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Trudeau’s hair, salt thieves, warring councillors Annual list of questionable observations made from the civic affairs desk

Mike Howell

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Sadly, another year of hunting, gathering and typing has come to a close.

That means it’s time to roll out my annual list of questionable observations, stinging criticisms and pure nonsense from my 300-plus days on the beat.

I’ve added hashtags this year to amp up the cleverness.

Here you go…

• City facility that most resembles a border crossing City hall. Ever since a bunch of anti-poverty activists occupied the council chamber this summer, the city has beefed up security on the days that city council meets. Guards are posted at both entrances on the main floor, on the third floor (location of the chamber) and at the entrance to the chamber. #yourpapersplease • Most cowardly public relations move by a civic political party

That goes to Vision Vancouver, which hid their council byelection candidate Diego Cardona from the media on election night. Too bad because the guy is articulate, on top of the issues and an adult. Have to think Vision would have been all too happy to offer up Cardona had he won, instead of finishing fifth. We spoke several days later, but that’s far from the point of what should have been a simple exercise in humility. #sorelosers • Developer most likely to believe in the popular phrase, “It ain’t over til it’s over” Beedie Living or Beedie Holdings Ltd. or whatever the company calls itself.

After its condo proposal for 105 Keefer St. in Chinatown was modified five times over three years, then rejected by council, then by the development permit board, Beedie has launched an appeal to be heard at the Board of Variance. #yogiberraism

Justin Trudeau, Diego Cardona and Adriane Carr made civic affairs truth warrior Mike Howell’s year-end roundup.

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• It’s the end of the world as we know it award That goes to all those mefirst types who stole more than the two-bucket maximum of salt from firehalls the night before it was made available free to the public during last winter’s snow/ice storm. Such acts of selfishness only confirm a reality long-held by newcomers to this town: Vancouver can be a cold place on so many levels. #snowpocalypsewow

• City councillor most in need of a flak jacket, or set of noise-cancelling headphones, or both Green Party Coun.

Adriane Carr, who now sits between the warring duo of Vision Coun. Andrea Reimer and NPA Coun.

Melissa De Genova. Carr was placed in that seat after the NPA’s Hector Bremner won the Oct. 14 byelection. As a teenager on a job shadow once concluded after witnessing one of the

many vinegary exchanges between Reimer and De Genova, “Wow, the sass is real.” #crossfire • Provincial politician most likely to joke about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s hair That would be our very own follicly challenged premier, John Horgan. In his speech to the Union of B.C. Municipalities in September, Horgan said this about JT: “I found Mr. Trudeau quite relatable.

We’ve both been successful despite an obsessive focus on our rich, luxurious hair.

We worked through that though, and started talking about how both levels of government can work together.” #pantene • More evidence why Hillary Clinton is not president of the United States When Clinton showed up in Vancouver to flog her book to a crowd of mostly well-heeled types — and made buckets of cash doing

it — she was joined on stage by well-heeled realtorturned-interviewer Bob Rennie. So weird, so wrong.

Elitism and privilege pisses people off. Just ask Trump’s voters. #feelthebern • Best reason for a charity punch-up between two city councillors After capturing on video the verbal sparring match this month between Vision Coun. Raymond Louie and NPA Coun. George Affleck, you’ve got to think some promoter in this town could scrounge up a couple pairs of 16-ounce gloves and get these guys in the ring. All proceeds would go to independent candidates running in the October 2018 election. #aLeftandaRight • Best reason to stop writing this sentence I really need to clean my desk, gather up my stuff and jump aboard the next holiday train out of town. #ThanksForReadingThisYear @Howellings

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Drug users and people likely to witness a drug overdose can now pick up free kits at B.C. pharmacies that contain the overdose-reversing drug, naloxone.

Judy Darcy, the Minister of Mental Health and Addictions, announced Dec. 20 the expansion of the “Take Home Naloxone” program that was first launched by the BC Centre for Disease Control in 2012.

“Our goal is to help save lives and prevent overdose deaths by making it more convenient to people to have access to these lifesaving naloxone kits, no matter where you live in British Columbia,” said Darcy from a London Drugs pharmacy in New Westminster.

The kits, which contain ampules of naloxone and syringes, had until Dec. 20 been only available at drug injection sites, needle exchanges, health units, hospital emergency departments, corrections facilities and First Nations sites.

More than 57,000 kits have been given out since 2012. Darcy said the

expansion of the program to pharmacies has, so far, seen 1,900 kits supplied to more than 220 pharmacies in the province, including those at London Drugs and Save-on-Foods.

Darcy said people who want a free kit will be trained by a pharmacist.

Training is also available online at TowardTheHeart.com, a website that provides a list of pharmacies with the kit.

A recovering drug user named “Mike” spoke at last week’s news conference and welcomed the expansion of naloxone.

He said he has lost many friends to overdose but has saved a few by administering naloxone.

“The more naloxone we get into people’s hands, the more lives we’re going to be able to save,” said Mike, who told a story about two girls who came to him for help after a friend overdosed.

“They knew I carried a kit but by the time I got to their friend, he didn’t get enough oxygen — it was more than 20 minutes. We tried our best. If somebody else other than me had [a kit], this person would still be here today.”

Dr. Jane Buxton of the BC Centre for Disease

Control said when the “Take Home Naloxone” program launched five years ago, there was little talk about the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl, or naloxone.

Buxton said 622 kits were distributed in 2013 and only 36 were used.

This year, the harm reduction program at the centre distributed 30,000 kits, with nearly 7,000 of those being used to reverse an overdose.

“You don’t have to be a doctor to actually use a kit and save a life,” she said.

Pharmacist Alex Dar Santos, president of the B.C. Pharmacy Association, said pharmacists know about being on the frontlines of epidemics. Dar Santos noted pharmacies made “hundreds of thousands” of flu shots available to people during the H1N1 flu pandemic in 2009.

“With the growing opioid epidemic, we are ready and willing to be on the frontlines again,” he said.

The BC Coroners Service’s most recent overdose death statistics revealed more than 1,100 people died in B.C. between January and September, with 83 per cent connected to fentanyl. @Howellings

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At 12:32 a.m. on Jan. 1, 1998, Linnea Teichroeb and Camille Bush made history together.

Linnea had the double honour of being Vancouver’s 1998 New Year’s baby as well as the first baby born in British Columbia under the newly licensed midwifery program.

Bush was definitely not the first midwife to help with a birth in B.C., but she was the first to be able to legally do so without a doctor present.

