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Lights, cameras and lots of action in Vancouver film industry Film business generated $409 million for local workers in 2016

Mike Howell

mhowell@vancourier.com

So here we are in 2018.

Happy new year, everybody.

I trust some of you were able to take a few days off, get together with family and reacquaint yourself with your couch.

Those of you working in the film industry could probably use the rest.

That’s evident after reading through the latest dump of memos and emails posted on the city’s website from city manager Sadhu Johnston to city council.

A quick stat: The city hosted 3,301 filming days in 2016, which is more than double the 1,518 days in 2015. The numbers for 2017 were expected to be equally impressive when Johnston typed up the memo in August.

Johnston’s memo was based on a report authored by Jerry Dobrovolny, the city’s general manager of engineering

services. Before I get to some more stats, here’s a quote from Dobrovolny to illustrate just how busy the business of making movies and television shows was/ is in Vancouver.

“Based on the number of applications on file and discussion with the Directors Guild of Canada BC and local film studios, location filming levels are expected to reach close to 2016 levels for the remainder of the year,” Dobrovolny said.

“Should that situation materialize, the city and its industry partners will need to assess resourcing and carefully manage capacity and fatigue while providing the excellent service on which the city has built its reputation.”

Did that “situation materialize”?

I looked for an answer to that question this week and learned a couple of things from an email I received from a communications staffer. The city’s film and

Film and television work in Vancouver continues to generate hundreds of millions of dollars and employ thousands of people, according to the City of Vancouver. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

special events office is still processing year-end figures; plus, the city “has not had to engage in any extraordinary mitigation efforts.”

City council is expected to get an update in February.

So while we wait for that update, here are some interesting numbers and insight from Dobrovolny’s report in August 2017: The film and television industry employed 18,883

people and paid $409 million in payroll to Vancouver workers. The statistics do not include crew who worked on commercials, reality television, documentaries and independent projects.

Warner Bros. remained Vancouver’s biggest location filming client, with 13 series and three pilots filmed in 2016. That included Supernatural, Arrow, Riverdale and Lucifer.

Accounting firm MNP LLP produced a report in early 2017 that showed the five filming seasons of Arrow contributed more than $360 million in direct spending to the province and created the equivalent of 7,087 full-time jobs.

More than 200 commercials were produced in 2016, up from 158 in 2015. TV pilots were down slightly in 2016, from 16 in 2015 to 13.

On a semi-regular basis, the city will post memos and emails that Johnston has sent to city council.

Like the one about the film industry, they can make for some semi-interesting reading.

Some readers may recall the piece I wrote last April when I learned via a memo from Johnston about how the city got rid of a rotting sea lion carcass found on the shoreline adjacent to Fraser River Park.

For the record, they burned it.

If you’re curious what else Johnston wrote about in his memos and emails to council over the first nine months of 2017, go to the city’s website (vancouver.ca) and punch in “city manager memos” in the search bar.

A quick scan shows a variety of topics broached, including a “derelict vessel” in English Bay, the removal and conservation of the Kwakwaka’wakw Centennial Pole and new 911 signs in the Downtown Eastside related to the fentanyl crisis.

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UBC buys first edition of Vancouver’s first newspaper

Martha Perkins

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Katherine Kalsbeek has never been more excited to get a newspaper delivered to her door.

On the morning of Jan. 8, she received what is perhaps the only remaining copy of the first edition of Vancouver’s first newspaper.

“It’s so fun to learn about the history of your city this way,” the still-giddy head of UBC’s rare books and special collections told the Courier that afternoon.

“It’s random pieces of information that, when you read them in 2018, really provide insight into the political climate and social climate of 1886.”

The publisher of the Vancouver Weekly Herald and North Pacific News, Richard Alexander, was taking a risk when he printed Vol. 1, No. 1 on Jan. 15, 1886.

Not only was the “city” of Vancouver not incorporated yet, but it hadn’t even settled on a name for itself. Vancouver wasn’t Vancouver.

As well, with only 1,000 people living here, it’s not like Alexander had a big readership and advertising base to tap into. At least he had the advantage of being the first; by the end of the year, he’d have two other papers to compete with.

The paper was only four pages, but it was very big in another way — measuring a foot and a half (47.5 cm)

wide and two feet (70 cm) long, it required some serious reading space.

You can learn a lot about the city’s mores through this unfiltered lens, but not everything that Kalsbeek is discovering is pleasing.

One of the front page stories refers to “The Chinese Question.” Readers are told that they should not allow Chinese settlement in the business district because the value of surrounding properties will depreciate. If Chinese residents do have to be provided with land, the story says, it should be on the outskirts of town.

Of Vancouver’s 1,000 residents, the paper says, many were housed in shanties and hotels; most were men in search of work. The town had not yet earned its no-fun-city moniker yet. “The young people are not letting the festive season of the year pass by without due jollification,” a story says.

Kalsbeek didn’t know this copy of the newspaper even existed before last Thursday. She had called local rare book collector and scholar Stephen Lunsford to wish him a happy new year and to inquire, as she did from time to time, if he had anything she’d be interested in. He said that, as a matter of fact, he was just heading to the Vancouver Sun to show reporter John Mackie the newspaper. Was she inter-

ested? She bought it on the phone, sight unseen.

