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City to apologize for historical discrimination against Chinese Mike Howell

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City council will hold a special meeting April 22 in Chinatown to make a formal apology to Chinese people for the legislated discrimination enacted decades ago by previous city councils.

The event at the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Vancouver comes after the 11-member council agreed unanimously in November 2017 to hold a ceremony to condemn the racist policies of city leaders in power between 1886 and 1947.

Banning voting rights, not allowing Chinese people to run for public office and lobbying for a head tax were among such policies.

“It will hopefully help close the door on a piece of history of our city that needed to be recognized as having happened,” said Vision Vancouver Coun. Raymond Louie, who will join Mayor Gregor Robertson in reading the apology at the centre on East Pender Street.

Louie and Robertson will both read sections in English, with former councillors Maggie Ip and Bill Yee

expected to read the Chinese portion of the apology, which will be read in Cantonese and the Sze-Yup dialect.

Ip, a co-founder of United Chinese community Enrichment Services Society, served on council between 1993 and 1996. Yee, a retired provincial court judge, was the first Chinese-Canadian elected to Vancouver council in 1982.

Asked about reading an apology from a government body that legislated injustice on his ancestors, Louie said, “It’s not about me, directly, but more about the wider community and the wider message about racism and discrimination.”

A city staff report that went before council in November showed Vancouver councils of the past were directly responsible for decades of discrimination against Chinese people.

In 1886, the year the city was incorporated, council disqualified the Chinese from voting. At the time, Chinese people were also prohibited from becoming a lawyer, doctor, nurse or banker, among other professions.

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Vancouver city council has set April 22 as the date it will formally apologize to the Chinese community for previous councils’ legislated discrimination against Chinese people.

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own property in some areas of the city, or run for public office. Since Yee was elected in 1982, several residents of Chinese descent were elected to council, including Louie’s Vision Vancouver colleague, Kerry Jang.

Jang’s view of the apology is it has to be done on behalf of the civic government but noted his grandparents, who arrived in Vancouver in 1895, had a different take on injustices they faced.

“They came over and faced discrimination and all

the bad stuff we hear about,” he said. “But my grandmother, actually, was never for these types of apologies.

None of them paid the head tax, but they said that if they had paid the head tax, we wouldn’t have even asked for the money back.”

That’s because, Jang continued, his grandmother said she was so grateful to be allowed to live in Canada — that if she and her husband stayed in China, they would have been killed by the Japanese, or died in the civil

war or because of famine.

“For me, the apology is important for some people but, personally, not for my mom’s side or my dad’s side,” he said. “But I know it means different things to different people.”

Added Jang: “First and foremost, I’m a Canadian.

And as part of being a Canadian, we all bear some of the collective guilt for all the wrongs we have done to everyone — whether it’s First Nations or whatever group you want to pick. So for me, it’s not awkward [to apologize].”

Over the years, other Chinese-Canadian city councillors have included Tung Chan, Daniel Lee, Jenny Kwan, Don Lee, George Chow, Tony Tang and Sandra Wilking, who became the first Chinese woman in B.C. elected to office. She served from 1988 to 1990.

Vancouver didn’t grant municipal voting rights to the Chinese until 1949, some four years after Canadian-born Chinese members of the Canadian Forces returned from the Second World War.

The city also repeatedly lobbied the federal government to pass discriminatory immigration policies, including adopting formal legislation to exclude the Chinese from immigrating to Canada.

Together with other anti-Asian groups, the city lobbied the federal government to increase the head tax levied on the Chinese from $50 in 1885 to $100 in 1900 and $500 in 1903.

“Anti-Asian political agitation and racial violence culminated in a big riot at Brighouse Estate near Coal Harbour in 1887 and again in Chinatown in 1907,” the city staff report said. “These riots occurred with the knowledge and sometimes presence of the city mayor and aldermen.

Other groups such as the Japanese were also targeted during these riots.”

The cultural centre in Chinatown has a capacity of 500 people. The special council meeting begins at 2 p.m. The event will coincide with Chinatown “cultural day,” which runs from 1 to 4 p.m. at various locations in the historic community. @Howellings

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News Yaletown parking impasse resolved Jessica Kerr

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The city and Yaletown businesses appear to have reached a consensus in the great parking debate — and might even resolve the neighbourhood’s unsightly dumpster problem at the same time.

