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Interactive map tracks demolished heritage homes Naoibh O’Connor

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Caroline Adderson hopes the visual impact of an interactive map depicting a fraction of the heritage houses torn down in recent years will bolster the effort to save the city’s character homes.

Adderson runs the popular Facebook page Vancouver Vanishes, which now has more than 11,000 likes. She posts photos of homes that are being torn down to draw attention to heritage concerns.

Andrea Leung, a recent follower of the page that launched in January 2013, offered to map out the demolitions Adderson has been tracking. The result shows locations, images and historical information of 410 demolished homes, mostly on Vancouver’s West Side where Adderson lives.

Adderson notes the map only represents a small sample of actual demolitions, pointing out 927 demolition permits were issued in 2013, 993 in 2014 and 1,106 in 2015. As of the end of June 2016, 506 had been issued.

A new interactive map shows locations, images and historical information on 410 demolished homes in Vancouver. In 2015, the city of Vancouver issued 1,106 demolition permits.

“I was astonished to think I had found 410 houses and that’s just one person,” she told the Courier. “If everybody was doing this, the whole city would look like it had a bad case of the measles.”

Leung said she started reading Adderson’s Facebook page a few months ago and wanted to get a better sense of the information being provided. She thought a map would be much easier to relate to.

“When I first started doing this, I was doing it out of curiosity, trying to make sense of what was going on on the Facebook page because it sounded so urgent and alarming,” she said.

“And because the information comes bit by bit every other day, it’s very hard to get a bigger picture sense of what [is going on].”

Leung said the fact that the data set isn’t complete is a shortcoming of the map — she points to the

many houses that have been knocked down in the Cambie Corridor and Granville Street areas that aren’t noted on the map — but she hopes it gives viewers a better understanding of what’s being posted on the Vancouver Vanishes page.

“At least it gives me some idea of what changes have taken place because I don’t usually walk all the streets in the area like Caroline,” she said.

Adderson posts three

times a week, but has a backlog of photos she hasn’t used yet. She doesn’t want to depress people or drive them away from her page by posting more often.

She considers the Vancouver Vanishes page an informal petition designed to show politicians the destruction of heritage that’s been happening in the city, and the fact that people care it’s happening.

“Quite often I have people in the comment box saying that this is the most depressing page on Facebook and people saying, ‘I can’t take it anymore,’” she said. “I always have to say, ‘Please don’t give up — I want you to vote against this.’”

The map, Adderson said, will give people an idea what it looks like to have so many heritage homes knocked down.

“This is a time when you cannot have a conversation that’s not about affordability and every dot in my area represents a loss of density and a loss of affordability,” she said.

“What I’m trying to get city council to realize is there’s potential in these homes to solve so many problems.”

Adderson said while some argue newer homes are more energy efficient, she maintains that calculation should include the embodied energy used in the transportation and fossils fuels used in the destruction of the original houses.

Larger homes might have 11-foot ceilings and seven bathrooms and a short life expectancy, she added.

“These [heritage houses] are smaller buildings on large lots, so they have this great potential for infill and [the city] could have tax breaks and encourage people to put in laneway [homes] and have suites in their houses,” she said. “[And] if you downzone so you can’t build a much larger home, then these properties aren’t bulldozer bait anymore.”

Adderson recalls buying her own home in 1999 when “character home” was a selling feature, while now such homes are crushed.

“This is how a city, house by house, is transformed into a place that is not green and not dense and not affordable,” she said. @naoibh

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Lilian To honoured with street moniker Naoibh O’Connor

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Lilian To, one of the driving forces behind the immigrant aid organization S.U.C.C.E.S.S. before she died in 2005, was honoured with “Lilian To Way” street monikers at the entrances to Shanghai Alley, as well as a commemorative plaque, during a ceremony Friday.

It’s the first street moniker in Vancouver named after a Chinese Canadian.

To, who was born in Guangdong, China, and raised in Hong Kong, immigrated to Vancouver in 1974. She worked for S.U.C.C.E.S.S. for two years and later rejoined the organization in 1987 as its executive director and then CEO. Her legacies include the S.U.C.C.E.S.S. Social Service Centre, Simon K.Y. Lee Seniors Care Home, Chieng’s Adult Day Centre, operation of the Harmony House Assisted Living Residence, international accreditation and service expansion such as the airport reception service for new immigrants inside Vancou-

ver International Airport, and the launch of employment programs, according to the organization.

She earned many honours during her lifetime, including the Courvoisier Leadership Award for Public Service, the Citation for Citizenship by the federal department of Citizenship and Immigration — a national honour handed to individuals or organizations that help newcomers integrate — along with the 1991 Vancouver Multicultural Society’s Distinguished Service Award in the area of public service and the 1999 YWCA Women of Distinction award in the category of management, professions and trade.

During her tenure at S.U.C.C.E.S.S., To turned down raises because other staff members couldn’t be offered similar percentage increases. Mayor Gregor Robertson, one of several city, provincial and federal politicians at Friday’s event, called To’s passing in 2005 “a great loss” and said the street moniker and plaque,

which are written in both English and Chinese, are a reminder of the impact she had in Vancouver and will help her legacy live on.

“Vancouver has a longstanding commitment of welcoming and embracing immigrants and helping them start a new life here.

That’s what our city is really all about. As a trailblazer and advocate for immigrant rights, Lilian will be remembered for her extraordinary contributions to this work and for making Vancouver a more welcoming city,” he said. “We’re here to recognize that legacy and that extraordinary leadership. As the CEO of S.U.C.C.E.S.S. for nearly three decades, Lilian was the one who grew the organization from a small initiative into the multi-service, multi-lingual, international organization that it is today. Her leadership was really the key ingredient in that.”

Robertson said city hall is trying to build on To’s work through efforts such as the Vancouver Immigration Partnership, which has brought together more than

65 organizations, including S.U.C.C.E.S.S., to create a Vancouver immigrant settlement and integration strategy.

S.U.C.C.E.S.S. board chair Grace Wong said for many people the names Lilian To and S.U.C.C.E.S.S. are almost synonymous.

