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Vancouver to thank Coleman for housing investment Mike Howell

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Hey, Housing Minister Rich Coleman, have you checked your mail lately?

Apparently, Mayor Gregor Robertson — on behalf of city council — has written a letter to you that contains some kind words for you and your government’s commitment to housing.

No joke.

Council unanimously approved a motion at a public meeting last week to have the mayor spend some quality time with his typewriter and knock out what should essentially read like a thank-you note.

I should tell you this wasn’t exactly Robertson’s idea. It was the work of NPA Coun. Melissa De Genova.

Yes, this is the same Melissa who belongs to the same party that likes to pump your tires whenever the mayor and his Vision crew go about deflating them.

After some back-andforth with the mayor and others, De Genova suc-

Mayor Gregor Robertson has agreed to write a letter to Housing Minister Rich Coleman to thank him and his government for investing money in housing in Vancouver. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

cessfully got the following amendment to a motion unanimously approved: “That the mayor write a letter on behalf of council to Minister Rich Coleman, the minister responsible for housing for the province of British Columbia, and notify him of council’s formal endorsement of the regional affordable housing strategy and thank the provincial government for the funding

B.C. Housing has invested in Vancouver. Furthermore, this letter will also express the City of Vancouver’s ongoing commitment to work with B.C. Housing to increase affordable housing in the City of Vancouver.”

The regional housing strategy she made reference to was the one presented to council earlier in the meeting. This is the one that comes with five goals.

You’ve probably been briefed on them but not all my regular readers have. So here they are: • Expand the supply and diversity of housing to meet a variety of needs.

• Expand the rental supply and balance preservation of existing stock with redevelopment while supporting existing tenants.

• Meet housing demand estimates for very low and

low income earners.

• Increase the rental housing supply along transit routes.

• End homelessness in the region.

Yes, that last goal is kind of ambitious, as the mayor learned last year when he failed to deliver on his promise to end “street homelessness” by 2015.

Not to be a nattering nabob of negativism, but when you consider 1,847 people in Vancouver were counted in March without a home, and homelessness is growing in the region and on Vancouver Island, that goal seems lofty.

Anyway, that’s a conversation for another day.

My purpose here was just to let you know about that letter coming from the mayor. Interesting timing, right? It was only last week that I wrote a piece in this space about you being frustrated with the mayor for calling news conferences to announce plans to build subsidized housing — and then saying at the same news conference that

he needed money from you and your government.

Remember?

This is what you said: “They always go out and just announce stuff before it’s all finalized. 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.”

Then you said: “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.’”

Well, I guess Melissa heard you loud and clear.

So check your mail.

But don’t expect such a letter to silence the mayor. Here’s what he told me the day after he agreed to write you a letter: “They have primary responsibility for housing and our expectation is that they follow through with that.” @Howellings

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Jessica Barrett wins Webster for Commentator of the Year Courier staff Vancouver Courier columnist Jessica Barrett received the City Mike Award for Commentator of the Year at last Thursday’s prestigious Jack Webster Awards.

Named in honour of the insightful and outspoken journalist Jack Webster, the awards recognize B.C.based journalists working for B.C. news organizations on stories for B.C. audiences.

Judges highlighted Barrett’s “fresh and refreshing perspective to the critical issues,” calling her columns on the challenges people under 40 face living in Canada’s most expensive city “compelling and important for all readers… the kind of column that could go on page one.”

In 2015, Barrett wrote “Is it time to leave Vancouver,” about the affordability crisis, which examined, from a millennial’s perspective, whether it was time to leave the city in light of skyrocketing house prices. It went viral and it was also the Courier’s mostread post that year.

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A model suite for the city’s first temporary modular housing pilot project was unveiled Monday.

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The 250-square-foot space is compact, with room for a bed, small dining table and a couple of pieces of furniture. It features a basic kitchen, a washroom with a shower and a closet.

City of Vancouver officials see the modest unit — a model suite for its first temporary modular housing pilot project that’s going in at 1500 Main St. — as a housing form full of possibilities in a city struggling with an affordability crisis.

The suite, unveiled to the press Monday, is on display to the public at Robson Square until Nov. 1 as the city hosts its Re:Address Housing Affordability summit, which runs until Oct. 29. Forty of the units, which cost between $80,000 and $90,000 a piece to build, are being constructed offsite at a factory in Kamloops by a company called Horizon North. They will be transported to city-owned land at 1500 Main and assembled into a three-storey housing complex that will remain in place for three to five years until it has to be relocated.

The units have been earmarked for people on low and fixed incomes.

Jeff Thomas, Horizon North’s vice president of sales and marketing, said the advantage of modular housing is that it can be built offsite more quickly, with higher quality and more cost certainty than could be done onsite with a non-modular construction technique.

It can also be dismantled, transported and re-assembled on another site at a fraction of the cost of building a new building, he said.

Another level or individual modules can be added or

taken away with minor tweaking to the exterior depending on what’s required at a new site.

“When we move it, it’s very flexible in its layout, so we’ll be able to reconfigure [the modules]. If the next space it goes in doesn’t fit that same footprint, we’ll be able to reconfigure it and set up the same number of units in a different configuration. So the technology behind that, including the foundation, is fairly unique,” he said.

Project manager Brock Elliott said the foundation is not a poured concrete foundation that’s typically used. It’s called a multipoint foundation.

“It’s similar almost to scaffolding when you visualize it. It’s totally reusable, no impact on the ground,” he said.

The whole building — from transport to assembly onsite — takes about 45 days, according to Elliott.

There will be an accessible entrance on the front and some accessible units on the main floor. Inside, units will feature items such as individual climate control and some LED lighting fixtures.

“We’re currently speaking with [the Vancouver Affordable Housing Agency] about adding in some occupancy sensors and those types of things just to reduce energy consumption,” added Elliott.

“And everything on there — from our ramps through to our recycling containers through to our paving stones — will all be able to be easily relocated to another site.”

Horizon North will start building the units Nov. 16.

Installation will begin on the site in mid-December.

“It’s wonderful to be

able to showcase part of Vancouver’s housing future, particularly in the near-term as we face an affordable housing crisis in the city,” said Mayor Gregor Robertson who’s encouraging the public to check out the model suite. “We have an opportunity now, right in the centre of downtown, for people to see what modular housing is, how far it’s come.”

Mukhtar Latif, the city’s chief housing officer and CEO of the Vancouver Affordable Housing Agency, said although the agency has been mandated to build 2,500 permanent housing units within the city by 2021 using city sites, that will take several years to build out and this offers a solution in the meantime.

“The idea is to use the vacant land we have in the city to be able to create some short-term solutions to fix some of the immediate housing needs that we have within the city,” he said.

When asked if modular housing could be an option in the future for people other than those transitioning out of homelessness such as students or working people, Robertson said it’s something to consider.

“We see an immediate need for modular housing to address homelessness and people on very low incomes who can find no place to live in Vancouver right now. Whether it’s appropriate on some sites for student housing or lower income housing remains a question. We want to see how it goes initially, with people who need it the most, and how acceptable it is to the residents of the city. We want to be sure that there’s a good fit here,” the mayor said. @naoibh

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Vancouver police are recording 10-year highs in the number of thefts from vehicles and break-ins to businesses — increases that have meant the VPD will not reach its goal to reduce overall property crime this year.

Some of the spike in property crime is being attributed to criminals not known to Vancouver police who have moved to Vancouver from other parts of the country, particularly Alberta, according to Police Chief Adam Palmer.

“We’re seeing a huge number of new people coming to Vancouver — a lot from Alberta,” the chief told Vancouver Police Board members at a public meeting Oct. 20. “We know that the economy in Alberta is heading in the wrong direction and the B.C. economy is relatively stable, or doing OK by comparison. So there’s a lot of people relocating from that province coming here that are causing us all kinds of issues.”

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Statistics for the first nine months of 2016 show there were 9,484 thefts from vehicles and 1,974 burglaries to businesses. Both crimes are occurring across Vancouver, although thefts are concentrated in the north half of the city and in the downtown core.

The good news for police and residents is break-ins to homes continue on a steady decline, with 1,587 in the first nine months of this year, a 10-year low in the city.

“That’s an area where we have put a lot of focus,” Palmer told the Courier after the meeting. “We’ve got some pretty innovative strategies in place for that. We haven’t made a big public release on all of the work we’re doing there yet. But we will and explain that in a little more detail in the coming months.”

Police measure overall property crime by calculating thefts from vehicles and break-ins to businesses and homes. A report to the police board said overall property crime has increased by 18.6 per cent in the first nine months of this year, compared to the previous year.

The VPD’s 2012-2016 Strategic Plan set a goal to reduce the property crime rate to 45 offences for every 1,000 people. That target reached 56.5 offences per 1,000 people last year. No ratio was provided for 2016 but the police board report said property crime increased four years in a row from 2011 to 2015.

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rspike in break-ins to cars, businesses Palmer said police continue to work on various projects, including public campaigns, to reduce property crime and educate residents how not to become a victim of crime. Police are expected to launch a new campaign in November to combat property crime.

Typically, the chief said, the crimes are connected to feeding a drug habit. As his predecessor Jim Chu said multiple times in his time as chief, Palmer said treatment on demand is needed to get drug-addicted criminals the help they need so they don’t have to resort to crime.

“We have a lot of great programs in place with Vancouver Coastal Health,” the chief said.

“But the one gap that we do have is with treatment on demand. We don’t have a city where if somebody is addicted to drugs and they need help and they come forward to a police officer or just want to self-report and get help,

they don’t have anywhere to go — and there’s long waiting lists.”

The number of breakins to businesses this year — 1,974 — surpasses the 1,950 recorded in 2007.

The 10-year low for that type of crime occurred in 2012, with 1,209 burglaries.

Then it began to climb in 2013 (1,303), 2014 (1,599) and 2015 (1,715) before reaching 1,974 this year.

“Sometimes it’s serial in nature, sometimes it’s one-offs, sometimes it’s people addicted to drugs,” said Palmer of the profile of the business burglars.

In other increases in crime, although not as significant as property crime statistics, the police board report shows there were 39 bank robberies in the first nine months of this year. There were 22 for the same period last year and 13 in 2014.

