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You may have heard we have a homeless problem in this city. That’s not meant to sound facetious. After all, who am I kidding — you’ve all seen the poorest of the poor for years sacked out on the streets and sidewalks of the Downtown Eastside to Dunbar. Take a guess how many are out there. Put it this way: there are enough people without a home in Vancouver that two Commodore ballrooms would be needed to handle the capacity. A year ago this month, volunteers scoured the streets, shelters and parks over 24 hours and counted 1,847 people without a permanent home — 1,308 in some form of shelter and 539 on the street. That total, sadly, was an all-time high for Vancouver. This week, volunteers will be out again counting homeless people while other teams of counters will do
the same in the rest of the region as part of the Metro Vancouver homeless count. The prediction, as I heard last week from Mayor Gregor Robertson and the mayors of Port Coquitlam, Maple Ridge and Port Moody, is that volunteers will likely be shocked by the numbers. The mayors told us reporter types that recent data gathered from cities and studies determined there were more than 70 homeless camps from Vancouver to Langley and about 4,000 people without a home. How can that be when we live in such a wealthy region? It’s a question Robertson has asked over and over again almost every time he talks about homelessness. And he usually follows that question by launching political rockets over to Victoria and across the country to Ottawa. And I paraphrase: The governments have to step up, housing is their responsibility, we can’t do this alone as municipalities. It’s gotten to the point where I could write the mayor’s speech. Housing Minister Rich
Mayor Gregor Robertson and Housing Minister Rich Coleman are at it again, battling over which government could do more to address homelessness. PHOTOS DAN TOULGOET
Coleman has heard Robertson say these words many times. He’s also heard him promise to end “street homelessness” by 2015 and blame the provincial and federal governments for not doing their part to reach his goal. For the most part, Coleman shrugs it off and then goes on to rattle off how many millions of dollars the ruling B.C. Liberals have spent on housing in Vancouver. Anyway, as you may have
heard or read last week, Robertson and Coleman got into it again. Robertson was clearly the aggressor and came out swinging after I asked this question of him and his mayoral colleagues: Do any of you take responsibility for homelessness in your cities? Robertson hogged the mic, saying Vancouver has “been forced to take responsibility” because the provincial government “dropped the
ball” on addressing homelessness. For the city, that’s meant investment in housing, opening shelters and more work for city-funded police and firefighters. He then went on to point out the ruling Liberals have a $2-billion surplus and will spend about $5 billion on a Massey Bridge and another $10 billion on the Site C dam. “So there’s $17 billion that the provincial government has decided has to be focused on something other than people living on our streets,” he said. “If you connect the dots here — between unprecedented homelessness across the region, a fentanyl overdose crisis that has killed over 900 people across B.C. and the shelter rate and income assistance rate being frozen since 2007 — it’s been war on the poor in B.C., while we invest billions and billions of dollars in projects of questionable merit.” Coleman told reporters he was “flabbergasted” and feeling “sad” by Robertson’s comments. He went on to rattle off the hundreds
of millions of dollars the B.C. government has spent on housing and funding shelters in Vancouver. The next day, Coleman had his media people circulate a long op-ed of sorts. Here’s an excerpt: “The province cannot do it alone. We need assistance from the Metro Vancouver mayors, who can expedite development approvals for supportive and rental housing. They can use their land-use tools and zoning to create higher densities and pre-zone land to expedite affordable rental housing. And they can continue to partner with the province by identifying and providing municipal land for supportive housing. We need their assistance, not just their recriminations.” If my calendar is correct, we’re only in the second week of March and the provincial election isn’t until May 9. It’s a good bet there’s more to come between these two. Meanwhile, the homeless population grows. @Howellings
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The City of Vancouver may keep its old logo, after all. Or, at least, the proposed new city logo that raised the ire of local designers two weeks ago when council voted 8-2 to go ahead with it, will get a second look — or be scrapped altogether. The city spent $8,000 to hire a company to create the new logo, which designers described as “an insult to the design and creative sector.” Mayor Gregor Robertson, who is not a fan of the old logo and praised the new design at council last week, issued a statement Feb. 28 saying he asked city manager Sadhu Johnston to “not put the wordmark on any permanent city assets” until the city consults with designers and the public. “I take the concerns of Vancouver’s design community seriously about how a new wordmark reflects on the city’s brand and image, and speaks to who we are,” the mayor wrote. “While there will never be a single design that satisfies everyone, over the last week, there
The city spent $8,000 to hire a company to create a new logo (bottom).
have been some compelling cases raised about why a different approach is needed.” That backlash was led by local art director Brock Ellis, who co-wrote an open letter with members of the design and digital community to the city asking that the proposed design be rejected. The letter was co-signed by hundreds of designers, including employees of Electronic Arts and Skyrocket Digital. “It is an insult to Vancouverites and all who love our city,” the letter said. “This is not a debate about whether the Optima or Gotham typeface is better or whether a logo is a wordmark or a rebrand. This is a debate about valuing our civic identity and the city’s value of our creative and innovation sectors. You have severely missed the mark with this
wordmark, City of Vancouver and council. Please, spare us from this new logo. This is not my Vancouver. This is not our Vancouver.” The proposed logo is done in Gotham font face, with a smaller point-sized “City of” in green stacked on a larger point-sized “Vancouver” in blue. It was supposed to replace a similar logo, set off by a lotus petal design. In a Feb. 22 debate at city hall on the proposed logo, Robertson described the current logo as “lame.” A city report that went before council said the proposed logo “presents an updated image of the City of Vancouver as a modern, innovative and highly desirable place to live and work.” The report added the city’s “visual identity” had not been updated in more than 10 years. NPA Coun. George Affleck, who voted against the new logo because there was no public input on its choice, accused Robertson and his Vision Vancouver councillors of flip-flopping on their decision. Affleck joked on Twitter about the mayor’s turnaround with a logo, in green and blue, that read “flip flop.”
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beside the school’s brick walls, under stairs, and sheltered below the slides and suspended bridges of the child-sized jungle gym. The school board also employs a contractor to search for and dispose of dangerous trash. They use a long pincer and small pair of tongs to place hazardous waste such as bloodied gauze, needles, plastic caps and wrappers into secure disposal boxes. On a summer day, Light, the co-ordinator of the Strathcona childcare centre, said they can collect as many as 25 needles in their sweep of neighbourhood parks. The trash is considered dangerous because it could contain human blood and some items are sharp enough to break skin. The quiet grounds around the childcare centre draw people who find shelter under bushes and dry sur-
faces under eaves. When she opens the door to the back steps of the building to begin her morning sweep, Light almost always finds the same man right outside sleeping. “There is a certain awareness that this is where childcare happens,” she said. “We’re friendly, but it’s not like we make them coffee.” Light doesn’t know him by name, but they have a respectable rapport, and she says he leaves once she wakes him. Other men frequently return to the same spots to seek overnight shelter on the school grounds. “These may be people, who as kids, attended here. They are definitely neighbourhood people and, for whatever reason or whatever their issues, they are using outside.” Full story online at vancourier.com @MHStewart
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Before children arrive at the Strathcona Community Centre for childcare during the time until school starts in classrooms next door, an adult searches the playground for used needles. Childcare workers search multiple times through the day because, as happened last week, a broken glass pipe can turn up near the slides just before class lets out at the end of the day. The daily experience comes with anecdotes that might appal residents elsewhere in the city, but the specific reality of living and working and raising children in the Downtown Eastside is one of the reasons the Strathcona Community Centre Association may be offered a unique deal with the park board. The association had been asking for guaranteed annual funding of $200,000, but there is a possibility they will be offered a different operating agreement than the city’s other 20 community centres. The park board will discuss the needs of the centre at its next meeting March 27. In the meantime, the sweeps continue. It’s a rare morning that Edwin Rodriguez or Veronica Light don’t pick up and dispose of a used syringe or condom, discarded clothing or human feces. They find cardboard out in the open
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Community centres still out of joint Megan Stewart
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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 • 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.
It’s not over yet, folks. There is still no joint operating agreement for community centre associations to consider, but the process continues to inch forward. Park board commissioners decided March 6 to defer a decision on offering a sweeping, 15-year contract with community centre associations in an effort to grant what many of those associations had been asking for: face time between their representatives, including but not specifically lawyers, with staff and city council. After years of consultation, in 2016, 14 associations banded together and lobbied the park board to tell staff and commissioners they were confident an agreement was within reach. Despite extensive public consultation, these associations asked for additional time between parties to discuss the document, rather than offer feedback through various channels and then wait to see if it was incorporated in the next draft of the JOA, or joint operating agreement.