“I think both names [stand] for commitment to supporting immigrants and newcomers to Canada

and building multi-cultural harmony in our society,” she said. “All of us who had the good fortune to know or work with Lilian would use words like tireless, passionate, compassionate and humble to describe her.

We benefitted from these personal traits and her professional expertise in social work and her work experience with hospitals, school board and [the] health

department.”

Wong described To as a pioneer in immigrant services, who brought crosscultural understanding and who advocated for access and support for newcomers.

“Much of what S.U.C.C.E.S.S. is today began with Lilian’s efforts and, of course, with the support of the staff and the directors of the time,” she said.

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‘Joyous’ funeral for a flamboyant life Service for Edythe Culling included horse-drawn hearse, New Orleans-style funeral procession Naoibh O’Connor

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Edythe Culling liked to be first in line at the Army & Navy shoe sale, she partied at the Roxy during her later years and she celebrated her 90th birthday at a bash staged at the Penthouse strip club in Downtown Vancouver.

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His mother would have loved it, said Blaine, who dreamed up the idea for the service with his sister.

“She always liked things that were fun. She loved a party and we owned the Roxy, so she went to

nightclub parties all the time. She liked to dance and she’d go down to Doolin’s when they played Irish songs and sing along to ‘Danny Boy,’” he said.

Culling, a Prairie girl, was born in Regina in 1917, grew up in Kendal, Sask., and travelled to school by horse and buggy.

“So it just seemed so appropriate — she came in that way so she might as well go out that way. She would have loved [the horse-drawn hearse],” said Blaine, owner and president of Granville Entertainment Group. “She loved horses. So we thought that was great.”

The antique hearse is owned by Gerry O’Neil of Stanley Park Horse Drawn Tours, who’s known Blaine for close to 40 years.

It was built in 1888 in Cincinnati, Ohio, by Sayers and Scovill (S&S) — a brand that’s like the RollsRoyce of hearses, according to O’Neil.

He bought it at an auction in Pennsylvania in 2010, shipped it to Washington and brought it over the Canada-U.S. border with the horses pulling it.

“It has been meticulously restored using its original walnut wood panels and it has its original kerosene brass lanterns,” he said.

It’s now kept in Kearney’s showroom and typically rented out three to six times a year.

“It’s not something that goes out regularly because of

the logistics,” O’Neil said.

On Wednesday afternoon, passersby stopped to take photos as the horsedrawn hearse passed by.

The family included the brass band to add to the occasion.

A friend of Blaine’s had attended a funeral a couple of years ago that featured one playing New Orleansstyle funeral music, so he thought “let’s do that too.”

“Working with the Kearney people, I think we created a very unique send-off,” he said. “[My mother] liked to do unusual things so we thought this would be nice for her.”

Although before her death Culling didn’t know what was planned, she knew she didn’t want a church service and she wanted it to be a joyous occasion.

Blaine said while his mother’s home was in Maple Ridge, she spent a lot of time in Vancouver. The family owns the Comfort Inn, so she would stay there while visiting the city. She also loved kids, he said, and often enjoyed reading to children as “a substitute granny” at Jellybean Park daycares owned by her daughter Laurel.

Culling had two grandchildren and two great great grandchildren and was laid to rest by her husband George in a Surrey cemetery.

Afterwards, well-wishers gathered for a celebration of life at Doolin’s Irish Pub. “She had a good, full life. And we’re happy for that,” Blaine said. @naoibh

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To was an advocate for immigrants Continued from page 5 S.U.C.C.E.S.S. patron Maggie Ip, one of its 15 founding members, echoed similar sentiments.

She said To brought the spirit of S.U.C.C.E.S.S. to life through her dedication to serving the community.

“The spirit of S.U.C.C.E.S.S. was fully manifested through her words and actions and also the way she carried herself until the day she left us just over 11 years ago,” Ip said.

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citizenship and willingness to serve, which are embedded in the S.U.C.C.E.S.S. constitution upon which the organization was founded.”

At the close of the ceremony, To’s son Daniel accepted a duplicate sign for the family.

He called the commemoration a great honour and said because his mother was an immigrant, she understood the plight of immigrants. He urged others to continue helping both immigrants and refugees.

“This [recognition] is not

something our family has advocated for publicly. But I think it’s great. We’re really humbled by the honour. This is something that’s permanent and we’re honoured by that in this great city that we grew up in,” he told the Courier.

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ties have a tougher time due to religious and family pressures.

Sangha is a Sikh man, but he faced backlash from members of his religious community when he founded Sher Vancouver, in 2008, as a Sikh gay group.

“At that time, the president of a Sikh temple said there was no such thing as gay Sikhs,” Sangha recalls.

“A South Asian radio station had a poll and I think 85 per cent of the people said ‘we will not support a gay Sikh group.’ So we strategically turned it into a gay South Asian group.

We separated it from religion.”

Nevertheless, the vast majority of members, he says, are Punjabi Sikhs.

The negative attitudes underscored Sangha’s feeling that such a group was necessary.

“I remember how difficult it was for me to come out of the closet and how suicidal I was and how depressed I was, how lonely I was, how rejected I felt from some quarters of my friends and family circle,” he says.

He is candid about the limited ambitions of Sher Vancouver.

“We just wanted to provide social support, psychological support, peer support, information and referral,” he says. “We didn’t want to start changing the religion.”

Things have changed for the better in less than a decade. Sher Vancouver works with immigrant and settlement agencies and a board member from the same temple whose president once denied the existence of gay Sikhs has contacted Sangha to work together.

“We may not agree with everything,” Sangha recalls the board member saying, “but we want to work with you on HIV and STDs, on depression, on suicide ideation, on improving the health and wellness of our community and the safety of our community.”

One of the problems, Sangha says, is the pressure on South Asian young people to find a spouse of the opposite gender and have kids.

“A lot of people were forced into these marriages and they end up having affairs with men and they’re depriving their wife of a

loving, intimate relationship and they’re depriving themselves of a loving, intimate relationship. And then what happens is they start to engage in high-risk behaviour because they don’t like themselves and then they put their wife at risk of HIV and STDs,” he says.

Sangha has been recognized by his Member of Parliament with a Jubilee Medal for his work and he is one of the marshals at this weekend’s Vancouver Pride Parade, recognized as a role model for his work.

