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Overdose deaths in Vancouver reached 358 last year

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The chief medical health ofﬁcer for Vancouver Coastal Health is recommending that drug-checking test strips be made available to drug users who use alone in their homes to reduce the number of people who die of an overdose. Dr. Patricia Daly, who doubles as executive director of the newly created B.C. Overdose Emergency Response Centre at Vancouver General Hospital, said test strips are used at supervised injection sites and overdose prevention sites but are not readily available for people who use drugs alone at home. “We need to ensure that technology is available to people who intend to consume their drugs alone in their own residences, so that’s something we’ll be focusing on in the coming year,” said Daly at a news conference Jan. 31 in which the BC Coroners Service released data showing 1,422 people died of a suspected drug overdose in B.C. last year, with 358 in Vancouver.

The statistics revealed 88 per cent of the deaths occurred inside, with 60 per cent in a private residence and 28 per cent in other inside locations. Others occurred outside on the streets, sidewalks, parks and in vehicles. The majority of people who died — 82 per cent — were males, with 90 per cent of overall deaths occurring to people between 19 and 59. Daly acknowledged that her recommendation to offer drug checking for people outside of harm reduction facilities is “pushing the boundaries a little bit because there are differences of opinion about this.” But, she said, a “drug testing night” was offered in Vancouver. People brought drugs to a supervised consumption site to check for such narcotics as fentanyl, which were connected to 81 per cent of deaths last year. “I think we need to think about giving out the urine test strips to people who intend to consume home alone,” she said. “The concern from some is those test strips are not always 100 per

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cent accurate. But I think they’re accurate enough that they could make a difference to people who are consuming alone.” At the Insite supervised injection site, a client can check their drug of choice by diluting the substance with a few drops of water on a test strip. A positive or negative reading for fentanyl is revealed in seconds. The test strips are a

product originally developed to check urine for fentanyl and not intended for drug checking. Chief Coroner Lisa Lapointe cautioned that the 1,422 suspected overdose deaths is a preliminary count, with the death toll to increase once more investigations are completed. “The 2017 data reﬂects the most tragic year ever with respect to illicit drug

deaths in British Columbia,” said Lapointe, noting 993 people died of an overdose in 2016 and 518 in 2015. Lapointe, Daly and provincial health officer Dr. Perry Kendall all pointed to the continued work of first responders, community volunteers and others fighting the opioid crisis as crucial in saving hundreds of lives during the epidemic. The widespread use of the overdose-reversing drug naloxone, more treatment options, substitution drug therapy and expansion of overdose prevention sites have also been effective in reducing deaths. Kendall, who spent his last day on the job last Wednesday, said despite the “heroic and unprecedented actions” of many on the frontlines of the crisis, the death toll suggests more strategies are needed. “Clearly, we are actually going to need to think more broadly, and also think further outside the box and our comfort zones, if we are going to get ahead of and turn this epidemic around,” he said. As an example, he

pointed to the controversial recommendation from colleague, Dr. Mark Tyndall of the B.C. Centre for Disease Control, to provide non-toxic opioids to drug users outside of a traditional treatment setting. “This is something that hasn’t happened anywhere since the UK shut down its long-running heroin prescription program in the mid-1960s,” he said. “I think this needs to be carefully done, appraised, evaluated and given support when it works.” Kendall said he was encouraged by federal Liberal MPs pushing for decriminalization of possession of drugs for personal use much like what occurred in Portugal. “At the very least, we should be working to decriminalize the individuals who are at risk in this epidemic,” he said. “This is a large and challenging agenda. In my opinion, we need to look at all of these things and have conversations that we may have been afraid of having before, and move ahead.” @howellings

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Vancouver is looking at taking away parking spots on two Yaletown streets to improve access for ﬁre trucks Jessica Kerr

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The city is looking at eliminating some parking on Mainland and Hamilton streets in Yaletown in order to make access easier for the fire department. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

It could soon be even harder to ﬁnd a parking spot in Yaletown. Annette O’Shea, executive director of the Yaletown Business Improvement Association, told the Courier

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March 1 in order to allow easier access for fire trucks. “We get that. We fully support fire trucks getting to where they need to go, of course we do,” O’Shea said, adding the association has come back with suggestions on other ways to configure the parking, or removing other spots. She said removing the parallel parking on the east side of the streets instead of the diagonal parking on the west side would still open up access and would result in fewer parking spots being lost. There are currently about 202 parking spots for non-commercial vehicles in Yaletown. The city is planning on removing 100. “We have the highest demand parking in the entire city,” O’Shea said. The day before the meeting with the city staff, she said, the association received a letter from a different department stating that parking spots in Yaletown have a 92 to 97 per cent usage rate. Parking meters in Yaletown see between five and seven uses a day. “Which means it’s very difficult to find parking here. So then the plan is therefore we’ll remove it?” O’Shea said the association has a number of concerns about the plan, including what the change will mean for people who drive into the area for medical appointments. “There are 900 businesses in Yaletown,” she said. “Most people think of us as restaurants and boutiques, but that’s just street front. We have eight storeys of businesses upstairs. A lot of them are medical practitioners, a lot of them are professional practitioners, some are software and gaming. Those people have customers who drop in on them or who have appointments and then move on to the next thing they’re doing that day. “We all have customers, employees and suppliers who are using those spaces. Well, now the fight for those spaces is going to go up hugely. That’s unfair.” O’Shea said there is also a concern about the effect the reduction in available parking spaces will have on businesses. “It’s a huge hit for small business. They just got hit with the highest tax bills in the city’s history and a

month later they’re going to lose 50 per cent of their parking...My businesses are very, very worried. When you have a thriving business district you shouldn’t break it.” Paul Storer, manager of transportation design, said the city was first approached by the fire department last year with concerns about accessing the area. He said there have been a number of incidents where fire trucks had difficulty getting onto Mainland and Hamilton and, once they were able to get through, there was not enough room to set up to fight a fire. “There just isn’t enough space,” he said, adding that it is a concerning safety issue. He said some of the issues are still being worked out and the city is working with the business association to address its concerns. Storer added that the city owns a few parking lots in the area where parking is sold on a monthly basis, and that staff is looking at the possibility of increasing the amount of customer parking in those lots. As well, he said staff is looking at some of the surrounding streets. Storer estimated the loss of parking spaces would be in the range of 60 to 80. He said the aim is to increase safety in the neighbourhood and the loss of parking is “kind of the unfortunate side effect.” “It’s really the fire access issue,” he said. “We really need to address it.” Storer also said the city is planning a public information session later this month to connect with businesses and residents. Dr. Stephanie Bonn, who owns Bonn Chiropractic Wellness, has run her business in Yaletown for 16 years. She was on Homer Street for 10 years and moved her office to Mainland six years ago. “Parking is an issue already,” she said, adding that many businesses are concerned that if people can’t find parking in the neighbourhood they will take their business elsewhere. Bonn said she supports the fire department and understands the need to ensure its trucks can access the streets, and hopes a solution can be reached that increases access without losing as much parking. @JessicaEKerr

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The province announced the first round in promised reforms to ICBC on Tuesday morning. Last week, the insurance company posted a $935-million loss in the first nine months of the 2017/18 fiscal year and a projected $1.3-billion loss by the end of the fiscal year. Attorney General David Eby announced that pain and suffering awards for minor injuries will be limited to $5,500. The cost of those types of claims has increased significantly over the years, going from $5,004 in 2000 and $16,499 in 2016. “British Columbia is the last province in Canada to take this kind of action,” he said. Additionally, the attorney general said for the first time in 25 years ICBC will make improvements to accident benefits, increasing the care available for anyone injured in a crash, regardless of who was at fault. The overall allowance for medical care and recovery costs will be doubled to $300,000. A move that was applauded by those advocating for the disabled. “Disability Alliance B.C. has been advocating for improvements to accident benefits for 12 years,” said Jane Dyson, the organization’s executive director, calling the move a significant improvement. “We welcome these long-overdue changes that will mean that people who are catastrophically injured in motor vehicle accidents have better supports available to help them rebuild their lives.” The changes also include: coverage of a greater variety of treatments, more money for treatments, an increase in wage loss payouts from $300 a week to $740 a week, doubling home support benefits to $280 a week, increasing funeral cost coverage to $7,500 and death benefits to $30,000. As well, in an effort to reduce legal costs and speed up the time it takes to settle claims, the government will institute a dispute resolution process for certain types of claims. Eby said that

disputes over certain injury claims, including the classification of an injury, will be heard by the province’s Civil Resolution Tribunal, an independent body that already adjudicates small claims and strata disputes. These reforms will require legislative changes, which will be introduced in Victoria in the spring, Eby said, and will take effect April 1, 2019. The increase to accident benefits will be retroactive to Jan. 1, 2018. The changes, he added, will amount to a projected $1-billion decrease in ICBC’s annual claims costs, even with the increase in accident benefits, by reducing the insurance company’s legal fees and expenses. Legal costs represent 24 per cent of the total cost of a claim. Overall, legal and operating expenses represent 42 per cent of ICBC’s operating expenses with payments to claimants making up the other 58 per cent. “These changes make the injured customer our top priority, by directing payments away from legal costs into significantly enhancing the care and treatments for anyone who is injured in a crash,” Joy MacPhail, chair of ICBC’s board of directors, and former NDP MLA, said in a press release. B.C. Green Party leader Andrew Weaver said he is encouraged by the announcement. “These changes mean that a larger share of our public insurance funds will go directly towards helping British Columbians who suffer accidents recover from their injuries,” he said in a statement. “A successful, affordable public insurance system requires government to act in the best interests of the people who participate in it,” he said. In addition to the reforms announced Feb. 6, Eby said that the insurance company will be consulting with customers on major revisions to the rate structure. He said the goal will be to make bad drivers pay more and giving good drivers a break. Eby also touched on current initiatives under way to increase safety on B.C. roads including 24-hour

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Reconciling the damage done by ‘urban renewal’ Northeast False Creek development will be Vision’s legacy

Allen Garr

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In the mid-1950s, Vancouver city bureaucrats steered a malleable and willing council down the road to “urban renewal.” It was a course pretty well every major city in the western world was taking as they tried to shake off the economic lethargy following the Second World War. Here and pretty well everywhere else it was a strategy that had two major pieces: slum clearance and freeway construction. It was the time when the car was king and the middle class was moving to the suburbs. Inevitably in most cities in North America that meant bulldozing homes and businesses populated predominantly by either blacks or Chinese. In Vancouver it meant both. None of this plan was put in place with either residents’ consent or even their knowledge. Chinese Canadians living in Strathcona adjacent to Chinatown formed the largest number of residents to be displaced. They undoubtedly took the biggest hit as successive waves of demolition tore apart acres of neighborhoods and destroyed their homes and businesses. In exchange they were offered meagre sums insufﬁcient to buy

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elsewhere. What was put up instead, if anything, was social housing not well suited for extended families. And it was the Chinese Canadian residents and business owners who most effectively organized and gained city-wide support and, ultimately, the ear of the federal government that was encouraging this policy, that ﬁnally put the brakes on. A small part of what was destroyed — and you would have to say a less politically potent group at the time — were the houses and the people living in a couple of

blocks running from Main Street to Jackson around Union called Hogan’s Alley. It was, in fact, a mixed population of poor immigrants, but at its heart primarily black folks were drawn there in part by the proximity of the two railway line terminals, the Canadian National and the American Great Northern. Both were in the practice of hiring reasonably well-paid black porters who either laid over in the city or had their families here. Vancouver in the ’30s and ’40s was also a terminus for vaudeville acts and

had three major nightclubs — the Palomar, the Cave and Izzy’s — that attracted top acts in North America including major black performers such as Duke Ellington, Sammy Davis Jr., Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Louis Armstrong and Lena Horne. It was not uncommon, after they ﬁnished playing, for these stars to make their way over to Hogan’s Alley and Vie’s Chicken and Steak House, which was open until four in the morning. Much of Hogan’s Alley were among the ﬁrst

“slums” to be demolished when the new Georgia Viaduct was installed as a major link to the planned freeway. The black population was simply scattered. Last week, Vancouver council was presented with a door-stopper of a report — nearly 400 pages and the culmination of nearly a decade’s work, titled “Northeast False Creek Plan and Viaducts Replacement Project.” In practical terms it lays out what is likely the most ambitious redevelopment project in the city’s history. It will take at least 20 years to complete. And it will be Vi-

sion’s most significant legacy. It not only deals with the last south-facing bit of undeveloped waterfront in the city’s downtown but it promises “a vibrant, inclusive and sustainable, residential and commercial waterfront district.” It is also clearly a bookend piece, a gesture of reconciliation, for the damage done by urban renewal over a half century ago. Unlike then, community engagement was fundamental to this plan and much lauded by the speakers at council that day. That included a member of the Hogan’s Alley Working Group, June Francis. The SFU professor was hardly a twinkle in her Jamaican parents’ eyes when the bulldozers were razing that part of town. Her presentation was delightfully theatrical and decidedly pointed at times and began this way: “This is the first time I have ever seen a good reason to be at city council.” Heroes in this piece would have to include former Vision city councillor Geoff Meggs, who originally pressed council to take the viaducts down so all this could happen. And there’s Kevin McNaney, the director of the project office. His colleagues credit him with effectively putting this together. @allengarr

