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It’s got to be a record of some sort — the use of the word “action” in one sitting of city council.

In the two-and-a-half hours that I sat in the gallery last Tuesday, “action” was a word that rolled off the tongue of councillors, the mayor, city staff and Kevin Barlow, the CEO of the Metro Vancouver Aboriginal Executive Council.

The topic was “truth and reconciliation” and what kind of “action” the city could take to improve relations with indigenous people. As was pointed out in the morning session, the City of Vancouver has made some progress.

Some of the evidence: On Feb. 26, 2013, council endorsed the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Council proclaimed June 21, 2013 to June 20, 2014 as the “year of reconciliation” in the city.

On June 25, 2014, council acknowledged that Vancouver is on the unceded

The City of Vancouver is working with B.C. Housing and Lu’ma Native Housing Society to build up to 30 units of social housing on property at 946 and 950 Main Street. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

traditional territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.

In December 2014, local First Nations performed a “brushing off” ceremony of the newly elected city council to symbolize a fresh start for the new term.

Now the city has identified 27 of the 94 recommendations set out in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s final report as “actionable” by the city.

Everything from child welfare, education, language

and culture to health, justice, sports and business are among the issues and topics identified in the 27 recommendations.

To begin, senior managers will receive what that the city calls “cultural competency training,” which is effectively educating staff about First Nations’ culture and history. The purpose is to help focus staff’s work on projects and programs — when relevant — through an indigenous lens. The goal is to train more than 350 staff.

The city will create positions for a manager of aboriginal relations and a planner focused on the aboriginal community. Miscellaneous projects to strengthen relationships with First Nations and improve services are other — you got it — actions.

But while training and programs are important steps, it’s clear where the real work needs to be done: 31 per cent of Metro Vancouver’s homeless population identified as aboriginal in the last homeless count. It’s a

startling statistic made even more startling when learning that aboriginal people only comprise two per cent of the region’s population.

In his presentation to council, Barlow stressed the importance of creating an immediate “action plan” to construct 1,500 new social housing units across Metro Vancouver by 2020.

“Housing and homelessness is a true measure of reconciliation,” he wrote in his report. “A stable home opens a door wide open for huge socio-economic growth when indigenous people can then participate fully in the B.C. and Canadian economy.”

So what is the city doing to address the housing gap?

It’s embarking on at least four projects on Main Street and East Hastings where the goal is to build 600 to 700 social housing units by 2020. B.C. Housing, the Aboriginal Friendship Centre and the Urban Native Youth Association are involved in the projects.

Council gave staff the green light to continue working on getting the

projects built. They include a shelter, social housing, health services and a new native youth centre.

That’s some action, you might say.

But whether that action will speak louder than all the reassuring words spoken at city hall about truth and reconciliation depends on one sobering factor: money.

While the city has put up the land for two of the four projects and owns part of the land on a third — and B.C. Housing has, so far, committed to $4.6 million in construction costs — there’s no estimate on the overall tab, or if all the needed millions of dollars will ever be in place.

So what’s next?

The mayor will write a letter to Premier Christy Clark and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to see whether all their promises about bettering relations with First Nations will lead to — you got it — action.

Action, that is, that comes with a whole lot of dollars. @Howellings

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UBC, working with the UNA, has undertaken a process to develop an elaborated design vision for the Wesbrook Place Neighbourhood.

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Vancouver Coastal Health is pushing ahead with a plan to provide more supervised drug injection sites in the city and open them in existing community health centres.

Dr. Patricia Daly, chief medical health officer for the health authority, said the plan is in its early stages and involves examining which health centres have the greatest need for the service.

“If we put in another application [to Health Canada], it will be for more than one site,” Daly told the Courier by telephone last week. “It wouldn’t be for 10, but it would probably be for a handful of sites to start with. We’ve got a few that we’re considering but I don’t want to publicly say them right now.”

Up until last week, Vancouver’s only legal injection site was Insite on East Hastings, a facility that opened in September 2003. The Dr. Peter Centre, which caters to people with AIDS and those

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The Insite supervised drug injection site has operated on East Hastings since 2003. Vancouver Coastal Health wants to provide more facilities in the city. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

dealing with mental health and addictions issues, has operated an injection room for its clients since February 2002.

Last week, Health Canada officially granted the Centre an exemption under the country’s drug laws to continue operating what has been a technically illegal three-booth injection room.

Daly described the news as

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significant and a signal the new Trudeau government is open to more drug injection facilities in Vancouver and across the country.

But, she said, for more applicants to be successful in getting an exemption for an injection site, the Trudeau government must repeal a leftover piece of legislation from the Harper era.

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whose many members are former Vancouver police officers, including the deputy chiefs he inherits, Ed Eviston and Barry Kross.

“They both worked for me when they were inspectors at the VPD,” said LePard, who estimated the number of former Vancouver officers working as transit cops is probably in the dozens. “In fact, one of them is a former academy classmate of mine.”

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VPD Deputy Chief Doug LePard will leave his post to lead the Metro Vancouver Transit Police. He begins his new job in March.

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When Doug LePard begins his new job in early March as chief of the Metro Vancouver Transit Police, it will be almost as if he hasn’t left the Vancouver Police Department.

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The VPD announced Jan. 20 that LePard, 54, accepted the top transit cop’s job. LePard’s new post brings an end to a career that began in 1981 when he was 19 years old.

He planned to retire over the next year or so until he agreed to take the new job.

“I’ve been here my whole adult life and I’ve had an incredibly rewarding career,” LePard told the Courier by telephone.

“But I knew that all good things have to come to an end. And after 35 years, it is time to move on and make room for other people.”

His words were similar to former chief Jim Chu’s when he explained why he was retiring last year. LePard was in the running for Chu’s job but stepped aside to support Adam Palmer, who became the VPD chief last year.

“As [Chu] said when he left, that meant six people got promoted and a recruit got hired,” LePard said. “So when I leave, five people will be promoted and a recruit will be hired.”

Mark Reder, chairperson of the transit police board,

said LePard was selected to lead the transit police because of his proven leadership and significant management skills. Reder described LePard as one of the most talented police leaders in the country.

“He’s not someone that we don’t know,” he said, noting LePard served three terms on the transit police board; Palmer is now on the board but recused himself from the selection of a new transit chief.

“He’s a known commodity to the board, we know him well and it’s a unique circumstance when you can work with somebody who’s invested their time and energy to the organization, already. It gives you a lot of comfort.”

Palmer said in a statement circulated to media last Wednesday that LePard was one of the brightest and most accomplished officers he has known, adding that he leaves an indelible mark on the department.

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The two chiefs will undoubtedly be working with each other, with LePard noting the most SkyTrain stations in the region are in Vancouver. Historically, transit police have worked closely with the VPD and other police departments in the region.

Lawyer Douglas King of the Pivot Legal Society has spoken to LePard several times over the years regarding various VPD actions, including the mass ticketing of Downtown Eastside residents.

King said LePard’s three terms on the transit police board obviously helped his chances of landing his new job. King’s perception is that LePard had a lot of influence on the transit police board.

“I interacted with the board on a couple of issues and I always got the sense that he was playing a leadership role,” he said.

Now as chief, King said he will be watching to see what kind of tone LePard sets with his officers. He believes LePard is more a proponent of “pro-active policing,”

where he said police aggressively engage with people to discover or prevent crime, as opposed to the traditional philosophy that police should respond to the community’s needs.

“The problem with that is that we already know that transit police have a history of questionable practice in terms of how they engage with people and who they engage with,” he said, pointing to a case in which two officers were sentenced last fall to a conditional discharge for assaulting a construction worker at a SkyTrain station in 2012.

LePard’s career with the VPD spans from his first days as a patrol officer on the East Side to his past 12 years as a deputy chief, one of the longest serving in the department.

LePard may be best known for his work during the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry, where he spent 14 days giving evidence on behalf of the VPD. The VPD eventually apologized for not capturing serial killer

Robert Pickton sooner.

“We should have performed better,” said LePard, who wrote a comprehensive review of the Pickton investigation. “So it was right that we apologized and not hide behind lawyers or excuses.”

The inquiry led to improvements in how police handle missing persons investigations and serious crimes.

The Missing Women Commission of Inquiry report described LePard’s review as an “unprecedented selfexamination by police and a rare exemplar of how you can do [an] internal autopsy and try to figure out what went wrong so that it won’t happen again in the future.”

The report also identified the VPD as a “best practice learning organization” and attributed that in part to the leadership of LePard.

“I am proud that out of tragedy that I played a significant role in those improvements in policing in British Columbia,” he said.

A longer version of this story appears at vancourier.com. @Howellings

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1. Bruce Haden, co-curator of the Future Scenarios portion of the exhibition, cites HCMA Architecture + Design’s proposed recreational platform in Coal Harbour, as among the creative ideas featured.

Haden is excited about rethinking our relationship with the water. 2. Photographs of different housing types are also presented. The photos, meant to encourage visitors to think about how we live now and how we want to live in the future, range from a homeless person’s tent in Stanley Park to a highrise in Burnaby to single-family houses. 3. Your Future Home tackles hotly debated topics such as affordability, density, transportation and public space. 4. Elevated public parks on the upper levels of buildings is another idea showcased. PHOTOS DAN TOULGOET

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Imagine a 2,500-foothigh tower downtown that takes a street grid 90 degrees so it points upward, or a series of elevated public parks on the upper levels of buildings, or parks on barges that could be moved around the city.

