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Is Libby Davies running for mayor?

Mike Howell

mhowell@vancourier.com

I love a good rumour as much as the next person.

But in my line of work, I can’t fill this space with the a-little-birdie-told-me-thatthis-person-or-that-personis-going-to-run-for-mayor type of copy.

Unfortunately, I have to let the facts get in the way of a sensational story.

Although some civic politics junkies might lose their minds hearing that Trevor Linden, Christy Clark and Chip Wilson are serious contenders to become the Non-Partisan Association’s mayoral candidate, those same junkies can calm down because I just made that up.

Since Mayor Gregor Robertson announced Jan. 10 that he will not seek a fourth term at city hall, the rumour mill has been operating 24/7 as to who will be Vancouver’s next mayor.

A lot of those names being tossed about are women.

I’ve come up with four: Tamara Vrooman, Katrina

Pacey, Libby Davies and Adriane Carr.

So what I’ve done is something revolutionary in these new times for journalism. I reached to my right, picked up a banana-shaped piece of plastic, punched in some numbers on a plastic pad and waited to hear those four women’s voices in my ear.

Regular readers who read to the bottom of some of my epic tales learned a couple weeks ago what city councillor Carr of the Green Party said about running for mayor — she’s not ruling it out. So let’s get to some fresh news on what Vrooman, Pacey and Davies are up to.

I’ll begin with Vrooman, the CEO of Vancity, because she didn’t have much to say.

In fact, her PR team sent me a good ole statement instead of lining up an interview.

“I am humbled that some people think I can make a positive contribution to public service, however, at this time, I am fully committed to Vancity and I will not be putting my name forward,” she said in her statement.

Libby Davies, the former NDP MP for Vancouver-East, ran for mayor in 1993. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

On to Pacey, who recently announced she was leaving Pivot Legal Society after a 17year run where she became a champion for sex workers’ rights and won a landmark case in the Supreme Court of Canada. Why is she leaving?

Must be because she’s running for mayor, right?

After all, former COPE councillor Ellen Woodsworth has taken to Twitter to campaign for Pacey to run. She was on CBC’s Early Edition also calling for Pacey to run. Headline writers obsessed with 1980s pop band references were hoping it was true: Katrina makes

waves, runs for mayor.

So how about it, Katrina, are you running for mayor?

“I definitely had some conversations with people who have thought that might be something I was interested in and might be the direction my career was going,” she said by telephone. “But those are not new conversations in so far as the opportunity or the thought that I might enter politics has been something that’s been possible or, at least, contemplated for some time.”

OK, but are you running?

“It’s not something I’m doing or thinking seriously about right now. But I haven’t

closed that door — that’s for sure — in terms of the future.

But it’s not this year. The answer is I’m not running for mayor or council this year.”

That same day, Libby Davies was good enough to take my call. Last time I spoke to her was for a piece I wrote about her retiring in October 2015 as the longtime NDP MP for Vancouver-East. I reminded her then that she ran for mayor in 1993 with COPE, which prompted my question about whether she was interested in doing that again.

Her response in 2015: “No, I’ve had people raise that with me. But I would like to see a woman mayor in Vancouver, though. Isn’t it incredible that we’ve never had a woman mayor?”

Her response this week to the same question: “I’ve certainly been contacted by a lot of people on Facebook and through emails and messages and what not. I’m certainly interested in what’s going to happen in the civic election, overall. I certainly want to play a role in helping to bring

about cooperation on the progressive side of things.

I think it’s really important that we not allow an NPA council in Vancouver. So I’m going to work really hard to ensure that doesn’t happen.”

OK, but are you running?

“In terms of myself running, I think that’s very up in the air. I’m thinking about it just because people have talked to me. So I think it’s important that I think about it. But I feel like my energy right now is directed towards helping to find a way, overall, that there is cooperation and a sense of agreement about how to move forward.”

No matter who runs for mayor this year, both Davies and Pacey want the winner to be a woman.

Seems hard to believe, said the white male journo, that Vancouver has never had a woman lead city hall. Coquitlam, Victoria, Delta, Surrey, West Vancouver, Maple Ridge, to name a few, have all had women as mayors. Maybe 2018 is Vancouver’s turn.

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School name remains the same John Kurucz

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A protracted, year-long battle to change the name of a downtown elementary school has ended back where it started.

Crosstown elementary school will remain Crosstown elementary. Vancouver School Board trustees voted 5-3 against a motion to change its name at the Jan. 29 board meeting.

Green Party trustees Janet Fraser, Judy Zaichkowsky and Estrellita Gonzalez, along with NPAers Lisa Dominato and Fraser Ballantyne, were those opposed.

First brought forward by Vision trustee Allan Wong, the motion sought to change the school’s name to Alexander Won Cumyow elementary school. Cumyow was a Chinese-Canadian activist, court interpreter and legal advisor from the late 1800s until his death 1955. None of Vancouver’s more than 110 schools reflect AsianCanadians in name.

Wong’s motion was supported Monday by OneCity trustee Carrie Bercic and fellow Vision trustee Joy

Alexander. Vision trustee Ken Clement abstained.

“If we are a city that is committed to reconciliation, then it is time to right our historical wrongs on all fronts,” Bercic told the Courier via email Tuesday. “It is also time to have a school honour the legacy of Asian Canadians and the impact they have had on our history.”

Officially opened in September 2017, Crosstown elementary is adjacent to Rogers Arena. Its moniker was adopted in December 2016, back when the district was without elected trustees. About 40 names were submitted at that time and a staff report noted the decision reflected the divergence of neighbourhoods surrounding the school: Gastown, Chinatown, Yaletown, Downtown and Northeast False Creek.

While some hated it, that didn’t appear to be the case with a good cross section of the school’s parents, students and surrounding community.

An online petition surfaced late last week indicating support for keeping Crosstown, and it garnered more than 600 backers in seven days.

“The consensus among

students, parents and faculty at Crosstown is that we love our school name and feel very attached to the culture we have been building around it over the last couple of years,” petition-starter Deborah Barnett wrote.

Fraser said the majority of correspondence she received on the issue reflected those sentiments as well.

The board’s current policy states: “Names selected for Vancouver schools should honour the historical and cultural/ethnic heritage — including the First Nations community, recognize outstanding individuals, be reflective of the region, or be significant to the geography of the area. Names of individuals should only be used posthumously.”

Interestingly enough, Fraser introduced a motion at Monday’s meeting to examine the district’s school naming policy. The intent is to “enable better representation of the city’s historic multicultural heritage and the board’s commitment to reconciliation.”

It’s been referred to a committee meeting in early February.

A longer version of this story is at vancourier.com.

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One in five organ donors connected to fentanyl 19 per cent of deceased donors had deadly synthetic narcotic in system when they arrived at hospital Mike Howell

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One in five deceased organ donors in B.C. last year had the deadly synthetic narcotic fentanyl in their system when they ar-

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plants for such organs as a kidney, liver and lungs. BC Transplant did not have a breakdown on how many or what type of organs came from people who had fentanyl in their system at the time of death.

The agency also cautioned that not everyone who presented with fentanyl in their system necessarily died of a drug overdose, said Dr. David Landsberg, BC Transplant’s provincial medical director for transplant services.

“They may have been using drugs and had a head injury, which was the cause of their death,” Landsberg told the Courier. “The drug might have contributed to the behaviour that led to the death, but it doesn’t actually mean that they died from fentanyl.”

That said, Landsberg pointed out that not every donor admitted to hospital would have been tested for fentanyl. The circumstances of why a person was at hospital may not have required drug testing, he said.

