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Coleman frustrated with mayor’s housing promises

Mike Howell

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Spot quiz time. Kind of an easy one for news junkies, maybe not so much for others. Question: What did Mayor Gregor Robertson sign his name to Aug. 2 after meeting with activists at the Carnegie Community Centre at Main and Hastings? Was it: A) A petition from residents to hold monthly town hall meetings in the Downtown Eastside, where he will stand in a room for at least two hours and take questions from all comers? B) An agreement to live in a single-room occupancy hotel in the Downtown Eastside for one year? C) A plan to end homelessness by 2017? The right answer is, none of the above. What Robertson did sign was a commitment to have 100 per cent of the 250 housing units to be built on a vacant city lot at 58 West Hastings St. to be subsidized — and all of them to be

100 per cent at welfare and pension rates and “community-controlled.” That commitment also has the project, which will include a 55,000-square-foot health centre, going to rezoning by the end of June 2017. Which is quite a commitment. And here’s why: The project is estimated to cost $65 to $70 million, and there’s little, if any, money been raised to pay for it. Reporters heard at a news conference Oct. 6 the Vancouver Chinatown Foundation has taken on the task of raising $30 million of that cost. Operating costs haven’t been included in the overall tab. As for the balance and bulk of the cost, the go-to answer from the mayor is not a surprise. “We want to see the provincial and federal governments step forward to support this project, so we can get it up to 100 per cent of welfare rate and old aged pension rents,” said Robertson of the site located across the street from Save-On-Meats. I ran into a guy about an

Mayor Gregor Robertson has committed to building 100 per cent subsidized housing on a city lot at 58 West Hastings, which is currently occupied by campers. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

hour after the news conference who found the mayor’s announcement quite interesting. The guy’s name is Rich Coleman. He’s the province’s housing minister. I happened to be leaving a scrum with Education Minister Mike Bernier outside Canada Place when I stopped Coleman in the street. We talked for a few minutes and he followed up with a phone call later in the day. Off the top, the city has not applied to the provincial government for funding, said Coleman, who was frustrated by a continuing trend of the mayor announcing

projects before the province has examined whether it will contribute money. “They always go out and just announce stuff before it’s all ﬁnalized,” the minister said. “So I don’t really get into [the mayor’s] announcements. They do this every once in a while, where they make an announcement and say we’re here but we want somebody else’s money.” The minister noted the mayor’s signed commitment to build 100 per cent subsidized housing was made to activists in the Downtown Eastside. Coleman knows of no consulta-

tion with the city before the mayor made his promise. “Now he’s asking us to get involved, after the fact,” said the minister, who also has concerns about housing more than 200 people with similar challenges in the same building. “That’s a different conversation.” As Coleman has pointed out to reporters over the years, the provincial government has spent millions of dollars in Vancouver, particularly on the 13 buildings that were built to house formerly homeless people and people at risk of homelessness. The government also bought and renovated more than 20 single-roomoccupancy hotels, contributed money for shelters, temporary housing and supplied rent supplements. “The one thing I always say to [the city] is, ‘You might want to start off by saying that we’d like to thank our most signiﬁcant partner in housing, who’s paying 90 per cent of the bills,’” Coleman said. The property at 58 West Hastings is still occupied by

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Keepers of East Van book box want to stamp out re-selling Naoibh O’Connor

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Take a book. Leave a book. Or both. The concept of neighbourhood lending libraries is simple and they’ve proven popular across Vancouver. But the idea has hit a slight snag in one East Vancouver neighbourhood. Eileen Mosca and a neighbour set up a book exchange at Lakewood and Charles in Grandview-Woodland about ﬁve years ago, and it’s been successful, except they’ve discovered a couple of people repeatedly stop by, pick through the selection, ﬁnd the most valuable books and re-sell them at bookstores on Commercial Drive. Mosca talked to one man who stops by at about 10:30 every morning, but he ignores her. Another neighbour was so mad and frustrated he followed the man from the library stand to the Drive where he sold the books.

While it’s not illegal, it bothers Mosca. “You can’t steal a book that’s free. That’s the conundrum. You’re welcome to take them and read them or whatever. It just doesn’t seem in the spirit of the book box, of

community book box.” Although Mosca expects some books will end up being sold on the street, she hopes book stores won’t resell them. They’ve dropped off letters advising book sellers about the concern. “And we’re hoping that

You can’t steal a book that’s free. That’s the conundrum. You’re welcome to take them and read them or whatever. It just doesn’t seem in the spirit of the book box, of this kind of an exchange, to make a profit off the books that people think they’re donating to their neighbour. Eileen Mosca

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if neighbours are aware of this stamp and what it’s about, maybe they won’t buy them on the street. I don’t know. It may not work at all,” she said. Mosca stresses that readers don’t have to drop off a book to take one. Continued on page 9

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connected,” she told council. “And it’s because of this deep connection that spaces like the native youth centre, where we can all join together and learn from young people, are so important. It’s one of the main reasons our support of the native youth centre, through our land donation, is so important to us.” Added Wolsey: “This unique partnership is a tangible example of reconciliation in action.” Suncor’s donation set off a round of questions and comments from NPA Coun. George Affleck, who wondered if accepting the donation put the city in a conflict. He cited the majority of council’s vocal opposition to the expansion of oil pipelines. Mayor Gregor Robertson and his fellow Vision Vancouver councillors, along with Green Party Coun. Adriane Carr, have campaigned and protested Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain proposal to build a pipeline from Alberta to Burrard Inlet. City staff has spent money and time fighting Kinder Morgan’s proposal and recommended in a report before council Tuesday that the federal government “keep its climate commitments and say no to the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.” The city also has goals to be “the greenest city in the world” by 2020 and rely 100 per cent on renewable energy before 2050. Suncor has four oil and gas terminals in B.C., including a terminal adjacent to Burrard Inlet. It receives fuel from two Edmonton refineries and international suppliers, processes it and distributes to customers in Metro Vancouver and internationally. “At this point, we are enthusiastic about this partnership [with Suncor], while concurrently raising our concern with the National Energy Board process and the proposed pipeline,” city manager Sadhu Johnston told council. “We don’t see that there’s a conflict here.” Affleck said he believed the city was being hypocritical by accepting Suncor’s donation when the message from the city has been that the expansion of pipelines would not benefit Vancouver’s economy. In a scrum after the meeting, the mayor said there was benefit to have Suncor donate the former gas station site to the city, adding that the company remediated the polluted property before turning it over. In return, Suncor will receive a tax credit.

