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Civic beat 2016: Of points of order, press releases and presents Mike Howell

mhowell@vancourier.com

Sadly, another year of hunting, gathering and typing has come to a close.

That means it’s time to roll out my annual list of questionable observations I stored in the brain’s storage locker of the civic scene in 2016.

As I said in last year’s preamble, it’s also a great way to fill a page with random stuff and drop a few search engine-friendly names to bring some eyeballs to the website — and some advertisers, too, so that I can keep my job.

That stuff about the website, of course, doesn’t apply in print.

But whatevs.

I’ll get to my list in a sec.

I first wanted to share with you a press release I received from the city that I kept to top the list. I thought about deleting it, but it was too good to discard. I kept it because it will give you some insight into how communicating in simple words is, apparently, a lost art.

Joo Kim Tiah of the Holborn Group was busy last holiday season sending gifts of chocolates to city councillors. Will he do the same this year? The Holborn Group built the downtown Trump Tower and is the developer behind the Little Mountain housing development. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

I’ll begin with the headline: “City and partners to host discussion on catalyz-

ing social connections.”

Hands up, if you can tell me what that means.

Tick, tick, tick…

Nobody?

Apparently, the release

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was to promote an event called “CONNECT: Catalyzing a Social Movement, an action-oriented forum aimed at sharing tools, research and practice related to the impact our built and social environments have on social connection.”

Now, are you with me?

Didn’t think so.

Here’s some more word magic: “CONNECT brings together community champions, regional stakeholders and systems builders to explore the impact we can collectively have on connection and building.”

Yes, champions and my personal favourite, stakeholders.

Anyway, without further ado, I must give The Worst Press Release (Is There Such Thing as a Good One?) From Government Award to… the City of Vancouver! The obligatory hand claps, whiskey howls and vuvuzela blasts please.

On to the rest of the list…

City Councillor Most Likely To Call For Point Of Order During A Meeting: NPA Coun.

Melissa De Genova.

Either the ruling Vision Vancouver crew is a nasty bunch that doesn’t adhere to rules of conduct and causes De Genova to repeatedly quote section 5.2 of procedure bylaw no.

9756 and call for a point of order, or she is just a big fan of Al Pacino’s

work in And Justice for All and the “you’re out of order” bit.

Developer Most Likely To Give Chocolates To City Councillors At This Time of Year: Joo Kim Tiah of the Holborn Group, who last holiday season gave chocolates (valued at $50) to the majority of council. Adriane Carr and Geoff Meggs donated their chocolates to the Atira Women’s Resource Society. Tim Stevenson gave his to the West End Seniors Network and Kerry Jang sent his back. Raymond Louie donated his to “a local seniors group.” Melissa De Genova kept the chocolates, but donated a $55 gift box to city staff.

George Affleck kept his chocolates.

Newsman Most Likely To Drop the Ball On A Story That Would Have Made Guitarist-Worshipping Dudes Proud: Uh, that would be yours truly.

Picked up the phone a few months ago and the guy on the line said he was Steve Vai and heard I wanted to interview him about his tour. No, I said, I didn’t request to speak to you Mr. virtuoso-guitargod-who-was-voted-10thgreatest-guitarist-in-theworld-by-Guitar World Magazine-and-has-soldmore-than-15-millionrecords. C’mon, he was ranked 10th.

Federal Minister Most Likely Not To Be Interviewed By the Courier: Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould, who also happens to be the Liberals’ MP for Vancouver-Granville.

The Courier first made a request in July to speak with the minister for a series on Aboriginal peoples in Vancouver.

That led to more phone calls, more messages and an email thread with her staff longer than a Steve Vai solo. Response from Wilson-Raybould’s staff in October: “Is there a reason you have to write that the minister has been unable to speak to you for this series?”

More of this nonsense can be viewed online.

In the meantime, happy holidays and I wish you all the best in the new year in building your social environments and connecting with champions and stakeholders. @Howellings

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Overdose drug deaths in Vancouver reach 164 in 11 months Total deaths for B.C. expected to surpass 800 by year’s end

Mike Howell

mhowell@vancourier.com

Chief Coroner Lisa Lapointe announced Monday that 755 people have died in B.C. of an illicit drug overdose between January and November, a 70 per cent increase over the same period last year.

The death toll reached that level after a recordbreaking November in which 128 people died, the highest number of deaths recorded in a single month in recent memory in B.C. In Vancouver, the statistics show 164 people died in the first 11 months of the year. That’s 30 more for the same period last year and 64 more than in 2014.

Police said an additional nine people died in the city last Thursday night, one of many troubling statistics that has Lapointe warning that December “is looking like a very bad month.”

The synthetic narcotic, fentanyl, has been largely to blame for the carnage, with 60 per cent of the deaths between January and Octo-

ber in the province linked to the powerful drug.

Police in Vancouver have also confirmed that carfentanil, an opioid that is 100 times more toxic than fentanyl, was linked to the overdose death of a 39-yearold man last month in an East Side apartment.

“Clearly, illicit drugs are becoming increasingly unpredictable and increasingly perilous,” Lapointe told reporters at a news conference in Victoria. “It may be that there has been more toxic fentanyl than usual circulating, or we may be facing the terrifying possibility of carfentanil being introduced broadly into the illicit drug stream, or the arrival of another particularly lethal analog of fentanyl.”

In reviewing 325 of the fentanyl-related deaths this year, the B.C. Coroners Service found that at least one other substance — mostly cocaine — was present in 96 per cent of the cases. Alcohol, methamphetamine, amphetamine and heroin were other substances.

