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What the heck does that crazy election mean for Vancouver?

Mike Howell

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Not exactly breaking news: Christy Clark and her B.C. Liberals are back in, sort of.

Yes I know there are all those absentee ballots to count and the three Greens must decide whether they want to align with the 43 Liberals or 41 NDPers.

But as I write this just past midnight on election night, and Clark is talking about “tonight being the start of something different,” what the heck does all this mean for Vancouver?

Had I been smart enough to predict such an outcome earlier in the day, I would have asked that question to the NPA’s George Affleck, Vision Vancouver’s Raymond Louie and the Greens’ Adriane Carr.

Instead I asked them what they thought about the prospect of a re-elected Liberal government, which sort of happened.

In short, Affleck is kind of OK with it, while Louie and Carr not so much, which is what I expected; their political

lineage isn’t exactly a secret.

Carr, for example, canvassed for the Greens’ Janet Fraser in Vancouver-Langara and represented the party on CBC radio. Heck, she cofounded the party and was once the provincial leader.

The NPA-Liberal connection has always been strong, the same way the NDPVision connection has been solid; hey, wasn’t that Louie and Mayor Gregor Robertson campaigning with George Chow, the NDP candidate for Vancouver-Fraserview?

Yes, that same George Chow — the former Vision city councillor, who Tuesday knocked off former NPA city councillor Suzanne Anton, who had been Clark’s justice minister and attorney general.

Chow’s victory was the only political shift in the city, which had been 7-4 in favour of the NDP going into the May 9 vote. So now it’s 8-3, keeping Vancouver a largely NDP city overseen by a Liberal-led provincial government.

Which means likely more of the same back-and-forth between the Vision-dominated council and the Liberals

City councillors George Affleck, Raymond Louie and Adriane Carr represent the three parties at city hall. All have connections to the provincial parties . PHOTOS DAN TOULGOET

over housing, transit and the drug overdose crisis as central issues. The Greens, of course, could have something to say about that.

Affleck, who said the Liberals’ fiscally conservative spending policies align with his, more aptly described it as “political ping-pong” — a term he used while criticizing Vision Vancouver for its poor relationship with the previous Clark government.

“If Vision continues with this acrimonious relationship with them, it won’t be good,” said Affleck, who voted for former NPA mayor Sam Sullivan Tuesday; Sullivan was re-elected as the Liberal MLA for Vancouver-False

Creek. “My feeling is that whoever is in power in Victoria, we should have a cooperative relationship to ensure that we get what we need in our city — and housing and affordability is key. But the mayor refuses to play at all in the B.C. Liberals’ sandbox.”

Robertson had strong words for the Liberals in March when he criticized them for not addressing homelessness and allowing the drug death toll to climb.

“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 assis-

tance rates being frozen since 2007 — it’s been war on the poor in B.C.,” said Robertson, suggesting the government preferred to invest billions of dollars on a Massey Bridge and Site C dam.

Regardless of the rhetoric, the facts are: Homelessness is at an all-time high in Vancouver, the drug overdose crisis persists, real estate prices continue to soar, congestion is an everyday reality and not everyone’s salary has gone up an average of $8,500 in recent years, as Clark declared at one of the leaders’ debates.

As Louie told me a few weeks back, and reiterated Tuesday, these are not partisan issues but problems that need to be addressed by the provincial government, which has jurisdiction over health, housing and transit.

“This is about whoever will support the policies and a framework where we can achieve what we need to better serve our people,” he said, noting the failed transit and transportation referendum pushed back investment that is needed today.”

Carr rattled off a list for

the new government to get working on, including affordable housing, social housing, transit and banning union and corporate donations from civic campaigns.

She wasn’t happy with the Clark government’s approval of the Kinder Morgan pipeline and was miffed at the Liberals’ interference in the city’s plan to reduce natural gas use in new developments.

But Carr acknowledged the promise from the previous Clark government to invest $2.2 billion in transit.

The construction of 13 supportive housing sites also benefited Vancouver’s low-income and homeless people, she added.

But as the city grows and affordability persists, she said more has to be done.

“I really hope they don’t stay the course. There is a lot at stake on virtually every file.”

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Vancouver hires new fire chief Vancouver is getting a new fire chief.

His name is Darrell Reid, who will leave his post as CEO of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario to replace John McKearney, who retires June 30 after 37 years as a firefighter. McKearney was chief for eight years.

“I’m confident that as chief, Darrell will make great progress in ensuring the safety of our residents by bringing the city’s emergency response and preparedness to the next level,” said Mayor Gregor Robertson in a news release issued May 2 to announce the hiring of Reid.

In addition to becoming the new chief, Reid will be responsible for emergency management, a field in which he has plenty of

experience. Prior to joining the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario, Reid served as a deputy chief with Toronto Fire Services and as fire chief and director of emergency management Strathcona county emergency services in Alberta.

In 2011, the Alberta provincial government appointed Reid as incident commander for the 2011 Slave Lake fires and the 2013 High River flood.

Reid said in the city’s release that he was honoured to head Vancouver Fire and Rescue, and excited to “join a team with a tradition of excellence protecting a world-class city, and I look forward to helping find progressive and innovative solutions to the challenges we face.”

Some of those challenges include responding to the opioid overdose crisis, which has taxed many firefighters responding to an unprecedented number of overdose calls.

The department responded to 169 overdose calls in the week of April 17, a 29 per cent increase from the previous week.

Robert Weeks, president of the Vancouver Firefighters Union (IAFF Local 18), said the union was “optimistic” and looked forward to a “positive and lasting relationship” with Reid, whose first day on the job is June 19.

“We believe with Darrell as the fire chief, we have a great opportunity to continue to build upon the recent positive labour relations strides that have

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Reid has a master’s of business administration from the University of Alberta and obtained a graduate certificate in community preparedness and disaster management from the University of North Carolina. He also completed the executive fire officer program with the U.S. National Fire Academy.

In addition to his background has a firefighterparamedic, Reid is the founder of a non-profit corporation dedicated to providing training and equipment to firefighters in developing countries.

Darrell Reid will replace Fire Chief John McKearney, who is retiring June 30 after 37 years as a firefighter. McKearney served eight years as chief. PHOTO COURTESY CITY OF VANCOUVER

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The city’s former chief housing officer Mukhtar Latif will receive a severance of $261,170 this year after being fired in January by city manager Sadhu Johnston.

The severance paid to Latif, who was also the CEO of the Vancouver Affordable Housing Agency, is the equivalent of his base salary, according to Tobin Postma, a city communications manager. Latif’s payout came after less than four years on the job.

When Latif was fired, Mayor Gregor Robertson told the Courier it was Johnston’s belief the city needed to be more aggressive in its efforts to deliver affordable housing.

“The city manager’s assessment was we need to take it to a much higher level,” Robertson said in February. “That’s a decision that he made to make some changes with the staff, and I think it’s a good call.”

Details of Latif’s severance were provided to the Courier upon request. It’s unclear how many other employees were fired in the

first four months of this year, or whether they are entitled to severance packages.

The city paid out $1,014,211 in severance packages to 17 employees in 2016, with almost half of it going to former chief information officer Mark McDonald and former acting general manager of community services Teresa Hartman.

The city’s statement of financial information for 2016, which went before city council last month, indicated 17 employees were given a severance, but no further details were provided in the document. The city supplied the Courier with names of the 17 employees and total payouts.

McDonald, who is now vice-president of information technology and information services for Toronto Community Housing, received $203,363. Hartman, who lists herself on her Linkedin profile as self-employed, collected $274,394.

The city would not say why the two former employees were no longer employed at city hall. The Courier left a message for McDonald that was not

returned before deadline.

Hartman could not be reached before deadline.

The city has cited several reasons for paying out severances, including restructuring and performance issues.

Postma told the Courier in an email that “by law, the city is obligated to provide notice or severance in lieu of notice to individuals whose employment relationship has ended, except where there is egregious conduct that would constitute cause for dismissal.”

Details provided to the Courier shows some former employees received payments in 2016 and will receive more this year. In Richard Newirth’s case, he received $25,328 and will receive another $174,672 over this year and next. Newirth was the city’s managing director of cultural services.

Patricia Berry, who worked in organization development strategic initiatives, received $81,718 last year and will collect $54,092 this year. Shayna Rector Bleeker, who was associate director of communications, is listed as receiving zero dollars in 2016 but will collect $22,431 this year.

