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Journalism students challenge police, mayor on opioid crisis Mike Howell

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When I’m not searching for the truth, or driving my sports-crazy kids around the Lower Mainland — or deciding whether my tea of the day should be “super green matcha” or turmeric and ginger — I sometimes impart my semi-mad journalism skills on Langara College students.

And sometimes, like last Thursday, those students join me on the job.

We attended a Vancouver Police Board meeting, where we heard Insp. Bill Spearn of the VPD’s major crime section tell us that overdose deaths in the city are still at a crisis level — at least 335 people are suspected of dying in 2017, with more than 80 per cent of the deaths connected to fentanyl.

We also heard police took more than eight kilograms of fentanyl off the street in recent investigations and used the overdose-reversing naloxone spray on 19 people last year. Spearn also noted six officers were treated for

exposure to fentanyl, with two requiring naloxone.

After the meeting, the students got a chance to fire questions at Police Chief Adam Palmer and Mayor Gregor Robertson, who doubles as chairperson of the police board.

Spearn also agreed to stick around after his presentation and be interviewed.

Thought you might be interested in some of the questions and answers, which I’ve condensed and edited.

In no particular order, here you go: To Spearn: The provincial government will release its budget next month.

What would you like to see coming Vancouver’s way?

Spearn: “I’d like to see a lot more treatment options available for people — a multitude of treatment options. Specifically, I’d like to see opioid replacement therapy. I’d like to see what’s occurring at the Crosstown Clinic [which offers medical-grade heroin and legal analgesic hydromorphone] on a much larger scale available throughout

Insp. Bill Spearn of the VPD’s major crimes section provided the Vancouver Police Board with an update Jan. 18 on the opioid crisis. He later took questions from journalism students.

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the province to people in all communities.”

To Robertson: Do you think decriminalizing drugs like they did in Portugal could mitigate the opioid crisis?

Robertson: “I certainly support major changes to drug policy to ensure that deadly drugs aren’t the norm. [Right now] people

with addictions are using them and putting their lives at risk because they can’t access treatment or clean drugs while they’re on the road to recovery.”

To Palmer: Two board members — an oncology researcher, and a medical doctor — noted the overdose statistics don’t reflect the

overall devastation of the crisis. They pointed out there is no data on those people who survived an overdose, but may die later of complications related to the event — brain injury, respiratory problems. Those deaths are not recorded as an overdose.

Why would getting that data be useful information?

Palmer: “I think it just highlights the seriousness of the crisis. If somebody is found deceased in their room or laneway, that’s clearly an overdose death.

But those longer term effects, where somebody does take drugs — whatever kind of drugs they may be and they have lasting brain damage, they end up in hospital and then pass away days, weeks, months later — they may not be captured in the stats. That is a longer term issue and drain on the healthcare system, and really another side of that tragedy that hasn’t been reported on that much.”

To Palmer: Who are the people dying of drug overdoses?

Palmer: “There’s a mix

of people and it’s affecting people from all walks of life.

I think it’s sometimes characterized as a problem only in the Downtown Eastside, which is incorrect. We’re seeing people dying in neighbourhoods all across the city — people from all different age groups, from all different backgrounds.”

To Spearn: Why is the VPD not arresting people who are openly selling marijuana at Robson Square?

Spearn: “What’s occurring down there is illegal.

It will never be legal, even with the new Cannabis Act. We prioritize our response to incidents based on public safety. We could take action at any time but unfortunately we’re in the middle of an opioid crisis, and people are dying from opioids. So that is our main focus right now.”

Note: The police have since made arrests at Robson Square.

Next week, the same crew of young journos will be at city hall. Prepare yourself accordingly, councillors. @Howellings

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Gang violence is on the rise in Metro Vancouver.

Speaking at a press conference Monday afternoon updating the media on the deadly Jan. 13 shooting on Broadway, Vancouver police Chief Adam Palmer said the region hasn’t seen this level of gang violence in more than a decade.

“I’ve been with the police department now into my 31st year, and I am a former gang officer when I was a detective. I’ll tell you that this cycle that we’re going through right now is significant,” Palmer said.

“The last big wave was when the whole Bacon brothers Red Scorpion thing was happening and we’re definitely in an uptick in gang violence in Metro Vancouver right now,” Palmer said referring to the conflict between the Bacons’ Red Scorpion gang and rival United Nations gang.

“We’ve got several groups that are at odds with each other and they are going out and killing each other,” Palmer said. He added that the rivalries mostly revolve around drugs.

Innocent bystander 15-year-old Alfred Wong died Jan. 15, two days after the brazen shooting that also killed 23-year-old Kevin Whiteside.

Whiteside was known to police and had multiple convictions including ones for possession for the pur-

Vancouver police Chief Adam Palmer updates the media on the Jan. 13 shooting on Broadway that killed 15-year-old Alfred Wong, an innocent bystander, and 23-year-old Kevin Whiteside.

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pose of trafficking, assault with a weapon, breaking and entering, and possessing a firearm while prohibited. He was subject to a lifetime firearms ban. Palmer said Monday that he also had connections with gangs.

“I continue to say that Vancouver is a safe city and Metro Vancouver is a safe region in the world compared to many other places in the world. However we are not immune to violence and we do have several groups that are out there hunting one another down and killing each other,” Palmer said.

The chief said the department is currently targeting gang activity through other unrelated “projects” and said other recent investigations have led to arrests and charges.

In December, police announced the arrest of

34-year-old Derek Stephens. Stephens was arrested Nov. 29 following a five-month investigation, dubbed Project Tactic, by the department’s organized crime section. He is facing 39 firearms-related charges.

During the arrest, officers also seized guns, more than 1,200 rounds of ammunition, multiple high-capacity magazines, silencers, balaclavas, zap-straps, a Taser and handcuffs.

Earlier that month, Vancouver police and the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of British Columbia (CFSEU-BC) announced a significant seizure of firearms, drugs, explosives and stolen property all related to organized crime groups.

And this past summer, the department announced the arrest of four known gang associates, as well as the seizure of a signifi-

cant amount of drugs and firearms.

Since May, there have been nine separate incidents reported by police where shots were fired that were deemed to be targeted. In most of the cases no one was injured; however, a case earlier this month saw two men in their 20s injured after being shot in a parking lot in an industrial area in the city’s south end. And last May, 33-year-old Janice Nicole Bryant was killed in what police described as a targeted shooting.

Last year there were a total of 31 confirmed incidents of shots fired in the city. That’s up from 26 in 2016 and 11 in 2015. Overall, however, the number of shootings in Vancouver is down significantly over previous years — there were 93 in 2004, 95 in 2005, 83 in 2006 and 68 in 2007.

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Robson Square not working as friendly public space: BIA Martha Perkins

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Is it time to rethink Robson Square?

After the public space was turned into a pot market by people openly selling marijuana and edibles, Charles Gauthier says it is a conversation worth having.

“If we can’t get a handle on it and do something more positive in the space, we should have the dialogue about opening it up to buses and trolleys again,” the president and CEO of the Downtown Vancouver BIA told the Courier. “If we leave it to its own devices, it’s got the potential to be a free-for-all and that’s not what we want.”

On Sunday, the VPD reportedly shut down the market and arrested some of the vendors. Many of them returned to Robson Square Monday morning.

Gauthier says that in December, the number of marijuana vendors in the public space began

to intensify, as did the complaints. “We saw the numbers grow and grow and grow,” he says. “We expressed concerns [to the city] that it was out of control. It wasn’t a friendly pot protest or friendly farmers’ market.

It was a drug market.

There were skirmishes and people being accosted…

“The space was no longer enjoyable and accessible to everyone.”

