Vancouver Courier November 30 2017

THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT REAL ESTATE IN

VANCOUVER Condos in Vancouver have increased in listing price by

+24%

DOWNTOWN WEST is Vancouver’s most popular neighbourhood, based on property views

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12,958 NEW HOMES

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Keep up with your real estate market at rew.ca SOURCE: Property listing views on REW: Q3 2016 and 2017. Multiple Listings Service®: Q3 2017 vs Q3 2016. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation: under-construction inventory, as of end October 2017 vs October 2016.

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Louie, De Genova, Deal to seek re-election in 2018 Vision’s Andrea Reimer, NPA’s George Affleck won’t seek another term

Mike Howell

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Andrea Reimer is out, now George Affleck is too.

Both city councillors recently announced they are done with city hall and will not seek re-election in 2018.

So who will be the next member of council to say thanks for the memories and not bother to seek another term?

Let’s start with who’s in.

Mayor Gregor Robertson has repeatedly said he will seek a fourth term as mayor.

That’s what people around him tell me, too. Of course, one year is a long time and stuff can happen. But, for now, he’s in. And by in, I assume that means foregoing a nomination race.

Vision Vancouver hasn’t held a nomination race for mayor since 2008 when Robertson beat current councillor Raymond Louie and former park board commissioner Al De Genova to become the party’s candidate.

Yes, you read that right — De Genova, who is father to anti-Vision campaigner NPA Coun.

Melissa De Genova. Al had a chance to become the leader of Vision but finished a distant third.

Now wouldn’t that have been weird and interesting had he won.

Anyway, that’s history.

Here’s a bit more…

Louie has been on council since he was first elected in 2002 as a member of COPE. Led by mayoral candidate Larry Campbell, COPE won a landslide that year and for a short time looked like they might repeat in 2005.

But only a few years after being elected, the COPE administration imploded.

Campbell, Louie and fellow COPErs Tim Stevenson and Jim Green had enough of what Campbell described as “wild-eyed revolutionaries” and formed their own political gang.

It began as The Friends of Larry Campbell and

The next civic election isn’t until 2018, but city councillors Raymond Louie, Melissa De Genova and Heather Deal say the will run again. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

morphed into Vision Vancouver by the time the 2005 civic election rolled around. Campbell decided not to run again and turned over the party’s leadership to Green, who lost to Sam Sullivan and the NPA. During that campaign, I remember Campbell and Green touting Louie as a future mayor of Vancouver.

Then along came Robertson in 2008. Pundits and some insiders have pointed to

Louie and Reimer as logical successors to Robertson.

But with Reimer not seeking re-election, that leaves Louie. In an email last week, he told me that yes he will run next year to retain his seat on council.

Vision Coun. Heather Deal confirmed the same.

Stevenson?

“I’m surprised at how early both Andrea and George have declared their intentions,” he said in an email.

“A year out? Why? Not sure what purpose it serves. I’m not going to put my mind to it for a while yet. There’s a number of issues I want to see firmly in place.”

Vision Coun. Kerry Jang?

“I haven’t thought about it,” he said in an email.

“Too busy with modular housing, OD crisis (just got a paper in Lancet! Invited commentary out in January) and cannabis rules for province as co-chair of JCCP. Like that line from Casablanca, ‘Will I see you tonight?’ Bogart answered, ‘I don’t plan that far ahead.’ Not even sure what to have for dinner. I better take something out of the freezer. I will have a better idea at the end of the year.”

As for the NPA, rookie councillor Hector Bremner said he will likely run in 2018. De Genova told me over the phone last week she’s in, but I have yet to hear from Elizabeth Ball.

Green Party Coun. Adriane Carr said she’s “still keen” and will run in 2018.

Regardless of who runs, there will be some seats to fill. Jean Swanson, who ran as an independent and placed second in the Oct. 14 byelection, said she is considering a run. So is Judy Graves of OneCity, who finished fourth in the race.

Vision’s Diego Cardona, who placed fifth, is also a likely candidate for 2018.

Keep in mind though, that some or all of these people will have to compete in nomination races.

Interestingly, the 2018 campaign will be the first where no union or corporate donations will be allowed. In theory, the new legislation should give candidates belonging to small-sized parties a better chance at the polls.

As to who will battle Robertson for mayor, the NPA has yet to find a winner in three election cycles.

More on that challenge between now and October 2018. @Howellings

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City unveils ‘big moves’ to help Vancouver renters

Housing strategy includes rentalonly zones, linking rent to income and building more than 50,000 rental units Mike Howell

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The city’s new housing strategy calls for a wide-ranging number of initiatives to help renters, including creating rentalonly zones, linking rents to income and building almost 50,000 rental units over the next 10 years.

The city’s senior planning staff unveiled its proposed plan Nov. 23 and pledged that 50 per cent of a grand total of 72,000 new homes estimated to be built over the next 10 years will be affordable to households earning less than $80,000 per year.

Another 20,000 will be designated as long-term market rentals and 12,000 will be a mix of social and non-profit homes, with about 4,100 of those connected to supports such as health care and counselling services. The strategy also calls for another 4,000 laneway homes.

“There’s some big moves here in the housing strategy that haven’t been done before,” said Gil Kelley, the city’s head planner, at a city hall news conference last Thursday.

One of those “big moves” is a program that could involve up to 20 projects that would see rents set at no more than 30 per cent of a person’s income. Rents would range from $950 a month for a studio to $2,000 for a three-bedroom place.

The strategy, which council debated Wednesday after the Courier’s print deadline, was welcomed

by Tesicca Troung and Veronika Bylicki, organizers for Generation Squeeze, a lobby group comprised of young people “squeezed out” of the housing market.

“We’ve heard loud and clear in our work that young Metro Vancouverites feel that housing is currently oriented as a privilege instead of a right,” said Bylicki, who spoke at the news conference. “We know that young people who want to stay in the city are currently having difficulty doing so, and having to make difficult

The city unveiled a new housing strategy Nov. 23. It’s aimed at helping renters and promises that 50 per cent of new homes built over the next 10 years will be affordable to households earning less than $80,000 per year. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

decisions and trade-offs.”

Andrew Sakamoto, executive director of the Tenant Resource and Advisory Centre, was also at city hall and pointed out how his organization speaks every day to people desperate to find rental housing in a city that has less than a one per cent vacancy rate.

“Just to compete in Vancouver’s ultra-competitive market, tenants are having to engage in bidding wars, disclose excessive personal information and pay legal application fees,” Sakamoto said. “Even tenants who do have housing are facing unaffordable rents that continue to rise.”

The city’s move to create more rentals comes after Kelley and his staff recognized about 14 months ago that they need to increase “the right supply” of housing for Vancouver to remain a city that is affordable to people of low and middle incomes.

That “right supply” includes townhomes, row houses, duplexes and housing that would be legally tied to a person’s income, as worked out in a covenant between the city, the developer and tenant or buyer of a home.

Without a shift in the type of housing supply brought on to the market — mainly high-priced condos and single-family homes — city staff determined only those people with above average incomes could afford the 47,800 homes projected to be built in Vancouver over the next 10 years.

Of those 47,800, the city

estimated 26,800 would be rental units, but only 2,600 affordable for single people earning less than $50,000 per year. The city also recognized that families who rent and earn under $80,000 faced a severe gap in rental housing, with only 4,250 homes projected to be built in 10 years.

A city staff report that went before council in March showed a steep decline, between 2006 and 2011, in the proportion of young households aged 25 to 39 living in Vancouver.

That same period saw a decrease in numbers of children born in Vancouver once they reached school age, likely reflecting a departure of growing families in search of affordable, family-sized housing, the report said.

One of the new initiatives calls for the creation of a rent zone or zones in the city, which Kelley acknowledged would need to be approved by the provincial government. An emailed statement to the Courier Nov. 23 from the provincial ministry of housing said: “We are very interested in opportunities to improve the affordability of rental housing. We are taking a close look at what more can be done, including opportunities for rental zoning which has been raised by some local governments. We will engage with key stakeholders on this important issue. We do have a huge housing affordability issue in this province, and this government is

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Fentanyl dealer says demand for deadly drug is driving market Vancouver comic Mark Hughes interviews fentanyl dealer as part of recently launched podcast

John Kurucz

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Death has been a constant in Kyle’s life for 25 years.

It’s a narrative that goes hand in hand with his lifestyle, and shows no signs of abating.

Kyle — not his real name — is a fentanyl dealer. He says he’s killed people, once with his own hands and, by extension, through his line of work. Kyle spoke to Vancouver comedian Mark Hughes as part of Hughes’ recentlylaunched podcast Pulling the Trigger. The Courier attempted to speak with Kyle, but he declined on more than one occasion.

He spoke to Hughes earlier this month, and the conversation went live Nov. 23. “There is a guy I went to elementary school with who has personally died from my product 27 times,” Kyle said.

