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City identifies another site for homeless housing A 50-unit complex is planned for 4410 Kaslo St., near the 29th Avenue SkyTrain station

Mike Howell

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The city has identified another property in Vancouver that will be home to a 50-unit temporary modular housing complex for homeless people.

This one is at 4410 Kaslo St., near the 29th Avenue SkyTrain station and will mean the relocation of the Still Creek community garden. The city owns the property and expects the housing to open in the spring.

Abi Bond, the city’s director of housing and policy projects, said open houses will be held Dec. 13 and 14 to give residents more details about the housing.

But Bond noted the city has already been speaking to gardeners, the park board and the Collingwood neighbourhood house, which has existing programs for the homeless.

“I don’t know what the community reaction will be,” she told the Courier Dec. 1. “We’ll be there to

The city has identified a fourth site to place temporary housing for homeless people. It’s in the 4400-block Kaslo Street, near the 29th Avenue SkyTrain station. The Still Creek community garden will be relocated. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

listen to peoples’ concerns and talk it through with people, and have that dialogue about how the building will be managed safely, managed responsibly.”

The property is the fourth to be announced by the city

as a location for temporary modular housing. The others are at West 59th Avenue and Heather Street, the 1100-block Franklin Street and 501 Powell St. A 78unit complex at the Heather Street property is expected

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Marpole residents opposed to the Heather Street complex held a news conference at city hall Friday. Others from the neighbourhood blocked construction crews from entering the property.

The city later successfully obtained an injunction to allow crews access to the site. On Tuesday morning, students organized a neighbourhood rally in support of the new modular housing.

Gil Kelley, the city’s director of planning, has jurisdiction to approve the modular housing on the sites once a development permit process is completed. He did that Nov. 27 with final approval of the Marpole complex, although an occupancy permit hasn’t been granted yet.

The development permit process involves the city notifying area residents and businesses of the proposed new homes. The notification, along with public meetings, is followed by a staff evaluation of applicable policies and guidelines to assess whether the project is suitable for the neighbourhood.

Kelley told the Courier in a previous interview that any applications deemed “controversial” would go to development permit board.

The Marpole proposal has been nothing but controversial, with several protests from area residents opposed to the complex.

Hundreds of residents have said the proximity to three schools will endanger students because many tenants are expected to have or be recovering from an addiction or suffering from

a mental illness. A couple of weeks ago, residents delivered a 5,000-name petition to city hall that called for the housing to be moved to another location.

Residents have also referred to the city’s agreement with B.C. Housing to establish tenant mix in the buildings. Kelley acknowledged recently at a news conference that 20 per cent of units in the Marpole complex and others should be made able to tenants identified as “service level three.”

According to the agreement between the city and B.C. Housing, tenants classified as “service level three” are people who don’t engage with treatment or support services, have poor housekeeping and are susceptible to hoarding and poor hygiene.

They also have “an extensive criminal history indicating high risk to re-offend, can create security problems through aggressive and intimidating or intrusive behaviour [and have an] inability to sustain personal relationships.”

They are prone to “frequent conflict with others, poor communication skills and history of property damage,” the agreement said.

“That’s why we’ve imposed a condition that that process for determining who will be in what units and what locations be a thoughtful one that’s done by the operator, with the input of the advisory committee,” Kelley told reporters.

Asked why the Marpole project wasn’t sent to development permit board, Kelley said the city hosted

four public forums and that he met with a school parent advisory council, the school district, community leaders and residents.

“I felt that I had the information necessary to make that judgement, particularly in light of the fact that there’s an urgency around the project to deliver a certain number of these units before winter, or at least during the winter period when this housing is going to be most needed,” he said, noting city council made it clear that it wants the housing opened as soon as possible.

Julie Roberts, executive director of Community Builders, told the Courier earlier this month that tenants of the Marpole complex 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.”

The provincial government has given Vancouver $66 million to build 600 temporary modular housing units in the city. The city plans to identify more sites in coming weeks and months.

Meanwhile, the city has already said it wants to make some changes to several official development plans to allow temporary modular housing as “a permitted land use” in other neighbourhoods.

Those areas include a swath of land that runs west from Science World along both shores of False Creek to the Burrard Bridge.

Parts of downtown, Coal Harbour, the Granville entertainment district and Downtown Eastside are other areas subject to having their official development plans amended.

A homeless count conducted in March of this year revealed 2,138 people were without a home in Vancouver, with 537 of those living on the street. @Howellings

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Students back Marpole project

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A day after the Supreme Court of B.C. granted an injunction against those protesting a Marpole housing project, students from a nearby high school held a Dec. 5 rally in support of those who will eventually live there.

Last week, protesters vowed to stand in the way of the 78 temporary housing units in Marpole until they got a hearing with the City of Vancouver. They were not at the site Tuesday morning after the city was successful in court in stopping their protests, which blocked construction.

On Tuesday morning, north of the proposed site, at 57th Avenue and Heather Street, a growing crowd of roughly 70 supporters, including 30 students from nearby Sir Winston Churchill secondary, held signs in support of the project.

Ishman Bhuiyan, a Churchill student and member of Marpole Students for Modular Housing, said the rally was not about competing against the other protesters, but bringing the Marpole community together and welcoming homeless people.

He said the safety concerns voiced by the project’s opponents with respect to the housing units’ close proximity to three schools does not resonate with him and his peers.

“We are not concerned at all,” Bhuiyan said. “All this project does is, it brings a positive sense of change

in our community and it’s actually helping people that are outside today that don’t have a home.”

Helen Colliander, a Grade 12 student at Churchill, said that though the supportive crowd may not represent all of the voices at her school, welcoming the homeless into the community is a chance for collective growth.

“Integration is the best way to diminish fear in our community,” Colliander said, while holding a “Marpole Welcomes You” sign. “Having these people around daily and interacting with them and seeing everything that they can contribute, and the wonderful things that they can share as well, I think that will help diminish the fear.”

Though the event was peaceful, a liaison officer from the Vancouver Police Department was present, as were two police cruisers. Half a block south of the high school on Heather Street, a security guard patrolled the area where opponents of the project had been camping out in the week since the city approved it.

In a Tuesday press release, the city said the injunction was filed “to prevent protesters from blocking access to the site and stopping construction from beginning on this urgently needed housing project,” adding that the protests at the site have pushed back the completion date of the housing units.

Paul Mochrie, deputy city manager with the City of Vancouver, said although the protests are legitimate, the way in which they were

conducted gave the city no choice but to involve the courts in order to start construction. He hopes the opponents will adhere to the injunction without the involvement of police.

“If there are individuals who are acting in a manner contrary to court order, our first step would be to advise them about it,” Mochrie said.

“Beyond that, it becomes an enforcement issue of the Vancouver Police Department.’

In an emailed statement to the Courier, Luo Binshun, spokesperson for the Caring Citizens of Vancouver Society, said they are disappointed with the city’s legal steps and request a sit-down with the mayor to “find a quick and reasonable solution.”

“We are disappointed that Mayor Gregor Robertson and Vision Vancouver are using bullying tactics such as an injunction on a peaceful protest that is requesting for a public hearing and consultation,” the statement said.

“This is yet another example of reckless and hasty decision making by Mayor Robertson to bypass democratic rights of Vancouverites.”

The temporary modular housing units in Marpole are the second such project.

A pilot was launched on Main Street and Terminal Avenue early this year. The city has also decided on a location for the next modular housing project near the 29th Avenue SkyTrain station at 4410 Kaslo St. Ultimately, the city wants to build 600 units throughout Vancouver at a cost of $66 million.

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The provincial government announced Tuesday that the BC Liquor Distribution Branch will be the wholesale distributor of nonmedical cannabis once the federal government legalizes marijuana in July 2018.

The policy move by the government is in addition to new rules that state buyers and consumers of recreational marijuana must be at least 19 years old, which is consistent with current laws related to alcohol and tobacco.

The province did not say specifically where consumers will be able to legally buy marijuana under the new rules, including liquor stores, or what effect they will have on the dozens of illegal pot shops operating in the city.

“The province anticipates establishing a retail model that includes both public and private retail opportunities and will share details regarding the model in early 2018,” said a news release issued by the Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General.

The policy decisions come after the government heard via telephone and online from 48,951 British Columbians and received 141 submissions from local and Indigenous govern-

New rules state buyers and consumers of recreational marijuana must be at least 19 years old, which is consistent with current laws related to alcohol and tobacco. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

ments and a range of others in anticipation of the legalization of marijuana.