These are among ideas — some a bit tongue-in-cheek — dreamed up by architects and urban designers from around the region in the Future Scenarios portion of the new Museum of Vancouver exhibition Your Future Home: Creating the New Vancouver that opened Jan. 21.

Museum of Vancouver and the Vancouver Urbanarium Society are co-presenting the show, which tackles some of the most hotly debated topics in the city — affordability, density, transportation and public space.

Photographs of different housing types around the Lower Mainland are among the components of the show. The photos, meant to

encourage visitors to think about how we live now and how we want to live in the future, range from a homeless person’s tent in Stanley Park to a highrise in Burnaby to single-family houses.

BTA Works, meanwhile, put together data about Vancouver on subjects such as historical housing prices, density issues and demographics.

Bruce Haden, co-curator of the Future Scenarios part of the exhibit, sits on the board of the Urbanarium society — a group of planners, architects and urbanites whose aim, in his words, is to be “an honest broker of good information so we can actually have better debates about how to build a city we call care about.”

Its initiatives include an interactive “Smartmap,” which launched during the exhibition and is available on Urbanarium’s website, that allows users to input examples of what they consider good and bad urban design.

“The idea is if you’re wandering around the city and find something you think is fabulous or awful,

you simply take a photograph of it and upload it on Smartmap and [indicate] this is smart or this is not so smart,” Haden said.

The society is also holding complementary activities, including a debate series, during the duration of the exhibition that are meant to encourage Vancouverites to be part of the conversation.

They’re noted on its calendar of urban events.

Haden says Vancouver is in a dramatic period of change and one of the challenges when dealing with hot-button subjects such as affordability, density and transit, is that the conversation can easily get “pretty dumb.”

“All of these [initiatives] are really intended to be different arrows in the quiver for people who just want to have a more responsible debate about urban design and how we build a city,” he told the Courier.

Your Future Home adopts some of the language and ideas of a real estate sales centres, like lifestyle photos and data, to underscore that affordability is a

significant concern.

“We’re trying to explain and give people information, in part, about what are the consequences and issues associated with different forms of housing. For example, it’s not commonly known that density doesn’t automatically mean highrise. There are lots of examples in the world of different types of higher density neighbourhoods that are more ground-oriented,” Haden said, pointing to Olympic Village as a local example.

That said, the show isn’t meant to offer “magic bullets” to solve complex political problems.

“The agenda here isn’t that we want to propose specific solutions. The agenda simply is, here are some of the issues. One of the great challenges in urban design is our attention span is often short-term and immediate and the core issues about how we build a city do take time to develop,” Haden said. “Vancouver has obviously changed incredibly fast, as we all know, but the critical issues of density, how

we organize the city and transit are things that take a while to play out. Really, to make the right decisions requires some thought.”

Haden cites HCMA Architecture + Design’s proposed recreational platform in Coal Harbour and the barge parks pitched

by PFS Studio, a landscape architecture firm, as among the creative ideas featured in the show.

Haden said he’s excited about rethinking our relationship with the water, noting that while he likes the seawall, he sees it as an example of “spandex urbanism.”

“We want to support and build infrastructure for things that we consider healthy but we’ve got this incredible stretch of south-facing waterfront in the downtown core with hardly any waterfront bars, which I find a bit silly to me. I find indicative of a little bit of tightness in our town,” he said.

Haden expects Your Future Home will attract a large audience given the public’s interest in urban planning issues and the

long-term consequences for not dealing with the consequences of growth.

“The idea that we won’t have artists in our city because no artists can afford it here is an awful prospect,” he said.

“What we would like is that people are inspired enough to be able to engage in the urban conversation at just a little bit of a higher level. So not just to go out and say, ‘We shouldn’t have towers anywhere,’ but really saying, ‘OK, if we don’t want to have towers and we have a whole bunch of people coming to the region whether we like it or not… how are we going to house them and what are the values we want to bring to that? What are the choices we want to bring to that? How can we make it exciting and invigorating?’

To me, a city is always a place of passion. It’s not just a place to live.”

Your Future Home: Creating the New Vancouver runs until May 15 at the Museum of Vancouver, 1100 Chestnut St.

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Daly buoyed by Trudeau’s support for Dr. Peter Centre Continued from page 5 The Respect for Communities Act, or Bill C-2, is still in effect. Daly, other health officials and harm reduction advocates have said the list of criteria outlined in the bill is onerous and makes it very difficult, if not impossible, for an applicant to be granted an exemption for an injection service.

Criteria includes providing information outlining the views of police, municipal leaders, public health officials and provincial health ministers. An applicant is also required to provide documents that show the site’s expected impact on crime rates, treatment options for drug users, the public health reasons for needing such a site and evidence there are resources to keep the facility operating.

“Even though Health Canada is much more open to these things, it still is a lot of work to put together any application — no matter how big or small, the requirements are extensive,” said Daly, who plans to write a letter to federal Health Minister Jane Philpott requesting the bill be repealed. “It will still be an impediment — even with a willing government — to people who want to put together that application.”

Philpott was in Vancouver Wednesday and Thursday to meet with provincial and territorial health ministers. The minister visited Insite Wednesday and described it as “a very moving experience.”

Philpott said she thanked the staff for their work in saving lives, preventing the spread of infectious diseas-

es and linking drug users to health care services.

“I wanted to commend all of those who had worked so hard to make it possible and to encourage them and to let them know that our government will continue to work to reduce harm to Canadians,” the minister said during a news conference Thursday at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver.

In taking questions from reporters, Philpott told the

Courier the Trudeau government has yet to evaluate Bill C-2 and whether it will be repealed.

“I certainly look forward to hearing from others and continuing to find ways to reduce harm for Canadians and make sure that we keep them healthy,” said Philpott, a long-time family doctor and founder of a charity that raised more than $4 million to help people affected by HIV/

AIDS in Africa.

B.C. Health Minister Terry Lake told the Courier after the news conference that he supports Daly’s call to have Bill C-2 repealed.

Provincial health officer, Dr. Perry Kendall, has also called for the bill to be repealed.

“I completely agree with repealing that legislation, which really was designed to prevent the establishment of safe injection

sites,” Lake said.

Insite and the Dr. Peter Centre’s injection room opened when a previous Liberal government was in power in Ottawa. When the Harper government got elected, it engaged in several legal battles in attempts to close Insite’s doors. Staff at the facility say no client has ever died of a drug overdose in the injection room. @Howellings

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VSB votes ‘reluctantly’ for plan that calls for school closures

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o here’s the deal, says the provincial government. The Vancouver School Board jacks up student capacity at its schools to 95 per cent by shutting down 21 or so schools, or the kids and school staff in the 69 seismically vulnerable buildings are at risk of being crunched when the big one hits.

Now, that wasn’t always the deal. Back in 2005 when Gordon Campbell was the Liberal premier, he said seismic upgrading of Vancouver’s schools would be complete by 2020. There were no strings attached.

It would ‘interfere’ with three dozen classrooms used for decades to teach art and music. It would devalue adult education, as well as special education, where classes are smaller. It would put childcare facilities at risk. They too are considered excess capacity by Victoria.

Then Christy Clark became premier.

She, by the way, was the Liberal education minister under Campbell who ripped up the teachers’ contract along with bargaining rights for class-size and composition, prompting a years-long legal battle that recently got the nod to make its way to the Supreme Court of Canada.

Clark appointed former Langley Mayor Peter Fassbender as her Minister of Education. Fassbender would later go on to do virtually nothing about the screwed up and

undemocratic governance of TransLink during his time in charge of that organization.

But it was while Fassbender was still Minister of Education that he would change the deal on seismic upgrades. He would attach a string; some would say it was actually a rope the school board could use to hang itself by.

For one thing the date for completion would be extended another decade to 2030.

And even that seems a bit wobbly now.

But, more importantly, he would tie money for the upgrades to the school board proving it had a 95 per cent enrolment level. Without teachers now able to push back on class size and composition at the bargaining table, it would be easier to insist school boards just pack the kids in any which way.

And, by the way, the capacity level of 95 per cent was never discussed with the board, let alone explained.

In fact, at Monday night’s Vancouver School Board meeting, where the board voted reluctantly to move forward with a plan, which over some 15 years might satisfy the province’s demands, the question was asked of David Nelson. Nelson was the board’s staff project leader of the “Long Range Facilities Plan.”

“I have,” he replied, “asked for clarification. But I have yet to receive their rationale behind that.”

What we do know is that classrooms, including six at Gladstone secondary school, are considered vacant classrooms, as are rooms used for art, music and computer instruction. Go figure.

Included in the plan is a staff proposal to “right-size” a number of vulnerable schools, particularly on the city’s East Side where buildings reflect a baby boom around the time they were constructed 50 or 60 years ago, but populations have since declined.

The proposal would have new, smaller schools built on the same school grounds before removing the old buildings. It would reduce capacity by about 1,000 seats. And it would mean that communities would not lose their schools.