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gets $261,170 severance Other employees who received severance pay in 2016 included: • Jonathan Snoek, acting deputy general manager of the park board, $39,358 • Nicole Lalonde, manager of administrative services, $135,161 • Steve Simmonds, animal services manager, $57,354 • Irene Raziere, human resources, digital strategy, information technology, $13,554 • Michael McCafferty, security manager, $40,733 • Valiant Wai Leung Cheung, human resources, digital strategy, information technology, $14,689 • Gayle Gardner, human resources consultant, $36,666 • Joyce Fordyce, associate director of Vancouver Civic Theatres, $20,008 • Darren Horvath, health and safety superintendent, $15,018 • Catherine Green, real estate and facilities management, $7,796 • Michael Ireland, engineering services, $8,865 ($11,530 in 2017) • David Jones, real es-

tate and facilities management, $40,203 Every year, the city releases a statement of financial information that discloses a variety of financial data, including where the city spent its money and the names of employees who earned more than $75,000 in the previous year.

The number of employees who earned more than $75,000 translated to a total payout of $237,470,053. Those who earned less than $75,000 cost the city $221,738,354.

The list does not include police officers although the Vancouver Police Department does historically release the earnings of the chief and deputy chiefs, that information was not available at deadline.

In 2016, the city’s highest earner listed in the documents was city manager Johnston, who collected $328,583. Some of the city’s other big earners were director of legal services Francie Connell ($288,924), park board general manager Malcolm Bromley ($282,996), chief

financial officer Patrice Impey ($288,011), general manager of real estate and facilities management Bill Aujla ($270,895), deputy city manager Paul Mochrie ($251,408) and Fire Chief John McKearney ($222,789).

Mayor Gregor Robertson collected $166,628 in 2016. All city councillors, except for Andrea Reimer $97,543) earned an average of $103,000 last year.

Coun. Heather Deal earned the most ($135,780) for her duties as deputy mayor.

Park board commissioners earned an average of $24,000. Vancouver Police Board members’ earnings ranged between $3,495 (Barj Dhahan) and $5,573 (Sherri Magee).

Board members were paid on a per diem amount of $264 per meeting ($527, if a meeting last more than four hours) from January to September 2016. Those rates were boosted for the remainder of the year to $273 and $548, respectively. Board members who attend meetings by conference call earn $150. @Howellings

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across the country. Since 2011, the number of people to hit the 100-year milestone nearly doubled and is now 8,230 people.

According to census data released May 3, Canada has 5.9 million people over the age of 65 and one in eight of those people are at least 85.

That compares to 5.8 million children under 14.

Besides centenarians, those aged 85 and up are also booming. Between 2011 and 2016, that de-

Quick, who is the oldest person you know?

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For the first time since Confederation, there are more seniors in Canada than children, and centenarians are the fastest growing demographic

mographic grew by nearly 20 per cent, roughly four times the rate of the overall Canadian population and its five per cent growth over the same five years.

The trend holds across the most populous provinces of British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec.

In B.C., there are 150,000 more seniors than children in an overall population of 4.6 million.

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In 2011 census data, there were 4.9 million Canadians over 65 and 5.6 million under 14.

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Opinion ALLEN GARR COLUMNIST

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And so we wait....

W

e will, as John Horgan said sometime after midnight while addressing a raucous NDP crowd, “have to wait a bit longer,” to actually know the outcome of the provincial election.

Christy Clark, in addressing an equally pumped room full of Liberals, sounded like she was giving a victory speech. Even though the results were a clear repudiation of her government, she said she fully intended to carry on as Premier: “It is my intention to continue to lead the British Columbia Government.” But we will see.

We will see if she still intends to carry on with the Site C dam, the construction of a 10-lane bridge across the Fraser to replace the Massey Tunnel, her demand for another referendum in order for Metro Vancouver mayors to raise new funds for transit, and a refusal to raise welfare rates.

As of election night, Clark failed to achieve the 44-seat majority by the slimmest of margins. Her losses were NDP gains. It was Liberals 43, NDP 41 and Greens 3.

Indeed, as Horgan correctly pointed out, “A majority of British Columbians [almost 60 per cent when you put the Greens and the NDP together] voted for a new government and I believe that’s what they deserve.”

In terms of popular vote, the results hurt only one party compared to four years ago; the NDP held what they had in 2013, and the Greens doubled their support because they appear to have gained votes from the Liberals.

And looking at the electoral map, you will see two very different provinces. Up country was definitely moved to support Clark and her Liberals. But Metro Vancouver was largely a sea of orange, taking down three key Liberal cabinet ministers: Amrik Virk, Suzanne Anton and Peter Fassbender.

All of the Greens seats were on Vancouver Island.

While Clark put her best spin on the results, saying the election “opened a whole new dialogue,” Horgan made a pitch about this new balance of power that would appeal not just to his supporters but also to Andrew Weaver and the Greens as well.

He committed to “get big money out of politics,” which Clark has resisted. He promised a new electoral system with “proportional representation,” which the Greens

Premier Christy Clark took to the stage early Wednesday morning with her son Hamish by her side and addressed Liberal supporters.

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advocate for and Clark has opposed. And he wants “action on climate change.”

Both the NDP and the Greens oppose more pipelines and oil tankers, starting with the Kinder Morgan expansion project.

While Clark was wooing support up country and up the valley with her commitment to jobs and balanced budgets, Metro voters were more concerned about tolls on bridges, a lack of public transportation, affordable housing, health care and accessible and affordable daycare.

Her strategy was to scare voters, to make them leery of an NDP government that hadn’t been in power for more than 16 years and well before many of them were even

living in this province. And in spite of her massive election war chest, she fell short.

Failing any change in the number of seats held by each party as a result of judicial recounts or absentee ballots, B.C. will face the first minority government since W.A.C. Bennett came to power in 1952. You can bet the Lieutenant Governor is going over the rule books to see what her role will be.

Clark will be given the first shot at attempting to gain the “confidence of the legislature” by bringing in a piece of legislation to see if she can get majority support.

Clark will, doubtless, attempt to make a deal with the Greens and Weaver. And you can bet that Horgan will follow that

same path and make the point that change is what the voters wanted and that means an end to a government that has ruled these past 16 years to the growing discontent of the majority of British Columbians.

If however, absentee ballot counts result in moving the Liberals up just one seat, all bets are off. Those will become factors in just over a week. There will also be a judicial recount because of the close NDP win in Courtney-Comox.

So we wait. But while we wait, the back rooms will be busy particularly as “the first ever Green election caucus in North America” decides what to do. agarr@vancourier.com

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Election guide appreciated Re: “Election Guide,” April 27.

I simply must to take a second to thank you for your informative, well-balanced and impartial special section in the Courier.

I especially appreciate you offering up the percentages of votes in each riding from the 2013 election, a map showing the riding boundaries (no street names for precision?) and a brief biography on most of the candidates in the upcoming election.

I didn’t know very much/enough about the provincial election (or my riding) when I picked up that copy of the Courier but felt much wiser having read it. I’ve recommended it to a number of friends and set my copy aside for last minute references that will influence how I choose to vote.

All in addition to the independent web page you provided an article on and link to at electionguide.bc.ca from an issue prior, I believe.

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Lance Parker, Vancouver

Greenway impedes traffic Re: “Arbutus Greenway expected to increase business in Kerrisdale,” April 26.

Perhaps I am being overly unrealistic, but to me, this Arbutus “greenway” presently is just hastily poured blacktop chopped up by noisy cross-streets with no sense of refuge from motor vehicle traffic.

A separated greenway would take massive spending and it doesn’t seem to be in the cards.

As it stands, the greenway is another impediment to vehicle traffic flow that feeds into Vision’s war on the automobile.

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THE VANCOUVER COURIER T H U R SDAY, M AY 1 1 , 2 0 1 7

Feature AN ELECTION NIGHT TO REMEMBER Photographers DanToulgoet and Rebecca Blissett captured Tuesday’s long and winding provincial election night, which was filled with anticipation, celebration and uncertainty.

Christy Clark addressed the Liberal faithful early Wednesday morning. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

NDP leader John Horgan thanked his supporters at the Vancouver Convention Centre. Although many news outlets were projecting a Liberal minority government, Horgan did not concede.

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Excitement was in the air as results rolled in at Liberal headquarters at the Fairmont Waterfront.

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NDP supporters cheered after the announcement of George Chow’s win in Vancouver Fraserview.

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Some Liberal supporters refused to crack a smile while awaiting election results at Liberal headquarters. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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News Investing for Income Workshop

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At just 15, Ollie Zhao already fancies himself an Ivy League man.

That may sound audacious or brash, but consider how Zhao spent his downtime from school last summer: he busied himself by attaching electrodes to plants in an attempt to generate the necessary electricity to power a small watch or radio.

That curiosity and attention to detail has now landed the Grade 9 David Thompson secondary student a spot at the most prestigious science fair in Canada alongside two of his classmates.

