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‘Welcome to Vancouver’ signs targeted with First Nations message Mike Howell

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Had a chuckle on my way to Trout Lake Rink Sunday.

Was in my car driving through the intersection at Boundary and Grandview Highway when a large sign caught my attention.

It was on the northwest corner in front of the Roots factory store, the one with the Canadian flags lining the roof. In big black letters painted or etched onto a large white sheet or canvas was this: Unceded Territory.

It was not an amateur piece of work.

The location of the sign was also significant: It was covering the Welcome to Vancouver sign that’s been there for as long as I can remember. You’ve probably seen it, or ones like it at entrances to the city — blue background, strip of green and in big white letters, “Welcome to Vancouver.”

I thought about stopping to snap a photo with my phone, but had to get my daughter to her ringette game. Rolled by early Mon-

day morning and the artist’s or artists’ handiwork was gone. So that was that. End of story, right?

Not exactly.

I discovered that someone, or the same group, targeted another one of the Welcome to Vancouver signs on Southeast Marine Drive. Maybe others were hit, too. The police received no reports, and I didn’t hear back from the city before posting this piece.

I started thinking about the motivation behind the act, and how whoever was responsible for the vandalism/mischief/doing the right thing had an arguable point — and not only the obvious historical one that, in fact, Vancouver is on the unceded homelands of the Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh and Squamish nations.

The fine point on that argument is that Vancouver city council approved a policy on June 25, 2014 that acknowledged Vancouver is on the unceded traditional territory of the three local nations. You’ll often hear the mayor and other councillors say this at the

Someone with an interest in First Nations’ issues targeted at least two “Welcome to Vancouver” signs on the weekend with signs of their own. PHOTOS GINGER GOSNELL-MYERS, DAN TOULGOET

beginning of a meeting or news conference. Council also proclaimed June 21, 2013 to June 20, 2014 as the “year of reconciliation” in Vancouver, the only municipality in Canada to do so.

Yet, none of that is recognized on the very signs that welcome you to Vancouver.

There’s also this: As Canada prepares to celebrate its 150th birthday this summer, Vancouver is promoting its festivals and events as 150+. That plus sign is to acknowledge Canada had a history before colonialism.

As the most recent city staff report on the Canada

150+ preparations says, Vancouver’s goal is to become the Aboriginal cultural capital of Canada.

The feds have contributed $2.3 million for the celebration, which will include a canoe gathering, a drum festival and a walk for reconciliation.

“The three Canada 150+ signature activities are a mechanism to promote intercultural and civic engagement that can foster stronger relationships between Aboriginal and newcomer communities,” the report said. “They support a vision to have Vancouverites from

all cultures and backgrounds learn, celebrate and appreciate each other’s culture. In this way, our community can strengthen relationships, heal from the past and move forward with shared understanding and respect.”

So you get the picture here — Vancouver appears to be on board with reconciliation, as I learned in writing a six-part series last fall that examined Vancouver through an Indigenous lens. You can read it by going to the Courier’s website and clicking on the Truth and Transformation bar at the top of the page.

Council’s lead on much of these efforts has been Vision Vancouver Coun. Andrea Reimer, who has learned how to speak some phrases in the Squamish language, has had high praise from Musqueam Chief Wayne Sparrow for her work with the band and spent part of her weekend at the Nisga’a new year celebration at the PNE Forum.

I spoke to Reimer Monday and got her reaction to the “unceded territory” sign.

“It sounds like it was

a very thoughtfully approached public space intervention that didn’t do damage to property and has achieved what I think they were hoping for, which was a public discussion,” she said.

Then I asked her if she thought the signs should be redesigned or amended to recognize council’s own policy that Vancouver is on the unceded territory of the three local nations. Turns out Reimer is working on a motion she plans to bring before council in the next few months that looks more broadly at naming places in Vancouver that commemorate the history of the nations.

“It provokes an opportunity for a much bigger discussion,” she said. “There’s quite a few places in this city that were here long before the City of Vancouver was here, but the people here now don’t know that because the names and places were violently removed.”

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The park board is spending $24,000 to put 224 sharps boxes for needle disposal at community centres across the city.

At a Feb. 6 park board meeting, NPA commissioner Sarah Kirby-Yung withdrew her motion to give the public access to sharps boxes at community centres because park board staff was already addressing the need after four centres were used as extreme weather shelters. She said she supports the move.

“It was a patchwork quilt of containers,” said general manager Malcolm Bromley, adding the gaps are now being filled. “We are blitzing the network of facilities. At all of our pools, all of our rinks, we will have sharps containers.”

The board also granted the general manager full discretion to open community centres during extreme weather, be it dangerously cold or hot, as long as the city covers costs.

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Murder victim was a ‘caring, loyal’ amateur photographer Lubo Kunik’s friends worry his passion for photographing Stanley Park led to his death Martha Perkins

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Every February, Lubo Kunik liked to go to Stanley Park to take photos of snowdrops. The park was one of the amateur photographer and outdoor enthusiast’s favourite places to explore with his camera.

Now his friends believe his love for the park might have been what killed him.

Vancouver police say that someone walking a dog found Kunik’s body near the Second Beach Pool around 11:30 p.m. on Feb. 1. They say he had been stabbed and died where he lay.

The 61-year-old man was Vancouver’s second homicide of the year.

“We are all so sad but mainly angry he died such a horrible, useless death,” says Wendy Khandl who is part of an extended group of Czech and Slovakian ex-pats who share a love of the outdoors.

“I go onto the Internet every hour hoping the police have caught someone.”

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Lubo Kunik was stabbed to death in Stanley Park on Feb. 1.

years later. Kunik first landed in Saskatoon but, as an avid mountain climber who had climbed Russia’s highest peak, he found the Prairies unappealing. He decided to keep moving west and came to Vancouver, where he worked fixing industrial machines for Toshiba and Panasonic. “He was really, really very skillful,” Gorel says.

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Kunik was from Kosice, Slovakia, says Pavol Gorel, who knew “the Bobor” for 43 years. “He was a highly educated man with a high IQ. He was one of the 10 most rewarded students in university and spoke four languages.”

Gorel left what was then Czechoslovakia in 1984, and Lunik defected about six

Kunik lived on Barclay Street, roughly half a kilometre from the place he was killed. “Stanley Park was his backyard,” Gorel says.

“Everyone says the night he was killed was a beautiful night full of stars,” he adds, believing that Kunik — whom Gorel says didn’t drink, smoke or do drugs — was probably in the park to take photos of the sparkling lights.

“He had an iron will and strong principles. He was a really smart and educated man who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. You can’t imagine what a big hole this person who killed him made to his friends, to society, to everyone who knew him. We lost one of the finest men in our community. Society has lost such a good man.”

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An introvert, he often stayed in the background but enjoyed taking part in the camping excursions that the Czech and Slovakian group would arrange a few times a year. “We are lovers

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“He’d give you the shirt off his back,” says Khandl.

“If someone had wanted his camera, he would have given it to him.”

“Bobor was a true friend, gentle and always willing to help,” says Tony Popelkat.

“He loved outdoors — hiking, camping, skiing, snowshoeing. He was an accomplished photographer, and Stanley Park was one his favorite places to take his pictures.

And seems this passion of his was fatal to him at the end.

We all will miss him terribly.”

According to VPD media spokesperson Const. Jason Doucette, “The investigation is ongoing and very active.

Finding out who did it and why is very important to us.”

He says that the person of interest who was taken into custody has since been released, but “he does remain a person of interest.”

Police are asking for anyone who was on the Stanley Park seawall between English Bay and Prospect Point on the night of Feb. 1 between 8 and 11 p.m., to call detectives at 604-717-2500.

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of nature. We come together to play music and enjoy each other’s company,” says Khandl, a retired supervisor for the Calgary health region.

“He was caring, loyal to everyone and always helpful,” she adds. “I’ve never seen him in a disagreement. He had an empathetic heart. We were extremely lucky to know him. I really, really liked him.

He’s such a loss to us.

“One of our friends asked, ‘Who will help us now?’ He was always there when you needed him.”

Kunik was the group’s go-to person on questions of photography and cameras.

Khandl recently reached out to him for advice on what lens to buy.

He wrote her three long emails on Jan. 23. In one of them, he advised her to take a small camera which she could slip into her pocket whenever she was taking photos in dangerous places.

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Mayor Gregor Robertson will chair a nation-wide task force consisting of 11 other Canadian mayors that will focus exclusively on the opioid crisis.

Robertson made the announcement Friday afternoon, noting the group’s primary mandate will be lobbying senior governments.

“We’re going to be working together as mayors to press on the provincial and federal governments to step up and treat this like the national health emergency that it is,” Robertson said.

The Big City Mayors’ caucus of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities represents 22 of Canada’s largest cities. Robertson didn’t specify which other cities will be represented, nor were timelines presented for the group’s first meeting.

The group will share info and staffing resources as part of the project, with Robertson noting meetings are scheduled “very soon” with the federal government.

A record-breaking number of people – 914 — died in B.C. last year of a drug overdose, with 215 of those

dying in Vancouver, according to statistics released by the B.C. Coroners Service in mid-January.

The total number of deaths was a 79 per cent increase over 2015, when 510 people died provincewide, with 134 of those in Vancouver. Surrey saw 108 deaths in 2016 (up from 76) and 66 were recorded in Victoria (up from 18).

Fentanyl was linked to 60 per cent of the deaths recorded between January and October of last year. Vancouver police also confirmed carfentanil, an opioid that is 100 times more toxic than fentanyl, was linked to the overdose death of a 39-year-old man in November.

Council recently approved $3.5 million in spending to combat the opioid crisis.

At a committee meeting slated for Feb. 8, after the Courier’s print deadline, council was to debate whether to top up those funds up by an additional $220,000. If approved, that money would come from the 2017 operating budget’s contingency reserves.

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Marpole gets neighbourly Naoibh O’Connor

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Marpole residents will soon have a neighbourhood house operating out of the old firehall at 70th and Hudson. The city-owned heritage building was damaged in a flood in 2013, but it’s being renovated and is expected to be ready for occupancy by the fall of 2018.

Other community programs had operated out of the building since the mid1980s, prior to the flood.

In late January, city council selected the Association of Neighbourhood Houses of B.C. (ANHBC) as the new operator of Marpole Place.

South Vancouver Neighbourhood House, one of the ANHBC’s oldest neighbourhood houses, will oversee the setup of the new centre.

Deb Bryant, ANHBC’s CEO, said the organization is working on the program mix, but Marpole Place will operate like a “classic neighbourhood house,” including some work with seniors, such as a drop-in program or formal adult daycare program, work with youth and work with young families.

Details are being ironed out.

“We’ve got a pretty strong connection with the Marpole Oakridge Community Centre. What we’d like to do is have Marpole Place be a gathering point for young people that live south of 70th — maybe to transport them up to the community centre for programs that are already operating or to do some kind of outpost programs for young people,” she said.

Other initiatives will likely involve food and food security.

“The core of our work is what we call community development or community building, so sort of a dropin area for neighbours. We quite often do work to bring people together to look at local issues in the neighbourhood,” added Bryant.