It would also do something else. Seismically upgrading an old building would only make it “safe to exit.” Following a big enough shake, it would subsequently have to be demolished anyway. A new building would be most likely able to withstand the quake and still be usable.

But even if the board meets the province’s demands, it is most likely the Liberals will choose the cheaper upgrade route and not build a smaller replacement school.

In a moment of eloquence, Vision trustee Joy Alexander explained, with her 40 years of involvement with the Vancouver School Board, as a teacher and as

a psychologist, what making the difficult decision and voting “yes” to the proposed plan would mean.

It would “interfere” with three dozen classrooms used for decades to teach art and music. It would devalue adult education, as well as special education, where classes are smaller. It would put childcare facilities at risk. They too are considered excess capacity by Victoria.

“I realize,” she said, “there is no sound educational reason for running a school district at 95 per cent.” But it seems it’s the only way to get funds for seismic upgrading. Without that capital “the children of Vancouver will remain in seismically unsafe schools even longer.”

Following the meeting, Green Party trustee Janet Fraser put it this way: “The ministry sets all the rules and has all the money.”

So that’s the deal. @allengarr

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Re: “Developer dollars enable Western Front to buy building,” Jan. 11.

While directing $1.5 million dollars towards the Western Front’s real estate portfolio and private bar will meet the COV’s goals of buying votes from behind closed doors, the needs of too many Mount Pleasant residents living east of Main Street remain far more dire.

Just across the street from the Western Front, those who are still able to will line up at the Mount Pleasant Community Centre/1 Kingsway to access the local distribution of generosity from the Vancouver Food Bank and sadly years after this private organization steppedup to fill the gap that need is greater than ever in Mount Pleasant.

East Mount Pleasant elementary schools still operate food programs decades after they first began and the majority of Mount Pleasant’s social service agencies and social housing is located east of Main Street as mandated

by Vancouver city hall and their wellhealed supporters.

Local deficiencies in neighbourhood recreation are so expansive some of our inner-city parks have children’s play structures and park benches that are so old the Vancouver Park Board has no records of when they were first installed, yet the COV spent more money on removing/repairing/replacing the “Dude Chilling” sign at Guelph Park than anything else in that park in recent history.

I doubt that any of the “starving artists” from the Western Front are standing in line at local food banks or forced to rely on the free food and clothes our hard-working local agencies provide without judgment.

But hey, as we’ve seen before with Vision Vancouver there’s no easier way to curry favour with “artists” than to keep shovelling money into their maelstrom of self-importance, the city even gives them priority to scarce subsidized housing while the divide between the haves and have-nots in Mount Pleasant widens.

That windfall of “Community Amenity Contribution” monies, not “special interest group” monies could have improved far more lives if distributed through the local agencies that need it the most, but once again the secret

Compass card bewilders disability community Re: “Vancouver transit users weigh in on Compass Card,” Jan. 13, online only.

Not only is the Compass Card system late, incredibly expensive, and entirely unnecessary as a data collection tool, I’m sad to say it quickly became apparent after the rollout that it would also make our public transit system inaccessible to many folks. Here’s why.

The Compass Card must be used to gain access to public transit by “tapping in.” But transit riders lacking the physical ability to do so (in my case, for instance, I cannot raise my arms at all) discovered Jan. 1 they could no longer use the SkyTrain or buses.

This is a huge issue for the many people with limited arm function who were quite capable of using public transit on their own until the introduction of the Compass Card.

Activists in the disability community are bewildered. Why was this problem not identified and solved by TransLink during the multi-year planning process before rollout?

To make matters worse, Compass Cards can’t be used regardless of your arm function on HandyDART buses because TransLink chose not to install Compass Card readers in them. So when people like me use HandyDART for some rides and public transit for others, we have to buy a monthly pass for HandyDART and a Compass Card for TransLink.

For a lot of people with a disability and low income, this increased cost takes a big bite out of their disposable income.

Most of us are now tapping in and tapping out each time we use public transit.

I think it’s high time we “tapped out” the senior management at TransLink.

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While the hob-knobbers will continue to gather at the Western Front there’ll still be citizens of Vancouver living on the streets within the sight of their doors.

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Vancouver won’t be first to issue pot shop licence Small southeastern B.C. town first in Canada to issue a business licence to an illegal marijuana dispensary

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For almost a year now, the City of Vancouver has said that when it eventually issues a business licence to an illegal marijuana dispensary, it will be the first municipality in Canada to do so.

That history, according to city officials, could be made as early as the spring.

Except the city has either forgotten or wasn’t aware what occurred in Kimberley last summer: the small southeastern B.C. town’s council unanimously agreed to give Tamarack Dispensaries a business licence.

The roadside pot shop, which is located in a commercial area on the highway into Kimberley, has operated since July. And as far as Kimberley Mayor Don McCormick knows, it’s the only dispensary in Canada with a licence.

“When council made the decision, our intent wasn’t to be controversial, our intent wasn’t to be first at anything,” McCormick told the Courier by telephone last week. “What we were doing was supporting a local entrepreneur in a venture that had a market — and a market that wasn’t being well served otherwise.”

But McCormick, who is aware of Vancouver’s efforts to bring some control to the growing pot shop industry in the city, was quick to point out the $100 licence granted to Tamarack is not tied to regulations like those drawn up in Vancouver.

Those regulations include a dispensary not being within 300 metres of a school, criminal record checks for operators and employees, signing a “good neighbour” agreement and paying an annual licence fee of $30,000 for a retail outlet and $1,000 for a so-called compassion club.

“I can appreciate why Vancouver has gone down the regulatory road,” said the mayor, recognizing that Vancouver has up to 100 illegal pot shops. “In similar circumstances, we may have done the same thing. But ours was a very

clean environment where one entrepreneur came to the table with this particular business and we issued the licence.”

That said, McCormick noted Tamarack’s owners — Tamara and Rod Duggan — weren’t simply given a business licence, as if they were operating a café. Initially, the Duggans’ request for a licence was rejected because Kimberley’s chief administration officer ruled the dispensary contravened federal laws.

The Duggans then argued their case before council, which has the authority to amend its bylaws. And that’s what council did, said McCormick, adding “we just wanted to keep it really simple. So anybody else coming and wanting to get a business licence is going to have to go through exactly the same process. They just can’t go to city hall and get a business licence.”

The mayor said he has received no complaints about the dispensary in the town of 7,600 people. The only feedback has been “overwhelmingly positive,” he added but acknowledged the Duggans’ business could be shut down at any time because of its contravention of Canada’s drug laws.

RCMP Cpl. Chris Newel, who is in charge of the Kimberley detachment, said via email that enforcement priorities are set in consultation with “local government, partners and citizens of the community.”

Newel said businesses operating in contravention of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and Health Canada regulations may be subject to investigation and criminal charges — a point made to the City of Kimberley and city council.

“They were made aware there is no legal mechanism in Canada which allows for medicinal marihuana dispensaries to sell marihuana to the public, regardless of whether or not the individuals have licences to possess marihuana,” he wrote.

“The RCMP is monitoring the business and liaises regularly with local government. To date, there has been no concerns expressed to the local RCMP detach-

ment from individuals or other businesses.”

Tamara Duggan said she was up front with the RCMP about the nature of her business before requesting a licence. The inspiration to open the dispensary, she said, is connected to an experience her husband had at the Vancouver Pain Management dispensary on Commercial Drive.

After suffering a serious leg injury in a workplace accident in 2011, Rod visited the Vancouver dispensary and bought some marijuana-infused product to treat his pain. At the time, doctors had taken him off painkillers to recover from several surgeries.

“It was the first time he tried marijuana edibles, and it was amazing,” she said.

“I, who had never really felt one way or the other about medical marijuana, became a convert instantly when I saw how it affected him.”

Duggan said she has 300 members who visit her dispensary, which sells various strains of marijuana, edibles, tinctures and oils.

All members are required to have a doctor’s certificate, provide identification and must be an adult. She wouldn’t say where she gets her products but said it is of the highest quality and tested in independent laboratories.

“Most people I talk to are very, very happy that the service is here,” she said, noting the next nearest dispensary is in Nelson, about a four-hour drive.

The Courier told Vision Vancouver Coun.

Kerry Jang that Kimberley is believed to be the first municipality in Canada to issue a business licence to a dispensary. Jang said he wasn’t aware of Kimberley council’s decision.

“That may be, but it doesn’t really matter to me whether we’re first or second,” he said. “What’s important is, as far as I know, that we’re the first municipality in Canada to have a proper set of bylaws to manage dispensaries — an actual full category to manage this. We have actual regulations tied to health principles that nobody has ever done before.” @Howellings

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Join us on Tuesday, February 9 to view and comment on the proposed residential development proposal for Wesbrook Place Lot 23. Plans will be displayed for a new 6-storey 10,925m2 market residential building with 106 units.

Date: Tuesday,February9, 2016 Time: 4:30 - 6:00 PM Place: Wesbrook Welcome Centre, 3378 Wesbrook Mall Representatives from the project team and Campus + Community Planning will be on hand to discuss and answer questions about this project.

The public is also invited to attend the upcoming Development Permit Board Meeting for this project.