Of particular concern were pot edibles, such as brownies and gummy bears, being sold in a place where children frequent. Even stores that are licensed to sell medical marijuana aren’t allowed to sell edibles.

Gauthier’s concerns are not just about pot vendors. “It needs to be a place where we’re not solicited to buy things,” he says. “Guerrilla marketers selling the latest and best in cold coffees is not what we want. [The late architect] Arthur Erickson

would be shocked and [landscape designer] Cornelia Oberlander would be shocked…

“From our perspective it doesn’t align with what we envision the place to be.”

When the City of Vancouver announced plans in 2016 to permanently create the pedestrian-only plaza on the west side of the Vancouver Art Gallery, city manager Sadhu Johnston told the Courier that “We want to do it because we think it’s the right thing to do. There’s not that many public gathering places downtown — plazas like that.

So we want to create a really nice public spot that people can gather.”

At the time, the BIA expressed concerns about shutting off the 800-block between Howe and Hornby streets.

In retrospect, Gauthier says, “This is not what you want with ‘build it and they will come.’ It should be ‘build it and we will manage the space.’”

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A south Vancouver church is reaching out to the non-profit housing manager of a soon-to-be-opened 78-unit modular housing complex in Marpole for homeless people and wants to donate food and supplies to tenants once they move in next month.

Felix Loo, a member of West Side Baptist Church on Ash Street, said it was important to him and other members of the congregation to welcome the area’s new neighbours after pushback from other residents who don’t want to see the complex built.

“We don’t want to send a message that this group of people are not welcome in our community,” said Loo, who said the church is about 10 minutes from the modular housing site at West 59th Avenue and Heather Street. “As a church in the community, I think one of the most important mandates is to reach out to this group of people — not for the purpose of proselytizing, but to actually try to integrate them into the community.”

Loo, who works for the BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services, said he wants to first check with Community Builders — the non-profit hired to manage the complex — before the church builds “kits” for tenants. He imagines toiletries, some clothing and food will be provided in the donations.

Loo pointed out West Side Baptist has a sister church in GrandviewWoodland, the Grandview Calvary Baptist Church, which is close to seeing the opening of a 26-unit

A 78-unit temporary modular housing complex will open next month at West 59th Avenue and Heather Street in Marpole.

Residents opposed to the project lost a court battle last week.

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housing project at East First Avenue and Victoria Drive for the homeless and those at risk of homelessness Julie Roberts, the executive director of Community Builders, said she was “heartened” by Loo’s gesture, noting other neighbours in the area have come forward to get involved in welcoming the tenants.

Roberts said she planned to get in touch with Loo. “It’s going to go a long way for the tenants who are moving in to know that they’re welcomed by members of the community,” Roberts said.

Meanwhile, the Caring Citizens of Vancouver Society says it will appeal a B.C. Supreme Court decision Jan. 18 that dismissed the group’s petition, which aimed to stop the Marpole project.

Madam Justice Joyce DeWitt-Van Oosten dismissed the petition from the group, which is comprised of Marpole adults and children.

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DeWitt-Van Oosten said the City of Vancouver didn’t fail to provide proper notice of a hearing on a bylaw associated to the project.

She added that Gil Kelley, the city’s director of planning, acted within his authority to approve the project, which was done without going to a public hearing — a step the society wanted.

“We’re very disappointed, we’re very surprised,” said Derek Palaschuk, spokesperson for the society. “The reason we filed this petition was for the protection of our children. We believe there’s a real danger to them. That temporary housing shouldn’t be located across from an elementary school and so close to the high school.”

The society and others associated with the “right idea, wrong location” movement have pointed out the city’s agreement with B.C. Housing to establish tenant mix calls for a minimum of 20 per cent of units be

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Deputy city manager Paul Mochrie told the Courier Monday the city was “very pleased” with the court’s decision. Mochrie said the petition didn’t delay construction of the complex, although a separate court injunction was needed in December to ensure crews would not be impeded by protesters.

Asked about the society’s plan to appeal the decision, Mochrie said the city will continue working on the project to get it open for tenants next month. He said there had been no other court action against the city related to four other sites it has identified for temporary modular housing.

“We haven’t seen anything thus far that’s remotely like Marpole,” he said.

Last September, Premier John Horgan announced Vancouver would get $66 million to build 600 modular housing units for homeless people. The city’s last homeless count showed there were 2,138 people without a home. @Howellings

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News Dangerous Knight Street intersection now safer

Safety improvements have been largely completed at one of the most dangerous collision sites in Vancouver.

Work was done at the intersection and off-ramp at Knight Street and Southeast Marine Drive.

Aside from improving safety, it’s meant to improve the movement of goods.

The northbound offramp has fully reopened to all traffic, according to a

press release from the City of Vancouver.

Between 2011 and 2015, there were 1,156 collisions recorded at Knight Street and the Knight Street Bridge, Southwest Marine Drive and the off-ramp and the on-ramp, according to statistics from ICBC. In 2016, there were 327.

“This is the highest vehicle-to-vehicle collision location in Vancouver, which is why I’m so pleased that we have completed these critical upgrades,” Mayor Gregor Robertson

Bridge off-ramp connecting to eastbound Southeast Marine Drive • A new westbound left-turn lane on Southeast Marine Drive connecting to the Knight Street northbound on-ramp • Improved conditions for people walking, cycling and using transit with a new shared walking and cycling path on the Knight Street overpass, the eastbound offramp and along the north side of Southeast Marine Drive.

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“The changes will improve safety at this intersection, helping us move closer to our target of achieving zero traffic-related fatalities and serious injuries from our street network. The upgrades will also enhance vehicle connectivity, which will improve traffic flow, benefit goods movement, and reduce the impacts of trucks on minor streets.”

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Meet the new Vancouver School Board boss

Suzanne Hoffman is the VSB’s first woman superintendent Tracy Sherlock

tracy.sherlock@gmail.com

There’s a new boss at the Vancouver School Board and she’s hoping to make it into a “magnet district” that draws in people who “could just die to be a teacher here.”

Suzanne Hoffman took over as VSB superintendent on Jan. 8 and is the first woman to fill the job.

Before that, she worked at the Ministry of Education as the province’s chief educator, after serving as superintendent of the Langley school district.

She lives in Langley with her husband. They have two children, a son, 23, who is in business school, and a daughter, 21, who is in nursing school. Both of the kids and Hoffman were educated in public schools. Hoffman grew up in Richmond, where she attended Byng, Boyd and Steveston schools.

Her vision of Vancouver as a highly desirable district to work in will take some work — today there is a shortage of teachers on call and dozens of unfilled teaching positions. A recent report to the board shows 323 teachers have retired or resigned in the past two years and more than 100 teachers on call have left the district in the past year.

Hoffman replaces Scott

Superintendent Suzanne Hoffman takes the reins at the Vancouver School Board, which has been through a tumultuous few years. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Robinson, who left in October 2016 during a tumultuous time for the VSB — the board had refused to pass a balanced budget, there were accusations of bullying by trustees and a school closure process was underway. Robinson and several other senior managers went on simultaneous medical leaves, the board was fired and the school closure process was put on hold.

But now, with a new

board of trustees in place, a new superintendent ready to go and all but one of the senior management team in place, Hoffman wants to turn the narrative around.

“In getting to know this place in the short time I’ve been here, there are extraordinary things happening with kids,” she said.

“Teachers are doing amazing things and kids are having fabulous opportunities.

“I think a big part of my work is going to be making

this a place that people are drawn to — they see it as a vibrant, diverse city… that people are proud to be a part of.”

She has spent her first two weeks meeting with and listening to the various partner groups of VSB, and she has seen no signs of any bullying, by anyone she has encountered thus far.

