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Rotting sea lion carcass among city manager’s problems Dozens of memos/emails authored by Sadhu Johnston now available on city’s website

Mike Howell

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Bet you didn’t know this — that the best way to dispose of a rotting sea lion carcass is to have the city’s engineering and sanitation crews set fire to it.

Yep, it’s true.

How do I know?

Because I read an email from city manager Sadhu Johnston to mayor and council that said the carcass of this poor sea lion found on the shoreline adjacent to Fraser River Park was causing such a smell that it was time to take some action.

It was one of many memos/emails the city recently dumped into the bowels of its website. All are from either Johnston or deputy city manager Paul Mochrie to mayor and council. They make for some semi-fascinating reading.

Topics include the city’s snow removal strategy, slot machine revenue, cyclists failing to obey traffic laws, the sale of the city’s portion

A rotting sea lion carcass causing “an unpleasant odour” was among the many issues city manager Sadhu Johnston dealt with last year, according to memos and emails recently posted on the city’s website. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

of Olympic Village land to Aquilini Development, the royal couple’s visit and the retirement of Fire Chief John McKearney (it’s in June, by the way).

Last year’s 4/20 festival,

the tent city at 58 West Hastings, taxi licensing, the city budget, the screening of the Tragically Hip’s final concert (in Kingston) at the Vancouver Playhouse and the number

of people who watch the city’s livestream of council meetings (from 1,016 in July 2015 to 200 in January 2016) are other topics.

But back to that rotting sea lion carcass…

Back on April 28, 2016, Johnston got busy on his keyboard and sent an email to mayor and council to inform them of the carcass and the plan to burn it.

“Because of the advanced state of decay, it’s been a challenge to determine how best to remove the remains without their disintegrating further and dispersing along the shore,” he wrote.

“City engineering and Fire, with advice from the Department of Fisheries, Coast Guard and Vancouver Aquarium staff, have decided this morning that burning away the carcass is the best solution. This is a common practice in many coastal communities, according to the Aquarium.”

Firefighters, he added, would provide “a water curtain” to protect foliage above the shoreline and “wash down the rocks afterwards.” Park board staff would also be on scene trimming back nearby brush to prevent it from going up in flames.

The park, by the way, is at the foot of Angus Drive.

“This approach, while environmentally unpleasant due to combustion, will in fact rid the shoreline of the carcass,” Johnston concluded. “As burning within the city boundaries is not allowed under the Fire bylaw, the Fire Chief is issuing a special permit.”

The deed was to be done the next day.

So there you have it, Vancouver, next time you come across the rotting carcass of a sea lion, you’ll know that Johnston and company are on the case.

Mother Nature and the animal ecosystem taking its course be damned.

RIP, lion of the sea.

Note: To read about the carcass and all other memos/emails from Johnston and Mochrie in 2016, go to the city website, search “city manager’s emails and memos to mayor and council.” Enjoy. @Howellings

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the city said. “It can involve a mix of better insulation, thicker windows and better design, as well as opting for renewable energy. Developers can choose to build new buildings with natural gas, provided they can meet the energy efficiency targets (50 per cent decrease in greenhouse gas emissions).”

Wilkinson held a news conference Saturday and claimed city council wants to ban natural gas from the city.

He said in a written statement after the news conference that “we think that is wrong and needlessly adds costs to consumers, home buyers and restaurateurs.”

In the back-and-forth Saturday between the city and the Liberals, Fortis BC issued a statement saying it “strongly supports repealing the ban on natural gas in the City of Vancouver. Our more than 100,000 Vancouver customers should have the right to choose their energy source.”

FortisBC contends the city’s new policy focuses on reducing emissions between 50 to 70 per cent in rezoned buildings and “will effectively

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The city says its new “green building rezoning policy” that came into effect May 1 does not include banning the use of natural gas in buildings, despite suggestions to the contrary from the B.C. Liberals and FortisBC. The city issued a statement April 29, just hours after the Liberals held a news conference to say the city will ban the use of natural gas. The statement reiterated what city officials have said since city council adopted the policy in November 2016.

“The city wishes to clarify that it is not banning the use of natural gas in Vancouver,” said the city in response to Vancouver-Quilchena Liberal candidate Andrew Wilkinson’s claim that a ban was coming into effect.

The city says its new policy aligns with the provincial government’s introduction of the B.C. Energy Step Code announced April 11, 2017. The “step code” is an amendment to the B.C. Building Code.

“How a developer meets those targets is up to them,”

eliminate the use of natural gas for space and water heating in rezoned buildings.”

“To state that the provincial and City of Vancouver energy policies are aligned is incorrect and misleading,” FortisBC said.

The Liberals quoted information from FortisBC suggesting a family of four would spend $1,500 more per year, if they were required to use electricity over natural gas for space and water heating alone.

The city says its new policy sets energy efficiency and emissions targets for new buildings only, and only if a developer seeks a rezoning. The city pointed out the new policy also has the support of the Urban Development Institute.

“The province states that the Vancouver region will need to invest over $10 billion in preparing and adapting to climate change due to sea level rise and increased storms and droughts,” the city’s statement concluded.

“Only by reducing [greenhouse gas emissions] today can we ensure this number does not increase.”

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Whimsy, history and Chinese heritage influence new park names Megan Stewart

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There’s a place for dudes to chill and now Vancouver also has a park celebrated for its slidey slides.

The park board on May 1 approved new names for four parks, including Slidey Slides Park near the PNE and, beside it, Empire Fields as the formalized name for the track and turf fields at the former site of Empire Stadium and the 1954 Empire and Commonwealth Games.

Commissioners batted around the appropriateness of Slidey Slides Park as a place name, with some calling it “wacky,” “whimsical,” “fun.” As the board’s chairman Michael Wiebe said, “It’s a name that will go this name is about.”

Stuart Mackinnon remained opposed and was the only one to vote against the name. “Even if it’s a terrific nickname, to me it’s just a nickname,” he

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said, backing the secondary suggestion instead. “As an official name, I do prefer Puzzle Park. I feel it should be treated with a little more dignity. I am concerned with its longevity.”

The park board received 575 submissions for the four park names. Children at Hastings Park Childcare put forward Slidey Slides and Puzzle.

Two parks were named in honour of the city’s Chinese

legacy and influence.

“As a Chinese descendant, it is very meaningful to have Chinese heritage incorporated into our public places,” said commissioner Erin Shum.

“There is tremendous power in people seeing themselves in names,” added Sarah Kirby-Yung.

Lilian To Park, at Yukon and West 17th, is named for the former CEO of S.U.C.C.E.S.S., an organiza-

tion initially founded to help Chinese immigrants overcome language and cultural barriers. It is now a multicultural, multi-service agency assisting people at all stages of their migration to Canada.

To died in 2005 and was represented by family at the meeting.

A few blocks to the east, a paved square with seating, art and greenery at Main and East 18th was named Sun Hop Park for the grocery company that opened in the neighbourhood in 1923, one of 52 green grocers run by Chinese entrepreneurs that decade.

By 1935, nearly 80 per cent of the 158 grocers in Vancouver were Chineseowned, many of them in Mount Pleasant, according to park board research.

“Many of the companies currently operating on Produce Row at Malkin Avenue have their origins with these early firms,” park board staff told commissioners.

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Michael’s story: the life and death of a homeless man

Mike Howell

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His name was Michael.

Described as fiercely talented, creative and kind, he regularly sold Megaphone magazine outside the JJ Bean coffee shop at East Sixth Avenue and Commercial Drive. He was comfortable in that neighbourhood, where he established a home base and a community of friends.

Michael, whose family didn’t want his surname published, was homeless.

And on Dec. 7, 2016, when temperatures dipped below zero, the former movie set builder, father and brother died in an alley behind the First Ravioli Store on the Drive. He was 57.

“The Michaels of the world, there are many of them — and they’re our brothers and they’re our sisters and successful individuals and talented people,” said his brother David, a businessman living on Vancouver Island. “They’re not just the guys on the other side of the tracks.”