Date/Time: February 24, 5:00 - 7:00PM Location: Wesbrook Community Centre 3335 Webber Lane

For further information: Please direct questions to Karen Russell, Manager, Development Services karen.russell@ubc.ca 604-822-1586

This event is wheelchair accessible.

Can’t attend in person?

Online feedback will be accepted from Jan 15 to Feb 16.

To learn more or to comment on this project, please visit: planning.ubc.ca/vancouver/projects-consultations

Tracey Hart is the director of marketing for Discover Boating Canada, which put on free boating workshops for the public during the 54th annual Vancouver Boat Show held last Wednesday to Sunday at B.C. Place and Granville Island’s Maritime Market and Marina.

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Tracey Hart stood on the end of a jetty at the Granville Island’s Maritime Market and Marina and looked towards the Burrard Bridge, the city’s last manmade connector before the inlet gapes into the sea.

Hart is a boater and is from land-locked Toronto, so being with her is like looking at Vancouver through new eyes; she pointed out pairs of ducks paddling in the boating lanes in the marina, the way the water rippled with the currents and breeze, and took noticeable, contented breaths.

“One thing that’s hard to explain to somebody is the feeling of once you step on that boat,” said Hart. “Something happens, you know you really do feel something differ-

ent. It’s about escape, leaving your cares and worries behind.”

Hart works for Discover Boating Canada, a public awareness group, which is managed by the National Marine Manufacturers Association on behalf of the North American recreational boating industry. Discover Boating was at the floating component of the 54th annual Vancouver Boat Show held last Wednesday to Sunday and was giving free on-water workshops called Hands On Skill Training aboard their powercraft and sailboat to landlubbers and seasoned boaters alike.

“People really get to experience basic, simple maneuvers to simplify close-quarters handling, for instance, how to dock a boat,” Hart said. “I think some people maybe

feel uncomfortable or nervous about it and I think some people think docking a boat is like driving a car into the driveway.”

It’s not. One of the Discover Boating’s instructors once said docking a boat is probably similar to driving a spaceship; there are tools such as thrusters to help guide watercraft in. Hart said the program aims to make people feel comfortable behind the wheel and it’s just part of the Discover Boating’s offerings during the boat show, which also included boat shopping guides and dockside safety.

Hart remembered the face of one woman who took the workshop at the Toronto Boat Show where its floating component is actually a temporary lake that takes up all the floor space in the Ricoh Coliseum.

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Boating is a year-long floating vacation says enthusiast “She had just bought a boat, and was really excited but really, really nervous,” Hart said. “But, at the end of the workshop she was beaming, she was just so happy. When I hear that, that’s my job done — bring me another one.”

The boat selector tool on Discover Boating’s website (discoverboating.ca) is its most popular feature because it is a practical starting point whether new

boaters are looking for a craft to hang out with friends on a lake (bowrider) or want a water-skiing boat with a sleeping area (cuddy cabin). No matter the craft, boaters are almost always in a more positive state of mind through connecting with nature, feel healthier and fitter, and have an overall better quality of life than those who don’t, according to Hart who said those

facts are supported with health and lifestyle surveys.

And that happiness doesn’t necessarily just come down to money, either, she added.

“You know what, it’s really about finding the budget that works for you. You don’t need a new boat. An off the top of my head comparison is a four-week, fourperson vacation to Florida.

That costs the same as going boating all year,” said

Hart. “Which would you rather do? Personally, I’d rather do boating.”

While there are different price points for different budgets, boats with sixfigure price tags outnumbered dinghies, inflatables and personal water crafts at the floating show. It was still fun, judging by the piles of shoes on deck mats, to climb aboard something like the Prestige 550, which advertised “excellent layout

with three staterooms, hydraulic swim platform and advanced construction.”

The boat show price was $1,290,000 US — duty included. Among the yachts was the Fraser Lifeboat, which belongs to the Canadian Lifeboat Institution. CLI’s Brian Cook, along with chief engineer Bruce Docherty, showed off the 47-foot craft, the organization’s newest acquisition that once worked

the unforgiving coasts off the United Kingdom and Ireland under its former moniker The Famous Grouse.

Speaking of names, Discovery Boating’s sailboat, christened Escape, glided into place at the marina with another four windswept and smiling students.

A fitting name, Hart said. Almost as good as her favourite, Corner Office. @rebeccablissett

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Story of Ethiopian Jews told at Limmud festival Pat Johnson

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Israel has just approved a plan to bring what are believed to be the last 9,000 Ethiopian Jews to Israel. It will be the culmination of several decades of migration that has seen an ancient Jewish community in the east African country completely relocated.

The airlift will have particular relevance to one Vancouver man. Doron Yona’s grandfather was one of the first Ethiopian Jews to travel to Jerusalem and would later lead many of his Ethiopian coreligionists in a mass migration to the Jewish state. It is a tale of astonishing transitions and the coalescence of two streams of Jewish life that had been separated, possibly for millennia. Yona will share his grandfather’s story this weekend at Limmud Vancouver, a festival of Jewish learning that is now an annual event in Vancouver and more than 60 other locations worldwide.

Yona’s grandfather, Yona Bogale, was born in 1908 in the village of Wolleka, Ethiopia, one of the population

centres for Beta Israel, as the Ethiopian Jews call themselves. He was descended from a line of Jewish tradition that is not reliably traceable.

Some say the Ethiopian Jews migrated around the time of King Solomon, 3,000 years ago. Other scholars suggest they congregated in the area more like 1,500 years ago, living in about 500 villages throughout the north of the country. In either case, the “discovery” in the early 20th century of a people in Ethiopia scrupulously following Jewish religious texts and practices piqued more than a little interest among other Jewish communities, as well as sociologists.

We have all heard the stories of “specimens” of humanity being snatched

by European explorers and turned into circus-like museum exhibits. Yona is careful to insist this is not what happened with his grandfather.

Yona Bogale was taken from his village around the age of 13 to Jerusalem.

“Generations on they had dreamed to come to Israel but they couldn’t,” Yona says. “It

Doron Yona will tell the story of his grandfather’s migration to the Jewish state at Limmud Vancouver. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

was only in a fantasy. So to come, not just to Israel, but to Jerusalem, you made a dream come true for people that didn’t have a chance to see that. Of course it was something very, very exciting.”

Still, Yona says his grandfather had to pressure his parents to let him go, but that this may have been made easier by the fact that a few of the village’s teachers had already made the move. Bogale spent most of a decade receiving a traditional Jewish

education there, as well as in Germany and Switzerland.

After his studies, Bogale would return to Ethiopia and lead a constellation of Jewish schools that educated a largely illiterate population as they began a shockingly rapid interface with a larger Jewish world that was itself on the cusp of tectonic change.

For generations, Yona says, the Jews of Ethiopia has spoken of, dreamed of and prayed for Jerusalem. For his grandfather, and those first few members of

Beta Israel to see the holy city, it was the culmination of an ancestral dream.

It was one of the things the Jews of Ethiopia shared with their disconnected cousins around the world: a centuriesold longing and prayer to return to the land from which they were dispersed in Roman times.

“The Jews of Ethiopia, they prayed for so long to come to Israel,” says Yona. The state of Israel was created in 1948 and a million Jews from throughout the Middle East and North Africa moved there — some willingly, many more expelled by governments or forced into exile by anti-Semitic violence. But Ethiopian Jews largely remained where they were until the 1970s when circumstances there began to deteriorate.

Yona’s mother moved to Israel in 1956, among the very first in what, by the end of the 20th century, would become a wave of migration. His grandfather and father came in 1971. Yona Bogale, who died in 1989, became a renowned leader in the Ethiopian Jewish community in Israel.

A series of airlifts brought

migrants, including Yona’s now-wife, at the height of the Ethiopian famine in 1984, and during political upheaval in 1991. There are now about 125,000 Ethiopian Jews and their descendants in Israel.

But things are not perfect. Though legally equal, discrimination against black citizens remains and Ethiopian-descended Israelis earn less than the national average.

Despite his family’s prominence in the migration of Jews from Ethiopia to Israel, Yona and his wife decided four years ago that life would be better in Canada for themselves and their two young children.

Given that the Ethiopian Jews managed for centuries of isolation to continue their traditions, is there any sense of loss as the last of those move to Israel and, inevitably, become absorbed in that vast ethnic and cultural melting pot? Yona is not nostalgic.

“Nobody will say that he regrets that he came to Israel,” he says. “No one will say that.

They are so proud of who they are, where they are…

To come to Israel… it was a dream.”

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Jan. 28 to Feb. 3, 2016 1. UBC-trained opera singer Neema Bickersmith co-created and performs Century Song for Toronto’s Volcano Theatre at this year’s PuSh Festival.

Billed as “a wordless chronicle of the ages,” Century Song features Bickersmith using her voice and body to explore the many identities that our history connects her to, against a backdrop of shifting visuals and a range of music, from Rachmaninoff to John Cage to a new commission by Canadian composer Reza Jacobs. It runs Feb. 2 to 6 at the Cultch. Tickets and details at pushfestival.ca.

