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Federal health minister talks legalization, injection sites Mike Howell

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It’s always nice to hear from the person in charge when you have questions about what he or she is going to do to address a problem affecting a large number of people.

You may not always like the answers — or get a straight answer, for that matter — but still, it’s something, right?

That person in charge: Federal Health Minister Jane Philpott.

The problem — more of an epidemic, really: the overdose death crisis that killed 922 people in 2016, not the widely reported 914 as yours truly and others have written for more than a month. (Toxicology test results of suspected drug overdose victims continue to confirm more bad news.)

Last week, I managed to get 13 minutes with Philpott. She was on the phone from Ottawa; I was at my desk in Vancouver.

I happened to conduct the interview on the same day

Federal Health Minister Jane Philpott said her government is committed to doing whatever it can at the federal level to address the overdose death crisis. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

that hundreds of people from coast to coast took to the streets to call attention to the overdose crisis.

For those of you who read the Courier online, you may have come across the story in which I quoted Philpott a couple of times.

I should also tell you drug activists were quoted, as was Mayor Gregor Robertson.

Give it a read. It’s one Google search away.

The minister had a lot to say and, of course, I couldn’t get all of it in the story. So I thought I would give you a bit more. You can judge for yourself whether you think she’s on top of this file.

On legalization and regulation of all drugs: “I’ve said before that we need to make use of every available mechanism to respond to the crisis. So one of the things that we did,

for example, was I took action last spring to begin the process of overturning a ban on access to prescription diacetylmorphine, which is heroin. The previous government had put a ban on that, even though there was evidence based on the work of a couple of significant trials — that it was a helpful tool to treating people with severe addiction. So we went through the regulatory

process and, as of September, it is now available again to be used under the special access program.”

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There’s work that’s underway at the federal level right now to change the requirements for formally providing an exemption for supervised consumption sites. As we deal with that, clearly people are doing what’s necessary to stay alive.”

On criticisms that fingerwagging among politicians is slowing response to the country’s drug use problem: “Remember a year ago, you had to have a prescription for naloxone. So I very quickly changed that. We also ordered an emergency

shipment of naloxone nasal spray. I did an expedited review for naloxone nasal spray. I gave an approval to the Dr. Peter Centre [which has a three-booth injection room], I gave a four-year approval to Insite. We are in the process of changing the law [Bill C-37] around supervised consumption sites. It’s not about pointing fingers. We are absolutely pressed with this, we are aware of what needs to be done and I have said to every other level of government, ‘Let me know what you think we need to do.’

It’s my goal to respond to every single recommendation of what we can do at the federal level.”

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by Jan. 31. Typically, fewer than two per cent appeal. Numbers specific to Vancouver and other regions won’t be finalized and released until the end of March. In late January, Jason Grant, the acting vice president of assessment, told the Courier that inquiries to B.C. Assessment about 2017 assessments were trending down about seven per cent from the previous year.

This year’s appeal rate is consistent with past years: • In 2016, 23,354 homeowners appealed or 1.2 per cent.

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Some Vancouver property owners saw their assessments climb by 40 per cent this year.

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Trump family members attend opening amid protests Sandra Thomas

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There were almost as many members of the media inside Trump International Hotel and Tower on Georgia Street as there were protesters outside Tuesday morning as family members of U.S. President Donald Trump gathered for the opening of the $360-million property.

And despite the fact reporters weren’t allowed to ask questions, that didn’t stop one journalist from shouting over the crowd and asking if there were any hurt feelings due to the fact neither Mayor Gregor Robertson nor any Vancouver city council members were in attendance.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s sons Donald Junior and Eric are executive vicepresidents of the Trump Organization, which has a contract to run the operation of the hotel, owned by Malaysian-financed Holborn Properties.

In response to President Trump’s anti-immigration comments during his election campaign, Robertson wrote to Holborn Properties in

(Left to right) Eric Danziger, Joo Kim Tiah, Donald Trump Junior and Eric Trump spoke at Tuesday’s grand opening of the Trump International Hotel and Tower while protesters gathered outside. See photo gallery at vancourier.com. PHOTOS DAN TOULGOET

December 2015, asking them to change the name of the property.

Addressing the media Tuesday morning, Donald Trump Junior joked, “I’d like to thank the press — just kidding.” President Trump’s dislike and distrust of the media has escalated to the point he’s banned several major American news outlets from attending White House press conferences. President Trump has also famously accused several major media outlets of producing “fake news.” So it was interesting to hear Eric Danziger, CEO of Trump Hotel Collec-

tion, at the beginning of the event recognize Vancouver as being home to the world’s largest hockey stick when, in fact, it’s located in Duncan, B.C. Danziger also told the crowd Trump Tower is “the first hotel to open in Vancouver in six years,” when Hotel Blu opened on Robson Street in 2014.

Outside the hotel, protesters carried signs, chanted, drummed and sang as police and officials watched from in front of the hotel, some behind glass.

Protesters and passersby also used Post-it notes to at-

tach messages to an outside wall of the hotel, including a series that spelled out “All you need is love.” Standing quietly off to one side of the protest a young man held up a sign that read, “How does it feel to be this unwelcome in another country,” in reference to President Trump’s recent executive order calling for a temporary travel ban on citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries in the Middle East and Africa entering the U.S. Tanner Fehr told the Courier he’s “deeply resentful” of the Trump family.

“I’ve been troubled by what’s been happening in the United States in the past year,” said Fehr. “I can only call it disgusting.”

Meanwhile, Grade 12 student Khalid Boudreau

said he wants to see Canada become a “safe haven for Americans fleeing this totalitarian regime.”

Holding a sign that read, “Quite the blind trust you have there,” Boudreau said that whether it was the Underground Railroad — a network of secret routes and safe houses used by African American slaves to escape into free states and Canada — or draft dodgers fleeing the Vietnam War, Canada has been a symbol of refuge.

It’s a tradition he wants to see continued.

“It’s nice to see so many people here united in saying no to such a disgusting government and standing strong to make sure it doesn’t spread up here.” @sthomas10

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Century-old schoolhouse demolition decision delayed Naoibh O’Connor

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The Vancouver school district’s heritage liaison committee is expected to meet next week to discuss the fate of the yellow schoolhouse at General Gordon elementary.

The meeting was agreed upon at a VSB committee meeting Feb. 22, according to Anne Guthrie-Warman, who spoke at the meeting on behalf of the Heritage Vancouver Society.

School board staff had recommended the heritage schoolhouse be demolished after the district tried but failed to find an organization to lease and repair the building, which is more than 100 years old.

An independent Montessori group had planned to take it over but later withdrew its proposal.

Guthrie-Warman said the VSB’s heritage liaison committee should have had the chance to meet and discuss the failed bid, but that step was missed.

The committee is chaired

by Jim Meschino, the district’s director of facilities, and includes representatives from Heritage Vancouver, Heritage B.C. and the Vancouver Heritage Foundation.

“We’re going to meet and see if someone can come up with an idea on this one. It’s a tough one,” Meschino told the Courier.

Guthrie-Warman said she isn’t sure if Dianne Turner, the VSB’s government-appointed official trustee, will be at the upcoming meeting but that it’s possible.

