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Same old story with call for security cameras on Granville strip Mike Howell

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I ran into John Teti last month at city hall.

Who’s John Teti?

If you were around more than a decade ago, and paid attention to the violence and disorder occurring on the Granville strip, then his name would be familiar to you.

Teti was the chairperson of Barwatch, the advocacy group for more than 20 downtown bars and clubs.

He always made for good quote when I asked him about the fights, the stabbings and shootings happening in what city officials call the Granville entertainment district, which runs from Nelson Street to West Georgia Street.

Here’s a taste from a Dec. 7, 2006 story: “This is not something that’s a new phenomenon and suddenly raised its ugly head when the bars opened until three. I mean Granville Street has been a battleground, in terms of testosterone, since the 1950s, probably since the ‘40s.”

Teti isn’t doing the talking these days for Barwatch but

was at city hall Feb. 21 to support the organization’s new chairperson, retired Vancouver police officer Curtis Robinson, who spoke to council about violence on the Granville strip.

My first thought: This has become a tiresome issue for all involved, including Teti and Robinson, the cops, bar owners, business associations and even reporters, whose stories from more than a decade ago could be re-published today with very few changes to the copy.

Sadly, violence on the strip is still a reality and was amplified with the Jan. 27 stabbing death of Kalwinder Thind outside the Cabana Lounge in the 1100-block of Granville St. Thind, 23, was trying to break up a fight.

His death sparked NPA Coun. George Affleck to renew his call for a city plan to address the violence and public disorder, including redesigning the street and the immediate installation of security cameras on Granville.

Teti requested the cameras more than a decade ago. He also asked for late-night tran-

establishments such as art galleries or non-liquor focused venues have emerged to draw a wider range of people. Ongoing high incidents of crime and violence require additional weekend policing, which has an annual cost of $1.1 million.”

Expect an update to council in April.

City staff is also looking at whether security cameras should be installed on the strip.

Expect a report to council

by June and ensuing debate on the merits of the technology. Expect the B.C. Civil Liberties Association to weigh in again, taking a position held by B.C.’s Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner.

“We must learn from the experience in other jurisdictions, such as the U.K., where over 6 million cameras (one for every 10 people!) have not significantly reduced crime in urban centres,” the commissioner’s office said in a statement released last month. “Cameras are particularly poor at deterring violent crime, as those

The city still hasn’t got a handle on the violence and disorder on Granville Street and doesn’t believe “any of the ideas on the table will seriously mitigate those issues in the immediate term.”

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sit on the weekends, for cab companies to take customers beyond city limits and to jack up the fines for fighting, as Robinson requested in his presentation to council.

So why hasn’t anything changed? In short, the city says it’s working on it.

Some of that work is being conducted by a safety and security committee comprised of city staff, people from the bar industry, downtown businesses, the police department, Van-

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That committee is studying the city’s liquor policy review report that went before council in June 2017.

That report made several recommendations, including extending the moratorium on adding more liquor seats to the strip and piloting a “last entry” program to manage crowds lined up outside bars and clubs.

Here’s some more insight from that report: “Few

acts occur spontaneously and the perpetrators are not concerned with getting caught, on video or otherwise.”

Regardless of what is recommended or not recommended, or acted upon or not acted upon, it’s evident something needs to shift.

That was made clear in a Feb. 20 memo to mayor and council from Kaye Krishna, the city’s general manager of development, buildings and licensing.

Krishna wrote that VPD data shows “violence and disorder in the [Granville entertainment district] have not decreased over the last five years (2013-2017) and the [district] continues to have the highest number of incidents among Vancouver’s downtown areas in late night hours.”

Added Krishna: “Violence and general disorder remains a serious issue [in the district], particularly on weekends, and staff do not believe that any of the ideas on the table will seriously mitigate those issues in the immediate term.”

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T H U R SDAY, M A R C H 1 5 , 2 0 1 8 THE VANCOUVER COURIER

News City calls for drug decriminalization John Kurucz

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A policy shift that’s unprecedented in Vancouver’s recent past has the city calling for the decriminalization of possession for all drugs.

The significant policy shift was announced Friday afternoon, in a news release highlighting the unabated number of deaths related to drug overdoses.

The city is calling on the federal government to “convene a multi-sectoral task force to implement immediate decriminalization of personal possession of illicit drugs.”

The decriminalization model the city is pushing for is loosely based on regulations in Portugal, according to Mary Clare Zak, the city’s managing director of social policy.

“The Portugal model in itself is successful because there are options for treatment, rehabilitation and those kinds of things,” Zak said. “All of these things have to happen in sympatico for a decriminalization model to be successful.”

Portugal’s move to de-

criminalization happened in 2001. The system stresses harm reduction, treatment and support services, rather than arrests and jail time.

Across-the-board indicators over the last 17 years point to progress in that country: reductions in HIV, hepatitis, overdose deaths and incarcerations.

Last year saw 365 overdose-related deaths recorded in Vancouver, while 33 died in January of this year. The 51 overdose deaths in January 2017 were the highest of the 12-month period.

“The fact is people are dying. We need some action,” Zak said. “Until we get things like clean drug supply, decriminalization — and really see this as a public health issue — we’re going to continue to have a year like we did this past year.”