For example, if residents see the need for a particular program such as a conversation group for English-as-a-second-language learners, a volunteer group could start one up.

“A lot of what we’ll be waiting to see is who comes forward out of the neighbourhood and what are their ideas and primary concerns,

and we’ll try help accommodate that,” Bryant said.

It’s the first time the ANHBC has opened a new neighbourhood house in a decade. It currently runs six in Vancouver — Marpole Place will be its seventh. (It also has a neighbourhood house in Crescent Beach, and it operates a camp in Port Moody) Studies by the city and Vancouver Coastal Health revealed there’s a lack of social infrastructure in Marpole, especially at its south end.

Marpole’s population is also expected to grow by 50 per cent by 2041 and it’s considered a higher needs community because there are larger numbers of renters, single-parent families, children in low-income families and immigrants.

“There’s a real concentration there of people who maybe don’t have a lot of space inside their homes, have less affluence [and therefore less] access to paid services,” she said. “There’s a little bit of a desert of social services there, especially since the flood because that building was a real cornerstone for that neighbourhood for quite a while.”

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Opinion

‘Trumpitis’ claims victims across the globe Geoff Olson geoffolson.com

A Vancouver yoga studio recently declared its space a Trump-free zone. Julie Peters, owner of Ocean and Crow Yoga, posted a sign that reads, “If possible, please avoid talking about the news while in the studio. Discussing feelings and reactions is fine, but please avoid talking about new information or details.”

“If you want to bring something up with someone, ask permission first.

Be aware of who you may be accidentally including in our small space,” the sign continues.

Peters told the CBC she has a case of “Trumpitis” from reading news of the man’s misadventures, resulting in “nausea and heart palpitations.”

I can sympathize. I caught the brain virus on July 16, 2015, the day the citrus-skinned conman announced his presidential candidacy. From then on, I’ve been unhealthily but understandably obsessed with him and his minions.

I work in the media after all. As a cartoonist, I’ve been inflamed by the comic possibilities, laughing all the way to the drafting table.

But, I figured, no way could a former reality TV star beat the other Republican nominees.

Then it happened. He won the ticket.

The schoolyard bully’s first victory took me from stage one to stage three illness. People who love me — friends and family who might have gathered for an intervention — were also now infected by Trumpitis. They couldn’t shut up about him either.

But we all knew we’d recover soon, didn’t we? By Nov. 8 it would be all over for the self-branded shyster.

Warmonger Hillary would pluck the big brass ring from the executive branch and her opponent would shuffle back to Mar-a-Lago with his trophy family and truthtrashing sycophants — just like the New York Times and all the other serious media outlets told us, after giving the man free campaign advertising through endless analysis. We’d return to talking about the weather and the Kardashians.

Then it happened. He won the election.

I felt like the character Arthur Dent in The Hitch-

hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, after he learns that Earth is about to be demolished for a hyperspace expressway. The tag line of the comic sci-fi trilogy is “Don’t Panic.” But now seemed to be an excellent time for panicking.

Months earlier, Trumpitis had infected every TV channel, Twitter feed, newspaper outlet, and piehole. But surely the outbreak source wouldn’t make it to the actual inauguration, what with sexual harassment claims and dozens of active lawsuits against him.

Trump would be indicted before he had a chance to swear on a copy of Art of the Deal. Or slip on a CIApoisoned banana peel.

Then it happened. He was sworn in.

Watching the televised train-wreck commence on Jan. 20, I felt like Arthur Dent when he learns that Earth is actually a giant computer designed by mice.

The frenemy of Obama and Omarosa stood across from Supreme Court Justice Roberts, who somehow managed to recite the oath of office without collapsing from laughter.

“Repeat after me: I, Donald J. Trump, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of the President of the United States of America.”

“I, Donald J. Trump do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute Rosie O’Donnell, Alec Baldwin, and Meryl Streep.”

Ah, what fun I was having now with the oaf of office!

With perhaps four more years to work a coal mine of political humour down to Earth’s core — or at least up until my rendering of a Trump/O’Leary Re-edumacation Camp.

So here we are. Every day brings us another twisted tweet, alternative fact, or execrable order from on high.

Our Arthur Dent planet was blown to smithereens last month, but not before we were all teleported to DC Comic’s Bizarro World, where everything is said and done backwards.

The other day, delirious from Trumpitis, I tried to distract myself with some music.

My iPod, set on shuffle, perversely offered up Haydn’s TRUMPet Concerto #1. I tore off the headphones only to hear footsteps of the mailman outside. Trump trump trump trump.

And yoga? I fall sideways

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The satirist in me feels outstretched by reality and the rationalist in me feels bent out of shape.

It’s gonna get nastier before it gets Namastier.

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Opinion

Offline actions speak volumes in addressing Islamophobia Diverse crowd mourns together in Vancouver after Quebec mosque shooting

Alia Dharssi

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More than 100 people gathered at tiny Jamia Masjid, a mosque tucked away on West Eighth Avenue, near Cambie Street, on Saturday evening for a candlelight vigil. Some held wax candles. Others held signs. Many had tears in their eyes, and all were bundled up outside the mosque’s front steps as they gathered to commemorate the victims of the Quebec mosque shooting.

“We all mourn with you,” said a sign atop a mound of bouquets at the mosque’s entrance.

And, mourn together, everyone did.

A diverse group of Vancouverites was at the event to remember the six worshippers who were shot at a mosque in Quebec City at the end of January. In addition to Muslim mourners, the speakers included an Indigenous woman who played a rhythmic song on a traditional drum and

a rabbi who blew a ram’s horn that symbolized a “wake-up” call. Afterwards, many headed downtown for a rally against Islamophobia, which drew an estimated 1,500 people.

The vigil and rally were among dozens of similar events that took place across Canada last week.

Thousands of Canadians came together, including on Parliament Hill, to express their grief and concern.

I’m embarrassed to say that this response shocked me. I didn’t realize so many non-Muslims cared enough about Muslim lives to respond to the terrorist attack in this way.

I wasn’t the only one feeling surprised.

“I was actually in shock just seeing how many people came and their willingness to actually come into the mosque as well,” said Faria Khan, a Muslim UBC student from Calgary, after the vigil in Vancouver.

“I’ve never seen it like this before,” said Aasim Rashid, one of the event

The vigil and rally in Vancouver were among dozens of similar events that took place across Canada last week. Thousands of Canadians came together, including on Parliament Hill, to express their grief and concern. PHOTO ALIA DHARSSI

organizers and the founder of Al Ihsan, an organization that runs educational programs about Islam for non-Muslims.

“Obviously, we know, as Canadians, we don’t stand for stuff like that.

We don’t stand for violent extremism,” he added.

“But for the masses to get together at this scale and express their solidarity with victims and with oppressed people — it’s really heartwarming.”

As for me, I’m uncomfortable that I feel so surprised. I love how multicultural Canada is,

that Canadians stepped up in large numbers to help Syrian refugees. I don’t feel as though I’m discriminated against in my day-to-day life, including when I’m out and about as a reporter speaking to Canadians from all walks of life. (However, I know that the experience can be different for Muslim women who wear a headscarf. I don’t.)

But 9/11 happened when I was 14 and I’ve grown up feeling like I have to explain that my religious beliefs are about peace, not hate, that I can stand for women’s rights AND practise my faith. I regularly confront news that says otherwise.

The last federal election is a case in point. I was troubled when the Conservative party made the niqab an election issue, but it simply reaffirmed the biases I saw around me.

“The only time we’re in the news media is when we’re being held up as an example of how we don’t integrate,” said Farah Malik, a Muslim lawyer, in an

interview after the vigil. “We don’t hear about the good work that masjids do in the community or that the Muslim food bank does.”

It makes me sad that, after years of primarily hearing news reports about Muslim terrorists and concerns about Muslims’ values and integration, I lost sight of how much my fellow Canadians care.

But the events of the last few weeks, from huge protests against U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Muslim ban” to the smaller candlelight vigil in Vancouver, have also reminded me how powerful it is to be physically present — to step out with our bodies to show what we believe in.

And that’s something that can be easy to forget — that, in an era when influence is often measured by how quickly and widely something spreads on social media, it is our offline interactions that may actually mean the most. @alia_d Allen Garr is on vacation.

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T H U R SDAY, F E B RUA RY 9 , 2 0 1 7 THE VANCOUVER COURIER

Inbox letters@vancourier.com LETTERS

Welcome to the new feudalism Re: “East side businesses feeling the pinch,” Jan. 27.

In medieval times, barons and lords extracted the maximum of feudal dues, keeping serfs at subsistence levels.

Today we allow financial institutions to lend greater and greater amounts on property, which increases sales prices and leads to rising rents. These rents are converted into ever higher interest payments collected by the banking elites. Some 40 per cent of corporate profits now flow into the financial sector.

Welcome to the new feudalism, where renters and small businesses struggle to survive, paying tribute to a money-lending aristocracy who grow rich in their sleep.

Larry Kazdan, Vancouver

Curious about George Re: “Affleck supports Kinder Morgan’s pipeline project,” Feb. 2.

Are you for real, George Affleck? I’m not going to criticize one way or another your stance on the Kinder Morgan pipeline, I’m just wondering where you are coming from?

It seems to be implied in this article that you are in agreement with Justin Trudeau’s idea that for the good of the whole national economic picture of Canada, Vancouver, as a port city, should buckle under the pressure to ship out its nation’s raw natural resources, even when the ‘product’ is a harmful, poisonous, polluting commodity.

I’m not sure that what Justin Trudeau spouts off anymore are really personal beliefs or if he, too, is now buckling under the pressure of government’s “vision” of Canada’s role in this global trade environment. Canada’s bureaucracy has always determined that the nation as a country is

good for nothing more than shipping out its raw natural resources, basically fossil fuels and timber. (Actually, people, too!)

What an archaic, backward vision for a country celebrating its 150th birthday this year. Times are changing and, you’d think, this obsolete mindset should finally be getting squashed… but no; no matter how progressive an individual may want to be, government somehow manages to squeeze him or her into the status quo machine.

One other little point: if you really want to get educated and learn about the real facts about the “government’s marine protection plan” in terms of a major bitumen oil spill, talk to a real expert in marine science. Paying mere lip-service to a politician is so very unconvincing.

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IMPORTANT NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS: Land Assessment Averaging Since 2015, the City of Vancouver has used targeted land assessment averaging to calculate property taxes as recommended by the Property Tax Policy Review Commission in 2014.

(Prior to 2015, the City used acrossthe-board averaging which was in effect since 1993.) Averaging does not generate any extra revenue for the City, but affects the amount of taxes paid by individual property owners.

Under the targeted averaging approach, only those properties facing significant year-over-year increases in property values above a certain threshold would be eligible for averaging. For eligible properties, the program calculates property taxes for the City and other taxing authorities using an average of the assessed land value for the current and prior two years, plus their current assessed improvement value. All others would pay property taxes based on the BC Assessment value instead of an averaged value.

The table on the right shows the estimated effect of targeted averaging on the City of Vancouver’s general purpose taxes for sample properties based on the thresholds approved by Vancouver City Council for 2016 (i.e. an increase in property value that is 10 per cent above the average property class increase), subject to Council approval for 2017.