“The discussion, I hope, will try to untangle what went wrong with the Montessori bid, and will consider other prospective tenants, some of whom have already expressed interest,” she said.

Guthrie-Warman maintains it’s important that heritage groups and the board “consider not just the immediate and current but the long view and the historic and heritage context,” of the building before making a decision.

She worries other West

Side schools such as Bayview elementary will be lost because they need seismic upgrading and it’s cheaper to knock down schools rather than repair them, so it’s all the more important to preserve the yellow schoolhouse.

“It’s a simple save, it seems to me, and a reasonable save. There’s a strong sense we need to fight for this one,” she said.

While most of the delegations at the Feb. 22 VSB meeting spoke in favour of preserving the building, the parent group thinks the school community should be consulted before the district commits to any particular usage. It had already told the district that the schoolhouse, or the space where it sits, should be used for General Gordon students.

“In the absence of an acceptable proposal to use the outbuilding, we are in favour of demolition and construction of more playground and green space,” the parent group states on the school website. @naoibh

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Mike Howell

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A Vancouver police officer working at a Vancouver Canucks hockey game has become the first member of the department to use the overdose-reversing drug naloxone on an overdose victim.

Staff Sgt. Bill Spearn of the VPD’s organized crime section said the officer was working with a partner Dec. 28 at a Canucks game at Rogers Arena and noticed a commotion outside one of the gates involving a man who collapsed on the ground.

“So [two officers] brought him inside Rogers Arena. He didn’t have a ticket and he appeared to be homeless,” Spearn told the Courier last Thursday outside a Vancouver Police Board meeting, where he had delivered a presentation on the opioid overdose crisis. “Our members had been trained in the use of our nasal naloxone that we distribute to them, and they immediately observed the signs of what they believed was an opioid overdose.”

Spearn said one of the officers used his naloxone spray on the victim, who was in and out of consciousness and had problems breathing. About 30 seconds later, the man was alert and talking to two officers. He admitted using heroin, which is the illegal drug most likely to be laced with the deadly synthetic narcotic fentanyl.

“I can’t remember the last time I saw heroin that wasn’t adulterated with fentanyl — it’s been a long time,” said Spearn, a 20year member of the department, who noted paramed-

More than 800 Vancouver police officers and staff are trained to administer the nasal spray form of naloxone. So far, only one officer has used the drug on an overdose victim. Pictured here is the injectable form of naloxone used by firefighters. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

ics concluded the man had suffered an overdose. “The ambulance crew agreed that, yeah, absolutely, what they had done was the right thing, and that they saved his life by doing it.”

More than 800 Vancouver police officers and staff are trained to use naloxone.

Spearn’s presentation to the police board revealed that 922 people died of an overdose in B.C. in 2016, not the widely reported 914. He said toxicology tests take time and the B.C. Coroners Service continues to update the statistics for last year.

“You almost have to check the coroners’ website every day,” he said. “It’s discouraging.”

The coroners service reported last week that 116 people died in B.C. in January, with 45 of those in Vancouver. For February, Spearn said, the number of deaths appears to be decreasing, with 15 in Vancouver as of Thursday.

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Since that incident, the VPD has focused its drug squads’ work on getting fentanyl off the street, completing six projects, including an operation Feb. 3. In one of those investigations, a 53-yearold man was sentenced to 13 years and 144 days for drug offences, largely connected to the possession and selling of fentanyl.

In that case, a medical doctor testified that much of the blame for the opioid crisis can be traced to medical doctors overprescribing opioids as pain medication. Dr. Mark Kennedy said doctors were convinced by prescription drug companies in the 1990s that opioid painkillers were effective and rarely caused addiction.

As doctors began to understand the risks, they

started to cut patients off their prescriptions. This led to people turning to the street to find their drugs, which increased the demand for heroin and oxycodone.

As Spearn explained in his presentation, it was in 2012 that drug manufacturers developed a newer, safer form of oxycodone, which couldn’t be crushed and injected. So dealers began using fentanyl in place of oxycodone and sold it as oxycontin. User didn’t know they were buying fentanyl.

Although enforcement is part of combatting the overdose crisis, Spearn told board members that police continue to lobby for treatment-on-demand for drug users. More work also has to be done on prevention and education, he said.

“This is a complex issue and the VPD can’t solve it by arresting its way out of it,” he said.

Vancouver firefighters have administered naloxone 177 times since the department began using the injectable form of the drug last spring. @Howellings

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Region’s mayors slam province on homelessness Housing Minister Rich Coleman ‘flabbergasted’ by Mayor Gregor Robertson’s comments Mike Howell

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Four of the region’s mayors issued a damning report Monday on the state of homelessness in Metro Vancouver that was aimed at the provincial government for what they say is an inadequate response to getting people off the street and into housing.

With more than 70 homeless camps in the region, the mayors estimated 4,000 people are in need of a home in Metro Vancouver. They said shelters are at 97 per cent capacity and approximately five people per week are becoming homeless in the region.

Another 10,000 people are on B.C. Housing’s waiting list for a permanent home.

“Metro Vancouver is in an unprecedented homeless crisis,” said Mayor Gregor Robertson, cochairperson of the Metro Vancouver Regional Task Force, who joined the mayors of Port Coquitlam, Port Moody and Maple Ridge at a news conference in Burnaby.

The report — or “position paper” as the mayors have called it — makes 12 recommendations, including building 3,000 units of transitional housing by 2019, increasing the $375 shelter rate for welfare recipients, adding services for Aboriginal peoples, creating a plan to tackle poverty and expanding home care for chronic health issues, mental illness and addictions.

The homeless count conducted in Vancouver in March 2016 revealed a homeless population of 1,847 people, the largest in the city’s history.

Vancouver will participate next week in a region-wide homeless count and the mayors are expecting the results will show homelessness is getting worse.

“This is a crisis that is moving in the wrong direction,” said Maple Ridge Mayor Nicole Read. “We have no plan here in the province of British Columbia to address homelessness, and local governments are

scrambling to do their best — with no resources, no funding to be able to deal with the citizens on their streets who need care.”

Though Robertson acknowledged he promised to end “street homelessness” in Vancouver by 2015, he noted that promise was made with the understanding that senior levels of government would also respond to the crisis in the streets.

He accused those governments of “dropping the ball’ and waging “a war on the poor.”

“We have had some partnerships, certainly in Vancouver and across the region, with the provincial government over the years but they’re nowhere near the need to deal with the increase of homelessness,” he said, noting in his first three years as mayor the street homeless population dropped from more than 800 to under 150. “In 2011, things turned and Christy Clark became the premier of B.C. There was no commitment to solving homelessness here in the province, there was very little follow-through.”

In the past decade, the provincial government funded 13 supportive housing sites in Vancouver, which created more than 1,500 units across the city. The government also bought and renovated more than 25 single-room-occupancy hotels in Vancouver, funded temporary housing sites and continues to offer rent supplements to low-income people.

Housing Minister Rich Coleman told reporters Monday that he was “flabbergasted”

by Robertson’s comments. Coleman said the government has spent “hundreds of millions of dollars” in Vancouver and done more than any jurisdiction in Canada on housing. He said the mayor was politicizing homelessness. “[Robertson] shows up at the opening of these places, so he knows we continue to do it,” the minister said. “We spend over $200 million a year just on operating costs in

Vancouver. We take care of over 27,500 people in their homes and support them in the marketplace.

