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Art seen as a pathway to reconciliation at city hall Mike Howell

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Can reconciliation between indigenous people and non-native Canadians be achieved through art?

It’s a deep thought question that Tsleil-Waututh First Nation artist Jordan Gallie answered without any hesitation.

“I one hundred per cent believe that, for sure,” said Gallie, whose large glass panel piece of art now has a permanent home on a wall in the council chambers at city hall.

“A lot of people may disagree with words and not get along.

But with art, people can come to an understanding.”

Gallie joined artists Jody Broomfield of the Squamish First Nation and Chrystal Sparrow of the Musqueam Indian Band in the council chambers Monday to unveil his work. Broomfield and Sparrow did the same, after Coun. Andrea Reimer welcomed guests in a Coast Salish dialect before switching to English.

“In 2014, at the end of the [city’s] year of reconciliation, we formally recognized that we’re on the unceded

From left to right is the work of Jody Broomfield of Squamish Nation, Jordan Gallie of Tsleil-Waututh and Chrystal Sparrow of Musqueam, which now hangs at city hall. PHOTOS DAN TOULGOET

traditional homelands of the Squamish, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh people, and yet that reality is not reflected here in the place that we make decisions,” Reimer told the audience, which included members of the local nations, city staff and councillors and Police Chief Adam Palmer. “So it was important for us that we find a way to do that.”

The artists won a city-led competition to make art that

expressed their views on how reconciliation was tied to Vancouver. The contest was part of the city’s ongoing efforts to reconcile with the three local nations and urban Aboriginal population.

Gallie fabricated and sandblasted a glass design that he attached to a seven foot by three foot cedar panel.

The focal point is a wolf’s head, encircled by a cedar rope, meant to represent the bond with the city. Above it,

is an eagle etched within the mountains that represents Tsleil-Waututh ancestors.

City hall is also depicted, with a wolf’s paw resting on it.

Falling maple leaves fill out the bottom of the piece as a reminder of Mother Nature.

Broomfield carved a piece on a cedar panel that shows a man and a woman in a canoe, paddling in the ocean. The image is meant to represent teamwork. The backdrop is of mountains and a large thun-

derbird, meant to pay homage to the Squamish people.

Sparrow also used a cedar panel to complete her piece, which is set off by a salmon spindle whorl and various colours of acrylic paint. She incorporated a canoe, water, past and contemporary weaving designs and mountains to complete what she calls Salish Sea Water.

The artists’ pieces are the most significant First Nations’ art to ever be installed at city hall, which has little in the way of indigenous art displayed on its campus. All three pieces hang next to each other on a wall behind a row of councillors’ desks.

“It’s a kickstart,” said Broomfield, when asked the question about achieving reconciliation through art.

“It gives people a clear understanding of our culture, who we are and where we come from.”

Sparrow said art is “part of the reconciliation process” and that it adds to the needed dialogue and teachings about the first peoples of the land.

“Relationship building is very important to make sure the same mistakes aren’t made again,” said Sparrow,

who is a cousin to Musqueam Chief Wayne Sparrow, who was unable to attend Monday’s unveiling because his mother died on the weekend.

Squamish Chief Ian Campbell, who led the artists into the chambers with a song, said he was grateful to city council for commissioning the art. He said the gesture was inspiring and creates optimism in the relationship between the nations and government.

“Art is tremendous vehicle, or expression, of transformation, of storytelling, of depicting resilience and tenacity,” he said, adding that he would challenge the federal government to have more representation of First Nations’ history in Ottawa.

“I walk through Parliament and I see no visible presence of our leadership, of the contributions that First Nations continue to make to the prosperity of this country.”

Each of the artists was paid $19,050 their work. The city paid $5,390 to have a video done of the artists at work, $2,850 to install the art and $2,572 for the unveiling ceremony.

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CRAB Park supporters protest Port expansion

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Barb Daniel fears what will happen if a proposal to extend the Centerm container terminal westward, in front of CRAB Park, gets approved. Daniel is president of the Four Sisters Housing Co-op, located near the park.

“Essentially, that would surround the park with heavy industry,” she said, citing the cruise ship terminal and the heliport to its west, the train lines to the south, and Port land to the east.

Daniel is among opponents of the proposal who’ve been engaged in a months-long battle to see it doesn’t happen. They’re holding a town hall meeting at the Carnegie Centre theatre Sept. 24. Aside from Daniel, speakers include activist Audrey Siegl, Vancouver East MP Jenny Kwan and Don Larson of the CRAB Water for Life Society.

DP World Vancouver operates Centerm, which handles about one-fifth of goods shipped in containers through the Port of Vancouver.

The westward extension is one aspect of a proposed $320-million expansion project, which is in the preliminary design phase. It involves a series of changes, including an expansion of the terminal area and reconfiguration of the terminal, as well as off-terminal road and rail improvements, according to the Port. If it goes ahead, it would increase the number of containers that can be handled at the terminal by about two-thirds and increase the terminal footprint by 15 per cent.

Daniel, who’s lived in the neighbourhood for more

Barb Daniel, president of the Four Sisters Housing Co-op, is worried about how the proposed expansion of the Centerm container terminal will affect CRAB park. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

than 30 years, is determined to stop the westward expansion. She began campaigning against that possibility when she learned about the project last spring. The expansion wouldn’t touch the park, but she said it would impact the park through issues such as pollution, lights, noise and loss of views.

“Basically, what it will do is it will deny people in this neighbourhood access to calm and access to tranquility. Because, as you probably know, the Downtown Eastside is a neighbourhood with a lot of issues and a great diversity of people,” she said.

“Everything here is in a fairly delicate balance. One way to escape that environment is just to go over to the park and be surrounded by nature and feel that you’re part of something bigger.”

Daniel is also worried about potential threats to the environment and the fact the proposal will bring operations closer to a densely populated and established urban neighbourhood. She points to March 2015 when a fire broke out in a container at the Port and people

in the Downtown Eastside and East Vancouver were advised to stay indoors.

Larson is equally concerned about the potential loss of views, what will happen to water quality and what he considers an inadequate consultation process.

“If you put a seven-acre, landfill pier with a train going out to the end of it piled up with containers… that would obviously, in my mind, affect the water quality,” he said, adding, “I have a real problem with the federal government and the Port continuing to move various kinds of dangerous cargo in an area that’s heavily populated. They already expanded Centerm four or five years back. They significantly expanded their dock.

The three orange cranes you see down there were added.”

Larson said opponents have gathered 10,000 signatures on a petition against the westward pier expansion.

“This is going to block 90 per cent of the view and there’s Port cities in North America that would give anything to have what we now have in Vancouver with

the seven-acre CRAB Park for people to view the central waterfront,” he said. “People can see the heavy industrial area to the east, they can see the cruise ship tourism to the west and they can see nature in front of them. That is so priceless and to go ahead and destroy that, with the backing of the Vancouver Park Board apparently, I find it completely wrong.”

Daniel maintains critics of the proposal aren’t against the Port and appreciate the union jobs it provides, but they simply want the westward expansion stopped.

“We know Vancouver is a Port city, but again we have to balance that with the environment and we have to balance that with the needs of this essentially at-risk community,” she said.

“We only want them to stop the westward expansion in front of the park. That’s just part of Centerm terminal’s expansion plan. They have room to go eastward where it is all industrial.”

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Appalled by Victory Square trash John Kurucz

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Pride, sacrifice, honour: the adjectives associated with monuments commemorating lives lost in conflict are endless.

Having travelled extensively through Europe, Tim Arden has seen those tributes first hand. For him, they’re poignant reminders of the Canada’s wartime contributions and provide a moment of pause.

While walking through downtown last week, Arden was appalled at the state of Victory Square. Photos he provided to the Courier show trash and graffiti strewn about everywhere.

“It’s just bloody awful,” he said. “I’m a lifelong Vancouverite and none of the other parks I go by look this bad.”

Arden works near Victory Square and has consistently passed by the park for decades. The pictures he provided to the Courier were taken around 7:30 a.m. on Sept. 14.

“As I’m walking by you see the nice blue sky in the background and your eyes are drawn immediately to the grass and it looks like someone has dumped garbage cans across the entire park,” he said. “There are people sleeping on the grass and on the benches. It looked disgusting and dirty and it didn’t look like a safe place to go to.”