In the Sun article, Lunsford says he bought the paper about 20 years ago from a Spokane, Wash. newspaper owner who had a room filled with old newspapers from the region, including some from Canada. Lunsford had sold it to a local collector who recently sold it back to him. Although fragile, it’s in pretty good shape for such an ephemeral product, Kalsbeek says.

There was only one other copy of the first edition known to exist. Owned

by Major Matthews of the Vancouver Archives, it was mentioned by Bessie Lamb in her 1942 thesis on the history of Vancouver newspapers. That copy was already in rough shape back then, having survived a 1920 shipwreck. No one knows what has happened to it since.

As part of UBC’s mandate, the Herald will be available for public perusal soon. A conservator must first spend some time with the paper, which will also be digitized and posted online by the end of the month.

In a month or two, the Herald will also be available during the weekly library tours. Every Wednesday from 11 a.m. to noon, the rare book collection is open to anyone interested in the library’s collection, which includes medieval manuscripts.

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The city’s housing staff has not reached its ambitious goal announced last July to have 600 modular housing units open for homeless people in Vancouver before the onset of winter.

Not one of the 600 units has been built in a city where shelters and community centres have been the only refuge for homeless people as temperatures dipped and heavy rain has fallen in recent months.

The main reason city officials cite for the delay is the provincial government not approving until September the $66 million to build the 600 temporary housing units.

Protests and a court battle over the planned Marpole modular housing complex, the need to hold public hearings to change zoning regulations and finding suitable sites to accommodate the housing have been other reasons.

“If we were able to get an earlier funding agreement, then we could have moved a bit faster,” said Abi Bond, the city’s director of housing policy and projects. “But we’re moving as fast as we can because even though we haven’t been able to get these open, we know how urgent it is and how desperately people need these homes.”

Last Friday, the city announced it identified a city-owned parking lot adjacent to the Olympic Village Canada Line station as the fifth property for a modular housing complex.

Bond said a 23,000-square-feet portion of the lot at the northeast corner of West Sixth Avenue and Ash Street will be used for a 50-unit building. But, she added, its prospective tenants will have to wait until July to move in.

“We’re hoping to be able to initiate the full 600 within the next few months and get them occupied this year,” said Bond, noting the city expects to open the first modular housing building next month in Marpole at West 57th Avenue and

Heather Street.

Much of the protest against the Marpole complex, which will consist of two buildings totalling 78 units, has centred on the site’s proximity to three schools and the safety of students.

Protesters have noted the city’s agreement with B.C. Housing calls for a minimum of 20 per cent of the 600 units to be made available to tenants identified as “service level three.”

That agreement classifies “service level three” tenants as people who don’t engage with treatment or support services, have poor housekeeping and are susceptible to hoarding and poor hygiene.

They 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.”

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

“I can appreciate why some people were fearful when they saw that,” said Bond, noting the non-profits managing the buildings have an extensive history of working with people with various mental health and addiction challenges. “But we’re trying to reassure people that we use tenanting best practices.”

The site adjacent to the Olympic Village Canada Line station is located in a more urban setting than the Marpole property and is a short walk to the Vancouver Police Department’s Cambie Street precinct.

There are no singlefamily homes or schools in close proximity to the site, but it is near townhouse and condo developments, including one on Moberly Road lived in

by Matt Foulger and his young family.

Foulger took to Twitter to show his support for modular housing coming to his neighbourhood.

In an interview with the Courier, he reiterated his support for the project.

“I supported it in Marpole and I supported it in other locations, so it would be ridiculous not to support it in my own neighbourhood —

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Cat festival rubs up against Vancouver this summer

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Consider this: Nala Cat’s 3.5 million Instagram followers is nearly twice that of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Meanwhile, New Westminster’s Ben Ben — a.k.a “the saddest cat on the internet” — has a social media reach of 145,000 Instagrammers.

That’s 100,000 more than Canucks sniper Brock Boeser.

In short, cats rule every recess of the internet and beyond. Capitalizing on this, the folks at Meowbox, a local subscription-based cat gift service, are organizing what’s being billed as Western Canada’s first ever cat festival.

Enter Meowfest, which takes place at the Roundhouse Community Centre on July 29. Cat vendors — think toys, trinkets and treats on this one — from across Metro Vancouver will be there, alongside food trucks, guest speakers and more to make you purr.

“There are quite a few festivals for cats that happen mostly in the U.S. and

Pudge the Cat headlines Meowfest.

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we’ve attended them and they’re super fun,” said Meowbox spokesperson Olivia Canlas. “We thought why can’t we do it? Vancouver’s never done it, so why should Canada miss out?

Of course, there will be cats. Celebrity cats, no less.

Bringing the most cat cachet to the big show is Nala Cat. The Siamese Tabby mix has a website that sells all manner of branded merchandise, and has “worked with some of the top YouTubers and social media influencers across the globe,” according to Canlas.