Of course, baby Linnea was a bit oblivious to all the fuss. But to Bush, who 20 years later is winding down a career that has ushered about 1,800 babies into this world, it was a very special moment.

Bush was one of three midwives working at B.C. Women’s Hospital that night.

Her interest in midwifery had been sparked by her Appalachian grandmother who gave birth to her children at home and told stories about “helping the neighbourhood ladies” give birth.

Bush’s mother did not have similar stories to share.

Giving birth was a medical procedure by then, done primarily in hospitals with invasive procedures sometimes.

After the birth of her first child, Bush became even more aware of the need many women felt to be more connected with their birth experiences.

She became a midwife in 1974, but B.C. was slow in giving women the option of having a midwife deliver their babies. She got her licence in Washington State in 1987 and worked in the Kootenays.

By New Year’s Eve 1997, Bush was in Vancouver, excitedly awaiting the stroke of midnight when, finally, it would be legal to have a midwife direct and manage the birth.

“By the time I came on in 1996, it was an established program within B.C. Women’s,” she says. Midwives met with mothers before

When Benedicte Schioetz (right) gave birth to her daughter Linnea under the guidance of midwife Camille Bush (left), a few firsts were celebrated. Linnea was Vancouver’s 1998 New Year’s baby, and Bush was the first midwife to oversee the birth of a baby under the province’s newly licensed midwifery program.

and after birth and were welcomed and respected as part of the birthing team by most obstetricians and family doctors. However, provincial rules stated a doctor must be present during the birth.

As much Linnea’s mother wanted Bush as her midwife, it was more important to her (at the time) to have Linnea born on Dec. 31.

Benedicte Schioetz is from Norway, where midwives have long had the responsibility of hospital deliveries.

Schioetz’s oldest daughter had been born in Norway, and it wasn’t until she and her Canadian-born husband Kevin Teichroeb moved to Ottawa, where their second daughter was born, that she discovered it wasn’t the norm in Canada. When the young family moved to Vancouver, it was Teichroeb who really pushed for having a midwife oversee the experience.

Schioetz was in complete agreement but she was willing to have a doctor preside in the delivery room in exchange for having a baby in the 1997 calendar year.

Schioetz had married young and wanted to continue her own education once her children were in kindergarten. She waffled on whether to have two or three children until March 1997, when she realized that if she got pregnant right away, the baby could enrol in school two years after her middle daughter. If the

baby was born Jan. 1, the school gap would be three years and Schioetz would have one more year of being a stay-at-home mother.

“Can I get this baby out before Jan. 1?” she asked herself.

She almost got the math right: the due date was either Dec. 31 or Jan. 1.

On the morning of Dec. 31, Schioetz began doing anything she could to convince the baby that today was the day. She went for a long walk, sipped on castor oil, tried a few old wives’ tales. Nothing. By seven that evening, the couple realized they hadn’t planned for a New Year’s Eve at home so they ordered in Chinese dinner.

At nine o’clock, there was a twinge of recognition.

Labour was starting. But Schioetz was tired and went to bed. By 11 o’clock, with a big “Oh!”, she realized things were happening fast.

They got to the hospital about 11:45 or 11:50.

The first person who saw her said, “You’re at eight centimetres. Are you here to have the New Year’s Baby?”

Schioetz replied, “No, I’m trying my very best NOT to have the New Year’s Baby!”

Linnea obviously wasn’t listening.

Bush, on the other hand, was thrilled.

The birth took place in Women’s Hospital’s relatively new “single room maternity care” unit. The

hospital had made the shift in creating a place where a woman could go through labour, delivery and after care all in the same room.

At midnight, the obstetrician on duty, Dr. Michael Klein, asked Bush if she wanted him to leave the room — legally his presence was no longer required. Dr. Klein had asked to work that night because he was very supportive of the new midwife program so Bush knew that for him, too, this was a big moment. She was pleased to have him stay. He moved to the side of the room to watch history being made.

There was no “It’s a girl!” moment. Bush feels that that the baby’s gender is an important discovery for the parents to make on their own. Instead, her priority was the baby — “out, breathing, turning pink” were the items on her checklist.

Linnea was the third baby born at the hospital that evening; unfortunately, Bush was helping with one of the other mothers when the staff gathered for a one-for-thehistory-books photo of the first baby born under B.C.’s licensed midwife program.

(Linnea had also missed out on the provincial New Year’s baby title by a few minutes.)

Twenty years later, it is routine for a midwife to lead the delivery process.

Doctors are called in only if there are complications.

Bush is proud to have been there at 12:32 that January morning. “It was a landmark event,” she says.

“It was the first birth for midwives in the regulated system. But at the time, my attention was elsewhere.”

“It was a beautiful experience,” Schioetz agrees.

P.S. When Linnea started kindergarten, her mother did indeed go back to school. Shioetz is now a labour and delivery nurse at the Richmond Hospital, and she and Bush occasionally run into each other in their neighbourhood. Linnea is doing a gap year in Norway, where she hopes to enrol in medical school.

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All you need to know about the Polar Bear Swim 98th annual New Year’s Day dip takes place at English Bay

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You’ve probably seen photos or videos of people in their bathing suits running frantically into a body of water on New Year’s Day and wondered why someone in their right mind would want to do that.

Thousands of Canadians will take part in the ritual known as a Polar Bear Swim and plunge into extremely cold water to start off 2018 in a fresh and invigorating way. Some say taking the icy dip gives them an adrenaline rush or clears their head.

However, there are factors to consider before enjoying a natural ice bath.

Matt White, an associate professor at SFU, studies temperature regulation and says anyone at risk of heart disease should consult his or her doctor before hitting the water.

“The body loses more heat in water than air,” White said. “Also, if you cough in water you can drown — it only takes half a coffee cup of water.”

Those with high blood pressure should also consult a physician beforehand; the cold temperatures cause a signiVicant spike in heart rate.

The City of Vancouver also includes the following tips for any potential swimmers: • Children must swim and stay with an adult.

• Please leave your dog at home.

• Do not drink — alcohol does not warm you up; it accelerates hypothermia.

• Do not stay in the water longer than 15 minutes.

• Do not remove your clothing until swim time.

This year will mark the 98th Polar Bear Swim at English Bay, the oldest event of its kind in Can-

ada. Luckily there have been no injuries or other problems over the years at Vancouver’s event.

Sean Healy helps organize the event and has taken part in the chilly festivities since the mid-’80s.