She says Langley schools share commonalities with Vancouver

schools. As in Vancouver, some of Langley’s schools are full-to-bursting, while others have excess space. The ones on the Surrey border tend to be full, while the more rural schools have fewer students, Hoffman said.

But one major challenge differs between the two districts: Langley’s enrolment is growing, while Vancouver’s is declining.

Vancouver’s school population has dropped nearly eight per cent in the past five years, while Langley’s has grown by a similar ratio, provincial reports show.

While school closures are not on the immediate agenda at VSB, there is still excess space in some schools and a pressing need for seismic upgrades of more than 50 schools.

“It is one big, complicated, interconnected puzzle,” Hoffman said. “You need some pieces to fall into place before you can begin to solve it… Parents are concerned about the safety of their kids in schools… so there is an urgency around it, but you have to get it right.”

VSB’s finances are often challenging, and this year promises to be no different. The VSB’s five-year business plan shows a structural deficit of $3.76 million for next year that

grows to $10.31 million by 2021. Hoffman has one ace in her pocket as far as that goes — she already knows and trusts the VSB’s secretary-treasurer David Green. The pair previously worked together in Langley.

So far, she appreciates the diversity of voices that are involved in the VSB. “They care. The partner groups all care deeply about this place,” Hoffman said.

One thing Hoffman seems to care deeply about is educational outcomes for the most vulnerable children, such as children in government care and Indigenous children — both groups that have lower graduation rates than most children. She says principals need to know who the vulnerable kids are in their schools.

“If you don’t know who they are, how are you going to look out for them?

How are you going to make sure they’re coming to school?” Hoffman asks.

“It really upsets me that there are kids out there who are falling through the cracks.”

The new boss has a strong vision; let’s hope she can see it through.

Tracy Sherlock writes about education and social issues.

Contact her at tracy.sherlock@gmail.com.

What the next mayor can learn from past civic leaders Michael Geller geller@sfu.ca

I first met Mayor Gregor Robertson over breakfast 10 years ago following his election as the Vision Vancouver mayoral candidate, and my election (by acclamation) as an NPA council candidate. Some might say the rest is history.

Over 10 years, I found the mayor to be likeable, but oftentimes naïve. While many blamed him for his government’s actions, I tended to blame the people behind him and around him, especially the cunning Mike Magee and bullying Penny Ballem.

While my colleague Mike Klassen wrote a scathing review of the mayor’s three terms, rather than offer my list of accomplishments and failings, I prefer to examine the qualities we should seek in our next mayor, now

that Robertson has made it known he won’t be seeking re-election in October.

But before doing so, let’s look back at the city’s previous seven mayors.

When I first arrived in Vancouver in 1974, Art Phillips was mayor. Founder of a new reform-minded political party TEAM, Phillips introduced an entirely new approach to city governance and planning following six years of Mayor Tom Campbell’s pro-expressways, prodevelopment reign.

Phillips was an investment banker who valued fiscal prudence. A natural leader, along with new planning director Ray Spaxman, he reshaped Vancouver through numerous initiatives including redevelopment of the south shore of False Creek, creation of the Property Endowment Fund, and an effective localarea planning program.

Phillips was followed by Jack Volrich, with whom I had little contact because I returned to Toronto and Ottawa during his term.

However, when I came back to Vancouver in 1981, Mike Harcourt was mayor.

Harcourt, a community activist and lawyer, was a born politician and leader.

President of his high school student council, he went on to become a city alderman and mayor, and eventually premier.

Harcourt had a keen interest in housing, and while he initially opposed the transformative Expo 86, he eventually became one of its biggest boosters.

Harcourt was followed

by Gordon Campbell who served three terms from 1986 to 1993. Once Mayor Art Phillips’ executive assistant and former Marathon Realty employee, he understood politics

and real estate development. He too went on to be premier.

During his tenure, new communities were started around False Creek, Coal Harbour and at Collingwood Village. The city also partnered with Jack Poole’s VLC Properties in the construction of rental housing on city-owned lands.

Campbell was followed

by Philip Owen in 1993 who was twice re-elected.

A small businessman from a prominent Vancouver family, Owen was first and foremost a gentleman who proudly maintained the city’s Triple-A credit rating.

While he was mayor, the engineering department introduced a program of upgrading two per cent of the city’s infrastructure each year, so that the total sewer and water systems would be replaced every 50 years.

Owen would pick up a

stray piece of paper off the sidewalk and engendered a strong sense of civic pride.

In 2002, Larry Campbell was elected COPE’s first mayor. A former RCMP officer and coroner, many believe he was elected because people confused him with the titular character of TV’s Da Vinci’s Inquest. As mayor, this Campbell was a disappointment.

Although he had a broad appeal, and could have done much to address the problems of the Downtown Eastside, he didn’t.

Campbell was followed

by Sam Sullivan, Vancouver’s most unlikely mayor.

A quadriplegic who once suffered depression while living in social housing, Sullivan is best known for his flag-waving role at the closing of the 2006 Olympics and introducing “EcoDensity” to the city.

As an external advisor on his EcoDensity initiative, I recall urging him to include housing affordability as a key benefit, since I didn’t believe most Vancouverites shared his passion for saving the planet. On this, my view hasn’t changed.

So what qualities should we seek in our next mayor?

I would like Vancouver’s next mayor to have Art Phillips’ leadership and fiscal prudence, Mike Harcourt’s activism and housing knowledge, Gordon Campbell’s intelligence and real estate acumen, Philip Owen’s desire for a beautiful, clean city, Larry Campbell’s populist appeal, Sam Sullivan’s big ideas and language skills and Gregor Robertson’s relationship with the city’s millennials.

Although Vancouver’s first 39 mayors were all men, the 40th mayor need not be. @michaelgeller

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Re: “Mayor leaves city divided between us and them,” Jan. 18.

Mike Klassen’s article on Gregor Robertson encapsulated all the issues I have had with his mayoralty. The complete disregard for fiscal sense, with above-inflation tax increases to fund his grandiose ideas, the broken promises.

I could go on but I won’t. Keep up the good work, Mike!

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Re: “Smoking of all kinds to vanish on ferries starting Monday,” online only, Jan. 21.

It’s a mean spirited rule. And I’m a nonsmoker.

Rob Kruyt via Facebook.

••• I’m not a smoker but this is silly. What about a day like today when folks are in their cars for hours due to ferry delays?

There are many times that happens.

People should be able to smoke in their own cars. Too many rules.

Chris Cross via Facebook ••• Well then I’m allergic to screaming bratty children with parents that are too lazy to keep them under control. They should be banned or have a special spot on the ferries, instead of letting them run laps around the inside of the ship.

James Dennison via Facebook ••• Canada is funny. Canada wants us to consider drug use, not as an illegal scourge, but as a health issue to be met with compassion and injection site services.

Tobacco consumption, also an addictive behaviour, on the other hand, is to be largely prohibited and scorned, with no smoking spaces. We then see well dressed office workers smoking, hunched in back alley covered loading docks of their buildings, and of course we had the tragic death of the tobacco addicted teen girl in Surrey, a few years ago, who was killed crossing the street because no smoking was allowed on the sidewalk in front of her high school.

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Feature

Small businesses struggle amid tax, property crunch As commercial and industrial properties skyrocket, owners are passing down costs to lease holders John Kurucz

jkurucz@vancourier.com

By almost any metric, Meredith Coloma can be looked at as a posterchild for success in today’s Vancouver.

At just 27 years old, she’s an educated entrepreneur with a niche business that serves customers from around the world. Between her and her partner, they pull in close to $250,000 annually in pre-tax income.