Not to be outdone, Pudge the Cat has a fanbase of close to 700,000 followers, while Luna Rose’s groupies check in at 374,000. New Westminster’s Ben Ben has a website where you can buy hoodies with his face on it for $40 USD. Which begs the following questions: Why? How? “I had no idea that this world existed but people are obsessed with cats,” Canlas said. “It’s a total obsession and I’m shocked that there hasn’t been a big cat festival in Canada.”

Humans will also be included as part of Meowfest.

Animal rescuer and advocate Hannah Shaw, known also as the Kitten Lady, will be there alongside Andrew Marttila, who makes a living taking pictures of cats.

Other acts, and presumably other cats, will be added as the show date approaches.

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City to host record number of conventions in 2018

Martha Perkins

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Thousands of birders from around the world will be flocking to Vancouver this August.

They won’t be alone. At various times throughout the year, insect aficionados, innovators in brand strategies and sustainable business entrepreneurs will also be gathering here to share their passion and

Some of these conferences are so big they’ve taken 10 years to bring to fruition, she says. It can be a long and involved process for global organizations to choose Vancouver as a host city and get all the logistics in play.

For instance, the International Ornithological Society has been hosting its congress every four years since 1884.

Only once before has it been held in Canada — Ottawa in 1986. This will be the

knowledge with each other.

All told, more than 100,000 people will be attending city-wide conventions and events in 2018, making this the “busiest year ever,” says Amber Sessions, communications manager of Tourism Vancouver.

Last year was not as busy as usual with 27 city-wide conventions and events; this year there are already 33 on the books.

first time bird scientists and scholars gather on the Pacific coast of the Americas.

Dr. Bob Elner, the SFU professor who is the event’s convener, says 2,000 ornithologists from around the world will attend the 27th International Ornithological Congress Aug. 19 to 26.

However, he also expects approximately 30,000 members of the public and visitors to participate in bird-related events through the accom-

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Many cities have convention centres that are large enough to host such big events. Vancouver is particularly well suited as a destination right now in part because of the low Canadian dollar, which gives organizations and attendees more value compared to American cities. As well, Vancouver’s natural beauty and attractions offer lots

for attendees to do when they are not sitting in on workshops. Sessions says that Vancouver is particularly attractive to medical groups. Doctors are required to attend conferences and “they want their conferences to be in places they want to go to.”

The city’s walkability and easy air access are also cited as factors in the city’s reputation as a desirable convention location.

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Does it not strike you as odd that, when it comes to city-imposed property taxes in Vancouver, small businesses, struggling to stay alive, get pounded to the point of facing failure, while major developers get significant tax reductions for doing nothing except allowing folks to grow a few carrots or potatoes on their patch of land?

And if that doesn’t puzzle you, how about the city’s new venture apparently designed to deal with housing affordability. That would be the “empty home tax” where one beleaguered citizen is now facing up to a $40,000 penalty because she owns a property that doesn’t even have a home on it. In fact, it has never had a home on it.

I mean, you can’t make this stuff up.

But first property tax: The city has tried to deal with the issue of property tax burdens on small businesses. For years there was a program of shifting the overall tax collected from commercial properties to residential. That impact was significantly diminished by the fact that real estate assessed values in recent times have shot up dramatically on all property in this neck of the woods. For those figures we rely on the BC Assessment Authority, which is required by law to determine value based the “highest and best use” for that property.

Development companies often turn vacant lots they own into temporary parks or community gardens to take advantage of significant property tax breaks. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

What has hurt small businesses is that many of them have what are called “triple net” leases. That means that every time their landlord’s property taxes go up — mostly because of the increasing value of their property — that tax increase gets passed on to the small business tenant. Incidentally, that doesn’t happen automatically for tenants of residential buildings. When their rents are increased for whatever reason, there is a maximum annual increase that has been imposed by the province.

But there is another factor that specifically hurts small businesses. I draw your attention to what has been happening for the past several years and seems to have escalated last year in particular.

Let me cite one example.

Wesgroup is a development company owned by a guy named Peeter Wesik.

Last year Wesgroup purchased five gas stations, in-

cluding one in my neighborhood at West Fourth and Macdonald. By October the buildings were demolished and removed, the ground surface was covered with gravel and the property was surrounded with a chain link fence. Thanks to a deal Wesgroup made with a notfor-profit outfit called Shifting Growth Society, wooden planter boxes filled with soil were placed on the property. In my particular ’hood there were 100 boxes mostly three feet by four feet in size.

Then signs were erected announcing “Your Community Garden Brought to you by Wesgroup.”

All of this was deliberately done before the end of October. Here’s why. That is the point on the calendar when the BC Assessment Authority folks turn up to determine the classification of the property.

In the case of these five properties, they changed from the previous year

when they were “business or other,” which put them in Class 6, to this year where they are “recreational,” which is Class 8.

Now here is the point. By shifting the property from Class 6 to Class 8 the property taxes Wesgroup has to pay are cut to about one third of what they would have been — a savings of at least $15,000 on one property.

But the city treasury doesn’t suffer at all.