November has been the deadliest month for overdose deaths in recent memory, with 128 people dying in B.C. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Men aged 30 to 49 accounted for the largest number of people who died this year. People were more likely to die inside, on a weekend and in Vancouver, Surrey or Victoria, the coroners service statistics show.

Lapointe said 12 coroners continue to collect detailed information on the deaths

to help health authorities, emergency personnel and others better respond to the crisis and prevent deaths.

The information includes location of the overdose, mode of drug consumption and the presence or absence of naloxone at the scene. Also recorded is a victim’s previous contact

with a health authority, previous overdoses, medical history and whether the person participated in any treatment programs.

“The number of deaths we’re seeing is heartbreaking, and everyone working on this issue across agencies and government is working diligently to save lives,”

said Lapointe, noting the provincial government recently opened “overdose prevention sites” for drug users to inject illicit drugs inside a facility and set up a mobile medical unit in the Downtown Eastside.

She also referred to the “broad national acknowledgement that a health-centred approach is necessary.”

Last week, the federal government announced it was overhauling a Harper government bill that made it difficult, if not impossible, for cities to open supervised injection sites.

The overdose drug statistics were released four days after Police Chief Adam Palmer led a unified plea from the mayor, doctors and his counterpart at the fire department to pressure the provincial government to provide immediate treatment for drug users.

“Right now, there’s a huge gap in the system and it’s failing those people who put up their hand and ask for help to get clean,” the chief told reporters last Friday. @Howellings

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B.C. government offers interest-free loans to first-time homebuyers Mike Howell

more than $150,000, be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident for at least five years and have lived in B.C. for one year. Buyers must be pre-approved for an insured high-ratio mortgage, meaning a down payment is less than 20 per cent of the home price.

Called the B.C. Home Owner Mortgage and Equity Partnership, the rules state owners must make the home their principal residence for the first five years, unless the loan is repaid in full sooner than that time period.

Examples provided by government of how the program would work included the scenario of a prospective buyer of a $475,000 condo.

That buyer, who had saved half of the minimum required down payment of $11,875, could apply to the government program for an equal amount to then meet the high-ratio mortgage requirement.

Government data suggests an estimated 42,000 households could take advantage of the program, which begins taking applications in January. Sales data

mhowell@vancourier.com

Premier Christy Clark has announced a new $703-million program that aims to help first-time homebuyers pay for a down payment on a house that costs no more than $750,000.

Clark said the government program, which will run for three years, will match what a prospective buyer has already saved for a down payment by providing up to $37,500 or five per cent of the purchase price of a home. The 25-year loan will be interest-free for the first five years and set at the market rate for the remainder of the loan.

“I firmly believe that the dream of home ownership must stay within the reach of the middle class here in British Columbia,” Clark told reporters Dec. 15 from a new housing development in Surrey. “We must make sure it is easier for first-time homebuyers to find their way into a really tough housing market.”

A prospective buyer or buyers must have a household income of no

Premier Christy Clark has announced a new program that aims to help first-time homebuyers increase their down payment on a new home. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

for Metro Vancouver that covers 11 months of this year indicates 87 per cent of apartments and 72 per cent of townhomes sold within the $750,000 limit set in the government program.

In taking questions from reporters, Clark said she didn’t think the program would drive up housing prices.

“Our analysis tells us that it won’t because everybody who is going to be eligible for this program will have to have been accepted for a mortgage already,” the premier said. “So they’ll all

be people who can afford to buy a home.”

David Eby, NDP MLA for Vancouver-Point Grey and his party’s housing critic, called the government program “bizarre” and that it will benefit developers of new homes and saddle potential homebuyers with more debt in what is already an expensive province to live.

“I can’t believe that the government’s response to people not being able to get into the housing market is to facilitate and encourage them to take on more debt,” Eby told the Courier.

“Young people and young families trying to get into the housing market have credit card debt, they have student loan debt — they have record levels of debt, according to the Conference Board of Canada.”

Eby said the government had large parcels of land at Oakridge, Little Mountain and at Jericho that it could have used to build mixedincome communities, but instead sold it. Eby agreed with Clark’s comment to reporters that municipalities have to find ways to speed up permits so more housing can be built.

“But that doesn’t change this reality that this approach is so out of step with what’s happening,” Eby said.

The Bank of Canada warned in a report last week that Canadian households continue to hold high levels of debt and housing markets remain imbalanced. The Bank’s governor, Stephen Poloz, said in a speech that “macroeconomic shocks” happen all the time in the economy but can be magnified when “underlying vulnerabilities” arise.

“The metaphor we have

used is that of a large tree with a crack in it — the situation may improve or worsen over time, but there’s no immediate crisis until the wrong sort of storm comes along,” he said.

Clark said the government can afford to fund the program because B.C. has the strongest economy in Canada. The premier said government will pay for the program with money collected from property purchase taxes, including the foreign buyers’ tax and the luxury home tax.

The same month the program begins, residents will receive property assessments. Higher assessments could mean hundreds, if not thousands, of residents could lose their homeowner grant. Clark wouldn’t say whether government plans to step in and raise the $1.2-million eligibility threshold to avoid what reportedly could mean thousands of Vancouverites losing the grant, which reduces the amount of property tax a homeowner pays.

“That’s a decision for another day,” Clark said. @Howellings

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Critics cross with school name John Kurucz

jkurucz@vancourier.com

One Nation, Pluralism and Worldview didn’t cut the mustard, while Schooly McSchoolerson didn’t even make the final list.