And yet, Coloma is considering closing up shop and moving her luthier business to the ’burbs.

Why? Taxes.

“I earn almost $15,000 a month, which is huge for this city,” Coloma told the Courier. “And it almost all goes to business costs, housing costs and taxes.”

Coloma builds custom guitars, mandolins and other wooden instruments out of a top-floor commercial space near Main Street and Second Avenue that’s inhabited by about 30 other artists: photographers, painters and those in the movie business.

Coloma does on-the-spot repairs for touring bands the world over, and gives lessons to clients from all across North America and Europe. Her student waitlist is upwards of a year.

Coloma has been in the space for three years, and it wasn’t until the past 12 months that trouble crept in. The property was bought by a development company; tenants were told the space will be redeveloped and they’ll have to relocate by the summer.

Everywhere she’s looked since — Mount Pleasant, Chinatown, Railtown and the River District — has an onerous system known as triple net. Triple-net leases see landowners pass on property taxes, rent and utility costs directly to lease holders. Add on the fact that B.C. Assessment figures released earlier this month point to wholesale increases — upwards of 50 per cent — for commercial and light industrial, and it’s a death knell for many small businesses in Vancouver.

Costs of doing business

Coloma’s current rent costs around $3,000 monthly to operate in roughly 1,500 square feet.

The places she’s looked at are three times that cost in rent alone. The triple-net stipulation tags on anywhere

Vancouver luthier Meredith Coloma is considering moving her business to Surrey or Maple Ridge in light of massive cost increases she’s incurred in the last year. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

from $18,000 to $35,000 in additional fees. She’s also seeing a dramatic rise in cost-of-living expenses at her apartment in the form of additional security and maintenance fees.

“My partner and I make almost a quarter of a million dollars a year and we can’t enjoy the benefits of that,” Coloma said.

Coloma is far from being an outlier in Vancouver’s small business community.

Weekly, if not daily, media reports signal the closure of long-standing, legacy businesses in the city: 3 Vets, Sellution and the Kitsilano location of Plum have all gone under in the last three months alone. The Chocolate Mousse is closing next year. Store owners at each business have attributed increased rents and property taxes as contributing factors.

Plum co-owner Ed Des Roches told the Courier that the Kitsilano location of his women’s fashion store closes for good on Jan. 27, after 37 years. On top of the closure, the company will ease its focus on made-inCanada products and four staffers have lost their jobs.

“A lot of people are disappointed, actually, because we’ve been in Kitsilano since

the beginning,” Des Roches said. “We’ll still source Canadian [products] when we can, but we’re not restricting ourselves to Canadian. It’s just uncompetitive.”

Cheaper, overseas labour is forcing the decision on the design end. But “high rents and exorbitant property taxes” are driving the decision to close in Kits.

The company’s location on Granville Street and West 12th Avenue will remain open. Property taxes at the Kits location came in at $30,000 in 2017 and that figure is expected for this year as well. Property taxes at the Granville location check in at roughly $50,000.

“On South Granville, in the past we never saw vacancies,” Des Roches said.

“People rented before it ever had a for-lease sign. Now I think there’s probably 10.

And that’s a premium shopping street in the city.”

In Vancouver, the tax rate for commercial properties is almost five times greater than the tax rate for a residential property of the same value.

On average, residential property taxes are going up 4.24 per cent this year.

Des Roches suggests that number is closer to at least

19 per cent for businesses.

Those numbers fluctuate from neighbourhood to neighbourhood and business to business depending on an array of factors: property size, age, quality, view and location. Taxes are typically more affected by how assessments change when compared with average changes in a given community. Outside of municipal needs, property taxes also go towards TransLink, B.C. Assessment and provincial school taxes, among other agencies.

Properties purchased as speculation investments exacerbate the problem, says Des Roches. He’s arguing for a fairer distribution of the tax and assessment burdens for properties that have a mix of commercial and residential to cut down on speculative costs: assess the commercial component only when a business is in operation in a given space, assess the value of the residential component separately, and then tax the two property types at different rates.

“That would make it a lot more reasonable,” he said.

“The commercial tenant would still have to pay both taxes, but he’d be paying the commercial rate on

the commercial part of the property, and the residential rate on the residential part of the property that has no residence yet.”

Triple threat

For its part, the city acknowledges the threat that triple net poses to Vancouver businesses.

“What we are seeing in our market is that real estate speculation has driven up the value of land significantly and, through these agreements, property owners are passing on the increased cost of taxes to their tenants,” Patrice Impey, the city’s chief financial officer, told the Courier via email. “While property owners benefit substantially from rising property values upon redevelopment or sale, small business tenants continue to shoulder the entire tax burden passed on to them by their landlords through triple net commercial leases.”

Impey said city staff are consulting with the province, B.C. Assessment and business improvement associations to make the tax system more equitable.

Last summer city staff requested amendments to

provincial legislation that would result in land assessment averages changing to five years rather than the current three years. The move is aimed at properties where values increase by more than 10 per cent, and is intended to “smooth out the spikes” in property tax changes from year to year.

NPA Coun. George Affleck introduced a motion Jan. 17 aimed at small business tax relief via a small business retention program, targeted tax reductions and a small business committee.

The motion passed unanimously, and staff will report back within 90 days with particulars around how to roll those measures out.

In the meantime, staff is also expected to do an internal audit of sorts to consolidate programs already in place and get rid of areas where there’s duplication.

Affleck runs a business called Curve Communications that employs seven people.

“We want to create a nimble decision-making process at city hall driven by the businesses themselves and their needs and challenges that we can address in real time,” Affleck told the Courier in an interview the day after his motion was discussed.

The owner of Massy Books on Main Street and Sixth Avenue, Patricia Massy, finds herself in a good news/bad news scenario. Her building is being redeveloped — she knew it was coming — and Massy has since secured a viable alternative location near Main and Georgia Street.

That’s the good news.

The bad news? It took her two years to find the new location. During that search, she saw properties along Main, Broadway and Denman Street with the following monthly rental price tags: $7,500, $30,000 and $10,000.

By contrast, her rent is currently $2,730, while the new space on Georgia will be about $3,700, on top of a property tax rate that’s calculated at $7 per square foot.

The locations on Broadway and Denman eventually both turned into A&W fast food restaurants.

“There’s a lot of negativity around and I understand it,” she said. “These places are affordable enough only for big chains. These little mom-and-pop shops and start-up companies, they’re disappearing.” @JohnKurucz

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New office tower drives autobody out of central Vancouver Martha Perkins

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Craftsman Collision is having to close its busiest shop in the Lower Mainland to make room for a nine-storey office tower.

“We’ve known for about two years and are shutting down the business at the end of June. It’s disappointing,” says Greg Hatswell, the general manager of real estate for Craftsman Group.

His father, Bill, started the company in 1977 a block away from the soon-to-be closed body shop at Yukon Street and Sixth Avenue.

Cressey Development Group plans to build an office tower there — across the street from 3 Vets, which closed Nov. 1.

Craftsman Collision could not find another location so it’s moving its customer base to its existing locations on Powell Street, Main Street and Cambie at Southwest Marine Drive.

The latter location, right next to the boundary with Richmond, is expanding.

The move speaks to the larger issue facing industrial properties in a city with skyrocketing real estate prices.

Hatswell says the property at 425 West Sixth Ave. is assessed for its “highest and best use.” In other words, instead of basing the value of the property on its current use, B.C. Assessment is assessing it as bare land with development potential — such as a nine-storey office tower.

“I’ve taken B.C. Assessment to battle on this and tried to keep our property

taxes down and lost the battle more than once,” Hatswell says.