Vision councillor Raymond Louie says the money they aren’t getting from Wesgroup gets applied to all the other properties in the same category. So that means much of that tax burden gets passed on to all these small business with triple net leases.

So, in effect there are two beneficiaries. One is Wesgroup. The other is the commercial landlord who not only benefits from his property going up in value but who can automatically pass the increased property tax burden on to his tenants.

The city doesn’t lose a dime in the transfer. The community, however, loses when those small businesses shut down.

As for the anomalous empty home tax on a property that does not now nor has ever had a home on it — the city says they want to discourage owners of empty homes from demolishing them to avoid the tax. But give me a break. @allengarr

Here’s what Vancouver kids need in 2018 for a brighter future

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In an ideal world, every child would have all of her needs met, would thrive and fulfill his highest potential.

While we don’t live in such a world — I like to think that’s due to fiscal restraints — here are a few ideas that could go a long way in 2018 towards brighter futures for many.

Childcare

Universal childcare is coming to B.C. — I expect signs of it in this February’s provincial budget. I fully support this; children who receive high quality childcare in their young-

est years do better in their adult years. However, the cost could be astronomical.

That’s why I hope reasonableness is the order of the day — I am not stuck on $10 a day, as long as the childcare is high quality, affordable and available to everyone. What’s affordable to one family could be very different to what’s affordable to another and I believe the payment should be income-based so that the province doesn’t end up breaking the bank.

2016. More than a year later, thousands of teachers have been hired throughout the province, but many classrooms are operating without the supports called for in the contract. The time for fighting these rules is over — the required teachers should be in place as soon as possible and games shouldn’t be played over whether to replace teachers who are sick or pull in a specialist teacher to cover for the absence. All kids, including those with special needs, deserve better.

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B.C. teachers fought the government for 15 years, but ultimately won their contract restoration in November

I love French and wish I was bilingual. In an ideal world, all kids would be educated in French and

English and grow up fluent in both languages. But in the real world, reasonable compromises will have to prevail. While it’s sad that Vancouver cut kindergarten spaces for French immersion, the reality is that teachers who are fluent in French are in short supply. Further, because French immersion classes have fewer students who are English language learners or who have special needs, the French-only classes place a higher burden on English-only classes. My wish is that parents and the powers-that-be can work together, with patience and respect, to figure out a solution to this thorny issue.

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School closures inevitable Continued from page 10 Schools may have to close. Vancouver’s demographics are changing — schools in dense areas such as downtown or False Creek are chock full, while schools in single family neighbourhoods, especially on the East Side, where families used to have many children, have empty classrooms.

In order to get new schools built where they’re needed and to get older schools upgraded, some changes are going to have to happen. Last year, when the school board embarked on this process, things got out of hand — the board was fired, folks were accused of bullying, staff went on an en masse medical leave. That, and changes made by the province, put an end to the process, but that doesn’t mean it’s dead forever.

Something’s got to give, and most likely, that will eventually mean school closures, or significant changes to how schools are used, such as partnerships with child care or senior care centres.

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The high price of Vancouver’s working class romanticism Symbols of traditionally blue-collar neighbourhoods marketed to those with money

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Last summer, Fable Diner moved into the Lee Building, which has anchored Broadway and Main for 105 years, and took its place among restaurants that have occupied the space since 1949.

Walk north and you’ll find the mecca of craft breweries that are this century’s incarnation of Brewery Creek; around the turn of the previous century, four neighbourhood breweries gave the area its nickname.

Walk north again and you’ll find Sai Woo in Chinatown, a swanky pan-Asian restaurant and cocktail lounge that borrows its name from the restaurant that was there in the 1920s. You can’t miss the giant neon rooster, another nod to the past, a meticulous recreation of the old Sai Woo Chop Suey sign in the days when Chinatown was bathed in neon.

Love for history and heritage is alive in Vancouver, and increasingly this love is showing up in places where you spend money. Think of something you consumed lately that harkened to the past or boasted being artisan or authentic.

But this love, this business of nostalgia, can be a double-edged sword.

‘Symbolic cannibalism’

Zachary Hyde, a UBC sociology PhD candidate who studies gentrification and urban development, believes a kind of cannibalism is at work.

Hyde, born and raised in Vancouver, remembers Reno’s Restaurant, the Lee Building diner before Fable, as a place to get an affordable plate of food. Reno’s was unassuming, with no-frills greasy spoon fare, but was welcoming to Mount Pleasant’s low-income residents.

“The point is that it wasn’t special or elaborate, but it had a function in the community as a place where anyone could go to get a basic breakfast,” said Hyde.

Then Reno’s closed in 2015, and Fable Diner opened a year later. Gone were Reno’s vinyl booths and the $5 all-day breakfast.

Fable continued the nostalgic vibe of a diner with diner food, booths, a bar counter and an open kitchen.

Hyde calls this symbolic cannibalism, a kind of cultural appropriation he recently wrote about in The Mainlander, a local online publication.

“It’s when the surfacelevel symbols of a particular culture are used for statusseeking purposes,” he said, “but at the same time, excluding the people who made that culture.”