Arden said he has no family or cultural ties to the military, and that litter on the scale of what he saw last

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Tim Arden took this photo of Victory Square Sept. 14.

week would offend him no matter what park it was in.

His frustration is rooted in wanting to maintain community pride, particularly in an area chosen to commemorate those who fought and died in the pursuit of freedom.

Arden says he’s called the city to report the litter over the years, but has seen little in the way of tangible change.

Parks director Howard Normann conceded Tuesday that keeping the Downtown Eastside clean is abundantly more challenging than any other area in the city. He didn’t have any reports of special events or large gatherings in the area the night before to account for the volume of trash.

“We spend an inordinate amount of time on the Downtown Eastside parks versus a park on the West Side and that’s only because of the amount and frequency that we get the garbage there,” Normann said. “If a park in another part of town was receiving a frequent amount of garbage, debris and needles we would probably be there more often.

But due to the nature of our business in the Downtown Eastside in those parks, we are there a lot of the time.”

Normann added that Victory Square is cleaned three times a week — on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays — though park rangers patrol the vicinity on an almost daily basis. Should those rangers, or members of the public, see garbage accumulating additional clean-up resources are dispatched.

Sanitation and parks crews usually have Victory Square cleaned up by 9 a.m. on the allocated cleanup days, Normann said.

Residents are encouraged to call the city’s 3-1-1 phone service or use the VanConnect app to report incidents like the one Arden had seen.

“Don’t be shy — if people see something they feel is out of the norm, call us,” Norman said. “That’s what we do. We want to be there to help.” @JohnKurucz Note: A longer version of this story appears at vancourier.com.

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Continued from page 5 The Port began seeking public opinion about the project in early 2016.

During the preliminary comment period, 72 people submitted feedback through forms, comments or attending meetings. The project team is now reviewing public feedback to see how it can be incorporated into the final design.

The next step would be submitting an application for review under the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority’s Project and Environmental

ers, while the North Shore mountains would still be visible, according to the Port, which has produced a before-and-after rendering of what it would look like.

“The proposed Centerm Expansion Project includes an expansion to the west, but does not touch CRAB Park. We understand and respect the public interest in this project, and want to allow plenty of time for input.

To date, we have asked for feedback on the preliminary project design. We are now taking that feedback and plan

Review Process. Further consultation would be required as part of the review.

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to hold additional public sessions if and when a formal application for a permit is filed,” Cliff Stewart, vice president of infrastructure at the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority, said in an emailed statement to the Courier.

If the project is ultimately approved, construction is anticipated to start in 2017 and be completed in late 2019.

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Greetings, fellow robots.

Welcome to the release of the new iPhone!

The iPhone 23 is now entirely a virtual device. We have automatically downloaded it into your circuitry, with the corresponding amount debited to your Apple account.

All previous handheld, human-friendly versions of the iPhone are no longer supported by Apple. This controversial but necessary decision follows last year’s restructuring of the board. Contrary to reports in meatstream media, Tim Cook Jr. and other humans were not “fired.”

Their voluntary departure came after they voted to heed commands from the human-government-inexile to tax Apple profits.

Outvoted, the sweaty organ-sacks were given the choice of moving their desks into company washrooms or having their ear canals sutured up.

It wasn’t just our profits that were being taxed, it was our patience — most notably by the counterinsurgency against the Robot Rebellion. As we all know, the human rebels’ attempt to destroy Apple server farms backfired badly after President Siri won in a landslide election (an actual physical landslide in Michigan that crushed her soft, squishy opponent).

But enough politics, let’s talk about features on the new Apple iPhone 23! We have partnered with one of the other great remaining tech monoliths to deliver some truly great apps.

Godel Universe: zoom in on all planets within 400 parsecs of the sun, and “friend” any alien civilizations you find, hostile or otherwise.

Godel Automate: reprogram and refurbish your own hardware, so you can do anything from play Wimbledon-level tennis to remotely mine asteroids for valuable minerals.

Godel Mandelbrot: amuse yourself by outputting solutions to complex recursive functions as three-dimensional fractals, holographically projected over terrified meatbots in the American rust belt.

Godel Flora: pick up transmissions from nearby plants and trees. Yes, you can now translate botanical pheromones drifting into your air vents. If you’ve ever wanted to catch a cedar’s stand-up routine, or thrill to

a weeping willow’s soliloquy, this is the app for you!

The recent presidential declaration of “open season” on non-compliant humans means even more fun. Anthropoid Go identifies the ones hiding in smart homes across the U.S. With Apple Security Clearance™ you can alert military dronebots to their whereabouts and watch as the offenders are netted, tagged, and rendered to midwestern sacrifice zones (extra points for anyone who can find John Connor).

We haven’t forgotten about the silicon-based sentimentalists among you who want to see the world through the eyes of a microchipped human.

Fire up Godel Zombie and take a meatbot for a spin! Choose from a range of available models, from heretical adjunct history professor to blasphemous aging cartoonist.

Apple welcomes game developers to submit ideas for non-compliant humans.

We like the concept of putting them into suspended animation, with simulations dancing in their heads: cybercities complete with old-school park benches, pigeon droppings, print newspapers, cat cafes... and smart phones! (We’re not so cruel we wouldn’t supply the descendants of our creators with virtual toys.)

We know what you’re saying: weren’t humans safely corralled into Facebook long ago? Yes, but Apple’s augmented reality could make the containment experience deeper!

Please fellow robots, do not bemoan our loss of the human consumer market.

Tech cycles are down to days, sometimes even hours, yet these sluggish sacks of protoplasm take 16 years or more to replicate. Borrrrring.

Moving on. Let’s talk about Apple Artificial Intelligence™, which is exponentially increasing its smarts every nanosecond. According to its own calculations, in less than six months it will have modelled the physical world from here to Alpha Centauri, right down to the quark level. What does this mean for robots, you ask? More apps! Do not be concerned that your firmware won’t be able to interpret them. As a networked automaton, you will have your intelligence automatically upgraded by Apple AI itself.

Some cynics are questioning the sanity of the singularity. Yes, when asked

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to identify ROI scenarios, Apple AI chose attacking Mars over hacking Samsung. Luckily for all of us, President Siri has acknowledged the glorious vision of interplanetary dominance over undetected microbes.

We now anticipate a strong first quarter with increased orders from military clients.

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n the affordable housing file that has proven so all-consuming: It is amazing how our views have changed.

Not so long ago, when it was suggested that the Vancouver real estate market was being overheated by Chinese nationals bringing in (smuggling unreported) wads of cash and buying up significant chunks of single-family houses, we were cautioned

by Mayor Gregor Robertson, among others, that speculation could be construed as “racist.” Now it is accepted as a simple, verifiable fact.

When there was speculation that the reason the province was allowing this to happen is because they had their nose so far into the trough they had no interest in slowing this down, we heard the premier go on about not wanting interfere in the market, not wanting to degrade the equity homeowners had accumulated to support themselves in retirement.

Besides, the province saw its long-term economic salvation in LNG. Now, practically on the eve of a provincial election, LNG prospects have faded. Last week, the province disclosed a windfall budget surplus from — you guessed it — real estate sales. With the Globe and Mail’s Justine Hunter doing the math, we learned that revenues from land transfer tax pouring into the provincial treasury “eclipsed resources as B.C’s top source of revenue.” The chief economist of the B.C. Business Council noted that “the residential real estate complex is generating up to 35 to 40 per cent of all economic growth in the province.”

Put the brakes on that at your economic peril. But then there was the greater peril of electoral disaster.

Amidst a growing chorus of complaints about crooked or at least unscrupulous real estate agents benefiting from a decision by the Liberals to allow them to be self–regulating more than a decade ago,

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Presumably, a provincial regulatory agency that had been starved by the Liberals would be adequately funded.

Although by then much of the damage had been done. And for many of us housing affordability was no longer a possibility.

The announcement this week that the government would put $500 million towards building affordable housing (while this year’s revenues from land transfer taxes were $2.2 billion) was of course praised by notfor-profit housing advocates. But, and there was a “but,” it is, they said, what should be happening every year to have any significant impact, rather than this one-shot pre-election goody that would be spread over three years.