Megaphone magazine, which released a report

April 26 showing 394 people in B.C. died homeless between 2006 and 2015, featured Michael’s story in its pages, saying the loss of their friend left a hole in many people’s lives.

Jessica Hannon, Megaphone’s executive director, said Michael’s story — from being the youngest of three siblings to getting married to having a son to working in the film industry to becoming a vendor and then ending up homeless — shows how anyone can fall on hard times.

“He’s gone now, and should still be alive,” Hannon said. “Likely, he would still be alive, if he wasn’t homeless.”

Megaphone’s report, which compiled statistics primarily from the B.C. Coroners Service, showed that more people died homeless in B.C. in 2015 — at least 70 — than in any year on record. It’s a 56 per cent increase from 2014 and a 40 per cent increase from the previous high of 50 deaths in 2008.

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Fraser Region. The majority of those who died were male and between the ages of 40 and 49. A total of 36 died on the street, 23 in some form of shelter and 11 people’s location of death was classified as “unknown” by the coroners service.

The majority — 34 — died from alcohol or drugs, or a combination, while 13 died from a natural disease and six by hanging. Another 14 deaths remain under investigation, as does Michael’s.

(The coroners service has not released homeless death statistics for 2016.)

How Michael ended up homeless is still unclear to his brother, who last saw him about five years ago. David said Michael was working (“a master artist who could build anything from anything”), had a place to live and was healthy. Time passed and then in December David received a phone call from his former sister-in-law,

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Such information would help reduce the likelihood of similar deaths in the future.

Megaphone also wants more detailed data on indigenous homeless deaths to better understand why that population is overrepresented in homeless count statistics.

Vancouver’s total homeless population was recorded in March as 2,138 people, an all-time high for the city.

A strategy to reduce poverty and having an annual government-led report on homeless deaths should also be implemented by the next provincial government, Hannon said.

“The way to end homeless deaths is to end homelessness,” she said. “That is a very big issue, obviously.

So if we can look at the specific interventions that can take place in specific areas of the province, then we can move forward on what is exactly causing people to die.” @Howellings

who informed him of his brother’s death.

“I’m not sure about the full picture of what happened but he did fall out of the norm in society,” said David, noting he was living in the United States and wasn’t in regular contact with his brother. “It was hard to keep track of him, actually. He wasn’t easy to find. I think he was very humbled and very embarrassed by his situation.”

At the memorial service, David said he met many “angels” who helped his brother and talked to homeless people who considered Michael a friend.

Meeting those people changed his view of the homeless, who he admits he had no empathy for before he lost his brother.

“I see the world through a different lens now,” said David, who supports a series of recommendations in Megaphone’s report to reduce homelessness and homeless deaths. “If the numbers are increasing and the deaths are increasing, then we should be doing something different. We should be getting more engaged.”

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Pot party wafting to PNE? Highly doubtful John Kurucz

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Sunset Beach may have gone to pot April 20, but pot most certainly won’t be going to the PNE next year.

Or the year after that.

Or ever.

That’s according to PNE spokesperson Laura Ballance, who spoke to the Courier five days after the annual 4/20 smoke-out tore up fields near the beloved beach and was the subject of widespread media derision.

Ballance confirmed that rally organizers met with the PNE board earlier this year and were told the smoke show was a no go for a litany of reasons: liability and insurance issues, union considerations, non-smoking regulations and “100 per cent” neighbourhood opposition.

“We looked at their business case and we looked at how that would work as an event at the PNE and we said no to the event at that time,” Ballance said. “To be perfectly honest, we don’t see that ever changing.”

That sits just fine with a number of Hastings-Sunrise residents who contacted the Courier en masse, out of the blue last week. A torrent of unsolicited calls and emails came into the Courier from

those living within walking distance of the PNE. All of them were opposed to the rally taking place there, and most were opposed to the notion of cannabis use in general.

They cited concerns around the influx and type of people the rally attracts, how it would affect the area’s greenspace, noise and just about anything else.

“We do not need more trouble,” resident Kathy Cool said in an email. “Please do not promote 420 celebrations here as we are trying to cut down on drug-influenced people hanging out on and near our properties.”

Roy Tang called the Courier to say that while he hasn’t been to any of the past rallies, they seem “unsafe.”

“The 4/20 protest, based on the previous protests, it seems to be very messy,” Tang said. “There are a lot of people and it seems to be unsafe.”

Fellow Hastings-Sunrise resident Vicki Donoghue fears the rally would have grave impacts on what little greenspace there is in the area. Instead, Donoghue says it should be held at Malkin Bowl or somewhere else in Stanley Park.

“I’m thinking to myself, ‘Why in the name of good-

Pipe dreams of moving the annual 4/20 event to the PNE have all but gone up in smoke. PHOTO DAN

TOULGOET

ness would they put an impactful, horrible event like the 4/20 celebration in our neighbourhood?’”

The reefer madness that played out last week was eerily similar to what happened to Vancouver city councillors and rally organizers alike in early March.

Within 24 hours of the PNE being floated as a location, absolute opposition wafted into councillor inboxes like few other issues this year.

4/20 co-organizer Dana

Larsen said that opposition is more philosophical than practical — those opposed to the rally are intrinsically against marijuana, its impending legalization and the culture surrounding the plant. That said, he doesn’t doubt some are upset by the traffic tieups and field damage that came about this year.

“There are certainly people who don’t like cannabis, who don’t like our event and think we are bad

folks,” he told the Courier.

“But aside from all these hand-wringing editorials, most of the feedback I get directly is positive.”

Larsen’s group says the PNE is the ideal location because of its history in staging large-scale events — the port-a-potties, staging equipment and other infrastructure needs are already there. The money his group would typically spend to rent items would instead go

directly to the PNE. “It has the services we need, it allows for better crowd control for age limitations… in every way it seems like an easier space to control,” he said.

As for the damaged field at Sunset Beach, Larsen said his group will “happily pay” those costs as long as the bill isn’t inflated to include anything beyond those specific expenditures.

He expects to receive a bill from the park board for the re-seeding and associated labour that, he says, should be somewhere around $5,000.

“Not only did we offer, but we agreed beforehand that we would cover those costs,” he said. “I don’t know why it’s made to sound like there is some sort of hostility involved. We are more than happy to cover the park seeding costs.”

Larsen also countered board chair Michael Wiebe’s claim that organizers were mandated to lay down a protective surface across the fields.

Instead, Larsen said that idea was opposed by emergency services due to safety concerns.

The park board has yet to tabulate the final cost of the field damage. @JohnKurucz

TransLink CEO says Broadway subway not a done deal Mike Howell

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The chief executive officer of TransLink did his best to stay out of the provincial election campaign May 2 but was clear the construction of a subway along the Broadway corridor is not a done deal despite a $2.2-billion promise from the recently dissolved provincial government to spend on major transit projects in the region.

Kevin Desmond said the full cost of a subway and whether the provincial government will allow municipalities to impose charges against developers to raise the region’s share of project costs still has to be finalized.

“I’m confident that whatever government is elected, they will match — at some level — the federal government commitment [of $2.2 billion],” Desmond told reporters after giving Vancouver city council an update on the region’s mayors’ 10-year transit and

The region’s mayors’ 10-year, $7.5-billion plan calls for a subway along the Broadway corridor, a light-rail system in Surrey, a new Pattullo Bridge, more buses and SkyTrain cars, improved HandyDart service and upgrades to transit stations. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

transportation plan. “But there will be a gap that the region still has to fill. We won’t know that full gap until the business cases [of each project] are completed in the fall.”

To fill that gap, the mayors have called for the

provincial government to introduce legislation that would allow municipalities to charge developers a fee when constructing developments near transit hubs. Such a funding tool could raise millions of dollars and be applied across

the region.

The ruling B.C. Liberals have said any new funding source proposal would have to go to a vote in a referendum. Desmond said he didn’t know if the scheme to bring in a region-wide development cost charge

would trigger a referendum.

“That’s to be determined,” he said, noting TransLink was in discussions with the Clark government about the development charges before the election campaign began.