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has balked at previous calls to decriminalize possession of all hard drugs.

The federal NPD recently took the opposite stance and is in favour of the shift.

Friday’s announcement is markedly different from

the impending legalization of cannabis. In that context, the sale and use of cannabis will be regulated. A decriminalization model sees criminal penalties — jail time and fines — removed for simple possession.

“We’re putting this recommendation to the federal government, basically saying ‘You’ve done a great job in terms of leadership around cannabis and we need to see the same steps being taken with all other illegal drugs,’” Zak said.

The most recent BC Coroners Service statistics point to 125 deaths across B.C. in January. That’s an overall decrease of 17 deaths from the 142 recorded in January 2017, although the coroners service has said those stats are preliminary and numbers could rise.

The unabated deaths have continued to exert pressure on the city’s first responders, with average call volumes ranging at about 100 per week so far this year.

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The average rent of 68 privately owned and operated single-room-occupancy hotels in the Downtown Eastside shot up by $139 in one year since a Downtown Eastside anti-poverty advocacy group conducted a similar study in 2016.

That put the price of monthly rent in 2017 at $687, leaving tenants collecting $710 in welfare with $23 left to spend each month on food and other necessities, according to a new report released Monday by the Carnegie Community Action Project.

“This is the 10th report I’ve co-written, and it’s never been this bad,” said Jean Swanson, one of the spokespersons for the Carnegie group. “We need governments to spend billions of dollars on social housing — that’s what we need.”

The average rent in 2016 calculated by members of the Carnegie group was $548 per month. Each year, members collect information by visiting hotels. They visited 84 private hotels

124 Dunlevy St., which had 157 units, was demolished to make way for a new building. Another 78 units at the Jubilee at 235 Main St. were also lost to renovation.

The Carnegie report doesn’t include the cost of rent at hotels owned and operated by the provincial and city governments. Swanson said that’s because many of the hotels rent at the welfare shelter rate of $375 a month.

Though the provincial government has committed to fund more housing projects in the Downtown Eastside, and the federal government unveiled a national housing strategy, Swanson noted the group’s research found only 21 units of new housing at the welfare rate opened last year.

She acknowledged the provincial government promised in January to spend $83 million on four housing projects in the Downtown Eastside, including $30 million on a 231-unit building at 58 West Hastings St. But, Swanson said, those projects won’t likely be built for three to seven years.

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last year and obtained rent information from 68 of the buildings, which had a total of 2,919 rooms.

Some of the hotels visited in the research included The West, The Metropole, The Lotus, The Regent, The Astoria, The Cobalt and The Ivanhoe.

The average rent is even higher in what the Carnegie group described as the “10 fastest gentrifying hotels.”

The Low Young Court is at the top of the list at $1,800 per month, followed by the Georgia Manor at $1,600 and Argyle Hotel at $1,450.

Rent increased during a year in which the group also counted more than 300 low-income units lost in the Downtown Eastside because of closures or renovations. An additional 157 were lost at the former Quality Inn hotel on Howe Street, which served as temporary housing for many Downtown Eastside residents.

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A new bike recycling drop-off station opened three weeks ago on Yukon Street near Marine Drive. PHOTO MIKE HOWELL

A trio of Vancouver non-profit bicycle shops has partnered with the city in a unique program to recycle old bikes and donate or sell them for a low price to people who can’t otherwise afford to buy a two-wheeler.

Kids, students and temporary foreign workers have all benefited from the program that quietly began in July with the aim of keeping bikes dumped at the city’s transfer station out of the landfill and into the hands of people who can fix them.

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“For me it’s the last line of defence,” she said, standing in the city’s new recycling depot that opened three weeks ago.

“I would hope that if somebody looks up where to donate your bike, your first stop would be one of those local community spots. But if you come here and you’re thinking about throwing it away because you didn’t think about that option, or you didn’t know about that option, then we can set it aside.”

On the day of the Courier’s visit to the depot, which is on Yukon Street near the Marine Drive Canada Line station, three bikes had recently been dumped, including a

dents who only need a bike for a couple of years and temporary foreign workers employed on farms in the Lower Mainland.

“It’s going really well,” Nestler said. “We have diverted several truckloads of bikes and parts from the landfill.”

By “truckloads,” she means 50 bikes were collected from the city’s recycling depot from last July to January of this year.

Of the 50 bikes, 21 were either sold or donated.

Others were used for parts or the re-sale of parts.

Prices for a bike at The Bike Kitchen can range from $20 to several hundred dollars, depending on the type of bike, the make and the work and parts that went into getting it road ready, said Nestler, noting there are plans this summer to better advertise the city’s recycling program.

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As the pile of bikes grows, Willie will connect with a coordinator working on behalf of the three shops to pick up the two-wheelers and drop them off at all or one of the locations, depending on need and space available at the shops. Some of the bikes, she acknowledged, are too far gone to be recycled.

Our Community Bikes is on Main Street, Kickstand is at Venables and Commercial Drive and The Bike Kitchen — a project developed by the University of B.C’s Alma Mater Society bike co-op — is based at the university.

Sunny Nestler, programs manager of the co-op and Bike Kitchen, said refurbished bikes have gone to children, people who can’t afford a bike, stu-

they can just bring bikes directly to the community bike shops rather than bringing them to South Vancouver to throw them away,” she said. “For now, this is kind of how it’s working.”