However, board members and advocates from several community centre associations said they feared the discussion they had asked for was stripped of its teeth. This had to do with the brief inclusion and then removal of the word “resolve” from the motion commissioners approved. NPA commissioner Sarah Kirby-Yung put forward a “strike-and-replace” revision of the initial staff recommendation, suggesting along with a 30-day delay, that park board staff and community centres meet with “respective legal counsel for the purpose of reviewing and amending any legal language as may be beneficial, for the purpose of clarification and reflection of the partnership.” Kirby-Yung said she hoped the groups could meet in “good faith to work together as partners” and maintain momentum while providing options, but not open discussions to a broad examination of the agreement. “It’s intended to review specific clauses and languages that the community centre associations have raised questions about,” she said. “The intent is to review the ques-
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tions that the associations have articulated very clearly.” Vision commissioner Catherine Evans proposed an amendment, which was ultimately unanimously approved. In a discussion around the board table that invited the input of a park board lawyer, the motion was revised to omit the word “resolve.” The phrase initially read that the discussions would happen “for the purpose of reviewing and resolving any outstanding legal issues in the development of the Joint Operating Agreement.” But the approved text read that the meetings will happen “for the purpose of reviewing and considering” those legal issues. “All of us have been at this for quite a while,” said NPA commissioner John Coupar. “An extra 30 days is not a deal-breaker for me. But I think I’m at the end of my timeframe as to how much time we should take. It’s time we get it done and then move forward together.” The document may be revised before it returns to the board for a decision on April 10.
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Activists vow to host the city’s 23rd annual 4/20 “smoke out” protest at Sunset Beach next month although the park board denied them a permit to hold the event at the public park. Jeremiah Vandermeer, Cannabis Culture editor and one of the organizers with the 420 Events Society,
believes an ideal location for the event is the PNE, but he said they were denied access by the city-appointed board of directors. The protest moved to Sunset Beach for the first time last year after the previous site around the Vancouver Art Gallery, used since 1995, was fenced closed. NPA commissioner John Coupar said the issue had been “downloaded” on the park board. Debate among commissioners split along philo-
sophical lines of regulation versus prohibition of the weed that is still widely classified an illegal substance in Canada. There was also discussion about the use and purpose of public parks and the consequences of allowing a one-day smoking allowance in spite of a ban in city parks. The same seven commissioners debated this event last year, a burden park board chairman and Green Party commissioner
Michael Wiebe described as “frustrating.” Last year’s event cost roughly $100,000 in policing and an additional $150,000 to the park board as an estimated 25,000 people attended through the day. Three NPA commissioners, Sarah-Kirby Yung, Casey Crawford and Coupar, as well as the Green’s Stuart Mackinnon, voted against the staff recommendation to grant a permit to the organizers, who last year hosted an
open pot marketplace at the beachside park. “To approve the permit would be to validate, to endorse this on parks land,” said Mackinnon. “The only way we can say no, this is not an appropri-
ate use of park space, is to say no to them.” Wiebe along with Vision’s Catherine Evans and independent commissioner Erin Shum voted in favour of granting a permit. —Megan Stewart
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n the redacted report on harassing and bullying of Vancouver School Board staff by Vancouver school trustees, external investigator Roslyn Goldner quoted one witness who noted that in 2016 there was the “perfect storm.” A board and staff dealing with the complex issues of balancing the budget and
While Goldner’s 79page final report is redacted to exclude in-camera meetings and protect specific staff members, there is enough there to draw conclusions at least to where the bulk of the blame rests. school closures were further burdened by the activities of a special advisor and an external audit team assigned to comb through their records by the minister of education. But the event that broke the back of whatever relationship existed between the board and senior staff was a public board meeting on school closures on Sept. 26 at Sir Charles Tupper high school. According to Goldner’s report, amidst the uproar of a passionate and partisan crowd, “once again the superintendent approached the meeting chair, trustee [Mike] Lombardi, to advise him of staff concerns and to ask that he maintain control in the
meeting to ensure there was a respectful and psychologically safe environment for discussion of the recommendations and board decisions.” By then, of course, the wheels were already falling off the machine. A day earlier, secretary-treasurer Russell Horswill commenced an indefinite leave. The following morning VSB chair Lombardi expected to have a debriefing meeting with superintendent Scott Robinson, only to learn that Robinson, too, was booked off on indefinite leave. In all, six senior staffers would book off, while two may have had reasons other than the “toxic” work environment. That was soon followed by a series of letters to the Ministry of Education expressing dismay at the actions of the Vancouver School Board. The most explicit and damaging came from the president of the B.C. School Superintendents Association, Sherry Elwood, addressed to the Deputy Minister of Education David Byng. In that letter, she claimed senior VSB staffers thought their “positions may be in jeopardy” and that they were unable to perform their duties in a toxic environment. The letter was conveniently leaked to the media but was followed by three more letters (which seemed to come at the invitation of the Ministry of Education) disparaging what was going at the VSB — one from the B.C. School Trustees Association, a second from the organization representing secretary treasurers and a final one from the association representing B.C.’s principals and vice-principals. Education Minister Mike Bernier forwarded the Elwood letter to WorkSafe B.C., which was now conducting its own investigation into workplace conditions. The acting VSB superintendent engaged
Goldner to produce the report issued in a redacted form on March 7. Unlike Goldner’s executive summary, which did not name names, nor tell you who did what to whom, the actual full report is more explicit in placing the blame. In what I have confirmed was a reference to the Vision trustees, Goldner noted: “Four ex-trustees were represented by counsel who attended their individual interviews. These ex-trustees requested and were provided with a summary of the particularized allegations in advance of their interviews.” Then she stated: “This group of ex-trustees included individual trustees against whom allegations of bullying and harassment were made in the course of the investigation.” And, most often in her commentary, she referred to actions by both Vision trustees Patti Bacchus and Lombardi. Those trustees would argue they were simply asking staff tough questions about school closures and they saw themselves as advocates for the children of the folks who elected them. Vision has been a thorn in the side of the
provincial government for years. In the past, they have managed to make their point without losing the confidence of their senior staff. They deliberately refused to meet their fiduciary responsibility under the school act, which required them to pass a balanced budget — only agreeing to do that when it was too late. So the whole board was fired. And then there was the allegation of harassment and bullying. Lombardi was right last week when he said Goldner’s executive summary (and Elwood’s original letter) did not name names or cite specific incidents, thereby smearing all nine trustees. While Goldner’s 79-page final report is redacted to exclude in-camera meetings and protect specific staff members, there is enough there to draw conclusions at least to where the bulk of the blame rests. Vision trustees may not have been wholly responsible for the rude and inappropriate behaviour that took place. But based on this report, they should bear the brunt of it. @allengarr
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Houses are homes, not just commodities Re: “Character flaws,” Letter to the Editor, Feb. 23. How can [letter writer Jack Hunter] possibly assert “most buyers only buy an old house for the value of the land and only buy to build a new house?” He clearly has not been speaking with me or any of the people in my extensive network or the 12,000 followers of Vancouver Vanishes, or some of the realtors I know. I can assure you that if I were to sell my 100-year-old house and buy another character house it will not be to tear it down but to restore and renovate it. A house is so much more than the value of the land. And this premise that values will go down is simply not the case. On my street recently, a character bungalow was demolished and a hastily and poorly built monster house erected in its place, with the intention to sell, not live in it. It languished on the market for many months in the hottest real estate market Vancouver has ever seen. Meanwhile, a few blocks away, a heritage house that had been completely restored was on sale for the same price. It sold in several days for $600,000 over the asking price with multiple offers. As to his view that many Vancouverites are not aware of the character housing initiative, that may be so for anyone who has their head buried so deep they have missed the postcards sent to residents, the emails from the city with invitations to take part in open houses and surveys and the countless media stories. For once the city did a good job on consultation. And it is still accepting and encouraging input. Some of the options to retain character houses include rezoning along with incentives that in fact could very well make the property worth more, if that is what is important. As well as potential options to add density with larger lane cottages or multiple secondary suites. In fact CBC’s the National story on this same issue suggested character housing retention would make real estate prices soar. But perhaps it is time we all stopped thinking of houses as commodities, but rather as places to live and celebrate life. Penny Noble, Vancouver