His philosophy is simple: “I always believe that you need to be true to your identity and be true to the way the Creator has created you. You have to live the life that you were born to live and you only have one life to live and life is short.

You can’t go around with a double identity and be something that you’re not.

I’m already 44 years old, do you want me to live a secret life just to please other people? Forget it. I’m going to do what I want and enjoy my life.”

Unlike many gay people — or other people, for that matter — Sangha has not abandoned his religion.

“Sikhism is a very wonderful religion,” he says. “It’s about helping the marginalized, the oppressed, the vulnerable, the weak and defending their rights. It’s a religion of brotherhood and supporting each other.

It’s a religion of equality.

There is not one line in the Guru Granth Sahib, which is the Sikh bible, about anything to do with homosexuality.”

He has taken to heart something his mother said about the Sikh view of love.

“She said that, in Sikhism, when two people get married, it’s two souls coming together,” he says. “It’s not two physical bodies. Both the souls and the spirits are genderless. That made me feel very good. Such a good way of looking at it. Now when I go out in the world, I talk to people, I look at their soul, I look at their spirit and I see that in them and I think this is what I should be connecting with.”

A longer version of this story can be found at vancourier. com. @Pat604Johnson

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They’re being billed as a short-term fix to address a long-standing gap.

Vancouver Park Board commissioners received more information Monday on the possibility of installing pop-up pools in areas of the city where residents don’t have easy access to beach or other aquatic facilities.

Pop-up pools are essentially containers filled with water that can be built either above or below ground.

Planning and building the pop-up pools is part of a larger, more long-term strategy called VanSplash, which aims to identify areas that lack aquatic infrastructure and determine ways to fill those gaps.

“We saw this as something that is a new, very early, very fast-to-deliver facility that could be part of an aquatic strategy once gaps are identified,” said Malcolm Bromley, the city’s general manager of parks and recreation. “We could have a temporary pool in an area while we’re getting our act together to plan for a permanent pool.”

Park board manager of research and planning Dave Hutch cited one facility in particular as being “one of the best examples” that staff have researched to date.

Located in New York City, the Brooklyn Bridge Park pop-up pool is a 10-

by-20 metre, above-ground pool that can accommodate about 200 swimmers. It opens in June, closes in September and is free of charge. Its primary function is to serve leisure swimming and beginner-level swimming lessons, and came at a price of $1 million for the pool alone.

Those costs increase to $2 to $2.5 million when factoring in the surrounding infrastructure (change rooms, showers) and access to water, sewer and electrical services.

The pool opened in 2012 and operates on a five-year term. It’s surrounded by temporary trailers and converted containers that serve as change rooms, washrooms, showers and a small concession.

The land it’s situated on will be converted back to park-related uses once the pool is gone.

Another option staff researched is a “macro-sea mobile pool” model of popup pool. One example in New York City saw a series of three repurposed shipping containers used that can fit 30 people. Another example, used in Detroit in the 1970s and 1980s, saw a semi-trailer filled with water that moved throughout the neighbourhoods in that city.

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ast week’s Mental Health Strategy report by the Vancouver Police Department came to a most remarkable conclusion: the best move cops can make when dealing with a mentally ill person who is acting out may be to not get involved at all.

That may have led to a different outcome for Phuong Na Du. On Nov. 22, 2014, Vancouver police fatally shot Du at the corner of Knight Street and East 41st Avenue.

Their approach around de-escalating situations has evolved as well, recognizing they are dealing with health issues and not simply criminal acts.

News reports at the time noted that when they first encountered him he was waving a piece of two-by-four around.

After he failed to comply with police directions, rounds of bean bag shots were fired at Du but failed to subdue him.

That led police to take out their guns and shoot. He would die a few hours later at Vancouver General Hospital.

Du’s family later confirmed that he was receiving treatment for schizophrenia and was being well supported by them. He

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was also well known to the police, having been apprehended multiple times under the Mental Health Act. At the time of his death, lawyer Doug King with the Pivot Legal Society said of Du, “there never had been issues with violence. He never had any kind of criminal record.” The only thing different this time was that he was holding a two-byfour, which may have been perceived as a weapon.

He was, regrettably, not the first mentally ill person to be killed by police in this country, nor would he be the last.

Interactions between Vancouver police and people with mental health problems recently were recorded at eight per day.

And they have escalated over time, according to the author of the most recent report, VPD Superintendent Daryl Wiebe. He says that’s because of the increasing incidence of people who are “dual diagnosed,” which is to say they are both mentally ill and drug addicted.

A report from the Mental Health Commission of Canada was published a few months before Du was killed. The author of that report, public safety consultant and former police officer Terry Coleman, said that when it comes to interacting with individuals suffering with mental illness, training of first responders, including police in British Columbia, is apparently one of the most advanced and promising in the country.

(B.C.’s strategy around mandatory crisis intervention and de-escalation training was developed in response to recommendations from the Braidwood Inquiry into the 2007 death of Robert Dziekanski.)

But Coleman also said that some police still believe use of force is “inevitable” when dealing with mentally ill people. Those cops think that talking to people in a severely agitated state is often pointless.

That is a view that is discouraged at the VPD. The department’s strategy can be traced over the past four decades and the introduction of “Car 87” in 1978, where a mental health worker accompanies a police officer to engage mentally ill people in distress.

And the force has complained for years about the inappropriate burden they have come under as first responders in situations dealing with severely agitated mentally ill individuals.

But there have been a number of reports recently from the VPD on the subject of dealing with that problem. Wiebe says at the same time the force has worked to destigmatize the issues of mental illness, recognizing that given the nature of their own stressful jobs, first responders are prone suffer from this condition as well.

Their approach around de-escalating situations has evolved as well, recognizing

they are dealing with health issues and not simply criminal acts.

It has never been stated more clearly than in Wiebe’s most recent report where he discusses effective de-escalation techniques and observes that these incidents can “occur suddenly and can be exceptionally dynamic” and then concludes that for police it “may be acceptable not to engage with individuals at all.”

The very presence of a police officer can cause a situation to escalate.

Rather than arrest and incarceration, Wiebe’s report argues for more resources to deal with providing care.

