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Analysis

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Major policy shift coming to council in July suggests shorter, smaller buildings for Chinatown Mike Howell

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In advance of city council’s June 13 vote on whether to approve the rezoning of a 12-storey condo in Chinatown, I spent part of my weekend reviewing video of the four public hearing sessions. As I mentioned in my last piece in this space, I sat through a portion of the last session but wanted to hear more about what people were saying about the proposal. Initial observation: It was refreshing to see

so many articulate and passionate young people argue their points in front of an audience of politicians and city staff. Many times, we just hear from the usual suspects. The turnout of the 20 and 30-somethings made me think of what the late Roy Mah told me in 2002 when he spoke about the need to revitalize Chinatown and who he believed should lead the renewal. The former newspaperman and military veteran predicted in 2002 that it would be the younger generation who would not let a community built by their families crumble. “They’re idea people, they’re dynamic,” he said. “If nothing else, they at least have the initiative to do something about the problems, and that’s a good sign.” Though there were plenty of young folk in council chambers over the four hearings, the older generation showed up, too. Some spoke through a translator in

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streets. The project also calls for cultural and recreational activity space and retail at ground level. The building, they said, would open up more housing for Chinatown, create new homes for seniors, add more community use space, add more shops and generate more business in the neighbourhood. Of the 150 opposed to project, they were concerned about the building’s height (118 feet) and bulky size, the shadows it would create, the lack of affordable housing and insufﬁcient numbers of apartments for seniors. Overall, they said, it was an inappropriate development for the neighbourhood, noting the property, which is currently a parking lot, faces the Dr. Sun YatSen Garden and Chinese Cultural Centre and borders the Chinatown Memorial Square. Both sides inundated council with emails and documents, with the

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“yes” side submitting 151 pieces of correspondence and three petitions with t i 1,693 signatures. The “no” side submitted 542 a pieces of correspondence i and two petitions with S p 3,092 signatures. That’s a lot of reading h for council, after doing a m lot of listening over four long days of hearings. Add t to that the complex set of i policies and guidelines for a Chinatown — I believe it w totals 16 — to be consid- k ered, and you can be sure t council will certainly earn c its keep on this ﬁle. To further complicate v what council will decide June 13, a progress reportB on development policy p changes for Chinatown w surfaced recently on the p city’s website. N r I’ve been told the recommendations in the C report are related to an c upcoming policy shift to be considered by council h in July. So, to be clear, s ‘ the recommendations will not be incorporated L into council’s decision on Beedie’s proposal.

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Legally, it can’t happen. But the recommendations are worth mentioning, particularly the one about scrapping the rezoning policy for Chinatown South (same area as Beedie project) and capping the height of new developments at 90 feet. Other recommendations suggest new buildings should be smaller and built on narrow lots with smaller storefronts, keeping with the character of Chinatown. And this one: Involve the community more in the review of new developments. It should be noted Beedie revised the proposal three times since it was submitted in 2014, a process former city planner Nathan Edelson — whose responsibility included Chinatown — described in campy horror ﬁlm terms. “So much energy has had to be put into both sides, it has become like ‘The Night of the Beedie Living Dead,’ coming

back time after time in a way that feels abusive of the community’s resilience and the work of staff,” he told council on the second day of hearings. He suggested, as many others did, that council work out a land swap and allow Beedie’s proposal to be built on land that will be vacant once the Georgia and Dunsmuir viaducts are demolished. In suggesting the swap, Edelson noted the energy and passion of the young people concerned about the present and future of Chinatown. “You can give them a boost by really going to the Beedies and saying, ‘You’ve made many contributions to this city, you’ve been a good development family. Let’s ﬁnd a culturally appropriate site for you and help the community on this site and realize it’s real future.’” No sooner did Edelson suggest the swap than Coun. Andrea Reimer

reminded him of the reality of what was before council: “If it were a decision between 118 feet and a land swap, it seems very appealing to go for the land swap. The challenge for us is there is no land swap on the table.” Reimer noted land under the viaducts is also valuable to the black community, which had property expropriated to build the viaducts. Edelson agreed and noted many Chinese property owners also lost land to the construction of the viaducts. “There’s a need for reconciliation with both communities,” he said. Reconciliation, history, culture, character, revitalization, housing, affordability, design — all of it seems to be on the table when council reconvenes June 13, no matter what policy shifts are coming. Thousands of people, young and old, have made that clear. @Howellings

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affordable and secure place to live,” Mayor Gregor Robertson said in a press release. “Housing is for homes ﬁrst, investments second. The Empty Homes Tax will help ensure the best use of all our housing, and boost long term rental supply by bringing thousands of homes back into the market.” Earlier this year, David Hutniak, CEO of Landlord BC, told the Courier that the initiative is one step in addressing the housing crisis, while adding that it’s unclear what the ﬁnal impact will be. For full details about the Empty Homes Tax see vancouver.ca.

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City orders evacuation of Balmoral hotel in Downtown Eastside 150 tenants at problem hotel given until June 12 to ﬁnd new housing

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Mario Fortin learned last Friday that he will no longer have a place to live after the city ordered the evacuation of the dilapidated and drugplagued Balmoral hotel in the Downtown Eastside for fear it could collapse. The 58-year-old former drywaller has 10 days to find a new home. Maybe, he said, a friend who manages a nearby single-room-occupancy hotel will open up a room for him. “Otherwise, I don’t know,” he said as he stood outside the hotel’s entrance near Main and Hastings. “I’m not going into a shelter. I just want a decent place to live.” The city notified Fortin and other tenants June 2 that the hotel is in such bad shape that it has to evacuate tenants. Engineering reports identified structural concerns and fire hazards, among other deficiencies including rotting wood, sagging floors, water damage and mold. The city’s order says all