At 38, Kyle has been trafficking drugs for roughly 25 years. The only interruption during that time was when Kyle went to prison between the ages of 15 and 19 for manslaughter.

Out of prison before he turned 20, Kyle took a warehouse job as part of his parole and probation.

He went back to selling drugs soon after — cocaine, heroin and MDMA. He deals on behalf of a “mother organization” and says he continually resisted moving into the

Statistics released by the BC Coroners Service Nov. 9 point to 1,103 overdose deaths in the province as of Sept. 30. More than 80 per cent of all illicit drug overdose deaths (914) had fentanyl detected, an increase of 147 per cent over the same period in 2016. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

fentanyl trade.

“It breaks my heart. I hate it. It was by far not what I wanted. It was not what I saw for this business. I fought it at every opportunity. I fought it, but this stuff is here by popular demand,” Kyle said. “This is not dealers imposing their will on Vancouver.

This is Vancouver saying, ‘Hey we heard about what happened over in Europe, we want that stuff.’”

Kyle said the tipping point for him came when he

had a cache of heroin in his home that wasn’t moving.

“As a dealer in opiates, I was loathe to get into the fentanyl trade. People called me a martyr for the cause of heroin. I was a straggler. I didn’t want to.

But it’s reached full market saturation. If you buy a kilo of heroin now, you may as well pave a road with it. Nobody wants it.”

Kyle says one of the biggest misconceptions around fentanyl is the notion that people take

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he is doing. I can relate to that,” Hughes said.

Kyle is originally from California. He described is father as “an uncouth asshole.

Not like a cool, toy drive biker. A scum-of-the-earth biker.” Kyle’s family came to Canada via his uncle, a heroin dealer, and he grew up in East Vancouver.

Kyle has two kids and isn’t married. The eldest child is 13. “He can see what’s going on. And it’s scary, because all of a sudden he’s like, ‘Does it really matter if I graduate, Dad?’ And I say yeah, it f***ing matters.”

Kyle said he does what he does because he has no other choice.

“I have zero education,” he said. “I didn’t have a chance to get an education.

There’s no way that I can make enough to support two children in Vancouver in any other occupation that I’m qualified for.”

Kyle said fentanyl’s emergence across Canada is not an if, but a when.

“If you live in a city where fentanyl is not killing everybody, it’s coming soon,” he said. “When it does come… heroin is going to be as romanticized as opium and old leather.”

The entire conversation can be heard on Hughes’ Soundcloud channel, located at soundcloud.com/ pullingthetrigger. @JohnKurucz

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Asked why he would sell a volatile product that can kill his client base, Kyle responded, “They’d go to Joe Blow that has it. It’s supply and demand. If I don’t do it, somebody else will.”

Statistics released by the BC Coroners Service Nov. 9 point to 1,103 overdose deaths in the province as of Sept. 30. More than 80 per cent of all illicit drug overdose deaths (914) had fentanyl detected, an increase of 147 per cent over the same period in 2016. In Vancouver, 223 people died from fentanyldetected overdoses over the same period of time.

Hughes says he knows at least 60 people who have died from fentanyl over the last 18 months. He was addicted to heroin and cocaine for close to a decade, and spent time in jail for armed robbery. Hughes has been sober for 11 years and supplements his stand-up comedy work by selling fire alarms. He came to know Kyle through his comedy gig and it was through their occasional chats on Facebook that Hughes got him to talk.

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News You could be cracking a beer (legally) at English Bay this summer Jessica Kerr

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Vancouver beachgoers could soon enjoy a glass of wine or beer with their fun in the sun.

Park board commissioners received an update last week on the board’s concession strategy. The park board operates 13 concession stands at parks and beaches across the city, with services provided by 10 different operators.

In addition to a move to establish more consistency and branding between the different operations, staff reported on some proposed changes, including a pilot project testing alcohol sales at English Bay and Third Beach.

In public consultation, which included an online survey, interviews and focus groups, 79 per cent of respondents agreed or strongly agreed with the sale of alcoholic beverages at concession stands, 16 per cent noted they disagreed or strongly disagreed, and five per cent didn’t agree or disagree.

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Marpole housing complex for homeless to open in February Mike Howell

mhowell@vancourier.com

Mayor Gregor Robertson has stated publicly for weeks that a controversial proposal to allow the construction of a 78-unit modular housing complex in Marpole for homeless people will be built — and that promise was confirmed Monday by the city’s director of planning.

The city announced in a news release that Gil Kelley gave “conditional approval” for Horizon North’s development permit to proceed with the project on property owned by developer Onni Group at West 59th Avenue and Heather Street.

Those conditions include: • An operations management plan for the complex.

• The creation of a community advisory committee, which will include parent advisory council members and other residents. The committee must meet prior to an occupancy permit being issued, likely in early February.

• A mandatory community meeting prior to the complex opening and attendees will include the Vancouver school board, B.C. Housing

and Community Builders, the non-profit that will manage the complex.

• Tenants will be chosen in accordance with “affordable/supportive housing tenanting best practices” and take into consideration the neighbourhood and adjacent schools.

Prior to the news release being issued, Kelley sent a letter addressed to “members of the Marpole community” explaining his decision. He prefaced it by noting he met with parent advisory council representatives, community leaders, the Vancouver School Board and project sponsors. He added that he also read numerous letters and summary comments from four open houses regarding the project.

Over the past month, hundreds of Marpole residents held several protests opposing the complex, which they argued was too close to three schools. They worried a mix of tenants with mental health and addictions issues would put students in danger.

“I’ve taken this decision very seriously and taken into consideration everything

A 78-unit temporary modular housing complex to house homeless people is expected to open in February. The complex will be built at West 59th Avenue and Heather Street in Marpole.

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I’ve heard from the above community members and stakeholders,” Kelley said.

“I’ve also looked at the city’s overall need to support and house our most vulnerable residents, especially in light of the increasing number of homeless residents on our streets. After taking a holistic assessment, I have decided to issue the development permit.”

He concluded his letter by saying, “I think with good will on all sides, we will all

be proud of this effort.”

The Courier contacted a representative of the recently formed “Right Idea, Wrong Location” organization that has led protests and delivered a petition to city hall with more than 5,000 names opposing the project.

The complex will be across the street from Ideal Mini School and Sir Wilfrid Laurier elementary school.

Sir Winston Churchill secondary is two blocks north of the site. Residents

interviewed at two protests told the Courier they were not against housing projects for homeless people, but didn’t want such a project in a neighbourhood with three schools.

“Our group will not be commenting at this time,” said Long Trak, a spokesperson for the group, in an email. “We will be holding a press conference later this week in which we will respond to this latest news. We will update you regarding the day, time and location.”

Meanwhile, a group called “Marpole students for modular housing” plans to hold a “new neighbour welcoming rally” Dec. 5 outside the property on Heather Street. A message on the group’s Facebook page indicates 60 people will attend, with another 328 interested.

“The purpose of this event is to create connections, exchange stories and, most of all, to show that we are ready to welcome those who will be moving into the modular housing!” the message said.

Onni Group agreed to have the housing remain on the property for at least

five years before it proceeds with a 2,700-unit residential development, which will include 654 social housing units, with 114 of those connected to health and counselling services for tenants.

The modular project will be split into two buildings of 39 units each. Julie Roberts, executive director of Community Builders, told the Courier earlier this month that tenants will be a mix of people from shelters and the street.

Tenants will be 45 or older and many will have physical, medical and other disabilities. At least 14 of the units will be wheelchair accessible. Staff will be on site around the clock. Roberts said some tenants will likely have addiction and mental health issues.

“We use a tenant intake process that takes into consideration peoples’ housing history, their mental health issues, their substance abuse issues, their physical issues,” Roberts said.

“So, it is in fact possible that people will have at this time or in the past had issues around that.” @Howellings

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Olympic Village’s giant birds headed east for repairs Skateboarders and kids blamed for public art’s wear and tear

Naoibh O’Connor

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The giant birds at Olympic Village are taking a long winter break, but they’re not heading south. The first of a two-stage trip will see them travel east to Calgary for repairs before eventually being shipped to China for finishing work.

Repairs are needed because of damage to the exterior — kids like to climb and slide down them, while they’ve also been used by skateboarders.

Repair costs are tagged at $425,000, which is coming from a reserve fund previously set aside for maintenance of public art.

On Nov. 23, a crew of five from Wingenback Inc., industrial riggers and movers, lifted the sparrow sculptures from their plaza home for transportation to Alberta. Company spokesman Shane Leavy said they weigh 3,500 pounds each.

The job took the equivalent of about a day’s-worth of planning prior to the move, including several visits to the site to work out details such as where to stage the crane and truck.

“I can’t say we’ve ever rigged and moved birds before. That’s the first time we’ve done that. But that’s where Wingenback’s specialty is — being called into jobs that are out of the box,” he said.

Produced by artist Myfanwy MacLeod, “The Birds” were installed in 2010 after the winter Olympics.