Craftsman Collision owns one-third of its shop buildings, but not the three in Vancouver. On top of its lease costs, Craftsman Collision, not the building owner, must pay those property taxes, which are now at about 80 per cent of the annual lease payments.

Craftsman Collision’s industrial/commercial zoning had been grandfathered in but it’s next to impossible to find industrial space in the city, Hatswell says. “We are being rezoned out. There is no local replacement. There are no buildings that suit vehicle repairs.”

Business in Vancouver reported in mid-December that Metro Vancouver has Canada’s second-lowest industrial vacancy rate (behind Toronto), at 1.7 per cent. Industrial lease rates increased 12 per cent over 2016 numbers, the highest increase in three decades, to an average of just under $10 per square foot. Vancouver industrial strata prices are hitting $700 per square foot.

Hatswell tried to broach the idea of having a body shop on the ground floor of an office or residential tower but the city turned him down.

“We don’t use solvent-based products any more and fumes are next to nothing [under current guidelines],” he says.

“It wouldn’t and shouldn’t be impossible for the city to allow this.

“Even if a developer were to include us, however, a developer will want signifi-

cantly higher rent than we could afford to pay. We’re being pushed out of the core of the city.”

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“As a business, we’re still

growing. We’re not losing our ability to service the market,” says Hatswell. “When we lose some options, we come up with other options.”

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Fate of sign up in the air permanent,” said Janssen.

“That’s when I went to Change. org and started the petition.”

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A new vintage-style neon light on Davie Street has stolen the hearts of many, but that love affair could be short lived unless steps are taken to make it a permanent feature.

Janssen said fighting for the sign is an extension of the work he does on his website, Davie Village Post, which he started three years ago as a way to acknowledge not only the neighbourhood he loves, but also as a nod to community leaders such as city councillor Tim Stevenson and community activists, including Barb Snelgrove and the late Jim Deva.

The Heart of Davie Village has a pink heart with the words Davie Village emblazoned across it — the word “Davie” has been done in glowing white neon, while “Village” is made up of a rainbow of colours, a fitting landmark for the historic neighbourhood home to many members of the city’s LGBTQ+ community. The heart, which sits atop a tall pole on Davie Street just west of Burrard Street, was installed last December as part of the West End’s fourth annual Lumière light festival.

The sign is the work of artist Jim Balakshin.

“And there’s been a groundswell of support,” said Janssen. “There are already more than 1,200 signatures and there’s been lots of media coverage. People generally support it.”

A plaque at the bottom of the sign reads in part, “Since their first recorded history, ‘gay villages’ have played an important role in the increased visibility and acceptance of the LGBTQ+ community.”

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A STAY IN THE ‘ZEDSTREAM’ TRAILER ON THE HOTEL’S PROPERTY AN ADVENTURE IN FAMILY BONDING

My grandson Carter might only be eight years old, but when it comes to hotels he has a definite preference.

“Are we going to Hotel Zed?” he asked during our preChristmas visit to Victoria.

After explaining we were not in fact heading to Hotel Zed, but instead to a resort considered more upscale than the quirky, vintage-inspired property we had recently visited, his disappointment was obvious. And I knew exactly where he was coming from, especially when you consider that during our last visit to Hotel Zed we had the chance to stay in the Zedstream, a retrofitted vintage Airstream trailer that sits at the back of the property a stone’s throw from the pool and waterslide.

After arriving at the hotel, and with the rain taking a break, Carter immediately took to the tether ball adjacent to our Airstream while I unpacked the car. The interior of the trailer is decorated with a lot of pink, purple and gold reminiscent of a 1970s rec room and includes a queensize bed, a couch that converts into a bed, two TVs, a mini fridge, shower and of course, a rotary phone. Hotel Zed is famous for its rotary phones and includes a “how-to” video on its website for guests with no clue as to what they’re looking at. Bright pink and blue Adirondack chairs scattered across the wooden deck were a welcome contrast to the grey day we were experiencing.

After unpacking, Carter and I headed for the lobby, a place he likes to visit and where he began to tap out a story on one of the vintage typewriters available to guests while I took a short break and

Carter Bryant Thomas writes a story on a vintage typewriter in the lobby of Hotel Zed. PHOTO SANDRA THOMAS

enjoyed a cup of tea. Also in the lobby is a turntable (with headphones) and a collection of records, board games — including the always-popular Operation — comic books and free tea and coffee. There are no coffee makers in the rooms, but guests are welcome to help themselves at the coffee station. The lobby is also where guests can sign out a bike or longboard to borrow at no charge, along with helmets and locks. Kid and tandem bikes are also available for free so no one gets left behind.

Hotel Zed also has two classic Volkswagen vans available to shuttle guests where they need to go (also free), which is great if you’re heading downtown for drinks and dinner. And

speaking of free, did I mention there’s no cost to park? An anomaly when you consider the exorbitant rates many hotels and resorts charge over and above your room.

We were waiting for my son and his wife to arrive from work before going swimming, so after checking out everything in the lobby — and getting a start on his new novel — Carter and I headed downstairs to the Ping Pong Lounge where he took great pleasure in beating me — game after game. It’s safe to say we likely did more ball chasing and laughing than real playing, but it was a lot of fun. The lounge also includes two side-by-side Wii stations and games.

But then the rest of the family arrived and we headed to the pool, which also has a hot tub and covered waterslide dubbed the Zedinator, which starts outside but ends up in a splash pool inside. After everyone had their fill of swimming, soaking and sliding, we changed and headed to the Ruby, located in the lobby, for dinner. The thoughtful menu is described as a cross between a New York-style rotisserie and an Austin-style breakfast joint that offers everything from duck confit hash or duck poutine to breakfast tacos to sandwiches to chicken and waffles, which I can highly recommend. And after finishing his dinner, Carter was able to go back to the typewriter just a few feet away to continue writing while we enjoyed a drink.

The great thing about Hotel Zed is there’s so much to do, no matter what the weather is doing outside, I’ve never once heard “I’m bored” from my grandson.

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Rising gas prices, the lure of easier parking, the call of the open road and that hardto-measure cool factor have all contributed to the growing number of motorcycle and scooter owners in Vancouver. However, finding a place for easy riders to repair their two-wheeled chariots on their own has also become increasingly difficult in this city. Owning or renting a house with a garage is out of reach for most, and condo stratas tend to nix the idea of tenants using the parking garage to tinker with their sweet rides.

As the owner of Rising Sun Motorcycles, Samson Lang has seen and heard it all from his grease-covered customers — especially those wanting to become more self-sufficient on the repair side of things. Earlier this month, he kick-started the Vancouver Motorcycle Collective, dedicating a wing of his Franklin Street shop to the communal cause. While the space has all the markings of a typical East Side garage (a

Lack of space and a sense of community are what drew Tori Tucker to the Vancouver Motorcycle Collective. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

wood burning stove, walls of wrenches, a collection of dog-eared repair manuals, a beer machine stocked with no-nonsense cans of Coors, Pabst Blue Ribbon and Molson Canadian), the motorcycle collective is all about sharing — shared garage space, shared tools, shared knowledge.

Membership, which ranges from yearly all the way down to half-day for one-off repairs, gets members use of the garage, tools, equipment and, most importantly, a built-in and knowledgeable community of fellow riders.

There’s also an online education component to teach the fundamentals.

“The demographics are interesting,” Lang says.

“Guys just kind of want to get in there and do their own stuff… Whereas most of the interest from women is primarily focused around the education.”

Learning the ins and outs of motorcycle repair

is what drew Tori Tucker to the DIY garage.

A mini-bike rider as a kid on the Sunshine Coast, Tucker returned to motorcycles after an 18-year hiatus and desire to rebuild her dad’s old track bike, a BSA 441 Victor Special.