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REDISCOVER YOURSELF A “state of the art” centre for Aboriginal youth is planned for the site of a former gas station at Commercial Drive and East Hastings. The complex will include housing. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

“I think it’s a positive for Suncor to be able to donate it to such an important cause — urban Aboriginal kids — and then that liability of an old toxic site that was a gas station is off of their books, too,” Robertson said. Suncor’s donation comes a few weeks after Aboriginal leaders in B.C. and Quebec signed a document that had them promise to ﬁght all tar sands pipelines, including ﬁve proposals for pipeline

and oil tanker expansion in Canada. Kinder Morgan is one of the proposals. Klashinsky is a member of the Musqueam Indian Band, which has joined the mayor in opposing the Kinder Morgan proposal. When asked how she reconciled moving ahead on a project with the $9.5-million donation from one of the world’s biggest oil producers, she said: “I’m a First Nations woman, I support the work that our

chiefs do, advocating on behalf of our communities. But that’s another conversation. For me, the native youth centre is about providing opportunities for native youth, and we happen to have a neighbour that was located right beside us — Suncor — and we approached them. What a fantastic opportunity, especially in this city where land is pretty scarce and of tremendous value.” @Howellings

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It’s trial by Twitter at the VSB

Mike Klassen

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“I feel like I’m in court,” said acting superintendent Steve Cardwell during a grilling by school trustee Stacy Robertson at a recent meeting of the Vancouver Board of Education. A trial lawyer by day, Robertson was seeking answers from Cardwell on why the VSB needs census data to project school enrolment when — in his view — reliable data already exists. If Robertson and his fellow NPA trustees appeared frustrated at last week’s VSB meeting, they had good reason. News of Cardwell’s recommendation to do an about face on 18 months of difﬁcult work on facilities planning had blindsided them. No one had apparently shared the acting superintendent’s ﬁve recommendations with them before they were tabled at the public meeting. Cardwell, as well as retired secretary-treasurer Rick Krowchuk, were hastily appointed by the board

before the weekend to ﬁll in for the VSB management team that had taken sick leave amid allegations of bullying leveled by the B.C. School Superintendents Association. Both had been on the job approximately one day before the new direction for the VSB was put forward. Lombardi and his Vision Vancouver colleague Patti Bacchus were effusive in their praise of Cardwell leaving his post at UBC to return to the school board. Cardwell was hired by the Vision-dominated board in 2010, and he eventually left in 2014 after administering during what I observe as the VSB’s most difﬁcult and sometimes dysfunctional period. Until the past two weeks, that is. The acting superintendent took to Twitter after the meeting to share a Vancouver Sun editorial on the Board of Education’s troubles. Given the charged environment on social media, it was probably not the best platform for the VSB’s most senior

Twitter has become the preferred venue for the heated debate about public education in Vancouver. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

employee. Twitter has become a preferred venue for the heated debate about public education in our city — for Vision Vancouver especially. True to form, Lombardi spent much of last Sunday morning tweeting out a radio interview he did with CKNW to persuade media contacts and other political observers. In response to a critical Globe and Mail column, Bacchus shot

back by tweeting links to blog posts written by her husband deriding award-winning columnist Gary Mason. She called Mason’s column a “classic drive by on the VSB.” Even Mayor Gregor Robertson chimed in by tweeting, “Thanks to 5 bold trustees for supporting #Vancouver kids, who deserve exceptional public education!” He made no mention of the six senior staff allegedly bullied into stepping down, however.

With a provincial election coming, there is clearly no point in calling for a ceaseﬁre at the VSB. Vision is evidently just gearing up for battle. Unlike 59 other districts in B.C., Vancouver’s board of education seems incapable of working with the provincial government, or managing within its budget. What makes it the exception? Vancouver is no longer the largest school district in B.C., nor is it the only one dealing with large numbers of children speaking English as a second language. Vancouver is not alone when it comes to diversity with respect to household income. It is not the only district with a breakfast program and students living in poverty. Nor is it the only district that must address the needs of indigenous families or children with special learning needs. It is, however, the only district in the province that consistently and persistently fails to deal

with declining enrolment — and the need to address the enrolment decline by making choices about use of facilities. In fact, the only schools this board has closed or may have to decide to close are those for which there are no students registered. Perhaps most concerning is the lack of respect on display for the absent senior management team. In a recent tweet, Bacchus seemed to suggest that the superintendent and his staff had taken sick leave because the crisis was “clearly orchestrated by [the provincial] government… not hard to connect the dots on this.” Senior managers at the school board are highly educated, independentthinking professionals with the knowledge and experience the district desperately needs. If they feel like they are on trial, it is because they are frustrated by a board that is more interested in politics than governing. @MikeKlassen

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Have your say on more transit and better roads. Eileen Mosca has started to stamp books at the Lakewood and Charles neighbourhood book exchange with the message, “Not for resale. This book comes from a community book box” to deter people from trying to re-sell them. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Book stores informed Continued from page 5 “It’s not a one-for-one. You don’t have to donate to take. And you’re welcome to take them and keep them or give them away as gifts. That’s ﬁne,” she said. “It’s this commercial aspect and daily-ness of it that really ﬁnally spurred us to do something. We’ve seen this guy for a year doing it.”

She noted there are about eight book exchanges within walking distance of her house. Another one of them has run into the same issue. Mosca hopes the stamp doesn’t displace the problem to other book stands and wants to know about it if it does. “[We’d] like to spread

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City must ensure Vancouver has long-term rentals

hen Pierre Elliot Trudeau famously declared back in 1967 that “the state has no place in the bedrooms of the nation,” he was not referring to activities promoted by Airbnb. The then-federal minister of justice was introducing legislation that would decriminalize homosexual acts.

In recent history at least, residents have never been able to legally “use their personal property the way they see fit.” Imagine the chaos that would ensue if we could. As prime minister in 1982, Trudeau brought the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom into law. And while it guaranteed among other things the right to “life liberty and the security of person,” it did not guarantee the right to unfettered use of property. Much of that right has been ceded to local governments, including the right to zone, tax, regulate and license activities. But you couldn’t have guessed it from the hysterical response by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) to the City of Vancouver’s proposal to bring Airbnb and its clients into line on the matter of short-term rentals. The object of that exercise, along with the proposed tax on

empty homes, simply put, is to encourage desperately needed long-term rentals in a city where the vacancy rate is 0.6 per cent. In an opinion piece in the Globe and Mail, the CTF’s Jordan Bateman declares: “Vancouver City Hall continued its march into the bedrooms of the city Wednesday when it announced an onerous regulation and tax regime to snuff out Airbnb and other short-term room/ house rental companies.” Bateman adds that the city’s proposed actions will “significantly erode the freedom of its residents to use their personal property the way they see fit.” Bateman is either being willfully ignorant or deliberately mischievous in his rant. As a staff report to council pointed out, virtually all short-term rentals listed by Airbnb, and more than a dozen other on-line platforms, are breaking existing zoning laws that currently require them to be licensed. In other words, in recent history at least, residents have never been able to legally “use their personal property the way they see fit.” Imagine the chaos that would ensue if we could. Based on my reading of the staff proposal and sitting through the presentation to council last week, it was clear that Airbnb would hardly be snuffed out. But on the question of the city’s priorities of providing accommodations for tourists and providing long-term accommodations for city residents, the city clearly favours people needing a secure long-term place to live. And, actually, so do the vast majority of Vancouverites surveyed staff who composed the report.

If the staff proposal is ﬁnally accepted in the new year after further consultation, folks who choose to rent out a room in their principal dwelling on a short-term basis (fewer than 30 days), as Airbnb suggests in its advertising campaign to help “everyday families struggling to make ends meet,” will still be able to do that if they are licensed. And, by the way, after surveying cities around the globe, staff prudently recommended no cap on the number of nights rooms can be rented out short-term. Caps, they concluded, are simply unenforceable. What cannot be rented out on the short-term are basement suites, laneway houses or any other whole house that is not the owner’s principle residence. If basement suites or laneway houses are rented out long term, and if those tenants chose to be away from a short while, they can rent out their dwellings for a short term if the landlord agrees and they have a license.