Deputy Chief Laurence Rankin told the board that he attributed the spike in robberies to serial bank robbers recently released

from prison. The 10-year high for bank robberies was recorded in 2008, with 136.

Shots fired incidents reached 18 this year, an increase over the seven calls police responded to last year and 16 in 2014.

Rankin said the incidents have occurred mainly in the south slope area of the city and in the Downtown

Eastside, where police are targeting the Redd Alert gang for a string of shootings, stabbings and assaults. The 10-year high for shots fired was 45 in 2007.

The number of homicides from January to September was nine, a drop from the 15 recorded last year for the same time period.

Though break-ins to homes are on the decline, the VPD issued a reminder this week to residents to lock their doors and windows after a resident found a naked man cooking eggs in his kitchen Oct. 18. Police said the man entered the home through an unlocked door.

The man ran off once the resident chased him

out of the house. Police arrested a naked man a few blocks away. He is facing charges of mischief and break-and-enter. Police said one out of every three break-ins to homes shows no signs of forced entry and happen when someone enters through an unlocked or open door or window. @Howellings

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f Dianne Turner, the government’s appointee as Vancouver School Board Trustee, is waiting for the superintendent and the secretary-treasurer to return from sick leave so she can hold board and committee meetings, she must know she will be waiting a long time.

The superintendent is still a question mark, but Burnaby School Board chairman Ron Burton confirmed to me early Tuesday morning that Vancouver’s secretarytreasurer Russell Horswill will be joining the Burnaby shop on Nov. 7. A few hours later, Turner put out a note wishing him well.

It’s just one bump in the road. There will be others, including a lawsuit for defamation launched by the former Vision Vancouver trustees.

Can’t imagine Horswill didn’t have that Burnaby gig in the works when he went on a medical leave last month.

But Turner has caused herself some grief.

Her first move after being appointed was dumping the board’s acting superintendent Steve Cardwell and acting secretary-treasurer Rick Krowchuk. That was before she knew if or when those six folks on the sick list would be coming back.

It’s just one bump in the road. There will be others, including a lawsuit for defamation launched by the former Vision Vancouver trustees, which may depend on the outcome of a WorkSafe B.C. investigation

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now underway.

The lawsuit was to be filed after my deadline and expected to name the Government of British Columbia and Sherry Elwood, the president of the B.C. School Superintendents Association.

You may recall that it was a letter from Elwood to David Byng, the deputy minister of education, on Sept. 28 — and leaked to the media — that was the first shot fired in the most recent battle that would lead to the dismissal of the whole Vancouver School Board two weeks later.

The strategy to ultimately oust the board that was orchestrated by the government has just the slightest whiff of collusion.

As I noted last week, it was clear from Elwood’s letter that she and Byng had been in discussion for some time before she put her comments in writing. It was sent and leaked the same week the senior staff at the Vancouver School Board went on medical leave, led first by Horswill and Superintendent Scott Robinson.

It was Elwood’s letter that characterized a school board working environment that “continually and cumulatively creates toxicity which fosters fear and a lack of a sense of safety.” It also said failing to follow requests from “individual trustees or the Board, may result in reprisals.”

There was no mention of the effect of what I’m told were regular and conflicting directions coming almost daily from the Ministry of Education to senior staff on issues of closing schools, selling off the Kingsgate Mall and producing a balanced budget.

One curiosity of the School Act — put simply — is that school board staff has to answer to two different bosses: the board and the Ministry of Education. The staff was just the meat in this particular political sandwich.

In the following days after the Elwood letter was leaked, that language became part of the script.

But Elwood wasn’t the only one talking to the ministry. Two days after Elwood’s letter, there was a second letter. This was on B.C. School Trustee Association (BCSTA) letterhead sent to Education Minister Mike Bernier. It was signed by BCSTA president Teresa Rezansoff, Elwood and Kelvin Stretch, the president of the organization that represents B.C.’s school board secretary-treasurers.

Their letter indicated talks had gone on among them and the minister “earlier this week” beginning before the staff exodus took place. They wanted everyone to follow the same rules under the School Act. And, in the context of what was going on, the Vancouver board was the odd one out failing to pass a balanced budget. So bring them to heel.

(The Vancouver board is the only one

in the province that doesn’t belong to the BCSTA. They quit because the association wasn’t activist enough in confronting the provincial government over a variety of issues including funding.)

In a separate statement after the Vancouver firing, Rezansoff told the Vancouver Sun, “we also understand Minister Bernier’s concerns.”

Hours before the firing, the NPA trustees on the board weighed in asking the minister to end the “toxic dysfunction” at the VSB. In his statement that day, hours before the VSB meeting which he was assured they would agree to pass a balanced budget, Bernier cited Elwood’s letter in his reasons for his actions.

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Re: Truth and Transformation feature series.

When my family and I moved to Vancouver in the mid-’60s, and although I was an elementary school student and most likely had never seen an Indigenous person, I quickly adopted the pervasive view of the “drunk Indian.” Not until the early ’80s did I start to become aware of the treatment of First Nations by my ancestors. Since then, and particularly in the past decade as I have read fiction and non-fiction by First Nations writers, I have slowly started to gain another perspective. Interesting, informative and wide-ranging, your sixpart series has helped with my ongoing education.

Thank you for taking the time to introduce your readers to another view of Aboriginal peoples, their history and presentday contributions to the community.

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Commenting on commentators Re: “Nothing to be annoyed about,” Letter, and “Where’s the crisis?” Online Comments, Oct. 20.

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In 1972, Clark Parkers came face to face with Exclusive excerpt from Aaron Chapman’s new book, The Last Gang in Town: The Epic Story of the Vancouver Police vs. the Clark Park Gang

In the Feb. 4, 2011 edition of the Vancouver Courier, contributor Aaron Chapman wrote a feature story on the history of gangs in Vancouver, including the so-called “park gangs” of the 1960s and ’70s.

It would inspire his latest book, The Last Gang: The Epic Story of the Vancouver Police vs. the Clark Park Gang, which will be released next week by Arsenal Pulp Press.

Here is an exclusive excerpt from the book. A warning to readers: the following includes course language and profanity.

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t was June of 1972, around the same time that a team of burglars was arrested in a botched robbery at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C., and a few days after the Rolling Stones concert. In Clark Park on a warm summer night, Gerry Gavin, Roger Daggitt, Albert Hill, and a kid named Phil Benson (name changed) were all drinking beer near the top of the pathway nearest to Commercial Drive. The park was empty at that hour.

It was a quiet weekday night, the silence broken only by the sound of the occasional vehicle driving

Clark Park gang members including Roger Daggitt (top right) and friends at the Biltmore Hotel Pub, 1973.

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along Commercial. The gang joked and drank and passed around a joint.

Benson, more of a hangeron than a real member of the gang, had brought a small battery-operated ra-

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••• In a break in the conversation, Hill walked away from the others to urinate behind one of the nearby trees. As he zipped up his jeans, he turned around and saw a man in the dark standing several feet away, staring at him. “Jesus Christ — what are you doing?”

Hill asked. “You watching me piss or something?!”

The man said nothing and continued to stare at Hill.

The others, overhearing their friend’s alarm, quickly walked over to see what was happening. The man stood partly in silhouette, lit unevenly by the street lamps off the Drive, which shone into the park through breaks in the tall trees. He was wearing cowboy boots and a corduroy jacket.

“What’s your fucking problem, man?” Hill demanded.

The man in the dark moved slowly a few feet forward, stepping more into the light. He appeared older than them, perhaps in his late 20s or early 30s, and had a medium build. Benson turned off the radio he was holding, suddenly dropping the standoff into silence.

“We’ve met before,” the man said casually. Hill looked around to see who he was looking at, but he seemed to be looking at all of them.

“Who the fuck are you? I don’t know you, man,” Hill said, now more angry than alarmed. “What the hell are you doing here? Get lost.”

Benson thought he might be a Riley Parker, or because of the man’s cowboy boots, one of the guys from the Out to Lunch Bunch he’d heard about. Maybe he was from some other street gang, looking for a fight. As Gavin and Daggitt stepped forward with fists clenched, three other men stepped forward from the darkness behind them. In a brief scuffle, they violently grabbed Daggitt and Gavin, locking their arms behind their backs.

Another man darted out of the trees and grabbed Hill, twisting his arms back the same way. Benson saw that they were all about the same age as the first man, but noticeably bigger, and wearing jeans and boots. One had an old army jacket on and the other an old T-shirt. Roger Daggitt, then only 18, was already large and strong, and it took two of the men to hold his arms back. Benson began to panic and wondered how long the men had been there watching them.

Now, caught in the middle, he felt like he ought to run, but suddenly he felt a firm hand on his shoulder that jolted and froze him at the same time. It was the first man whom Hill had encountered in the darkness, but Benson was too

scared to look him directly in the face. Instead, Benson looked off to see that Gavin, who had initially put up a struggle, had also given up more quickly than Daggitt had. That’s when Benson noticed that Gavin had a revolver jabbed into the side of his ribs; the light from the street lamps reflected off the gun metal.

“I was going to tell you to get lost, kid,” the man said to Benson. “But now I think you should stay and hear this.” Addressing the group in a measured voice, he said: “You guys have to stay out of the park now.

This is our park. You understand? It’s over. Day or night. I don’t fucking care.

You’re not hanging around here anymore. You got it?”

Daggitt, Gavin, and Hill said nothing, and Benson was too scared even to move. He then noticed that there was another man who must have been keeping an eye on the front entrance of the park in case someone unexpectedly walked up the path. He now came up to join them, but stayed back a distance and kept quiet.

A few silent moments passed. “Just so you understand... Our gang is bigger than your gang. That’s it,” the man said, then turned to walk down the hill.

Hill was let go first, then was punched in the stomach by the man who had held him, and he fell forward.

Then Daggitt was shoved away by the two men holding him. Gavin was let go last, but not before being backhanded in the head.

Gavin swore and stepped forward as all of the men now walked away. One of them muttered, “Don’t fucking be here again tomorrow night,” then disappeared into the darkness of the park.