2. Funny dude David Cross (Mr. Show, Arrested Development) returns to his standup comedy roots after a hiatus and performs an early and late show, Feb. 2, at the Vogue Theatre as part of his Making America Great Again! tour and a precursor to the Just for Laughs Northwest Comedy Festival. Details and tickets at jflnorthwest.com.

3. The Cinematheque screens the Vancouver premiere of former Maclean’s magazine film critic Brian D. Johnson’s first featurelength documentary, Al Purdy Was Here, about much-loved Canadian poet and nudist Al Purdy, Jan. 28, 31 and Feb. 3. Show times at thecinematheque.ca.

4. Vancity Theatre does your yearly office Oscar pool a solid by screening this year’s Oscar nominated short films (live action), including Henry Hughes’ Day One, and the Oscar-nominated animated shorts, Jan 29 to Feb. 27. Details at viff.org.

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HIGH NOTES: The Vancouver Convention Centre transformed into an elegant ballroom for the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s signature fundraiser. Party chairs AJ Mclean and Karin Smith, along with newly named president Kelly Tweeddale, formerly of Seattle Opera, led the 26th running of the Vancouver Symphony Ball. Braving the wet weather, more than 500 guests arrived dressed to the nines for the fittingly themed Singin’ In the Rain gala-do of fine wine, food and philanthropy. Before waltzing the night away to the company’s entire 78-member band, the well-heeled crowd of influencers, financiers and developers emptied their pockets and designer wallets of $750,000 to support the extensive performance and education activities of the VSO. SCULPTOR FETED: The Neekoo Society — a wonderful group of do-gooders from the Iranian Canadian Community who have come together to provide goodness and guidance to others — presented a benefit featuring celebrated Iranian artist Parviz Tanavoli, considered the father of modern Iranian sculpture. Tanavoli’s works can be found in many prestigious galleries worldwide, including the British Museum, the Metropolitan and Tate Modern. The acclaimed sculptor, who makes his home in West Vancouver, was on hand for the screening of Poetry in Bronze, Terrence Turner’s documentary film chronicling the sculptor’s journey of creation, which has spanned three continents and more than half a century. The night’s proceeds will support student scholarships and bursaries for the next generation of Iranian-Canadian leaders.

STUDENT WELCOME: UBC’s Arab Students Association, International Relations Students Association, STAND and Social Justice Centre recently presented the Syrian Refugee Benefit Gala, staged at the Roundhouse Community Centre. Three hundred guests gathered to enjoy a threecourse, Middle Eastern-inspired dinner and to support the efforts of settlement agency MOSAIC and its charity refugee program dedicated to helping recent immigrants integrate into local communities. In addition to the fine food and musical performances, attendees heard first-hand heartfelt and heartbreaking stories from Syrians Majd Agha and Ghufran Alrez who lived through the crisis, and now, along with some 2,500 other newcomers, call B.C. their adopted home. Upwards of $10,000 was raised from the student initiative.

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Terrence Turner’s documentary screening of acclaimed Iranian sculptor Parviz Tanavoli at the Kay Meek Centre benefited the Neekoo Society and its efforts to provide student scholarships and bursaries to Iranian-Canadians.

Helping build greater cultural understanding between Iranians and Canadians, community leaders Saeedeh and Sean Salem fronted the intimate evening with world-renowned Iranian sculptor Parviz Tanavoli.

Artistic directors Norman Armour (PuSh, left) and Bill Millerd (Arts Club, right) presented Rick Miller’s BOOM at the Granville Island Stage.

The actor, playwright and genius behind the one-man multi-media show explores the baby boomer generation in a rapid-fire history lesson filled with music and impressions.

Central City’s Andrew Schoonen, and brewmaster Gary Lohin revealed their latest, a Belgium style barrel-aged sour brown ale, at their Beatty Street beer-drinking hot spot.

Symphony Ball founder Naz Khosrowshahi welcomed the Vancouver Orchestra’s newly minted president Kelly Tweeddale to the gala’s 26th staging at the Convention Centre.

Striking a chord with gala-goers, the event generated $750,000 for the company.

From left, Ryan Spong, Kaeli Robinsong and Jason Sussman celebrate Tacofino’s first year in Gastown by giving back to the community. Proceeds of half-price fish tacos sold on Jan. 30 will benefit Potluck Café, a Downtown Eastside program that creates jobs and healthy food plans for its area residents.

Donnelly Group beer ambassador Liam Peyton, left, hosted Parallel 49 brewmasters Hiroshi Tsukada and Graham With as they tapped and poured their latest creation — a Knob Creek bourbon barrel-aged Imperial Chocolate Stout at Butcher & Bullock’s Smorgasbord night.

UBC Arab Students Association’s Noor Yousef welcomed recent newcomer Ghufran Alrez to the Syrian Refugee Benefit Gala held at the Roundhouse Community Centre. Upwards of $10,000 was raised to support MOSAIC’s refugee settlement programs.

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The Force is homogenized Geoff Olson geoffolson.com

A night out at the movies increasingly feels like a trip to a big casino. You slap down a fair chunk of change to partake in sensory assault with an attached risk of regret.

As someone chronically averse to gambling, I prefer the odds offered by Netflix. For less than the price of a movie ticket, I can binge myself catatonic for a month.

The ascent in TV programming quality arguably dates back to the premiere of the HBO series The Sopranos in 1999. The descent in American film quality has been on a shallower grade, over a longer period. In the late ’70s, actor Paul Newman supposedly observed that the biggest Academy Award winners of the time were “two robots and a rubber shark” — a reference to George Lucas’s comic droids in Star Wars and Steven Spielberg’s fake maneater in Jaws.

Lucas and Spielberg expertly set the tone for dramatic action in the ’70s, and computer-generated imagery raised the bar for impossible scenes from the ’80s on. Seeing the writing on the box office wall, Hollywood studios shelved scripts for challenging, socially relevant films in favour of sequel-friendly, green-screened juvenilia.

I saw the first Star Wars flick as a teen. Whelmedover I was, as Yoda might have said; but it didn’t penetrate my psyche to its core. Different story with the elementary school set, who found their gen-X touchstones of mythic

heroism in a movie serial.

Unfortunately, the first three Star Wars episodes were followed by a series of head-scratching prequels that were as much enraging as entertaining.

In a literal disenfranchisement, I got off the Lucas bus when the cutesy-poo Ewoks appeared in Return of the Jedi — 16 years before Jar Jar Binks shucked and jived his way through The Phantom Menace. (Industrial Light and Magic conceived the latter character with toy-buying kids in mind, not adults, according to the 2010 documentary The People Versus George Lucas. The serial was never intended to grow with its aging fanbase, a la JK Rowling’s Harry Potter productions.)

But I’m a curious sort.

With the hype and crowds dwindling for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, I thought I’d take a gamble on the Disneyfied reboot.

I did it up right by paying $6.75 on half-price Tuesday for a bare bones 2D, non-THX screening. Just like back in the ’70s. *SPOILER ALERT Director JJ Abrams went back to the original document to honour the memory of Lucas’s preCGI space opera. There are no surprises, as he retells the first tale right down to the Rebellion’s destruction of a (bigger) Death Star.

Actor Harrison Ford reportedly wanted his character Hans Solo killed off years ago. Just as John Cleese says he couldn’t walk down a street for years without someone yelling, “do the Silly Walk,” I imagine Ford hasn’t been able to venture into a pub for decades without someone saying,

“Please don’t shoot me, Hans Solo!”

And here he is, a senior shuffling through another extraterrestrial bar scene with all the vim of a man ascending the gallows with an eight-figure cheque in his pocket. He might as well have been wearing a sign around his neck reading, “I’d rather be in Carbonite” (which appears to have been used to set Carrie Fisher’s face as General Leia, by the way).

But as they say in the auto ads, “your mileage may vary.” There’s been plenty of rave reviews from critics and viewers alike for this curiously stilted production. Perhaps we’re talking about a peculiar form of Stockholm syndrome.

After all, this film franchise/ marketing juggernaut kidnapped the imaginations of gen-X kids years ago. Now adults, these folks want to believe with the intensity of Fox Mulder. But what they’re buying into is sterilized kids’ stuff, applied with a gauze of adult nostalgia by the Mouse.

Great American films with adult themes still get made, but they take a back seat to ass-kicking mesomorphs in unitards and armour. Hollywood’s one-size-fits-all output, increasingly geared toward the Asian market, has easily-translated dialogue and themes unlikely to raise red flags with censors in China.

You can interpret that as a welcome move toward colour-blind panglobalism, or another questionable entertainment trend traceable back to The Empire. Not Lord Vader’s, but Lucas and Spielberg’s.

There are few suprises in JJ Abram’s sterilized reboot of the Star Wars franchise.

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You are never going to believe this. But according to a new study

by U.S.-based Demographia, Vancouver is the third-least affordable city in the world for buying a home. Crazy, we know.

While Hong Kong topped the list and Sydney, Australia came in second, we are pretty confident that Vancouver leads the pack in publicizing this inconsequential study that falls on the heels of dozens of other studies, reports and dream journals over the past 10 years reminding everyone that it’s expensive to live here.

While our colleague, Mike “Truth Warrior” Howell, bemoaned the constant bemoaning of Vancouver’s lack of affordability in two successive columns, in which he managed to channel Eeyore, Morrissey and Howard Beale at the same time, we’re going

to take a different tact.