She started at Rising Sun as a customer, took the online courses, and now oversees the collective side of the shop, where she can also work on her soupedup Yamaha XS650.

“Motorcycles are addictive. It’s a lot like tattoos,” says a heavily inked Tucker, adding she enjoys the community aspect of motorcycles. “You become friends and it becomes like a family.

It’s an interesting, tight-knit group in this city.”

Living in a two-suite building, Tucker appreciates the need for garage space in Vancouver, and so do her neighbours.

“It’s not ideal. Your neighbours don’t love you starting up your engine while you’re checking stuff. So it’ll be nice that people have this option because it is a fairly big deal for a lot of people.”

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and glean knowledge from others also encourages riders to become more comfortable with their bikes, says Tucker. “You’re going to enjoy the process that much more when you can do it yourself. When you have the confidence to go, ‘Oh, I need to tweak my chain, or the oil needs to change.’ And I think that changes how far people will venture as well.”

While the collective is billed as Vancouver’s only shared garage space for motorcycles and scooters, owner Lang says he’s merely following an already well-tread path.

“This is not something that’s going to be unique,” Lang says. “You’re going to see it for all sorts of hobby interests. Whether it’s a motorcycle collective or a woodworking collective, shared garage space, whatever you want to call it, really is a function of the housing crisis that people just don’t have the room.

Those days of when you could work with your dad or grandpa in the garage are gone for people in this city.”

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Accessible fare-gates first of its kind

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TransLink introduced a new system Tuesday — the first of its kind in the world — that allows people with disabilities to pass through fare gates without having to tap their Compass Card.

When Compass cards and fare gates were introduced, transit users who are unable to raise their arms found they couldn’t get through the gates without help.

The Universal Fare Gate Access Program, unveiled at a press conference Jan. 23, uses radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology. RFID readers are being placed above accessible fare gates, which will be labelled with the RFID logo. Eligible customers will be given cards that will open the RFID-enabled gates when the card comes within a certain range and close them after the user passes through. The system has a range of two to three metres.

The technology was designed by TransLink and implemented in partnership with Vancouver-based Hyperlight Systems.

About 40 per cent of SkyTrain and Seabus stations have been equipped with the new feature and TransLink is on track to complete the rest of the system by the end of the year, said TransLink CEO Kevin Desmond.

“We are not aware of any transit system anywhere on this globe that has put together a program like this,” Desmond said at the press conference. “It’s a program that allows people with disabilities who are unable to freely use the Compass media to access the gated

transit system independently.

And independence is the key — commuting to work, getting to appointments, visiting friends — mobility many of us take for granted.”

He committed to finding a solution to the fare-gate accessibility problem shortly after being named CEO in 2016. He called the new system “seamless” for TransLink customers.

“We want to make sure anybody and everybody who wants to use the SkyTrain system can use it when they want and how they want,” he said. “This is an innovative solution for our customers… This is a made-in-B.C. solution that we hope the world takes notice of. No other transit system in the world offers fully automated touchless access to a gated system.”

Desmond promised to listen to feedback as the technology is rolled out and make adjustments as necessary.

Jane Dyson, executive director of Disability Alliance B.C., welcomed the program, saying it will make travelling by transit much easier for seniors and people with disabilities.

“I don’t know if you can imagine how undignified it feels to be unable to tap in independently and to have to ask somebody to help you. Nobody wants that.

People with disabilities are no different from anybody else. They want to be able to go about their business independently,” she said.

“So here we are today with this really fabulous announcement. It’s a milestone on the technological side because, as we’ve heard, it’s the first in the world as far as we

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“I’m very pleased TransLink has moved heaven and earth to make this happen. They’ve spent a significant amount of money. They are to be commended,” he said.

“It’s a big step forward. It eliminates a very significant barrier to the use of the SkyTrain by folks that have limited arm function. I’m very pleased that within days of Kevin Desmond being made aware of the problem he committed to do whatever needed to be done to get it fixed.”

The Universal Fare Gate Access Program costs $9 million, which is a part of the $740-million Public Transit Infrastructure Fund (PTIF). PTIF is funded by the Government of Canada at 50 per cent and the Province of British Columbia at 33 per cent and TransLink at 17 per cent.

Several initiatives have been introduced recently to improve people with disabilities’ access to facilities in Vancouver.

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Community SHADES OF BLACK: Whether coincidence or by design, the Vancouver East Cultural Centre’s latest offerings squarely puts theatregoers into the crossfire of today’s #Metoo, Black Lives Matter and Trump conversation. At the York Theatre, Hot Brown Honey continues to smash female stereotypes with its fight the power dance party, while the Cultch’s Historic stage, in partnership with Zee Zee Theatre, hosts the loud and proud, critically-acclaimed Black Boys. On the heels of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, artistic director Heather Redfern welcomed a capacity crowd to the West Coast premiere of Stephen Jackman-Torkoff, Tawiah Ben

M’Carthy and Thomas Olajide’s one-act play, a timely and provocative exploration of queer male blackness. Written and performed by the three men, and created from the men’s own experiences as gay black men in Toronto, Black Boys is a play about what it means to be queer, black and male today. Similar to Hot Brown Honey, Black Boys unapologetically addresses the politics of gender, race and colonialism, forcing the actors and audience members to confront their own assumptions of “black-on-black loving,” black men and racism.

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Comics debate ‘Who will be Vancouver’s Next Top Mayor?’

Mayor McCheese? There’s more than meets the bun, says Graham Clark

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If nothing else, a good comic knows to strike when the iron is hot.

Graham Clark will capitalize on that point Jan. 27 when he rolls out his latest comedy show, Vancouver’s Next Top Mayor.

Taking place at Little Mountain Gallery off Main Street, the show’s format will see Clark and fellow comics taking interactive stabs at who’s going to run the civic political scene come October. The comics will also canvas audience members for potential platforms the city’s next mayor should pursue.

“I’m looking at Mayor McCheese,” Clark said.

“He’s been the successful mayor of McDonaldland for many, many years.

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as much anymore, so I’m thinking he might be looking for a job. Mayor McCheese is someone I’ve got my eye on.”

Clark’s inspiration, of course, comes from news earlier this month that Mayor Gregor Robertson won’t seek re-election Oct. 20 after 10 years at the helm of the city. Turning that announcement into a comedic fodder came by way of good timing and a bit of happenstance.

Clark mounts themed comedy nights on a semiregular basis alongside co-conspirators from Hot Art Wet City. Next week’s show was booked long before a theme was established, so he took to the Twittersphere for suggestions and offered a $50 reward for the best idea.

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ertson’s announcement and the plan was hatched.

“I was like ‘this is perfect,’ because it’s in the news and it’s going to be a fun, silly thing to do,” Clark said.

A veteran in comedic circles and stages, Clark is not typically one to incorporate politics into his routine. For starters, it takes too much time and upkeep.

The 24-hour news cycle is such that jokes need to be constantly tweaked, refreshed and re-packaged.

“Besides that, there’s not much else to do with that topic — otherwise it’s too tragic to handle,” Clark said. “So, it’s that release valve with a topic that’s omnipresent in everybody’s life. It’s better to have a laugh at it than let it grind you to bits.”

Clark isn’t all funny business on the topic of civic life and civic duties. He

takes voting seriously, as he does educating himself on platforms and issues. And he’s not blind to the fact the city he lives in is becoming increasingly unaffordable for him and other artist types in particular.

“Vancouver is a city that changed a lot in the past 10 years. You can’t ignore it, even if you’re completely apolitical,” Clark said.