That conclusion, and the broad consultative process Wiebe engaged in, has brought praise from many workers in the mental health field as progressive and thoughtful.

That includes a not infrequent critic of the VPD, Pivot’s Doug King who says, “I am reasonably pleased and I’m tough to please.” @allengarr

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Coveting thy neighbour’s house Jessica Barrett

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I’m house sitting. It’s a thing I like to do from time to time, in part to be a good neighbour, in part because it’s an opportunity to inhabit another world, just for a few days.

When I say I’m house sitting I mean it literally.

This isn’t a condo, or an apartment. It’s not even a carved up house with a basement suite. It’s a whole house. One family lives here: a mom, a dad and two little girls. There is a big backyard with a trampoline, an amazing garden and a small menagerie. As I write this, I’m watching chickens scratch around for grubs and make a rather charming mess of the flowerbeds. The cat and the dog are taking turns gleefully stalking summer flies.

It’s picture perfect. A scene so outwardly tranquil I can’t help but notice my heart pounding at a deafening volume. I want this. So badly it hurts. And that’s disappointing. For all the work I’ve done to temper my expectations and accept the trade-offs of living in Vancouver; for all the writing and espousing I’ve done on being happy with only part of a house; on being a renter; on pointing out the positives and potential in shared living situations; for all the ways I know the future of this city depends on moving swiftly and efficiently to more dense, multifamily neighbourhoods, a house, a whole house, just feels like a real home to me.

I guess it makes sense. I grew up in a house, like most people my age. And as I get further into my 30s the urge to nest, settle, and really build something of my own becomes exponentially stronger. I find myself wanting a house in a way I never have before. I walk around town

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sighing at For Sale signs and watching people flock into open houses with a mix of envy and awe. How are they so different from me that this is a possibility for them?

Where have I gone wrong in my life choices? It’s a slippery slope, a downward spiral of self-pity.

As far as Vancouver renters go, I have it really great. I get along with my landlords and my upstairs neighbour, and my rent is incredibly reasonable. My roommate is great, meaning he’s barely ever home.

I have a dishwasher, free laundry, and access to a yard where I’ve planted my

I find myself wanting a house in a way I never have before. I walk around town sighing at For Sale signs and watching people flock into open houses with a mix of envy and awe. own little garden. But I’m always cognizant of the fact that my home isn’t really mine. I don’t really feel like I can put down roots.

There’s something about the possibility of being able to paint the walls whatever colour I want, to retile the backsplash, even to spend my weekends mired in home repairs that pulls at something deep in my soul.

I desperately want a cat, which isn’t allowed, and maybe one day work up to chickens. I want to play music and sing in the evenings without worrying I’ll wake the toddler sleeping upstairs.

Knowing I won’t, can’t,

and probably will never have that as long as I stay in Vancouver triggers a feeling I can only describe as grief.

Frankly, it’s caught me entirely off-guard. But maybe I shouldn’t be surprised.

Whenever I write about issues of density or the tradeoffs we all need to make in order to make Vancouver livable, the same aspirational stories arise. We need to look to Europe, Asia, New York City as examples of places where raising children in apartments and renting for life is the rule rather than the exception.

The difference is we are not a New York, a Paris, or a Hong Kong. We don’t have generations of multifamily dwellings under our belts to draw upon. Our city is not built around the concept of dense public hubs and we don’t yet have the kind of social tolerance for things that go along with that: noise, limited space, shared amenities.

I think we’ll get there eventually. We have to.

But the learning curve is steep. Right now, we are not on even keel, not even close. There is a stark contrast between those who, for whatever reason, have been able to achieve the idealized norm society promised would be in reach for most of us, and those who are dealing with the fact that it isn’t. As part of the latter category, I feel like I’m watching the end of this era longingly from across the street, next door, and around the corner.

The house I am staying in is about five blocks from where I live, but it might as well be another universe.

That reality comes with some emotional baggage I don’t really know how to process. I guess just chalk it up to the growing pains of a growing city. But boy, does it smart. @Jm_barrett

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The more I learn about humans, the more I like trees

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While humans immerse themselves in Pokémon Go pursuits, they’d be wise to turn their gaze towards the techological marvel of plant life.

I rounded a corner on a dusty hiking trail, and there they were on a grassy rise: gotcha!

I wasn’t hunting Pokémon, but rather a sparse deciduous tree, Quercus

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The species is named after Nicholas Garry, a 19th century deputy governor of the Hudson’s Bay Company. Victoria’s Oak Bay, in turn, took its name from these twisting pillars of phylum and phloem.

And for the purposes of this article, I’ll refer to my leafy friend as “Garry.”

According to Parks Canada, Garry oak woodlands support more species of plants than any other land-based ecosystem in British Columbia. Quercus garryana has a lifespan of up to 500 years, and the District of Oak Bay has a $10,000 fine on the books for anyone who cuts down or damages their iconic tree.

Garry is likely a centenary youngster, but he appears to have the gravitas of a stately sequoia or wizened Jericho tree. Sitting at his base it occurred to me the more I learn about human beings the more I like trees.

Don’t get me wrong; people can be perfectly delightful, one-on-one.

They’re not all that bad in small groups either. But beyond a certain number all bets are off.

Ballistic missiles, reality television, fiat currency, megachurches, safe spaces, cheese in a spray can: all spawn of networking hairless apes. In contrast, trees in groups — a forest — constitute nothing more dangerous than a canopy. All our geologically recent isms, from absolutism to Wahhabism, lie outside their leisurely photosynthetic enterprise. Trees and plants mastered solar power well before our ancestors were tree shrews.

Trees and plants also utilize the mycelial networks of fungi — the world’s first Internet — to mediate the interspecific exchange of nutrients.

The green crowd figured out the thorny problem of resource distribution millions of years ago. In contrast, humans are still trying to puzzle out how to efficiently direct aid to regions struck by earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, tornadoes and international banking.

Scientists insist that biological evolution has no definitive progressive direction. I think we can say the same for cultural evolution. As our consumer electronic devices

get smarter, we appear to be getting dumber. For example, the owners of mobile phones are now being led around like cattle by their own apps. The Pokémon-chasing fellow who risked electrocution by leaping onto the tracks at a Canada Line station is not an outlier. There’s plenty of other reports of couch potatoes activated by “augmented reality” into witless encounters with their urban environments, like the wanted man in Michigan who was arrested in his pyjamas while playing Pokémon Go outside a Milford police station.