We’re going to play a drinking game where we take a sip of an alcoholic beverage every time a newspaper, media outlet or “online news gathering source” posts a story on some study or report that has concluded that Vancouver is one of the most expensive, most livable, most sexy etc. city in the world. Frankly, we don’t care anymore. To quote a former Vancouverite, it is what it is. Now let’s get loaded.

Abe Vigoda is dead, long live Abe Vigoda

News of character actor Abe Vigoda’s death was a hot topic of conversation around the Courier water cooler Tuesday. (Technically, it’s a Kamboocha cooler.) And much like the Internet, which the Courier tries to model itself after right down to the way we interact with one another (#4realz), the most common reaction to news of the former Barney Miller

star’s death at the age of 94 was either “finally!” or “I thought he was dead already.” We may have contributed some of those callous remarks.

And for that we are sorry.

But to be fair, “Mistaken reports of his death” is the third category in Vigoda’s Wikipedia profile, right after early life and career, and ahead of personal life, filmography, television work and sexual adventures while wearing sock garters. We may have made that last one up, and for that, we are once again sorry.

That said, perhaps in a bit of karmic comeuppance, we did some rough calculations of Vigoda’s age when he appeared in The Godfather and Barney Miller, and it’s really not that far away for us, provided we don’t die from glibness. Seriously, we’re not good with our emotions or addressing our own mortality. Once again, sorry. @KudosKvetches

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Pets make Vancouver a friendlier, happier city

Mike Klassen

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Is living in Vancouver making you feel disconnected, lonely, or possibly unhealthy?

We are led to believe it is a big problem here.

Organizations such as the Vancouver Foundation have released survey results that suggest we have a neighbourliness deficit. Even the mayor felt compelled to strike a task force to brainstorm a way out of our not-so-splendid isolation.

Our city’s dog owners, on the other hand, probably wonder what all the fuss was about. That is because few things bring people out of their homes and interacting with their neighbours like dog walking.

A new study from the Human Animal Bond Research Initiative (HABRI) Foundation concludes that there are profound benefits to our society through our relationships with pets.

Should our city’s planners and engineers therefore consider pet ownership as we shape our surroundings?

The diverse health outcomes from pet ownership are familiar to many, such as reductions in stress and anxiety, and lower blood pres-

sure. There is some evidence that animal therapy has positive effects on Alzheimer’s patients, and rehabilitation for children.

The HABRI report — which was sponsored by pet industry suppliers — is the first to put a dollar figure on these benefits. It looked at the reductions in visits to physicians’ offices and the way dog walking reduces obesity rates, and calculated that billions are saved across the continent in annual healthcare costs.

We fret over the supposed lack of human interaction that results from urban living. Last summer, an earnest “Say Hi to a Stranger” campaign was even begun to address this.

The interactions between people might have been more frequent and less awkward, however, if there was an animal involved.

Pets, like many other common interests, have an amazing capacity to bring their owners together with strangers. Whether it is in the leafy suburbs or our dense urban centres, we interact more successfully when we have our animals at our side.

It is said that in Vancouver just over one-third of households have a dog. Look around and you will spot

them everywhere. The dog population is estimated to be up to 150,000 in Vancouver alone.

Recent studies say millennials are driving up the rates of dog ownership. Not surprisingly, it is younger dog owners who are the first to build social bonds among residents in a condo building.

Speaking from experience, it is easy to see how dog walkers ambling around our neighbourhoods make communities safer.

Dogs pull people together in an effort to meet the other canines, not the other way around. While the dogs have their sniff, people will often exchange information about home break-ins or when they see a shady character casing someone’s garage.

Dog owners are not the only people creating connections in our city. The new Catfe in International Village, where cat lovers can assemble with friendly felines over a cup of coffee, has been a sensational success.

Two amazing things happened thanks to the Catfe.

It had to close temporarily because all the cats were adopted. It also had people flocking to International Village.

If that doesn’t make local urban planners sit up and take

notice, then nothing will.

Having pets in the city is not without its challenges.

There are dog owners who are not responsible when it comes to cleaning up after them, or ensuring noise is kept to a minimum.

Some households should simply not have pets.

Public space is also a challenge. There have been many bitter disputes over the use of parks and our waterfront between those who own dogs and those who do not.

Over the years successive park boards have struggled to strike a balance. This year, they promise the “most ambitious review of dogs in parks in park board history.”

We can be certain that whatever the outcome, it will garner a lot of the public’s attention.

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Does the Virto V Replace Traditional Hearing Aids?

Whether at work, during conversations in small groups or when watching television, one in six adults experience problems when it comes to accurate speech comprehension and hearing in everyday situations. Although background noise and music can impair communication with friends and family, two thirds of those affected still do not use any hearing aids.

There are many reasons for this but for most people it’s that they are not convinced that hearing aids will significantly benefit them or it’s the unease they feel about attracting attention by wearing a visible hearing aid.

This is why the Swiss manufacturer Phonak has developed a world first: Virto V. These hearing aids are manufactured using a modern 3D printing process that provides a custom-fit miniature hearing aid that disappears into the ear canal, making it almost invisible to others. Despite its small size, the latest and most advanced Phonak hearing technology is still contained in the casing.

For some clients, the smaller design of the Virto V hearing aids might possibly replace the more traditional behind-the-ear hearing aids, and like many of our other products, these hearing aids can easily connect wirelessly with TVs and smartphones,” explains Prof. Stefan Launer, CSO of the Swiss manufacturer Phonak.

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“Thanks to a new operating system, these new hearing aids can provide a virtual alternative for natural hearing, as experienced by people with normal hearing. Through intelligent control, the software can improve speech understanding, even in loud situations and by utilizing the 3D printing process, these hearing aids fit the natural anatomy of the ear as closely as possible making them truly a custom-fit solution.

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Four reasons to visit Parksville right now

Michelle Hopkins

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Parksville Uncorked

If you enjoy great food and wine, I recommend you satisfy your whims at Parksville Uncorked, a four-day festival dedicated to the best bounty B.C. has to offer.

I attended last February with my sister Johanne and the Friday night saw us heading to the popular Swirl for a fun eve-

ning of sipping some of B.C.’s best local wines paired with wonderfully delicious gourmet bites. Saturday we were invited to the Pacific Prime Restaurant and Quails’ Gate Winemaker’s Dinner showcasing Beach Club executive chef Rick Davidson’s fine dining cuisine. Davidson’s menu was heavily influenced by fresh and local, which resulted in amazing flavours.

This year’s festival runs

from Feb. 18 to 21. Parksville Uncorked benefits Variety – Children’s Charity and Rotary Club Parksville. For tickets and information, visit parksvillequalicumbeach.com.

For the outdoor enthusiast here is my must-do list:

Cathedral Grove

My parents used to live in Parksville and a visit to the island with my teenage sons over the years always involved

a walk through Cathedral Grove. For those who venture to Tofino, you pass Cathedral Grove on your way.

It is part of the MacMillan Provincial Park, nestled at the top end of Cameron Lake, only minutes from Qualicum Beach and Parksville.

Cathedral Grove is a lush old-growth rainforest unique to Vancouver Island and you can spend hours wandering through the rugged trail sys-

tem. Taking in the 800-yearold massive Douglas fir trees makes you feel small.

Horne Lake Caves

Vancouver Island has the distinction of being home to the highest concentration of caves in North America and more explored limestone caves than in all other Canadian provinces combined. Vancouver Island is so rich in caves, with more than 1,000, it’s commonly referred to as the “Island of Caves.” In 2015, Horne Lake Caves Provincial Park was voted Best Natural Outdoor Site in B.C. by Destination B.C. You can opt to explore a public cave on your own or participate in a guided Horne Lake cave tour. (I recommend the tour as our guide was a wealth of interesting and historical tidbits.) From October to May, a creek flows through the caves, turning them from a normally quiet environment

to a loud watery manifestation.

See an underground river, climb a waterfall, slide down the ramps and ladders and try an optional squeeze through the “worm-hole,” a small taste of what’s known as “wild” caving. Participants will negotiate some tight passages, short climbs, ramps, ladders and lots of cave scrambling.

Spa-ing at Tigh-Na-Mara

Is there any sister or girlfriend getaway that is complete without a spa day?

We venture out on a bright sunny morning to the Tigh-Na-Mara’s Grotto Spa, named number one spa in the province by Spas of America. Gaelic for “House by the Sea,” Tigh-Na-Mara’s stretches some 22 acres, covered with towering arbutus and fir trees that skirt a picturesque stretch of sandy beachfront facing the Strait of Georgia.

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Plenty of sister bonding at spa Before our treatments, Johanne and I indulge in a soothing dip in the spa’s detoxifying mineral pool.

Simulating a natural stone grotto, the pool is drenched with natural minerals and trace elements that detoxify the body and rejuvenate your soul — I felt completely serene as I stepped out to ready myself for an hour-long custom Regime Facial while Johanne headed for an aromatherapy massage.