Mario Fortin, 58, is one of about 150 tenants living at the Balmoral hotel at 159 East Hastings St. who was informed by the city June 2 that he must evacuate the building for fear it could collapse. PHOTO MIKE HOWELL

tenants must evacuate by June 12, so repairs can be done. The city expects the owners, the Sahota family, to immediately begin ﬁxing the hotel, otherwise the city will contract the work and charge the cost to the owners. Deputy city manager Paul Mochrie estimated the repair

bill to cost several million dollars. Once the hotel’s structure is stabilized, the city will better be able to assess all the work — and further costs — that needs to be done to re-open the building. At a news conference at city hall, Mochrie acknowledged that for decades the

hotel has been a problem for the city, police and ﬁreﬁghters. Asked repeatedly by reporters why the city didn’t take action sooner on a hotel that is also notorious for drug activity and violence, he said recent engineering reports triggered the evacuation order.

“This [hotel] has been a signiﬁcant focus of enforcement for years and years,” he said, noting the hotel currently has more than 150 outstanding violations and that $1 million worth of structural work was ordered and completed last year. “I think we’ve reached a point here that’s obviously extreme. But there’s been an extensive amount of action on this building and with these owners for a long period of time.” Members of the Sahota family were in the lobby of the hotel Friday when a security guard allowed the Courier inside. The Courier showed three men the news release from the city ordering the building’s evacuation. One man said “no comment” before the Courier was told to leave. The city’s evacuation order was posted on the front door of the hotel, where some tenants were seen leaving with suitcases, duffel bags and full garbage bags. Mochrie said the city is working with B.C. Housing, Vancouver Coastal Health

and housing advocates to ﬁnd accommodation for the tenants, although he noted the Residential Tenancy Act states it is the owners’ legal obligation to relocate residents. “These are among the most vulnerable residents in our city,” he said. “This is going to be a difﬁcult move for them.” Fortin, who has lived at the Balmoral for more than two years, said $450 of his social assistance cheque pays for a room that is infested with mice and rats. He said his ceiling and parts of his wall collapsed under the weight of water. He hasn’t had running water for two months and said the toilet in the bathroom doesn’t always work and is littered with used syringes. “It’s horrible, horrible,” he said, adding that his complaints to the owners have been a futile exercise. “It’s like talking to a wall. It’s ridiculous.” Note: A longer version of this story can be read at vancourier.com. @Howellings

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Overdose drug deaths in Vancouver are on pace to surpass 400 by year’s end after new statistics from the B.C. Coroners Service and the city show 170 people died in the city in the ﬁrst ﬁve months of 2017. The data suggests this year’s death toll could double the total number of people — 219 — who died in Vancouver last year and signal that the efforts of governments and health care providers are not having a measured effect on what has become a national crisis. “The near-record number of drug overdose deaths in the fentanyl crisis is a bloodbath in all corners of Vancouver with no end in sight,” said Mayor Gregor Robertston in a news release issued June 2. “With a new B.C. government, there’s now some hope for getting people desperately needed treatment options swiftly and without stigma. I urge the province to take immediate action on health care solutions to save lives and to dramatically ramp up overdose prevention and education efforts.” Chief Coroner Lisa Lapointe said it was of great concern that despite harm reduction measures such as drug injection rooms that many people are still using drugs in private residences, where help is not readily available. “I strongly urge those using

When a Hearing Specialist told Derrick Highet he had a hearing problem the businessman’s first reaction was actually one of relief. “To be honest he was just telling me what I already knew — and he was offering me a solution,” Derrick explains. “I was hoping he was going to give me a large chunk of my life back.” And that’s exactly what happened when Derrick tried his Miracle-Ear hearing aids for the first time. “The change was instantaneous,” he says. “I do a lot of dog walking and running and the first time I went for a walk with my dog in the woods behind our house I was just astounded by the sounds I could hear.”

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illicit drugs to do so only at a safe consumption site or drug overdose prevention site, if one is accessible,” said Lapointe in a news release. Nine in 10 deaths occurred indoors, including more than half in private homes. No deaths were recorded at the city’s two supervised drug injection sites, or sites set up in hotels and drug users’ centres. A review of completed cases from 2015 and 2016 showed the top four illicit drugs related to overdose deaths were cocaine (48.4 per cent), fentanyl (44.8), heroin (36.2) and methamphetamine/amphetamine (29.3). Preliminary data suggests the proportion of deaths for which fentanyl was detected — alone, or in combination with other drugs — was 61.8 per cent in 2016 and 61.2 per cent in January and February of this year (fentanyl data for March and April was not available).

The latest update from the coroners service pointed out that non-fentanyl related deaths — an average of 305 per year in B.C. — have remained relatively stable since 2011. Vancouver had an average of 64 deaths per year between 2007 and 2014, until 136 were recorded in 2015 and 219 last year. Statistics show the biggest spikes in monthly death totals in 2016 occurred in November (41) and December (44) before reaching 45 in January. That subsided in February (29) and March (27) before shooting back up to 43 in April. Federal Health Minister Jane Philpott announced May 26 that a third legally sanctioned supervised injection site was approved for a facility on Powell Street in the Downtown Eastside. It is expected to be fully operational sometime this month. @Howellings

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Could ﬁred Vision trustees return? John Kurucz