“Most people are very well prepared,” Healy said. “Our event does have

a lifeguard present, unlike some other events.”

Aspen Percival has participated in Polar Bear Swims since she was 10 years old, when she made her parents wake up early and drive her down to the water.

“There’s something so primal about plunging into ice cold water,” Percival

said. “It’s a symbolic reset for a new year, launching into a new year of possibilities.”

Douglas Canning, another avid participant, says he looks forward to diving in each year.

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said. “Plus it’s the perfect hangover cure after a long New Year’s Eve.” The Polar Bear Swim at English Bay is Jan. 1, 2018 from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. The registration form can be found on the City of Vancouver webpage at vancouver.ca. @nick_valka

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Opinion

Why Gregor won’t run and Vision could be done Allen Garr

agarr@vancourier.com

I am more convinced than ever that Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson will not run again. Expect an announcement in the next few months.

And it is likely that, given the departure of so many heavy hitters in the back rooms and long-time councillors deciding not to run, Vision may well collapse as a political force.

Vision’s electoral strength has declined from their first time out of the gate almost 10 year ago.

In the 2014 battle, Vision lost the majority on park board, school board and just about lost council.

In this term, the slide has continued. It was not quite two years ago that Robertson’s first chief of staff Mike Magee bailed out after segueing to four months as a “special advisor,” presumably cementing connections with Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government in Ottawa. The current guy, Kevin Quinlan, lacks the street smarts and connections Magee had.

Geoff Meggs leaving behind his council seat was part of a brain drain of centre-left apparatchiks drawn to the newly formed NDP government in Victoria.

Then, a few weeks ago one of the sharpest knives in the Vision council drawer, Andrea Reimer, said she would be cutting her ties at the

Columnist Allen Garr does not expect Mayor Gregor Robertson to run again for office in 2018 and it may well spell the collapse of Vision as a political force. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

end of this term, removing a potential mayor candidate once Robertson is gone.

The new election funding legislation passed by Victoria has seriously impeded the kind of big money campaigns of which Vision took advantage. (Their traditional foes, the NPA, will be equally disadvantaged.) But Vision, which at one point had four full time staff, now has none. And they have packed up their offices.

I’m told the last person out tiptoed around the boxes of files to scoop a picture of the iconic Vision councillor

and one-time (unsuccessful) mayor candidate Jim Green off the wall before the movers turned up.

Much may have been accomplished on Vision’s “greenest city” agenda. But Robertson’s highest priority on first running for office — homelessness — has simply gotten worse. As impressive as the “housing reset” might be to finally deal with the affordability crisis, it will take years if not decades to have any profound effect.

In actual fact, the needle has hardly moved on the affordability issue during

Robertson’s time in office.

The empty home tax and restraints on short-term rentals have been more symbolic than significant.

This fall has been one bad news story for Robertson after another. Vision got waxed in the byelection to replace Meggs. One Vision insider said when he saw that Vision put up the youthful political rookie Diego Cardona as their candidate it seemed they were raising a white flag.

The centre-left vote was split four ways allowing the NPA candidate, Hec-

tor Bremner, to come out ahead with a paltry 27 per cent of the ballots.

More recently Robertson got booted out as the chair of the Mayor’s Council on Transportation. As if they smelled blood, he’s been replaced by Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan, no friend of Vancouver’s ambitious Broadway SkyTrain project. mayor.

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2017 saw instability and a few bright spots for Vancouver schools Tracy Sherlock

tracy.sherlock@gmail.com

2017 wasn’t a great year for the Vancouver School Board, given the instability among senior leaders, the inability of the district to hire enough teachers to fulfil the reinstated contract and the inanity of the reports finding bullying by trustees of board staff.

But there were bright spots — the election of an NDP government brought with it promises of more funding, the byelection restored democratic accountability and the money provided by the teachers’ contract eliminated an expected $12-million shortfall.

By September, the province increased education funding about $175 million a year to hire about 3,500 new teachers, all due to the teachers’ win at the Supreme Court of Canada.

But that’s not the end of the story. Both the BCTF and parents have said children with special needs are being shortchanged because districts haven’t been able to hire enough teachers on call or specialty teachers.

BCTF president Glen Hansman said Vancouver is an extreme example of that.

At one inner city school last week, the district didn’t replace seven staff who were off sick on the same day.

“That’s a lot of juggling, scrambling, disruption to programming for students with special needs and it’s really demoralizing for front-line workers in schools,” Hansman said.

“Here we are in December and Vancouver still hasn’t got it together.”

An FOI request provided

by Hansman shows the number of unfilled teacher absences was 1,461 in 2014-15, 928 in 2015-16,

and a whopping 4,819 in 2016-17.

“They saved a bundle of money and a bunch of kids went without their service,” Hansman said.

While the VSB is struggling to hire and retain teachers — perhaps in part due to the high cost of housing in the city — such an extreme change in the number of unfilled absences suggests to me an intentional decision on the part of the district.

The BCTF has filed a provincial grievance and an application with the Labour Relations Board about these gaps and is scheduling dates in January, Hansman said.

When absent teachers or support staff are not replaced, teachers who are supposed to work with students with special needs are used instead to fill in. That means the students with special needs lose out.

Last year, there were 17,309 classes with more than four students with special needs and 4,186 classes with more than seven students with special needs. Those numbers are expected to drop significantly this year, with the restored contract.

Some districts, including Vancouver, are accused of relying too heavily on so-called remedies, rather than setting up classes as the contracts require. The remedies provide teachers with extra prep time or other supports if their classroom breaks the rules of the contract.

Katharine Shipley, president of the Vancouver Secondary Teachers Association, said addressing the remedies requires teachers on call, which are in short supply.

Since the VSB trustees were fired in October 2016, an appointed official trustee,

Dianne Turner, has been running the district, at a cost of about $167,000 a year.

Her services have been retained for another year, even after elected trustees were returned to office this fall.

The board has also been without a permanent superintendent since last fall. Former Langley school superintendent Suzanne Hoffman has been hired, but doesn’t start until Jan. 8.

Shipley said the secondary teachers are “super excited” to start working with Hoffman and says she has heard great things about her from Langley teachers. Also, Shipley said it is “fantastic” having an elected board again.

The district also has a new treasurer, J. David Green.

The byelection this fall put the Green Party in a strong position on the VSB, with Janet Fraser topping the polls and her two party mates coming second and

third. There are also three Vision trustees, two NPA trustees and one OneCity trustee. That board will be in place just one year, with a civic election to be held Oct. 20, 2018.