The city expected that some maintenance would be needed, but it did not anticipate the degree of damage done by skateboarding on the tail, which led to the surface being completely compromised and the need for major repair.

The repairs, which will mainly be to the exterior, will make the sculptures more durable — they will have a much harder and stronger aluminum shell.

In Calgary, the surface will be stripped and body work done to make the forms pristine. Then they will be shipped to a foundry in China for casting before being returned to Calgary for painting and finishing.

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They are expected to return to their Vancouver home within 10 months, in time for the 27th International Ornithological Congress taking place between Aug. 19 and 26. @naoibh

The Birds scupltures were removed from their Olympic Village home last Thursday so that repair and finishing work can be done in Calgary and China. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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Long in length, long overdue and a long way off City’s 10-year housing strategy provides faint hope for those ‘squeezed out’ Allen Garr

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As Vancouver city council met Tuesday to consider passage of their 10-year housing strategy, they could not have expected worse news to once again make clear how dire the situation is.

Tuesday morning CMHC issued a report confirming Vancouver’s dubious status. No city has a lower rental vacancy rate in Canada; no city has a higher rental rate for a twobedroom apartment.

One other grim statistic was introduced as well by a CMHC analyst on CBC radio: For the past three years, rents in Vancouver have exceeded the provincial allowable levels (two per cent plus inflation), including this year where average rents bumped up 5.7 per cent.

If that weren’t enough, there is the issue of homelessness. In his inaugural address in 2008, to much applause, Mayor Gregor Robertson had this to say: “It is our council’s single most important priority in this term of office.”

Quibble over whether he meant “street homelessness” or just plain homelessness, but almost a decade later, at a “sustainability community breakfast” called by Metro

Consideration of the city’s 10-year housing strategy coincided with a CMHC report indicating Vancouver boasts the dubious distinction of having the country’s lowest vacancy rate and highest rental rate for a two-bedroom apartment. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Vancouver this week, people sipping their coffee and munching on their muffins would be told that “Lower Mainland homelessness is increasing four times faster than population growth.”

Vision Vancouver and Mayor Robertson are not solely culpable for the housing affordability crisis in which we find ourselves.

And it would be unfair to say

this administration has done nothing; there are the recent regulations to control and diminish the phenomenon of short-term rentals and the recently approved empty homes tax.

Other levels of government — provincial and federal — were, like Vancouver, benefitting mightily from the real estate windfall that drove prices up and out

of reach. While houses and other dwelling units became commodities taking up space in investment portfolios, they did little or nothing to stop the money machine.

It meant, as former city planner Ann McAfee explained on morning radio, “there was a bigger audience competing for homes in Vancouver.”

She also pointed out that

nothing was more damaging than the decision by Ottawa, back in the day when Jean Chretien was prime minister and Paul Martin was his deficit-cutting minister of finance, to withdraw from investing in affordable housing.

That was then, and even now with Trudeau the Younger at the helm saying he is back in the housing business, no significant money will be put towards that purpose until, or even if, he is re-elected in 2019.

The provincial Liberals’ refusal to act, preferring to lard their treasury with millions in land transfer taxes until it was far too late to avert the tsunami of foreign cash, was in no small part the reason Christy Clark and her government got the boot.

But Robertson does not come off squeaky clean by allowing current zoning regulations to stand for his three terms in office.

Jake Fry, owner of Smallworks, the builder of laneway houses and a member of the mayor’s advisory panel on the new policy, had this to say about the real estate gold rush that has taken place: “Affluence in this respect has resulted in a type of housing poverty.”

His solution —and one being taken up, finally, in

this housing report — is that instead of allowing monster houses to replace those older, smaller homes, put more housing units on each property and, by doing that, disperse the land value and improve affordability.

There are, however, many other proposals in the couple of hundred pages being put forward by city staff for councillors to consider on the road to affordability.

It is a sign of the extreme desperation, the need to do anything that would aid the whole spectrum of Vancouverites now feeling they are being squeezed out — no matter how faint that hope may be — that this plan has received such widespread support.

In a news release last weekend, it was clear that everyone — from landlords of conventional rental units, tenant advocates and administrators for the most marginalized to supporters of co-op housing and housing for First Nations groups, architects and developers whose work has led to some of the most expensive housing developments — is willing to give this plan a shot.

That said, it will take years, if not decades, to get us out of a dilemma that has had decades to fully overwhelm us. @allengarr

Disproportionate number of Aboriginal children in foster care Foster care system criticized as ‘the new residential school’ Tracy Sherlock

tracy.sherlock@gmail.com

Stories in the news about children in foster care are often tragic — their endings tend to involve things such as homelessness, addiction or even death.

But there are strategies that could turn those twisted tales upside down and improve the lives of young children whose families fall apart.

Two ideas that could make a world of difference are making sure foster kids get the education they need to succeed and reducing the number of Aboriginal children taken into care.

Most children in care are Aboriginal — 62.7 per cent — while only about nine per cent of all kids are Indigenous.

“Many people say the care system is the new residential school,” said Dawn Thomas-Wightman, B.C.’s

deputy representative for children and youth, who is Aboriginal herself.

“If we had the same type of numbers for non-Indigenous kids, we would be calling it a crisis.”

Research in the United States shows that up to 70 or 80 per cent of children in foster care might be able to come home if the family had support to help prevent neglect, family addiction and poverty, Thomas-Wightman said. Staying at home with family support would avoid the trauma of being taken into care, she said.

When it comes to education, the numbers are also dire, but improving.

Only about half of B.C. children in foster care graduate from high school, compared to about 90 per cent of students who aren’t in foster care, says a recent report from Bernard Richard, B.C.’s representative for

children and youth. Fewer still go on to post-secondary education because they “age out” of foster care when they turn 19 and must support themselves.

“Students in care are not naturally under-performers,” Richard said. “But often because of their life circumstances — experiencing trauma and instability early on — many need extra supports in order to succeed academically.”

Children in foster care often move around a lot — Richard’s report says some move as many as 29 times.

Often when they move, they have to change schools and start over. Twentynine school changes could be enough to make anyone fail — heck, even five or six changes could do serious damage.

Children in care don’t always have a reliable adult to help with homework,

sign school permission slips or make sure they make it to early morning basketball practice.

So, what can be done?

As far as education, Richard’s report makes six recommendations — among them, a call for funding for schools to have dedicated staff members who support children in care, which would give these students a much-needed connection to a reliable adult.

Rob Fleming, minister of education, says improving outcomes for Indigenous students is a “top priority.”

He promises to address the funding concerns in Richard’s report, and to try to go even further than Richard’s recommendations.

One of the first moves the new NDP government made was to expand free tuition for foster children in college and university to all public post-secondary schools.

To address the scandalous numbers of Aboriginal children in care, Grand Chief Ed John wrote a 2016 report that pushed keeping families together rather than tearing them apart. Thomas-Wightman said research has shown that the trauma of losing one’s parents when going into foster care can be worse than the trauma of staying in a home where there is neglect.

“It seems to make sense,” Thomas-Wightman said.

“The money that you put into foster care — some foster homes can make up to $3,000 a month — [put that] into families [and] you cut out the trauma of removing the child.”

The NDP government campaigned on a promise to implement John’s recommendations. So far, the new government has adopted the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and the children’s

ministry says it is working with First Nations people on a shift in the approach to child welfare.

Specifically, the ministry says it is spending $14.4 million to ensure that delegated Aboriginal agencies’ funding is at the same level as non-Aboriginal agencies, $24.2 million to support families to stay together and another $6.4 million to build support for families.

Let’s hope both the education ministry and the children’s ministry are able to follow through with their promises. If children in care graduate at the same rate as other children and there is a push to keep more families together, with support to ensure the children are safe, the foster care story might come closer to a happy ending.

Tracy Sherlock writes about education and social issues.

She can be reached at tracy. sherlock@gmail.com

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Development Permit Board just doing its job… finally Re: “Beedie decision reveals times have changed in Vancouver,” Nov. 16.

Why is there so much surprise and dismay at the Development Permit Board simply doing its job? Maybe it’s because it hasn’t happened for so long.

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Curious about George Re: “NPA makes mass exit at city hall,” Nov. 23.

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Rose-Marie Larsson via Facebook ••• Well I voted for him because he was bringing Mount Pleasant Pool back but no evidence that has happened — only NPA candidate I have ever voted for in my life — mind you Vision needs to listen much much harder...

Meredyth Kezar via Facebook ••• To answer your question, yes, this is news to me. Who is George Affleck?

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Spanish Banks parking inquisition Re: “Starting April 1, it will cost you to park at Spanish Banks,” Nov. 23.

The city is nickel and diming us to death.

Now you won’t be able to go for a walk or walk you dig without paying for parking.

Taxes keep going up, parking everywhere is getting more expensive, services are constantly being cut. It is time to fir a change at city hall and a team who can actually run the city effectively. Enough ficus on bike lanes and the driver being the devil.