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Zachary Hyde studies gentrification and urban development and has written about “symbolic cannibalism” in Mount Pleasant where symbols of blue-collar culture are increasingly being appropriated by businesses that aren’t blue-collar. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

casual diner culture are here — albeit with sleek new furnishings, lights and décor — but Fable serves people who can pay more than the Reno’s crowd. The all-day breakfast is $12.

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Symbols of blue-collar culture are increasingly used by businesses that aren’t blue-collar. Brick walls, mottled concrete, Edison light bulbs are common in pricey new cafés and clothing boutiques. These elements make businesses feel authentic, as if they’re continuing a neighbourhood’s history. Think of

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Condo marketers, too, are making use of local symbols to make new developments feel authentic and at home in former workingclass neighbourhoods.

Developer Rize Alliance hired Rennie Marketing to publicize its Mount Pleasant condo tower, and the results attempt to capture the neighbourhood’s alternative spirit: ads are hand-drawn, the name of the tower is the Independent and a video highlights Mount Pleasant’s “crafted living” of park meet-ups, cool restaurants and characters like florists, fishmongers and skaters.

Vancouver isn’t the only city being transformed in this way. New high-end retail and redevelopment in workingclass neighbourhoods of many global cities are making use of existing low-brow symbols to attract newcomers.

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The Carnegie Community Action Project (CCAP), a project of the Downtown Eastside’s Carnegie Community Centre Association, has been outspoken on retail gentrification, the displacement of cheaper businesses by higher end ones, in Vancouver’s low-income neighbourhoods.

“As an argument, a lot of owners are saying they’re moving into these communities because rent is affordable,” said coordinator Lenée Son of CCAP. “But they need to be aware of what kind of community they’re moving into.”

A CCAP report last February labels 156 businesses in the Downtown Eastsisde and Chinatown — “neighbourhoods with long histories of oppression and marginalization,” said Son — as “zones of exclusion”: places low-income people can’t afford, places with strict surveillance, places that cater to rich, outside visitors rather than the local community.

Even if a high-end business claims to be moving into a neighbourhood like Chinatown for its distinct character, it can be damaging, says Son. “No matter what the intentions are, the fact is, these new businesses are contributing to gentrification, they are contributing to the displacement of marginalized folks.”

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As Vancouver’s neighbourhoods transform, UBC’s Hyde points to the use of language used in branding, such as calling an area “cool,” “fast-growing,” or “up-and-coming.”

Phrases like this imply an area wasn’t cool before and that it had no history.

Fraserhood for example — home to the first Earnest Ice Cream, Italian restaurant Osteria Savio Volpe, Crowbar and a number of new coffee shops — has been recently heralded as a hot new neighbourhood.

But Lory O of the area’s Filipino tofu and dessert shop O! Taho said that she “had to” open in the area, not because it was Fraserhood, but because it was “a Filipino place.” There are Vietnamese and Polish businesses around too.

Marketing, lifestyle media and social media often forget to highlight the humbler communities that called an area home before hip destination eateries and shops move in. The focus is usually on the excitement of unique newcomers, not who gets left out.

“People on welfare were able to afford to eat at places like Reno’s. It was somewhere anyone could grab a bite to eat,” said Hyde. “This isn’t just a matter of old versus new — it’s a matter of economic exclusion and the ability of everyone to participate in public life, regardless of their income.” @bychrischeung

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Before my first visit to Palm Springs, I created a personal bucket list including mid-century modern anything, tiki-inspired cocktails and postcard-worthy swimming pools.

My husband, on the other hand, had only one must-see item on his list — a visit to the Palm Springs Air Museum.

And, since it was his birthday, the popular aviation museum was where we started our three days in the desert (check).

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Exhibitors, lecturers, cooks and business types will convene on Vancouver this weekend for one of the biggest sessions this side of Sunset Beach.

Billing itself as “Canada’s Premier Cannabis Event,” the Lift Cannabis Expo runs Jan. 13 and 14 at the Vancouver Convention Centre.

A business conference precedes the expo on Jan. 12.

The trade show aspect of the event will include 200 exhibitors, presentations by “cannabis thought leaders,” an on-site vape lounge, a cannabis career fair and cooking and growing demos.

All manner of growing supplies and hydroponic equipment will be showcased, along with cannabis accessories and products. The

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There’s even going to be a “Cannabis Career Fair” held by a recruitment firm called Cannabis at Work.

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Vancouver writer and performer Sara Bynoe hosts the latest instalment of Teen Angst Night, Jan. 12 at the Fox Cabaret. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

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Sara Bynoe specializes in bringing schadenfreude to the stage.

For 18 years, the Vancouver writer and performer has invited scores of people to read their worst, most humiliating works of poetry from arguably their most formative — and vulnerable — years via Teen Angst Night.

The end result is laughter, catharsis and some good, old-fashioned piss taking.

“I think the best laughs come from when you identify with things,” Bynoe said. “If you’re coming to this night, I think you’re already on board with the concept, so you will identify with different storytellers. Maybe there’s a bit of a teenaged healing.”