Mayor Gregor Robertson, an avid cyclist and owner of an old Rocky Mountain bicycle, was at the city’s new recycling depot March 1 to officially open it to the public. Robertson said the recycling service, along with a variety of measures the city has put in place over the years, is another initiative to help the city reach its goal of becoming the “greenest” city in the world by 2020.

“I think it’s great,” he told the Courier after the news conference, where he also noted cooking oils can now be dropped off at the depot. “Lots of people are choosing to ride bikes now, and it’s good to have a more affordable way to get on a bike and know that you’ve kept it out of the landfill, too.” @Howellings

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The fate of the proposed Kits Beach bike path remains up in the air after park board commissioners Monday night voted to ask staff for a more detailed plan.

There is currently a shared pedestrian/cycling path along the seawall. The proposed plan calls for a paved cycling-only pathway along a separate route.

NPA commissioners John Coupar and Sarah KirbyYung both questioned staff over the report’s lack of details and Green Party commissioner, and board chair, Stuart Mackinnon said he would have a hard time approving a route without knowing the cost.

Tiina Mack, manager of park development, told commissioners the proposal presented was a “conceptual alignment” and that further consultation would be done, as well as a traffic study, before a more detailed design would be brought back to the board.

Several residents gathered outside the park board office before the meeting to voice their concerns, citing issues around safety, encroachment on green space and the unknown cost of the one-kilometre path.

Grant Vanderhoek, member of the Kits Point Residents Association, said he does not see a necessity in having a bike path going through the park. He added that he has nothing against cyclists but that having a paved bike path through the park would result in buffer areas which people would avoid, creating “dead zones.”

“I was there Saturday and Sunday, canvassing all day.

There were lots of bikes.

There lots of people and I didn’t see any aggression and everyone worked quite well because of common courtesy. Why can’t they do that?” Vanderhoek said.

Kits resident MaryAnn Labrie, on the other hand, said she has seen cyclists get into accidents in the area it.

She said it is dangerous to have a separate a bike path going past a children’s playground, especially during busy summer months.

“Putting it in an area that is heavily saturated with people, picnickers, people playing volleyball, there’s all sorts of things going on down there, you can’t put a bike path down there,” she said.

Opponents of the plan were happy with the board’s decision to refer the proposal back to staff, breaking out into applause after the vote.

“That is a monumental decision in the city of Vancouver,” said Howard Kelsey, co-chair of the Kits Beach Association. “The cycling agenda was just put on hold. They are not driving the agenda anymore…

“We’re not against cycling, but what’s happened here is the citizens have said ‘Hey, that’s enough. Let’s make rational decisions.

Let’s not make cyclingdriven decisions.’”

Proponents of the proposal say the separated bike path is needed to improve safety for both cyclists and other park users, and reduce conflicts between cyclists, motorists and pedestrians.

In the report, staff presented a number of options for the pathway, which would start to the west at Balsam Street and Cornwall Avenue and run northeast to Ogden Avenue and Maple Street. The proposed alignment would run through green space in the western and northern ends, and would mean the loss of more than 900 square metres of green space.

Former city councillor Peter Ladner, an avid cyclist and Kits resident, said he was “extremely disappointed” with the board’s decision.

“I think the report was unnecessarily vague and people have a right to be frustrated that there weren’t very clear options laid out,” he said. “I think that the staff is terrified of these overly agitated opponents of anything to do with cycling in the city and they’ve fixated on Kits park.”

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A wealth of reasons why B.C.’s Speculation Tax misses the mark Despite little online sympathy for midwife with two properties, her plight illustrates flaw in tax plan Michael Geller geller@sfu.ca

“I seriously can’t imagine anybody in human existence I feel less sympathetic toward.”

This was just one of hundreds of Twitter responses I received this past week following my tweet expressing concern about the plight of a midwife who owned a home on Salt Spring Island and an apartment in Vancouver.

Initially, she was upset having to pay a one per cent Empty Home Tax on the Vancouver apartment. Now she would also have to pay an additional two per cent provincial Speculation Tax, even though her homes were neither empty nor speculative investments.

As Courier readers may recall, when the provincial budget was first released, I wrote it was a good start to tackling the housing affordability crisis.

It increased and expanded geographically the Foreign Buyers Tax and proposed to catch tax cheats by putting an end to hidden ownership of residential properties. The new Speculation Tax was going to be charged on properties left vacant by foreigners who did not pay income tax in B.C. An increased Property Transfer Tax (PTT) and

Columnist Michael Geller says B.C.’s new Speculation Tax is really a wealth tax that will lead to a number of unintended consequences.

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School Tax on properties valued over $3 million would generate funds for affordable housing.

However, at the time neither I nor other analysts appreciated the additional PTT tax would increase the cost of all housing in British Columbia since it would apply to the acquisition of most development sites.

Similarly, we didn’t fully appreciate the impact of the additional School Tax. When I shared my calculations for various West Side properties with one seasoned real estate professional, he told me I had mistakenly added a zero. I had not.

As for the so-called Speculation Tax, like Vancouver’s so-called Empty Home Tax, it would not only impact foreign owners of empty homes, but many B.C. residents owning a second home or cottage.