And that gets us to the incentive the city will put on owners of empty houses by taxing them to encourage them to rent out the space, again, on a long-term basis. The notion of an empty home tax was ﬁrst raised by COPE mayoral candidate Meena Wong in the run-up to the 2014 election. Vision initially criticized the idea as unworkable, then ﬁnally came around. Minds do change. They asked, and the provincial government amended the Vancouver Charter to allow the city to impose that tax. The city is now inviting the public to provide feedback on that issue. And it is clear that while the state may have no place in the bedrooms of the nation, when it comes to the desperate need for long-term rentals in Vancouver, the city certainly does. It serves the public interest. @allengarr

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MLA’s politics shaped by Aboriginal Fifth instalment of the Courier’s six-part series features a Q&A with Melanie Mark, the ﬁrst indigenous woman to be elected to the B.C. legislature

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the Vancouver-Granville riding for the Liberals and was later appointed justice minister — another ﬁrst for an indigenous woman. The Courier made multiple requests over three months to include WilsonRaybould in the Courier’s Truth and Transformation series, but her ofﬁce did not make her available for an interview. The following is the edited and condensed interview the Courier conducted with Mark.

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Melanie Mark made political history in February when she became the first indigenous woman to be elected to the B.C. legislature. That history is now nine months old but fresh in many ways as the 40-yearold Mark, whose Aboriginal heritage is a mix of Cree, Gitxsan, Nisga’a and Ojibway, settles into her new life as the NDP MLA for the riding of Vancouver-Mount Pleasant. Not surprisingly, she has become a magnet for Aboriginal groups. “I have a whole group of people who want me to help with issues all over the province related to indigenous politics,” she told the Courier from her constituency office on Commercial Drive, where the sign advertising her name is also translated into her Nisga’a name, “Eagle passes on to the next generation.” Clearly, she added, intervening in the internal conflicts of an Aboriginal group or band is not something she believes would be effective. But the welfare of children, poverty, housing, education — issues that affect all people — are areas she

Melanie Mark celebrates her byelection victory in February with supporters, including her mother Yvonne (right) at the Heritage Hall on Main Street. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

wants to do something about as a politician. “People think because I’m native, I only care about native issues,” she said. “That’s an unfair assessment.” Mark went on to talk about having two young daughters in public school, how she grew up in social housing and how both her parents had substance abuse problems (her mother is now sober and her father died of a drug overdose in the Downtown Eastside). They were just some of the topics discussed and

points made over more than hour as Mark responded to questions about her job, her background and her goals as she and her NDP colleagues look ahead to next year’s election. The central theme of the Courier’s questions focused on whether progress was being made in Vancouver on issues facing the Aboriginal community. Mark, who was born and raised in Vancouver, has a perspective that is rooted in her childhood, her volunteer work with community organizations, her experi-

ence as a summer student with the RCMP, her work to co-found the Vancouver Aboriginal Community Policing Centre and, more recently, her job as the associate deputy representative for the B.C. Ofﬁce of the Representative for Children and Youth. Mark’s election came ﬁve months after Canadians woke up to learn Justin Trudeau and his Liberal party won a majority in the federal election. Former regional chief of the B.C. Assembly of First Nations Jody Wilson-Raybould won

Your election, the election of Liberal Jody Wilson-Raybould and city hall’s hiring of Ginger Gosnell-Myers as manager of Aboriginal relations points to progress made for Aboriginal people in politics and in senior staff positions. But, overall, is life better for Vancouver’s Aboriginal community in 2016?

Have we made progress? For sure, on all these fronts — schools, business, policing, politics. But Ginger Gosnell-Myers is one person. Imagine the weight that she carries on her shoulders. I’m one person. Jody is one person. And we all happen to be women, I might add, who carry different responsibilities, especially if we have children.

Are you suggesting civic bodies such as city hall, the school board and the police department should hire more Aboriginal people? Or get involved in politics?

Absolutely. There’s a lot of policy areas that need transformation and indigenous people have a unique lens that they can bring to whatever that policy is. Child welfare had a huge impact on my family. It turns out it’s helped me be an amazing advocate for kids. Why? Because I was there. I had an empathy, I had an understanding. You have a policing background from your work in co-founding the Aboriginal Community Policing Centre and working as a summer student in Hazelton, B.C. for the RCMP. You also welcomed Adam Palmer as the new chief of the Vancouver Police Department in a blanketing ceremony. Has the VPD improved its relations with the Aboriginal community since the death of Mi’kmaq First Nation’s man Frank Paul, who was left in alley by police in 1998 and died?

Yes, there’s been progress. The relationship is better, and it’s authentic. But do I meet people in my constituency who still say they’re being targeted for being native?

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ancestry and childhood struggles Yes. Do I meet people that come into my ofﬁce saying that they’ve experienced police brutality? Yes. What do I do? I try to form enough of a relationship with them to have trust to go through the process, to bring their concerns forward. Then I tell them I will bring that issue forward for you because I understand the lack of trust in the system. And that’s going to be Palmer’s learning.

I could do a better job than Stephanie Cadieux. How do you get more Aboriginal people to vote?

I can’t give you all my secrets before an election. The Liberals read the paper, too. I will say that my election has people who weren’t paying attention, now paying attention. And I plan to keep on making sure they will pay attention. What was your reaction when Jody Wilson-Raybould got elected as Liberal MP for Vancouver-Granville and then appointed justice minister?

What was that experience like working as a summer student for the RCMP?

I went to [the RCMP training] depot. I spent a month there. We were called the hi-yeah-yeahs, the Indians, chugs, wagon burners by other cadets. And these were people who were going to go out and be real cops. I worked with racist assholes up in Hazelton, who said look at those chugs that breed like rats. We were going to domestic ﬁle cases and they were saying, ‘Why don’t they just kill each other.’

For decades, Aboriginal people have had a mistrust of government and politicians. Why did you decide to enter into such arena?

I did not ever think in my lifetime that I would be a politician. That has to be the part that’s really clear. Even when I studied political science at SFU, it wasn’t with the intention of becoming a politician. I studied political science because I wanted to understand how the system works. And I’ve had a number of jobs within various levels of systems. I’ve worked front line at Covenant House, I’ve worked for an international NGO, I’ve travelled across the country, I’ve sat at parliamentary committees, I’ve been around senators and MPs and MLAs. So I think the exposure to all these different levels of decision makers brought me to having an interest in politics. And that interest was, I don’t believe there’s enough public policy push on issues that matter to me. What issues matter to you?

I’m particularly attracted to the political arena at the provincial level because of all of these issues I’ve been advocating for for years — policing, child welfare, education, student loans. They’re all provincially related. Housing? I’ve moved 30 times in my life. I grew up in social housing. If it weren’t for Lu’ma Native

Melanie Mark participated in a walk from the Aboriginal Friendship Centre to Trout Lake for National Aboriginal Day festivities. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Housing, I would have had to drop out of university. And I’m sure people would like to see another unemployed native person. You’ve made your background very public and talked about being sexually abused and the life your parents led with substance abuse. How has that history shaped you as a politician?

I’ve had a ton of people reach out to me and thank me for having the courage to speak about my life. You can’t imagine how many survivors have reached out to me from across North America, saying it’s about time real people who have experienced adversity are in the legislature. I tell people I had a lifetime of abuse, and so did my grandparents. The issues are enormous, absolutely enormous. I signed up for the job because I want that systemic change in my lifetime. I don’t want to be talking about missing and murdered indigenous women and girls when my girls grow up. I don’t want the narrative to be about how defective and deﬁcient we are as indigenous people. Because that’s not the narrative today. We’re still alive, we’re still standing, we’re becoming MLAs, we’re making history. There’s a lot to celebrate in the indigenous community. But who’s telling that story? It’s convenient for people to shape that narrative that we’ve got to go help the poor, lonely Indian. That’s an old story. A few chapters have been written since. The Courier saw you at a graduation ceremony in June

for Aboriginal students. What was going through your mind when you saw the students walk across the stage to get their graduation certificates?