Benson, more confused and nervous than the others, watched as Hill stood up, getting his wind back.

Gavin rubbed his head and swore. And while Benson didn’t know Roger well, he looked angrier than Benson had ever seen him and made a motion to go after the men, but Gavin put out an arm to hold him back.

No one said anything for a few moments until Benson broke the silence, nervously at first and then more insistently. “What the fuck, man? Since when did the Riley Parkers pull shit like that or bring guns with them? Right into Clark Park? What the fuck, man? Let’s go get them!

They’re probably still down on Commercial!”

“Shut up, Phil,” Gerry Gavin said, cutting him off. “That wasn’t the Riley Parkers. That was the cops.”

••• The VPD’s H-Squad remains one the more guarded secrets in the history of the Vancouver Police Department. Little information was recorded or filed about its mandate.

The poor filing techniques and an absence of digital records makes material from the early 1970s difficult to find in the VPD archive; only major crimes such as unsolved homicides are retained from that era. In 2016, I filed a Freedom of Information request to the VPD to see what I could uncover, but no surviving records or reports from the H-Squad can even verify its existence. The only time any H-Squad member has spoken publicly about their posting is when a couple of surviving members of the H-Squad agreed to be interviewed for this book.

Curiously, the one record from the Heavy Squad can be found in the public records of the Vancouver Police Museum. It is a photo of the 11-member plainclothes squad in a mock police lineup.

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a new, older gang… made up of cops Many of the officers are smiling or laughing for the camera, giving the impression that the photo was taken for their own amusement, not for official records. How this photo of the squad ended up in the Museum’s collection is unknown.

••• The Clark Parkers do not remember them fondly. “They’d show up and just say, ‘OK, who are we taking in tonight?’” recalls Gary Blackburn.

“But a lot of us back then could slip out of a pair of handcuffs. You’d flex your wrists as they put them on, and then relax them once you had them on. But then they started putting handcuffs on so tight that they’d cut into your skin, or else use two pairs at once.”

Blackburn and the others were used to cops arresting or questioning them in the park, but noticed that the attitude of police changed after the Rolling Stones riot.

One evening, the squad raced into the park in their ghost cars, slamming on their brakes in front of the gang. “They were like bikers,” says Mac Ryan.

“They almost ran us over!

We knew they were cops, but not at first, when they showed up like that. I had some weed on me, and I didn’t feel like going to jail, so I ran around to the back of the field house. The weed was in a cigarette pack, and I threw it on the roof. When I walked back, one [squad member] grabbed me and hit me in the gut.” Tossed into one of the ghost cars, Ryan was driven down to the waterfront. “They threatened me that they could do this and that or just kill me and dump my body somewhere and it would never be found.”

The only record from the VPD H-Squad (Heavy Squad) can be found in the public archives of the Vancouver Police Museum. The photo of the 11-member plainclothes squad in a mock police lineup was taken sometime in the 1970s.

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••• Many surviving Clark Parkers who recall this period insist that they were given overly hostile treatment, especially when initially the squad’s scare tactics didn’t persuade them to quit hanging around the park... Clark Parker John Twynstra encountered the H-Squad one night and received a beating that kept him recuperating at home for a week.

From this sudden change in tone of policing around the park, rumours began to spread that off-duty police officers had formed a vigilante squad to go after the Clark Parkers. It was difficult for some to fathom that such a squad was officially sanctioned. Allegations of police abuse raised by Clark Park gang members are not to be wholly disbelieved. [Police officer]Paul Stanton [name changed] candidly admits, “I don’t remember [picking up

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suspects and kicking them out of squad cars far from the park] personally. But I do know it was done in general back then. That sort of thing wouldn’t have been uncommon for the time. If you had a problem and you couldn’t do anything about it, you’d pick them up and drop them off in one end of town and let them walk back. That certainly isn’t done anymore. But, obviously, the whole squad itself isn’t the kind of thing that would or could be done anymore.”

•••

By July 1972, the heat from police was so great that the gang refrained from hanging out at the park.

Members either gathered at individual homes or, now that many were of legal age, at bars like the Biltmore Hotel, the Eldorado, Lasseter’s Den, the Blue Boy Hotel pub, or the Vanport Hotel.

As a result, the H-Squad be-

gan to harangue individual Clark Parkers on the street.

“They always wanted to know who ‘the leader’ was,” Blackburn says.

“That was always the biggest fucking joke — there was no leader. We never had one. The scene was, if you wanted to do something, you just went ahead and did it. There weren’t any rules or some code to go do this or that.

We were ‘organized’ to the extent that we stuck up for each other, and if you tried to fuck with one of us, you were going to fuck with everybody.”

“The H-Squad knew where everybody lived.

You couldn’t go anywhere after a while,” remembers Mac Ryan who, even at the worst of times, dealt with the squad irreverently. “They’d come into the nightclubs that we’d started to go to and stop and question me. I’d say, ‘I’m the leader on Tuesday.

No, wait a minute, I’m on Thursday, somebody else is tonight, and another guy is tomorrow.’ I’d tell them the leader’s name was ‘Jack,’ and when then the cops would ask what his last name is, I’d say ‘Me-off.’”

Ryan’s impudence inevitably earned him another rough midnight ride in the back of an H-Squad car.

However aggressive the squad’s tactics might have been, their success was also quickly noted by many who lived around the park who had seen their neighbourhood decline. Retired constable Vern Campbell remembers, “An old lady who lived across from Clark Park was talking to a uniformed officer one day and he asked her how things were going in the park. She said things were much better since the ‘older’ gang arrived!”

While the Clark Parkers might have temporarily abandoned the park, the H-Squad also seemed to

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embitter the hangers-on and others who were on the gang’s side or who were merely anti-police. It was believed that the police had gone above the law to get rid of the gang. “They couldn’t beat us fairly. So they had to invent a goon squad to try to put pressure on us. That didn’t stop us. It just made everybody more pissed off,” says Mouse Williamson, who thought the tactics of the squad upset what he and others in the East End regarded as the code of the streets. “It’s like cops and robbers; if you get caught fair and square — that’s the way it goes. We’re supposed to be the liars, cheaters, and schemers, not those guys.

They’re supposed to be honest, and do things by the book, but they threw the fucking book away on us.”

Aaron Chapman is a frequent contributor to the Courier and the author of the books Live at the Commodore: The Story of Vancouver’s Historic Commodore Ballroom and Liquor, Lust, and the Law: The Story of Vancouver’s Legendary Penthouse Nightclub. Chapman launches his new book Wednesday, Nov. 2, 7 p.m. at the Biltmore Cabaret. The event is hosted by Grant Lawrence and features music by Rich Hope. To hear a podcast interview with Chapman discussing The Last Gang and read the 2011 feature story “Gangs of Vancouver,” which inspired the book, go to vancourier.com.

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Opinion

Airbnb may be forced to self-regulate Company has interest in maintaining local community flavour

Jessica Barrett

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This summer I took myself on an adventure.

I’d never been to Europe before, and so I thought I’d do it right. One month, five cities, travelling with a friend for the first leg, and meeting up with my partner for the second. Since all of

us had long outgrown our early-20s backpacker phase, we weren’t keen on crashing in hostels. But nor were we rolling in the kind of disposable income commanded by even lower-end hotels. The answer, accommodationwise, was clear: Airbnb.

We were, after all, the exact demographic the homesharing platform is meant to

appeal to, and appeal it did.

My trip started in Croatia where our hosts, Klaudio and Karmen, a semi-retired couple in their 60s, were the epitome of everything Airbnb claims to stand for: warm, genuine people who went out of their way to open their home and provide us with a unique cultural experience. They

lived in a modest house on a picturesque piece of the Croatian countryside equidistant from the city of Pula and the spectacular beaches on the Adriatic Sea. They had two flats upstairs they let out to tourists, and a third was under renovation to add to the fleet.

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our mornings and evenings chatting with our hosts on their covered terrace, playing with their cats and munching on fresh figs, grapes, and tomatoes from their garden.

Klaudio even insisted we borrow his car to tour some of the area’s farther flung beaches. We quickly became fast friends and our departure scene unfolded in a manner the marketing folks at Airbnb could only dream of — tearful hugs, group photos and even a serenade sendoff courtesy of Klaudio, who busted out his accordion for an impromptu performance of Croatian folk songs. Seriously.

It was exactly the kind of encounter Airbnb is pushing with the advertising offensive launched in response to Vancouver city council’s proposed restrictions — ones that would limit short-term rentals to primary residences or extra bedrooms. The ads, featuring Vancouver residents who credit the home-sharing site for allowing them to stay put in a

the sharing economy poses on rental stock. Yet I have a hard time begrudging a company that allows many of my friends to maintain their independence as hosts.

I wasn’t even upset when I discovered this summer that my neighbours’ secondary suite had been relegated exclusively for use on Airbnb.

How could I fault them for offering a service I’d readily enjoyed in other locales?

Each place where Airbnb sets up is different, of course, and it requires a deft touch to get the balance right. The housing situation in semi-rural Croatia isn’t nearly the same as in Vancouver, where the proposal to ban short-term rentals of secondary suites is a prudent — if somewhat unfeasible — move. I can tell you it hasn’t made much difference in Berlin, where renting an entire suite on Airbnb was easy, despite the fact that it is banned. Meanwhile, in Lisbon, Airbnb is a welcome part of a burgeoning tourism industry that is taxed and

Nobody seeking accommodation through the site wants to stay in a sanitized tourist trap devoid of local culture. It’s why they book with Airbnb in the first place. pricey city, have raised many eyebrows from those skeptical of Airbnb’s intentions.

It is a marketing ploy. The ads don’t touch on the downside of the industry, notably the increased pressure on dwindling rental stock. But that doesn’t mean their portrayal is untrue. In fact, in my experience, Airbnb can actually function as a communitybuilder at the same time as it is a for-profit entity with a lock on a market that is only poised to grow.