Such tales makes plants’ ability to stay put in unaugmented reality all the more admirable.

The botanical crowd doesn’t seem to do much of anything, but that’s only because they occupy a different temporal realm.

Most have experienced surprise at the liveliness of plants seen in time-lapsed footage, but this goes beyond tendrils trembling towards sunlight. Scientists are now discovering that almost every behaviour we attribute to animals has a variant in plants — just at a slower pace.

If you think that’s an exaggeration, I encourage you to snap up a copy of Brilliant Green: The Surprising History of Plant Intelligence, by Stefano Mancuso and Alessandra Viola.

Among their findings is that Charles Darwin was correct about the radicle, or root tip of a young plant: it functions as a kind of botanical brain, altering its direction of growth before contact with rocks and other obstacles.

Plants have up to 20 senses as opposed to humans’ five. These include senses for gravity, humidity, and electromagnetic fields.

As I relax at Garry’s base, perhaps I’m just a blur to him: a momentary flash of funky animal pheromones. Trees are playing a long game, based not on the megahertz cycles of the microchip but rather the seasonal shifts of the sun. With the world of humans unravelling from our own short-term thinking, it seems we could still learn a thing or two from the time-tested wisdom of trees. olscribbler.wordpress.com

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1. Celebrating its 40th year, the Powell Street Festival is Metro Vancouver’s longest running community arts festival. The annual showcase of contemporary and traditional Japanese culture runs July 30 to 31 and includes everything from music and dance to sumo-wrestling and a street party. For a list of events and venues, go to powellstreetfestival.com.

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PRIDE ANGELS: Five years ago, philanthropist and businessman John Evans reached out and challenged the Lazy Gourmet’s Kevin Mazzone, RE/MAX’s Gary Serra and Vancity’s Ryan McKinley to stage an event that would spark their generation of 20 and 30-somethings to give back to their LGBTQ2+ community. The Pride Kick Off Cocktail party was born. In partnership with the Loden Hotel’s Lilliana De Cotiis, the exclusive party is now a leading date on the Pride social calendar.

As usual, this year’s event saw 150 goodlooking guests take over the downtown hotel’s Halo Penthouse. Revellers sipped, savoured and celebrated with one another, while raising a reported $40,000 for the Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation. To date, the three musketeers and their friends have brought in more than $100,000 for charity.

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Forage Restaurant’s Matthew Presidente and Johanna Mintz hosted the LOUD gay and lesbian business association’s Pride networking party.

Grant Minish, regional manager for LGBT business development with the TD Bank Group, and Vancouver Pride Society president Alan Jernigan took in the LOUD luau that honoured this year’s community leaders and builders.

Mental health advocate Dean Thulner and local artist John Ferrie, Pride Legacy Award winners, were feted for their significant contributions to Vancouver’s Queer community.

Leeann Froese, principal of Townhall Brands, saddled up for the Cocktail Jockey Mixology Competiiton with Katie Ingram, bartender at L’Abattoir restaurant.

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From waste to redemption through socks, underwear and lint Upcoming Vancouver art show features ‘upcycled’ materials

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When life gave Leah Price lemons, she didn’t go the traditional lemonade route.

Instead, she made art derived from some of the most unlikely sources and heartbreaking circumstances possible.

The 51-year-old is hosting a three-day art exhibit kicking off today (Thursday, July 28) called DIVORCE: a Waste Audit, a show that serves as equal parts recycling class, therapy session and moving party all in one.

The inspiration for Price’s work comes largely by way of the events of the last nine months: while going through a divorce and packing up 18 years’ worth of belongings, she’s held on to various pieces of garbage and recyclables that were collected at pivotal and trying times.

On top of dealing with the divorce, she’s a fulltime mom of two kids with special needs.

Some of her pieces include the waste left behind from her family’s final meal together, an image of her home made from dryer lint and a series of fabrics woven together from her

ex-husband’s socks and underwear.

“I didn’t start off thinking I would do an art show, I simply was processing my emotions about it. But the image of the house kept coming up into what I was doing,” she told the Courier.

“All of those emotions have come out and I’m ready to go.”

The theme of having to go also plays prominently into the exhibit; the day after her show wraps up on Sunday, she leaves her 10th Avenue house forever and it changes hands to a new owner.

That impending disconnect is reflected in one of the textile works she’ll have on display called “The New Owner Wants to See the Property,” a piece that illustrates her reticence to answer a painful email from her realtor.

Instead of sending a prompt answer, Price went through a mishmash of fabrics and towels she collected over the years and got sewing. Her hesitance was compounded by the sting brought on

by Vancouver’s housing market: Price believes the 1929 character home will be razed to the ground once she moves.

The end result of her

trepidation includes a series of towels from her wedding day and others she received after first moving into her home.

She even included some of her ex’s socks and skivvies for good measure.

“I could not answer that email. I didn’t want to meet the man who was going to be living in this house, I didn’t want to sell this house,” she said. “In order to figure out how to email this person back, I had to set my mind to something else.”

Meanwhile, “Division of Assets” features an image of Price’s home that’s made of broken crayons: they were first put into a blender before they were congealed and set into their final form.

Price’s full-time foray into the arts only happened within the last year; she had previously staked out a career in teaching and only periodically dabbled in design.

She recently completed a fashion design course at Vancouver Community College, and is now a member of a number of local art/recycling groups, while also teaching a course on zero-waste sewing on the side.

“Having two kids with special needs, my life

really narrowed down to a tiny pin prick. I had no time for anything except therapy, appointments and phone calls,” Price said. “I didn’t realize I was an artist until I turned 50 years old, even though I’ve been doing this all my life, making stuff out of nothing.” @JohnKurucz Admission to DIVORCE: a Waste Audit is by donation and proceeds will be donated to charity.

The show runs daily until Saturday, July 30 from 4 to 9 p.m. at 3642 West 10th Ave.