Great expectations for upcoming schools budget Tracy Sherlock

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When the provincial budget is announced Feb. 20, education advocates will be looking for a boost for students with special needs, a plan to get schools seismically upgraded and money to pay for “extras” that have been eroded over the past 15 years. If Twitter is anything to go by, expectations are high the NDP government’s first full budget will address long waitlists for psychological assessments, fix a shortage of both education assistants and specialist teachers and establish funding that matches costs. Vancouver parent Jen Stewart said she wants to see quicker assessments for students, more education assistants and the return of items that have been cut such as fine arts programs, gifted programs, transportation and

books. “So much is needed to replace what was taken away,” she said. The Parent Advocacy Network (PAN) would like to see a “meaningful increase” to operating funds. “Parents want to see a fairness of opportunity for our children — budget lines and policies should beneﬁt the most vulnerable of our children and lift them up,” PAN said in a statement for the Courier. “Parents want to see a budget with a vision and a transparent plan for the coming three years.” Glen Hansman, president of the B.C. Teachers’ Federation, Stewart and PAN would all like to see the province meet the recommendations of the province’s Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services, which called for “predictable, sustainable and adequate yearly funding,”

money for seismic upgrades, equitable funding across the province and increased funding for the new curriculum and to support students with special needs. Hansman would also like to see money to implement the new curriculum, speciﬁcally to train teachers, buy supplies and new textbooks and support the Aboriginal content. He says it’s tough to do hands-on learning when all the Bunsen burners and beakers are broken. In its election platform, the NDP promised $30 million per year for school supplies, but Hansman says “that hasn’t materialized yet.” In fact, he says, the government has funded the restored contract, but nothing over and above that for operations. B.C.’s total education operating budget, for public and independent schools, is about $6.1 billion, or about

$9,100 per student. The NDP has launched a funding formula review and said in its election platform that “a per-pupil funding model doesn’t work for our diverse education system in B.C.” That review is in the information-gathering phase, with results expected by this summer, to be implemented for the 20192020 school year. The government’s ﬁnance committee is on board. “With broad stakeholder input, review the per-pupil funding formula to develop a new needs-based, stable and sustainable model to fund actual costs, resource needs, and professional development requirements,” the group urged. Since coming into power, the government has made at least a dozen announcements of new schools or seismic upgrades — commitments that are desperately overdue. Since they

are paid for out of the capital budget and can be ﬁnanced through debt, these projects don’t impact the operating budget. Districts should beneﬁt from the reduction by half in MSP premiums that came into effect Jan. 1. When MSP premiums went up every year, school districts complained loudly, saying the government wasn’t providing the budget to cover those increases. Now that premiums are down, that should free up excess cash. The NDP — mainly Attorney General David Eby — has been working hard at tempering budget expectations, given the boondoggle at ICBC, which could siphon off up to $1 billion a year from government funds — money that could be going into schools, hospitals or childcare. On a side note and speaking of Eby, he’s been

front and centre in recent reports that the former Liberal government buried a scandalous report on money laundering and significantly altered a pessimistic report on ICBC’s financial woes. This raises suspicions about other reports commissioned during the same time frame, such as the five reports about VSB written between 2010 and 2017, all of which appeared to side with a government perspective. There is very little purpose to a so-called “independent report,” if the government decides its content. But back to the budget. We will have to wait another week or two to see if it’s a win or a heartbreaker for education. There’s no doubt not everyone will be pleased, but let’s hope there’s something to smile about for most. Tracy Sherlock writes about education and social issues. She can be reached at tracy.sherlock@gmail.com.

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Electing a woman isn’t necessarily ‘different’ Re: “Is it time for a female mayor in Vancouver,” Feb. 1. I agree that we should have a female mayor sometime in Vancouver’s future, but it’s got to be more simply than being “our turn.” Also, I wonder: what do we expect from a female mayor that we didn’t get from our previous male mayors? It seems to me that whenever we elect a woman to a position of political leadership here in B.C. we expect her to be “different” — only to ﬁnd out that she’s not quite as different as we wanted. Just look at people like Christy Clark, Rita Johnson or Kim Campbell. How well did they deliver what we were expecting? Or was the system they were operating under mainly at fault? Roland Derksen, Vancouver

Police ﬁnally get with the program Re: “Journalism students challenge police, mayor on opioid crises,” Jan. 25. It’s good to hear that the Vancouver police are fully behind the replacement programs and all treatment programs for opioid abuse. After almost 50 years as a Vancouver heroin addict, who has advocated for such programs almost the whole of that 50 years, it’s good to see that being considered. Three articles in the Jan. 25 edition were drug related. We need all the help we can get. Terry McKinney, Vancouver

Nanaimo resident no fan of K&K’s clichés and bad satire Re: “10 reasons Justin Trudeau is holding town hall meeting in wicked Nanaimo instead of lame Vancouver,” online, Jan. 25. Got a good laugh from your Kudos and Kvetches — at seeing the tired, worn and inaccurate clichés about Nanaimo yet again repeated. If it was intended as political satire, it was just badly done and in poor taste. I guess your writer hasn’t been back for a while, or maybe didn’t live here long enough. Yes, sad in one sense and good in another: Please do perpetuate that stereotype (now inaccurate for about 25 years) so that we that don’t get inundated with millennials looking to escape (or return from)

Vancouver. Or they may want to come here to pretend to be part of that nowextinct species of the blue-collar Canadian working class. (That scene in Zoolander, of Ben Stiller joining his dad played by John Voight in the coal mine, comes to mind.) Paul Walton, Nanaimo

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Genderless politics Re: “Is it time for a female mayor in Vancouver?” Jan. 26. I really don’t care what sex the person is as long as they stop gutting the city and selling it off piece by piece to the highest bidder. Sheri Baker via Facebook ••• I’m more concerned with what’s between the ears than what’s between the legs. Niel Stewart via Facebook ••• It’s time for someone with good ideas to solve the homeless problem, clean up the DTES & Granville strip, no matter male or female. Peter Hickman via Facebook ••• Or is it time for a Minority mayor in Vancouver? Victoria had one and he was the BEST (Alan Lowe). CJ Marr via Facebook ••• How about not discussing at all about people’s gender? This is a position for someone prepared for the position, whether is a man, woman or even a talking dog, for all I care (and I’m sure there are plenty of dogs more prepared for this position than many candidates). Nick Daltro via Facebook

Another piece of Cambie Village lost Re: “Pronto’s Art Deco-era Cambie Village restaurant building to get the wrecking ball,” Feb. 6, online only. Being a local, and knowing the area for 25 years, all that’s left is the (last, old) Park Cinema, Kino Cafe, and Biercraft (the newer addition) that actually really deﬁned this as “Cambie Village”. This city is very little of what it used to be, a very short time ago. Rogr Lee via Facebook ••• Aw man, this place was great. My parents met my wife’s parents for the ﬁrst time over family style pizza, pasta & prosciutto boards in Prontino. @simonplittle via Twitter

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More people are living in cars, Sky-high rents and lack of affordability is pushing some Vancouverites into their vehicles Mike Howell

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It is not where Gord Hocking wants to lay his head for much longer. But after he lost his room two years ago in a social housing building at Main Street and East First Avenue, where he lived for five years with his disabled girlfriend Geraldine, the 48-year-old carpenter had enough of sleeping on the street and bought a used tent trailer for $600. It was home for a while, until it began to leak. So Hocking worked out a deal with the owner of a 1979 Dodge motorhome parked on the same industrial strip where he set up the trailer. He now lives inside the school bus-sized unit with Geraldine, who was evicted two weeks ago from their old building. A friend from Montreal is their roommate. The trio, who collects social assistance, pays a combined $600 a month. The name stenciled on the back of the motorhome, which is similar in colour and design to the one popularized in the television series Breaking Bad, seems fitting for the situation the three adults find themselves in: “Elusive Destiny.” “It’s not the best place to be,” said Hocking, sitting on his bike last Thursday before riding off in the rain to see a doctor and make a visit to a pharmacy. “You can’t really move in there. She’s in a wheelchair, so she can’t really get around. It’s tough, it’s really tough.” Hocking, who doesn’t fully comprehend why he and Geraldine lost their room on Main Street, is among a growing number of people living in recreational vehicles, vans and cars that now monopolize the Evans Avenue-Glen Drive strip, which passes by a recycling depot, Moe’s Home Collection and a Home Depot. Staff and customers of businesses in the neighbourhood, along with the city’s homelessness services team and parking enforcement

Above: The Evans Avenue-Glen Drive strip, which runs by a recycling depot, Moe’s Home Collection and a Home Depot, as well as Malkin Avenue near Strathcona Park and stretches of Vernon Drive and Cottrell Street, have seen a significant increase in the number of people living in RVs, campers, tent trailers and cars. GOOGLE MAPS Right: Faced with a significant rent increase and no savings, Danielle Eastveld bought a motorhome off Craigslist nine months ago and has been living out of it with her dog, Alonzo, and saving money for her future. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

department, have all noticed an exponential growth in the last year of people living in vehicles along the strip, which is adjacent to the railyards under the overpass at East First Avenue and Clark Drive. With that inﬂux, there have been reports of theft from a business, increases in trafﬁc accidents and near-misses (the size of some of the RVs are impeding drivers’ views), lack of parking for customers, discarded needles, human waste and garbage strewn across boulevards. The Courier’s visit to the neighbourhood over two days last week included stops along Cottrell Street at the rear of Home Depot, Malkin Avenue near Strathcona Park and across the tracks on Vernon Drive, where more than 40 RVs and vans were counted in the morning and evening; an additional six cars were spotted with people inside, and piled with clothing and other personal belongings. The area is one of several in Vancouver that has attracted vehicle dwellers, with the streets around the Canadian Tire complex on Grandview Highway, a neighbourhood adjacent to Queen Elizabeth Park and

pockets on the West Side lined with RVs, vans and live-aboard cars. It is, as some of the people interviewed for this story concluded, a sign of the times in Vancouver, where homelessness is at an all-time high and home ownership and rental accommodations are prohibitively expensive for many residents. Danielle Eastveld, another RV dweller the Courier met on the strip, said her former landlord planned to boost the rent for her basement suite from $1,350 per month to $1,500. All her income as a bartender, she said, was going to rent and bills. “If a family can’t afford to buy a house here, how are the rest of us supposed to live here?” said Eastveld, who is in her early 30s and lives with her dog Alonzo in a 1981 Frontier motorhome she bought nine months ago for $4,000 off Craigslist. “I know some people say, ‘Well why don’t you just leave Vancouver?’ The job market’s not that great out there anywhere. I have a great job. I don’t want to leave. Eventually, I know I’ll have to. It’s kind of crappy that that’s my option.”

‘Couple hundred people’ living in vehicles

For the City of Vancouver, the growing community of people living in vehicles has meant taking an approach that requires a delicate balance: it does not want to come off being heavy handed to some of the city’s most vulnerable to homelessness, while at the same time respecting complaints from businesses and enforcing bylaws. Taryn Scollard, the city’s director of streets, said the parking enforcement

branch works closely with the city’s homelessness services department, which is headed by Ethel Whitty. Both spoke to the Courier in a telephone conference call, with Scollard emphasizing that ticketing people living in vehicles and towing them is “our last resort.” But it does happen. City statistics for an enforcement blitz that occurred Jan. 25 show 12 tickets were issued along the strip, with four vehicles moving on. Another four tickets were issued on Malkin Avenue,

but the vehicles remained parked on the road. As the Courier observed on windshields of some RVs parked on the strip, owners can be ticketed for having an oversized vehicle and parking outside a business for more than three hours. Penalties range from $60 to $150, with the warning on the ticket saying “vehicles with unpaid tickets may be towed for future violations.” It is difﬁcult to estimate how many people live in vehicles on the strip and around the rest of the city; some RVs and vans look abandoned, others — Scollard contends — may be parked there because the owner doesn’t have space at home. But Whitty said her team has been in touch with “a couple hundred” people in Vancouver over the last two years who were living in vehicles. In the last year, at least 10 people were moved into housing and another 10 were provided shelter, income, health services, or a combination. Over the past two weeks, Whitty’s team did some door knocks on vehicles along the Evans Avenue-Glen Drive strip and continues to work with people to get them housing and services, although the success rate has been disappointing. “Ten per cent of the people who we come in contact with take up our services,” she said, noting the reluctance of vehicle dwellers is likely connected to having recently lost a home. “Now they ﬁnd themselves with their only asset being their vehicle. It’s theirs, they own it but they don’t intend to live in it forever. They feel like they’re in transition, they’re looking for a job or they’re looking for an apartment. So they’re not likely to want — to go to a shelter.” The Courier knocked on the doors of more than 20 RVs in the neighbourhood, with responses only from Hocking, Eastveld and another man named Ben in an old Chevy camper van, who was on his way to work. Hocking said the people he knew in the other RVs and vehicles were mostly “disability people,” including a man living in a car with two dogs. The type of RVs ranged from old camper vans to large newer looking motorhomes such as a 34-footlong Dolphin on Cottrell Street, which had a small handwritten sign taped to the windshield that said:

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motorhomes and camper vans “We are working professionals. We’ll be gone in 24 hours. Thanks [with a small heart drawn next to it].” The vehicle was still there six days later. Eastveld said she was one of the RV dwellers the city’s outreach team spoke to in recent weeks. They informed her about housing options, but she told them she likely didn’t qualify because she earned a decent income and had a dog. Unlike Hocking, who is collecting a disability cheque of about $1,000 a month and supplements that income with recycling bottles, scrap metal and some odd jobs related to his carpentry skills, Eastveld has chosen to live in an RV on the strip to save money. “People my age, we were always told to save for your future, and we can’t,” said the one-time University of B.C. law student, who is originally from Calgary. “I’m in my early 30s and I haven’t been able to save until I moved into this [motorhome]. I’ve saved what I would have paid in rent every single month and I’ve put it in the bank.” Still, the city considers her an “unsheltered” homeless person. Or, in Mayor Gregor Robertson’s parlance, a “street” homeless person — a term Eastveld finds odd considering her choice to leave her basement suite and buy a motorhome. Inside, she has a sink, a bathroom, a Coleman stove and room enough to hang her bike and house her 80-pound pit bull-mix, who gets regular walks from a dog walking service. Eastveld, who learned to fix a broken alternator belt and install a solar panel on her roof — experiences she found “empowering — said she is mindful of complaints about garbage and discarded needles accumulating along the strip. She keeps the dirt boulevard outside her motorhome clean, concerned Alonzo might step on a needle. She regularly recycles, dumps her garbage and drives to a sanitation dump in Burnaby, where she pays five dollars to dispose of bathroom waste. “I would prefer to live in an apartment, where I didn’t have to worry about who’s knocking on my door in the morning,” she said. “But with one income, it’s challenging.”

Above: The city estimates there are “a couple hundred people” living in motorhomes and vehicles around the city. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET Left: Gord Hocking is on the waitlist for social housing, but in the meantime shares a motorhome with his girlfriend, their cat and a roommate. For video, go to vancourier.com.