“That’s one of the things that’s top of our agenda with whatever new government is formed, so we can proceed with what we hope would be legislation from the province that would allow the cities to move forward with the development cost charge.”

The mayors’ 10-year, $7.5-billion plan calls for a subway along the Broadway corridor, a light-rail system in Surrey, a new Pattullo Bridge, more buses and SkyTrain cars, improved HandyDart service and upgrades to transit stations.

The provincial government committed $246 million for the first phase of the plan and matched the federal government’s $2.2 billion for the second phase. Peter Fassbender, the minister responsible

for TransLink, told the Courier last month that allowing municipalities to charge fees to developers for transit-oriented development was an option, although he didn’t commit his party to implementing legislation.

Vision Vancouver Coun.

Geoff Meggs said he remains hopeful that major projects such as the subway will not be delayed because of funding problems. But Meggs said an independent committee examining funding tools such as mobility pricing – where drivers are charged for distance driven – is a necessary discussion to have considering the growth and congestion on roads.

“When we see the fuel tax declining and two political parties saying the tolling system is too broken to fix, clearly that committee has got its work cut out for them,” he said. “But that’s a discussion that other cities are having, and we’re going to have it, too.” @Howellings

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The Vancouver Courier is a “shining example of what a community paper can do to stay relevant and engaging” in a city with so many other media choices, a judge in the British Columbia Yukon Community Newspaper Association said when choosing the Courier as one of the top three newspapers in the province.

“The Courier looks for different perspectives and provides another angle for its readers,” the judge said as part of the annual Ma Murray awards. “Photographers Dan Toulgoet and Rebecca Blissett are two shining examples that photojournalism still matters.”

The paper earned a bronze award for overall excellence in its circulation category while its sister paper, the North Shore News won gold at the April 29 the awards ceremony at River Rock Casino.

Toulgoet went home with three photography awards: a silver for best feature photo, in colour, for newspapers with a circulation of more than 25,000; a silver for best portrait/ personality photo; and a

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B.C. Liberals take on Vancouver mayor over natural gas

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ttacking U.S. President Donald Trump is easy. Anyone can do it, and most of Canada does.

But taking on Trump and the city of Vancouver at the same time takes a certain amount of moxie.

It was on full display on the weekend. Premier Christy Clark teed off on Trump for U.S. softwood duties for a few days, promising to fight tooth and nail to protect B.C.’s interests. Then the B.C. Liberals wheeled on Vancouver

The more interesting aspect for campaign watchers is the Liberals’ decision to rush to the defence of Vancouver residents’ rights and call out their city council for infringing on them.

Mayor Gregor Robertson, and promised to fight him, too. A re-elected Liberal government would take one of Robertson’s Vision Vancouver key initiatives and file it in the recycling bin.

You don’t often see a premier take on the most powerful mayor in the province in the middle of an election campaign. But Liberals think the background to this startling move could make it a net win.

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At issue is the use of natural gas within city limits, commonplace in many homes and businesses. The city has an ambitious goal to reduce emissions, and another phase kicked in Monday, when a new policy took effect.

It sets new emission limits for some of the bigger developments that go up on rezoned lots, which could limit the use of natural gas.

The Liberals see that as moving toward a “ban” on natural gas. Vancouver-Quilchena Liberal candidate Andrew Wilkinson served notice on Saturday they’ll reverse it and restore people’s right to use the fuel of their choice.

That means that if re-elected, the Liberal government would amend the Vancouver Charter, the foundational law that allows the city to govern itself, to strip council of the power to set energy policy to that degree.

That’s a pretty aggressive move against the biggest city in the province, one that’s believed to be unprecedented.

Wilkinson said: “City council wants to ban natural gas from the city, and we think that is wrong and needlessly adds costs to consumers, homebuyers and restaurateurs. While we all agree that climate change must be addressed, barring natural gas from the city at a huge cost to residents is not the way to go.”

City hall responded by denying any such ban. The new policy is in line with the province’s own changes to the building code, it said. There’s a complicated argument about the backstory to those changes. They could restrict the use of gas in larger condos. They’ve been in the works for a while and have prompted a lot of concern in the city about the ramifications.

Wilkinson insisted on Monday it’s “a

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This week the B.C. Liberals wheeled on Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson and promised to fight him. A re-elected Liberal government would take one of Robertson’s Vision Vancouver key initiatives over natural gas and file it in the recycling bin. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

slow-motion ban” on the use of natural gas. The Liberal platform promises to “protect the ability of homeowners and businesses to use natural gas as an energy source.” The weekend move is a lot more dramatic than that promise originally suggested.

It harkens back to a farewell speech Energy Minister Bill Bennett gave to an oil and gas luncheon in Victoria a few months ago, where he constructed an imaginary dialogue with a no-growth, anti-everything, enviro opponent. Who did he pick for that role? Robertson.

The more interesting aspect for campaign watchers is the Liberals’ decision to rush to the defence of Vancouver residents’ rights and call out their city council for infringing on them. Arguments between the two are nothing new.

The province and the city have clashed in the past on homelessness and the

proposed Kinder Morgan oil pipeline to Metro Vancouver.

“The Liberals see the city of Vancouver as the opposition,” cracked one observer.

Threatening to relieve a city of some of its power is a pretty significant gamble nine days before an election. There are 11 Vancouver seats, currently split 7-4 in the NDP’s favour. If council has lost touch with the taxpayers, and residents are freaked by the prospect of eventually losing their right to heat their homes with gas — or even to barbecue — this might be a winner.

If they take offence and object to Victoria trying to rescue them, the Liberals lose some ground. But this move plays outside of Vancouver, as well, and the Liberals are confident it will be wellreceived in other regions.

The election is May 9.

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City plan good for environment and pocketbook Re: “City fights back against B.C. Liberals natural gas ban claim,” online May 1.

Vancouver’s new rezoning bylaw is great news for a city where housing affordability is top of mind for residents.

Utility bills in new buildings will be slightly lower. The construction cost for new apartments will be comparable to buildings being built today. They’ll also emit 50 per cent less carbon pollution.

Heating and cooking with natural gas is still an available option as long as it’s used efficiently. With strong support from developers and homeowners, the city is taking a positive step towards eliminating carbon emissions from all new homes and buildings by 2030.

Vancouver’s Zero Emissions Building Plan sets a clear direction for B.C.’s green building industry, which already employs more than 23,000 people. The new policy will save us money and expand the number of green jobs.

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Arbutus Greenway should be green Re: “New transportation route expected to increase business in Kerrisdale,” April 27.

I was interested in comments made by Glenn Knowles, president of the Kerrisdale Business Association, on his conception of the Arbutus Greenway.

He seems to see the greenway as a means of increasing business in Kerrisdale and less as a GREEN way, which citizens Alvin Brouwer PUBLISHER

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might enjoy as a relief from increased urbanization.

Our city is losing green spaces. Where once it was a city of houses with large gardens, it now is a city of over-large houses on lots with little green space or of apartments with little garden space. We have lost much garden habitat that supported a varied and rich fauna of birds and other creatures.

The Arbutus Greenway could be a wonderful opportunity to reverse some of these losses if it is sensibly developed.

Extensive planning of native, not nonnative, vegetation along the route would help the return of birds and other creatures we have lost. The trees and bushes would provide insulation from the noise of traffic and provide a pleasant walk or cycle ride.

My observations show that at present there is an encouraging increase in the number of people using the greenway for a pleasant walk. Let us make it more pleasant still by greening it and not by making it look more like an ordinary road without cars.

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Does Premier Christy Clark deserve a second chance from voters?

Considering her personal record of alternative facts and flimflam, along with her government’s serial scandals and scams (some inherited from her Liberal predecessor Gordon Campbell) the answer has to be a resounding no.

For starters, there was Clark’s $50,000 annual stipend for attending B.C. Liberal fundraisers, a perk she dropped only after it became a “distraction.”

Integrity B.C.’s Dermod Travis discovered that over 12 years, 177 companies donated more than $100,000 each to the B.C. Liberal party, for a total of $54 million. These companies netted $15 billion worth of contracts from the government, Travis revealed in his recent e-book, May I Take Your Order?