I’m thinking if their lives were anything like mine, it wasn’t just school on their minds. Whether they did it alone or did it in foster care, or living with their sister, God knows what their experiences were. So I was thinking: look at how amazing you are, how resilient you are and you kept it all the way to the ﬁnish line.

In August, NDP leader John Horgan announced that you would become the party’s critic of the children and family development ministry. This position seems like a natural fit for you.

I’m going to be all over this file. There are real crises in these files. To me, it is a crisis that you have this overrepresentation of indigenous kids in care, more so than the height of residential schools. So we need to do something about it. And I tried with every bone in my body to be diplomatic and be tactful, to sit down and have conversations at the [Representative for Children and Youth] office with the ministry, and nothing changed. I said in my throne speech, this government has an allergic reaction when it comes time to accountability, especially for children and families. What’s your definition of truth and reconciliation?

Three out of four of my grandparents went to residential school. That’s a truth. The impact of their truth is what I’m still reconciling. None of my grand-

parents are alive, so I have no one to turn to and ask for their truth on what it’s going to take to reconcile. I have to rely on this body of work [through Truth and Reconciliation Commission Canada] that was carried out all over the country. Making amends is more than saying sorry. If you abuse someone for 40 years and all you have to say is you’re sorry? That’s a pretty uneven hand to the injustice you may have experienced. Where do you go from sorry?

The justice rests with leaders who carry out with the reconciliation and those calls to action. We don’t have to recreate the wheel. It’s pretty clear. Those actions are about addressing the heavy hand in child welfare, it’s greater investment in education, it’s adopting the declaration of the rights of indigenous people. It’s all there. It’s just whether or not the leadership is willing to lean in, or not. You’ve made it clear that you were not interested in pursuing Mary Ellen TurpelLafond’s job as the representative for children and youth. Why not?

I’m interested in being the minister [of children and family development]. I‘d much rather form government next year and then become a cabinet minister. How about that? Then I could really push the envelope. That’s my [modus operandi] right now. My job is to change the system. And [Minister of Children and Family Development] Stephanie Cadieux has had a chance at that. The reason I got into politics is because

I’m very proud of her. This is a great achievement for Canadians. I think the message of her being in this position goes back to your questions about truth and reconciliation. This is reconciliation in action. If you look at every report on poverty and murder and incarceration, etcetera, indigenous people are always overrepresented. So you take the most overrepresented people in that realm and put us in a role of leadership. What does that say?

I think it’s a very powerful message that her portfolio carries. But it doesn’t make it easy for her because the expectations are that the communities she comes from and the background and the history — all the things that we experienced as indigenous people — are carried on her shoulders. Then there’s the expectation of the people who are champing at the bit and waiting for the Indians to fail. Many people in the Aboriginal community have told the Courier that you and Jody Wilson-Raybould serve as role models for young Aboriginal people, particularly girls. How do you feel about that?

That’s the fuel, that’s what keeps you going when you’re functioning on limited sleep, limited food, a day of angry emails. What keeps you going is knowing that you’re making a difference, that you’ve had on impact on someone’s life in a positive way. And I have a lot of that to draw on. @Howellings Next week: elders.

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THE SCHOOL’S PHILOSOPHY What is the school’s general stance on education? Numerous

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school could significantly reduce the stress of going to high school, while the upper level institution will have an excellent grasp on what your child’s former teachers taught him or her. Also, ask about which schools students move onto after graduation.

between patrons and teachers? Teachers and students? Were you impressed with the school when you visited it? How did it make you feel? Did your child seem comfortable there? Your gut instincts will tell you a lot about the fit of a school for your family.

school have a wide variety of extracurricular activities? Do you think that your child would be interested in any of them?

CULTURAL BACKGROUND OF THE STUDENTS Sending your child to a school with students from various cultural backgrounds could expose him or her to new lifestyles, languages and cultural traditions that can help expand their knowledge of the world and foster acceptance.

TOUR IMPRESSION When on tour, ask to sit in on a couple of classes. What is the relationship

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES These programs are an important part of a wellrounded education. Does the

COST Is it affordable? Are there any extra costs beyond tuition? Could you work out flexible payment plans with the school? YOUR CHILD’S OPINION Does your child like the school? You should allow him or her to have a say in the decision.

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Healthcare providers use clinical practice guidelines — standards of care based on the scientiﬁc evidence that evolve with the advance of knowledge. These provide the current best practices for managing clinical conditions, such as congestive heart failure, heart attacks and strokes. In any acute care hospital, there are standard investigations, medications and interventions for each diagnosis or problem. In obstetrics, we have standard approaches to babies requiring resuscitation at birth. Case room nurses and physicians study the protocols until we know them by heart. We practise various scenarios together, and we repeat the Neonatal Life Support course and recertiﬁcation examinations every two years. But in our zeal to provide the best, state-ofthe-art care to our patients, we sometimes forget that these are but the tools of healthcare. Ethics instructs us in how we ought to use them. Medical ethics has been the heart and soul of medicine since ancient times. Though every healthcare provider is called to the profession

by our desire to help others — to do good — the ﬁrst rule of medicine is to do no harm. That is one of the perpetual dilemmas of medicine. Every investigation and treatment comes with the potential for harm — side effects and risks, major and minor. And central to any decision are the preferences and values of the individual patient. This is the principle of autonomy. It requires informed patients — who have been given and understand all of the information they require to make a decision. What is the purpose for this test, medication or procedure? What are the common risks? What are the most serious risks? What are the alternatives? This is the information a patient needs to provide informed consent for treatment, weighing beneﬁts against risks and arriving on the choice that is best for that individual. It is of course guided by your values. What gives your life meaning? Independence?

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Connection with others? Your work? What treatments (blood transfusions, abortions stem cells) are against your beliefs and values? What is a good and acceptable quality of life to you? For 17 years, I chaired the Ethical Resources Committee at Burnaby Hospital, and during 10 of those years, I led a team that provided ethics consultations to difficult situations. Most of them involved patients in the intensive care unit and long term care. A patient may present to the emergency room with an acute stroke. Protocols are followed and the patient is not able to eat. He is given a feeding tube to support nutrition. He develops pneumonia and is treated with antibiotics. His condition declines and he requires a ventilator to support respiration. He acquires diarrhea due to multiple antibiotics. From the perspective of those around him, family and care providers, his quality of life is poor and declining, but he is no longer sufficiently aware and capable of making his own decisions to continue treatment or to withdraw the ventilator, intravenous fluids and feeding tube. The family and team struggle to make the best decisions for this individual. Had these questions been considered earlier, and we knew the values and preferences of the individual, the choices would have been clearer. If the patient, when well, clearly did not want a feeding tube or life support in the future, we wouldn’t be faced with the present dilemma. If he had clearly stated he would not want hospitalization and resuscitation, his initial care would have been much different. The focus would be on comfort. As part of the Burnaby Division of Family Practice’s Empowering Patients public health education series, I will be speaking. “What You Should Know about Medical Ethics” takes place at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 17 at the Bob Prittie Metrotown Library. Admission is free, but seating is limited to 50. Please register by calling the library at 604-436-5400 or online at bpl.bc.ca/events. Davidicus Wong is a family physician and his Healthwise columns appear regularly in this paper. For more on mindfulness and achieving your positive potential in health, visit davidicuswong.wordpress.com.

