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More headscratching, less headbanging at Media Club John Kurucz

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Raise your hand if you think operating a live music venue without ever being able to use amplification sounds like a good idea.

Or permitting some styles of music, while not allowing others.

Those are the types of topsy-turvy scenarios Media Club manager David Mawhinney says he’s gone through over the past four years at the cityowned facility.

Faced with the impending closure of the Cambie Street venue, Mawhinney is now hoping a last-second petition will salvage the venue’s future.

“People are not happy,” Mawhinney told the Courier.

“Show-goers are definitely not happy, but I think it’s more devastating for a lot of bands.

The smaller bands, where are they going to go play next?”

Located at 655 Cambie St., the bar and surrounding property near the Queen Elizabeth Theatre are the subject of a proposal by the Browns Restaurant Group, which would transform the space into a restaurant, patio

and re-purposed live music space below where the Media Club currently operates.

Somewhat astonishingly, the city’s 2015 request for proposal that kicked off the process stipulated that “no live interior performance will use amplification.”

The petition to keep the venue alive is being spearheaded by Joey Hockin, whose Journeyman Productions promotional company has done roughly 20 shows there in the last year. The gigs are predominantly metal and punk, and Hockin sees the Media Club as one of the lone options in the city for a variety of reasons: its proximity to transit, size (capacity is around 150) and the venue’s sound system.

There’s also the issue of the city’s dearth of live music venues, particularly those that book smaller shows and aren’t adverse to hosting metal or punk bands.

“Anyone can play there regardless of genre — it doesn’t matter how extreme, weird or unpopular it is, you can put on a show there,” said Hockin. “There are minimal costs involved to play a gig there.”

Joey Hockin (right) has a petition circulating to keep the Media Club, which is run by David Mawhinney, operating in its current state. PHOTO KEVIN EISENLORD

Having taken over the bar four years ago, Mawhinney said the Media Club has been operating on a year-toyear lease with the city since 2011. He said he received notice last year that the lease wouldn’t be renewed.

Browns spokesperson Bruce Fox noted his company’s sensitivity to the situation. He said live music will continue in the Media Club but conceded how and what that looks like is very much up in the air. Fox said the city is taking the lead on what type of music programming will play out in the space.

“The city is going to tell us, in terms of what they will require as a minimum,” Fox

said. “We’re kind of at their mercy in terms of that. We’ll do the best we can. We’re not music programmers and we don’t do that kind of stuff, but we’ll do the best we can to provide as much interesting live entertainment as makes business sense.”

Fox’s suggestion that the city has any hand in selecting the music is sharply at odds with the city’s version of things. In an email to the Courier, civic theatres director Sandra Gajic said the city “doesn’t influence programming at any venues.”

When asked about the nature of public feedback around the proposal, Gajic added, “People are very

excited about Browns Social House... Media Club will remain the live music venue and is not part of the restaurant.”

Vancouver rock band Hazel Blackburn doesn’t see it that way. They voiced their opposition to the Browns proposal in an email to the city, part of which reads: “The continued hollowing out of the city and its arts community is a shameful, short-sighted strategy which will hurt Vancouver’s reputation as a world class city, degrade civic life and engagement [and] accelerate the flight of the creative class.”

It’s that kind of disconnect that has Mawhinney calling shenanigans. He’s mystified that six other pubs and casual dining restaurants are already located within a quick walk from the Media Club and yet the city needs more offerings in that vein in that area.

He’s asked for help from a handful of councillors, though only Coun. George Affleck has heard him out.

A request for comment from Coun. Heather Deal, who sits on the city’s arts and culture policy council, was not returned.

Mawhinney said he’s been in touch with staff from Browns to explore partnerships for music programming at the space and was left with the feeling that it will be cover bands and jazz exclusively. While the city says live music will remain at the Media Club, Mawhinney said that argument is rooted in semantics rather than musical diversity.

“Browns is just doing what any big company would do given the opportunity,” he said. “It’s ultimately on the city council members who don’t particularly care about this form of art in the city.”

Even the timelines associated with project are seemingly askew. Gaijc suggests the space will be operational later this year. Fox, meanwhile, says the fall of 2018 is more likely. “We’re really waiting for [the city] to define what they’re willing to set as a minimum standard [for live music] because we don’t understand what the minimum is,” Fox said.

Editor’s note: John Kurucz is a musician and has performed at the Media Club.

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The benchmark definition of “affordable housing” in Vancouver took an interesting, if not depressing, turn last week.

Vancouver city council approved more than 200 new rental homes across pockets of East Vancouver and Oakridge, with oh-soaffordable rates ranging between $1,250 a month for a studio apartment and $1,650 for a one-bedroom suite.

The project at Kingsway and Gladstone Street calls for 45 studio suites at $1,256 per month, 18 one-bedroom suites for $1,654 per month, 31 twobedroom units for $2,079 per month and seven threebedroom suites for $2,603 per month.

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A trio of three-storey townhouse buildings with 20 three-bedroom townhomes were also approved on Willow Street between 38th and 41st avenues.

“The city is working tenaciously to approve and build new affordable housing as we reset our housing policy, so people who live and work in Vancouver can afford to stay here and put down roots,” Mayor Gregor Robertson said in a news release. “These new rental homes will give young people and growing families in East Vancouver and Oakridge more affordable housing options, and keep those neighbourhoods liveable and vibrant now and into the future.”