“So we could have missed some because it’s not necessarily when they arrive in the emergency room,” he said, noting an additional 10 to 13 deceased donors had other types of drugs in their system when they arrived at the hospital. “That could have been marijuana, that could have been cocaine, it could have been a prescription drug.”

Unfortunately, he added, BC Transplant does not have “vigorous data” for previous years to determine whether there has been an increase in the number of deceased organ donors solely because of the opioid crisis.

The agency saw a 25 per

BC Transplant, an agency of the Provincial Health Services Authority, says 19 per cent of deceased organ donors last year had fentanyl in their system at time of death. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

cent increase in deceased organ donors last year but attributes that spike to a concentrated effort on the part of health care teams in hospitals to identify potential donors and support families in choosing organ donation.

“Hopefully the opioid crisis ends immediately, but we still believe our numbers [of donors] won’t go down because of that,” he said, referring to system changes and a shift in culture that fully supports organ donation as a normal end-of-life option.

The BC Coroners Service was expected to release new statistics Jan. 31, after the

Courier’s print deadline, showing that more than 1,200 people are suspected of dying of an overdose in the province in 2017. Previous statistics have shown more than 80 per cent of deaths were connected to fentanyl.

Though many victims have been chronic users, and their overall health is in decline, Landsberg pointed out that people who were otherwise healthy are also among the hundreds of overdose victims.

“Part of the tragedy is young, pretty healthy people may have just been dabbling in recreational drugs and it’s an unintentional

poisoning from contamination with fentanyl,” he said.

“You see reports of this all the time — that a young person on the weekend was out with her friends, went to a bathroom, snorted cocaine and were found dead in the bathroom. So those people are obviously good potential donors.”

A combination of 121 deceased donors and 95 living donors allowed for 479 transplants last year. That’s up from 423 in 2016, 422 in 2015 and 326 in 2014.

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ICBC a ‘financial dumpster fire’ Jessica Kerr

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Attorney General David Eby addressed reports Monday morning that ICBC is projecting a $1.3-billion loss for the 2017/18 fiscal year, calling the situation a “financial dumpster fire.”

On Sunday, the insurance company posted its thirdquarter financial results, which included a net loss of $935 million in the first nine months and a projected $1.3-billion loss by the end of the fiscal year.

“This is quite simply a financial dumpster fire,” Eby said. “British Columbians deserve the truth, no matter how brutal the news is. Years of reckless decisions by the former government have undermined ICBC’s ability to deliver low cost insurance to British Columbians.”

Eby blamed the company’s financial woes on mismanagement by the previous government, saying that ICBC was being “politically directed in a way that was not sustainable, including government taking more than $1 billion out of the corporation.”

He said the Liberals were warned three years ago that the company was heading for financial trouble and received recommendations from an independent consultant. Eby said the recommendations were removed from the version of the report that was released to the public.

“They knew the dumpster was on fire but they pushed it behind the building instead of trying to put the fire out,” he said.

Liberal MLA, and former attorney general, Mike de Jong responded to the statements, saying on his website that Eby had the ICBC report for months.

“The NDP need to get beyond blaming and start governing,” de Jong wrote in a statement. “David Eby has had a report on ICBC options on his desk and he’s done nothing with it.

He had a mandate letter that told him to prepare a detailed plan to present to the public. That hasn’t happened and the problem continues to get worse.”

On Monday, Eby told reporters that the government wouldn’t just put money

into the company to help keep it afloat.

“ICBC must become financially sustainable to keep rates affordable for British Columbians,” he said, adding that insurance premiums would have to go up by $400 just to get ICBC to break even.

“Obviously British Columbians can’t afford that and we won’t let that happen,” Eby said, adding that the NDP government will be announcing major reforms in the coming weeks with the aim of making the insurance company financial sustainable.

He said “significant initiatives” will be introduced in the legislature this spring “that will keep rates affordable and see high-risk drivers pay more while lowrisk drivers pay less.”

Eby said the government is currently not considering going to a no-fault insurance system but did say that a cap on minor injury claims is being considered, something he acknowledged might not be a popular decision, and pledged to keep rates affordable.

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Rio Theatre operator hopes show will go on Corrine Lea is trying buy back the theatre she and others first purchased in 2008

John Kurucz

jkurucz@vancourier.com

Corrine Lea’s weekend unexpectedly went from party planning to party poopers.

Lea’s run at the helm of the Rio Theatre stretches into its second decade as of May 1, but how much longer that continues was brought into question late last week when a real estate brochure listed the Commercial Drive institution as being for sale.

Lea knew the property had been on the market for the better part of a year, but given the lack of offers, she put the issue on the backburner.

Not anymore.

“I’m feeling a little stressed for sure,” Lea told the Courier Monday. “I was just focusing on saving money and getting ourselves in a better position. I wasn’t expecting to have to deal with this so soon.”

Built in 1938 and located near the intersection of Commercial and Broadway, the property has been owned by theatre magnate Leonard Schein since 2011. Lea and a group of about 10 other investors first purchased it in 2008, but sold it to Schein when the market for single-screen theatres took a nose dive.

She’s continued on as the operator and manager since.

News of the sale quickly

blew up on social media over the weekend, and offers of support and financial help have poured in. That’s the good news. The bad news is that Lea is now concerned the attention kicked up over the last few days will invite renewed interest from potential purchasers.

That prospect now has her expediting talks with Schein to buy the property back, and Lea’s expected to make an offer in short order.

Schein told the Courier Tuesday he’s in no rush to sell the property and hasn’t fielded any new offers since news broke over the weekend.

He wants to sell it back to Lea, though he has no timeframe, nor a potential price tag in mind.

“She’s doing well,” Schein said. “We don’t need to be there to save the theatre anymore. We only did that on a temporary basis so that the theatre would go on. She’s doing that successfully and hopefully she will be able to buy it.”

Lea figures it’s going to take at least $1 million and is now getting her funding push together.

“I don’t have the million-dollar cheque just sitting there,” she said.

“But I have a handful of people interested and I’m sure once we know we have a confirmed offer I’m sure we would get more.”

The land is assessed at

roughly $4 million, and Lea’s lease has another eight years on it. Should the land get sold, the new owner would have to honour the duration of her lease, she said.

There are some legislative measures in place that will help in Lea’s fight. The GrandviewWoodland community plan specifically calls for preservation of the area’s heritage and culture sites such as the Rio, the Cultch and the York Theatre. Building restrictions in the area limit development to 10 storeys.

This isn’t the first time Lea’s business has felt the pinch, as she won a protracted battle for a liquor licence with the province in 2012. Around that same time, the business model moved away from solely movies, to live music, burlesque, comedy shows and other events.

The theatre has been in the black since then, and Lea says she’s uninterested in fielding offers to buy out the remainder of her lease.

“I feel like I already fought enough and now I have to climb another mountain. On a personal level, it can get very exhausting,” she said. “But I feel like I have no choice because I love the Rio and I love what I do. I’m not just going to let it go.” @JohnKurucz

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Opinion

Who on the left will wear the one ring to rule them all?

Mike Klassen

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Vancouver politics, like so many of its civic institutions, feels like it’s broken.

A case in point is the discussion of a new left-wing coalition to challenge the NPA on the right.

That idea was floated barely hours after Gregor Robertson announced he had a walk-in-the-sand epiphany over the winter holiday, and would not run again as mayor.

Even the most favourably disposed left-wing commentators will have to admit that coalescing the left in this city around any single party brand or leader is challenging.

One friend observed it would be a bit like the Fellowship of the Ring, but without wizards, hobbits, elves, or even dwarves. It would be just men (and women) — all drawn to the power of the Ring.