Among millennials, life experiences like travel consistently rank as a top priority — in many cases above homeownership, steady jobs, or even having kids. We’ve grown up in a globalized world, keenly aware of all there is to explore and privileged enough to be able to do that, thanks in no small part to the disruptive forces of companies like Airbnb. That puts us in a bit of a conundrum. As a renter in Vancouver I know I am particularly vulnerable to the increased pressure

regulated. Even so, you can practically smell the wave of gentrification about to hit the city as more visitors discover its winding streets and charming, rustic flats.

With regulations difficult to enforce and their outcomes impossible to predict, it may be that Airbnb begins to self-regulate down the road in the name of selfpreservation. Because what it sells — an authentic, reallife homestay experience — is only possible so long as the community around it is healthy and intact.

Nobody seeking accommodation through the site wants to stay in a sanitized tourist trap devoid of local culture. It’s why they book with Airbnb in the first place. The company has a vested interest in mitigating its impact on communities where it operates, lest it cannibalize itself and create an opening for another disruptor to swoop in. But it will likely be the market, not the regulators, that determine what that looks like. @jm_barrett

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Fraser Valley Living

Suburban Living Feature

With thriving urban cores, diverse communities, stunning scenery and great-value housing, the Fraser Valley is a wonderful place to make your home

T

he Fraser Valle Valley, defined as the region south of the Fraser River, covers a large area that ranges from

stunning to exciting urban hubs to serene rural expanses. But one thing they all have in common is a fabulous lifestyle for residents – and, in most communities, great-value real estate compared with the Valley’s more expensive neighbour, Greater Vancouver.

Let’s take a tour of some of the highlights of the Fraser Valley, and the lifestyle each unique place has to offer.

Surrey The City of Surrey is the second largest city in British Columbia, with a population of more than 468,000. And it is set to become the most populated city in Metro Vancouver by 2020, as people from around the world continue to move to one of the youngest and most culturally diverse cities in Canada.

As Surrey is a sprawling city with a wide range of urban cores, offering diverse neighbourhoods and home prices that are similarly varied, it’s worth breaking it down into key areas.

Central Surrey | Central Surrey, which stretches from Whalley in the north to Newton in the south, is undergoing huge change. Surrey City Centre in particular is an area enjoying massive urban transformation. There is a lot of new residential development to meet the demand for housing, which has been rising steadily with the addition of the spectacular new SFU Surrey campus, the stunning new town hall, Surrey Memorial Hospital, Innovation Boulevard and new public plazas. And there are great transport links, with a SkyTrain line straight into downtown Vancouver.

The benchmark price of a home in this area, at

$674,200, $674 200 reflects the generally lower prices than its southern neighbouring communities.

Cloverdale | Cloverdale, which is home to museums, heritage buildings and a quaint “Main Street,” retains much of its historic character, which has made it a sought-after location for filming, providing the backdrop for a variety of movies and TV shows, including the popular series Smallville.

The area’s charm is reflected in a benchmark home price that is slightly higher than Central Surrey’s, at $700,600.

South Surrey and White Rock | South Surrey and White Rock offer stunning beach communities and parkland that are the envy of the whole Lower Mainland, as well as easy access to the US. The beautiful and historic resort community of Crescent Beach is one of South Surrey’s most popular attractions. South Surrey also boasts a number of fabulous parks, including Serpentine Fen Nature Reserve, Sunnyside Urban Forest and Redwood Park. And the more southerly municipality of White Rock is another famous and historic beach community that attracts many tourists and residents.

Of course, all this is going to cost a little more to live near, with the benchmark price of a composite South Surrey/White Rock home standing at $930,000 in September 2016.

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Langley L l To the east of Surrey, you’ll find the Langley, which includes the Township of Langley and the City of Langley. The latter’s town centre offers a pedestrian-oriented downtown core and a Kwantlen Polytechnic University campus located right in town, as well as a high-end shopping centre, independent stores, farmers’ markets, bigbox stores and luxury retail outlets and a plethora of community arts, culture and entertainment opportunities.

The area also includes the famous settlement of Fort Langley, which attracts many thousands of tourists to its ancient fort site and quaint high street.

Homes in the area range from urban condos in the town centre to new townhomes to large detached houses and rural properties, offering something for everyone. The benchmark price of a Langley home (composite property types) is $632,800.

Abbotsford The easternmost point of our Fraser Valley tour takes us to Abbotsford, a once-sleepy rural community that is becoming a thriving hub – not least because of its international airport, great highway links and proximity to the US border.

Often touted as the region’s next major growth area, the City of Abbotsford is aggressive and forward-thinking in its long-term economic plan, and there is a lot of residential development under way to accommodate demand.

Despite all this, prices are still very low compared with much of the rest of the Lower Mainland.

A typical home of composite property types is $468,800 as of September 2016 – the lowest of the areas on this list, or anywhere in the Fraser Valley.

Families and individuals who set up home in Abbotsford will enjoy a thriving local economy alongside outstanding natural beauty and incredible recreation and lifestyle amenities. All that for the Lower Mainland’s lowest real estate prices – not a bad deal.

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Welcome to Mahogany at Mill Lake in Abbotsford, where you can own a sophisticated Vancouver-inspired home for nearly half the price, with all of the urban amenities you want and the rural charm you crave. The downtown core is undergoing a revitalization with cool and trendy coffee shops, boutique stores, a microbrewery and restaurants – it’s becoming a real foodie lover’s scene.

“This is the first high rise to be built here in 20 years,” says Diane Delves, president and CEO of Quantum Properties, adding with prices starting from $289,900, Mahogany is more than 75 per cent sold. “The homes are of a higher standard than has been previously built in Abbotsford.

Each home is equipped with geothermal heating and cooling, energy efficient windows and LED lighting.”

Quantum Properties’ Mahogany at Mill Lake is a sleek, contemporary 26-storey concrete glass high rise offering a collection of 152 condominiums, ranging from 620 to 1400 square feet (penthouses and most sub-penthouses are sold).

Tentative occupancy is slated for summer 2018.

With views of Mill Lake to the North East and Mount Baker to the South East, each residence delivers panoramas from its floor-to-ceiling windows and generous decks and terraces (with gas barbecue outlets).

Inside the homes feature nine-foot ceilings, Canadian-made engineered hardwood flooring, natural gas fireplaces and ranges, a KitchenAid appliance package and quartz or granite countertops.

Residents will also enjoy private amenities.

Head for a swim in the indoor pool or relax in the hot tub. In addition, there is a fitness studio with changing rooms and showers, two guest suites, a club room with full kitchen and a workshop in the parkade.

“There will be a fully landscaped outdoor barbecue and patio area for residents to enjoy,” says Delves.

Mahogany will be showcased by three floors of commercial space, which will include a pharmacy, medical office and more. In the morning, you can head to the in-house bistro for your coffee and muffin or to pick up a lunch to go.

One of the best ways to explore Abbotsford’s scenic countryside is to travel on its Circle Farm Tours. These self-guided tours weave along country roads to a myriad of farms selling everything from apples and preserves to gourmet ice cream.

“It is so easy to follow the 100 Mile Diet because there is so much produce grown in the Fraser Valley,” she adds.

You are also minutes from the Abbotsford International Airport - the second largest airport in the Lower Mainland after Vancouver International Airport (YVR), and the only other airport to host major airlines.

“It is now an international airport offering direct flights to Toronto and seasonal flights to Hawaii, Mexico and Las Vegas,” says Delves, who is vice chair of the Abbotsford Airport Authority.

Quantum Properties is a locally owned and family-run company with more than 15 years of building quality condominium projects.

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Bridal Falls Cottage and RV Resort: A Breath of Fresh Air W

ith the hot real estate market extending from Vancouver in 2016, the impact on Chilliwack and Bridal Falls RV Cottage Resort has been significant. Valley residents, downsizers and those escaping the hot prices of Greater Vancouver have been snapping up cottages at record rates in this unique offering of a detached cottage on a private lot.

“With the detached home price increases we have seen in Chilliwack this year, a brand new cottage in our resort stacks up as a tremendous value. When you consider the clubhouse, pool and other amenities the lifestyle opportunity for downsizers becomes a key factor in the decision to buy,” says Ron Sturm, owner/partner in the resort.

“This summer has been incredibly busy and we’re almost totally out of Phase 1 lots, which have been an outstanding success.

We’re now doing pre-sales of Phase 2 lots, which will come on line early spring 2017.”

Bridal Falls’ two-bedroom, twobathroom plans are the country’s largest manufactured park model cottages, appealing to downsizers who have spent a lifetime living in a house and are not ready for a condo’s elevators, hallways and common living spaces.

And now there are additional floor plans available, that will “appeal to our owners’ changing lifestyle,” adds Sturm. He explains that new floor plans include flex rooms that can convert to an office, a den, an extra bedroom or to enlarge the living space,

and there is also a range of kitchen islands available that offer both food preparation and eating areas to eliminate the need for a dining table.

Inside the cottages, you’ll also find green energy upgrades such as LED lights, low E windows and a high-efficiency furnace.

“We’ve also added luxury features such as combination showers, soaker tubs and jetted tubs,” adds Sturm, “plus granite countertops are also available as an upgrade.”

The resort’s fabulous amenities are anchored by an impressive 12,000-squarefoot log cabin clubhouse that features a 50seat private theatre, gym, game and card rooms, lounge, dance floor, library area and event facilities for weddings or business conference use. “There is also a 2,000-plussquare-foot sun deck overlooking the gardens, pool and hot-tub deck,” adds Sturm.

Sturm says that it’s a great time to buy into Bridal Falls. “As a developer we’re pleased with the sense of community that is established by our residents here, and we’re very proud of the quality we are delivering to our homeowners.”

Bridal Falls is a Mecca for the outdoor enthusiast. It is minutes away from numerous lakes, including Cultus, Chilliwack

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Evolve:

EVOLVE is set to become a landmark in Surrey City Centre. The stylish 35-storey high-rise, nestled in the pedestrian-friendly master planned community of West Village, is already setting a new standard in the revitalization of the city centre.

WestStone Group’s EVOLVE is an exclusive collection of 407 concrete studio, one to two bedroom and two bedroom plus den open-concept homes.