Although the board has a short mandate, a brand new senior management team and a major hiring challenge underway, it also has some big projects to complete, significant decisions to make and some fired up parents to deal with.

VSB trustees will have to wrestle with tough decisions, as well as facing another potential budget shortfall this spring and the ongoing struggle to hire enough teachers to meet contract demands. The fun never stops at VSB and 2018 will be no different.

Tracy Sherlock writes about education and social issues.

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

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Community McIntyre and Steven Tyler, to make a red carpet appearance at arguably the city’s biggest bash of the year. The extravagant party and concert would bring in $10.2 million to support families with children in need of organ transplant

Best of 2017! As we prepare to usher in 2018, here is a final look back at this year’s top merrymakers who put on the glitz and then some for the city’s most worthy causes.

Best Gala (Large): Miracle Weekend Concert and Gala Music man David Foster marked his foundation’s 30th anniversary with a star-studded gala and concert at the newly minted Parq Vancouver. The award-winning musician and producer tapped 30 of his A-list friends, including Oprah Winfrey, Reba

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Best Gala (Medium): Night of A Thousand Stars The VGH UBC Hospital Foundation’s Night of a Thousand Stars was the year’s biggest gala and money maker reeling in $5.95 million dollars — bolstered by a near $2-million gift from Darlene Poole to realize the hospital’s wish to bring the next generation of surgical robots to VGH. Poole and her late husband Jack brought the first surgical robot, aptly named Jack, to the city, a decade ago.

Best Gala (Small): Night of Wonders Children’s Wish Foundation’s Night of Wonders Gala returned for another magical night. The bold and the beautiful came together to grant wishes for deserving children living with life threatening illnesses. Led by Jessica Hollander and an influential committee, the event saw the Auto Form Dealership in

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East Vancouver transformed into a grand party palace for a record-setting $375,000 night.

Best Community Fundraiser: Chinatown Gala Carol Lee’s efforts to revitalize Chinatown ignited an entire community to come together to help. Her sophomoric staging of her Chinatown Gala saw more than 750 guests — many with strong ties to the neighbourhood — pile into the Hotel Vancouver to raise a $1 million and to support Lee’s efforts to preserve and build upon the rich history of the once bustling area.

Best House Party: At Home Philanthropists Lorne and Melita Segal have held many fundraisers in their Southlands home. On all the occasions, no guest has ever fallen into the Segal’s indoor pool — that is until Chor Leoni held their At Home Fundraiser at the couple’s sprawling bungalow. Artistic director Erick Lichte took the plunge on a $10,000 dare. The cannonball contributed to a very memorable $100,000 night.

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

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Feature

THE YEAR IN QUOTES

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Courier reporters are a talkative bunch. Over the past year they talked with hundreds if not thousands of people in the community — politicians, business owners, activists, athletes, artists, even one fellow who dresses up in a chicken outfit. What follows is a large, but still relatively small, sampling of the more memorable things people said to us.

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Fun and games

Your bike, like all machines, has a consciousness, so I’m just about the consciousness of my bike and I’m just observing and acknowledging its consciousness as my partner in getting me around town.

Tor Dekker, on why he attended a bicycle blessing outside Christ Church Cathedral.

We wanted to do a throwback and we’ve always wanted to make a Pop-Tart pie. It plays on nostalgia… coming home after school and sitting down with your VHS Space Jam, drinking some Sunny D. Leanne Yu, Incredible Pie Championship winner.

Then I went to a roller rink.

I saw people roller boogieing.

I stood off to the side and just watched and watched. I was so in awe. It was funky, urban hip hop dance. Freestyle. So I learned how to roller skate, picked up this, picked up that. Learned how to do the splits, spin…

Al Lamons, host of the F.U.B.A.R. roller skate jam at Robson Square.

Some people get the idea that polyamory is all about group sex and orgies and things like that.

Those things can happen, but that is not the everyday reality.

Mel Cassidy, a relationship coach who spoke to the Courier about some of the misconceptions associated with the polyamory lifestyle.

Community minded

I grew up in Mount Pleasant, and now I’m watching everything I’ve ever loved turn into minimalist, cold-press juiceries.

Michelle Hanley who operates the popular Twitter account @kingsgatemall. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

you live near me?” And they sit down and start talking and become friends. That’s community.

Earl Morris, baker and owner of Bigsby the Bakehouse in Mackenzie Heights.

There’s a stigma about the Downtown Eastside and I feel like a lot of people… dehumanize it.

They don’t give it a chance. The Downtown Eastside has one of the strongest senses of community I’ve experienced and I don’t think a lot of people understand the love and support that’s within it.

My goal is to show people what is here. These women are working so bloody hard for it.

Racquel Belmonte, coordinator of the Women’s Summer Fair and Flea Market on the Downtown Eastside.

Business time

It was unbelievable. They had the whole street closed off. They were just pounding water down.

I’m still shocked to see how it’s smoking this morning.

Marcus Stiller, who owns Kerrisdale’s Fish Café, on witnessing the massive fire in June that destroyed several businesses along 41st Avenue.

They are a calming and family-oriented, inclusive people who were just the easiest target for the park board to try and make an example of. Meanwhile, there was easily over 100 hipsters drinking openly — with several teasingly making fun of the yoga — and gathering, some in groups larger than eight.

Jennifer Chernecki on the city’s response to free yoga classes at Dude Chilling Park.

I don’t quite understand it, but apparently it’s doing quite well.

Kingsgate Mall manager Leyda Molnar on the mall’s Bitcoin machine.

We have customers that meet other customers and go, “Don’t

It’s like trying to open your Facebook app with your Mo-

torola flip phone.

Jessica Luongo, Vancouver wine importer on the B.C. Liquor Distribution Branch’s computer system.

Our dad had a philosophy of every customer that you come face-to-face with is the most important customer you’ll ever deal with. We were taught to give everything you can possibly give to him or her.

Jerry Wolfman, co-owner of 3 Vets, reflects on his family’s outdoor equipment business closing after 70 years in business in Vancouver.

Political arena

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.

Vision Vancouver Coun. Kerry Jang when asked whether he will seek re-election in 2018.

We’re putting up walls. It kind of reminds me of the United States of America, when we put up walls around our city and say to people, “You cannot purchase a home here, you cannot move to Vancouver. You can rent, but don’t come here and purchase a home.” It just kind of reminds me of what’s going on down south, and that concerns me.