What, or more accurately who, would be the one ring to rule them all?

Who will lead the remnants of Vision Vancouver, plus One City, the Vancouver Greens and COPE into battle against the city’s centre-right party?

Finding that perfect post-Robertson candidate is undoubtedly the current quest of both the city’s union leaders and the political left’s backroom operatives.

Newspaper reports are bandying names of people who were first elected

Rallying the left in Vancouver around any single party brand or leader is a bit like the Fellowship of the Ring, but without wizards, hobbits, elves, or even dwarves.

to council when Duran Duran topped the music charts, which indicates how shallow the candidate pool is.

The combative councillor Raymond Louie is one whose name is mentioned.

But Louie’s significant role in foisting the highest tax increase on Vancouverites in over a decade has pretty much dashed his mayoral ambitions. I predict he will want to keep his relatively secure council job.

It might be time to think outside the box.

There is one candidate that left wing parties could potentially rally behind, while appealing to many

voters on the right, too.

The person I am thinking of already has a longestablished career in civic politics and enough name recognition to make him highly electable.

Furthermore, he has a strong personal connection to the provincial government, as well as noteworthy track record on transit, housing and regional government.

He can also boast of having the lowest homeless population numbers of any large city in the region — only three per cent the size of Vancouver’s.

Did I mention he chairs the Mayor’s Council?

Of course, I am speaking about Derek Corrigan, the mayor of Burnaby.

Surely, that is not possible, you say. To my understanding, however, there are no rules in the Vancouver Charter barring a mayor from holding that job in another city.

It should be noted that former Vancouver Mayor Fred Hume (1951-58) was re-elected to multiple terms despite serving previously as New Westminster’s mayor, and being a West Vancouver resident while in office. So, the Corrigan idea is not too far out there.

With 50-storey condo

towers popping up across Burnaby almost as fast as the low-income rentals are being razed, Corrigan shows that he knows how to build cities when Vancouver can hardly keep pace.

His city apparently has $1 billion in reserves, which will make Vancouver’s more fiscally aware voters coo.

Corrigan has been unopposed within his city for years, which demonstrates his political appeal.

For three terms in a row, all seats on Corrigan’s city council and Burnaby’s school board consist of candidates from the labour-backed Burnaby

Citizens Association.

A self-identified socialist, Corrigan’s impeccable left-wing credentials allows him to stand his ground on things such as homeless shelters — which he rejects as not being a municipal responsibility, and therefore Burnaby has none.

The 2017 Metro Vancouver homeless count lists only 69 homeless people in Burnaby, compared to more than 2,100 in neighbouring Vancouver.

His council recently approved a long-term plan for the Metrotown neighbourhood that housing advocates estimate could displace upwards of 6,000 people who currently reside in low-income housing.

Boulevards in Burnaby are manicured yearround. Hard to imagine that Vancouver’s streets and sidewalks would remain litter-strewn with Corrigan as mayor.

OK, I will admit that transplanting Derek Corrigan into city hall at 12th and Cambie — as appealing it might be for some — is a stretch. But it does showcase the absurdity of partisan left-versus-right politics in Vancouver.

Is it too much to ask that we elect a mayor who represents the city as a whole, and not just the interests of unions, real estate developers or other special interests? @MikeKlassen

Well-intentioned but flawed ‘jealousy tax’ won’t help Michael Geller geller@sfu.ca

Attention Vancouver property owners!

Friday, Feb. 2 is the deadline by which you must submit a property status declaration so that city officials can determine if your property is subject to the Empty Homes Tax. Failure to declare will result in your property being deemed vacant and subject to a tax of one per cent of its assessed taxable value. For most West Side single-family properties, that’s $30,000 or more. Every year.

Every Vancouver homeowner must make a declaration, even those who have lived in their homes for decades and assumed the tax applied only to the vacant house down the street or empty apartment next door.

While the city’s desire to transform what it claims are 25,495 empty or “under-utilized” dwellings into new rental units was well-intentioned, as regular readers of this column know, I have long opposed how the city has introduced this tax bylaw.

From the onset, city lawyers knew from the experience in London and other global jurisdictions that it is extremely difficult and expensive to enforce a tax on vacant dwellings.

Consequently, Vancouver’s legal department drafted what many regarded to be a very heavyhanded bylaw, which not only taxed owners of truly empty dwellings, but also the owners of most second homes.

When a few of these second home owners, in-

cluding a former Vancouver doctor who had moved to Bowen Island but came into the city to work parttime, complained about the impact of this tax, they were told by city staff they had a choice. They could rent their homes or sell.

Since any intelligent person could appreciate these second homes could not be rented out for a minimum 30 days at a time, this response prompted me and others to suggest that, in effect, the tax was like a jealousy tax, to appease voters who could not afford one home, let alone two.

Nonetheless, the city refused to amend the bylaw.

As a result, many of these homeowners, including a former MLA and B.C. mayor, have offered their properties for sale since

they are not prepared to pay such a punitive tax.

These homes will not suddenly become rental properties, and I am willing to bet my house that this tax will not result in anywhere near the tens of thousands of rental properties that the mayor, and other misguided souls, predict will come onto the market.

The unreasonableness of this tax was recently illustrated by the case of a vacant lot owner who was told she too would have to pay the tax. This despite the fact the lot had always been vacant.

When she complained to city staff, she was told to apply for a permit and build a house on the property. Who knew it was also an empty lot tax?

As this column was about to go to press, the

mayor held a press conference to provide an update on the tax. At the conference, media were told that 11 per cent or 21,000 Vancouver homeowners have not yet submitted their declarations.

When the mayor and city chief financial officer were asked how many of the 89 per cent of homeowners who had responded said their properties were vacant, we were somewhat amused when the CFO claimed the city did not yet have this information. Really?

While I remain opposed to aspects of the Empty Home Tax, especially its application to second homes, I decided to offer two suggestions to help the city recoup some of the $7.4 million it says the program is now estimated to cost to administer.

Since I suspect many owners of truly vacant properties are going to lie about their status, I suggested the city implement something akin to the Crime Stoppers program to encourage the public to anonymously provide tips about vacant properties, especially those that could serve as rental housing.

I subsequently learned there already is a smartphone app to report vacant dwellings.

I also suggested city staff liaise with the garbage collection department since if anyone knows which singlefamily houses are empty, it’s the waste collectors.

The CFO acknowledged they hadn’t thought of this, but agreed it was a good idea.

I am pleased to help. @michaelgeller

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When smoke gets in your eyes Re: Smoking of all kinds to vanish on ferries starting Monday,” online only, Jan. 21.

Almost had to get a tissue for the sad stories regarding the smoking ban on B.C. Ferries.

Anyone remember the fuss and trauma over banning smoking on airplanes? I’ve been researching to find out how many people have died since from not being able to smoke for any number of hours.

Nothing so far.

A smoking area (which many don’t use, which is a big part of the problem) is like trying to enforce a “non-peeing section” in a pool.

Maybe all that fresh ocean air will do your lungs some good. Happy sailing!

Teri Elder, Vancouver

Taking the British out of B.C. Re: “A new name for British Columbia? Here are a few ideas,” online only, Jan. 28.

Some have asked if a change in the name of our province would lead to changing the names of Alberta, Regina, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, Victoria, Prince Rupert, etc. They miss the point.

None of them have the name of another nationality, such as “British,” before them.

We do not name Quebec as “French” Quebec and its residents as “French” Quebecers. Why can’t we, in this province, be 100 per cent Canadians, instead of also being “British” Columbians?