Amounts levied by other taxing authorities such as provincial schools,

TARGETED LAND ASSESSMENT AVERAGING Sample properties BELOW targeting threshold (NOT eligible for averaging)

TransLink, BC Assessment, and Metro Vancouver are not included.

On March 8, 2017, Vancouver City Council will consider whether to continue with targeted land assessment averaging for residential (Class 1), light industrial (Class 5) and business (Class 6) properties, and determine the appropriate thresholds for these property classes if targeted averaging is adopted. Should Council decide to continue with targeted averaging, a by-law will be adopted on March 28, 2017.

The report, which details the program and how it could impact property taxes, will be posted on our website at: vancouver.ca/averaging FOR MORE INFORMATION: 3-1-1 or vancouver.ca/averaging COMMENTS? Write to: Mayor and Council 453 West 12th Avenue Vancouver, BC V5Y 1V4 or email: mayorandcouncil@vancouver.ca SPEAK TO COUNCIL: Prior to adoption of the bylaw, you may speak to Council in person at the City Finance and Services meeting on March 8, 2017.

Phone 604-873-7269 to register.

2017 Assessed Value

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Est .Taxes with Targeted Averaging

Downtown

West

East

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599,000

730

661

669,000

816

842

785,000

957

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3,341

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4,011

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3,866

3,991

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3,647

956,000

1,165

1,203

1,412,100

1,721

1,350

1,381,000

1,683

1,738

1,542,100

1,880

1,550

1,572,000

1,916

1,978

1,712,600

2,088

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Light Industrial and Business & Other ($)

Downtown

West

East

179,000

942

1,035

250,900

1,321

1,125

269,400

1,418

1,557

481,300

2,533

1,464

630,000

3,316

3,641

1,344,000

7,074

5,556

497,000

2,616

2,872

1,179,000

6,206

5,211

702,000

3,695

4,057

3,679,000

19,364

18,292

1,612,000

8,485

9,317

5,704,500

30,025

28,194

445,000

2,342

2,572

2,187,000

11,511

9,455

833,200

4,386

4,816

3,452,000

18,169

12,925

1,624,000

8,548

9,386

5,071,000

26,691

21,737

Sample properties may be single or multi-unit

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1. 2106-2138 Main Street To rezone 2106-2138 Main Street from IC-2 (Industrial) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District, to permit the development of a stepped six-storey, mixed-use building with 51 market residential units and ground-floor commercial spaces. A height of 22.5 metres (73.75 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 3.0 are proposed.

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

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Vancouver City Council will hold a Public Hearing to consider zoning for these locations:

4. (i) 1380-1382 Hornby Street and (ii) 801 Pacific Street (i) To amend CD-1 (435) (Comprehensive Development) District for 1380 Hornby Street and to rezone 1382 Hornby Street from DD (Downtown) District to the amended CD-1 (435) in order to permit the development of a 39-storey residential development with a floor space ratio of 16.4 and a height of 114.6 metres (376 feet), and to relocate the heritage building known as the Leslie House within the consolidated site; and (ii) To rezone 801 Pacific Street from DD (Downtown) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District in order to permit the development of a seven-story cultural facility with a floor space ratio of 3.51 and a height of 26 metres (85.3 feet).

2017 Assessed Value

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Tuesday, February 21, 2017, at 6 pm City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Third Floor, Council Chamber

3. 1150 Comox Street (Gilmour House) To add the existing heritage building (Gilmour House) at 1150 Comox Street to the Vancouver Heritage Register in the ‘A’ evaluation category, and to designate the exterior of the heritage building as protected heritage property.

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PUBLIC HEARING: February 21, 2017

2. 4621-4663 Cambie Street and 605 West 31st Avenue To rezone 4621-4663 Cambie Street and 605 West 31st Avenue from RS-1 (One Family Dwelling) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District, to permit the development of two six-storey residential buildings with 74 dwelling units. A height of 21.1 metres (69 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 2.36 are proposed.

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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 on February 10 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 starting on February 10 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. 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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Arts & Entertainment

Climber shares highs and lows John Kurucz

jkurucz@vancourier.com

Tens of thousands of kilometres logged and seven continents later, Eileen Bistrisky still runs into the odd hiccup while trying to acclimatize to her new surroundings.

Those issues are far removed from jetlag or getting used to foreign cuisine.

Instead, they are measured in feet. Usually at least 17,000 of them.

A mountaineer and backcountry enthusiast, Bistrisky will be speaking about all things altitude as part of the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival, which runs Feb. 10 to 18 at venues across Vancouver.

Entitled Mountain Lessons from Seven Continents, Bistrisky’s discussion goes down Feb. 11 at the Rio Theatre. The presentation will speak to the lessons learned and the experiences she’s had since first taking to the mountaineering in 2001. Since that time, the Vancouverite has traversed through Antarctica, Argentina, Nepal, Russia, Alaska, Australia and Africa in search of her next high.

Sixteen years of summit scaling has grounded Bistrisky as though she’s spent the whole time in a hot yoga class.

“What I’ve learned over the course of many expeditions is to be a little more Zen-like with everything that’s going on around me,” she said. “Experience has shown me not to stress out quite so much.”

As with most things, patience is a virtue in the mountaineering world. Bistrisky has twice attempted to

scale Aconcagua, the Argentinian peak that’s the tallest in the western hemisphere, only to be rebuffed by Mother Nature on both tries.

Acclimatizing to the altitude thwarted her first attempt in 2005, and high winds scuttled her second go at it last December.

“The biggest challenge is the acclimatizing,” she said.

“Most people can be fit or comfortable with carrying heavy packs or travelling long distances at sea level.

When you get to altitude it changes everything.”

Pushing through physical limitations will be one of her talking points, but it’s also a case study in scheduling.

Finding the same people with the same holiday schedules is one thing. Arriving on the mountain and trying to scale the summit before that time runs out is another.

That happened during her first kick at Aconcagua in 2005. The atmosphere at 21,000 feet was too much on her body, and her partner made for the summit without her. Alone and in a bind, she chose to descend the mountain instead.

“You shed a lot of tears at first. I’d be lying if I said there weren’t any ‘Oh my god, what have I done’ moments, but you eventually get over that,” she said. “I’ve always felt it’s better to make it back from a trip safe and sound than make it to the summit.” @JohnKurucz Mountain Lessons from Seven Continents is at the Rio Theatre, Feb. 11, 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available online at vimmf.org.

Stand-up comics rise to the occasion

John Kurucz

jkurucz@vancourier.com

It’s without the slightest hint of humour that Scotty Aceman reveals that he’s a life-long tennis player and that Aceman is, in fact, his given name.

Instead, Aceman saves his LOLs for the stage.

A Vancouver-based stand-up comic, Aceman is organizing an event Feb. 11 called Rise of the Comics Live, which will serve as a sort of pep rally for comics across Metro Vancouver.

“Comics communicate very well amongst one another, but they don’t have all the marketing tools and there are a lot of other parameters they may not know about,” Aceman said. “So by doing the show, we’re hoping to gain some traction to expose the community.”

Seven comics will be featured over the course of the evening, including Just For Laughs headliner Ivan Decker and 2016 Yuk Yuks stand-up champ Chris Griffin.

The show will be filmed for future broadcast on Shaw TV and livestreamed on the night of the event on YouTube.

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what’s important and how I can make this happen.”

Aceman spent 25 years in cellphone sales before realizing his family could actually help him make a go of it. Aceman’s cousin is Rob Cohen, a Calgary ex-pat who levelled up from Cowtown for Tinseltown. A comedy writer based out of Los Angeles, Cohen’s writing credits include The Simpsons, Wonder Years, MADtv and The Big Bang Theory.

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Aceman hosts a weekly show on Shaw TV called Rise of the Comics that delves in to the routines and lives of the region’s funny folk, what makes them tick and where to see them perform.

Aceman himself is counted amongst their ranks, and so it begs the question: why would he give free publicity to the same comics he could battle for stage time in any given week?

“I am competing with them but I also I want to be showing them off,” he said. “That, to me, means a lot. I’m 53, so being middle aged it’s a bit easier for me to understand

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Vancouver comic Scotty Aceman will host Rise of the Comics Live on Feb. 11 at St. James Community Square. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

and Aceman’s first gig was in November 2015. It was “the most terrifying experience” of Aceman’s life.

“But when you’ve been rejected enough and you’re in a mid-life crisis, things just fall into place,” Aceman said. “That doesn’t necessarily mean you’re going to necessarily be super funny or even funny to other people.

But it means you’re going to be able to get through it. It’s really quite a learning experience about who you are and what you’re capable of.”

Getting over the hump and learning to accept bombing on stage is part of the Feb. 11 show’s raison d’etre, along with building solidarity amongst the estimated 200 comics in the region and 20 venues in Vancouver.

Though the Feb. 11 festivities at the St. James Community Square are sold out, the show will be streamed on Aceman’s Youtube channel.

A broadcast date for Shaw TV has yet to be determined, though Aceman expects it’ll be on air before the end of the month.

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Community

HOME TO ROOST: More than 800 guests packed the Hyatt Regency Hotel ballroom to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Mount Saint Joseph’s signature Chinese New Year gala.

Since 2008, the Scotiabank Feast of Fortune, sponsored by the Vancouver Courier, has raised more than $3.9 million for priority equipment needs at Mount Saint Joseph Hospital. Emcees Lisa Wu, William Ho and yours truly fronted the dinner and auction steered this year by party chairs Margaret Chiu and Heather Pei Huang. As usual, a lively and raucous lion dance kicked off the festivities, but the biggest noise came when healthcare supporters opened their hearts and wallets, donating gifts ranging from $250 to $20,000 to help purchase vital equipment to support the surgical rooms at the hospital. The Lunar New Year efforts generated an impressive $847,500.

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Gala co-chair Heather Pei Huang and Tapestry Foundation CEO Ann Adams welcomed 800-plus attendees to the Year of the Rooster charity dinner, held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel.

Emcees Lisa Wu and William Ho emceed the decade-old Feast of Fortune Year of the Rooster Gala that collected $847,500 for Mount Saint Joseph hospital.

Rheumatologist Dr. Jean Gillies was all in for Samantha Rogers’ charity poker tournament. The first-ever event raised $85,000 for the Arthritis Society’s B.C. and Yukon chapter. More than 650,000 British Columbians live with arthritis.

Normand Latourelle brought back his acclaimed $35-million spectacle Cavalia to Vancouver for a five-week engagement thanks to the support of B.C. billionaire Jimmy Pattison.

