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12TH & CAMBIE KINGSGATE MALL FOR SALE? 4 CITY LIVING LORD BYNG’S CLASS OF ’65 STILL ROCKING 8 LIVING MEET OUR NEW COLUMNISTS: THE FOOD GAYS 30 PASS IT TO BULIS WHO SHOULD CANUCKS FANS CHEER FOR? 40 THURSDAY

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School board considers selling Kingsgate Mall property Mike Howell

mhowell@vancourier.com

So, what the heck is going on with the Kingsgate Mall?

You may have heard: The Vancouver School Board owns the property on which the quirky, timeworn shopping centre at Kingsway and Broadway sits and is considering selling it.

So many questions here.

Will it be turned into condos? How about a nice park? Or, maybe a museum dedicated to the annual battles between the school board and the provincial government?

Mike Lombardi, the school board’s chairperson, correctly surmised there would be questions.

So he emailed me his own question-and-answer document and I’ve done my best here to give it an edit for your reading pleasure.

Right off the top, I should mention any sale of the property (I’m still not sure what it’s worth, or how big it is) will not help the

schoolboard’s$24.3-million shortfall.

Why not?

“To be clear, VSB has not begun any negotiations or made any decisions about selling the Kingsgate Mall property,” Lombardi said. “If that decision were made after consultation with the public, the proceeds of the sale of capital would need to be applied to capital projects such as building new schools or dealing with deferred maintenance upgrades.”

Also, it should be made clear the school board doesn’t own the actual mall. Nope, the Beedie Group owns and operates it. The school board has a long-term lease on the building and retail operations. That lease comes up for review in late 2017.

In the meantime, Lombardi said, the school board wants to be “transparent with the public about our ownership and solicit feedback from area residents about what they value at that location — now, and into the future.”

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That feedback can be sent via email or Twitter.

Or, if that doesn’t work for you, the board is hosting a show-and-tell May 1 at the mall, from 1 to 4:30 p.m.

But hang on a sec here… didn’t the school board commit to not sell its properties?

“The board passed a motion not to sell school properties in their entirety, as an investment in the future for Vancouver students,” Lombardi said.

“That does not preclude the board from considering partial sales or lease of school properties, or enter-

ing into discussions about non-school properties.”

The school board owns three other properties without schools on them.

All are used by the district.

They are the nursery grounds and facility at 5905 Wales St., the school board’s works yard at 1549 Clark Dr. and the school board offices at 1580 West Broadway.

The history of the school board’s connection to the Kingsgate Mall property goes back to the 1800s, when the board and the city acquired parcels of land at the mall site. Mount Pleasant school was built on the land in 1892. Then in 1962, as the area became a traffic and commercial hub, a new school was built nearby on Guelph Street.

The mall was built in the early 1970s.

The site is currently zoned for commercial use. Any zoning change would have to be approved by city council. I did a quick Google search to look into the crystal ball of what might happen on the property.

I came across a report

by Acton Ostry Architects Inc. on the Rize mixed-use development currently being built across the street from the mall. Here’s a quote to keep in mind as you watch what happens to the mall.

“As Vancouver and the Greater Vancouver Region expands, concentrated urban nodes will continue to grow and develop at significant points along busy arterial routes, such as Broadway and Kingsway. The Broadway and Kingsway node offers conditions that support highdensity, transit-oriented developments.”

Here’s a better quote.

“Additional significant developments in the immediate vicinity include the Biltmore Hotel, Best Western Hotel and Kingsgate Mall, which has been identified in the [Mount Pleasant Community Plan] as a future largescale mixed-use residential development site.”

So, no museum? @Howellings

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The city wants to develop a program to make owning a home in Vancouver “affordable” for workers who have lived in the city for at least five years and whose household earns no more than $96,000 per year.

In a report that went before city council Wednesday after the Courier’s print deadline, city staff proposed at least one member of the household be employed and a permanent resident or citizen of Canada to qualify for the program. Buyers would pay no more than 35 per cent of their gross income to housing costs, including mortgage payments, property taxes, utilities and strata fees.

Singles and couples with no dependent children living at home, who earn no more than $67,540 per year, would be eligible for a studio or onebedroom unit, according to preliminary estimates in the report. Families earning no more than $96,170 per year would be eligible for two and three-bedroom units.

The program, which calls for 300 housing units over the first three years, hinges on a commitment from develop-

ers willing to participate and consultation with employers, workers, mortgage lenders and the general public.

— Mike Howell Full story at vancourier.com.

Strathcona residents irked by Atira proposal

A chain-link fence surrounds the Atira-owned vacant lot at 420 Hawks Ave., located just off Hastings Street. On one side of the Strathcona property sits the Rice Block — a 38-unit single-room occupancy hotel for women that Atira has run since 2007, while across the alley, at Pender Street, is the Ukrainian Hall.

The fate of the lot, which Atira currently uses as a community garden, rests on the outcome of a rezoning application it filed more than a year ago. Its initial application envisioned 26 social housing units for women and children (20 studios and six two-bedroom units), while its revised proposal, submitted last October, scales back the number of units to 21, with more family housing (14 two-bedroom units and seven micro-dwelling units) as well as expanded amenity

space at street level that’s accessible to the community.

Neighbourhood organizations aren’t satisfied by the changes, so they launched an online petition challenging the proposal just over a month ago.

— Naoibh O’Connor Full story at vancourier.com.

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Mayor insists he will seek fourth term

Mayor Gregor Robertson is insistent that he will seek a fourth term at city hall despite his communications director leaving in February for a job in Ottawa and his chief of staff set to step down at the end of this month.

Robertson stated his intention to seek re-election last Thursday after news broke that longtime chief of staff Mike Magee will become “special advisor” to the mayor for four months, before scaling back his role later this year.

He said Magee will focus on ensuring Vancouver gets its share of available federal dollars for infrastructure projects, particularly transit and affordable housing. He will continue to earn his annual $120,000-plus salary.

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King Ed project embodies DEVELOPING STORY Naoibh O’Connor

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The walls are the most “exciting” feature of King Edward Villa, a six-storey rental building under construction at 1568 East King Edward Ave., according to Tom-Pierre Frappé-Sénéclauze.

Frappé-Sénéclauze, a senior advisor at the Pembina Institute, considers them the most important “green” component.

“Because they’re very well built. They’re very well insulated, very air tight. That [means] the entire rest of the building can be very simple [including] the electrical system.

The heating system is great — very simple,” he said. “Here you have basically mechanical ventilation with heat recovery as the main heating source and a bit of baseboard heating. So it’s mostly electrically heated, which means it’s low carbon. But because it’s so energy efficient and the envelope is so good, you don’t actually need a lot of electricity to heat it.”

Paul Warwick, senior project manager at Performance Construction, the builder of King Edward Villa, agrees. He

said every part of the wall, or envelope, which includes windows manufactured by Innotech Windows in Abbotsford, and the air barrier on the outside, work together to make a very energy efficient building.

He helped lead a building tour organized by the Pembina Institute, a think tank dedicated to clean energy and reducing the impacts of fossil fuels.

Warwick estimated the annual heating bill for a 500-squarefoot studio will be $60 a year, calling it “remarkable.”

The building is inspired by Passive House principles and aims to earn the highest Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification available — LEED Platinum.

It’s being built under the city’s Rental 100 program and will feature 77 units — 35 studios, 22 one-bedrooms and 20 two-bedrooms, as well as commercial space measuring about 6,000 square feet. Rents are expected to be $1,200 for a studio, going up to about $1,800 for a two-bedroom.

Construction is expected to be completed this summer.

Chris Higgins, a green building planner for the City of Vancouver, said the project is important because it uses simple

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“We want to see more buildings of this quality and design. But the reality is, when you look at the construction that’s happening right now in Vancouver, most of them do not meet this level of efficiency,” Frappé-Sénéclauze said.

“Across B.C., that’s even more true because Vancouver has a higher standard than most of the rest of the province. So we need to move quickly to where this is the norm.”

Karen Tam Wu, director of buildings and Urban Solutions at the Pembina Institute, said advocates are waiting with “bated breath” for the provincial government to come out with what the organization hopes will be a “strong and aggressive plan so we can meet some ambitious climate targets.”

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“We need to see this type of building moving from the niche to the norm.”

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Class of ’65 Lord Byng band still enjoys legion of fans Rebecca Blissett

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The walls in Branch 142 of the West Point Grey Royal Canadian Legion are charmingly outdated with wood paneling, the ceiling hangs low with office tiles and fluorescent lights and the floor is equipped with pool and shuffle board tables. All those archaic features add up to one great neighbourhood rec room.

“You won’t see many under 40 tonight,” noted Gord Walkinshaw as the crowd, many he knew on a first-name basis, lined up at the front door to pay the $5 cover Friday night. Walkinshaw plays keys for the Lord Byng Reunion Band, which is made up of five Class of ’65 graduates and one young ‘un, Gord’s brother Dave Walkinshaw, who graduated in 1973. “Just see how many people pull their cellphones out, there will be hardly any.”

Walkinshaw knows his audience. While his six-piece crammed into the cave of the stage, which, inexplicably, had an unlit neon “open”

sign on the wall above, the worn vinyl seats filled. Old friends chattered and new introductions were made with cheap beers in hand instead of smartphones. Fellow graduates from the Lord Byng class of ’65 sat at the back of the room, acquainted with the band last June when they performed their first show at the school’s 50th reunion. Jeanine Ziolkoski and Peter Henley, who know Walkinshaw from the Kitsilano Yacht Club, sat near the pool table where players took short breaks from the game to play air guitar with their pool cues while the bands played. “We’ve been following Gord,” said Ziolokoski. “And wherever Gord goes, we follow!”

“Class of ’65,” singer Jim Mutter said into the mic before the Lord Byng Reunion Band kicked into a cover of “This Diamond Ring” by Gary Lewis and the Playboys. “It was a great year to graduate. Houses were cheap and we were lucky in love” — the crowd responded with whoops — “well, not all of us. As they say in the old Westerns, enough talking!”

Mary Ann Mutter, far left, tore up the dance floor with friends during the Lord Byng Reunion Band’s show at the West Point Grey Royal Canadian Legion Friday night. See photo gallery at vancourier.com. PHOTO REBECCA BLISSETT

Two golden oldies in, and the dance floor was packed.