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Older Person (Oct. 1) and of issues surrounding ageism. Mackenzie also announced the Lifetime Volunteer of the Year Award and recognized the other nominees in the room. “Looking around this room and reading of the accomplishments of the many that will be recognized today and cannot think of a better illustration of how to combat ageism,” said Mackenzie. The Volunteer of the Year Award was launched this year by the Vancouver Courier with support from Element Lifestyle Retirement. The nominees for the award included: FIRST PLACE Lorna Gibbs, who received a $5,000 travel

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Barry Dumka curated Out on Screen’s Fall Art Auction, which featured 20 works of art by local and international artists.

Les Dick and Carl Meadows hosted their 14th Fall Art Auction Gala to raise funds for Out in Schools to engage students across B.C. in a discussion on issues of homophobia, transphobia and bullying.

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Raw, uncomfortable and unﬂinching — First Nations artist Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun leaves little to the imagination in conversation or through his art. His mixed media piece entitled “Residential School Dirty Laundry” is a perfect illustration of his panache for the provocative: it depicts a cruciﬁx formed out of children’s underwear with red paint on it to mimic the presence of blood. “I look at the world and I analyze what I see happening around me,” he told the Courier Wednesday. “And the world can be ugly.” “Residential School Dirty Laundry” is part of a larger exhibit Yuxweluptun has on display at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC called Unceded Territories. A companion piece that serves as part book and part catalogue was named as the Vancouver Book Award winner on Oct. 3. According to a city press release, the Vancouver Book Award recognizes works “which demonstrate excellence and contribute to an

The book accompanying Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun’s exhibit Unceded Territories is the winner of this year’s Vancouver Book Award. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

appreciation and understanding of Vancouver’s history, unique character, or achievements of its residents.” Through its 182 pages, Unceded Territories marries harsh political narrative, haunting memories, environmentalism and colonialism through three decades of Yuxweluptun’s life. The 58-year-old Vancouver resident provided the book’s paintings and drawings, while curators Karen Duffek and Tania Willard held down the editing and writing responsibilities. Yuxweluptun grew up near Kamloops and attended residential school in his

early years. It left an indelible mark on him that he now tries to reconcile on canvas. “This country hates Aboriginal people so much, that they don’t even want to look at us,” he said. “This is what Canada is about. This is a very racist, bigoted country. This is what we wake up to every day.” As part of his exhibit at UBC, Yuxweluptun is encouraging dialogue and understanding. His assessment of the past is scathing, but he wants the conversation to move towards a model of truth and reconciliation that is tangible to First Nations people across Canada.

“Some natives just completely disagree with me, they say, ‘I just can’t get along with these people, they are just too racist,’” said Yuxweluptun, who is of Coast Salish and Okanagan descent. “But we have to start somewhere. We have to get along. I can reach out half way. It’s time for Canada to hug an Indian.” Another conversation Yuxweluptun helped start is a move to change the name of British Columbia to something that stresses inclusion rather than colonialism. His preference is “New Nations,” and the museum is welcoming suggestions as well. “My objectives are always based in truth. Let’s change Canada so that we can have just one day where we aren’t racists and bigots towards Aboriginal people and let’s make it a national holiday. Let it go, Canada, and let Aboriginal people be who they are.” The Vancouver Public Library hosts a Vancouver Book Award event with Yuxweluptun, Oct. 13, 6 p.m. at CBC Studio 700. Unceded Territories is at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC until Oct. 16.

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whether it be predator or prey. And so does Annie Baker make thousands of choices in her 2014 Pulitzer prize-winning play, The Flick. Exact in every detail — right down to the sweeping up of popcorn off the ﬂoor and mopping up the spilled soft drinks — Act 1 is almost excruciating in unpacking the lives of three low-paid

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ﬂoor, recessed lights down the side walls, swinging, double back doors, red EXIT signs and the projection booth up high at the back. There’s a moment of hesitation when you enter the theatre — is that the set or are we supposed to sit there? The set clearly functions as a mirror image of periods in some of our own lives. Playwright Baker gives us three characters in hyper-real time. And it takes time. Sam and Avery carry on desultory conversations as they, in no hurry, clear the popcorn and wrapperstrew aisles. In Act 1 they reveal little of themselves except their obsession with

and amazing knowledge of movies. Sam challenges Avery, the new guy, to link the six or more degrees of separation between actors: Britney Spears and Michael J. Fox, for example. Nerdy and bespectacled, Avery is incredible in his recall. When Rose (in ripped jeans and wild, blue hair) enters, there’s something in the air. Tension. Longing. I was restless and irritated by Act 1. Real time can be boring. It takes time for The Flick to get going. But it gets going in Act 2 and it’s wonderful and sad and funny and, above everything else, it’s real, even profound. It takes

three completely necessary hours to get there but it’s well worth the wait. Dean Paul Gibson directs this fabulous cast (that includes brief appearances of Aaron Paul Stewart as Dreaming Man and Skylar). These are complex, multi-layered souls, and real time allows the actors to fully explore and expand on their characters — long spaces between questions and answers, slow musings, awkward miscommunications, painful realizations, lots of “Huh” moments. Reid is gangly and awkward in his posture with his arms hanging. Continued on page 24