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VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL FEBRUARY 10-18, 2017 VIMFF.ORG

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What is Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival (VIMFF)? ▶ Annual international 9-day community festival, featuring mountain film screenings, live multimedia presentations, photography exhibitions, workshops, seminars and other special events ▶ Travelling show with awarded films, visiting 50+ communities across Canada, the US, Europe and Asia each year, and offering additional 5-day Speaker Series program every Fall in North Vancouver and Vancouver ▶ Forum for the exchange of ideas between film makers, outdoor enthusiasts, athletes and the public ▶ Event encouraging the most artistic and effective forms of communicating mountain-related experiences, inspiring audiences, and affirming the culturally- and environmentally-sensitive values inherent in active outdoor lifestyles

VENUES CENTENNIAL THEATRE 2300 Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver RIO THEATRE 1660 East Broadway, Vancouver THE CINEMATHEQUE 1131 Howe Street, Vancouver INLET THEATRE 100 Newport Dr, Port Moody NEW! FREDERIC WOOD THEATRE, 6354 Crescent Rd (UBC), Vancouver

TICKETS Online at vimff.org and at the door

▶ Registered not-for-profit society

EVENING SHOWS: $19 online, $21 door for adults.

Children under 16 both online and at the door for $15. All shows are open to children, but there are some seating restrictions at the Rio Theatre.

VIMFF FILM JURY

MATINEES: $15 for adults and $12 for children.

Bulk discounts and discount codes are not applied to matinee shows.

JONI COOPER Joni Cooper has gained extensive international experience in festival management and media production. She has held the positions of Programming/Festival Director for the Banff Mountain Festival and Executive Director of the DOXA Documentary Film Festival in Vancouver. She has sat on film juries around the world, and currently serves on National Geographic’s Adventurers of the Year advisory board and consults with Film Festival Flix’s online Mountain & Adventure Film Festival.

YVES MA Yves Ma has been working in media production for over 15 years as an independent producer as well as producing for the National Film Board of Canada. He has produced many award-winning features, including the feature environmental docu-drama Hadwin’s Judgment, which won a Best Film Award at the 2015 Banff Film and Book Festival as well as the Best Canadian Film Award at VIMFF 2016.

TICKET PACKAGES TICKETS TO ONE SHOW: $19 TICKETS TO THREE SHOWS: $51 TICKETS TO FIVE SHOWS: $75

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VIMFF STAFF Festival Director, Programming, Sponsorship: ALAN FORMANEK Director of Programming, Jury Coordinator: TOM WRIGHT Marketing Manager, Grant Writer: MAJA KOSTANSKI PR Manager: HELEN YAGI PR Assistant: GINA HILL

TRACEY FRIESEN Tracey Friesen has been an active contributor to Vancouver’s media sector for over 25 years and last year published the book Story Money Impact: Funding Media for Social Change. After 10 years at the National Film Board, Tracey went on to do contracts with multiple foundations, plus was Director of Programming for Roundhouse Radio 98.3 Vancouver. In January 2017, Tracey joined the David Suzuki Foundation as Director of Communications & Engagement.

TRACY JACOBSON After eight years in front of the camera, Tracy moved from Vancouver to the Rocky Mountains. Living among some of the most elite climbers in the world, she found her passion for climbing, mountaineering, and skiing. In November 2009, Tracy decided to pursue her film career full time. This move opened the door to becoming a producer, writer, and director for various shorts, TV commercials, feature films and documentaries.

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Monday Matinee 2:00PM SUP Adventures 7:30PM

Wild Ones 2:00PM The Change I Want To See 7:30PM

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Planet Earth 2:00PM Mind vs Mtn 7:30PM

The Last Cavemen 2:00PM Mountain Mixer #1 7:30PM

Mountain Mixer #2 2:00PM The High Life 7:30PM

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MEC Canadian Adventure Show 7:30PM Kayak Night 7:30PM

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VIMFF 2017 FEATURED FILMS SHIFT

THE FLEDGLINGS

20th Annual Opening Night Friday Feb 10 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) The Centennial Theatre With only six months of flying under their belts, and professional flier Matt Henzi as a sensei, Wright and Segal embark on an audacious objective: to climb and fly off Orizaba, the third-highest peak in the America’s and the highest in Mexico.

Mountain Bike Show Saturday Feb 11 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) The Centennial Theatre SHIFT is a half hour documentary about a group of First Nations youth who have spent the past 10 years converting traditional trails around their hometown of Carcross, Yukon into a world-class mountain biking destination – and transforming their community and themselves along the way.

BLOCHEADS

TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH

Directed by Alastair Lee UK, 2016, 58 minutes

International Climbing Films Saturday Feb 11 @2:00pm (doors 1:30pm) The RIO Theatre NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE An all action cinematic spectacular, revelling in the UK’s golden age of bouldering.

WILD ONES

The Change I Want To See Saturday Feb 11 @7:30pm (doors 7:00pm) The Cinematheque To the Ends of the Earth brings forward the voices of those who not only denounce the rise of extreme energy, but also envision the new world that is taking shape in its stead: a future beyond the resource pyramid, a post- growth economy.

THE LAST CAVEMEN

Directed by Jean-Michel Corillion France, 2015, 52 minutes

Directed by Stu Thompson UK, 2016, 52 minutes

Mountain Mixer 1 Saturday Feb 11 @7:30pm (doors 7:00pm) The Inlet Theatre ‘What is your ‘dream project’?

Four athletes got to realize their ultimate adventure: the planning, the courage, the training, the near misses, the wilderness, the thrill.

The Last Cavemen Saturday Feb 11 @2:00pm (doors 1:30pm) The Inlet Theatre NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE After two unsuccessful years spent in a local town, the Taw’t Bato tribe of Palawan Island in the Philippines, decided to leave modernity, return to the jungle and live like their ancestors did: hidden in giant caves, fishing and hunting bats.

Rock Climbing Show Thursday Feb 16 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) The RIO Theatre 18 years after a catastrophic accident which left him with hemiplegia, climber Paul Pritchard returns to the Totem Pole to find out if he has recovered enough to finish the climb.

THE YUKON BLUES

YOUNG GUNS

SURVIVING THE FUNDY FOOTPATH

Adventure Travel Sunday Feb 12 @7:30pm (doors 7:00pm) The Cinematheque NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE The Yukon Blues is Igor D’India’s attempt to complete a solo expedition by canoe down the Yukon and Porcupine rivers.

Family Show Monday Feb 13 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) The Centennial Theatre Meet the new faces of climbing: 15-year-old Ashima Shiraishi and 16-year-old Kai Lightner are the leaders of the next generation, already taking the sport to the next level.

Directed by Nick Rosen USA, 2016, 27 minutes

Ski Traverses in BC Sunday Feb 12 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) The RIO Theatre NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Snowmads tells the story of freeride pro, mountaineer & adventurer Fabian Lentsch, who travels the Middle East in search of snow and unspoiled lines.

Adrenaline Junkies Sunday Feb 12 @2:00pm (doors 1:30pm) The RIO Theatre Be inspired by women who push boundaries. Full Moon is a two-year film project documenting the past, present, and future of women’s snowboarding.

Directed by Erik Koto USA, 2016, 54 minutes

AFGHAN WINTER

Directed by Fulvio Mariani & Mario Casella Switzerland, 2016, 72 minutes

Seven Continents Saturday Feb 11 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) The RIO Theatre Ski mountaineer Kit Deslauriers made history when she became the first person to climb and ski from the summit of the highest peak on each of the seven continents.

Destination: Central Asia Sunday Feb 12 @2:00pm (doors 1:30pm) The Cinematheque The surroundings of Herat, the Bamiyan region, the city of Kabul and the Wakhan corridor are the main stages of this amazing expedition in a country ravaged by decades of war and steeped in cold and snow.

Directed by Johannes Mair Austria, 2016, 30 minutes

Monday Matinee Monday Feb 13 @2:00pm (doors 1:30pm) The RIO Theatre NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Axel and Sylvia venture deep into Africa to explore yet unridden mountain bike terrain; in southern Malawi on Mount Mulanje.

This favourite Beatles tribute band is back by popular demand to celebrate 50 years of

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

The High Bar Gang Friday Feb. 24 at 7:30 pm

Tickets $20

SHERPA

Directed by Jennifer Peedom USA, 2015, 96 minutes

Sherpa Show Thursday Feb 16 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) The Centennial Theatre This stunning documentary, shot by high-altitude cinematographer Renan Ozturk, explores the unequal relationship between cashed-up foreign expeditions and their guides.

LOCKED IN: FIRST DESCENT OF THE BERIMAN GORGE

MONUMENTAL: SKIING THE NATIONAL PARKS

Directed by Bryan Smith & David Pearson Canada, 2015, 24 minutes

Directed by Chris Kitchen USA, 2016, 41 minutes

Kayak Night Tuesday Feb 14 @7:30pm (doors 7:00pm) The Cinematheque Ben Stookesberry, Chris Korbulic, Benny Marr and Pedro Oliva travel to Papua New Guinea to conquer whitewater that no kayakers have navigated before: The Beriman River Gorge – one of the most significant undertakings in a kayak.

UBC Ski Show Thursday Feb 16 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) The Frederic Wood Theatre UBC Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the US National Park Service by paying homage to these monuments of nature and solitude, reminding us skiers where we came from, and that we belong to something greater than ourselves.

LA LISTE

Directed by Guillaume Bertocchi Belgium, 2016, 22 minutes

MEC Canadian Adventure Show Wednesday Feb 15 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) The RIO Theatre NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Two men that had never met before, decide to undertake a contemplative skiing adventure together in the country that never melts, Canada’s Arctic.

Directed by Guido Perrini Switzerland, 2016, 47 minutes

Ski Show Friday Feb 17 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) The Centennial Theatre Young skiing phenom Jérémie Heitz challenges himself to ski 15 of the Alps’ steepest 4,000-meter peaks in just two ski seasons.

PURA VIDA

JUNGFRAU MARATHON

Directed by Thomas Miklautsch Austria, 2016, 44 minutes

UBC Climbing Show Wednesday Feb 15 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) The Frederic Wood Theatre UBC WORLD PREMIERE A 3200m vertical climb to the 4156m summit of Jungfrau - combining three different routes, this is the ‘Jungfrau Marathon’.

The Deep Wild Friday Feb 17 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) The RIO Theatre NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE The story of an incredible journey, from the Andes to the Atlantic Ocean: over a period of 20 months, Hervé Neukomm is the first man to cover 7,500 kilometers on 26 different rivers in a self-made bicycle powered boat.

Directed by Jochen Schmoll Germany, 2016, 10 minutes

The Day Trippers Saturday Feb. 25 at 7:30 pm

Hiking The PCT Thursday Feb 16 @7:30pm (doors 7:00pm) The Cinematheque WORLD PREMIERE Surviving the Fundy Footpath follows first-time hiker, Bruce Persaud, as he attempts to complete one of Canada’s toughest multi-day hikes.

THE NEVER MELTING STORY

Directed by Rob Fraser UK, 2014, 23 minutes

Himalayan Life Friday Feb 17 @7:30pm (doors 7:00pm) The Cinematheque NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE In April of 2014 Rob Fraser spent three weeks in the Everest region working as a porter on the legendary trail to Base Camp.

NORTH OF KNOWN

Mind vs Mountain Monday Feb 13 @7:30pm (doors 7:00pm) The Cinematheque NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE The Austrian alpinist David Lama and his family have come to Nepal to see the green valleys and the little village where his father grew up.

But for David it’s not the only reason to return to Nepal.