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With the balance of power in Victoria about to shift, ousted Vision Vancouver school trustees are poised to test the theory that you can never go home again. Both Patti Bacchus and former board chair Mike Lombardi have confirmed to the Courier their intentions to return to their previous posts, whether it be by provincial reinstatement or via a byelection. Lombardi also suggested that the two other Vision trustees, Allan Wong and Joy Alexander, want to return to the job as well. The lead up to last month’s election saw promises from both the Greens and NDP to explore one of those two options. “Ever since we got dismissed I’ve attended almost every board meeting [and] committee meeting, had conversations with senior staff and continued to follow the events and education and look forward to continuing to make a contribution,” Lombardi said. “I’m someone who can get along with everybody and maintain good relationships. I look forward to keeping those going.” As recently as this week, rumblings came from the Vancouver School Board (VSB) that the potential of ex-trustees returning to the job has caused anxiety amongst senior staff. Reports prepared by WorkSafe BC and Vancouver attorney Roslyn Goldner found that former trustees bullied and harassed senior staff to the point of creating a “toxic working environment.” The Goldner report specifically points to fired trustees attending board meetings after their dismissal, noting their presence as being “inappropriate and intimidating.” Official trustee Dianne Turner spoke to the potential of ex-trustees returning to the job on June 5 when announcing the resignation of superin-

Vision trustees, shown here at press conference after learning they had been fired, would like to return to their school board jobs. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

tendent Scott Robinson. “Many of us have heard repeatedly from parents, teachers and staff that they value the safe and respectful system that has been created since the departure of the previous board — and we can’t go back,” she said. In a news release issued to announce his resignation, Robinson alluded to the toxic working environment at the district as one of the main drivers of his decision. “My passion as an educator has always been to collaborate with and empower my colleagues, staff and parents to work together to do what is right for our students,” he said. “Increasingly over the past year, it became more challenging to retain focus on this.” The Goldner report suggests the partisan makeup of the former nine-person board continually undermined the work of senior staff for an extended 18-month period. The report was based on interviews with all of the former trustees, senior staff and other witnesses. It points to a highly charged meeting in September of last year around school closures that prompted six senior staff members to go on sick leave. “The justiﬁcation provided by the Vision trustees for their actions on September 26th does not withstand scrutiny,” the Goldner report states. “It is not credible that they were merely meeting

their obligations as trustees and exercising due diligence. The evidence supports the claims that their interest was in pursuing a political agenda rather than supporting the prior decision of the board and the recommendations of the senior staff.” Bacchus disputes those claims and Goldner’s ﬁndings. “I have a lot of respect for senior staff and played a key role in hiring them,” she said. “In the six years I chaired the board we had excellent relationships, so much so that when the current team went on leave the former superintendent and secretary treasurer dropped everything and came back to help us.” Three plausible scenarios could play out as it relates to the trustees in question: a byelection, reinstatement of the ousted trustees or maintaining the status quo until the October 2018 municipal election. Education Minister Mike Bernier has said Turner will remain as the ofﬁcial trustee until at least the end of this year, if not beyond. Which path the provincial Greens and NDP are likely to take isn’t clear. NDP deputy director Glen Sanford told the Courier last week that a decision hadn’t been made yet. A request for comment from education critic Rob Fleming was not returned. “My hope is that a democratic process happens and brings in a board who is absolutely excited to work with staff to make the Vancouver

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Vancouver teacher reﬂects on 36-year career after winning national award Templeton drama teacher Jim Crescenzo has helped raise $3 million for arts programs John Kurucz

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The Templeton secondary school community at has about three million reasons to be thankful for Jim Crescenzo’s lengthy and storied career at the school. At 58, Crescenzo is pondering retirement and will definitely seek greener pastures either this year or next. Approaching the tail-end of his career has provided him moments of pause and reflection, but none more poignant than the one he had in early May. Crescenzo was on a stage in Ottawa alongside 10 other teachers from across Canada who were awarded the Prime Minister’s Awards for Teaching Excellence. He was given the award by a former Vancouver teacher by the name of Justin Trudeau. “In a matter of 30 seconds I saw my entire life — my tragic childhood after losing my father and then my very first day of walking into my first job and a teacher saying to me ‘oh boy, anybody can be a teacher these days,’” Crescenzo said. “It was very emotional.” Crescenzo was lauded for his 36-year career at Templeton, where he’s helped raise close to $3 million for the school’s arts programs. He’s been a drama teacher at the East Van school since 1981 and helped develop film, theatre and television programs for at-risk youth across Metro Vancouver. His fundraising efforts began in earnest in the mid-

’90s alongside two Templeton parents — James Prier and Shelley Mason — and the initial goals were modest. Their first funding pitch was for $45,000 to help purchase computers, editing suites and other infrastructure. Not long after they started, the trio decided to dream big. They tracked down big-time dough from the likes of Lions Gate Entertainment founder Frank Giustra and Vancouver Canucks owner and Templeton alumnus Francesco Aquilini. On top of helping with the day-to-day teaching at Templeton, that seed money helped create a summertime program that teaches at-risk youth the ins and outs of filmmaking. Alongside partners from Pacific Cinematheque, the program employs 13 Templeton students each summer to help with the technical aspects of the program. “What we started in 1997 with all of this fundraising has never really stopped,” said Crescenzo, who received a Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2013. Crescenzo could’ve stopped on several occasions: his dad died when he was just eight years old, he’s battled Crohn’s disease for 32 years and suffered a heart attack last September. “The kids are not stupid, you’ve got to have credibility with them,” he said. “All my life my philosophy has been ‘everyone faces adversity, you have to face it and then stop playing the victim and move forward.’ That’s what I tell the students in my program.” Crescenzo’s first calling was Hollywood, though he applied for a teaching gig as a backup plan. He dropped one resume off and one alone, and it was to his old

alma mater at Templeton. Within two months he was hired and Tinseltown took a back seat. Though he’s on the fence about retirement, he’s certain it’ll happen within the next two years. Once the curtain falls on his teaching career, he plans to stay active in fundraising efforts across East Van.