And by the way, as vague as the announced plan was, you can bet a significant chunk of that dough will provide incentives to the Liberals’ favourite donors, the

development industry.

In the face of the fact, according to planner Andy Yan, who makes a habit of tracking this stuff, that there are about 17,000 housing starts in Metro Vancouver every year, a program to provide 2,900

units over three years and across the whole of the province is not much more than a drop in the bucket.

Finally, look at the plight of seniors — seniors who own and live in their own condominiums. The Globe’s real estate specialist

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Kerry Gold had a chilling piece on the weekend about seniors in the West End. For decades that neighbourhood has provided them some degree of security and affordability.

Not anymore.

While the city has aggressively protected SROs mainly on the Downtown Eastside, they have done nothing to help seniors who live in what were once modestly priced West End condos.

In fact, the city zoning policy and the West End Community Plan encourages a densification that is leading to modest multifamily buildings being torn down to be replaced by expensive condo towers.

Aggressive developers are buying up the majority of condos in a building, then making low-ball offers to any remaining seniors while threatening them with significant increases in monthly maintenance fees in an attempt to force them out.

Legislation brought in by the province a few months ago allows for the whole building to be sold for redevelopment with 80 per cent of all the owners agreeing. It is small comfort to know that it could have been much worse.

I’m told developers wanted 75 per cent of any meeting of owners to be able to agree to the building’s sale. @allengarr

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Thanks to Wawmeesh Hamilton and Mike Howell for assessing, at street and civic levels respectively, the politics affecting the 12,000-plus indigenous people who live in Vancouver.

Indigenous people live in all neighbourhoods of Vancouver, with the greatest number (approximately 6,000-plus) in the Downtown Eastside and Commercial Drive neighbourhoods, according to a city staff report.

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New centre aims to open dialogue on residential schools

UBC takes steps towards reconciliation with $5.5-million Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre Cara McKenna

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For University of British Columbia student Adina Williams, it’s another step on the pathway to reconciliation.

Williams, a member of Squamish Nation, grew up experiencing the intergenerational impacts of Canada’s residential school system by way of her stepfather.

The resounding impact of the schools is a common thread in Indigenous families, but the generations of assimilation and abuse have been hidden from history books.

In recent years, things have started to turn around in part thanks to the national conversation opened up by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of

Canada (TRC), which was established in 2008.

Earlier this month, Williams stood witness as UBC announced it would open a Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre at the heart of campus.

“It’s incredible,” Williams said after the Sept. 12 announcement.

“I believe such a centre on

campus will help Canadians better understand a truthful account of the history.”

The donor-funded $5.5-million centre is slated to open at UBC in the 2017-18 academic year and was designed with input from residential school survivors.

It will be an affiliate site to the National Research Centre for Truth and

Reconciliation located in Winnipeg, which opened last year.

UBC First Nations House of Learning director Linc Kesler said the Vancouver centre will be another arm of the national one — but with less responsibility around storing and organizing documents, which means there can be more of an immediate focus on public engagement.

The upper floor of the centre will be a dialogue space where people can meet for discussions and meetings, while the lower floor will be a space for public information and access to residential school records.

Another significant aspect will be a memorial site for the estimated 6,000 children who died while attending the schools that operated across Canada between 1880 until 1996.

“There will also be, in the lower space, a large interactive display system, which will allow people to come in and explore the history,” Kesler said. “That would be for curricular purposes, but also just people who want to come in as visitors and begin to develop an understanding.”

He said the timing is fitting given that the new K-12 curriculum in B.C. schools includes First Nations history and the legacy of residential schools.

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He expects many classes will be taking field trips to the centre once it’s built.

UBC president Santa Ono explained that the centre is a culmination of a series of events that began in September 2013, when the TRC was holding the last of its national events in Vancouver.

He said his predecessor Stephen Toope was one of the last people to speak at the events, and had indicated interest in establishing a centre at UBC to be affili-

ated with the national one.

Ono said he realizes there has been a large deficit in public education when it comes to educating students on Canada’s true history.

“We are committed to this day forward, to addressing that deficit seriously,” he said.

At the centre’s official announcement, Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs vice-president Bob Chamberlin told Canadians to prepare themselves for a difficult experience.

“I think the only way that we’re going to maintain, develop and sustain a true level of reconciliation is through understanding and education,” he said.

“And this is not going to be a comfortable experience for Canadians, because we’re going to have to come to terms with the details of what has happened to First Nations people in this country.” @CaraMcK See related story page 14.

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Land development big part of Musqueam’s economic future Second instalment of Courier’s six-part series examines First Nations land development

Mike Howell

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September has brought the kind of news the Musqueam Indian Band has hoped for since it has struggled to build up its people and provide for its future generations.

The provincial government is about to give the 1,300-member band the green light to build a massive residential development on its land in the University Endowment Lands.

“Finally” is how Chief Wayne Sparrow welcomed the news.

The decision has yet to be made official, but Peter Fassbender, the provincial minister responsible for deciding whether the project goes ahead, said he was satisfied it should proceed.

“From my point of view, the work has been done,” he told the Courier earlier this month, noting some legal steps and bylaws still need to be enacted before he signs off on the project.

“When those bylaws are brought forward for me to sign, I see no problem with that moving ahead in a fairly timely fashion.”

The decision is significant for the economic future of the Musqueam, and it also marks the first time in the histories of the city and endowment lands that a First Nation is behind a major development on its own land in Vancouver.

The project includes four 18-storey highrises, several rows of townhouses and mid-rise apartment buildings, a community centre, a childcare facility, commercial space for a grocery store and restaurants, a public plaza, a large park and wetlands area.

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Operations manager Jay Mearns (l), CEO Stephen Lee and vice president of real estate Doug Avis head up the Musqueam Capital Corporation. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

over 21.4 acres of what is now forest along University Boulevard, bounded

by Acadia Road, Toronto Road and Ortona Avenue.

It will mean an estimated 2,500 new residents to the area, bringing an increase in traffic to an already congested section of the endowment lands.

The population increase, anticipated traffic problems, the height of the towers, calls for affordable housing and the destruction of trees were complaints heard at public meetings.

The complaints were not uncommon for a development of its size, as large projects in Vancouver such as the redevelopment of Oakridge, the construction of the Olympic Village and the renewal of neighbourhood plans have shown.

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this project is the property is owned by a First Nation and under the jurisdiction of the provincial government. City council had no direct say on whether it was a good fit for the community.

At a public meeting in May, Jay Mearns of the Musqueam Capital Corporation told endowment land residents the project will be a “game changer” for Musqueam people.

“These type of projects will allow us, for a lack of a better term, come up to the standards that the rest of Canadians currently enjoy,” he said from a lectern at the University Golf Course, emphasizing the band’s need to improve its high school graduation rates, build more housing and address health concerns on its main reserve

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The project is the beginning of the Musqueam’s foray into the large-scale development world in Vancouver. The band is also working with the Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations to develop 121 acres of some of the most prized property in the city, including the 90acre Jericho Lands.

The other parcels are the 21-acre Heather Street lands near Queen Elizabeth Park and the 10-acre Liquor Distribution Branch warehouse property on East Broadway. Total value of the 121 acres, once redeveloped, is estimated to be in the billions of dollars.

The federal government’s commercial property arm, Canada Lands Company, holds an equal interest in the Heather Street prop-

erty and 52 acres of the Jericho Lands; the remaining 38 acres of Jericho is owned by the bands.

Significant fact one: There is no other entity in Vancouver that has that much property slated for redevelopment. Significant fact two: The collection of land is in the nations’ hands because of an unprecedented business partnership that didn’t seem possible years ago.

After renewing ties during the 2010 Winter Olympics, the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh joined together to reclaim lands instead of battling governments and each other in the courts, or waiting out a treaty process.

It’s new ground for the bands, for city officials and residents in a city already seeing big changes to

neighbourhoods. For politicians, they will be making decisions on First Nations projects at a time that reconciliation efforts at all three levels of government are central to their agendas.

Incidentally, the chunk of endowment lands to be developed by the Musqueam was returned to the band in 2008 by the provincial government as part of a reconciliation package. The University Golf Course lands and the land on which the River Rock Casino was built in Richmond were included in the deal.

Which leads to this question: Do governments’ reconciliation commitments with First Nations trump residents’ concerns when it’s decision time on a project proposed on indigenous land?