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6 3 1 -2 32- 0 4 - 0 0 0 0

75,300

77,500

79,800

Beulah Garden Homes Society

634-300-92-0000

24,400

25,200

25,900

Beulah Garden Homes Society

634-300-52-0000

34,300

35,300

36,400

Beulah Garden Homes Society

634-300-04-0000

32,200

33,200

34,200

Broadway Pentecostal Benevolent Association of BC

65 0 -274 -27- 0 0 0 0

23,400

24,100

24,800

Calling Ministries

7 10 - 072- 06- 0000

44,600

45,900

47,300

Chau Luen Kon Sol Society of Vancouver

1 9 2- 5 9 2- 9 2- 0 0 0 0

18,500

19,100

19,700

Christ Church of China

1 92-592- 0 4 - 0 0 0 0

11,200

11,500

11,900

Columbus Charities Association

306-720-45-0000

20,300

21,000

21,600

Finnish Canadian Rest Home Association

8 2 8 -2 5 1 -9 4 - 0 0 0 0

13,100

13,500

13,900

Finnish Canadian Rest Home Association

828-258- 06- 0000

6,500

6,700

6,900

HFBC Housing Foundation

638- 077- 07- 0000

11,300

11,700

12,000

HFBC Housing Foundation

648-078-05-0000

7,200

7,400

7,700

HFBC Housing Foundation

6 45 -1 9 4 - 47- 0 0 0 0

9,300

9,600

9,900 10,100

HFBC Housing Foundation

6 41 -23 4 -20 - 0 0 0 0

9,500

9,800

HFBC Housing Foundation

665-230-68-0000

6,800

7,000

7,200

HFBC Housing Foundation

670 -230 -83- 0000

4,900

5,000

5,200

HFBC Housing Foundation

670-230-89-0000

7,400

7,600

7,800

HFBC Housing Foundation

683-230 -82- 0000

5,500

5,700

5,900 29,500

HFBC Housing Foundation

72 2-28 3-4 8 - 0 0 0 0

27,800

28,700

HFBC Housing Foundation

6 0 5 -1 1 3 - 6 6 - 0 0 0 0

12,900

13,300

13,700

King Edward Court Society

7 1 0 - 072-95 - 0 0 0 0

21,800

22,500

23,200

M Kopernik Nicolaus Copernicus Foundation

8 17-3 0 0 -2 2- 0 0 0 0

7,200

7,400

7,600

Mennonite Senior Citizens Society of BC

7 5 5 -2 3 7- 5 1 - 0 0 0 0

41,100

42,400

43,600

New Chelsea Society

270 - 670 -95-0000

11,800

12,200

12,600

New Chelsea Society

693-253- 64- 0000

34,600

35,600

36,700

Odd Fellows Low Rental Housing Society

3 1 8 -7 2 5 -9 5 - 0 0 0 0

10,800

11,200

11,500

Parish of St. Paul Vancouver

6 0 9 -1 17- 4 4 - 0 0 0 0

29,400

30,300

31,200

Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vancouver

59 6 -19 6 -49 - 0 0 0 0

10,000

10,300

10,600

Society for Christian Care of the Elderly

6 13 -1 1 9 -5 4 - 0 0 0 0

73,800

76,000

78,300

Soroptimist Club of Vancouver BC

6 8 3 -1 65 -5 4 - 0 0 0 0

10,000

10,300

10,600

South Amherst Housing Society

244-805-96-0000

5,300

5,400

5,600

The VEL Housing Society

577-259 - 0 6 - 0000

9,500

9,800

10,100

The VEL Housing Society

596-250-04-0000

6,000

6,200

6,400

Ukrainian Senior Citizens Housing Society

300 -810 -95- 0000

9,700

10,000

10,300

Van Kiwanis Senior Citizens Housing Society

30 0 - 8 11 - 05 - 0 0 0 0

8,700

9,000

9,200

Vancouver Kiwanis Senior Citizens Housing Society

12 5 - 8 32- 8 4 - 0 0 0 0

14,000

14,500

14,900

757,400

780,700

804,000

TOTAL

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Property Tax Ofﬁce 604-871-6893

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Commercial Drive Complete Street Project

Commercial Drive is the heart of the Grandview-Woodland community. It’s a popular destination street for both local residents and visitors to stroll and enjoy the rich variety of independent shops and services. The Commercial Drive Complete Street Project aims to increase the safety and comfort for people who walk, bike, take transit, and drive.

We want to hear from you! Join us at an upcoming open house. These meetings will be a drop-in open house format. City staff will be available to discuss the project, answer questions, and gather your feedback. Thursday, October 20, 3 pm - 7:30pm Croatian Cultural Centre, 3250 Commercial Dr. Saturday, October 22, 10 am - 3 pm Wise Hall, 1882 Adanac St. You can also view the display boards and complete a feedback form online at vancouver.ca/commercial-complete-street

Development Permit Board Meeting: October 17 The Development Permit Board and Advisory Panel will meet: Monday, October 17, 2016, 3 pm Vancouver City Hall 453 West 12th Avenue Ground Floor Town Hall Meeting Room to consider the following development permit applications: 1255 West Pender Street

To develop the site with a new mixed-use residential tower comprising 20 residential units and 3,600 square feet of commercial use at grade, all over three levels of underground parking accessed off of Hastings Street, and also requesting an increase in the ﬂoor space ratio using a Heritage Density Transfer from a donor site at 12 Water Street (providing 4,955 square feet).

3182 Pierview Crescent (Parcel 3)

To develop a multiple dwelling containing 89 affordable rental dwelling units over one level of underground parking with vehicle access from Pierview Crescent (Parcel 3). 3245 Pierview Crescent (5A)

To develop a multiple dwelling containing 51 affordable rental units with one level of underground parking with vehicle access from Pierview Crescent (Parcel 5A). 3185 Riverwalk Avenue (Parcel 8A)

To develop a multiple dwelling containing 107 affordable rental units with one level of underground parking with vehicle access from Riverwalk Avenue (Parcel 8A). TO SPEAK ON AN ITEM: 604-873-7770 or lidia.mcleod@vancouver.ca

What do you think about the proposed Empty Homes Tax?

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Phone: 3-1-1 (TTY 7-1-1) vancouver.ca/commercial-complete-street commercialdrive@vancouver.ca

Chinatown Economic Revitalization Update and Development Policies Review City staff are preparing an update on the Chinatown Economic Revitalization Action Plan to City Council as part of a three-year review. As part of this update, staff are also proposing revisions to development policies in Chinatown to improve the form of new development, provide clarity to density that can be achieved, protect the historic character of the neighborhood and encourage a wider mix of uses to support the Chinatown economy. We invite you to this open house to view the proposed changes and provide your feedback. Following public consultation, staff will bring

To help relieve pressure on the rental housing market, the City of Vancouver is taking next steps towards a proposed new Empty Homes Tax.

the proposed changes to City Council for their consideration in January 2017.

We’ve developed an approach for this tax, how it would be applied and who it could affect. Now, we want your feedback.

Join us at an open house to learn more and share your thoughts:

WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU

Saturday, October 22, 2016 11 am - 2 pm or Tuesday, October 25, 2016 4 pm - 7 pm Chinese Cultural Centre Auditorium 50 East Pender Street FOR MORE INFORMATION: vancouver.ca/chinatown chinatown@vancouver.ca 604-873-7919

Share your thoughts, opinions and comments about the proposed tax. Help us explore possible exemptions and evaluate what tax rate would encourage empty homes to be rented out. Go online Visit vancouver.ca/emptyhomes for more information and to provide feedback through an online survey until October 18, 2016.

Visit: vancouver.ca Phone: 3-1-1 TTY: 7-1-1

Open houses Come meet with City staff to talk about the tax and share your opinions. Saturday, October 15, 2016 10 am - 2 pm Vancouver Public Library Central Branch, Main Promenade 350 West Georgia Street Monday, October 17, 2016 4 - 8 pm Oakridge Auditorium (at Oakridge Centre Mall) 650 West 41st Avenue FOR MORE INFORMATION vancouver.ca/emptyhomes eht@vancouver.ca

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Haig Sutherland, Shannon Chan-Kent and Jesse Reid play employees of an old movie theatre in The Flick, which runs until Oct. 29 at the Arts Club Granville Island Stage.

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Play unfolds in real time Continued from page 22 As Avery, he is so tortured, so insecure that every apologetic, “Sorry” feels like a blow to the heart. And yet, broken as he appears to be, he is the moral touchstone. Chan-Kent ﬁnds all the contradiction in Rose who appears to be a conﬁdent kick-ass sort of girl but who is just as stalled — in different ways — as Avery and Sam. Chan-Kent

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Anglican church seeks families of those interred in memorial garden Pat Johnson

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Father John Stephens and Maggie Sanders of St. John’s Shaughnessy Anglican Church are looking for families whose loved ones and ancestors are interred in its memorial garden and hope they will join in an annual remembrance service. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

a number of churches, certainly none had the symbolic signiﬁcance of St. John’s Shaughnessy, with its gorgeous building at Granville Street and Nanton Avenue being a city landmark. It also sits on a serious piece of prime West Side real estate. As a result of the court ruling, most of the existing congregation left en masse and the diocese appointed a new priest to start a fresh congregation in the

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Truth & Transformation

Lauraleigh Paul Yuxweluptun’aat, an environmental educator for the Stanley Park Ecology Society, led the group’s first West Coast Remedies workshop, Saturday, where participants are taught how to craft their own cures using native plants, including frog leaf and licorice root. See more photos at vancourier.com. PHOTOS REBECCA BLISSETT

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Workshop teaches medicinal qualities of native plants

Rebecca Blissett

rvblissett@gmail.com

The most effective way to teach is by showing. For Lauraleigh Paul Yuxweluptun’aat, it’s also the only way. Paul is an environmental educator with the Stanley Park Ecology Society (SPES), which was so pleased to have the Coast Salish, Interior Salish and Carrier First Nations woman on staff as of last spring, they wasted no time designing a curriculum around her expertise. Paul led Indigenous-based walking tours through the park in late August and Saturday was her ﬁrst workshop with the society to teach traditional medicine.