It’s the first time three students from Thompson have all qualified for the upcoming Canada-Wide Science Fair in more than 20 years. The big show goes May 18 to 20 in Regina and features hundreds of the brightest minds from across the country.

“I’m very impressed with what they’re passionate about — it consistently wows me,” said Susan Leong, who oversees the school’s advanced sciences program.

Dubbed Amp Tree,

Zhao’s project harnesses electricity from trees in order to power remote-controlled devices — sensors or transmitters — with little to no need for human intervention. On a more relatable level, the same system could power a small watch, radio, GPS or calculator.

Zhao’s end game took months of experimentation and started with garnering electrical currents from backyard plants. He then moved to the trees around his school.

Using electrodes, grounding rods, copper wire and some know-how, he devised a method of extracting the living energy from those trees to be stored in small batteries.

“I have no idea what’s in store for us when we go to Regina,” he said. “Hopefully I win something, but I won’t be depressed if I don’t. The experience will be very valuable to me.”

Zhao will be flanked in Saskatchewan by fellow Grade 9 student Jonathan Cao, who’s taking on TransLink with his project called “reduce, reuse, reCompass.”

Cao has built a conveyer beltlike device that aims to make single use Compass Cards

completely biodegradable.

“It was just an ordinary day, walking around near the 29th Avenue SkyTrain station,” Cao recalled of his moment of inspiration. “There were these Compass Cards littered everywhere. Before with the Fare Savers, the area was never this littered. I took one of them home, dissected it and found this copper beneath the paper.

Then I got to work.”

All in, both students have poured close to a year’s worth of work into their projects and have advanced through both district and region-wide contests to make it to the national fair.

A third David Thompson student who’s advanced to Regina opted out of speaking to the Courier.

According Leong, a win in Regina can multiply exponentially into more wins down the line: scholarships, future jobs, networking and lab placements.

“These are very strong minded students,” Leong said. “They could off be playing basketball or gaming online, but no, their free time is used on projects like this.

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News COMMUNITY FORUM: Historical Discrimination Against Chinese People in Vancouver Join us for a community forum on historical discrimination against Chinese people in Vancouver. This initiative is in response to a Council motion directing staff to:

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Few people are likely as familiar with the streets of Vancouver as Larry Beasley. Not only has he lived here since 1968, but the former co-director of planning regularly strolls the streets of his city.

This past weekend, he led a tour of the False Creek North neighbourhood, one of his favourite destinations, as part of 31 Jane’s Walks that took place across the city.

Jane’s Walks, named after urban activist Jane Jacobs who authored the influential 1961 book The Death and Life of Great American Cities, take place in the world’s urban areas on the first weekend in May. The Courier asked Beasley about his favourite

I like walking through the False Creek North area. I just enjoy it. I like seeing the people. I like seeing the kids. I like seeing the way the city is used. And having been involved in the design of it, you can imagine it’s kind of fulfilling to see it.

Are you happy with the way it turned out?

Yes. I’m very happy.

There are issues, but we did a post-occupancy evaluation of it after it was all built and occupied. We talked to hundreds of people and we got a very high satisfaction rating of people living in the community. But my favourite part is that the strategy to get families with children worked better than we thought.

There’s nothing you would do differently?

Oh yeah. There’s lots I would do differently.

If I was doing it again, I would try to get more middle-income housing in the equation — secure middle-income housing. I’d probably do a lot of things differently. But it’s still a very satisfying place and a very livable, gracious kind of community.

What are your other favourite walks?

I also like the walk from the Convention Centre down and then around Stanley Park. I like the urban part where you see the beautiful new neighbourhoods and I love the waterfront, the marinas and all the activity there.

And then you go around into this very tranquil park, and all around Stanley Park.

That’s a splendid walk.

Has walking around Vancouver made you understand the city better?

Yes. I live downtown and I would never think of travelling around downtown in a car. And walking is even easier than transit.

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I walk everywhere. I walk many kilometres every day just to do my day-to-day business but I’m also walking in some of my favourite locations. I love walking through the West End, for example. It’s such a beautiful older neighbourhood.

Is it easy to be a pedestrian in Vancouver?

Yes. And the city has been paying attention to that for years. Could it be easier?

Yes, it could be easier. Do we need more finishes for quality streetscapes and sidewalks? Yes, we need that. But we’ve been planting the city beautifully with street trees, so in the summer it’s very shady on our sidewalks. We have been trying to manage traffic. So we have a lot of areas where you don’t have to really struggle with traffic. There’s not very many locations in Vancouver’s downtown where you’re struggling to run across streets. Pedestrians kind of dominate.

A lot of focus these days is on cycling. Do you think more attention should be given to walking and pedestrians?

I do. I’ve certainly supported the cycling infrastructure that’s gone in, but I think we need even more support for walking.

We need better pathways defined. We need drinking fountains, we need more benches, we need more landscaping. We need to manage the urban environment that we do have, the walkable streets. We need to manage the maintenance of those better. We need to look after garbage better and things like that. But if you compare walking in Vancouver to almost any other Canadian city or American city, it’s a pretty nice place to walk.

You essentially answered my next question, which was how does Vancouver compare to other cities in terms of walkability.

Walkability compares very well in the inner city. Outside the inner city, it’s not too much different than other areas. Like other cities, we have some regional pathways. We have some walkable streets and those are great. But the inner city has been designed so that pervasively walking is an appealing thing to do and it’s actually a preference over driving your car and, even to some degree, transit because it’s just easier. It’s convenient.

It’s safe. It’s comfortable. So we do better than most cities.

There are some European cities that would match us and some of that has to do with the historic quality of those cities. Paris is one of the most walkable places in the world, but Vancouver offers a lot for the walker.

It seems like you travel a lot. You’ve just come back from Oslo. When you visit other cities, how do you typically get around?

I always walk. In fact, I have a policy or practice that when I go to a new city, we define a route and we try to walk across a large part of the core of the city because you can always learn the personality by walking and you see things walking that you just don’t see even if you’re on transit. Often in European cities, you’ll be underground on transit and that’s not a very appealing thing. So I walk everywhere.

What have you discovered through walks around Vancouver that you wouldn’t have if you used a different mode of transportation?

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People have just wonderful things. And the public art is always wonderful to

discover — going down to the western edge of the West End and seeing the Laughing Men, for example. You just have to stop and enjoy it.

A final and tough question — what kind of walking shoes do you wear?

I just wear a pair of Skechers. They’re padded. They’re very comfortable. And you can walk all day in those shoes. @naoibh

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DEBORAH CARTER

ESTHER MATSUBUCHI

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ADDICTION

MARTHA PERKINS, VANCOUVER COURIER

Deborah Carter didn’t set out to be an addict.

It wasn’t her plan to lose control of her car on black ice and be prescribed morphine and Percocet to ease the pain of her injuries. Nor did she know she’d become dependent on these drugs to mask the trauma of having been sexually assaulted by a man who had given her HIV and Hep C a year earlier.

She didn’t intend to turn to heroin when the prescriptions ran out, setting off a chain of events that resulted in losing custody of her two eldest daughters and selling drugs as a way to stay alive.

“People think, ‘it’s not going to happen to me,’” Carter says.

“But trauma can really play on a person. When people suffer one loss after another, the pain becomes much harder to manage without having something to numb all the hurt and anger and feelings of

resentment that you’ve carried all this time...

community, despair and joy, vulnerability and strength.”

I was hurting myself and how I was worthy of change.”

“You don’t lose everything at one time; it chips away at everything you have.”

Carter grew up in Vancouver’s Eastside. Her father was in prison so she was raised by her mother and grandmother.

She fell in love with one of her father’s friends and moved to Manitoba where her husband also landed in prison, leaving Carter to raise their two daughters alone.

Carter learned something valuable, something she puts into practice when she’s working with people with addictions.

“Just be there and listen and maybe something I say will trigger some change in them.”

Everyone has their “rock bottom,” she says. Hers was in the bathroom of an SRO when a nurse told her she was pregnant.

That’s when she learned the power of seeking help.

Today, her youngest daughter is 11 and Carter works at YWCA’s Crabtree Corner to provide support to young mothers and the homeless.

“Courage is a verb to Deborah; she lives it every day,” says Nancy Cameron, Crabtree Corner’s retired associate director. “I hope Deborah’s story will challenge those destructive stereotypes of women and addiction, homelessness and poverty.

Her story exemplifies how opposites exist on the road to recovery: hopelessness and hope, aloneness and

After the car accident, she returned to her mother’s. Four years in, her addiction was out of control and, after a few failed attempts in treatment programs, she was kicked out.