‘Bottles of syringes’

Eastveld is not likely one of the residents of the strip that Amber D’Amico and Nick Singh are referring to as they walk along a stretch of Glen Drive back to work at Moe’s Home Collection. D’Amico is the store’s marketing and brand manager, and Singh is a salesperson. They say in the last year, furniture outside the store has been stolen. So has an awning and a large tent. Also, some RV dwellers have hopped the large fence at night to plug extension cords into the building’s outside outlets, effectively “stealing power.” The worst incident was a staff member getting struck by a car as she walked across Glen Drive. They said the driver was unable to see their fellow employee because of the crowded

street of RVs, including the one lived in by Hocking, which has a generator, open gas cans and propane tanks strewn on the road at the rear of the vehicle. “Obviously, it’s not visually that nice,” D’Amico said. “But outside of that, there’s been needles here, we’ve had empty bottles of syringes, it smells like feces, people approaching us in the morning for cigarettes and that kind of stuff.” Added D’Amico: “It’s hard because you don’t want to put somebody out of their home, if that’s where they’re being forced to live. Our economy is tough, the rental market’s tough. But if it’s causing safety issues for us here, then that’s a problem.” D’Amico said complaints to the city have gone unheard, with the store receiv-

ing an email from the city saying it was “not in a position to make people homeless” and that it had “higher priorities right now.” Her conclusion is “the city’s not doing anything.” Scollard said that’s not the case. “Just because they don’t necessarily see movement in 24 hours of their call doesn’t mean that we aren’t taking action, or that we don’t take the issue seriously,” said Scollard, emphasizing again that the city has a long-term goal to ﬁnd housing for people living in vehicles. For Lily Wong, who parked her car across from Hocking’s motorhome last Thursday morning, she, too, has empathy for people down on their luck. Wong is a longtime customer of the nearby gift and fashion exchange stores at the end of Glen Drive. “It’s getting worse and worse, and in the summer it’s really bad — you cannot park here at all,” she said. Wong doesn’t like the garbage, either, or the gutters littered with discarded needles and the sight and smell of human waste. Her solution, like a suggestion from D’Amico and Singh, is to have the city designate an area in Vancouver for people who live in their vehicles, complete with electricity and sanitation services. “This is a sign of the

times and the city has to do something,” said Wong, who grew up in Vancouver and supports the city’s empty homes tax and controlling foreign ownership of homes. “But that isn’t the problem. The problem is controlling rents from skyrocketing. The city has to do something because we’re going to see more and more of this — not just in areas like this, we’re going to see it throughout the city.”

Modular housing

The frustration of Vancouverites who continue to witness the detrimental effect of an unaffordable city is also a frustration of Whitty’s and Vision Vancouver Coun. Kerry Jang, who got amped up quickly and used some colourful language when told about concerns of staff and customers along the Evans Avenue-Glen Drive strip. “Shoving them out of the way doesn’t work,” Jang said by telephone. “What do they want me to do? Push them out? Put them in another f***ing parking lot somewhere? No, I’m not going to do that. We can’t do that. As soon as you treat them as pariahs, you’re inviting trouble.” Jang and Whitty are clear that setting up a tent-city type zone for vehicle dwellers is not going to happen, with Whitty saying “it’s not the direction the city wants to go in.” “The city wants to go in the

direction of housing and keep focused on that,” she said. “If the crisis deepens, then maybe we’ll have to look at other options. But at this point, we’re trying to deal with people on a one-to-one basis.” Their solution is getting 600 units of temporary modular housing built this year for homeless people and those at risk of becoming homeless. The city will open its ﬁrst building in Marpole this month. Ten to 12 buildings, with $66 million in funding from the provincial government, are expected to be built across the city. “We don’t want to create RV parks,” Jang said. “The whole point is getting people out of these things and into homes. That’s my solution, so you won’t need to live in an RV, or have RV parks. That’s why we’re building modular housing.”

‘Fighting an illness’

Meanwhile, Hocking is staying put for now. He believes he’s on B.C. Housing’s waiting list for a home. He’s worried, though, that he might lose the motorhome before he finds a new place. “If we get kicked out of here, I don’t know what we’re going to do,” he said of life in the motorhome with Geraldine and his roommate. “She’s crippled, plus we have a cat that’s like a child to us. We’ve had him since he was a baby. It’s just a cat. We don’t have kids, but he’s really important to us.” Hocking’s story of how he ended up in this state isn’t clear, although he said he left Rossland when he was 19 to come to Vancouver to find work as a carpenter. Then, at 34, he got sick. “I had a good life when I grew up. My mother looked after me. I had no father. I skied all my life,” he said. “Now I’m fighting an illness and trying to survive it.” He has experienced firsthand what so many only observe and offer opinions about. Well, here’s what Hocking thinks. “I see that there’s a problem with rent in this city. People are buying places and they’re not renting them out. They’re leaving them empty. They should just rent them out. It’s just a ridiculous amount of people that I’ve seen who are homeless now. I never heard of that until the last four or five years. Now it’s worse than ever. Really bad. It’s crazy.” @Howellings

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Weed the people: Province lays out rules for legal pot John Kurucz

But for now, here’s what we know:

B.C. got its first substantive update of 2018 around how the province will respond to impending federal cannabis legalization this summer. Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General Mike Farnworth fielded questions concerning personal possession, provincial versus municipal responses, consumption in rental properties and in public, and the licensing process. Because the federal regulatory framework is still being finalized in Ottawa, outstanding questions remain around price points, anticipated revenues and the number of pot shops that could be operational before the end of the year.

Location, location, location

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• B.C.’s Liquor Distribution Branch will operate a new standalone network of public retail stores and the Liquor Control and Licensing Branch will be responsible for licensing private stores and monitoring the retail sector. Online sales will also be permitted for public sales. • While the province signs off on licensing, municipalities will have a signiﬁcant say on most everything else: location, zoning and individual community requirements. • Landlords and strata councils will be able to restrict or prohibit non-medical can-

retail stores will not be co-located with any other businesses such as liquor stores or pharmacies.

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Mike Farnworth fielded questions from the media Monday.

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nabis smoking and vaping at tenanted and strata properties. That said, whether leases can be broken or altered speciﬁcally with respect to the incoming legislation hasn’t been determined. • Licensed retailers will not be able to sell cannabis in the same stores as liquor

or tobacco. In fact, those operations will be restricted to cannabis-related products only — no gas, clothes or Lotto tickets, for example. • Both private and public locations can sell ancillary products such as rolling papers, holders, pipes and bongs. • Non-medical cannabis

Public Hearing: February 20 Tuesday, February 20, 2018 at 6 pm Vancouver City Hall 453 West 12th Avenue Third Floor, Council Chamber Vancouver City Council will hold a Public Hearing to consider zoning for these locations: 1. 1529 West Pender Street To amend the text of CD-1 (312) (Comprehensive Development) District to allow the conversion of 684 square metres of vacant commercial retail space to ofﬁce use in the existing building. 2. 5679 Main Street To rezone 5679 Main Street from C-2 (Commercial) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit a new six-storey, mixeduse building with 46 secured market rental housing units. A height of 23 metres (75 feet) and a ﬂoor space ratio (FSR) of 3.5 are proposed.

3. 431-455 West King Edward Avenue To rezone 431-455 West King Edward Avenue from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit a new four-storey residential building and two-storey townhouses at the lane with 42 secured market rental units. A building height of 14.6 metres (48 feet) and a ﬂoor space ratio (FSR) of 2.01 are proposed.

4. 6 West 17th Avenue (Turner Dairy) To rezone 6 West 17th Avenue (Turner Dairy) from RS-7 (OneFamily Dwelling) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the adaptive reuse of the existing three-storey building, including heritage restoration and designation, and 13 market residential units. A height of 10.7 metres (35 feet) and a ﬂoor space ratio (FSR) of 1.56 are proposed.

Development Permit Board Meeting: February 19 The Development Permit Board and Advisory Panel will meet: Monday, February 19, 2018, 3 pm Vancouver City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Ground Floor, Town Hall Meeting Room to consider the following development permit application: Proposal: To develop at 833 West Pender Street a new 13-storey, 106 room hotel with two levels of underground parking accessed from the lane via a vehicular elevator operated by valet service. The hotel will have a restaurant/guest lounge on the ground ﬂoor, lobby access from Pender Street, and a vehicle drop-off area on the lane side with a rooftop garden amenity for hotel guests. TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM: 604-873-7469 or camilla.lade@vancouver.ca

• The BC Liquor Distribution Branch aims to open the ﬁrst government-operated, non-medical cannabis retail store by late summer, and has begun exploring an e-commerce model to offer online sales to the public. The ﬁrst private retailer is expected around the same time, depending on local government requirements. • The province will launch an early registration process this spring for all residents and businesses seeking a cannabis retail licence.

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5. 400 West Georgia Street To rezone 400 West Georgia Street from DD (Downtown District) to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit a 24-storey office building with commercial space on the ground floor. A building height of 91.8 metres (301 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 17.87 are proposed. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THESE APPLICATIONS INCLUDING LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTIES: vancouver.ca/rezapps or 604-873-7038 Anyone who considers themselves affected by the proposed by-law amendments may speak at the Public Hearing. Please register individually beginning at 8:30 am on February 9 until 5 pm on the day of the Public Hearing by emailing publichearing@vancouver.ca or by calling 604-829-4238. You may also register in person at the door between 5:30 and 6 pm on the day of the Public Hearing. You may submit your comments by email to publichearing@vancouver.ca, or by mail to:

City of Vancouver, City Clerk’s Ofﬁce, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 1V4. All submitted comments will be distributed to Council and posted on the City’s website. Please visit vancouver.ca/publichearings for important details. Copies of the draft by-laws will be available for viewing starting February 9 at the City Clerk’s Ofﬁce in City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, Monday to Friday from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. All meetings of Council are webcast live at vancouver.ca/councilvideo, and minutes of Public Hearings are available at vancouver.ca/councilmeetings (posted approximately two business days after a meeting). For real time information on the progress of City Council meetings, visit vancouver.ca/speaker-waittimes or @VanCityClerk on Twitter. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON PUBLIC HEARINGS, INCLUDING REGISTERING TO SPEAK: vancouver.ca/publichearings

• Edible cannabis will not be available in any retail operation until next year at the earliest. • Sampling — similar to wine tasting in a liquor store — will not be allowed. • Craft cannabis or boutique operations — similar to craft breweries or wineries — where cannabis is grown, produced and sold all on site will not be permitted.

Personal dos and don’ts

• Unlike Colorado, which legalized marijuana in 2014, cannabis consumption will be allowed in some public places. The no-go spots include high trafﬁc, public areas such as community beaches, parks and playgrounds. Farnworth said municipal governments will have the authority to tack on additional regulations at their discretion Farnworth said the reason for opting against a wholesale public ban is rooted in the massive enforcement effort it would require. • Four plants can be grown per household. The dried cannabis from those plants are for personal consumption and cannot be sold. • Those over the age of 19 will be allowed to possess up to 30 grams. People under 19 will be prohibited from possessing any nonmedical cannabis. • Cannabis transported in a motor vehicle will need to be in a sealed package, or inaccessible to vehicle occupants. • Home cultivation will be banned in homes used as daycares. • Both government and private stores will sell a maximum of 30 grams of dried cannabis (or its equivalent in oil) to an individual at one time.

Cannabis laws and restrictions:

• Private retail stores will not be permitted to offer online sales. • Unlike liquor stores, minors will not be permitted to enter non-medical cannabis retail stores, even if they are accompanied by a parent or guardian. • Impaired driving rules in place now will continue to be applied in cases of nonmedical cannabis use. • A new 90-day administrative driving prohibition for drug-affected driving will be introduced. • The current zero-tolerance restrictions for the presence of alcohol for drivers in the Graduated Licensing Program will be expanded to include zero tolerance for the presence of THC, the active ingredient in cannabis. @JohnKurucz

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News Unique partnership replaces aging Collingwood seniors’ complex at no cost Naoibh O’Connor

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The organizations responsible for what was an aging seniors’ rental complex in Renfrew-Collingwood have leveraged the land’s value to get the building replaced at no cost, and no risk, as part of a larger mixed-use development. Ground broke on the project at 3595 Kingsway, Jan. 26. It will see 44 units from Odd Fellows Manor replaced in a new six-storey building that also features commercial retail space at grade level and 104 market rental units. The manor, which was built in 1971, was run by Odd Fellows Low Rental Housing Society, which works in conjunction with Three Links Care Society. Its units were geared toward low-income residents 55 years and older. The building needed either signiﬁcant repairs or replacement. Replacement was deemed the best option. In 2012, Odd Fellows society approached Terra Housing to help ﬁnd a solution. It specializes in developing real estate with social-purpose and market components. Terra Special Projects, the development arm of Terra Housing, signed an agreement with the society to take on the risk and redevelop the property for the residual density. In return, the society would get their units replaced. Terra Housing Projects subsequently partnered

Construction on a six-storey complex called The Link at Collingwood, at 3595 Kingsway, will be completed in the summer of 2019. It will feature commercial and retail space at grade, as well as 44 units of rental housing earmarked for low-income seniors and 104 market rental units. RENDERING COURTESY GBL ARCHITECTS

with Hungerford Properties, which had the capital and capacity to deliver the project. Terra became minority partners and over a two-year period acted as liaison between Hungerford and Odd Fellows. Now that construction has started, Hungerford works directly with Odd Fellows. The project, which was approved in 2016, falls under the City of Vancouver’s Rental 100 program and is expected to be completed by the summer of 2019. David Hurford, CEO for Three Links Care Society, said they spent months working with tenants, and organizations such as B.C. Housing and Vancouver

Coastal Health, on relocation plans. The goal was to find displaced residents housing that was as good or better. In some cases, tenants were also matched with other services they needed through the process. By this point, the building was half empty because once the project was a go, new tenants were no longer accepted at the manor. All of those remaining tenants will have first right to return to units in the new building once it’s finished. Residents in all 44 units will pay below market rents, according to an agreement with the City of Vancouver. Hurford said these kinds of arrangements, in which a