This prompted my follow-up column in which I opined this was really a Robin Hood-styled budget, designed to take from the rich and give to the poor. On social media I suggested it may be time for another tax revolt.

I was subsequently lambasted for my public comments. How could I be concerned about the

plight of people owning two homes when so many cannot afford one?

Fortunately, Vancouver Sun columnist Vaughn Palmer and others realized that what the finance minister told us, and what her officials were planning, were two very different things.

The so-called Speculation Tax would have to be paid by all B.C. residents owning a second home in Metro Vancouver or a vacation property in the Gulf Islands or B.C. Interior. Some would later receive a tax credit based on the amount of provincial income tax paid.

This was not at all a

speculation tax; it was a wealth tax.

Many of the 2018 provincial budget taxation provisions were inspired by UBC and SFU academics who argued the best way to fund affordable housing and catch foreign investors who didn’t pay taxes in B.C. was to restructure our taxation system through increased property taxes and decreased income taxes.

Unfortunately, as was the case with Vancouver’s Empty Home Tax, neither the academics nor the provincial government fully considered the unintended consequences of their

greedy tax proposals.

Last week, in a press release, the city reported the interim results of its Empty Home Tax: 8,481 Vancouver homeowners declared their properties to be empty or underutilized for much of last year or failed to make any declaration.

This number was significantly lower than previous vacant home estimates, which had so often be seen by many as the cause of our housing affordability crisis.

In fact, we will not know to what extent foreigners are using Vancouver real estate as a safety deposit box, nor how much money the city will raise from the tax until a more detailed breakdown is provided.

However, two things are certain. The Empty Home Tax program will not free up as many as 25,000 empty units for rent, as Mayor Gregor Robertson said at a November 2017 news conference. Moreover, the cost of administering the program will be many times the $2- to $2.5-million estimate reported by the mayor in November 2016.

While Vancouver refused to modify its Empty Home Tax despite the unintended consequences, let’s hope the provincial government revises its ill-considered tax programs. Otherwise there should be a tax revolt. @michaelgeller

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I’m all for it, a bike route is needed through there and this one makes the most sense. There are hundreds of people riding their bikes to the beach every summer and this will help cut down on conflicts with pedestrians.

Stacey Ackerman via Facebook ••• Am i bad person for suggesting a ‘tar, feather & put em on a rail to run em out of town’ lane?

Adam Shadbolt via Facebook ••• Out of curiosity, did anyone who’s against this protest the pedestrian path, the playground, the parking lot, the restaurant or the washrooms when they were put in? Assuming those also disrupted the park at some point. Oh and the basketball court.

I’m going to assume that if you’re against the bike lane that out of protest you don’t use any of the above Park disrupting things.

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“That’s Roger Bannister and John Landy. They ran the Miracle Mile right here in Vancouver a long time ago,” he’d explain. “You see how Landy is turning his head ever so slightly to the left?

That’s the moment when Bannister passed him on the right to win the race. And the whole world was watching.”

The split-second drama of the story has always captivated me, just as it has for generations of sports fans.

Before Expo 86, before the Summer of Love, before the Beatles and Elvis Presley, it was the Miracle Mile that put our sleepy logging outpost on the international map. The race occurred on Aug. 7, 1954, in the newly constructed Empire Stadium in Hastings Park.

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the big-ticket event on the final day of the British Empire and Commonwealth Games, during what is now considered the Golden Age of track and field.

Three months earlier, on May 6, 1954, in Oxford, England, Bannister had captured the hearts of the Commonwealth and the world when he became the first athlete to run a mile in under four minutes — a feat thought impossible for a human being. The war had been over for almost a decade, but England was still under strict austerity measures while London slowly rebuilt itself from the rubble.

When Bannister crossed the finish line in Oxford, his time was announced to

a pin-drop-silent crowd.

The only number the Brits needed to hear was “three” before they broke into wild cheering. The feat made Bannister a global hero and finally gave the Commonwealth a moment to truly celebrate since the Second World War victory party.

Months later in Vancouver, anticipation for the “The Mile of the Century” was at a sweaty, fever pitch. Unlike in England, when Bannister was racing himself and the clock, this time he’d face the clock and seven other runners from around the Commonwealth.

It should be noted that all the racers were white men, an unfortunate representation of the white-first, man-first, British Empirical society of the time, the ramifications of which we are still coming to terms with to this day.

Bannister’s most formidable opponent was Australia’s John Landy, and thirst for the race was so great that CBC TV managed one of its first-ever national broadcasts.

While millions watched on TV, an estimated 100 million worldwide listened to the Vancouver event on the radio.

When the starting pistol fired into the blue summer sky, a New Zealander took the early lead, but was quickly overtaken by Landy, who led for most of the mile. Bannister soon moved into second.

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It was Bannister’s best running time ever at 3:58.8, while Landy clocked in at 3:59.6. It marked the first time in world history that two men had broken the four-minute mile.

The race became one of the defining moments of sports history in the 20th century.

In 1967, to celebrate Canada’s centennial, Vancouver sculptor Jack Harman was commissioned to create the bronze statue that stood in front of Empire Stadium until the stadium was torn down in the early 1990s.