“Combining stylish interior design with the ultimate in functionality, the homes at EVOLVE Condominiums in the heart of Surrey City Centre are truly remarkable,” says Agnes Cheung, marketing manager for Macdonald Realty Platinum Project Marketing, adding 80 per cent of the homes are sold. “Seldom in Vancouver will you be able to buy a million-dollar view for $211,900, but that’s just what buyers can get at Evolve.”

Within minutes of the Civic Plaza, City Hall, the library, Simon Fraser and Kwantlen Polytechnic Universities, Central City Mall and SkyTrain, EVOLVE still has several homes priced below $250,000 – arguably making it the best and most attractively priced new concrete high rise in the province. The residences, ranging from 316 to 1,294

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square feet, feature spacious balconies offering sweeping views of the North Shore mountains, the Fraser River, Vancouver’s cityscapes and ample green space.

EVOLVE is the second of six towers to be built in West Village by WestStone Group. When West Village is fully developed, it will truly encompass work, live and play in one of the most exciting emerging city centres. The completion date is slated for mid-2018.

This is your opportunity to live in a new home that melds the best of urban life, all for a price that is unheard of in Metro Vancouver. There’s never been a better time to buy. WestStone Group is offering up to $30,000 in incentives if you buy now. For more information, visit www.evolvecondos.com, call 604-497-0102 or email info@evolve condos.com. The Sales Centre and three show suites, located at 13328 104 Avenue, Surrey, are open daily from noon to 5 p.m. (Closed Fridays).

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Community

After his successful win on Chopped Canada aired, Torafuku Kitchen executive chef Clement Chan and his sous chef Sandy Chen went to work preparing their winning food for guests at the Vancouver Farmers Market benefit.

Growing Chefs acting executive director Jaydeen Williams welcomed young sprouts Fin Donague and Jade Van der Slagt who shared their love of vegetables and the Growing Chefs program with gala-goers.

CTV’s Tamara Taggart and Mike Killeen hosted the 30th annual Jack Webster Awards at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. Their send-up of James Corden’s “Carpool Karaoke” with Premier Christy Clark kick started a memorable night.

Vancouver Farmers Market board chair Carla Shore and executive director Tara MacDonald hosted their seventh RIPE Harvest Dinner at the Roundhouse Community Centre. The dinner aimed to raise $25,000 to provide fresh local produce to low-income families in need.

JOURNALISM OSCARS: More than a thousand newshounds piled into the Hyatt Ballroom for the 30th annual Jack Webster Awards, the Oscars of B.C. Journalism, named in honour of outspoken journalist Jack Webster. CBC led the way with 12 nominations, eventually picking up three trophies, along with the Globe and Mail.

The Courier’s Jessica Barrett received the City Mike Commentator of the Year Award for her insightful columns about millennials living in the city. Hosted by CTV’s Mike Killeen and Tamara Taggart, this year’s event also featured guest speaker Peter Mansbridge, the retiring host of CBC’s The National.

For a longer version of this column, go to vancourier.com.

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HAPPY HOURin @ MOV Celebrate innovation action with drinks, and discussion.

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Oct. 27 to Nov. 2, 2016 1. Described as a “sensual, cinematic celebration of northwestern British Columbia,” local filmmaker Nettie Wild’s latest documentary, KONELINE: our land beautiful, captures the province’s vast wildernesses with stunning images as it undergoes irrevocable change.

See for yourself, when the winner of the Best Canadian Feature Documentary prize at this year’s HotDocs opens Oct. 28 at Vancity Theatre.

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2. Acclaimed New York dance troupe Jessica Lang Dance makes its Canadian debut with a program of mixed repertoire that includes its latest work, The Thousand Yard Stare, Oct. 28 and 29 at Vancouver Playhouse. Details at dancehouse.ca.

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1 Carolina outfit Hiss Golden Messenger bring their soul- and folk-infused Americana stylings to the Fox Cabaret Oct. 29 in support of the band’s latest Merge Records release, Heart Like a Levee. Tickets at ticketmaster.ca.

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Nov. 6. This year’s theme, Living on Shared Territory, “pays tribute to the Downtown Eastside’s founding peoples, cultures and diverse neighbourhoods, as we live, learn and create together on unceded Coast Salish territories under the long shadow of our colonial past and present.” For a list of events, go to heartofthecityfestival.com for full details.

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Straight Jacket Winter explores isolation

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I’ve always liked the French phrase “mise-enscène” indicating the one who takes the script and “puts” or “places” it on stage; in English, we call

that the director. But never before have I so clearly felt the “putting” of a script on stage as I did while watching Straight Jacket Winter.

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who left their home on Rue Dorion, Montreal, in 2011 after joyfully and noisily celebrating New Year’s Eve with friends and family. Funny hats and much “Bonne Année”-ing.

Esther arrived in grey, wet, dreary Vancouver in January and found a small apartment on Bute Street.

Gilles came later, in May. Gilles is bilingual; Esther was not. When contacting Shaw to hook up Internet service, Esther discovered her telephone options were, apparently, English, Cantonese, Mandarin, Punjabi and Tagalog. She chose English; “Boot” Street, she kept repeating to a bewildered Shaw employee on the other end of the phone.

“Ah, Bute Street.”

It’s a familiar story of isolation, but the presentation is anything but familiar: Poulin-Denis and Duquette place Frédéric Lemay (as Gilles) and Julie Trépanier (as Esther) on stage as their surrogates. But Duquette and Poulin-Denis remain just offstage, in full view and behind a lot of electronic

gadgetry to deliver visual and aural effects: playing a vinyl record on a record player, projecting various items on a screen (like postcards, photographs, even a video of friends in Paris); now and again, they step up onto the stage and help shuffle furniture when Esther and Gilles move from Bute Street to another apartment. Sometimes they hand Lemay or Trépanier an item need in a scene, like a book or a box. And throughout, Duquette and Poulin-Denis step up to a microphone to deliver longer pieces of exposition en francais, of course.

On Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays there are English surtitles.

The staging, with exquisite lighting by Itai Erdal, is clever, playful and utterly charming.

As the winter wears on and the rain continues to fall, Esther and Gilles suffer severe cabin fever. Without friends and little money, they live within their four walls. They play Dictionary or speak to each other using only vowels. They read.

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What begins as a happy, romantic dance between an unhappy, adrift couple turns into a frantic grotesquerie as Lemay, in pointy hat and pyjama bottoms, prances, then gallops around the room, stopping now and again to do frenzied pushups. It is one of the most hilarious (at first) and saddest (finally) performances I’ve seen.

Winter in Vancouver has put both of them in straight jackets: confined and miserable.

These are two — make that four — engaging performers. We are always aware of two couples: onstage Esther (strawberry blond and lovely Trépanier) and onstage Gilles (slim, ponytailed Lemay) and offstage Esther Duquette and offstage Gilles PoulinDenis. The interaction between the four of them is sweet and intimate. The onstage characters are not merely stand-ins for the offstage couple; they are collaborators, interpreters, extensions of their creators.

The French have another

phrase, mise-en-abîme, that indicates a smaller image inside a larger image. What we see onstage is a smaller image of Duquette and PoulinDenis’ experience of moving from East to West. It could be, however, the story of immigrants anywhere: isolated by language, culture and shared experience.

In the play, Gilles complains to Esther that theatre in Vancouver is boring and that Vancouver audiences leap to their feet for “crappy shows” that risk “no exploration of form.” Straight Jacket Winter, produced

by Théâtre La Seizième, explores form in a huge way and, while doing so, charms the heck out of us. The tableau that brings the curtain down keeps the audience clustered around the stage in almost childlike wonder. It feels a little like Christmas.

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Last brunch and negronis that pack a punch Tim Pawsey

in creative sipping. At Rosewood Georgia Hotel’s Prohibition Lounge, there’s alchemy at play at the hands of head bartenders Brad Stanton and Robyn Gray.

Still all the rage here is the two-tone Inception Negroni (some folks even fly in from the UK to try it). This truly extraordinary drink — made with Broker’s Gin, Martini Bianco and Suze, evolves as it sits in the glass, as the ingenious ice sphere that contains a red negroni melts. Make sure you get there to order it early, as only a few spheres can be made each evening. Details at prohibitionrhg.com.

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Restaurants come and go with regularity. Yet rarely are announcements made with the sincerity which accompanied the news that Provence Mediterranean Grill will close after 19 years, following brunch service Nov. 27.

“After much soul searching, negotiating and dreaming,” Alessandra and Jean-Francis Quaglia have decided to accept an offer from their former employee, Raj Aujay.

The family says letting go of their original restaurant was akin to saying goodbye to their youngest son as he headed off on his first solo trip to Europe.

Aujay plans to offer positions to the West 10th Avenue employees, while the Quaglia family hopes to “absorb any of those who would like to stay with Provence into Marinaside and TWB [The Wine Bar] if at all possible.” Classy.

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The Prohibition Lounge’s Inception Negroni is made with Broker’s Gin, Martini Bianco and Suze and an ice sphere that contains a red negroni. PHOTO TIM PAWSEY

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Police, Vancouver School Board officials counter clown craziness John Kurucz

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When police have to remind residents it’s not OK to shoot or attack someone dressed as a clown, it’s safe to say the tipping point of the recent “clownpocalypse” phenomenon has been reached.

While that example happened in Utah, police and school board officials in Vancouver are trying to get in front of the developing situation sending out messages to parents and students alike to report any and all suspicious clown activity.

Two weeks ago, Vancouver School Board staff asked

principals across the district to “provide advice” to parents amid scores of reports across the globe of “creepy clowns” involved in bullying and intimidating behaviour.

In the context of schoolspecific incidents, the threats are predominantly made on social media sites such as Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat.

“We would encourage you to talk to your children about reporting any concerning images or threats should they come across them on social media,” the letter stated. “Students are encouraged to report directly to school administration, counsellors or their

school police liaison officer.”

The school district is working alongside the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) to assess and monitor the situation.“I am not aware of any incident involving someone dressed as a clown scaring kids at schools that has been reported to the VPD,” said VPD spokesperson Const. Brian Montague.

“Obviously the behaviour is not acceptable.”

In a statement provided to the Courier, VSB staff acknowledged that no threats had been made at Vancouver schools, though the letters were intended to encourage conversation and vigilance.

