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Are medical doctors to blame for the opioid overdose crisis? Mike Howell
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I finally got around to reading Provincial Court Judge Bonnie Craig’s reasons for sentencing Walter James McCormick to 13 years and 144 days in prison for his involvement in the drug trade, specifically the selling of the deadly synthetic narcotic fentanyl. While the 45-page judgment is interesting reading during times like these in Vancouver and across the province, with the judge pointing out McCormick’s “moral culpability” in selling fentanyl during a widely known crisis, there is more to this story than a 53-yearold dealer going to prison for a long time. Dr. James Kennedy can attest to that. He testified in the case as an expert on the effect of fentanyl on the human body. Under cross-examination by McCormick’s lawyer, Kennedy did us all a favour and provided a history that is helpful to understanding why 914 people died
of an overdose in B.C. last year, with 60 per cent of the deaths between January and October linked to fentanyl. The judge summed it up in four sentences. “In cross-examination, Dr. Kennedy agreed that much of the blame for what has been described as the opioid epidemic can be attributed to the overprescription of opioids as pain medication by medical doctors. In the 1990s, doctors were convinced by prescription drug companies that opioid painkillers were effective and rarely caused addiction.” And the last two sentences… “As the medical profession started to better understand the risks associated with opioid use, including its addictive qualities, doctors started to cut patients off their prescriptions. This led to people turning to the street to find their drugs, which in turn led to an increased demand for opioids on the street.” The doctor’s insight was supported by the testimony of Sgt. Peter Sadler, a Van-
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couver police drug squad member, who told the court how fentanyl was added to, or used to replace, the more common street drugs heroin and oxycodone. In 2012, a newer, safer form of oxycodone was manufactured. So dealers began using fentanyl in place of oxycodone and selling it as oxycontin. The purchasers did not know they were buying fentanyl.
Which brings us back to McCormick and the drug offences he committed in Vancouver in January and February of 2015, and in Richmond in May 2016. In an undercover operation, police purchased 3,000 fentanyl pills from McCormick. When police searched his storage locker, they found a pile of drugs, including 27,000 fentanyl pills, four kilograms
of cocaine, one kilogram of methamphetamine, 374 grams of MDMA, five grams of heroin, more than 22 kilograms of cannabis and a pill press. The street value of the drugs was estimated at $2,034,132. Police also seized $171,905 in cash, a .40 calibre pistol and .22 calibre rifle. McCormick made $100,000 bail and then got in trouble in Richmond in May 2016, with police seizing 1,049 fentanyl pills, two kilograms of cocaine, 18 kilograms of cannabis, 4,285 alprazolam pills, $4,736 in cash and seven cellphones. Despite all that work by police, the judge pointed out “there was no evidence that his offences caused any overdose deaths, but they certainly introduced a high level of risk to the community.” Craig also said this: “[McCormick] admitted at the sentencing hearing that, while he was on bail, there was regular coverage by local and national news outlets on overdose deaths in the community related to
fentanyl. In some of these articles and broadcasts, Mr. McCormick was specifically named as an alleged fentanyl trafficker. Yet, in the face of this coverage, not only did he intentionally take on the risk of further offending, he did so knowing the deadly effect fentanyl was having in the community. His moral culpability when committing this offence is very high.” That moral culpability, it can be argued, extends beyond McCormick. Those medical doctors Kennedy talked about? Prescription drug companies? Finger-wagging politicians at all levels of government protecting their own turf? Push, push, push. Podcast: The second episode of “12th &Cambie: The Podcast!” features Dr. Patricia Daly, the chief medical health officer for Vancouver Coastal Health. She talks fentanyl, the legalization of drugs and the role of public health in shaping policy. Go to vancourier.com @Howellings
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Ball loses Liberal bid Mike Howell
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An NPA city councillor’s run to represent the B.C. Liberals in the riding of Vancouver-Fairview ended Sunday after she was defeated by a former executive assistant to Premier Christy Clark. Elizabeth Ball lost the party’s nomination to Gabe Garfinkel, a 31-year-old owner of a health care communications consulting company who also worked as Clark’s director of stakeholder relations. “Gabe had worked long and hard with the Liberal party and was well known — and worked very hard in the neighbourhood for a long time making connections,” Ball told the Courier Monday. “He did a great job in bringing new people to the Liberal party. He’s a lovely young man. He’s very smart.” More than 600 Liberal members were eligible to vote in Sunday’s nomination contest at the Holiday Inn on Broadway. About 60 per cent voted, but the party did not release the vote spread. Garfinkel said Monday
he signed up the majority of new members in a campaign that he launched in November. Some of those members included his Hebrew teachers from Grade 1 and Grade 3 at Talmud Torah elementary school. “I put together what I think is a great team, we had a game plan and we stuck to it,” he said. “The core of our strategy was just talking to people.” Ball said she plans to finish her term as a councillor and has no current aspirations to seek another nomination before the May 9 provincial election. In 2012, Vision Coun. Geoff Meggs battled unsuccessfully to become the NDP’s candidate in Vancouver-Fairview but lost to George Heyman, who went on to win the riding in the 2013 election; he narrowly beat Liberal incumbent Margaret Macdiarmid by 1,300 votes. Heyman has a high profile in the riding, which has gone from NDP to Liberal and back to NDP in recent races. That history could work in Garfinkel’s favour but he realizes, “I’m not the
guy out there with the most name recognition.” He said the main issue for him is to continue to boost and diversify the economy. Housing affordability is also a big issue in the riding, he said, noting he lives in an apartment near the Cambie Street Bridge. “It’s a complex challenge that we’re facing — not one that has one solution, and it takes a lot of people working together to find those results,” he said. Garfinkel has deep roots in Vancouver-Fairview, with his father growing up across the street from Douglas Park and his mother having worked as a social worker on Broadway for almost 40 years. His grandmother, Ethel Karmel, founded and led the Cambie Heritage Boulevard Society, which convinced the city to make the boulevard a heritage landmark in 1991. “There was a big announcement and a photo opp, so to speak, and I was the sixyear-old planting the tree for the next generation,” he said. @Howellings A longer version of this story appears at vancourier.com.
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Musqueam breaks ground Mike Howell
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The Musqueam Indian Band made history last week by breaking ground on a massive residential development that will be spread over 21.4 acres of its own land near the University of B.C. The construction of the development, which will include four 18-storey highrises, several rows of townhouses and mid-rise apartment buildings, marks the first time in the histories of the city and endowment lands that a First Nation is behind a major development on its own land in Vancouver. “It’s a very exciting time for myself personally, having been involved in this project, but also obviously for the Musqueam people,” said Jay Mearns, a Musqueam band member and operations manager of the Musqueam Capital Corporation. The housing planned for the project will create space for an estimated 2,500 residents, who will have access to a community centre, childcare facility, a grocery store, restaurants, a public plaza, a large park and wetlands area.