Before any students arrived, she ducked out of the classroom on the top ﬂoor of the Stanley Park Dining Pavilion and walked into a nearby clearing. It was just steps away from the parking lot, a two-minute drive from the city, but the only sound in the forest, which was once home to Indigenous villages, was rain splashing on leaves. Paul crouched to pick up a ubiquitous green weed, otherwise known as frog leaf (common plantain). She explained its physical characteristics (“wrinkly like the back of a frog and the shape like the bum of a frog”) and stopped. Paul wanted to make sure the Courier wouldn’t publish the details of the medicinal remedies she was to teach as she felt it

would be reckless and possibly harmful to readers who might pick the wrong plant. “It’s really important that traditional knowledge be passed on traditionally and that’s person to person,” she said. “That allows for people to connect to the lessons that are valuable to them. The spirit actually attaches to it because they’re so present… It could have been told to me over and over again, but if I wasn’t present and open, I wouldn’t have the information. I would not have made practice of it.” Paul’s grandmother taught her traditional medicine remedies when she was a little girl. Now, she passes on her ancestor’s ancient knowledge to two sons

Talon and Koyas, as well as those who signed up for the West Coast Wild Remedies workshop where some of the students were familiar faces, having attended her summer walking tour. The workshop examines uses of frog leaf: fresh, it can be used much like an antibiotic ointment for scratches, insect stings and bites. Paul, who is allergic to bee stings, was once stung and did not have her EpiPen. She grabbed a handful of frog leaf, chewed it, and held it to the affected area. “And that had absorbed enough of the toxin from the bee sting that I didn’t go into anaphylactic shock,” she said. “By the time I got to the hospital, I was still OK. Still alive and breath-

ing. Swollen and frantically panicked but, otherwise, good to go.” Ingested as a tea, frog leaf is said to be an anti-inﬂammatory and wonderful to aid in general healing, as well as help with menstrual cramps, Paul added. “It’s such a multifunctional leaf and people consider it just a weed.” After making a frog leaf salve, Paul’s students followed their energetic leader into the park to a particular moss-coated tree that bent low over a forest path. Paul climbed its trunk to carefully harvest a single licorice root (glycyrrhiza glabra). She broke it into pieces and handed them out for people to taste the strong licorice ﬂavour of the herbal

medicine said to be good for a wide variety of ailments ranging from easing sore throats to contributing to a healthy heart. Paul’s wealth of knowledge when it comes to native medicines found in Stanley Park is incredible to newbies. But for her it’s so traditional it’s common sense. “I’m no means an expert,” she said. “I’m just happy to share my knowledge.” The next West Coast Wild Remedies workshop is Oct. 22 and focuses on smudging with cedar to kill airborne bacteria, and making a blue elderberry tincture for immune system boosting. Visit stanleyparkecology.ca for registration and events. @rebeccablissett

Despite church split, garden remains sacred responsibility Continued from previous page She hopes families will come, if nothing else, for the second annual remembrance ceremony, which is already slated for September 24, 2017. At this year’s ceremony, last month, people stayed afterward over wine and cheese for hours swapping stories. The walls of this church, too, would certainly have stories. A who’s who of Vancouver Anglicanism — well, Vancouver period — have been members of the congregation over the years. If the wounds of the

recent past haven’t healed yet, and former congregants aren’t ready to reunite in their former place of worship, Sanders understands. “We respect that,” she says. “But they may want to come back and honour their loved ones here. That’s what this is all about.” The priest, who most people call Father John despite the venerable title that accompanies his role as a church archdeacon, says a memorial garden is not uncommon in Anglican churches, though back

east and in other countries, the church yard is more likely to house a traditional cemetery. (As I have written about previously, British Columbians choose cremation over burial by a huge margin, much higher than in other parts of Canada.) “We decided this year to have a special service where we try to remember everyone whose ashes have been put in the garden,” he says. “Just as a way of honouring them and recognizing how important it is to bring to mind those that we have loved and see no

longer and be able to offer prayers and thanksgivings for them.” Sanders and Stephens acknowledge that having the word Shaughnessy in the church name could be intimidating for some, but they insist they welcome one and all. And despite the church split over same-sex marriage, the priest offers reassurance that the memorial garden is a sacred responsibility. “It’s something that we’ve taken very seriously to maintain and look after and it was important again

to have a special service to mark that,” he says. “That goes well beyond the lawsuits and internal disagreements within the church. It’s important that we care for our loved ones and obviously for those who have gone before us.” Does he think a focus on the memorial garden could being some former congregants back into the pews? “I don’t know,” Stephens says. “That’s hard to say. I guess what I do hope is that we can see just how important it is that there are certain

things that aren’t part of the disagreement and that we should be able to come together around those things and just be able to be together for that and not worry about — however you want to describe it — the politics of the church or disagreements around understandings around interpretation of scripture and things. But just simply to focus on loved ones who have gone before, family backgrounds and how we care for one another both in this world and the next.” @Pat604Johnson

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WEEKLY FORECAST: OCTOBER 16 - 22, 2016 This is your last week of intensiﬁed relationships, Aries, although the whole 12 months ahead will bring great beneﬁts from your urge to merge with others. Romance gets a boost this week as someone enters who is attracted to you, and makes your mind think new and mellow thoughts. Bosses are impatient until Nov. 8. So be diplomatic and eager to please. If a lawsuit is brewing, you will probably win it unless your opponent is a Libra or Aquarian.

Your energy and charisma remain high, Libra. Whether it’s apparent or not, someone already has their romantic eye on you. If you sense this, and want it, just respond. But if you don’t see romance anywhere, charge ahead with your own plans and ambitions. This is the time to lead rather than follow. Not only now, but for the 12 months ahead. You will be lucky, you will be listened to, you might even become famous.

The accent continues on work and daily health. Strictly avoid lawsuits before Nov. 9. Although there is a lot of work to do this week, especially with quick small chores, a sexy note enters Tuesday and last until Nov. 11. The same interval (to Nov. 11) favors investing and debt reduction. All October, to Nov. 8, cautions you against lawsuits, unethical actions and secrets. (They always get let out of the bag!).

This is your last week of weariness, Scorpio. By Saturday your energy will begin to rise for an entire month. You are speaking, acting, and driving with more speed and intensity than usual until Nov. 8. Be cautious with this, or at least wait until next week onward to dive into trips, errands, arguments and discussions, etc. Your money fortunes improve from Tuesday into Nov. 11. Sunday/Monday confront you with relationships... good ones!

The emphasis remains on romance, Beauty, pleasure, charming kids, sports/games, and self expression. In the old days they said that faint heart would never win fair Maiden. That applies now also whether you’re man or woman. If you’re attracted to someone, let them know in no uncertain terms. If you keep a social choke chain around your desires, then so will the one you’re attracted to. If you don’t trust your passion. Why should he or she?

This is your last week of happy socializing, Sage. Continue to have fun, meet people and join groups. Saturday will begin a month of relative solitude, rest and recuperation and contemplation. But beyond this, right into October 2017, your social life will remain buoyant, light romance can turn into real love, add a major wish will come true. Until Nov. 8, more money than usual ﬂows your way; however, you display an almost subconscious eagerness to spend it.