“The advice encourages parents to talk to their children about reporting to staff any concerning images or threats they see on social media,” the statement said.

Other school districts in Metro Vancouver and across B.C. have issued similar notices. A group called “Safer Schools Together” sent out the following warning to parents in Coquitlam on Oct. 7.

“It is imperative that you talk to your children about reporting these threats if they see them on social media and bring them to the attention of school officials and/or law enforcement,” the letter stated.

“It is also important to make

students aware that if they engage in, or participate in any way, in this type of threat related behaviour they will be [sic] experience discipline and/or criminal charges.”

That letter was issued the day after a pair of Prince George teens were arrested for posting clown-related threats on Instagram.

The phenomenon made headlines across the U.S. over the summer, with numerous reports of creepy clown sightings, confrontations and other threats.

Police in Orem, Utah issued a statement on the detachment’s Facebook page on Oct. 3 after receiving dozens

of phone calls and more than 40 questions via social media in one day about clowns. The statement advises residents to consult with state laws regarding the kinds of force that can be used against clowns and how police can respond to clown-related calls.

“If someone is standing on the sidewalk, dressed like a clown and they don’t have any weapons and they are just standing there not chasing anyone around and you call us, when we respond and that person decides to look at us and walk the other way without saying a word, we can’t do anything,” the post said. @JohnKurucz

Public Auction: Sale of Land for Taxes – November 2

Development Permit Board Meeting: October 31

The City of Vancouver will hold a public auction of lands on which taxes or other charges have been delinquent for two years. Under the provisions of the Vancouver Charter, the auction will be held:

The Development Permit Board and Advisory Panel will meet:

Wednesday, November 2, 2016 at 10 am Vancouver City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue, Ground Floor, Media Gallery

Monday, October 31, 2016 at 3 pm Vancouver City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Ground Floor, Town Hall Meeting Room

Seating is limited and on a first-come, first-served basis.

to consider the following development permit application:

The list of properties to be offered for sale will be available at: vancouver.ca/taxsale starting Friday, October 28, 2016.

3530 Sawmill Crescent To develop this site with a multiple-dwelling development consisting of a 25-storey residential tower and a six-storey mid-rise building, and containing a total of 314 dwelling units over two levels of underground parking with vehicle access from Sawmill Crescent.

THE LIST OF PROPERTIES IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE. Purchasers at the sale are required to pay the upset price by cash or other certified funds. Delinquent taxpayers may make payments before the sale starts.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: 604-871-6986 or 3-1-1

TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM: 604-873-7770 or lidia.mcleod@vancouver.ca

Public Hearing: November 15 Tuesday, November 15, 2016 at 6 pm City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Third Floor, Council Chamber Vancouver City Council will hold a Public Hearing to consider zoning for these locations: 1. 1102 Commercial Drive To designate the existing building at 1102 Commercial Drive, which is listed on the Vancouver Heritage Register, in the ‘B’ category.

2. 7638-7664 Cambie Street To rezone 7638-7664 Cambie Street from RT-1 (Two Family Dwelling) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a six-storey residential building, containing 34 dwelling units. A height of 21.3 metres (70 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 2.40 are proposed.

3. 454 West Pender Street To rezone 454 West Pender Street from DD (Downtown) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to increase the floor space

ratio from 6.00 to 8.56 to allow for the construction of an 11-storey, mixed-use building with commercial at grade and residential units above, all of which will be secured as market rental housing. A height of 32 metres (105 feet) is proposed.

4. 424-428 West Pender Street To rezone 424 428 West Pender Street from DD (Downtown) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to increase the floor space ratio from 6.00 to 8.14 to allow for the construction of an 11-storey mixed-use building with commercial at grade and residential units above, all of which will be secured as market rental housing.

A height of 32 metres (105 feet) is proposed.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THESE APPLICATIONS INCLUDING LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTIES: vancouver.ca/rezapps or 604-873-7038

Anyone who considers themselves affected by the proposed by-law amendments may speak at the Public Hearing. Please register individually beginning at 8:30 am beginning on November 4 until 5 pm on the day of the Public Hearing by emailing publichearing@vancouver.ca or by phoning 604-829-4238. You may also register in person at the door between 5:30 and 6 pm on the day of the Public Hearing. You may submit your comments by email to mayorandcouncil@vancouver.ca, or by mail to: City of Vancouver, City Clerk’s Office, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 1V4. All submitted comments will be distributed to Council and posted on the City’s website. Please visit vancouver.ca/ publichearings for important details.

Copies of the draft by-laws will be available for viewing beginning on November 4 at the City Clerk’s Office in City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, Monday to Friday from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm.

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2 All meetings of Council are webcast live at vancouver.ca/councilvideo, and minutes of Public Hearings are available at vancouver.ca/councilmeetings (posted approximately two business days after a meeting). For real time information on the progress of City Council meetings, visit vancouver.ca/speaker-wait-times or @VanCityClerk on Twitter.

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The horror, the horror Glow in the Garden

Sandra Thomas

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Fright Nights

Playland at the PNE Now through Oct. 31 frightnights.ca Fright Nights, western Canada’s most terrifying adult-themed Halloween event, is back to haunt Playland with seven haunted houses, two thrilling live shows, 15 blood-chilling rides and 90 monsters roaming the grounds.

The Beast has returned this Halloween alongside other favorite rides such as the Pirate Ship, Hell’s Gate and Atmosfear. Experience first-hand paranormal activity in the Haunted Mansion or overcome your fear of clowns in Car-N-Evil haunted house.

Guests can save $6 by purchasing tickets online or at participating 7-Eleven locations. Guests can also purchase a Rapid Pass, which offers access to expedited lines for the Beast, wooden roller coaster, Music Express, Hellevator, Atmosfear and every haunted house.

VanDusen Botanical Garden, 5251 Oak St. Now through Oct. 31 vandusengarden.org VanDusen Botanical Garden, famous for its holiday light shows, has added a new event to its illuminating offerings.

Visitors can check out almost 1,000 pumpkins displayed throughout the shadowy pathways of the woodland gardens. Glow in the Garden also includes spellbinding lights, ghoulish music and glowing pumpkin characters created by award-winning carvers Clive Cooper and Bruce Waugh. Cooper is demonstrating live pumpkin carving Oct. 27 and 30.

Children can also create fun Halloween crafts, while parents pick up a pumpkin and hot apple cider at the Taves Family Farms popup shop on the plaza. Visitors who arrive in costume and share photos using the hash tag #VanDusenGlow have the chance to win a grand prize.

Hidden

UBC Botanical Garden, 6804 Southwest Marine Dr. Now through Nov. 19 itsazoo.org Due to overwhelming demand, ITSAZOO has extended the run of its bonechilling, site-specific horror event Hidden for another week — with eight additional performances. The production begins with audience members loading into a van belonging to the Lost Lovers Murder Tour and setting off toward their destination. As they travel into the woods, their tour guide shares the gruesome story of a murder that took place in the forest exactly 20 years ago — and of a restless spirit who still walks the woods. Upon arrival, participants watch a dramatic re-enactment of three university students’ final hours and the evening quickly takes a terrifying and unexpected turn for the worst.

Warning: This show contains graphic violence and coarse language. Not suitable for anyone under

the age of 16. This is a play that requires the audience to walk in minimal light through the forest, so ease of mobility is necessary.

Not recommended for anyone with a fear of heights or the dark. Shows take place rain or shine and audience members are encouraged to dress for the elements.

Halloween Vampires

The Cinematheque, 1131 Howe St. Oct. 29 to 31 thecinematheque.ca This Halloween, sink your fangs into three succulent specimens of revisionist vampire cinema: The Fearless Vampire Killers (Roman Polanski’s only film with future wife and Manson Family victim Sharon Tate), The Hunger (starring David Bowie) and Kathryn Bigelow’s feature debut Near Dark.

Halloween Vampires opens with Bite Nite, a night of costumes, prizes, bloody good refreshments, and a triple-bill screening.

For more listings, go to vancourier.com.

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LGBT+ wedding show brings CITY LIVING Rebecca Blissett

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A woman was unable to hire the services of a photographer whose work she admired because she was told the wedding would make the photographer uncomfortable. A couple who work in the wedding industry felt they had to hide the fact that they were a couple from their clients.

Two women wanted to put their names on a vendor’s sign-up sheet during a recent big wedding show, but there was nowhere for them to sign. The form had the words “bride” and “groom” and no room for any other combination.

These are just some of the reasons behind the existence of the Union LGBT+ Wedding Show held Saturday at Beaumont Studios.

“This is filling a big hole,” said portrait photographer Belle Ancell who joined creative forces with event planner Cristie Rosling to create the first wedding show of its kind in Western Canada.

“LGBT couples are not

represented at the standard wedding show. One of our attendees was saying it was nice to come here and not have to explain yourself, not have to worry what the reactions are going to be — they can be their true selves.”

Ancell and Rosling were floored by the fact nobody else had done such a wedding show in the city. So, after joking about doing their own, they got serious. Nine months later the Union LGBT+ Wedding Show was born.

The women chose the name “Union” because their intention was to bring the community together.

The word was also picked as a nod to the gay rights movement. (Before 2005, when same-sex marriage was legally recognized nationwide, gay people in some provinces had to settle for civil unions, which didn’t carry the same social weight and legal benefits as marriage.)

It was also important to Rosling to create a show that not only looked different from the typical convention centre wedding show, but one that also felt

different. Enter Beaumont Studios with its warm lighting, wooden floors with streaks of turquoise, and rolls of white, seamless paper hanging near the exposed ceiling.

“I didn’t want it to look like any wedding show I’d ever been to,” said Rosling.

“They’re focused on a very specific wedding,” added Ancell. “They’re always orientated towards the bride.

Even today with heterosexual couples, a lot of males want to be involved with the wedding. Here, it’s for everybody. We have some just exceptional vendors.”

Peau De Loup was one of those. The North Vancouver company makes masculine-influenced clothing tailored for the female frame. This means designer Adelle Renaud’s beautifully made button-down shirts are smaller in the shoulders and wider in the hips. They also won’t gape across the chest thanks to the box pleats Renaud has sewn in her designs for adjustability (they can be “let out” if the wearer gains weight or sewn back if the wearer loses).