But in addition to that, we’ve built shelters, we’ve put in outreach

workers, we continue to work very hard on this file. And for him to go out and say otherwise, it’s totally not true. I’m sad, I’m actually sad.” @Howellings

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s a matter of political survival, junior levels of government tend to stay on the sidelines when senior levels are in election mode. That’s because you can never be sure who is going to win and you know you will be at the mercy of who ever does.

Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson laid the blame for the dramatic increase in homelessness squarely at the feet of Premier Christy Clark.

So, the province usually doesn’t criticize the feds, and municipal leaders tend to keep their lips buttoned when either level above them is in the run-up to an election.

That is why what happened on Monday was so astounding. It all unfolded at a press conference by Metro’s mayors who issued a critical task force report on the current state of homelessness in Metro Vancouver.

Prompted by a question from my colleague Mike Howell, and with a provincial election mere months away, Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson laid the blame for the dramatic increase in homelessness squarely at the

feet of Premier Christy Clark.

It was a political bridge burning exercise if ever there was one.

Robertson said for his first three years in the Vancouver mayor’s chair, beginning in 2008, the homeless situation in Vancouver improved with help from the province. Then Clark was elected in 2011 and ever since “it’s been a war on the poor” conducted by the province. Meanwhile, he said, the province invests “billions and billions of dollars in projects of questionable merit.”

A half a dozen years ago, the homeless problem was one that primarily affected Vancouver. Now it has spread through the region and across the province. According to the mayors’ report (which was signed off on, by the way, by all the region’s mayors including ones in Surrey and Langley), there are now 70 homeless camps in Metro Vancouver. About 4,000 people are living in those camps as well as in shelters.

Many have significant health problems. The majority either use street drugs or have mental issues or both.

Maple Ridge Mayor Nicole Read, who co-chaired the task force with Robertson, criticized the province’s failure to raise the shelter allowance of $375 a month for the past 11 years, making it impossible for most to find any housing at that rate. She noted that “over time, losing housing creates a cycle of shame in our homeless population.”

The mayors are joining a growing chorus of critics who point out that British Columbia is the only jurisdiction in the county without a poverty reduction action plan. Newfoundland-

Labrador is looked at as a model in the country for having raised welfare rates for single parents and adding PharmaCare and dental coverage.

Christy Clark continues to regale her supporters with news of B.C.’s bestin-the-country economy, record job growth, the lowest unemployment rate, a fifth year of budget surpluses and a $100-million prosperity fund.

In her address to the most recent B.C. Liberal convention, Clark told delegates, “We are fighting to make sure we have the means to look after people who are struggling.”

Meanwhile, the welfare rate for single people remains frozen at $610 a month.

We now have the second highest rate of poverty in the country after Nova Scotia. Child poverty, according to surveys by the advocacy group First Call, places us in the middle of the Canadian pack. In 2014 that included 82,960 kids in Metro Vancouver.

When Clark’s government is criticized for having no poverty reduction

plan, they respond by saying that their job creation plan is just that. But the majority of children living in poverty live with parents or a parent who already has a job. And in Metro, they are faced with the fact that in the past 10 years child care costs have gone up 35 per cent and rents have increased by 26 per cent.

If parents are living on provincial government assistance or working minimum wage jobs, they are sinking deeper into poverty every year.

So the question is, how much impact will comments by Robertson and his fellow mayors have at the ballot box.

Will we see the premier who makes “war on the poor” while swanning around at $10,000-a-plate cash-foraccess dinners, or the premier who is fighting for those who are struggling?

There is no doubt that Robertson and the others have hit the Liberals in a political weak spot and it is no wonder housing minister Rich Coleman is “flabbergasted.” @allengarr

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So, if I’m reading this article correctly, according to the two “experts” the crisis is the fault of doctors bribed by the evil drug companies. Isn’t this the same argument that for years naturopaths and holistic healers have been marketing?

The opioid overdosers are victims of greedy doctors. Don’t take responsibility when you can blame someone else.

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As controversies go, the dust up over the City of Vancouver’s new logo continues a long tradition of turning seemingly inconsequential subjects here into mass protests.

Dubbed “Logogate” by some online, the decision to choose Gotham font face to represent our city on its letterhead, business cards and the sides of garbage trucks garnered a stronger negative reaction than the recent Trump Tower grand opening, many times over.

The rage over the logo reminded me of another time the mayor’s office went into damage control mode — when the Waldorf Tiki Lounge closed in 2013. In that example, Mayor Gregor Robertson issued a statement to assure Vancouver’s creative community that council considered the city’s “dynamic arts and culture sector [as] a top priority.”

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Vancouver’s new logo, or wordmark, received a chilly response from many in the city’s creative community.

on an online letter signed by many people working in the city’s creative community. Add the numerous Facebook conversation threads and Twitter rage and you could probably fill a high school auditorium to the rafters with those angry about a wordmark meant to represent our city to the world.

This is not to take too lightly city staff’s effort to push through something so uninspired. What really seemed to twig the city’s style-conscious creative

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The city’s previous logo, according to my information, was created in-house by a staff person. At that time, the decision to refresh the city’s corporate identity was as a result of the 2010 Winter Games coming. With so many visitors soon arriving and the city about to go on the world stage, the logo needed a refresh.

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I remember a young patient who had a stuffed toy she had carried with her everywhere, throughout her medical ordeal. She wanted to bring her little companion into surgery with her, but there are some challenges with that because of infection control and other factors. I was on the surgical team the day that girl came into the operating room for her procedure. I was surprised to see the little toy with her. Some of the nurses had got together and made a complete sterile surgical outfit for her little friend so he could watch over her during the operation. It made me tear up. Surgery is frightening and those nurses knew that having her best friend with her was the most important thing for that girl.

What is really enjoyable about my job is that I can help instill this philosophy in the people I work with. I want to demonstrate to them that getting out of bed in the morning is about finding your passion in life. I believe recreation therapy is a foundation for recovery and health.

When I began the field was not well recognized and I had to advocate for a position in a child and youth mental health program. There are now many recreation therapy positions throughout VCH and this is very exciting. I love what I do because I have witnessed people I work with make positive changes in their lives. It’s about promoting self-confidence through recreational activities.

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Life changing care lives here When Jamie Crane-Mauzy stood at the start line of a World Ski and Snowboard event at Whistler two years ago, she had no idea it would be the race of her life. Just 15-seconds into the competition her world went dark. She crashed and suffered a severe traumatic brain injury that resulted in micro-bleeds throughout her brain and brain stem. She was flown to Vancouver General Hospital (VGH) where emergency physicians, surgeons, surgical specialists, nurses and anesthesiologists worked together to save her life. Jamie was the first person in British Columbia to undergo an innovative new technique where doctors determine the precise oxygen and blood pressure levels so a patient’s brain can rest.

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VGH lies at the centre of these services. The hospital is one of the few Level 1 accredited trauma centres in BC, providing unique and complex services to patients from across the province. Along with providing the highest level of care round-the-clock for injured patients, from resuscitation through rehabilitation, VGH is a leader in academic programming, trauma training and research in affiliation with the University of British Columbia.