Mutter and his wife Mary Ann’s friends from their West Side zumba class were easy to spot by their energy that would put people half their age to shame. As Ziolkoski and Henley danced, their gaze went to their table where their two Labrador retrievers, puppies in training for the Pacific Assistance Dogs Society, slept underneath.

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Band ended the first set of their first show this year with, appropriately, the number one song of 1965, Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs’ “Wooly Bully.”

The collective stories in the building at the corner of West Broadway and Alma Streets are endless. The legion itself had humble beginnings in somebody’s West Side house before moving to its current location, which had to be rebuilt after a fire in 1971.

Stories of its veterans, many of whose uniforms and other artifacts from wars are in the legion’s display cases, were published in a book about Branch 142 in 1992.

The musicians are a treasure of entertainment history, which is what happens when you’re 68 years old and you’ve been playing all your life. Walkinshaw’s career began after he was fired from Woodward’s department store in ’68. “Oh, I don’t know. Selling dope, probably. I had the long hair, bad attitude,” he laughed.

“Sleeping on the job…”

Walkinshaw joined Vancouver’s circuit of unionized nightclub musicians and often worked the noon ‘til 8 p.m. shift six nights a week at the Zanzibar, New Delhi, Smilin’ Buddha and an assortment of other independent strip clubs in town. There was no shortage of work for musicians thanks to the B.C. Liquor Control Board’s 1973 ruling that exotic dancers had to be accompanied by a three-piece orchestra. (The ruling didn’t last long, though, and taperecorded music put many

nightclub musicians out of work.)

“Nobody wanted to be a rock star, we just wanted to play music,” Walkinshaw remembered. “We all knew each other, we subbed for each other, we’d just step up and play. There was no set list, no complicated P.A. system. You’d look around the room and see what mood everybody was in and what the dancers wanted to dance to, and that was your job.”

He plays for a different sort of dancer these days, women such as 69-year-old Marianne Schmidt who wears a pedometer on her hip to log in the steps she takes on the floor.

“Oh, I’ve known Gord since the 1970s. Gordie has a way of doing the songs that I love,” said Schmidt. “I just love to dance. I can’t stop. I do it at home, when I’m in a lineup… If I can’t really get into the music, then I don’t dance as wildly. I hear the music that I love so much then I can just let go. I don’t care what people think, or what they say.” @rebeccablissett

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Opinion ALLEN GARR COLUMNIST

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Assisted-death legislation will leave countless suffering

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or those advocates fighting for medically assisted deaths since long before Sue Rodriguez became a national symbol of this struggle, last year’s Supreme Court decision in Carter V. Canada, created a tremendous burst of hope.

The federal government — Harper’s Tories at the time — was ordered to rewrite legislation within a year to allow for medically assisted death that would comply with the Constitution and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

As the B.C. Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) concluded: the bill “leaves out entire categories of suffering Canadians who should have a right to choose a safe and dignified assisted death.”

As you know, Justin Trudeau’s Liberals came to power within that year and were granted a four-month extension.

They struck an all-party parliamentary committee, including MPs and senators, to examine the issue and come back with recommendations.

Following an exhaustive survey and a careful analysis of the Supreme Court decision, the committee produced a detailed and thoughtful report including 21 recommendations that only served to give advocates even more hope that their goal would be achieved.

And then, last week, the Liberals introduced their bill, and that hope was replaced

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by despair. While the Liberals promised some progress would be made on improvements to palliative care, and the proposed legislation would shield medical practitioners including doctors, nurses and pharmacists from prosecution for their role in assisting in the act of dying, there was little else in which to take encouragement.

As the B.C. Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) concluded: the bill “leaves out entire categories of suffering Canadians who should have a right to choose a safe and dignified assisted death.”

One great irony in the requirements of the Liberal legislation is that Kay Carter, a plaintive in this landmark decision by the court, would be excluded from legally seeking medically assisted death.

The Liberal legislation — in spite of the parliamentary committee’s recommendations to the contrary — insists that for a recipient of this assistance to end their suffering, their natural death must be “reasonably foreseeable.”

Actually what the Supreme Court required was simply “a grievous and irremediable medical condition (including an illness, disease or disability) that causes enduring suffering that is intolerable.”

As the BCCLA notes, that would describe Kay Carter’s situation. She suffered from spinal stenosis and wasn’t going to die from that extremely painful illness. Death was not, however, reasonably foreseeable. She would simply go on in “intolerable and perhaps indefinite suffering.”

The Section 7 Charter right of “life, liberty and security of the person,” raised by the Supreme Court — in spite of Liberal government claims to the contrary — has simply been ignored.

In an attempt to avoid as much political risk as possible, the Liberals have kicked aside many of the committee’s recommendations. Those would include the recommendation that the legislation

allow for assistance to people who have a psychiatric condition — many people with mental illnesses are quite capable of making competent decisions.

The committee also recommended that people be allowed to make an “advanced request” for a medically assisted death.

That would serve folks who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s or dementia but are still in the early stages of a disease that would ultimately eliminate their ability to make decisions.

You may recall the tragic case of Margaret Bentley who ended up with Alzheimer’s in an Abbotsford nursing home and whose family thought she had given advanced notice only to be thwarted in her request in a case opposed by the nursing home and the B.C. Government.

One final issue: The committee recommended that following the “first stage” of the legislation dealing with “competent adults,” within three years it should include “competent mature minors.”

None of that was supported in the Liberal’s politically risk-averse bill.

In fact, they don’t plan to even review the legislation for five years, well beyond their current mandate.

And except for a possible revolt in the Senate, or among their own members of Parliament to amend the legislation, any challenges to the legislation because it violates either the Constitution or the Charter of Rights of individuals will mean a long a legal slog.

Decisions that should more appropriately be made by a patient and a doctor will be back before the courts. Advocates like the BCCLA will have to seek out plaintiffs to represent and then start the challenge process all over again.

Meanwhile, countless thousands of Canadians and their families will continue to suffer because of a Trudeau Liberal government that decided this issue was not their hill to die on. @allengarr

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Baseball story and photo a hit Re: “Baseball: On this East Vancouver sandlot, everyone is a kid again,” April 14.

As a community newspaper editor 40 years back — the redoubtable Surrey-Delta Messenger — I was reporter, columnist, photographer (using a Canon FT-b), compositer and paperboy delivering to all the local mom-and-pop grocery stores in the two communities.

Covering the Kosmic Baseball League was a highlight of spring and summer editions of the paper we affectionately called the Mess. Most colourful local team was the Cloverdale Seagull Athletic Association whose slogan was “When a seagull s***s, it’s like a s*** from heaven.” The CSAA entered a float in the 1974 Cloverdale Rodeo Parade — a recently-used and quite fresh manure spreader they all crowded into after making room for their stashes of Uncle Ben’s canned beer.

Fun as all that was — just as the funky EVBL will be a great hoot as well, based on Megan Stewart’s terrific feature — never once, not ever, did I catch a photo from the Seagull (slow-pitch) games as good as photographer Chung Chow’s front page capture of fast-pitch action. And the A-39 snap of the batter’s hands blurred frameleft in his f16 aperture setting of the pitcher and runner on second base — wow what slick stuff! I genuflect and admire for sure.

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Readers weigh in on Molson property sale Re: “Money talks... will Gregor listen?” April 13.

If the site is to be maintained as industrial — just what sort of business do people really want to see in there anyway.

Making beer is easy enough, there’s no noise and smokestacks. Very little of False Creek is industrial anymore. These aren’t barges and wharfs anymore, it’s waterfront property. It probably should be residential if there’s no industrial business to be had there anymore. No? Aaron Chapman via Facebook ••• Vancouver is expected to sacrifice its long-term residents and its economy all for the sake of private wealth. Enough of this lunacy. It’s time we start organizing against the perpetrators. It’s time for boycotts,

strikes, public information campaigns! It’s time to take our city back!

JD Morden via Facebook ••• “They (city hall) also know that it is not in Vancouver’s job-creation interests to limit the term “industrial” to milling wood, making steel chain and producing cement.” Exactly. Re-purposed as a suite of high-tech offices with company sponsored housing surrounding it would create a great way to draw in skilled workers. Think outside the box - it’s the 21st century last I checked.

Doug Farmer via Facebook ••• They have been plotting all this and getting people used to it for some time.

The need for more housing and tech hub buzz statements have been dropped for some time. If you think there is anything that will stop it, you have not been paying attention to city hall’s games.

We are only the taxpayers, we have no say. Time to accept Vancouver has been taken over by the developers thanks to Gregor and the gang.

Yvonne Williams via Facebook ••• No doubt in my mind that Concord will get what they want.

Vickie Squire Pynn via Facebook

Rent out of shape Re: “City of Vancouver wades into heated short-term rentals debate,” April 11.

Real estate agent Zul Jiwa and various members of his family have turned a residential condo building into a hotelrental business, something that was not thought of when the condo was built and sold to people interested in living in a condo building. His takeover of the condo board shows how a condo corporation can be a battleground between private small-time business interests and owner-occupants. Not allowing owners to see documents or holding an AGM show how much power a condo board has and can abuse. This could make the condo a very toxic environment. There are condos in downtown Toronto that have dozens of units listed as short-term rentals. The new condo declarations allow it. Some condos are 2/3 long-term rental (1 year leases) and the remainder owner-occupants and hotel suites. One huge condo near the CN tower is 85% rented.

It is all up to the city councillors to pass new bylaws. Only they have the power to control this.

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Paramedics question firefighters’ use of Narcan Mike Howell

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The union representing ambulance paramedics is questioning how the provincial government allowed Vancouver and Surrey firefighters to begin injecting a life-saving drug into overdose victims.

Bronwyn Barter, provincial president of the Ambulance Paramedics of B.C., said the union was not properly consulted about the type of training for firefighters to administer naloxone, the protocols for handing off a patient at a scene or the medical evidence showing the need for firefighters to use the medication.

“I know a lot of people would like to characterize this as a turf war, when really there’s more going on, in our view, with the way that this was handled,” Barter told the Courier. “When we normally do something like this — when we add a protocol or something — there’s some work done to make sure everybody is safe, the patient’s safe, the people using the protocol are safe. And this never happened with this issue.”