The project will include “affordable workforce housing” and a mix of rental units. The land, which runs along University Boulevard and is bounded by Acadia Road, Toronto Road and Ortona Avenue, was returned to the band in 2008 by the provincial government as part of a reconciliation package. The nearby University Golf Course lands and the land on which the River Rock Casino was built in Richmond were included in the deal. Last Wednesday, a backhoe was on the property clearing trees and brush to prepare for construction. Crews were also on site to ensure any artifacts possibly left behind by the band’s ancestors were not disturbed or damaged. About half of the site will be “selectively harvested” of a variety of trees,which will be used by the band in the design of the project, to make art, canoes, house posts and to be used in the process to smoke fish. “We’re not taking anything to the dump,” said Doug Avis, the vice-president of real estate for the Musqueam Capital Corporation, noting some of the taller Douglas
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Fir trees will remain. Avis said the band has yet to choose a developer for the project, which is expected to be given a name soon. For years, it has been commonly referred to as “Block F,” its legal planning name. Mearns said the project will “kickstart” the band’s economic strategy to become self-sustainable, which will mean less reliance on government transfer payments. “It will allow us to do other things to help develop our people in education and in employment and in other areas where we otherwise wouldn’t be able to.” The provincial government gave the project the green light last fall after an extensive process that included public meetings. Vancouver city council did not have a say in the project because the endowment lands are the jurisdiction of the provincial government. The project is one of many to come for the Musqueam, which has joined with the Tsleil-Waututh and Squamish nations to develop 121 acres of some of the most prized property in the city, including the 90-acre Jericho Lands.
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Naoibh O’Connor
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An ambitious proposal could see the Italian Cultural Centre transformed into an extensive complex featuring everything from recreational amenities, a theatre and restaurants to piazzas, a library, a daycare and rental housing. The centre, located at 3075 Slocan St., is going into its 40th year — the buildings are aging, there is a large under-utilized parking lot and a desire to improve its long-term financial sustainability. In the 1970s, the vision for the 4.3-acre property was to create an Italian village that was a home away from home, according to Mauro Vescera, the centre’s executive director. Thirteen Italian associations came together to build it with sweat equity and help from the city and province. “It’s the story of the second generation taking what the first generation created and hoping to move it forward,” he said. The cultural centre is working with Bosa Proper-
ties and Henriquez Partners Architects on the redevelopment project, which still needs members’ approval before a rezoning application is submitted to the city. “It’ll be up to our membership as to whether they’d like to proceed and, of course, the initial vision will evolve and change as we engage the city and the neighbourhood,” Vescera said. Plans have been underway for several years and the preliminary design concept envisions the existing Floor Space Ratio [FSR] of .55 going up to 2.7 FSR. Three new buildings would be connected through piazzas and atriums and the parking lot would go underground, but the overall goal is to maintain the Italian feel. “Essentially, there will be a piazza at the front of the centre and then it will circle a building in the middle,” Vescera said. “And then there will be a little piazza that connects to the community garden we have at Beaconsfield Park. It’s all about building into the contour of the land and doubling the size of the centre so we can do more programming and
be more sustainable and promote our culture.” Vescera stressed the proposal is still at the preliminary stage. Members will vote on whether to move forward with the rezoning application sometime in the spring. But the changes proposed would be dramatic, and the plans are not without critics and questions. “It’s a significant change and it’s complicated. A lot of people who worked on this [original] building are older members — that first generation. [They’re] really emotionally tied to the building. So it’s not an easy transition. We’ve done over a year of consultation. Ultimately, in this democratic society, it’ll be up to [members].” He added, with a laugh, “We’re Italian so this sort of process for us includes a little bit of arguing. That’s positive and it’s creative and, like any other change, there’s always going to be people who may not want it or resist it. We’re hoping to work with everyone to bring it forward.” For details, go to italianculturalcentre.ca @naoibh
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News Centerm Expansion Project Public Consultation February 20 to March 24, 2017 About the Centerm Expansion Project The proposed Centerm Expansion Project includes improvements at Centerm container terminal to help meet anticipated near-term demand for containers to be shipped through Vancouver. In addition, the application for a project permit includes the proposed South Shore Access Project to improve infrastructure that would benefit the entire south shore port area. Collectively, they are referred to as the project.
We want to hear from you The project team will be consulting with the public from February 20 to March 24, 2017, as part of the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority’s Project and Environmental Review process. You’re invited to learn more about and provide feedback on the project’s proposed design, results of technical and environmental studies, anticipated construction activities, and a proposed community investment program.
You can learn more and provide feedback by: • Attending an open house (drop-in, see schedule) • Attending a small group meeting (please RSVP, see schedule) • Reading the Discussion Guide and completing a Feedback Form (hard-copy or online at porttalk.ca/centermexpansion) • Visiting porttalk.ca/centermexpansion • Providing a written submission ° By email: centermexpansion@portvancouver.com ° By mail: Vancouver Fraser Port Authority, Attn: Centerm Expansion Project Team 100 The Pointe, 999 Canada Place Vancouver, BC, V6C 3T4 • Calling 604.665.9563
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Details of why the late Jimmy Chow donated the money remain unclear Mike Howell
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When 40 tenants move into the city’s first modular housing complex at Main and Terminal in the next couple of weeks, they will enter through the main door and walk by a simple wooden plaque in the entranceway dedicated to a man named Jimmy Chow. It reads: “In tribute to the memory of Jimmy Chow. Through Jimmy’s generous donation, the development of this affordable housing was made possible.” Who is Jimmy Chow? To start, his estate made a donation of more than $1 million to the $3-million project, which opened its doors Feb. 16 to politicians, media and the public. The three-storey structure, which will be rented to low-income tenants at the $375 shelter rate, has 40
small suites, complete with a kitchen, bathroom and sleeping area. Mayor Gregor Robertson, Jean-Yves Duclos, who is the federal minister responsible for housing, the builder Horizon North, and staff from the city’s housing department were on hand to open the complex. Bracken Hanuse-Corlett, a member of the Wuikinuxy and Klahoose nations, was also on site to discuss the large murals he created for the front and back of the building. But no one from Chow’s family was there. According to city staff, his family was unable to make it, which further deepens the mystery of who this man is and what motivated him to donate such a sum to a project that benefits low-income people. Through enquiries to the mayor’s office, the Courier learned Chow died in December 2012. His last will and testament, which contained “the gift provision to the city” — a property, which the city sold — was signed
May 24, 2007. The city’s legal team “doesn’t have information as to why Mr. Chow left the majority of his estate to the city,” said Katie Robb, the mayor’s director of communications, in an email. Vision Coun. Kerry Jang visited the complex Feb. 16 and noticed the plaque on the wall. He said he knew little about Chow but was deeply grateful for the donation, noting it was almost as much as the federal government’s $1.5-million contribution. “I don’t know the details, to be honest, I just know that [the property] was bequeathed to the city by his family, and what they wanted to see done was housing built,” said Jang, who recalled a similar act of philanthropy in 2010 when a couple approached him about donating $30 million for housing. Coincidentally, Jang was going to meet the same couple Feb. 17 to help select new tenants for Taylor Manor, a 56unit complex at Boundary and Adanac for people with mental health issues.