“We have equalled the playing ﬁeld,” he said. “You can do a fundraiser on the other side of the bridge or on the West Side of Vancouver and you’ll raise big money. On the East Side, our biggest night used to be maybe $2,500. We’ve helped change that.” @JohnKurucz

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Balmoral landlords have history of neglect, so does city’s strategy on curbing such behaviour

ancouver’s Sahota family, led by Gurdyar and Pal, have rightly earned a reputation as the city’s most notorious slumlords; they exhibit a propensity for acquiring chunks of real estate likely now worth hundreds of millions of dollars, but they are disinclined to maintain any of it. While amongst their chronically neglected holdings you will ﬁnd the Cobalt, the Regent and the Astoria hotels on the Downtown Eastside, their current transgression has to do with the widely publicized Balmoral Hotel. It is in such a state of disrepair that

While city staff now say it spends inordinate amounts of time cajoling the Sahotas into compliance — all on Gregor Robertson’s watch — simply looking at the results of what has actually been accomplished at the Balmoral would prove that strategy to be an utter failure.

structural engineers declared it is on the verge of collapse. The weight added to the structure by simply filling the bathtubs in the literally rotting bathrooms would be calamitous. The city has ordered the 150 or so tenants, who are mostly of marginal means, to vacate by June 12. I was first drawn to the Sahotas and their egregious management practices a decade ago. It was 2007 when the roof of their Pandora apartments in East Vancouver collapsed due to water damage. The city inspectors also discovered electrical faults and rodent infestations among other infractions. Back then I thought it would be interesting to compare that state of the Sahotas’ commercial holdings with their home on the fringes of Shaughnessy on Angus Drive. What I discovered in my cursory inspection of the exterior was a property as much a blight on that neighbourhood as their buildings were elsewhere in the city. I returned to Angus Drive once again Tuesday morning. Among the neighbouring fastidious facades, I found: trash in boxes and bags lining the front stairs — a theme that appeared to be carried out into one of the lower floor rooms — lawns were unkempt and littered with trash, chest-high weeds grew in the backyard camouflaging more junk, a rotting back fence was made up in part of a peeling wooden door and… well, you get the idea. They are authors of residential disaster wherever they set foot. And what have our city’s leaders done about this, years after the Pandora’s roof collapse? It would seem the Sahotas are proving as recalcitrant as ever. As for the city, let me back up a bit.

In the fall of 2008, a civic election year in Vancouver and a year after the Pandora roof collapse, online journal the Tyee published a special report titled “A City Soft on Slumlords.” It would detail the Sahotas, their holdings and their extreme reluctance to respond to city notices of bylaw infractions. David Eby, then a young lawyer with Pivot Legal Society who would go on to be a provincial MLA and the NDP’s effective housing critic, was then armed with a Pivot report called “Cracks in the Foundation.” It led him to conclude the city appeared to be backing away from enforcing what is known as the Minimum Standards of Maintenance bylaw. The bylaw allows the city to carry out repairs and bill the violating building’s owners. The city argued pursuing scofﬂaws that way would end them up in court and it would likely be lengthy, costly and ultimately fail. That was a position taken by then-NPA mayoral candidate Peter Ladner. But Eby told the Tyee there was no

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Taking exception to Grace Re: “Grace McCarthy and Helena Gutteridge helped pave the way for women in B.C. politics,” June 1. I would like to take exception to some of the fawning hagiography I have been reading on your pages about the late Grace McCarthy. I seem to remember a rather different politician: someone cruel, heartless and vindictive in the policies she enacted against some of the poorest and most vulnerable citizens in our province. When she was Minister of Human Resources in the ’80s she helped initiate the downward spiral of program and funding cuts that helped created our current homelessness crisis. I would like to see this collective amnesia about the abusive treatment of our poor by such politicians as Grace McCarthy and her ilk brought to an end. This intentional forgetfulness can be easily construed as a feature of our governments’ and the news media’s ongoing war on the poor. Aaron Zacharias, Vancouver

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Once the Filld app is downloaded, users set their location and the cheapest gas from the nearest three stations are identified. The customer then selects the fuel type, and the window of time for service before paying via credit card. Filld’s business model offers three windows of availability: between 9 p.m. and 4 a.m. costs $3 USD; from 8 to 10 p.m. is about $8 and from 1 to 5 p.m. is about $5, on top of the cost of fuel. Buhr said all of his employees receive training in First Aid, Hazmat scenarios and receive commercial fuel operator training as well. He added that his vehicle fleet has been designed to meet Transport Canada standards and each vehicle is outfitted with a spill containment kit. “We want to make sure that when we pull up to either a business or to a consumer, that [regardless] of if they’re there, they know this is a safe thing to do,” Buhr said. “If there’s a truck pulling up to my home or to my business in the middle of the night, I need to trust them.” Buhr is well aware of the decline in the number of gas stations in Vancouver and said similar closures are happening across the U.S. There is one gas station left in downtown Vancouver and that property will soon be sold. City business license records suggest there are about 75 gas stations in the city. “The U.S. numbers point to a 25 per cent decline [in gas stations] in the last 10 years but in a large metro area it’s more like 45 per cent,” Buhr said. “Vancouver is truly at the forefront of [this phenomenon].” City spokesperson Jag Sandhu told the Courier that a business licence for Filld’s consumer model was received by the city in mid-May. The company has since been asked to show the city all of its safety protocols and a review of the application is ongoing. @JohnKurucz

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Tiny European vehicles ideal for Vancouver streets Globe-trotting columnist gets Twizy with it on Roman holiday Michael Geller geller@sfu.ca