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Peau De Loup also uses sustainable fabrics, sourced from leftover materials at garment factories that would otherwise be tossed.

When Renaud worked as a production manger in these factories in Asia, she noticed unused heaps of scrap material from men’s clothing manufacturers. She asked about it and was told she was welcome to what was considered to be unusable.

“Now I obviously get charged for it,” she said.

Renaud and business partner Erin McLeod, who is also a veteran keeper for the Canadian women’s national soccer team, designed the sharp, black suits the players wore off the pitch during the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup. Now, Peau De Loup has its

own wedding attire line.

Being at the Union show was the right fit for Renaud who remembered venue hunting for her own wedding a year ago. At one of the locations, she was asked where her husband was — in front of wife-to-be Robyn Renaud, who was also at the Union show.

“We weren’t upset at them for not knowing,” Robyn recalled. “It was just... awkward.”

The two dozen vendors in attendance at Union included jewelry from Tien Neo Eamas, a man of many firsts. He was the first Asian transgendered man to publicly come out in Vancouver and is the first (and only, to his knowledge) trans jeweller in the city. Union is also

his first wedding show.

“I don’t honestly want to go to mainstream wedding fairs because, first of all, my designs are minimal and accessible. As an artist I’m interested in speaking heart-to-heart with people and I’m interested in hearing those stories.”

Eamas has been smithing since 1996, also spending his time as a feng shui consultant, performer, inspirational speaker and alchemist. His “love bands” are designed together and made together, because Eamas said it’s important they reflect, and hold, the love and care they were made with.

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Justine Little is part of a team organizing a local celebration of Samhain. It takes place Oct. 31 at the Korean Community Centre on East Hastings at Clark. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Samhain is the Celtic festival that has given Halloween much of its flavour. The spookiness of Halloween owes a lot to the Celtic idea that this time of year is when the veil between this world and the other world is at its thinnest.

“It’s a day when spirits might be passing back and forth and also a day to send messages to the dead,” says Justine Little, who is part of a team organizing a local celebration of Samhain (pronounced SOW-en; rhymes with Cowan or Gowan).

Little adheres to the Reclaiming movement, a neo-pagan concept that emerged in San Francisco in the 1970s and whose most notable voice may be the author Starhawk. Reclaiming’s followers draw from earth-based pagan and magical traditions.

Founded in feminist and Goddess-based ideas, Re-

claiming also emphasizes dismantling structures of power and domination.

“It’s a movement that was created to marry inner spiritual work with work in the outer world and activism,” says Little. “It’s inherently very political...

There’s a lot of people involved in the movement that work with environmental groups or work with antiracism. There’s a lot of people in the movement that are involved in queer activism.”

Little, who grew up on Vancouver Island, became a student of Reclaiming to give her spiritual nourishment for her activism.

“I’ve been involved in feminist and activist communities over the past 10 years and something that I realized a few years ago is that I needed to explore my spirituality more, just to be able to support that work and make it feel sustainable,” she says.

In Starhawk’s writing, Samhain is described as “the witches’ new year,” a marking of the time of death and regeneration,

part of the circle of life.

Its core message, she writes, is that “death is no barrier to love, and every ending brings a new beginning.”

Centuries ago, the end of the harvest was believed to be when deceased ancestors would return to join the living in the feast.

Gifts of food were offered for the returning dead — a ritual still practiced in forms like the Mexican Dia de los Muertos and, more obliquely, in giving candy to children, who are viewed as ancestors in new forms.

The latter incarnation — trick-or-treating — also pays homage to the practice of “guising,” in which 19th-century Scottish and Irish kids would dress in disguise and carry hollowed out turnips door-to-door to collect money or apples.

This, in turn, seems to stem from an earlier ritual of donning ghostlike costumes in order to blend with the spirits who may be hanging around at this time of year.

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who have been chosen to participate in our ritual that way,” she says. “Part of that is invoking the elements, invoking some gods and goddesses to help with the work and then there’s some different elements that will happen during the ritual.

One of them is a trance, so people will be invited to go on kind of an inner journey that will be led by someone who is speaking.”

A part of the ritual will include celebrating the lives of people who have passed away in the last

year and also celebrating new lives that have come into the world, people who have been born in the past year, recognizing death and new life as part of the regeneration defined by this time of year.

“Birth, growth, death and renewal are a cycle that plays over and over again through natural systems and human lives,” writes Starhawk. “Embracing this cycle, we don’t need to fear death, but instead can see it as a stage of life and a gateway to some new form of being.” @Pat604Johnson

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The Samhain event Little is helping organize takes place Oct. 31 at the Korean Community Centre on East Hastings at Clark. Little emphasizes that everyone is welcome and there is no need to identify with any label or religion to attend. However, getting there by 6 p.m. is important because the rituals will be explained in advance and no one will be admitted after the rituals start at 7.

“The ritual begins with creating a sacred space to do magic by people

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death and regeneration An earlier Christian event also factors in.

About 1,000 years ago, the church declared Nov. 1 to be All Saints’ Day (to honour all the saints, obviously) and Nov. 2 was declared All Souls’ Day (to honour the deceased, particularly family). The celebrations began the evening before the two memorial days — Oct. 31. Eventually, All Saints’ Eve, or All Hallows’ Eve, integrated pagan rituals and imagery, as happened frequently as Christianity spread into realms of earth-based religions, and

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Cupping growing in popularity since Olympic Games Jane Mundy

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During recent televised coverage of the 2016 Olympic Games, it was hard to miss the large polkadot-shaped spots marking the backs of gold-medal swimmer Michael Phelps or gymnast Alex Naddour.

Their bruises brought “cupping,” an ancient Chinese healing practice, into the international spotlight.

And while cupping isn’t yet

considered a mainstream treatment in western medicine, and most conventional medical doctors aren’t convinced of the benefits, winning gold medals is evidence enough for me.

Proponents of cupping say it helps athletes recover faster and perform better by improving circulation to problem areas, breaking down scar tissue and easing muscle and joint pain. Cupping involves placing glass, bamboo or plastic jars on the

skin and creating a vacuum by suctioning out the air. The underlying tissue is raised, or sucked, partway into the cup.

Cupping is often used in conjunction with acupuncture to treat a variety of ailments, from arthritis to insomnia. I’m constantly suffering from a stiff neck and shoulders brought on by sitting too long in front of a computer or lying on the couch for hours on end binge-watching Netflix.

So after spotting it during

Olympic coverage, I decided to give it a whirl.

“I first ask the patient’s concern, such as fatigue, anxiety, or even cellulite,” explained Melanie Kwak, a registered acupuncturist and traditional Chinese medicine practitioner at Yaletown Wellness Center.

My concern is muscle pain so Kwak first massaged my shoulders and immediately found the knots and areas that are tight to determine where to place the cups.

“Think of cupping as massage in reverse. Rather than applying pressure to muscles, the suction uses pressure to pull skin, tissue and muscles upward,” said Kwan as she placed a flame inside 12 cups and quickly set them on my back. “When the flame goes out, the heated air makes a vacuum under the sealed cup as it cools, which promotes increased blood flow to that area.”

I didn’t feel the heat. Rather, a pinch and pressure that

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was slightly uncomfortable.

Kwan is in the, “No pain, no gain,” camp. Like a deep tissue massage, the benefits of cupping last longer if you can handle a more intense treatment. It wasn’t pleasurable.

Cupping is heavy-duty compared with regular massage.

My treatment took 45 minutes, starting with massage. For the rest of the day I felt calm and relaxed and had a good night’s sleep (I’m a borderline insomniac.)

“You typically see results after the first session.

Depending upon whether your problem is acute or chronic, it might take three visits until you really get the benefits,” said Kwan.

I also had a cupping session with Cody Zhang, acupuncture and cupping therapist at Vancouver’s Electra Health Floor Health and Wellness Clinic. Zhang said cupping is not usually done as a treatment by itself, but is combined with other forms of Chinese medicine, such as acupuncture.

“Most of my patients — from runners who use the same movements to office workers who are restricted in movement — suffer from chronic pain,” said Zhang.

“Cupping can remove toxicity in the deep muscle layer and at the same time it brings new blood to the area — lack of circulation usually creates the pain.”

Zhang has successfully treated patients with numerous medical issues, including an emaciated child suffering from malnutrition and an elderly person with diabetic foot complications.

But cupping is not appropriate for everyone and someone without proper training may not be aware of the potential harm.

Be sure to ask a therapist for credentials before booking a session. Zhang says he trained at the largest traditional Chinese medicine hospital in China for four years, before coming to Canada where he continued his education, including 1,300 hours of clinical practice. Upon completion of his training, Zhang received a diploma from PCU College of Holistic Medicine in Vancouver, formerly known as Pacific Coastal University.

Meanwhile, I’ve been back at my computer for three days and my back feels a lot better than it looks. (I’m told the bruising will disappear within five days.) It feels warm and loose, and slightly tender.

The knots haven’t returned and my muscles aren’t tight.

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I ride to bring change to the city The Biko app has 6,000 downloads since launching six weeks ago

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Molly Millar Age: 36 Bike: Public C7 in purple Time on this bike: Three years Favourite Vancouver bike route: From Fairview over the Cambie Bridge, which connects to the Beatty and then Dunsmuir separated bike lanes into downtown where she works.

It’s not just the headline-grabbing beer. Bikos, the currency that grows with each kilometre a person pedals or walks, can be cashed in for discounts on food, bike repairs, jeans, coffee and more.

Molly Millar, Biko’s city manager in Vancouver, is tasked with signing new

or calmed. I start my trip on Heather Street, connect with the Cambie Bridge bike lane, which connects with the Beatty separated bike lane, which connects with the Dunsmuir separated bike lane, which takes me all the way into downtown. It’s never been easier or more relaxing.

businesses and rewards to the free downloadable app, which started in Colombia and is designed to reward people for getting out of their cars and using active transport, especially biking, in their city.