Since I came to Canada in 1969, I have experienced every stage in the continuum: from hate, to discrimination, to denial, to resistance, to tolerance, to tokenism, to acceptance. However, I am still yearning for the final stage: respectful and full inclusion.

I want to be 100 per cent Canadian.

If Queen Victoria had visited our province before she named it in 1858, when she was 39 years old, perhaps she would have named it differently. She never ever did come here to see the land that was a British colony, starting first on Vancouver Island in 1849, to including the rest of the province in 1858, until 1871 — a colony for a relatively short period of 22 years. The first visit of a reigning British monarch to our province was only in 1939.

In 2021 our province will celebrate 150 years in the Canadian federation. I hope that we all in this province will be 100 per cent Canadian by that date.

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Klassen column was vindictive, nasty and silly Re: “Mayor leaves a city divided between us and them,” Jan. 18.

Although I am not a resident of Vancouver, I occasionally get an opportunity to read the Vancouver Courier. On the whole, I find it interesting, but Mike Klassen’s article was not that.

I know writers need to be provocative to keep their names before the public, but Klassen’s article crosses the line. His vindictive piece on Mayor Robertson’s tenure in office is just plain nasty.

People who are elected to office need input — positive and negative — but it must be balanced and fair. Klassen’s article is neither. One person cannot possibly be responsible for everything Klassen asserts is Robertson’s fault. And some the accusations are downright silly, such as Mr. Robertson taking a winter vacation when it snowed in Vancouver. Imagine!

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Is it time for a female mayor in Vancouver?

All 39 of Vancouver’s mayors have been male Naoibh O’Connor

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Victoria has one (Lisa Helps). Montreal has one (Valérie Plante). Surrey has one (Linda Hepner). Even Nanaimo had one back in the early 1990s (Joy Leach).

In fact, many Canadian cities have had one.

But not Vancouver. A city that many consider progressive has failed to elect a female mayor.

Ontario was the Canadian leader on this front — Barbara Hanley became the country’s first female mayor in Webbwood, Ont. after she was elected in 1936, while Charlotte Whitton of Ottawa, Ont. became the first woman elected mayor of a major Canadian city in 1951.

One of the country’s longest serving Canadian female mayors was “Hurricane Hazel” McCallion from Mississauga, who retired in 2014 after 36 years.

But it can be a tough job.

Just ask Maple Ridge mayor Nicole Read who stopped making public appearances for a month in 2017. Online attacks — often sexist ones — emerged after she expressed support for a homeless shelter. The RCMP ended up investigating what it called “credible threats to her personal safety.”

In Vancouver, however, a woman still hasn’t landed the city’s top political job despite voters having already elected a female premier — Christy Clark, who, incidentally, hoped to run for Vancouver mayor under the NPA in 2005 until Sam Sullivan pulled off a surprise win for the nomination. Sullivan subsequently won the election against Vision’s Jim Green.

In recent years, the closest the city has come is when NPAer Suzanne Anton, who later became Attorney General under the B.C. Liberals, battled Vision’s Gregor Robertson for the mayor’s chair in 2011.

Anton captured 58,152 votes to his 77,005.

Looking back to the 2014 municipal race, COPE, whose support had plummeted by this point, fielded Meena Wong as its candidate against Robertson and the NPA’s Kirk LaPointe.

Green Party Coun. Adriane Carr, Vision Vancouver Coun. Andrea Reimer and former COPE councillor Ellen Woodsworth have their theories about why Vancouver has never elected a female mayor. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Wong earned 16,791 votes to Robertson’s 83,529 and LaPointe’s 73,443.

In 2002, Jennifer Clarke ran for mayor under the NPA against COPE’s Larry Campbell. She earned 41,936 votes compared to Campbell’s 80,772. Valerie MacLean, vcaTEAM’s pick, only earned 7,843 votes for a distant thirdplace finish.

This brings us to the upcoming municipal vote slated for Oct. 20, 2018, and the slew of questions raised each election cycle: Which mainstream parties, if any, will field female mayoral candidates? Will Vancouver finally elect a female mayor?

Does it even matter?

The Courier talked to three prominent past and present Vancouver politicians to get their thoughts about the prospect of a woman winning the elusive seat, including Vision Vancouver councillor Andrea Reimer, Green Party councillor Adriane Carr and former COPE councillor Ellen Woodsworth, founder and chair of Women Transforming Cities International Society.

ANDREA REIMER

Reimer, a three-term Vision councillor who also spent a term as a Green Party school trustee, was long thought to be a contender, along with Raymond Louie, for Vision’s mayoral nomination if Robertson ever stepped aside.

That possibility evaporated for Reimer last October

when she revealed she won’t seek re-election, citing personal reasons.

“In a world that I believe is meant to be more like jury duty than a career, I’ve done my term, my duty, and I would like to get back a life that has a private aspect to it,” she told the Courier recently, not long after Robertson announced on Jan. 10 that he, too, won’t seek re-election.

It’s now unclear whether Vision will run a mayoral candidate at all — the party might back a progressive independent candidate.

Reimer said it’s both surprising and not surprising the city hasn’t installed a female mayor, while adding there’s no single factor that explains it; rather it’s a confluence of factors: Fewer women have run for mayor and, of the women who’ve run, it tends to be when a party has faint hope of victory.

“A not uncommon thing for women in politics is that women leaders tend to be put in when people feel like there’s less chance of that party having a shot. It’s a double chance for a party to look magnanimous or gender sensitive and let a woman take the fall rather than a man,” she said.

The opportunity for women to run for office is further reduced, according to Reimer, due to wage and economic inequality, which she says is quite pronounced in Vancouver, even relative to other Canadian cities. As a result, women’s vulnerability in terms of issues

such as safety and access to affordable housing is much higher.

“So would that lead to a woman becoming mayor?

Probably not,” said Reimer, who spoke to the Courier the day before council approved its Women’s Equity Strategy, which outlines how to make Vancouver “a fair, safe and inclusive city for all women, including self-identified women.”

From a political perspective, women have made strides, including successfully landing city council seats. This term, five of 10 councillors are female, although four of them have last names starting with one of the first few letters of the alphabet, which Reimer calls “a unique but important advantage here.”

(Some suggest alphabetical ballots favour candidates with A, B, C and D names.)

“But we have a mayor, an acting mayor and a deputy mayor — none of whom are women despite the fact half of council are women,” she said. “So just because you have women elected in larger numbers doesn’t mean that they’re going to get any more access to power.”

Raymond Louie was appointed acting mayor in December 2014. Tim Stevenson was appointed deputy mayor in July 2017.

While Reimer was appointed deputy mayor from early December 2014 to the end of December 2015, she points out that during this period the other two positions, mayor and acting

mayor, were both men. In theory, with a 50 per cent male/female split in councillors, it should be possible to have two of three positions filled by women. That hasn’t happened, while two out of three, and three out of three, of the positions have been filled by men.

Over the years, meanwhile, Reimer has chaired the Canadian Women Voters Congress and worked to recruit women to sit on political party boards, to be candidates and to support other female candidates, but she always warns them it’s a tough road and the same hurdles they face in other jobs exist in politics.

“Because there’s not just perceived but actual power on the table, I would suggest, from my own experiences, it’s somewhat magnified,” she said.

Should there be rules around gender parity in political races? Reimer said it’s a tough call. She’s always been “challenged by the idea of legislated gender parity,” but she hit a “breaking point” in 2016 when one of the appointing agencies to the city’s advisory committees told her there weren’t good women to sit in a position.

“In the face of that attitude, perhaps legislating a parity requirement would be the best way to advance the appointments, which it was,” Reimer said. “It turns out we now have well over 50 per cent women appointed. It turns out there are tons of women who

are qualified, not surprisingly, to sit on advisory committees.”