The government said the new rules reflect feedback received from local government members of the joint provincial-local government committee on cannabis regulations. The Union of B.C Municipalities executive also endorsed the policy moves.

Dana Larsen, a director of the Vancouver Dispensary Society, said he wasn’t surprised by the government’s

plans to regulate distribution and retail sales of marijuana.

“It could be worse, but it could be a lot better,” said Larsen, noting he hopes the government’s decision to distribute marijuana through the liquor branch doesn’t mean all marijuana will be sold in liquor stores.

He advocates the provincial government having the power to license growers in B.C. Those growers could then sell directly to cannabis stores.

Added Larsen: “I don’t

like the province having to be the one that’s going to buy and re-sell all the cannabis. I think that’s just going to make it more expensive, it’s going to limit choice and it’s going to make it harder for them to compete against our province’s very robust craft cannabis industry and black-grey market.”

Mike Farnworth, the minister responsible for overseeing the implementation of legalized cannabis in B.C., was expected to make himself available to media after the Courier’s print deadline.

Farnworth joined Vision Vancouver Coun. Kerry Jang in September to announce the government wanted the public’s feedback on how it should regulate distribution and retail sales of marijuana.

At that news conference, Farnworth dismissed any suggestion the government’s aim in all of this was to create a new revenue stream.

“This is about legalization and the best way to do it,” he told reporters. “It’s not about saying, ‘Oh, here’s a money grab in which we can get all kinds of revenue in and not have to worry about the consequences.’

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Nine-acre park planned for Oakridge mall redevelopment Jessica Kerr

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Vancouver Park Board is looking for feedback on a new rooftop park planned as part of the Oakridge Centre redevelopment.

One open house already took place on Wednesday evening and a second one is planned for Saturday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Oakridge Centre Auditorium.

Rezoning for the development, which includes multiple residential buildings, a civic centre and a nine-acre park, was approved in 2014.

The new park plan has three of the nine acres at street level and the remaining six acres on levels two and three of the mall’s rooftop.

The potential location for the civic centre has also been moved to a more prominent location on 41st Avenue.

The plan for the park has changed since 2014, said Dave Hutch, the park board’s manager of park research and planning.

Initially, the majority of the park was going to be on the third level of the redesigned mall’s roof. However, due to technical constraints, the plan was scaled back.

“The mall redevelopment is not going to be as comprehensive, which means that the park is actually going to be on three different levels instead of all mostly on level three,” Hutch said.

Vancouver’s park board is currently looking for public feedback on a nine-acre park planned as part of the Oakridge mall redevelopment.

Hutch said that while the city already has some existing rooftop facilities, the six-acre park planned for the roof of the mall will be the largest of its kind in Vancouver.

This week’s open houses are aimed at getting feedback from the public on some of the park’s larger ideas and design elements.

Some of the features being considered include: an 800-metre running/walking track that would connect all elements of the park, a “destination” playground, a pavilion that could accommodate concerts and performances, a large lawn area for informal sports and activities, and a water feature or spray park.

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ber one consideration in planning the area is access — ensuring access is clear and welcoming, as well as universal access for all with elevators and escalators. The access plan for the rooftop portions includes six sets of stairs, five elevators and five escalators around the site.

Hutch said that while there are several other parks in the area, including Queen Elizabeth Park, with the increasing density of residential development along the Cambie Corridor, more and more residents are relying on parks and public open spaces for outdoor activities.

“We’re anticipating somewhere in the order of 4,000 to 6,000 new people, depending on the number of residential units that get

delivered, so we want to ensure that we’ve got capacity in our park system for all those new residents,” he said. “One of the big drivers behind this new park is ensuring that there is going to be places for people to relax outdoors, recreate, have leisure spaces to stay fit and all those things as they move into the neighbourhood.”

This week’s open houses are the first stage of public consultation. Another round of open houses is planned for next spring with the final park design going to park board commissioners for a decision next summer. Hutch said staff will update commissioners on the plan early in 2018.

The public can also provide feedback on the project until Jan. 2 through an online survey.

For more information, or to complete the survey, vancouver.ca/oakridge-park.

For additional coverage of the overall Oakridge redevelopment plan, go to vancourier.com. @JessicaEKerr

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The Vancouver Police Department is dismayed by the decision this week to ban uniformed officers from the Pride Parade.

“We are very disappointed by the decision made by the Vancouver Pride Society to ban VPD members in uniform and in VPD T-shirts from the 2018 Pride Parade,” spokesperson Const.

Jason Doucette said in an email.

“Our members have proudly walked in the parade alongside the community for 21 consecutive years,” he said.

Doucette added that the department was not consulted or advised of the decision, and heard about the ban through the media.

Society executive director Andrea Arnot said that non-uniformed officers will still be permitted, and credited Black Lives Matter chapters for initiating the conversations that led to the decision. Furthermore, during community consultations, people from several marginalized groups frequently spoke up about not wanting police at Vancouver’s Pride Parade.

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ly extensive community consultation after our 2016 season, and police participation was one of the topics that [came] up often... We heard from queer people of colour, the trans community... and Indigenous people, who felt the same kinds of things Black Lives Matter was talking about in the media, so we took that information in and talked to many people on all sides of the issue,” she said.

Officers were permitted to march in this year’s parade, resulting in some groups, such as Black Lives Matter and the LGBTQ+ refugee support organization Rainbow Refugee, boycotting the event.

“We acknowledge that there are some people in the LGBTQ2S+ community who do not want to see us walking in uniform,” Doucette said.

“We have taken many steps to reconcile with this community and continue to work on an ongoing basis to build trust.”

Doucette pointed to initiatives such as the appointment a full-time liaison officer dedicated to working closely with the community and implementing the Safe Place program.

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and we will continue with our listening and outreach efforts to build on our existing trust and relationships with Vancouver’s LGBTQ2S+ community,” he said.

Rainbow Refugee spokesperson Chris Morrissey is pleased that uniformed officers won’t be marching next year.

“We support the decision that [the Vancouver Pride Society] made,” she says. “And we certainly hope that the Vancouver Police respect that decision and continue to march, but without the uniforms.”

Arnot said the VPS’ police uniform ban is because it wants everyone in the LGBTQ+ community to feel safe attending the parade, and reiterated that non-uniformed officers are still welcome to participate in the event.

The decision was made at a VPS meeting in September and was not announced publicly.

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More Vancouverites commuting on public transit: census Jessica Kerr

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The number of people in Vancouver using public transit on their daily commute is on the rise, and increasing faster than any other major metropolitan area in the country.

According to census data released last week, the proportion of people using public transit to get to and from work has been rising, slowly but steadily, over the last 20 years — Statistics Canada first starting collecting that information in 1996.

That year, 10.1 per cent of Canadians commuted on public transit. In 2016, that number was 12.4 per cent. In terms of the actual number of commuters, there were an additional 734,350 public transit commuters over the last two decades — an increase of 59.5 per cent.

The data also shows the rate of people commuting on public transit is increasing at a faster rate than the overall number of commuters, which has increased by 30.3 per cent since 1996.

Vancouver ranks third in the nation, behind Toronto and Montreal, in terms of the proportion of workers using public transit. In 2016, 20.4 per cent of commuters in this city used public transit compared to 24.3 in Toronto and 22.3 per cent in Montreal. However, Vancouver saw a 6.1 per cent increase in the percentage of public transit commuters since 1996. Toronto and Montreal had increases of just 2.3 per cent and 2.5 per cent respectively.

According to Statistics Canada, part of the increased rate of use in the city is due to expansion of services in recent years.

Between 2002 and 2009,

Metro Vancouver saw two major expansions to the SkyTrain system, adding 53 additional kilometres of track, and 250 buses were added to the fleet between 2005 and 2009.

The number of people using “sustainable modes of transportation” is also on the rise. Statistics Canada defines this as “modes of transportation that have a smaller net impact on the environment or transportation infrastructure than cars and heavy trucks.”

The census data includes the use of public transit, as well as active transportation (walking and cycling) and carpooling.

In 2016, nearly one third, 31.4 per cent, of employed Canadians regularly used a mode of sustainable transportation to get to work — with 12.4 per cent using public transit, 12.1 per cent carpooling and 6.9 per cent walking or cycling to work.

Amongst the country’s largest cities, Vancouver had the second highest proportion of commuters using a form sustainable transportation — 40.6 per cent compared to Toronto at 42.5 per cent. However, the city has the highest proportion of people walking or cycling to work — 9.1 per cent compared to 7.2 per cent in Montreal and 6.7 per cent in Toronto.