As such, the Vancouver School District has settled on Crosstown elementary as the name for the new school that’s being built near Rogers Arena in downtown Vancouver.

The decision was made last week by the district’s naming committee. A shortlist of 39 names were submitted by 47 people. The staff report accompanying the decision notes the name reflects the divergence of neighbourhoods surrounding the school: Gastown, Chinatown, Yaletown, Downtown and Northeast False Creek.

Cue the Internet outrage.

Former trustee Patti Bacchus characterized the moniker as “uninspired” and “disappointing.” She took to Twitter to voice her displeasure in more than a dozen tweets aimed primarily at official trustee Dianne Turner.

“A name only a government-appointed bureaucrat/

trustee could chose,” she wrote. “So bland. Missed opportunity.”

“What happens when a govt-appointed bureaucrat gets the sole vote on a school name,” another tweet read.

It went on. And on.

“I guarantee an elected board would have made a better decision.”

“VSB should have chosen a culturally significant name — ‘Crosstown’ sounds like a mini mall, condo devlpt or bus route. Blah.”

Not to be outdone, Vancouver-False Creek NDP candidate Morgane Oger also chimed in on the interwebs.

“Typical: Christy Clark’s #VSB head ignores heritage, neighbours, parents. names #Vancouver school after fake #vanre name ‘crosstown,’” she tweeted.

The school board’s naming policy states: “Names selected for Vancouver schools should honour the historical and cultural/ethnic heritage — including the First Nations community, recognize outstanding individuals, be reflective of the region, or be significant to the geography of the area. Names of individuals should only be used posthumously.”

A sizeable portion of the 39 names submitted seemingly fit the board’s criteria: names were put forward that recognize contributions from First Nations and Chinese communities. Terry Fox’s name was also bandied about, along with former Vancouver Canucks coach Pat Quinn, celebrated musician Dal Richards, longtime city councillor Jim Green and George Vancouver.

The naming committee will consider a dual Aboriginal name next year. Two other schools that have dual names include Grandview elementary/¿uuqinak’uuh and Point Grey/stəywəte:n secondary.

The Vancouver District Parent Advisory Council (DPAC) opposed the name as well. A tweet sent out after the meeting read, “Personally very disheartened by the VSB’s decision tonight not to name the new school at Intl Village something meaningful.”

The initials “NW” were attached to the online missive. DPAC’s current acting chair and vice chair is Nathan Wilkes.

The school is slated to open in March 2017 on Expo Boulevard.

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Opinion

Season’s bleatings: Life is brutal, so be good to each other Geoff Olson geoffolson.com

What a rotten, misbegotten year. And me with a pre-holiday column to write after passing a kidney stone.

2016 brought us more pipeline politics, fentanyl overdose deaths, police shootings, terror attacks, and the biggest buildup of western military and naval forces on the borders of Russia and China since the Second World War. It’s safe to say the defining moment of 2016 came with an election win for a figure who embodies all that’s fake and fearmongering in Rome 2.0. I knew our neighbours went through the looking glass early last November, but with the CIA protesting foreign interference in the election of a right-wing president (how ironic is that?) they’re in full Jabberwocky territory.

On the cusp of Christmas, “goodwill toward all men” is looking shaky for an estimated 65 million displaced people, most of them generational jetsam from the Cheney-Bush invasions, NATO destabilization campaigns, and Obama drone wars. Didn’t the Good Book tells us the meek shall inherit the Earth? From where I sit, they’ll be lucky to inherit a month’s worth of rations.

Truth be told, some of the First World meek — the ones raised by helicopter parents and given prizes for participating — have grown to be rather obnoxious lately. Their insistence on university “safe spaces” and the inclusion of trigger warnings in texts is precious enough, but their demand that instructors address students by a whole new range of personal pronouns is worthy of a Kurt Vonnegut plot-line.

So what’s a newspaper scribbler on a deadline to do when trying to extract a ray of seasonal cheer from 2016’s cesspool of dark silliness?

I suppose I could avoid the problem entirely by knocking off a generic piece about the pagan beginnings of Saint Nicholas, and how early 20th century Coca Cola ad campaigns rendered him as the rosycheeked, red-and-whitegarbed Santa we know today.

I could digress on the astronomical theories that the Star of Bethlehem

in the New Testament was actually a comet or supernova. Or rehash the Christmas truce of 1914, when German, French and British forces climbed out of the trenches to mingle and exchange gifts, and in some places have a friendly game of soccer.

Or I could muse on today’s Consumers for Christ Crusade at shopping malls, and how the entire retail economy hangs precariously on Yuletide potlatch.

How about a short meditation on the passage of time? I remember my parents handing out Christmas gifts from under a tree decorated with the cheap tinsel and plastic ornaments, with me and my sisters bouncing off the walls, gooned on candy canes and shortbread cookies.

Thanks to my parents, I learned that time is not just linear but cyclic: holidays return like comets, lighting up the drab passage of days.

Ceremony is important in whatever form we observe it, as Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Taoists, Wiccans, agnostics, atheists, or whatever. Annual traditions are cultural efforts to tame time.

Old Man Chronos eventually wins, of course.

My parents died ignobly and terribly a few years back. When their son and daughters follow them into the earth we will take our memories of them with us.

Our parents will then be truly gone.

Not to bum you out with the bleeding obvious, dear reader, but every one of us comes into being and then vanishes from this realm like fragments from a dream. Even the pyramids will be consumed by stellar fire at some point. We and all our creations are — to use a term cribbed from Ecclesiastes by the ’70s rock band Kansas — “dust in the wind.”