Hospital Emergency Departments (EDs) are open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, in almost every community VCH serves. EDs aren’t a first-come first-served operation; they exist to help the most critically ill or injured patients as quickly as possible.

If you have signs of heart attack or stroke, extreme pain, severe bleeding, broken bones, shortness of breath or respiratory distress, then an ED is where you need to be. But if it’s something less serious, like flu symptoms or a stomach virus, you’ll probably have to wait. And it could be a long wait. We know this is frustrating, but there are better options. Check out: www.vch.ca/ED

Today, Jamie is back skiing, with few signs of the brain injury that could well have taken her life.

Her story highlights the amazing high quality care happening every day at VGH and the larger campus of care, which includes rehabilitation, urgent care, mental health and substance use and other specialty services.

Skier Jamie Crane-Mauzy is back on the slopes.

Home is Best for seniors Home is where we all like to be. It’s where we feel most comfortable and often, most confident, about our surroundings.

And when it comes to health care, Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) supports a Home is Best philosophy that seeks to support seniors living at home safely, while avoiding unnecessary trips to emergency rooms or lengthy hospital stays.

To support the Home is Best approach

VCH is continually adding communitybased services such as: Nurse practitioners at Three Bridges Community Health Centre Nurse practitioners (NP) are now providing house calls in Vancouver’s West End! They visit frail seniors (age 70+) who are experiencing declining health or don’t have a family physician. To help avoid hospital admissions, the NP works to stabilize each person’s condition through a medication review, change it as appropriate, and connect them to social activities.

Support for seniors in hospital Emergency Departments (ED)

Occupational Therapist Joseph Hamada works with a client in his home.

ED iCARE is a new program at all Vancouver hospitals. It uses a teamwork approach to support frail seniors during ED visits, and to avoid hospital admission whenever possible. The team works with ED staff to ensure a safe transition back into the community. A Quick Response Team of physicians and nurse practitioners provides additional support for seniors who are admitted to hospital, getting patients back home quickly and safely.

Did you know?

When admitted to a hospital bed, seniors typically lose 10% of their muscle mass, leading to decreased mobility. Hospitalized seniors also experience double the decline in memory and cognitive skills compared with those who aren’t hospitalized.

Providing quality of care for end-of-life patients Death is difficult. Many of us hope for a quiet end, perhaps at home with our loved ones nearby. But death is also unpredictable and some of us will end our days in a hospital’s intensive care unit (ICU) as about 150 patients at Vancouver General Hospital (VGH) do every year.

Ensuring those final days are dignified and fulfilling is not easy in a hospital setting, especially when patients may be unable to express themselves and their families are uncertain how best to help them.

families and ease the grieving process. The team, which includes physicians, nurses, social workers, spiritual care, personal care aides, and others, views the project as another way to practice holistic, patient-centred care.

VGH’s ICU Wishing Well project was introduced last year to address these concerns. Over 50 “wishes” have been granted so far, ranging from bringing a beloved pet from home for a final visit to playing a patient’s favourite music.

Staff have even helped organize a bedside wedding.

The ICU Wishing Well is unique in our province and was inspired by the 3 Wishes Project in Ontario. VGH ICU staff sees it as a way to bring peace to patients and their

Members of the ICU Wishing Well team at VGH.

Improving lives on the Downtown Eastside Preventing health complications before they start for the vulnerable residents of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES) is the main driver behind Vancouver Coastal Health’s DTES Second Generation Strategy. It’s a big project, but working with community partners and advocacy groups, we’ve committed to over 20 initiatives to improve health outcome, especially for women.

Reaching out to marginalized women With an aim to providing safer access to care, VCH has introduced several women’s-only services including: 38 transition beds for women with substance use issues,

an Overdose Prevention Site, and an outreach-based Intensive Case Management Team to support women unable to access traditional health care services. A mobile outreach van is coming soon.

Compassion connects People struggling with complex health concerns are often reluctant to seek help because they are afraid of how they might be treated. To support them, VCH created new peer roles within our integrated health care teams. Peers are individuals with real life experience in the community, which lets them connect with clients in a unique way.

VGH Emergency Department staff and physicians are here to serve in times of need, but hope Vancouver residents will consider other care options for less serious ailments.

Health care services expanding in West End As the Vancouver population grows and changes, so too do the health care services offered by VCH. We already provide a wide range of health care programs and services in the West End through various clinics, outreach programs and in clients’ homes – for example, parent-baby drop-in, youth and immunization clinics. We are also working to expand and improve access to services and programs like primary care and home and community care to meet future demand.

coming months, such as expanded hours of operation, increased program capacity and seamless care through shared electronic medical records. Watch vch.ca/westend for news about start dates and details on how to access our new services!

The overdose crisis across BC has taken an unprecedented toll on human lives. To read headlines and hear stories, one might fear that nothing is being done. But in fact, it’s quite the opposite. The health care response has been strong.

Vancouver Coastal Health has been working with community partners to put new resources and services into place:

What’s next?

The Three Bridges Community Health Centre and West End Mental Health Team will be coming together at one site at 1128 Hornby Street, at the new City Centre Community Health Access Centre. The Centre will be larger and open daily, allowing us to see more clients, while giving our health care teams space to work side-by-side and better coordinate mental health and primary care services.

VCH’s Home Health, Home Hospice, Adult Day Program and Primary Care programs in the West End will also see improvements over the

Help is here for substance use

VCH’s new City Centre Community Health Access Centre is coming to the West End.

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In addition to Insite, our groundbreaking supervised injection site, four Overdose Prevention Sites have opened in the Downtown Eastside (DTES) to provide a safe, staffed location where naloxone can be administered and people can be connected with health resources and supports, including treatment programs.

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A new Substance Use Treatment and Response Team now offers a twoweek at-home detox program for Vancouver residents with same-day or next-day intake for new clients.

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Outreach services have been launched through multidisciplinary Intensive Case Management Teams.

These are health care providers who work with clients who have complex needs no matter where they are - in a shelter, residence or on the street.

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Rapid starts of methadone or suboxone treatments have recently been made available to people seeking Opioid Replacement Therapy, through the DTES Connections program.

Vancouver residents who need a referral, support or information about substance use services can call the Access Central Detox Referral Line at 1-866-658-1221.

Members of the VCH Intensive Case Management team.

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PITCH PERFECT: Tara Bosch of Smart Sweets bested two other finalists to win the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs’ inaugural Pitch for the Purse. With a gummy bear mold purchased from Amazon, Bosch created the first smart candy aimed to revolutionize the way consumers look at traditional confectionery sweets. The 23-yearold’s pitch of healthy, sugar-free candy to celebrity judges Frank Giustra and Jacki Zehner earned her a purse of $25,000 to jumpstart her company. The contest was part of FWE’s 15th Odlum Brownsponsored anniversary celebrations staged at the Hotel Vancouver. Premier Christy Clark joined 600 of Vancouver’s top female entrepreneurs and business leaders for the fundraiser and networking event that generated more than $500,000 for the organization’s various mentoring programs to help female entrepreneurs in B.C. and across Canada become wildly successful.

tive for Children and Youth, was feted at First Call’s annual fundraiser. Fraserview Hall was packed with more than 700 guests who gathered to celebrate Turpel-Lafond’s work during her 10 years as the province’s leading advocate for children. Turpel-Lafond was awarded First Call’s Champion for Child and Youth Rights Award. Singing her praises was a non-partisan group of speakers including Mary McNeil, former Minister of Children and Family Development, MLA Melanie Mark and Grand Chief Doug Kelly, president of the Stó:lo Tribal Council. An evening to celebrate child and youth advocacy, the night also raised muchneeded funds to ensure First Call’s continued efforts to put B.C.’s youth first. First Call is a non-partisan coalition of more than 95 provincial and regional organizations working collaboratively for the betterment of children.