NPA Coun. Melissa De Genova on Mayor Gregor Rob-

ertson’s proposal to have the city develop a policy that gives Metro Vancouver residents first crack at buying pre-sale homes.

It was really strong. I don’t know if that made a difference between me placing fifth or third or second, but if we’re just going through all the factors here, I think that was also one of them. Some folks didn’t feel comfortable with a former Colombian refugee running for office.

Vision Vancouver’s council candidate Diego Cardona on the racism he experienced during the Oct. 14 byelection in which he placed fifth.

I appreciate the fact that you are listening but the time for listening is over the time for doing is now. Our kids can’t wait for compromise… they are counting on you, we are counting on you. You rose on this issue. You will go down on this issue if you don’t do something soon.

Susan Harney, Coalition of Child Care Advocates of B.C., a grandmother of four and full-time caregiver to two of her four grandchildren, to NDP minister of state for child care Katrina Chen at a rally for $10-a-day daycare.

We will have to change the way we act, whether it’s now or later.

The time is coming when our world is becoming filled with toxic things that are killing it. While the Earth will go on forever, we may not.

Stuart Mackinnon, Green Party park board commissioner during debate on his proposed balloon ban, which was eventually defeated.

I’d like to thank the press — just kidding.

Donald Trump Junior, at the opening of the Trump Hotel in Vancouver.

Each of our scriptures and holy books tells a story of having been refugees and strangers ourselves, having been outcast or persecuted.

These sacred texts are there to remind us to see ourselves in the suffering and misfortune of others, because we were once them — we are all immigrants. To some degree, we have, every one of us, been the other, the widow, the orphan, the stranger. We have been here before and we promised and we have prayed that this would not happen again. Not in 2017. Not in North America.

Rabbi Dan Moskovitz on Trump’s proposed travel ban.

Developing story

From my perspective, there seems to be the notion that if it wasn’t owned by the Chinese, built by the Y Chinese, occupied by the Chinese, that it would be detrimental to Chinatown. That attitude, in my opinion, should not be tolerated.

Retired architect Ron Yuen on his support for Beedie Living’s proposal to build a condo at 105 Keefer St. in Chinatown.

I would just echo that this is not an either/or choice... we’re not giving up on the homeless by any means, or the lowest income.

Gil Kelley, the city’s planning director, on the city’s new 10-year housing strategy.

You know, to me politics isn’t a happy job — like it’s not a fun job, really. It’s a fulfilling job though and it’s really interesting and I love doing it. And to me, life is not about being happy, though — life is about doing service for others.

Christy Clark at her final news conference in July as leader of the B.C. Liberals.

I was just trying to find a way that I could stay in the city and do the work that I wanted to do without going into massive and impossible debt. At the same time, I really crave a home. I think everyone does — a secure place that is yours... I needed a stable home.

Tiny home advocate Samantha Gambling.

‘Trumpitis’

It’s a simple save, it seems to me, and a reasonable save.

There’s a strong sense we need to fight for this one.

Anne Guthrie-Warman on the fight to save the yellow schoolhouse at General Gordon elementary from demolition.

I am overwhelmed by the response. This is the most colourful, rainbow, family-happy event I have ever seen. But it’s all for good reasons, women’s rights and human rights. And obviously, we’re not going to be going away anytime soon.

Vancouver Women’s March organizer Samantha Monckton.

When you’re suffering “trumpitis,” which is what I had, with sleeplessness, nausea and lack of focus, when you are feeling this way, you are not going to be a very effective person in terms of how you are going to be engaged in the world.

Julie Peters, who decided to make her yoga studio a “Trump-free” zone.

It’s like wack-a-mole. You can’t keep up with it. There’s so much happening on so many fronts.

Every single day there’s so much — we totally can’t keep up with it.

David Mivasair, an Our Revolution organizer in Vancouver, on protesting U.S. President Donald Trump’s decisions.

You’ve got to be lucky to even find someone who’ll price it.

The process is quite fascinating.

I mean you get to do one or two of these in a lifetime.

Heritage expert Don Luxton on how difficult it is to find someone capable of re-roofing a so-called Hobbit house.

It slowly dawned on me that it’s kind of a scam and people living here are stressed out and alienated a lot of the time and the Vancouver lifestyle of rollerblading in the afternoon and skiing at lunch and windsurfing in the morning or whatever order you do it in, it’s just a big condo developer’s pamphlet.

Musician and writer Geoff Berner.

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I haven’t been a rooster before. I’ve been a duck and some other birds, a heron and there was a Canada goose in there… But I love the rooster. As a performer and character, the rooster is boisterous and loud. A loud and proud character.

Neezar Joseph on wearing a rooster costume for Chinese New Year celebrations.

That is absolutely devastating.

It’s just jaw dropping. So many people are deeply concerned about losing their homes.

Charles Wilkinson, whose film No Fixed Address examines Vancouver’s housing and affordability crisis.

History lessons

You can never become a better society — a better place, a better city — unless you acknowledge what have been your errors, and what have been the wrongs.

Green Party Coun. Adriane Carr on the city’s decision to formally apologize next April to Chinese people for the legislated discrimination enacted decades ago by previous city councils.

We want to see lots more of this. This is the beginning of a big change to welcome back the place names, welcome back the language, the hən̓ q̓əmin̓ əm̓ language, to make sure we recognize the history of this place and the names that evolved with our city and the places around us.

Mayor Gregor Robertson on nə́ ca̓ ʔmat ct, the name of the new Strathcona library.

Once you learn that something is derogatory, you can’t unlearn that. Language is symbolic and we attach a great deal of cultural significance to naming. There’s rituals around naming and naming is important. So, it’s symbolic but it’s important.

Vancouver Park Board commissioner Catherine Evans on the proposal to change Siwash Rock’s name.

He was not a shouter. He was incredibly humane. He did not demonize his opponents. It was the gravity and the content of what he said that made him powerful. It wasn’t the volume of his voice. That kind of civility and grace and generosity was what made him revered and respected — even by those

Wear your bowling shoes. Keep your food and drinks off the lane.

Stay behind the line and try not to throw the ball up in the air.

Tammy Marino, manager of Grandview Lanes, outlines the holy gospel of life in a bowling alley.

who disagreed with him. He was a gentleman in that sense of the word.

UBC professor Henry Wu on the death of Chinatown architect Joe Wai.