And damn improbable dust at that. The number of potential human beings, calculated from possible genetic combinations, far exceeds the number of subatomic particles in the universe. People pop into the world of appearances with best-before dates — so why shouldn’t we reciprocally honour our cosmically unique and unrepeatable existence?

Given our short stretch here, does it not make sense to treat others as one

would wish to be treated ourselves? To choose the power of love over the love of power? And in a world spinning out of control, to extend universal compassion beyond the holiday season?

Just asking a few big questions, while trying to figure out what sort of holiday column to write.

It’s not always such a wonderful life, according to columnist Geoff Olson, so let’s take care of one another.

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assume everyone knows and accepts that the “free money” Christy Clark is offering first-time homebuyers is a callous and transparent attempt to buy votes in the upcoming election.

What should be questioned is the economic sense of this money the premier is shovelling off the back of the truck to pave her way to the polls next May. As you know, her announcement came out the same day as a Bank of Canada report warning Canadians about our rising debt load and particularly debt being taken on because of house purchases.

Instead, there is a more critical problem to deal with. That is the chronic shortage of affordable rental housing. While the province has contributed something to relieving this, much more can be done.

It was just a year ago when the Parliamentary Budget Office reported that we Canadians are carrying the highest debt load in relationship to incomes of any other country in the G7.

A not insignificant chunk of this was attributed to mortgage debt elevated by soaring house costs, which, in turn,

was exacerbated by cheap money due to historic low interest rates.

So it is worth understanding that the money the province is offering isn’t at all free. People who take up this offer of half the down payment, or up to $37,500 for a home selling below $750,000, will have to start making payment at market rates five years out.

And that debt will appear as a second mortgage on the title of their home.

In October, we heard from the Government of Canada through Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC). They introduced more stringent rules for mortgages they would insure, in an attempt to curb our appetite for debt.

And now there isn’t an independent economist who doesn’t think Christy Clark’s plan is stupid.

UBC professor of real estate finance Tsur Somerville says, while CMHC is putting on the brakes, Christy Clark is stepping on the gas.

He’s not alone in thinking that what the province is doing is encouraging people to take on more debt. His UBC colleague Tom Davidoff told reporters “I hate it. To be very clear, I think it’s really bad economics.” And he predicted it would end up driving house prices at the lower end of the market up. It is Economics 101: “We have too much demand chasing too little supply.”

UBC economist Joshua Gottlieb agreed with Davidoff. He told the Globe and Mail the policy is a counterproductive taxpayer-funded subsidy for homeowners and developers.

The latest critic to weigh in on the issue is SFU professor of finance Andrey Pavlov. Writing in the Globe and Mail this week, he points out that in a “constrained” marketplace like Metro Vancouver, caused by a combination

of geography and government regulations around zoning, the province’s program will only drive prices up. He writes: “Any financial subsidy for buyers would get reflected in higher sales prices. Therefore the benefits of the new program will flow to current owners and the developers.” He adds that the program “will push people to stretch themselves even further financially and to take on even more debt.”

In spite of that, it’s no wonder that cheerleaders of this plan include the real estate industry, developers and mortgage brokers. All of whom, like the provincial government, have already benefitted mightily from a red hot real estate market and only want more.

And what of the premier’s observation that “owning the place where you live is part of what being a Canadian is all about”?

One can only assume that in her view, the 50 per cent of Vancouverites who

either chose to rent or will always be unable to afford their own house are lesser Canadians.

What would make more economic sense, to say nothing of being more socially responsible for Christy Clark to do, would be to put those millions of dollars into increasing the housing supply. People falling short of “scraping” together a down payment can afford to wait. Instead, there is a more critical problem to deal with. That is the chronic shortage of affordable rental housing.

While the province has contributed something to relieving this, much more can be done.

Vancouver now sits at a rental vacancy rate of 0.6 percent. It may not be as headline grabbing, as vote getting or as simple.

But it would meet a real need, and come closer to defining what being Canadian should be all about. @allengarr

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I have also been writing my own letters to various administrations and media outlets, including the Courier, over the years pointing out how governments are doing nothing to protect and enhance rental housing stock, which is critical to affordable housing. Most large cities in North America have some sort of “rent control” and a legal framework preventing the redevelopment of low cost housing land. Not so until very recently in Vancouver. So yes, a large part of the blame can be squarely aimed at city hall, and to a lesser extent at the provincial and federal governments for pulling out of the subsidized housing business. Let’s call a spade a spade once and for all!

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1. Jackson Russell sits on dad Jesse’s shoulders prior to boarding an Air Transat flight organized to find Santa. The flight is a joint initiative between the Children’s Wish Foundation and Air Transat.

PHOTO SANDRA THOMAS. 2. Halfway through the 90-minute flight in search of Santa, the jolly old elf appeared and handed out gifts to the children. 3. Seven-year-old Annie was all smiles as she got ready to board Air Transat’s trip to the North Pole.

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A blue scooter, a pumpkin-shaped marshmallow and some oranges.

It’s a pretty simple Christmas list, especially when you consider the little boy it belongs to has been battling leukemia for more than half of his four-and-ahalf years.

“I have no idea where I’m going to find a pumpkinshaped marshmallow in December,” Jackson Russell’s mom Kylie joked, during an interview at Vancouver International Airport.