“Some cities you go to, and you think, ‘It’s always been this way.’ We’ve seen Vancouver transform from one place to another in a short amount of time.” @JohnKurucz Vancouver’s Next Top Mayor kicks off at 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 27 at Little Mountain Gallery, 195 East 26th Ave. Tickets are $7 in advance or $10 at the door. For info, see hotartwetcity.com.

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The Comic Strippers

“The Comic Strippers” is a touring improv show in which the core characters are a troupe of aging pro strippers bringing a new guy into the group. Combining improv styles like the more narrative long-form and the short games audiences know from Vancouver TheatreSports matches or TV’s Whose Line is it Anyway?, The Comic Strippers has been sending up male stripping all over the world. Now the Vancouver-based group is prepping their first shows in Vancouver proper on their latest tour. This week they’re outside of the city, with shows in North Vancouver (Jan. 26) and Maple Ridge (Jan. 27) but they’re in Vancouver at the Cultch Feb. 3, with more February dates in Surrey and Burnaby.

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Passion Pit at the Commodore Ballroom

Wake up, “Sleepyhead.” The one-man band that is Passion Pit makes a stop on its 2018 tour at Vancouver’s Commodore. Founder/ songwriter/producer Michael Angelakos will be joined in the Passion Pit with live musicians to round things out for a night of the band’s signature indietronica, including new songs and fan favourites.

Jan. 26 Commodore Ballroom, 868 Granville St. commodoreballroom.com

“Vancouver’s Next Top Mayor”

You wanna be on top... of Vancouver’s civic political ladder? Comedian Graham Clark offers a witty take on the potential glut of contenders putting their hat in the ring to run for the job of Vancouver’s mayor. Clark, who will be joined by other comedians, will break from his usual routine of staying away from politics, diving headlong into the

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The hockey blog that knows who needs the puck

With trade deadline a month away, it’s time for Canucks to make moves The team’s Horvat-less losing skid makes deadline decisions easier

Backhand Sauce Daniel Wagner

The Canucks are not going to make the playoffs.

I apologize if that comes as a shock to you, though it really shouldn’t at this point in the season. Entering Tuesday night’s game against the Los Angeles Kings, the Canucks were sitting in 28th place in the NHL. According to Sports Club Stats, their odds of making the playoffs at this point are an incredibly slim 0.1 per cent.

Making the playoffs at this point would require an absurd run in the back half of the season, the likes of which this team simply is not capable of. The Canucks have scored the seventh fewest goals in the NHL and allowed the fifth most.

If the Canucks were to make the playoffs this season, it was always going to be by the skin of their teeth. Everything would have had to go right. Everything did not go right. Injuries struck at all the wrong times, taking out key players like Chris Tanev, Bo Horvat, Sven Baertschi and Brandon Sutter for extended stretches of time.

This does provide, however, an excellent opportunity to build towards the future. In some ways, the Canucks are fortunate that their fortunes have become so clear this season. Their dire situation offers Jim Benning and Trevor Linden no illusions: they are very clearly sellers at the upcoming trade deadline.

They should not, however, wait for that deadline to arrive.

One of the smartest things Benning did last year was make his two key trades in the days leading up to the deadline, sending Alex Burrows to the Ottawa Senators for forward prospect Jonathan Dahlen, and Jannik Hansen to the San Jose Sharks for Nikolay Goldobin.

Benning seemed to learn a lesson from the previous year, when he held out for better deals for Dan Hamhuis and Radim Vrbata and ended up with nothing to

Stick-taps & Glove-drops • The Las Vegas Golden Knights deserve a tap of the stick. They briefly hit first place in the entire NHL last week and are having the best first season for an expansion team in any sport. Their success is also making a lot of NHL GMs look bad, taking their castoffs and turning them into one of the best teams in the league.

As a pending unrestricted free agent, Thomas Vanek is one of the Canucks’ best trade assets right now. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

show for it, as potential trade partners went a different direction on deadline day. There seems to be a growing desire for teams to make trades in the week, or even month, leading up to the deadline, with fewer teams wanting to wait until the last minute.

For Benning and Linden, that means shopping their trade assets now, before the market gets flooded. Their two best trade assets right now are Erik Gudbranson and Thomas Vanek, who are both pending unrestricted free agents. They should also be willing to listen to the rumoured offers for Michael Del Zotto and Ben Hutton, though the latter is young enough to still be part of their plans for the future.

Though it pains me to say this, the Canucks should also be open to offers for Chris Tanev, though negotiations should start with a blue-chip prospect and a first-round pick if Tanev is on the move.

At the very least, the Canucks need to trade Gudbranson and Vanek to acquire prospects and picks for the future. Canucks fans should keep their expectations low. Last season, Vanek only fetched AHL defenceman Dylan McIlrath and a third-round pick despite a strong season for Detroit. A comparable trade for Gudbranson would be the Luke Schenn deal from a couple years ago that brought back Jordan Weal and a third-round pick.

Even still, the addition of a couple midround picks will help the Canucks fill out a prospect pool that is missing some depth at centre and on defence.

The trade deadline is Monday, Feb. 26.

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• I’m dropping the gloves with the NHL’s Department of Player Safety for dropping the ball on their decision to fine Dustin Brown last week. Brown crosschecked a vulnerable Justin Schultz from behind while Schultz was on his knees, sending him head first into the boards. It was a blatantly dirty play and it is unfathomable that it didn’t earn Brown a suspension.

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78.9 The Canucks are out

were 17 trades made on the day of last season’s trade deadline, though that includes two deals made after midnight eastern time the night before. That’s not a lot of deals at the deadline and several of them were AHL-level trades that had no impact on NHL rosters. of the playoff race, but have no hope of catching the Buffalo Sabres and Arizona Coyotes for last place in the NHL. HockeyViz. com projects a final point total of 78.9 points, putting them in a battle with the Ottawa Senators, Edmonton Oilers and Montreal Canadiens for third last.

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9 reasons Amazon didn’t give a rose to needy and desperate Vancouver

It was announced last week Vancouver is officially out of the running to be the home of Amazon’s second headquarters, or HQ2 as the blogosphere likes to call it.

This leaves Toronto as the sole Canadian city and Los Angeles as the only West Coast city still under consideration.

But is anyone really surprised? Besides the lack of affordable housing, Vancouver just seemed desperate and needy. Always seeking affirmation from “Most Liveable City in the World” lists and legions of opinion columnists who feel the need to explain why they will or won’t be living here, Vancouver is one high-maintenance, self-absorbed city.

Of course there are other reasons Amazon didn’t present Vancouver with a rose.

Let us count the ways.

1. On their first date, Amazon noticed Vancouver spent most of the time on its cellphone, texting other cities and constantly taking selfies and putting rabbit ears and whiskers on itself with Snapchat in a way that looked vaguely racist. It was as if Amazon wasn’t even there.

2. While walking along the seawall, Vancouver told Amazon that they shared a special bond and that it only felt like its true self when it was with Amazon. But Amazon later learned that Vancouver had said that to Portland the day before.

3. During awkward silences, and there were a lot, Vancouver had this annoying habit of asking Amazon what it was thinking.

4. Vancouver snores in bed.

5. Never once did Vancouver ask Amazon about itself. It was always me, me, me. I did this. I did that. I hosted the Olympics. Look at our mountains. Look at our oceans. It was pathetic.

6. Vancouver constantly would bring up Hootsuite.

Hootsuite this, Hootsuite that. Well if you love Hootsuite so much, why don’t you marry it, Amazon finally replied. That shut Vancouver up for a while.

7. Vancouver thought it was sexy to show Amazon its Yaletown and Granville Strip. Like a lot.

8. Once, Vancouver texted Amazon, “You up?” Like totally out of the blue, after weeks of never calling. It was like Vancouver ghosted Amazon but suddenly, at two in the morning on a Wednesday, it was available and hoping to “chill.” No thanks. And to answer your other question, Vancouver.