Crisis of health

It’s tough to watch as more and more people around you die. After a while we said, let’s get a tent and some Narcan.

Now we’re seeing hundreds of people a day, 25 at a time.

Sarah Blyth, founder of the Overdose Prevention Society based in the Downtown Eastside in response to the fentanyl crisis.

Ryan wrote of how he wanted the strong bond back with his family, to be back at work as an electrician, to listen to music, read books, play sports and have a relationship again. Addiction took all those things away Ryan wanted in life.

John Hedican on reading a letter his 26-year-old son wrote before dying in April of a drug overdose.

What gets me through every day is quite honestly every single person who has died — and I’ve had a lot of people die in my life. That doesn’t make it easier, it just makes it more familiar.

Munroe Craig, co-founder of Karmic, a Downtown Eastside harm reduction group.

[The overdoses] are from people expressedly asking for fentanyl. They aren’t just saying, “Give me some heroin.”

They are people screaming for fentanyl.

“Kyle,” a fentanyl dealer who spoke to comedian and podcaster Mark Hughes about the opioid epidemic.

Animal instincts

It’s kind of like three-day-old Jello — a bit firm but gelatinous.

Kathleen Stormont, Stanley Park Ecology Society, describing the discovery of “The blob of Lost Lagoon.”

It’s become sort of a social media site or a therapy site.

Jim O’Leary, developer of Crowtrax, an interactive, usergenerated map that tracks the location and severity of crow attacks in Vancouver.

No words are said between us but [the friendship] has been a huge amount of therapy that got me through a hard time…. I really don’t know where I’d be if it wasn’t for Canuck.

Shawn Bergman, on his friendship with Canuck the Crow.

Crows are smart, so I’m hoping he will not be as trusting as he is now. He really assumes everybody is his best friend and, of course, that’s not the case.

Veterinarian Dr. Anne McDonald after treating Canuck the Crow who was hit on the head with a soccer flagpole.

One is called Grey and the other is called Goose. And together they’re Grey Goose… because we like to go after work and have a shot of Grey Goose.

3 Vets owner Keith Wolfman on the Canadian geese that frequent his parking lot every spring.

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

Jennifer Chernecki, who regular films a pair of bushtits on her balcony on Facebook Live.

Artistic endeavours

It was a really intimidating career to enter at first. When I was in school operating tools, people would watch me very, very closely. If it was another young guy on a bandsaw, they wouldn’t give a crap. For me, I would have six or seven people staring at me. That is really nerve racking.

Meredith Coloma, a Vancouver luthier who’s amongst the youngest in her field in North America.

The first time I did an interview I looked up and I saw Art Bergmann’s c***. And every interview I’ve done since has been pretty crazy, but it’s hard to top seeing c*** at your very first interview.

Nardwuar, one of Canada’s most beloved and confounding media personalities, reflects on 30 years on the airwaves at CiTR radio.

Burlesque has always been almost symbolic of a hyperfeminist feminine art form with the larger-than-life characters.

Wrestling is really the same thing for me. It’s a hyper-masculine art form where the men are fighting — there are muscles and big guys… That’s the line we really saw as the connection and we also really wanted to play with it.

Norm Elmore, producer of the burlesque-wrestling event Glam Slam.

Words to remember

Always tell the truth because if you lie you have to keep telling one after another to keep it going. That’s why I’ve always told the truth.

May Irving, while celebrating her 105th birthday at the South Granville Seniors Centre.

I’ve had a ball. And I’ve laughed every day.

Rick Cluff, former Early Edition host who retired Dec. 22 after 41 years with the CBC. Do what you can while you’re still standing.

Lorna Gibbs, a community and seniors activist on winning the provincial Medal of Good Citizenship awarded in March 2017.

This year alone, I’ve gone on my first cruise, appeared on national television, really raised my speaking game, done standup, received an improv scholarship from Vancouver TheatreSports, met former U.S. vice-president Joe Biden — and photographed Oprah Winfrey! And the year’s not over yet.

Cathy Browne, a legally blind photographer on turning 60 and creating a bucket list that included a try at standup comedy.

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For those of us who find ourselves stuck in a dark place like a homeless tent, there are places we can go to find the light, to find the energy we need, the lifeforce to make changes for ourselves so we can become part of the community again and not stand on the outside looking in.”

Claude Ranville, whose photo of a tent in Oppenheimer Park is in the 2018 Hope in Shadows calendar.

It’s almost just a feeling, every group brings their own feeling. And, for us, we don’t have groups here performing — we have groups that are sharing.

Sharing their cultures, sharing who they are and where they come from. That’s what we were taught as young ones, you know.

To be proud of who you are.

Sheldon Martin, president of the Nisga’a Ts’amiks Vancouver Society, which organized the 15th Hoobiyee festival.

Doing this in Vancouver was an opportunity for us to be visible, as gay men, as two-spirit men and as indigenous peoples, as young people. It’s important for us to have visibility.

Anthony Johnson after marrying his husband at kilometre 32 of the Vancouver marathon.

If you smile at someone on the street, you release the same chemical, oxytocin, as running six miles.

It’s also known as the cuddle chemical. Smiling changes the nature of the conversation, and how people are treated on the street.

Former city planner Sandy James.

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Monday, January 8, 2018 at 3 pm Vancouver City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Ground Floor, Town Hall Meeting Room to consider the following development permit application: 33 West Cordova (36 Blood Alley): To develop the site with a 10-storey mixed-use building with restaurant, retail and 142 dwelling units (80 social housing and 62 market rental) and retention and conservation of the existing heritage principal facades.

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connection/terrace on the third floor and the conference room’s patio on the sixth floor.

4. 8378-8432 Oak Street To rezone 8378-8432 Oak Street from RT-2 (Two-Family Dwelling) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a six-storey residential building with a total of 38 residential units, over two levels of underground parking. A height of 22.1 metres (73 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 2.50 are proposed.

Vancouver City Council will hold a Public Hearing to consider zoning for these locations: 1. 2425 West 5th Avenue (Tunstall Residence) To add the existing building at 2425 West 5th Avenue (Tunstall Residence) to the Vancouver Heritage Register in the ‘C’ evaluation category, and to designate the exterior of the existing building as protected heritage property.

5. 1296 West Broadway To rezone 1296 West Broadway from C-3A (Commercial) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a 16-storey mixed-use building, with 153 secured market rental housing units, and commercial uses at grade. A height of 52 metres (170.8 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 7.07 are proposed.