The Coquitlam-based family, including dad Jesse and Jackson’s brother Benjamin, were at YVR Dec. 7, for a special flight organized by the Children’s

Wish Foundation and Air Transat. The Children’s Wish Foundation of Canada helps Canadian children, families and communities by granting the favourite wish of a child diagnosed with a life-threatening illness.

The 12th annual Flights in Search of Santa saw Air Transat planes full of sick kids, parents, siblings, caregivers and media take to the skies from Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal in search of the jolly old elf.

And, for the second year in a row, a flight from Paris carrying about 50 sick kids and their families also went in search of St. Nick.

As much as Jackson had been looking forward to the flight, according to his mom ,it had already been a very long morning for the family.

“The drugs make him grumpy,” she said.

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time, Air Transat also announced a further $98,975 donation to the foundation, raised partly through the spare change collected over the past year as part of its Small Change, Big Hearts program, through which they ask departing passengers to donate spare change of any currency.

It was about half-way through the 90-minute flight when Santa finally appeared. As the big guy slowly made his way down the aisle and eventually towards the Russell family, Jackson stood on his seat bouncing up and down in anticipation. When Santa finally reached Jackson, it was obvious the long morning had been worth it for the family as there were smiles and cheers all around.

Landing back at YVR as everyone was disembarking the plane, a boy of about 10 stood waiting for his parents.

The boy had shadows under his eyes so dark he looked like he’d taken a beating and a scar across his forehead that visibly stood out on his very pale skin. Another thick scar, about the size of a nickel, was also noticeable on his neck, an obvious sign of extended treatment.

When asked how he enjoyed the flight, the boy’s face lit up and his exhaustion seemed to melt away.

“It was the best day ever,” said the boy. “We found Santa and brought him back to Vancouver just in time for Christmas.” @sthomas10

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Community CITY LIVING

Print’s charming for reinvigorated zine scene Rebecca Blissett

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Zine culture is alive and swell.

This news may come as a surprise to some as it was assumed by many that the Internet would kill any need for paper publishing of all kinds.

Why bother to hand-craft and self-publish a magazine when creating a blog could be done in a fraction of the time?

The answer was found at Saturday’s Print Fair/Market held in the gallery of Dynamo Arts Association where local art book publishers such as Black Market, Zine Club and Paper Innards Distro — just to name a few of the participating 18 — sold their zines and artworks.

Dynamo’s Sarah Davidson teamed up with fellow artists Erica Wilk of Moniker Press and Juli Majer, publisher of freaker zine DDOOGG, to put on the one-time show to give their friends a chance to display their works at no cost.

“We’re interested in the actual book as an object,” said Davidson. “There’s something specific about the relationship between one page and the next. The size of the book changes how you relate to the content. There are a lot of ideas just in the physical form of the book to play with, so I think as an artist, that eclipses putting an image on the Internet.”

The interest in art books is there, evidenced by the popularity of the Vancouver Art Book Fair held at the Vancouver Art Gallery in October.

The fair, going into its sixth year and modelled after the New York and Los Angeles art book fairs, featured more than 100 local, national and international publishers and saw more than 5,000 visitors through the doors.

While Dynamo’s fair had its share of experienced publishers, its organizers were especially interested in helping out emerging artists and publishers. “We’re like the actual dirtbag artists of Vancouver — the emerging artists who have to struggle to pay our rent,” said Davidson with a laugh. Added Majer, “Yeah! But a lot of the time, it’s the dirtbag people who don’t make money [who] are the ones making the cool stuff. We want to be able to support those people and help them out anyway we can.”

The fair’s spirit is in keeping with Dynamo’s DIY mantra. The non-profit communal art studios are located at Ontario Street and East Sixth Avenue in the city’s pocket of old office buildings. Nathan Jones, another

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Dynamo artist and organizer of the one-night zine show Print Ready, described the space before artists moved in four years ago as “a mix between a call centre and shipping and receiving.”

Dynamo formed in 1996 by a group of Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design students (now called Emily Carr University of Art and Design). Incidentally, this was the same time when the last wave of zine culture, fueled by the underground feminist punk Riot Grrrl movement, had already reached full swing. Anybody who lived in the Commercial Drive area during the 1990s surely will remember

Magpie Magazine Gallery and its racks of both local and international zines.

Dynamo’s original studios were on the second floor of 142 West Hastings St., near Or Gallery, Artspeak and indie gallery/art space Church of Pointless Hysteria, which also used to exist on the 100 block of West Hastings.

While artists like Davidson, who graduated from Emily Carr in 2015, were too young to experience the era as it happened, it now influences their work.

“It’s very much the spirit of the ’90s that people are paying attention to,” she said. “The publishing and music that came out of that Riot Grrrl

movement, even some of the iconography, you see it when you go to art book fairs now.

The ideas that were forgotten… are something people are talking about now.”

For Majer and other self-publishers, the growing interest in the zine scene bodes well for the future.

“When I started DDOOGG a few years ago, I felt like I was really alone in doing experimental comics,” she said. “A lot of my friends felt stuck after art school so I asked them if they’d like to participate in this book we’re making. Books are a really great thing to put your energy towards because they have a beginning and an end.”

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Choral group Sweet Scarlett won the hearts of attendees taking home the People’s Choice Award at the city’s second annual Yuel Duel caroling competition in Gastown.

Jonathan Oldham’s Bloom Group and Leanore Sali, executive director of the Gastown Business Improvement Society, orchestrated the yearly singoff benefitting Michele Sutherland’s May’s Place Hospice, which provides end of life compassionate care for residents in the Downtown Eastside.