Slated for its next goround Friday, Jan. 12, Teen Angst Night is pretty much exactly what the title suggests — bad poetry, song lyrics and diary entries written by people when they were between the ages of 10 and 19.

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requirements, only two other rules apply: the work must be your own, and you can’t be proud of it.

“Poetry should lift you up and enlighten you,” Bynoe said. “This is not that.”

Typically, five to eight people read over the course of an evening, and timeslots are usually confined to five minutes.

Bynoe says women typically veer into “boy crazy” diary entries, while men opt for regrettable party antics or the need for companionship. Women typically have much more material to draw on and invariably read more often than their male counterparts.

“A bunch of guys have told me, ‘I’ve destroyed everything.’ It seems like women are more likely to hold on to stuff,” Bynoe said.

Teen Angst Night started in Calgary in 2000 and came about via two catalysts: Bynoe’s binder of poetry from high school, and lyrics from a friend who had dated musicians.

Together there was a treasure trove of terrible

that eventually became Teen Angst Night’s first home: Bynoe’s pre-social media website, TeenAngstPoetry.com. Though no longer online, Bynoe was able to recover some gems from her past musings and they’re categorized like an early 2000s emo band discography: I am Alone (no one understands my pain poems), F*** You (you don’t understand me/I hate you poems), Life Sucks (and I want to die poems) and Breakups (I will never love again poems).

“You can learn a lot about someone from how they react to this, because the people who come out and say, ‘I don’t get this, I never had angst,’ I worry about them,” Bynoe said. “That person is going to have a midlife crisis and is overdue for some introspection.” @JohnKurucz Teen Angst Night runs 7 to 10 p.m. on Friday at the Fox Cabaret. Tickets are $10 in advance, or $15 at the door. For info, see sarabynoe.com.

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With the aim of encouraging, inspiring and mentoring kids to make positive life choices, the reality-based films have been seen by hundreds of thousands of youth locally and abroad. To mark Odd Squad’s milestone anniversary, 350 guests attended the Back on Track fundraising gala. Held at the Pinnacle Harbourfront Hotel, the event saw attendees raise a glass to the society’s ongoing efforts

and to hear from the night’s special guest, Hockey Night in Canada host Scott Oake. The broadcaster shared the loss of his son Bruce, who died of an overdose in 2011. The night of inspiration, celebration and giving raised a reported $250,000 to fund more productions, including upcoming docs on the current fentanyl and opioid crisis.

SHINING NEWS: St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation lit up the new year in grand fashion. Bolstered by a sizeable $469,000 from hospital staff and volunteers to spark its 20th Lights of Hope Holiday Campaign, the annual tradition saw donations total more than $3 million with the ushering in of 2018.

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nizations, staff and volunteers contributed to the impressive effort, which began mid-November to meet the greatest needs of patients, caregivers, residents and their loved ones. A beacon in the city’s downtown core, more than 100,000 sparkling lights, 10 kilometres long, were draped in front of the venerable hospital. The spectacular display was made up of donated materials and adorned with sponsored stars built by 150 volunteers in what has become a holiday tradition. Over the past year, St. Paul’s Hospital has provided care to more than 177,000 people, with its emergency department alone providing care to 86,000 patients.

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Odd Squad founders Al Arsenault and Chris Graham set out to produce a short film on drugs and the drug addicted for high school students. Their first doc, Through the Blue Lens, has been viewed by millions.

St. Paul’s Foundation director emeritus and past-chair David Poole and board of director John Montalbano helped launch the annual Lights of Hope campaign mid-November. The seasonal drive raised more than $3 million for new equipment, research and patient care.

Hockey Night in Canada broadcaster Scott Oake and his wife Anne candidly talked about the loss of their eldest son Bruce to drugs.

They founded a treatment facility in Winnipeg to help other youth.

VPD detectives Anisha Parmar and Sandy Avelar flank former gang associate Robyn Gill at the Odd Squad soiree. The three women have started a new initiative called Her Time — a gang intervention program aimed at young girls.

Meghan Markle’s ex-boyfriend Corey Vitiello joins Richard Jaffray and Rob Feenie’s successful Cactus Club franchise as head of culinary development in Toronto. The celebrity chef was recently in town to cook for esteemed guests.

St. Paul’s Foundation chief development officer Broek Bosma and Barbara and Mark Cullen, director emeritus, past-chair and governor, raised a glass to the success of this year’s Lights of Hope campaign.

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While the team struggles, Daniel and Henrik are making a case for another year Backhand Sauce Daniel Wagner

“We’re only 36. We’re not 42.”

That was Henrik Sedin before the start of this season, dismissing any suggestion that he and his brother were too old or that this season would be some sort of farewell tour. The eternally optimistic Sedin twins expressed their confidence in themselves to stave off the effects of aging.

“We’re going to have better seasons than last year,” said Daniel, looking over at Henrik as he said it.

So far, they’ve done exactly that. The two brothers are on pace for 50-plus points, a small step up from last season. More importantly, they’ve maintained that production while playing significantly fewer minutes, giving Brock Boeser, Bo Horvat and Sven Baertschi the ice time necessary to step up as the new first line.