This week’s column comes to you from the Chianti region of Tuscany. Yes, I have a glass of Chianti in hand. I first came to Italy in the 1960s and recall wondering why Italians spent so much time drinking coffee in cafes; something we didn’t do in Canada. How things have changed. As I now travel around Italy, I cannot help but see other similarities and differences in how the Italians and Canadians live. Our Rome apartment had an elegant spiral staircase leading up to the bedroom level. When I told my daughters such a staircase would not be allowed in Canada because of our building codes, they were shocked. However, we were all shocked by how many old and new public places are not accessible to those in wheelchairs. A vivid example was the flagship Antinori winery halfway between Florence and Siena where it was not possible to take an elevator up to the restaurant. This would not be allowed in Canada. On the other hand, public transit in Italy is so much better than what we are used to. The train system is quite phenomenal, with high-speed trains linking cities and towns throughout the country. I doubt whether Canada will ever have anything that compares with it. I have also been fascinated by other modes of transportation common in Italy. Many people get around on scooters. Genoa, where the Vespa was first invented more than 70 years ago, has the most scooters per capita of any Italian city — around 180,000 locals regularly ride Vespas, mopeds and motorcycles, out of a population of 600,000. Vespa is part of the Piaggio Group of companies founded in 1884. Over the years, like other scooter manufacturers, it has fallen on hard times. However, today it is creating revolutionary scooter models such as the three-wheeled Piaggio Yourban and a gas/electric hybrid scooter. I have often wondered

why more people don’t ride scooters in Vancouver. While some may respond “it’s the weather, stupid,” I would point to the significant increase in bicycle usage, even in the winter. Furthermore, on the streets of Italy you can find a variety of all-weather scooters. One example is the BMW C1, which not only has a roof, but also seatbelts, an interior light, sunroof, and cellphone holder. Other models, such as the Adiva have fewer features, but at a lower cost. As road congestion and the costs of car ownership and parking in Vancouver increase, I predict scooter ownership will increase, especially as more hybrid and electric models come onto the market. It’s not just scooters that have fascinated me on this trip. I have also been intrigued by the variety of other vehicles you find on the roads, including those that are not quite scooters, but also not quite cars. A good example is the Renault Twizy, a batterypowered two-seat electric city car. In Europe, it is classified as a heavy quadricycle, with a maximum range of 100 km. It can be charged in three and a half hours from any regular European socket. Five years ago, when first introduced, the Twizy was the top-selling plug-in electric vehicle in Europe. Today it costs about 7,000 euros ($10,500), but the sales price does not include the battery pack, which is leased for a monthly fee that includes roadside assistance and a battery replacement guarantee. The Twizy may be winterized with winter tires and by adding flexi side windows to enclose the cabin. Heating is provided by plugging in electric blankets to keep the driver warm! While today one rarely sees BMW Isettas on Italian roads (I’m sure it’s just a matter of time before they are back), there are numerous other tiny cars that we do not yet have in Canada. Yes, we now have the Fiat 500 and Smart Car, but they have the Skoda Citigo, Renault Twingo, VW Up, Peugeot

108, and Microcar. As Vancouverites continue to adopt more European lifestyles, whether in cafes or denser, multi-family forms of housing along narrower streets, expect to see more of these tiny European-style vehicles in Vancouver. If you don’t believe me, just look at the popularity of Smart cars and cappuccinos. @michaelgeller

Columnist Michael Geller expects to see vehicles like the Renault Twizy on the streets of Vancouver in the not-so-distant future. PHOTO MICHAEL GELLER

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McGowan is a Vancouver man on a mission — one he’s been on for the past 20 years. He wants to help new graduates ﬁnd jobs. A recent report by the Canadian Teachers’ Federation says the unemployment rate for people aged 15 to 24, is more than 13 per cent, while underemployment — unmet employment needs — is more than 27 per cent. “What I have learned is that graduates don’t understand today’s work place and neither do their parents [or] society. That’s the problem — everybody’s just bewildered,” says McGowan.

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“They have to know what kind of work they want. If they don’t, I can’t help them,” he says. The services he offers include reviewing an applicant’s resume and cover letter, coaching them about the signiﬁcance of an online presence, and hunting for hidden (nonadvertised) jobs.

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Master your anxiety DAVIDICUS WONG, M.D. davidicuswong.wordpress.com

when the enemy WHAT HOLDS PART YOU BACK? was approaching. Looking back on your life Without anxiety, (so far), do you regret more you wouldn’t plan the mistakes you’ve made or and save for the future. The the great things you didn’t instinct of fear alerts us to accomplish? We may never potential danger. get around to the top of our bucket lists due to the endless Yet we all have different distractions of daily life. But alarm settings. For some sometimes, the causes are with generalized anxiety, the self-doubt and fear. alarm may be too sensitive and they worry about a What would you do if you variety of things most of the weren’t afraid to try? time. For others, the anxiety alarm is triggered by specific WHY ANXIETY EXISTS situations or circumstances. Anxiety is an essential With social anxiety, specific human emotion. social situations, such as We exist — and anxiety an interview, meeting new exists in us — because of its people or talking in front of evolutionary value. Without a group trigger emotional fear, your ancestors would distress. With phobias, have not run from a tiger the specific triggers can be or sounded the village bell spiders, heights or needles.

Anxiety can be paralyzing. Panic attacks can be experienced as dramatic physical symptoms including sweating, shortness of breath, chest tightness and tingling in the extremities. With obsessive compulsive disorder, increased anxiety triggers obsessive thoughts or the compulsion to carry out a particular ritual action, such as washing the hands or checking locks. HOW ANXIETY CAN LIMIT US Like other strong emotions, anxiety can highjack our brains. When emotions — anger, sadness or anxiety — are aroused, the limbic system (a part of the human brain that developed ﬁrst in early mammals) takes over.