Homeless for the next four years, she did everything she could to survive while her mother raised her daughters.

“Help comes from strange places,” Carter says. During a nine-week stay in hospital when her youngest daughter was born, one of the nurses took special attention in her. “She didn’t try to point out what I was doing wrong. It was more how

Carter moved into a recovery house and enrolled in various programs. “I did everything I was supposed to do. I knew I wanted my daughter back...

She was my guardian angel.”

Just before her daughter turned one, social services felt she was ready. “I was ecstatic.

I had applied for social assistance and was grateful to have it. As difficult as it could be, I was happy. I had my daughter with me, a roof over my head, food in the fridge, a relationship with my two oldest daughters and I was building trust with my mother again.”

When her daughter enrolled in Crabtree Corner’s daycare, Carter took part in the centre’s

DEBORAH CARTER programs. She started volunteering and since then she’s had a variety of jobs there. Currently she’s a homelessness prevention worker, single mothers facilitator and outreach worker. She’s also an on-call program assistant at the Wish drop-in centre to help women in Vancouver’s street-based sex trade.

It’s still difficult for Carter to deal with the ramifications of her

own years lost to addiction.

Her oldest daughters are 29 and 24 and lead fulfilling lives.

“The relationships took some time, but we’re at a place of forgiveness. They were angry and I don’t blame them.

“I can’t make the time they lost with me come back, but I hope I can make a future with good memories. We can’t go back and change it so we can just move forward and make the best of it.”

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SOCIAL ADVERSITY

MARTHA PERKINS, VANCOUVER COURIER

Don’t be deceived by Esther Matsubuchi’s gentle spirit. She has a core of pure strength.

Born in Vancouver, she was five when her family was forced out of their home and moved to a Japanese internment camp in 1942.

With nothing to their name after the Second World War ended, they were moved to Ontario’s farm country, working long days for little money.

15 years of illness, including bladder cancer.

A pioneer in the breast cancer dragon boat community, she was part of a study that proved women would benefit from upper arm exercise after their treatments. Until then, women were told not to move their arms in a repetitive manner, not even to knit.

She gladly followed her husband’s career in civil engineering around the world, enjoying the adventure of raising four children in places such as Algeria, England and Haida Gwaii.

And when a North Shore Anglican church planted a cutting from a Kogawa House cherry tree, Matsubuchi successfully lobbied to have the church cut it down. The tree was from the Vancouver home where Anglican priest Gordon Nakayama first raised his family, including his daughter Joy Kogawa, who chronicled life in the internment camp in her novel Obasan.

Nakayama had sexually abused four of Matsubuchi’s five brothers, among others, desecrating the family’s trust when he crawled into the boys’ beds when he came to visit.

Diabetic, she’s survived cancer twice. She cared for her late husband Ed during his

When Japan bombed Pearl Harbour in December 1941, the Canadian government

She was pregnant with her second daughter when a car accident crushed her skull, lacerated a leg and shattered a femur. She spent the last two months of her pregnancy in the hospital.

forcefully moved JapaneseCanada families to internment camps, eventually selling all of their possessions.

says. Later, the congregation, including her parents, “decided never to bring it up again because it was shameful.”

Vancouver had two JapaneseCanadian Anglican churches and, as part of that community, the Matsubuchis were sent to the Slocan City camp, where David Suzuki’s family also lived.

Matsubuchi refused to be silenced. She was a voice for her brothers when the Kowaga House tree was planted and was present when the church apologized to families in 2015.

Her father worked as a gardener, growing the vegetables for the camp’s hospital. “My parents just said, ‘God will carry us through.’

They were very faithful.”

“It was a tree from an evil man’s house,” she says of why she forced the church to remove it.

“I forgive, but I do not forget.”

After the war, the family was sent to the farm of a well-known Anglican in Ontario. Gordon Nakayama ministered there.

In 1994, Nakayama told the church he had sexually abused children. Instead of making the confession public or telling the police, the church fired Nakayama for immorality and allowed him to quietly retire.

“My brothers tried to bring it up and my parents scolded them for talking like that. They just couldn’t believe a man of his teachings and profession would do things like that,” Matsubuchi

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In 1989, Matsubuchi was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent surgery and chemotherapy. Her main fear was lymphedema, a swelling in her arm that can occur after getting lymph nodes removed, so she followed the advice of the day not to use her arm.

In 1996, at a Bosom Buddies meeting, they were told about Dr. Don McKenzie, a UBC professor who believed that exercise would actually help prevent lymphedema. His study encouraged cancer survivors to form a dragon boat team, which the women would call Abreast in a Boat.

ESTHER MATSUBUCHI She’s been paddling ever since.

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Five years ago she had endometrial cancer, undergoing surgery and radiation; her husband Ed survived bladder cancer before succumbing to complications arising from diabetes last April. Matsubuchi hopes other people don’t have to experience such travails so she is very much involved in various fundraising

“I take one day at a time,” she says. “I’ve lived my life and don’t have to worry much. It’s only the ‘big thing’ coming up.

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PHYSICAL REHABILITATION Burn survivor discovers his awesomeness with familyÕs help Growing up in St. Stephen, New Brunswick, John Westhaver was a typical teenager in the 1990s.

He listened to “alternative” bands such as Tool and Soundgarden, but he couldn’t quite shake his hair-sprayed love of ’80s metal acts Poison, Twisted Sister and, naturally, Ratt.

Westhaver was the second youngest of eight kids, had lots of friends and was known for his fun-loving demeanor.

His life, to use the parlance of the day, rocked.

Then in 1994, six weeks before graduating from high school, life took a tragic turn.

Westhaver and three friends had driven to a pool hall in a nearby town. On the way home, while Westhaver rode shotgun, the vehicle skidded off the road and exploded in flames, killing everyone but him.

Doctors informed his parents that their son wasn’t going to make it — his body was starting to shut down from

the severity of the burns that covered 75 per cent of his body. After he survived the first few days, doctors began operating, first to reduce the infection caused by the burns, then to start reconstruction.

Westhaver wouldn’t learn of these harrowing details until a month later when he woke up staring at a ceiling he didn’t recognize, in a town he didn’t live in, wrapped up “like a mummy.”

After two-and-half months, Westhaver returned home in the dead heat of summer.

Nurses would come to his home to change his dressings twice a day, which felt like being peeled alive.

And while the accident took an unfathomable physical toll on Westhaver, undergoing more than 35 surgeries over the years, the emotional scars were equally deep.

“I was just angry and I hated everything. I hated life,” says Westhaver.

The turning point came when his father sat him down one

day and told him he had a choice. He could either be angry or he could forgive. “[My dad told me] you can sit around and sulk and be angry with the world, but it’s not going to help you out.

And he really had me get the forgiveness piece, because I was able to forgive... I was able to let go of the anger.”

His father also helped him accept his appearance after the accident.

“When he helped me realize that no matter what the doctors do, I’m never going to look the same again — it’s not realistic — and the sooner that I deal with that the better it is... that helped tremendously in my recovery.”

In fact, Westhaver credits his entire family for helping him get back on his feet and into the world.

“I think one of the reasons that I am the person I am today and I recovered the way I did is because my family didn’t treat me differently,” says Westhaver. “They said, ‘Sure

John, you’re burnt, you look different, but you’re still the same John on the inside and you still have to take out the garbage.’ You still have to get up, you still have to move on, you’ve got to do stuff.”

Westhaver enrolled in college and became a computer repair technician. A few years later, he moved to Victoria and has dedicated his life to helping others — volunteering with the Burn Survivor Group of Victoria, the Firefighters Burn Fund and as a full-time public speaker, talking to high school students across the country about road safety and motivation.

He also started dating for the first time since high school, though he never lost hope in finding someone to share his life with.

“The only finger on my hands that wasn’t burnt was my ring finger,” says Westhaver. “And so here I am, there’s one finger that’s not damaged, so that must mean something.

And that’s what I held onto.”

He met his future wife online and they married 11 years ago.

JOHN WESTHAVER Last year, they had a daughter.

As for what he’d like people to take away from his story, he says it’s pretty simple.

“As great as I look, as good as I look, it doesn’t hold me back,” Westhaver says with a laugh. “Your life is your life.

Don’t let people control your life. Don’t let other people tell you how you’re supposed to feel. On the flipside, don’t stop living because you had

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In fact, when asked to describe his life today Westhaver sounds like that fun-loving, carefree high school kid back in St. Stephen who has his entire life ahead him.

“I’ve got say my life rocks — my life literally rocks,” Westhaver says. “I wake up and bounce out of bed and say, ‘Hey, what’s up today?’”