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Although the bird popularity contest of 2017 was a tongue-in-cheek campaign, the mission of the city’s bird strategy is more serious, said city councillor Andrea Reimer.

“All birds are indicators of ecological health,” she said, elaborating on the metaphor of putting a canary in a coal mine. “You could put the name of any bird in that sentence and you would have an appropriate indication for the health of an ecosystem.”

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In 1882, John James Audubon met Anna Masséna, also known as the Princess d’Essling and Duchess of Rivoli, in Paris.

He described her as “a beautiful young woman, not more than 20, extremely graceful and polite.”

Five years earlier, young Anna had married Francois Victor Masséna who, along with his collection of grand titles, was an amateur ornithologist who accumulated 12,500 bird specimens.

One of them was an unidentified hummingbird.

Audubon wasn’t the only one smitten by Anna’s beauty. She also caught the eye of René-Primevere Lesson, a surgeon and naturalist who in 1882 left France for a four-year journey that took him to South America and up the Pacific coast.

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No marked police cars and fewer uniformed officers will march in the Vancouver Pride Parade this summer, a decision reached after nearly a year of discussion initiated by activists with Black Lives Matter.

After 10 months consulting roughly 300 people, the Vancouver Pride Society (VPS) announced May 18 it committed to what it considered a middle ground where “both marginalized members of our community and members of police” can “walk side by side in the Pride Parade.”

Black Lives Matter did not protest the Vancouver Pride Parade, as if did in Toronto with a sit-in that halted the march for 30 minutes; rather it launched a petition this winter saying uniformed police represent systems of oppression and should not take part in Pride, which is itself a protest.

The Pride Society will limit the number of officers in the parade but will not bar them.

Officers of the Vancouver Police Department, regional RCMP and Corrections Canada employees will join municipal entries, such as the City of Vancouver, rather than have their own floats.

The majority of officers will wear T-shirts. One in five officers will wear uniforms and carry weapons, including those “who are visible in the community,” according to the VPD. In response, Black Lives Matter-Vancouver issued a statement saying, “Nothing has changed under this decision except a few performative tweaks.”

The activists’ criticism was sharp. The society “failed us,” they wrote in a May 18

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They directed their most pointed criticisms at the institution of policing.

“Worse still, are the police themselves. Yes, we feel betrayed and angry with VPS but we understand that their ultimate goal is to plan events for the LGBTQ/2S community. The police, globally and locally, are an oppressive institution that have no place in a parade for marginalized groups…

It really begs the question, WHY are the police so insistent on marching in the Pride parade?”

The Vancouver Police Department issued a statement saying they were proud to march in the parade for a 21st year.

The Pride Society, which is led by a volunteer board, acknowledged not all people feel safe or secure around police. The society recognized a uniformed officer symbolically stands for systems of racial and colonial oppression.

“We heard from some queer indigenous people, queer black folks, members of the trans community and LGBTQ2+ people of colour that they do not always feel safe around police, and that policing organizations — like other public institutions, businesses and community organizations — still have work to do when it comes to being more inclusive and building trust with marginalized communities,” said the society’s statement.

They also applauded the work of Vancouver police and the department’s ongoing effort to build respectful, trustworthy connections.

“We also heard support for the police to participate and appreciation for the work they have done to date to engage with community and break down barriers,” said the society.

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• divert commuter cyclists to either Seventh or 14th avenues and create a new north/south route west of Oak to make that easier.

• create and enhance drop-off loading areas for patients who arrive by car or Handydart, and increase the loading time from three to 10 minutes.

• add to the number of disabled parking spots.

• make West 10th one way westbound from Cambie to Ash. • enhance street and pavement signage to make people aware they are in a hospital district.

• improve safety at key intersections.

Jacques Courteau spoke in favour of the plan on behalf of the persons with disabilities advisory committee. “At first there was the perception that there was a lack of understanding of how it would impact people with disabilities,” he said.

When Vancouver Coastal Health, which manages several of the facilities, and the B.C. Cancer Agency became involved in December, “they really started to talk about these issues in meaningful ways.... It was a major breakthrough for Vancouver General Hospital to provide access to their land to move the sidewalk.”

The process wasn’t easy — “everyone wanted to give a little and everyone wanted to get a lot” — but Courteau recommends that the collaborative approach becomes the best practice for the city in the future.

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Colleen McGuinness was working for the City of Vancouver’s economic development office when the hospital district along West 10th Avenue was created as a way to strengthen and enhance the city’s healthcare services.

Little did they imagine that, decades later, so many cyclists would also be using the street as a safe east/ west corridor. If they had, she said, they would have planned it differently.

At May 17’s council meeting, in her role as chair of the seniors advisory committee, she supported — with caveats — the city’s new plan to make the four-block corridor safer for patients, pedestrians, drivers and cyclists.

Barbara Pringle also once worked for the city. She helped to write the Greenways plan to make Vancouver a more walkable and bikeable city, a goal she’s still passionate about.

Little did she imagine that she would be diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis and have two serious illnesses, the after-effects of which would result in visiting the health precinct five times a month. She knows what it’s like to be in such all-encompassing pain that when you get out of your car outside the Mary Pack arthritis centre your brain can’t compute there’s a cyclist coming towards you, let alone propel your legs to get out of the way.