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The couple has remained anonymous. The story they told Jang was they had left the Queen Elizabeth Theatre one night in the winter of 2010 and were heartbroken to see the number of young homeless people downtown. That led to several meetings with Jang, visits with the couple to homeless shelters, and a dinner at a White Spot with two young homeless people. Jang also acknowledged the donations the Streetohome Foundation — many of them anonymous — has made in its ongoing campaign to help pay for housing for low-income people with addiction and mental health issues. “They’re angels — they’re total angels,” he said of private donors. “When I meet with them, I’m always blown away by their compassion and caring. And I’m also blown away by the amount of frustrations a lot of them have with the federal and
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week after I left on vacation, news broke that the city’s chief housing officer Mukhtar Latif, the man who also headed up the city-owned Vancouver Affordable Housing Agency (VAHA), had been fired. Two weeks later, there was an announcement that VAHA, along with the city, the Government of Canada and Vancity, were “celebrating” the opening of an affordable 40unit “modular” housing project. That project was led by Latif and his crew at VAHA. Of course, he didn’t attend the celebration. Latif was unloaded by city manager Sadhu Johnston, who would only confirm he did the deed but had little else to say. Mayor Gregor Robertson told my colleague Mike Howell he thought it was the right call. Although it may seem like ancient history, it’s worth noting that Latif was a Penny Ballem hire. Latif’s firing was just the latest bit of cleaning up after her. As you may know, the former city manager, who was known for her bullying style, sought out employees who would always say “yes.” The problem with Latif, according to industry sources, was that this mild-mannered and likeable fellow imported by Ballem from England couldn’t do the job. He was frustratingly slow at making decisions and not particularly skilled at cutting deals in the development community and the notfor-profit sector he found himself in here. It is unclear if there was one particular event that was the tipping point or an accumulation of complaints. But bear in mind all of this was taking place right in the middle of a housing affordability crisis. Another Penny Ballem hire that did not fit,
and seemed to delay development rather than accelerating it, was her choice for city planner — Brian Jackson. Jackson was hired out of Richmond after she basically drove then-city planner Brent Toderian out the door. The joke in the industry at the time was that Jackson was so compliant that Ballem was effectively the head of planning for the city. Jackson’s most notable gaff was the first rendition of the Grandview-Woodland community plan. Among other things, towers magically appeared at the corner of Commercial and Broadway, even though none had been discussed in all the community consultations beforehand. In the furor that erupted from the community, rather than take the heat himself, as other directors of planning had done in the past, Jackson chose to throw his staff under the bus; all staff’s idea. Council, in its wisdom, agreed to slow down the process, take several more months and after the next election to come up with a second plan for the neighbourhood. Over Jackson’s tenure, he became a pariah in the development and planning community as talent fled the city’s planning department. He announced his departure shortly before Ballem was nudged out the door by the mayor’s office about 18 months ago. As it turns out, Jackson left a bit of a legacy. Because the planning department had been hollowed out, a new planning director had to be sought, once again, from outside. In the interim, an acting general manager of planning and development was put in place as a caretaker. But during Jackson’s tenure, he promoted a planner, Anita Molaro, to the position
of assistant director of urban design. I wrote about Molaro’s handiwork last June. For years Vancouver has had a program called the Heritage Revitalization Agreement (HRA.) It’s designed to preserve heritage properties and override existing zoning regulations. Homeowners have to agree to place a heritage designation on their title, which precludes the building from being torn down (and drops the property value). In exchange, they were allowed to build a coach house on the back of their property. The HRA pre-
served heritage, increased density, provided affordable housing and neighbours liked it. Tom Fowle spent two years and $50,000 working his way through the process. There was a string of emails from city staff approving his every step. Then, at the last moment, before Fowle got his HRA, Molaro killed it. Council had no idea. There’s a slim hope now that with a new director of planning, Gil Kelley, the program will be revived, tidying up one last problem. @allengarr
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Re: “City housing proposals alarm architects, designers, home builders,” Feb. 15. Thank you for the excellent column by Michael Geller regarding Vancouver character homes. I am very concerned about a recent initiative by city hall, which will reduce property values for many Vancouver homes if it goes through. Many Vancouverites will not be aware of this initiative and it’s unclear if city is aware or has considered this. Briefly, the city proposal is that homes in single-family zoned areas in Vancouver (RS-1) should have the character merit test applied if they were built before 1940. While I am in favour of retaining attractive character homes, many city “deemed character” homes are plainly unattractive. If you want to sell your home and are caught in this new zoning, the value of your home goes down. The reason for this is common sense: most buyers in Vancouver today look at an old home as having value mostly in the land, because they plan to build a new house. The size of a new house will be considerably reduced if the old house is deemed to have character. Thus a buyer will buy the non-character house, or pay less for the character house. For better or worse, this is the state of affairs in Vancouver real estate today and I say this as a Vancouver realtor with 35-years experience. City hall should be aware of this and make it clear to the public before making any changes. Jack Hunter, Vancouver
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Despite the mysterious death of two belugas in November, the Vancouver Aquarium intends to bring up to five of the animals back to its tanks when a massive expansion exhibit opens in two years. However, they will phase out captivity of cetaceans by 2029 and in the meantime will focus on research but not breeding. A virus or toxin is the suspected cause of the Nov. 25 death of Aurora, who was 30, and was the first beluga to conceive and give birth in captivity in Canada. Her calf, 21-year-old Qila, died nine days before her.
Cetaceans will not return to the same tank where Aurora and Qila fell ill. The aquarium’s lead veterinarian did not rule out poisoning and opened the door for speculation about intentional wrong-doing. “Right now we have no obvious sign of mortality,” said Martin Haulena on Monday. “I will stress that nothing is off the table now.” Early necropsy reports do not reveal a definitive cause of death, but Haulena said the older beluga showed signs of significant liver damage. He said early tests have ruled out bacterial and fungal causes. Aquarium president and CEO John Nightingale said the deaths appear to be connected given the sudden onset and similar symptoms. Cetaceans will not return to the same tank where Aurora and Qila fell ill and died until a cause of death is identified, he said. The aquarium has six cetaceans on loan at marine parks across North America. The Vancouver Park Board, which leases land to the aquarium, is reviewing its policies about whales and cetaceans in captivity. A special meeting is scheduled for March 8. The aquarium’s public relations team also published a 10-point list of its
professional conservation goals and mandate, which it argues justifies keeping cetaceans at its facilities, as a rebuttal to being “attacked by a network of animal rights groups.” At Monday’s park board meeting, a group of eight speakers wearing “No More Dead Cetaceans” addressed commissioners in response to the aquarium press conference. “We expect you guys to do something now. We are not going anywhere,” one speaker said. “Why would you bring [cetaceans] in if you’re phasing out captivity?”