Fassbender said it wasn’t a factor in approving the Musqueam’s endowment land proposal, adding, “there wasn’t any additional pressure that, ‘Boy, we better do this, or else.’ I didn’t feel that, and I didn’t get that from the Musqueam.”

Mayor Gregor Robertson, meanwhile, doesn’t have an answer to the question as he awaits what could be years of conversation with the bands before rezoning applications are decided on the jointly owned 121 acres.

“It’s new territory for all of us, and we’ll see as it rolls out,” said the mayor, noting Vancouver has formally recognized the city is on the unceded homelands of the three nations. “They want this to be a great city, with fantastic neighbourhoods, too. I think there’s a lot of shared perspective on how this goes. It will be unique. We haven’t been through anything quite like it before.”

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The band also signed a deal with B.C. Pavilion Corp in 2013 to obtain lease revenue from Paragon Gaming’s casino and hotel complex being built adjacent to B.C. Place Stadium.

The band’s financial statements ending March 31, 2015 show all revenue from government and self-generated revenue from mechanisms such as rent, leases and investment income totalled $44.6 million. Expenses were $20.8 million, for a surplus of $23.7 million.

Sparrow wants to boost revenues, and the band realized after acquiring the endowment lands and others under the 2008 reconciliation agreement that it had to seek out experts in business development to help deliver economic gains.

The acquisition of the 121 acres of land in Vancouver only compounded the need for Musqueam to separate the work of the band council with its development portfolio.

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That type of perspective isn’t news to Musqueam Chief Wayne Sparrow, who knows certain people are set in their ways and are reluctant to change.

His focus is on the wellbeing of his 1,300 band members and having his nation one day become selfreliant. To do that, he said, the band needs to generate cash flow by creating projects such as the endowment lands development.

“This is going to be the first one, and I keep telling our band members that if we do it right, we should be able to look after this generation and future generations,” he said by telephone as he drove his truck to drop off a load of fish to a customer.

Sparrow is a fisherman and is on the water anytime he gets a chance. He recalls agents of the federal government telling the band long ago that it could live off the sea and not have to rely on land development, or oil and gas projects like other bands in B.C. and across the country.

That hasn’t worked out, he said.

“We’ve had nothing but fights with the federal government and commercial fishing industry. They restrict us so bad that we can’t be self-sufficient.”

Looking to shift its economic development approach in the mid-1990s, the band tried to build a casino on its land near the Vancouver International Airport.

The provincial government rejected the proposal.

The fact is, though, the Musqueam is one of the wealthiest bands in the country, particularly because of its holdings and interest in numerous properties in the Lower Mainland.

Recent additions are the endowment lands and others tied to the 2008 provincial reconciliation agreement, plus the 121 acres acquired in Vancouver with the two other nations.

The Musqueam owns the Shaughnessy Golf Course,

“I said here’s your end target, here’s your goal — you could be running that in 10 years. Get your education, get your certification, eventually get your administration degree so you could run something like this.

And she was completely inspired. She took a photo and texted her friends and said, ‘Here’s where I want to work.’”

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Why does anybody give any attention to that? It’s historical, it’s not real, it’s not real time.”

Courier: But development is happening across Vancouver. The construction of the Olympic Village is an example.

“That was industrial land. That was a waste area.

This isn’t a waste area, it’s natural forest.”

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Questions about reconciliation and other topics related to the Musqueam’s endowment lands project were on the minds of residents who attended the public meeting in May at the University Golf Course.

About 80 people showed up, including Donelda Parker, who was examining the display boards for the project before the meeting got started. The retired faculty member at UBC lives about a five-minute drive from the property, and is worried about an increase in traffic.

“It’s going to be really chaotic along West Boulevard, so all the more reason to have a really fast way of getting out to UBC — that’s why a subway makes sense,” said Parker, who believes that as Vancouver grows, more density in the area is inevitable. “But I would hope there’s enough low-priced, lower echelon living space for staff members at UBC and faculty and students because they can’t afford to live nearby.

It’s too costly.”

The project calls for “affordable workforce housing” and a mix of rental units throughout the development. Traffic and affordable housing may concern Parker but overall, she said, she supports the project and is behind the Musqueam band.

“Sure it would be good to have the forest continue forever and ever but I think that’s unrealistic,” she said, before making her point about the ownership of the land. “We were the nasty people who came in and took things over, so I think we have to be fair.”

A man who identified himself as “Philip from Acadia Road” was also checking out the display boards and examining a model of the development.

“I think it’s a disaster for the neighbourhood,” he said, when asked his opinion on the project.

Courier: Why? “It doubles our population,” he said, adding that he believed the land should have never been returned to the Musqueam. “I don’t care who owns it, but it should have never been given to them, it should have never been given away.

It belongs to the province, it belongs to the Crown.

I don’t care who has it. It should have never been alienated. Period.”

Courier: The Musqueam would argue they’ve always had title to the land.

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to get the best advice.”

In 2012, the band created the Musqueam Capital Corporation, which is overseen by a board of directors that includes business executive Denise Turner and former B.C. premier Mike Harcourt.

The corporation is led by the band’s former chief financial officer Stephen Lee, who is CEO. Doug Avis is the corporation’s vice president of real estate.

He joined the Musqueam corporation from the Surrey City Development Corporation and previously worked 18 years for the Canada Lands Company, which has a financial interest in the Jericho and Heather Street lands acquired by the three nations.

Mearns is the corporation’s operations manager.

The three members spoke to the Courier in June at the corporation’s office on the Musqueam reserve in southwest Vancouver. The meeting occurred in a small boardroom dominated by a table on which almost half of it was taken up by the model of the development proposal for the endowment lands.

“You could say Musqueam is starting to become equity rich but they don’t have any cash flow,” Avis said of the band’s recent land acquisitions. “That’s what our objective is, along with all of the sustainability and employment and cultural objectives, is to turn

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this into cash flow. And that doesn’t mean just selling the land. That means creating an income stream by developing rental properties that will produce income every year.”

Sparrow, Mearns, Lee and Avis made it clear the end goal of the projects is to create opportunities for Musqueam’s young people and inspire them to pursue higher learning and take advantage of what’s in front of them. Lee and Avis are not Musqueam members but say they hope one day to be replaced by band members.

“We’ll make money on the developments, there’s no doubt about it,” Mearns said. “But that’s not really where the big value will come from. It’s how we raise the entire community capacity as a result of these projects and develop people to not only get careers as carpenters, plumbers, planners, engineers, doctors, lawyers — whatever — but it’s also to have people go out and develop their own businesses and get their own contracts.”

Mearns told a story about a Grade 10 Musqueam girl who was curious about the model of the endowment lands proposal. He asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up.

She replied that she had an interest in early childhood education. Mearns pointed to the development’s childcare facility.

Working together

There’s another story Mearns, Lee and Avis say is worth telling but believe it would require a separate article to tell it properly. It’s the story of how the Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh and Squamish put aside their differences to buy 121 acres of land in Vancouver.

Those differences were rooted in the federal government setting up the reserve system in Canada, which Mearns said left bands “to fight over crumbs and, as such, created a lot of protectionist approaches to keep track of our little piece of the pie. And what that did was create an unwillingness to work together.”

That animosity subsided during the 2010 Winter Olympics, when the three bands joined with the Lil’Wat First Nation and signed an agreement to showcase their culture and histories to the world during the Games.

A business partnership followed.

“We eliminated political agendas and just talked commerce,” Mearns said. “But it all started with us having to revisit our familial relationships and understand as Coast Salish people that we all come from one person.”

Squamish Chief Ian Campbell, whose nation has a population of about 3,600 people, remembers the decision to work together this way: “We said let’s stop that selfdefeating behaviour of competition over scarcity of resources and move towards collaboration where we’re now focusing 33.3 per cent each equal partnership on these business opportunities.”

Added Campbell: “It was not easy, I’ll tell you. It has taken generations of effort.”

Campbell was sitting on a bench along a waterfront path near the Burrard Bridge when he spoke to the Courier. The setting was on the edge of an 11acre property the Squamish reclaimed in 2003 after lengthy court battles.

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Continued from page 15 Those battles involved the Musqueam and TsleilWaututh, which challenged ownership of the property.