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non-profit leverages land, are the wave of the future. Developers, he added, also see they’ll have a better chance of success with their project if they’re working with a non-profit, or public service organization, to create social housing units in markets such as Vancouver where there’s an affordability crunch. “It appears to me the model people are really looking for is a non-profit working collaboratively with a municipality and a wellregarded private developer,” he said. “That seems to be a nice mix. And then, within the building, some sort of a mix of subsidized units for people who need the extra assistance and some sort of

opportunity to offer market rental, which is what the market needs as well.” Hugh Forster, a principal at Terra Special Projects, said it was a positive move for Odd Fellows manor. “It’s unique in that a non-proﬁt charitable society without ﬁnancial resources [is] able to replace their social housing at no risk and no cost. They did that because their property had excess density. We traded them the density for the keys to a new building,” he said. “Our agreement was very complicated from a legal standpoint but it assured them that they had no risk.” Michael Hungerford, a partner at Hungerford

Properties, also sees it as a way a non-profit can creatively unlock land value for their own purpose. “It’s important because it symbolizes what can be done when a private developer, a not-for-profit and the City of Vancouver come together and deliver a great project for the community that’s going to create a lot of affordable housing, which is desperately needed in our city,” he said. The need for affordable housing for seniors in Renfrew-Collingwood is reflected in city statistics. Based on the 2011 census, 20 per cent of the population within the Joyce/Vanness study area, which is approximately 700 metres of the SkyTrain station, are aged 55 or older, according to information outlined by city staff at the public hearing when the project was approved. At that time, in 2016, there were about 290 units dedicated to seniors housing in the area, and an additional 400 units in co-ops and non-market housing. The City of Vancouver doesn’t track whether these types of partnerships are becoming increasingly common but, through its Housing Vancouver Strategy, “supports partners across all sectors to come to the table with new ideas, approaches, and opportunities to address Vancouver’s housing challenges,” city staff say. “This includes partnerships between non-profits and the private sector for affordable housing delivery.” @naoibh

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Melissa Bruntlett, her husband Chris and their two children — now aged 11 and 9 — ditched their car eight years ago. They rely on their bikes, but also travel by foot, transit and car-share. (Their decision was the subject of a documentary on CBC’s The National in 2015, as well as a feature in the Courier penned by the Bruntletts.) Recently, the couple, who run Modacity, a communication company focused on sustainable transportation issues, submitted a manuscript for their ﬁrst book based on the lessons they’ve learned through their travels to the Netherlands over the past couple of years and the colleagues they’ve met there. It’s expected to be published by Island Press, which is based out of New York, in September of 2018. We checked in with Melissa Bruntlett to ﬁnd out her thoughts about the City of Vancouver’s cycling endeavours. It’s 2018. How would you describe Vancouver’s progress in terms of making the city cycling friendly?

Since we moved here in 2007, there’s been quite a bit of progress in terms of creating safe facilities to attract different people to ride. In recent years, whether that’s through pushback or otherwise, it’s slowed a bit outside of the downtown peninsula. But the downtown peninsula itself is becoming increasingly connected, which, of course, is helping people who commute to work and for shopping and things like that. Do you think city council and the ruling Vision Vancouver have done enough on the cycling front?

I think they have. I think they could still do more. Gregor [Robertson] and Vision have put up a lot of political capital to get us where we are but as a result have experienced a lot of pushback, which has slowed the progress in the last few years. What’s the best thing that’s happened in this regard in the past decade?

The downtown cycle tracks are some of the best things that have happened, including the Burrard Bridge — the upgrades that have happened between 2008 and now. It’s made

Melissa Bruntlett and her husband Chris have a book about cycling coming out in the fall. The Courier talked to Melissa about the state of biking in the city, what she hopes this year’s municipal election candidates commit to and what still frustrates her about cycling in Vancouver. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

the city a lot more accessible. I could say that as a family we would not have been travelling downtown nearly as often as we are now, especially when our kids were much younger. So, in terms of getting us to a good point, that has been most pivotal in terms of connecting the city. What do you wish had happened but didn’t?

More focus outside of downtown would have done a lot — there are still a number of areas of the city that are highly underserved when it comes to cycling facilities — with specific focus on connecting people to the shorter distance trip. So, connecting our kids to their schools in a safe manner and getting to shopping districts. We live on Commercial Drive and being able to cycle to go to the shops there is very difficult. We end up walking, which is fine, but we would like to have the option. And, when you get into areas like south Vancouver and southeast Vancouver, those areas still have a ways to go to make it an option for people to cycle safely. Where’s the worst place to cycle in Vancouver?

I would say southeast Vancouver. That little pocket not quite down at Marine Drive and below Kingsway. I don’t bike there at all because there’s not a lot to make me feel comfortable enough. Where’s the best place?

It’s the seawall. It’s an easy question. I realize it’s just for recreation but I love the fact that where we are at Commercial and Broadway, we’re 20 minutes from

essentially oceanfront riding for endless kilometres. What frustrates you most about being a cyclists in the city these days?

One is that we’re still labelled as cyclists because I’m no more a cyclist than I am a walker or a driver or someone who uses public transportation. I really think that the labels have done a huge disservice to everybody in terms of putting us up against each other. At any point in time, somebody’s a pedestrian and somebody’s on public transportation or driving. The other [frustration] is this idea that when I’m not on my bike, I still feel very threatened when I’m around people in cars — they’re still quite aggressive, which you’d think after 10 years of implementing cycling infrastructure it would get better. I’m still always very wary and my children are still very afraid when there’s a car driving behind them, whether they’re close or not. The fact we haven’t got past that yet makes it hard to encourage others to keep cycling. What are you mostly looking forward to in terms of cycling infrastructure in Vancouver?

I’m really looking forward to, and hopefully they stick past the next election, those connections that will be built outside of downtown. Commercial Drive has been on the docket for a really long time; connections on West Fourth would be great. I know these are ideas that are sort of sitting underneath a layer but seeing that built up over the coming years would be fantastic and just improve everything that we’ve been working on.

Short term: Expanding the bike share to reach more into our neighbourhoods. Medium term: Connecting those short-distance trips and making it easier to get to schools and community centres. Long term: Mode-share (the number of people choosing to ride bikes in the city) has to get up there. We do pretty well in the city but it pales in comparison to a lot of other cycling cities in the world. Getting above 10 per cent, hovering close to 20 would be a fantastic goal. This is an election year. What promises commitments would you want to hear from political parties or candidates that would secure your vote?

A continued promise to maintain and keep building on walking and cycling and accessibility in general. That commitment needs to be there. It’s not just about one thing, it’s making sure that whether you walk or bike or take transit, the city is accessible to you. If the candidates are going to get my vote, that needs to be one of the top priorities in terms of transportation. There are others things that [are important].

How often do you drive, if at all?

We have car-share so we usually drive once, maybe twice a week, maybe because of children’s programming being a bit out of reach and it being winter. It drops down in the summer when it’s lighter out.

Has there ever been a moment when you thought, oh, I wish I still had a private car?

In terms of getting around the city, no. Only when I want to go camping.

What’s the most difficult item your family has transported by bike?

Honestly, we’ve almost been able to haul anything. We haven’t done a bed or anything like that but I’d say the most challenging is probably when I transported our Christmas tree last year on my bicycle. We usually use our cargo bike but this time around, we used the front rack of my bike. But with some bungies and some strapping it worked out just ﬁne. A longer version of this interview is at vancourier.com.

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Directory details quality of care homes A new directory from the B.C. Seniors Advocate provides information on publicly subsidized residential care facilities SANDRA THOMAS sthomas@vancourier.com A recent report by the Office of the Seniors Advocate has found that, across the province, 24 per cent of residents living in care facilities were diagnosed with depression and 48 per cent of were prescribed antidepressant medication. That’s just one finding included in the updated version of the B.C. Residential Care Facilities Quick Facts Directory. It provides key information for 293 publicly funded, licensed care facilities across the province, representing 27,142 publicly subsidized beds. The directory was first published in 2016. A summary document highlights key trends in

residential care based on the past three years of data. “The directory is designed to be a useful resource for seniors, their caregivers and the public when making decisions about what care home may best suit an individual’s needs,” said Seniors Advocate Isobel Mackenzie. “We have also discovered information in the directory can provide us with a useful tool to look at systemic issues.” The directory provides information relating to a number of areas, including bed/room conﬁguration, food services, inspection information and care services, as well as information about

the health characteristics of residents in B.C. facilities. It also provides quality of care indicators as reported by the Canadian Institute of Health Information, including data about residents’ access to therapies, level of social engagement, use of antipsychotic and antidepressant medications, and use of physical restraints. This year’s directory also includes facility-level results from the Ofﬁce of the Seniors Advocate’s recent survey of people living in residential care and their family members. “There is arguably no better measure of gauging the quality of care of a facility than talking to the

people who live there,” said Mackenzie. “This year’s directory provides an opportunity to hear the voices of those who experience, on a daily basis, what it’s like to live in licensed care homes, and that’s very important information to share.” Highlights of the directory include:

operated facilities — were funded to meet or exceed the guideline. " Overall, 73 per cent of residents reside in single-occupancy rooms, 87 per cent of rooms in residential care are singleoccupancy, nine per cent are double-occupancy and four per cent are multi-bed rooms.

" Only 15 per cent of facilities met the provincial guideline of 3.36 hours of direct care per resident, per day in 2016/17. This is an improvement over the previous year, when only nine per cent were meeting the guideline. Four per cent of contracted facilities — compared to 33 per cent of health authority Isobel owned and

Mackenzie.

" There are some differences between facilities based on ownership type. Health authority owned and operated facilities, on average, have higher funded direct care hours, higher rates of therapy, fewer singleoccupancy rooms, more complex and physically-dependent residents, and fewer reportable incidents and substantiated complaints compared to contracted facilities. " On average, almost half of all residents had a low sense of social engagement, (0-2 on the seven-point Index of Social Engagement measurement tool). For a complete list of quick facts visit vancourier.com.

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Vancouver couple marries each other four times in 50 years and at each wedding, Beatrice Raymond is wearing the same satin dress

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satin gown with a real lace same man and, remarkably, in the same dress. It’s just the bodice and detachable train. Her bridesmaids wore a year that changes. rainbow of dresses — pastel On Aug. 12, 1967, Stanley green, peach and yellow. and Beatrice Raymond ﬁrst Twenty-ﬁve years later, became husband and wife many of the same people in Kingston, Jamaica. The gathered back in Jamaica bride was resplendent in a

Not to be outdone by their previous three weddings, their fourth wedding on Aug. 12, 2017 at Trinity Baptist Church at West 49th Avenue and Granville Street would have warmed the heart of any young bride. The interior of the crowded church was draped in white and the bridesmaids — including a niece who was in all four weddings — wore off-theshoulder gowns in the same rainbow hues as the 1967 dresses.

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and a dress country without a wife so I went back and said we’re getting married.”

It was always Beatrice’s intention to get remarried in the same dress on various anniversaries. She had it custom-made by a friend for $100 and kept it in pristine condition. She credits her involvement with Dunbar’s TOPS — Take Off Pounds Sensibly — group for ensuring that the dress still ﬁts 50 years later. Stanley can credit TOPS, too, for his appreciation of what he calls her “honeymoon dress.” Beatrice and Stanley both grew up in Jamaica and were attending teachers’ when mutual friends introduced them. “I found her very compatible,” Stanley says

of what drew her to him. “She doesn’t fuss about things. My philosophy is why waste anxiety that the sky is going to fall. You’re given a gift of life and the sensible thing to do is enjoy it rather than predict doom and gloom.” Beatrice liked that he made her laugh and that was a quiet man, “not braggy or a show off.” They were dating when Stanley decided to immigrate to Canada to build a better economic base for their future. He got a job as a janitor and then as a logger in Bella Coola, saving up money so he could go to university and get his B.C. teaching degree. “I didn’t want to live in this cold

He didn’t tell his young bride much about Bella Coola so she was in for a bit of surprise when the number of trees started to vastly outnumber the number of houses as the small amphibious plane ﬂew north over the coastal mountains and forests. But she was reassured when a welcoming party from the school was there to greet them and drive them to their new home. “Body heat,” thick blankets from Sears and a woodstove helped keep them warm that ﬁrst winter. The plan was to live there for one year but they ended up staying for 20. Stanley eventually became principal of the high school and he still delights at the memory of taking a group of students on a trip to Jamaica.

for his teaching job at Windemere secondary and hers at Nootka elementary. Every Sunday after church at Trinity Baptist, they would drive past an empty ﬁeld on West Eighth waiting for the for sale signs to go up. Their diligence paid off and in 2006 they retired to their present home near the Endowment Lands.

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She’s already started to plan their 60th anniversary wedding. The dress will once again come out of storage but, as a concession to her age and how much work goes into each wedding, she knows one thing will be different from the previous four occasions: “Everybody’s going to have to bring their own food.”