Travel times are also increasing, which is being attributed mostly to public transit. Between 2011, when Statistics Canada first started collecting data on travel times, and 2016 oneway commuting times went up by 0.8 minutes nationally from an average of 25.4 minutes to 26.2. For those using public transit, commuting time increased by 1.9 minutes to 44.8 minutes.

The average commuting time went up by more than a minute in both Vancouver and Toronto.

However, Vancouver still has the shortest average commute of Canada’s three largest cities at 29.7 minutes compared to 30 minutes in Montreal and 34 minutes in Toronto. @JessicaEKerr

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Will Vancouver elect Canada’s first Green mayor?

Mike Klassen

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It is nearing the end of 2017, a year that saw unprecedented upheaval in Canadian politics and more than ever back home in B.C. This is a good time of the year to look into Vancouver’s political crystal ball and to what 2018 — a municipal election year — might bring.

When I stare into the glass orb, I see a lot of green. Not the lid of your “Greenest City” emblazoned garden waste container green but the political kind, as in the Green Party. Specifically, it is the Vancouver Greens who appear to be on the rise, and their leader Adriane Carr in particular.

A Vancouver Green representative chairs both the school board and the park board today. And if two recent elections are

any indication, a big Green political shakeout is on the horizon for our city.

In October, the Vancouver Greens became, for the first time ever, a true force to be reckoned with when their candidates for the Vancouver School Board ran away with the top three of nine spots in the byelection. Incumbent Janet Fraser would later be elected VSB chair by her fellow trustees.

Last May, the B.C. Green Party became the spoiler for the incumbent B.C. Liberals, and sided with the B.C. NDP in a “confidence and supply agreement” that formed the basis of a new minority government. It is widely believed that the Greens were the big beneficiaries of disaffected B.C. Liberal voters.

That phenomenon of parking your vote with the Green candidate is precisely why Carr and her colleagues

Adriane Carr would be wise to throw her hat in the mayoral ring next year, says Mike Klassen. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

could come up big in next fall’s civic election. And if she were to run for mayor against Vision Vancouver and the NPA, her name recognition alone could put the chain of office within her grasp.

Carr is clearly politically ambitious. She ran eight times in a variety of contests at the federal, provincial and municipal level before taking office on Vancouver city council

in December 2011. She was not the first or even the most prominent Green politician (Elizabeth May was elected to the federal Parliament in May 2011), but she is today among the most influential.

In 2014, Carr topped the ballot for city council, earning more than 5,000 more votes than the second runner-up.

This in spite of the fact the Greens’ campaign budget was a tiny fraction of the multimillion-dollar efforts of Vision Vancouver and the NPA. Under new election finance rules recently passed by the B.C. government, the established elector organizations will run campaigns with far fewer resources to promote their candidates and platforms.

This means that incumbents and labels like being “green” will appeal to so-called “low information voters,” who show up at the

polling station and check off the names they already know.

City hall observers are resigning themselves to the idea that Mayor Gregor Robertson will run again. He joins the leagues of the Corrigans and Brodies who want to hold the title of mayor in perpetuity.

With his political promises on homelessness, housing affordability and carbon emissions targets up in smoke, Robertson must be calculating that another four years will somehow allow him to leave on a high note.

The Vision Vancouver brand, however, is looking stale and the mayor has become a lightning rod for public frustration on a range of issues. Add the fact that organization laid off its entire staff in November — presumably to save money for their 2018 campaign — and that its youngest council caucus member, Andrea

Reimer, announced she will not seek re-election.

With George Affleck, Reimer and others likely to announce they are not running, Vancouver city council will have its biggest refresh in a decade. So-called progressive voters who have become skeptical of Vision will be comfortable casting their ballot for a Green candidate.

Robertson’s campaign will surely unload its arsenal on the NPA mayoral candidate, branding that person as too conservative or antienvironment to lead our city. That scenario leaves the field open to someone politically competent and well-known like Carr.

There is little doubt Carr is now seriously weighing her electoral options for 2018.

Will Vancouver elect Canada’s first Green mayor? The conditions have never been better for that to happen.

Housing in Vancouver will get worse before it gets better

Michael Geller geller@sfu.ca

The last two weeks have been a bonanza for affordable housing junkies.

They started with the Housing Central Conference, organized by the B.C. Non-Profit Housing Association (BCNPHA), Co-op Housing Federation of B.C. and Aboriginal Housing Management Association. It brought together more than 1,300 participants from the non-profit and cooperative housing sectors, and I was invited to deliver a version of a recent SFU Affordable Housing Ideas presentation.

Many of the sessions focused on the need for new partnerships between nonprofit housing providers, developers and municipalities.

This message was reinforced

by Municipal Affairs Minister

Selina Robinson and Mayor Gregor Robertson, who both addressed the delegates.

BCNPHA CEO Kishone Roy told reporters that while he was pleased to see senior levels of government increasing funds to support affordable housing, it is going to take years before new projects come on stream. He therefore expects the current housing situation to probably get worse before it gets better.

I was pleased to hear him applaud temporary modular housing as an effective short-term solution. I did my 1971 university thesis on the concept of relocatable modular housing, and some Courier readers may recall that Peter Ladner and I first proposed this idea to house the homeless during the 2008 municipal election.

In my conference presentation I urged attendees to

explore better use of land.

One idea was to redevelop well-located single-family lots with small low-rise apartment buildings, like those built throughout Vancouver in the 1950s and ’60s.

These simple buildings can be very cost-effective. They do not need underground parking, and while some fire code relaxations may be required, they can provide safe, decent and relatively affordable accommodation.

Another idea was to consider other uses for back lanes. Now that laneway housing has become accepted in many parts of the province, perhaps it is time to also build townhouses and low-rise apartments along lanes. Anyone familiar with English mews housing will know what I mean.

Moreover, the latest West End Plan allows small infill

apartments along lanes.

A critical factor contributing to the high cost of housing is the price of land.

I therefore urged attendees to seek out free land. For example, a 140-foot strip off the Langara Golf Course along Cambie Street could accommodate a substantial non-profit and market housing.

The berm along West Sixth Avenue, built in the 1970s to shield False Creek residents from railway noise along the now-abandoned railway line, could offer another free land location, as might the top level of underutilized parkades.

After the conference, the federal government announced its long-awaited Federal Housing Strategy. While I am pleased to see the federal government back in the housing game, I’m sure I’m not the

only one a bit sceptical when it comes to any promises to end or reduce homelessness. But we can hope.

Following the federal government’s announcement, the City of Vancouver released its 10-year housing strategy, which includes a broad array of initiatives including approval for 72,000 new homes around the city. While I am often critical of the city’s zoning, planning and housing initiatives, this comprehensive program has potential to offer many benefits.

I was particularly pleased with the proposal to transform low-density, singlefamily neighbourhoods with 10,000 duplexes, triplexes, townhouses, stacked rowhouses and low-rise apartments — something many of us have been advocating for decades.

The city is also committed

to speeding up the approval process and eliminating Community Amenity Contributions for rental housing — something which has deterred some developers from building rental projects.

Following the city’s announcement, former mayor and premier Mike Harcourt noted that even in neighbourhoods such as Dunbar, West Point Grey and Kerrisdale, where residents have traditionally defended single-family zoning, there is now more openness to change than only a few years ago.

I discovered this to be true last Thursday when Abundant Housing’s Brendan Dawe and I were invited to speak on Changing Dunbar at the Dunbar Residents’ Association AGM. But that’s another story for another day. @michaelgeller

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Beaching and complaining Re: “It will cost you to park at Spanish Banks, starting April 1,” Nov. 15.

Say it isn’t so. Why is it not possible to have at least one beach in Vancouver for people to enjoy without having to worry about feeding the parking meter? This beach is family-oriented and used by many mothers and children during the summer months, so for them to pay $13 on any given day will certainly add up quickly. On top of it, there is no good access to Spanish Banks other than by car, which you need to bring all the paraphernalia to spend a day at the beach.

Mayor Gregor Robertson has a knack of alienating people again and again and again — no wonder Vancouver is called a “no fun city” if he does not even allow one free beach. It’s bad enough that Vancouver is one of the most expensive cities in Canada, but wouldn’t it be nice to give people a break and let them enjoy a public beach without having to pay for it.