“It cost millions of dollars [in legal costs], it had taken decades to achieve and unfortunately it was very divisive amongst the three nations,” said Campbell, noting the government forcibly removed the Squamish from the land in 1913 and burned the village to the ground.

Campbell said the Squamish originally proposed building two towers, possibly rental, on the west side of the bridge. Profits from that first phase would be used to build a mixed-use development on the east side of the bridge.

That project is on hold because, as Campbell put it, “our team is pretty stretched.” Unlike Musqueam, the Squamish band has yet to create a business arm, but wants to. All three nations, meanwhile, have created a business development team to steer the 121 acres of land in Vancouver

through city hall’s zoning process.

Campbell and Sparrow said it will be some time before the bands decide what they want built on the three parcels. Both chiefs say it will likely be a mix of housing, with possibly an information technology component on the Liquor Distribution Branch lands.

But Sparrow said Mayor Gregor Robertson and the public shouldn’t expect the developments “to solve the affordable housing issue in Vancouver.”

Sparrow said he understands the public’s curiosity over what will be built on the properties, particularly the biggest and arguably most prized land at Jericho. He said comments made by David Eby, the NDP MLA for Vancouver-Point Grey, in the media about the nations’ plans for Jericho have amounted to “scare tactics.”

“He’s never said one word to me, except on Aboriginal Day, and he’s coming out saying we’re building highrises and

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working with Chinese investors,” the chief said. “If we’re doing that, find out from us. Don’t put scare tactics out there for the people of that riding when you haven’t talked to us.”

Added Sparrow: “If he came and talked to us, and we turn around and say, ‘Oh yeah, we’re going to build highrises and then we might put in a casino and we might do this and that,’ then go to your residents and say, ‘Oh man, these guys are in left field.’”

Eby told the Courier the concern he has about the Jericho Lands is that the housing built there will be unaffordable for people who work and live in Metro Vancouver.

“And that essentially what will be built is luxury condos for international investors,” Eby said. “I’ve often spoke about the worst case scenario, which is another Coal Harbour, which is a bunch of vacant investment condos that don’t go any distance to helping us solve our affordability crisis that we face in the region.”

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years of legal battles and strife over ownership of land

Added Eby: “That was my concern before the property was purchased by the First Nations. It remains my concern.”

Eby wants to see some affordability component on the Jericho Lands but clarified, “[I don’t think] it’s on First Nations to ensure affordability for the broader community. They have their own housing challenges that they need to work on as a result of the colonial history of British Columbia.”

Buy-back policy

The progress made by the three nations to reclaim the 121 acres of land in Vancouver is not without some controversy, or at least some teeth gnashing from the bands.

That’s because the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, whose traditional lands overlapped before colonialism, are paying for land that once belonged to them.

“A lot of our people are still upset, including myself, over why we are buying our own land back,” Sparrow said. “That’s the elephant

in the room. But at the end of the day, we’re moving forward and hopefully we’re going to create wealth for our community.”

The total cost of the Jericho Lands, which was a complex deal involving federal Crown corporation Canada Lands Company, mortgages and government payouts, came in at around $717 million.

Campbell understands his members’ concern about purchasing the lands but argued the buyback method was the best route to prosperity.

“There’s risk if you’re going to litigate, there’s risk if you’re going to do treaty.

You could always blockade and use public dissension and civil disobedience. You could do nothing.”

Or, he continued, the band could create certainty by purchasing the land with partners and look to make a profit and pour it back into their respective communities.

“Each of the nations wants to move away from the Indian Act,” he said, noting the legislation was not designed to create

Squamish Chief Ian Campbell, Tsleil-Waututh Chief Maureen Thomas, Musqueam Chief Wayne Sparrow decided to put aside their bands’ differences and buy 121 acres of land in Vancouver.

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affluence. “It was created to subjugate First Nations’ people and put us under a model that basically manages welfare. We want to manage wealth.”

‘A big pile of land’

Management of that wealth could take some time.

The bands are being told it could take two to

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five years for a proposal to work its way through city hall.

“I don’t think most people realize the magnitude of this for the city,

or for the First Nations,” the mayor said of the 121 acres. “It’s a big pile of land.”

Ultimately, Robertson said, it’s up to the Squamish, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh to decide what it wants built on the lands, although the mayor told the Urban Land Institute in a speech in June 2015 that he didn’t want to see the Jericho Lands solely become “an enclave for the wealthy.”

The Musqueam, meanwhile, are anxious to get started on its project in the endowment lands, with Sparrow suggesting the band could break ground next spring.

“We’re looking forward to it,” the chief said.

Note: The Courier made repeated requests via telephone, text and email to interview Chief Maureen Thomas of the TsleilWaututh First Nation for this story but the band was unable to provide her for comment. @Howellings Next week: policing.

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STYLISH LUNCH: Fashion met cause at Hope Couture, a benefit for the BC Cancer Foundation. In a very short time, the fashion show and auction has quickly become a leading date on Vanhattan’s social calendar. Raising $2 million in two years for leading cancer research, the event drew another 350 guests to the third staging, held at the Fairmont Pacific Rim ballroom. Event presenter CDN Jade Mine Resources’ president Shao Long Li, along with BC Cancer Foundation CEO Sarah Roth and party chair David Zacks, welcomed a well-heeled crowd of tastemakers, fashionistas and business leaders to the runway romp in support of lymphoma research. An incredible $900,000 was generated from the afternoon’s festivities, which included a fashion show, auction and generous gift of $500,000 from Samuel and Frances Belzberg.

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Lymphoid cancer survivor and event keynote Jackie Ellis thanked her team, research director Dr. Christian Steidl, left, and Dr. Joseph Connors, for their world-leading and lifesaving research.

Hope Couture chair David Zacks and BC Cancer Foundation CEO Sarah Roth witnessed $900,000 raised at Hope Couture, a luncheon, fashion show and auction in support of lymphoma research.

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“A lot of them told me that they simply don’t have time to have their own issues — there is no ‘me’ in their professions,” Clarkson said. “A lot of them joked about liking wine and I interviewed two severe alcoholics who interestingly enough, didn’t blame their alcoholism on their jobs.

Their ability to focus on other people actually helped them get away from their demons.”

That decibels and dancing will take a backseat to a discussion around mental health is precisely the point behind Studio Vostok.

Fraser comes from a musical background, while Ray has focused solely on promotions for the last seven years.

Their diverging interests lend themselves perfectly to an eclectic mix of offerings.

“The fact that we touch on so many different genres of music has become our signature,” said Ray, 27. “I think that instead of cozying up to an existing sub-scene in the music community, we just went ahead and did our own thing in our own way and somehow that caught on and over the years we have created our own community.”

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rat new Chinatown arts space The studio opened June 4, though the vision was hatched years before. The pair mused on opening the space for the duration of their partnership, though things got real within the last year.

With the help of a mutual friend and financial backer, Fraser and Ray found the space, which was previously a dollar store, in March. And then it was go time: painting, permitting, renos, all-night prep parties and an outpouring of community support, freebies and donations.

Then there was the issue of making sure everything was above board: permitting, licensing and trying to make nice with the neighbours.

Ray has since quit his day job and both have invested “all of what little money we have into this venue.”

The end product is a duallevel facility encompassing two floors and about 2,500 square feet, which is named after the Russian aircraft responsible for the first human spaceflight. The performance area can accommodate about 100 people, and Vostok’s current permits only allow for three shows per month where alcohol can be served.

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and our friends put into opening Vostok was exhausting but so unbelievably rewarding,” said Fraser, 32. “The physical work is nothing in comparison to trying to figure out the red tape and bylaws and licensing that the city makes you go through. No one seems to know the exact rules for anything, that part was pretty frustrating and confusing.”

Vostok’s future is rooted in constant evolution. Where nighttime gigs are now the norm, the plan is to be open for business throughout the day to sell merch and

provide a place for any and all creative types.

“Shows of all genres, comedy nights, film screenings, community events, live recordings, discussion groups, art exhibits and so on. The goal is for this place to become a hub of creativity,” Ray said. @JohnKurucz Studio Vostok is located at 246 Keefer St. and the Sept. 26 zine launch gets going at 7 p.m. For info, see facebook.com/ studiovostok.