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A world haunted by collective nouns Geoff Olson geoffolson.com
I make a partial living by trafficking in words. So I’m well aware how often copywriters, publicists, policymakers, politicians, bloggers and trolls weaponize words against the public. The problem is bigger than the decline of journalism in the digital age. It’s bigger than a dumbed-down Empire that spat forth a former reality TV star as a winning presidential contender. Think of how one simple word, “freedom,” has been used for decades as a semantic bludgeon for imperial goals. Too often, we’re led to mistake rubbery terms for hard-core reality, according to the late American writer Robert Anton Wilson. “In other words, because we can say ‘the Jews,’ or ‘the New World Order,’ or ‘the patriarchy,’ we can believe, or almost believe, that these grammatical abstractions have the same kind of reality as basketballs, barking dogs, and baked beans. Individuals, with all their hair and fingernails and ideals and delusions and funky smells, disappear, as it
were, and the world becomes haunted by collective nouns,” the author wrote in his 1998 book Everything Is Under Control. Ah, to be free from the hypnotizing fog of collective nouns. During the last brief sunny stretch, I went for a long hike far from the news — factual, fake and frivolous. Over a ridge top I found a solitary oak standing in an amphitheatre of moss. I sat under the oak and looked out across the strait. Hearing a sound in the distance, I caught sight of a small deer looking out from the trees. It’s uncommonly rare to see an animal in the wild without it sensing you first, but this fawn loped uphill in my direction, oblivious to my presence. Closer and closer it came. It veered off only a few yards away from me, with a bouncy gait that seemed a bit... much. Up close, I could sense this young creature’s joy at being alive. Perhaps I’m anthropomorphizing here, but it felt as real as the tree trunk against my back. I felt grateful to witness this wordless moment of animal grace. “A name is a prison, but
God is free,” wrote the Greek poet Nikos Kazantzakis. When we’re very young, we lack names for the wondrous things around us. But as we age, we begin to suffer from “hardening of the categories.” Our ideas of right and wrong, real and fake, harden into divisive certainties. It’s an affliction unique to our species. This is one reason humans love their household pets: for their spontaneous, language-free response to the world. In Kurt Vonnegut’s 1985 novel Galapagos, a group of holidaying celebrities are shipwrecked after a global economic meltdown. A world epidemic of infertility follows, leaving only the ship survivors untouched. Their descendants devolve over millennia into seal-like creatures, with diminishing intelligence shading into inthe-moment joyfulness. Thanks to their smaller brains, humanity’s successors are incapable of science, art, industry and war. But they are at last in tune with nature — and happy. Today’s evolutionary trends are even stranger
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The city is considering allowing property owners who choose not to demolish character homes the right to increase their floor area and convert the property into a multi-unit residence. It’s an idea that has emerged from the city’s review of how it can best protect character homes in single-family neighbourhoods while increasing potentially affordable housing options. “We heard from a lot of people,” the city’s chief planner Gil Kelley told city council March 7 of the public consultation process. “We basically heard both strong support for retention of character homes, but also equally strong support for incentives to provide more ability for alternative housing types and what we might call ‘gentle density infill’ in those same neighbourhoods.” The idea, or incentive for owners, still has to be approved by council, which will receive a staff report in April on recommendations to retain what’s left of the city’s character homes. Staff told
council a new unit or units added to a character home could be for family use, rental or potentially strata-titled. The city’s definition of a character home is that it must have been built before 1940, meet criteria for “original features” and is not listed on the Vancouver heritage register. City staff conducted a review of character homes in response to growing public concern about the loss of such homes to large new developments, largely on the West Side of the city. Vision Coun. Geoff Meggs said he was concerned that creating affordable housing options — by allowing owners of character homes to increase their floor size — may still result in expensive housing. “I think one of the disappointments about the laneway housing program is that although it does produce rental... it’s expensive to build and the rents are pretty high,” Meggs said. Kelley responded saying he didn’t have “a magic answer for you today.” He added the city’s ongoing reset of its housing strategy — which includes looking to add more housing types such
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not least of which is the fact that, for years, our elected officials have failed to give women’s equality its due. Canada now stands at 25th place on the United Nation’s Gender Inequality Index, down from its firstplace ranking in 1995. Canada also ranked 35 out of 144 countries in the World Economic Forum’s 2016 Gender Gap Report — falling behind far poorer countries such as Bolivia, Cuba and the Philippines, which did better on measures related to economic opportunity, education, health and political empowerment. Vancouverites should pay special attention. Women face more challenges here than their counterparts in other parts of the country. “B.C. is lagging behind the rest of Canada on multiple measures,” according to a Feb. 1 letter to Premier Christy Clark and B.C.’s NDP leader John Horgan endorsed by 28 organizations focused on advancing women’s rights. Canadian women earn 72 cents for every dollar Canadian men make, with women in B.C. earning less than women in other parts of Canada. In addition, families headed by single mothers in B.C. experience some of the highest rates of poverty and food insecurity in the country, the letter said. Our province also spends less per capita on legal aid than the national average, meaning that women who need the service to pay to help them leave violent partners don’t always get it. A lack of political will is a major factor behind this decline, according to Kasari Govender, executive director of West Coast LEAF, a legal advocacy group and one of the organizations behind the letter. Some Canadians have become “complacent” because “big battles” related to gender equality have been fought on the surface, she said. “What remains to be done is some of the deeper work.” For many women’s rights advocates in B.C. a key part of this “deeper work” involves convincing whichever party wins the May provincial election to commit to developing a $10-a-day child care program. So far, the NDP has made it part of its election platform. Currently, regulated child care spaces are available for less than two out of 10
children under two in B.C. For those lucky enough to get a full-time spot for a toddler in a Vancouver daycare, the cost is comparable to renting an apartment, further squeezing families — and mothers — who may already be struggling with rising housing costs. Consequently, access to affordable childcare could make a big difference for a variety of women, including single mothers and those who need to work to leave abusive relationships. In fact, it may be the key to breaking out of a cycle of poverty. “They could work more secure jobs or high-paying jobs, or they could work full-time jobs instead of part-time jobs,” explained Kendra Milner, director of law reform at West Coast LEAF. “For really low-income women, having access to childcare is often a key support they need to get off of income assistance because [otherwise] they just can’t earn enough through work.” It’s also good for the economy. Increasing women’s economic participation by giving them access to $10-a-day childcare could add more than 12,000 jobs and almost $1 billion to the provincial economy by 2020, according to a report commissioned by Early Childhood Educators of BC. The study also predicts such a program would pay for itself, with the government gaining more income tax from women’s increased participation in the workforce than it costs to run the program. These findings are in line with research from around the world. In fact, increasing women’s economic participation by advancing women’s equality could add as much as $12 trillion to the global economic growth, according to a 2016 study by McKinsey and Company. The reason why is pretty simple — currently, approximately half the world’s population is not achieving its full economic potential. The women who went on strike on Wednesday were surely missed. But there are also women we don’t notice missing everyday — the ones with the potential and desire to work who are held back because of factors such as a lack of access to childcare, which limit their opportunities to work. They’re the reason I wore red on International Women’s Day.