Sharon Davis via Facebook *** Ridiculous! Parks are for families and not all families are able to afford this. And don’t tell me they should take transit, taking a family of 4 on the bus is not cheap either....

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New park at Oakridge Centre: Have your say The Vancouver Park Board is planning a new nine-acre park as part of the redevelopment of Oakridge Centre. The public park will be located partially at street level and partially on the rooftop of the redeveloped mall.

Come and learn more about the park and provide your input at two open houses: Wednesday, December 6, 2017, 5-8 pm Saturday, December 9, 2017, 11 am-2 pm Oakridge Centre Auditorium, 650 West 41st Avenue (West side of the shopping centre,

by Peninsula Restaurant)

SHARE YOUR VIEWS ON SINGLE-USE ITEMS We want to hear from you on options for reducing waste from single-use items, such as hot and cold beverage cups, fast food containers and plastic and paper bags.

JOIN US AT A POP-UP EVENT: City staff will be on hand to help you learn more about single-use item waste and the options we are considering as part of the Single-Use Item Reduction Strategy.

POP-UP EVENTS: 511 West Broadway Vancouver BC December 1-3, 10:30 am–1:30 pm and 4–7 pm December 4-7 4:30–7:30pm

Can’t make a pop-up event? Share your feedback through our survey at vancouver.ca/zerowaste Did you know? Every week, 2.6 million disposable cups and two million plastic bags are thrown in the garbage in Vancouver. Cups and take-out containers make up about 50 per cent of all items collected in public waste bins and a significant portion of litter on Vancouver streets. Despite the convenience of these items, it costs Vancouver taxpayers $2.5 million a year to collect and clean them up.

Learn more and take the survey: vancouver.ca/zerowaste

Tuesday, December 12, 2017, at 6 pm City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Third Floor, Council Chamber Vancouver City Council will hold a Public Hearing to consider zoning for these locations: 1. 5471 Wales St (Cantone Residence) To designate as protected heritage property the exterior of the existing building at 5471 Wales Street, known as the Cantone Residence, which is listed on the Vancouver Heritage Register in the ‘B’ evaluation category.

2. Miscellaneous Amendments Zoning & Development By-law including various CD-1 By-laws To make amendments to CD-1 (674) By-law for 3205-3221 West 41st Avenue and 5590 Balaclava Street, to CD-1 (642) By-law for 2133 Nanton Avenue, to CD-1 (158) By-law for 2657-2693 West 10th Avenue and 2676-2696 West Broadway, and to the C-3A and C-5, C-5A and C-6, and FC-2 Districts Schedules. The amendments would achieve the intent of the initial rezoning approvals, and correct inadvertent errors.

3. 55-79 Southwest Marine Drive To rezone 55-79 Southwest Marine Drive from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a six-storey residential building with 53 social housing units over one level of underground parking. A height of 20.7 metres (68 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 2.40 are proposed.

4. 87-115 Southwest Marine Drive To rezone 87-115 Southwest Marine Drive from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a six-storey residential building with 48 social housing units over one level of underground parking. A height of 20.7 metres (68 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 2.26 are proposed.

5. 478-496 West 48th Avenue To rezone 478-496 West 48th Avenue from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) District

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• Shovel your sidewalk: All property owners and occupants must clear snow and ice from sidewalks around their property by 10 am the morning after a snowfall, seven days a week. Failure to remove snow and ice may result in fines.

• Get snow tires: If you drive through the winter, consider getting tires with the three-peaked mountain and snowflake symbol OR the mud and snow symbol, with at least 3.5 mm tread. The Province of BC requires these tires on provincial highways.

• Move your car: City crews plow major roads and bus routes, so if you move your car to a side street or garage, they can clear snow better.

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO TAKE THE SURVEY IN ENGLISH OR CHINESE: vancouver.ca/oakridge-park (Survey available starting December 1.)

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to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a 10-storey mixed-use building with 59 secured market rental housing units, and commercial uses at grade all over two levels of underground parking. A height of 33.0 metres (108 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 3.91 are proposed.

6. 2075 West 12th Avenue To rezone 2075 West 12th Avenue from C-7 (Commercial) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a six-storey residential building with 48 secured market rental housing units over two levels of underground parking.

A height of 20 metres (65.7 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 3.5 are proposed.

7. 1715 Cook Street To rezone 1715 Cook Street from M-2 (Industrial) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a 10-storey residential building with 104 secured market rental housing units over two levels of underground parking. A height of 31.6 metres (103.7 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 5.03 are proposed.

8. 4238-4262 Cambie Street To rezone 4238-4262 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 57 dwelling units including five townhomes over two levels of underground parking.

A height of 19.5 metres (64 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 2.75 are proposed.

9. 3030-3038 Commercial Drive To rezone 3030–3038 Commercial Drive from C-2C1 (Commercial) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a six-storey mixed-use building with 43 secured market rental housing units, and commercial uses at grade. A height of 22.7 metres (74.5 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 4.10 are proposed.

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43 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 December 1 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 December 1 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.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON PUBLIC HEARINGS, INCLUDING REGISTERING TO SPEAK: vancouver.ca/publichearings

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Development Permit Board Meeting: December 11

The Development Permit Board and Advisory Panel will meet: Monday, December 11, 2017, 3 pm Vancouver City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Ground Floor, Town Hall Meeting Room to consider the following development permit application: 239 Keefer St Proposal: To develop an eight-storey, mixed-used building with retail, general office and dwelling uses, containing 25 market dwelling units all over two levels of underground parking with vehicle access from the lane via a car-elevator.

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Ghosts of West Georgia’s old post office live again

Martha Perkins

mperkins@vancourier.com

There was a point during the filming of the first season of Ghost Wars when the show’s creator realized it would be really neat to shoot a scene inside the bowels of a hydroelectric dam.

For most shows, this would have presented a problem.

For Ghost Wars, it was simply a matter of moving the set down a couple of floors to the boiler room.

The Syfy/Netflix series was filmed primarily inside the old Canada Post sorting facility in downtown Vancouver. Passersby on West Georgia Street might not have realized that within the confines of the six-storey monolith, all paranormal hell was breaking loose.

For fear of any spoilers, let’s just sum up the show’s plot this way: In a remote Alaskan town, unknown forces have blocked the portal to the afterlife following an earthquake.

The ghosts of people who die have nowhere to go. And they’re pissed about it.

As the show’s informal tagline used to say, Ghost Wars wants to “Make America Scared Again.”

Dead letter office

While Fort Langley and Squamish double as the show’s fictional town, the cavernous interior of the old postal building made it an ideal home base for the crew and cast, including Avan Jogia, Vincent D’Onofrio, Kim Coates, Kristin

Syfy’s Ghost Wars has turned Canada Post’s former sorting station into a “vertical back lot.”

See photo gallery at vancourier.com. LEFT PHOTO DAN TOULGOET RIGHT PHOTO MARTHA PERKINS

Lehman and Meat Loaf.

In the underground parking lot where trucks once disgorged an average of 3.2 million pieces mail every day, a phalanx of production trucks free up valuable Vancouver street parking.

The show’s sets inhabited another two floors of voluminous high-ceilinged space that used to accommodate endless mail-sorting machines and almost 1,800 full-time workers. One floor up, it was all in a day’s work for Ghost War’s production crew to modify existing office space into rooms for writers, costume designers, makeup artists and admin staff.

It was an eerie experience to visit a building that has its own lingering ghosts.

On the street level, you can look through the window and see a wall of unassigned mailboxes — quaint reminders of how we used to connect with the outside world. Inside, tunnel-like escalators climb

steeply towards a far-off shard of fluorescent light two lonely flights up. Everywhere there’s a dim, melancholic hum of a building that almost seems to be pining for the frenetic Canada Post days.

Once you’re on set, it’s as if a town’s buildings have been turned inside out with their labels and stitching showing.

The exteriors are unadorned plywood and exposed twoby-fours. Photocopied signs pinned near the entranceways indicate each set’s role. Walk inside one of the sets, however, and you are instantly teleported into a bar, a stone church, a mortuary or a lab where a particle collider does not seem out of place. There’s even a dark crypt where it’s too spooky to linger. As the cast and crew like to joke, you’d be wise to leave a trail of crumbs to navigate your way through this disembodied town with no streets.

“One day I passed by zombies having lunch on

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one floor, a post-apocalyptic fog on the next floor and then, when I walked up to another floor, there was Liam Neeson sitting there,” says Syd Lazarre, the show runner’s assistant.

When 349 West Georgia opened in November 1957, it was “the largest welded steel structure in the world, capped with a rooftop helipad,” writes Vancouver historian Eve Lazarus. Stretching the entire block from Homer to Hamilton streets, “the Taj Mahal with escalators” had 11 kilometres of conveyor belts and chutes, and “a 2,400-foot long tunnel that connected the post office to the CPR train station (now Waterfront Station.) The tunnel was outfitted with two conveyor belts to move the mail and was maintained by engineers on bikes.”