— denied an education in her youth — founded Educating Girls in Rural China (EGRC) back in 2005 to give girls in the rural areas of China the opportunity for an education that many of the girls and their families cannot afford. What’s more, in a system where boys are favoured, it is usually the young girls who are denied access to an education. Tien has seen the girls — nearly 700 to date — flourish thanks to the support of her charity. The girls of EGRC have an impressive 99 per cent high school and university graduation rate, says Tien. She once again hosted her annual fundraiser to support her firm’s efforts to help more girls. A capacity crowd filled Sun Sui Wah for the annual dim sum luncheon, which yours truly emceed. Through the efforts of all people involved, the noon hour event cooked up more than $50,000 to give 50 more young women a brighter future.

TURPEL-LAFOND FETED: Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, B.C.’s former Representa-

EDUCATING GIRLS: Ching Tien is changing the lives of hundreds of girls in rural China. Tien

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Coast Hotel’s Suzanne Bidinost, director of event sales, catering and marketing, and executive chef Justin Paakkunainen hosted the city’s best chefs, winemakers and brewers at their Coal Harbour property.

Child advocate Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, B.C.’s former Representative for Children and Youth, was feted by Adrienne Montani’s First Call organization.

Educating Girls in Rural China founder Ching Tien and board chair Don Kayne once again welcomed guests to their annual dim sum luncheon, which this year raised a record $52,000 for the firm’s efforts to provide an education to the most disadvantaged girls in China.

Yunxia Zhang, Bixia Wang and Yanxia Liu have all benefitted from the support provided by Educating Girls in Rural China. The alumni now pay it forward by mentoring and fundraising to give other girls the opportunity to have an education.

Mary McNeil, former Minister of Children and Family Development, MLA Melanie Mark and emcee Kathryn Gretsinger sang the praises of honouree Turpel-Lafond who during her tenure released nearly 100 reports and 200 recommendations to help improve the lives of B.C.’s most vulnerable kids.

Skoah’s Andrea Scott, Smart Sweets Tara Bosch and DeeBee Organics’ Dionne Laslo-Baker vied for a $25,000 purse to further jumpstart their businesses at the Forum For Entrepreneurs’ Pitch for the Purse contest. Bosch and her healthy candy Smart Sweets would eventually win the hearts and votes of judges and the audience.

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Adventure-movie streaming site launched John Kurucz

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Netflix and chill is taking a backseat to Netflix and thrill in the business plan for a handful of Vancouver entrepreneurs.

The four techies have created an online streaming service called Slipstream, which leans heavily on the subscription video-ondemand business model employed by Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Video.

Launched in mid-February, the site includes 150 action sports films that radiate getting rad: ski, snowboard, surf and cycling films set in the mountains, backcountry or on the water.

“We realized some of the best adventure filmmakers in the world live here in B.C. and there was no real place to watch these adventure films after they had run through their festival circuit dates,” said co-founder Keegan McColl. “We thought this would be a great opportunity to build a service that connects those filmmakers with viewers that want to see that kind of stuff.”

Vancouver techies and outdoor enthusiasts Keegan McColl, Shawn Price, Adrian Lu and Aaron Franks have launched the action sports streaming service Slipstream. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

Outdoor, thrill-seeking films play a large role in the service, though it’s not strictly confined to bikes and boards. Ecological preservation is also present throughout the catalogue.

Some of the titles currently in rotation include The Fortune Wild, which follows three surfers exploring themes of environmentalism and pipelines while traversing the B.C. coastline, and Timeline Missions, which follows French Olympic snowboarder Xavier De Le Rue across the world

in search of big slopes and pristine powder.

The site’s launch is the culmination of an ideal work/life balance for the site’s head honchos.

McColl and co-founders Shawn Price, Adrian Lu and Aaron Franks all work for Reelhouse, a Vancouver-based video company that oversees distribution campaigns for the Sundance Film Festival and Warner Brothers.

They couple their experience in the tech sector with a love of action sports —

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they all ski, surf, cycle and snowboard — to make the Slipstream boat float.

“This is something that is true to ourselves and that we’re all passionate about that combines our technical experience in building online products,” McColl said. “We’ve built the mechanism for viewers to experience the films and for filmmakers to monetize those films in a meaningful way.”

Filmmakers need not turn over any copyright permissions to the Slipstream format and are paid based on monthly views. Customers pay $4.99 a month for unlimited streaming on all the standard platforms: smart TV, mobile, tablet or desktop device. New films are added weekly and a free month is currently being offered.

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An inspirational approach to dealing with cancer InspireHealth helps you be more than ‘a patient’ Martha Perkins

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When she was diagnosed with breast cancer, Catherine Grand-Scrutton knew that the B.C. Cancer Agency was about to mobilize its tremendous resources to help her.

But while she willingly put her trust in the healthcare system, she didn’t want to be defined simply as a “patient.”

“I wanted to feel proactive, that, yes, you get on the BCCA conveyor belt and go into the system, but I also wanted to make it my project,” she says. “I didn’t want to just be a passenger.”

After her first “Oh my God I have cancer!” reaction, she turned to books for guidance. She quickly realized the ones that appealed to her the most — such as Cancer: 50 Essential Things To Do — were about integrated care.

She’s had a can-do approach ever since.

Today, almost two years after her diagnosis, she feels healthier than ever before.

She gives a lot of the credit for that to InspireHealth, a not-for-profit supportive cancer care organization based on West Eighth Ave. in Vancouver.

Ever since the provincial government started partially funding its operational costs

Catherine Grand-Scrutton signed up for everything InspireHealth has to offer people with cancer, from nutrition counselling to yoga and exercise classes to art expression. This Saturday she’s leading Team Pixie in InspireHealth’s fundraising Rain Walk. PHOTO SHAIN ROE

in 2014, InspireHealth’s services have been free to anyone in B.C. who has cancer, as well as the people who support them. GrandScrutton signed up for everything InspireHealth has to offer: exercise, yoga, tai chi, acupuncture for chemo side effects, nutrition counselling, cooking classes, farmers’ market tours, art expression….

“I think it is really important to feel like you are somewhat in control of your healing process. The less you identify yourself as

a sick person, the healthier you’ll be. If I had stayed in bed, if I hadn’t had somewhere to go, a schedule, I think I would have felt much worse. I truly believe that getting up and moving made all the difference.

“But InspireHealth also lets you have the bad days,” adds Grand-Scrutton, who celebrated her 50th birthday in the midst of chemo. “You don’t want to be sick but you have permission to be.