I don’t recall there being public consultation and I have the feeling it’s a done deal. I really think the mayor should start listening to the public for a change. Pay parking at Spanish Banks was suggested once before many years ago and it was successfully defeated, so let’s try it again and see whether we can beat city hall.

Lore Hoffmann, Vancouver

Charity begins at home Re: “Marpole housing complex for homeless to open February,” Nov. 30.

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ment to house the homeless at Heather and West 57th Avenue. “Are there not workhouses to shelter and feed the poor?”

Think upon Charles Dickens and his famous Scrooge character written as a political satire about the people of London.

In our democratic society, all people are equal and deserving of second chances.

If we start in one neighborhood, whose will it be next? In our legal system are we not innocent until proven guilty? Charity begins at home. Christmas is the time to give thanks, to pay it forward by donating cash to the food banks, visiting an isolated senior, picking a name from the various Make-A-Wish trees or giving extra clean warm winter clothing to the shelters. Is it not better to give than to receive?

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Opioid overdose epidemic Mike Howell

mhowell@vancourier.com

It will not come as a big surprise to many readers that our choice for Newsmaker of the Year is the overdose death crisis.

Unfortunately, it was an obvious selection.

As you’ve read in these pages and others, people dying from drug overdoses is an ongoing public health emergency that continues to wipe out dozens of B.C. residents every month.

“An average of four people a day are dying,” said Judy Darcy, the B.C. Minister of Mental Health and Addictions, at a recent news conference in the Downtown Eastside. “This is heartbreaking, it’s unacceptable and it’s preventable.”

The most recent statistics from the BC Coroners Service show that 1,103 people died in the province of a suspected drug overdose between January and September of this year.

Of that total, 281 people died in Vancouver. To understand the magnitude of that number, 38 people died of an overdose in Vancouver during the entire year of 2008.

Why the increase?

One deadly reason: fentanyl.

The coroners service concluded in its recent findings that 83 per cent of this year’s deaths were connected to the synthetic opioid, which is 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine.

That’s a 147 per cent increase over the same period in 2016. In most cases, fentanyl was combined with heroin, cocaine or methamphetamines.

It is why many people simply refer to the huge spike in overdose deaths as the fentanyl crisis. The crisis, as the Courier’s editorial staff concluded, was more newsworthy than any other event or development in Vancouver over the past 11 months.

That’s not to say there were no contenders.

The provincial election, the city byelection, the spike in homelessness, the city’s new housing strategy, the series of regulations aimed at curbing the real estate and homesharing markets and various protests at city hall and across the city were considerations.

But it is death by drug overdose that persists.

Treatment on demand

This year, families across the city and province lost brothers, sons, sisters, daughters, moms and dads in an unending wave of death that continues to roll over the best efforts of health experts and others fighting to keep people alive.

The fight has been carried out by the top minds who study drug addiction, the strongest status quo-challenging harm reduction advocates and by dozens of burned-out emergency personnel calling on governments for help.

They all want more options for alternative drug therapy. Immediate treatment for drug users who want it is imperative, too. So is barrier-free housing that allows an addicted homeless person to get stable before managing his or her health.

Some of those demands were highlighted a year ago this month when police Chief Adam Palmer joined now-retired fire chief John McKearney, Mayor Gregor Robertson and doctors in a unified plea for “treatment-on-demand.”

“Right now, there’s a huge gap in the sys-

Jennifer and John Hedican, whose son Ryan died in April of an overdose, spoke at a Dec. 1 news conference announcing the opening of an “overdose emergency response centre” at Vancouver General Hospital. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

tem and it’s failing those people who put up their hand and ask for help to get clean,” said Palmer at a December 2016 news conference at the VPD’s Cambie Street precinct.

Pop-up intervention

A few months prior to the news conference, Sarah Blyth, Chris Ewart and others had enough of waiting for governments to respond to the crisis. So they set up a pop-up injection site under a tent in the Downtown Eastside.

That was in September, shortly after Blyth’s friend, Janet Charlie, lost her son to a fentanyl-related overdose. That same month, 13 people died of an overdose in Vancouver. The death toll quickly climbed to 44 in November and 49 in both December and January.

It’s been more than a year since Blyth and members of the Overdose Prevention Society set up the tent. It’s still there on the edge of an alley, close to Columbia and East Hastings.

A construction trailer, which serves as an indoor facility to inject drugs, was later provided on the same site by two developers. It was in heavy use during the Courier’s visit in late November.

Inside, Blyth took questions from the Courier in between visits from volunteers monitoring people injecting drugs; the trailer and tent see a combined 400 to 700 injections over a 16-hour stretch.

When asked whether any progress had been made in the fight, she acknowledged the previous B.C. Liberal government — led on this file by then-health minister Terry Lake — made genuine efforts to reduce the number of overdose deaths.

In one of the Liberals’ boldest moves, it allowed unsanctioned injection sites to op-

erate in Vancouver and across the province to encourage people to not use alone; the coroners service statistics show nine out of every 10 deaths occurred indoors, including more than half in private residences.

No overdose deaths have occurred at the injection sites.

“We’ve saved over a thousand lives just at this site alone,” said Blyth, whose group of volunteers was recently recognized by Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services for their work. “Some of our volunteers have saved 200 people, just on their very own.

It’s such a crazy crisis that there should be more urgency.”

Over the past two years, the B.C. government opened new drug treatment clinics, placed a temporary mobile medical unit in the Downtown Eastside, scaled up naloxone training, expanded drug-testing equipment across the province, promised more recovery beds and spent $5 million to create the B.C. Centre on Substance Abuse.

Progress on the frontlines

The new NDP government, which took office July 18, has its own plan to decrease the death toll and escalated its response Dec. 1 in announcing the opening of an “overdose emergency response centre” at Vancouver General Hospital.

The centre will serve the province and be led by experts in health care, who will work with five new regional response teams to coordinate and strengthen addiction and overdose prevention programs.

“We need to be bold, we need to be innovative and we need to take action on the ground to stop the needless suffering and the preventable deaths in every corner of British Columbia,” said Darcy at a news conference at the hospital, where she reiterated the pro-

vincial government will spend $322 million over the next three years to combat the crisis and improve addiction care.

Blyth attended Darcy’s news conference and believes the provincial government is “going in the right direction.” She is encouraged the new centre has made wider access to drug treatment options a priority.

Blyth, like many on the frontlines of the crisis, said the triage approach is not sustainable and pointed to the need for “more programs where [drug users] can get safe alternatives to the drugs they get from the gangsters on the streets, who don’t care if they die.”

Progress on this front, she added, has been slow.

The coroners service statistics support her assessment: Vancouver is on pace to have more than 350 people die of an overdose before the end of the year.

Meanwhile, local politicians such as the mayor continue to pressure senior levels of government to increase efforts to combat the crisis.

The city itself raised property taxes to help cover the costs of a new medic unit for firefighters and pay for various programs aimed at preventing deaths, including outreach services to the Aboriginal community, which is overrepresented in the death toll.

The total tab was $3.5 million.

During a council meeting in July, Robertson showed rare emotion and paused to collect his thoughts after hearing an update from staff on the number of people who died of a drug overdose.

“It’s just been excruciating living through this, witnessing it and seeing the devastation in the community,” he said. “And it’s hard to believe it just keeps on going at the pace that it has, despite all the incredible work.”

Grim statistics

The coroners service is expected to release more statistics on drug overdose deaths before the end of the month. The news will likely not be good.

Here’s some context to consider when the statistics are released: In 2015 — the most recent tally done by the coroners service for other deaths in B.C. — 614 people died of suicide, 300 died in car crashes and 63 pedestrians were killed.

That same year, 519 people died of a drug overdose in B.C. This year, twice that number have already died in Vancouver and across the province, with many more to come.

Ryan Hedican, 26, was one of those people. He had recently returned to work as an electrician, after attending a drug treatment facility in New Westminster.

On April 24, he was found unresponsive during his lunch break.

Ryan’s father, John, spoke at Darcy’s news conference last week, where he argued for the decriminalization of personal possession of drugs and to treat addiction like the fight against cancer.

“While Ryan chose to choose alcohol and, later, drugs, he did not choose to be addicted to them,” John said. “Ryan asked for help many times before he was poisoned, and our whole family experienced the horrendous lack of support this disease receives.”