Some of that scoring has come via the power play, where they’ve benefited from Boeser’s incredible shot. Last season, Daniel and Henrik had 14 and 15 power play points, respectively, their lowest powerplay totals in over a decade. Halfway through the season, they were already up to 11 and 10 powerplay points.

They haven’t just found new life on the man advantage, however. When you look at their scoring pace at five-on-five, the Sedins have bounced back. Daniel

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Tuesday’s game against the Washington Capitals, Brock Boeser’s 1.89 goals per 60 minutes of five-on-five ice time led the entire NHL, with Tampa Bay’s Nikita Kucherov right behind at 1.87 goals-per-60. While Boeser has been lauded for his work on the power play, he’s been arguably even more impressive at even strength.

A tap of the stick to Michael Del Zotto, who took on the gruesome task of retrieving Chris Tanev’s teeth from the ice after the defenceman was hit in the mouth by a deflected puck. Del Zotto managed to find four of Tanev’s teeth and then probably spent the rest of the night frantically Purelling his hands.

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I’m dropping the gloves with the Calgary Flames, as they’re seeking to cut ties with Jaromir Jagr. OK, it’s not really their fault that Jagr’s NHL career appears to be coming to an end in such an underwhelming, anti-climatic way, but it just feels right to blame the Flames anyway.

Comets lineup after being sent down by the Canucks, Reid Boucher scored a hat trick and added an assist for a four-point night. It’s stunning to me that Boucher couldn’t get a longer look in a top-six role for the Canucks while they’re struggling so significantly.

Daniel Sedin (pictured) and his brother Henrik may be long in the tooth by NHL standards, but they still have plenty to offer the Canucks, especially with a new crop of Swedish players on the horizon.

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averaged 0.45 goals per 60 minutes of ice time last season. He’s doubled that to 0.9 goals per 60 minutes this season.

Daniel and Henrik averaged 1.41 and 1.51 points per 60 minutes at five-onfive last season. They’re up to 1.79 and 1.88 this season, a significant improvement.

While not first-line production and nowhere near their peak season in 2009-10, when they both averaged more than four points per 60 minutes of five-on-five ice time, that’s still solid second-line production.

Unfortunately, when Horvat and Baertschi went on the injured reserve, they took the primary scoring with them. Boeser is still in the top-10 in the NHL in points per 60 minutes, but

his makeshift first line with Thomas Vanek and Sam Gagner has been too inconsistent to regularly carry the team at even strength.

What has perhaps been the biggest surprise with the Sedins is their puck possession. Long a staple of their game, the two had faltered over the past couple seasons, falling below 50 per cent in corsi percentage (per cent of shot attempts for at five-on-five) for the first time in their careers. That can partly be explained by playing with wingers illsuited to their style, such as Brandon Sutter and Jayson Megna, but not entirely.

This season, however, the Sedins are once again leading the team in corsi at 54.22 per cent for Daniel and 53.87 per cent for

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That reliability more than anything else could earn them another year with the Canucks once this season is over. Add in the potential for mentoring Elias Pettersson and, potentially, Jonathan Dahlen when they come over from Sweden next year, and another year of the Sedins makes a lot of sense.

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Journalist Travis Lupick, author of the new book Fighting for Space, which chronicles Vancouver’s drug crisis of the 1990s, will take part in a talk with Ann Livingston, a Downtown Eastside activist whose story is featured in the book. They’ll discuss how the city responded then and what lessons should be applied now in the face of the current opioid crisis.

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Teen Angst Night at the Fox

Those old diaries gathering dust in your storage may be packed with hidden gems — bad love poems, generational family drama and massive canyons of hyperbole.

For Teen Angst night, those gems are read aloud on stage. If you’re brave, sign up and be a reader. Or just go and listen and laugh.

Jan. 12, 7 to 10 p.m.

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Canada’s largest gluten-free expo hits Vancouver for a weekend full of programming and tasting. Sample foods, shop for new and exciting products, and learn from all sorts of experts on and off the presentation stage.

Jan. 13, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Jan. 14, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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Bob Dylan: Trouble No More

Dylan’s gospel period in the early 1980s remains a divisive point for fans of the enigmatic folk rocker. His spiritual threealbum epoch is the spotlight of a 2017 documentary by Jennifer Lebeau called Trouble No More, which screens this week as part of VIFF’s Music Mondays.

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PuSh kicks off three weeks of exciting arts programming around the city Jan.16.

One of Vancouver’s premiere arts events, PuSh offers groundbreaking work in the live performing arts, showcasing global innovators and boundary-pushing artists in dance, theatre, film, music and multimedia. Go push your own boundaries!

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We will forever regret not bidding on decommissioned B.C. ferry the Queen of Burnaby Sad news, local transportation buffs.

Your chance to become intimately acquainted with a mechanical hunk of metal and piece of B.C. history has come and gone. No, we’re not talking about paying Jimmy Pattison a hefty hunk of change for a one-night stand with Expo Ernie. Though that would be worth every penny (we hear Ernie’s a real robot tomcat between the sheets).

We’re talking about the sale of decommissioned B.C. ferry boat the Queen of Burnaby.