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A candid look inside Vancouver’s most iconic eatery: home of raucous service, celebrity sightings, and hearts of gold. Until March 12 at the York Theatre. TheCultch.com
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Based on real experiences, this provocative and engaging theatrical performance attempts
racism, class discrimination and misogyny. March 15-18 at Vancity Culture Lab. TheCultch.com
to envision what reconciliation truly means. Until March 11 at Firehall Arts Centre. TheatreForLiving.com
TWELFTH NIGHT
The new season of Western Gold Theatre kicks off with William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and an all-senior cast! Disguise, deception and sexual ambiguity present themselves in this classic romantic comedy. March 10-19 at PAL Studio Theatre. WesternGoldTheatre.org
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BELFAST GIRLS
Fleeing starvation in 1850s Ireland, five young women venture to Australia to make a better life for themselves while encountering obstacles of
Based on the award-winning CBC Radio documentary “Habtom’s Path,” Refuge tells the story of Eritrean army deserter Ayinom Zerisenai who has landed in Nova Scotia. But questions about his past actions — and his current enigmatic behaviour — begin to haunt Pamela who has taken him under her roof. March 18-April 1. FirehallArtsCentre.ca
THE DAISY THEATRE
The art form of puppeteering is reimagined for older audiences in this provocative and entertaining production featuring more than 40 marionettes. March 21-April 9 at the Cultch. TheCultch.com
THE REFUGEE HOTEL
Set in the 1970s, eight Chilean refugees fleeing the oppressive rule of Augusto Pinochet try to adapt to their new lives inside a run-down Vancouver hotel. March 23-April 9 at Studio 58. TicketsTonight.com
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Travis Wall has the rare fortune of living a dream he’s had since childhood. In his latest production, Shaping Sound: After the Curtain, the accomplished dancer and choreographer draws from elements of his personal life to share a story about sexual acceptance and love. Wall’s introduction to the rhythmic movements of dance began while he was still in the womb, in his birthplace of Virginia Beach, Va. His mother, a dance instructor, often placed baby Travis’s crib in her eponymously named studio Denise Wall’s Dance Energy. “The dance studio was my babysitter,” Wall said in a telephone interview from Los Angeles, where he’s now based. “I used to mimic the other dancers in the studio... and I haven’t stopped dancing since.” Wall got his first big break when he landed a spot on a Dr. Pepper commercial at age nine. This exposure opened the door to more commercial work, prompting Wall to move to New York City at age 12 where he had his Broadway debut in the revival production of The Music Man.
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award for choreographing Carrie Underwood’s “Something in the Water” music video. For someone still in his 20s — Wall turns 30 in September — he has an enviable number of accomplishments already under his belt. That’s not to say he’s had it easy. Despite all the success, Wall has found himself “living paycheque to paycheque” in an industry where the demands for talent and time are often high. “It’s the hardest thing in the world trying to maintain balance, stay healthy, come up for air at times… have a healthy relationship and lifestyle,” said Wall. His solution? Use it. “Instead of dwelling on my frustrations I get inspired by them and create from there.” In After the Curtain — the second production from the Shaping Sound dance company Wall founded with partners Nick Lazzarini, Teddy Forance and Kyle Robinson in 2012 — Wall takes audiences to the opening night of a stage performance set in the 1940s. The protagonist, performed by Wall, struggles with the emotional turmoil of losing his true love and decides to reveal that he is gay to his cast members. It’s a theme with personal undertones for Wall, who realized he had feelings for another male on his 16th birthday. That was both a difficult and amazing time, said Wall, reflecting on how he had won a competition that year, was touring extensively and had a girlfriend at the time.
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ANGELS IN AMERICAÑ PART ONE: MILLENNIUM APPROACHES
During the time of the AIDS crisis and diversifying political ideologies, two couples experience passion, loss and the supernatural in this Tony Kushner modern masterpiece. March 23-April 23 at the Stanley. ArtsClub.com
REDPATCH
A young man from the Nuuchah-nulth nation of Vancouver Island volunteers for service in the First World War in this production commemorating the 100-year anniversary of Vimy Ridge. March 29-April 16 at Presentation House Theatre. HardlineProductions.ca
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Wall turned to his art as an outlet for self-expression and emotional release, later incorporating LGBTQ narratives in his creative work and public life. In a November 2016 MTV News video, Wall shared his experience and called for a broader cultural discussion about acceptance, particularly one that included youth. A 2014 So You Think You Can Dance performance choreographed by Wall featured same-sex couples — a first for the show — and advocated for equal marriage rights in the U.S. The performance earned Wall his fifth Emmy nomination, and he went on to win the coveted prize for another routine the next year. That said, finding a platform for choreography that touched on LGBTQ themes has been a challenge, Wall said, particularly for routines of his destined for the small screen. Attitudes seem to be changing
though, Wall added, and there is growing receptiveness among producers to depict LGBTQ subject matter on television and other platforms. The fact that After the Curtain exposes audiences to LGBTQ culture is something that Wall believes can play an important role in dispelling false beliefs and negative views of people in the LGBTQ community. The production shows the universal nature of love through a fusion of jazz, modern and hip hop performed by a cast of 12 dancers. “This show is all about love is love is love,” said Wall, who got engaged to his partner of six years, UCLA gymnastics coach Dom Palange, last March. “I’m very fortunate to have this space to create this show... and not have to put a filter on anything.” After the Curtain will be at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre on March 25. Find tickets at ticketstonight.ca or 1-877-840-0457.
The beloved moms return in this latest installment dealing with empty nests, nutty marriages, and aging bodies, all in fabulous comedic fashion. April 6-May 6 at Granville Island Stage. ArtsClub.com
THE PIANO TEACHER
An unconventional piano instructor gives lessons in life and love to a young woman after she loses her musical expression and hope for the future. April 20-May 14 at Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre. ArtsClub.com
LONG DIVISION
The mathematics of human connection is told through digital media, music, text and dance in this play centred on seven characters after a tragic incident. April 26-30 at Annex Theatre. PiTheatre.com Ali Wong
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CIRCLE GAME
The music of Canadian icon Joni Mitchell inspires the story of this original production, which connects her environmentalist values with the social issues of today. April 29-May 20 at Firehall Arts Centre. FirehallArtsCentre.ca
LA TARARA
Explosive flamenco spectacular with dance stars Ivan Vargas Heredia and Emilio Ochando direct from Spain. May 4-7 at the Norman Rothstein Theatre. KasandraFlamenco.com
MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET
Based on an impromptu recording session between Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis, this rock ’n’ roll jukebox musical is an entertaining glimpse into the lives of these legendary musicians. May 11-July 9 at the Stanley. ArtsClub.com
HAND OF GOD
A Texas teen creates a hand puppet, which becomes possessed by the devil himself
in this dark Broadway comedy. May 25-June 25 at Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre. ArtsClub.com
design, bombastic pop music, fog, and the Chinese body. April 11-15 at the Firehall Arts Centre. FirehallArtsCentre.ca
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Ballet BC celebrates Canada’s 150th with work by four Vancouver choreographers: Wen Wei Wang, Company 605, Lesley Telford and Crystal Pite. March 16-18 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. BalletBC.com
ROOM 2048
Hong Kong Exile’s multimedia dance theatre world premiere, exploring the socio-political realities of the Cantonese diaspora told through digital light
Greek tragedy is reimagined through the exciting music and dramatic story telling of flamenco dance. March 12 at Chan Shun Concert Hall. ChanCentre.com
TRAVIS WALLÕS SHAPING SOUND: AFTER THE CURTAIN
Acclaimed dance company Shaping Sound fuses the styles of modern, jazz and hip hop to tell the story of a man struggling to find himself after the death of his one great love. March 25 at Queen Elizabeth Theatre. TicketsTonight.ca
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Bringing together skill and art, this original performance from Le Patin Libre breaks through the barriers of conventional figure skating to create a whole new story telling experience. April 18-30 at Britannia Ice Rink. TheCultch.com
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Montreal choreographer Zab Maboungou and Compagnie Danse Nyata Nyata present
this thrilling revival of the 1997 contemporary African dance production. April 6-8 at Scotiabank Dance Centre. TheDanceCentre.ca
HOW TO BE
Comedy meets choreography in this creation from Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg, which explores the space between how people think they should be versus how others think people ought to be and the futility of it all. April 1217 at the Cultch. TheCultch.com
PROGRAM 3