Gifts from corporations, unions, and even foreign governments, illegal in jurisdictions across the world, is just business as usual in B.C.: a “cash for access” free-for-all that rebrands representative democracy as a high-end shopping spree.

The real estate sector has been responsible for the largest net donations to the B.C. Liberals, to the tune of $12 million over 10 years. That might explain the presence of real estate reps on Clark’s May 2016 junket to Asia, along with her government’s failure to adequately address B.C.’s housing affordability crisis.

The extraordinary cynicism of the Clark government was revealed prior to the last provincial election, with the leak of a memo

sent from the email account of Clark’s good friend and then-deputy chief of staff Kim Haakstad. The Liberal campaign strategy involved “quick wins” by targeting ethnic voters with public apologies for various “historical wrongs.” Nothing to see here folks, no independent investigation to follow — as in the 2015 case of a Liberal staffer triple-deleting emails concerning B.C.’s Highway of Tears.

Then there’s the premier’s nonstop posturing about “100,000 jobs” created by the vapourous LNG economy, with zero plants currently under construction. Clark not only projected a Bizarro World $100-billion profit from LNG, she has painted it as a green energy alternative, which is only possible by dismissing pesky externalities, like the massive energy inputs and environmental degradation involved in LNG extraction, processing and transportation.

On it goes: Clark’s false accusations of hacking attacks by the NDP, the firing of seven health care researchers under mysterious circumstances, nixing the disability bus pass annual fee, and the child deaths in foster care. Oh, and her farcical promise to run “the most open and transparent government in Canada.”

Can’t forget that one.

But for my money — and yours as well, in the literal sense of the word — the single biggest scandal is now underway, with construction of the Site C Dam in the Peace River region.

Taxpayers will be shelling out $8.8 billion for one of the largest infrastructure developments in Canadian history: a fiscal Rube Gold-

berg device pegged to supply energy to the fantasized LNG industry.

“You don’t even have to think very much about the environmental and aboriginal costs of Site C because the economics are so awful,” Harry Swain told the New York Times. He should know, as a former federal deputy minister and chairman of a government environmental panel appointed to review the project.

In 2015, Christy promised to get Site C “past the point of no return” before this year’s election. Yet three researchers, including Karen Bakker, head of UBC’s program on water governance, recently concluded that suspending or cancelling the project would save taxpayers between $500 million and $1.65 billion.

The B.C. Utilities Commission has rejected Site C once before; no doubt this is why the premier hasn’t submitted it for review by the public utility regulator. NDP Leader John Horgan, while dithering on a decision on Site C, has said he will put it before the commission if elected. No guarantee, but it’s better than what our debt-friendly Liberal leader is offering: a tide of red ink that will make the NDP’s infamous fast ferries from the late ’90s seem like a child’s fleet of paper boats.

A second chance for Christy? Perhaps as an AM rage-radio host, but not as premier. We’ve had six years of her government attacking the commons while dispensing corporate welfare to big-money benefactors. Re-election will only encourage the Libs to go medieval on our assets.

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Election too close to predict williamgood@shaw.ca

I’ve learned not to make rash predictions about election results; however, I do have some thoughts about what factors will play to the outcome of this one. Christy Clark isn’t the bright new face she was six years ago. She entered the campaign as a popular radio talk show host.

And most people, with the exception of teachers and hard-core New Democrats, liked her.

She proved a much more capable campaigner than Adrian Dix. Dix took the unusual tact of trying to be Mr. Nice Guy and didn’t use attack ads, the likes of which tend to work.

Clark wore hard hats and made grandiose promises. She’d balance the budget, which she did.

She’d kick start a Liquefied Natural Gas industry that would pave the way to a debt-free B.C. In fact, the industry hasn’t emerged, and Clark has overseen an $11-billion increase in the provincial debt.

As premier, Clark pushed ahead with the very expensive Site C dam project to the point where most observers feel is past the point of no return. She’s insisted on a 10-lane $3.5-billion Massey Tunnel replacement. All but one mayor opposes that project.

The NDP has done what I think is an effective job of painting Clark and the Liberals as the party of rich and comfortable people, many of whom are donors to the party itself and Clark personally.

Despite all this baggage, the Liberals have an edge going into this election. They have 48 seats (counting Pat Pimm’s Peace River North riding) to the NDP’s 35. There are two additional ridings as well. As a veteran of B.C. politics now well out of it reminded me recently, there are 12 ridings the Liberals hold that were won by 5,000 votes four years ago.

That’s a total of 5,000 all together. So if a few thousand people who

voted Liberal last time don’t vote this time, or change their vote, it’s an all-new ballgame.

The other factor is the Green Party. In my view, Andrew Weaver has a much higher profile than former leader Jane Sterk.

He has a seat in the legislature. He performed well in the last televised debate, and it’s just a gut feeling I have that some soft Liberal votes will go Green.

There are people who can never bring themselves to vote NDP, but may not be big Clark fans.

There are Liberals who supported Gordon Campbell who don’t have much love for Clark.

John Horgan, on the other hand, does not have much of a profile outside the recently fertile Vancouver Island area.

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Five years after the sudden and accidental death of Van Tech secondary science teacher Amy Hurn, the avid commuter cyclist has been remembered each September with a walk and 20-kilometre bike ride.

The route to Kitsilano and back to the school on East Broadway counted about 80 annual riders and walkers, plus organizers who pulled the whole thing together, including a troupe of Girl Guides as that had been a life-long passion for Hurn.

In addition to family, friends, teachers and her former students — most of them now high school graduates — the caravan recently included several very grateful participants who had a unique connection to the late cyclist.

They were organ recipients. They live today because donors such as Amy Hurn do not.

Hurn was a registered organ donor. After her death in 2012 at the age of

Briony Lennig’s older sister died in 2012 but, because she was a registered organ donor, the lives of five others were changed forever. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

32, the lives of five other people were changed forever because each received an organ or tissue, including her kidneys, liver, lungs, part of her pancreases, and corneas.

“It was so obviously something she would do,” said Briony Lennig, Hurn’s younger sister. “It wasn’t a conversation I’d had with

her prior, but her decision came as no surprise. There was part of Amy that was interested in science and she was also so committed to really giving with her work and through extra-curricular and volunteer work. It was how she lived her life.”

The specific recipients of her organs aren’t known to the Hurns but, as a donor

family, they play a distinct and sometimes agonizing role in the larger transplant story, one that is not heard as often as the celebratory stories of survival or deep bond between a living donor and recipient.

April 24 through 29 was the national awareness week for organ and tissue donation, a time when BC Trans-

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Registration is simple and is done online in a few minutes at the BC Transplant website. All that is required to register is a provincial health number along with a corresponding name, birth date and address. A guardian must sign for a registered donor under 19.

Last year, 423 organs were donated from both living and deceased donors, a significant rise since 2010 when there were 295 transplants in the province.

In 2016, there were 97 deceased donors and 95 living donors in B.C.; the former figure has climbed every year since 2010 when there were 49 deceased donors.

There are more than 600 people in the province currently waiting for a transplant.

Lennig said her late sister might have persuaded people to register by discussing the enormity of existence and the tremendous power of enabling another to live.

“It’s an opportunity to bring some light to a really horrible situation,” she said, noting the public campaign of smiling, cheerful organ recipients does not represent the tragedy her family endured, and yet such public joy was only enabled because of their private heartbreak.

It’s a complex and bittersweet relationship that BC Transplant recognizes and strives to address through donor family recognition and formal support programs.

“I have found it quite difficult this year, missing my sister,” said Lennig. “We were able to give back in a remarkable way. When it feels really dark, there is that.”

Lennig and her parents did receive an anonymous letter of gratitude not long after the transplants. Letters remain confidential by law.

Since her daughter’s death, Sue Hurn found a

constructive outlet for her grief. She engaged with BC Transplant and met with health care professionals at St. Paul’s and Vancouver General Hospital to tell them about the experience of the donor family. This month, she will reprise the roll to speak with doctors and nurses at hospitals in Richmond.