This is the last week of strong domestic focus, cancer, although the entire 12 months ahead will bring you great luck in real estate, raising/teaching children, gardening, security, retirement planning, etc. Until Nov. 8 relationships are intense and could lead to arguments; they could also lead to an ambitious partnership or a career opportunity. From Tuesday to Nov. 11, your workplace will hold affection; you might start an affair with a coworker.

Continue to be ambitious, Cap. Your career and business efforts are under good auspices for the entire year ahead. You have been fired up all October, and your determination and assertiveness can either end a job, end or fire up a relationship, or nudge you into increasing your security, even by buying a home or leasing new premises. There will be several discussions with higher ups this week. Your inner or private world will be filled with affection from this Tuesday to Nov. 11.

The accent continues on errands, communications, short trips, And other minor tasks. In many ways, Leo, you get a pass this year. Although you will be busy, you do not face high-stakes and can happily talk, laugh, and enjoy friends all the way till October next year. Now to Nov. 8, your work is intense and rapid. The ﬂurry of errands and jobs you handle this week Will probably be the peak for the year ahead.

The accent remains on intellectual pursuits, higher education, far travel, international affairs, legal matters, profound truths, and love. Love that comes now or over the 12 months ahead will be gentle, mental and just a little wistful. Many single aquariums will fall in love and marry. (I’m sorry that this stupid dictation program keeps calling you aquariums rather than aquarians.) Protect your physical health through Nov. 8.

You are in a period of earning money, preserving possessions, important purchases, and sensual attraction. That last is heightened by your sex planet, Mars, traveling through your romantic sign, Capricorn. This inﬂuence has run throughout October and lasts until Nov. 8. This trend might have caused you some embarrassment if you were too physically eager in past weeks. Affection and sweet calm ﬁll your home this Tuesday to Nov. 11.

The accent continues on mysteries, ﬁnance, debt reduction, sexual desires, pregnancy or new birth, medical diagnoses, lifestyle changes, research and investigation, and commitment and consequence. These avenues will prove productive and lucrative for the whole year ahead. This October, something dies, and something is born. Your wishes about money can come true. You might join a purchasing club such as Costco, or an investment circle.

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Your Career Starts Here! Steven Moretto directs traffic at a Notre Dame football practice the day before the Jugglers defeated the South Delta Sun Devils 29-8 on Oct. 8. An even tougher matchup comes this weekend against the Mt. Douglas Rams. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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Steven Moretto leads the Notre Dame Jugglers in rushing with 379 yards and ﬁve touchdowns after two regular season games, both of them wins in the competitive Western Conference of B.C.’s AAA varsity football league. Averaging nearly 200 yards a game is impressive, but especially so for Moretto because the Grade 12 student is the Jugglers starting quarterback. He’s also put up 161 yards in the air for four more majors in wins over the then-No. 3 New Westminster Hyacks and South Delta Sun Devils. Notre Dame’s varsity coach Richard Scott believes his QB1 is one of the best athletes in the province. “His best trait isn’t just his athletics, it’s

his leadership. He makes guys accountable, they listen to him and they follow him,” said the ﬁfth-year head coach. Add to his numbers three sacks and one interception for a 40-yard return. “When you have a horse, you use him when you have to. I’d like to see if we can get the scores up and have him run less, but in our league and in our division, every game is hard. You have to play your best against the other team’s best and he is one of our best,” said Scott. “He’d run it every play if he could. He keeps asking for the ball and we actually have to slow him down.” The AAA varsity football season is still young, but Moretto is chasing glory — the kind his father knew when the former B.C. Lion won a championship ring with

the Jugglers. “He won in Grade 8, Grade 10 and Grade 12 when he went to Notre Dame,” Moretto said of his father, Rob, a linebacker the Lions drafted in 1987 from the Vanier Cup champion UBC Thunderbirds. “We won in Grade 8, we lost in the ﬁnal in Grade 10, so I’ve got to match him in Grade 12.” Even if Moretto, 17, repeats his father’s high school championship success — one not seen at Notre Dame since 1993 — he won’t likely follow in those same footsteps to play football at university. Rather, the teenage talent will play third base at Sacramento State, where he’s already in talks with the baseball program after a season with Canada’s junior national team. “It’s a tough decision choosing baseball, but I’ve

been successful in baseball too and I realize how far that can take me. I can do bigger things with baseball than I can with football,” said Moretto, who was part of the Hastings Little League national championship team that represented Canada at the 2012 World Series. Moretto is quick to name the players around him who have contributed to their two wins so far this season, particularly the offensive line. “Each game we’re getting better, being more focused,” he said. “Everyone is thinking of the main goal.” Don’t bet against Moretto running down all of his goals. The Notre Dame Jugglers host the defending B.C. champion Mt. Douglas Rams at 5 p.m. Oct. 14 at Burnaby Lake Park. @MHStewart

On gobbling and trotting turkeys…

In thousands, the record number of runners, walkers and stroller-pushers who finished the 19th annual 10km Granville Island Turkey Trot along False Creek Oct. 10.

In minutes (33:08, to be exact), the time for the winner of the Turkey Trot, 22-yearold Christian Gravel, a varsity athlete at the University of Guelph who raced for the St. George’s Saints.

The time, in minutes (37:22, precisely), of the fastest woman to finish the Turkey Trot, fourth-year UBC Thunderbirds runner, Amelie De Fenoyl. She was seventh overall.

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Street2Peak holds major fundraiser to climb in Patagonia Megan Stewart

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In 2015, they ticked off Kilimanjaro as a success. For 2017, they are preparing for Torres del Paine, a Patagonia mountain range with soaring granite peaks. Students at Britannia

secondary are fundraising to climb the second of ﬁve of the world’s highest mountains on a trip planned for March 2017 through the Street2Peaks initiative, a program operated through the school’s alternative, outdoor education curriculum, Streetfront.

One of their largest charity drives is this Sunday, Oct. 16 in North Vancouver at the annual Strachan Hartley Legacy Foundation Charity Run. All proceeds from the 10km run beneﬁt Streetfront. Streetfront is aiming for a minimum $30,000 to send at least 15 students

to Chile’s Patagonia region to trek through the Torres del Paine national park. More than five years ago, the program set the remarkable goal to climb five mountains on five continents. Their ambition became known as Street2Peak. In 2015 after three

years of fundraising, students travelled to Tanzania to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. Together with volunteers, they raised more than $100,000 for the trip to East Africa. The program requires students take classes in math, science, social studies and English, but

expands the classroom to marathon races, outdoor trekking and overnight camping. The majority of students live in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, many in poverty. To learn more about the weekend charity run or make a donation, visit tinyurl.com/jnhq6ma.

“The pipeline bodes well for employment and the economy.” – Dan Mott, President, Mott Electric

The Trans Mountain Project will provide economic beneﬁts for all Canadians. First, it will create a

Current value of Community Benefit Agreements throughout the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley1.

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Equivalent number of jobs per year throughout construction (9,000 in BC).

Workforce spending in the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley1 during construction by local and non-local workers.

long-term legacy of tax revenues that will help fund vital services, such as education and health care. Overall, the Project is expected to generate $46.7 billion in government revenues. Second, the Project creates the equivalent of 37,000 jobs per year over twenty years of operations. And ﬁnally,

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Construction spending in the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley1.

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Additional spending in Metro Vancouver over 20 years as a result of increased tanker traffic.

property tax revenue to local governments in BC and Alberta will increase by $26.5 million annually – more than double the current amount.

Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley includes Hope, Chilliwack, Abbotsford, Coquitlam, Langley, Surrey, Metro Vancouver and Burnaby.

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