But in an electoral process, she’s still not convinced it would be fair to have women “own” a failure that’s not theirs to own.

She bristles at a question about whether male politicians, such as Robertson, should step aside to make space for female mayoral candidates, “as if it was his to give the space.”

“That’s what worries me about a party running y a woman for the sake of it… if it’s still largely men controlling the board and backrooms and the strategy, who believe they made this room for the woman, how does that give her a mandate to become a mayor like Gregor got to be or Larry Campbell got to be or Philip Owen got to be?” she said.

Reimer said it would be “fantastic” if a woman gets the job because attitudes have fundamentally V changed, but if it’s just a paper candidacy, she’s not OK with it.

Regressive attitudes are among day-to-day irritations Reimer contends with in politics, including the number of times she’s interrupted when chairing meetings.

“I’m interrupted by men and women… When Gregor is the chair, I rarely hear councillors interrupt him. Me as the chair? Every single meeting somebody is going to interrupt me while I’m talking,” she said.

“I would trade any chance of a woman becoming a mayor in a heartbeat if it meant that women have the same economic opportunities, the same feeling of safety that men have, the same access to education — all those things. If they could get through a meeting without being interrupted — that would be worth a lot more than a woman as a mayor, but I suspect the two are very closely interrelated.”

ADRIANE CARR

Could Green Party Coun. Adriane Carr be the next mayor of Vancouver?

She topped the polls in the 2014 race for council seats with 74,077 votes. But the Greens still haven’t decided whether they’ll field a mayoral candidate in 2018. If they did, and Carr sought and won the nomination, she would forfeit the far better odds of winning another term as one of the city’s 10 councillors.

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Feature Carr told the Courier this week that these decisions will be made “sooner rather than later” as the party is going through a more “robust” planning process right now, looking at questions such as how many candidates to run and which incumbents are interested in running.

She isn’t sure why a woman hasn’t nabbed the mayor’s seat yet, although her theory is it might have to do with party politics.

“Given the result in Montreal, which was very exciting, I can’t honestly say why it hasn’t happened yet in Vancouver,” she said. “Obviously, we have party politics here, so that makes a difference and, in other cities, that doesn’t happen. There are a lot of cities where women run and win. Victoria is a good example [and] Chilliwack. So is party politics the problem? Parties end up going through a more rigorous process, and you have to raise the funds…”

When she was co-chair of the Canadian Women Voters Congress national campaign school, which trains women to run for politics, Carr learned there are “huge” barriers for women, not the least of which is fundraising.

“It’s a more difficult task given you need connections that are broad into a well-heeled community. And you need more money to run for mayor, that’s for sure,” she said. “I don’t think that the voters of Vancouver wouldn’t want a woman mayor. I think it’s

more the party structure has inhibited the nomination of women.”

Carr believes women dampen down hyper-partisan politics, which she’s convinced turns voters off, and that it’s time for a woman to be elected as Vancouver’s mayor because there’s something unique they offer in politics that’s recognized world-wide.

“It’s not universal, it’s not 100 per cent the case, but, in general, women tend to lead a more collaborative process in politics. That’s what’s needed and, I think, that’s what the voters want. The polarizing kind of politics that we see, for example, in the United States with President Trump is very debilitating in terms of people’s trust in government and [their] hope that government leads to good decision-making that benefits the whole.”

ELLEN WOODSWORTH

Women’s place in politics is central to Woodsworth’s work with the Women Transforming Cities International Society. She spoke with the Courier Jan. 16, the day the federal government announced the society would receive $282,000 for a project to help remove barriers to women’s political and civic engagement in Vancouver and Surrey.

The society will work in partnership with the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women and work closely

with Health Nexus and Equal Voice.

Woodsworth conceded it’s odd that, in Vancouver, a woman has yet to win the mayor’s chair, especially in light of Dianne Watts’ and Linda Hepner’s success in Surrey.

“Vancouver has all the policy. There’s a women’s advisory committee and it’s got the gender equity strategy [that went] before council [Jan. 17]. Surrey has none of that, but they’ve had two women mayors and a majority of women on council there for years.”

Part of it, she suspects, is that Vancouver is a big city dominated by the party system and the parties consistently pick male leaders who are professionals with financial expertise.

Meanwhile, once you’re elected in any political position, she said it can be “pretty nasty” because you’re subject to incredible personal scrutiny, the media is tough and some woman haven’t learned to debate in a council setting.

“If you talk to most women who’ve been elected, that’s what they like least about being elected… being in council chambers or being in the house. That’s not a framework they feel comfortable in,” she said.

But Woodsworth thinks there’s “a really strong possibility for a woman to run and get a lot of support” in the 2018 mayoral race.

“Part of it is we’re in a time of change. People are looking for a new face.

And the other [part] is this tremendous up-swell of women feeling it’s

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important to step up and stand up to power that has not been theirs, and to have women in power who could speak up for women’s rights,” she said.

“Who knows where that’s going to emerge?”

She said former Pivot Legal Society executive director Katrina Pacey’s name has been fielded as a possible person who could capture support of several progressive parties, while former Conservative MP Wai Young is among those who might seek the NPA nomination.

Woodsworth is convinced having “a capable women to stand up and be a symbol” is important.

“We’re talking about a level of government that’s closest to the people. You do want to have people in elected office that reflect the populace… You’ve had some diversity in council and to have a woman mayor, if she is able and she brings to it a politic that really is inclusive and brings the city together [it would be good],” she said.

“Because the city is quite divided right now. There’s a lot of anger… whether it belongs to Gregor is a different question, but there’s a need for somebody who can really bring people together and give them hope that this city can really be theirs again. There are some women around who could do that. And it would be really significant for women to see that.”

Note: Suzanne Anton did not respond to the Courier’s requests for comment. @naoibh

Clockwise from top left: Yuriko Koike, Clover Moore, Fumiko Hayashi and Manuela Carmena.

Female mayors of the world

Although Vancouver has yet to elect a female mayor, a number of major cities around the world have bucked the trend. According to the City Mayors Foundation, of the world’s largest 300 cities only 25 are governed by women.

That number has dropped by a least two since first reported.

Here are the top 15 largest cities with female mayors.

Yuriko Koike Tokyo, Japan City population: 13,617,000 Clover Moore Sydney, Australia Population: 5,005,000

Nanda Jichkar Nagpur, India Population: 2,405,000

Anne Hidalgo Paris, France Population: 2,230,000 Daisy Torres Managua, Nicaragua Population: 2,206,000 Gabriela Firea Bucharest, Romania Population: 2,106,000 Marta Hernández Romero Havana, Cuba Population: 2,106,000 Evelyn Trejo de Rosales Maracaibo, Venezuela Population: 2,002,000

Fumiko Hayashi Yokohama, Japan Population: 3,733,000

Lisa Scaffidi Perth Australia Population: 1,980,000

Manuela Carmena Madrid, Spain Population: 3,141,000

Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz Warsaw, Poland Population: 1,749,000

Virginia Raggi Rome, Italy Population: 2,877,000

Valérie Plante Montreal, Quebec Population: 1,704,000

Tri Rismaharini Surabaya, Indonesia Population: 2,865,000

Statistics from citymayors.com.

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It was a capacity crowd at the Vancouver Park Board office Monday night as commissioners got set to discuss, and potentially make a decision on, the long-term plan for the city’s pools, beaches and other aquatic amenities.

There was a lot of discussion, but the big decision of the night, whether to approve the VanSplash plan, will have to wait for a future meeting. After much debate, commissioners voted 4-3 to refer the plan back to staff for further consideration of the role of neighbourhood pools in the community and the qualitative experience of pool users.