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Congratulations, you’ll receive your free Canada ﬂag… in 71 years Popular Parliament ﬂag program is an exercise in patriotism and patience

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When Oliver Read learned he could sign up to receive a free Canada flag from Parliament, he did what any patriotic dude would do. He went online, filled out the requisite application form, ticked all right boxes, put his hand over his heart and waited. Turns out, he’ll have to do a little more waiting. Last week, Read received notification that his application had been received, and the approximate waitlist time: 71 years. The extended layaway plan wasn’t exactly a surprise to Read, who, full disclosure, is married to Courier reporter Naoibh O’Connor. Public Services and Procurement Canada’s website is upfront about the wait times to receive one of five flags that flies over Parliament Hill. So Read decided he better get his name on the list as soon as possible. “That’s what lit a fire under me. I had to shave some years off of this somehow— you’ve got to do it right away,” Read says. “You do numbers on it, there’s only 365 [flags] every year, times 71 years. There’s not that many flags really being handed out to the Canadian public.” Actually, there are even fewer flags than Read thinks. Beginning in 1994, any Canadian resident living in Canada could apply to receive one of the five Canadian flags that flies on

Parliament Hill — one on the Peace Tower, two on the East Block and two on the West Block. After each business day, the flags are taken down, folded and distributed to applicants. According to Public Works and Government Services Canada, more than 8,500 flags have been distributed between 1994 and 2014 while nearly 15,000 people remain on the wait list. The Peace Tower flag is the most requested flag, while the wait to receive one of the other flags is slightly shorter at 56 years. The government restricts the flags to one per person and household. On the bright side, as the website notes, “changes of address will not affect your position on the waiting list.” Still, Read remains hopeful that he can move up the daunting list. “I don’t know if they adjust for any statistical curves… But how many of those people in line are going to make the mistake of not updating [their address] and/or die from lack of interest or some other snafu. They’ve got 71 years of snafus ahead of them… So I could get bumped up and hope for 70 years or 69 years, maybe.” It should be noted that applying for a flag is not only a long commitment but a big one. The Peace Tower flag measures 7.5 by 15 ft. (2.3 by 4.6 m, if you want to be patriotic about it), and the website recommends a minimum flag pole height of 45 to 50 ft. Read admits his home does not possess a 50-foot flag pole, but he says he could “convert” one of the trees in his yard, if necessary. And what are the chances Read will even be alive to receive his coveted flag

and be rewarded for his superhuman patience? He’s optimistic about that, too. “I’ll be 118, certainly in good health and ready to re-

ceive it — modern science, why not?” He adds, “I’ll be in my wheelchair, and I suspect I’ll be receiving it from an-

other Trudeau prime minister. A girl this time, right? Why not, it’ll be 2088.” For details on how to apply for your own Canada ﬂag, go

Development Permit Board Meeting: June 12, 2017

Cambie Corridor Planning Program: Phase 3 Update In 2009, Vancouver launched a three-phase planning program to guide long-term growth in the Cambie Corridor. The ﬁrst two phases produced the Cambie Corridor Plan (2011), which set the vision for growth around transit stations and along major streets.

The Development Permit Board and Advisory Panel will meet: Monday, June 12, 2017, 3 pm Vancouver City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Ground Floor, Town Hall Meeting Room to consider the following development permit applications: 401 West Georgia Street To develop a nine-storey ofﬁce building over two levels of existing underground parking accessed from the lane and seeking a 10 per cent increase in the Floor Space Ratio using a Heritage Density Transfer of 3,822 square metres.

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Phase 3 of the Plan is underway and focuses on creating opportunities for townhouses, affordable rental housing, and providing direction for public beneﬁts and the public realm. To respond to the recent housing crisis, Phase 3 is also exploring additional changes in the Oakridge Municipal Town Centre (MTC).

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1488 Robson Street To develop the site with a mixed-use building (31 and 32-storey towers) that includes 300 dwelling units (237 market/63 social housing), retail use on ground floor, and office use on the second and third floors all over three levels of underground parking accessed from the lane and also requesting an increase in the Floor Space Ratio using a Heritage Density Transfer from a donor site at 12 Water Street (providing 35,800 square feet).

The project includes a requested heritage density transfer seeking a 10 per cent increase in ﬂoor area of 3,616 square feet.

to tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca. Note: A request to speak to a government spokesperson was not fulﬁlled by the Courier’s press deadline.

Both open houses will be held at Oakridge Centre Auditorium (650 West 41st Avenue) and provide the same content. The information will also be available online at vancouver.ca/cambiecorridor Give us feedback Visit our website to learn about the areas proposed for change and complete a questionnaire. Information and a questionnaire on draft plan directions and the Oakridge area planning will be available in mid-June. FOR MORE INFORMATION: vancouver.ca/cambiecorridor cambiecorridor@vancouver.ca 604-873-7038 (ext. 3) #cambiecorridor

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Community THE VOICE: Vancouver’s singing lions Chor Leoni presented its fourth annual Chor Leoni Idol competition. Nine of the choir’s 60 members signed up for the annual battle for karaoke supremacy hosted by the group’s artistic director Erich Lichte. CFOX’s Karen Khunkhun, veteran broadcaster Vicki Gabereau and yours truly had the pleasure of judging the riotous contest. Belting out classic cannons from Broadway to rock ’n roll, the men pulled out all the stops to win the hearts and votes of a capacity crowd that assembled at Blackbird Public

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House. The ﬁeld of competitors would whittle to three — Reid Howard, James Carter and Ken Cassidy — for the ﬁnale. Voting with their dollars, fans would eventually crown Cassidy — a relatively new member to the choir — as this year’s top lion. The night of hilarity and music would raise a record $25,000 — another high note of a most enjoyable evening. WOMEN STRONG: Chor Leoni also performed at the 34th YWCA’s Women of Distinction Awards Gala and Dinner, chaired by commu-

nity leader Dana Montalbano and sponsored by Scotiabank. More than 1,300 guests filed into the Vancouver Convention Centre for the yearly celebration that honoured wonder women in our community. Eighty-five finalists were feted in 11 categories for their extraordinary achievements and contributions to the community. Among this year’s winners: Vancouver Art Gallery’s Kathleen Bartels (Arts and Culture), entrepreneur and autism advocate Wendy Lisogar-Cocchia (Community Champion) and safety management leader Catherine Roome

(Public Service). The night of recognition also wielded a record-setting $195,000 from the room to support the Y’s ongoing efforts to lift up young women, single moms and their families. Since 1984, YWCA Metro Vancouver has paid tribute to more than 300 community builders and more than 1,750 nominees. For a longer version of this column, go to vancourier.com.