She spoke at council against the plan. By allowing bikes on the corridor, she said, the city is not doing enough to protect vulnerable patients who have to be there.

“We find the journey to get help difficult and painful,” she told councillors, echoing the comments of another speaker who said that if the city could close a portion of Point Grey Road to make it safer for cyclists they could close a portion of West 10th to make it safer for patients. “Unfortunately, most of the changes [to the plan] still do not meet our needs.”

At the end of the threehour meeting, councillors voted 8-2 in favour of the 10-point plan. The two dissenters were NPA councillors George Affleck, who had wanted to pass only parts of the plan, and Melissa De Genova.

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THE VANCOUVER COURIER T H U R SDAY, M AY 2 5 , 2 0 1 7

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s I waited for the final count on the provincial election, I had cause to turn my attention to yet another round of voting in another election. It was one that received less attention, perhaps, but one that was equally filled with contradictions and conspiracy theories. It was a ballot box battle that could cause as big a flap as the City of Vancouver’s disastrous first launch of their new logo.

A spokesperson for the other three contestants, a Miss Avian S. Peacock, explained that clearly what the citizens of Vancouver were expressing in that vote was a desire that all the candidates work collaboratively and that no single bird species should hold the title.

I am referring to the competition to name the city’s official bird. Unlike in years past when the title was given for just 12 months, so that any misstep or embarrassment caused by the winner could soon be forgotten, this time the position was to be permanent, making the competition more fierce and subject to even more scrutiny.

Charges have been leveled about the secrecy of the selection process that resulted in choosing the four birds in the running. Oversight seems to have been scarcer than hen’s teeth.

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Anna’s hummingbird (top right) received only 42 per cent of ballots cast in the city bird vote — nowhere near a clear majority. This has caused a bit of a flap.

competing for the title were the Anna’s hummingbird, the northern flicker, the varied thrush and the spotted towhee.

When that list was recently read out by Rick Cluff, the host of CBC radio’s Early Edition, the astute weather and traffic reporter Amy Bell expressed a view many of you may share. “I haven’t heard of any of them. What about the crow?” Indeed. And, I might add, what about the beloved bushtit?

Who was this secret murmuration that made the selection?

They certainly seemed to have laid an egg.

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that the title comes with no remuneration, although I suspect there may be city staff support provided the winner and a stipend offered for occasional tweets.

As you may know, the bird with the most votes was the Anna’s hummingbird. However, it received only 42 per cent of the ballots cast and therefore nowhere near a clear majority. The northern flicker received 32 per cent, the varied thrush 15 per cent and the spotted towhee 11 per cent. All of which has caused a bit of a flap.

There are allegations — as yet unproven in court — of big money playing a role in selecting the winning candidate.

Consider that the most recent Birder’s Guide to Vancouver featured the Anna’s hummingbird on its cover.

Call me as crazy as a loon, but I’m forced to ask whether this was recorded as a campaign donation.

A spokesperson for the other three contestants, a Miss Avian S. Peacock, explained that clearly what the citizens of Vancouver were expressing in that vote was a desire that all the candidates work collaboratively and that no single bird species should hold the title.

Failing that, and realizing that the hummingbird has a well-deserved reputation as a bully, she said, the flicker, the thrush and the towhee are now negotiating a coalition deal among themselves, which they will present to council, that points out they received the majority of public support and are prepared to work together.

There is another point, although I hesitate to ruffle feathers by raising it. Just who is this Anna’s hummingbird capturing the populist sentiment sweeping the globe?

It is a recent immigrant to our fair city.

Thirty years ago the authoritative publication Birds of Vancouver and the Lower Mainland made no mention of the Anna’s at all. Only the smaller rufous hummingbird took up residence here and only for a few months of the year at that.

Meanwhile, the Anna’s carries on as if it is the only cock of this particular walk.

Of all the four birds in this competition, only the Anna’s male refuses to help with child rearing. The other males split the duties and sometimes do more than their share.

So by choosing the Anna’s, what does that say in a city that prides itself over issues of equity and understands the value of child care?

Furthermore, the Anna’s male is a shameless philanderer. And don’t forget his anger management problems. He is on record as driving the mothers of his children away from feeding stations during their brief break while tending the young.

Let’s hope the city gets its ducks in a row before the chickens come home to roost on this one. @allengarr

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Why are single-family homes ‘sacred’?

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Why do so many people continue to protect the sacred single-family home?

This was the question posed last week by four young, forward-looking municipal councillors to an audience gathered in a North Vancouver public library.

The event was the third in a series of discussions called Metro Conversations.

Each event brings together a broad panel offering different perspectives.

I was invited to share the perspective of an architect and developer.

Past events have discussed the prickly topic of regulating Airbnb and other similar vacation rental programs, and how do we ensure that people at different income levels have access to rental housing they can afford?

At last week’s discussion, I was joined by Krista Tulloch, who had served on the North Vancouver District Official Community Plan Implementation Committee, Cameron Maltby, a custom home designer, and planner and educator Neal LaMontagne.

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Examples included frontand-back or side-by-side duplexes designed to look like larger houses, laneway or coach houses, townhouses, and even small apartment buildings.