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“What makes Surrey special is how collaborative a partner they are and how fast they are willing to move and even how they approach partnerships,” maintains Lubik about the province’s fastest growing urban centre and Canada’s third fastest growing city. “In a lot of ways, they are very entrepreneurial. They don’t let anything stop them.”

Dr. Peter Payne, President and CEO of Innovation Boulevard and the Health Tech Innovation Foundation, has been instrumental in guiding the Boulevard’s strategic direction, shaping it into the world-leading, game-changing network it is quickly becoming. He too strongly identifies with the worldclass researchers and entrepreneurs the partnership attracts and recently published a series of stories highlighting some of their entrepreneurial products featured at the province’s technology summit held in mid-March.

Payne’s most recent article focused on the medical product Opthalight, which is dedicated to developing mobile eye examination tools that perform digital eye examinations and more. In his article, he explains the product addresses the need eye specialists have for an “easy-to-use portable device that can give a quantitative measurement, save the data for comparisons, and that did not disrupt normal workflow.” The product designers already have preorders and are working toward manufacturing their first small run of the product.

Lubik and her students are an integral part of Innovation Boulevard’s success. Linked to the Boulevard initiative through the university’s strategic plan designed to strengthen the institution’s commitment to innovation, SFU Innovates, is many entrepreneurial initiatives well on their way to commercial adoption.

Since its inception, those working under the Boulevard umbrella have established a health technology working group of more than 50 experts who meet quarterly; international partnerships with organizations located in Israel, France and the U.S., and several clinically-embedded labs. They have also been successful in bringing healthcare products to market or are in the process of doing so, holding several networking events and ensuring the $512 million Surrey Memorial Hospital expansion was completed.

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MENTAL HEALTH Rachel Fehr fights to get her kids back; now she wants to help other children During every dark period in Rachel Fehr’s life, someone stepped in to brighten it. And sometimes that’s all it took to keep her going.

When she was 13 and bullied, a jujitsu instructor taught her how to stand up to the people who were hurting her.

When she was 18 and homeless, a nearby resident brought her breakfast every morning.

When she was a young mother desperate to get the psychiatric care she needed, she threatened to jump off a bridge. A police officer stayed with her for hours as she waited to be admitted to hospital.

And when she had gone three days without eating, an Iranian immigrant named Hamaseh Aftase sensed her despair and offered her a cup of coffee. A week later he asked her for a date and they’ve been together ever since.

Kindness, Fehr says, “keeps hope alive and gives you the one really good day to hold on to when life goes to shit.

Without those bright spots I wouldn’t have made it this far.”

Fehr’s father committed suicide when she was one and her mother worked 12hour shifts, leaving Rachel in the care of her sisters who locked her in the bathroom while they drank and did drugs.

soon became abusive and was eventually jailed. Fehr went back to producing and selling drugs, never letting her children see that part of her life, but often fearful in a dangerous world. Her husband returned, constantly threatening to kill the children.

That’s when she agreed to put them in care. “I did it to keep them alive.”

She was a young teenager when she got into alcohol and drugs. “Self-medication is considered a choice. It’s not! It’s the difference from getting so down and out you take your own life. It gets you through the day.”

Ever since she was a young teenager, Fehr has been diagnosed with varying forms of mental illness from depression to bipolar disorder.

Experience had taught her that if you tell a doctor you want to get better you’re given a prescription and sent home.

She wanted more serious intervention. Her research convinced her that Vancouver General Hospital offered the best psychiatric care so she chose a bridge near VGH and threatened to jump off.

She was in a treatment program when she met the man who would become the father of her two children. He

One of the police officers who showed up stayed with her during the long admission process. “It’s these moments

Life outside their apartment wasn’t safer. “There’s always one kid in the complex who gets the crap kicked out of them and that was me.”

that make you believe you’re worthy. You want to do better and not let down the people who believe in you.”

VGH diagnosed her with borderline personality disorder. A few more dramas intervened before she signed up for a 30-week dialectical behaviour therapy program at Surrey Memorial Hospital.

“Out of everything I’ve tried — and if there’s a resource I’ve gone to it — DBT has been the most effective. It’s not about talking about your experiences and rehashing them over and over. They’ve developed tools that teach you how to reach your goals.”

Free of drugs and alcohol, Fehr doubled down on her efforts to get her kids back.

She felt stymied by a system that seemed to want her to fail and ministry doctors who advised her to give up her children for adoption. She persevered, doing everything that was asked of her, no matter how maddening. Three years and four months after

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RACHEL FEHR she put her kids in care, they were together again.

and discover better coping tools than drugs and alcohol.

During this interview, her son and daughter have created a hidden playroom at Gionico MMA in Surrey where Fehr teaches a youth jujitsu program. You can hear them nattering playfully with each other as Fehr talks about her dream to give at-risk children a place to learn the skills they need to stand up to bullies

She has a location scoped out; now all she’s lacking is the funding.

“I’d love to turn this into my job,” she says. “From time to time I met people who believed in me and they’re the ones who got me through.

I want to pay it forward.”

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YOUTH Richard Quan: a guitar hero who never gives up, no matter what the challenge Richard Quan sits in his wheelchair, his electric guitar lying flat on a special table in front of him. A background blues track begins to play.

Richard’s right hand picks at the guitar strings; his left hand glides up and down the guitar’s neck, bending and shaping the notes.

Guitar playing is Richard’s passion. He first performed in public during his final year at high school. His fellow teenagers “went crazy” as Richard played the Beatles’ Back in the USSR; Richard’s soul fed on their enthusiastic response.

“It was a confidence booster,” Richard recounts. “I realized I can do anything as long a I put my mind to it. Just don’t give up.”

Richard was three when he was diagnosed with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and has lived in a wheelchair since he was 10. There’s no cure for the disease, which causes the gradual and permanent

deterioration of muscle tissue. While the average life expectancy is the mid-20s, some may live into their 30s and 40s.

Richard’s now 22, but he and his family, including an older sister Rosanna, try not to let their thoughts linger in that dark place. His parents, Bennie and Bernice, have always focused on what he can do rather than what he can’t.

It hasn’t always been easy.

When he was little, he often had to be pushed in a stroller because he tired easily.

People accused the Quans of babying him, a perspective his parents say was shared by his elementary school. Teachers thought he was lazy; no one realized he had dyslexia.

Richard’s frustration sometimes turned to anger and he’d act out. Then his teachers would punish him even more. “I got in trouble a lot at school.”

A psychologist at B.C. Children’s Hospital helped the Quans identify those

challenges and gave Richard coping skills. “I realized all my learning stuff is not my fault.

It’s okay just to be myself. It’s okay if I don’t know everything.

I accepted I had a different way of learning.”

One day in high school, his teacher noted that Richard never complained about all the usual teenaged stuff everyone else was indulging in. Why not? The classroom fell silent when Richard said, “I don’t get to complain about silly things like other teens.

Life is short and I don’t know how long I’ll have. I don’t want to waste my time complaining about little things.”

His parents enrolled him in everything on offer — wheelchair sailing and hockey, adaptive hiking and drum lessons. At the G. F. Strong Rehabilitation Centre he immersed himself in swimming and art classes and dreamed of attending the Vancouver Art Institute. It was a blow when muscle deterioration in his arms made that dream impossible.

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A fascination — and then frustration — with Guitar Hero led him to forming his own band.

He’d done everything he could with the video program that simulates playing in a rock band. At G.F. Strong he noticed a guitar. What about learning to play a real one?

Eventually, with the help of Vancouver’s Tetra Society, which supports people in wheelchairs, a special platform was built.

Hours were spent practising and taking private lessons.

He caught the ear of the Vancouver Adaptive Music Society, which invited him to perform a 10-second solo on a CD. Richard hesitated, thinking he wasn’t good enough yet. Then, with further encouragement, he thought, “What do I have to lose? Let’s just do it.”

Emboldened, he later asked, “Is it okay if I try something different?” They were so taken by his performance that he played at the live concert with the Odds.

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“I got on stage and played the first few notes and all my nerves went away. I just got into the song and escaped into that world.”

He’s been playing ever since, performing with the Richard Quan and the Progressive Blues Experience at various fundraising concerts.

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As an entrepreneur, Stephen Scott does everything right.

He creates a welcoming environment and greets everyone with a smile.

He writes thank-you notes and includes a small flyer to remind customers to return.

He gives a portion of his time to benevolent causes and fastidiously sets aside a portion of his earnings so he doesn’t stray from his 10-year plan.

What makes Scott stand out is that he used to be homeless. Diagnosed with HIV in his early twenties, he’s been in two accidents serious enough to make him intimate with death. His jaw was broken by an addict high on crystal meth and he was told to prepare to die after a dark spot was found on his brain.