That family includes Ryan’s mother Jennifer, his brother Kyle, his sister Megan and his grandmothers, Phyllis and Beryl. This will be their first Christmas without him. @Howellings

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Newsmaker runners-up: Goodbye Christy

After a 16-year run, the B.C. Liberals reluctantly turned over the reins of power to the B.C. NDP in the May 9 provincial election. The takeover wasn’t immediate, though. John Horgan had to wait more than a month before Christy Clark’s government fell in a confidence vote June 29.

The toppling of the Liberals came after the NDP and Green Party reached a power-sharing agreement. Clark later resigned, triggering a leadership race that will conclude next February.

Six Vancouver MLAs were given cabinet posts in Horgan’s government.

Bremner for the win

The city held a byelection Oct. 14 after Geoff Meggs resigned from council to become Premier John Horgan’s chief of staff. Horgan’s government later agreed to tack on a school board race to the ballot to replace the trustees fired in October 2016 for not balancing a budget. The NPA’s Hector Bremner won the council race.

The Green Party and Vision Vancouver each won three seats on school board, while the NPA picked up two and OneCity one. The new year will see candidates position themselves for the October 2018 civic election.

We’re not going to take it!

Vancouverites sure like their protests. And there were plenty of them this year. People continue to march in the streets and outside courtrooms to protest Kinder Morgan’s plan to build a pipeline from Alberta to Burrard Inlet. People protested the opening in February of the Trump Tower

downtown. The building’s namesake also inspired Women’s Marches across the globe a month earlier including one attended by thousands in Vancouver. At city hall in August, thousands showed up to rally against racists and racism. Hundreds more rallied in June and October to protest a condo proposal for Chinatown. A proposed modular housing complex for homeless people in Marpole also attracted hundreds armed with a petition to keep it out of the neighbourhood.

Homelessness

Mayor Gregor Robertson’s goal was to end “street homelessness” by 2015. That, as can been seen daily in this city, did not happen, or even come close. A regional homeless count conducted in March revealed 2,138 people in Vancouver are homeless, with 537 of those living on the street.

It’s the highest homeless population recorded since the counts began more than a decade ago.

Affordability

City council closed its final meeting of November with a 9-2 vote in favour of implementing a 10year housing strategy that is supposed to create 72,000 new homes, with 50 per cent affordable to households earning less than $80,000 per year.

The city also made moves this year to implement an empty homes tax and create new regulations for landlords who rent out their properties on home-sharing sites such as Airbnb and VRBO. Mayor Gregor Robertson: “In a housing crisis, it’s unacceptable for so much housing in Vancouver to be treated as a commodity — housing is for homes first, and investments second.”

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Rain, rain, go away — dreary December commute made brighter by Christmas lights and CBC I don’t know about you, but I’ve pretty much had it with these dark, wet days and even darker nights.

And don’t even get me started on daylight saving time, because there’s nothing I love more than getting up in the dark and driving home from work in the dark — especially when it’s raining.

And when I silently curse black-clad pedestrians stepping in front of my car while looking down at their phones, I realize my transformation into my mother is almost complete.

One real glimmer of hope in dreary December is the fact the days start to get longer in just a matter of weeks.

Something else that keeps

me going in December are the holiday light displays across the city that make my commute just a little brighter. These displays, whether it’s an elaborate production complete with inflatable snowmen and reindeer or a simple strand of lights, remind me there are still people living in this city who care enough to make the effort and, to that, I salute you.

Another way I used to survive my commute was by listening to Rick Cluff and Amy Bell on CBC in the morning on my way to work, and Stephen Quinn and Lisa Christiansen on my way home.

Unfortunately, I went over a bump in my ancient

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The week before announcing his retirement, Rick Cluff talked to the Courier about his health CBC broadcaster and Early Edition host Rick Cluff remembers the moment just prior to undergoing openheart surgery this past June.

“I remember before being wheeled in for surgery I kissed my daughter and wife goodbye,” says Cluff.

“Because that’s the kind of surgery it is, you don’t know if you’re going to make it.”

Cluff spent two hours in preop and then underwent 6.5 hours of open-heart surgery, none of which he remembers.

“It was like the snap of fingers later, but it was 11 a.m.

Saturday the next day,” Cluff told the Courier during an interview at CBC Nov. 27.

“And I woke up and felt like

...he endured and survived a quadruple bypass. someone had shoved a set of barbecue utensils down my throat. But then with one eye I saw my daughter and with the other eye I saw my wife and my first thought was, ‘Hey, I made it.’”

Cluff never suffered a heart attack but instead lived with hereditary heart disease that progressively got worse.

Cluff’s dad died from heart disease in 1972. As a football player at school, Cluff’s

heart didn’t give him any problems. It wasn’t until he reached his 30s that he began suffering chest pains and was diagnosed with angina (pain caused by reduced blood flow to the heart muscle) and supraventricular tachycardia (an abnormally fast heart beat).

Cluff was referred to a cardiologist, and upon further investigation it was decided he should have an angiogram because he had a number of blockages. But it wasn’t until several years and angina attacks later that Dr. Jacqueline Saw, an interventional cardiologist at Vancouver General Hospital, implanted a stent into Cluff’s chest. A stent is a tube-shaped device placed in the coronary arteries that supply blood to the heart to keep the arteries open.

I didn’t expect to bring Bella with me.

A stent was implanted in November 2016 but in April 2017 his angina and accompanying pain was back. Once again Cluff met with Dr. Saw, who placed a second stent inside the first in an attempt to clear the blockage. But three weeks later, Cluff was walking up the stairs at his home when the pain returned. This time, Dr. Saw broke the news that he needed much more than a stent. After conferring with cardiovascular surgeon Dr. Richard Cook, VGH interventional and structural cardiologist Dr. David Wood and Dr. Saul Isserow, director of the VGH Centre for Cardiovascular Health, it was decided Cluff needed open heart surgery, which included sawing his chest open and paralyzing his lungs and heart for 90 minutes. Unbeknownst to Cluff until later, he endured

and survived a quadruple bypass.

cardiovascular team that I have.”

“If I had to give some advice, I’d say that old thing, you should listen to your body,” says Cluff.

“When I was having chest pains I dismissed them and thought it’s just indigestion, it will pass.

I’m blessed to have the

Since the surgery, Cluff has made several lifestyle changes, including attending cardiovascular rehabilitation exercise classes three times a week, watching what he eats, cutting back on his salt intake — and announcing his retirement.

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Broadcaster Rick Cluff retires after 41 years at CBC “I’ve had a ball,” Rick Cluff said of his 41-year career in broadcasting. “And I’ve laughed every day.”

Cluff announced Dec. 4 he’ll be retiring from the Early Edition and CBC Dec. 22.

On that same day, listeners will be invited to share their memories of Cluff and many of those comments will air during the annual holiday request show.

Cluff started hosting the Early Edition in September 1997, leading the show and CBC Radio One to the number one morning program and radio station in Metro Vancouver’s competitive broadcast landscape. While with the Early Edition, Cluff and his

team received multiple awards for their coverage of local news, including the tasering of Robert Dziekanski at Vancouver International Airport, B.C. education struggles and protests over gentrification.

Prior to the Early Edition, Cluff’s award-winning career with the CBC began in Ontario in 1976 as a sports commentator and reporter. During Cluff’s lengthy career, he covered eight Olympic games, five Commonwealth games, Super Bowl games, Stanley Cup runs and several Canada games, as well as various world championship events from the South Pacific to the Arctic Circle.

“It has been a remarkable 41 years with the CBC, but all things must come to an end,” Cluff said in a CBC press release announcing his retirement. “It has been both my privilege and my pleasure to be part of your morning as host of the Early Edition. To be invited into so many homes every morning, to be part of your morning routine, to be allowed to tag along on your morning commute is something for which I am extremely grateful and will treasure forever. Thank you for being there... thank you for listening.”

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Festive events for kids from ‘one to 92’ Sure Christmas and the holidays can be stressful, but there’s nothing like a light tour or Christmas carol singa-long to help you forget that overdue to-do list keeping you awake at night and to put you in a festive mood.

VANCOUVER AND CAPILANO SUSPENSION BRIDGE PARK TOUR Now through Jan. 28 Let Westcoast Sightseeing take you on a tour of the city’s soaring skyscrapers, architectural masterpieces, urban beaches and coastal rainforests before being dazzled by the Canyon Lights display at Capilano Suspension Bridge Park.

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Next up is a scenic drive past the spectacular 50-foot Christmas tree at Jack Poole Plaza and through the bustling Robson Street shopping district. Finally, you can explore the public markets of Granville Island and grab a mug of organic hot chocolate or pick up a hand-crafted gift from one of the many artisan shops. Visit westcoastsightseeing.com.