Salvation Army’s Patricia Cuff and Thomas Skidmore kicked off their annual $4-million Christmas Campaign at the Vancouver Convention Centre. Their kettle boiled over with a reported $315,000 raised at the morning luau.

CHRISTMAS BELLS: The Salvation Army’s Christmas Kettle is one of the city’s most recognizable holiday symbols.

The Hope in the City Breakfast launched the social service agency’s annual $4-million provincial campaign. For the 15th consecutive year, the city’s business community came together in the early hours of the morning to ring in the holiday season, raise funds and celebrate the work of the Salvation Army. Set against the backdrop of the Convention Centre, the seasonal soiree raised $315,000 to help the city’s most vulnerable.

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Arts & Entertainment THEATRE REVIEW

Mary Poppins sings and soars across Stanley stage joled@telus.net

If your children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews have all grown up, take the child-you-used-to-be to Mary Poppins: The Broadway Musical directed by the Arts Club’s artistic managing director Bill Millerd. If you think you’ve completely lost your inner child, go to a matinee where you will find dozens and dozens of little girls (in satin, velvet, lace and organdy party dresses) and little boys (many in shirts and bowties) caught up in the magic that is Mary Poppins. Their excitement and wonder are infectious, and you’re sure to catch it.

English nanny Mary Poppins has been popping into the unhappy Banks’ household at Number 17, Cherry Tree Lane, London, since 1934 when she first appeared in a story by P.L. Travers.

She has continued flying in on the blustery east wind in various ways since then.

In 1964, Walt Disney released the movie with all the songs we love, written

by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman.

Famous for cartoons, Disney had a hard time convincing Travers he could do justice to her story with a combination of animation and live action, but by 1961 she relented although she kept a firm grip on the project.

According to Wikipedia, “Travers was an adviser to the production. However, she disapproved of the dilution of the harsher aspects of Mary Poppins’ character, felt ambivalent about the music, and so hated the use of animation that she ruled out any further adaptations of the later Mary Poppins novels.”

Apparently, the original Mary Poppins was stern and pompous but wise.

A pompous Mary Poppins would not likely have won the film 13 Academy

Awards including Best Picture and Best Actress (Julie Andrews).

Mary Poppins: The Broadway Musical is a fusion of the Travers books and the Disney film; it opened in December 2004 in London’s West End and on Broadway in 2006 where it ran for 2,619 performances, closing in 2013.

Kayla James is Mary Poppins in this Arts Club production, and she will steal your heart. Petite and prim, but with a sparkle in her eye, she plays the role a little closer to Travers’ original than the much-loved Sara-Jeanne Hosie who starred in the 2013 and 2014 productions. James has a pure, clear voice, a daintiness about her that’s utterly enchanting, and when she lifts her Edwardian skirts and joins the chimney sweeps in the big tap dance number, “Step In Time,” James proves she is also a formidable hoofer.

As chimney sweep Bert, Scott Walters channels lovable Dick Van Dyke (who played the role in the film) while adding his own comedic licks. He finds all the colours — from bright to somber — in the recurring song “Chim Chim Cher-ee.”

Milo Shandel makes a dignified yet troubled George Banks whose transformation is brought about by Mary Poppins and his devoted but unhappy wife, Mrs. Winifred Banks (warmly and graciously portrayed by Caitriona Murphy).

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Popularized by Andy Williams in 1963, the lyrics portend: “There’ll be scary ghost stories / And tales of the glories of / Christmases long, long ago.”

Ghost stories at Christmas? Who does that?

It turns out you don’t have to look that far to discover that Christmas and ghost stories have a long history. The most obvious example had to be pointed out to me.

One of the most beloved cinematic traditions of the season is Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.

We don’t really think of this as a ghost story, maybe, because the

ghosts are basically doing old Scrooge a favour.

When we think of the book or the film, it is about the redemptive story of a misanthrope who turns himself around during the holiday season, not so much about our conventional ideas of what a ghost story looks like.

Beyond this example, which had been staring me in the face, there is apparently a very long, albeit largely unchronicled history of telling scary stories around Christmas. Margaret Linley, a professor of English at Simon Fraser University, says folk traditions frequently involved telling spinetingling tales. In Scandinavia, for example, this would begin in early December and culminate around Yuletide.

No one can say for sure when this began, but it probably has to do

with long, dark evenings and nights in the pre-TV age. There was little to do to pass the time and, while you might think keeping the tots from being terrorized would be a priority, there has always been that alternative parenting approach, in which fear is a handy motivator. Early fairy tales provide harrowing examples of this. So do some sacred texts.

Linley says the Dickens’ gem illustrates a great deal about the time it was written and that, in turn, has influenced a great deal about how we think of Christmas. For one thing, remember, many people in Dickens’ time accepted the idea that ghosts or spirits wandered the earth. Many cultures believed that times like the winter solstice were when the sheath between the spirit world and the material world was thinnest. The Victorian era

was also a time, Linley says, when spiritualism was at a peak. This is the belief that spirits want to communicate with us mortals, through such mechanisms as mediums, séances and Ouija boards.

Ghosts, or spirits, were not viewed as necessarily menacing. If they were departed loved ones, they would obviously be welcome visitors. Even if they weren’t familiar, Linley says, spirits in the Victorian era were frequently associated with generosity and portents of good things. In many cases, they would have been more Casper than Blair Witch.

Dickens and some of his contemporaries were also conjuring nostalgia for Christmases past. Successive waves of puritans, religious fundamentalists and general buzzkills had attempted to strip Christmas (and everything else) of frivolity.