A revised design will retain angled parking on the north sides of Hamilton and Mainland streets and leave at least 117 spots. Additional parking is possible in the future if garbage bins that are currently on the street can be moved, or contained.

Earlier this year the city proposed removing more than 50 parking spaces from Hamilton and Mainland streets to allow for easier access for fire trucks responding to emergency calls. Businesses along those streets and the Yaletown BIA spoke out against the plan saying the loss of parking would put their livelihoods, and the neighbourhood, at risk.

Yaletown BIA executive director Annette O’Shea told the Courier she is “cautiously optimistic” about the new design but added that

losing parking spots will still have an effect on businesses. “Our businesses are going to take a real big hit,” she said.

She gave the city credit for coming to the table to work with businesses on revamping the plan.

“They realized how real this was for us… The panic that our businesses were displaying was real,” she said, adding that the association has had 20 meetings with city staff in the last eight weeks.

According to the city, the new design will mean many parking spaces will be shorter, requiring drivers to consistently park properly in the angled stalls. Longer vehicles will not fit in many of the spaces.

O’Shea said the BIA is working with two local companies to make it easier to park, including parking spot murals and signage, as well as teams out on the street to help drivers.

The city will also work to increase the amount of shortterm parking in the area on other streets and in parkades, Lon LeClaire, Vancouver’s director of transportation, said in a press release.

The city said its original

design would have removed all angled parking from those two streets, replacing it with as much parallel parking as possible. The Yaletown BIA, however, wanted to keep the angled parking.

“While this doesn’t create more parking in the short term,” LeClaire said, “we may be able to work with the BIA to relocate some of the 60 dumpsters in the area which would create additional parking spaces in the long term.”

The association will work with businesses in the city to move and remove many of the dumpsters, potentially opening up another 40 to 60 parking spots.

“By working with local businesses, we can improve the public realm in Yaletown,” O’Shea said. “We feel confident that with some innovative signage and on-street design, drives will find it easier to park, and easier to find a parking spot in Yaletown.”

The design will be implemented on a trial basis starting in early April and will be evaluated for up to a year.

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City’s only Mandarin bilingual program c Close to 200 students to graduate from Norquay elementary program this year John Kurucz

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Sashaying across an East Vancouver classroom floor, about a dozen elementary students sang and danced to “Picking Mushrooms,” a well-known Chinese folk song used in celebratory settings.

Up next was a rap interpretation of the Chinese animated character Mulan.

Both performances were sung entirely in Mandarin by kids spanning cultures from across the globe.

Events like these were a bit of an anomaly 10 years ago at Norquay elementary, though the school’s Early Mandarin Bilingual Program is actively changing that.

A first of its kind in Vancouver and established in 2011, the curriculum blends Mandarin and English instruction for kids in kindergarten through Grade 7.

The first stream of students to go through the entirety of the program leaves the Norquay doors in June.

Parents, administrators, PAC members and curriculum writers got together at Norquay earlier this month to celebrate that fact.

“It’s incredible. From day one the teacher is speaking to them, from the day they arrive at school, in Mandarin and they don’t know any different,” said Shauna Cook, the school’s PAC representative for the program. “My husband and I are blown away when we hear our kids speak Mandarin.”

Aged six and eight, Cook’s two sons are among roughly 190 students in the program, which is offered exclusively out of Norquay.

The curriculum includes an even split of English and Mandarin instruction, and where possible, the same teacher delivers both lessons.

Talk of setting up the bilingual model gained traction in 2008 and was buoyed by a small, but vocal group of parents.

B.C. Parents for Mandarin founder Eileen Sue and a handful of other parents

started with a petition. That petition led to face time with school trustees and administrators, which gave way to larger conferences and more lobbying. The program arrived at Norquay in September 2011.

Having been at Norquay since the program’s beginning, kindergarten teacher Pinky Kwan estimates that at least 50 per cent of her students come from Mandarin backgrounds.

“Then we have quite a few that have no Mandarin at all and there’s no tie to the culture whatsoever,” she said. “In my class right now, we have quite a few where both parents have no Asian background and don’t speak any Mandarin.”

Kids with siblings already in the program are given preference during each year’s intake of roughly 20 students, though the program isn’t geared towards native Mandarin speakers actively using the language at home. The thinking there is to allow for a common starting point for all students

who are just starting out.