KARAOKE CHRISTMAS LIGHTS Now through Dec. 29 Join the Vancouver Trolley Company and sing your favourite holiday carols while visiting two of Vancouver’s

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Upon pickup, guests will sing their way past the city lights of downtown before arriving at Bright Nights at Stanley Park. After walking through the light display and taking in Stanley Park’s holiday magic, the tour continues with a drive past local light displays, including the English Bay Christmas Tree, Hycroft Manor and Canuck Place. The second stop of the evening is VanDusen Botanical Garden where guests will disembark once again to enjoy the Festival of Lights.

Hop aboard one last time for the return trip to downtown Vancouver and a viewing of St. Paul’s Hospital Lights of Hope. Festively decorated trolleys equipped with TVs and karaoke machines for

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Ride the glittering carousel, visit a 30-foot tall, walk-in Christmas tree decorated with 36,000 twinkling lights and enjoy live entertainment and a multitude of festive family activities.

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Taiwan in 1966 by a female nun, Cheng Yen.

...a goal to help where they can... find out what drives this charitable organization, Lifetime had some questions for Tom Torng, director of public relations for the foundation, founded in

Why was it important for Gary Ho to create the Canadian chapter of the Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Foundation?

Before Mr. Ho and Mrs. Ho migrated to Canada, both of them volunteered with Tzu Chi Foundation in Taiwan for many years. Master Cheng Yen, told Mr. Ho, “While you stand under Canada’s sky,

stand upon Canada’s land and enjoy Canada’s resources, you should give back to the community.” Therefore, Mr. Ho established Tzu Chi Foundation’ s Canada chapter in 1992.

When did the Vancouver office start?

In 2000, Tzu Chi Canada moved its national head office to the current location in Vancouver. Under this office, there are five volunteer service

Volunteers from the Tzu Chi Foundation Canada.

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How many members/ volunteers does the Vancouver office have?

Currently, Tzu Chi Canada has over 40,000 donors and 2,200 volunteers across Canada. Among them, more than half are living in the Greater Vancouver Area.

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In senior residences, they run all kinds of activities for senior residents. In schools, they help run the breakfast programs. In shelters, they hold winter gift events and so on.

How do volunteers help seniors?

Our volunteers usually provide services at senior residences, totaling 37 in Canada, like chatting, exercise, tea/coffee serving, entertainment, nail painting.

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Even though Tzu Chi Foundation is Buddhistbased, master Cheng Yen said that religion should not stop people from joining us to do good deeds. And the philosophy of Tzu Chi Foundation is to help people in need beyond the limit of geography, culture, language, politics, religion and colour of skin.

Therefore, we welcome everyone to become our volunteers no matter what kind of religious belief you have. That is why all our volunteers in Turkey and Jordan Chapters are Muslim. There are more than 7,000 female volunteers in our South America chapter and they are all Christian.

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“Wire is like hair so it was a very smooth transition,” said Cosentino. “Back when I was styling hair and entering all the competitions everyone loved what I created, but the next day after the hair was washed, it was gone. Now with my trees, that beauty can last forever.”

In the 1980s, Cosentino made a mark for himself at his renowned Shaughnessy salon while coiffing and styling the hair of celebrities and members of Vancouver’s elite. The popular stylist also travelled the world scooping up prestigious hair titles and winning numerous styling competitions.

Cosentino, born in Montreal’s Little Italy in 1942, began his creative journey early under the guidance of his father, Vincent, who was a designer and silk screen printer. Cosentino was just 15 when he attended hairdressing school in Montreal and graduated at the top of his class.

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It’s beginning to look a lot like Keithmas Rolling Stones’ enduring guitarist celebrated with annual holiday fundraiser

The event is just really fun.

The amount of repeat business we have now is crazy.

These types of events come and go but we have people showing up to shows with event T-shirts from three and four years ago. People will see me wearing a Keithmas shirt and tell me, “That’s the event I most look forward to around Christmas.”

There was a time when you had to approach all the bands to ask them to perform, but now they come to you. That speaks volumes about your show.

You’ve done seven of these shows now. Which one is your favourite and why?

I know what everyone is going to play just so I know that there won’t be any duplicates. It fluctuates year to year, but this year is definitely more ’60s and ’70s focused. There’s going to be a little bit of the ’80s and virtually no ’90s or beyond. Everyone likes to go to the golden era.

You selected Keith Richards as the figurehead of the event partly because his birthday (Dec. 18) always falls around the show date, but is there more to it than that?

Keithmas organizers John Hewer (l), James Hayden (r) and musician Rich Hope (centre) get their rocks off Dec. 16 at the Rickshaw Theatre. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Part of it is coincidental with the timing around Christmas and realizing it was his birthday. But the reality is, he’s the archetype. He is the ultimate rock star.

of these people that by all rights, should have outlived him. And he’s still up on stage, doing it.

That’s part of reason why we celebrate. It sounds kind of goofy, but it’s almost like a celebration

beloved musicians and entertainers in the last three years. Keith Richards has outlived them all. How is this possible?

I think he’s tougher than God. That’s the deal. He has outlived all

We’ve lost scores of

Every year is different and they’re all fun but the first year was incredible because we got just such a great response I remember after the gig we were all on cloud nine. It felt like more than just putting on a show. Everyone who went to the event was so positive, so into it and wanted to donate. It was like, “Holy crap, I can’t believe what people are doing for us.” I couldn’t even sleep the next two nights. @JohnKurucz Advance tickets for Keithmas are available at Red Cat, Zulu, Highlife and Neptoon for $17.

Tickets at the door will cost $20 and the gig kicks off with doors at 7 p.m. and the show at 8 p.m.

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of life in way. We are celebrating his spirit.

Without tipping your hand too much, what details can you give about the song selection planned for the show?

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Keith Richards walks into a bar to meet up with his old pals Jack Daniels and Saint Nick. The resulting hangover is tempered knowing that big money was raised to for a good cause.

The Keithmas fundraiser is like few other events on the annual concert schedule.

Now in its eighth year, the seasonal holiday gig returns to the Rickshaw Dec. 16 for a night that combines riffs and whiskey with goodwill and philanthropy.

Started in 2010 as a “dumb idea for a party,” the gig has grown in every way since: it’s moved from the Fairview to the Rickshaw, donations totals are now routinely in five-figure territory and the acts come to organizers, rather than vice versa. The event has raised more than $40,000 for the Greater Vancouver Food Bank in seven years.

The one stipulation year after year is the need for performances to have some tie to Keith Richards or the Rolling Stones. Otherwise, no other rules really apply.

The Keithmas alumni list includes Colin James, Bif Naked, DOA’s Joe Keithley and the Odds, while this year’s performers include Pointed Sticks, Rich Hope, the Pack A.D., La Chinga, Elliot C. Way & The Wild North, Slip-Ons, the Knast and the Bad Beats.

The Courier caught up with event organizer John Hewer to talk about Keithmas’s enduring popularity, Keith Richards’ secret to survival and other bits and bobs ahead of this year’s show.

Pointed Sticks came to us this year. A couple years ago when we were much smaller we approached them and didn’t get any feedback. And then I got an unprompted email four months ago from them saying, “We want in.” They’ll be doing a very strong, early ’60s style set.

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Lepeska’s taxidermy workshops use ethicallysourced mice and each participant will receive one to work on and complete.

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WEIRDOS HOLIDAY MARKET DEC. 16 AND 17 Whether or not there will be any small stuffed mammals

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Offerings from This Monkey’s Gone to Heaven include mounted insects, out-of-the-ordinary holiday greeting cards, smudge sticks, edgy hand-crafted

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One-man play chronicles how ‘the force’ saved sexual Creator of How Star Wars Saved My Life found solace and inspiration in 1977 film

mountains, dethroned despots and fine-tuned fighting instincts.

For Nicholas Harrison, the force has had a more tangible application — it saved his life.

Harrison is at the helm of a one-man show called How Star Wars Saved My Life, an 80-minute long play that debuted at Performance Works on Granville Island Dec. 6.

The production hones in on Harrison’s experiences as a survivor of sexual and

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In an alternate universe, the force has moved

physical abuse and how he reconciled those episodes of abuse as a teenager, and then as an adult.

“On the outside, I’ve got a doctorate, I’m a successful artist and I do all these interesting things,” Harrison says. “It sounds great.