CEDARWOOD TRAILS

IPORTER

Directed by Bryan Smith Canada, 2016, 52 minutes

Directed by Craig Norris Canada, 2016, 41 minutes

Directed by Joachim Hellinger & Christian Schmidt Germany, 2016, 18 minutes

Directed by Jonas Abenstein Austria, 2016, 52 minutes

The High Life Sunday Feb 12 @7:30pm (doors 7:00pm) The Inlet Theatre In the 1960s a folk singer sparked a social movement to preserve his Buddhist culture in the face of war and globalization. His efforts would reverberate for generations.

Directed by Emeka Ngwube USA, 2016, 75 minutes

LUNAG RI

SNOWMADS

FULL MOON

LIKE A WOLF

DOING IT SCARED

Directed by Matthew Newton Australia, 2016, 12 minutes

Directed by Pete McBride & Jake Norton USA, 2016, 65 minutes

Planet Earth Monday Feb 13 @2:00pm (doors 1:30pm) The Cinematheque A source to sea journey expedition down India’s 1500-mile Ganges River -- looking at the beauty, science and challenges of the Ganges River that sustains 500 million people across India.

THE SONG COLLECTOR

Directed by Leanne Pelosi Canada, 2016, 45 minutes

HOLY (UN)HOLY RIVER

Mountain Mixer 2 Sunday Feb 12 @2:00pm (doors 1:30pm) The Inlet Theatre A reckless sailing expedition to Antarctica, done on a hand-built gypsy boat crewed by a band of wandering miscreants.

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Wild Ones Saturday Feb 11 @2:00pm (doors 1:30pm) The Cinematheque WORLD PREMIERE Peirson Ross is a musician looking to promote his latest album. Instead of travelling to shows by van or vehicle, he goes venue to venue by canoe. It is, truly, the ‘Ultimate Canadian Music Tour’.

VIMFF Finale Saturday Feb 18 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) The Centennial Theatre Professional paragliders and adventurers Gavin McClurg and Dave Turner attempt a full, unsupported traverse of the Alaska Range by foot and paraglider, across North Americas highest mountains.

The team faces endless extreme weather, starvation, grizzly bears, un-crossable rivers and countless glaciers in one of the world most remote and inhospitable mountain ranges.

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WE DELVED A LITTLE DEEPER INTO THE PROJECT WITH PARAGLIDER GAVIN MCCLURG….

What is it about the activity that appeals to you most?

I learned to paraglide while sailing around the world back in 2004. I lived at sea and circumnavigated twice in 13 years but as soon as I took my first flight I was hooked and tried to get airtime anywhere I could. The most appealing thing about flying is the pure freedom of the sport - every time we step off a mountain we have no idea where we’re going to end up.

Tell us about this specific style (Vol-Biv) of paragliding.

Vol-biv started a long time ago by the French, but it is only recently that this genre of the sport has attracted more pilots. It is still a very small fraction of people doing it, and mostly in places like the Alp where ski lifts and gondolas and towns are around so you are never very remote. The expedition across Alaska is the most aggressive and in some ways absurd end of the spectrum!

Tell us a little about the film. What makes Alaska a great location for this type of trip? What were the main dangers, and/ or barriers to success?

The only thing that made Alaska a great location for something like what we did was the hugeness and awesomeness of the entire route. To be the first and to feel so vulnerable was very special, but it was logistically a nightmare to attempt to film and it was really, really desperate. Just the total lack of infrastructure the whole way.

Nowhere to get provisions. And then there were so many unknownsan uncountable number of glaciers to cross, dozens and dozens of rivers that were impossible to cross on foot, a very real grizzly bear threat …we knew we were setting off into some serious terrain, but until we got in there neither of us had really any idea how preposterous it was.

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The Change I Want To See Saturday Feb 11 @7:30pm (doors 7:00pm) The Cinematheque David has directed multiple award winning documentaries. He will talk about how he hopes the films will bring a much needed sanity to not only the energy debate, but the struggle for an economic paradigm that actually makes sense.

20th Annual Opening Night Friday Feb 10 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) The Centennial Theatre Marc-Andre Leclerc is one of the worlds leading alpinists.

His climbing has led him to mountains and big walls from Patagonia to Baffin Island. He will talk about his fascination with winter ascents. From winter solo ascents in Patagonia to hard winter climbs in the Canadian Rockies and North Cascades, this will be a fun evening with many a cold shiver-bivy tale.

Mountain Bike Show Saturday Feb 11 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) The Centennial Theatre Rebecca Rusch is the Queen of Pain with a heart of gold. Join Rebecca as she shares what it takes to be a professional athlete for over three decades. The 7x World Champion has continually tested her own limits, and shattered the glass ceiling in whatever sport she tackles.

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Mountain Bike Show Saturday Feb 11 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) The Centennial Theatre Justa Jeskova, Michael Sousa and Steve Storey set out on a mission to traverse the Ausangate trek high up in the Andes of Peru. The goal? To do it by bike with a few stopovers along the way. Reaching heights of over 17’250’ while barely dipping below 15’000’, they spent 8 days in the mountains climbing and descending their way around the mighty Ausangate mountain.

EILEEN BISTRISKY

7 Continents Saturday Feb 11 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) The RIO Theatre A passion for mountains, travel, and adventure has taken Eileen to all seven continents. She will share her stories and footage from each continent, and the lessons learned along the way.

LYNNE QUARMBY

The Change I Want To See Saturday Feb 11 @7:30pm (doors 7:00pm) The Cinematheque Lynne will speak to the struggles of sustained and effective individual engagement in climate justice activism. How do we stay positive? Where should we put our efforts?

Trail Running Show Sunday Feb 12 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) The Centennial Theatre Joe has been running ultras for close to a decade, competing around the world in places such as Colorado, the Alps, Mexico’s Copper Canyon, Alaska and Japan. In the summer of 2016, Joe took on the Tour de Fourteeners, a self-powered link up of all of Colorado’s 14,000ft peaks by bike and on foot.

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Trail Running Show Sunday Feb 12 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) The Centennial Theatre Paul has competed and hit the podium in over 100 expedition adventure races on 5 continents for the last 16 years, climbed the 7 summits with his son, Jordan, and has been exposed to some of the most gruelling ultra-competitions in the world. Paul is going to share what it means to #livelimitless, through some tales of his outrageous global travels and near death experiences.

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Ski Traverses in BC Sunday Feb 12 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) The RIO Theatre Focusing primarily on large ski traverses, such as the recent Selkirks Traverse, Sam will be presenting some of his stunning photographs combined with short stories aimed at providing insight into the life and times of ski traverse expeditions. Take this chance to learn a bit more about the Do’s and Don’ts of mountain expeditions.

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Adventure Travel Sunday Feb 12 @7:30pm (doors 7:00pm) The Cinematheque Manrico has hiked, skied, and canoed extensively through remote areas of northern Canada and Alaska. Follow Manrico as he and his companions enjoy a completely different type of adventure, a 19 day hike through the Dolomites in Italy ending in the town where he was born.

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SUP Adventures presented by Red Paddle Co. Monday Feb 13 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) The RIO Theatre Norm Hann has been at the forefront of the stand-up paddle movement since the sport’s early days. As a SUP athlete, Norm has competed and raced around the world and has extensively explored the waters of BC’s Great Bear Rainforest.

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I moved to Vancouver in 2000 to pursue my passion for the outdoors and quickly found myself working in the Great Bear Rainforest as a guide leading clients from around the world on fishing, wildlife viewing, hiking and sea kayaking tours. It was an incredible introduction to the BC Coast and I was fortunate that my life’s path had brought me to this point. After watching big wave surfer Laird Hamilton paddling his board into big waves in Hawaii, I took my first sup strokes in deep cove in 2008.

What makes the West Coast of Canada so great for paddle-boarding?

We have every body of water and dynamic environment that you could ask for here in BC. Our coast is a stand-up paddle boarders dream not only from the perspective of an incredibly scenic environment to paddle in but on any given day you can explore white water rivers in Squamish, remote surf breaks around Tofino, explore endless touring opportunities along our coastline or pursue fitness and race goals locally. The paddleboard is an amazing fitness tool that can be used for training and for yoga. These areas have really exploded in popularity and will continue to see incredible growth.

What will your presentation at VIMFF be focusing on?

I am excited to share with the audience my favourite and most powerful moments from my last ten years of paddling on our coastline. The presentation will speak to everyone and it should be a great celebration of our sport and our coastline.

CHRIS CHRISTIE & JEAN-FRANCOIS PLOUFFE

SUP Adventures presented by Red Paddle Co. Monday Feb 13 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) The RIO Theatre The idea of combining skiing, river paddling, ocean touring to the outer coast and surf brought our crew together to hatch a plan for the best possible location that would give us a real wilderness experience and challenge our decision making in a wild location. Join Chris Christie and Jean Francois Plouffe for a presentation on their 15 day Stand up Paddle Board Expedition to Bella Coola with a short film and still images from this 240km Coastal Journey.

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SUP Adventures presented by Red Paddle Co. Monday Feb 13 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) The RIO Theatre Join Jimmy Martinello and Jon Burak as they share some of their stories on how they got started on using inflatable sups as a multipurpose craft. From local rivers in southern BC, expeditions off the remote west coast of the Olympic peninsula to the northern tip of Vancouver Island, multi day paddles, west coast surf and some good old shenanigans.

KEVIN VALLELY

Family Show Monday Feb 13 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) The Centennial Theatre Kevin Vallely is a writer, speaker and architect and was named one of Canada’s leading adventurers by the Globe and Mail. On July 4th, 2016 two young families set off to paddle the length of Canada’s largest and longest river, the mighty Mackenzie. A paddle journey down the Mackenzie would be a challenge for any explorer but for two young families with three kids in tow it promised to be an adventure of a lifetime.

BRENT SEAL & JAMES FRYSTAK

Mind vs Mountain Monday Feb 13 @7:30pm (doors 7:00pm) The Cinematheque Theatre Brent Seal and James Frystak will present their funny, challenging and inspiring journey to North America’s highest mountain – Denali. The MINDvsMOUNTAIN presentation is one of overcoming the challenges in front of us - both physical and mental - and believing in the strength within ourselves and each other to push through the barriers, past the resistance to pursue the wild dreams that make us come alive.

EMILY COLE

Kayak Night Tuesday Feb 14 @7:30pm (doors 7:00pm) The Cinematheque In ‘Paddling to Paulatuk’, Emily will share about a sea kayaking adventure on the Arctic Ocean, traveling 900km from Inuvik to Paulatuk, NWT. A trip that was first intended to cover much greater distances, the team learned first-hand about realistic expectations and modern day expeditions.

BENJAMIN JORDAN

MEC Canadian Adventure Show Wed Feb 15 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) The RIO Theatre Last summer, Benjamin Jordan realized his greatest dream, by flying his Paraglider from Vancouver to Calgary, and becoming the first person to have free-flown from Pacific to Prairie.

EVAN GUILBAULT

MEC Canadian Adventure Show Wed Feb 15 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) The RIO Theatre After a few years of climbing in Squamish, it was necessary for Evan to combine his love of wilderness with his new found love of trad climbing. This naturally led him to the Eldred River Valley. There, for five months with his partner, they lived full time in the mythical river valley full of dozens of big walls and alpine ridges.