This dance series presents world premieres by choreographers Emanuel Gat and Emily Molnar, which combine intricate movement with experimental style. May 1113 at Queen Elizabeth Theatre. BalletBC.com
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uses live music, interactive media and dance to portray how intimacy and loneliness are perceived through the physical and digital spaces we make. May 13-14 at Norman Rothstein Theatre. ChutzpahFestival.com
DIALOGUE
Performed by five male dancers, this Wen Wei Dance creation takes the experience of being a non-English speaking immigrant and translates these emotions of loneliness, despair, and frustration onto the stage. May 25-27 at Scotiabank Dance Centre. TheDanceCentre.ca
CLASSICAL PAUL LEWIS
Now regarded as one of the world’s foremost interpreters of the central European classical repertoire, Paul Lewis will perform Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 4 in E-flat Major, along with works by Bach, Chopin and von Weber. March 19 at the Chan Centre. ChanCentre.com
WORKS OF HENRY PURCELL
Pioneer of Baroque music, the stirring operas and elaborate melodies from this English composer come to life with the voice of Canada’s Soprano, Karina Gauvin, and Les Boréades de Montréal. April 21 at Christ Church Cathedral. EarlyMusic.BC.ca
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LOUIS LORTIE
Performing Chopin’s most intricate and beautiful passages, this premier Canadian pianist offers an exclusive opportunity for audiences to hear these collections in their entirety. May 9 at the Orpheum Theatre. VancouverSymphony.ca
CHORAL MUSICA INTIMA
The Juno-nominated vocal ensemble introduces an International Women’s Day performance featuring the work of Canadian composer Jennifer Butler, Katerina Gimon, and Maria Reva. March 10 at Heritage Hall. Eventbrite.ca
VWMC CELTICFEST CONCERT
Vancouver Welshmen’s Choir with Scottish clarinetist Julie Begg and uilleann pipe player Tim Fanning. March 17 at Christ Church Cathedral. VWMC.ca
SINGERSÕ CHOICE A CHORAL HIT PARADE
Vancouver Chamber Choir singers were asked to nominate their favourite madrigal, motet, folksong and encore, and the result is madrigals by Morley, Gibbons, Ward and Weelkes; a major motet by JS Bach; folksongs by Washburn, Smith and Erb; encores by Quick, Schafer and Billy Joel; and other pieces by Debussy, Corigliano, Chilcott and Biebl in a veritable choral hit parade. March 17 at Ryerson United Church. VancouverChamberChoir.com
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The internationally renowned youth ensemble continues the tradition of British church music under the polished direction of Dr. Stephen Cleobury. March 26
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AETERNA PERGOLESI STABAT MATER & DURUFLƒ REQUIEM
The Vancouver Chamber Choir brings you the finest repertoire for chorus and orchestra every Good Friday. This year: Pergolesi’s magnificent Stabat Mater, a pinnacle of Italian Baroque music, and the sublimely beautiful Requiem based on Gregorian chant by French master Maurice Duruflé. April 14 at the Orpheum. VancouverChamberChoir.com
YOUTH & MUSIC 2017 NEW CHORAL CREATORS
Winning compositions of the 13th biennial Young Composers’ Competition are performed in this recital celebrating a new generation of choral composers and musicians. May 5 at Ryerson United Church. VancouverChamberChoir.com
ELEKTRA WOMENÕS CHOIR
Canadian and American female composers are honoured through the diverse and talented voices of this amateur ensemble. May 13 at Ryerson United Church. Elektra.ca
CHOR LEONI
Influenced by the enduring institution of Scandinavian male choirs, B.C./Baltica pays tribute to the tradition, musical expression, and achievement of this Baltic art form. April 7-9. ChorLeoni.org
CONCERTS SOUND OF DRAGON ENSEMBLE
East meets West in this intercultural concert featuring classical Chinese instruments arranged in the original works of emerging Vancouver composers.
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March 9 at the Orpheum. SoundofDragon.com
PLUMES ENSEMBLE
Dismantling the music of Grimes, Montreal’s Plumes Ensemble makes its debut appearance in Vancouver, performing responses by 13 celebrated Canadian composers to songs by one of Canada’s top electronic artists. March 21 at the Fox Cabaret. MusicOnMain.ca
VANCOUVER IMPROVISED MUSIC MEETING
Hosted by international ensemble Barking Sphinx, this series is dedicated to showcasing the country’s best improvisational artists. March 23-25 at the Western Front. Front.BC.ca
ANDA UNION
Using traditional Mongolian instruments, this nine-piece ensemble reproduces the sound of their ethnic nomadic culture and history as passed down from their families. March 26 at Chan Shun Centre Hall. ChanCentre.com
LANDON BRAVERMAN & FRIENDS
The contemporary musical theatre composer returns home for a concert featuring a repertoire from award winning shows, cabaret collection, and exclusive never performed pieces. April 2 at the Norman Rothstein Theatre. ChutzpahFestival.com
One of the most engaging live performers of his generation, the multi-award-winning French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet enjoys a prolific recording and international concert career. April 2 at the Vancouver Playhouse. ChopinSociety.org
MAX RAABE AND PALAST ORCHESTER
Experience Berlin during the 1920s in this performance by crooner Max Raabe and his impressive big band, the Palast Orcester. April 9 at Chan Shun Centre Hall. ChanCentre.com
A TRIBUTE TO JOHN WILLIAMS
The popular composer of blockbuster films such as Star Wars and Indiana Jones is paid tribute with an evening dedicated to his sweeping motion picture epics and wistful romantic themes. May 7 at the Orpheum Theatre. Vam.ca
LANDE CABARET
A cabaret featuring the movie songs of Harry Warren and the Broadway songs of Jerry Herman. May 13 at the Annex. LandeCabaret.com
SERGEI BABAYAN
Hailed for his emotional intensity, bold energy and remarkable levels of color, Sergei Babayan brings a deep understanding and insight to a stylistically diverse repertoire, which includes a performance history of 54 concertos. May 20 at the Vancouver Playhouse. ChopinSociety.org
SOPHISTICATED LADIES
Legendary songbirds Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Dinah Washington are celebrated in this special evening featuring the robust
voices of three local divas. May 26-27 at the Orpheum Theatre. VancouverSymphony.ca
COMEDY MARC MARON
The interviewer, podcaster and actor brings his national stand-up comedy tour, The Too Real Tour, to Vancouver. March 26 at the Vogue Theatre. VogueTheatre.com
RUSSELL HOWARD
Recognized for his hit BBC show, this British stand-up excels at social satire and his goofy perspective on life. May 16 at the Rio Theatre. TicketFly.com
BIANCA DEL RIO
Known for her infamous wit and dazzling costume, this drag queen television personality shares her fresh style of comedy refined from the club stages of New Orleans and New York. May 19 at Vogue Theatre. VogueTheatre.com
ALI WONG
A new brand of comic, the San Francisco native veers towards gritty topics like sex, marriage and pregnancy boldly and brilliantly. May 25-27 at Vogue Theatre. VogueTheatre.com
FINE ARTS REFUSE
Live performance, music, and art are showcased at this unique party set inside the Vancouver Art Gallery’s curated spaces after hours. March 10 at the Vancouver Art Gallery. VanArtGallery.BC.ca
AMAZONIA: THE RIGHTS OF NATURE
The Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at UBC presents a thought-provoking, socially and environmentally conscious new
exhibition featuring Amazonian basketry, textiles, carvings, feather works and more. March 10-Jan. 28 at the Museum of Anthropology. MOA.UBC.ca
THE LOST FLEET
Through a comprehensive collection of historic photographs, models, tools and artifacts, the seizure of 1,200 Japanese-Canadian fishing vessels after the bombing of Pearl Harbour is explored. March 24-25 at the Vancouver Maritime Museum. VancouverMaritimeMuseum.com
THE MOON IS OFTEN REFERRED TO AS A DEAD, BARREN WORLD, BUT I THINK THIS IS NOT NECESSARILY THE CASE
The art of Japanese flower arranging is observed in this live demonstration by Diane Borsato. Alongside guest Ikebana masters, Borsato creates a modern installation using traditional cultural art methods. March 25 at the Contemporary Art Gallery. ContemporaryArtGallery.ca
THE VIENNA MODEL
Urban planning, architecture, and history is investigated in this exhibit, which compares the city development of Vienna against a 21st century city like our own. May 18 to July 16 at the Museum of Vancouver. MuseumofVancouver.ca
FESTIVALS VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL DANCE FESTIVAL
Boasting a diverse selection of contemporary dance performances to choose from, this year’s festival features a collaboration between Karen Jamieson and Margaret Grenier, as well as the high-level performance art of Japan’s Dairakudakan. Until March 25. Vidf.ca
CELTICFEST
As Western Canada’s largest annual Celtic celebration, this festival brings together history, music, dance, story, food and culture to be enjoyed by all. March 10-18. CelticFestVancouver.com
SONIC BOOM FESTIVAL
Showcasing BC’s most talented musicians and composers, this four-evening concert event features a masterclass by composer Dorothy Chang and workshop with Tiresias Duo. March 16-19. VancouverProMusica.ca
MAPLE RIDGE FESTIVAL OF BC FILM
Introducing a collection of BC-shot films and shorts, this inaugural festival includes 2015’s Into the Forest starring Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood. March 17-19 at the Act Arts Centre. TheActMapleRidge.org
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VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL BURLESQUE FESTIVAL
The longest running burlesque festival celebrating women and creativity returns for its 12th year featuring world-class vocal performances by Poison Ivy and Bazuka Joe. March 31-April 1 at the Vancouver Playhouse. VIBF.ca
VANCOUVER WORLD MUSIC FESTIVAL
World-class musicians from around the world gather for this three-night event dedicated to the diverse culture, language and history shared within our country and to the unifying power of music. April 6-8. WorldMusicFest.ca