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On New Year’s Eve, just minutes before midnight, Vancouver and the world lost a true gentleman and legend — big band leader Dal Richards, who until last summer, had played the Fair at the PNE for 75 consecutive years.

So it’s fitting the PNE is planning a special tribute to the King of Swing on Seniors Day, Thursday, Aug. 25. The tribute to Richards is one of the highlights of the fair, which runs from Aug. 20 to Sept. 5 and features something for everyone, no matter what age.

New this year Angry Birds Universe: The art and science behind a global phenomenon Daily 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. in the Rollerland Building

Angry Bird fans of all ages will have an opportunity to be “the bird” while being (safely) propelled along zip lines into enormous foam structures, just like in the game. Besides being a lot of fun, this fullbody experience demonstrates the physics behind the Angry Birds games, providing an integrated approach to learning.

Alien Worlds and Androids Exhibit Daily 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. in the Garden Auditorium

Blast off to a world where science fiction meets science fact. How close are we to discovering new alien worlds and life? What are the differences between androids and robots?

This exhibit lets visitors explore cutting edge

during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, including 14 life-sized animatronic models.

summer jazz, a parade, guest artists and special events. See your selfie on the big screen, grab some food and kick back and relax.

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Witness grand illusions and watch champions of magic. Free with admission or purchase a VIP reserved seat that includes an exclusive backstage magic experience and popcorn for the show.

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Festival Park is a new themed entertainment zone located in the heart of the fair on the PNE grounds. Celebrate Canada’s upcoming 150th birthday with fun for the whole family.

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More than four dozen craft breweries will highlight the diverse craft drafts getting brewed around Vancouver and the Lower Mainland. Purchase your tickets in advance online for a discount and access a pre-purchased ticketholder line. Admission includes a four ounce collector’s sampling cup. Samples are $2 and beer tokens are available to purchase online.

SuperDogs Daily at 12:30, 2:30 and 5 p.m. in the Pacific Coliseum

The SuperDogs are back with a brand new show celebrating all the fun, energy and excitement of rock and roll. Watch as the dogs put together their own canine band called Five Directions.

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Take a trip under the ocean and into the magical world of mermaids. Join the Mermettes, the biggest pop sensation under the sea, as they host this mermaid celebration.

2016 PNE Donut Dash Aug. 21 at 9 a.m. at Empire Field and throughout the PNE fairgrounds

Vancouver’s tastiest five-kilometre run where participants enjoy treats including mini doughnuts and cotton candy… while running. Run registration includes a PNE Donut Dash T-shirt, race bib, finisher medal and fair gate admission for Aug. 21.

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This outdoor exhibit offers guests a spectacular and representative snapshot of 20 different dinosaurs that roamed the earth

Join KC Bear and his friends for a family holiday adventure as they perform a musical stage show. Kids can gather round and pretend to be a fireman, policeman, royal princess and more.

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Rather than ignore the Pokémon Go craze luring the city, the Vancouver Aquarium decided to join in on the fun by throwing a Pokémania party Saturday.

There was already a casual Pokémon meet-up planned for Stanley Park, but it was cancelled at the last minute because 3,000 people on Facebook said they were going. The huge numbers meant the city would have asked organizers for permits yet, still, players — or in Pokémon lingo, trainers — still headed to the park in the hundreds to catch the cartoon pocket monsters.

Trainers held their smartphones like old-timey explorers with compasses while they walked up the short driveway through the park woods to the aquarium, refilling on Pokéballs at the old, and thankfully empty, polar bear habitat and five other nearby stops. To the untrained

eye, a group of about 50 people stood, rooted, around the fountain in the courtyard of the aquarium, fixated on their screens.

But in the game’s augmented reality, the fountain is actually a “gym” where trainers use their collected Pokémon animals to battle for dominance (p.s. Go Team Mystic!).

Instead of feeling befuddled by being part of an invisible world — which includes many landmarks, businesses and, inexplicably, electrical boxes across the city — the aquarium decided to level up its marketing prowess and capitalize.

“One of the big things that we are always on the lookout for at the Vancouver Aquarium is how can we reach more people,” said Derek Jang, the aquarium’s acting assistant manager of interpretive delivery, a title that basically means he uses storytelling as a way of connecting visitors to animals and the aquarium’s displays.

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The aquarium has a young workforce, added Jang, who is one of them at the age of 28. When Niantic, Inc. unleashed Pokémon Go in Canada July 17, aquarium staff saw the unique opportunity to overlay the game’s virtual animals on real aquarium animals to spark an interest in exploration, especially as Pokémon Go has its players acting, essentially, like real-life biologists.

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You know, here we are, in our careers, and all of a sudden we’re back in high school again with our Pokémon cards and our Pokémon video games.”

“For us, Pokémon Go really does seem to be grounded in a sort of love of animals and biodiversity,” Jang added, referring to the game’s intelligence that links character types to natural habitat. For example, there were lots of sightings of “Krabby” the crab and “Magikarp” the mostly useless fish in the Pokémon world inside the aquarium.

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ing discounted admission and discounts at the café upon showing a Pokémon profile, the aquarium also provided a phone charging station for the day — a must because the game gobbles batteries as it utilizes phone GPS, camera and graphics processor.

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game is focused on learning as trainers explore. As an side: the creator of Nintendo’s Pokémon series, Satoshi Tajiri, collected bugs and insects as a child with a dream of being an entomologist.

“You’re in the game, this is the world, figure it out,” said Jang. “Which you know any biologist who’s ever studied in the field to look at species can relate to immensely. You call your buddies, what have other people experienced? What are other people saying? I wish nature had an instruction guide.” @rebeccablissett

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After the long weekend, I worked an extra Saturday morning to reduce my patients’ wait time for appointments. I finished two medical legal reports (about 10 hours of work) on evenings and weekends. I was happy that I wasn’t out of town for the maternity and newborn care for two of my long-time patient families.

I missed my family especially on my wife and daughter’s birthdays. This was the first time I wasn’t with them on their special days. I was thankful for texting, email and Facetime.

I turned my quiet home time into a mindfulness retreat. I listened to Tara Brach’s podcasts on dharmaseed.org each morning and night and throughout the weekends. They inspired me to remain mindful at all times. I chose my thoughts and my activities.