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Our feelings about Ikea founder’s death are confusing and difﬁcult to assemble Pour out a bottle of glogg. Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of Ikea, died last week at the age of 91. Sure, we sometimes cursed Kamprad’s ubiquitous creations — sitting in our living room, halfdrunk and surrounded by indecipherable assembly instructions for an Ekby JÄRPEN and bewildered as to why we still had three screws and a wooden dowel left over. But Ikea’s cheap and aesthetically inoffensive stylings helped us become adults who owned their own furniture rather than inherited whatever their friends, family and neighbours were throwing out. Over the years, we’ve gradually replaced most of our Ikea furniture with sturdier, less-Ikea-looking items. Our attraction to raw pine, much like sleeping on a futon mattress and decorating walls with framed Gustav Klimt posters, has dimmed in old age. We still maintain a few items from the Swedish

Like the instructions of an Ekby JÄRPEN, Kudos and Kvetches’ feelings about the death of Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad are complicated.

retailer — the discontinued Expedit shelf, which perfectly holds a sizeable record collection, a couple Fado table lamps, which really hit above their weight in terms of stylishness and price, plus an assortment of glassware, silverware, serving trays and containers, which

linger in our kitchen like a lower back tattoo we can’t bring ourselves to remove once and for all. Ikea’s shadow looms large, like a ridiculous Pax wardrobe. But like Ingvar Kamprad, we’ve moved on. Mostly. RIP, du sexig bastard. @KudosKvetches

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Everything is Terrible brings video-taped weirdness to town John Kurucz

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Imagine a world where acquiring the land necessary to build a pyramid was your primary goal. Imagine still that pyramid being built solely out of 16,000-plus VHS copies of the film Jerry Maguire. This is the headspace Commodore Gilgamesh finds himself in. And he’s devoted the last 10 years of his life to that purpose. Gilgamesh is a co-founder of a U.S.-based video mashup collective — more on that later — called Everything is Terrible (EIT). The group lands at the Rickshaw on Feb. 13 to debut its latest full-length film offering, The Great Satan. Gilgamesh, who’s Earthborn name is Nicholas Maier, spoke to the Courier from his home in Los Angeles and asked to be referred to as Gilgamesh when speaking about official EIT business. That point alone offers a glimpse into the banal, insane, hilarious and profusely strange world view that makes up his group. “We’re 10 years in and we still can’t explain it and I think that’s the beauty of it — you can’t really pin us down. If we were a rock band, you would know immediately what we are,” he says. “So we can constantly re-invent ourselves and constantly do different things. Even our fans are like, ‘Wait, it’s a live show, it’s a movie, what is happening?’” The easy explanation for EIT goes something like this. A bunch of film students and like-minded college kids who grew up in the ’80s and ’90s rallied around their love of the innate weirdness from that time period: infomercials, televangelists, bad hair, stupid dance moves and the like. Their technical abilities to edit, re-purpose and recontextualize are what bring us to today: clips varying in length between two to five minutes mashed up alongside droning music, happy music or sad music that would fit nicely in the collection of Timothy Leary or Hunter S. Thompson. If that sounds too difficult to explain, that’s because it is. Easy is not a calling card in Gilgamesh’s world and that’s part of the point. “So much of our media world is just mediocre,” Gilgamesh says. “It’s just shooting for off-white centre to hit as many people as possible. I think we strive to make something that is either below that or above

that and we don’t care as long it’s not in the range of mediocre.” There are some recurring characters and themes happening in the thousands of EIT videos floating in the ether. Gilgamesh won’t say what the point of the whole exercise is and nor should he have to. But there are undercurrents of social commentary, humour, absurdity, celebration and nihilism found in the thousands of videos he’s helped produce. Televangelists and the Satanic Panic during the 1980s are often targets. But then there’s a character like Duane, who appears on a kids’ dance show in what appear to be the early ’90s. A 38-second clip of Duane shaking his tail feather has garnered more than two million views on YouTube. All in, EIT’s YouTube views are in the tens of millions. How has this happened? “It’s about finding something that is not special and deeming it special,” Gilgamesh explains. “That could be a like a bajillion dollar movie that falls between the cracks and they do something that we find remarkable enough to pull it back. Or it’s a thing that didn’t cost any more, didn’t get any attention and we boost it up either because we love it or we love and hate it.” Taking the show on the road and on stage entails puppets, props, three actors and a screening of the 75-minute film, which is comprised of more than 2,000 clips. It took two years for Gilgamesh and a team of about 12 others to create it. The title, The Great Satan, plays off the ideals spawned during the satanic panic of 30 years ago and goes further. “I think the idea of good and evil is really absurd to us and it’s even more heightened in our current environment,” Gilgamesh says. “You go on the internet and all you hear is ‘I’m right, you’re wrong, this is black, this is white and that’s life.’ I think the idea of an evil being is a great catalyst to look at all this crazy greyness that actually exists in the world.” Speaking of crazy, back to the notion of a pyramid made of Jerry Maguire VHS tapes, affectionately referred to as “Jerrys.” Gilgamesh and his co-conspirators are looking to purchase land in northern Arizona to make the pyramid a reality before the end of this year. Donors from across the world have helped bring his

dream to fruition, and a leaderboard on the EIT website tracks donations. Someone named Alex McNeely sits atop that count with close to 1,400 donations. “The easiest answer is this: [Jerry Maguire] was the easiest tape to find the most of because it was everywhere. We couldn’t stop finding it. But it fits so perfectly. We don’t watch the movie, but the crimson colour, the look on the

dude’s face… It represents a lot to us. I hope we don’t hurt friend [ﬁlm director] Mr. Crowe’s feelings, but it represents mediocrity to us.” The Great Satan screens at the Rickshaw at 8 p.m. on Feb. 13. Online tickets via Ticketﬂy go for $12. If you’re up to the challenge, more information is online at watch.everythingisterrible.com. @JohnKurucz

Everything is Terrible’s latest full length offering, The Great Satan, consists of 75 minutes of the most bizarre mash-up clips from the 1980s and 1990s.

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POP PARTY: Takashi Murakami headlines Vancouver Art Gallery’s latest offering. The Japanese artist’s works — some 50 pieces — have taken over the gallery walls for his ﬁrst retrospective exhibition, The Octopus Eats His Own Leg, part of an extensive international tour. Bright, bold and extremely colourful, the pop paintings draw on manga, anime and Japanese culture. The multitalented artist — considered one of this generation’s most iconic contemporary pop artists, in the same stratosphere as Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst and Douglas Coupland — was on hand for the opening of his Vanhattan exhibition, coincidentally falling on his 56th birthday.

The VAG threw a birthday party ﬁtting for the pop superstar. Fans shelled out $1,000 a ticket to party with the pop art star. Murakami sported a plush Octopus crown and Technicolor suit for the celebration and VAG fundraiser. A commissioned work by the man of the hour garnered the night’s top bid of $150,000, contributing to more than $300,000 raised from the live auction yours truly conducted in support of the gallery’s ongoing programmatic efforts and student initiatives to inspire creativity in the city. For a longer version of this column see vancourier.com.

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Who says romance is dead? Make a piñata of your sweetie And four other reasons Vancouver is awesome this week “Smash Your Love!” Piñata Workshop

For an alt-take on Valentine’s Day ephemera, build an ode to your love... and smash it. This Monkey’s Gone to Heaven presents “Smash Your Love!” a piñatabuilding workshop led by professional piñata artist Meaghan Kennedy from Your Piñata. The workshop (priced at $60 per person) includes everything you need to craft a piñata based on a loved one’s look (you can even give organizers some key details ahead of the day to help prepare). You’ll even leave with a bag of candies to put in your piñata for sweet, sweet smashing. Feb. 11, noon to 3 p.m. This Monkey’s Gone to Heaven, 2244 East Hastings St. thismonkey.ca/smash-your-love/

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Who’s slinging the best chowder with the best local beer pairing in Gastown? You’ll be the judge of that at the Chowder Smackdown. Going down at the Portside Pub, the Chowder Smackdown finds four Gastown eateries paired with local breweries and tasked with creating a tastebud-thrilling chowder and beer combo to win the public’s votes. It’s $10 to attend and sample all the entries and fill out your ballot. All proceeds from the Chowder Smackdown will go to Mealshare, the organization that operates a “buy a meal, give a meal” style diningout program to provide food to local kids in need. Feb. 8, 6 p.m. Portside Pub, 7 Alexander St. theportsidepub.com

Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg

Renowned Japanese contemporary artist Takashi Murakami has brought his eclectic and colourful retrospective to town. From the custom exterior octopus wrap to Murakami’s iconic acid-trippy smiley flowers, and a little hip hop culture in the mix, there is much to see in what has been and remains an inspired and innovative career. Crazy may be an appropriate word for many of Murakami’s works, but they are wildly compelling and will certainly draw crowds to the Vancouver Art Gallery. Now through May 6 Vancouver Art Gallery, 750 Hornby St. vanartgallery.bc.ca

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Spend your Family Day holiday saluting some shorts. Specifically, this year’s Oscar-nominated short films. Vancity Theatre will show the animated and live action films in their respective batches — and, of course you can prolong your film fandom by making it a double feature. Feb. 12. Animated shorts at 12:20 p.m., live action shorts at 2 p.m. Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour St. viff.org

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Sometimes, the best time to visit the aquarium is without kids. This 19-plus event lets the grown-ups have free reign to explore the exhibits and interactive features at the Vancouver Aquarium, with drinks in hand — yes, grown-up drinks! Whether you’re there as a single or a couple, the aquarium hopes you’re feeling the love, and will give you a Valentine’s evening that’s “Sealed with a Fish.” Feb. 14, 6 to 10 p.m. Vancouver Aquarium, 845 Avison Way vanaqua.org/afterhours For more events, go to

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Our Conductors’ Concert is always one of the most fascinating events of the choral season. As the culmination of our 38th annual National Conductors’ Symposium, Jon Washburn, five invited conductors from around the world and pianist Stephen Smith will focus on three distinct musical genres — famous prayers, indigenous songs and story ballads. Come and enjoy the unusual repertoire and the varied interpretations of the six conductors. Music by Mozart, Bruckner, Duruflé, Foss, Enkhbayar, Healey, Adams, Crossin, Bartók, Daunais, Washburn and more.

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With a municipal election looming and the anticipated power shift it will bring, Jasmine Liddell ﬁgures the time is right to get the band together. That band is actually a chorus of voices from across the city’s live music and performing arts groups. Liddell’s intention is to create a collective that will speak to the challenges Vancouver artists face, and lobby future council candidates to do something about it. “We’re really just starting to scratch the surface of what this might look like, but everybody has issues with different spaces around the city and you hear about them constantly,” said Liddell, who manages East Vancouver’s WISE Hall. Liddell has been kicking the idea around for months, though changes abroad crystallized her decision to act locally.

Recent media reports out of England suggest that changes in that country will put the onus on developers, rather than venue owners, when it comes to soundprooﬁng measures. The proposal was supported by uber famous musicians including Paul McCartney, Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason, the Kinks’ Ray Davies and Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders. The issue of neighbourhood noise is familiar for those at the WISE, which crowdfunded $11,000 for soundprooﬁng materials in response to complaints in 2013. “I saw the article, and I was like ‘OK this has been on my mind for too long now,’ so now I put it out into the ether and see what happen,” she said. Aside from October’s election, Liddell’s timing aligns well with a cityled initiative called the Creative City Strategy. Having kicked off last fall

and still in its infancy, the program’s intended to bridge the gap between arts communities and the city to better understand present challenges and tackle future problems. Though the ﬁnal recommendations don’t go before council until late 2018, some interesting numbers are found in the initial report from October 2017. City stats suggest there are more than 7,900 working artists in the city, representing 2.3 per cent of the overall labour force. More than 33,000 cultural workers are employed in Vancouver, roughly 10 per cent of the labour force. However, the canaryin-the-coal-mine stat is found here: 51 per cent of Vancouver’s labour force claims a total income of under $40,000 annually. For artists, that number jumps to 65 per cent. “With the high cost of living in Vancouver, less people have disposable

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Stick-taps & Glove-drops • A tap of the stick to Canucks prospect Adam Gaudette, who was named the NCAA’s player of the month for January. Gaudette currently leads the NCAA in scoring and had seven goals and 14 points in eight January games. • Dropping the gloves with Canucks management pre-emptively, just in case they’re thinking of repeating the 2016 trade deadline when they didn’t move Radim Vrbata and Dan Hamhuis by hanging onto Thomas Vanek and Erik Gudbranson. Don’t make the same mistakes.

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His teammates call him “Eagle,” supposedly because he reminded Trevor Linden of a baby bird when he was a rookie. Sometimes it instead seems like Alex Edler should be named for the stoic Sam the Eagle from The Muppet Show, albeit with less of a tendency to get rattled by things that aren’t wholesome, dignified and cultural. Edler is notorious for his quiet, reserved nature. The first time I had a chance to interview Canucks players in person, I asked to talk to Edler. The other members of the media literally laughed out loud, knowing how unlikely it was that Edler would give a good quote. They were right; Edler seemed almost sorry as he answered my questions, shrugging apologetically as if he knew his brief answers weren’t much help with the article I had hoped to write. Perhaps that’s why so few people are talking about just how good Edler has been lately for the Canucks. The man of few words has had few words written about him this year. Since the start of 2018, Edler has been dialled in. He has nine points in 13 games, including a five-game point streak. In those 13 games, Edler has 49 shots on goal. Only Brent Burns has had more among defencemen. That run of scoring has brought Edler closer to the franchise record for defenceman scoring. Heading into Tuesday’s game against the Florida Panthers, Edler was just three points behind Dennis Kearns and Jyrki Lumme for second all-time in scoring by a Canucks defenceman, and just seven points behind Mattias Ohlund for first. With 30 games remaining, Edler should be number one on that list before the end of the season. It’s not just points; Edler has been outstanding in every facet of the game

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Not one for words, defenceman Alex Edler does most of his talking on the ice. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

in 2018 and has been getting increased ice time as a result. While continuing to regularly face the opposition’s top line, Edler has put up a positive puck possession percentage, with the Canucks controlling 50.4 per cent of the shot attempts when he’s on the ice at ﬁve-on-fve. It helps that he’s been reunited with his defence partner from last season, Troy Stecher. That duo has been the Canucks’ most consistently good pairing — not perfect every game, but always at least good, even while facing tough minutes. He’s also been on his game on special teams, limiting chances on the penalty kill and facilitating from the point on the power play. Having Brock Boeser at the left faceoff circle obviously helps with the man advantage, but Edler has

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.836 The Canucks’ goaltending has struggled all season, but it’s been at its worst on the penalty kill. Anders Nilsson and Jacob Markstrom have combined to post an .836 save percentage while shorthanded, with only the Philadelphia Flyers and Edmonton Oilers posting worse numbers.

minor penalties this season and taken just two himself, giving the Canucks eight more power plays than he’s given the opposition. His plus-8 leads the Canucks and is one of the best penalty differentials in the NHL.

been smart with his puck distribution, with the power play continuing to produce even as defences key in on Boeser and his shot. I spoke to Daniel Sedin earlier in the season about Edler and the lack of respect he sometimes gets from the Canucks fanbase. “He can put up points, he can defend, he blocks shots, plays PK, plays power play,” he said. “He can do it all out there and that’s rare to see in a defenceman. The guys in here really respect him and have for a long time.” It’s about time he gets the same respect from the fans.