Because “spa-ing” is about female bonding, the spa’s Relaxation Lounge is where you go to linger before or

after your treatments — it’s very conducive to gossiping with your gal pals over a cup of Zen green tea. During our visit it was full of women, dressed in standard spa fashion — plush bathrobes and cushy slippers — who had left behind jobs, children and husbands for a weekend of pampering.

Snug in our robes, we indulged in a Lounge Platter and a glass of wine at the Treetop Tapas and Grill and we decided it doesn’t get much better than this.

Where to Stay:

Nestled on the edge of the

Pacific Ocean in Parksville, the Beach Club Resort is one of Vancouver Island’s largest resorts, featuring an indoor pool, hot tub and gym.

Check out the resort’s website for special rates and packages: beachclubbc.com.

Getting there:

Take B.C. Ferries from Horseshoe Bay Terminal to Nanaimo. The scenic ferry ride takes 1.5 hours and then it’s a short 30-minute drive north to Parksville. For schedules, visit bcferries. com. For more information, visit ParksvilleQualicumBeach.com.

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Winter shrubs and trees in bloom Anne Marrison

amarrison@shaw.ca

Witch hazel is one the more eye-catching trees in early spring.

Long before spring arrives, a joyful number of shrubs and trees start flowering when tem-

peratures rise even a little.

Aside from bright blooms, many are also richly fragrant and have a very long blooming period.

One of these is Viburnum bodnantense. This has clusters of small buds, which open a few pink flowers even before Christmas.

The buds close tight in cold spells but unfold into heads of perfumed flowers in every mild period.

These are nice when grown within sight of a window. Viburnum is not a space-hog because its early growth tends to be vertical while later the tops of older branches do reach out a little. But it’s easy to control by pruning and removing one old stem at ground level every year or two. This triggers new stems to grow and replace them.

One of the most eyecatching trees in early spring is the witch hazel.

Two supremely fragrant yellow-flowered varieties are dubbed “Arnold’s Promise” and “Pallida.”

Any one of these can perfume an entire yard. But it’s important to know that not all yellow-flowered witch hazels are fragrant.

The orange-flowering witch hazel “Jelena” and the copper-red “Diane” are both non-fragrant, but very beautiful. Besides red flowers, Diane also offers copper-red leaves in fall.

Eventually, all these witch hazels grow slowly into large trees.

Witch hazels are immune to the eastern filbert blight, but they

do have a totally different failing —a tendency to produce suckers. This happens because all ornamental witch hazels are grafted onto a medicinal species, which produces tiny flowers in fall. Cutting witch hazel branches tends to trigger shoots from this rootstock.

Another beautiful January-flowering shrub is Camellia sasanqua. It’s evergreen and hardy to our climate although it prefers a sheltered spot and winter mulching. Flowers are mainly single in varieties from red (“Yuletide” is red) through to various pinks and white.

All three of these trees can be grown in large containers, though keeping them dwarf enough to fit, means periodically removing them from the pot and root pruning plus top pruning.

A beautiful and very fragrant shrub, which flowers about now is Daphne mezereum. The flowers vary from deep to pale pink (rarely white) and the bush usually stops at three feet high and wide. This Daphne needs good drainage and a lean diet. It’s hugely droughtresistant and grows easily from its bright red, poisonous berries though you have to be quick to get them before wildlife does.

This Daphne can fit well into a container for many years, but it’s best if its first container is also its last. That’s because being moved often kills Daphnes.

Thursday, February 4, 7:00-8:00pm at Choices Floral Shop & Annex 2615 W. 16th Ave., Vancouver.

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Popular heathers demand little, easy to care for There’s usually a good reason why a plant is popular. Heathers give a great deal while demanding very little care. They

like good drainage and acidic soil while needing little nutrition. In summer, they are extremely droughtresistant.

The winter-flowering heathers bloom in pink or white and flowers persist for many months.

In order to keep looking

compact, the plants need to be given an all-over haircut once the flowers have faded.

In containers, heather

makes a good weed-suppressing, ground cover for taller shrubs. Because it’s evergreen it has a yearround presence.

Anne Marrison is happy to answer garden questions. Send them via amarrison@shaw.ca. It helps if you mention your city or region.

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A few weeks ago we had the opportunity to peek in to the ultra-chic pad of local interior designer Gillian Segal and take a glimpse at her interpretations of style, mixing glamour with modern.

Her upscale take on playful meets traditional was detailed perfectly to suit her personal taste, which is what we — as designers — try to achieve for each of our clients: a beautifully designed space that is a true reflection of the personalities of those who call it home.

This week we are touring a recent project of Gillian’s firm — one close to her heart, as it was the renovation and redesign of her parents’ house. Combining modern updates with handcrafted statement pieces, the effect is striking. Segal’s mother gave us a tour.

OCCUPANT Dr. Philip and Anda Teal -— and their German shepherd and sheltie.

WHAT IS IT? It’s a shingled cottage originally built in the 1930s. We bought it and renovated

22 years ago and recently re-renovated (bathrooms, kitchen, dining room) with our daughter, who is an interior designer.

MAJOR SELLING FEATURE The cottage look and vibe charmed us.

It’s on a private corner lot with trees for the squirrels and birds (which we love to watch) and is located in Kerrisdale.

We love the updated/contemporary cottage feel.

FIRST THING I CHANGED We gutted and renovated the house, adding an upstairs. We decided to keep the footprint of the house, and clad it in shingles to honour the heritage of the home. We added a bank of southernexposed French windows and doors that span the living, dining and kitchen areas.

FEATURE I BRAG ABOUT A mirror hanging in our dining room, handcrafted by our daughter, Gillian (of Gillian Segal Design) and her colleague Katherine Gordon (of Nexus Construction).

THAT ONE CONVERSATION PIECE The Andre Petterson painting of a horse kneeling at a pond. Having had one daughter that is an equestrian, this piece reflects our love of horses.

THE DÉCOR We are very organic people — we love animals and the outdoors — and this is reflected by what is on the walls. While I love a more traditional cottage look, my husband gravitates towards more contemporary pieces. I love neutrals and he loves colours, so our updates were all about ways to marry both of our loves in one space.

THE STORY BEHIND THE ART/ ANTIQUES/COLLECTIBLES The floors are one of our favourite features

of the house. They’re quarter cut oak floorboards that were salvaged from a mansion on Bellevue Drive in Vancouver, the wood had been custom milled for a ballroom, and there was sufficient wood for the entire main level. We recently had it restained and it looks just as good as when we moved in over 20 years ago.

DOWNSIDES Now that the children are out, it is a little big for just the two of us.

NEIGHBOURHOOD HAUNTS Blaqsheep for coffee, La Buca for dinner.

COMPARED TO YOUR LAST PLACE Our last place was a rental. This house is full of warmth and character.

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The general accent lies on happiness, social delights, popularity, optimism and wish fulfillment.

If single, a flirtation could lead to something more. Sunday/Monday bring financial, investment and intimate opportunities. Your intuition is high Sunday morning about government, manufacturing, corporate, management and spiritual zones, but it’s like having a flashlight in a labyrinth – the maze remains a mystery.

The main emphasis, now to February 18, lies on romance, creative and speculative projects, sports and games, gambling, art, beauty and pleasure, teaching, and charming kids. You’re riding a wee winning streak! (It would be a big winning streak, but the planet of luck, Jupiter, is “hiding on you” until September. Next February will bring a big winning streak.) Sunday/Monday are for money.

Everything points toward home, Taurus – parent/ kid relations, rest and recuperation, gardening, landscaping, security, retirement savings, nutrition, and love. This is a time (to late February) to build up and strengthen your foundations, rather than trying to surf the top of the wave of ambition, status or prestige.

Humility is your friend, protector and benefactor for a few weeks. Sunday/Monday bring relationships, relocation themes, public dealings and opportunities.

Until February 18, the focus for you lies on home, domesticity, family, children/parent relations, security, garden, nutrition, on a break from pressures and a restful rejuvenation. Don’t hesitate to take brief naps, to eat well. Hug your kids. You’re in the spotlight Sun./Mon. – your charisma and energy rise, others notice you.

Get out and mingle, start new projects or tackle chores that formerly intimidated you.

The general accent lies on far travel, international affairs, the big picture, social and cultural rituals (weddings, bat mitzvahs, etc.) intellectual pursuits, publishing/media, etc. You feel mellow, wise and compassionate. Real love might grow, even marriage could occur. (Geminis who marry or “newly love” this February will reap the reward of a happy, friendly, prosperous home life, but not especially a romantic result. For single seniors, this is a good theme.)

Until February 18, the main accent lies on errands, communications, restlessness, light reading, news media, siblings and casual friends, short trips and visits. You’ll be busy, but the stakes are not high, so enjoy the travelling and the social side of all this. Retreat and rest Sun./ Mon. Contemplate, plan, and examine your future (which resides in your past). Deal with government, charities and spiritual organizations.

Life opens its cupboard of mysteries, secrets, revelations, financial nuggets, sexual lures, and possibilities – huge possibilities. Be a detective – lift the rugs to see what’s hidden. Invest and/or reduce debt. (If a deflationary period is upon us – and lasts to 2023 to 26 – reducing debt is essential, and good investments are few.) This period (to February 18) also favours health diagnoses, lifestyle changes, alterations in nutrition, and therapy/counselling.