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Paige was a 19-year-old aboriginal girl who died from a drug overdose in 2013 but, more to the point, died because of systematically neglect and indifference by the public institutions that were supposed to care for her. Her story became national news when the B.C. representative for children and youth highlighted Paige’s short and increasingly tragic life, one that did not need to end when it did, and recommended numerous changes to the Ministry of Children and Family Development. On Feb. 20, the park board heard an update from Paige’s aunt and also pledged to support youth through community accountability. The pledge was developed by Our Place, which is operating at five community centres, and promotes access and accountability through a placebased strategy that stays close to home in people’s neighbourhoods through collaboration with residents and the goal of providing opportunity to Vancouver’s inner-city youth. The pledge reads, in part, “We believe their different perspectives, identities and experiences must be acknowledged and valued.” The implied message of several speakers was that a connection to a community centre near her home — plus the relationships and opportunities there — might have saved Paige’s life. No one organization could do the work alone, said Kate Hodgson, co-ordinator of the Ray-Cam Cooperative Centre. Partnerships are key, she added. “It will avoid tragedies like Paige’s death and will improve outcomes for families.” @MHStewart
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As a Vancouverite who has spent most of the past seven years living in other parts of Canada and abroad, there are three things I usually notice when I come home. First, I always forget just how breathtaking the mountains are. Second, my eyes are drawn to the ever-changing skyline, its angles and lines shifting with new apartment buildings. And, third, I see people sleeping on street corners that I don’t remember being used by homeless people in years past. Mountains, condos and poverty — it’s a funny combination of things that catches my eye in one of the world’s “most livable” cities. But it’s also representative of what Vancouver has become — a stunning city with growing economic divisions. I thought of this last week when I learned that rents in Vancouver have hit a record high. The average rent for a one-bedroom apartment in the city now sits at $1,900
per month — a number that firmly maintains Vancouver’s unofficial ranking as the most expensive city to be a tenant in Canada. I remembered the economic divisions again, just one day later, at a press conference for the official opening of a new housing development on Terminal Avenue across from the Main Street-Science World SkyTrain station. Built in under six months to provide accommodation for 40 poor Vancouverites while permanent social housing is in the works, it was touted by government officials as an “innovative” response to Vancouver’s affordability crisis. In fact, Jean-Yves Duclos, federal minister of families, children and social development, told reporters he hopes it will serve as a model for cities across Canada. Even so, 40 units seem paltry when considering that Vancouver has more homeless people than ever before and that their needs are growing and urgent. As rents soar, basic welfare rates for the poorest are stuck at
$610 per month and haven’t risen since 2007. “People lose capacity to continue moving forward in their lives,” says Jeremy Hunka, spokesperson for the Union Gospel Mission, which has been hosting more seniors and families with young children in their shelters. “They feel forgotten.” Even the provincial government’s commitment to build an additional 5,300 units of affordable housing in B.C., as outlined in its 2017 budget Tuesday, will only make a dent in the problem. Metro Vancouver alone has a waitlist of 10,000 for social housing. And, as all Vancouverites know, these struggles are just the tip of the iceberg. In one way or another, many are feeling the pinch. Stories abound of millennials fleeing Vancouver for cheaper pastures or struggling to raise a family in the city. Vancouver is “looking more and more like a generational ghost town when it comes to how younger residents can think about
raising a family,” says Paul Kershaw, a UBC professor and founder of the advocacy group Generation Squeeze. The bottom line is that, even as Vancouver prides itself on being a welcoming and diverse city, it is becoming less and less inclusive on one important measure: class. Solving the affordability crisis, then, is about more than putting a roof over everyone’s heads. It’s about maintaining and increasing Vancouver’s social diversity. With a provincial election coming up in May and the federal government due to release a national housing strategy in the coming months, it’s time for officials to break with the status quo. One way they could do so is by recognizing housing as a right. In Canada, it isn’t one. According to DJ Larkin, a lawyer and housing campaigner at Pivot Legal Society, this “leads to [housing] being treated either as a commodity or as an optional service.” “That means you can politicize access to social
housing,” Larkin adds. “It makes it easier to demolish low income housing without having replacements and relocation plans in place.” Writing housing rights into law would force officials to guarantee housing for those, such as seniors and people with disabilities on fixed incomes, who can’t afford it on the market. Currently, they’re among the hardest hit — almost a third of those identified by Vancouver’s 2016 homeless count had a disability. Second, policy makers could look to ideas about how to make housing markets work better for new buyers. “Homes first, investments second,” suggests Kershaw. He co-authored a paper that, among other solutions, advocates for a
“speculation tax” to discourage investors from flipping homes and leave more houses on the market for those looking for a home. Another way to make Vancouver inclusive, he says, would be to rethink zoning rules to encourage more density so that there are more homes available to new buyers. And these are just a few of many ideas Canadian researchers and housing advocates, including Kershaw, have been debating for years. It’s time for our elected officials to tap into this thinking and do more than pour money into social housing schemes. Instead, they should redefine how we think of housing in Canada and the way it fits into the structure of our cities.
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“Vancouver restaurant owners are mounting a call for more courtesy from customers, citing an increasing number of people making reservations, but then not showing up.” — CBC News Greetings! Welcome to L’Abuse on Cambie. You’ve had this coming for a long time, Vancouverite: an exclusive restaurant that pairs world-class cooking with extraordinarily abusive service. Allow us to explain. L’Abuse on Cambie is more than a high-end dining destination: it’s an existential dare with a wine cellar. Just as there is no gain without pain, there is no grain-fed Angus beef or foie gras without some distress, starting with the cow and goose. We’re just paying it forward. To you, the notorious breaker of dinner reservations in Vancouver. This is our credo: the volatile chef, condescending waiter and snooty sommelier shouldn’t be dismissed as New Yorker cartoon clichés, but celebrated as rich, real-life embodiments of the Basil Fawlty archetype. Survivors of natural and unnatural disasters often find themselves transformed for the better. We think personal-growththrough-trauma fits nicely with fine dining. We call it “sado-mastication.” Do we detect a note of skepticism? Perhaps you’re working at a job you hate, just to subsidize a place so small your area rug is a welcome mat. At the end of the day do you really want to tackle the city’s infamously congested streets just to partake in