In January, the B.C. government announced that firefighters in Vancouver and Surrey could use a syringe to inject naloxone, or Narcan, into overdose victims. The government, via a ministerial order from Health Minister Terry Lake, also expanded

the number of paramedics certified to use the medication, which quickly reverses the effects of opiods such as heroin and fentanyl on the body by restoring breathing within two to three minutes.

That announcement came after the B.C. Coroners Service released a report the same month showing 474 people died in B.C. last year of an apparent illicit drug overdose, which was an increase of 27 per cent from the 366 people who died in 2014.

So far, Vancouver firefighters have administered naloxone nine times, and their counterparts in Surrey used it eight times, said Vancouver Fire Chief John McKearney, noting 230 of his firefighters are trained to inject the medication.

“At the street level, I’m told by my staff that it’s positive, it’s not negative,” said McKearney of the firefighters’ relationship with paramedics when using naloxone.

“In fact, there were a couple of instances where paramedics have arrived on scene where we hadn’t yet administered naloxone and they’ve said, ‘You just go ahead and keep doing it.’ So it’s working out quite well.”

Linda Lupini, executive vice-president of the Provincial Health Services Society and B.C. Emergency Health Services, said she met with Barter and the union’s executive team in June of last year

Vancouver firefighters have administered naloxone, or Narcan, nine times since they were given the go-ahead in January from the provincial government to use the life-saving drug on overdose victims. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

to discuss firefighters using naloxone. Lupini said the rationale for firefighters being equipped with naloxone was in reaction to the spike in overdose drug deaths. She noted Vancouver and Surrey account for more than 80 per cent of overdose drug deaths and that firefighters in Metro Vancouver are the first to respond to emergency calls 70 per cent of the time.

Prior to firefighters using the medication, Lupini said, the B.C. Centre for Disease Control trained more than 6,000 people, including shelter workers, drug users and other health care workers on how to administer naloxone.

The medication is also avail-

able in 160 clinics and is no longer a prescription drug.

“It’s understandable that [the paramedics’ union] prefer to have an increased head count in their own union with their own paramedics doing this work,” Lupini said. “But we have to look at this crisis and we have to say the most important thing to look at here is saving lives.”

Added Lupini: “The ambulance paramedics of B.C. are probably not ever going to support an expanding role for firefighter first responders. Because, in their defence, they want more paramedics, so that they can always get to the scene first.”

Barter wouldn’t provide a

yes or no answer to the Courier when asked whether her union supported firefighters being equipped with naloxone, saying, “They’re doing it now. It is what it is.”

Barter said she was never informed by B.C. Emergency Health Services about the ministerial order that allowed firefighters to use naloxone.

Although Lupini said she sent Barter a text around Christmas time informing her of the order, Barter said she never received it.

“In the past when there’s been a ministerial order, there’s been a lot of collaboration, it’s had the interested parties, it’s had firefighters at the table, it’s had the paramedics at the table, they involved the politicians,” Barter said. “But something was off about this ministerial order. It feels like there was a bit of a cart before the horse.”

In a letter she wrote to Vancouver city council last week, Barter cited the World Health Organization’s recommendation for managing an opiod overdose. It says the primary focus should be “to address respiration and oxygenation,” including assisted ventilation with rescue breathing or bag and mask with supplemental oxygen.

“These are skills that first responders already have,” she wrote. “There is no evidence to indicate that patients in Vancouver died on scene as a result of naloxone not being

given by fire first responders.”

She said administering naloxone to a chronic drug user can bring on symptoms of withdrawal, including a patient becoming combative, a rapid and significant change in blood pressure, increased heart rate and heart failure.

“A first responder has limited skills to adequately manage a patient experiencing sudden withdrawal symptoms,” she said in her letter.

That letter was read to council by paramedic Sophia Georgas, who is the union’s executive government liaison.

Georgas raised concerns about how such a move by government to allow firefighters to administer naloxone could be seen as downloading costs and services on city taxpayers.

The cost of each ampoule of naloxone for Vancouver firefighters was $1.86. A complete kit, which includes retractable syringes, is under $5. All training, except for the initial instructor training done by Dr. William Dick of emergency health services, was done in-house.

Vancouver Police Chief Adam Palmer has told the Courier that he is interested in having his officers using the nasal spray form of naloxone, once it becomes available and is approved by Health Canada. Police departments in the United States use both the nasal spray and syringes. @Howellings

Health officer fears drug deaths could exceed 700 this year Mike Howell

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B.C.’s health officer has declared a public health emergency in reaction to the increasing number of overdose drug deaths in the province that he says are on pace to exceed 700 by the end of the year.

Dr. Perry Kendall said the extraordinary step taken by his office will allow medical health officers throughout the province to collect more real-time information from various authorities to better prevent overdoses and overdose deaths.

That exercise will involve compiling data from hospital emergency rooms, paramedics, firefighters, police, health authorities, the B.C. Coroners Service and others involved in drug treatment and harm reduction services.

“This is, frankly, a crisis,” said Kendall at a news conference April 14 in Victoria, where he was joined

by Health Minister Terry Lake and deputy provincial health officer Bonnie Henry.

“These deaths have a serious impact on public health and the numbers are unusual and unexpected, which is the criteria for declaring such an emergency under the Public Health Act.” Having current information on a spate of overdoses, or deaths, or type of drug involved, will help enhance efforts by outreach workers and other health care providers to identify patterns and target individuals and communities affected by overdose, he said, noting the logistics of collecting the data will be done over the days and weeks ahead.

The health minister noted there is a “lag time” in accessing information on overdose deaths. Lake said data received is primarily related to deaths and not overdoses, many of which have been linked to fentanyl, a synthetic narcotic 50 to 100 times more powerful than heroin.

More than 200 deaths this year

Kendall pointed out overdose drug deaths have climbed steadily in B.C. in the past six years. In 2010, there were 211 deaths.

That increased to 474 last year, with 121 recorded in Vancouver. About one-third of total deaths were linked to fentanyl. More than 200 overdose deaths were recorded in the first three months of this year.

“At this rate, the total for 2016 could exceed 700, or even 800,” he said, noting the increases occurred despite what he described as “heroic” efforts by public health officials, emergency services workers, health providers and organizers of drug awareness campaigns.

Lake also recognized the efforts of health workers and highlighted the success of the B.C. Centre for Disease Control-led naloxone program, which has “reversed” 500 overdoses in the

province since 2012.

More than 6,800 people are trained to administer naloxone, a medication that quickly reverses the effects of opiods such as heroin and fentanyl on the body by restoring breathing within two to three minutes. Some of those trained work in shelters and are members of drug users’ advocacy groups.

Vancouver and Surrey firefighters began administering naloxone this year and have used it a total of 17 times.

The number of paramedics certified to use naloxone was also expanded this year.

“But while we’ve had great successes with our harm reduction strategies, the recent surge in overdoses and deaths over the last couple of years, really, is a huge concern for us,” Lake said. “And we have to do what’s needed to prevent future overdoses.”

Chief coroner’s statement

B.C.’s chief coroner, Lisa

Lapointe, issued a statement last Thursday, saying she was encouraged by Kendall’s “additional focus on addressing the increasing numbers of overdoses we are seeing throughout the province, both fatal and non-fatal.”

Lapointe said data related to deaths is routinely shared with the coroners service’s public safety partners to support death and injury prevention measures. She said the coroners service will continue to provide such information, including results of toxicology tests in suspected overdose deaths, in “a timely manner.”

“We will also continue to work with our law enforcement, health, child welfare, First Nations Health Authority and education partners to look for ways to reduce the number of people dying from illicit drug use,” she said.

Vancouver Police Chief Adam Palmer welcomed Kendall’s announcement and said his department will share what information it can

to help reduce overdoses and drug deaths.

“The VPD has very robust analytical capability, so when information requests come in — as long as it’s a lawful request — then we’re happy to help our health authorities and provide information to them,” said Palmer, noting his officers have conducted recent investigations in which they targeted drug dealers selling fentanyl and launched public drug awareness campaigns. “In the past, we’ve always provided information on deaths as a result of an overdose, as opposed to an overdose where somebody survives. So that’s the type of data that they’re going to be looking at.”

The VPD announced in February that officers investigated 11 deaths in a 16-day stretch believed to be a result of a drug overdose. Typically, two to three people per week die of a drug overdoses in Vancouver, the police said at the time.

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Opinion Northeast False Creek Stewardship Group and Park Design Advisory Group Submit Your Application The City of Vancouver and Vancouver Park Board are planning the future of Northeast False Creek and you could be part of it. We’re looking for committee members for a Stewardship Group and a Park Design Advisory Group to help us create a vibrant, sustainable new neighbourhood for everyone in the city.

Committee members are selected through the City of Vancouver’s and Vancouver Park Board’s public selection process, and will be chosen to provide advice and insight.

Submit your application online at: vancouver.ca/NEFC-committees

10th Avenue Health Precinct: Design Options

The City is planning to improve the 10th Avenue Corridor to better accommodate people walking and cycling for all ages and abilities. Building on what we heard from you at public open houses held last fall, we have focused our initial efforts on developing options for the Health Precinct, the portion of the 10th Avenue Corridor between Oak and Yukon Streets.

We want to hear from you!

Join us at an open house.

Applications are due Friday, May 20, 2016 by 4 pm.

About the Stewardship Group The Northeast False Creek Stewardship Group will bring a broad variety of perspectives to the planning process and advise City staff in securing and maintaining the vision set out in the Northeast False Creek Conceptual Plan and approved in the Removal of Viaducts Report (2015) for a new neighbourhood and major waterfront park.

The committee will have up to 15 appointed community members.

About the Park Design Advisory Group The Northeast False Creek Park Design Advisory Group will provide input on the design of the new park and open spaces in NEFC. The group will help to ensure a balanced approach to park uses, as part of a thoughtful and comprehensive design process; provide feedback to the project team (Park Board staff, City staff and consultant team) on the approach and progress of community engagement; and encourage public education and contribution in the design of the park and open spaces.

The committee will have 10 to 12 appointed community members.

FOR DETAILS AND TERMS OF THE APPLICATION PROCESS: vancouver.ca/NEFC-committees The City of Vancouver reserves the right to suspend or terminate its call for applications at any time without further explanation or notification; however, if the process is suspended or terminated the City will attempt to notify all applicants directly and will issue a public update.