But underneath that, what people don’t see, are these hidden stories that we are taught to suppress or to feel shame or guilt about. We are told to keep quiet.”

The play is set in a fictional northern B.C. town called

Hopeless, and the story picks up with Harrison as a five-year-old. He is subjected to four years of rape and physical abuse from priests and others at the Catholic school he attended.

The tipping point in Harrison’s abuse came when he was nine. It happened after receiving a particularly nasty beating with an electric kettle cord. His mother saw the welts on his body but, at first, Harrison denied what happened.

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It was through friends he made at school that he found himself at a birthday party held at the town’s theatre complex. Party attendees were there to see Smokey and the Bandit, but Harrison snuck into a different theatre. Though he was eventually found by his friends, he saw enough of the first Star Wars film to begin his self-empowerment and healing.

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abuse survivor’s life “I can still visualize everything that I saw. It was this weird, shiny gold robot talking to this white kitchen garbage can,” says Harrison, 49. “Here was this movie about this seemingly mixed bag of personality types coming together and taking on such a structured organization all to help other people. That just rang so true to me.”

Harrison says his life veered towards some dark places during his teenage years: attempted suicide,

overeating and weight problems, and the desire to hurt others. Of all the things that helped him, Star Wars was the catalyst. He enrolled in kendo — a martial art that emphasizes swordsmanship — got in shape, and started down a path that saw him eventually earn his doctorate in theatre history.

“The hole that religion took out of me was filled by the Star Wars universe and the idea of the force. That became my go-to as a child because the idea of the Jedi

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My moral compass was gauged off of the Star Wars universe. I would think to myself, what would look Luke do? Or what would Yoda say?” @JohnKurucz How Star Wars Saved My Life runs nightly at 8 p.m. until Dec. 10. A 2 p.m. matinee showing is also slated for Dec. 9 and 10.

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Nicholas Harrison’s one-man show How Star Wars Saved My Life runs Dec. 6 to 10 at Performance Works on Granville Island. PHOTO FLICK HARRISON

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A bartender downtown, Brandon Copp usually comes home in the early morning hours to little more than a peep from his roommates.

That they were awake and visibly upset when he got home from work last summer was a sign something was amiss. One of their roommates, “Billy,” had died of a fentanyl overdose just hours earlier.

“It was a shock,” Copp said. “I’ve heard about fentanyl in the papers and in the media. I didn’t think it could happen to your average person who dabbled in cocaine every once in a while.”

A musician who performs under the moniker “Tramp,” Copp put pen to paper immediately after Billy’s death.

The song “Fentanyl” was finished within days and serves two purposes: to pay tribute to Billy’s life and to shine light on those living with addiction in the Downtown Eastside.

The video for Copp’s tribute was filmed near Main and Hastings. He asked homeless people and others battling addiction to be in the video, and roughly half of those he approached agreed.

They’re shown holding cardboard placards detailing the song’s lyrics: “I ask you for some change. For food or a place to stay. But we both know where I’m going.

Vancouver singer-songwriter Brandon Copp released a video for his song “Fentanyl” in September. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Down to waste away.”

Since its release in midSeptember, the track has been viewed more than 11,000 times on Copp’s Facebook page.

The topic of death and addiction is a deeply personal one for the 27-yearold. He said he went through rehab three years ago for cocaine and alcohol dependency.

“A lot of the people I went to treatment with have died,” he said. “There’s been at least a half of dozen

of them who have died in the last two to three years.”

Outside of being an outlet for catharsis, the song is all about paying it forward.

Copp is donating partial proceeds from the song’s sale to charity: the Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society, Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention Centre of B.C. and other organizations.

“For the homeless and the addicted, I wanted to give them this song,” he said. @JohnKurucz

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What has changed for Loui Eriksson?

Stick-taps & Glove-drops • The Canucks deserve a stick-tap for the excellent pre-game ceremony last Saturday night for Daniel Sedin’s 1,000th career point. From Markus Naslund narrating the video to Derek Dorsett delivering the silver puck, the entire thing was perfectly handled.

The Canucks’ $6-million man looks better, stronger, faster.

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• I’m dropping the gloves with Edmonton Oilers beat reporters, who rallied around Kris Russell after he scored an own goal to hand the Toronto Maple Leafs a win.

Considering the way they torch talented players like Taylor Hall, Jordan Eberle and now even Connor McDavid for lesser mistakes, it seems awfully hypocritical.

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Over the last several seasons, Loui Eriksson went from underrated to overrated, then back to underrated again.

It’s unfortunate that the Canucks signed him to a six-year, $36-million contract in that brief window of time in which he was overrated.

For years, Eriksson kept under the radar but was quietly one of the best two-way wingers in hockey, consistently scoring 20-plus goals. Then, in a contract year with the Boston Bruins, he had a 30-goal season, entering free agency as one of the most highly sought forwards on the market.

Eriksson was no longer under the radar, but was flying so high that he was bound to come back to earth.

Instead, he crashed. Hard. Eriksson’s first season in Vancouver was a disaster, tallying just 11 goals and 24 points, his lowest point total since his rookie season. But even while his point totals suffered, his defensive game and puck possession remained strong. He was back to being underrated.

One of the big reasons Eriksson was brought in to Vancouver was his past chemistry with the Sedins, having played with them on Team Sweden at the Olympics and World Championships.

But when Eriksson failed to score a goal in the first 13 games of the season and injuries struck, Eriksson was split from the Sedins.

This season, however, Eriksson has excelled since being reunited with the Sedins. Heading into Tuesday’s tilt against the Carolina Hurricanes, Eriksson had 10 points in his last 10 games, and he’s once again on-pace for 20-plus goals and 50-plus points.

So what’s the difference? Why is Eriksson putting up points with the Sedins this season when he struggled to do so last season?

First of all, Eriksson and the Sedins weren’t that bad last season. “It felt like we had some good chances,” said Eriksson, “but were not able to score goals

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Loui Eriksson soared, crashed back to earth and is climbing again. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

and produce. It was just a tough start and it felt like I had to work uphill the whole season after that.”

The statistics bear that out. When Eriksson played with the Sedins last season, they controlled more than 53 per cent of the shot attempts at 5-on-5, which is fantastic puck possession. They just couldn’t put the puck in the net.

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than 54 per cent of the shot attempts at 5-on-5. There is one key difference: more of their shots are coming from dangerous areas on the ice.

According to hockey statistics site Natural Stat Trick, Eriksson averaged 5.06 scoring chances per hour with the Sedins at 5-on-5 last season. This season, he’s averaging 12.76 scoring chances per hour with the Sedins, more than twice as many. Is it any wonder the puck is going in a little more often?

If you look at a heat map of shot attempts when Eriksson is on the ice this season, as provided by HockeyViz.com, it becomes clear. Where too many shots came from the outside last season, this season Eriksson is getting the puck into the slot and to the front of the net with far more consistency.

If Eriksson can continue to take the puck to those dangerous areas on the ice, he may find a balance between underrated and overrated, and end up, for the first time in his career, simply rated.

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

• 238 Jacob Markstrom is approaching the NHL record for most games played without a shutout, but at one time he came close to breaking another shutout record. Back in 2014, he nearly broke Barry Brust’s AHL shutout streak by going just over 238 minutes without allowing a goal.

Jacob Markstrom. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

• 13 In a recent game in the OHL, Canucks prospect Jonah Gadjovich tallied an impressive 13 shots on goal. Gadjovich is second behind Owen Tippett in shots per game and as of Tuesday had 14 goals and 25 points in 19 games.

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cancelled from 1982 to 1984 and returned in the 30-minute format it maintained until its demise in 2005.

That rebirth also brought with it the arrival of one of North Burnaby’s favourite sons. Fresh off tours of duty in Red Deer and Dawson Creek, Don Taylor first appeared on Sports Page in April 1984. It would be his home for the next 17 years and launched the careers of some of Canada’s biggest names in sports: Dave Randorf, John Shorthouse, Barry Macdonald, Scott Rintoul, Blake Price and countless others.

“I was nervous but I just didn’t think it was that big of a deal,” Taylor told the Courier. “I just felt really comfortable the first time I was ever on a set. It might not have looked like it but I always felt right at home.”

That level of comfort and confidence has set Taylor apart from the pack to the point that he’s now in his fourth decade of broadcasting: after the Page, it was Sportsnet and now TSN 1040 radio.