In most municipalities, obtaining approval to build these types of in-fill housing is often too difficult. It is so much easier to simply build a large, new single-family house. Local governments therefore need to update their policies and bylaws to allow greater housing choices.

However, with singlefamily lots selling for $1.5 million or more, even if zoning approvals can be more easily obtained to allow these forms of housing, the resulting housing is not going to be affordable for those earning modest incomes and struggling to find a home.

I offered, as an example, that even if a single-family

lot could be rezoned for a 10-suite apartment building, the land cost per apartment is likely going to be hundreds of thousands of dollars, with construction and other ‘soft costs’ on top of that.

Not surprisingly, the topics of traffic and parking also came up. It was the panel’s consensus that as public transit improves and areas become more walkable, even if densities increase, the amount of required parking may turn out to be less.

This would be particularly true if neighbourhood corner stores, schools, and small childcare facilities could be integrated with new housing.

Is this likely to happen?

I am more optimistic today than I was 30 years ago when I first started to rezone single-family properties for new housing choices. Why? Because many of those who opposed rezonings at that time are the ones now seeking smaller houses, duplexes, townhouses, and small apartments in their neighbourhoods. @michaelgeller

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North Vancouver District councillor Mathew Bond, who organized the event, noted that like all communities in Metro Vancouver, his municipality’s residential areas are largely dedicated to single-family housing. He questioned whether they were limiting the opportunity for more affordable housing options in North Vancouver District and elsewhere around Metro Vancouver.

The panel was also asked what are we trying to protect when it comes to single-family zoned areas.

We generally agreed that for many, neighbourhood character is most important.

In single-family neighbourhoods, this is often seen as the size of houses and setbacks, and the amount of landscaping, green space and trees.

However, it was noted that neighbourhood character is also a function of resident composition. Are there children playing in the streets and front yards? Are there people walking along the sidewalks? Is there a sense of community or are too many houses vacant?

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News Thieves hit VIVO Media Arts Centre Artist-run centre raised $1,200 in two hours for urgent security upgrades Megan Stewart

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A smash-and-grab theft has left the VIVO Media Arts Centre short thousands of dollars in equipment and damage to its building on Kaslo Street.

Thieves broke into the not-for-profit, artistrun centre on May 13.

They came through the front door and targeted the main office, taking digitization equipment, computers, hardware, headphones and other equipment.

An online fundraiser generated more than $1,200 in two hours after it was posted May 18 by Karen Knights, a curator and arts critic on the management team at VIVO. It’s now at more than $6,200, surpassing its $5,000 goal.

“For most non-profits, losses like these are devastating. It certainly is for us. We need funds urgently to get back to

full capacity and to secure the valuable resource that you have all helped build over the years,” Knight wrote on a GoFundMe page where she was appealing for emergency funding to install new security on the entrance.

VIVO opens its doors to a wide range of activity, including media arts production, distribution education, public programs and entertainment. Previously located on Main Street, the centre moved east four years ago to Kaslo Street near East Broadway.

In the Crista Dahl Media Library, VIVO houses the largest archive of video art in western Canada.

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“Staff and volunteers are working hard to re-establish all data and systems, and to make our space more safe and secure in the future.

Some of our operations are limited as a result, and we ask for your patience as we get things back to normal.”

She laid out the “urgent” next steps, primarily upgrades to security alarms and front entrance barriers.

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“Since the thieves managed to break in despite our perimeter security fence and alarm system, we are immediately upgrading our security measures with the money raised through this campaign.”

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VFS opens state-of-the-art performance capture facility New technology viewed as a game changer in the gaming world and beyond John Kurucz

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As first blush, it seems anything but extravagant — a bunch of padded walls and cameras contained in a room the size of an elementary school gym.

But the work getting turned out of the facility is touted as the new next big thing in the world of TV, movies and video games.

The Vancouver Film School (VFS) rolled out a new performance capture facility May 18 that has school officials abuzz with talk of Emmys, Oscars and the like.

“This is the only film school in the world where you can get this training,” said VFS executive producer Christopher Bennett.

“Someone’s going to get an Oscar in the world of performance capture, and it’s going to get done here.”

Performance capture is different than traditional motion capture — think Gollum from the Lord of the Rings movies — because it can capture sound, body

Graham Qually, president of Mimic Performance Capture, with one of the 40 cameras mounted in the new performance capture space at VFS. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

movements and other nuances. The technology is the type of application that has bigwigs projecting its reach could be well into the billions of dollars.

Graham Qually’s company Mimic Performance

Capture Inc. has partnered with VFS to bring the room and the technology to life.

Because of the rapidlychanging world of digital landscape creation, Qually suggests there are about 100 people in the tech sector

nation-wide who have a firm grasp on performance capture. Only one other facility exists in Canada, and it’s located in Toronto.

At just 35, Qually is on the cusp of the performance capture boom. He put in

more than a decade working for international video game giants before going it on his own earlier this year.

The Vancouver resident entered into talks with VFS earlier this year and ground was broken on the project in late February.

“Working with a big company was like trying to turn a large battleship, but working with students is like working speedboats,” Qually said. “They want to do all types of stuff and they’re the ones who will keep us on top of this type of stuff and ahead of the curve. No billion-dollar company is going to take a risk to try certain types of new ideas. Students don’t have that fear.”