The City assumes no legal duty or obligation to any applicant and does not owe any duty of care, fairness or impartiality in the selection process. The City may accept or reject any or all applications without providing reasons. Subject to the applicable provisions of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (British Columbia) and other applicable legal requirements, the City will treat the information provided by each applicant in confidence.

Each applicant consents to the City contacting any references named by the applicant.

These meetings will be drop-in open house format. City staff will be available to discuss the project, answer questions and gather your feedback.

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Politicians known for company they keep Geoff Olson

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“You are known by the company you keep.” That adage sure holds true in politics.

In 2008, Barack Obama was swept into the Oval Office on a mass wave of “hope and change.” Over the next two terms he spent down his political capital through serial concessions to the GOP, the deportation of more than two million undocumented immigrants, the failure to close Guantanamo Bay as promised, and a major expansion of both the U.S. surveillance state and Bush’s legacy of undeclared wars through special ops and drone strikes.

Oh, and the Nobel Peace Prize winner also presided over the prosecution of more whistleblowers than all previous U.S. presidents in total.

Yet, Obummer failed to jail a single principal behind the 2008 subprime mortgage bubble and financial collapse.

This is no surprise considering those who rode his coattails into the White House, including Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, previously president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and former Freddie Mac board member Rahm Emanuel, who served as White House Chief of Staff.

Former hedge fund manager Lawrence Summers was a key advisor on handling the post-2008 recession.

Other Wall Street-friendly staffers seamlessly made the transition from the Bush to Obama administration.

Whether or not his declared intention to take on the “fat cats” of Wall Street was disingenuous from the get go, Obama and his circle ensured a few big banks would face billions in fines but no serious regulatory actions, much less individual prosecution.

On to Donald Trump.

Whether or not he remains the GOP’s in-house incendiary device and/or Hillary-abetting sideshow, millions of Americans persist in believing that a self-promoting businessman will upend business as usual in Washington. All they have to support this peculiar notion is Trump’s narcissism, which appears to preclude any talent for Beltway team-playing.

Based on Drumpf’s evermutating remarks on foreign policy, many of his supporters believe he will pull the U.S. out of foreign entanglements, or at least make allies shell out for the courtesy. Yet the reality TV star’s thuggish intentions may be signalled in his selection of former

Pentagon Inspector General Joseph E. Schmitz as a key foreign policy advisor.

Schmitz was forced out of the Pentagon over accusations he was blocking investigations of corruption by Bush administration officials involving defence contracts. This is not the sort of guy who is going to petition against endless wartime profiteering and get a “you’re fired” from Drumpf in response.

As for the chickenhawk Democratic contender and former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, it would be naïve to believe her circle won’t be thick with banksterenablers, corporate lobbyists, and warriors for Empire.

Bill Clinton’s former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright recently stated that there is “a special place in hell” for women who don’t electorally support the former First Lady. This was the same Albright who once offered a jaw-dropping response to reporter Lesley Stahl about U.S. sanctions against Iraq.

“We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that’s more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?” Stahl asked Albright in a 1996 60 Minutes segment.

“I think this is a very hard choice, but the price — we think the price is worth it,” she responded.

Meanwhile in B.C., our Premier has made some interesting new friends.

“Dozens of frightened refugees have been given political asylum by B.C. Premier Christy Clark, after losing all they held dear in their homelands,” comments Bill Tieleman in The Tyee, based on a story that first broke in Pacific Political Report.

Tieleman isn’t talking about Syrians, but rather former members of defeated governments in Ottawa and Alberta.

Trailing accusations of wrongdoing behind them, a number of former Harperites have found high-paid jobs in Clark’s government. Perversely, much of their work will be helping guide the B.C. Liberals into victory in 2017.

That’s Brutish Columbian politics for you: members of a neocon government flushed down the Rideau Canal wash up on the shores of Victoria, where they do their Walking Dead routine up the legislature steps.

Remember, you are known by the company you keep, Christy. On second thought, forget about it for now. Leave it to voters to remind you in 2017.

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Support for shared housing vital to Vancouver’s future Jessica Barrett

Jessica.Barrett@gmail.com

I woke up on a recent Sunday morning to an unusual invitation.

“Lol. My friend wants to know if we want to go to a mansion party in Shaughnessy,” read the text. “He says there’s a bar, and a pool, and workshops, and a bar!”

I already had plans and thus had to turn down the invite, but, curiosity piqued, I met up with my friend later for the low-down. Mansion parties in Shaughnessy are a thing now, apparently. But they’re not being hosted by nouveau riche boogeymen buoyed by foreign capital. Rather a different kind of resident is populating these sprawling abodes and breathing new life into the near ghost-town of a neighbourhood.

This particular house was shared among 20 people who found, in one of city’s ritziest neighbourhoods, a rather ingenious affordable housing opportunity. Together, they could easily afford the $10,000 monthly rent while enjoying much more living space than they could ever hope to afford individually.

(Then there’s the added perk of mansion living in that you’re so far away from your neighbours that throwing an all-day rager barely registers.)

Of course, young people embracing communal living to cut down on costs is an old story. In Vancouver, anyone under 40 is by necessity an expert at figuring out

alternative housing arrangements. Compared to some of the other home-spun solutions I’ve come across — such as repurposing “extra” space like bathrooms into bedrooms, or living in one’s van — getting comfy with a double-digit number of roommates is definitely one of the better options.

The trouble is, our culture and our systems aren’t set up to support this style of shared housing in any official capacity. In fact, they’re often hostile to it.

A friend who shares a rental house in Strathcona with his partner and three other roommates, all professionals in their late 20s and 30s, reports that the relationship challenges of living in a high-volume household pale in comparison to navigating bureaucracies built for a culture clinging by its fingernails to a selfcontained mode living. An example: when the fridge began bursting at the seams, he and his housemates were able to settle on a system of buying bulk, farm fresh eggs in order to conserve both money and kitchen space. But when they went shopping for tenants’ insurance, they couldn’t find any financial institution willing to insure a home with so many unrelated adults. The verdict was that the home was too insecure with so many people coming and going.

When Vancouver’s first co-housing development opened in March, it provided a great example of citizens taking matters into their own

hands and investing in a long-term community rather than simple equity. Unfortunately, by the time the owners completed four years of negotiation and planning, the price tag for larger, family-friendly units came in at nearly $800,000, putting them squarely out of reach of most young families.

That’s really a shame, since this is a group that is all too happy to swap square-footage for the chance to put down roots in Vancouver, as long as they have access to the amenities that are often neglected in multi-unit dwellings: gardens, outdoor children’s play spaces, storage, and workshops — not to mention a ground-oriented layout that’s conducive to actual interaction with neighbours. People are desperate for this, it’s why waitlists for the city’s aging housing co-ops are years long and landing a spot in one is akin to winning the lottery.

For a population increasingly fine-tuning exit strategies, a degree of communal living and common space can mean the difference between a viable future in Vancouver or not.

But this is a detail not high on the lists for developers, nor the city, which has just released a new plan for an affordable home ownership program that seems heavily slanted toward segmented, condominium-style living.

Nor are community-oriented designs, such as townhouses, welcome in many of Vancouver’s single-family neigh-

dreams of owning a house.

At the same time, we’re faced with the pervasive expectation that we will one day grow up, grow out of the “roommate phase,” and move heaven and earth to secure a postagestamp piece of real estate that doesn’t meet our needs.

Those who envision a form of communal living not as a sacrifice, but as a desirable

bourhoods, where any form of density is automatically met with vehement protest.

As the affordability crisis tightens its grip on Vancouver, a glaring hypocrisy has emerged. We are told the era of single-family housing is over and gone, yet it is only my generation that is constantly, and condescendingly, counselled to abandon our

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Community TALK OF THE BLOCK

Churches feel the squeeze in city’s hot real estate market Downsizing, redeveloping and renting — just some of the ways churches try to afford Vancouver

Urban planning

Christopher Cheung

bychrischeung@gmail.com

For Valerie Weinert, life happened at church.

She remembers learning about God in the gym during Sunday school.

She remembers saying her wedding vows at the front of the stained-glassed sanctuary. She remembers longtime friends who have passed away.

Weinert was born in 1948. She attended Oakridge United Church growing up, six blocks east from her family’s duplex on Cambie and 46th. But development is coming to the site, and the church building of nearly seven decades will be demolished.

“It’s like any family home,” said Weinert.

“You lose a family home and you remember all the good times you’ve had.

Even when you’ve got all the memories, it’s still a sad thing.”

Weinert remembers having to sit in the basement with her parents whenever they were late for big Christmas and Easter. They had to listen to the service from a pipe because the upstairs was packed.

There isn’t that kind of attendance today. There are now 60 regular churchgoers, most over 50 years of age. That’s why the United

1. Holy Realtors’ Leonardo Di Francesco and Rav Rampuri have been selling religious properties together for 21 years, everything from churches to temples to mosques, and they’ve seen the market heat up like never before. 2. Valerie Weinert (foreground), Cheryl Entwistle, Dorothy Briggs and Josie Fesenmaier regularly attend Oakridge United Church, which has decided to redevelop the site in partnership with a developer. Fifty-eight condos will be built, and the congregation will meet in a smaller space in the building. PHOTOS DAN TOULGOET

Church has decided to redevelop the site in partnership with a developer.

Fifty-eight condos will be built, and the congregation will meet in a smaller space in the building.

Holy rollers

Just like how Vancouverites are hard-pressed for housing solutions in the expensive city, churches have also been forced to get creative with the space they have. After all, their land is worth millions.

Oakridge Lutheran a block away is also partnering with a developer to downsize and bring in housing units. Downtown’s Coastal Church made a deal with developers who put Vancouver’s tallest tower — the 62-storey Shangri-La Hotel — on the property beside the church building. In exchange, they got a $4.4-million renovation.

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Leonardo Di Francesco are the Holy Realtors. They’ve been selling religious properties together for 21 years, everything from churches to temples to mosques, and they’ve seen the market heat up like never before.

The Holy Realtors used to have up to seven properties for sale a time. No one has that many listings today.

As soon as a reasonablypriced church is on the market, it’s snapped up.