The statue was saved, and relocated to the corner of Renfrew and Hastings for 20 years. In 2015, it was moved to the north side of the new Empire Fields, with the massive North Shore mountains looming in the background, exactly where the feat took place 64 years ago.

Earlier this month, Sir Roger Bannister died at age 88 at his home in Oxford, England. And while his record has since been beaten several times and is currently held by Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco, Bannister will live on forever as the man who ran the Miracle Mile, and the man who put this little coastal outpost on the map. And I’ll be sure to pass on the story to my son the next time we stop in front of that statue in Hastings Park.

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Dorothy Miller offers advice on fashion and life Dorothy Miller’s first experience of modelling was when she became Miss Port Moody — 1950. Not long after, she got married and stopped working for 26 years before a random trip to Lougheed Mall made her reassess her life. She began a new career as a salesperson for luxury goods and later started modelling for local brands and stores. Now 84, she works full-time at luxury jeweller Palladio in downtown Vancouver and can still strike a pose with the best. Lifetime talked to Dorothy about fashion, style and being your best at any age.

What were you like as a child, and how did you dress?

I wore navy blue skirts, white shirts and long black stockings. There was no discussion — my mother thought it was a neat way for me to be dressed for school and that was that. I was the oldest, with two brothers, one 16 months younger and one who arrived seven years later.

I was a tomboy and would fight their battles for them — the aggressive one who would go home with scraped knees.

ÒWeÕre the 10 per cent with the money so maybe you should start doing something for us.Ó How did your relationship with style change as you grew older?

I was married at a fairly young age by today’s standards. I got so busy looking after my three children and husband that I didn’t dress that well. I became very overweight — a size 20 — and, I felt, not a particularly interesting person. Then one day, after 26 years of marriage, I went into Rayson’s shoe store in Lougheed Mall and on a whim, asked if they were hiring. I left my phone number and they called me back. When I announced to my family I was going to do

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part-time work it was as if I’d said I was leaving home.

They were horrified! I decided to reinvent myself — at this point I was in my late 40s or early 50s. I lost 90 pounds in a year from eating 1,000 calories a day, swimming and going to the gym — not a fancy one. A sweat one.

That boosted my morale and I began to discover I was an ambitious, aggressive woman.

How did you get into modelling?

After I lost the weight I found that the clothes I was wearing didn’t do anything for me. I started working for Alberto Leone downtown and on my commute I would see how other women dressed and that’s when I began to become more interested in fashion.

Then a lady from Blanche McDonald Modelling School came into the store

and suggested I do a course there. The school helped me put together a portfolio, which I brought around to some of the department stores. The stores told me they weren’t interested because only 10 per cent of their customers were like me and most people wanted to look younger. I told them, “We’re the 10 per cent with the money so maybe you should start doing something for us.”

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Dorothy MillerÕs sense of style is an asset while helping customers at luxury jeweller Palladio in downtown Vancouver.

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What are your style rules now?

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vanity for you! I’m very critical of the way that I look.

I’m very happy with it too. I always strive to put my best foot forward.

What’s important is not dressing to the trends, but finding a look that works for you — and you don’t need to spend money to do that. I feel comfortable in a pantsuit, camisole and very nice jacket.

My clothes are expensive, I’ll admit to that, but they’re classic and I have had the same pieces for many years.

I still care about my appearance as much as I did the day I reinvented myself.

I have a Jil Sander coat that’s just coming up to its 13th birthday. Every time I wear it, people admire it. I wore it with Prada boots when I went to visit my family in Prince George. I fell getting off the plane and people were trying to help me up in the snow

What advice would you give to other women?

and as I was on the ground a woman complimented my boots and coat. She said, “You’re not from round here, are you?”

Did your family eventually come to terms with your new life?

I’ve just lost my husband, who had been so much against me going into the workplace and felt my place was home as a mom. But when I went through his things, I found he had a special portfolio of all my clippings. And apparently

he was very proud of the things I have done. When I went to do fashion shows or a photo shoot, at the time he might not have seemed happy about it. But I hear from other people now, they say, “Bill was so proud of you and how you look and what you did with your life.” And I know my children are proud of me too.

Are you more relaxed about how you look these days?

I still care about my appearance as much as I did the day I reinvented myself.

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The beach is so beautiful and rustic, it appears straight out of a movie set, so it was no surprise to discover it’s played backdrop to many films, including the Guns of Navarone starring the famous Greek actor Anthony Quinn. After renovations were completed in 2007, the gorgeous dome from the baths reopened as a museum adjacent to the beach.

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The domed museum at Kalithea Springs.

Kusadasi (Turkey), Mykonos, afterthought. Archaic period Heraklion, Piraeus and Rhodes. writers wrote in around 500 BC that after Zeus, the leader This was my first trip to Greece of the Greek gods, won a and first cruise so prior to battle against the Giants, he my departure I heard many divided the earth among the opinions from many friends Olympian gods as reward. about which island was the Unfortunately sun god Helios most beautiful. wasn’t around at the time so “Wait until you see Santorini.” was left out of the deal.

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“You’ll love (insert Greek island here).”

And while those islands are absolutely gorgeous, there was something about Rhodes that really drew me to it.

According to an ancient myth, the island of Rhodes in Greece was created as somewhat of an

Upon his return, Helios confronted Zeus who told him there was nothing he could do because he didn’t want to anger the other gods.