an expensive meal in an unsafe space? Yes you do, you insufferable little twerp. And don’t mistake us for a breakfast café offering a daisy chain of double entendres from comically bitchy gay waiters. All our servers, both straight and LGBLT (Lesbian Gay Bacon Lettuce Tomato), are schooled in both the Marquis de Sade School of Improv and the MyersBriggs personality test. An initially cheery exchange over the menu will kick off your psychological profiling. Once we have identified the chinks in your character armour, we will pour hot coffee into them — figuratively speaking. You and your dinner companion(s) will be emotionally deconstructed during a fabulous full course dinner. We will respect your boundaries — at least up until dessert, when the gloves really come off. (Our servers are expert at mixed martial arts and declassified RCMP interrogation techniques.) If this does not sound like your cup of yerba mate, by all means trundle off to another surprise-free meal at Chambar or Le Crocodile. Pick away at your predictable fusion cuisine while secretly wishing you had cancelled your reservation, or just not shown up. Another missed opportunity: you could have been culinary BASE jumping at L’Abuse! Still have doubts? Why would any sane foodie sign up for a restaurant initiation that begins with a slap on the face from the hostess, you ask? Surely not just for the meals, even if the entrées are extraordinarily sophisticated, impressively priced and creatively
presented with a sprig of something newly discovered by ethnobotanists! Truth be told, it’s all about status. Fine dining always comes with a side dish of snobbery, n’est pas? This is your chance to prove to yourself and others you’ve got the right stuffing. All but the bravest foodies will flee to CinCin when they discover L’Abuse’s rough-hewn tables (made out of oldgrowth wood recovered from demolished Vancouver heritage homes) can be bolted upright as aprèssmackdown stockades. That said, here at L’Abuse we respect the safety and security of all patrons. Before reserving a table, you and your dinner companions must fill out an online application form and supply a urine sample by post. Once approved, your party will be required to sign waivers at the door. Will our in-your-face, on-your-lap dining experience make you or break you? Will we honour your food sensitivity or allergy? Is that a fly in the gazpacho? Are we really playing a Kenny G/Kraftwerk mashup over Marshall amps? What’s with the ammonia smell from the lukewarm Chardonnay? All lingering questions will vanish from your mind during a kitchen tour featuring our iconic Trial by Grease Fire™, which includes a complimentary Mojito and gauze wrap. L’Abuse looks forward to giving you the business, but please note: the waiting list now extends into 2018 for our five-scar restaurant. So if you’re a no-show next year, you only have yourself to flambe. Worm. geoffolson.com
Tuesday, March 7, 2017, at 6 pm City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Third Floor, Council Chamber Vancouver City Council will hold a Public Hearing to consider zoning for this location: 1. 371 West 2nd Avenue To rezone 371 West 2nd Avenue from M–2 (Industrial) District to CD–1 (Comprehensive Development) District, to permit the development of a 12-storey residential building with a six-storey residential podium, containing 133 strata-titled housing units. A height of 37.54 metres (123 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 4.07 are proposed. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THIS APPLICATION INCLUDING LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTIES: vancouver.ca/rezapps or 604-873-7038 Anyone who considers themselves affected by the proposed by-law amendments may speak at the Public Hearing. Please register individually beginning at 8:30 am on February 24 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 24 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. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON PUBLIC HEARINGS, INCLUDING REGISTERING TO SPEAK: vancouver.ca/publichearings
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A VISIT TO THE ST. REGIS PRINCEVILLE RESORT SHOWS POSH ALSO TRANSLATES TO FAMILY FRIENDLY Walking into the St. Regis Princeville located on the north shore of Kauai during a recent visit, I went full-on Hawaiian tourist, snapping photos with not only my camera, but also my phone. We had been invited to visit the St. Regis for one night, but as soon as we walked into that lobby, my husband and I decided to splurge and immediately booked a second day. One of the reasons I was so anxious to visit the iconic hotel is because I’m such a fan of the 2011 movie The Descendants, which was filmed partly in and around the St. Regis.
discovered plantation-style wooden shutters that slid back to offer a breathtaking, open-air view of Hanalei Bay. On that first day at the resort, we took over the hotel’s largest cabana and were joined by my husband’s son, his wife and our two granddaughters, as well their friends, including two young
boys, who were all vacationing on the south shore of Kauai. I was initially concerned our posh surroundings might not translate to “family friendly,” but staff members were nothing but gracious and helpful as we wrangled three rambunctious kids and a baby. The luxurious cabana came with a temperature-controlled
wine chiller, wooden ice chest filled with cold drinks and cans of Evian facial spray and a fruit platter the kids demolished in minutes. Dotting the Champagnecoloured sand in front of us were mint-green umbrellas shading beach-goers as they dashed in and out of the azure-coloured ocean. That evening, after the gang headed out, my husband
and I dropped by the hotel’s large ocean-front veranda for the nightly Champagne toast hosted by the St. Regis’s bar manager Rodrigo Maza. Brandishing a saber in one hand and a bottle of bubbly in the other, Maza sliced the cork off the bottle of Champagne with one swift move, perfectly timed to coincide with sunset. The nightly ritual is just one example of the attention to detail the St. Regis offers its guests. Later we enjoyed tropical cocktails in the lounge area, while enjoying Hawaiian music performed live, the players accompanied by a graceful hula dancer. The St. Regis is located at the edge of Princeville at Hanale
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A GOOD YEAR: As usual, the Bacchanalia Gala kicked off this year’s 39th Vancouver International Wine Festival. More than 380 guests attended the posh dinner and auction held at Hotel Vancouver. For the third consecutive year, Jana Maclagan handled the chairing duties, as well as adding auctioneer to her list of responsibilities, a first for the socialite. More than ably selling premium bottles of Chateau Petrus, Chateau Margeaux and Chateau Mouton Rothchild to the wine-satiated crowd, Maclagan’s prowess at the podium helped uncork a reported $280,000 for Christopher Gaze’s Bard on the Beach Shakespeare festival,
beneficiary of the annual tipple fest, which this year celebrated the wines of Canada to mark the country’s 150th birthday. WINE TOAST: Yours truly emceed the Wine Awards held near the conclusion of the 10-day Wine Festival. Winemakers, sommeliers, restaurateurs, food and wine media and industry insiders convened at the Convention Centre for the luncheon luau that annually recognizes the province’s best wine lists, as well as pays tribute to this year’s Sommelier and Spirited Industry Professional of the Year recipients. Restaurants achieving platinum status this year included
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Bard on the Beach’s artistic director Christopher Gaze and executive director Claire Sakaki benefitted from the annual tipple fest, which drummed up $280,000 for the yearly summer Shakespeare festival.