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Dickens’ Scrooge may have been the very embodiment of that humbug attitude and a series of spectral nocturnal visitors was just the thing to scare him back onto the path of kicking up his heels on Christmas.

We may feel superior to ancestors who believed in ghosts, but there are plenty of people today who look down on all supernatural beliefs, including the idea that the son of God was born this day.

So consider the fact that when Dickens was writing, not only was the idea of ghosts widely accepted, there were no Sam Harrises or Richard Dawkinses to tell people that their core religious beliefs were hooey.

“There is just a traditional belief in the supernatural,” says Linley.

Christmas is a perfect time for intermingling ideas of Jesus, the holy ghost, the kinds of spirits that were believed to

hover in the dark and any number of associated or unrelated ideas. The supernatural, by definition, invites the mingling of the unknowable and the unprovable.

Despite the certitude of many Christians, we live in a time when plenty of people do not believe in the story of Christmas. Yet many will also suspend disbelief for a time, hoping that good things will come at this time of year just because of a spirit of human goodness or something in the air.

Although they may not believe in ghosts, as such, a few people on my Facebook feed have recently mentioned feeling the presence of lost parents and friends particularly at this time of year.

“It’s a period of wonderment,” says Linley.

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You might revisit an old haunt in the coming weeks, Libra, or a long lost family member might return to the nest. Now to January 8, start no new projects nor relationships. Instead, either protect the ones you have from misunderstandings, delays, supply shortages, etc., or reach back into the past to restart a love or project that promises success but which was somehow left behind. You will spend some money Sunday, but little will come of it (so don’t spend big).

Start no new projects nor relationships before January 8, Taurus. Protect ongoing relationships and projects from delays, indecision and the mistakes. A former project or relationship might return from the past – this is likely to be a legal, travel, educational, media or cultural involvement – or one you once loved now returns. Not a lot happens Sunday, but it is a mild, benevolent day — and for you, might glow with relationship happiness.

Remember, Scorpio, start no new projects nor relationships before January 8. Until then, reprise projects or loves from the past, or stick with the ongoing, while patiently waiting for the delays and misunderstandings to end. You are the star of the show Sunday – everyone’s attention seems focused on you. (So be entertaining!) Sunday evening to Wednesday dawn brings possessions, gifts, memories and a sensual attraction.

Remember, Gemini, don’t start any new relationships or projects before January 8. In the meantime, protect ongoing interests from delays, mistaken directions, missed appointments, etc. Someone from the past to whom you were very sexually attracted, might return.

Until January 27, sidestep the ire of bosses and authorities. If you just do your job, you’ll be okay. Help with the chores Sunday – all is peaceful, but watch what you eat, as your health is a little uncertain.

Don’t start any new projects nor relationships before January 8, Sagittarius. Instead, keep to ongoing ventures and remain loyal in your relationships. The past might return in the form of a sensual attraction, a money situation, or a possession that you coveted long ago, and might now have the opportunity to purchase. Whether this return from the past is a positive or negative is up to you to judge.

Start nothing new before January 8, Cancer, neither ventures, projects, nor relationships. On the plus side, one of these might return from the past and prove to be very auspicious. This could be a former spouse seeking to remarry, an opportunity that you just could not grab before, a relocation or litigation situation that you thought had disappeared. But DO NOT start a lawsuit or enter any legal zones before mid-May.

Your energy, charisma and clout remain at a yearly high, Cap. Usually, I would advise you to get out, make new contacts, display yourself and start important new projects, but that will not work now because we are in a “backwardation” influence until January 8. So do get out and display your many good sides, renew old contacts, and protect ongoing projects from delays and shortages.

Remember, Leo, start no new projects nor relationships before January 8. Instead, protect your ongoing enterprises from delays and mistakes, or reprise ventures from the past. A former coworker might reappear in your life; but if this is an old flame, it’s a dead old flame – leave it alone. Now to January 27, you can be tempted by sexual or financial lures. Be careful – these are almost certain to turn out badly (and are generally negative for you until mid-May).

Remember, Aquarius: start no new projects, ventures or relationships before January 8. Instead, protect ongoing projects from missed deadlines, mistaken directions, supply shortages, etc. — and/ or reprise a favourite project or relationship from the past. A lot of indecision will centre around the background areas of your life: your physical or emotional limitations; involvements with governments, institutions or management groups.

An old flame might appear, Virgo, especially Wednesday through Friday. Until January 8, don’t start any new relationships or projects; instead protect the ones you already have, and/or reprise valuable situations that you let go in the past. You will be very busy Sunday (travelling, phoning, helping out) but nothing significant lies in your path. Be home or head for home Sunday night to Wednesday suppertime. If you are travelling, leave after 3 PM (PST) Monday (or anytime Tuesday) for the safest journey.

Hey, Pisces, what a lovely month lies ahead!

Before late January, a fairly major wish can come true, especially on the social side. You are sexually magnetic, determined and lucky – but especially lucky if you engage with or cooperate with one or more other people. The weeks ahead hold optimism, popularity, flirtations, entertainment and social delights. However, do not start any new relationships (or projects) before January 8.

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For the third annual Courier rookie showcase, we’re back again with an update from Vancouver athletes in their freshman semester at universities around North America.

We didn’t stray very far from home to catch up with this collegiate crew since three of them — including a swimmer and a basketball guard — attend UBC. One of these T-Birds, however, was recently competing for Canada at the junior men’s field hockey World Cup in India. Our fourth rookie is in the U.S., living and studying in Philadelphia.

have picked up in their first few months here, but being a Vancouverite myself, I’ve ordered tall, half-sweet, soy matcha lattes from a young age.