VFS students get 40 days’ worth of training in the performance capture studio and that training supplements their discipline of choice: animation, acting, directing, editing and more. Depending on what grads specialize in, six-figure salaries are common, if not expected. The school’s alumni has its

fingerprints all over Hollywood, with numerous credits on everything from The Hobbit and Star Wars franchises to the animated movie Frozen and Game of Thrones.

The facility is fully soundproofed to the point that the walls and doors operate on gaskets to eliminate any possibility of vibrations or sound interference. Forty cameras surround the room, and each costs $25,000 a pop.

Even before the facility opened, an 18-month waitlist had developed with clients ranging from Electronic Arts to Microsoft. Qually said he’s meeting with executives from massive companies the world over who want a piece of the action.

“I’m not getting animators contacting me,” Qually said. “I’m getting CEOs, CFOs and presidents contacting me and saying, ‘I need to see this, I need to know what you’re working on.’” @JohnKurucz

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Vancouver International Children’s Festival MAY 29-JUNE 4 “Fred Heads”will be happy to hear Fred Penner is one of the headliners of the Vancouver International Children’s Festival taking place at various locations across Granville Island May 29 to June 4.

And while Penner started out as a children’s entertainer, many of those kids have since grown up but still attend his shows, often times bringing their own sons and daughters to hear his music.

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RECORD COURAGE: For the 12th consecutive year, philanthropist Lorne Segal chaired Coast Mental Health’s Courage to Come Back Awards. Presented by Wheaton Precious Metals (previously Silver Wheaton) with Glacier Media as one of the sponsors, the event drew 1,500 guests to the Vancouver Convention Centre in celebration of six individuals and their extraordinary stories of triumph over adversity. Deborah Carter (Addiction), Esther Matsubuchi (Social Adversity), John Westhaver (Physical Rehabilitation), Stephen Scott (Medical), Rachel Fehr (Mental Health) and Richard Quan (Youth) were feted for their extraordinary bravery and determination in their recovery.

Their remarkable stories of courage inspired drew more than $1.63 million in donations to support and promote recovery of those dealing with mental health issues in B.C. For a longer version of this column, go to vancourier.com.

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Community leader Lorne Segal chaired the annual Courage to Come Back Awards, which raised a record-setting $1.63 million for Coast Mental Health, a far cry from the modest $14,000 gala founder Shirley Broadfoot brought in nearly 20 years ago.

Courage to Come Back Physical Rehabilitation award recipient John Westhaver received congratulations from Telus’s Cathy Baan and businessman Mel Cooper. Westhaver, a burn survivor, today shares his extraordinary story with others in hopes of making a difference.

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Jason Puder remembers a time not all that long ago dominated by red ball caps, khaki pants and the awful lyrical refrain demanding that the listener “break stuff.”

Not unlike the early ’90s when grunge was king, the early 2000s saw heavy metal crawl back into its underground recesses, relegated to uber uncool status.

It’s around that time that Puder made the shift from punker to full-time metalhead, eschewing Limp Bizkit’s affront on all things metal. He’s now seen the cycle of cool travel full circle.

Puder is the promoter and brainchild of this week’s Modified Ghost Festival, the largest Canadian metal festival this side of Montreal.

Bands from across the world will be represented over the four-day festival, representing geographic jumping off points including Tasmania, Sweden and all corners of Canada and the U.S. A healthy contingent of Vancouver-based bands are also represented over the course of the fourday fest, which runs May 25 to 28 at both the Red Room and Rickshaw.

That the festival is even happening says something about metal’s re-emergence — 15 years ago Vancouver crowds typically got Metallica, Iron Maiden, Slayer and little else.

“As people push the limits of all sorts of mainstream music, naturally alternative niches resurface,” Puder said.

“When you talk to a lot of venues, promoters, and bars, metal crowds are generally pretty friendly… there’s not as much conflict as the suggestive visuals and clothing might bring out in people.”

Psycroptic’s inclusion on the bill is proof positive of the metal tide turning.

Established in the late ’90s in Tasmania, Australia, their

Tasmanian death metal band Psycroptic plays at the Red Room May 25 as part of the Modified Ghost Festival.

May 25 gig at the Red Room marks the band’s first show in Vancouver. This, coming from a death metal band that has toured the world over multiple times and has six full-length studio albums to its credit.

“It’s an honest style of music,” Psycroptic drummer Dave Haley told the Courier from a tour stop in Montreal.

“It’s not a cool style of music to like but the people who listen to it and play it do it because they love it. The support is always going to be there, but not so much because we’re outcasts. The fans are proud of it and they can take ownership of it.”

Haley is renowned in the extreme metal community as one the genre’s most forward-thinking players.

He’s played on close to 20 metal albums over the course of his life, but alas, metal is not all peaches and cream.

Like almost every metal musician, there is a day job to make ends meet. Members of Psycroptic double up as tour promoters, music teachers, screenprinters and audio engineers. The band is currently working with a touring bassist due to that whole day job thing. That’s not to say that Haley, who’s 37, pines for the pre-Internet days when bands could make money more easily.

“You have to adapt to the change in climate because throughout history every generation has had to adapt to different aspects of change,”

Haley said. “I’m not crying over spilled milk or people downloading our albums — it honestly doesn’t bother me at all. Buying our shirts and coming to the shows is what helps us get by.”