NPA commissioner Sarah Kirby-Yung tabled a lengthy series of amendments, including that it: “Support a balanced delivery model that includes neighbourhood scale pools as well as larger community and destination scale facilities to deliver a greater diversity of aquatic experiences.

“What has struck me was the opportunity that we had to hear from so many mem-

bers of the public about the critical and community role that the community pools and neighbourhood pools play in terms of people’s social interaction, their sense of inclusion, their ability recreate within their neighbourhoods, health benefits and more,” she said.

However, with the passing of the referral motion, the amendments and the original proposal were sent back to staff for more work on the plan that has been in the works since 2016.

Commissioners did move on some aspects of the plan: approving a new full-sized outdoor pool at Marpole Community Centre, as well as approving a motion to write to the province to request funding support for Lord Byng and Templeton pools.

There was some frustration from members of the public who came out hoping for a decision.

“I think they should just put it through with the amendments that were recommended by commissioner Kirby-Yung and just get the ball rolling,” said Jason McGarry, who spearheaded the move to save Templeton Pool. “It’s been delayed

long enough as it is… It’s getting exhaustive.”

McGarry was happy to see the request for provincial funding for Templeton and Lord Byng.

“Personally, I got the sense that they all recognized the existing VanSplash plan cannot go forward,” said Lord Byng advocate Tom Perry.

“We’ll be happy to come back,” he said, vowing that supporters of the pool would return for the next meeting.

Last month, park board commissioners heard from close to 50 residents on the plan with the majority lobbying for the board to keep smaller neighbourhood pools open. An earlier version of the proposal had Lord Byng and Templeton pools slated for demolition and replaced by larger destination pools at Connaught Park and Britannia Community Centre. The final version, which was on the table Monday night, kept the two pools open pending a review of the impacts of the new pools and consultation with pool users, the community and interest groups.

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Grandmother celebrates 60th b-day with week of marathons John Kurucz

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Sleep deprivation, massive temperature swings, dehydration and a side order of pain are all in Pushpa Chandra’s 60th birthday plans.

The Vancouver naturopath and grandmother officially reaches her sixth decade on Feb. 15, but the party began in earnest Jan. 30, when Chandra started the gruelling, cross-continental exercise in endurance known as the 2018 World Marathon Challenge.

Covering seven continents in seven days, the undertaking begins in Antarctica before criss-crossing through South Africa, Australia, Dubai, Portugal, Colombia and Florida.

Chandra and 50 others will run a full marathon — 42 kilometres — each day over that week-long span, and the variables at play border on misery: 50-plus hours in the air, temperatures fluctuating between -20 and 50 C, and, if she’s lucky, roughly five

Pushpa Chandra will run a full marathon every day for a week as part of the 2018 World Marathon Challenge.

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hours of sleep a night.

“It’s eat, fly, run — there is no recovery time,” Chandra said. “You will be constantly jetlagged, you will be constantly stiff, you will be constantly fatigued from the marathon and also from sleep deprivation.”

Chandra’s pre-trip regimen consists of anywhere from one to six hours of cardio training per day. She’s also upping her intake of supplements to combat jetlag. Tangible train-

ing efforts aside, Chandra can lean on considerable hindsight to get her through. Her past marathon exploits have taken her to Mount Everest and the Sahara and Gobi deserts. She spent her 50th birthday running around the North Pole and last year took part in Morocco’s Marathon Des Sables, a 250-kilometre trek that has killed past participants.

As if those terrains weren’t bad enough, consider the flora and fauna along the way: waterways infested with crocodiles, poisonous snakes in sand dunes and sleeping near lions in the desert.

All of which begs the question: why?

“I feel that it’s not even about running anymore,” Chandra said. “It feels like I’ve gone through an experience in my mind. It really has nothing to do with cardiovascular endurance. It really is about discipline for my mind.”

Chandra visualizes racing similar to climbing steps: climb one, climb the next,

repeat. She also relies on personal mantras that she recites when the going gets particularly tough: “I’m a very fiercely determined woman.”

“I have the power within me.”

“I am a machine.”

Chandra’s selfless approach to running extends beyond mountaintops and glaciers. As part of her current fitness foray, she’s attempting to raise $30,000 for impoverished school kids in Mumbai, India. Plan International’s School on Wheels program funds a mobile classroom that reaches India’s most isolated children living in poverty. Raising $30,000 will get 60 kids into the program for one year.

“I hope my story becomes empowering for any woman out there, that if I can do this at 60 someone else can do it at 30,” she said.

Those looking to donate to Chandra’s efforts can do so online at shiftworkershealth. com/schools-on-wheels. @JohnKurucz

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Critical, cultured, conflicted and borderline chameleon-like — artist Takashi Murakami’s nearly 40-year career has been an ongoing process of reinvention.

The celebrated Japanese artist gets the career retrospective treatment at the Vancouver Art Gallery Feb. 3 to May 6 as the only Canadian offering of The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg. Murakami’s works dabble in all manners of directions: manga, anime, paintings, sculptures, 2D, 3D and even movements that he himself invented.

Enter “Superflat.”

“It was about joining the high and the low art and in that I mean his acceptance of commercial projects and collaborations

with fashion designers and brands,” said Diana Freundel, the gallery’s associate curator of Asian arts. “He was doing things considered as low art and combining them with pop culture.”

Those pop culture ties led Murakami to his first high-profile collaboration with designer Louis Vuitton in the early 2000s.

In 2007, he designed the album cover for Kanye West’s album Graduation.

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Freundel said. “In many ways, they’re connected and related to one another.”

For a guy known for his outlandish outfits and style, the exhibit’s name falls in line with that outside-the-box thinking. An octopus will eat parts of its body in an attempt to fend off disease or death.

“It’s this idea that it will feed on itself in order to thrive,” Freundel said. “Murakami practises like that.”

Freundel characterized the artist’s formative years as rooted in social commentary. The style known as Nihonga attempts to reconcile traditional Japanese customs with western modernization.

As his career evolved, so too did his output, to the point that his work has been shown on virtually every continent.

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NOTICE OF DISPOSITION, NOTICE OF ASSISTANCE, AND NOTICE OF ALTERNATIVE APPROVAL PROCESS Metro Vancouver Regional District Disposition of Parkland within the Boundaries of the City of Abbotsford Bylaw No. 1256, 2018

Parkland Disposition

Notice is hereby given pursuant to section 286 of the Local Government Act that Metro Vancouver Regional District (“MVRD”) proposes to adopt the bylaw referred to above (“Parkland Disposition Bylaw”) for the purpose of the disposition of all interests in parkland within the boundaries of the City of Abbotsford, with the exception of Aldergrove Regional Park. The legal descriptions of the lands proposed to be transferred to the City of Abbotsford (“Abbotsford Parklands”) are set out at the bottom of this notice. The total area of the Abbotsford Parklands is approximately 293 hectares.

The proposed transfer of the Abbotsford Parklands to the City of Abbotsford is in connection with proposed changes to MVRD’s regional parks service, which will mean that the City of Abbotsford will cease to be a participant in the MVRD regional parks service. The City of Abbotsford and its predecessor the District of Matsqui have participated in the regional parks service since 1967. The regional parks levy payable by the City of Abbotsford to MVRD will cease if Abbotsford ceases to be a participant in MVRD’s regional parks service.

It is proposed that MVRD will transfer the Abbotsford Parklands to the City of Abbotsford for nominal consideration, and will make a one-time payment to the City of Abbotsford of $1,050,000.