VANCOUVER OPERA FESTIVAL
The much-anticipated first edition of Vancouver Opera Festival is a celebration of the vocal and theatrical arts, featuring Verdi’s Otello, Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, and Heggie’s Dead Man Walking. At its core, three new productions: a seldomperformed masterpiece, a beloved classic, and a contemporary tour de force. April 28-May 13 at multiple venues. VancouverOpera.ca
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Karen Lam’s monsters manifest themselves internally before getting released on a TV or film screen. Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, on the other hand, speaks to resilience in the face of a monster etched into Canadian history as the worst serial killer the nation has seen. Both women will relay their own versions of horror this week as part of the 12th annual Vancouver International Women in Film Festival, which runs March 8 to 12. Tailfeathers stars in the film On the Farm, which serves as a dramatization of journalist Stevie Cameron’s book of the same name delving into the Robert Pickton murder case. The Vancouverite plays the role of Nikki Taylor, a fictionalized character who perseveres through forced sex work and addiction in
the Downtown Eastside. Her story highlights both redemption and indictment. “She’s a truly resourceful, and incredible survivor and a resilient young woman,” Tailfeathers said. “But the film is essentially a huge indictment on the Vancouver Police Department, the RCMP and the justice system as a whole.” The film was released last year, garnering Tailfeathers a Leo nomination. This year’s awards cycle sees On the Farm up for three Canadian Screen Awards: Best TV Movie, Best Director for a Dramatic Program/ Limited Series and Best Lead Actress. The winners will be announced March 12, but Tailfeathers will have already returned home to the Blood Reserve in southern Alberta to kick off her next project — a film about the deadly synthetic narcotic fentanyl and its impact on her people. “Our community was
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More instruments on loan John Kurucz
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Music and parties go together like peanut butter and jam. Jamming and partying was top of mind Monday for musicians, Mayor Gregor Robertson and a host of dignitaries gathered at the Central Library branch of the Vancouver Public Library (VPL) to announce the expansion of a wildlysuccessful instrument lending program. Sun Life Financial Canada president Kevin Dougherty announced that the program, which started in Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto last year, will expand to libraries across Canada to coincide with the nation’s 150th birthday. Guitars, ukuleles, violins, keyboards and various percussive instruments are available to loan for free as part of the program. Fifty instruments are being donated to libraries in each of the three founding cities to keep up with a level of demand that has skyrocketed since its inception in June 2016. “After it launched last summer, instrument lending was big hit with Vancouverites,” said VPL board chair Kyla Epstein. “All of the instruments were borrowed or reserved the same day we launched. That popularity has only continued.” That level of demand is such that a 450-instrument waitlist exists today. While no financial terms
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Call for Public Comment B.C. credit union seeks to exit provincial regulation On Dec. 14, 2016, Coast Capital Savings Credit Union based in Surrey, B.C. announced that its members have voted to apply to be governed by the federal Bank Act and other applicable federal laws as a federal credit union. As part of the application, FICOM (the B.C. Regulator) and the Credit Union Deposit Insurance Corporation, have now received formal notice, seeking their consent for the change. As FICOM considers this application, the regulator recognizes that the wider public and other financial institutions may wish to provide comment on this change of regulatory jurisdiction.
Mayor Gregor Robertson rocks out with (l-r) VPL chief librarian Sandra Singh, VPL board chair Kyla Epstein, Sarah McLachlan and Sun Life Financial Canada president Kevin Dougherty. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET.
were released Monday, the program received about $100,000 at its Vancouver launch last year. That money goes toward donating and maintaining the instruments. Long & McQuade is also a program partner, overseeing the maintenance and repair of instruments. Multiple Juno and Grammy award winner Sarah McLachlan was on hand Monday to tout the program’s benefits and music’s place in a child’s development. She said she was bullied in her formative years as a teenager and music was her place of solace. “Music was the one thing that got me through it,” McLachlan said. “It gave me an amazing emotional outlet and lens through which I could make sense of the world. Through music I felt I had value.” The Sarah McLachlan School of Music programs in Vancouver and Edmon-
ton have received funds from Sun Life in the past. McLachlan also donated an acoustic guitar to the library on Monday. “I know how extremely valuable music education is and the amazing benefit the arts offer our children and youth,” she said. A tuba player and drummer, Robertson noted that creativity in its myriad forms is having a tangible impact on Vancouver’s economy, and that programs like the VPL’s are breathing new life into the city. “It’s making a huge impact on our economy,” Robertson said. “Vancouver right now is cranking economically because of music, and because of the creative spark that we have here. We are creative capital now. This is a new identity that I think we’re finally coming to grips with.” For info on the program, go online to vpl.ca. @JohnKurucz
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Gibbs recognized for service to community SANDRA THOMAS sthomas@vancourier.com
“Do what you can while you’re still standing.” That’s the advice seniors advocate Lorna Gibbs had for the crowd gathered at the South Vancouver Neighbourhood House Feb. 23, to celebrate her Medal of Good Citizenship awarded by VancouverFraserview MLA Suzanne Anton, on behalf of Premier Christy Clark. The medal recognizes individuals who, through exceptional long-term service, have made outstanding contributions to their communities without expectation of remuneration or reward. The medal reflects their generosity, service, acts of selflessness and contributions to community life. Lorna Gibbs was recently honoured with two awards. PHOTO: JENNIFER GAUTHIER
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Gibbs was honoured as a “dedicated community volunteer and vocal advocate for improving the programs,
services and facilities of Vancouver South” and for participating in numerous community development issues, committees and agencies, focusing especially on seniors’ needs. In addition to her service on numerous boards and committees, Gibbs is a founding member and president of the Southeast Vancouver Seniors’ Centre Society. Through her work on a variety of seniors’ programs, services and issues, Gibbs has changed the lives of many seniors and inspired many more to contribute to their community. In 2014, Gibbs was rewarded for her efforts to bring all three levels of government together when funding was secured to build a seniors centre in South Vancouver.
Gibbs has also brought seniors from diverse ethnic backgrounds together to gather stories for two published books: Stories of Southeast Vancouver and Meals and Memories, an illustrated cookbook. This work brought greater understanding and friendship to the hundreds of seniors involved. On Feb. 28, Gibbs was honoured again, this time with the Civic Volunteer Award at the Vancouver Awards of Excellence presented by Mayor Gregor Robertson and members of city council. At that ceremony, former Premier Mike Harcourt was also honoured with the Freedom of the City Award. To see the entire list of those honoured at the ceremony, visit vancouver.ca.
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For the past year, we’ve been monitoring her progress as part of a clinical trial testing whether a procedure known as Deep Brain Stimulation, requiring electrodes to be implanted in her brain and powered by a battery inserted in her chest, can either improve memory capacity or at least forestall its decline. This is the third and final installment in this story, capturing events since her third of five assessments at Toronto Western Hospital (written about in the June 2 issue of the Courier).
definite improvement — she was much more present and engaged, better short-term memory and repetitions were rare. She enjoyed the time she spent with the many friends who volunteered to walk with her or do other activities such as singing or storytelling — activities known to improve cognitive health.
It has been up and down since Norma-Jean’s December 2015 surgery. Once healing took hold, Norma-Jean had shown
But when the second assessment showed no significant progress, and turning up the voltage did not produce the flood of
memories experienced in the initial procedure, Norma-Jean began to lose hope that she would regain what she had lost. A person who had once embraced life, Norma-Jean now had trouble engaging. Losing her keys could send her into deep depression. Her husband Nathan Edelson kept the faith — loving her, making her laugh, pointing out the many times she was able to remember events that happened the day before. He also cooked meals, scheduled the friend volunteers and made arrangements for the extended travel that accompanied every assessment. When we left them, Nathan and Norma-Jean were about
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electrodes to travel to Toronto for the third assessment. They were hopeful this time the current could be increased to a level that would produce a memory flood.