You wouldn’t guess any of this when you watch Scott joyfully selling Megaphone magazine

at Davie and Thurlow every Friday. For every $2 copy sold, vendors keep $1.25.

Profits are higher, but the selling season is shorter for Megaphone’s Hope in Shadows calendar.

This year, Scott’s self-portrait brightens up the calendar’s July. Regaled in a pink boa and hat festooned with a huge pink flower, and wearing rhinestone Elton John glasses, Scott exudes confidence as he celebrates his fifth anniversary of selling Megaphone in Davie Village.

“Love and happiness are yours for the accepting. Open your heart and allow yourself to believe it is possible,” he writes.

That pride is hard won. Scott grew up in Montreal, where he was ostracized by family and schoolmates. He was devastated when his mother died in 1997. After returning from her funeral he was fired for being away too long. A short time later, his boyfriend was deported back to Mexico.

“It was a terrible year. I decided to go out to the bar and forget everything. That worked for the beginning, but it’s not magical — [the pain] doesn’t go away.”

In 1999, Scott drove across Canada to ring in the new millennium. He fell asleep at the wheel and woke up from a coma two months later, spending almost two years regaining mobility.

In 2002, Whistler beckoned.

Patrollers noticed his snowboard’s track going off the edge of a 30-metre cliff and sent a helicopter to find him. He spent another two years in hospital.

To celebrate his release, he went to Toronto to visit friends.

He ended up in hospital for tests, which showed a black spot on his brain.

“Where do you want to go to die,” social services asked.

He said Vancouver.

He arrived and knew no one, resorting to life on the streets.

A man found him sleeping on

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Stephen Scott defies death and transforms homelessness into home sweet home cardboard on Granville Street and took him in for six months while Scott applied to get disability. (Along with physical injuries, he’s got brain injuries which affect his short-term memory.)

Scott’s first homes were SROs where people would knock on his door offering to sell him drugs. Lonely, he said yes. “I wanted to get friends — it wasn’t a good way.”

There were agencies that helped, such as Coast Mental Health, Friends for Life, A Loving Spoonful, the Dr. Peter Centre and Positive Living.

STEPHEN SCOTT Love inspired Scott to get clean. “I don’t want to go down. I want to go up, up, up.

It’s made me strong.”

“It is like a release, a paradise.

Here is as far away from the shelters as I can be. All those places are a trigger for people like me.”

Today he volunteers with Coast Mental Health’s resource centre and peer support program. He also volunteers with agencies that were there for him in his darkest times. In 2014 he was Megaphone’s vendor of the year.

The other was Adam Wilson.

They’d met in 1997 and were reunited in an LGBTQ peer support class six years ago.

“I keep myself busy; that way you don’t think about anything negative. Everything I do is positive.”

Salvation came in two forms.

One was a subsidized apartment in West Point Grey.

Every night, he puts aside all his change. He’s saved $5,000 and has another five years to go before he realizes his dream of taking Adam to Australia.

He gives God the credit for being alive. He was attending the inclusive Rainbow Church when some visiting attendants performed a laying of hands.

The next time he had a brain scan, the black spot was gone.

“Never give up on life,” he says. “There’s always hope.”

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Apps for all ages SANDRA THOMAS sthomas@vancourier.com During a recent visit with my seven-year-old grandson, I made him sign an agreement I wrote that outlines how much time he’d be allowed to play with the tablet we’d recently bought him. There are also many printable versions of internet family contracts available online.

Once you have one of these agreements in place, it’s time to find some useful apps, beginning with these suggestions.

vibrant visuals, musical storytelling and interactive elements on every page.

Designed to complement and enhance the interactive Run Salmon Run read-along story, the user-activated “Learn Mode”helps expand a child’s knowledge of the amazing lifecycle of Pacific salmon with curriculumbased facts from the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans primary level educational programs.

Visit bobsandlolo.com.

PLAYGROUND BUDDY This Victoria-based app has a worldwide directory of more than 200,000 playgrounds in 170 countries and counting.

RUN SALMON RUN Dive into the world of salmon as the lyrically written and The beautifully developers, illustrated Download and their Run Salmon supportive Run internet spouses, children’s family are all book is contracts parents who brought understand to life. the need Listen and to get kids outside to play learn about the important so they’ve taken this on, on lifecycle of Pacific salmon as narrated by the awardtheir own time, outside their winning children’s music regular jobs. They say the duo Bobs & LoLo and enjoy app was motivated by their

own very energetic offspring so their goal is to make it easy for parents and caregivers to be active and have fun with kids outside.

Playground Buddy is also a community resource that depends on users to keep it up to date with the best possible playground information. ! Want to know if there is a swing, slide or play structure before you visit — or even where to park? Playground Buddy will show you what a playground has before you visit. ! See a street view or photos of a playground before you visit (where available). ! Setting up a play date?

Share playground details and locations with others, even to those without the app.

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SCHOLLY This app was created by Christopher Gray who won

$1.3 million in scholarships through grit, sweat and hustle. When Gray discovered just how timeconsuming the application process for scholarships was, he created Scholly to make things easier. Scholly helps scholarships find you. There is free money for college out there and, according to Gray, Scholly has helped students win more than $70 million in scholarship awards. Visit myscholly.com.

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Considered an educational resource, Khan Academy offers free lessons for learners, parents and teachers and it’s now available for iPad. With more than 150,000 exercises with step-by-step instructions and instant feedback, this free app is a huge homework help for any student — or any parent brushing up on their high-school math. Visit khanacademy.org.

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Community YOUTH CAMP: A mighty 100 guests attended the eighth annual Evening in Support of CampOUT, a summer leadership camp for queer, trans, two-spirit and allied youth. The house party, held in Heidi and Richard Coglon’s West Vancouver home, netted a record $125,000 to ensure more children from around the province and Yukon have the opportunity to attend for the five-day, four-night camp — free of charge — on Gambier Island.

Now in its eighth year, the program has provided an inclusive space where youth can develop leadership skills, build self-esteem and connect to resources to support their health and wellbeing. A $50,000 gift from Trinity United Church capped off the evening of high camp.

BURGER KING: Main Street between Keefer and Terminal continues to evolve as a culinary destination for new and reimagined fare. Monarch Burger is the newest concept by renowned restaurateur Robert Belcham. The owner of Campagnolo and Upstairs at Campag-

nolo a few doors down, Belcham has collaborated with The American to bring burgers to the cool and growingly trendy pub strip. What started as a one-off pop-up has evolved into a permanent gathering spot in Ezra Kish, Simon Fallick and Patryk Drozd’s Main Street pub for honest, made-from-scratch burgers (including the buns). Monarch —its name is a nod to the eatery that once occupied the Campagnolo space — opened its doors recently with a public party.

Guests included Angus An (Maenam), Tret Jordan (Homer Street Café) and Ryan Bissell (La Cantina) who checked out the much-talked about burger, which comes dressed with its own secret sauce.

As the newest member of The Cobalt and Boxcar family, The American is a 150-seat pub adorned with communal tables, pinball and arcade games.

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Camp director Anna White and former camper — now cabin leader — Kit Pacilla saw a record $125,000 netted for UBC’s CampOUT, a summer camp for queer kids now celebrating its eighth year.

Renowned restaurateur Robert Belcham, centre, collaborated with Patryk Drozd, left, and Ezra Kish to open craft burger and beer hotspot Monarch Burger at The American on Main Street.

CLICK board member Janey Lee welcomed Carlota Lee to the charity’s This Definitely Is Not A Gala Gala. The latter’s upcoming Odlum Brown VanOpen tennis tourney will benefit CLICK and inner city youth.

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Your Journey is Our Journey VANCOUVER AIRPORT AUTHORITY 2016 ANNUAL & SUSTAINABILITY REPORT

Best Airport in North America for a historic 8 years in a row!

Airport of the Year CAPA Centre for Aviation

Vancouver Airport Authority is the not-for-profit organization that manages Vancouver International Airport (YVR). We are committed to creating an airport that British Columbia can be proud of: a premier global gateway, local economic generator and community contributor.

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We are committed to serving our region and we do this through a dedicated and diverse team, who live and work in our communities—and who give back, every day.

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James Makokis, left, and Anthony Johnson were married on the shores of English Bay at the 32nd kilometre of the BMO Vancouver Marathon on May 7. They said their vows and then ran off together for the finish line as newlyweds. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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thousands of wedding guests will high-five you along the way. Your attire will be sweaty but your glow all natural.

This was the joy for two newlyweds last weekend at the BMO Vancouver Marathon.

James Makokis, 35, and Anthony Johnson, 31, said “I do” at kilometre 32 of the Vancouver marathon May 7 and they have the matching T-shirts and breath-taking turquoise rings to prove it.