The myth continues that Helios then asked Zeus if he could claim the land that was to rise out of the sea. As Helios spoke, the island of what would eventually become Rhodes, emerged from the

bottom of the Aegean Sea. As god of the sun, Helios then washed the island with his light and radiance creating what many consider to be the most beautiful island in the Aegean.

And I couldn’t agree more.

about the Aegean Sea, offering stunning views of the beaches of Lindos on one side and the Bay of St. Paul on the other, where according to legend the Apostle Paul came ashore in the year 57 AC. Visitors can either make the trek by foot on an ancient path with no guard rail or by donkey for hire.

Rhodes is also famous for Old Town, a Unesco World Heritage site where protected inside its imposing walls is the island’s coat of arms. We walked the pebbled Street of the Knights marvelling at the ancient fortified castle, moat, statues and antiquities.

Earlier in the day we visited the Acropolis of Lindos and ancient temple of Athena. Built The Street of the Knights in 300 BC, the Acropolis sits has been restored to as it was atop a steep cliff 116 metres during the Middle Ages and

we wandered past fountains, marble crests and the Palace of the Grand Masters. Rhodes has been conquered so many times by so many civilizations, that diverse influence comes together in an odd blend of architecture and art. The island was finally captured by the Turks in 1522, but they allowed the Knights of Rhodes and thousands of civilians to leave unharmed to head for Crete.

The Knights of Saint John was formed in Rhodes in the 11thth century as a religious order and the modern-day Saint John’s Ambulance is a carry-over from that order famous for its compassion for the sick and injured.

History aside, Rhodes is a gorgeous island where visitors can still find nice accommodation for under $50 a night and luxury rooms for around $100 — and that, is a bargain for the ages.

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Traditional Chinese soup a hit at Mount Saint Joseph’s It’s 9 a.m. the morning of Lunar New Year and the kitchen at the Mount Saint Joseph residential care home/ hospital smells of ginger, garlic and soy sauce.

In one area of the kitchen, steam is coming from a gleaming, industrial-size, stainless steel pot, and in another, an oversized wok is piled high with fresh vegetables, including carrots and peas.

While the culinary efforts by chef Sung Ho Park and his team are in preparation for Lunar New Year celebrations, they’re not that much different than what takes place every Tuesday and Friday when Chinese-style soups are made for the largely Asian residents

of the home. Dietician Helen Yeung says because 94 of the 99 residents at Mount Saint Joseph’s are Chinese, it was decided by the residents council years ago that the daily menu should reflect their cultural heritage. And according to Yeung, the residents know their stuff, especially when it comes to the rice served.

“They’ll say, the rice is too soft or you used too much water,” says Yeung. “And we can only use jasmine rice. We can’t even change brands because if we do they say things like, ‘Is this Uncle Ben’s?’”

Yeung says a western-style menu is also available for the few non-Asian residents

Mount Saint Joseph hospital chef Sung Ho Park prepares a ÔBuddhist FeastÕ for residents to celebrate the Lunar New Year, including fried rice and dried conch herbal soup.

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Soup for the Soul program, as it’s been dubbed, came by way of a simple donation. The Mount Saint Joseph’s team heard what their residents were saying about wanting traditional soup. Yeung was already involved and the food services manager had also begun to attend council meetings regarding such a program, but as the list of items required to make the soup grew, the issue of cost came up.

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Yeung notes since offering Asian dishes on the menu, food waste has dropped considerably at Mount Saint Joseph’s, which is critically important when running a large kitchen. She says the

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The Seniors Advocate for B.C. calls the 2018 provincial budget announced Feb. 20 by B.C. Finance Minister Carol James a good one for seniors.

Isobel Mackenzie, who heads up the Office of the Seniors Advocate, told the Courier it’s seniors who will likely benefit most from the announced elimination

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at home and in residential facilities. Funding of $548 million over three years has been committed to improve care for seniors.

“The challenge for the new government is that there were some assumptions from the former government where that money would come from and that didn’t happen,” said Mackenzie, who added that meant the NDP had to find the money elsewhere to put towards improvements for seniors living in B.C.

Mackenzie also welcomed news that low-income seniors will benefit from an increase to the Shelter Aid for Elderly Renters (SAFER) program and Rental Assistance Program. The province is pledging $116 million over three years to the program and raising the ceiling to include those who have annual household incomes of $40,000 up from $35,000.

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Jennifer Whiteside, business manager of the Hospital Employees’ Union, is also pleased with the increase in spending for seniors care. The HEU is B.C.’s largest health union with members working in hundreds of occupations

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“Significantly, the $548 million set aside in the budget to increase hours of direct care in residential care, restores hope for seniors and those who deliver the care,” said Whiteside in a press release. “The budget also promises $950 million in additional funding to maintain health services and improve primary care — that means more front-line workers to provide quality care for a growing and aging population.”

Whiteside said that after a generation of neglect, the B.C. NDP’s 2018 budget allocating $1.5 billion in new spending over the next three years puts the province’s health system back on track.

“By strengthening health care, Premier Horgan’s government is affirming that you can’t build a better future for British Columbians without providing quality acute, residential and community care,” said Whiteside.

Whiteside added, the budget also reaffirms the government’s commitment to new and long overdue construction of hospitals.