I enjoyed being a tourist in my own town. We are lucky to live in a vacation destination for the rest of the world and summer is a magical time with special community events every weekend.

I enjoyed Burnaby’s Canada Day concert and the awesome fireworks at Swangard Stadium. I called up my oldest friend and we met up at Deer Lake for the VSO’s Symphony in the Park. I enjoyed the live music at the Khatsalano Street Party.

I enjoyed weekend and evening cycling through busy, beautiful Central Park and extra swims in the outdoor pool.

I cycled around my alma mater, UBC and explored the rich displays of the Museum of Anthropology. I treated my eyes and my soul to the Nitobe Memorial Garden, a uniquely beautiful Japanese garden hidden in the northwest corner of campus.

I cycled the seawall of English Bay and Stanley Park. I must have taken more than 200 photos during my two-week working staycation. Life is never perfect and may not always go our way, but it’s still beautiful. Missing the people in our lives reminds us to appreciate them and our precious time together.

Being tourists in our own town shows us the beauty around us each day.

Davidicus Wong is a family physician and his Healthwise columns appear regularly in this paper. For more on achieving your positive potential in health, see his website at davidicuswong.wordpress.com.

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For all Aries, the week ahead is romantic, loving (but more, desiring) adventurous, creative and pleasure-prone. You’ll take risks, but your good luck will win (be reasonable, of course).

You remain in a hopeful, happy, social mood, which will last three more weeks. Your popularity rises, you attract allies and would-be lovers. Flirtations abound, if you’re single, enjoy it! (Someone who appears before Tues. might someday marry you, but into a very practical, ambitious union; someone who appears Tues./Wed. will probably never proceed to marriage – or will only if you sacrifice something valuable – but he/she will make a good, friendly, exciting love affair.)

The month ahead features your domestic scene, security and the healing beauty of nature. Take power naps, be restful. You might reunite with siblings, other relatives. Discuss a significant home or real estate matter, especially Sunday and Monday. These two days might bring a revelation, confidential discussion, even therapy – purpose: to free you from something that is restricting you… could go as far back as childhood.

The weeks ahead feature your ambitions, your efforts, worldly status, and relations with bosses, parents, VIPs and authorities. You’ll be tested and you’ll pass with, perhaps, a victory lap! Sunday/ Monday are mellow, thoughtful, and favour legal proceedings, travel, formal learning and international affairs – and love. That “ambition” kicks in Mon. night through Wed. All four days, Sun. to Wed., are packed with good luck, so don’t waste this time.

You’ll be busy this week and the next few.

Writing, news, conversations, paperwork, mail, travel, errands, details, siblings and casual friends fill this period – especially Monday night through Wed. Earlier, chase money and/or dive into the benefits of home, family, food, Sunday/ Monday. You might meet with mild alienation Sunday suppertime, but this turns to love and friendship this night and Mon.

The accent remains on far travel, social rituals, cultural involvements, higher learning, publishing, media, religion, wider understanding, law, insurance and statistics. These culminate Mon. night through Wed., or more correctly, intensity and give you the green light to start a good new project in these zones. (Better Tues. pm onward.) Earlier, Sun./Mon. shine a spotlight on darker regions: power plays, collusion, finances, sexual longing, research and medical matters.

Chase money, cultivate the boss or new clients, buy/sell, memorize, and (if all’s honest) join in a sensual bond – all week, but especially Tues./ Wed., when good luck accompanies you in these zones. Earlier, Sun./Mon., your energy and charisma remain very high – it’s a great time to chase money and show a higher-up how clever you are. But be wary Sunday afternoon (PDT) when someone might not agree with you, in an almost hidden way.

Life’s depths, power plays, collusion, finances, sexual longing, research and medical matters, discovery and revelation fill the weeks ahead.

This week splits in two: lucky through Wed., then merely OK, difficult, Thurs. onward. Sun./Mon. bring relationships – and potential conflict or alienation Sun. afternoon. Otherwise, both days bless you with sweet luck in sexual, home, real estate, partnerships, marriage and finances.

Your charisma, energy, clout and effectiveness remain at a yearly high for the next few weeks.

You’re the leader, you’ll be listened to. Meet, greet, make contacts, show higher-ups what you can do, wink at the opposite sex. But take a breather Sun./ Mon., when your energy’s briefly low: rest, think, plan. (Despite your weariness, a lightning bolt of love could strike you – or another, regarding you.

All legal, love, and learning matters benefit.

Relationships, exciting meetings, dealing with the public, negotiations, contracts, litigation, possible relocation, challenges and cooperation, enmity and diplomacy – all these fill the weeks ahead. You’re in an “abundantly intimate” cycle until September, so this relationship theme could send singles into the arms of a very sexy affair. Single or married, strictly avoid extra-marital stuff.

Lie low, seek quietude, Virgo. Seek your spiritual centre, be charitable toward all. Whittle down neglected chores, duties. Deal with shut-ins, civil servants, admin types and health practitioners. You might buy a warehouse or assembly-line material (lucky choices Sunday to Wed.). Above all, slow your pace, rest and contemplate. These trends fill the weeks ahead, especially this Monday night through Wed.

This week, like the next two, is filled with work and minor health concerns. Both are highlighted Mon. night through Wed. – but in such a fortunate way that extra work might translate into extra dollars, a pay raise, etc.

These couple of days are excellent for starting a new employment, work, dependent-related, or machineryrelated project (including buying machinery/tools).

Even Sun./Mon., which are essentially romantic, pleasure-prone days, bring money luck (not gambling luck, but work-related fortune).

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Sports & Recreation

Ponies, polo and panache in South Vancouver Southlands Riding Club hosts Pacific Polo Cup Aug. 6

John Kurucz

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It’s the type of gathering where sport almost takes a back seat to the need to see and be seen.

The Southlands Riding Club hosts the third annual Pacific Polo Cup on Aug. 6, an event that marries equestrian with equal doses of polo and panache.

Kicking off at 11 a.m., the day will be highlighted by a pair of afternoon exhibition matches, with participants coming from across Canada, the U.S. and South America.

The Pacific Polo Cup serves as the marquee fundraising event for the club, which is a non-profit society boasting a membership north of 300 people.