It’s a very accepting environment. There’s a deep sense of connection because we’ve shared similar experiences.”

InspireHealth inspires rather than dictates. Its approaches are based on empirical evidence but once the information is provided, people can make their own decisions on how to move forward. “You don’t need to buy into anything,” Grand-Scrutton says. “Not everyone has to

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Saturday’s Rain Walk raises money for InspireHealth A cruel irony with breast cancer is that chemotherapy often causes you to lose your hair.

Before it falls out, women are encouraged to cut it short. That task fell to Catherine GrandScrutton’s husband, Jeff Remfert, and it’s an experience that brought them even closer together.

“I was really glad Jeff wanted to do it for me,” she says. “Afterwards, he was trying to convince me that it looked cute. He told me that it was a very nice pixie cut and he’s been calling me Pixie ever since.’”

Accustomed to being a long-haired auburn, she cried when she looked at herself in the mirror afterwards. “It was symbolic of so many things. I was about to become one of those ‘bald people’ and, when I was growing up, that meant you might die. I wasn’t scared but it was ‘Wow, this is really happening.’”

March 4 is the Rain Walk, InspireHealth’s annual fundraising event. GrandScrutton is the leader of Team Pixie. If you would like to make a donation to her team, go to Inspirehealth.ca/rainwalk.

OPEN HOUSE: Volunteer and Tatlow Parks Stream Restoration

The Vancouver Park Board is restoring the historical stream in Volunteer and Tatlow parks.

By connecting the existing stream in Tatlow Park to English Bay, this project will create an ecologically diverse stream corridor; improve access to the shoreline through new paths; restore and enhance riparian and shoreline habitat for birds and other wildlife; and improve rainwater management.

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The approach is also affirming. The dress code at the yoga classes, for instance, is more leggings and T-shirts than Lululemon and ponytails. “You can modify the class so that anyone can do it. A sick person can do it next to a really fit person.”

Every week when GrandScrutton was off work — she was a visual manager with The Bay and is now a visual merchandiser with Siga International — she’d head to InspireHealth at least four times a week, sometimes five. For the four months of her chemo, she also took part in UBC studies into the benefits of exercising during chemo, which she found hugely beneficial.

“I’d would get up in the morning and feel crappy but halfway through the workout I’d think, ‘Oh. I can do this.’

“It’s all a mystery as far as what worked for me but why not have everything at your disposal and why not have the choices?”

To find out more about InspireHealth’s philosophy and programming go to InspireHealth.ca. For information on the UBC chemo and exercise study go to cepl.rehab.med.ubc.ca.

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Staying sober without keeping the faith Agnostics and atheists step outside the traditional AA model

John Kurucz

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In a past life, it would have been akin to uncovering a winning Lotto ticket, if not a gift from God. Less than five years into his newfound sobriety, Steve B. found an untouched and unattended crack pipe, filled to the brim with the insidious substance that’s ravaged thousands of lives in Vancouver. (In keeping with rehab protocols and to respect their privacy, the Courier has chosen to not publish the last names of those currently attending meetings.)

“I picked it up, looked at it and walked back inside to work — that reinforced my commitment to sobriety,” Steve said.

“When I think of alcohol and when I think of crack, I don’t jones for it. I am repelled. I want anything but that. I had 40 years of that s***.”

At 67, Steve has been

through rehab countless times. He has relapsed daily, monthly, annually.

There are five DUIs on his record. A marriage has fallen by the wayside, along with lucrative career paths. By the early 2000s he was living on the Downtown Eastside addicted to crack.

It was, in addiction parlance, his “bottoming out.”

Steve’s journey toward recovery has come by way of addition through subtraction. He is a co-founder of Sober Agnostics, a faithless rehab program based in Vancouver that shuns any mention of God in its 12-step philosophy.

That’s a marked departure from Alcoholics Anonymous or other traditional 12-step programs, where references to God are included in most steps.

“If AA is the lifeboat for alcoholics, and if you’re an atheist, you’re out,” Steve said. “Trying to force people to believe in God

is condescending and it’s condemning people to an alcoholic death.”

Making it work

Sober Agnostics began nearly five years ago.

Ironically enough, the group meets at Holy Trinity Anglican Church, at the corner of 12th Avenue and Hemlock Street. That setting is chosen based on cost alone, as rental fees are 90 per cent less than other venues, Steve said.

Anyone experiencing addiction issues, whether they be drugs, alcohol, gambling or otherwise, is welcome to attend weekly meetings. Members range in age from their early 20s to their 70s and are predominantly men. Most come from middle-class families, others are “rich white people,” Steve said.

The numbers range between five and 12 at each gathering.

Where AA has the “Big Book” to espouse its tenets, Sober Agnostics

relies on what’s referred to as the “Little Book.”

Within both publications are the 12 steps, referred to as “How It Works.” Hilary J. modified those steps within a faithless context for the Sober Agnostics, and she now chairs weekly meetings and serves as the group treasurer.

She also happens to Steve’s partner of eight years. Hilary is poised to celebrate six years of continuous sobriety, while Steve is on the precipice of his seven-year mark.

Both freed themselves from the shackles of addiction only after going Godless.

“I re-wrote [‘How It Works’] to focus more on our own self-empowerment, that we are taking responsibility for our own recovery, we are striving to overcome our weaknesses, as opposed to the traditional steps where you’re asking God to remove your defects of character,”

said Hilary, 51. “I’m not asking God to do anything. I’m taking it upon myself to try to correct my defects of character.”

Stand-up comedian and life-long atheist Mark B. Hughes — who agreed to have his last name published — used personal work-arounds during his 12-step recovery.

“Lots of atheists go through them,” he said.

“When they start talking about God, you try not to roll your eyes. You do your best to get along, and go along. For the most part you can adapt those steps to however you want.”

Out of step

The 12-step tradition was first championed in the 1930s by an American who went by the name of Bill W. He was Christian.

Step 3 of the traditional doctrine states that AA participants “made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care

of God as we understood Him.” Five other points within the 12 steps make allusions to God. Despite Steve and Hilary’s reticence towards faith’s role in recovery, AA has undeniably helped millions. According to Vancouver-based addictions counsellor Careena Sharma, that’s because the traditional 12 steps hammer away at accountability.

“Some people aren’t really accountable to themselves or really anybody else,” said Sharma, who works for Jericho Counselling on West Broadway. “With the traditional 12-step program based around faith, people say that they now have someone that they’re accountable to. Whether it’s the almighty or even a friend, something about that is working for them because they’re accountable to someone or something else.”

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Living 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.

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Sober Agnostics removes any mention of god from its 12-step program. Ironically, the group meets every week at Holy Trinity Anglican Church. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Growing movement

The faithless movement sprung up in the mid-1980s in New York City. Steve suggests more than 400 groups now exist across North America and the U.K. Steve and Hilary met on Commercial Drive while taking in a forum on addictions. Steve was attempting another go at getting clean, while Hilary was one year removed from when she bottomed out.

He took her to AA meetings, and for two years she didn’t say a word. Both relapsed in

the early days of their courtship.