Some groups don’t even care if a building is from a different faith. A Buddhist monastery once purchased the art deco Salvation Army Temple at Hastings and Gore. A mosque took over a Chinese Mennonite church near Commercial and Broadway. And if another religious group doesn’t snap up the property, a developer usually will.

“The value of the land outweighs the capacities of some groups to buy them,” said Rampuri. On the East Side, churches sell for about $2 million and up.

On the West Side, about $5 million and up.

“I’m not a big fan of development — me and Leo love to sell buildings to maintain the church status — but my manager said to me earlier: God also renovates.”

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Vancouver’s churches are not all decades-old neighbourhood establishments.

There are many young churches too, and like young residents in the city, they can’t afford to buy, only rent. Young churches

have also had to get creative with their options.

Renting churches have sung their hallelujahs at the Hollywood Theatre on West Broadway, the Rickshaw Theatre on East Hastings, the gym of Charles Dickens elementary, Granville Island’s Arts Club, the Empire Landmark Hotel, UBC Robson Square, the central library and even the nightclub AuBAR. Dennis Wilkinson was a pastor who wanted to start a new church in the city. He came to Vancouver from Winnipeg in 2011 with the vision for a neighbourhood-oriented church in the West End. Friends warned him that not everyone in the West End was friendly towards churches and it would be hard to find an affordable space to rent, not to mention a nearby home for his family of six. While the West End has the city’s largest concentration of artists, it’s also known for its lack of community venues.

“You have to be really creative if you’re going to come into a city with a family and a faith,” said Wilkinson.

The church, Meta Communities, doesn’t meet in an actual church building every week, but it’s helped with their outreach. They use Wilkinson’s threebedroom home, the West End’s playgrounds and pubs and even picnics and barbecues to meet the neighbours. Their core members number 30, but community events often have up to 150 attendees.

The sheer cost of Vancouver might beg the question of why churches are choosing to start in the city rather than the suburbs. One answer lies in religion’s decline.

More than a quarter of Canadians said they had no religious affiliation in the 2011 National Household Survey. In Metro Vancouver, the share of unreligious is even higher at 41 per cent. The liberal mindedness of North America’s west coast is known for being more resistant to religion.

For this very reason, Mark Burch says that’s why church “plants” such as Meta Communities are targeting cities. Burch is the national associate director of C2C, a Canada-wide network that supports church planters — individuals who see the need for a new church in a neighbourhood and usually begin in a grassroots way by meeting in homes or renting.

“For years churches moved away from the cities,” said Burch. “They would maybe sell a building in the urban core and move out to the suburbs and buy a chunk of land.

Churches have typically done better in rural than in suburban locations. But in the last 10, 15 years, there’s been a bunch of planters coming back to the urban core saying, hey, we gotta reach our cities.”

Loss of heritage

Whether sharing, rezoning or renting will be the saviour of churches in increasingly expensive Vancouver, it’s likely that a few, rare buildings will be lost along the way.

Oakridge United was included on Heritage Vancouver’s list of top endangered sites last year.

Another church, Kerrisdale Baptist, made the list the year before. Eleven religious properties have been demolished since 2000, according to city data.

“I will be one of those who weep when the building goes down,” said Oakridge United’s Rev. Neill McCrae.

The congregation has until the end of the year to say goodbye — goodbye to the cornerstone, goodbye to the bell tower, goodbye to the sanctuary, goodbye to another house in Vancouver. @bychrischeung

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BEAN BROTHERS CAFÉ BISTRO A fixture in the heart of Kerrisdale for almost two decades, Bean Brothers is a home-style bistro great for a cup of coffee, baked goods, wood stone baked pizza, paninis and more.

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The sleepy neighbourhood has long been known as a destination for older residents, young families and Asian migrants. But Iranzad and his business partner, Josh Pape, aimed to bring some youth back to the area when they started Bufala, a trendy pizzeria with a liquor license. The two had already established Wildebeest in Gastown, and when they looked for their

next location, settled on the West Side.

“We like to think against the grain a little bit,” says Iranzad inside the brick encrusted walls that surround Wildebeest. “If everybody’s saying not to do something and everybody isn’t doing something, well that’s a good time to consider doing it.”

Many regarded Bufala as the exception, not the rule.

But since the pizzeria’s inception nearly two years ago, a strange thing started happening: Kerrisdale has started getting trendy.

There’s the new ramen place in the storefront that Thomas Hobbs Florist occupied for 23 years.

On the other side of the same street, a new pho restaurant has picked up where the Avenue Grill left off. Meanwhile, Minverva’s sprawled out into the vacated Art’s Place to establish a new wine bar, Barra 41. It all screams a new era for the tree-lined district.

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“It’s funny because initially all my girlfriends were like ‘Oh Kerrisdale? Why would you choose to live in Kerrisdale, there’s nothing going on there,’” she recalls.

“But personally, I live right on East Boulevard, and I’m really into nature and trees and quiet. Like I would never live downtown, that’s not my thing. So to me, Kerrisdale has a little of that quiet, quaint feel to it.

She also appreciates the new businesses, though, in particular applauding Barra 41. “We’ve actually been there, we’ve tried it out a couple times and it’s chill,” she says. “It’s got sort of the old person and young

person vibe to it, so it’s really great that way. And it’s sort of a minimalized menu, more burgers and stuff, and it’s cool, they have a young, hip staff and it’s updated. It’s not like Minerva’s where it’s like old-school Greek. Which is still great, I love Minerva’s.”

Boris Zugic and Vanessa Singleton had a similar decision to make. Wanting to leave their apartment in Railtown, the two found themselves considering Kerrisdale. Zugic, who’d grown up in the area was originally opposed.

Singleton, however, had gone to high school downtown, but grown up on Bowen Island. Kerrisdale reminded her of the island life. It’s a little bit like being on an island or in the country,” says Singleton, a UBC student. “All this green space, I really like it. And

it’s really close to UBC, so much closer than where we were living before. There’s just so much space here.”

Even Zugic, 27, has come around. “They do have that hipster coffee joint there now, next to Subway. And right next to that is the designer mattress place,” he says. “Kerrisdale is definitely hipper.”

It was also a homecoming for Iranzad. He attended school at Kerrisdale elementary and Prince of Wales secondary. It was about going back and providing his old neighbourhood with some much-needed flavour: “But there’s always been very little there and it’s always been more lunch oriented. Like OK, you go grab a sandwich at [Caffe] Artigiano. You go to dim sum, or you grab some cheap sushi. There’s a

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million sushi places.”

There’s tons of young people around Kerrisdale and it’s the quaint little village that it is and I like that about it.”

He continues, his soft voice ebbing and flowing until he makes an emphatic point. “But there’s a lot of people that live there, you know. There are young families, there’s a ton of elementary schools that are full. Which means that it’s not just everyone’s idea of a retirement community.

Corridor, which the city announced it had purchased from CP Rail for $55 million.

The corridor, which runs right through Kerrisdale, has been designated as a “public thoroughfare” for transportation and greenways for walking and cycling and perhaps light transit. But the lure of condos will be tempting.

Only time will tell.

It may not be quaint for too much longer. With all the changes and the high rent prices everywhere else, there could be an influx of people into the West Side.

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The City of Vancouver routinely asks residents what they think about changes to their neighbourhoods: a highrise planned for the corner intersection, changes to a

bike route, the future of the viaducts, an expanded skate park, and so on.

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But now cities, starting with a prototype five years ago in Vancouver, are increasingly coupling the hard-copy analogue system with a secure digital counterpart.

Designed with the support of the National Research Council, this emerging resource is called PlaceSpeak, and it promises to protect people’s privacy while allowing them to give meaningful feedback about their neighbourhood and city. A computer and Internet access are required. So far in Vancouver, 3,600 people have registered.

PlaceSpeak is the creation of Colleen Hardwick, a PhD student at UBC’s School of Community and Regional Planning, and the daughter of late urban geographer Walter Hardwick who helped establish the TEAM civic party and was a three-term city councillor beginning in 1968.

Colleen Hardwick identified the need for PlaceSpeak during the protracted debate between city hall and Canadian Pacific Railway over the Arbutus Corridor that runs north to south through nine West Side neighbourhoods. The community consultation started in 2000 and ended last month when the city bought 42 acres of land for $55 million.

“Both the city and CPR said there was a log jam around public consultation and what we needed was hard evidence of public opinion,” she told the Courier. “There was no way to get that evidence in a reliable way. That is what really led to the creation of PlaceSpeak.”

Numerous organizations are using PlaceSpeak in an effort to connect with residents. The Vancouver Courier will be using it to poll readers and engage with Vancouverites. I registered earlier this month and am one of thousands of “green dots,” which represent participants, on the map of this city.

PlaceSpeak is a locationbased consultation platform, which means it can

target questions or issues to specific places, such as a street, a neighbourhood, a city block or an entire province, and also identify where feedback is coming from.

Unlike anonymous commenters on websites and online news stories, people are who they say they are.

“This has been an antidote to trolls,” said Hardwick.

The service also upholds privacy by design, an essential feature that protects user information.

Users must confirm their address (for their home, workplace or otherwise) and then this data is stored separately from any comments they make, opinion they give, or polls they take. An individual’s feedback may be sought for a development in Kitsilano, but her private information will never appear with her public comment.

“We separate the private information that people use to verify their location from the feedback they provide,” said Hardwick.

“Privacy is the single largest concern people have about putting their address online.”

The platform can be considered a geosocial civic technology start-up.

Characterized as a social venture, PlaceSpeak charges corporate and municipal clients in order to subsidize the costs for non-profit and community organizations.

If you haven’t signed up or have yet to explore the site’s topics, you can do both at placespeak. com. Going forward, the Vancouver Courier will be using the PlaceSpeak platform to poll readers.

We encourage everyone to visit the site and consider signing up.

PlaceSpeak is tackling one of its largest projects yet and is asking what the future should look like in Vancouver. It’s asking this essential question about Vancouver’s future by partnering with Urbanarium, a charity dedicated to urban design and “intelligent city building” that hosted exhibits at the Museum of Vancouver in addition to sold-out public debates this year and counts urban planners, architects and developers on its board of directors.

To find out more information, go to placespeak.com.