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For thousands of years, cultures around the world have connected certain beers with birth months and zodiac signs. Bible historians, for example, have long associated the 12 beers present at the Last Supper with the various months of the year. Judeo-Christian tradition states that each of the 12 beers embodies the characteristics of those born in that month. So, what does your birth beer say about you?

April:

Hefeweizen

A little bit fruity, a little bit spicy, and a whole lot of fun at parties. You don’t need that orange twist, but you’re feeling fabulous, so why the hell not? After all, if you got it, ﬂaunt it!

January:

May:

You’re strong, dark and brooding, and, let’s be honest, really only tolerable in small amounts. It’s not that you can’t play nice with others, it’s just that your personality is somewhat overpowering and you tend to lose control. You don’t really respect boundaries, either (*cough* UKRAINE *cough*).

Big and bold and bitter like a twice-divorced trucker with opinions no one wants to hear. You’re in everybody’s face and we can smell you from across the room. Seriously, take it down a notch.

Russian Imperial Stout

February:

English Brown Ale

You’re working class and proud of it. And why shouldn’t you be? You put in a hard day’s work, you pay your taxes, you recycle. You’re the backbone of this great nation and you deserve a pint. Or seven.

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f***ing salty, but that’s the f***ing way you are, and if anyone else doesn’t f***ing like it, too f***ing bad. However, while your lack of a ﬁlter is refreshing, too much can become tiresome and off-putting.

March: Gose

Yeah, you’re a bit

IPA

June:

Light lager

I have bad news for you. Nobody likes you; they merely tolerate you. You are what people settle for when there are literally no other options. You’re as tasteless as you are transparent.

July:

Saison

Yeah, you’re a little tart. But the world could use more tarts in it, so no judgment here.

August:

Belgian Trappist Ale

Outwardly you project a sense of enlightenment. There’s a calmness to your demeanour that you’ve worked very hard to cultivate. But it doesn’t take much for everything to go off the rails. Moderation is (or should be) your mantra.

September: Kolsch

You’re a refreshing person to talk to, and the more time one spends with you, the more you reveal. On the surface, you hide that depth of character, but those close to you see you for the complex, affable person you are.

October: Marzen

You came here to do two things: eat pretzels and get wasted. And you’re all out of pretzels.

November: Sour ale

What you think of as your “acerbic wit” looks like “wanton douchebaggery” to everybody else. This is why you don’t get invited to parties anymore.

December: Barleywine

You give off an air of class and sophistication at ﬁrst glance, but deep down, you know you’re a slobbering pisstank like the rest of us. For more beer-related insights, go to thegrowler.ca.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT; i, bernard yankson, private canadian in trust, non statutory-citizen of CANADA, acting as managing director for the Landing Interest For Estates Foundation Trust and the Landing Interest For Estates Foundation having come forth as grantee, and did grant all legal right title and interest, and now as subrogee, hereby claim all right title and interest in the property described herein Trust Id, parceled as; 1. MW 473 037 223 CA-001 thru 999; 2. RW 750 353 591 CA-000 thru 999; and 3. RN 025 844 949 CA-000 thru 999; whereby all legal interests by nature and by characteristic in “Bernard Yankson” and “Yankson, Bernard”, including its property is evidenced and, conveyed said legal interests by nature, to the Trustee(s), primarily HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN in right of CANADA and HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN in right of BRITISH COLUMBIA, binding on the equitable trust of ‘land and soil’ herein described as conveyed articles, statements, bonds, etc., in the parcels herein described, while the beneficial owner, bernard yankson, retaining and holding all equitable interests by nature, only, in public nominee; and or legal estate; BERNARD YANKSON, etc. Trustee(s) are hereby noticed that the statutes of British Columbia and of Canada are in conflict with the private rights of the estate and private trust instrument No. RN 289 256 075 CA-001 thru 999; and, No. RN 082 663 848 CA-000 thru 999; etc. i, bernard yankson am without notice of any bona fide or would be bona fide purchasers for value or bona fide adverse claimant either by nature or characteristic by legal or equitable rights of claim and that Landing Interest for Estates Foundation is without notice of any superior prior, equal, equitable or legal right, title or interest competent to suspend or confuse the equitable and/or legal interest by nature or characteristic, to said commercial property of the Landing Interest for Estates Foundation. and i, subrogee forbid the registration of any person as transferee or owner of, any instrument affecting estates of persons held in trust or interest, unless the certificate of title is expressed to be subject to this claim. All reference to the debtors is placed under RSBC Chapter 359, (PPSA) base registration: 292239K. Notice: Landing Interest For Estates Foundation Trust shall act as the receiver for the life interest of the trust instrument No. 1. MW 473 037 223 CA-001 thru 999; 2. RW 750 353 591 CA-000 thru 999; and 3. RN 025 844 949 CA-000 thru 999; and its beneficiaries, as acknowledged by the all Crown Debtors, therein. this publication is made to give notice of equitable interest in property, personal and real of every disposition re: LANDING INTEREST FOR ESTATES FOUNDATION Trust, etc. all written objections are now herein considered null and void. - without prejudice and without recourse -

3 (RSBC Chapter 359) “EQUITY WILL NOT AID A VOLUNTEER”and”EQUITY FOLLOWS THE LAW” NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT; i, bernard yankson, private canadian in trust, non statutorycitizen of CANADA, having come forth as grantee, and did grant all legal right title and interest, and now as subrogee, hereby claim all right, title and interest in the property described herein trust id, parceled as; 1. RN 289 256 075CA-001 thru 999; whereby all legal interests by nature and by characteristic in “Bernard Yankson” and “Yankson, Bernard”, including its property is evidenced and, conveyed said legal interests by nature, to the Trustee(s), primarily HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN in right of CANADA and HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN in right of BRITISH COLUMBIA, and CANADA REVENUE AGENCY, binding on the equitable trust of ‘land and soil’ herein described as conveyed articles, statements, bonds, etc., in the parcels herein described, while the beneficial owner, bernard yankson, retaining and holding all equitable interests by nature, only, in public nominee; and or legal estate; Bernard Yankson, etc. Trustee(s) are hereby noticed that the statutes of British Columbia and of Canada are in conflict with the private rights of the estate and private trust instrument No. RN 289 256 075CA-001 thru 999; No. RN 082 663 848 CA-000 thru 999, etc. i, bernard yankson am with notice of receipt of equitable trust under postal registration no. RN 249 605 073 CA, of bona fide purchasers for value of the collateral under trust id: RN 289 256 075CA-001 thru 999; by nature and characteristic, by legal and equitable rights of claim for Bernard Yankson Trust. debtors are in agreement to pay amount owing under RN 057 317 334 CA-000 thru 999; where RSBC Chapter 359,(PPSA) base registration: 292239K, was amended under the request of the Department of Justice (D.O.J.). statement of interest under postal registration no. RN 057 317 334 CA-000 thru 999; for all attached-trustees, with amount owing for approx. $580 million dollars, are now in express agreement to be filed under the new RSBC Chapter 359, (PPSA) base registration; (549851K and 549853K) in favor of Bernard Yankson Trust. where the settlor/beneficiary complied with the demand of the D.O.J, and the D.O.J is evidenced in agreement under RN 249 605 073 CA, accepted by subrogee, of possession of collateral, express equitable trust for all original secured parties, the subject of RSBC Chapter 359,(PPSA) base registration: 292239K, for which is consistently written in error, by the fiduciary agent appointed therein, in documented notices. notice: govern yourselves accordingly. Bernard Yankson Trust shall act as the receiver for the beneficiaries of the trust instrument No. RN 289 256 075CA-001 thru 999; acknowledged by all crown debtors, therein, and gives notice of interest and claim for motion in chambers: proceeding before the chancellor (or equivalent) for remedy; notice of trust between the parties. this publication is made to give notice of equitable interest in property, personal and real of every disposition re: Bernard Yankson, estate. all written objections are now herein considered null and void. - without prejudice and without recourse -

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i, bernard yankson, private canadian in trust, non statutory-citizen of CANADA, acting as managing director for the Landing Interest For Estates Foundation Trust and the Landing Interest For Estates Foundation having come forth as grantee, and did grant all legal right title and interest, and now as subrogee, hereby claim all right title and interest in the property described herein Trust Id, parceled as; 1. MW 472 238 688 CA-001 thru 999; 2. MW 472 167 160 CA-001 thru 999; 3. RN 289 256 098 CA-000 thru 999; whereby all legal interests by nature and by characteristic in “Bernard Yankson” and “Yankson, Bernard” and all other parties in held in trust, including their properties, is evidenced and, conveyed said legal interests by nature, to the Trustee(s), primarily HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN in right of CANADA and HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN in right of BRITISH COLUMBIA, binding on the equitable trust of ‘lands and soil’ herein described as conveyed with articles, statements, bonds, etc., in the parcels herein described, while the beneficial owners; bernard yankson, etc., retaining and holding all equitable interests by nature, only, in public nominee; and or legal estate within the Trust Id. MW 472 238 688 CA-001 thru 999; etc. Trustee(s) are hereby noticed that the statutes of British Columbia and of Canada are in conflict with the private rights of the estate and private trust instrument No. 1. MW 472 238 688 CA-001 thru 999; 2. MW 472 167 160 CA-001 thru 999; 3. RN 289 256 098 CA-000 thru 999, the subject of application for special trust fund to be held outside of the public interest. i, bernard yankson am without notice of any bona fide or would be bona fide purchasers for value or bona fide adverse claimant either by nature or characteristic by legal or equitable rights of claim and that Landing Interest for Estates Foundation and “Trust” is without notice of any superior prior, equal, equitable or legal right, title or interest competent to suspend or confuse the equitable and/or legal interest by nature or characteristic, to said commercial property of the Landing Interest for Estates Foundation. and i, subrogee, forbid the registration of any person as transferee or owner of, any instruments, affecting estates of persons held in trust or interest, unless the certificate of title is expressed to be subject to this claim. All reference to the agreement with grantors/trustees is listed under RSBC Chapter 359, (PPSA) base registration: 507821K. Notice: Landing Interest For Estates Foundation Trust shall act as the receiver for the life interest of the trust instrument and claims equitable interest for the issue of endorsement for the settlement, closure and sealing of Citation 2013 BCSC 2332 under No. 1. MW 473 037 223 CA-001 thru 999; 2. RW 750 353 591CA-000 thru 999; and 3. RN 025 844 949CA-000 thru 999; and its beneficiaries, as acknowledged by the Grantor/Trustees, therein. this publication is made to give notice of equitable interest in property, personal and real of every disposition re: Landing Interest For Estates Foundation Trust, etc. all written objections are now herein considered null and void. - without prejudice and without recourse -

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For there to be an electric Harley-Davidson, however, appears to ﬂy in the face of what the brand stands for. Harleys are all about that old school noise. They may be expensive, and a little thirsty, and perhaps not as relentlessly reliable as their Japanese rivals, but the Harley is an icon stretching all the way back to Easy Rider. But the old guard can’t last forever, and HarleyDavidson has been up against some pretty tough sales numbers. That’s why they’re calling for an all-electric bike to show up within the next 18 months, something similar to the 74 horsepower LiveWire concept. If they can mix that Harley retro vibe with clean-running performance and a noise that doesn’t wake the neighbours, so much the better.

the limit by a few kilometres per hour on a clear highway won’t get you in that much trouble, but blasting past what’s prudent like you were Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier isn’t going to get you any medals, just a ticket. Unless, however, you happen to be the CEO of Lotus. Clocked at an alleged 164 km/h in a 112 km/h zone, Jean-Marc Gales made the case (through his lawyer) that his speeding infraction was merely a case of getting to grips with the products that Lotus makes. Call it the Test Driver defence. Gale avoided further points on his licence, but hardly got off scot-free. A 30-day ban on driving plus the equivalent of $1,400 in ﬁnes should be sufﬁcient to keep further “testing” to the test track.

James Glickenhaus takes aim at world car altitude record

Elon Musk’s new side project: flamethrowers

Were you aware that there’s a world altitude record for cars? I wasn’t. Not until somebody went out there and tried to break it. SCG (Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus) is a small manufacturer run by the former movie director James Glickenhaus, one most famous for a coach-built car built off the Enzo. The Enzo is a pretty special car, but the SCG P4/5 made it pretty, which is a good trick in this age of wind tunnel aerodynamics. Now SCG is resurrecting Steve McQueen’s Baja Boot, an off-road racer built to handle the ultra-harsh Baja peninsula. The modern version will blend a mix of Baja and Dakar racing, and as such it’s perfect to take on a record that means climbing a volcano. The current record — set by a 1986 Suzuki Samurai of all things — sits at 6.7 kilometres of elevation. It was set at the Ojos Del Salado volcano in Atacama, Chile. At this point, the record has sat intact for more than a decade, which makes you wonder why a manufacturer like Range Rover hasn’t taken a run at it for the publicity. If the mainstream brands have left the door open, here’s SCG to swoop in and take advantage.

Lotus CEO nicked for speeding

Don’t Speed – note the capital S. Wandering over

It’s hard to keep track of what ol’ Elon is up to these days. Whether it’s firing heavy rockets into space, trying to bring a prestige electric car to the masses, or building a faster-than-sound subway system, there’s certainly no ambition lacking. What is lacking, from an objective sense, is perhaps a cohesive plan. As an example, here’s the latest Musk product: a flamethrower. Well, sort of. What’s actually for sale appears to be a repurposed air-rifle married to the sort of butane torch roofers use. It’s the Nerf of flamethrowers, the kind of thing you’d use to roast a marshmallow. Branded with the Boring Company logo — Musk’s fledgling tunneling company that’s as yet to attempt a commercial undertaking — the “flamethrower” sells for US$500. A brief analysis of the parts used indicates that most of this cost is pure profit, which will theoretically be used for future Musk flights of fancy. Basically, what we’re dealing with is hype run amok. On the plus side, the people spending $500 on Musk-y flamethrowers can well afford to be parted from their money. Plus, there’s no telling what the cash will fund next. A mission to Mars? An underground colony? A giant statue of Elon, complete with Death Ray vision? I’m sure it won’t be the latter. Pretty sure. Sort of.