The tunnel, which was filled in three years ago when the City of Vancouver decided it was too expensive

to refurbish, was always popular spot for movie sets and “some rocking Halloween parties,” Lazarus reports.

Built during the Cold War, on the Ghost Wars set the bunker-like building was rumoured to be designed as a safe haven in a nuclear attack.

“It was the most modern, high-tech building at the time,” says Fred Dannels, a former plant manager who has nostalgic yearnings for the camaraderie and community he experienced there.

Nuclear bunker the $13-million building wasn’t, Dannels says, but it was designed as an emergency centre in case of an earthquake, with stored rations ready to distribute.

Dannels remembers Arnold Schwartzenegger’s helicopter scenes on the roof (Six Days), and visits

by Martin Sheen (Cold Front) and Sylvester Stallone (Daylight.) Parts of the television series Smallville were also filmed here.

“I miss her, I’ll tell you that,” he says of the building, which was closed in 2016 when the sorting plant was moved to Richmond.

“It was a great place to come to work.”

sphere speaks of their personal friendship and mutual respect as industry veterans — as well as the sense that they still have a lot of fun doing what they’re doing.

When Barry was approached to take on the series — he is the show runner, responsible for all of its moving pieces, and wrote the first episode — having the show based in his hometown was a deal-maker. He knows and trusts Vancouver’s production crews who, like him, appreciate working close to home.

The building’s “natural shape is working into the show,” Heaton says, calling it a vertical back lot. “It’s like this impervious-to-reality facility where we can run around and do whatever we want.”

It’s rare to have a show’s set and production offices in such close proximity, Barry says. “We can write a scene in one room, walk it into the next room to photocopy and shoot it in the next room,” he says. “We can do it in almost real time.”

Season one of the show is now on Syfy. Netflix is slated to pick it up for Canadian viewers some time in the new year, and a season two has not yet been announced.

Close to home

Ghost Wars creator Simon Barry (Van Helsing, Continuum) and executive producer Dennis Heaton (Motive) are sitting in Barry’s third-floor office. They take their feet off the table when a visiting journalist arrives but the bottle of whiskey remains.

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Seniors feel more connected than young people: survey Martha Perkins

Before drawing too many black-and-white conclusions, it’s important to note that the survey questions in 2017 were not the same as they were in 2012. McCort says that the foundation realized that some of the questions asked in 2012 “inadvertently led to a negative response.”

The 2012 responses tapped into a legitimate viewpoint that was obviously shared, but this year the foundation concentrated on making sure its questions were as neutral as possible. As well, it drew together a broad team of community leaders to draft questions that would delve deeper into why people felt the way they did.

For instance, among those who said they weren’t as engaged with their city as they’d like, slightly more than half (51 per cent) attributed it to how busy they were.

They know what they can do to increase their interactions with others; they simply don’t have time to do it.

Low incomes also create a barrier to full participation in activities. Nearly a quarter of respondents (22 per cent) said they didn’t have enough money to take

mperkins@vancourier.com

Five years ago, the Vancouver Foundation struck a chord — and sparked countless conversations — when it released a survey that described Metro Vancouver as a difficult place to make friends.

Those challenges still exist today, but the foundation’s 2017 survey also offers some positive insights that speak to how people are forging connections between each other and their city.

“There is more hope,” says Kevin McCort, the foundation’s president and CEO, of this year’s findings.

For instance, loneliness rates are lower than expected, in part because the new survey questions differentiated between being alone and feeling lonely. While 14 per cent of respondents said they feel lonely often or almost always, 34 per cent say they never feel lonely. Nine in 10 said they have someone they can depend on in times of need. And 18 per cent of respondents are quite OK with their alone times, thank you very much.

According to the Vancouver Foundation’s 2017 survey, Vancouver seniors had clear ideas of how to create a sense of engagement with friends and their communities, and reported being happier than young people.

advantage of opportunities.

Among young people, 44 per cent were more likely to report that they simply didn’t know what activities were available to them.

A surprising result for McCort was a rather precipitous decline in how many

people made use of libraries, community centres and recreation centres. In 2012, 83 per cent of respondents said yes; in 2017, the number dropped to 58 per cent.

Something that might surprise a lot of people is the number of seniors, 62

per cent, who say they use technology to stay connected — one per cent higher than the number of young people.

Seniors had clear ideas of how to create a sense of engagement with friends and their communities, and reported a stronger sense of belonging than any other age group.

However, McCort says that people shouldn’t say “you’ll get happier as you get older.” “Anyone who is feeling disconnected shouldn’t have to wait. Why go through a decade of your life feeling unhappy and disconnected. That doesn’t have to be.”

The Vancouver Foundation has been taking steps to make it easier for people to make those connections. After the 2012 survey results, the foundation increased its small grants program. The grants help people organize events in their communities, using the money to waive or lower fees to pay for rentals or food.

For instance, one woman used a grant to buy pumpkins and then invited neighbourhood children, many of them from immigrant families, to discover the Ca-

nadian Halloween tradition of pumpkin carving.

“That’s the kind of thing we’ll do more of,” McCort says. “It helps people’s sense of belonging.”

The foundation is also encouraging other local organizations to do the same.

The 2012 survey already has sparked internal discussions among other groups to determine if they could do more to make people feel part of their community. For instance, the YMCA created a marketing campaign that included a photo of a yoga mat and the tagline, “There’s always a welcome mat at the YMCA.” “The things we do, anyone can do,” McCort says.

“We just really encourage people to take those steps.”

The survey was administered by Mustel Group and was conducted online in either English or Chinese by 3,785 residents of Metro Vancouver. The 2012 survey also included phone surveys; when making comparisons, the survey compares this year’s findings with the 2012 online responses only.

For full survey results, go to vancouverfoundation.ca.

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The Spirit of Christmas Past

Sandra Thomas sthomas@vancourier.com

Share your Christmas and holiday photos with the Courier I spent several hours scouring the City Of Vancouver Archives’ online library in search of historic photographs of Christmas in Kerrisdale, but it was a tough go. I did find these historic gems dating from 1927 to 1985, but they aren’t all

related to Christmas. If you have a photo of Christmas in Kerrisdale, or from any part of the city, you’d like to share with the Courier from any date, please email sthomas@vancourier.com and I’ll add them to this collection online.

Crofton House students singing Christmas carols in 1974.

PHOTO CVA 804-268, H.E. ADDINGTON

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A Christmas tree at 5575 Angus Ave. in 1935.

Night of Music at Kerrisdale Arena 1974.

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SANDRA THOMAS sthomas@vancourier.com

Lower Mainland Christmas Bureau is requesting fewer stuffed toys and more gifts for teens The Lower Mainland Christmas Bureau wants anyone donating to the annual Christmas Wish Breakfast to know that as grateful as they are for all and any gifts donated, there’s a huge need for items for teenagers and tweens rather than plush toys more suitable for babies and toddlers.

The bureau is a non-profit organization that works hard to ensure all families enjoy a special Christmas.

The Pan Pacific Hotel Vancouver is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the massive gift drive, which last year saw more than 5,000 attendees trade an unwrapped toy for a turn at the breakfast buffet. And while the Christmas Bureau receives thousands of plush toys every year, the real need is appropriate gifts for teenagers. To help better facilitate that, the bureau has created a wish list to help donors understand the needs.

BABIES, TODDLERS AND PRESCHOOLERS Outdoor toys (tricycle, kick scooters, balance bikes), building blocks (Mega Bloks, wooden blocks), Play-Doh, musical toys (xylophones, maracas, drums), educational toys (shape sorting cubes,

abacus, Octotunes), games (Hungry Hungry Hippos, Angry Birds Knock on Wood game), crayons, paints and easels, Leapster Explorer Camera, age-appropriate electronics, toy cars and train sets and dinosaur figures.

ELEMENTARY SCHOOLAGED KIDS, TWEENS AND TEENS Building toys (Lego, Duplo), outdoor toys (skateboards, kick scooters, bikes, soccer balls, basket balls, sleds),

games and brain twisters (Pokemon cards, Perplexus, Qwirkle, Monopoly, Scrabble, Yahtzee, Cranium Family Edition), puzzles, Barbie, DoodleArt,“food” pillows that look like donuts and cookies, art sets (pencil crayons, pastels), tea and coffee travel mugs, watches, headphones, electronics, books, popcorn poppers, air hockey, tickets to concerts and sports events, gift cards (coffee, mall, store).

For the past three decades the Pan Pacific and its culinary team have worked hard to feed the

thousands of donors who make the effort to buy an unwrapped gift and drop it off. Last year, executive chef Geoff Carkner and the team served up 18,000 eggs, 12,000 sausages, 450 pounds of hash browns, 6,000 croissants and 3,000 muffins. When a toy is dropped off, volunteers from the Vancouver Fire Department stack the toys into a two-storey high“tree” and then load them into trucks for transport to the Lower Mainland Christmas Bureau warehouse, where they’re sorted and

distributed to families in need. In 2016, generous donors gave more than 22 tonnes of toys and several thousand dollars cash in just three hours.