His signature “Don-isms” are the stuff of legend: Marv Albert impersonations, inside jokes with co-workers — “Gary, you dropped your chocolate milk” — and his uncanny ability to recall jersey numbers.

“Andrew Brunette scores with the assists going to blonde and redhead.”

“And he stops it with his right Khabi. Or was it his left Bulin.”

“Top shelf where mom keeps the peanut butter.”

Part of those quips were pre-planned, others were off the cuff, and others came

from his dad. Taylor also credits David Letterman and Johnny Carson for his quirks and candour.

“I always noticed that those guys were at their best when things were just going off the rails,” he said. “They didn’t seem to really care if they made a mistake.”

Sport Page’s demise in 2005 was the culmination of a few factors: media mergers, Sportsnet and the Score’s emergence, and of course, the internet. Taylor suspected at the time that he and his co-workers were onto something, but it was only after the fact that he’s able to realize the show’s impact.

“I may not have known it, but I had the best job in the world — I felt like I loved my job,” Taylor said. “I love what I’m doing now but not like that. That was real passion. I think we kind of knew that we were kicking ass.”

The 40th anniversary celebration is a culmination of five months of legwork on Beck’s part: interviews with former cast and crew members, digging up memorabilia and scrolling over old film tapes. The exhibit will feature looping editions of the show, pieces from the old set and back stories from the program’s roughly 75 alumni. A man cave with a distinctly ’90s feel will have ’Yulin with the Page — the show’s annual Christmas special — playing on repeat.

Taylor and about 30 other cast and crew members will be in attendance at Saturday’s kick off, which runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at BC Place.

For info, see bcsportshalloffame.com. @JohnKurucz

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Believe it or not, there was a time when the Toronto Maple Leafs were not the lead story on every nightly sportscast.

Analytics didn’t exist, shiny, beautiful people were not the order of the day and game recaps were found almost exclusively in the morning papers.

Enter, Sports Page.

North America’s first evening telecast devoted entirely to sports gets the celebratory treatment starting Dec. 9, when a 40th anniversary exhibit of the Vancouver-made program rolls out at the BC Sports Hall of Fame.

“When they said a half hour of nothing but sports highlights every night, people thought it wouldn’t last,” said Hall of Fame curator Jason Beck. “Within weeks it was so popular that it was the only show on CKVU that sold out all of its advertising time.”

The first edition of “the Page” hit the airwaves Sept.

5, 1977, on CKVU. John Good, brother of Bill, was the host and there was no lead story in the traditional sense. Instead, Good offered a roughly four-minute introduction to viewers to spell out the show’s reason for being: game recaps, highlights and stories with a distinctly northwest focus on Vancouver, B.C., and Seattle.

Lorne Hassan is credited with being the show’s brainchild. He held producing gigs with major U.S. networks before returning to Vancouver in the early ’70s. Hassan was hired as CKVU’s head sports honcho and began assembling a team of local talent prior to the launch in 1977.

The show’s first iteration jumped between 30- and 60-minute formats. The hour-long version included an in-studio audience and taking live callers. This was long before the seven-second delay that’s used today.

“They’d get people calling in and swearing occasionally and they’d tell off the coach of the Lions,” Beck said. “They’d often just be pulling people off of the street on West Second to fill out the audience. A lot of people didn’t even know what the show was about but they were in the audience watching.”

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It appears that two of the city’s community pools have been saved from the wrecking ball, at least for the time being.

The Vancouver Park Board’s final report and recommendations on the long-term vision and plan for pools and aquatics facilities in the city was posted online ahead of the Dec. 11 meeting. It includes new recommendations around the future of two of the city’s smaller, community pools.

In the previous version of the plan, Lord Byng and Templeton pools were slated for demolition, to be replaced by new, larger destination pools — Templeton and Britannia were to be replaced by one pool on the Britannia site, and Lord Byng was to be decommissioned after the construction of a new destination facility at Connaught Park.

But residents rallied against the proposed closures, gathering thousands of signatures on separate petitions, as well as letters of

The final report recommends Templeton and Lord Byng remain open pending a review of the impacts of the new pools and consultation with pool users. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

support from local provincial and federal politicians, stressing the importance of the existing pools and asking the park board to reconsider.

The final report, which will be presented to commissioners next week, still includes construction of new pools at Britannia Centre and Connaught Park.

However, Templeton and Lord Byng will remain open pending a review of the impacts of the new pools and consultation with pool users, the community and key stakeholders.

Rebecca Lockheart, who

is part of the group rallying to save Lord Byng, said the revised recommendations are a step in the right direction, but is no guarantee that the pools will stay open.

“They defer that decision to the distant future,” she said in an email. “We want a promise that both pools will stay open.”

The proposed plan for indoor pools also includes replacing Kerrisdale pool and renovating Kensington pool to enhance accessibility and increase opportunities for adaptive and therapeutic swimming. @JessicaEKerr

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Range Rover unveils stylish Velar

Brendan McAleer

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The name Velar comes from the Latin version of “veil.”

Originally used on a prototype for the first version of the Range Rover, it was constructed as a word jumble from “Land Rover,” and used to disguise Rover’s intent to move upscale.

However, there is nothing

The new Velar appears ready to become a sales knockout for Range Rover, featuring a stylish design and upscale interior in a luxurious and comfortable ride.

shy or hidden about this latest mid-sized Range Rover product. If I may make a prediction, this machine is about to become the unofficial official car of West Vancouver, supplanting both the well-loved Range Rover Sport (especially well-loved by mechanics, I should say), and outcompeting the likes of the usual suspects from Audi, BMW, and Mercedes.

It is lower than any other

previous Range Rover, while more closely resembling the full-size cars. It is priced to undercut other premium offerings, but carries a brand cachet that’s a step above. It looks sleek and urbane, both inside and out.

However, there’s no magic in the land of automotive manufacturing, so let’s draw back the veil a little here. The Velar might appear to be a sales knockout, but how well does it do as a Range Rover?

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Your modern Range Rover is no longer boxy, and can no longer be repaired without the kind of computing power needed to fly a Harrier Jump Jet. In the Velar’s case, Range Rover has taken a dash of their award-winning Evoque design language and scaled it up to a more usefully sized package.

Copper-coloured accents mark the use of a new material, doubtless to proliferate through the rest of the higher-end market.

The de rigueur LED daytime running lights help frame a handsome, polished face, and the grille isn’t overlarge.

Retractable door handles add to the Velar’s slippery shape, and this R-Dynamic model’s 21-inch alloys add thoroughly convincing curb presence.

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With vehicles such as the Range Rover Sport SVR, Range Rover has been able to match their all-terrain reputation with outstanding tarmac performance.

Seeing as most Range Rover owners rarely venture off the beaten path, tweaking things towards street capability makes a lot of sense.

Still, they’re not called Road Rovers – at least not yet. As such, it’s worth pointing out that the Velar comes with selectable terrain adaptability, and can rove through various obstacles with most of the aplomb of its larger brethren.

It’s not the same as its agricultural ancestors, or a wimpy soft-roader, but the Velar boasts just enough capability to be worthy of the Range Rover badge up front. Bragging rights secured, time to take a closer look at how it handles its natural habitat: the city streets.

This R-Dynamic tester model comes with a 380 horsepower supercharged 3.0-litre V-6. Partnered with a capable eight-speed transmission, the V-6 puts out decent acceleration numbers, and is a well-known quantity in other Jaguar and Land Rover applications.

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Traditionally, British motorcars have often been a bit of a letdown on the inside.

Happily, the Velar is pretty good on first blush, with a couple of touchscreen interfaces that are well-placed ergonomically, and cutting edge in terms of graphics.

For digital natives used to doing everything on their smartphones, the Velar’s touchscreen controls will feel natural. There are a few occasional instances of submenus organized in a less-than-intuitive manner, but the system operates much quicker than other Jaguar/Land Rover products.

If, however, you’re of the tweed-wearing Land Rover old school, you might not love taking your eyes off the

road to fiddle with the touchscreen. It should be noted, however, that Range Rover wasn’t silly enough to ditch the traditional volume knob.

Elsewhere, the Velar’s interior quality seems up to the price point, being much more distinct than the interiors in the Jaguar product lineup. Any wow factor relies heavily on how nice the touchscreen looks, but the quality is at a Range Rover standard.

Passenger comfort and cargo is a bit of a mixed bag. The rear seats certainly have enough room, but the 673 litres of cargo area is smaller than the Range Rover Sport. If you’re comparing the Velar against something like a Macan, however, it’s much more practical.

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