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What is Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival (VIMFF)? ▶ Annual international 9-day community festival across Metro Vancouver, featuring mountain film screenings, live multimedia presentations, a photography competition, workshops, seminars and other special events ▶ Travelling show with awarded films, visiting 50+ communities across Canada, the US, Europe and Asia each year, and offering additional 5-day Speaker Series program every Fall and a Summer Photography Exhibition in North Vancouver ▶ Forum for the exchange of ideas between film makers, artists, outdoor enthusiasts, athletes and the public ▶ Event encouraging the most artistic and effective forms of communicating mountain-related experiences, inspiring audiences, and affirming the culturally- and environmentally-sensitive values inherent in active outdoor lifestyles ▶ Registered not-for-profit society

VIMFF FILM JURY TERI SNELGROVE

Teri Snelgrove is the Associate Producer at the BC & Yukon Studio of The National Film Board of Canada where she has worked on many documentaries including the acclaimed The Road Forward (Marie Clements), Debris (John Bolton), Bone Wind Fire (Jill Sharpe), Crazywater (Denis Allen), Beauty (Christina Willings), and the interactive project, Bread (Mariette Sluyter). Teri is also working on a number of animated projects, including recently released The Mountain of SGaana (Christopher Auchter) and upcoming films, Shop Class (Hart Snider) and The Zoo (Julia Kwan). Teri Snelgrove is a Newfoundlander and a graduate of the film/video program at Emily Carr Institute (now University).

DAVID DORNIAN

David Dornian has climbed and skied for close to 50 years, in Canada and abroad. In previous lives he has competed in alpine freestyle events, led climbing expeditions, and been a Nordic ski instructor. He is currently the Chair of the Alpine Club of Canada’s Ski Mountaineering Competition Committee and manages the club’s summer mountaineering camps. Stevenson’s Treasure Island first kindled his fascination with stories of outdoor adventure, and he has been a junky for mountain video since the days when Warren Miller did standup, and Brown and Patey climbed The Old Man of Hoy for the BBC.

BRENDAN GLAUSER

Brendan Glauser is a marketing communications professional, currently managing communications for the David Suzuki Foundation. Brendan initially studied journalism at St. Thomas University on the East Coast, and went on to work for the CBC as a radio and television reporter. He has also completed a master’s degree in popular music and media studies from the University of Western Ontario. Living in Vancouver, Brendan enjoys getting doing anything that gets him out into nature.

KAREN DUTHIE

Karen Duthie is a Vancouver based director, story editor and filmmaker who has worked in factual television and independent film for 15 years. She won a Gemini Award for Best Direction for the television show Conviction Kitchen. Her documentary 100% Woman won many festival awards, including Best Mountain Biking Film at the 2005 Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival. When not immersed in story telling, Karen can be found riding mountain bikes on Vancouver’s North Shore, or surfing on Haida Gwaii’s North Beach.

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Festival Director, Programming, Sponsorship, Media: ALAN FORMANEK Director of Programming, Jury Coordinator: TOM WRIGHT Marketing Manager, Grant Writer: MAJA KOSTANSKI Marketing Assistant: ROBYN JONES PR Manager: HELEN YAGI PR Assistants: GRATIANNE DAUM Sponsorship Manager: GREG ROBBINS Production Manager: KELLY GREEN Ticketing Manager, Photo Competition Manager: DYLAN MORGAN Web Designer: LINDSAY MCGHEE Designer: IVETA LEKESOVA Community Partners Coordinator, Bookkeeper: MAYA MRAZIK Production Assistants: EVAN REESE, CORA SKAIEN, CAITLIN SCHNEIDER, JESSICA LANDING Projectionists: TAVI PARUSEL, TEJA PARUSEL, D’ARCY HAMILTON, MALCOLM DOW, JUSTIN DJAMTORKI Volunteer Coordinators and Lobby Managers: PAVLA BRESKA, JENNIFER SANGSTER, JANNEKE VISSERS, ROBYN JONES, WADE BUSH, ORIANA GRABER Special Project Coordinators: EAN JACKSON, SIENEKE TOERING, ALEX HUDSON Tour Manager: SIMON AUSTEN VIMFF Board of Directors: EILEEN BISTRISKY, STEVEN THRENDYLE, VIERA VEIDNER, ALIX FLYNN, MARIUSZ PAWLAK, NICOLAS JIMENEZ, MANRICO SCREMIN, JENS OUROM, LEE ANNE BELCOURT

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Into The Wild 7:30pm

ARC’TERYX Climbing Show 7:30pm

MEC Canadian Adventure Show 7:30pm

At Home in Nature 7:30pm

Life In The Himalayas 7:30pm

Beautiful BC 7:30pm

Women In Adventure 7:30pm

The Change I Want To See 7:30pm

Best Of: Backcountry Ski 7:30pm

Rock and Ice 7:30pm

Uniting The Salish Sea 7:30pm

Best Of: Environment & Culture 2:00pm

Best Of: Mountain Sports Best Of: Climbing & Adventure 2:00pm 2:00pm

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Mountain Art & Photography Show 7:30pm Feature: La Vallée Des Loups 2:00pm

Mind vs Mountain 7:30pm

Mountain Melodies 7:30pm

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2018 FEATURED FILMS DUGOUT

DRIVEN

BC PREMIERE Benjamin Sadd, UK, 2017, 41 min

WORLD PREMIERE Jason Bagby, Canada, 2017, 24 min

OPENING NIGHT - Feb 9 Centennial Theatre, 7:30pm

TRAIL RUNNING SHOW - Feb 10 Centennial Theatre, 7:30pm

A simple idea: they would travel to the Ecuadorian Amazon, live with an indigenous community, learn from them how to build a canoe, and then take that canoe on a journey.

Survival Run is an ultra-distance obstacle race that takes runners on a journey into their souls. Only a fraction will finish, but all will learn deeply about themselves and their fellow runners. Join these athletes’ journey through the inaugural Survival Run Canada.

TARFALA

BC PREMIERE Johannes Östergård, Finland, 2017, 27 min BEST OF: BACKCOUNTRY SKI Feb 10, Inlet Theatre, 7:30pm Feb 13, Fred Wood Theatre, 7:30pm An old swedish man’s search for happiness alone in a small mountain cabin.

BONINGTON MOUNTAINEER

BC PREMIERE Brian Hall & Keith Partridge, UK, 2017, 80 min FEATURE: BONINGTON - Feb 10 The Cinematheque, 2:00pm

LA VALLÉE DES LOUPS

This feature length documentary film follows the life and climbs of Chris Bonington, one of the world’s most famous mountaineers. It is a complex story of friendship, love, risk and devastating loss.

Jean-Michel Bertrand, France, 2016, 90 min

MY IRNIK

FEATURE: LA VALLEE DES LOUPS - Feb 11, The Cinematheque, 2:00pm

BEST OF: ENVIRONMENT & CULTURE - Feb 10, RIO Theatre, 2:00pm Feb 11, Inlet Theatre, 2:00pm

This film is a personal quest, the story of a crazy gamble taken by a passionate dreamer, an anti-hero capable of tackling any obstacle in the way of his goal to encounter wild wolves in their natural habitat

Francois Lebeau & Matthew Hood, Canada, 2017, 15 min

A young father teaches his son about the value of shared adventures, exploration and his ancestral Inuit heritage.

THE LAST HONEY HUNTER

Ben Knight, Nepal, 2016, 36 min BEST OF: ENVIRONMENT & CULTURE Feb 10, RIO Theatre, 2:00pm Feb 11, Inlet Theatre, 2:00pm

MAGNETIC MOUNTAINS NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Steve Wakeford, UK, 2017, 85 min

MIND VS MOUNTAIN - Feb 10, The Cinematheque, 7:30pm Award winning documentary on the psychology of risk taking in the mountains, featuring top Alpine names but told through story of an everyman.

LIFE IN THE HIMALAYAS - Feb 13 The Cinematheque, 7:30pm

James Appleton, UK, 2017, 25 min

SUP ADVENTURES - Feb 10, RIO Theatre, 7:30pm One woman’s extreme solo stand up paddle-boarding voyage, circumnavigating the wild, rugged and beautiful Isle of Skye in Scotland, highlighting the vulnerability to plastic pollution, and empowering positive change.

Jim Aikman, USA, 2017, 55 min

The Last Honey Hunter documents one of the few remaining cultures to harvest the wild hallucinogenic honey from jungle cliffs deep in the remote valleys of eastern Nepal. The film follows Maule Dhan Kulung – the last man in Saadi who knows the ancient ways of the harvest – on his last trip to the cliffs.

BEST OF: CLIMBING - Feb 11, Inlet Theatre, 7:30pm Feb 12, RIO Theatre, 2:00pm | Feb 16, ROX Theatre, 7:30pm

THE ARIO DREAM

CAPTAIN OF UTOPIA

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Paul Diffley, UK, 2017, 42 min

SKYE’S THE LIMIT NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE

HOLD FAST FESTIVAL PREMIERE

BEST OF: MOUNTAIN SPORTS & ADVENTURE Feb 10, Inlet Theatre, 2:00pm Feb 11, RIO Theatre, 2:00pm Feb 13, ROX Theatre, 7:30pm The film profiles the exploration of the deep caves of the Picos de Europa Mountains. At the apex of the operation are the cave divers, pushing into the unknown in deep sumps where rescue is not an option.

As a professional climber, Conrad Anker has encountered more than a few brushes with mortality. Following a recent heart attack, Conrad heads to Yosemite Valley with friend and cancer survivor Alex Wildman as they attempt to summit El Capitan together.

BC PREMIERE Sarah Del Ben, France, 2017, 52 min

MOUNTAIN MELODIES - Feb 11 The Cinematheque, 7:30pm François Bernard has explored the most remote places of the world for more than 30 years. One day, he realized that he was tired of being alone, he wanted to be able to share all the emotions he experienced overtime, with others. So he invested all his life savings in a polar sailboat.

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VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL TILLER’S FOLLY WOMEN IN FILM Saturday, March 17 FESTIVAL - BEST OF THE at 7:30pm FEST ON THE SHORE Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day Saturday, March 24 with the critically acclaimed at 7:00pm Canadian Celtic Folk group Screening of award Tiller’s Folly. winning films from the 2018 VIWIFF.

PLAY, PIE & PINT WITH SAXALAMODE Wednesday, March 28 at 12:00pm The fabulous Saxalamode Sax Quartet plays everything from dixieland jazz to sensual tango.

BOBS & LOLO – BLUE SKIES Saturday, April 7 at 11:00am & 2:00pm Canada’s favourite Kids Entertainers Bobs & LoLo return to Centennial!

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Dave O’Leske, USA, 2017, 96 min

BCMC PRESENTS DIRTBAG Feb 13, Centennial Theatre, 7:30pm Fred Beckey was the original American “Dirtbag” climber whose name evokes mystery, adulation and vitriol. A rebel athlete since the 1940s, Beckey was a true pioneer of the outdoors. He passed away in October 2017 aged 94, climbing until the very end.

DIRECTLY AFFECTED WORLD PREMIERE Zack Embree, Canada, 2018, 75 min UNITING THE SALISH SEA - Feb 11, Centennial Theatre, 7:30pm THE CHANGE I WANT TO SEE - Feb 16, The Cinematheque, 7:30pm

MY BIG WHITE THIGHS & ME NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Hannah Maia, UK, 2017, 25 min WOMEN IN ADVENTURE - Feb 15, The Cinematheque, 7:30pm A swimming adventure and a story about womanhood, miscarriage, healing, loving your own skin & freezing your bum off in cold water.

Before the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline was in the daily news, Vancouver filmmaker, Zack Embree set out on a mission: understand the impacts the pipeline would have on local communities, First Nations, Canadian democracy and our Paris Climate Accord Agreements.

STRONG THE WIND BLOWS

Benjamin Jordan, Canada, 2017, 35 min MEC CANADIAN ADVENTURE SHOW Feb 16, RIO Theatre, 7:30pm

QAMANIQ CANADIAN PREMIERE Caroline Cote, Canada, 2017, 14 min

INTO THE WILD - Feb 13, RIO Theatre, 7:30pm In August 2017, a team of 3 women aged 25 to 30 embarked on a quest to discover their own boundaries in an immense, wild and remote territory.

BLOOD ROAD BC PREMIERE

Nicholas Schrunk, USA, 2017, 96 min

FEATURE: BLOOD ROAD - Feb 12, The Cinematheque, 2:00pm The mysteries surrounding her father’s death in the Vietnam war lead ultra-endurance mountain biker Rebecca Rusch on an emotional journey as she pedals 1200 miles of the Ho Chi Minh trail.

LIVING WITH THE VOLCANOES

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Fulvio Mariani, Switzerland, 2015, 80 min PERSIAN MOUNTAIN SHOW Feb 12, Centennial Theatre, 4:00pm

PSYCHO VERTICAL

BC PREMIERE Jen Randall, UK, 2017, 64 min ROCK & ICE - Feb 14 Frederic Wood Theatre, 7:30pm

Based on his best-selling autobiography Psycho Vertical, this is a raw and emotive study of the complex life and motivations of writer, funny-man and Britain’s unlikeliest hero-mountaineer, Andy Kirkpatrick, woven into an 18 day solo ascent of El Capitan, Yosemite.

After losing the love of his life, a Professional Paraglider pilot searches for meaning by embarking upon the most daring series of mountain flights in Canadian history.

NUMINOUS

Nicolas Teichrob, Canada, 2017, 50 min SKI SHOW - Feb 16, Centennial Theatre, 7:30pm Born and raised in the BC backcountry, with a bloodline alive with adventure and a style carved from the landscape itself, Kye Petersen is about to blow the doors off of big mountain skiing.

Crossing the Iranian mountains from west to east is just a pretext to discover unique landscapes and extraordinary people living in an unknown country.