This year, due to construction the Pan Pacific Hotel is hosting the gift drive at the neighbouring Vancouver Convention Centre from 6 to 9 a.m. Dec. 13.

Anyone who wants to donate directly to the bureau online can visit CanadaHelps.org.

For more information on the Lower Mainland Christmas Bureau, visit lmcb.ca.

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Even the Grinch realized the value of helping others ‘Tis the season for excess — and too much eating, drinking and spending are right at the top of that list. But the holidays also act as a good reminder that there are people in need right here at home who could use a hand, especially if they have children. In hopes of offsetting some of the karmic and economic damage created by Black Friday and Cyber Monday, in 2012 the 92nd Street Y and the United Nations Foundation launched the Giving Tuesday initiative, which has since morphed into a global movement of helping and volunteering.

And despite the fact Giving Tuesday was Nov. 28, we decided the cause is a great excuse to offer some ideas of how to give back this holiday season and all year long.

GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK Donations to the Greater Vancouver Food Bank help provide accessible, healthy and sustainable food for men, women and children. And while non-perishable food items are much appreciated, a $1 cash donation can buy $3 worth of food. You can give a cash donation or learn how to donate food at foodbank.bc.ca.

GOOD EARTH FAMILY GINGERBREAD PROGRAM Good Earth Coffeehouse is once again selling its Gingerbread Family cookies with $1 from each package dedicated to local food banks in communities where their shops are located. Good Earth will also donate another $1 (up to $2,500) every time a photo of the cookies is shared on Instagram and Facebook using the hashtag #FeedaFamily. Visit goodearthcoffeehouse.com.

DRESS FOR SUCCESS Dress for Success Vancouver helps encourage women back into the workforce by giving them the skills they need to succeed in work and in life. Cash donations help pay for sessions with a private career specialist, while donations of gently-

used and new clothing suitable for work are also greatly appreciated. And of course, volunteers are always needed and welcome. Dress for Success is holding a fundraising sale from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Dec. 2 at Harbour Centre, 555 West Hastings St. Look for new, designer, gentlyused and vintage clothing, shoes and accessories — all at great prices with 100 per cent of the proceeds benefiting Dress for Success Vancouver. Visit vancouver. dressforsuccess.org.

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER VANCOUVER Habitat for Humanity Greater Vancouver is a non-profit organization that provides homeownership opportunities for local families who can’t afford a traditional mortgage.

Give the gift of a home by donating at habitatgv.ca.

GROWING CHEFS Growing Chefs is a Vancouver-based, non-profit organization with a mission to educate children, families and the community about healthy eating and food systems through programs, seminars and workshops.

The organization is looking for 30 new monthly donors and gifts will be matched

by Whole Foods. Visit growingchefs.ca.

THE CANADIAN WINE INDUSTRY NEEDS YOU Five small Okanagan wineries are going to the Supreme Court of Canada to intervene in the R. v.

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Liquidity, Painted Rock, 50th Parallel Estate, Okanagan Crush Pad and Noble Ridge have been granted intervener status to go to court to plead their case for the cause, which has been dubbed Canadian Wine for All or #canadianwineforall.

Canada is one of the only countries in the world where legal barriers remain when it comes to moving wine across provincial borders. These trade barriers pose a significant threat to small wineries, which need national distribution to build a sufficient revenue base for long-term survival. The Supreme Court of Canada’s decision will determine the fate of the B.C. wine industry for decades to come.

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Peterson Group’s Maggie and Ben Yeung were given the Leadership Award, the VGH and UBC Hospital Foundation’s highest honour in recognition of the family’s exceptional philanthropic leadership and contribution to healthcare.

LEGACY DINNER: Culinary talents Sean Cousins, Dino Renarts, Theresa Nicassion, Shay Kelly and Saskia Nollen fronted Dan’s Legacy Foundation’s Chef’s Charity Dinner. Held at the Vancouver Club, the fourth staging drew 125 guests in support of the fledgling foundation’s efforts to help youth overcome childhood trauma and abuse and lead productive and fulfilling lives. Yours truly emceed the multi-course dinner and auction. Special guests making the scene included B.C.’s Representative for Children and Youth Bernard Richard, former B.C. Finance Minister Carole Taylor and Jan Grude, president and CEO of Pacific Blue Cross. Before the call for support, the charity launched its film Passages, which tells the stories of young people whose lives have been helped immeasurably thanks to Dan’s Legacy. The evening of storytelling and lives saved raised $50,000 for the foundation. Proceeds will go towards the firm’s ongoing counselling and life-skills programs for youth. Since its inception, Dan’s Legacy — working with partner agencies — has helped more than 150 youth, reported Barbara Coates, executive director of Dan’s Legacy.

Barbara Grantham, president and CEO of VGH and UBC Hospital Foundation, thanked healthcare visionary Darlene Poole for her close to $2-million gift that sparkplugged the $5.95-million night for Vancouver General Hospital.

Jamie Folsom sang the praises of Tom Littlewood, psychologist and program director at Dan’s Legacy. The fledgling foundation has helped more than 150 youth overcome childhood trauma and abuse to lead productive and fulfilling lives.

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Executive director Gail Johnson and board member Michelle Becker raised a glass to art patrons and enthusiasts who helped raise $115,000 for the Gordon and Marion Smith Foundation.

Dan’s Legacy executive director Barbara Coates and events manager Amy Mildenberger were appreciative of the $50,000 brought in from their charitable efforts.

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And four other events that make Vancouver awesome this week Lindsay William-Ross

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Karaoke Christmas Lights Trolley Tour

Christmas lights and singing along to favourite carols are two of the best holiday traditions. You can experience this festive two-fer in December thanks to the Vancouver Trolley Company, which is offering a Karaoke Christmas Lights trolley tour. Merrily you’ll roll along on a threehour tour to Bright Nights in Stanley Park, Canuck Place, Hycroft Manor, English Bay, St. Paul’s Lights of Hope and the Festival of Lights at VanDusen Garden — all while taking turns doing karaoke renditions of Christmas classics.

Dec. 1 to 29. Tours start at 6:30 p.m. from Canada Place and last three hours vancouvertrolley.com/tours/

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Santa Claus is comin’ to town! The jolliest resident of the North Pole always arrives with fanfare for this essential free family holiday event. The TELUS Vancouver Santa Claus Parade will bring marching bands, dancers, floats and the big man himself to downtown’s streets.

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Free Outdoor Ice Skating at Robson Square

It may not be too frosty, but it’s still time to think about one of Vancouver’s favourite things: Free ice skating at Robson Square.

Downtown Vancouver’s only outdoor ice skating rink will operate this winter from Dec. 1 until the end of February. If you don’t have your own blades, you can rent ice skates from the cash-only stand on site.

Dec. 1 to February 2018. Robson Square, 800 Robson St.

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Explore creating tea-based drinks perfect for the cold months and holiday season, perfect for kids and grown-ups to enjoy.

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Ty Koch is doing scales.

“Zee-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh,” he sings, starting at middle C. “Zee-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh,” he sings, moving up to D major.

Higher and higher he climbs until he reaches the world of countertenors, the male equivalent of a mezzo-soprano.

Underlying each of the notes is a strength and a timbre that belies their stratospheric range. Instead of getting weaker the more he pushes himself upwards, Koch’s voice is gathering power with each successive scale.

When he stops at high A, his face relaxes into a smile and he’s back to being an 18-year-old kid doing something he enjoys. Singing is fun.

On Dec. 2, Koch will be a guest soloist at the Vivaldi Chamber Choir’s performance of Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols. Joining them for an evening that also includes works by Gustav Holst, Anton Bruckner and Alice Parker, are Lani Kruntz on harp and choir accompanist Barry Yamanouchi.

Koch has been singing since he could walk but began getting serious about music at the age of 10 when he joined the British Columbia Boys Choir. A graduate of Eric Hamber secondary school, he’s now enrolled in the Vancouver Academy of Music’s opera program, studying for his Bachelor of Music degree through a joint online academic program with Thompsons River University.

“It’s not just a passing fancy,” Edette Gagné, one of his voice teachers (and the artistic director of both the Vivaldi Chamber Choir and the British Columbia Boys Choir), says of Koch’s

Eighteen-year-old countertenor Ty Koch will be a guest soloist with the Vivaldi Chamber Choir’s Christmas concert Dec. 2. For a video of Koch’s vocal acrobatics, go to vancourier.com.

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“He wanted to make music his career and by finding his countertenor range, we found a way to do that,” she says. “It’s a long haul and he’s eyes wide open but he’s also passionate enough to put in the time and energy to make the magic happen.”

Most boys lose their ability to sing high notes when they hit puberty. Koch was lucky in that not only did his voice change at an early age — 13 — but his transition into falsetto stabilized quickly, giving him a jump start to exploring his voice’s high range.