GLENN WOODSWORTH & DICK CULBERT

UBC Climbing Show Wed Feb 15 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) The Frederic Wood Theatre UBC In the 1960s, a group of young Vancouver-based climbers dominated the mountaineering scene in the Coast Mountains. Dick and Glenn were two at the forefront of exploration and first ascents.

LAKPA RITA SHERPA

Sherpa Show Thursday Feb 16 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) The Centennial Theatre Following the screening of the feature documentary, Sherpa, join Eileen Bistrisky onstage in conversation with Lakpa Rita Sherpa. Lakpa’s climbing and guiding achievements are significant, with 17 summits of Mt. Everest on over 23 expeditions (a record 253 climbers on the summit under his leadership), seven guided summits of Cho-Oyu and numerous other peaks in Nepal.

LAUREN BLACKBURN & STEVEN COSSIN

Hiking the PCT Thursday Feb 16 @7:30pm (doors 7:00pm) The Cinematheque Join Lauren and Steve as they take you with them along the Pacific Crest Trail, a long hike from Mexico to Canada totalling 2650 miles, which took them 5 months to complete. In their presentation they will show you through video taken along the trail as well as photographs of their amazing journey.

GREG HILL

Ski Show Friday Feb 17 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) The Centennial Theatre Greg hill has been seeking adventure for his entire life, which means he has been dealing with risk constantly. Weaving through his adventures and misadventures Greg will explain how he developed his rules of risk.

From completing 2 million feat of climbing and skiing in 2010, to being a first responder in Nepal when a massive avalanche caught 30 people sleeping in their sleeping bags.

NINA CAPREZ

Rock Climbing Show Thursday Feb 16 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) The RIO Theatre Nina Caprez is a professional climber from Switzerland who specializes in hard multi-pitch climbing - she seeks out the most aesthetic, hard, sustained climbs in the world and her climbing resume is littered with first ascents and sought after second ascents.

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WE SAT DOWN WITH NINA TO FIND OUT A LITTLE MORE….

Tell us about your climbing background – where did you grow up? How old were you when you started climbing? How did your climbing progress over the years?

I grew up in the Swiss mountains, so very early on I started to play in my back garden. By the age of 13 I started mountaineering, and discovered the joys of sport climbing at 17. I was addicted and began to progress very quickly. I sent my first 8a (5.13b) when I was 19 and did a lot of competitions and bouldering. Finally I discovered that I had a special talent for high walls. I have always followed my heart, my motivations and seeked to enjoy life to the fullest.

We are very excited to bring you back to Vancouver – what will be the focus of your presentation this year?

I will talk about a multi-pitch route I climbed with my wonderful friend, Barbara Zangerl, in the Ratikon area of Switzerland. It’s about our long partnership and friendship, sharing the same values in climbing and about love and laughs.

JONATHAN SIEGRIST

Rock Climbing Show Thursday Feb 16 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) The RIO Theatre Jonathan Siegrist is a professional American rock climber who has been traveling full time since 2011 in pursuit of first ascents, hard sport routes, traditional climbs and even occasionally bouldering. His passion for climbing history, beauty, travel and pursuing the next challenge is palpable during his presentations.

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Journey Into The Deep Wild Friday Feb 17 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) The RIO Theatre Crocodiles and Ice is a storyteller’s journey into a Consciousness Revolution based on a deep, reciprocal, communication with the Earth. This presentation highlights Jon Turk’s National Geographic award winning polar expedition circumnavigating Ellesmere Island, but also shares wisdoms from our Stone-Age ancestors, the poets of the ‘60s, a wolf that lingers, a Siberian shaman, a Chinese bicycle nomad, a lonely Tlingit warrior laying down to die in a storm, and the landscapes themselves.

ELIZABETH LEBOE & LENARD REID

Himalayan Life Friday Feb 17 @7:30pm (doors 7:00pm) The Cinematheque Many people travel to Nepal to trek among the highest mountains in the world… but you never know how the spirit of adventure can change your life’s direction. Join Liz and Len of “Jackets for Jasper” as they share the wonder of the mountains and villages of Nepal. Hear how their 2-month trek turned into the adventure of a lifetime: naming their guide’s first-born child, starting a jacket company based in Nepal, and buying a goat.

BRETTE HARRINGTON

VIMFF Finale Saturday Feb 18 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) The Centennial Theatre Brette Harrington is a professional climber best recognized for her ascents in the alpine and big wall realms. Having learned the basics of wall climbing and multi-pitch free climbing on the Squamish Chief, BC, she has then taken those skills to Yosemite where she has both free climbed and speed climbed various lines on El Capitan. In the February of 2015 she made the first free solo ascent of the 750m Patagonian tower Saint-Exupéry becoming the first woman to solo any of the peaks in the massif.

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Horse-powered Odysseo full of magic and wonder Jo Ledingham joled@telus.net

Bring out all the superlatives that can be mustered: Odysseo is awesome, spectacular, fabulous, beautiful, heart-stopping, magical and ethereal. Watching it is a little bit like whale watching in the wild: the closer the horses get, the more breathtaking it is. When they line themselves up and approach the front of the 1,626 square metre performance area and look you right in the eye, it’s almost a spiritual experience. The smell of the horses. The thunder of hooves. And when they gallop past at full speed and their hooves throw sand flying, your heart will pound.

You might wish you weren’t an urban dweller but lived in the company of horses.

Some of the most beautiful moments in Cavalia’s Odysseo are when the horses are riderless and are simply free to wander, nuzzle (or nip) each other and roll in the sand. In an act appropriately called Liberty, horse-whisperer

Elise Verdoncq slowly gathers grey Arabian geldings Gee-Gee, Chief, Bravas, Shake, Pearl, Gus, Silver, Frosty and Nezma together and with gesture and voice.

Eventually, she has them choreographed, moving in unison, running together or standing side-by-side, each with its head over the neck of the horse alongside. It’s such a quiet, lovely moment before they all come forward, stand and look out at the audience that is wildly applauding.

At the other end of the performance spectrum are the death-defying trick riders — up and over the backs of horses, lying sideways along the flanks, backwards, upside down and, breath-stoppingly, right under the belly of a thundering horse, its four legs pounding the sand.

While the major feature of Odysseo is the relationship between horse and rider, the setting itself is a huge element. Five tents — the biggest of which is the White Big Top — comprise the Odysseo

Cavalia’s Odysseo brings theatre, music, Cirque-style artists, 65 horses and 48 performers under the White Big Top at Olympic Village until March 5.

“village.” Ten thousand tons of rock, earth and sand are sculpted to create a hill that rises threestoreys high. One hundred and fifty thousand litres of water quickly flow in, providing a shallow pond

in which the horses walk or gallop — sending water splashing into the surprised front row audience.

Making dressage look so beautifully simple is Elise Verdoncq on Omerio, a 15-year-old Lusitano stal-

lion that daintily and flawlessly executes the intricate moves before running free in the pool.

In between the equestrian acts are stilters on steelsprung leg extensions, acrobats from Africa — one of whom does a series of such rapid backflips that he becomes a human blur — aerialists on silk streamers drawn by four horses, musicians, dancers and a full-size carousel that is lowered from above.

The odyssey begins in a misty forest before embarking on a virtual journey that takes them — and us — on an adventure from the Mongolian steppes to Monument Valley, from the African savannah to Nordic glaciers and from the Sahara to Easter Island. This imagery is accomplished with high-definition computer graphic images projected onto a cyclorama three times the size of the largest cinema screens. Musicians are elevated stage left and right; singer Valentina Spreca appears on these

balconies and, periodically, on stage.

Created by Cavalia founder and artistic director Normand Latourelle, Odysseo is a truly unique experience: theatre, music, Cirque-style artists — but most of all, 65 horses in all their beauty, power and splendor and 48 fearless performers. The show reaches back in time when horses and riders formed inseparable, necessary, harmonious bonds that approached something sacred in human experience.

The furthest thing from a rodeo — except, perhaps, for the trick riders — Odysseo leaves audiences full of wonder and with a longing for a different life, one full of horses and wide, open spaces under vast sun-filled or starry skies.

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The B.C. Care Providers Association is calling on the province to commit an additional $337 million for seniors care over the next five years. And it’s enlisting the support of people who are caught between taking care of their children and addressing the needs of their aging parents.

A recent Insights West study determined nine out of 10 people in the socalled sandwich generation are experiencing a wide range of challenges.

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In B.C., the number of people older than 65 is estimated to grow from 730,500 in 2012 to 1,419,900 by 2036 — almost double in less than 25 years.

The BCCPA represents private care homes and private home care providers.

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In a Future of B.C. Housing report issued by Resonance Consultancy, Simon Fraser University city program director Andy Yan is also warning we’re not prepared for the massive surge of aging baby boomers about to put pressure on infrastructure and housing.

“British Columbians aged 90 or older will almost double in the next decade, while those considered retirement age or seniors will grow by almost 50 per cent,” he says in the report.

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Mayor-hating snow complainers need to chill Last week, as we put on our leg warmers and pelts in preparation for our long mush to work, we had one single thought. “People are sure going to be pissy on Facebook today.”

Like the tides, the earth orbiting the sun and the Canucks early golf season, there are few things more predictable than Vancouverites complaining about the snow and, in turn, complaining about the city’s response to the snow.

Not enough salt, too much salt, unplowed streets, plowed bike lanes.

Nothing pleases people on Facebook more than voicing their displeasure with the city. Here’s a hint though: It’s getting boring.

We get that a significant portion of the population is not happy with the politicians at city hall, particularly the ones they didn’t vote for. But guess what, they don’t control the weather. Except maybe Coun. Tim Stevenson, who we’ve heard is a warlock. And

no matter who’s in government, snow is going to cause traffic problems, roads aren’t going to get plowed as fast as people would like, the majority of Vancouverites are terrible drivers when it snows and taking a bus sure sucks at times.

So with that, here are a few gentle suggestions for those of you who are easily irritated and for the perpetually grumpy types who feel the need to constantly air your ire on Facebook at the slightest provocation.

• Stop using the term Mayor Moonbeam for Gregor Robertson. It’s overused, unoriginal and shows a lack of creativity and effort on your part. It’s the equivalent of doing a Borat impression. If you do feel the need to disparage the mayor, make fun of his musical tastes, his appreciation of the band Rush and his refusal to accept our invitation to arm wrestle. Seriously, what’s he trying to hide?

• Try to avoid the term

“clowns at city hall.” Sure, Archie Bunker would have approved of the phrase, but once again it shows laziness on the part of the user. How about: bureau-craps? We just trademarked that, but we’ll let you use it.

• Maybe don’t always pull out the bike lane card in your litany of gripes against the city. Like it or not, bike lanes are here to stay, thousands and thousands of people really like them, and constantly lamenting about them regardless of the topic detracts from your original complaint. In other words, focus your griping, young grasshopper.

• And lastly, take a deep breath. Let go of all that pentup anger that you feel the need to spill across the Internet. Have a cup of cocoa, and remember: Snow melts. Elections happen every few years.