“To put a face on the other side, if you like, of this story,” she said. “I put my energy into becoming a part of that because I felt it gave me support.”

Following the accident, she said the help and care of BC Transplant staff was “just amazing.”

“I couldn’t describe what stellar people they are,” she said. “Your emotions are all over the place when you are trying to make decisions and there was always somebody there and somebody to talk to. Because people don’t really get it, which is fine because you don’t want people to get it — that would mean they have experienced it, too.”

The memorial bike ride and walk has also brought the Hurn family a measure of happiness and closure through their mourning, especially as organ recipients take part in honouring the late teacher. A generous scholarship to fund science post-secondary education will continue in the name of Amy Hurn. The final ride happened last fall and, going forward, the family will hold a private memorial picnic in June.

“The conversations have been really powerful, especially when we see the young people who have received organs and are really just living life.

It is pretty inspirational,” said Lennig, who is also a registered organ donor.

“Unless you are in that situation, I don’t think you can quite realize how it must feel to be faced with what looks like the end of your life and then be given the gift of life.”

To register as an organ donor, visit transplant.bc.ca.

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Suzanne Anton BC Liberal Party

Martin Eady PO Box 42120 Rpo Champlain Mall, Vancouver, BC, V5S 4R5 (778) 789-4125

Harpreet S. Bajwa Your Political Party of BC (YPP)

James Filippelli 313-2040 York Ave, Vancouver, BC, V6J 1E7 (604) 805-3547

George Chow BC NDP

Amandeep Nijjar 3070 Kingsway, Vancouver, BC, V5R 5J7 (778) 836-1850

Hiroshi Hyde Libertarian

Hiroshi Hyde 6918 Culloden St, Vancouver, BC, V5X 4J7 (604) 700-8278

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Deena Szostak 3501 Tolbooth, Vancouver, BC, V5S 4J7 (604) 649-3316

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David Thompson Sec School 1755 E 55th Ave, Vancouver, BC

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ARVIN JOAQUIN ajoaquin@vancourier.com Riding on bugs, pedaling on clouds and sliding down a giant candy stick — these seem to be things out of a magical land, but they’re real, and they’re in Vancouver.

When Playland opens its gates May 6 at 10 a.m. the amusement park will also launch three new kids and family rides.

“They are very cute rides that our young guests will enjoy,” says Laura Ballance, spokesperson for Playland.

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form of giant lady bugs; the Flutterbye, in which kids and their parents appear to pedal up into the clouds; and the Dizzy Drop, a friendlier and cuter — it looks like a giant candy stick — version of one of the park’s more adult attraction the Hellevator.

The introduction of these new rides are part of Playland’s initiative to expand its family programming, says Ballance.

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Playland sees approximately 300,000 guests each year, and Ballance expects this season will be no different.

“We had a fantastic year last year and we’re expecting this year to be a strong one as well, especially with the addition of our new family rides,” she says.

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MAY EVENTS SANDRA THOMAS sthomas@vancourier.com MAY 12–14 Royal Canadian Family Circus SPECTAC! The all new Royal Canadian Family Circus SPECTAC! 2017 showcases traditions dating back to medieval times with thrilling high wire and flying trapeze acts, the Platform Motor Cycle Cyclone, acrobatic aerial strap and silk act, free-running horses, acrobats, a hula hoop maze, world class performing poodles, the Motorcycle Wheel of Destiny, clowns (eek) and much more. The circus, which does not include any exotic animals, runs from May 12 to 14 at the Pacific Coliseum. Visit royalcanadiancircus.ca.

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PRESERVING HISTORY: Yours truly emceed the 2017 City of Vancouver Heritage Awards. Accolades were handed out to individuals, architects and developers for their outstanding efforts to preserve Vancouver’s heritage. A hot water cooler topic of late, heritage preservation was front and centre as projects and special accomplishments were honoured at the awards ceremony staged at Steel Toad Brewing. Award recipients were recognized in five categories: honour, merit, recognition, People’s Choice and Lifetime Achievement.

In recognition of Jim Stiven’s substantial contribution to heritage conservation in B.C. through his lengthy career as a leader, expert, practitioner, advocate and educator in the field of historic window conservation, he was cited with the lifetime honour. Among the projects praised: Christ Church for its significant seismic upgrade and contemporary bell tower; the Jewish

Cemetery in Mountain View for its community-led restoration and rehabilitation of the Jewish Cemetery; and the James Residence at 587 West King Edward Ave. for the retention and renewal of the one-of-a-kind city landmark, often known as the Hobbit House.

FASHIONING AUTISM: The annual Fashion Blooms Celebrity Fashion Show returned for another year to support the Pacific Autism Family Network and those affected by autism and related conditions across B.C. Fronted by longtime autism advocate Wendy LisogarCochhia and her husband Sergio, parents of a child with autism, the event attracted a capacity crowd to the couple’s C Prime Restaurant.

Guests enjoyed an afternoon of glamour and giving with master of ceremonies Sophie Lui of Global TV. In addition to a lovely lunch and auction, Vancouver’s most well-known media celebs strutted their stuff in a catwalk performance featuring European designer fashions generously provided by Vetrina Moda and Quorum Men’s Fashion Emporium.

The always-fashionable affair netted $75,000 for the Pacific Autism Family Network’s mandate to help all families across the province gain access to critical resources, services and programming.

For a longer version of this column, go to vancourier.com.

Samantha, Rebecca and Amanda Legge shared insight into running the family’s publishing business at the UBC Sauder School of Business’s Family Legacy Series Gala.

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Community

Starting in 1976, with the purchase of TV Week magazine, Kay and Peter Legge grew their company to become the largest independently owned media publishing firm in Western Canada.

The couple was feted at Sauder School of Business’ Family Legacy Banquet.

Ryan Craig’s Tap and Barrel (Best Pub Fare) and James Langford-Smith’s Kissa Tanto (Best New Restaurant) were honoured at Where Magazine’s annual Where to Dine Awards.

Where Magazine food editor Tim Pawsey, centre, presented Les Clefs D’Or Canada Silver Service Award to Ancora Restaurant general manager Andrea Vescovi and executive chef Ricardo Valverde.

Proscenium Architecture’s Ron Clay and Iredale Architecture’s James Emery were praised for their seismic upgrade and restoration work of Christ Church Cathedral and contemporary bell tower.

Global TV’s Sophie Lui served as master of ceremonies for Wendy Lisogar-Cocchia’s second annual Fashion Blooms fundraiser. The luncheon luau raised $75,00 for the Pacific Family Autism Network.

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Arts & Entertainment

Vancouver, it’s time for some Salvador Dali Martha Perkins

mperkins@vancourier.com

Salvador Dali’s image of a melting pocket watch is one of the most iconic symbols of surrealist art.

Starting on May 6, Vancouverites will be asking themselves just what Dali was trying to say about our subconscious notions of time.

“Salvador Dali was a painter who was fond of taking preconceived notions and turning them on their heads,” said James Sanders at a private unveiling last week of a Dali sculpture that will soon spend 150 days on the streets of downtown Vancouver.

Sanders is the business development manager of IAR Art Resources, which specializes in Dali sculptures. He helped facilitate the loan of Dance of Time I to Chali-Rosso Gallery, whose owner, Susanna Strem, is gifting the sculpture to the city for five months.

When Dali first painted pocket watches melting over a seaside landscape in The Persistence of Memory, he was thinking about camembert melting in the sun. “It was a visual pun that amused him,” Sanders said.

Dance of Time I is one of eight limited edition bronze statues of a twometre-tall pocket watch twisting and turning upwards. Conceived in 1979, the first cast was

created at the Perseo Foundry in Mendrisio, Switzerland in 1984. Dali died in 1989.

Strem felt that as Canada celebrates the 150th anniversary of Confederation, it is a good time to ponder the evolution of time and the changes that take place within it. She also feels that Vancouver needs more public art.

The melting pocket watch is “very well recognized so it’s a good starting point to introduce Salvador Dali to the public,” she told the Courier. “Art should be accessible, not always in a gallery. Public art is how we can make art part of our lives. It lifts us out of the everyday.”