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April 21 to 27, 2016 1. Billed as Canada’s largest alternative literary festival, the sixth annual Verses Festival of Words casts its wordy charms across the East Side with 35 events, including competitions, performances, workshops and readings April 21 to May 1. For a full list of events, including Hullaballoo: B.C.’s Youth Spoken Word Festival and the Canadian Individual Poetry Slam championship, go to versesfestival.ca.

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2. Don’t let the sunny weather dampen your appetite for blood, gore and cannibalism. The second annual Northwest Horror Show features the best and sometimes most cringe-worthy classics of horror, cult, exploitation and art house splatter films, including such family-unfriendly titles as Night Of The Creeps, I Drink Your Blood and Cannibal Ferox. Things get extreme April 22 to 24 at Vancity Theatre. Details at viff.org.

3. One of the more respectable U.K. bands from the 1990s, Lush does the reunion thing April 21 at the Rio Theatre (moved from the Commodore).

Tickets at Red Cat, Zulu and ticketmaster.ca.

4. Enjoyably verbose, howl-prone indie rockers Frog Eyes headline the annual fundraiser for CiTR’s Discorder Magazine, April 23 at the ANZA Club. Weird Candle, the Backhomes, Malcolm Jack and Experience This round out the bill. Details at discorder.ca.

5. Mexico’s Son De Madera headlines the Vancouver World Music Festival, April 22 and 23 at the Rio Theatre. Performers include En Canto (Brazil), Roberto Lopez Project (Colombia), Lapis (India), Ostwelve (First Nations) and Locarno (Mexico/B.C.), among others. Tickets at Highlife, Zulu, Red Cat and eventbrite.com.

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OPERA FINDS ITS VOICE: The Queen Elizabeth Theatre came alive for Vancouver Opera’s Overture Gala.

Always an opulent affair, the BMOsponsored event paid tribute to the glamour of Versailles. Multi-platinum Canadian recording artists the Tenors kicked off the posh party performing their greatest to 400 well-heeled guests. Following a standing ovation, masked partygoers took to the QE stage for a Four Seasons-catered dinner paired with exclusive wines from Mission Hill Family Estate winery.

Chaired by Chantelle Wong and Cindy Richmond, the gala featured unique auction items, including an original work by Richmond’s husband Ian Wallace, which fetched $34,000. But it was an invitation to the Queen’s 90th birthday party in London that received the biggest buzz. The exclusive opportunity to hob knob with the royal garnered a remarkable $35,000, sold twice. The outpouring of generosity bolstered the opera’s fortunes beyond the $250,000 mark. The monies will support the firm’s education outreach efforts to 5,000 school kids annually.

BREAKFAST CLUB: The International Day of Pink is marked annually in communities and countries around the globe to raise awareness and start a conversation against bullying, discrimination, homophobia, and transphobia. Held on the second Wednesday of April, the event started when students David Shepherd and Travis Price saw another student, who was wearing a pink shirt, bullied in their Nova Scotia high school. The pair showed their support for the student by getting everyone at their school to wear pink the next day. Marking the occasion in Vanhattan, Out in Schools hosted its Out for Breakfast fundraiser. More than 200 guests — pretty in pink — got up bright and early to attend the breakfast benefit at the Coast Coal Harbour Hotel. Hosted by executive director Stephanie Goodwin, the morning affair raised a reported $50,000 to facilitate dialogue in schools about the reality of LGBTTQ youth experiences through film. More than 40 school districts around B.C. have participated in the innovative program.

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City councillor Andrea Reimer, mother of a transgender teen, and Tru Wilson, a 13-yearold transgender girl, attended the Out in School’s International Day of Pink breakfast benefit.

Out in School’s chief fundraiser Sam Snobelen and executive director Stephanie Goodwin were all smiles after a reported $50,000 was raised from its pretty-in-pink fundraising breakfast.

Gala chairs Cindy Richmond, left, and Chantelle Wong welcomed the Tenors’ Fraser Walters to the opera’s signature soiree. The Tenors headlined the festivities, which included a dinner and auction. More than $250,000 was raised from the gala-do.

Broadcaster Sophie Lui and business leader Wendy Lisogar-Cocchia fronted the inaugural Fashion Blooms fashion fundraiser in support of the Pacific Autism Family Centre scheduled to open this fall.

Vancouver Opera chair Pascal Spothelfer and general director James Wright welcomed a sold-out crowd to the company’s flagship fundraiser on the Queen Elizabeth Theatre Stage. After 18 years at the helm, Wright will retire at the end of this season.

Holt Rendrew’s Carla Stef, left, dressed the city’s top personalities, including actress Keegan Connor Tracy (Once Upon A Time) in support of those affected by autism and related conditions.

Katy Harandi, PALS Autism School Society board chair, was grateful to guests for the $280,000 netted for the province’s only specialized K-12 school for children and adolescents with autism.

In time for the season’s warmer temperatures, Rosewood Hotel Georgia managing director Philip Meyer officially reopened Reflections, its elegant al fresco rooftop bar and lounge — the see and be seen summer hot spot.

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Continued from page 25 She’s so overwhelmingly optimistic about Connor’s future that she doesn’t see his increasing anxiety. As Sharon, Sandomirsky exudes smiling, maternal affection but also her character’s smothering effect on Connor. And when we see Sharon go on the offensive, we almost don’t notice that she doesn’t have all the facts. She’s complicated.

First on the scene when Connor creates an incident at the Joyce-Collingwood SkyTrain Station is Dan, a cop with a “s*** list” of people he has to deal with: crackheads, hookers, addicts, dealers, strippers, Canucks fans, jumpers, bikers and more. Dan is not a bad cop, but he’s ill-equipped to handle mental illness on the street as well as at home. Salvador, as Dan, also strikes a delicate balance: it’s easy to dislike his uncaring, macho manner, but his life isn’t easy.

He’s complicated, too.

While the four characters are very balanced, our

hearts bleed most for young Connor and Janie. Doheny makes a gangly, lovable but lost Connor. All arms, legs and nervously twitching fingers, Doheny’s Connor is every anxious teenager you have ever known.

As new mother Janie, Mackie shows us how devastating being home alone with a new baby can be especially when married to a largely unsympathetic husband.

These are all good people trying to do their best. These are people we know. Most importantly, MacLeod shows us these are people much like those we love but that we may be too busy to notice are losing ground.

While the characters are very real, Amir Ofek’s set design for The Valley — the title of the sci-fi novel Connor is writing — is sci-fi inspired: a steeply raked, circular “concrete” slab over which looms, at about 45 degrees, a huge, stage-filling “concrete” orb within which there is a large hole, symbolic perhaps of the black hole that threatens

to suck in Connor and Janie. Projections, by designer Jamie Nesbitt, are colourfully splashed against this backdrop.

The performers remain on this stage throughout, sometimes moving into or sitting in shadow, at other times coming forward.

Itai Erdal dramatically lights this spare but very impressive set.

The Valley does not offer a fun night at the theatre. The play takes a compassionate but critical look at how much we expect from our police officers who are insufficiently trained to handle the crises they meet all day, every day. If there is a villain in The Valley — and there is — that’s it. If there’s hope — and there is — it’s recognizing the problem and doing something about it.

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The main accent lies on money, earnings, buying/selling, possessions, memory, rote learning, and sensual attractions. (You respond very quickly sensually, it’s who you are, but you also grow bored quickly, so enter any sensual/ physical relationship cautiously and honestly this month. When one person wants a lifetime love, and the other just wants a roll in the hay, then sex isn’t consensual.)

Now to late May, the focus lies on secrets, mysteries, investigation, medical diagnoses, lifestyle choices, commitment and consequence(s) and, most obviously, on sexual desires and financial urges. This same period overlaps another (April 28 to May 22) of Mercury retrograde – causing indecision, delay, misunderstandings and missed meetings, supply shortages, false starts, etc.

Read Aries’ last sentence, Taurus. Although your charisma, energy, clout and leadership capabilities shine at their peak this week and the next few, Mercury retro from April 28 to May 22 warns against starting any new ventures – they would wilt on the vines of delay, indecision, false starts, etc. Use this week to wrap up ongoing projects

Complete tasks rather than starting anything new, Scorpio. A period of delays, false starts, indecision and misinformation prevails from April 28 to May 22. That said, the weeks ahead (covering virtually the same period) feature relationships, new horizons, opportunities, possible relocation, agreements, negotiations and litigation, dealings with the public, even fame.

The emphasis lies on rest, recuperation, selfexamination, charity, spirituality, and background efforts, until May 20. Almost coincidentally (April 28 to May 22) Mercury retrogrades, bringing delays, false starts, indecision, misunderstandings and missed appointments.

Luckily, this fits in with your present state of low energy and rest. Start nothing new before May 22. This period is a great one for contemplation.

The weeks ahead hold chores and health concerns. Usually this would be a good time to buy machinery/tools, get a health check-up, or tackle new tasks (or seek employment).

None of these are likely to succeed easily, unless they have a link to the past: e.g., seek employment from former bosses, and tackle chores that have already begun.

The weeks ahead bring joy, heightened popularity, entertainment, wish fulfillment, social delights, and, possibly, a friendly romance (perhaps someone met in a group). However, it’s far better to enjoy life’s happiness bounty than to try to use it, i.e., to start something new. (A period of mistakes, delays and false starts begins this Thursday, and lasts until May 22.)

Use this week to wrap up things, rather than begin anything new. This Thursday through May 22 brings a slowdown, mistakes, missed appointments, wrong figures, supply shortages, etc. Until May 22, stick with and protect ongoing projects and relationships – or reprise past ones – rather than initiating anything new. DON’T buy electronic items, new fashions, or pleasure “craft” (e.g., a boat, or a spiffy new bicycle).

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Use this week to wrap up projects and tasks, Leo, rather than start new ones. A period of delays, missed meeting, misunderstood directions, indecision and false starts looms from April 28, this Thurs., to May 22. That’s a shame, as almost the entire time is one of ambition, career, prestige meetings, worldly status – in other words, a time when you would usually be working hard to push new proposals and projects.

Use the present week to complete projects rather than start new ones, Aquarius. Now to May 22, slowdowns, delays, mistakes, false starts and indecision are enough to squelch almost any new project or relationship. So stick with ongoing ventures and relationships, protect them from upsets or mistakes. The main emphasis, now to late May, lies on your domestic arena.