For the next 18 days, your money fortunes should slowly improve. However, that improvement might be a little distant this week, as your earnings and possessions are “bumped” by disruptive forces Sunday, Fri. and Sat. Your charm and grace remain high this week and next. Someone might be contemplating a love affair with you. For your part, you can be attracted to someone sensually, but not much intellectually or emotionally.

Your intuition is very good about investment, financial and sexual situations Sunday before 1 pm (PST) – but it’s as if your intuition sees ten miles of opportunity within a thousand-mile circle of danger. Don’t commit. An “argument” this eve could open your eyes to how your mate sees things. If you do want to invest, invest in your home, your children’s future, or in real estate, Monday daytime.

The accent is on you, Aquarius. You’re the leader until February 18. Others look to you for suggestions, to point the way. Start significant new projects, especially in financial, sexual, lifestyle and health zones. (Read my note about deflation and debt before you invest too heavily, though. Bonds are usually a good investment if deflation lasts – which it might.) See and be seen, display your abilities. If you’re single, opportunities for physical intimacy will abound.

The monthly accent (to February 18) lies on work, service, machinery/tools, dependents, repairs, vitamins and nutrition, and daily health. Eat and dress sensibly. This week and next, thoughts of love drift through your mind. You’re growing slowly closer to someone – but remember, if single, you should wait until May 2017 onward to co-habit with someone new. (In love, that is – roommates, etc. are fine – except that, if you’re single, a roommate could awaken desire.)

The general accent, Pisces, lies on quietude, rest and recuperation, self-examination, spirituality, yoga, meditation, contemplation and planning, until February 18. Deal with civil servants, institutions and corporate head offices, be charitable. Sunday/ Monday awaken your cultural and intellectual instincts. Sunday to 1 pm (PST) favours you personally – things just flow sweetly. But this eve/ night needs caution, especially in money – don’t be wishful, nor mix money and friends.

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Rower prepares for ‘biggest, baddest’ race Brenda Robbins could become first Canadian to row across Pacific Ocean

Ronning now a Top Prospect

Megan Stewart

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Perched on the tiny seat of a stationary rowing machine on the ground floor of the International Boat Show at B.C. Place, Brenda Robbins was a quarter of the way to her destination when “mind over matter” simply wasn’t enough to power her anymore. She was gunning for a Guinness World Record.

To meet it, she’d have to stay on that seat, rowing for 81 hours.

“I learned that the psychological challenge is even more challenging than I ever imagined,” she said after starting her row at 10 a.m. Jan. 20 and stopping the next afternoon. “Upon reaching that physical limit when pain is setting in and sleep deprivation is having its effects, the will to keep going was the biggest limit I hit.”

Robbins, who grew up in a land-locked town in Manitoba and now calls the West End home, said the feeling was surreal.

She couldn’t will her body forward. She rowed for 26 hours, setting a women’s record in the effort to row nearly three times longer.

“When the physical challenge hit its limit — pain, exhaustion, dizziness — I was surprised that I wasn’t better able to overcome it psychologically, to tell my mind to push through it,” she said.

In the tremendous effort, Robbins moved at a slow pace but nonetheless rowed nearly 175 kilometres at seven km/h.

But in fact, her record

Replaces Giants teammate Benson, sidelined by injury Megan Stewart

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Starting Jan. 20 at 10 a.m., Brenda Robbins ate protein smoothies, strawberries, pineapple and salmon to fuel a 26-hour continuous indoor row to set a Guinness World Record during the International Boat Show at B.C. Place. PHOTO REBECCA BLISSETT

row is just the warm-up for a much more significant feat. This summer, Rollins will attempt to cover nearly 4,000 km — 2,400 miles as a straight line but more like 3,000 miles because of wind, waves and open water — from California to Hawaii as part of a four-woman team in the Great Pacific Race. If successful, she will be the first Canadian to row across the Pacific Ocean.

Naturally, she and the Daring Greatly Crew want to break a record and set the benchmark as the fastest women’s team to make the journey. They will aspire to cover between 50 and 70 miles each day.

“When I first got interested in ocean rowing, the record didn’t appeal to me at all,” she said. “I just wanted to get on the ocean and pursue my own journey across. But you learn about the records and other people who are making attempts, and it’s like, I can do that. They are goals within a goal. There

is something to that.”

In their own words, the Great Pacific Races is “the biggest, baddest human endurance challenge on the planet.” Open row boats with international crews of two or four people compete in this epic journey. The modern, Western history of open ocean rowing dates to 1896 when a $10,000 cash prize spurred two New Jersey fisherman to test themselves on the Atlantic. The first successful crossing of the Pacific was recorded in 1971.

Robbins is preparing to spend between 30 and 80 days at sea without sails or engines, rowing for two hours and resting for the next two before picking up the oars for two more hours and then repeating until her team reaches Waikiki Beach.

“You can always adjust it as the team feels is needed though the longer a break you take, the longer you will be rowing as well. This is conventional and seems to

be the tried-and-true method of all the ocean teams.

“I’m very motivated,” she said. “Right away, it was in my head that I wanted to do this.”

She learned about the Great Pacific Race following its inaugural year in 2013 and immediately set out to learn everything she could. She launches out of Jericho Sailing Club, mostly to paddle and kayak, and keeps a stationary rowing machine in her apartment. She planned a solo row of the Atlantic, but left that to pursue the Great Pacific Race.

She will try to consume roughly 5,000 calories a day through high-caloric freeze dried food. During her 26-hour indoor row, she ate salmon, fruit, coconut oil on crackers, and protein smoothies. She was able to take a 10-minute break every hour.

On the ocean, there will be little reprieve, but getting there is one of the biggest challenges.

“They say that, even harder than rowing the ocean, is getting prepared for the race financially and logistically,” said Robbins.

She is fundraising through GoFundMe for her transportation to California and for supplies during the trip.

Her goal is $45,000 and a large portion of the proceeds will benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Canada.

Robbins’ father died in 2013 of acute leukemia.

“He was really easy to get along with even when it came to having a terminal illness, he never complained and he was a really positive and supportive person.

“I feel that he always had confidence in me.

Whatever I set my mind to, I would follow through on and do it safely and to the best of my ability.”

Follow Robbins’ preparation and race on her blog at rowforblood.ca. @MHStewart

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The ranking for Vancouver Canadians co-owner Jake Kerr on the Toronto Sun list of most influential Canadians in baseball. Recognition is for record attendance. Last year, Kerr came in at No. 34.

(Record attendance plus a championship.)

On the same Sun list, the ranking for Thunderbirds baseball coach and now director of UBC Baseball, Terry McKaig. Over 18 years as manager, he went 548-353-1.

He rises from No. 73 last year.

The number of points Langara Falcon Ravi Basra scored in a triple-double performance in a 90-79 win over the CBC Bearcats Jan. 23. The Windermere graduate added 11 rebounds and 10 assists.

“People ask, how is this little guy getting 10 rebounds a game? He knows where the ball is going before it gets there.”

— Langara Falcons men’s basketball coach Paul Eberhardt on the basketball IQ of Ravi Basra, a five-foot-11 starting guard and Windermere secondary grad who averages 16 points, five rebounds and seven assists a game and leads the Pacwest with a 78 percentage from the line.

One Giant is in and another Giant is out, this time indefinitely.

Vancouver forward Tyler Benson will not play in the NHL Top Prospect Game on Thursday night at Pacific Coliseum, the WHL club announced Monday.

Teammate Ty Ronning will take his place.

Benson, a top-ranked left-winger who is expected to go in the first round of the NHL Draft this summer, has been injured with an undisclosed lower-body injury and has been in and out of the lineup. He missed the first 10 games of the regular season following surgery for a cyst near his tailbone.

The Vancouver Giants forward was chosen as the captain of Team Cherry but will now watch from the sidelines.

Ronning, an 18-year-old forward from Burnaby who is just shy of five-foot-nine, has 41 points in 45 games and ranks second with 26 goals for the Giants this season.

Earlier this month, NHL Central Scouting listed the son of retired Canuck Cliff Ronning as 82nd among North American skaters.

Benson was ranked 21st overall on the same scouting list.

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The height of Zain Ali who averaged a double-double with 14 points and 11 rebounds for the Tupper Tigers senior boys basketball team before the centre broke his wrist Jan. 15, ending his season.

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BULLISH Churchill Bulldog Cecilia Bao (No. 7) goes to the hoop against Kitsilano Blue Demon Dina Strujic (No. 13) in the Vancouver Girls Basketball Association’s ninth annual Langara Challenge at Langara College Jan. 23. Bao scored a team-high 18 points in the 66-27 semi-final win. Kits forward Maya Soper led all players with 20 points. The next night, in the first all-public-school final in the tournament’s history, the Bulldogs defeated the Britannia Bruins 66-57.

“I must say, the final between Brit and Churchill was the best I have seen,” said Greg Eng, a coach with York House and former coach with the Langara Falcons women’s team. “Great competitive play, two well-coached teams and incredible sportsmanship displayed by both teams. The game was very physical but clean.” For its 10th year in 2017, the VGBA intends to grow the tournament from the current eight junior and eight senior girls teams. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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