As the province gears up to build new health infrastructure, the union is looking forward to a long-needed review of public-private-partnerships.

Whiteside said there’s growing evidence from within B.C., across Canada and around the world that these partnerships are the most expensive way to finance new hospital construction.

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Temporary skate park transitions to Cambie bridge

Justin Paul will begrudgingly visit the interim skate park underneath the Cambie Bridge, saying he prefers the convenient location of the Vancouver Skate Plaza. PHOTO SAŠA LAKIĆ

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Vancouver skateboarders won’t miss out on shred sessions when the Vancouver Skate Plaza gets demolished along with the Georgia Viaducts in early 2019.

The city has identified the corner of West Second Avenue and Cambie Street as the temporary location for the popular skate spot, which will be shut down and rebuilt as part of the Northeast False Creek redevelopment plan. The interim park will occupy the graveled area beneath Cambie Street Bridge and is a collaboration by van der Zalm Landscape Architects, New Line Skateparks and skate park architect Daniel Yabar, who has designed a number of parks in the U.S. and his native country, Spain.

On March 8, the city held an open house at the new

location for skaters and the public to get more information and give people the chance to chime in with suggestions. The completion date of the interim park is projected for mid-2019, at the same time as the Northeast False Creek reconstruction is set to begin.

Alexandre Man-Bourdon, project manager of park development with the Vancouver Park Board, credited the input from the Vancouver Skate Coalition for getting the project onto the city’s radar. He anticipates the size of the park will be between 10,000 and 12,000 square feet, depending on the final designs.

“Having an organized group that advocates for high-quality and safe skateboard locations resulted in the park board and the [Northeast False Creek] design team recognizing the need for the interim location

and placing a priority on this project,” Man-Bourdon said in an email.

Jeff Cole, president of the Vancouver Skateboard Coalition, hopes the city will keep the interim park in addition to the brand-new one included in the plans for Northeast False Creek.

As for the design of the Cambie location, Cole said the new park should emulate its predecessor, focusing more on a street-style of skating with handrails and ledges as opposed to bowls and transitions.

“The Vancouver Skateboard Plaza as it is right now is a world-renowned location, arguably the first skateboard plaza in the world. Very few people in Vancouver realize this historical significance of that space,” Cole said.

“We don’t have very many spaces to go, in terms of looking at other cities such as… Calgary and how many skateboard parks they’ve developed over the last bit.

But right now, the demand of the user group isn’t met by the spaces we have.”

Justin Paul frequents the Vancouver Skate Plaza and said it is unfortunate the skate park will move next year because that means he and his fellow skaters will have to travel farther. He likes the proximity of the park to his house and to the city core, but said he will still come to the new park when it opens.

“I think it would kind of bother people for the travel

costs because some skaters can’t afford to take the bus or SkyTrain,” Paul said.

“It’s really convenient for

guys like myself and other guys who live in this area.”

There are no details on how much the new park will

cost or what will happen to it once the Northeast False Creek project is completed. @sashalakic

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Inuit throat singer is beyond words And four other reasons Vancouver is awesome this week

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Spend the evening immersed in the expressive worlds of Inuit throat singing and Greenlandic mask dancing. This unusual combo of sound and motion comes courtesy the talents of singer Tanya Tagaq and dancer Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, who will take the stage together at the Chan Centre as part of the Beyond Words series. Tagaq and Bathory will be joined onstage by vocalist Christine Duncan, percussionist Jean Martin and violinist Jesse Zubot.

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Vancouver’s Jackie Kai Ellis may be best known for launching one of the city’s most delicious spots: Beaucoup Bakery. But Ellis has just released a new memoir, The Measure of My Powers, chronicling her sometimes painful journey of self-discovery at home and abroad in Paris. Ellis will host a “Book Club” event to speak about her book, and guests are encouraged to bring their own cherished recipe or travel

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Impeccable cheekbones, those washboard abs, and now, a high-profile philanthropic gesture — it appears that Ryan Reynolds can do no wrong.

The Vancouver ex-pat is the latest Hollywood celeb to lend his support to the Save the Rio Theatre crowdfunding campaign, which is has about four weeks left to raise roughly $850,000.

Theatre operator Corrine Lea wouldn’t disclose Reynold’s donation amount, though getting love from A-listers does have a snowball effect each time they publicize the Rio’s plight.

“We do see a difference,” Lea told the Courier Monday. “They have such a reach and such a huge audience so that when they shine the light on something, we definitely benefit from that atten-

tion. We really appreciate them doing that.”

While Lea was mum on Reynolds, she did confirm that both Kevin Smith shows slated for March 30 are still a go. The comic suffered a heart attack in late February and nearly died.

“We’ve talked to his people,” Lea said. “He’s doing well and he’s doing all the right things to take care of himself. Fingers crossed that he keeps going along that path.”

The other Rio news of the day involves a marrying of like-minded art lovers.

The Hollywood Arts Foundation (HAF) has joined the Save the Rio efforts.

Lea and fellow arts-related business types — including park board commissioner Michael Wiebe — recently formed the Vancouver Art House Society (VAHS), a non-profit with a mandate to preserve the city’s rapidly-disappearing arts and culture spaces.