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Mexican-born artist paints message of love at Trump Hotel Martha Perkins
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There might be a lot of people who don’t like U.S. President Donald Trump or his politics of exclusion, but the walls of the Vancouver hotel that bears his name are sharing a different message. Vancouver artist Miriam Aroeste has created 180 original works of art for Trump International Hotel and Tower. Most are abstract paintings for each of the rooms, suites and elevator lobbies and they are all based on a common theme — love. “They are about love, inclusiveness and togetherness,” says Aroeste, who got the commissions before Trump was a presidential nominee. Her series Path to be Crossed, for instance, “speaks about community and creating connections.” The In Motion series is that “every action has a reaction and the moment
Miriam Aroeste has created 180 original works of art for Trump International Hotel and Tower. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER
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Heads roll in timely play examining women in power Jo Ledingham joled@telus.net
“Once upon a time there were twa queens on the wan green island, and the wan green island was split intae twa kingdoms.” Thus Scottish playwright Liz Lochhead sets the stage for the tale of two queens: Elizabeth I (unmarried, childless, protestant and Queen of England) and
Mary Stuart (who will be thrice married and bear two living sons, Catholic, Queen of Scotland). Mary and Elizabeth are cousins, tracing their lineage back to Henry VIII. The timeframe of Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off is midto late-16th century, but this is not a play about dates, wars and successions. This is a play about
women in power, how they manipulate and are manipulated, how they remain in power and how they lose their heads — romantically as well as actually. Elizabeth is coolly pragmatic; Mary, hotly passionate. Both are beleaguered by men eager to unseat them. In the middle is John Knox, leader of the Protestant Reformation in Scotland. In Lochhead’s play,
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he is viewed as fanatically opposed to Catholicism, sexually repressed and viciously misogynistic. Friedrich von Schiller in 1800 covered some of the same terrain in Mary Stuart, but in contrast to Schiller’s play — an elegant verse play written in German — is Lochhead’s irreverent, affectionate play, written in 1987 in Old Scots, the language spoken in Scotland during that historical period. Initially, it sounds like a foreign language, but it soon becomes quite natural, even fun to untangle. And the tone of this play, as opposed to Schiller’s, is rougher, less formal, gutsy and visceral — even, at times, sexy as partners tumble seemingly unencumbered by yards of gowns and petticoats. Arguably the most interesting aspect of Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off is Lochhead’s use of a character called the Corbie (from la corbeille, “crow”) as the narrator/chorus/ringmaster throughout. Her commentary is sardonic and dark (Scotland she describes as “a peatbog... a cauldron o lye, a saltpan or a coal mine”). Wearing a tiny top hat with rooster-feather plumes, a black frock coat trimmed at the wrists with glossy feathers, and holding a whip, Bethany Stanley skulks around the periphery of the perfor-
mance area. Sometimes crouching, sometimes pacing, the Corbie directs her narration to the audience, frequently revealing her impatience or weariness with the characters as they bungle their way through history. Stanley is outstanding: slightly menacing, slightly mocking. Erin Morgan is redhaired, headstrong Mary, undone by love. Morgan brings a lusty love of life to Mary that’s compelling but suggests a lack of Mary’s political savvy that is her downfall. Geneva Perkins’ Elizabeth, the Virgin Queen, is regal although given to petty jealousy — including envy of Mary’s children. Lochhead shows where her sympathy lies as Elizabeth, eager to be rid of Mary but reluctant to give the order, pointedly tells her courtiers, “Trick me,” and they do. Alexander Lowe is, appropriately, a weakwilled Darnley, a great disappointment to Mary while Xander Willams is a handsome, womanizing Bothwell. Kurtis Maguire’s John Knox is repellant — as the playwright obviously wished him to be — and Owen A. Kenney portrays Davy Rizzio, personal secretary to Mary. Catherine E. Carr designed handsome costumes; wandering troubadour Genevieve Mackay provides delightful fiddle
music including some lovely old Scottish tunes; and lighting design is by Chengyan Boon. Produced by Vital Spark Theatre Company and directed by the company’s artistic director Joan Bryans, Mary Queen of Scots is an earthy, interesting retake on what is generally a story told from an English perspective. It’s also a commentary on the challenges facing women in high places. Nowhere more than in the realms of power is it so true it’s a man’s world. Ring any bells? Note: After almost 30 years covering the Vancouver theatre scene, I will no longer be reviewing for the Vancouver Courier due to recent cutbacks. It has truly been a pleasure working with various entertainment editors over the years, including — most recently — Michael Kissinger (now City Editor). Meeting Courier readers at the theatre, online and even in coffee bars has made me feel a part of a vibrant local arts community; I have always enjoyed your comments, corrections and criticism and will continue reviewing online at joledingham.ca. Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off is at Jericho Arts Centre until March 11. For tickets, call 604-224-8007 or go to brownpapertickets.com.
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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.
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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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Freedom of expression wasn’t exactly a calling card of communist Russia, so when Galina Jitlina received her first guitar in 1973 it was somewhat akin to reaching for a forbidden fruit. She was 12 at the time and received the guitar as a gift from her grandmother. Now 56, Jitlina still doesn’t know how or where the instrument originally came from, but that initial creative spark stayed with her until she moved to Vancouver in 1994. She expected a marked
difference upon arriving in Lotusland, but instead found a serious absence of six-string savoir faire. “When I came to Vancouver I couldn’t find anything,” Jitlina said. “I had the impression that guitar life in Vancouver was very, very poor. Even when the great masters came to Vancouver to perform, very few people attended those concerts.” As such, Jitlina set out to do something about that gap. In 2007, she helped found the Vancouver Classical Guitar Society alongside five others. The group started modestly with a few meet-and-greet jams along
Fingerstyle guitarist Kris Schulz performs at the Fraser Valley Acoustic Guitar Festival. To watch a video of him performing an original song, go to vancourier.com. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER
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entered hallowed territory for any musician — goodbye day job, hello guitar 24/7. Schulz’s considerable chops will be front and centre, Feb. 25, when he performs alongside internationally-renowned acoustic luminaries Michael Chapdelaine and Itamar Erez at the 20th annual Fraser Valley Acoustic Guitar Festival at Kwantlen University in Surrey. It’s a gig that will highlight a full-circle journey for Schulz. Four years ago, while at the same festival, Schulz saw life-long idol and fellow Canuck fingerstyle player Don Ross, which inspired Schulz to re-dedicate his life to guitar. “He absolutely blew the place away and I definitely got schooled that night,” Schulz said. “I went home that night and realized I could take this a lot further than I had gotten. I realized I was pissing away my time. That was the turning point.” Schulz is not a book-trained player, nor is he obsessed with shred for shred’s sake. Instead, he relies on what’s inside to emote out of his guitar. Those emotions will likely reach a tipping point Saturday, which marks the 10th anniversary of his mother’s death. “It’s not going to be easy,” he said. “I’m really going to focus on sharing a moment with the crowd. It’s a really emotional night for me, so if I focus on that, the other stuff will take care of itself to some degree.” For more details, go to vancouverguitar.org.
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We here at K&K have lost a lot of things in our lives. Hair, childlike wonder, the ability to drink a two-litre bottle of Rockaberry Cooler without getting hungover. But last week’s announcement from Hasbro Toys really hits close to home. According to CNBC, the joy-killing toy giant has revealed that it’s removing the iconic thimble token from Monopoly. Even more depressing, the thimble cull was determined after an audience engagement campaign with more than four million people voting on which eight tokens should be part of an upcoming redesign of the 84-year-old board game. Voters were given 50 options, including classic tokens such as the shoe (most frequently chosen by uptight people), top hat (douche bags), Scottie dog (our mom) and new designs like a T-Rex (why?), rubber duck (father issues) and an
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Hasbro’s recent move to ditch the thimble from Monopoly marks yet another step in humanity’s march towards oblivion.
emoji (please no). No word yet on which new token will replace the majestic thimble, but it will, undoubtedly, be garbage. Just like the rest of this godforsaken world.
We’ve got a tingling census-sation
Those crazy mofos at Stats Canada recently dropped their first batch of mad data from the 2016 census, yo. And no surprise, numbers indicate Vancouver’s population has outpaced the
national growth rate over the last five years — a 6.5 per cent increase since 2011, to be exact. That’s 1.5 per cent higher than the national rate. In your face, Canada. What census data doesn’t reveal, however, is growth rates in other aspects of Vancouver life. For instance, Vancouver saw a marked increase in the number of people who once claimed in college that Gandhi was their favourite movie of all time only to admit this past year that they actually
watched only half the movie, which they can barely remember except that it was “OK” and that Sir Ben Kingsley guy was “pretty good.” Vancouver also outpaced the national average for failed didgeridoo players attempting to transition into the hazy realm of world beat trance music or some other B.O.-scented hybrid. Our city’s number of hackey sack players remained strong, second only to Montreal and Tofino. Locally, poke bowls became the new yam fries, which were the new lettuce wraps, which were the new potato skins, which were the new chicken tenders. And lastly, Vancouver topped the list for Snow Trolls, a.k.a. people who feel personally aggrieved by inclement weather and express themselves on social media by lashing out at local politicians they would never vote for in the first place.