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ASSESSMENT THREE The third assessment did not go well. No memory flood and Norma-Jean found the tests stressful.
Each assessment for this Deep Brain Stimulation clinical trial involves two memory tests. One involves completing several problemsolving exercises, such as linking certain numbers and letters. Norma-Jean usually does very well at this objective test. The other happens in the form of an oral interview about recent activities. Norma-Jean finds this one difficult and this was the test administered first at this assessment. By the time she began the objective test, she said she felt discouraged and incompetent.
Nathan attributes her lower score to the order of the tests and requested the order be reversed for the next assessment, but he also knew she was disoriented from the travel. The travel to Toronto is expensive and so they use the opportunity to see friends and family. And while Norma-Jean loves these visits, they also lead to confusion. She frequently asks where they are and who they’re visiting. New cities are especially frightening — the unfamiliar surroundings and the busyness, the people crush. Either way, they came back discouraged, wanting more answers, more progress. In July, Norma-Jean resumed visits with her Vancouver neurologist. One of the first things he did was administer a memory test to see how she’d been doing since his last visit with her.
In 2013, Norma-Jean scored 28/30 on an objective memory test taken with this doctor. Re-testing two years later revealed
marked decline — her score had reduced to 23/30. This new test showed 22/30, confirming what the trial tests were showing — that DBS was not producing reversal, but may have contributed to preventing further memory loss. Not the most desired news, but not the worst either.
However, Norma-Jean sees only the loss and the facts she’s not progressed since the surgery. She says she hates it when someone thinks they’re helping her remember by saying, “Just think about it,” because she IS thinking about it. And, despite evidence to the contrary, Nathan worries Norma-
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Jean feels she is declining. She has problems initiating activities and remembering ones that just happened, but doesn’t know if this is due to actual memory loss or to external factors that cause stress or to internal causes like depression. Visit vancourier.com for the complete story.
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The Terminal City Tabletop Convention featured old games and new games for players to learn. See photo gallery at vancourier.com. PHOTO REBECCA BLISSETT
Few Canadian rec room in the 1970s and ’80s were without a stack of board games. Kids sprawled on the basement carpet to play Pop-O-Matic Trouble, Operation or Monopoly before the Commodore 64 and videogames such as Radar Rat Race took over and moved play to a screen. Some games, namely Dungeons & Dragons, had its own dedicated followers and survived the onslaught of video games, while board games, for the most part, gathered dust on the shelves. That is until recently. Board games have once again exploded in popularity, as evidenced by the crowded tables at the Terminal City Tabletop Convention this past weekend. “A lot of people I’ve talked to who are into games have day jobs that are spent in front of a computer,” said TCTC founder and organizer Shannon Lentz. “They’re in front of the computer all day and they don’t want to come home and sit in front of a screen. You can have people over, throw a board game down and have some drinks. So board games are really good for the social aspect.” Lentz, 40, had a passing interest in board games until 2004 when they became a full-blown hobby. He travelled to Victoria six years in a row to attend the nowdefunct GottaCon game
convention and wondered why there wasn’t something similar in his hometown of Vancouver where the population is far larger. “So I thought I’d start one,” he said. “I had no idea what I was doing. I’m a chemist by background so this is not my wheelhouse at all... Well, I thought I’d try it and what’s the worst that can happen? In the first year, it wasn’t like this,” he said, nodding towards the packed banquet hall at Burnaby’s Bonsor Recreational Complex where a couple hundred players played. “But I didn’t lose money, people came out and had a good time.” This year marks the convention’s fourth year, and Lentz remembers the first one mostly because he didn’t know what to expect. He figured it would attract hardcore tabletop enthusiasts and was surprised by how many couples showed up who wanted to learn about board games. “There were lots of people new to the hobby and wanted to find more out about the games,” he recalled. “It’s like Pandora’s Box — you find out about one game and then…” Games such as The Settlers of Catan, best described as Monopoly meets Risk, have hooked a new generation on game nights. Others, such as Pandemic Legacy, have enticed countless players around the globe to meet regularly for a game that evolves over time
in a mission to stop deadly diseases from wiping out humanity. While board games are the reason places such as the Storm Crow Tavern — a self-proclaimed “nerd” bar — have a place in Vancouver’s drinking establishment landscape, Lentz is reluctant to use the tired geek/nerd labels because gaming is so mainstream — like it used to be. “When I was a kid, my cousin and my friends would have Risk and Axis & Allies set up for days in the basement and play them for hours,” he said. “I don’t even know if we played them by the rules correctly, but for us it was amazing and so much fun.” Lentz wants to show others how much fun games are, and the welcoming spirit of the convention was obvious with a board games library, game stewards to teach people how to play, signs that read “Players Wanted” at the rare empty spot at tables, tournaments for advanced players and a silent auction. Part of the fun included ProtoAlley where game designers showed off their unpublished games. (New this year was the Golden Arbutus Award for the best game design won by Calgary’s Adam Wyse for LepreContractors.) “This is the equivalent of playing cards like our parents did on Friday nights,” Lentz said. @rebeccablissett
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Bike shop wants to make a Veloholic out of everyone Martha Perkins
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When you are a two-time provincial and national cycling champion and your teammate causes you to crash your $15,000 bike a week before a race, who are you going to call? If you are Vincent Marcotte, the person at the other end of your S.O.S. is Phil Liu. Marcotte contacted Liu this past Sunday after his bike was damaged during a practice run. By the next afternoon, the Langlois Brown racing team member was walking out of Liu’s Veloholic bike shop fully prepared for this weekend’s Spring Classic in Abbotsford. “Be careful the next time,” Liu calls out in camaraderie as Marcotte leaves the shop at Fraser and 41st. It’s this level of customer service, as well as the ready availability of components from some of the world’s most coveted bike manufacturers, that have made Marcotte a Veloholic convert. Liu helped Marcotte create his race bike using components that can’t be bought off the shelf anywhere else in Vancouver. The seat is hand-built in Italy. The wheels (which cost $4,000 alone), stems and handlebars are handbuilt in the United States and the cranks and carbonfibre reinforced chain ring are hand-built in Spain. About half of the components are brands that Marcotte represents as a salesperson — Enve, Rotor and Pivot — and the others were found at the shop. That’s part of what makes Veloholic so unique, Marcotte says. At other bike shops you might be able to get the components as
special orders that take days or weeks to arrive. Cipollini, Basso, Rosso Wilier and Colnago frames are all in stock (and hung on the wall like museum pieces) at Veloholic, as well as components such as Campagnola wheels and Kask helmets from Italy, Ceramic Speed bearings from Denmark, Cycling Ceramics from France and Astute saddles from Italy. “If you’re going to make that sort of investment, it’s nice to see the bike in person — touch it, understand it, see what it feels like,” Marcotte says of the difference it makes to be able to walk into a shop where everything’s available rather than chose from options on a computer screen. “These are bikes you aspire to get one day. They’re dream bikes. These bikes are about passion.” He looks down at his ride, and says, “Other bikes don’t have the soul this bike has.” If the bikes at Veloholic are the stuff of dreams for cyclists, then Veloholic is the shop of dreams for Liu. He was 12 when his parents, worried that he and his younger brother Peter were spending too much time on computers, encouraged them to start cycling. They were living in Taiwan, where bike shops are like community centres. Bike enthusiasts gather there to socialize and while you sometimes buy something, that’s not what the owner expects every time you walk in. Liu’s family moved to Vancouver in 2002. A straight-A student, he studied engineering at UBC for two years to live up to his parents’ expectations. Once he proved to them that he could excel at university, however, he quit to study mechanical engineering
These are the bikes you aspire to, says racing champion Vincent Marcotte, right, who had his $15,000 bike custom-made by Phil Liu at Veloholic on Fraser Street. PHOTO MARTHA PERKINS
at BCIT. “I wanted to do something with my hands,” he says. “I like the feeling that I am creating something.” After a few years in manufacturing he realized that in 10 to 20 years, his job will be replaced by a robot. A Plan B would be prudent. An avid cyclist, he went to all the bike shops in Vancouver but couldn’t find what he wanted, either in the types of components or the spirit of community. That’s when he and Peter decided to open Veloholic last April. Liu is trained to do the repairs while Peter concentrates on maintenance. They have invested heavily not only in the components but in the specialized tools needed to fix them.