Politicians get voted out and in. It’s the cycle of life. It’s not the end of the world. It’s just a few flakes. Try not to be one of them. @KudosKvetches

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City opens ‘one-stop shop’ to help small businesses Mike Howell

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The city has set up a new service to help small business owners navigate what can be a daunting process of getting a business licence or the permits necessary to complete a renovation.

Called the Commercial Renovation Centre, and based out of the city’s offices at 10th and Cambie, the service is designed as a “one-stop shop” to speed up the time it takes for a business owner to get permits and licences.

“At the city, we have realized over time that we need to speed up the process, we need to make sure small business has a one-stop shop to get service, to be supported and to get, in particular, permits and licences as quickly as possible,” said Mayor Gregor Robertson, who was at the centre last Thursday to officially launch the new service which began as an experiment last fall.

“When you’re in a renovation phase to get a new space open for retail for commercial use, we want to be sure

Alona Puehse, executive director of corporate development for Open Door Group, is one step closer to opening a new location for the non-profit business at 138 East Hastings. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

we’re helping small business through that process.”

Kaye Krishna, the city’s general manager of development services, said the city heard from the business community that small businesses, which comprise about 90 per cent of Vancouver’s businesses, needed more support and guidance to obtain permits and licences.

That triggered the city to

create a dedicated team of experienced staff to begin working last fall with 60 businesses. Of those, 35 requested permits, and the city has, so far, issued 21.

“We’ll really be there from the beginning to the end until they are able to open their doors,” said Krishna, noting the centre is mainly targeting businesses with fewer than five employees.

Alona Puehse, executive

director of corporate development of Open Door group, was at the centre on the day of the city’s news conference to pick up her building permit. Puehse worked with the centre’s team to help her get closer to opening the nonprofit’s new location at 138 East Hastings.

Puehse said Open Door, which connects job seekers with employers, had operated for several years in a

leased space. Last November, the non-profit bought two storefronts in a new mixed-use development near Main and Hastings called Sequel 138.

“There was this huge sense of achievement, positive feelings, excitement for the future, but then the reality of what actually had to happen to get those spaces up and running within our tight timeline of four months actually hit,” she said. “While the city website can offer some information, the multiple steps involved in permitting and licensing isn’t easy to navigate, especially if like us, you don’t even really know what you’re looking for.”

Puehse said within two days of contacting the centre, she had face-to-face meetings with staff. Those meetings were followed up with phone calls and emails,

eventually leading to Open Door applying for a development permit, which was granted two weeks later.

“Based on our experience, this new centre is set up to provide vital support in what would otherwise be a really daunting and complex process,” she added.

Though the mayor said Vancouver’s economy was booming — and in large part because of small businesses — he acknowledged assessments and rents were high for entrepreneurs who want to continue operating in the city.

“The rent issue is very difficult for the city to directly affect,” said Robertson, noting the city is aware of the need to create and protect more commercial and industrial space in the city. “Ultimately, it’s up to landlords and the market to set the rents.” @Howellings

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Mijune Pak is checking her Instagram account at the dinner table.

“I’m getting a lot of hate,” says the woman behind the popular Follow Me Foodie blog. “The comments are flying in.”

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Pak knew that accepting the invitation to the media dinner would elicit a strong response. “I told my followers that I understand where they’re coming from and respect their opinion but I have a job to do. I can’t control how people feel.”

Full disclosure: the Courier was also asked to a media dinner at Mott 32, along with Pak. The restaurant paid for the entire meal, a practice that is not unique to Trump Vancouver.

Although neither the restaurant nor the hotel have officially opened, the soft opening allows staff to work out the kinks and get accustomed to working in the space. The much anticipated pool bar, Drai’s, has not yet opened.

“We’re just taking it slow,” says the hotel’s general manager, Philipp Posch.

Posch knows that for many people, the Trump brand has been tarnished by the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump, who has leased his name, at a cost, to Trump International Hotel and Tower Vancouver. The Vancouver Women’s March ended with people leaving their protest signs outside the hotel’s front door and there was a smaller protest after Trump announced the temporary ban on refugees and people coming into the U.S. from seven primarily Muslim countries.

“If I was French I’d say, ‘C’est la vie,’” he says with calm acceptance of people’s right to protest outside the hotel. “Obviously we are facing an uphill battle.”

He is remaining focused on one of the things that he believes will contribute to the hotel’s success: service.

In some ways, luxury hotels compete with one another in the same way: king-sized beds with expensive bedding, large-screen televisions and amenities.

Trump Vancouver’s price point — $500 to $600 a night in high season and the mid-$300s in the off season — is on par with other luxury hotels in the city such as the Shangri-la and Four Seasons, he says.

“I don’t know how much people feel about a brand as much as how they get treated,” Posch says. “If you have money, it’s not so much about the suites. It’s how I get to individualize the service. It’s the personalized service that people care about.”

He doesn’t want to define luxury as staff who stand stiffly at attention when

guests come in. “We want our associates to be more friendly and outgoing… We cater to the new five-star crowd. Our prime clientele is someone like Ivanka [Trump, Donald’s daughter] — 35, mother of three, six businesses. It’s luxury that’s a little bit hipper.”

The crowd inside Mott 32 — a sister restaurant to ones in Hong Kong, Dubai and Bangkok — last Tuesday night was primarily Asian and, Pak says, judging by their accents and the way they dress, probably not from Vancouver.

Vancouver Trump is definitely appealing to an overseas clientele. Vancouver has more mainland China carriers flying into Vancouver than any other city in North America, says Brianna Prasloski, a communications specialist with Tourism Vancouver. There are 19 flights a week, up from 16 last year. This June, Hong Kong Airlines will start offering direct flights between Hong Kong and Vancouver.

“We are the gateway to Asia,” Prasloski says, noting that Glowbal Group has also introduced more round tables and Mandarin translations. “They know that a Chinese traveller is more comfortable at a round table. Businesses in Vancouver are being savvy.”

Trump Vancouver has made an arrangement with a Chinese travel group that will bring people from China to Trump Vancouver for two nights before they head to Whistler, Victoria and Seattle before returning to Vancouver for the flight home.

“It’s not the super rich but it’s serious money,” Posch says.

A Chinese hedge fund just brought 75 people to Trump Vancouver for meetings, dinner and, of course, shopping. Luxury stores in Vancouver such as Tiffany’s and Nordstrom’s reputedly do better here than even New York City. “It’s their buying power here,” Posch says of what’s making Vancouver such a destination for Chinese consumers.

Trump Vancouver is already at 60 per cent of room reservations for February and 13 weddings have been booked, Posch says. They’ve also signed up 49 accounts for corporate travellers.

“So far we’re extremely happy,” he says, adding that the residents are also feeling like Trump Vancouver is home.

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The owner of a Grandview-Woodlands yoga studio has asked anyone setting foot inside check their conversations about U.S. President Donald Trump at the door.

Julie Peters has requested that Ocean and Crow Studio be a “Trump-free zone” and has posted a sign for all her teachers and practitioners to see on the door of the Grant Street space.

The typed note states, “This is your yoga studio… We know the world is really intense right now.

Especially if we care about what’s going on, we need to have spaces where we can rest, reset, and hit pause on the constant inflow of news.”

Peters is adamant that people pay attention to national and world news and the current state of politics, particularly south of the border. The point of her anti-Trump posture is to allow herself and her clients to check out so they can check back in with strengthened resolve, focus and commitment.

“When you’re suffering ‘Trumpitis,’ which is what I had, with sleeplessness, nausea and lack of focus, when you are feeling this way, you are not going to be a very effective person in terms of how you are

To protect against emotional exhaustion from U.S. political news, Vancouver’s Julie Peters made her yoga studio on Grant Street a “Trump-free zone.” PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

going to be engaged in the world,” said Peters.

Recognizing it’s a privilege to be able to tune out the bombardment of news about the U.S. president’s many executive orders, Peters thought it all the more important that people bolster themselves through mindful connection with their body.

Instructor and teachertrainer Nicole Marcia, who has developed a therapeutic yoga practice dedicated to trauma survivors and healthcare professionals, called Peters’ action “brilliant.”

“When you think of that experience of bombardment, she has essentially created a sanctuary,” said Marcia, who saw the message and realized talk of Trump had been

a significant part of her conversations at Ocean and Crow Studio as well as elsewhere. It’s a misunderstanding to think Peters wants to control what others say, said Marcia.

“Why not have a safe space to come into? We can talk about that other stuff the other 23 hours in the day. Let’s make the way we make a difference in the world be by fortifying ourselves and fortifying our students and maintaining regulated healthy minds and bodies so we can go out into the world and have those conversations in a really effective way. If we are at the mercy of our stress and our trauma, it makes it very, very difficult to be in action around politics.”

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Overwhelmed by a barrage of negative news and terrible consequences of political decisions, Peters was out for dinner with two girlfriends when she asked they limit talk of Trump.

It was liberating, she said, and she wanted to offer that experience to others.

“As a leader in my community, I asked what is my responsibility and what is the best thing for me to do in my position? One thing I thought that I could do is create one space for people to come into and know it just wasn’t going to be a conversation they were going to be having,” she said. “In order to avoid total emotional exhaustion, we have to have boundaries in place about how we are engaging.”

Because Canadians don’t directly affect U.S. politics, Peters donates to organizations such as Planned Parenthood and has also started a postcard writing campaign at the studio to send messages to MPs about Canadian issues.

“Part of this stress is that we can feel a little helpless as to what is going on,” she said, noting Canadians don’t have a voice on Capitol Hill in the U.S. but do in Parliament in Ottawa. “At least we can make our voices known in our own government, so our government knows what is important to us and what our values are.” @MHStewart

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Hoobiyee festival celebrates First Nations culture Rebecca Blissett

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Joseph Gosnell, leader of the Nisga’a peoples, spoke to hundreds of dancers who gathered in the PNE Forum the eve before Hoobiyee.

“What we’re going to do is turn back the clock,” Sheldon Martin recalled of Gosnell’s speech. Martin is president of the Nisga’a Ts’amiks Vancouver Society, which organized the 15th annual First Nations festival Friday and Saturday.

“He said, ‘We are going to go back in time to when our peoples really lived through song and dance… We’re going to go to a good place this weekend.’”

The Forum was, indeed, a good place of song, dance and drumming from morning to night. Vancouver’s Kwhlii Gibaygum Nisga’a dancers were the first to hit the floor, followed by performances from eight groups, including those from Mount Currie, Seattle and Prince Rupert. Then everybody — all 700 or so dancers — joined for the joyous grand entry.

Saturday’s schedule was just as impressive with the return to the floor of B.C. dancers hailing from places such as Gitwangak, Gitanyow, Gitsegukla and Gitlaxt’aamiks.

As the Gidahmes dancers

performed Saturday afternoon, Martin described the differences between the groups: “You definitely hear it in the singing, and you can tell the different styles of dance groups through their singing. Some you notice though the regalia they wear,” he said. “It’s almost just a feeling, every group brings their own feeling. And, for us, we don’t have groups here performing — we have groups that are sharing. Sharing their cultures, sharing who they are and where they come from. That’s what we were taught as young ones, you know. To be proud of who you are.”