Inspiration, however, didn’t first come from listening to some of the great countertenors such as the late Alfred Deller and modern superstar Andreas Scholl. Instead, the early influencers in Koch’s love of vocal pyrotechnics were Prince, Philip Bailey of Earth, Wind & Fire, and Jeff Buckley.

“I idolized them and loved their sound,” he says, admiring how they could reach “these ridiculously high notes with such ease.”

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through the male aperture but at the soprano range is exhilarating and, for some people, a little overwhelming to start with.”

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Women weren’t allowed to sing in public so all songs were written for male voices only. Although a young boy could start off singing those high notes, puberty usually signalled the end of such angelic range. For centuries, countertenors were often castrati — men who were castrated before their voices lowered. They were stars of the music world.

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A natural baritone, Koch also loves the blues for the depth of their emotional range; in fact, his first recording is a soon-to-bereleased self-titled EP of his own blues songs.

“I’ll spend hours upon hours listening to old recordings,” he recently told the North Shore News.

He learned how to play the slide guitar by listening to Elmore James and Duane Allman records.

As serious as he is about classical music, Koch will never turn his back on this other musical love. He can’t. “I’d feel incomplete if I wasn’t doing both of them,” he says.

Gagné says members of the Vivaldi Chamber Choir have been deeply impressed by Koch’s talent. At a performance this past weekend on the North Shore, a friend of hers was sitting in the pews as Koch joined the procession singing its way to the church nave. “She said she could feel the power of his voice when he walked by,” she says. “The sheer power of the voice coming

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The hockey blog that knows who needs the puck Stick-taps & Glove-drops • Stick-tap to Roberto Luongo for winning his 200th game with the Florida Panthers, becoming only the second goaltender in NHL history to win 200 games for two different franchises.

• Dropping the gloves with Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Matt Murray.

After facing the Canucks last week, he dismissed the bulk of their goals as weird bounces. That wouldn’t be so bad if he hadn’t dismissed Brock Boeser’s hat trick against him earlier in the season with the same phrase: “weird bounces.” Murray’s insistence that the goals against him were just lucky led to a lot of blowback on social media.

Big Numbers • 1,000 At the time I’m writing this, Daniel Sedin is just two points away from reaching 1,000 for his career. He may very well have already reached the milestone by the time you’re reading this. In either case, this is an anticipatory congratulations for Daniel. It’s an incredible accomplishment.

Jake Virtanen’s ice time has been a major talking point as he’s averaging less than 10 minutes per game. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

When will Jake Virtanen get more ice time?

There’s a gap between Canucks fans and coaches when it comes to Jake Virtanen

Backhand Sauce Daniel Wagner

In general, hockey fans love results. They love to see a big goal, big save or a big win.

They’re a lot less concerned with how the team got to that goal, save or win.

In general, hockey coaches love process. They focus on all the details of the game, from systems to board battles and everything in between. They have to. If they don’t focus on process, the results will never come.

Right away, there is going to be a gap between coaches and fans, who, at a base level, care about different things.

This isn’t a hard and fast divide, by any means. Coaches want to win, and a lack of results generally ends up changing the process, and there are plenty of fans with backgrounds in hockey who can appreciate the process as much as the end result.

But that gap is there and it becomes readily apparent when you look at Jake Virtanen this season.

Virtanen’s ice time has been a major talking point, as he’s averaging less than 10 minutes per game, the lowest on the

Canucks. This is frustrating for a lot of fans, as he’s putting up good results given his ice time: he’s fifth on the team in goals and points per hour and leading in shots per hour. Given more ice time, the reasoning goes, Virtanen would put up even better results.

But there’s something about Virtanen’s process that the coaching staff doesn’t seem to like and he knows it. In interviews, he’s always identifying some element that he needs to focus on, whether it’s being stronger on the walls, finishing his checks, or improving his consistency.

Here’s the issue: whatever he might be doing wrong when it comes to those details, it’s not showing up in his results.

Whether you just look at goals against or delve into shot attempts and scoring chances, Virtanen looks fantastic.

Only three Canucks forwards are on the ice for a lower rate of shots against than Virtanen: Brendan Gaunce and the Sedins. No one has been on the ice for fewer goals against: he leads the team with just three goals against. So whatever issues he might have, they’re not costing the Canucks defensively on the scoresheet.

In fact, Virtanen is one of the Canucks’ best players when it comes to shot attempt differential: only the Sedins are

better. When Virtanen is on the ice, the Canucks significantly out-shoot their opposition. With those kinds of results, it seems obvious that Virtanen should get more ice time.

Some might argue that most of Virtanen’s shots come from the outside, where they’re less dangerous, but the Canucks as a whole get plenty of shots from great scoring areas when he’s on the ice.

A hockeyviz.com heat map of the Canucks’ unblocked shot attempts at five-on-five with Virtanen on the ice shows that the Canucks get a significantly higher-than-average number of shot attempts from the slot and the left side of the net. This is partly because Virtanen creates rebound chances for his linemates, leading the team in rebound rate according to NaturalStatTrick.com.

So where is the disconnect between Virtanen’s process and his results? If the details of his game need enough work that he’s averaging under 10 minutes per game, why are the Canucks performing so well when he’s on the ice?

For daily Canucks news and views, go to Pass It to Bulis at vancourier.com.

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Park board approves cirque cabaret at QE Park

Jessica Kerr

A new, high-flying entertainment experience is heading to Vancouver.

Last week, park board commissioners approved a special event permit for a gourmet cirque cabaret show that will run over five months between Nov. 1, 2018 and March 31, 2019 at Queen Elizabeth Park.

The event is described as “a fully immersive entertainment experience featuring international circus artists, comedy, singers, magicians and a four-piece musical ensemble, complemented by an all-inclusive four-course gourmet meal.”

The three-hour event is staged inside an antique magic mirror tent, called a Spiegeltent, that seats approximately 300 people.

Shows would take place from 7 p.m. until 10 p.m. four to six nights a week in the park’s south parking lot.

Gourmet cirque cabaret was first introduced to North America by German company Pomp Duck and Circumstance in New York in 1995. The following year it expanded to Atlanta. A permanent show, Teatro ZinZanni, has been running in Seattle since 1998.

Similar shows are also offered in several major European cities including Berlin, Vienna, Amsterdam, Nuremberg, Stuttgart, Basel and Munich by Palazzo Produktionen.

Event producer Scott Malcolm, principal with Bacio Rosso Entertainment Inc., proposed bringing the experience, Bacio Rosso – A Feast for the Senses, to Vancouver. It will be the first gourmet cirque cabaret hosted in Canada.

Malcolm is the past artistic director of both Teatro ZinZanni and Palazzo.

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‘Age-friendly’ fitness equipment

Park design approved

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Get your sweatbands and spandex ready, the Vancouver Park Board recently approved installing “age friendly” fitness equipment at Memorial South Park.

In October 2016, commissioners passed a motion directing staff to review potential opportunities for installing seniorfriendly fitness equipment in local parks, and, following public consultation, last week staff came back with a recommendation of putting the equipment in Memorial South Park.

There are currently nine parks in the city outfitted with some form of fitness equipment — China Creek. Douglas, Fraserview, Kitsilano, Memorial South, Prince Edward, Second Beach at Stanley Park, Slidey Slides and Tisdall. According to a staff report, only Tisdall and Slidey Slides have equipment that is considered “age friendly.”

Staff said Memorial Park was chosen because it has an established active seniors’ group and compatible existing amenities.

Adding that there are “many other Vancouver parks where the installation of age friendly outdoor fitness equipment is possible and may be appropriate.”

Also last week, park board commissioners approved the design of new parks in the East Fraser Lands development.

The area located in the southeast corner of the city on the north bank of the Fraser River includes the land between Kerr Street and Boundary Road, south of Marine Way, as well as a site north of Marine Way at Boundary Road.

The site is currently under development and several residential projects have already been completed. The plan for the area includes more than 10 hectares (25 acres) of park land.

The final design aims to connect the working Fraser River ecosystem to other forested areas including Everett Crowley Park and Fraserview Golf Course.

The parks will include a number of features and amenities — a public washroom, play elements for old children and teens, interpretive signs discussing history and ecology, a buffer between nearby residences and park paths, and additional picnic tables.

Construction is slated to begin in 2018 and 2019.

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permit, saying he has long had concerns about the commercialization of public spaces. He also voiced concerns over the length of the show’s run, and the potential impacts of noise and traffic on the surrounding neighbourhood.

“Our park space is meant for people,” he said.

Gourmet cirque cabaret Teatro ZinZanni has been running in Seattle since 1998. Vancouver park board this week approved bringing a similar show to Queen Elizabeth Park for a five-month run starting in November 2018. PHOTO MICHAEL CRAFT

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Hockey pros and schmos hit the ice for the homeless Rebecca Blissett

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Sometime during Friday morning’s registration, organizers of the annual Hockey Helps the Homeless tournament realized Vancouver is not just a hockey town but also a giving town.