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As for the donor drive, the dollar figures sat at about $143,000 as of Monday afternoon. Lea’s crowdfunding goal of $1 million has to be realized by early April and roughly $3 million is needed to put down a deposit to finance a mortgage on the property. A team of roughly 20 investors — most of whom are Vancouverites — will account for the funds outside of the Indiegogo campaign, which has generated donations from Iceland, Australia, Morocco, Spain and Hong Kong.

The push to save the Rio got going in earnest in late January, when news of the 80-year-old East Van venue’s sale appeared in a real estate brochure.

Lea’s offer to purchase the property from current owner Leonard Schein was accepted in mid-February and the deadline to get all the funds in order is April 7. “I still feel really confident,” Lea said.

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There’s all kinds of things in the background that I can’t always share with everyone that are giving me really good indications that this is going to happen and that we’re going to be able to pull this off.” @JohnKurucz The #SavetheRio Indiegogo page is online at indiegogo. com/projects/save-the-riotheatre-music-cinema#/

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Will the Canucks ever win in the playoffs with Brandon Sutter?

Canucks headed to third straight bottom-of-the-standings finish

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• I have to give the Vancouver Whitecaps a tap of the stick for their boundless optimism. As the Canucks faced off against the Los Angeles Kings on Monday, the Whitecaps decided to run a social media promotion giving away two tickets for every goal the Canucks scored. That turned out to be zero goals, but you have to give the ‘Caps credit for believing in the Canucks.

• A tap of the stick to Brock Boeser, who is proving how good he is by virtue of how bad the Canucks are when he’s not playing. Boeser made this season fun for Canucks fans and provided a little hope for the future.

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Three years ago, general manager Jim Benning made some big changes to the Canucks roster in the off-season. He traded away Kevin Bieksa, Eddie Lack and Zack Kassian in a four-day span at the end of June, but his biggest move came a month later.

Benning traded Nick Bonino, Adam Clendening and a second-round pick to the Pittsburgh Penguins for Brandon Sutter and a third-round pick. Before Sutter played a game for the Canucks, Benning signed him to a five-year contract extension worth $4.375 million per year and referred to him as a “foundation piece” for the future of the franchise.

Coming off a first-round playoff loss to the Calgary Flames, Benning believed the team needed a different look to succeed in the playoffs, and Sutter was a big part of that. He saw him as a potential second-line centre who was “going to be in our next wave of core players,” whose “best hockey is still ahead of him.”

“You win with players like Brandon Sutter,” said Benning before the 2015-16 season. “I’m not comparing him to Patrice Bergeron, but when I was in Boston, Bergeron was a great two-way player for us. Look at Jonathan Toews. That’s how you win in the playoffs.”

There’s just one problem: the Canucks haven’t made the playoffs with Sutter on the roster. It’s possible the Canucks will never get to test the hypothesis that you win in the playoffs with players like Sutter.

The Canucks finished 28th in the NHL in Sutter’s first year with the team, while setting a new franchise low in goals scored. They did even worse in his second year: 29th, with eight fewer goals.

Now, in his third year, the Canucks will once again miss the playoffs and could finish even lower in the standings. They could possible even be the first team in NHL history to finish 31st.

Fortunately, they’ve already scored more goals than last season thanks to Brock Boeser.

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Brandon Sutter’s role with the Canucks has changed since he was acquired from Pittsburgh, but his skills have yet to be applied to the post-season where they’d come in handy. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Let’s be clear: It’s not Sutter’s fault the Canucks haven’t made the playoffs and he’s not the player that Benning thought he was when he acquired him.

Sutter is who he is and works hard night-in and night-out.

Under coach Travis Green, Sutter’s role has come into clearer focus, as the team has ceased trying to turn him into a top-six forward. Instead, Sutter has happily thrown himself into the thankless role of shutdown centre. This means he has had little opportunity to put up points, tasked instead with taking the bulk of the defensive zone faceoffs and playing on the penalty kill rather than the power play.

Sutter has been hard-matched against the opposition’s top lines all season and has managed to largely limit their offence, even if the Canucks have given up some offence of their own in the process. With Sutter on the ice at fiveon-five, the Canucks have allowed 1.93 goals against per hour, the second lowest rate of goals against on the team behind

Brendan Gaunce, a frequent linemate of Sutter’s this season.

It’s a role that fits Sutter’s skill set, if not his contract, and it’s a role that would certainly be an important one in the playoffs. The question is if the Canucks will get back to the postseason within the next three years before Sutter’s contract is up.

Since veterans such as Sutter, Loui Eriksson and Sam Gagner haven’t been enough to get the Canucks back to the playoffs, the team will need young prospects to make the team and immediately become difference makers. The development of players such as Elias Pettersson, Adam Gaudette, Olli Juolevi, and Jonathan Dahlen will determine whether the Canucks will see another three years of missing the playoffs.

For daily Canucks news and views, go to Pass It to Bulis at vancourier.com.

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3 As of Tuesday, the Canucks had scored just three goals in four games without Brock Boeser. Turns out when you take out the purest scoring threat on the team, scoring becomes a problem. Who knew?

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12 According to HockeyViz.com, the Canucks now have a 12 per cent chance of getting the first overall pick. There’s still a chance the Canucks could finish in last place, giving them an 18 per cent chance of first overall and Rasmus Dahlin.

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