Asked whether she was worried people would climb on the sculpture, which is valued at $750,000, Strem said the question only crossed her mind the night before the unveiling. “I hope Vancouver will behave.”

Right now the sculpture is at Strem’s gallery at 549 Howe Street. On May 6, it begins fivemonth sojourn on West Hastings at the foot of Hornby Street. The public unveiling is at 2 p.m. The project has been endorsed by the Museum of Vancouver and the Downtown BIA. In the meantime, as part of the Definitely Dali project, the Chali-Rosso Gallery has 100 additional original Salvador Dali

artworks, including 20 gallery size sculptures. All public donations received at the gallery, as well as a percentage of ChaliRosso Gallery sales, will go to Arts Umbrella, a non-profit arts education centre that helps 20,000 young people a year unleash their creativity.

PNE dates remain the same

After consulting with the public, staff, fairgoers, suppliers, exhibitors and partners, the Pacific National Exhibition has decided the dates of the annual Fair at the PNE will remain the 17-day window ending on Labour Day. Over the past several years, PNE staff considered changing the dates of the fair from the end of August to late July. Because weather plays a significant role in the overall successful of the fair, management looked at moving the

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Public polling showed there was support for both options, but after some research the organization decided that, for the foreseeable future, the Fair at the PNE will continue at the end of August.

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Ballance. “We do believe that moving into July would provide better weather, however there are no weather guarantees in Vancouver. When we combine the risk of weather with several other significant hurdles such as feedback from partners, routing schedules of our exhibitors and staffing availability, it is evident that the prudent business decision for now is to stay within our current window of time ending on Labour Day.” —Sandra Thomas

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Public Hearing: May 16, 2017 Tuesday, May 16, 2017, at 6 pm City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Third Floor, Council Chamber Vancouver City Council will hold a Public Hearing to consider zoning for these locations: 1. 3750 Prince Edward Street (Gardiner Residence) To designate as protected heritage property the exterior of the existing building at 3750 Prince Edward Street (Gardiner Residence).

3. 2840 Yukon Street (Annie Campbell Residence) and 2850 Yukon Street (Howard and Idella Campbell Residence) To add to the heritage buildings at 2840 Yukon Street and 2850 Yukon Street to the Vancouver Heritage Register in the ‘C’ evaluation category, to designate their exteriors and respective interior lobbies as protected heritage properties, and to enter into a Heritage Revitalization Agreement to secure the rehabilitation and long-term preservation of the two heritage buildings.

4. 1101 West Waterfront Road (Harbour Green Restaurant) To amend CD-1 (363) (Comprehensive Development) District for 1101 West Waterfront Road (formerly 1199 West Cordova Street) to increase the maximum floor area in Sub-area 3 for Retail and Service use (restaurant) from 600 square metres (6,458 square feet) to 975 square metres (10,495 square feet).

5. 2153-2199 Kingsway To rezone 2153-2199 Kingsway from C-2 (Commercial) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a six-storey, mixed-use building containing commercial retail units at grade and 101 secured market rental housing units. A height of 20.6 metres (67.5 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 3.35 are proposed.

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2. 1819 West 15th Avenue (Hatch House) To add the existing heritage building (Hatch House) at 1819 West 15th Avenue to the Vancouver Heritage Register in the ‘C’ evaluation category, and to designate the exterior of the heritage building as protected heritage property.

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6. 5469-5507 Willow Street To rezone 5469-5507 Willow Street from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of three three-storey residential buildings with a total of 20 townhouse units.

A height of 11.3 metres (37 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 1.20 are proposed.

7. 3868-3898 Rupert Street and 3304-3308 East 22nd Avenue To rezone 3868-3898 Rupert Street and 33043308 East 22nd Avenue from C-1 (Commercial) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a six-storey, mixed-use building with at-grade commercial uses and 98 secured market rental housing units.

A height of 20.4 metres (67 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 3.16 are proposed.

Public Hearing: May 23, 2017 Tuesday, May 23, 2017, at 6 pm City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Third Floor, Council Chamber Vancouver City Council will hold a Public Hearing to consider zoning for this location: 1. 105 Keefer Street and 544 Columbia Street (see A on the map) To rezone 105 Keefer Street and 544 Columbia Street from HA-1A (Chinatown Historic Area) District to a CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit development of a 12-storey mixed-use building with commercial uses at the

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ground floor, 25 social housing units on the second floor and 106 strata residential units on levels three to 12. A height of 36 metres (118 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 7.04 are proposed.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THESE APPLICATIONS INCLUDING LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTIES: vancouver.ca/rezapps or 604-873-7038 Anyone who considers themselves affected by the proposed by-law amendments may speak at the Public Hearing. Please register individually beginning at 8:30 am on May 5 for the May 16 Public Hearing and May 12 for the May 23 Public Hearing until 5 pm on the day of the respective Public Hearing by emailing publichearing vancouver.ca or by phoning 604-829-4238.

You may also register in person at the door between 5:30 and 6 pm on the day of the Public Hearing.

You may submit your comments by email to publichearing@vancouver.ca, or by mail to: City of Vancouver, City Clerk’s Office, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 1V4.

All submitted comments will be distributed to Council and posted on the City’s website. Please visit vancouver.ca/publichearings for important details.

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Community CITY LIVING

A look inside Granville Island’s bustling concrete plant Industry and culture in the mix at Ocean Concrete’s annual open house

Rebecca Blissett

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Lumbering trucks and hulking machinery have captured the imagination of both young and old for ages. It’s the reason some construction companies cut viewing holes into sheets of plywood around urban build sites, and it’s also why Ocean Concrete opens its gates for its annual open house at its Granville Island manufacturing plant every April.

“People are always walking by and wondering what goes on in here so this is the one time every year we open to the public,” said Ocean Concrete’s logistics manager Rob Slarks. “We do try to be a good neighbour.”

Rather than chasing people off its front yard, the oldest resident of Granville Island has changed to keep up with the times. Granville Island, once called Industrial Island as it was filled with factories that pumped out materials such as nails, barrels and chains, was born in 1886. Gilley Brothers, which eventually became Ocean Concrete in the mid1950s, specialized in selling cement, aggregate and coal from its waterfront home on the peninsula. Heavy industry in the area faded during the next two decades partially due to economic reasons along with multiple fires that burned down many of the oil-coated factories whose owners either walked away or relocated from the cramped inner city industrial space.

City officials had a vision for the grimy industrial wasteland, and Granville Island began its metamorphosis into a hub of arts and

culture during the 1970s.

Ocean Concrete continued to go about its business except now surrounded by studios, gift shops, a public market and theatres. Plant owners decided to lessen the visual contrast between industrial and culture by using creativity of their own. Its Johnson Street garage, where the Earth Rangers set up a display table with barn owls and other wildlife for Saturday’s open house, is sometimes used for theatre. The drums on the mixing trucks are decorated in homage to the Granville Public Market a few doors down, cheerily painted to look like a bunch of asparagus, a strawberry, or a cob of corn. Most famously, though, its six concrete silos were transformed into a gigantic mural by Brazilian twins OSGEMEOS for the Vancouver Biennale in 2014.

It’s arguably the most artistic-looking concrete plant anybody has ever seen, and that’s why Ocean has to hire a security guard during tourist season to stop curious people from wandering into the yard, said Slarks.

It’s a busy place. An average of four self-loading barges a week are unloaded, which, according to Ocean Concrete, take about 470 dump truck loads off the roads every week. Most of the plant’s concrete is used close to home -- customers include the downtown branch of the Vancouver Public Library, the footings for the Alex Fraser Bridge, the Vancouver Convention Centre and the Canada Line.

Saturday’s open house featured a giant sandbox, tours of the yard, Big Band music from the Vancouver Fire & Rescue Band and

various educational booths.

The painted mixer trucks attracted a constant lineup of children in yellow hardhats given out by Ocean Concrete — a good indication of how well attended the 19th annual open house was.