By contrast, Jared Smith is a full-time member of the Internet generation. At 29, he cut his teeth on YouTube instructional videos that were never available in Haley’s formative years. Smith plays bass with Vancouver death metal juggernauts Archspire, who are touring across Canada alongside Psycroptic ahead of the Modified Ghost Festival.

“I’d love to have people buy our album; there would be more money in the industry for everybody,” Smith told the Courier from somewhere between Ottawa and Montreal.

“But that’s not the way it’s going anymore. I’ve discovered some of my favourite bands from Youtube and streaming our music online is probably why we have such a big following around the world. It’s a double-edged sword.”

Coincidentally, the inaugural Modified Ghost Festival last year was Smith’s first gig with the band. Flanked by internationally known acts that he’s looked up to for years, it was a case study in execution and concentration. It also happened to be the biggest gig of his life up until that point.

“It was surreal to be in this circle of musicians that I’ve looked up to for most of my life,” Smith said. “I was in panic mode because I knew

the live show and what to expect and I expected an insane level of perfection of myself.

That was a stressful one.”

Outside of Archspire’s inclusion on the bill, a number of other bands local to Vancouver or Metro Vancouver are performing over the four days: Tyrant’s Blood, Black Wizard, Bushwhacker, Anciients, Koma, Youth Decay and more.

Tickets are available online at modifiedghost.com.

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Bob Kronbauer thought he was living the dream in southern California. It wasn’t until he moved back to Vancouver that he realized he’d got the location all wrong.

An amateur skateboarder, he’d hacked his way into the publishing world by creating his own online magazine, Pacific Skateboarder, and writing for TransWorld Skateboarding, a magazine he’d devoured as a kid growing up in Vernon.

In 1999, when everyone thought dotcoms were revolutionizing how the world did business, a surfing site called Hardcloud.com was spending its way through $9 million in venture capital.

It flew Kronbauer down to California and, over a taco lunch, offered to buy Pacific Skateboarder as well as make Kronbauer the editor of its skateboard magazine based in San Clemente.

“OK! Done,” Kronbauer responded without skipping a bite. He was 23 years old and, apart from going pro, the offer put him tantaliz-

ingly close to the heart of the skateboard world.

Six months later, Hardcloud was no longer such a freewheeling company.

It had blown through its funding and was looking for round-two backers just as the dotcom bubble was bursting, one spectacular headline after another. One day Kronbauer and the rest of the staff were called into a meeting. “That’s it — we’re done,” they were all told. Kronbauer went back to his desk to pack up.

“It was a bummer,” he says, but it didn’t take him long to land a job with L.A.based Girl Skateboard, a website co-owned by movie director Spike Jonze. Kronbauer worked in the web department, using skills that he’d picked up when some co-workers at Electronic Arts in Vancouver gave him pirated software a few years earlier.

What he hadn’t taken into account was how much his social life had revolved around the people he worked with. He was staring at his computer when he realized that everything he was doing

When Bob Kronbauer moved to Vancouver in 2003, he was dismayed that most of the talk in the city was negative. He started his blog, Vancouver Is Awesome, as an antidote. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

he could do from somewhere else. He thought of how much he’d enjoyed living in Vancouver, however briefly, and decided to move back.

It was 2003. Here was Kronbauer, thrilled to be among the mountains and beaches and yet all around him the conversation was about everything wrong with the city.

“I was, ‘This is the best!’ and everyone else was ‘This is No Fun City,’” he says. “It was like the affordability crisis of today — it was all the talk.”

To take his mind off all the negativity and work

stress, at night he’d find himself on the now defunct CuteOverload.com, boosting his spirits by looking at funny animal photos.

Wouldn’t people like to read things that make them smile about life in Vancouver?

That’s when he decided to create Vancouver Is Awesome. The blog’s celebratory title summed up everything he was feeling about the city — and hoped others would feel inspired by. “I wanted to remind people why they stayed here.”

It wasn’t a quixotic quest.

VIA tapped into an eagerness to discover what was good — and fun — about Vancouver. While he worked as a freelance creative director and designer to pay the bills, he was joined by an ever-changing team of volunteer writers who were given an unabashedly simple missive: “Just write about cool stuff.”

As people’s methods of consuming news changed, so did VIA’s approach to serving up its daily happy meals.

“There was a time not that long ago that you’d have your bookmark bar and every morning you’d go to everything you wanted to see,” he says. It’s now switched — content comes directly to most readers through their social media channels.

Today, even though there are ongoing postings, the website acts more like an archive; the real conversation takes place on social media, where VIA has 140,000 Facebook followers, 124,000 Twitter followers and 65,000 Instagram followers.

And conversation it is.

VIA is no longer just tell-

ing people what is awesome about Vancouver; they’re telling him. For instance, VIA profiles a daily photograph by someone who posts with the #vancouverisawesome hashtag on Instagram. A recent shot of a sparkling city garnered 726 likes.

Other regular features include photos of cats, dogs and bikes, as well as Kronbauer’s coffee series which allows him to sit down and talk with people he’s curious about.

One new feature is a partnership with the Vancouver Courier. Starting this week we’ll feature “5 Reasons Vancouver Is Awesome,” in print and online, with content provided by VIA. It’s a way to give our readers ideas about what the city has on offer in the coming week.