“We’d leave some of those meetings and head straight to the liquor store,” Steve said. “But we kept going back to meetings. The periods between trips to the liquor store got even longer.”

The revelatory experience they felt in a Godless setting is shared by virtually everyone who also relies on the meetings, Steve said.

But not everyone knows about them. That’s because Metro Vancouver’s AA governing body doesn’t recognize faithless groups. As such, Sober

Agnostics is not listed on websites or directories that compile rehab services under the AA banner.

“People are ecstatic when they find out about us. They’re thrilled,” Steve said. “They often spend the first year or so bashing traditional AA. After a while that falls away, because resentments are the biggest issue in the program. It’s like the person or the thing you resent is using your head rent-free. That’s what will lead to another drink.”

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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 • Reading the full Project Permit Application at portvancouver.com/ development-and-permits/status-of-applications/centerm-expansion-project • 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

How your input will be used The project team will consider feedback received during this consultation period to refine proposed project mitigations, plans to minimize potential constructionrelated impacts and options for a proposed community investment program.

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Christians prepare for ‘great gift’ of Easter during Lent Pat Johnson

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I’m not a saint. How many people have said this as a way of excusing bad behaviour? Catherine Kelly wants people to remember this about saints: They are not angels or some other superhuman figures. They were human, first and foremost.

Kelly is leading a special event through St. Mark’s College on the UBC campus, called “The Secret to Becoming a Saint: A Lenten Retreat.”

Lent is the period leading up to Easter, a time, Kelly says, of returning back toward God. Many Christians set time aside during Lent specifically to focus on spiritual matters and turn attention to God. “It’s a time when we are called to pray, to fast and to give alms,” she says. “It’s really a time to reorient ourselves toward God and toward God’s love for us, so that we are spiritually and mentally prepared for the great gift of Easter.”

Looking at and emulating the lives of the saints may be a very traditional way of

Catherine Kelly, retreat director for the Roman Catholic college, says many Christians set time aside during Lent specifically to focus on spiritual matters and turn attention to God. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

pursuing what we commonly call “self-improvement,” but I ask her if it is not a bit of a burden to compare ourselves to people who are … literally saints?

“These are real people who lived real lives, who faced real issues, whether it was poverty or the plague,” Kelly replies. “They were humans too. They were facing very real life issues just like we are. Maybe it was just one character trait that allowed them to shift.”

These character traits

are the things she, and participants in the retreat, will explore on Saturday, March 11.

Becoming a saint may not be an item on your bucket list, but neither was it for the now-canonized.

“They didn’t desire to become a saint,” she says.

“They just desired to live their life and have a close relationship with God.” Her retreat will explore how people today can seek that kind of experience.

People need models of

behaviour and examples for living, says Kelly, who is retreat director for the Roman Catholic college.

“Even kids love superheroes,” says Kelly. “The saints are the superheroes of the church. People need models. We need inspiration.”

And while she acknowledges the role of superheroes, as well as the possibility that the lives of the saints could be a model for selfimprovement, there is a key difference, Kelly stresses.

“The source of that is not yourself,” she says. “God is the source for helping improve yourself.”

For example, she says that St. Francis of Assisi, one of the saints the retreat will look at, was able to adopt a degree of humility that allowed him to do great things for God. “St. Francis of Assisi found that our sense of powerlessness, being able to embrace that, allows God to be able to work through us,” she says. “By modelling, by actually living out our lives as Christians, that is a greater sermon than actually preaching to people.

He said: ‘Preach the gospel at all times, use words only if necessary.’”

Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, another example she will invoke, believed in doing small things with great love.

“That’s something tangible, that’s something everybody can do,” says Kelly. “We don’t have to go out and be martyrs.

We can do what we do in our daily lives with great love. Probably the easiest thing is to see it in your daily relationships. It’s coming from a perspec-

tive of how much you are loved by God and, living out that, your natural response would be to give love. It might be taking a breath before responding to someone and being more charitable and more loving in your responses with people. Small things like that.”

In many instances, saints were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.

“Think of Oscar Romero,” Kelly says, referencing the Archbishop of San Salvador, who was assassinated in 1980 while celebrating Mass, a day after he called for Salvadoran soldiers to refuse to carry out the military government’s repressions. “He’s a modern-day person held up for canonization. He was not afraid to speak up against social injustice.”

Kelly will also look at some of the 12 Canadian saints, including St. Kateri Tekakwitha, a young Mohawk woman who lived in 17th-century Quebec and who, five years ago, became the only North American First Nations person canonized. @Pat604Johnson

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Basketball season comes with losses and gains for Thunderbird Megan Stewart

mstewart@vancourier.com

It wasn’t how Luka Zaharijevic wanted the basketball season to end.

It wasn’t what the UBC Thunderbird fought so hard for over the last 12 months.

Since nearly this time last year, the day after UBC finished fifth at the men’s national championship they hosted at the Thunderbirds Sports Centre, Zaharijevic had been transforming his physical shape to elevate his athletic performance.

“I remember that feeling,” he said weeks ago at the mid-point of UBC’s surging basketball season.

“Everyone normally takes two or three weeks off for some time to focus on something else. I remember, on that very first Monday, I said this is the best day to start. That was day one of the season and that is when I became mentally ready.”

The last day of the 201617 UBC men’s basketball season came too soon, just last week on Feb. 24, when the Manitoba Bison swept the T-Birds in an unexpected playoff elimination from the best-of-three Canada West quarterfinals.

It was a shocker of a loss for the team that had a 19-1 conference record.

Although the post-season losses came by four and then two overtime points, the upset meant the ’Birds had suddenly played their last basketball game.

It was a hard-fought defeat that came too soon, but the season brought other losses for Zaharijevic that had inherent and significant gains.

Shaping up

It started a season earlier when, mentally ready to take a crack at another winning campaign, he prepared to put his body in shape, too.

“Everyone has different improvements they have to work on,” said the Kitsilano secondary alum. “To be honest, I felt my previous weight was making me slow.

I was a little bit overweight before. I always carried around a little bit of baby fat on the sides, flubber, but it was excess weight. It was making me slow.”

As a teenager with the Blue Demons, Zaharijevic was assured to be the big-

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gest, if not also the tallest, player on the court. He was tall at six-foot-five but also heavy at 230-plus pounds.

Last season at the age of 20, he stood six-foot-seven and weight 282 pounds.

In time for the playoffs last month, the Thunderbirds roster listed him at 255 pounds. Still pictures featured cut biceps and broad shoulders with definition for the first time. Live action play showed a more agile, active forward with fast feet that finally kept up with the soft hands he’d had since high school.

“I’ve put on quite a bit of muscle mass. I can tell right away and other people can notice,” he said. “Now that I’m dropping the excess weight, I’m much more agile and more explosive.”

Zaharijevic consulted the athletic department strength and conditioning coach, Joe McCullum, but there was another resource at his disposal. Only a few months earlier, the Thunderbirds had brought on Emma McCrudden, the only sports nutritionist at a Canadian university hired to work with student-athletes. She is on faculty at the department of kinesiology and has worked with the English Institute of Sport, the Canadian Sport Institute and both national and professional sports teams.

The dietician and basketballer worked one-on-one to build a plan that incorporated knowledge, a daily calendar, an electronic calorie counter, and no limit to the pomegranates.