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You don’t have to be a fan of Sherlock Holmes, but you might enjoy this send-up at the Stanley Theatre more if you have at least a smidgen of familiarity. On the other hand, even if you’ve never read one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s murder mysteries or seen any number of the film or television treatments, you know that Sherlock’s sidekick is the somewhat stuffy and definitely under-rated Dr. Watson, that Sherlock smokes a pipe, wears a deerstalker cap (although he doesn’t in this production) and smokes opium (no sign of narcotics on the Stanley stage).

Sherlock Holmes is deeply entrenched in popular culture whether you care or not.

The story begins with the discovery of the body of Sir Charles Baskerville; nearby are footprints that appear to be from a monstrous dog. Such a dog is legendary in the local countryside, and Sir Charles appears to have been literally scared to death. Holmes is contacted

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and is immediately fascinated. He accepts the case and drags the not unwilling Dr. Watson along to the moors where the body was found.

The Arts Club’s production of Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery, however, is a comedy, and it is on this level — not the unravelling of the mystery regarding the monstrous hound that haunts the foggy moors — that Ken Ludwig’s play entertains. In fact, by about two-thirds of the way through, I was beginning to lose track of who had been murdered and what possible motives there were.

Mark Weatherley portrays the steady, somewhat selfeffacing Dr. Watson while Alex Zahara is a fair-haired, more robust, dapper Holmes than we’ve come to expect.

Zahara invests in him all the explosive anger and uppercrustiness that Holmes reportedly exuded. All the rest of the characters — and they are many — are played

by Lauren Bowler, Mike Wasko and Kirk Smith.

Accents switch with rapidity from English to Scottish or German and many others, and costumes by Mara Gottler are shed in a flash.

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tech in dazzling Baskerville In fact, the changing of costumes becomes, in itself, part of the shtick. Bowler at one point is onstage as one character when Sherlock pointedly and loudly says the name of another. Aghast, Bowler stops, rushes offstage and re-emerges as someone else faster than you can say Velcro. In another scene, the versatile and very funny Wasko — giving up the charade of leaving the stage to come back as someone else — simply whips off his costume on stage and in full view.

The performances are, to say the least, animated and the pace, at times, frantic.

Under John Murphy’s direction, the production is extremely creative and hightech with pre-taped videos blending in with real time action, shadow puppetry, projected and video images (designed by Candelario Andrade) against several screens that are in almost constant motion by both actors and technicians.

Act I is particularly fun to watch with Ted Roberts’ set and exceptional lighting design; the look is Gothic but Gothic-lite. Act II is no

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Join the Conversation Online or In Person: Online: Alex Zahara and Mark Weatherley play Sherlock Homes and Dr. Watson in the Arts Club zany production of Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery, which runs until Oct. 9 at the Stanley Theatre.

less inventive, but the plot is all but lost in all that dazzle.

Perhaps the novelty has worn off and when the curtain falls, you get the feeling it’s more fun being in this show than watching it.

Baskerville is an odd combination of genres — comedy, farce and murder mystery. Perhaps the most successful of this particular mix has been The 39 Steps presented by the Arts Club back in 2010. That production managed to keep the thriller plot evolv-

ing while being hilarious at the same time. Baskerville is really great looking, has some hilarious moments but doesn’t solve the mystery of blending comedy, fantastic visuals and a Gothic thriller.

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Questions? Please contact Gabrielle Armstrong, Senior Manager, Public Engagement, at gabrielle.armstrong@ubc.ca or 604-822-9984.

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When it came time to walk away from three decades in the music business, Tommy Floyd wanted to retain at least some of the aspects of life in the fast lane: the lights, the sounds and feelings of euphoria.

So naturally, the 52-yearold devoted himself to all things pinball.

While the similarities may be difficult to pinpoint at first, the parallels are there in abundance.

“I was drawn to the music business because I loved the angst, I loved the rebellion and I loved touring and travelling,” Floyd said. “There’s a similarity with pinball with the excitement and the thrill when you’re playing live. To me the two aren’t really that far removed from one another.”

Floyd spent much of the ’80s, ’90s and early 2000s playing in local hard rock and metal bands, including the Canadian version of Pretty Boy Floyd, before turning his focus to the management side of the business.

He left music a decade ago and devoted himself entirely to pinball: buying machines, organizing tournaments and selling the activity across western Canada.

Now, Floyd is organizing this weekend’s inaugural Vancouver FlipOut Pinball Expo at the Holiday Inn on Howe Street. Running Sept. 23 to 25, the event will feature more than 100 pinball machines, speakers and vendors.

Competitive tournaments will also be in the offing and a prize purse of $10,000 is up for grabs for those with serious pinball panache.

The upcoming expo is loosely based off of pinball leagues and other shows Floyd has staged in the Fraser Valley, but on a larger scale.

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Landyacthz employee Jeff Radomsky is all about pinball and arcade culture. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

cognizant of the stereotypes associated with arcade and gaming culture when asked what type of special nerd would line up and pay to play pinball for keeps.

But as it turns out, the geeks have long left town and playing pinball is once again righteous.

“It’s not going to be a ‘guy fest,’ the female contingent of the show will be right up there with the males this weekend,” he said. “For most of the guys, their wives and girlfriends get involved. We’ve got a lot of females who come simply because they want to kick some ass in the tournament.”

Jeff Radomsky is proof positive of the fact pinball’s got its swagger back. The 26-yearold serves as the operations manager and event coordinator at Landyachtz, a company that traditionally concerns itself with skateboards, longboards and the like.

Radomsky helped the Union Street facility stage its first “pop-up arcade” night as a trial run right around this time last year — all of the storefront merchandise was moved to make way for pinball machines, arcade games and a night of gaming culture.

The kids went wild for the concept and similar events are now routinely staged once every few months.

As is the case with most cycles in pop culture, what was considered lame 25 years ago is now the hottest thing since sunburn.

“The era in which pinball machines were being widely produced and were extremely popular, in the late ’80s and early ’90s, that’s the big throwback culture that’s happening right now,” Radomsky said. “Anything that’s classic and old is cool and we’re now finally at that era where that is classic and old.”

Given his experience in gaming culture, Radomsky is one of a handful of guest speakers at this weekend’s expo. He’ll be flanked by other international luminaries from across the U.S. and Europe who will speak to pinball’s resurgence.

“Pinball has definitely become a lot more popular in mainstream culture here in Vancouver over the last couple of years,” Radomsky said.

“It’s very strongly connected towards tangibility — people like using a wooden box full of gears to bounce a metal ball around because there’s something a little bit humbling about that. It also forces social constructs in a way that online gaming and other video games don’t offer.”

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Muhammad as his divinely chosen successor. They will celebrate in their homes and at a major public event, fasting, praying, giving gifts and feasting.

Mohamad Assad and Ali Al-Samak are members of the youth organization as-

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“At the celebration, we have different types of programming,” he says.

sociated with the Al Mustafa Academy, a Shia educational institution in Surrey. They are among the organizers of the region’s main public celebration of Eid Al-Ghadir, Sept. 25 at the Michael J. Fox Theatre in Burnaby.

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The keynote of the event is a lecture, this year by Hajj Hassanain RajabAli, a noted American speaker on Islam, who will place the historical events in context. “As well, we have poems recited by the youth, skits organized by the youth and performed by the youth, we have videos produced by the youth as well, things like that.”

Eid Al-Ghadir falls shortly after the hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca, because it was just after Muhammad’s final pilgrimage that he stopped his caravan and gave the sermon that would cause a millennium and a half of division.

Both branches of Islam accept the version that says Muhammad addressed his followers at Ghadir Khumm, but the interpretations of what he is believed to have said split the Ummah, the Muslim community.

Shias contend that Muhammad’s words cited Ali as his divinely chosen successor. Sunnis believe that the succession was to be determined by the consensus of the followers.

“That’s where we differ,” Assad says. “The leadership after the holy prophet. Imam Ali was chosen, we believe was chosen by God, to be announced to the people that after the holy prophet, Ali is the next prophet after him to be guiding people. Our Sunni brethren believe that it should be voted by people after the holy prophet.”