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Finalists Reid Howard, Ken Cassidy and James Carters vied for karaoke supremacy. Cassidy, with his Josh Groban-esque looks and vocals, would eventually be crowned “top lion” at the Chor Leoni Idol competition.

CFOX’s Karen Khunkhun and media personality Vicki Gabereau had the unenviable task of judging Chor Leoni’s singing competition at Blackbird Public House.

Entrepreneur and ambassador of individuals with differing abilities Wendy Lisogar-Cocchia received congratulations from Teck’s Marcia Smith on her YWCA Women of Distinction accolade in the community category.

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Living Break out the tissues, Vancouver Canadians host annual Father’s Day game of catch

As any emotionally repressed man with father issues can attest, there is perhaps no stronger dose of Kryptonite to one’s “feelings fortress” than the final scene of Field of Dreams. You know the one. Kevin Costner, who has carved a baseball diamond out of his Iowa cornfield, meets his long-deceased, baseball player father as a young man and plays catch with him one last time. The Vancouver Canadians aim to replicate that time-honoured tradition, minus the sniffling and snotty noses, when the C’s open up the diamond at Nat Bailey Stadium to the public for their annual Father’s Day Catch, Sunday, June 18, from 1 to 3 p.m. Participants are encouraged to bring their own baseballs and gloves, with entrance to the event along the third base side of the stadium. Admission is free. The Vancouver Canadians open the 2017 Northwest League on the road against the Eugene Emeralds June 15 to 19, and play their home opener against

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Organizers of Vancouver’s Canada 150 celebrations have put down their Caesars and butter tarts for a moment to announce details on the upcoming Canada 150 Parade through downtown Vancouver. The parade caps off two days of festivities and takes place on Sunday, July 2, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. The parade route begins at Broughton and West Georgia, travels east along Georgia, turns north onto Burrard and ends at Burrard and West Pender. Canada 150 celebrations take place July 1 and 2 at Canada Place, Jack Poole Plaza and surrounding city streets. Event highlights include: • Five daytime performance stages featuring Sam Roberts, Fefe Dobson, Emerson Drive, Hey Ocean!, Dragonette, Madeline Merlo, the Matinee and more. • Citizenship ceremony welcoming 150 new Canadians.

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It’s time to awaken the dragons. The paddles have yet to hit the water, but already excitement is swelling for the annual Concord Pacific Vancouver Dragon Boat Festival. And this year is all about changing perceptions, says general manager Ann Phelps. Although the three-day festival, which runs June 23-25, is typically thought of as a sporting affair, that’s just touching the surface of this cultural and artistic event, according to Phelps. Inspired by the artistry of the paddlers and beautiful False Creek, artists Katie and Paul Morris, whose vibrant artwork was discovered by Phelps on Granville Island, designed this year’s promotional poster. Likewise, festival participants will be urged to not pick up an oar, but a pencil, paintbrush and paper to recreate enlarged images of Vancouver artwork. The winning submission will later be showcased on a billboard. For those more inclined to create ‘artwork’ with a knife, local chefs will be putting

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Tarun Nayar feels the need to rage against the machine, and he makes a pretty compelling case to do so. Over the last decade, his band Delhi 2 Dublin has released 10 albums, sold out the Commodore several times over and toured the world. Later this month they’ll make their debut at one of Europe’s biggest gigs, the Glastonbury Festival in England. In short, music is his day job and has been for quite some time. Despite that resume, you’d be hard pressed to hear Nayar’s tunes on the radio or on the roster of a major label. “The short answer here is racism,” Nayar told the Courier. “But it’s great where politics are at in North America right now because we can actually talk about this. People realize that this is a legitimate concern and that we’re not over it.” Those concerns are the talking points found in Bhangra City, which makes its debut as part of the City of Bhangra Festival running June 11 to 17 in both Vancouver and Surrey. The

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half-hour documentary, which Nayar wrote and co-produced, explores the burgeoning bhangra scene in Metro Vancouver and India and how its relative anonymity in Vancouver remains a head scratcher for those both in and out of the game. Nayar, his bandmates and a ﬁlm crew travel to India to interview interna-

tionally-acclaimed bhangra star Jazzy B., crash weddings in Surrey and speak to older generations of the South Asian community to unravel the ﬁlm’s narrative. The Indian wedding scene in Surrey in particular is like a subculture unto itself, where DJs can pocket huge dough for an evening set performed in front of upwards of 2,000 revellers.