Last week we learned the 1965-built ship, which served the Powell RiverComox route until last May, was up for auction.

Sure, there were a few caveats: the ferry wasn’t “mechanically sound” or “maintained at any guaranteed level of quality,” it experienced “periodic leakage of hydraulic oil,” the boat contained “hazardous materials… that must be managed in accordance with environmental regulations” and the purchase of said ferry in no way would guarantee let alone assist in obtaining a night of pistonpumping passion with Expo Ernie. But it at least offered hope. Hope that an average person could own a clunky, environmentally hazardous B.C. ferry for less than the price of a one-bedroom

condo in (shudder) Marpole. That was until we learned the auction closed Jan. 4, and the unofficial winning bid was a cool $555,575. Oh, the things we could have done with the Queen of Burnaby.

Here are just a few ideas of our rusty B.C. ferry makeover.

•A perilous, STD-riddled nightclub called Floatation Device.

• A craft brewery or tap room called Suds. Naturally, B.C. liquor laws would prevent the imbibing of beer on the premises, but customers would be able to pick up their flights and growler fills at a centralized distribution facility in two, three weeks max.

• Ted Talks venue. Imagine all the sinking, swimming and extending a lifeboat metaphors in the inspirational speeches.

• A Justin Trudeau-approved medical marijuana grow-op called High Tide.

• Movie set for the next half- dozen Deadpool sequels.

• Temporary housing for short-term Airbnb rentals, cuz that’s the only way we could make it work financially. Honestly.

• The beginning of a rogue armada of decommissioned ferries to rule the high seas and pillage ports of call with impunity. We’re coming for you next, Queen of Nanaimo. @KudosKvetches

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Automotive BRAKING NEWS

Corvette could get mid-engined twin-turbo Mid-engined Corvette might get twin-turbo

Ford was able to launch its Ford GT supercar without a single leaked rumour or image. Chevrolet doesn’t seem to be having the same luck. In addition to spy shots showing a camouflaged model running through its paces, there are now full CAD images hitting the internet of the twin-turbocharged powerplant that could be the mid-engined Corvette’s new heartbeat.

The V-8, which could be either 4.2 litres or 5.5 litres in displacement, seems to share some basic layout with the twin-turbo V-6 currently found in sportier Cadillac products. Parts sharing is not unusual in the GM universe, and would help keep the Corvette’s title as an affordable supercar.

However, is a midengined Chevrolet performance machine really a Corvette? ‘Vette buyers are an enthusiastic and loyal lot, and I’m not so sure they’d be ready to leap for an R8 clone. And a mid-engined car would cost a great deal more to produce than the current Corvette.

We’ll have to see if we end up with two Corvettes, or if Chevy moves its flagship upmarket and lets highperformance variants of the Camaro take over the reins.

Subaru continues to break sales records

Once a niche manufacturer that sold jumped-up little buggies that were both surprisingly rugged and rattled like two maraca players getting into a fist-fight, Subaru has now thoroughly entered the mainstream.

Yes, there are still a few things the company does differently (a horizontallyopposed four-cylinder engine, for instance), but over-

all you’d be hard pressed to explain to a Martian why a Forester is much different from a Honda CR-V. Even so, Subaru still has a brand image as outdoorsy and quirky, and looks just that little bit different for people that would rather not drive the same thing as their neighbours. As a result, Subaru is experiencing its12th consecutive record sales month, and their best year overall, both north and south of the border.

I’m sure they’ll throw themselves a huge office party with a gluten-free cake. But here’s why Subaru’s sales triumph might matter to you. If you’re looking to buy a new one, you might have to wait a while. If you’re looking to trade up from a Forester or similar, however, your late-model Subie might be holding its value even better than usual.

Throw in what looks to be a solid ski season and Subaru’s coming three-row crossover, the Ascent, and Subaru might be leading the charge into 2018. I just wish all this success would mean they’d bring back the WRX hatchback.

Given that Porsche products like the 911 and Cayenne now feature badging that is a little bewildering (nearly all 911s are turbocharged, but only the most expensive models are called Turbos), we can only imagine what the marketing department is going to come up with. A 670 h.p. Mission-E Turbo S? I wouldn’t be shocked if they did.

option list is borderline outrageous. They are the Whole Foods buffet section of car companies.

Reports are indicating the Mission-E won’t be a single model, but will be split between three power grades and prices (pretty typical for Porsche). Horsepower will be either 402 horsepower, 536 h.p., or 670 h.p., and range will increase with power.

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Here’s what’s going on with Porsche’s anti-Tesla.

The Mission-E is going to slot between the Panamera and 911 in size, making it roughly a rival to the BMW 3 Series (at least in footprint).

However, compact EV packaging means the Mission-E should have about as much space as the larger Panamera — note how cavernous the storage in a Model S is. Pricing is still up in the air, but expectations are in the $80,000 range, before options. Do remember that Porsche’s

Here’s the 2018 Corvette Stingray in action. Rumours are flying about a mid-engined, twin-turbocharged Corvette that is in the works. PHOTO CHEVROLET

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