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Wrap up chores and ventures this week rather than starting anything new. Until May 22, a period of slowdowns, mistakes, misunderstanding, indecision and false starts prevails. So use these weeks ahead to protect ongoing projects (e.g., double-confirm that the right workers will be on site, or order needed supplies early to avoid snafus, etc.) – or to reprise past projects and relationships. Not to launch anything new.

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of us knew anyone there, so clearly it was meant to be.

They know food, they’re talented photographers, they’re social media influencers and they have a beagle-boxer mix named Milo. Meet Adrian Harris and Jeremy Inglett, also known as the Food Gays.

Together these home cooks create original recipes, which they test at home and, starting today, will share with Vancouver Courier readers in a weekly column.

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We always enjoyed going out to eat and cooking at home together, but not at all in the way we’re interested now. Our whole life revolves around food now — and we really love it.

How and when did you decide to create “the Food Gays”?

We started the blog in 2012. We were looking for a hobby together and it really grew organically from there. We thought it would be a great way to learn about food and explore Vancouver’s food scene.

What exactly is the Food Gays brand? A website? A blog?

We do wear a few different hats. We offer social media management, recipe development, food styling and photography. We’re just starting to get into video content, so we’ll see where that leads.

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We’re excited about just completing a city guide book called The HUNT Vancouver, slated for publication this summer. We’ve also got some exciting projects down the pipeline that we’re looking forward to sharing soon.

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First there was the venerable Café de Paris, which morphed into Le Parisien and then fizzled as Left Bank — a tasty haunt that never figured out its identity. However, it became apparent that West Enders were chomping at the bit for a casual spot with good food and well-priced drinks.

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There’s a wealth of share plates, starting with the tricooked fries and red curry coconut dip ($6). Also on our hit list are the Koreanstyle, chili-braised boar ribs and slaw ($16), spicy prawn tacos with cilantro sour cream ($10) and the spicy, crunchy, sriracha buttermilk-fried chicken nuggets. ($10). The menu makes for an appealing cross-cultural statement, with West Coast meats and seafood (seared tuna or mussels and fries with IPA broth) and plenty

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Most sleeves are around $4.50 while a 20-ounce pint runs around $6.50.

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Vancouver Courier wins four national community newspaper awards The Vancouver Courier captured four awards in the 2016 Canadian Community Newspaper Awards competition.

Results were announced April 15.

The awards recognize the best work published across Canada in categories ranging from writing to photography to

multimedia.

The Courier earned second place for Best Website, as well as second place for Best Multimedia Feature for Courier editor Michael Kissinger’s story and video “Humour as a weapon against the Holocaust.”

It focused on painter Hinda Avery’s “Rozen

women” series of largescale paintings depicting fun-loving feminist, Nazi resistance fighters.

Long-time reporter Sandra Thomas won third place for Best Feature Series. The twopart series revealed how Downtown Eastside pets, including dogs, rats, birds, cats and rabbits,

provide a lifeline of love and hope to residents.

Photographer Rebecca Blissett provided the art.

Writer Lisa Smedman was awarded first place for Best Historical Story.

Her story “In from the Cold” was published on Dec. 24 and revealed how Vancouver welcomed refugees fleeing a

crisis in a different part of the world — Hungary, in 1956.

The Courier is also nominated for seven B.C.-Yukon community newspaper awards.

Nominees include photographer Dan Toulgoet, photographer Rebecca Blissett, columnist Jessica Barrett, cartoonist

Geoff Olson, former Courier editor Barry Link, as well as Manon Paradis, Tara Lalanne, Marina Rockey and Tori Clark who are finalists in Ad Design, Collaborative category. The Ma Murray award winners will be announced May 7 at a gala at River Rock Casino Resort.

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Above: Percy Williams dashes to Olympic gold in the 100 metre event at the 1928 Amsterdam Summer Games. Right: UBC women’s basketball team represents the “West” at the 1930 World Games in Prague, Czechoslovakia where they defeated France 18-14 to become the earliest women’s team from B.C. to win an international title. PHOTOS BC SPORTS HALL OF FAME Inset: Christine Sinclair, the Canada captain from Burnaby, celebrates a 1-0 victory over France to win Olympic bronze at the 2012 Summer Games. PHOTO SOCCER CANADA

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Terry Fox’s Atlantic Ocean toe-dip? Christine Sinclair’s captaincy and emotional bronze medal at the London Olympic Games?

The near impossible feat of winning Olympic gold in the 100- and 200-metre sprints, as Percy Williams did 82 years before Usain Bolt?

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To celebrate its 50th anniversary commemorating and charting athletic heritage and excellence, the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame has created a massive bracket and stocked it with a selection of the greatest moments in sport that either took place within our provincial borders or happened overseas to B.C. athletes and teams.

“We wanted to put a spotlight on how amazing the depth of sport has been for our province,” said the

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In thousands — 41,134 participants, according to race results — the number of people who participated in the 32nd annual Sun Run on a downtown course April 17.

hall of fame’s executive director Allison Mailer. “We wanted the public to dig a little deeper and go back to the ’90s and even the 1890s.

It’s a success if people are reminded of all of the achievements and moments they didn’t realize that happened here.”

The Hall started by petitioning the public for their choice for the most important moments and then scaled that down to 50, the oldest dating to 1908, the year the New West Salmonbellies won B.C.’s first national lacrosse title and Victoria’s Robert Powell reached the semifinals at Wimbledon.

The Hall is emphasizing moments — not people — since it’s not a popularity contest so much as an effort to tap the collective memory for milestones that helped shape the province’s athletic identity and draw future generations together through sport, said Mailer.

“If you look at the highperforming MVPs that are from British Columbia, how do you rank them? Do you rank Larry Walker and Steve Nash and Carey Price? If you’re an MVP, aren’t you just an MVP?” Nash appears at No. 8 on the Top 50, not explicitly as an individual but rather for his moment in 2005 when he was named the most valuable player in the NBA. Walker is also on the list at No. 14 for his National League MVP honour in 1997.

The Hall already ranked the top 14, which assured those moments a place in the bracket. The rest were seeded Tuesday afternoon after they were randomly drawn from a large silver bowl that was presented to Karen Magnussen in 1972

by Premier WAC Bennett to commemorate her Olympic silver medal win in figure skating at the 1972 Sapporo Olympic Games.

Mailer’s top choice is

Percy Williams winning double gold. in the 100- and 200-metre events at the 1928 Summer Games.

“For me, it’s a slam dunk,” she said. “I’ve put it into perspective as to what Usain Bolt has meant to the Olympics now. For those of us who love sport, we stop and watch and remember those moments.”

For the 50 Golden Moments of B.C. Sports History, the public can vote in the first round starting today, Thursday, April 21. Each round will last six days before the winner advances to the next round. The public can vote once in each match-up through all rounds.

“I only get one vote just like everybody else,” said the executive director.

Voting continues through the end of May. The four finalists will be announced at the Hall’s Banquet of Champions on June 9. Visit bcsportshalloffame.com. @MHStewart

Top Six Moments What says “sports” more than a single-knock out competition, a win-or-gohome tournament that whittles the very best out of the top 50? The B.C. Hall of Fame picked the top 14 moments, to ensure their place in the bracket. Here are their top five: No. 1 In the space of an hour on Aug. 7, 1954, two unforgettable moments on the final day of the British Empire and Commonwealth Games at Empire Stadium combined for perhaps the most thrilling afternoon in B.C. sport history. First, two men ran the mile in under four minutes. Less than an hour later, a runner straggled into the stadium and collapsed before reaching the finish line of the marathon, which only six competitors finished that very hot day.

No. 2 Sidney Crosby scored the “Golden Goal” to win Olympic Gold in men’s hockey at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games at Canada Hockey Place, which we all know as Rogers Arena.

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In minutes, plus 52 seconds, clocked by Guelpf marathon runner Eric Gillis who finished first in the 10 km Sun Run. Lanni Marchant was the fastest woman, finishing 31st overall in 32:15.

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“I can’t tell you how many times I have been thinking about this moment, probably more than 100.

Just having this dream finally come true is surreal. At the same time, I know I have worked my butt off for the past four years.”

— Swimmer and Magee graduate Noemie Thomas, after she made Team Canada for the Rio Summer Games.

No. 3 In 1980, Coquitlam’s Terry Fox captivated Canadians and eventually the world as the cancer survivor attempted to make his way across the country from east to west in an epic endeavour to run the equivalent of one marathon a day on his prosthetic leg to raise awareness for cancer research and treatment.

No. 4 In 1928, Vancouver’s Percy Williams ran the 100m in 10.8 seconds to win gold at the Amsterdam Olympic Games. It was the first individual gold medal captured by a B.C. athlete. A few days later, he doubled up and won the 200m event, a very rare and special feat in athletics.

No. 5 Nancy Greene, who grew up skiing at Red Mountain near Rossland, broke European dominance of the slopes when she won the giant slalom gold medal at the 1968 Olympic Games in Grenoble. She also won silver in the giant slalom and back-to-back World Cup titles.

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In seconds — one minute, 72 seconds — that Noemie Thomas, 20, came under the Olympic qualifying standard of 58.74 in the 100-metre butterfly. Her time of 57.02 put her second behind 15-year-old Penny Oleksiak, of Toronto, at the Olympic swimming trials in Toronto April 5. Both qualified for Rio 2016.

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Sure, you’ll get grief from the diehards. That’s to be expected. If one can enjoy a team’s championship without having suffered alongside the

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The Panthers also employ one Roberto Luongo, who may no longer live among us in Vancouver, but still resides in all our hearts.

Or not to cheer: Do you really want to see Luongo win a Cup somewhere else? You’d be forgiven for hoping he gets to the Cup Final, watches his team implode in front of him, is blamed for all of it, and is chased out of Sunrise by an emotional fanbase that is yet to realize what they’re doing and doesn’t know what they’ll be missing.

But the Panthers may not have enough fans for that.

Washington Capitals

To cheer: Alex Ovechkin is awesome and I don’t think I’m alone in wanting to see him win a Stanley Cup and then hump it right in front of a weeping Don Cherry.

Plus, if they go deep, maybe Barack Obama finally attends a friggin’ hockey game.