Kelly Ma and her husband walk into the shop with a part from the bike that Liu custom-made for her. Ma is five-foot-four and slightly built. She got into cycling three years ago but had trouble finding the right fit for her petite frame. Liu helped her build a bike that she feels comfortable riding both up and down Cypress Mountain. “It’s like a pair of highheeled shoes,” she says, gesturing at her four-inch heels as Peter listens in while he’s working on her bike part. “If you have a good design you can walk for 100 miles.” Liu says, “A bike is not just a bike. It’s an extension of yourself. Every bike I build is different. I want to know the customer’s personality and
what their needs are. Even the colour of the bike has to fit their personality.” Everything comes at a cost, of course. A finished bike can cost upwards of $20,000 to $30,000. “When you buy a bike you have three options: strong, light and cheap. You can only have two of them at one time,” Marcotte says. The Veloholic bike is for the Honda driver who aspires to one day own a Ferrari. He credits the Lius for bringing this level of product to Vancouver. “They’re pioneering a lot of the brands and sourcing out new and innovative designs… They have taken the risk to buy the product before it gets sold. That’s why it hasn’t been done to this depth in Vancouver.” But Liu doesn’t want people to think that Veloholic is for cycling snobs with a lot of money to spend. The store’s just a couple of blocks down from a Salvation Army thrift store and he doesn’t care if you drop by the store to look or just talk bikes. (He also chose the location because, ironically, it has free parking out front for customers.) He knows his bikes are expensive, and he doesn’t pressure anyone into thinking they have to make such an investment. Every Monday night Veloholic hosts a group ride, with destinations such as the 70-km round-trip ride to Horseshoe Bay. It’s as much about the social as it is about challenging each other to ride faster longer. “We need a strong, healthy cycling community,” Liu says. “My work blends into my lifestyle now. It’s a community here. We’re not just talking about bikes, we’re talking about family.”
Musette Tours’ custom-fit bike tours A cycling enthusiast comes to Vancouver on business. He or she could work out at their hotel gym but that would be boring, especially in a city known for its beautiful vistas. But where to ride when you only have a few hours to spare? That’s where Musette Tours comes in. The company offers guided, customized rides that can last anywhere from two hours up and down Cypress or a trip up the Sea to Sky highway to Whistler or an overnighter to the Gulf Islands or the Okanagan. You can be a Type-A elite cyclist or someone just starting to explore the world on the seat of Musette Tours’ Pinarello rental bike. The company also offers guided hiking tours for those who prefer their feet on the ground. “I had one guy from Australia who showed up in jeans and running shoes. He was 250 pounds, bearded and we rode to Horseshoe Bay and back,” says Musette founder Thomas Eleizegui, who also owns Vancouver’s first café for cyclists, Musette Caffe. “He almost killed himself but he said it was the most fun he’d had.” Although Eleizegui doesn’t have a formal partnership with Veloholic, he shares a business and life ethic with Phil Liu. “We’re not here to judge anyone,” Eleizegui says. “We’re here to ensure people have a good time. It’s cycling for the love of it. You can enjoy the culture and the riding, period. For most people it can be intimidating to walk into a bike shop. You walk into Phil’s place and even though he has $30,000 bikes, he’ll treat you like any other person. You won’t be snubbed.” Musette Tours operates out of the café at 1325 Burrard St.
Canada 150 To celebrate Canada’s 150th birthday, Phil Liu custom-designed this onlyone-in-Canada bike using a Sarto frame. The colours are the pre-requisite red and white, with a maple leaf motif on the frame. The white-andred pedals, from the French company Time, also feature a maple leaf and the fork was designed to look like a hockey stick taped in black. “I want to let the world know we’re 150 and Canada is now really serious about cycling.”
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It’s your last week of weariness, seclusion and burdensome chores, Aries. Relationships are in full retreat now into April — or you’re in “full indecision.” Now to late April, money will flow swiftly to you. Bank it; don’t fall into wasteful spending. Sunday’s for work, but do it carefully, and don’t expect shining results. From 10:30 (PST) this night to Wednesday morning, relationships rule.
This is your last week of work and drudgery, Libra. Do only what’s necessary. Volunteer for nothing. If in doubt, delegate. Someone, perhaps from the past, is pulling (rather than plucking) your heart-strings all March. (They might disappear in April, only to re-appear all May.) At the same time, your sexual urges blossom, now through late April. You could be tempted by an extra-marital affair.
Now to late April, your determination and courage rise: you’ll get things done! (But you remain mildly indecisive, or held back by government regulations or head office, so tackle only the projects that are “outside yourself.” E.g., buying new clothes, no; but fixing someone else’s car, yes. Your sexual magnetism climbs a notch or two, but remain faithful if you’re already attached. Sunday’s romantic, creative, pleasure-oriented, but disappointing.
Ah, Scorpio, even if it didn’t work out, romance has been sweet, tempting! After May 10, love will “work” again, though it might not take flight toward paradise until this October into late 2018. Ditto re: creative, speculative, beauty and pleasure oriented pursuits. Be diplomatic, as relationships of all kinds intensify until April 21. This interval might bring you a work/ employment opportunity. Your work place remains affectionate all March.
This is your last week of career and prestige goals, of tests and temptations in the area of ambition, reputation and standing. It’s been a somewhat negative ride since (Nov.) 2015 (since 2014 if you’re in the public spotlight) and will continue so until early May, but already the peak has passed, so you can slide into May without harm. (Trump and Pence are both Gemini.) The trick is, especially this spring/summer, NOT to turn career or similar challenges into a legal fight.
Sign nothing before Saturday. Hard work calls you until late May. Until late April, this work will please and intrigue you (e.g., you might gain permission to be creative with a project) and might yield a co-worker romance. Until April 1, romance adds a sweet note to your days. Sunday’s for career, reputation in the ‘hood, etc. Not much is easy or good here, so don’t demand attention, nor start a project, nor accept an unreasonable challenge.
Your mellow, wise, compassionate mood continues — so do themes of internationalism, far travel, culture, higher education, profound ideas and love. Don’t wallow in these areas, though, as they’re slightly “off kilter” until mid-May. Sunday brings errands and small, easy chores — but proceed carefully, as this day is filled with obstacles. Head for home, at least in your thoughts and heart, Mon. to Wed. morning.
Errands, paperwork, communications, travel and easy chores remain to fill this last week of “busyness,” Cap. Take care with all communications all week, as these can create gossip, reveal your Achilles’ heel to competitors, or run you afoul of government types. Your home life grows very active now, and remains nicely affectionate. You might soon begin a domestic, renovation, landscaping or decoration project around the home.
This is your last week of mysteries, Leo — and of sexual and financial temptations. Don’t commit to either of these before Sat. — loss, a bad investment or reputation damage can occur. Not a particularly good week to be romantic or creative, either — until Saturday. (What should you do? Taxes, a survey of possessions, memory or rote learning, earning money, spending on perishables.) Sunday features earnings — and spending — but either way, barriers arise.
This is your last week of heightened money focus, Aquarius. Better it were over, as money difficulties and financial barriers seem to stud this week. DON’T invest nor buy any large or expensive item before Saturday. Same interval, all money ideas or plans that arise should be rejected, even for future implementation. For the next 6 weeks you can suffer some friction at home — don’t be blithe, the problem (or what it disguises) is important, not superficial.
The main emphasis remains on relationships, far horizons and “opportunities,” Virgo. I put that in quotation marks because most things in this entire zone are a bit tainted with temptation and primrose glasses, especially this week. Until late April, avoid lawsuits, but be assertive in studying or pursuing monetary matters or secrets. Your interior is still affectionate; if single, you still dream of love, of the ones that got away, or the ones to come.
Your energy and charisma remain high all week. Use this to join in concert with others, rather than striking out on your own. You might make an ambitious move, or face a crucial test in your career/status zone. Your money looks lucky all March, but don’t launch new money ventures, as they would go in circles. You’re growing restless, and short trips, casual friendships and (valuable) curiosity draw you for the next six weeks.
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