My best performance to date has been the first game we played against UBC Okanagan. My jump shot felt really good, I thought that I was playing good defense and everything just seemed to click.

My coach has taught me a lot about trusting the process. Results might not come instantly, but over time you will start to see improvements. I just need to strive to be a little better every day.

It can get pretty hectic when you have to balance school and basketball.

We have awesome people who hold study hall for us twice a week, and that has really been the kryptonite to all my stress about schoolwork. Also a tip for any prospective students is to never ever, ever study in your dorm room.

Izaiah Ugoalah

Churchill secondary graduate now playing basketball at UBC with the Thunderbirds The team and staff welcomed me with open arms when I signed in January.

I personally felt that I was part of the team when I got to put on the uniform for our home opener.

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Hamber secondary graduate and product of the Richmond Rapids now swimming at the University of Pennsylvania with the Quakers My teammates were all super inviting when I first arrived on the team.

Before I even saw any of

them, there was already a welcome sign up on my dorm room door as I was moving in.

I’ve had a pretty good first half of the season.

Our mid-season championship meet was where I went my fastest and I think my coach was happy with my times at this point in the season.

Seeing how I have many hours of classes and 20 hours of practice per week, it’s extremely important for me to make sure I’m balancing everything well.

Some tips would be to get enough sleep, fuel your body properly so you’re always ready to go and to remember to take some time and de-stress once in a while. Study breaks are always good!

Personally, I think the biggest difference now compared to being a high school student-athlete is the commitment factor.

Before, coaches and teammates wouldn’t get on you so much about missing practice, but in college, everyone is in it together and it becomes really noticeable if someone doesn’t show up. However, the team is so much closer because we spend so much of our time together.

By looking at my room, you’d learn that I’m organized and I try to maximize productivity because nothing is ever out of place and I try to keep everything pretty basic.

Going into the city centre with friends is one of my favourite things to do during the weekend. I tried Philly cheesesteaks for the first time, but considering we had them for three weekends in a row, I got pretty sick of them pretty fast.

Thomson Harris

Kitsilano secondary graduate now playing field hockey for the UBC Thunderbirds and training with Canada on men’s national junior team For the UBC team, the rookies often get addressed as “rookie” in a friendly way and we often end up with the odd jobs such as picking up the balls or cones.

I was very happy with most of my performances during the last couple weeks of September leading up to when I was injured at the beginning of October when I got hit by a hockey ball and broke my jaw.

I am predominately a midfielder, but my UBC coach has played me in the back field from time to time whereas I was picked for the Junior World Cup as a forward.

This has made me a more diverse player and I am more comfortable everywhere on the field because of being played in different roles.

What helped me most during the first semester was pre-planning and taking a lighter course load, which allowed me more time for training and school work. Beyond

that, staying disciplined and prioritizing study and training helped me.

The biggest differences I find is living away from home and the off-field aspect of being on a varsity team. The training load is largely comparable to what I dealt with in high school, but it feels very different coming back to a dorm and not home after a training session.

My dorm room is fairly messy and it’s fairly evident I play field hockey as there is kit often strewn around the room. I haven’t eaten anything that I have huge preference for or aversion against. The only exception is the cafeteria soup, but this is because I ate this exclusively for two weeks straight after I broke my jaw.

Lauren Caswell

York House graduate and product of the Vancouver Pacific Swim Club now swimming at UBC with the Thunderbirds I was so anxious about sleeping in the first morning practice that I was wide awake and ready to leave for the pool at 4:15 a.m., even though practice was scheduled at 5:30 a.m.

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Among them were rowers Lauren Wilkinson and Krista Guloien, race walker Evan Dunfee, wheelchair rugby player Fabien Lavoie, and field hockey player Mark Pearson.

The approximate number of bikes distributed as charitable children’s gifts to families in one 24-hour period this week through the Lower Mainland Christmas Bureau.

“Soccer balls, volleyballs, they are genderneutral and they are good for every age, same with bicycles, and anything that encourages healthy, outdoor activity we’re happy to promote.”

— Chris Bayliss, executive director of the Lower Mainland Christmas Bureau, noting there are far fewer gifts donated for pre-teens and teens.

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philosophy. Several teambonding and social events are scheduled in September. Also, each rookie is paired with an older “momma bird” teammate who acts as a mentor.

Now, my teammates are more than just fellow swimmers — they are my sisters.

After a slow start to the season, I swam several personal bests at the Canada West Championships.

I was pleased that I placed in the top eight in Western Canada in the 200 fly and the 200 IM. My coach, Steve Price, really promotes the concept of “purposeful practice.”

We don’t just go through the motions at practice — we focus on perfect technique and 100 per cent effort. He expects a lot from all of us and we in turn expect a lot from him. The entire team has bought in to a culture of excellence.

It is obvious that my room is occupied by a swimmer. The dominate decor is the random hanging of drying swimsuits and towels. Thankfully, I don’t have a roommate because I don’t think they could tolerate the stench of chlorine.

Time management is critical to success. I haven’t watched Netflix since August. Most swimmers are great time managers because the practice schedule is so demanding.

Balancing academics and athletics is sometimes difficult, but one of my strategies is to always revise my notes that I created that day before going to bed.

I have grown quite fond of avocado on toast after morning practice. It is now go-to breakfast at the caf most mornings. @MHStewart

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