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Scott Fraser took in the Winterruption Festival on Granville Island exactly the way it’s intended to be taken in. “I’m a people watcher and I love walking around with a cup of coffee and watching the process of discovery,” said Fraser, who works for Gran-
ville Island’s marketing team through the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. “It’s a bit of a buffet — people can walk around the island and graze on things.” That included all things arts and culture packed into daylight hours of the weekend (a taster menu kicked things off Friday) with musical acts and theatre taking over the evening.
While the three-day Winterruption had a central hub for the first time in the festival’s 12 years, the appeal was pop-up surprises to give it the fun of a grab bag from a dime store. The impressive contingent of dancers that roamed the island — errr, peninsula — included Isabelle Kirouac, Chris DawsonMurphy, Monica Shah,
Alex Wells and others from All Bodies Dance Project for impromptu performances, announced by a carnival of drumming from Bloco Energia. There was a long list of art exhibitions and demonstrations where people could watch stone carving, build a tiny Japanese box at Opus under the instruction of artist Suzan Lee, learn about
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children making Granville Island-inspired buildings, which were added to an area that soon resembled a mini city made out of brown heavy duty paper. All the while, artist Ola Volo, a graduate of longtime Granville Island tenants Emily Carr University of Art + Design, painted a mural on the back wall (Emily Carr is vacating after decades to move into their new digs on Great Northern Way this year). “This festival has always been about art in unusual places,” said Fraser. “People always love the variety. There are so many festivals based around a specific theme so this one’s really about exploration and discovering many different things. You may discover flamenco in a sculpture studio, or modern dance in a concrete plant. If you’re a huge jazz fan you can go sit in at Performance Works and absorb it all day long. You can consume as much, or as little, as you want.” Vancouver experienced a harsher winter than usual this year, added Fraser, another reason why so many attend the Winterruption. “People particularly appreciate the festival especially after Snowmaggedon and Snowmaggedon Two this year.” @rebeccablissett
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A balanced breakfast can help prepare your muscles and organs for an active day and reduce the urge to snack later in the morning. A breakfast that includes protein and is high in fiber can help meet energy and macronutrient needs and may also help control body weight. UBC sports nutritionist Emma McCrudden recommends nut butters, eggs, cottage cheese, oatmeal, whole-grain toast or cereal, and these pancakes. 2 ripe bananas 2 eggs ½ cup rolled oats ¼ cup low fat cottage cheese ½ teaspoon baking powder
Above: Sports dietician Emma McCrudden works with two varsity rugby players during a cooking workshop at UBC. With the goal of building kitchen skills and nutrition knowledge for optimal competitive performance, each Thunderbirds program has a yearly hands-on tutorial. Left: Steamed salmon. PHOTOS DAN TOULGOET
Combine all ingredients and blend until smooth. Heat a frying pan over medium heat. Fry spoonfuls of the batter until it’s golden brown on both sides. For toppings, try Greek yogurt, fresh or frozen fruit and nut butter.
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A slice of zucchini tumbled to the floor in a cooking lab of the Food Science Program at UBC’s Point Grey campus. A second sliver followed the first, pushed off a cutting board to land on the linoleum. “I dropped it,” said Jake Lan, bashful about the imprecision but nonetheless persistent with the knife in his grip. “I live in residence so I don’t make any of my own food. I lived at home before and still didn’t make anything, maybe Kraft dinner.” A rookie with the UBC men’s rugby team as well as a national player with Canada’s U19 program, Lan is the target candidate to be standing in front of an oil-slicked pan, dicing vegetables to pack inside a salmon filet. His talent on the pitch unquestionable, his experience and expertise in the kitchen is almost nothing. “I have quite little, almost none, to be honest,” he said last month as his team of muscled, six-plus-footers made its yearly visit to a cooking clinic with the only sports dietician in the country working on staff directly with a Canadian university athletic department. In the pursuit of building a better varsity athlete, the Thunderbirds have expanded training, decisionmaking and skill-building to the kitchen.
“You have a very small percentage of opportunity to train during the week and you have a much greater number of opportunities to eat during the week and you need to get those right,” said Emma McCrudden, the nutritionist now working with student-athletes from men’s volleyball to women’s hockey, varsity rowers, swimmers, golfers and anyone who competes in blue and gold. “There are lots of nice headlines out there that support that diet is the majority and exercise and training is the minority when you’re talking about changes to your physical performance,” she said. “I always say, you need to get both those right to get the full benefits of both.” With a robust staff of coaches, technical instructors, strength and conditioning trainers, and well-stocked fitness and weight equipment, there is little shortfall in the Thunderbirds’ effort to maximize physical ability and agility. With McCrudden, athletes have an additional resource they can turn to for oneon-one diet planning and advice, supervised grocery shopping trips, team cooking lessons and practical guidelines that get increasingly specific depending if your goal is to build muscle over the off-season or compete in a 90-minute, high-intensity soccer game
later that same day. She has built an extensive supply of informative handouts that address the best ways to fuel performance and, quite literally, when to eat what depending on an athlete’s day-to-day schedule. A female golfer, for example, might want to start her day with cereal and yogurt, then eat a granola bar right before she tees off for a morning round. After a sandwich with whole-wheat bread, she could eat a second granola bar for the afternoon round and then a banana once she’s sunk her putt on the 18th green. Pasta follows for dinner, bringing the overall amount of carbohydrates to 350 grams. A male rugby player focused on an afternoon game, in contrast, will more than double that intake to 750 grams of carbohydrates, loading up on more grains like bread, rice and pasta, more servings of fruit and more protein. When they finally sat down to their meals of steamed fish, tofu stir fry, three-way chili, chicken curry and tuna pasta, McCrudden gave the rugby players additional in-season nutrition advice. At a time when they are fuelling for competition and to build muscle and overall body weight, they want to load their plates with carbohydrates, eat as many fruits and vegetables as possible, and think carefully about portions.