“I would say we buy thousands of those [hats],” said Slarks who has been at Ocean for 29 years. “It’s hard to predict how many people come for the open house every year. Sometimes we try to guestimate on the amount of balloons we give out so, some years, we can have four to five thousand people come through here.” @rebeccablissett

The giant sandbox set-up in the plant yard was a big hit with the kids all day Saturday for Ocean Concrete’s 19th annual open house at Granville Island.

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Arts & Entertainment

Documentary addresses Vancouver’s housing crisis John Kurucz

jkurucz@vancourier.com

Charles Wilkinson arrived in Vancouver in 1969 fuelled by idealism and a search for community.

His first order of business was to jump into the waters off Spanish Banks, a pivotal moment for the then 16-year-old Calgary native.

“I felt like I was home,” he said.

Those are fleeting feelings in today’s Vancouver. Instead, fear, greed and the very real prospect of homelessness are everyday talking points.

How we got here is the genesis for Wilkinson’s latest film, No Fixed Address, which screens at the DOXA Festival, which kicks of May 4, and makes its theatrical debut in Vancouver starting May 19.

No Fixed Address examines Vancouver’s housing bubble, its cross-generational impact and the precursors to the perfect housing storm. Mayor Gregor Robertson, developer Bob Rennie, Senator Yuen Pau Woo, scientist/ activist David Suzuki and Province journalist Sam

Charles Wilkinson’s No Fixed Address screens at DOXA this weekend and kicks off its theatrical run at Vancity May 19. Photo Dan Toulgoet

Cooper are among those Wilkinson interviewed for the film.

“The approach that I take is pretty much the opposite of talk radio, which is usually characterized by uninformed opinions that are angrily expressed,” Wilkin-

son said. “What I do is seek out people who actually know what a specific topic is about and they express it in a calm, rational way.”

The film’s narrative is separated into specific chapters that take on topics in a compartmental-

ized manner. Each factor is examined individually, but is part of the bigger puzzle: race, the boom, the backstory and the money, among others.

As the film unfolds, paradise is placed right next to paradox. One scene

shows a lengthy queue of residents lining up out front of a high-end restaurant as they wait for a table. They are surrounded by homeless people.

“It’s not that people don’t care, it’s not that we’re indifferent,” Wilkinson said. “It’s just that we feel such a sense of hopelessness that we don’t know how to attack that.”

The sobering factoids continue: Wilkinson was also told by Cooper and other journalists that Vancouver is one of the top three cities in the world for money laundering; up to 90 per cent of the city’s condos are purchased on speculation, with investors expressing no desire to ever live here.

“That is absolutely devastating. It’s just jaw dropping,” Wilkinson said. “So many people are deeply concerned about losing their homes.”

While there’s doom and gloom throughout, the film isn’t all darkness.

Wilkinson interviewed a household of five East Van millennials who are quite content with the situation.

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Described as all highly educated and under the age of the 30, the five tenants pay less in rent than most do on wine in a given month.

“They’ve seen more of the world in one year than I have in my entire life,” Wilkinson said.

Wilkinson lived in Vancouver for decades before relocating to Deep Cove about 20 years ago. He’s watched the housing crisis unfold first-hand and there’s plenty of blame to go around.

“The fundamental cause of this is a finger that’s being pointed at all of us because we have been sold, or enthusiastically adopted, a style of life that is just so completely unsustainable,” he said. “We’ve exploited our resources in a way that’s been unsustainable. Those resources are gone. The easy stuff is gone. Once you sell the land, it’s gone forever.”

Details at vancouvernofixedaddress.ca. @JohnKurucz The Vancouver premier of No Fixed Address is May 6.

Its two-week run at Vancity Theatre kicks off May 19.

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Living

Doc follows millennials and oil John Kurucz

jkurucz@vancourier.com

Parallels and paradoxes abound in a place like Fort McMurray, pitting personal greed against the environment or a short-term fix versus a long-term plan.

Those are the types of conversations explored in Limit is the Sky, a film by Vancouver’s Julia Ivanova that screens at the DOXA Festival on May 5.

Shot between 2012 and 2015, the film follows six millennials from across the world who descend upon the northern Alberta town in search of the same thing: financial freedom and lots of it.

“Each of their stories is different,” Ivanova said. “For me, this film is not a story about Fort McMurray. This is a fable and Fort McMurray is a metaphor for our world, in that regardless of how well things are going in the present moment, the situation can change at any time.”

The six characters chronicled are all under the age of 35 and come from distinctly different locales: the Philippines, Sudan, Lebanon and the U.S. A pair of Canadians — one

from Edmonton and the other from the Maritimes — are also included in the National Film Board piece.

That cross section of cultures was deliberately selected on Ivanova’s part, and the manner in which she began connecting with her stars was nothing short of brilliant. A newcomer to Fort Mac and just a few years shy of 50 at the time, Ivanova set up fake profiles on a dating site to net her catch. “My logic was saying, ‘I’m almost 50 and I want to make a film about young people in Fort McMurray, so how do I find interesting, young people?’” she said. “I needed to have access to the numbers. In order to have access to those numbers I had to be a 20-something.”

Ivanova found her main character — a 23-year-old Lebanese barber named Max — through the site and the rest by word of mouth.

The resulting cast perfectly encapsulates the personalities and caricatures attracted to the city: idealism, greed, delusion and altruism.

The first vision for the documentary would have meant filming directly in the oil patch, but not a single site

supervisor allowed Ivanova into those locations. To that end, the director found two predominant mindsets in: those who believe they’ll work for two years, cash out and leave, and others who feel they have no choice but to work in the oil sands forever.

“It felt like the Wild West, it was more like an outpost,” Ivanova said. “The majority of young men who were going there, it was just a place to make money and then go home.”

Ivanova wrapped shooting and was ready to deliver the film to the NFB when the wildfires broke out on May 1, 2016. Reaction to the fires was used instead to bookend the film.

“We can be delusional in the scale of our dreams, and in order to achieve these dreams we exploit nature to the maximum. At some point nature, or the sky in this case, will put a cap on our dreams.”

Limit in the Sky will be screened at 6:15 p.m. on May 5 at the Vancity Theatre. Details at doxafestival.ca.

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Chess usually pits one individual mind against another. But, to a Grade 11 student who led his water polo team to the national level, its strategies apply equally to team sports.

“Never underestimate a player,” said Edward Hoptioncann of his chesslike approach to water polo.

“You have to know who your defensive players are and who best suits offensive.

The team needs to trust the goalie and you need to have quick reaction time.”

The tactics are obviously working. The Eric Hamber secondary student and his water polo team won gold at the provincial high school tournament in Surrey on April 21.

The victory, however, is not just Hamber’s.

Hoptioncann created the team with players from seven schools across Vancouver.

He used his own initiative to make sure that Vancouver fielded a team in a sport that he loves for its emphasis on both brawn and brain.

“In high school, we cel-

ebrate basketball, volleyball, track and field, etcetera,” the 16-year-old said.

“However, water sports are important, too. We live in Vancouver where there’s water all over.”

Hoptioncann and his younger brother, Ernest, joined the Vancouver Vikings swim club several years ago, developing confidence in their skills and a keenness for friendly competition.

Their coach said their speed would be an asset in water polo so they joined the team.

When Ernest — who his brother said is the better player — arrived at Hamber last year, Hoptioncann knew they were both missing out on a team sport the school didn’t offer. That’s when Edward decided to form Team Vancouver, going as far as designing and raising money for the T-shirts.

At the provincial tournament, they beat out last year’s winners, Surrey’s Earl Marriott secondary.

This year’s Team Vancouver members were: • Hamber Secondary students Ernest Hoptioncann

(Grade 9), Andrew Cho (Grade 10), Ally Davies (Grade 9), Hailey Shuter (Grade 8) and Edward Hoptioncann (Grade 11).

• Lord Byng Secondary Grade 10 student David Fishman.

• Charles Tupper Secondary student Thomas Neil (Grade 10), who was the MVP goalie in the provincial tournament.