“It’s definitely motivating for your time if you’re getting married,” said Johnson, who covered the distance in five hours, 30 minutes and 35 seconds.

He jumped over the finish line with his new husband, whose official time was two seconds slower.

They were the 3,241st and 3,242nd finishers of the 45th annual Vancouver marathon.

The couple planned their wedding for English Bay, and Makokis said they could see their hand-made altar and gathered family members from across the water as they ran along the Seawall in Kitsilano.

“It all went smoothly,” he said.

They slipped black tuxedo jackets over their custom-printed T-shirts and exchanged vows along with beautiful rings before embracing and running the final 10 kilometres as husbands. Johnson dipped Makokis for a long kiss and then they ran off together for a lap around Stanley Park.

“It was my first time running a marathon and

I am so happy I did it in Vancouver because the people were awesome, the city is wonderful, the hosts were amazing,” said Johnson. “We saw kids running, kids with their dads, and we were like, that’s the next step.”

“Yes, we are romantics,” said Makokis in an interview before the race.

The two-spirit aboriginal men said they were pleased to declare their love out in the open for all the city to witness while also promoting exercise as time well spent together. Talk about relationship goals.

“We are also role-modelling for people of our nations and other communities,” said Makokis, a family physician from the Saddle Lake Cree Nation.

“Doing this in Vancouver was an opportunity for us to be visible, as gay men, as two-sprit men and as indigenous peoples, as young people. It’s important for us to have visibility,” said Johnson, who is Navajo and spent his teen years in Phoenix before graduating from Harvard and then moving to Brooklyn. “This is the city we fell in love in last year.”

Johnson moved north from the U.S. to live with his fiancé outside Edmonton where they run a technologically advanced, conservation-minded, agrarian-based homestead.

“We’ve always been adventurous in our relationship,” said Johnson.

They will have two more ceremonies, both of them more traditional celebrations closer to their respective homes. @MHStewart

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Six-year-old basset hound Gertie beat out 12 canine finalists to play the part of Crab in Bard on the Beach’s upcoming production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona.

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After a grueling round of auditions — yes, think American Idol — one dog bested 12 finalists to play the part of Crab in Bard on the Beach’s upcoming production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona.

Gertie, a six-year-old basset hound, will be the first dog to appear on the Bard stages since 2001.

The stakes are high, but the play’s production team is confident that they chose the right thespian for this amazing “paw-portunity.”

“Gertie impressed the entire judging panel,” said Scott Bellis, the play’s director, in a press release. “She has that magic combination of good looks, smarts and an unflappable personality. I’m looking forward to putting

her through her paces and introducing her to Bard audiences this summer. I predict she’ll be a breakout star.”

Like Shakespeare’s dog in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Gertie’s head is “hung with ears that sweep away the morning dew.”

Before this shot at stardom, Gertie was just an ordinary hound dog. She loves to smell everything and is not a discerning eater — she has consumed at least 12 socks in her lifetime.

Aside from working to be the next big thing, Gertie is said to enjoy hiking, snowshoeing, sticking her head through strangers’ legs and regurgitating things she shouldn’t have eaten.

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The Spot Prawn Festival, a free, foodie-friendly festival, returns to the False Creek Fishermen’s Wharf on Saturday, May 13.

Eight different B.C. chefs, including Taryn Wa, will be presenting spot prawn cooking demonstrations throughout the day.

To help get people in the mood for one of Vancouver’s most anticipated culinary seasons, she is sharing

one of her favourite spot prawn recipes with the Courier’s readers.

“My sister-in-law is Korean so over the years I’ve learned a lot about Korean food,” she says. “Her mom makes the best Korean savoury pancakes I’ve

ever had — crisp and light with a nice spicy dipping sauce. You often see these made with mixed seafood.

However, in this recipe we’re only using beautiful sweet spot prawns. It can be part of a meal or a snack with beer.”

KOREAN SPOT PRAWN AND GREEN ONION PANCAKE WITH A SPICY & SWEET SOY DIPPING SAUCE TARYN WA PANCAKES 1/2 cup (125 ml) all-purpose flour 1/2 cup (125 ml) rice flour 1/2 tsp (2.5 ml) baking powder 1 tsp (5 ml) kosher or sea salt 1/2 tsp (2.5 ml) sugar 1 cup (250 ml) cold water 1 egg 1 tsp (5 ml) soybean paste 1 green onion, finely sliced 1/2 lb live spot prawns, heads removed & peeled Grapeseed oil for frying

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Lifetime Volunteer of the Year SANDRA THOMAS sthomas@vancourier.com

Commitment, passion, energy, flexibility, creativity and, above all, reliability — these are just some of the qualities that make up a truly great volunteer.

To that end, Lifetime magazine, produced by the Vancouver Courier, is launching its second annual Senior Volunteer of the Year Award, presented by Opal by Element Lifestyle Retirement Community.

The award was created to recognize seniors who exemplify those qualities and use them to help others, whether that’s teaching a class, working a till at a thrift store, cooking, knitting, helping out at a community centre, well, you name it.

Lifetime is dedicated to baby boomers and seniors living in this city.

In 2016, the winner was Lorna Gibbs, 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 even 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 much-needed seniors centre in South Vancouver.

To that end, you don’t have to build a seniors centre to win.

Lifetime is looking for someone who regularly

volunteers, is 55 years old or older, and lives and volunteers in the City of Vancouver. Anyone nominated who does not live and volunteer in Vancouver will not qualify to be included. The winner will be chosen by a diverse panel made up from of volunteers and paid employees from across the city.

Like last year, the 2017 Lifetime Volunteer of the Year will receive a multi-day tour/vacation, valued at more than $5,000, courtesy of Ageless Adventures. Stong’s Markets is also contributing grocery gift certificates to be given as prizes at the third annual Lifetime Seniors

Talks and Tables event Sept. 20. This free event will once again include fun and instructional demonstrations, booths offering information on supports, services and seniors-related topics, and timely talks.

So, if you know a special person who willingly gives of themself to enrich the lives of others, visit vancourier.com, fill in the nomination form and submit it alongside a supporting letter with details by email to either sthomas@ vancourier.com or bfoot@ vancourier.com or mail to Lifetime, 303 West 5th Ave., Vancouver B.C., V5Y 1J6.

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Expert says cultural differences should be recognized when it comes to hearing loss It was in 2006 when Benson Hsu published his thesis at the University of B.C. entitled, “Chinese and Western cultural differences in seniors’ attitudes and beliefs concerning hearing loss and related coping strategies.”

Hsu is still working in the field of audiology. The Courier caught up with Hsu to find out where his research stands today.

The study provided exploratory data and analyses to address the question whether Chinese and Western seniors differ in their attitudes and beliefs regarding hearing loss and related coping strategies.

Fast forward to 2017 and

From a geographical point of view, given the significant Chinese-Canadian population residing in the Lower Mainland, any additional insights into Chinese seniors would be immediately relevant and potentially beneficial to

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the communities in close proximity to UBC. On a personal level, being from a Chinese/Taiwanese background myself, it is of tremendous interest to see how traditional Chinese concepts and ideas influence the ways in which people deal with hearing impairment against the backdrop of a modern, pluralistic Western society such as the one we find in Vancouver.

Were there any immediate differences you found between Chinese and Western cultures when it comes to hearing loss?

Yes. In general, ChineseCanadian seniors are less knowledgeable about the professional (e.g., audiologists) help that is available in the management

of their hearing issues and have less experience with hearing rehabilitation devices such as hearing aids than their Euro-Canadian counterparts. This is in spite of the fact that many of the Chinese participants had already lived in Canada for nine years or more at the time of survey.

Can you expand on: 1 The causes of hearing loss and the degree of control they have over its development Euro-Canadian seniors tended to associate past career activities with the development of age-related hearing loss more than their Chinese-Canadian counterparts. On the other hand, Chinese seniors tended to agree more strongly than their Western counterparts that hearing

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loss is a natural part of the aging process consistent with Chinese culture’s intrinsic respect for the elderly individuals in the society.

However, contrary to traditional Chinese medical beliefs, Chinese-Canadian seniors did not seem to think that one’s lifelong eating habits play a major role in the development of agerelated hearing loss any more so than their Euro-Canadian counterparts.

2 Factors that might constitute obstacles to using hearing aids The impact of age-related hearing loss on the daily lives of Chinese seniors could be somewhat masked by aspects of the Chinese culture (e.g., talking louder in public than Western seniors) and the Chinese languages (i.e., higher ratios of vowels compared to European languages); b) hearing loss and ways of seeking help are not popular conversational topics during social gatherings of Chinese elderly people; c) (partly as a consequence of the previous two factors) Chinese-Canadian seniors generally possess less knowledge about hearing loss and potential treatment options compared to their Euro-Canadian peers.