And once a week, VIA will share five of the Courier’s top stories to let its followers know more about what makes this city tick.

To read more, including a discussion on the role of sponsored content, see the full story on vancourier.com.

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Explore See great 1Thriving Mount Pleasant’s stand-up one, 4 Art Scene two or three times Explore all the innovative galleries and creative spaces that Mount Pleasant has to offer at ROVE, the free neighbourhood art-walk.

Friday May 26 Various locations roveyvr.com

Yarn-Around at 2the Roundhouse

This spirited project encourages all-ages to play by using brightly coloured yarn to animate railings, chairs, shrubs and landscape architecture.

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VIMAF’s 2017 Festival celebrates the talent and presence of the Indigenous film and media artist community.

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Celebrated comedian Ali Wong will perform at the Vogue Theatre THREE times this week. Ali Wong: B aby Cobra is available on Netflix now.

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East Vancouver songwriter, poet and playwright Rodney DeCroo will release his latest album, Old Tenement Man, and new book of poetry, Next Door to the Butcher Shop, this week at the Cultch.

May 31, The Cultch (1895 Venables St.) Website: do604.com/rodneydecroo-old-tenement-man

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For the second consecutive spring, Jennifer Chernecki welcomed two bushtits back to her Mount Pleasant balcony.

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but they are completely wild,” she said. The brown songbirds delighted the artist who could spend hours observing their enchanted, twitchy habits as they went about building a new nest for the season.

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“I just can’t resist,” she said. “Sometimes I want to call it the ‘Titty cam.’”

Chernecki, 33, is a bird watcher who only just saw herself as such. “Birder is not a term I had ever used until this moment, but I do study birds, paint birds and visit places specifically to see birds. I used to raise birds when I was a child,” she said before Bird Week, the city’s annual effort to create awareness about the region’s ecological health and winged-thing biodiversity.

Birding is surging. As one of those millennials who forges technology into her art practice and relationship with the natural environment, Chernecki is an example of today’s modern birder.

“It’s social and kind of geeky,” she said. “That is a very hipster thing to do. Geeky, I say that with tongue in cheek because I mean geeky in a grown-up intellectual kind of way.”

As one of the fastest growing hobbies on the continent, according to Bird Studies Canada, bird watching was labelled the “unlikeliest craze” of 2017 by vacation tome Conde Nast Traveller. Last week’s Bird Week appealed to young adults and early-30-somethings in an event called the “rise of the hipster bird-watcher” and lured them with a free download of EyeLoveBirds, a sophisticated and attractive birding app created by Vancouver developer Erynn Tomlinson, a Mount Pleasant birder who doesn’t live far from Chernecki. The name of the event was inspired by the Telegraph newspaper, which described the naturalist pastime “the new must-have string to the millennial’s bow.”

In Canada, an average one in five people are active birders who spend more than a quarter of the year watching birds. More than half are women.

According to the Canadian Nature Survey, bird watching is even more

popular than gardening.

Birds are an indicator of a healthy ecosystem, and in an urban landscape made from concrete and glass, birds are still one way people regularly (and mostly positively) engage with wildlife. It has cachet as a bonafide scientific study that contributes to local and global habitat conservation efforts, another goal supported by technology and data collection.

Bird banding — the practice of affixing a lightweight tag with a unique identifying number to a bird — is how biologists the world over track bird movement and migration.

“If you put a band on a robin here, and it flies down the U.S. or south for the winter, you can actually see if another biologist or birder catches this same bird and report it on the system,” said Hannah Nieman, 28, an environmentalist who works with a water conservation non-profit organization and is interested in habitat restoration.

“You can see where that bird goes. You can see that these birds have patterns. We have a lot of species at risk, especially with climate change — it’s really important to see how they are doing one year to the next and in large patterns,” she said.

Nieman also uses software to learn bird calls and better identify species just from their song. “It’s helpful to fine-tune your ear,” she said.

Bird watching can quickly become bird listening, like being in the audience as an orchestra performs and trying to isolate the first violinist.

“It’s not just about using your visual senses but also your auditory senses. It’s almost like you can hear all these different songs and then focus on one.

You can hear its particular tune through everything else,” she said. “It makes me feel really at peace.”

That’s appealing for all generations, no software required.

Public Hearing: June 13, 2017

Development Permit Board Meeting: May 29

Tuesday, June 13, 2017, at 6 pm City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Third Floor, Council Chamber

The Development Permit Board and Advisory Panel will meet:

Vancouver City Council will hold a Public Hearing to consider zoning for these locations: 1. 620 Cardero Street (formerly 1575 West Georgia Street) To amend CD-1 (633) (Comprehensive Development) District for 620 Cardero Street (formerly 1575 West Georgia Street) to increase the overall floor space ratio (FSR) from 10.59 to 10.85 and the residential FSR from 7.86 to 8.15.

2. 955 East Hastings Street To amend CD-1 (561) (Comprehensive Development) District for 955 East Hastings Street to increase the maximum floor area for office uses from 1,150 square metres to 1,318 square metres.

3. 469-485 West 59th Avenue To rezone 469-485 West 59th Avenue from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a six-storey residential building with 43 dwelling units. A height of 21 metres (69 feet) and a floor space ratio of 2.50 are proposed.