Pride in his culture is something Martin himself did not recognize right away. He began singing and dancing when he was eight and a land-claim was settled between his people and the provincial and federal governments in 1998. The exact moment of awareness came when he was playing outside during recess at the elementary school in his hometown of Greenville, B.C. (Laxgalts’ap). A helicopter carrying government officials landed across the street on the field of the community centre.

“We ran over and we walked in to see a whole bunch of people in regalia.

We were so young, we just looked at each other won-

dering who these people were,” Martin said. “And then, I looked towards the door and there was my father dressed in regalia. I had no idea. So, to see the rebirth of it now, you know, to see the little children as part of the dancers, to see them as part of our culture and our roots… It wasn’t like that for a long time because the governments had banned First Nations people from gathering.”

Hoobiyee marks the Nisga’a Nation’s new year.

The moon plays a significant role; how it’s shaped in the sky is said to indicate the abundance of the upcoming year’s harvest. If it’s a crescent moon with its tips pointed up, it’s sitting like a bowl of a spoon — a good omen as it represents holding all of the nation’s harvest.

There are approximately 7,000 Nisga’a Nation members in Canada, with 1,400 who call Vancouver home.

“An event like this, with the city working towards reconciliation and for us to have this kind of connection to the rest of the world and the rest of the community — it’s definitely a benefit for all of us,” said Martin. “Never in my wildest dreams did I think we would be celebrating like this, here.” @rebeccablissett

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Exhibition game planned for UBC in March cancelled Megan Stewart

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BIG SHOTS Tupper Tiger Andrelyn Bernados (no. 5) fires off a jump shot under pressure from Lord Byng’s Caitlan Barker (no. 15) during the senior girls city basketball championship Feb. 6 at Hamber secondary. Byng advanced to the semi-finals Tuesday against the defending city champs from Churchill while Kitsilano faced Britannia in the second match-up. The championship final is 7 p.m. Feb. 9 at Hamber secondary. Across town at Windermere secondary on Feb. 10, the senior boys AAAA championship is at 5:45 p.m., followed by the AA/AAA championship at 7:30 p.m. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

A highly anticipated exhibition basketball game at UBC between elite Ontario and California high schools was cancelled Feb. 6 because organizers feared the recent U.S. travel ban could snare players crossing the border.

The VanCity High School Basketball Showcase between the Orangeville Prep Bears from Ontario and Prolific Prep from Napa, Calif. was scheduled for March 18 at UBC’s War Memorial Gym. The director of operations at the U.S. high school said his basketball program counts eight international players, including six-footseven Sudan-born Canadian Abu Kigab.

“With the uncertainties of our new and current administration in Washington D.C. as it pertains to foreign policy, we feel it is prudent to evaluate and wait for some of these new policies to either be upheld or dissolved by the higher courts in our country, and make decisions after these policies are entrenched in stone,” said Phillipe Doherty in a statement.

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ment we do not want to subject our kids to uncertainties and constantly changing foreign policies, so we are going to wait until we get more clarity on the new proposed legislations by this current administration on Capitol Hill,” he said.

The tournament organizers cited the executive order of U.S. President Donald Trump as reason for the cancellation.

“The VanCity Showcase is not willing to subject Prolific Prep’s international student-athletes to the risks associated with the Trump administration travel bans and changing U.S. foreign policy,” said Doherty.

Trump issued what he said was a temporary ban on immigrants from seven countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Sudan, Somalia and Yemen. Trump also put a halt to all refugees entering the U.S. for three months and all Syrian refugees indefinitely. The bans were since overruled by multiple judges and also face legal and constitutional challenges, but how individuals will be processed remains uncertain at all U.S. entry

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The roster for Prolific Prep includes athletes with ties to Guinea, Ghana, Nigeria, Mali and Slovakia as well as Sudan and Canada.

A spokesman for UBC Athletics said the university was sympathetic to the high school’s dilemma.

“We are disappointed it turned out this way, but we understand their decision and we hope in the coming years we will have the opportunity to host in the future,” said Len Catling, a UBC director of communications.

“We were informed that they do have players on their roster that could get caught in the travel ban.

They are just concerned about that and they don’t want to risk it.”

Among the four UBC Thunderbirds programs that travel to the U.S. for league competition, including baseball, softball, golf and athletics, there are no athletes who are expected to be snared in the U.S. ban, said Catling.

The exhibition game will relocate to Sacramento, Calif. on March. 18 and will be renamed the Cali vs.

Canada Showdown. @MHStewart

Major University hearing study seeks participants.

Connect Hearing, with a leading hearing researcher at Ryerson University, seeks participants for a hearing study investigating the factors that can influence better hearing. All participants will have a hearing test provided at no charge. Qualifying participants may also receive a demo of the latest hearing technology.

The data collected from this study will be used to further our understanding of hearing loss and improve life-changing hearing healthcare across Canada.

Why Research Hearing Loss?

Deep inside our ears are several thousand microscopic “hair cells.” These cells are arranged in rows and each cell is responsible for hearing a specific pitch, similar to the keys on a piano. As we age, some of these cells become damaged… from loud noises, chronic conditions, or the process of aging itself. Just like a

hearing loss will wait ten years before seeking help.2 This is because at the beginning stages of hearing loss people often find they can “get by” without help, however as the problem worsens this becomes increasingly harder to do. By studying those people having difficulty in noise or with television, we hope to identify key factors impacting these difficulties and further understand their influence on the treatment process.

Interested people can register to be a part of this lifechanging hearing study* by calling: 1.888.242.4892 or visiting connecthearing.ca/hearing-study. piano with damaged keys, an ear with damaged hair cells will make things sound muffled and distorted.

For some people this loss of clarity is only a problem at noisy restaurants or in the car, but for others it makes listening a struggle throughout the entire day.

It is estimated that 46% of people aged 45 to 87 have some degree of hearing loss,1 but most do not seek treatment right away. In fact, the average person with

*Study participants must be over 50 years of age and have the option to participate. No fees and no purchase necessary. Registered under the College of Speech and Hearing Health Professionals of BC. VAC, WCB accepted.

1. Cruickshanks, K. L., Wiley, T. L., Tweed, T. S., Klein, B. E. K., Klein, R, Mares-Perlman, J. A., & Nondahl, D. M. (1998). Prevalence of Hearing Loss in Older Adults in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin: The Epidemiology of Hearing Loss Study. Am. J. Epidemiol. 148 (9), 879-886.

2. National Institutes of Health. (2010).

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Sunday to Monday noon: Continues with change, flux, ebb/flow in connections to skills, your talents, your abilities to start projects. Get it set up. But let’s face it, Aries you do have an awfully short attention span.

Usually Aries, you require a fixed sign: Leo, Aquarius, Scorpio, Taurus to maintain the mojo. Or a mutable, preferably a Sagittarius to keep the fires of inspiration, glowing. You’re just not into her/ ze/ him or the project, after the initial ‘newness’, excitement wears off.

Lay low, relax. Let problems just pour away. It will be OK. Right? Be Positive. I know. When you’re the only person on earth without a partner. It’s tough.

But not insurmountable. Just stop obsessing.

You’ll see. It’s there, that’s right. Love awaits you!

You must open up. Use your heart chakra. Cast a prayer, heavenward. The Big Guy/Gal/Ze in the sky. Yup, They heard ya’. Make the most of what, who you’re with right NOW.

Sunday/Monday, children, speculative investments, your property value, an inheritance, a familial money situation is rife with details, splitting at the seams with the minutiae you need to be completely aux faits with and up to speed on, all of it. These themes swirl, undulate, dancing through the machinations, the complexities our lives so frequently get caught up in.

A powerful legal aspect is brought to light. A person or issue of great transformative import gets involved.

Rest, relax. Have a spa day, just take it easy. I know, if single, you want to curl up in a ball under the sheets, longing for a mate. Right, well do that, sure. Soon something ‘good’ comes a knockin’.

You’re an attractive catch. You’ve had a rough, nebulous unclear few years. And yes, the romantic person you pinned your hopes on, thought was Mr./Miss/ Zer. Right. Now you find, it ain’t what you thought. Look at the wisdom you have gained.

Mercury, your ruler, remains in your solar house of spiritual pursuits, higher learning, legal matters, publishers, astrology, meditation to February 26 2017. After this date, once Mercury transits into your solar house of career, profession, reputation.

Get ready to rumble, albeit with a wet noodle.

Neptune fogs thing up to the point by the time the s**t hits the fan, you will not have a clue who to swing the noodle at!

Your career, public persona, professional reputation soars. Churned, stirred but not shaken. You have been through the fires of hell. And now you bounce back. Similar to the Wheel of Fortune, your luck, tides of change bring better news. By October 2017 you’re clear. Just remember what you learned, how you have ‘grown down’: Soul’s Code: James Hillman. If you haven’t read it already, do so. It will speak to your, well, Soul.

Your ruler, the Moon continues her sojourn through the solar house of errands, cruising the hood. Look to siblings, especially a younger one, for help. Their meticulous eye for detail will prove helpful with a contract, or deal. You desperately want your partner, business or marital to sign this contract. Monday, the upcoming two-and-a-half days begins a burst of activity with family, home, ancestors. The ebb and flow, flux. Change is key. Get‘er done.

You find interest, relief from the powerful transit you are presently living through by rushing ASAP into either philosophical pursuits. Or looking into a foreign country, for travel or simply, to study the culture.

This exercise will calm down any jitters, anxiety.

Please see: N.B below, Capricorn: Re: Pluto at the bottom of this star sign. Today, you feel the energy of Pluto in your solar house of physical well being, primary motivation and profession.

Sunday/Monday finances are stirred, change regarding your partner, a best friend or a business associate.

Means: Your pocket book takes a hit. No worries with your light, your heart, your goodwill, it will come back 10 fold. Monday, until Feb. 26, your partners are all chatty, quoting the latest in scientific research, tech, space rockets, Mars shot boosters. You get my drift. They are over the Moon with new innovations/ discoveries. Look intrigued, when it’s explained to you.

Your ruler, Saturn sticks around until October 2017.

You, I suspect will be relieved to see the ‘ol Boy move on, out from your house of buddies, groups, social movements. By Feb. 26, Mercury presently in your solar 1st house, glides like the ‘60s rocker, T.Rex on ‘Slider/ Electric Warrior’ out of your influence and into Pisces.

For now, it’s your baby. And matters connected to loans, mortgages, the significant other’s cash, liquidity, assets dominate for the next two-and-a-half days.

Virgo you remain on good footing despite feeling turned around. You’re being hit with a projection by a partner. The next two-and-a-half days enjoy the ebb/flow of your peculiar genius, wit, skill and talent. To May 10, you are cookin’ on all burners, your pistons are so fired up, hot with innovation, high tech expertise.You’re blowing the competition out of the water.

Feeling a little under the weather? Owing to present meteorological, barometric pressure, just watch. The South Node in your solar first house of emotional security, physical well being is a must. By May 2017, things lighten up substantially. In the meantime, just chill, no point in wriggling against the hook, Pisces. With your ruler, Jupiter, retrograding from Feb. 7 to June 10, you must renegotiate many financial matters.

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