In addition to the Transfer of the Abbotsford Parklands to the City of Abbotsford, MVRD will surrender its lease from the City of Abbotsford and its sub-lease from the Fraser Valley Regional District, both with respect to lands in Sumas Mountain Interregional Park. The legal descriptions of the leased lands and the sub-leased lands proposed to be surrendered are set out at the bottom of this notice. The total area of the leased and sub-leased lands is approximately 659 hectares.

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Sumas Mountain Interregional Park – Fee Simple Lands Parcel Identifier Legal Description 011-763-515

East Half of the South West Quarter Section 18 Township 20 Except: Part on Plan 29587 New Westminster District

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East Half of the South East Quarter Section 7 Township 20 NWD

007-591-802

West Half of the South West Quarter Section 8 Township 20 New Westminster District

017-955-262

Lot 14 Section 8 Township 20 New Westminster District Plan LMP6799

Glen Valley Regional Park – Fee Simple Lands Parcel Identifier Legal Description 017-516-137

Lot 1 Section 26 Township 14 New Westminster District Plan LMP1589

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Parcel F (Reference Plan 15100) Lots 2 and 3 Except: Firstly: Part Subdivided by Plan 47046, Secondly: Part Subdivided by Plan 48877, Thirdly: Parcel “One” (Statutory Right of Way Plan 49907) and Fourthly: Parcel G (Bylaw Plan 51696); Section 27 Township 14 New Westminster District Plan 3487

017-516-153

Lot 3 Sec 27 Twp 14 NWD Plan LMP1589

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Parcel “A” (Plan with charge Deposited 34706C) District Lot 442 Gp 1 New Westminster District

012-814-741

Parcel “B” (Reference Plan 27242) District Lot 442 Gp 1 New Westminster District

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District Lot 442 Gp 1 Crescent Island Except: Parcel “A” (Plan with Charge Deposited 34706C) New Westminster District

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District Lot 811 Gp 2 New Westminster District

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Notice is hereby given pursuant to section 272(1)(a) of the Local Government Act that MVRD proposes to provide assistance to the City of Abbotsford, as described above.

Alternative Approval Process Notice is hereby given pursuant to section 269(b) of the Local Government Act and Division 2 of Part 4 of the Community Charter that the MVRD Board may proceed with the adoption of the Parkland Disposition Bylaw unless, by the deadline set out below, at least 10% of the electors of the area indicate, by means of submission of signed Elector Response Forms, that the Board must obtain the assent of the electors before proceeding. The area to which this approval process applies is the entire regional parks service area, which includes all of Metro Vancouver Regional District and the City of Abbotsford.

Elector responses must be given in the form established by the Board. Elector Response Forms as well as copies of the proposed bylaw are available at Metro Vancouver offices located at: 4730 Kingsway, Burnaby, British Columbia, or from the Metro Vancouver website at www.metrovancouver.org/boards/elections. Completed Elector Response Forms must be received by the Corporate Officer at the address set out above or via fax or email no later than 4:00 p.m. on Monday, March 12, 2018. If you are submitting this form to MVRD by facsimile (fax) or by email, it is your responsibility to ensure that the form has been received, including verification of facsimile transmission.

The only persons entitled to sign the elector response forms are persons qualified as resident electors or non-resident property electors of the area described above to which this approval process applies. The number of elector responses required to prevent the Board from proceeding without the assent of the electors is 171,520.

Elector Response Forms will be reviewed only by the Corporate Officer or person designated by the Corporate Officer for purposes of determining the outcome of the alternative approval process.

Lands proposed to be transferred to the City of Abbotsford:

Registration No.

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District Lot 625 Gp 2 New Westminster District

BK114996

013-084-755

District Lot 626 Gp 2 New Westminster District

BK114996

Lands leased from the City of Abbotsford to be surrendered: Sumas Mountain Interregional Park Parcel Identifier Legal Description 013-358-545

Legal Subdivision 9 Section 36 Township 16 New Westminster District Except Firstly: Part Dedicated Road on Plan 86141 and Secondly: Part Subdivided by Plan LMP5803

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Legal Subdivision 16 Section 36 Township 16 New Westminster District

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Legal Subdivision 7 Section 1 Township 17 New Westminster District

013-373-145

Legal Subdivision 10 Section 1 Township 17 New Westminster District

013-373-170

South Half of the South Half Legal Subdivision 16 Section 1 Township 17 New Westminster District

013-350-021

North Three Quarters Legal Subdivision 13 Section 6 Township 20 New Westminster District

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North Half of the East Half of the North West Quarter Section 6 Township 20 New Westminster District

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South Half of the South East Quarter Section 12 Township 17 New Westminster District

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CHEFS CHALLENGE: 21 would-be chefs entered the Dirty Apron Cooking School kitchen to demonstrate their culinary skills and passion for food, while supporting ovarian cancer research. Yours truly, along with Global TV’s Sophie Lui and Chris Gailus, captained the teams of seven in a three-course challenge orchestrated by acclaimed chef and Dirty Apron principal David Robertson and party hosts Dianne Miller and Marlynn Thompson, ovarian cancer researcher and survivor respectively. A friendly cooking competition quickly boiled over as teams went to work on a miso sake-roasted sablefish, herb-roasted beef tenderloin and chocolate soufflé to please judges. Although every dish was Instagram-worthy, the real winner was the B.C. Cancer Agency. The royal repast raised $11,000 towards world-leading ovarian cancer research led by Miller. Roughly 2,800 Canadian women will be diagnosed with the disease this year — the fifth most common cancer for women. To date, there is still no standard test for ovarian cancer.

BOYS OF SUMMER: Hundreds of baseball and Blue Jays fans convened at Hotel Vancouver for the eighth annual Scotiabank Vancouver Canadians Hot Stove Luncheon. Blue Jays GM Ross Atkins, president emeritus Paul Beeston and former Blue Jays fan fave Lloyd “Shaker” Moseby headlined the Vancouver Canadians Foundation power lunch, emceed by sports broadcaster Rob Fai. Still leading the franchise in stolen bases, the irreverent Moseby also stole the show sharing his love of the game and time playing in Toronto. As usual, the real winners were the kids and future of baseball.

UBC Thunderbirds, the national women’s program, Challenger Baseball (a league for children with cognitive and physical disabilities to enjoy the game) and Boys and Girls Club of South Coast B.C. all benefitted from the baseball bash — the latter bringing 1,000 kids every summer to play at Nat Bailey Stadium for free.

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Ovarian cancer researcher Dianne Miller and survivor Marlynn Thompson fronted the Chefs Challenge Dinner at the Dirty Apron Cooking School.

Chef David Robertson helped bring out the culinary best from Global TV’s Sophie Lui and Chris Gailus. The evening news team served as team captains of the culinary challenge.

Vancouver Canadians co-owner Jeff Mooney welcomed Toronto Blue Jays great Lloyd Moseby to the franchise’s annual Hot Stove Luncheon.

Grace Kim’s Scotiabank sponsored and Carolyn Tuckwell’s Boys and Girls Club of South Coast B.C. benefited from the Vancouver Canadians’ eighth annual Hot Stove Luncheon.

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Top 10 reasons Justin Trudeau is holding a town hall meeting in wicked Nanaimo instead of lame Vancouver Last week, it was announced that on Feb. 2 hunky Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be visiting Nanaimo, the only planned B.C. stop on his crossCanada town hall tour.

While the Vancouver resident in us felt snubbed, the Nanaimo homie in us felt proud. So why did Trudeau give some love to the Hub City and not Vanloser (trademark)? Let us count the ways.

1. Vancouver’s last remaining town hall was torn down in October to make way for a 23-storey mixed-used condo development with a community feel called The Hall.