2. 58 West Hastings Street To rezone 58 West Hastings Street from DD (Downtown) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit a ten-storey mixed-use building with seven floors of housing, 231 social housing units, retail, and a health care office. A height of 33.21 metres (108.96 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 6.40 are proposed.

6. 6679-6695 Main Street (191 East 51st Avenue) To rezone 6679-6695 Main Street (191 East 51st Avenue) from C-2 (Commercial) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to

3. 1128 West Georgia Street To amend the text of CD-1 (426) (Comprehensive Development) District for the existing Shangri-La mixed-use development to add a “tea house” adjacent the hotel lobby, to enclose the restaurant’s bridge

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Join the Snow Angel program: vancouver.ca/snowangel permit the development of a six-storey mixed-use building with 28 secured market rental housing units. A floor space ratio (FSR) of 3.55 and height of 22.3 metres (73 feet) are proposed.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THESE APPLICATIONS INCLUDING LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTIES: vancouver.ca/rezapps or 604-873-7038

7. 1500 West Georgia Street To rezone 1500 West Georgia Street from DD (Downtown District) to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit a new 43-storey mixed-use development to the east of the existing office building (the “Crown Life Place”). The proposed new tower includes 220 strata residential units, retail use at the ground floor and a height of 134.0 metres (440 feet).

The proposed floor space ratio (FSR) is 10.82 over the entire site.

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 January 5, 2018 until 5 pm on the day of the Public Hearing by emailing publichearing@ vancouver.ca or by phoning 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 January 5, 2018 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.

8. 4176 Alexandra Street (York House School) To amend the existing CD-1 (288) (Comprehensive Development) District to permit a phased master plan for the existing school, to increase the maximum student enrolment from 600 to 690 and amend the auditorium use. The master plan includes a new multipurpose building, additions to the senior school, and renewal of the junior school.

A maximum height of 16.2 metres (53 feet) and a total floor space ratio (FSR) of 1.71 are proposed.

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

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Jan. 4: Hotdog Horvat

Six-year-old Adley came to the Canucks game with a sign that said his dad would buy him a wiener dog if Bo Horvat scored a goal.

The postscript at the bottom read, “I will name him Hotdog Horvat.” It took until the third period, but Horvat made his wish come true on the breakaway. Adley got his wiener dog and the legend of Hotdog Horvat was born.

Horvat led the Canucks in scoring in the 2016-17 season, the first non-Sedin to do so since 2006. It made sense then that he was the Canucks’ representative at the All-Star Game. He looked the part of an allstar, scoring a pair of pretty goals.

March 1: Benning nails the trade deadline

In 2016, Canucks general manager Jim Benning stumbled at the trade deadline, finding no takers for Dan Hamhuis or Radim Vrbata. He came through in 2017, however, trading fan favourites Alex Burrows and Jannik Hansen for Jonathan Dahlen and Nikolay Goldobin, two quality additions to the prospect pool.

March 25: Boeser’s first game

Canucks fans were desperate for anything positive as the 2016-17 season wrapped up, so Brock Boeser felt like an answer to a prayer.

Coming off a double overtime game with North Dakota the night before, he still found the energy to follow up on a Horvat rush and

The Canucks and their fans had a few reasons to celebrate in 2017, including Jacob Markstrom’s first career shutout. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

shove in the rebound for the game-winner in his home state of Minnesota. His four goals in the final nine games of the season gave Canucks fans hope heading into the summer.

hat trick as luck, but the Canuck rookie’s four-point night against the defending Stanley Cup champions served notice to the rest of the league that he was for real.

June 23: Canucks select Pettersson

Nov. 30: Daniel’s 1,000th point

The Canucks lost the draft lottery, but it may have been a blessing in disguise. With the fifth overall pick, the Canucks selected Elias Pettersson, who is showing signs of potentially being the best player in the 2017 draft. He’s having the best season by a teenager in the Swedish Hockey League since Peter Forsberg and could be the Canucks’ next Swedish star.

Sept. 4: Sportsnet 650 kicks off the radio wars

The addition of a second sports talk radio station and a new rights-holder has added new voices to the sports media landscape in Vancouver and has forced TSN 1040 to step up their game. There’s still work to be done — there are far too few female voices on either station — but the added competition is a good thing.

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• I’ll drop the gloves with TSN for not broadcasting Sweden’s first game of the World Juniors on television.

Unless they change their broadcast schedule, it’s the only game of the tournament that was only available on their TSN Go app. Instead, four of TSN’s five channels broadcasted the Russia/Czech Republic game leading into a rerun of their Plays of the Year show.

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Jan. 29: Horvat’s All-Star debut

Stick-taps & Glove-drops

• Stick-tap to all the Canucks fans who stuck with the team through one of the worst seasons in recent memory. 2016-17 was rough and the 2017-18 season is shaping up to be, at the very least, more entertaining to watch. The lowest moments are the best times to jump on the bandwagon: it gives you street cred for the good times to come.

As 2017 draws to a close, let’s look back at the past year with rose-coloured glasses to pick out the 10 best Canucks moments.

Henrik Sedin’s 1,000th career point was pretty much perfect. In front of the home crowd, he scored the game-winning goal on his friend and former teammate, Roberto Luongo, with assists from his brother and Alex Edler. It almost single-handedly redeemed the otherwise regrettable 2016-17 season.

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We need to fix distracted driving... or else Brendan McAleer

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Good news, friends, because ICBC is here to protect us all from ourselves.

With accidents on the rise and a potential increase in the insurance rates we’ll all pay, our provincial insurance corporation is instituting a couple of new pilot programs to help combat the scourge of distracted driving.

Distracted driving is a real problem, and has been around ever since 1917, when Mary-Elizabeth Swanset walked down the street with her fetching new bonnet, causing Phineas J. Stuffins to gawk, lose control of his Stanley Steamer and drive into a lighthouse. I believe they covered the event on an episode of Road To Avonlea.

However, in modern times, the most common distraction is that bane of our modern existence: the so-called smartphone. The smartphone, to paraphrase Peter Egan, makes heroin addiction look like a vague craving for something salty.

We simply can’t put the things down, whether it’s to have a family conversation at the dinner table, during a movie, or while performing open-heart surgery.

I hate them with every fibre of my being — sent from my iPhone.

However, the personal electronic crutch/IV-bag/ parasite is here to stay, so the question becomes, “What do we do about it?” In the driving sphere, the danger is of course apparent. Sending a text or reading one while moving has been proven to be more dangerous than driving under the influence of alcohol. If reaction times are slowed for the latter, not watching the road at all means there is no reaction, at least not until it’s too late.

