camera, every single time I hear a click, every single time I see a flash, it takes me right back,” Prince Harry admitted recently in a TV interview about his mother. “In that respect, it’s the worst reminder of her life as opposed to the best.”

Canadians already have a generally good reputation when it comes to giving celebrities their space. But because of our sentimental and historic connection as a Commonwealth nation, some of us hold the Royals in a much higher regard than we would, say, Ben Affleck. All the more reason to steer clear, knowing what we know.

Harry and Meghan are reportedly living at the moment outside of Victoria in an

oceanfront home. Ever since the news got out that they spent the holidays here instead of England, Victoria and its surrounds have been invaded with reporters and photographers from around the world.

I applaud the water taxi owners of southern Vancouver Island, among them Reg Kirkham, who have been refusing offers from various media outlets to take them to out shoot the Royals from the ocean’s open vantage point.

“We’re not believers in invading people’s privacy, especially Harry and Meghan and what they’re going through,” Kirkham told CTV News. “They don’t need to be bothered.”

Other area residents have passed Markle on jogging trails and out walking her baby. So far, most neighbours seem to be pleasantly following Kirkham’s lead, and resisting the selfie. And that’s the way it should be.

Let’s welcome this family to our beautiful pocket of the world like we would any other: by being polite, gracious and kind.

And, to echo Princess Diana’s final sentiment, by leaving them alone. @grantlawrence

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Whether you’re a casual autograph seeker or the kind to get your whole family in coordinated costumes, this is the ultimate weekend for pop culture fandom. Meet stars from film and TV, the internet, gaming, anime, animation and more.

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Vancouver Never Plays Itself

There’s a great documentary film that puts together all the times Los Angeles has played itself in the movies (aptly titled Los Angeles Plays Itself). But this night of storytelling and celebration is about how Vancouver never seems to play itself — so we have to be the keepers

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of the memories and stories.

Five storytellers will take to the stage, each offering a different perspective during this evening of community and exploration.

When: Feb. 18, 7 p.m.

Where: SFU Woodward’s, 149 West Hastings St. eventbrite.ca

100th Anniversary of Prohibition at Pourhouse

Prohibition put a serious buzzkill on the golden era of cocktails, but Gastown’s Pourhouse is taking this year to celebrate all the places and ways that kept quaffing fabulous. Each

month, the Pourhouse staff is highlighting a different region of the world and its most famous cocktails. In February it’s Paris, with two classic $14 libations that hail from bars located in the City of Light — Le Forum (Citadelle gin, Lilllet Blanc vermouth, aquavit, Grand Marnier, Absinthe) and the Scofflaw (Sazerac straight rye whiskey, Noilly Prat dry vermouth, Bitter Truth EXR liqueur, house-made grenadine).

When: February 2020 Where: Pourhouse, 162 Water St. pourhousevancouver.com

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Markstrom’s excellence and Canucks’ coming cap crunch could cost them All-Star goaltender is in line for a significant raise on his next contract

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Jacob Markstrom is having an unreal season.

His save percentage of .915 — 14th among goaltenders with at least 20 starts — doesn’t fully tell the story of just how critical Markstrom has been to the Canucks. For that, you have to look at how the team has played defensively in front of him.

The Canucks have allowed the fourthmost shots per game this season, behind only the Chicago Blackhawks, New York Rangers and Ottawa Senators, and just ahead of the Detroit Red Wings. All four of those teams are well out of the playoffs, with the Senators in 29th in the NHL and the Red Wings in dead last, 11 points behind the next worst team.

Allowing that many shots against is usually a recipe for failure. Somehow, for the Canucks, it isn’t.

It’s not just the quantity of shots; it’s the quality. According to analytics website Natural Stat Trick, the Canucks have allowed the third-most scoring chances against at five on five in the NHL. The Canucks are not keeping shots to the outside; opposing teams are getting into the slot and racking up scoring chances.

Despite that, the Canucks still find themselves on top of the Pacific Division, primarily because Markstrom has been sensational at stopping scoring chances.

Former NHL goaltender Stephen Valiquette is currently a CEO of Clear Sight Analytics (CSA), which takes the tracking of scoring chances up a notch from the publicly available data used by Natural Stat Trick. CSA includes additional information, like passing data, screens, deflections and broken plays, to more accurately determine the likelihood of any given shot becoming a goal.

Valiquette recently shared the results of some of CSA’s proprietary work on Twitter, showing where the NHL’s goaltenders rank in “Goals Saved Above Average” (GSAA).

In other words, how would an average goaltender perform while facing the same quality of shots?

Markstrom was at the top of the chart, with a 15.33 GSAA that was significantly higher than any other NHL goaltender.

Once you take into account the screens he has battled through to track the puck, the broken plays he’s reacted to with lightning reflexes, and the back door plays where he has lunged across to make spectacular saves, Markstrom looks like the best goaltender in

Stick-taps & Glove-drops • A tap of the stick to Daniel and Henrik Sedin, whose numbers were raised to the rafters of Rogers Arena on Wednesday night.

We’ll never see their like in the NHL again.

• Further stick-taps to the Canucks organization, which perfectly handled the entire week with the Sedins, bringing back not only other legends whose numbers have been retired, but a whole host of Sedin teammates. The ceremonies were as classy as the Sedins themselves.

Big Numbers Goalie Jacob Markstrom is on the last year of his contract and is in line for a significant raise from his current $3.67 million cap hit thanks to a stellar season. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

the entire NHL. That’s great for the Canucks this season, who are in a solid position to make the playoffs for the first time in five years, but it leaves them in a quandary for the future.

Markstrom is on the last year of his contract and is in line for a significant raise from his current $3.67 million cap hit.

That could make things sticky for next season, where the Canucks already have around $63.5 million committed to the $81.5 million salary cap. That doesn’t include performance bonuses for the likes of Elias Pettersson and Quinn Hughes, which will have to be carried over to next year, chipping off another chunk of cap space.

That doesn’t leave much room to re-sign Markstrom and fellow unrestricted free agents Chris Tanev and Josh Leivo, as well as restricted free agents Jake Virtanen, Adam Gaudette, Troy Stecher, and others.

That cap space will disappear quickly.

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will be in line for massive contracts. The issue isn’t just about getting Pettersson and Hughes signed, but having enough flexibility under the cap to improve the team around them.

That makes Markstrom’s next contract a crucial one. The Canucks can likely keep the cap hit reasonable with a longer-term deal, but those get dicey for goaltenders over 30, as we’ve seen from Sergei Bobrovsky’s disastrous first season of a sevenyear, $70 million contract with the Florida Panthers. A short-term contract with a higher cap hit would make more sense for the Canucks, who have to be thinking of the Seattle expansion draft and the up-andcoming Thatcher Demko.

To make a higher cap hit work over the next couple years, however, would require some significant wheeling and dealing to clear cap space. And the better Markstrom performs, the bigger the challenge for GM Jim Benning and his management team.

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