• Jules Verne Secondary students Juliette Whiteside, Noemie Duchen Stevens and Jovan Ivezic, all in Grade 9, and Grade 10 student Nemenja Ivezic, the provincial game’s MVP. • Vancouver Technical secondary students Isabelle Bennett (Grade 10), Seamus O’Donnell (Grade 11) and Bree Livesey (Grade 8).

• Magee Secondary students Nathaniel Leung and Thomas An, both Grade 8.

• King George secondary students Maksim Kowacevic and Tony Kulenovic, both in Grade 8.

“I knew our team would play well together,” Hoptioncann said. “I believe we succeeded because we played strategically. Being

a combined team we had to collaborate and utilize each other’s talents. It’s not always about the best, strongest or fastest player.

Team Vancouver had a family attitude — we took care of each other on the bench and in the water.”

An introvert by nature, Hoptioncann said his school has encouraged him to be a leader, for which he’s grateful. His physical education teacher Gary Buntain asked him to lead the Hamber Swim Club. This year Hoptioncann took the team to the provincials where the team placed fourth in their relay and he won silver.

Hoptioncann’s current coach, former Olympian Vladimir Uskhakov, also created a team called the Spartans to compete in the national competitive league. Six of the Spartan members — brothers Edward and Ernest, brothers Jovan and Nemenja Ivezic, goalie Thomas Neil and David Fishman — played on Team Vancouver. The Spartans won bronze this past weekend in Calgary.

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The douchey Peregrine Falcon finally relinquishes its crown as the city’s official bird. But its possible replacement is equally troubling.

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The contenders are: the wimpy Anna’s Hummingbird, the pornographic movie titled Northern Flicker, the Spotted Towhee, which we’re pretty sure is something you treat with a round of penicillin, and the Varied Thrush, which sounds like a tantric sex technique employed by Sting.

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Universities have frosh week. Discovery Channel has Shark Week. And now Vancouver has the less vomit-inducing and bloodspilling Bird Week.

In case you missed K&K’s previous missives, Vancouver Bird Week replaces the Vancouver’s annual City Bird Contest, where fair-weathered citizens could vote for their favourite bird from a list of contestants flapping to become Vancouver’s reigning official bird for a year.

Tellingly, the lag time between the cancelled City Bird contest and the new Vancouver Bird Week meant the douchey Peregrine Falcon had this city in its Axe Body Spray-scented talons for nearly two years as our official bird. Under his watch, we saw housing prices continue to sky rocket and Donald Trump elected the President of the United States. Coincidence?

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Clothing is optional. The Wreck Beach Preservation Society promotes respect and body acceptance through nude recreation.

SOUTH BEACH & SUTHERLAND BEACH WHERE: Savary Island, Northern Sunshine Coast BEST FOR: White Sand & Subtropical Vibes With clear water lapping white sand, the beaches surrounding tiny Savary Island have been called the “Hawaii of the North.” This is no Waikiki however: the island is off-grid, and its remote location means it retains its laidback feel. Located at the entrance to Desolation Sound, Savory is accessible only by floatplane, boat, barge, or water taxi from Lund, which itself is the “end of the road” as it’s the furthest point north on Highway 101.

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Maron talked about the booty call on a recent episode of WTF and posted a photo of the complimentary kicks on Instagram last week upon their arrival.

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stop in Milwaukee, Maron says he didn’t have any specific instructions for his bespoke boot makers, just as long as the end result accommodated his size 12 pontoons. “They wanted to make some boots but I wanted the size to be right… They measured me and I met everyone and we chose a style.”

That style is a classic Chelsea boot in black, with a hand-etched cat’s head on the heel — a tribute to the noted feral cat wrangler’s long-lost feline, Boomer, and Maron’s frequent refrain at the end of his podcasts, “Boomer lives!”

Boot wise, Maron admits to being primarily a Red Wings man, but he also owns a couple pairs of custom-made White’s.

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Ah, Libra, you face one of the luckiest choices in a long time, from May 2017 to November 2018. Your karmic axis lies along the lines of love, involving both your light romantic prospects (favoured) and your deep, infatuation prospects (disfavoured). To succeed during these 18 months, embrace friends and your social group, be optimistic, plan future pleasures and adventures, and pursue (you usually pursue by being attractive, receptive in a strong, quiet way) light, friendly romance.

From May 2017 to November 2018, Taurus, your karmic axis will involve both your home and your career, and the two might not agree with each other. You should be quite careful with career — for the more you chase prestige in this interval, the more doors might close against you. (In astrology there are three major work sectors — employment and chores (often hands-on) restrictions and duties (often putting you in a management role) and career/prestige.

Scorpio, your karmic axis, May 2017 to November 2018, lies in the zones of career (favoured) and home (disfavoured). Be ambitious these 18 months — cultivate relations with the boss, VIPs, even your own parents. Launch ambitious projects, whether on your own or for your employer. This is usually a good period for starting a business (providing your individual chart supports entrepreneurship). It’s also favourable for changing employers, even entire careers.

Gemini, the 18 months from May 2017 to November 2018 lay a karmic axis on you in mental, travel, and communication sectors. Remember only one thing, and you’ll be fine: short, rather than long. Stories, newspapers or magazines, news programs, reports, anecdotes (and “anecdotal evidence”) — are all better than novels, tomes, books. (Whether you’re consuming or creating them.) Chatter better than profound conversations.

Verbal agreements rather than legal written contracts.

Sage, the 18 months starting May 10/17 switch your karmic axis from career/home to the zones of intellectual activities, communications and travel. You only need one bit of advice for this interval: be profound, long, consequential — rather than short, off the cuff, casual or superficial. For example, novels, books, full length films, are better than newspapers, “fact-based” reports, short stories, etc. Favour ideas over facts, the big picture over the little or anecdotal one. Extrapolate.

Cancer, your karmic axis from May 2017 to November 2018 lies in your sex and money zones — and “values” such as life principles. To succeed, focus on earnings, employment, buying and selling, cash flow and your own bank account, your own possessions — avoid big or “shared” money, such as stocks and bonds, investments, limited partnerships, investing with family or friends, etc. Buy depreciating assets (e.g., a car) rather than appreciating ones (e.g., land, stocks).

Your karmic axis lies along money and sexual lines May ’17 to November ’18, Cap. To succeed, focus on big or “shared” money, such as stocks and bonds, investments, limited partnerships, investing with family or friends, etc. If you focus on weekly earnings, employment, buying and selling, cash flow and your own bank account, your own possessions, you’ll waste time at the very least, and might pass splendid opportunities to increase your assets.

Leo, your karmic axis for the 18 months ahead lies between you, personally, and everyone else. You know the saying, “everybody’s crazy but me” — this might literally come true at some points in the May/17 – Nov./18 period. In general, you will be blessed, protected, and have a good moral compass during this interval — but you will tend to deal with people who don’t have their moral compass set straight, who might have a hidden agenda, or are simply going through a bad run of luck or self-pity.

Your karmic axis, Aquarius, lies in you, yourself, your own personality and actions, and whoever stands right in front of you (and their personality, etc.).

In general, Aquarius, you’ll succeed — at the very least you’ll feel gratified and get a mild, subtle ego boost — if you go out of yourself, to the other. For instance, if you ask that Cleopatra or Adonis for a date, and she/he turns you down, he/she will turn you down with obvious gratitude that you tried.

From May 10, 2017 to November 6, 2018, Virgo, your karmic axis will lie across your sectors of withdrawal, retreat, institutions, duties, management abilities, delegation of tasks, government and civil servants, policy and committee work on the one good side; and on the other, bad side, hands-on work, chores, employment, self-medication, health, vitamins, nutrition and preventive health. All the things you often gravitate toward will in one way or another not work (or yield scanty rewards) during these 18 months.

From May 10, 2017 to November 6, 2018, Pisces, your karmic axis will lie across your zones of work, duties, dependants and service personnel. This is a good 18 months to buy machinery and tools. In general, to succeed, avoid withdrawal, retreat, institutions, duties, management roles, delegating tasks, government and civil servants, policy and committee work. Don’t be overly charitable, nor join a nunnery — and keep spiritual pursuits to a temporary minimum.

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