Or not to cheer: Every time a team that wins the Presidents’ Trophy wins the Stanley Cup, it makes the Canucks look sillier for winning it twice and failing in the postseason. I prefer a

world where people think it can’t be done; where people think winning the regular-season points race is detrimental to postseason success; where people blame the trophy, not the team. If the Capitals lose, it will fuel the notion that the trophy is a curse, and it’s hilarious, to me at least, when the hockey world believes in superstitious nonsense.

Minnesota Wild

To cheer: There is no reason to cheer for the Minnesota Wild.

Or not to cheer: There has never been a reason to cheer for the Minnesota Wild.

St. Louis Blues

To cheer: The Blues came into the NHL just a few years before the Canucks, which makes it very easy to empathize with the frustration their fans must feel at having never won the Stanley Cup. Or not to cheer: Forget that, man. If we have to wait, they have to wait.

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To cheer: Up until the trade deadline, I’d have about as much good to say about Chicago as I do about Minnesota, but then the Blackhawks went out and acquired the legendary Dale Weise. It’s impossible to cheer against Dale Weise.

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1. Roberto Luongo returned to the Florida Panthers but Canucks fans keep a light on for him here at home, in our hearts.

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He’s Dutch Gretzky, for Pete’s sake! I want to live in a world where Dale Weise has a Stanley Cup ring.

Or not to cheer: I don’t know that I want to live in a world where Patrick Kane has another.

Anaheim Ducks

To cheer: Kevin Bieksa.

Or not to cheer: Ryan Kesler.

Nashville Predators

To cheer: I’m willing to jump on the Predators bandwagon as a fan of fashion: their new gold helmets, unveiled this season, are fantastic. But the NHL is a lame league that struggles with colour (both as it pertains to

helmets and, on occasion, people), so many balked at the idea that Nashville might wear a helmet that matches their sweater.

That was stupid. The gold helmet is gold, Jerry, gold.

Or not to cheer: Mike Ribeiro’s kind of a jerk. Plus the Predators haven’t been in the league for 20 years yet.

Speaking as a Canucks fan, they haven’t put in the time. Talk to me in 2036.

Los Angeles Kings

To cheer: I dunno, maybe you’re a bad person?

Or not to cheer: The Kings’ roster has more thoroughly unlikeable men than an episode of The Bachelorette.

San Jose Sharks

To cheer: I like the Sharks. I wish I didn’t, since they beat up on Vancouver constantly, but they’ve got two guys I’d really like to see win a Cup: Joe Thornton, who suffers from the same lack of respect the Sedins do, because the NHL hates a pass-first player for some stupid reason, and Brent Burns, who is unlike anyone else in the game.

Plus, moving from Canucks fandom to Sharks fandom is an effortless transition, as bloggers on Fear the Fin pointed out recently: “They’re a Pacific Division team located on the West Coast that’s never won a Stanley Cup and is led by a pair of aging superstars

who were top-three picks in the same draft year over a decade and a half ago but are still looking for their first taste of championship glory, in part to silence lazy narratives about how they can’t get it done when the pressure is on.” If you close your eyes, it’s like the Canucks are in the playoffs.

Or not to cheer: I will never forgive Joe Thornton for the finger incident, when he forced his gloved index finger into Hank’s mouth, trolling on the Alex Burrows 2011 playoff biting spree.

Actually, never mind, it’s pretty funny.

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3737 West 27th Avenue, Vancouver

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FRI • April 29 • 6:30pm *200 plus Tables QUEENS PARK ARENA (1st Street & 3rd Ave) New Westminster Google us: FVACC WE BUY ANTIQUES Generous prices paid for Fine Art, Silver, Jewellery, Military Medals, Militaria, Coin Collections, pre 1910 Furniture & Lighting, etc.

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FOR SALE - MISC POLE BARNS, Shops, steel buildings metal clad or fabric clad. Complete supply and installation. Call John at 403-998-7907; jcameron@ advancebuildings.com REFORESTATION NURSERY SEEDLINGS of hardy trees, shrubs, & berries for shelterbelts or landscaping. Spruce & Pine from $0.99/tree. Free Shipping.

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CLEANING

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CLEANING SERVICE Kits & Westside. Weekly, bi-weekly refs. $20/hr (604)725-4211 EUROPEAN DETAILED Service Cleaning www.puma-cleaning.ca Sophia 604-805-3376

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REAL ESTATE

HOUSES FOR SALE

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Damaged or Older Houses!!

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PROPERTY FOR SALE Maple Ridge Urban Reserve.

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LOTS & ACREAGES FOR SALE SINGLE FAMILY and duplex lots available in Vancouver.

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CONCRETE SPECIALIST Sidewalk, Driveway, Patio Exposed Aggregate, Remove & Replacing Reasonable Rates.

35 yrs experience For free est.

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YOUR ELECTRICIAN $29 Service Call. Lic#89402.

Fast same day service.

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EXCAVATING

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HANDYMAN Reno, kitchen, bath, plumbing, countertop, floors, paint, etc. Mic, 604-725-3127 SMALL RENOS, electrical plumbing jobs. Drywall and painting. 604-805-6191

LANDSCAPING

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Able Boys Landscaping Ltd Bobcat, turf, Cedar fence, Tree trimming, Asphalt Call (604)377-3107

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APARTMENTS/CONDOS FOR RENT

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affi sang it best: everything grows. Higher beltlines, swelling curb weight, ballooning footprints; from the once-tiny Honda Civic to the Mini Cooper, every single car on the road these days just keeps getting bigger and bigger — with the exception of one.

After a quarter-century, the Mazda Miata (or MX5, if you prefer) enters its fourth generation with one big surprise: it’s still small.

The recipe remains the same — modest power, lightweight, rear-drive, open-topped — and really, that’s most of the shock.

How, when everybody from BMW to Porsche seems to be making more and more complex vehicles, does Mazda manage to keep it simple?

This new MX-5 is actually shorter than the original, and just a few kilos heavier. How’ve they done that? Remember how tiny the original 1990 version was? You could have delivered them to the dealership in a Tic-Tac box.

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Some of the MX-5’s diminutive size is thanks to its compact LED headlights.

Mazda’s best-selling roadster still has a “face,” but it’s much less cutesy than before, almost snake-like.

Or maybe make that cat-like as from some angles the MX-5 looks an awful lot like the Jaguar F-Type. You could do worse for a car to emulate, especially since the original Miata did such a good job at translating British-style open topped motoring into Japanese dependability. That the midlevel GS is just over $35K

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The nose is extremely low, giving the driver a better sense of the road, even as the arches over the wheels make it easy to tell where the corners of the car are. 16” alloys are standard on the basic GX model, with 17” sevenspoke rims on the GS and GT models.

Environment:

One of the more interesting details is the way the sheetmetal seems to wrap around the doors, with body colour continuing into the cockpit of the car. It’s a neat tweak to the recipe, and sets off the small cabin with a splash of colour.

Besides that small design tweak, the rest of the MX-5’s interior is function first. Weight has been saved almost everywhere, with the result that the detachable cupholders are right where your elbow goes (you can move one down to the passenger-side of the transmission tunnel if you’re flying solo).

Further minimalism can be found with the seats, which exchange foam padding for a supportive web.

The seats don’t have height adjustability, but are instead mounted on an inclined track – shorter drivers will gain height the closer they sit to the steering wheel.

It’s an elegant solution, and while the MX-5 has occasional ergonomic oddities (volume knob between the seats, infotainment screen just stuck to the dash), it’s overall a nicely-executed effort. The small steering wheel with its compact airbag feels light and lively, and the shifter is perfectly positioned. Never mind the cupholders, this thing’s for driving.

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today’sdrive Performance:

When Mazda revealed a 2.0L four-cylinder powerplant for their new car, many pundits raised their eyebrows. What, no forced induction? And it makes less power than the outgoing model?

Now making essentially the same 155hp at 6000rpm and 148lb-ft of torque at 4600rpm as the regular Mazda3, the MX5’s new engine requires premium fuel and is down 10hp versus the previous model. Not the kind of thing to get a gearhead’s pulse racing.

However, there’s so much more going on here, it’s hard to know where to start. Every inch of this little car has had the impurities hammered out of it; from chassis to suspension to the first electronic power assisted steering that actually has some feedback. It’s the result of an endless amount of tiny engineering tweaks, ranging from an obsession over the way the manual shifter slots into gear to hanging microscopic weights on the rear differential to get the right harmonics out of the engine sound.

It’s not about the power, it’s not about the seats, it’s not about the stereo, its not about the absolute cornering grip. The MX-5 isn’t dominated by one element — instead, it’s the blend and balance of everything all at once.

There’s no sport button, you just go. Flop the top down with a single arm motion, press it once to latch, then let out the clutch and scamper off the line with that little four-pot fizzing away merrily. If you can drive this thing with a straight face, you’re doing it wrong.

Turn in is sharp, and body roll allows a sense of motion and speed. Speaking of which, the MX-5 is actually really quite quick.

Like the original car, it’s a momentum machine, los-

ing little speed between the corners. String up a couple of apexes right, and it’s an absolute thrill.

And then there’s the whole open-topped fall motoring aspect of it. In the MX-5 you smell the coffee roaster as you pass, hear the dry leaves crackle under your wheels, see the clouds whipping by overhead.

Sure, it’s got a trunk and a seat for a friend, but the MX-5 is still all about the elemental experience of driving.

The small steering wheel with its compact airbag feels light and lively, and the shifter is perfectly positioned.

Features:

While the dedication to light weight must be praised, it’d be nice to see an optional power folding hardtop back for folks who’d like to street-park their sprightly Mazda roadster without worrying about security (maybe on the loaded GT models only). In terms of safety features, everything from blind-spot monitoring to lane-departure is here, and the navigation system is quick and easy to use.

As mentioned, premium is required with official figures rating 6.9L/100kms on the highway for manualequipped cars, and 8.8L/100kms in the city.

Like most current Mazdas, flogging the little MX-5 doesn’t seem to hurt real-world economy much.

Green Light:

Great new look; still provides an elemental drive; very well balanced; fun!

Stop Sign:

No more optional hardtop; some wonky ergonomics; no Mazdaspeed version any time soon.

The Checkered Flag:

The car stays small, the fun stays big.

Great new look, still provides an elemental drive, very well balanced and fun!

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