3 The helpfulness of family members and the necessity of seeking professional attention in dealing with hearing loss Chinese seniors would be more likely to think that family members are more helpful than health care professionals when it comes to hearing loss, while the opposite belief would be usually true for a typical Western elderly person.

What advice can you give to younger family members when it comes to hearing loss in elderly Chinese relatives?

I think the key is to educate their elderly relatives about the nature and effects of hearing loss as well as the variety of help that is available to them in a Western society, as ChineseCanadian seniors tend to be less aware about these matters. Due to the Chinese observance of a familial hierarchy, this form of informal “counselling” from younger family members should be approached in such a way as to make their elderly family members feel respected at all time to maximize the chance that relevant information will be properly received and well retained. Should the daily problems associated with hearing loss become more noticeable, then the young people should also become more vocal about their elderly relatives seeking professional help, which typically begins with a thorough audiological assessment to determine the nature and extent of the hearing impairment. It is paramount for the young people to make it clear, through BOTH words and actions, that they will walk beside their elderly relatives in this journey and will provide any physical and emotional supports necessary to help the elderly relatives hear better again.

Such family support would be helpful for any hardof-hearing individual, but is especially crucial for Chinese-Canadian seniors due to their tendency to rely more heavily on family members when it comes to health care issues.

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WEEKLY FORECAST: MAY 14 - 20, 2017 Someone is attracted to you, might make it known soon. Keep making money, Aries. Buy/sell, ask for a pay raise, work longer hours, cultivate more clients, hold a garage sale, etc. You’re especially ambitious Sun./Mon. Monday’s great — promises future rewards for present actions. (Remember, you might change careers/jobs anytime this decade and early next — you might get a whiff of this future scent midday Monday [PDT].)

This is your last week of mystery, research, medical problems, large financial actions, and sexual yearning, Libra.

A strong relationship streak winds through the whole month of May — you’re fighting with, loving, or dreaming of someone special. (And if you’re a Gemini Moon or rising, with two or several special connections.) Strictly avoid lawsuits before June 4. Sunday/Monday call you to home, family. Garden, renovate, repair, decorate, hug the kids, vacation, rest and feed your soul.

The general accent lies on you, for one last week.

Get out, mingle, start ventures, contact and impress others, seek co-operation, be the leader.

Money flows very swiftly to you now: make sure there isn’t a spending spree that wipes out all the gains. You have some important dealings with the gov’t, your company’s head office, or some other bureaucracy — in one instance to mid-month; in another situation, to early June.

Relationships, opportunities, fresh horizons, negotiating, agreeing or litigating, making friends or enemies — this is the last week these are emphasized, Scorpio, so if you want to make headway here or “seal a deal,” do it soon. (Monday pm, Wed., morning and early afternoon Thurs., and Fri. morning — all PDT — are your best times to press forward, seek co-operation — or, more importantly, to offer it.) Errands, calls, visits, paperwork and details fill Sun./Monday.

Continue to lie low, rest, dream and contemplate and plan. Remain charitable, spiritual. Deal with gov’t agencies and similar places (e.g., hospitals). Saturday afternoon will begin a month of great success for you, and perhaps great love.

Meanwhile, live up to your obligations, especially to people who are “challenged.” Life’s secrets, lures and hunches fill you Sun./Mon. Investigate, research or seek a medical diagnosis.

This is your last week of chores and daily (or light) health concerns, Sage. Even so, a strong streak of romance and relationship zig-zags through this week and month. Read Libra, Aries, Gemini messages for clues. Saturday will start a whole month of relationship excitement. Chase money Sun./Mon. — despite a couple of bumps, you’ll succeed. Buy/ sell, cultivate clients, etc. (If buying, do it Mon. pm, especially if it’s machinery/tools.)

Centerm Expansion Project Public Consultation - May 15 to June 2, 2017 We want to hear from you You’re invited to learn more about and provide feedback on proposed project construction activities, details regarding a proposed community investment program, and how we considered feedback from Round 1 consultation (February 20 - March 24, 2017).

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.

You can learn more and provide feedback by: The main accent remains on optimism, social pleasures, flirtation and light romance — you’re happy!

(Still, you have some serious work to do in your career zone — good work, so don’t neglect it.) Relationships fill Sun./Mon., and one might be deeply exciting (Monday?). Some Cancers might even meet their future life mate now. (Say, 1 in 15 Cancers.) Be co-operative, eager to join, rather than challenging others (for they have the upper hand for now).

The general accent lies on romance, creativity, love, children and their talents, beauty, sports/games, gambles (of the heart, too) and pleasure. A romance that begins now could last a little longer than you think. This is your last week of play and love and pleasure, so plunge in now — lots of work starts Saturday!

(Actually, there’s already a fair amount of work facing you, especially in the home arena — repairs, renos?)

Your home/family remain affectionate, talkative.

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You remain concerned with career, your community status, prestige relations, and interfaces with authorities, from parents to bosses to judges. (A strong legal, travel, intellectual, media or love streak or “interest” is operating also, and will resolve itself favourably for you, perhaps by mid-May to early June.) Dive into chores and protect your daily health (sniffles, etc.) with sensible eating and dressing, Sun./Mon. Monday’s better — you’ll finish a big pile of jobs.

You’re still tied to home, whether physically or in heart, for six more days. Saturday begins a month of romance, creativity and pleasure. Actually, a romantic “fire” might have already been lit, as far back as late April. It could be marked by lots of emails, etc., back and forth. But for now, family and home matters loom large. This is an excellent, stable week, one in which to wrap up home affairs, seek cures/therapy, attack the lawn, plan a new diet/nutrition, hug the kids, etc.

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Life remains mellow, thoughtful. Hints of long trips surround you. Perhaps a friend wants you to accompany him/her. Legal, media, intellectual, cultural and international themes fill this week, as they did the last few.

Soldier on in these areas: nothing’s opposing you there.

A strong sexual and financial streak continues all May; this might make you re-think your life-style. Sunday/ Monday are for love, romance, beauty, creativity, sports/ games, risk-taking, and immediate pleasure.

This is your last week of “fluff,” Pisces — easy but unimportant chores, errands, calls and visits, paperwork, and casual acquaintances. Saturday will begin a month of quietude, home, rest and “soul replenishing.”

Your home is already a bit problematic, with some friction — a state that lasts until June 4. Your money luck remains good all month. A wish could come true Sun./ Mon. — your optimism soars, your popularity rises, and flirtations, entertainment and social joys visit you.

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Traffic critic didn’t count on getting fined for using math

Brendan McAleer

only engineers licensed to practise in the state are allowed to call themselves professional engineers. You can be a trained engineer – Jarlstrom is an electrical engineer – and get fined for saying you are, unless you’re licensed in Oregon.

It’s a weird case, and not the first time something like this has happened. A retired engineer was fined in Oregon when he wrote to complain about his flooded basement.

His letter said he was a professional engineer (accurate, even if retired), so instead of sending help, they fined him.

Oregon-related weirdness aside, I personally would welcome more red-light cameras, assuming they were properly

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Oregon man fined for using math

Engineer Mats Jarlstrom has a problem with redlight cameras. In his view, the timing used to catch violators is incorrect, and doesn’t take into account people slowing for a left or right-hand turn. Speaking publicly on the matter, he used mathematics to show how the model was flawed.

Then he got fined.

According to a weird law in Oregon, debating using mathematical methods is only for professional engineers. Another weird loophole means that

Nissan Leaf takes on Mongolia

calibrated. Whether it’s distracted drivers or an increase in traffic making everyone late, it seems like there’s been an increase in the number of red-light runners, which is dangerous for other drivers, motorcyclists, and pedestrians – basically everybody.

But you’d have to set them up right. You’d probably want to talk to an engineer.

The U.K. to Mongolia rally is one of the most challenging long distance endurance races in the world.

I interviewed a couple of Canadian women who managed it in a Subaru Crosstrek a few years ago, but tackling it in an electric car?

Happily, the Mongolian

rally isn’t a timed event, so the finishers just have to finish. Stopping for a charge isn’t a problem.

What is a problem is the rough terrain, so the team at Plug In Adventures has created the Leaf AT-EV, or all-terrain electric vehicle. It’s armoured underneath, and is lifted for better ground

clearance. There’s a set of narrow, rally-spec tires, and auxiliary lighting to pierce the darkness.

Given that EVs are relatively simple, the team should have a pretty good shot of going without mechanical issue. If they can pull it off, it’ll be just one more example that the future really is electric.

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