“I was all-in,” said Zaharijevic, who learned about portion sizes and energy sources, such as fats and protein and carbohydrates, and what combination suited his training requirements whether his day brought a cross-city cycle commute, four hours coaching basketball, or a weight session — all regular activities for Zaharijevic last summer when he was running programs with Drive basketball, riding his second-hand Norco between Yaletown, Richmond and UBC, and still hitting the gym for his own workouts. Always a highachieving student, he was also taking summer courses for additional credit.

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Food for thought

On top of that, he started cooking for himself. “I enjoyed it and it was good because I could see what I was eating, exactly,” he said.

Growing up, he “honestly never thought about food,” he added. “My mom is a great cook and, as with many Serbian families, you just have to eat and if not, your parents will tell you that you’re getting too skinny. I never really thought about diet. I knew I shouldn’t be eating a Blizzard every day, but otherwise, I wasn’t thinking about it.”

One of his go-to recipes became an easy take-to-go egg and ham breakfast dish cooked in a muffin tin. He’d make substitutions of chicken or spinach and weigh his ingredients as he went with a small kitchen scale. He would make 20 to eat throughout the week, he said. The recipe is one of dozens McCrudden developed for the Thunderbirds, every athlete from sprinters to goaltenders to linebacker, and she hosts kitchen clinics for each team and one-on-one grocery shopping tutorials.

And, then there’s Zaharijevic and the pomegranates.

“I really love it,” he said.

“If I’m ever sitting down to watch a movie, before I’d have bags of chips and whatnot, but now I have a couple of pomegranates and take my time picking them apart piece by piece. The amount of shirts I stain is not good.”

The food itself was fuel, the energy an elite athlete needed to build muscle and maintain stamina.

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“I had designated meals for different days that would also be directly related to the days I was training hard or doing more strength

work,” he said. “I had been biking from home to campus and back, basically every day in the off-season. There was one time we had a training

camp at SFU, and I was also coaching, and I remember we had an 8 a.m. workout with Joe. I had to coach in afternoon and so I rode my bike from UBC to SFU, including the mountain and everything, and then I rode to the Oval. I was cramping for the rest of the night. I remember I stood up from my chair to talk to a player and my hamstrings cramped and I fell down. It was hilarious. I got to that point of intensity.”

When the season picked up in earnest, Zaharijevic saw what all the effort was for. He averaged 8.3 points a game, 3.9 rebounds and his 58 per cent shooting percentage in the field climbed to 67 per cent from the line.

The season’s goal was not realized for the Thunderbirds this time, but Zaharijevic may have achieved something greater.

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Continue to take a calm, mellow approach, Aries.

You need rest, you need to contemplate the world and your place in it — but stop short of making actual plans, and don’t rest so deeply you become a hermit.

Despite your weariness, your physical charms shine and you could attract someone; but you or the other person decline into indecision or delay now to midApril. Perhaps relationships will be easier when your magnetism ebbs (this Thursday onward for awhile).

The drudgery continues, Libra, but only for two weeks.

Don’t wallow in chores or poor health: there are traps here until May. At the same time, all March boosts relationships into the “affection zone” — an old flame or a new one can cause indecision, and joy. Thursday also starts six weeks of heightened sexuality. Things are hopping — April, too, could bring yet another old flame (!) and May lights many burners on your love’s stove.

Libra, this is not yet the time for a decision.

A major wish could come true in the two weeks ahead, Taurus. While the last two weeks promoted unresolvable wishes, the two weeks ahead give you a practical and intuitive sense of what desire might accomplish, and these goals might come true. Chase money or make purchases Sunday. Errands, casual friends, travel, communications and paperwork fill Monday/ Tuesday. You’ll succeed Monday and to noon (PST) Tuesday, not after (when disruptions intrude).

A romantic atmosphere continues for two more weeks.

Some of the “warning” I’ve given you about deep infatuation still holds true (until May 10) but I’m lowering it to a whisper, as the main danger passed last week.

Still, to remain happy, chase light, friendly romance, be with someone affectionate who you really like. You might be strongly drawn to a co-worker in March and some of April. Also, Thursday starts six weeks in which relationships grow both intense and impulsive.

The accent lies on your career, prestige relations, dealings with authorities and worldly ambitions this week and next. This area is a bit dicey, but not filled with the traps of the last two weeks. Still, be cautious — this isn’t the best time to start a business.

Your hopes about a love relationship slow now, as delays and indecision surround you, your loved one, and your friends/social life during the whole month ahead. An old flame might return.

The two weeks ahead continue the general emphasis on home, family, real estate, security, retirement, nutrition, nature and gardening. Don’t sink deeply into this zone (advice holds until May 10) — just do what you need to do. Send your extra energy and focus into career and “social climbing” efforts. A romance seems almost certain for singles — many of you have already “found” the one, but some haven’t. If you have someone, indecision fills March and April.

You remain mellow, wise, gently loving, with a wide, compassionate understanding of people and society.

Your intellectual and travel-prone sides are prominent this week and next. By Thursday, six weeks of impatience from your bosses ends. All March, bosses and authorities grow indecisive, yet treat you affectionately. They might call you in for advice, counselling.

Thursday starts six weeks of socializing in your career scene, helping you make valuable contacts.

Your days are filled with errands, phone calls, emails, simple chores, paperwork, and friendly chats. Okay, but don’t plunge into these so much that you waste valuable time (applies to May 10, but especially to the two weeks ahead). Your home life grows sweet and affectionate all March. Your romantic courage grows, also, from Thursday to late April. You might take a chance and buy a more upscale home. Sunday’s for chores — eat and dress sensibly, too.

Life’s mysteries continue to fill this week and next, Leo. Financial manoeuvres, lifestyle changes, important medical procedures, sexual yearnings, commitment and consequence — these are highlighted but, as advised before, go “light” in these areas until mid-May onward. Your thoughts remain mellow, affectionate all month, making this a great time (especially after the 19th) to speak publicly, write, teach, or travel. Your thoughts might be mellow because a sweet love keeps toying with them.

Sunday’s romantic, but the flames might die off this night. Tackle chores Monday and to noon Tuesday, then prepare to battle opposition or put out fires Tuesday p.m. Relationships, opportunities and fresh horizons greet you Wednesday morning to mid-afternoon Friday — embrace/welcome others, chase others, form alliances or partnerships, present ideas, grab opportunities (even to relocate) — you’ll fare well!

The accent continues on relationships, far horizons, opportunities, dealing with the public, negotiation, litigation, agreements and contracts. The last two weeks were “dangerous” for these matters (in that they could have drawn you into subtle traps) — this danger fades now, but lasts in some form to May 10. So handle these relationships, far horizons, et al, but continue to accent a healthy independence. Be ambitious Sunday, but steer away from authorities this night.

Your energy, charisma, clout and effectiveness remain high this weekend and next, Pisces. I’ve probably said it before but will again: for your own sake, use this energy and clout in someone else’s service, to form mutual goals and to advance another person’s desires. Master sales people know this: the more you fulfill someone else’s desires, the more you’ll sell. (Look at the little Pisces Reince Priebus, in his role as Trump’s staff chief.

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