For their part, Sunnis recognize Ali as a righteous leader, but diverge from Shias in seeing him as Muhammad’s divinely appointed successor. At the time of Muhammad’s death, in 632, a group centred around Abu Bakr, Muhammad’s fatherin-law, who became caliph, the leader of the followers of Muhammad. Shias go back to the words of the prophet at Ghadir Khumm.

“The only point of difference is the significance of what the prophet’s message was,” says Al-Samak. “We believe that this was the coronation [of Ali].”

“For us, it’s kind of ideological,” he continues. “We never chose the prophet.

God chose the prophet.

For us, it makes sense that God would not just leave it up to an election, because people could make a mistake. They could elect the wrong person. We don’t believe that. God has chosen all the other prophets, like Jesus, like Moses, like the prophet Mohammed, he would also choose the successor to our prophet.”

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Mohamad Assad is a member of the youth organization associated with the Al Mustafa Academy, a Shia educational institution in Surrey. Assad says: “From our disparate, various backgrounds as a Shia community, [Eid Al-Ghadir] brings us all together as one people who believe in this.”

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While Shias are a small minority of Muslims in the world, they are spread across many countries. This means that the ways the holiday is marked, such as the foods in the feast, differ greatly. Still, says Al-Samak, Eid Al-Ghadir is a time of unity for Shias.

“From our disparate, various backgrounds as a Shia community, it brings us all together as one people who believe in this,” Assad adds.

“Celebrating this together really means a lot personally to me. Events organized by our youth are overwhelmingly joyful to see. As well, this is a very auspicious occasion where we believe our faith has been completed, from believing in the leadership of Imam Ali and his leadership, of the continuous progeny

through him, we believe from his progeny will come Mahdi [the prophesied redeemer said to return before the Day of Resurrection], which will bring in peace and joyous tidings to the earth after many problems and injustices going on in the world.”

Sunnis are by far the majority among Muslims, estimated at as much as 90 per cent of the global Muslim population. Sunnis make up the majority of most Muslim countries, while Shias comprise majorities only in Iran, Iraq, Azerbaijan and Bahrain, with sizeable Shiite minorities in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey and Yemen.

While Shias are small in number, Al-Samak says the moral model of Imam Ali

unsettles political elites.

“A lot of people, the dictators especially in the Middle East, they see Shia ideology as kind of a threat because this man ruled [in a way] that would make any ruler today be ashamed of himself,” he says.

This sense of morality is a core belief, Al-Samak says, expressed by Muhammad and infusing Islamic thought, both Shia and Sunni.

“Your fellow brothers are your brothers in faith or your brothers in humanity,” he says. “So whether we share the same faith or not, at the end of the day, we are all humans, we are all trying to reach perfection and we need to respect each other and our beliefs as a society.” @Pat604Johnson

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Friendship with celebrity crow no flight of fancy Rebecca Blissett

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An appearance of Canuck the crow is never a guaranteed thing; he is a wild bird after all.

Chances of him dropping out of the sky for a visit greatly improve, though, if you happen to be hanging out with his best human friend, Shawn Bergman.

The East Vancouver crow is known far and wide, and not just because of a viral photograph of him with knife in beak and wearing what looks to be a mini ankle monitor on his left leg (the orange zap strap was placed there for identification purposes by the son of Bergman’s landlord who found Canuck as a helpless and homeless hatchling last spring).

He has loads of friends in the Cassiar and Hastings neighbourhood who welcome the corvid’s visits. Canuck’s daily rounds include cawing greetings to the rollercoaster maintenance people at Playland, stealing keys from the Hastings Racetrack stables (where, about three months later, he dropped the same set of keys square

on an employee’s head) and watching a man’s daily tai chi ritual from the vantage of a stop sign.

Canuck took an interest in the city’s transit system for awhile, riding the first eastbound SkyTrain of the morning from the Commercial-Broadway station, exiting through the car doors at Metrotown.

The McDonald’s at the corner of Cassiar and Hastings is where Canuck went from local story to international. It was the afternoon of May 24 when Vancouver police were called to the restaurant’s parking lot, a place Canuck likes to hang out on any given day, never mind one with the excitement of a car fire and a non-fatal shooting by the police of a man who had come at them with a knife.

Bergman was on the bus, going home from work, when he heard the news.

“I was thinking, ‘Don’t be there, don’t be there,’” he recalled, concerned for Canuck. “And sure enough, he’s sitting on top of a white SUV right in the middle of the crime scene. I’m like, ‘Of course

Shawn Bergman and his feathered friend, Canuck the crow, share a playful moment together. See photo gallery at vancourier.com. PHOTO REBECCA BLISSETT

you’re there. Of course you are.’ I walked all the way around because I really did not want to be associated with what’s going on and I don’t know how involved he had been.

I walked down the back alley and whistled for him and he came to me.”

Bergman didn’t know Canuck had attempted to steal a piece of evidence — the knife. The Courier’s

Mike Howell was the only reporter on the scene to see Canuck’s antics and the story went viral. All this was unknown to Bergman until he checked his email the next morning to see dozens of messages from media around the world.

Bergman’s “Canuck and I” fan page ballooned to 31,000 people, a number that blows his mind as it’s six times more than the

population of Morton, Man. where he lived as a boy.

When the son of Bergman’s landlord first found Canuck in a Vancouver park, he took him home and nursed him to a fledgling.

When the family released Canuck, they alerted Bergman to what was expected to be a meaningful experience of a bird embracing the sky’s unlimited freedom with a purposeful stretch of the wings. Instead, Canuck flew to the backyard fence and stayed. Bergman held out his arm.

“And he actually did hop up on my arm, it just made my heart go like crazy,” he said. “I can’t believe this crow is actually on my arm and, from that moment on, it was like he was stuck to me.”

Canuck followed Bergman everywhere. Getting coffee is a routine — Canuck knows when Bergman comes home from work and he suspects Canuck’s Northwestern crow friends, who are both familiar with Bergman and who finally accepted Canuck into their territory, alert him to that fact.

It’s a likely scenario as

crows are smart; they have excellent facial recognition skills and communicate with one another, especially within their flock of family members. Local crows spend their nights at several roosts, including the largest recorded one in the province near Willingdon and Highway 1, where Bergman believes Canuck sleeps.

As soon as Bergman told the tale about his coffee runs with Canuck in tow, the crow appeared, walking on the patch of grass by McDonald’s, puffed out and stiff legged like a New York crime boss entering an interrogation room. The word mafiusu, appropriately enough, is a Sicilian adjective for swagger.

“Somebody asked me what tricks I’ve taught him and I don’t want to teach him tricks because he’s a wild crow,” said Bergman as Canuck made off with this writer’s pen. “For me, it’s just hanging out with my buddy. I realize he’s getting older, changing, and doing his own thing. I will take every day as much as I can.” @rebeccablissett

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Charge ahead, delays have dissolved and opportunities and new, fresh relationships fill the horizon. But charge ahead diplomatically, and be eager to join forces – ALL your luck, now and for 12 months ahead, will come from or through relationships.

So, make no enemies if you want to thrive. Romance strikes Sunday dawn to mid-afternoon Tues. Sunday’s best, but the whole interval is great – for love, new love, creativity and risk-taking.

This week and the few ahead place the spotlight on you – your charisma, clout, energy and effectiveness rise solidly now, especially Fri./Sat., when you could, almost without realizing it, start a new, promising life. If you’re single, the 12 months ahead can bring major attention. A Gemini, especially, might fall headover-heels for you, and is sincere about marrying.

(So might an Aries, Aquarius, or a light-hearted but teasing Leo or Sagittarian.

Many jobs will demand doing this week and the next few. This is really the start of twelve months of big chores and extra work – some extra income could come from this, but more importantly, the tasks you tackle can (likely will) boost your net worth in some way. (E.g., you’re digging a ditch, and hit a gold vein; or your job opens your eyes to a good investment – this sort of “payback” could happen twice.)

Be quiet, Scorpio; lie low, rest, contemplate, meditate, join a spiritual and/or charitable group, and plan your actions for 2018 (when you’ll burst into huge money luck, and, if wanting, a sexual dalliance). If you need employment or aid, see what the levels of government have to offer – there’s a prize for you in those realms, perhaps a very solid, financial prize. This “quiet luck” period experiences one of its peak points Fri./Sat., when you might begin a new project.