“We’re talking confetti cannons, lasers and massive robots — it’s like a crazy mix of Burning Man meets butter chicken,” Nayar said. Despite that demand south of the Fraser, those same people seemingly can’t get a gig in Vancouver clubs on any given weekend. Nayar said the same level of discrimi-

nation plays out at live music venues, in corporate board rooms and on the festival circuit, despite the estimated 300,000 IndoCanadians who live in Metro Vancouver. Nayar and two of his bandmates are of South Asian descent and some of their lyrics are sung in Punjabi. “That’s the way the music industry works. It

doesn’t really piss me off,” he said. “I don’t expect a capitalist system to be altruistic. But it does piss me off that there is money to be made, there are great stories and great music, but a huge demographic of our city isn’t being served by conventional models.” Nayar put plan to action in the spring of last year via some good old-fashioned social media outrage. He took to the Internet to decry what he felt was a lack of cultural diversity amongst the winners of last year’s Telus-sponsored Storyhive competition, which awards creative types seed money in the areas of film, animation and TV. Telus caught wind of Nayar’s musings, invited him for a meeting and eventually gave him some of the funding necessary to make Bhangra City happen. “I was genuinely concerned, but they are a very diverse company and very supportive,” Nayar said. “It’s not like they’re out to create a white nation.” Above and beyond the film’s June 12 premiere at the Vancity Theatre, Nayar hopes to enter the film into the festival circuit and is in the process of planning screenings further afield in Canada. @JohnKurucz More info on the City of Bhangra Festival can be found online at vibc.org.

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WEEKLY FORECAST: JUNE 11 – 17, 2017 This is your last week of errands and other easy chores, Aries. Just glide through. You’ll complete tasks swiftly. Your money picture remains bright, bright enough to let you buy a luxury item — especially for your mate, lover. Continue to be light, gentle on the home front — avoid friction/ﬁghting, not because you’d lose, but because you’d win too cruelly, and that is a deeper loss. Your ambitious, conservative side is uppermost Sunday to almost 5 pm (PDT) Monday.

Your wise, mellow mood continues. Keep seeking, furthering far travel plans, cultural and religious venues, intellectual, media and legal matters, and love. However, overall, expect some headwinds to all these this week, as practicalities and, perhaps, skepticism, slow your progress. Be willing to see what isn’t going to work, and abandon it. Intimate, sexual, health, ﬁnancial, research, medical and lifestyle trends favour you until July 4, so don’t be afraid to commit or dive into these zones.

Chase money, Taurus — you have 10 more days to grab that $ bird in the bush, to make a smart purchase, to memorize important lists, documents or test material, etc., and to pull someone close sensually. Do it now, while your mind’s so alert, and your possession instincts so high/apt. You’re going to receive an admiring glance or two this week and the next few, as your physical charms radiate. Great time (all June) to buy clothes, accessories or anything beautiful.

Sex, secrets, major finances, lifestyle decisions, medical diagnoses, sensing the currents under-running everything, research and commitment (and consequence) — these have coloured the past few weeks, and continue for 10 more days. However, some sluggish but wide headwinds make progress in these areas a bit more difficult now. Proceed with caution, planning and deliberation. Be willing to ebb in your efforts, or even to quit the field, should obstacles be insurmountable.

Your energy, charisma and effectiveness remain high. Do significant things, launch significant projects, make/establish/solidify valuable (or loving) contacts. However, all week, financial, investment, sexual, pregnancy, research, and medical pursuits are dicey, might not work out: be careful, avoid risks here. You might love, embrace a Sagittarian or Capricorn, or you might fall out with one. Your private life, inner world, remains sweet, even romantic, all June.

You remain in an important relationship period, Sage. The last few weeks have granted you a pretty easy, benevolent pathway to association, partnership (love or business), relocation, fresh horizons intellectually, and new opportunities. All this continues for the next 10 days, but without quite the speed or effectiveness of recent weeks. By now, if you have made a strong connection, you should be veering into more private clinches, into sexual intimacy/bonding, to July 20.

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Hey, Cancer. Continue to lie low, rest, contemplate and plan. Deal with government agencies and charities. Be restful not only to rejuvenate, but to listen to your quiet spirit, to re-establish a connection to your intuition and ﬁner thoughts. In 10 days, your “rest period” will be over, weariness will end, and your energy will come surging back. You’re more assertive and determined than usual (despite your weariness) — channel this into your career and practical ambitions.

Only 10 days of drudgery left, Cap. Well, keep working and do protect your daily health (eat and dress sensibly, etc.). Your efforts to progress in your chores could face some sluggish opposition this week — it’s not personal, but seems situational, to come from conditions in the environment. (E.g., you’re tearing down walls to renovate your house, but this is the week you discover you have to obtain government permission to handle the asbestos in your walls.)

Hope is a major blessing. It inspires us and nudges us into action. Your hopes remain high all week, but realize that now hope needs to mingle with a serious, sober outlook. Now is the time (week) to separate the doable from the un-doable, the practical from the wishful. If you don’t, you’ll set up a future disappointment — but not too far into the future. Plunge into work Sunday. Ditto Monday morn, but with caution, especially around electricity and “partners.”

Your romantic streak continues, Aquarius, although recent intensity has ebbed, and your love affair, if it exists, grows a bit more sluggish, as you and your lover’s emotions face a practical reality (that, thankfully, will only last until December/17). That practical headwind could be anything, medical, kids, money, sexual stamina, etc. (For “romantic” you can also read: pleasure, creativity, sports, gaming, speculation, beauty.)

Your ambitions, career goals, prestige relations and neighbourhood reputation continue in focus, Virgo. You’ve done well in these the last few weeks, but this week isn’t a cake walk, partly because either 1) your family isn’t on board, or 2) you haven’t built a big enough or durable enough base to launch an ambitious project from. Rather than lose the advances you gained recently, ﬁnd a middle ground, compromise with skeptics or those who insist on a different approach.

One last week of domestic concerns, Pisces. You might have to decide between home/security and outside/ ambition. If you opt for outside/ambition, you might make a dream come true, perhaps about your career. But the major strength or “biggest result” will come from steering yourself toward home/security. (Example: in a rising market, your home can earn more per year for you than your job does.) Either your romantic or creative passions ﬂare hotly until July 20, or you grow speculative.

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