THE NAHANNI WHISPERER

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Dominique Snyers, Belgium, 2017, 53 min AT HOME IN NATURE - Feb 12 The Cinematheque, 7:30pm Four young climbers dream of climbing the Lotus Flower Tower, a legendary big wall, somewhere in the Cirque of the Unclimbables in the furthest outreaches of Northern Canada. For 800 m of climbing, they will have to face 550 km of dangerous Nahanni river over a whole month of total independence.

COCONUT CONNECTION NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE

Sean Villanueva O’Driscoll, Belgium, 2017, 36 min

ARC’TERYX CLIMBING SHOW - Feb 15, RIO Theatre, 7:30pm Having previously explored the coast of Baffin on board the famous Dodo’s Delight, Nicolas Favresse & Sean Villanueva decide to return on a big wall free climbing expedition in the month of July which is rumoured to have better weather.

THE MOMENT

Darcy Hennessey Turenne, Canada, 2017, 75 min MOUNTAIN BIKE SHOW - Feb 15 Centennial Theatre, 7:30pm

IN GORA NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Andy Collet, France, 2017, 45 min

In the backwoods of British Columbia, Canada, three small but dedicated crews of adventure seekers were quietly changing the course of a sport and carving their paths in history. And it was all happening unbeknownst to each other, the cycling world, and ultimately themselves.

BEST OF: FREERIDE SKI - Feb 12, RIO Theatre, 7:30pm Feb 15, ROX Theatre, 7:30pm Riders from the Picture Family join Val and Tim, who define themselves as “a modern nomad couple,” for a road trip through Europe. Aboard their retrofitted American school bus that they have entirely renovated into a big campervan, Val and Tim travel the world and chase powder along the way.

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INTO TWIN GALAXIES – A GREENLAND EPIC

Jochen Schmoll, Germany, 2017, 52 min

FINALE - Feb 17, Centennial Theatre, 7:30pm 3 National Geographic “Adventurers of the Year“ embark on an insane kayaking mission in Greenland. With kite skis they tow their white water kayaks over 1000 km of the Greenland Ice Cap to reach the most northern river ever paddled.

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FESTIVAL GUEST SPEAKERS CORY RICHARDS A climber and visual storyteller, Cory Richards was named National Geographic Adventurer of the year in 2012. Cory’s camera has taken him from the controlled and complex studio to the wild and remote corners of the world, from the unclimbed peaks of Antarctica to the Himalayas of Nepal and Pakistan-all in the attempt to capture not only the soul of adventure and exploration, but also the beauty inherent in our modern society.

FEATURE: BONINGTON - Feb 10, The Cinematheque, 2:00pm

Adam Campbell likes to “suffer in beautiful places” and loves exploring his backyard and challenging himself on foot, skis and on rock. He has competed in, and regularly placed on the podium at, some of the world’s most challenging and competitive mountain running races and trail ultramarathons. This is the story of a near fatal accident in the summer of 2016 and Adam’s return to the trails.

MOUNTAIN MELODIES - Feb 11 The Cinematheque, 7:30pm

MOUNTAIN BIKE SHOW - Feb 15 Centennial Theatre, 7:30pm

Capturing the essence of adventure in more than 60 extreme films has taken Emmy award winning cameraman and filmmaker Keith Partridge to some of the world’s most hostile and spectacular environments from deep within the bowels of the earth on caving expeditions, through unchartered forests to the summit of Everest.

Darcy has written and directed films, commercials, and music videos for clients ranging from Coca Cola to Patagonia to Jive Records. Her first feature film — an environmental snowboard documentary featuring David Suzuki called The Little Things — won a host of awards including the Best Environmental Film at the VIMFF. Darcy brings two presentations to VIMFF in 2018 along with a screening of her latest feature mountain bike film, The Moment.

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ADAM HART

Yves has a background as an independent and NFB producer who has been active in Canada’s film industry for over 15 years. In that time, he has produced numerous short & featurelength narrative & documentary films as well as animated films and interactive media works. Yves produced Hadwin’s Judgement which won best Canadian Film at VIMFF 2016. Currently, he is working as the in-house Documentary Producer at MEC, leading an initiative exploring storytelling in Canada’s outdoor landscape.

CHRIS BERTISH

JOHN PRICE

Chris Bertish is a Big Wave Surfing Mavericks champion; Stand Up Paddle Boarding Guinness World Record Holder and Ocean Pioneer. He recently redefined the concept of Extreme Adventure by becoming the first person ever to Stand Up Paddle across any ocean. Defying all odds, Chris paddled 7500km - solo, unsupported and unassisted - for 93 days, across the Atlantic Ocean from Morocco, Africa to Antigua in the Caribbean. This is a truly unparalleled global feat!

Thorin is a singer-songwriter/ adventurer from the Yukon Territory, who has pedalled, paddled and hiked his way around North America, always bringing his guitar and writing music along the way. Thor plans to talk about what inspired his journeys, what he learned, as well as the experiences, landscapes and people that helped him delve deeper into the question of what makes for a meaningful life. He will be performing some original music written along the way.

ADVENTURE FILMMAKING WORKSHOP - Feb 11 Centennial Theatre, 3:00pm

Join bestselling author, biohacker and Squamish based mountain athlete Adam Hart, as he reveals some of today’s top solutions for optimizing mountain flow states in our busy lives. Adam is the co-founder of “Clear Impact Biohacking,” and has spent the past 14 years providing forward thinking organizations with a blueprint for optimizing executive mental health and performance.

SUP ADVENTURES - Feb 10 RIO Theatre, 7:30pm

Blurring the lines between artist and adventurer, Jessa creates artworks that celebrate adventure and wilderness, drawing inspiration directly from her travels and exploration in the backcountry. Whether it be drafting a new piece or climbing a ridge, blending colours or pitching a tent, Jessa draws connections between these two passions that reflect larger life lessons, and helps to explain why she so often finds herself in the mountains, covered in paint.

THORIN LOEKS

ADVENTURE FILMMAKING WORKSHOP - Feb 11 Centennial Theatre, 3:00pm

MIND VS MOUNTAIN - Feb 10 The Cinematheque, 7:30pm

MOUNTAIN ART & PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW - Feb 11 RIO Theatre, 7:30pm

TRAIL RUNNING SHOW - Feb 10 Centennial Theatre, 7:30pm

DARCY HENNESSEY TURENNE

KEITH PARTRIDGE

JESSA GILBERT

ADAM CAMPBELL

OPENING NIGHT - Feb 9 Centennial Theatre, 7:30pm

DAVID SUZUKI UNITING THE SALISH SEA Feb 11, Centennial Theatre, 7:30pm Canada’s best known environmentalist, David Suzuki, has a deep and personal connection to the Salish Sea. His urgent call to protect the people and places we love couldn’t be more timely. We only have #OneNature. It’s time for a new relationship with the ocean and its wildlife if we hope to leave a natural legacy for future generations.

PARVANEH KAZEMI

MOUNTAIN ART & PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW - Feb 11 RIO Theatre, 7:30pm

PERSIAN MOUNTAIN SHOW Feb 12, Centennial Theatre, 7:30pm

John Price is a photographer & climber. He has spent the last six years traveling all over the world, while basing himself out of Canmore, AB. Over the last three years John has been actively climbing and photographing rock, ice and alpine ascents throughout North America, including the deserts of Nevada, the Ruth Gorge in Alaska, the remote corners of the Himalaya, rural Japan, recently in Alaska & the French Alps and extensively throughout the Canadian Rockies.

As a girl growing up in the traditional and religious society of Iran, perhaps dreaming about reaching the top of the world without any support seems farfetched, but not to Parvaneh. She has climbed many 6-8000 meter peaks as the first Iranian woman and has become a symbol of hope to many Iranian climbers, and especially women in her country.

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VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL FEBRUARY 9-17 / 2018 VIMFF.ORG ROB WOOD AT HOME IN NATURE - Feb 12 The Cinematheque, 7:30pm Rob was a pioneering climber back in the 1960s and 70s, including successfully climbing the first ever frozen waterfall in the Canadian Rockies. Using mainly images and text taken directly from his new book, At Home in Nature, he presents examples of how to him the most important thing about climbing is that it took him into wild places where he learned to pay much closer and more honest attention to what is actually happening in his surroundings.

DON SERL

LILLIANA LIBECKI

ROCK AND ICE - Feb 14 Frederic Wood Theatre, 7:30pm

THE CHANGE I WANT TO SEE Feb 16, The Cinematheque, 7:30pm

Don Serl spent 35 years rock climbing, ice climbing, and mountaineering in the Coast Mountains of BC, with a special emphasis on exploratory trips into seldom-visited corners of the Range. With about a dozen trips into the Waddington Range and perhaps 30 others into various other remote sections of the Coast Mountains, netting roughly a hundred new routes, Don is in the uniquely privileged position of having experienced most of the major regions of the Coast Mountains, and having sampled the new route potential therein.

CRAIG DEMARTINO

JIM MARTINELLO AT HOME IN NATURE - Feb 12 The Cinematheque, 7:30pm

ARC’TERYX CLIMBING SHOW Feb 15, RIO Theatre, 7:30pm

Jimmy has been an avid adventurer his whole life and in the last 25 years his travels, adventures and photography have taken him across the globe. His show will highlight these adventures and stress the importance of being connected with your surroundings. Letting go and being true and passionate about dreams and goals is one of the driving forces in Jimmy’s life.

After surviving a 100 foot groundfall in 2002, Craig went back to life on very uncertain terms. “My body and mind were so different, I didn’t know if I could, or wanted to ever climb again.” After 18 months, upon realizing his leg would never heal, he chose to amputate his right leg below the knee to get his quality of life back. This presentation will focus on the accident as a catalyst that lead Craig to the life he leads today. Becoming an adaptive climber and teaching others about the power of climbing and being outside became his life focus.

BEN PAGE INTO THE WILD - Feb 13 RIO Theatre, 7:30pm Ben Page is a multi-award winning filmmaker, adventurer and photographer from the UK. He has spent the past few years travelling to some of the world’s remotest corners in search of wild and diverse adventures and experiences. Included in the presentation is a screening of Ben’s multi award-winning film The Frozen Road, a self-shot film capturing the wonders and terrors of a month spent riding through the Canadian Arctic in winter.

JANNEKE VISSERS INTO THE WILD - Feb 13 RIO Theatre, 7:30pm Hiking the Great Divide Trail; one of the most spectacular and challenging long distance trails on the planet in Canada’s Rocky Mountains. Janneke has always been passionate about mountains and decided to spend a summer hiking in the remoteness that this trail has to offer. This is not only a story about a woman hiking 1200 km along the spine of the Divide. It’s a story about challenging yourself, getting back on your feet, and the beauty of the Rocky Mountains. Join us for her story and get inspired to follow your own dreams!

KAT YOUNG, NATASHA DROZDZENSKA & ANIA MARKIEWICZ WOMEN IN ADVENTURE - Feb 15 The Cinematheque, 7:30pm Friends Natasha, Kat and Ania set out on the Annapurna Circuit with Tila, their female Nepali mountain guide, to cross one of the highest traversable passes in the world, Thorong La (17,769 feet/5,416m). They join VIMFF to inspire fellow everyday women who want to plan their own adventure.

STEVE TERSMETTE & SHAWN EMMETT MEC CANADIAN ADVENTURE SHOW - Feb 16 RIO Theatre, 7:30pm The story of Shawn Emmett’s and Steve Tersmette’s 2017 MEC Adventure Grant expedition: travel nearly 280 km by roughly combining the Southern Purcell Traverse and the Bugaboos to Rogers Pass traverse, two of the grand ski traverses in Western Canada, in the summertime on foot. They got it done, but it was far from easy.

ISTVAN HERNADI

LORRAINE BLANCHER & ROBIN MUNSHAW

LIFE IN THE HIMALAYAS - Feb 13 The Cinematheque, 7:30pm Istvan spends his time exploring the mountains of BC, Yukon, Alaska, the Andes and the Himalayas. He self-published a number of photography books featuring his adventures in Bhutan, Sikkim and northern Canada. Istvan lived in Bhutan for 4 years, teaching at a university. His travels there have produced several publications and spectacular photographs documenting life in this Himalayan Kingdom which only recently opened its doors to the world.

DAN LEWIS & BONNY GLAMBECK

MEC CANADIAN ADVENTURE SHOW - Feb 16 RIO Theatre, 7:30pm In 2017, Lorraine and Robin received the MEC Adventure Grant to pioneer and develop backcountry mountain bike trails with local communities in the Atacama Desert of South America. Lorraine and Robin will join us to tell the story and premiere their film about the project.

MARTINA & TANIA HALIK

BEAUTIFUL BC - Feb 14 The Cinematheque, 7:30pm

SKI SHOW - Feb 16 Centennial Theatre, 7:30pm

Bonny and Dan are veteran sea kayakers, having paddled much of the BC coast and trained hundreds of guides. They live off-grid near Tofino and commute by kayak year-round. This year is the 25th anniversary of the 1993 Clayoquot Summer mass protests against clearcut logging. Join master storytellers Dan and Bonny for a multimedia journey through the visually stunning landscape, wildlife and culture of Clayoquot Sound.

Back by popular demand, Coast Mountain Epic is a live multi-media presentation detailing a five and half month long ski traverse of the Coast Mountains of BC and Alaska. Undertaken from January to June of 2017 by a mother and daughter team from BC, this presentation features their challenges, closecalls, failures and successes throughout the “Epic.”

At 14 years old, Lilliana Libecki has already travelled to every continent on the planet. She has discovered a passion for humanitarian work and has founded a non-profit charity organization - ‘The Joyineer Fund’. Lilliana talks about her latest expedition to Peru for a humanitarian project in the remote town of Pashpa and to attempt to climb two peaks in the Cordillera Blanca. When things don’t go according to plan she must decide between the summit she’s traveled so far to attempt and her mission to do good for others.

MIKE LIBECKI FINALE - Feb 17 Centennial Theatre, 7:30pm Come join National Geographic Explorer Mike Libecki as he takes us on a journey to some of the most remote climbing expeditions possible while searching for first ascents on untouched peaks. Head to unexplored Greenland for paddle boarding with polar bears, barely surviving being stuck in the sea ice, and climbing one of the biggest towers in Greenland.

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