“It’s a new and old generation that enjoys [polo] — people who are 19 to 75 appreciate the aspects of coming to it, dressing up and being a part of the sport,” said Craig Stowe, director of partnerships for the Pacific Polo Cup. “People are interested in the social engagement in sport and getting together to celebrate it. It’s a spectator sport that you can really enjoy because there is a level of decorum and skill that’s quite fun.”

Outside of the matches, an air of high society will also figure prominently

Polo player (and local realtor) Mauricio Vasquez will compete in the upcoming Pacific Polo Cup. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

into the day: best dressed awards will be handed out in the male, female and couples categories and winners will receive gift cards to Oakridge Mall.

“It’s a bit of that British pomp and ceremony involved,” said Nadia Iadisernia, president of Pacific Polo Cup. “When we think of polo in England you see the royals and the accoutrements that go along with it — people showing off their

best headdress, for example. There is that aspect to polo, where there is the expectation that people are going to be dressed up for a fun summer afternoon and learning about the sport.”

For those in the uninitiated category, a polo match is divided into timed periods called chukkers, which are usually seven minutes each.

Players typically change horses after each chukker and the game changes

direction after each goal in order to compensate for field and wind conditions.

A polo team is made up of four players, each of whom patrols specific roles on the pitch on both defence and offence.

While matches are typically played on a pitch measuring of 330 yards long by 160 yards wide, the Aug. 6 playing surface will be much smaller, allowing for better sight lines.

“Everyone has a preconceived idea about what polo is, but when people come to it, it’s essentially hockey on horses — Canadians get the premise right away,” Stowe said. “It’s interesting for Canadians because there is a history of the equestrian experience of Canada. But we’re used to skating and hitting a puck, so riding a horse and hitting a ball is not that far removed.”

The tradition of polo in Vancouver dates back to 1913, when the Vancouver Polo Club was established.

Weekend games were held throughout the 1950s and 1960s, and the field was originally on land that’s now part of the McCleery Golf Course.

The Southlands Riding Club, meanwhile, traces its roots to 1943.

Outside of being a practical space for training athletes at all levels, it’s also the home base for a number of non-profit and charity groups that cater to youth, riders with special needs and recreational trail riders such as Southlands Therapeutic Riding Society, Pacific Riding for Developing Abilities, Vancouver Pony Club, University Endowment Lands Trail Riders and New Stride Thoroughbred Adoption Society.

“If you haven’t been to Southlands, you don’t realize there’s a whole equestrian community right here in Vancouver,” Stowe said.

“A third of the people who come are dedicated horse people, and the rest are people who live in Vancouver who have never seen it and didn’t know it existed.” @JohnKurucz Tickets to the Pacific Polo Cup are available online at pacificpolocup.com.

Granville Island bolsters bike security Operation Rudy includes bait bikes, loaner locks, valet service

John Kurucz

jkurucz@vancourier.com

Bait bikes, loaner locks and even a bike valet service are among the highlights of a new program unveiled Monday that aims to improve bike usage and security on Granville Island.

The program is called Operation Rudy and represents a partnership across a number of stakeholder

groups: CMHC — Granville Island, Project 529, the City of Vancouver, the Vancouver Police Department, B.E.S.T, the Vancouver Park Board and several Granville Island businesses.

VPD statistics indicate more than 2,000 bikes are stolen every year in the city, with an average of nine bikes swiped per day during the summer

months. Last year, media reports indicated more bikes were stolen on Granville Island than anywhere else in Vancouver between 2013 and 2015.

The valet service, which includes monitored storage and a registration system, will operate everyday between now and Labour Day between 10 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.

A pilot loaner lock program will require users

to leave photo ID with businesses — Cats Social House, Granville Island Brewing Taproom and Off the Tracks Café, to name a few — in order to borrow a lock during their stay on Granville Island.

Signs will also be made available to educate cyclists on how to properly secure their bikes, while the VPD will be upping its Bait Bike program in the area as well.

Consideration has also been given to the island’s cycling functionality, with more bike parking bays located in high-visibility areas.

As the program’s namesake, Rudy is meant to represent the everyman cyclist in Metro Vancouver: he’s been a victim of bike theft in the past and the new program is meant to bolster his vigilance.

“We’ve given this initiative a lot of thought,” said Janet Flowers, general manager of Granville Island, in a news release. “Working with the plan developed

by Project 529, we are creating a more welcoming and secure Island cycling environment.”

For more details on the program, log on to granvilleisland.com/operation-rudy.

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T H U R SDAY, J U LY 2 8 , 2 0 1 6 THE VANCOUVER COURIER

Automotive BRAKING NEWS

Man dies while using Tesla’s autopilot Brendan McAleer

confirmed, it would appear that Joshua Brown, a Tesla fan and early adopter, was killed when both he and his Model S’s driving systems failed to detect a tractor trailer turning in front of him. There is some evidence to suggest Mr. Brown was watching a video on a portable DVD player at the time of the collision. A brightly lit sky was blamed for the Tesla’s camera-based systems not seeing the trailer.

Anything involving Tesla makes for good headlines, and ditto autonomous cars.

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The first death while using a fully autonomous car ... has yet to happen. Tesla’s so-called autopilot feature isn’t fully autonomous at all: it’s just a driver’s assistance system that’s relatively advanced. It’s not fully realized yet, and Tesla themselves claim that it’s still in beta testing mode.

Sadly, one Tesla owner appears to have pushed the technology just a little too far.

While some details can’t be

The thought that the two might have combined together to have killed someone was enough to send the automotive press into a frenzy.

Me? I was just sad. Mr. Brown likely wasn’t paying enough attention, something that’ll cause any number of deaths on our own roads this year, in regular old analogue cars. He’s not the first driver killed by overconfidence in his car, and he won’t be the last. He left a family behind, and he didn’t deserve to die.

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was this embarrassingly over-defensive press release that spent four paragraphs talking about how dangerous regular driving is and how great the Model S normally is and how Brown would have had to check a dialogue box in order to activate autopilot in the first place. Really? Do you carefully read every terms and conditions page?

They spent one brief, final paragraph acknowledging his family’s loss. In my opinion, it’s the only paragraph they should have released.

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