The annual fundraising tournament is held across Canada on dates throughout the winter and into the spring. Each player fundraises a minimum of $350 in addition to paying the $150 tournament fee; funds raised in each city go towards that city’s homeless support programs. In its ninth year at UBC’s Thunderbird Sports Centre, Vancouver players raised $620,000 smashing last year’s record — and all the other cities’ records for that matter — of $550,000.

“The hockey is the draw, there’s no doubt. But I really do think we convert people and get them paying more attention to the homeless issue,” said HTTH executive director Ryan Baillie. “Yes, we’ve raised

The ninth annual Hockey Helps the Homeless tournament was held at UBC Thunderbird Sports Centre last Friday. The tournament raised $620,000, and most of those funds will go towards local homeless support programs. The top fundraising player for Vancouver was Gordon Keep ($85,000).

See photo gallery at vancourier.com. PHOTO REBECCA BLISSETT

over $660,000. Yes, we’ve got 200, 300 players, but each of those players has 10, 15, 20 donors, so the message becomes amplified well beyond the people that are here playing.”

Some of the local organizations that will receive help next year include the Urban Native Youth Association, Covenant House, Powell’s

Place, Rain City Housing and Lookout Society. The HHTH accepts proposals from these organizations and then decides how to divvy up the funds; Baillie estimated the net will be in the $425,000 range once the tournament costs have been accounted for. Last year, for example, HHTH purchased three vehicles

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for Lookout to assist with transporting clients and for its outreach programs.

Aside from raising money for a good cause, the draw of Friday’s tournament was playing hockey with the pros. The four teams on the women’s side featured former national team’s Danielle Dubé, Cherie Piper and Delaney Collins with coaching expertise from former Canucks Darcy Rota, Dennis Kearns and Chris Oddleifson. All 14 men’s teams had a couple former National Hockey League players on the roster, which included exCanucks Jyrki Lumme, Greg Adams, Kyle Wellwood, Kirk McLean and Geoff Courtnall — to name drop a few.

Part of the fun of playing

with the pros is when they turn it on. The guys in the black and green (all players were given HHTH team jerseys and socks) were in the game until Brad May deked around their defence with seconds left on the clock to send a laser of a shot over the goalie’s shoulder. The only reaction from the losing side was: “Huh. I should really get his autograph — I have two of his jerseys.”

To suit up in the same dressing room as the pros was an experience in itself.

Jeremy Groves, May’s teammate, loved every minute. “To hear all the stories from Brad May about playing with Anaheim, the rollercoaster playoffs and taking the Cup home — that was pretty cool.”

May, who now works as a broadcaster for the Las Vegas Golden Knights and as an NHL analyst, says he doesn’t have time to hit the ice these days, so doing it for a charity tournament is a perfect excuse.

“When I come out here, I just love it. But I gotta carry my own bag,” he said, laughing. “Yeah, this is awesome. I just go out and enjoy. And laugh at yourself when you screw up.”

While the first HHTH tournament was held in Montreal in 2004, its roots go back to 1996 when a group of Toronto businessmen decided to hold a charity tournament with their regular ice time at the Maple

Leaf Gardens. They raised $8,000 and purchased survival kits and handed them out to the city’s homeless.

Gary Scullion, part of that original group, decided to begin HHTH as a registered charity and, by 2008, the tournament was held across the country in Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver.

Baillie, who joined the head office crew of six in Toronto two-and-a-half years ago, says the tournament opened his eyes to homelessness.

“You think you know what homelessness looks like until you start talking to 13-year-olds that are homeless and 17-year-olds who got kicked out of their home because they identified as gay,” he said. “The middle-aged man on the street begging was always the initial image that came to mind and my view has completely turned around.

I have an appreciation for the journey and how the homeless men, women and children we support got there. It’s scary because it really does feel like it could be any of us with a couple strokes of bad luck.”

According to the 2017 Vancouver regional homeless count, there are 3,605 homeless people in Metro Vancouver — a 30 per cent increase from 2014 with Aboriginal and senior homelessness on the rise. @rebeccablissett

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A historic house in First Shaughnessy has been listed for $17.88 million, making it the highest-priced new Metro Vancouver listing of the week Nov. 6 to 12, according to MLS data.

Huntting House, on Angus Drive, was built around 1912 for William Foster Huntting, the wealthy president of HunttingMerritt Lumber Company.

It was designed by architect Cecil Croker Fox, a junior partner in Vancouver firm Maclure and Fox. According to local blog Vancouver Voyager, “This house is almost identical to the home ‘Orchard’ near London, England, which was English architect CFA Voysey’s own house. The home has rough stucco and a massive steep roof and is a grand version of an English country cottage.”

The seven-bedroom, 10,000-square-foot-plus mansion was renovated on

its centenary in 2012, including a modern kitchen with separate wok kitchen. There are also five ensuite bathrooms, in addition to two half-bathrooms, as well as new marble and hardwood flooring. The house stands on a huge 22,539-squarefoot lot and has a gated circular driveway.

It was the highest priced Vancouver home to be listed Nov. 6 to 12 — a week in which detached home sales in the city fell to just 29 unit transactions, registered by Nov. 23. However, Vancouver townhouse and condo sales that week were high for November at 20 and 124 units respectively.

Still, the usual November cooling-off was seen in median days on market, with all three types of homes taking longer to sell than earlier in the fall. The median days on market for Vancouver detached homes has stretched the most, at 72 days of all active house listings as of Nov. 23.

Sale prices have re-

mained robust, however, with the median price of those 29 Vancouver singlefamily homes sold the week Nov. 6 to 12 standing at $2,288,000.

The most expensive home sale was a 6,000-plussquare-foot house in Point Grey, which is spectacularly outdated but sits on a hugely desirable 31,755-squarefoot lot and also boasts a large outdoor swimming pool. The property sold — no doubt for its land value — for $15.5 million, $2.5 million under asking, after 27 days on the market.

A stunning two-storey penthouse in a luxury building on Seymour Street in downtown Vancouver was the priciest condo sale of the week. The spacious two-bed-plus-office condo, with huge outdoor living spaces and incredible city views, sold for exactly its $3.7 million asking price, on the very day it was listed.

Joannah Connolly is editor of REW.ca.

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THE VANCOUVER COURIER T H U R SDAY, N OV E M B E R 3 0 , 2 0 1 7

WINTER CAR CARE

Winter Tires Lady Driver: Yes, you really do need to buy winter tires

! 60 per cent of British Columbia drivers ride on winter tires

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! Alberta’s usage rate is 57 per cent

OK, I admit in the past there have been times I’ve been “that person.” But I learned my lesson a couple of years ago during a snow storm while holding up traffic driving south on Cambie Street towards West 12th Avenue because my crappy tires were spinning continuously as I tried to make my way up that slope.

But, after facing the wrath of drivers in their properly equipped SUVs that day, I realized not only is it really inconsiderate to hold up an entire lane of traffic in the snow, it’s also dangerous. I still didn’t go out and buy new

tires, but now when it snows I drive my husband’s car or get him to drive me to work so I do actually drive on the proper tires, they’re just not mine.

! In Manitoba and Saskatchewan usage stands at 48 per cent

! 59 per cent of Ontario drivers use winters A recent survey by the Tire and Rubber Association of Canada ! In Atlantic Canada, showed that approximately 40 where winter tire usage is per cent of Canadian motorists surpassed only by Quebec, don’t use winter tires. The the usage rate is 83 per top reasons they gave were cent — winter tires are the belief that all-season tires mandatory in Quebec provide sufficient traction (51 In response to the survey’s per cent), they drive less in results, association president winter (22 per cent) and the Glenn Maidment said the fact cost (21 per cent). four-in-ten motorists outside Regionally, the 2017 study Quebec are not using winter found: tires puts everyone who drives

in cold-weather conditions at risk. He added every motorist needs to understand winter tires radically outperform all-seasons in all cold-weather driving conditions.

He noted the superior traction and braking capabilities of winter tires are the result of advanced tire technology, particularly in tread design and rubber compounds. These advances have improved traction performance across all tire categories, but especially for winter tires. The “soft” tread compounds in today’s winter tires retain their flexibility even in extreme cold. At temperatures at or below 7 Celsius, winter tires provide significantly better traction than all other types providing

greater control on all coldweather road surfaces and significantly shorter stopping distances.

Maidment said since the mandatory winter tire law was enacted in Quebec, the province has experienced a significant decrease in accident-related injuries.

“Imagine the massive reduction in vehicle damage and personal suffering during the winter driving season across Canada if all drivers protected themselves and

their families with winter tires,” he said in the report.

There was a time you could maybe fudge your way through a winter in Vancouver without the proper tires, but as the last several years have shown that’s no longer the case. So bite the bullet, buy the tires and if you can, get them installed before our first big snowfall. It will save you a lot of grief, embarrassment and possible injury.

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