How does Amazon like its eggs in the morning? Unfertilized, thank you.

9. Toronto is a meddling, conniving, little b****

McDonald’s delivery alleviates the shame of eating McNuggets alone… or so we’re told

Filet-O-Fish fans — all 12 of you — and couchbound pot heads, rejoice.

McDonald’s and Uber Eats have launched free food delivery service (dubbed McDelivery, naturally) from 11 Vancouver McDonald’s locations.

Customers can order anything off the menu, except soft serve cones, and Uber gets a toehold in the B.C. market, which continues to forbid the ride-hailing company from peddling its gig-economy wares in these climes.

While some will surely

deride the fast food delivery partnership as a sad reflection of McDonald’s customers’ laziness and lack of positive health choices, we think there could be one distinct benefit: a person’s feelings of self-worth.

Speaking from experience, we’ve never felt anything but hungover or shame when standing in line at McDonald’s.

Have you ever looked at a fellow McDonald’s customer in the eyes?

Probably not, because you’re both staring at your shoes hoping an ex-girlfriend or boyfriend doesn’t limberly jog past and see you inside.

And if you do meet eyes with a fellow McEater, you never see joy or pride in each other’s faces. It’s just meek, feet-shuffling, deep-in-the-bones shame.

Which is also why you never see or hear high fives in a McDonald’s restaurant. It’s scientifically proven.

In fact, the closest thing to a positive interaction we’ve had with a fellow McDonald’s customer was shrugging acknowledgement, as if to say, “Oh hey, I guess we’re in this together… making questionable food choices for our doughy body… but what are you gonna do.”

Getting McDonald’s delivered to your bachelor apartment or dank basement suite alleviates this shame and potentially awkward interaction. Unless of course, you feel that your delivery driver is silently judging you.

Which he or she probably is.

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Automotive BRAKING NEWS

Famous Bullitt Mustang pops up in Detroit Brendan McAleer

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The return of the Bullitt – times two

Perhaps no car-chase movie is as beloved by gearheads as the Steve McQueen vehicle Bullitt.

Everything about it is right: the bad guys in their menacing black Dodge Charger, the jumps, the tire smoke, the cat-and-mouse action. At the risk of heresy, I’d say the rest of the movie is pretty slow-paced, but the 10-minute, 53-second chase scene makes up for it.

That’s especially true if you’re a Mustang fan, because Frank Bullitt’s forest green 1968 Mustang was an instant screen icon. It spawned hundreds of imitators over the years, to the point that Ford even decided it would be a good idea to release new versions of the Mustang as factory-made Bullitt special editions.

For a long time, however, the original hero car from the movie (two were used, and the stunt car was found a while back) was a long-lost legend. As it turns out, it was tucked away in a garage, just waiting for the right time to emerge.

And emerge it did, at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, rolling up beside Ford’s latest tribute to Bullitt. The old car is in mostly original shape, and even comes with a letter Steve McQueen wrote when he tried to buy it back (the owner declined).

Next to the old is the new, a 475 horsepower, 5.0-litre monster wearing dark green

paint and black alloys, and with minimal badging. A cue-ball shifter sits atop a six-speed manual – the only transmission offered – and the car carries over the regular Mustang GT’s performance package suspension and braking upgrades.

The icon from the past is worth almost too much to fathom. However, if you’ve always been a fan of the movie, Ford’s got a Bullitt with your name on it.

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sheds. Badged to celebrate Land Rover’s 70th anniversary, it comes with improved suspension, bigger brakes, and is available in both twoand four-door versions.

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Despite agricultural feel and occasionally wonky reliability, the Defender is loved by all, from actual farm workers to tweed-wearing upper class twits traipsing around the countryside trying to blast pheasants into atoms. It is as universally appealing as a Wellington boot, and features much the same interior.

Land Rover canceled the Defender a while back, as it would of course not meet stringent rules for emissions and safety. However, that’s not stopping their heritage division from cranking out a new tribute version, and charging through the nose for it.

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APR Purchase Financing is available on select new 2017, 2018 Mazda models. Excluded on 2017 MX-5, 2018 MX-5, CX-5 and CX-9 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. ΩWinter Tire Credit Offer is available to qualifying retail customers who cash purchase/finance/lease a new, in-stock 2017 and 2018 Mazda model from an authorized Mazda dealer in Canada between January 3 – 31, 2018. Winter Tire Credit Offer value of $425. Customer can substitute for a $425 cash discount. Cash discount substitute applied before taxes. Winter Tire Credit will be deducted from the negotiated accessory item price before taxes. Winter Tire Credit Offer cannot be combined with Winter Accessory Credit Offer. Some conditions apply. See dealer for complete details. ▼Winter Accessory Credit Offer is available to qualifying retail customers who cash purchase/finance/lease a new, in-stock 2017 and 2018 Mazda model from an authorized Mazda dealer in Canada between January 3 – 31, 2018. Winter Accessory Credit Offer value of $425. Customer can substitute for a $425 cash discount. Cash discount substitute applied before taxes. Winter Accessory Credit will be deducted from the negotiated accessory item price before taxes. Winter Accessory Credit Offer cannot be combined with Winter Tire Credit Offer. Some conditions apply. See dealer for complete details. †Based on a representative example using a finance price of $38,220/$21,515/$26,420/$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%/2.49%/1.99%/1.5% APR, the cost of borrowing for an 84-month term is $5,516/$1,952/$1,905/$925 weekly payment is $120/$64/$78/$50, total finance obligation is $43,736/$23,467/$28,325/$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 January 3-31, 2018 while supplies last. Prices and rates subject to change without notice. Visit mazda.ca or see your dealer for complete details. *To learn more about the Mazda Unlimited Warranty, go to mazdaunlimited.ca. 2018 CX-3 GT model shown with available roof rack accessory and Thule cargo box accessory. 2017 CX-5 GT model shown with available roof rack accessory.

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THE VANCOUVER COURIER T H U R SDAY, JA N UA RY 2 5 , 2 0 1 8

For your Valentine

Guizhou Moutai Chiew

Barone Nero

Flying Fairy

750 mL

299

95

+ TAX

AND DEPOSIT Limit of two per customer

+ TAX

23

+ TAX

AND

SAVE

2

$

DEPOSIT

Fuggles and Warlock

SAVE

5

95

AND

1

$

DEPOSIT

1L

10

+ TAX

AND

SAVE

2

$

95

DEPOSIT

AND

For your Valentine

10

+ TAX

AND

SAVE

50 ¢

DEPOSIT

1

$

DEPOSIT

750 mL

$

11

95

AND

SAVE

3

$

DEPOSIT

Pink Bubbles

95

SAVE

95

+ TAX

IPA

+ TAX

$

Yellow Tail

473 mL

2

For your Valentine

Reserve Merlot

Steel Toad

$

DEPOSIT

Jackson-Triggs

White Blend

$

AND

3

$

95

750 mL

Colour Selection

For your Valentine

17

$

SAVE

Tinto & Blanco

650 mL

+ TAX

DEPOSIT

Plaza de Toros

Strawberry Wit

$

5

$

750 mL

+ TAX

For your Valentine

For your Valentine

AND

SAVE

Petit Blanc

750 mL

95

95

Le Vieux Pin

Crown Royal

$

9

$

500 mL

$

For your Valentine

Parolvini

For your Valentine

750 mL

11

$ + TAX

AND

95

SAVE

2

$

DEPOSIT

Sale prices are subject to item availability and quantities are limited. Valid until February 18th.

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