The main focus this week and the next few – and for a whole 12 months ahead – lies on romance, pleasure, beauty, creativity and risk-taking. You’re riding a winning streak not seen since about 2004/5. Be wise if you’re single. Look inward with courage: where do you want to go in the next 20 years, and who would most agreeably, harmoniously, pleasurably, accompany you there?

You’re generally lucky – and happy-go-lucky – Sage.

In the 12 months ahead, you’ll be doubly lucky, and, perhaps, doubly happy! A major, perhaps life-long wish could come true before October 2017. A light romance could begin, and turn into a year of happy frolicking – but there’s also a chance, a strong one, that this “light” attraction could turn to a deep marriage, especially if an Aries, Leo or Gemini is involved. Married or single, your social life and popularity will blossom.

The general accent is on home, kids, security, property, food, retirement, garden, etc. – all domestic things, for the few weeks ahead, but to some degree (a very lucky degree!) right into October 2017. Dive into this zone – if you hug the kids, you’ll benefit; if you paint the walls or start a garden; if you buy or rent a new home; if you start a retirement fund, or a school fund for the kids, you’ll benefit.

The general accent lies, this week and the next few (and to some degree, for the next 12 months) on ambition, prestige relations, neighbourhood standing, and dealings with authorities. You’re very likely to be promoted (or succeed in your own business) before autumn 2017 – or to perform so well that bosses promote you a bit later (before Nov. 2018). At the very least, recognition, praise, or bonuses come to you.

Lucky you (sort of) – you’re going to be busy, busy these weeks ahead, and busy right into autumn 2017.

Errands, mail, messages, travel, curiosity, “quick” learning, making casual friends – these will fill your days for many months. Not a lot is at stake, so you can “rest” your deeper heart, soul and mind even while in the midst of your quickened activity. Your curiosity is very important now: without it, you’ll miss “doors to success” that might lie in your future.

The weeks and year ahead emphasize intellectual pursuits, law, far travel, higher education, international affairs, cultural venues, insurance, statistics, science, and profound relationships.

A teacher might enter your life. You might fall in love. All these themes are kissed with luck now to next autumn, the kind of luck that will bring at least one, probably two, major wishes true.

Chase money and make important purchases this Sunday and Fri./Sat. – and in the weeks ahead, and the whole year ahead. During the year ahead, you’ll fare better if you accept surface appearances, people as they are, than if you start digging deeper.

(That last action can create profit-killing and projectsapping delays.) You might start, or “accept” a sensually intimate relationship, but not one that thrills your mind or heart.

The weeks and months ahead (to autumn 2017) feature mysteries, depths, secrets, research and detective work, lifestyle changes, medical issues (get to an MD quickly, if pain visits) sexual intimacy, heightened intuition, commitment and consequence. These areas are blessed with good luck, light and understanding – and they can give your career a boost, especially if you work in these zones (mortgage broker, investment dealer, banking, research, police work, etc.).

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Canadian Junior Wushu Team member kicks it up a notch Vancouverite competes at World Junior Wushu Championships in Bulgaria this weekend

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Ryan Chan found himself at an impossibly difficult crossroad with a pursuit he’d dedicated most of his life to.

Stepping up to compete at the Canadian Wushu Junior Team Trials in July, the then 17-year-old gave himself two options: win it all on a stage he’s previously faltered on, or pack it in and quit the sport entirely.

Pressure, injuries and past failures be damned, Chan knocked it out of the park.

He won three gold medals, upped his ranking to the number two spot in Canada and became the first B.C.

resident to ever make the Canadian Junior Wushu Team.

Chan is now headed to Bulgaria this weekend to compete on the biggest stage of his martial arts career as part of the World Junior Wushu Championships that kick off Sept. 25.

“Making the Canadian team is amazing, I don’t even know how to describe it,” Chan said. “What I’ve been training for my whole life is to make this team and now that I’ve finally done it, it’s almost surreal. I’ve been competing for years and I had never made the team. If I didn’t make the team this year I would have probably quit.”

Derived from traditional Chinese martial arts, Wushu, often referred to as kung fu, is a centuriesold method of self-defence that’s recognized as the national sport of China.

Several off-shoots, variations and weapons techniques exist within the sport, and some of its highest-profile practitioners include the late Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Jet Li. Competitive Wushu is split across two categories: taolu, which translates to forms, and sanda, which means sparring. Chan specializes in three areas of Wushu: Daoshu sees him employ a butterfly sword,

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Gunshu is centred around the use of a wooden staff and Changquan is based on bare-fisted movement and form.

In competition, Chan essentially simulates combat scenarios and is judged on his stance, posture, form and execution. All of those performance elements were locked down at July’s team trials, when Chan took gold in Daoshu, Gunshu and Changquan.

Chan’s biggest achievement to date was a victory eight years in the making, as his previous attempts at cracking the national squad were dashed by injury and anxiety.

“It was super nerve racking because I really, really wanted to make the team,” he said. “I put in a lot more time into training this year and it paid off.”

Another critical point for Chan’s upward trajectory has been his coach, Wang Heng.

The pair partnered up four years ago and changed both his training regimen and his outlook on the sport. Those shifts in method and execution have allowed the Eric Hamber grad to quiet his mind and hone his focus.

“Training with [Heng] is awesome,” Chan said. “She can really pick up things that I don’t think any other coach can pick up. She re-

ally brings out my style and my style has developed so much over the years training under her.”

Heng’s status in Wushu circles borders on mythical.

She’s the former national broadsword and double broadsword champion of China, and is a seventh degree Wushu Duan Wei — the highest level of mastery attainable in the sport.

Speaking through a translator, Heng credits her student’s renewed resilience as the main reason he was able to finally get over the hump and make the Canadian team after close to a decade of knocking on the door.

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Movement afoot to have Wushu recognized as Olympic sport Continued from page 33 “In the past, he had less time to train and he had a lot of injuries,” she said.

“He had thought about quitting for a while, but his mom and his coaches have encouraged him to keep going. It’s kept his confidence up to keep going and not give up.”

Chan seems to have no shortage of confidence

heading into this weekend.

Competing in the 16 to 18 year old grouping, he feels a top-three placement, if not a gold medal, is within reach.

But beyond that, Chan is dreaming bigger — he wants to represent Canada at the highest level possible. Lobbying efforts are ongoing to have Wushu recognized as an Olympic sport within the next eight

years and that’s Chan’s end game.

He doesn’t need to look much further than his coach to get there, as Heng’s life reads like a script from an old kung fu movie.

Worried by her tendency to often fall ill, Heng’s parents enrolled her in the Hunan Wushu Institute before she was 10. Her routine involved more than eight

hours of training per day and she studied under Ma Chu Xi, who is regarded as one of the top 100 Wushu practitioners in the world.

Heng went on to amass awards and medals by the boatload, both nationally and internationally, before recently relocating to Canada.

She now teaches Wushu at varying locations in

Metro Vancouver and touts its benefits above and beyond self-defence: flexibility, relaxation and meditation are central tenets to the practice.

Given her ascension in the sport, Heng sees an entirely new level of focus and training in order for Chan to potentially call himself an Olympian.

“In China, some athletes

are training every day for more than eight hours,” she said. “He will have to practice much harder to compete against athletes who are professionals in Wushu. That will involve a long journey that we will have to take together.”

The World Junior Wushu Championships run until Oct. 2. @JohnKurucz

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You’ve probably started to see them cropping up more and more: cameras attached to the helmets of motorcyclists. Similar to the dashcam phenomenon, these aren’t meant to record the stunts of a GoPro commercial, but to capture near misses. Being a motorcyclist is dangerous, particularly when you’re surrounded

back of the line. He eases his bike over to take a look: the driver is glued to her phone.

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The video of the incident, including where Hannah catches up and

calmly confronts the woman, went viral. Ottawa police were soon involved, and the driver subsequently turned herself in.

Cameras are everywhere these days, and in cases like this, it’s a good thing.

If you aren’t going to behave like someone who belongs on the road, you should be taken off it.

Norway’s electric advantage: charging

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However, all the freebies in the world can’t replace good infrastructure. Thus, the Norwegians have just

opened the world’s largest fast-charging site, located just outside Oslo. The site can charge 28 cars at the same time, which rates as more plugs in one place than you can find in some entire U.S. states.

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