Therefore, ICBC’s idea is to come up with an app that’s installed on your phone and connects to a device attached to your car to record telematics.

Telematics are your car’s speed, acceleration, braking, and so forth.

From the press release: “The combination of telematics with phone apps typically has allowed insurers to collect driving behaviour data, such as kilometres travelled and average speed. However for this pilot ICBC is interested in the user’s experience with telematics in their vehicle.”

Seems harmless, assuming that ICBC will delete data from volunteers after the program has concluded, which they’ve promised to do. I’m sure there won’t possibly be any enormous leaks of personal data.

As for the ominoussounding, “Findings from the pilots will be used to inform future decisions around distracted driving prevention and enforcement, as well as changes to improve the fairness of how insurance rates are set,” I’m sure rates won’t be jacked up for anyone who doesn’t want a Big Brother monitoring their every move.

Sure. ICBC’s always been quick to put money back in our pockets.

The second part of the pilot is a bit more useful.

Starting in the spring of 2018, police will have a new scope for catching distracted drivers in the act, one that will be capable of uploading a photo instantly. The idea is that the image can be transmitted to officers in the area, so that if you get caught texting while driving on the upper levels highway and pulled over down the road, the constable will be able to quell protestations

by showing a picture of you on your phone. And picking your nose, too? Disgusting.

If electronic monitoring is the repellent carrot of a distracted driving solution, then enforcement is the stick.

And really, the stick seems so effective, I’m convinced we don’t need electronic devices spying on us.

In my perfect world, the Bluetooth-equipped scope

wouldn’t just transmit images to police in the area. After you got pulled over, it would send a text of you swervin’ and surfin’ to every single person on your contact list. I’m not sure I’d even include a fine; most people could simply be shamed out of the temptation to text and drive.

In this less-perfect

world, where I am not even allowed to have people who speed in school zones fed to the grizzlies atop Grouse Mountain (not even a light nibble!), we simply have to rely on more conventional dissuasion. Get caught driving distracted, get a large fine, and points. Accumulate points and your insurance rates go up.

Distracted driving is a problem for anyone who uses our streets and sidewalks, and we need to come up with solutions to the problem. However, should we sit back, fail to change our own behaviours and just hope some government agency will take care of the issue, then they just might.

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▼0% APR Purchase Financing is available on select new 2017, 2018 Mazda models. Based on a representative agreement using an offered pricing of $17,595 for the new 2018 Mazda3 GX (D4XK68AA00), with a financed amount of $18,000 the cost of borrowing for a 60-month term is $0, monthly payment is $300, total finance obligation is $18,000. Offer includes freight and P.D.E. of $1,695 and $100 air conditioning charge (where applicable). Offer excludes PST/GST/HST. ▲No Payments for 90 Days (payment deferral) offer is available on all new in-stock models, and only applies to purchase finance offers on approved credit. No interest fees will accrue during the first 60 days of the finance contract and the contract will be extended consequently. After this period, interest fees will begin to accrue and the purchaser will repay the principal after the 90th day and interest monthly over the term of the contract. Customers are responsible for the down payment (if applicable), license, and insurance payment upon contract signing. Deferral is not available on 96-month contracts. Offer period December 26, 2017 – January 2, 2018. ‡Mazda’s Year End Event offers are applicable to qualified retail purchasers/lessees who: (i) are residents of Canada (each, an “Eligible Customer”); and (ii) finance, lease or cash purchase a new (and previously unregistered) 2017 or 2018 Mazda model (excluding Certified Pre-Owned, fleet and demonstration vehicles) (the “Vehicle”) from an authorized participating Mazda dealer in Canada (each, a “Qualifying Transaction”) between November 1, 2017 and January 2, 2018. Eligible consumers who complete a Qualifying Transaction will get their choice of either: (i) one (1) Bose ® SoundWear Companion ® Speaker; or (ii) one (1) pair of Bose ® QuietComfort ® 35 headphones or (iii) one (1) Bose ® SoundLink® Revolve+ Bluetooth ® speaker with charging cradle (the “Gift”), subject to availability. There is a limit of one Gift per Qualifying Transaction. Gift must be redeemed through the Mazda Canada Gift Gallery Online Gift Platform (the “Platform”) at www.mazdagiftgallery.ca or www.lescadeauxmazda.ca. Platform access will be made available after vehicle delivery. In the event a particular Gift is out of stock, the applicable Gift may be provided at a later date. No substitutions or cash surrender value. Conditions apply. See Platform for full Terms and Conditions. Bose, QuietComfort, SoundWear and SoundLink Revolve are trademarks of Bose Corporation, registered in the U.S. and other countries. See dealer for complete details. ® Bluetooth is a registered trademark of Bluetooth SIG, Inc. †Based on a representative example using a finance price of $38,220/$21,515/$26,920/$17,120 for the 2018 CX-9 GS (QVSM88AA00)/2018 CX-3 GX (HVXK68AA00)/2017 CX-5 GX (NVXK67AA00)/2018 Mazda3 GX (D4XK68AA00) at a rate of 3.9%/3%/2.99%/1.5% APR, the cost of borrowing for an 84-month term is $5,516/$2,365/$2,949/$925 weekly payment is $120/$66/$82/$50, total finance obligation is $43,736/$23,880/$29,867 /$18,045. Taxes are extra and required at the time of purchase. All prices include $25 new tire charge, $100 a/c charge where applicable, freight & PDI of $1,695/$1,895 for Mazda3/CX-3, CX-5, CX-9. As shown, price for 2018 Mazda3 GT (D4TL68AA00)/2018 CX-3 GT (HVTK88AA00)/2017 CX-5 GT (NXTL87AA00)/2018 CX-9 GT (QXTM88AA00) is $26,120/$30,315/$37,020/$49,420. PPSA, licence, insurance, taxes, down payment (or equivalent trade-in) are extra and may be required at the time of purchase. Dealer may sell/lease for less. Dealer order/trade may be necessary on certain vehicles. Lease and Finance on approved credit for qualified customers only. Unless otherwise stated herein, offers valid December 26, 2017 – January 2, 2018, while supplies last. Prices and rates subject to change without notice. Visit mazda.ca or see your dealer forcomplete details. *To learn more about the Mazda Unlimited Warranty, go to mazdaunlimited.ca.

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