4. 470-486 West 58th Avenue To rezone 470-486 West 58th Avenue from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a six-storey residential building with 43 dwelling units. A height of 21 metres (69 feet) and a floor space ratio of 2.50 are proposed.

5. 5733 Alberta Street and 376-392 West 41st Avenue To rezone 5733 Alberta Street and 376-392 West 41st Avenue from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a six-storey residential building with 54 dwelling units. A height of 21 metres (69 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 2.63 are proposed.

6. 5030-5070 Cambie Street To rezone 5030-5070 Cambie Street from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a six-storey residential building with 51 dwelling units. A height of 20.3 metres (67 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 2.40 are proposed.

7. 210-262 West King Edward Avenue To rezone 210-262 West King Edward Avenue from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a four-storey residential building with 52 secured market rental units. A height of 13 metres (44 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 1.77 are proposed.

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Monday, May 29, 2017 at 3 pm Vancouver City Hall 453 West 12th Avenue Ground Floor, Town Hall Meeting Room to consider the following development permit application: 137 Keefer Street To develop on this site a nine-storey, 14-unit, multiple dwelling building with a retail unit on the main floor.

TO SPEAK ON AN ITEM: 604-873-7469 or camilla.lade@vancouver.ca

8. 809 West 23rd Avenue To rezone 809 West 23rd Avenue from RS-5 (One-Family Dwelling) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit conversion, rehabilitation, and heritage designation of the existing church building, and infill residential development, containing a total of six dwelling units. A height of 11.4 metres (38 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 1.14 are proposed.

9. 2733 Franklin Street (“Ross Residence”) To designate as protected heritage property the exterior of the existing building at 2733 Franklin Street, known as the Ross Residence, which is listed on the Vancouver Heritage Register in the ‘B’ evaluation category.

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 June 2 until 5 pm on the day of the Public Hearing by emailing publichearing@vancouver.ca or by calling 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.

Copies of the draft by-laws will be available for viewing starting on June 2 at the City Clerk’s Office in City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, Monday to Friday from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. All meetings of Council are webcast live at vancouver.ca/councilvideo, and minutes of Public Hearings are available at vancouver.ca/councilmeetings (posted approximately two business days after a meeting). For real time information on the progress of City Council meetings, visit vancouver.ca/speaker-wait-times or @VanCityClerk on Twitter.

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Whistler celebrates Canada 150 Sandra Thomas sthomas@vancourier.com

WHISTLER MIGHT NOT SEEM LIKE A LOGICAL DESTINATION FOR SOMEONE WHO DOESN’T SKI OR MOUNTAIN BIKE — AND IS AFRAID OF HEIGHTS.

But after enjoying a “girls’” weekend in the mountain village, the popular destination turned out to be everything we could ask for — and more.

Prior to this trip, I’d considered summer in Whistler as a kind of off-season, but the reality is the village is busy year-round and with celebrations for Canada 150 in full swing, there has never been a better time to visit.

For our weekend away we stayed at the iconically Canadian Fairmont Chateau Whistler, which is celebrating Canada 150 in a big way with special packages, but also a Canadian-inspired menu. The eight-course dinner features fun takes on traditional dishes including arctic char in smoldering cedar paper, bison tartare with fried bannock and Saskatoon berry compote, smoked salmon poutine, and a beaver tail with maple ice cream.

Considering a trip to Whistler in 2017? Here are some ideas for celebrating Canada 150: PEAK 2 PEAK GONDOLA Anyone who visits Whistler has got to get their heights on by riding the Peak 2 Peak Gondola, part of the Peak to Peak 360 Experience, which is spread over two mountains, has more than 50-kilometres of hiking trails, incredible views and free and custom-guided tours. For those less inclined to hike and more likely to be found with a glass of wine in their hand, you can stop by the Roundhouse Lodge on Whistler Mountain.

This summer guests can enjoy mountaintop dining and live music on the newly renovated patio — all at 1,800-metres.

CANADA DAY, JULY 1 On Canada Day, chamber music will be performed by students of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Institute at Roundhouse Lodge. Later in the day, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra will once again bring classical music to Whistler Olympic Plaza. Bring a chair or blanket and enjoy

music performed by a full orchestra under the stars.

CANADA 150 SCAVENGER HUNT Try to find at least 20 of the items included on the scavenger hunt list, take photos and remember to share them on social media, tagging @ GoWhistler and using the hashtags #OnlyInWhistler and #Canada150. Take your scavenger hunt form and proof of your shared images to the Whistler Visitor Centre for your Canada 150 themed prize.

Items listed on the scavenger hunt include Canadian flags, the inuksuk, poutine and more.

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Depending on the time of year, look for squirrels, chipmunks, birds, deer and bears. The local golf courses are also a popular spot to see wildlife.

RELIVE THE SPIRIT OF THE 2010 GAMES View (or even roll down) the track at the Whistler Sliding Centre or visit Whistler Olympic Park, host to the Nordic, biathlon and ski jumping events and now offering hiking and horseback riding in the summer. Whistler Olympic Plaza was home to nightly medal ceremonies and the outdoor area is now a hub for everything from live music to public art to picnics.

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For more ideas on how to celebrate Canada 150 in Whistler, visit whistler.com.

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