“With most athletes, we look at trying to split the plate into portions. Protein really only needs to take up a quarter of your plate at every meal. I had to work with rugby guys quite a bit on that in Ireland and not just having them eat four chicken breasts at one meal,” she said, getting a laugh from the room about her stint as a nutritionist with Leinster Rugby. She has also worked with the English Institute of Sport, the Canadian Sport Institute, the national women’s soccer team as well as the Canucks and Whitecaps. “Protein will only go so far,” she continued. “You need carbohydrates to fuel your activity. Fifty per cent of your plate should be carbohydrates. Now, I know for some of you that will not be enough, it’s like 100 per cent carbs and then a little bit of protein and salad on top. It’s just worth thinking about that when you’re laying out your plate.” On the day the varsity men’s rugby team is in McCrudden’s kitchen, a home economics lab in the Faculty of Food and Land Systems, the athletes are learning to make more than six meals on top of all-day snacks like egg muffins and energy bites. “There really are a range of skills and experiences,” said McCrudden of the young men. At one end of the spec-
trum, there is the teenager who has never had to cook regularly for himself since he eats at his parents’ table or the school cafeteria. At the other end are athletes like Patryk Zuk, who is a little bit older, a little more independent living off campus with a roommate, and makes his own tortillas from scratch using masa, which is ground corn flour. In McCrudden’s workshop, he picked up a new skill, too. He can now cook tastier tofu, one of the plant-based proteins the dietician recommends as an affordable and healthy protein for student-athletes. If he cooks it longer than he had been, he likes the results more. “It’s crispy,” he said. “It’s a lot better.” A savvy cook who said he can be over-zealous in his experimentations with spice, Zuk shops and cooks
for himself not only because he enjoys the meditative nature of cooking, but also because the physical benefits are undeniable. When he eats well, he plays better. In that respect, he’s at a place McCrudden would want all Zuk’s teammates to get to. “I take rugby very seriously,” said the 22-yearold fourth-year kinesiology student, “so I thought about cooking as an opportunity to improve myself more. I’ve always enjoyed cooking, I find it relaxing. If you think cooking is a chore, it’s going to be a chore. But if you find it fun and creative and find a way to do your own thing, you can find it’s really enjoyable.” And when results follow on the field, it an undeniably important component in building a better athlete. @MHStewart
A bazooka takes aim Next week, read how a heavy-set basketball forward changed his physique along with his performance. UBC Thunderbird and Kitsilano alum Luka Zaharijevic dropped weight, built muscle and became a quicker, faster athlete on the court. Starting a year ago after finishing fifth in the national collegiate men’s basketball championships at the Thunderbird Sports Centre, Zaharijevic
vowed he would take on more responsibility to give the T-Birds a better shot at the Canadian championship title. The athlete known as “the bazooka” started with his diet. Read next week to find out what he did and where it will get him and the team. The Canada West playoffs begin with a best-of-three quarterfinal Feb. 23 at the War Memorial Gym as UBC hosts the Manitoba Bisons.
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2017 pours a cornucopia of opportunities in front of you, Aries. For singles, this includes love opportunities. You will meet someone who is as attracted to you as you are to him/her. This person very likely has marriage on their mind. If you are unhappily married, this influence can lead to separation, with a formal divorce in two years. If you are happily married, in 2017 the romantic fire will be rekindled, and your children will display new talents.
2017 will be — already is — one of your luckiest years this decade. Your optimism, cheer, friendliness, and your lively mind will attract both friends and “friendly lovers.” You’ll do even better on the mating game if you exercise. If you’re hankering for a deep, full-surrender love, you’d better find it before May 10. That day starts an 18-month period in which light, social romance will thrive, but heavy, intense infatuation will meet delays, indecision and dead-ends.
You are always ready for love, Taurus, especially of the sensual kind. March/April might tempt you into a tawdry or extramarital attraction. Your magnetism will be very high, and you could be approached by someone — perhaps an old flame. If someone wanders into your life between April 1 and 20, or May 17 – 20, a beautiful love might be possible. Even in this one a few minor difficulties, delays or stumbling blocks might occur – don’t let them stop you.
You’re in the middle of a phase (2008-2024) that will bring you true love, Scorpio. But for the past year, and continuing to May 10, you’ll succeed best in romance if you aim for light, friendly amour, and give deep, intense infatuation a wide berth. After May, the pendulum swings to favour deep, world-well-lost romance once again — for seven more years. From February through May a co-worker romance is likely for singles.
2017 is your best romantic year in a decade, Gemini. Not only will the cosmos help you find compatible romantic prospects, at least one or two of those prospects possess the qualities to be a loving life mate. More than the usual number of single Geminis will marry this year. If you are married already, your children will surprise you with their skills; this is a lovely year for a standout family vacation – something unusual, adventurous, and perhaps in a foreign land.
A major wish — perhaps two — will come true this year, Sage. If one of those wishes is to find love, 2017 is very likely to fulfill it. One of the biggest problems in your life is the struggle to be decisive, to accept things as they are, and to know when you have a winner. Often, these struggles are easily solved: you will almost always succeed if you do what you are most enthusiastic about, rather than following advice or doing the wise, boring thing.
Your deepest love in 2017 might be for your children, as your home glows with new warmth, cheerfulness and affection. I didn’t include your mate, because many of you are caught between loving and rejecting your spouse — this trend, a long one (2008-24) will eventually cause your love and partnership to grow deeper and deeper, into new levels of feeling and knowing; OR you will eventually pull apart, like taffy. But in 2017, you can easily make your home a place of happiness and optimism.
2017 holds such superb career/ambition prospects for you, that I’d be wrong to urge you to chase love all year. (Do chase it late October onward!) This ambition streak is also a lucky status signal, and it can mean, this year, that if single, you might gain a new status: married. If you’re married, this spring is great for home renovations, and the whole year is excellent for working together to boost your ambitions. Until May 10, don’t let relationships slide into the limbo of “just friends.”
2017 is more friendly than purely romantic, but among the casual acquaintances you make this year, at least two could become love affairs. If you are married, this will be a year of family trips and adventures. March and April bring a lot of hesitation to love and sexual attractions, perhaps because an old flame re-enters. (Avoid a purely sexual lust in early March.) The resulting confusion can last through May and June. If travelling or at school in March, you might meet someone who will lead you gently into marriage.
If you want to achieve a formal, legal wedding, Aquarius, this is your year to do so. 2017 has two major trends: one, lasting all year, promotes the kind of love that can propel you down the wedding aisle. The second trend begins in mid-May, and lasts to the end of next year (2018) — this one advises you, from May onward, to go out from yourself, to another. In dating terms, this warns you not to be proud, overly-independent, or a hermit.
Ah, Virgo, this straitjacket I threw around you with my advice never to marry anyone first met between mid-Nov. 2015 and May 10, 2017, and not to marry anyone during that interval — this advice is about to expire. From mid-May onward for almost two decades you will be free to marry anyone you want — more correctly, you will finally find the right people without cosmic interference. (The delays of the past year and the few months to come until May have actually protected you from a bad partnership.
2017 might not be terribly romantic before October, Pisces. But it sure will be sexy. Two kinds of sex will predominate: casual, just for the pleasure of it in February through May; and deep, life-altering sex October into early December. (This second kind needs care: be honest, moral, and strictly reject any extramarital temptations. If you are married, this second kind can bring pregnancy.) May creates domestic friction, so step lightly if you’re married.
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BUSINESS FOR SALE ARMSTRONG HOTEL & Saloon - Armstrong, BC. Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Unreserved Auction, April 26 in Edmonton. 16 guest rooms, saloon & restaurant. Jerry Hodge: 780-706-6652; Realtor: Tom Moran (PREC) Re/Max Dawson Creek Realty; rbauction.com/realestate.
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