2. Trudeau needs to grow his appeal with voters who still wear stonewash denim and white Velcro runners.

3. More Nanaimoites will understand all the Bootsauce references Trudeau is known for peppering his speeches with.

4. Last time Trudeau was in Vancouver visiting the mayor, Gregor Robertson was constantly on his phone texting. It was like Justin wasn’t even there. And at dinner, when there was one piece of unagi sashimi left, Gregor just ate it, without even asking if Justin wanted to share it with him.

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5. Nanaimo’s rich history of mayors who drank heavily and dressed as a pirate for public events is hard to beat.

6. Like a spawning salmon returning the river where it was born, Trudeau is returning to the town where he lost his virginity. Allegedly.

7. Rolled-up shirtsleeves just look more camerafriendly in Nanaimo.

8. Trudeau can finally haul out the slogan “Nanaimomentum.”

9. 75 per cent of Vancouverites who were surveyed about whether they’d attend a town hall meeting with the prime minister couldn’t commit, saying they might have “a thing” that night but would definitely text later if they were available.

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Canucks need a few good right-hand d-men

Stick-taps & Glove-drops • A tap of the stick to Jaromir Jagr, whose NHL career came to a close this past week when the Calgary Flames put him on waivers. Knowing Jagr, however, his hockey career is far from over.

The 45-year-old is heading to HC Kladno, his hometown team in the Czech League, where he is a coowner of the franchise.

Priority at trade deadline should be prospects and picks

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While the Canucks on the ice need to stay focused on every game, the focus in the front office must be firmly on the future. That means deepening the prospect pool by adding picks and players at the trade deadline.

The Canucks have two clear candidates to be traded at the deadline in pending UFAs Erik Gudbranson and Thomas Vanek, with a few wild cards such as Michael Del Zotto, Ben Hutton and Chris Tanev, who could potentially be moved if the right deal came along. But what would the right deal entail? What do the Canucks need most?

A look at the Canucks’ prospect pool and the young players already in their lineup reveals pretty significant deficiencies. While the Canucks could use more depth at every position, they have some good young prospects at most of them.

Their centre depth doesn’t look great after Elias Pettersson and Adam Gaudette, but those are two excellent prospects who could both fill in behind Bo Horvat as early as next season. Right wing looks strong with Brock Boeser and Jake Virtanen already in the NHL, and Nikolay Goldobin, Kole Lind and Petrus Palmu all have the potential to make it. Left wing looks a little shallow, but Jonathan Dahlen and Jonah Gadjovich are two very good prospects and many of their other forwards can shift over to left wing pretty easily.

It should come as no surprise that defence is a big need for the Canucks’ system. While Olli Juolevi is still a high-end prospect, there are few, if any, sure-fire NHL defencemen in the prospect pool.

In addition, their two youngest defencemen in the NHL, Derrick Pouliot and Troy Stecher, will both be 24 by the start of next season. That may not sound like much, but even if you’re optimistic and think the Canucks could be Stanley Cup contenders in three years, they’ll both be 27, at which point analytics suggest defencemen already start to decline.

But even with the lack of high-end defencemen in the prospect pool, the

• Brock Boeser deserves a tap of the stick for his fantastic performance at the NHL’s All-Star Weekend. The Canucks rookie won the accuracy shooting contest, was voted the MVP of the All-Star Game and adopted a dog.

Troy Stecher is one of just a handful of right-handed defencemen in the Canucks system.

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Canucks have a lot of depth on the left side, with plenty of opportunities for a defenceman to surprise and outperform expectations. The Canucks have been high on Guillaume Brisebois, Jack Rathbone is young, fast, and skilled, and Cole Candella is solid, if unspectacular. Nikita Tryamkin could even return from Russia to give the NHL another chance, while Evan McEneny and Kristoffer Gunnarsson are longshots, but can’t be completely counted out.

It’s the right side that is worrisome.

The Canucks have just two righthanded defencemen in their prospect pool: Matt Brassard and Jalen Chatfield.

Both have a lot of work to do to reach the NHL, though both are on the right track. Brassard has already set a career high in points in the OHL, putting up 12 goals and 33 points in 48 games, while Chatfield was a standout for the Canucks

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The problem isn’t with Brassard and Chatfield, who are both viable prospects.

The problem is they’re the only righthanded defencemen in the system. That’s it. That’s all.

That need should be in the forefront of the minds of Jim Benning et al. as they negotiate trades at the deadline this month.

If they can’t add right-handed prospect defencemen — they’re admittedly hard to come by — they should look to add more picks for the upcoming draft so they can select a couple more in June.

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Oh, cheese curds and gravy. Is there nothing you can’t make better? La Poutine Week takes place across this great land of ours Feb. 1 to 7. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Vancouver restaurants are poutine on the ritz And four other reasons Vancouver is awesome this week Lindsay William-Ross

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La Poutine Week 2018

The premise is pretty simple: Eat poutine during La Poutine Week and go online and vote for your favourites. And this glorious event celebrating Canada’s unofficial national drunk food takes place in cities across the country from Feb. 1 to 7.

Participating Vancouver restaurants offering up special La Poutine Week dishes include Timber, The Rise Eatery and Fable Diner.

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Night Shift: Untamed

As part of a focus to reclaim Indigenous sexuality, the Museum of Anthropology at UBC is presenting an evening of burlesque entertainment called “Night Shift: Untamed.” The exciting and decidedly grown-up event will feature Virago Nation and DJ Kookum joining forces to crank up the sights and sounds on the catwalk for an evening of “humour, seduction and striptease.” The show is free with museum admission, 19-plus only.

Feb. 1. Bar opens at 7 p.m., live show is 7:30 p.m.

Museum of Anthropology, 6393 Northwest Marine Dr. moa.ubc.ca

“The Feels” at the Cheeky Proletariat

“The Feels” is a new art installation that puts a spotlight on mental illness in the black community. The show will run for the duration of February, which is Black History Month, at the Cheeky Proletariat gallery space in Gastown. Local artist Nanyamka Lewis conceived this mixed-media installation as a way to create a safe haven and open forum for black youth for voicing, processing and exploring the subject of mental health.

Feb. 1 to 28 (opening 7 p.m. on Feb. 1) Cheeky Proletariat Storefront Gallery, 320 Carrall St. thfls.ca

Murakami Birthday Bash at Vancouver Art Gallery

Celebrate two joyous occasions: Eccentric Japanese artist Takashi Murakami’s retrospective show making its first Canadian stop, and his birthday. The Vancouver Art Gallery is holding a Murakami Birthday Bash, which includes two options: preview the show “Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg,” have a seated dinner and go to the afterparty, or just preview the show and head to the after-party.

Feb. 2. Preview at 5:30 p.m., after party at 8:30 p.m.

Vancouver Art Gallery, 750 Hornby St. and Commodore Ballroom, 868 Granville St. vanartgallery.bc.ca

Hard-Boiled: Breakfast for Dinner Pop-Up

Serious breakfast lovers, this is one serious pop-up event. Hard-Boiled is described as the “whimsical birth-child of chefs Deniz Tarakcioglu (Café Medina) and Brad Miller (Red Wagon Café and Bistro Wagon Rouge) — the singular titans of breakfast in our beloved city.” The menu for this sit-down 19-plus dinner will feature the “brinner” wonders representing a meld of Mediterranean and the greasy spoon.

Feb. 5 to 6, 7:30 to 10 p.m.

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Old Books Wanted. also: Photos Postcards, Letters, Paintings. no text books or encyclopedias. I pay cash.

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Table $40/day, Adm $3, Kids under 12 free.

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