A daily commuter who’s cycled around the Americas and Europe, Millar also racks up bikos — pronounced bike-o, not beek-o.

Vancouver is the first English-language city in the world in which to use Biko.

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It has been incredible so far. The charity competition that are running is blowing our minds. A ton of people are using the app every day in Vancouver, and redemptions are going well so people are enjoying the rewards locally.

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Molly Millar, the city manager for the cycling app Biko, rides across the Cambie Bridge along the route she takes to and from work. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

whole-heartedly. Vancouver leads North American cities in terms of commute by bike, we edged out Portland last year, and this summer we put in three and a half new protected bike lanes,

and installed a bike share.

So our numbers have gone through the roof.

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summer with the addition of three and a half protected bike lanes and many more painted bike lanes. My new favourite bike route is my route to and from work because now it’s all protected

I have long believed that cities are better when more people move around them by walking and by bike. I have supported that passion and that belief by working and volunteering in the active transportation industry in Vancouver.

When Biko arrived, fresh on the scene three months ago, they were referred to me and vice versa. After meeting them and listening to the Biko story, I knew I had found some true innovators looking to create greener, better, smarter cities around the world.

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Instead of helping students cope with their weaknesses, it uses a series of cognitive exercises to strengthen the areas of their brains that cause their learning disabilities.

Developed by educator Barbara Arrowsmith-Young, the Arrowsmith Program has helped children with learning difficulties since 1978.

Before discovering EA, Jill, a mother of two boys, worried that she and her husband were doing something wrong.

“Our oldest son was attending a private school in the city,” Jill recalls. “When he was diagnosed with learning disabilities, we thought, ‘What’s happening?’”

Jill and her husband decided to explore the option of enrolling him in a program dedicated to children with learning disabilities.

After some research and a conversation with Howard Eaton, EA’s founder, they chose to move their oldest son to the school.

“He was so young at the time that we thought if EA wasn’t a good fit, we could explore other options,” Jill says. “We felt trepidation about taking him out of regular school and worried that perhaps we should wait.”

Jill’s worries were unfounded. After enrolling her son at EA, he felt relieved to be at a school where he could cope.

“I think he was able to exhale a little bit and relax. He felt accepted for who he was.”

Jill’s oldest son finished a fouryear program and is now back in the mainstream school system. Her youngest son is in his second year at EA. If Jill could give other parents one piece of advice, it would be: “Don’t wait. It just gets more challenging for the child and the family. Both my sons worked hard at EA, and now we have two boys who are on their way to a better future.”

For more information about Eaton Arrowsmith School or the Arrowsmith Program, call 604.538.1710, email info@ eatonarrowsmith.com, visit the website at eatonarrowsmith.com, or take an interactive tour of one of our schools.

Eaton Arrowsmith can also be found on Facebook and Twitter.

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Sports & Recreation

Potential for Biko data to inform public works Continued from page 33

On what works and what need improvement…

Cycling in Vancouver is great right now. We have our new public bike sharing system, Mobi, and the City of Vancouver added some much needed new protected bike lanes over the summer. Cycling is

the preferred way to get around the city for many.

However, we can’t sit back say, “Ah, we did it. We made this city great for cycling.” The City of Vancouver must continue to connect the existing bike routes and complete the network. I compare it to icing half a hockey rink. Would the players play on the rink

if only half the lines were drawn? The more comprehensive the bike route network is, the more people will cycle. Which means fewer cars on the road, making life in the city better for all.

On Biko’s role in this ongoing growth…

Biko has a powerful role to play in continuing

to build out the network of bike paths because the app collects some of the best, real-time urban cycling data that exists today. We can work together with urban planners to determine, for example, where the next bike path should be built or where the next Mobi bike station should be placed.

On cycling at sunset in warm weather…

My favourite ride ever is riding home from Third Beach along the Seawall on a summer’s eve. Everyone is relaxed and mellow because it’s 9 p.m. at night, but people are out enjoying the summer evening. The seawall route takes you through so many different neigh-

bourhoods and areas on the ride back to East Van. You see families spread out on blankets at English Bay, people out for the evening in the West End, friends playing that last game of volleyball before the sun goes down, groups of people out for walks. I love Vancouver like this. @MHStewart

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

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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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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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WEEKLY FORECAST: OCTOBER 30 - NOVEMBER 5, 2016 Sunday/Monday highlight the main themes of the entire month ahead: secrecy, mysteries, research and investigation, hidden valuables, desire for sexual intimacy or pregnancy, high finance (investments, debts) lifestyle changes, commitments and their consequences. You’ll be helped in all these during the month ahead by a heightened intuition.

Sometimes your subconscious will direct your actions – let it, for it is leading you well.

Your home life remains under stress, which could have one of two outcomes for singles: either a potential love affair breaks up or never even begins due to some negative situation on your home front; or a love affair might begin on the home front, and that negative situation becomes a spur to draw you together to fix it. For married Librans, this is a time of friction that will end after Nov. 8. Overall, you’ll be better served in the outside world, then by staying in the home.

The weeks ahead feature relationships, opportunities, exciting meetings, relocation themes, contract signed agreements, litigation, new horizons and fresh air. The zones are highlighted Sunday/Monday – two perfect days to start a project in these areas, as all the aspects are good, beneficial. You might meet a future mate, although the larger overriding trend this winter leans toward work rather than Love

Although you are immersed in a year of quietude and contemplation, this month – to Nov. 21 – fills you with energy and successful action.

You will attract attention, you will be a leader, and in general you will get your way. Sunday/ Monday brings both a peak and a start to this trend. Expect to be noticed, expect calls – but mostly, turn your attention towards starting a significant project.

Your sexual and financial drives remain intense from now till Nov. 8, Gemini. This can help a recent romance blossom into a more fully life embracing relationship. You are also continuing to receive affectionate responses from others this week and next. You’re luck in love will remain high until the autumn of next year. But this week and the two to come emphasize chores, drudgery, machinery, service personnel and your daily health.

Your energy is low for the next three weeks. Your recent hot hunger for money, and your determination to get it, evident all October, will fade by Nov. 8. Even so, the entire three weeks ahead will bring you flavour in money zones. This is a good time to cultivate clients, seek a pay raise, sell unwanted items and to purchase special items. This trend reaches a peak and a new beginning Sunday/Monday – all aspects are good, so charge ahead to start projects in these zones.

Relationships remain intense, Cancer. Until Nov. 8, this intensity can cause an enemy’s, angry reactions, or hot attractions, or even career partnerships. Fortunately, you are immersed in a month of love, affection and romance, which should tell you a lot about the intensity that you feel this week and next. Sunday/Monday are very romantic and could even trigger a new love affair.

This is a lovely month, Capricorn. Your popularity rises, your optimism is bombproof, light romance dances around you and a wish might come true.

(Your biggest wishes will tend to come true from autumn 2017 to autumn 2018.) This theme fills Sunday/Monday: charge ahead, be social, make new contacts, and dream of future possibilities. You can start a strong, healthy social or romantic project.

Your luck’s great, all lights are green.

Your work is still intense, Leo, until November 8.

Balancing this, romance is sweet and affectionate until Nov. 11. But the main emphasis now to late month remains on your home, children, garden, nutrition, landscaping, renovations, nature, foundations, sales territory at work, security, retirement prospects – and rest. Be sure to take power naps.

This is your month of ambition, Aquarius (although it takes place within a larger trend which steers your attention and efforts toward more philosophical, humane, and intellectual activities than ambition usually affords). A fine streak of affectionate socializing lasts until Nov. 11 and helps your career networking efforts, which can yield substantial rewards. The themes of ambition, career, and worldly standing are emphasized Sunday/Monday in a lucky, productive way.

A romantic streak, existing since late September, continues until Nov. 8. Your home remains a place of affection and ease until November 11. But the main emphasis this week and the next two lies on quick trips, errands, paperwork, calls and messages and casual acquaintances. These themes are highlighted Sunday/Monday. Both days are filled with benevolent aspects, so you can proceed and succeed at your own pace.

Ah, Pisces – you’re in for a pleasurable month!

You still have great money optimism until Nov. 8. In addition bosses and parents favour you, and will give a willing ear to your suggestions or requests until Nov. 11. But these are secondary issues. This week and the next two feature romance, love, adventure, pleasure, beauty, charming kids, speculation and creativity, and generally lucky risk taking.

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Mary Lynn Gallinger of Ladner, BC passed away peacefully at the Irene Thomas Hospice Residence after a recent stroke. She will be missed terribly by her children Pat, Martha, John, and Andrew.

Mary faced many challenges in her life and conquered them all with courage, strength, and grace.

She had four children, and from the ages of three, six, nine and twelve, raised them completely on her own. She achieved a bachelor’s degree and a certificate of education and taught school in Chambly and Granby, Quebec for twenty-six years. She was well respected and loved by colleagues and students alike.

When Mary won a sabbatical in 1971, she used the opportunity to give her children the experience of living abroad and chose the University of Sheffield in England to work on her Master’s degree in children’s literature. She took the “experience” a step further and traveled to the UK via a Russian ocean liner! She always did everything she could to ensure a happy, healthy and somewhat adventurous life for her four kids and they continually called her “the best Mum in the world”.

Mary retired from teaching at the age of sixty and moved out west to beautiful BC, where three of her children lived. BC and the neighbouring state of Washington provided the perfect place for Mary to enjoy what she loved best: the great outdoors, sunshine, wildlife, long drives, and sailing.

Soon after settling in Tsawwassen, Mary began a second career of baby-sitting and tutoring.

Children and teaching were still in her blood, and she made the most of it, looking after numerous kids for a span of fifteen years! She also joined a French club, where she met new friends and maintained her status of being bilingual. Her retirement was everything she could hope for, and like so many things in her life, she expressed such a sincere appreciation and joy for all that it was.

Laughing at Seinfeld, Doc Martin, Mash and Alan Monk, pussy cats, ice cream cones, and reading were some of her other favourite things… and Mary was famous for writing greeting cards and letters to family and friends around the world.

Mary made the most of life and was always happy, never ever complained and was truly loved by everyone who knew her.

She is survived by her four children, and numerous nephews and nieces.

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RENTALS

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