A lottery determines each year’s intake across a number of VSB Choice programs such as French Immersion, Montessori, Fine Arts or Indigenous Focus. Parents list each of their three choices by priority. The current school year saw more than 90 applicants select the Mandarin program as their first choice: 14 were accepted on account of having siblings in the program, while six other new students were accepted. A separate intake for more seasoned speakers in grades four to seven will be launched later this year.

“The parents really want Mandarin because everything is coming out of China right now,” Kwan said. “They see China as part of the future career path, they see the children as having more opportunities with Asian countries like China or Taiwan. A lot parents want to give them a useable language. It’s much more useable than taking other languages, especially in Vancouver.”

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Christepher Wee teaches Grade 1 at Norquay and is part of Ministry of Education team that helped develop the program’s curriculum. Early years focus on phonetics and sounds, characters and script are introduced later.

The end goal is practicality: allowing students to speak with grandparents, order food or act as a basic interpreter between school staff and Mandarin-speaking family members.

“That’s something our team has been adamant about: that we are not only teaching things that they’ll remember from a

textbook, but that we’re teaching things that are authentic that they can use,” Wee said.

The district’s welldocumented problems of teacher recruitment and retention are found at Norquay as well. The ideal scenario sees the same teacher delivering all of the instruction across both languages. When that’s not possible, the school leans on a “team teaching” model that divvies up those lessons between two teachers instead.

“It does affect staffing because if you don’t have teachers who are qualified

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Those leaving the program in June have the option to continue their high school studies in Mandarin at Windermere secondary school.

“For the parents and for the staff, it’s been a huge journey and a huge accomplishment that they’ve taken these students from kindergarten right through to Grade 7,” Norquay principal Tim Krug said. “It’s reflective of the teaching and of the parents’ investment of the program.” @JohnKurucz

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Other activities at the train plaza include an Easter egg hunt, carnival games and inflatable bouncers, and face painting at an additional charge, as well as various food vendors.

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Egg hunts take place at 1, 1:30, 2 and 2:30 p.m. and pre-registration is required. Cost is $5 per child, or $2 excluding the Easter egg hunt.

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For those who don’t have to work on Easter Monday (April 2) Trout Lake Community Centre will have a bouncy castle set up, as well as arts and crafts, games and more. 10 a.m. until noon. Admission is free.

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The event runs from 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. for children 1-3 years; 11:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. for kids 1-6, and 1 to 2:15 p.m. for kids 4-9. Pre-registration is recommended and dropins are welcome only if space is available. Tickets cost $6 per child. Children under one are free and do not need to register.

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Cineplex theatres, including the one at International Village, will show the animated film Hop about the Easter bunny for $2.99. Show starts at 11 a.m. on March 31. The film is rated PG.

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April 1. Children aged eight and under can take part in the outdoor egg hunt in six different areas of the garden, including the maze. The festivities include fun activities and a number of food trucks will be on site selling tasty treats. Tickets must be purchased online in advance. This popular event sells out every year.

Until March 29, children get in free with each paid adult, senior or youth admission.

Adults can also join in an Easter egg hunt for a chance to win a Mexican vacation. To enter the contest, garden visitors must find, and take a photo of, a Mexican egg hidden in the garden and post it on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram with the hashtag #AeromexicoEggHunt.

One lucky entrant and a guest will win an Aeromexico flight and five-day all-inclusive stay at Playa Mazatlan Beach Hotel.

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T H U R SDAY, M A R C H 2 9 , 2 0 1 8 THE VANCOUVER COURIER

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Tracy Sherlock

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How’s your attention span?

I’ve noticed mine getting shorter and shorter, especially when I try to read a book for any length of time. I feel a constant urge to check my phone every few minutes, and once I do, I’m lost down a rabbit hole of distraction.

Over the past few months, there have been several high-profile news articles in which former Silicon Valley employees express deep concerns about the addictive nature of sites such as Facebook and Google, including former Facebook president Sean Parker, who was widely reported to have said the program exploits “a vulnerability in human psychology.”

Those tactics exploit the reward centre of our brains, says brain expert Terry Small, who has been a public speaker about the brain for more than 30 years.

“That next text that comes in could be the big one.

It’s very addicting and very rewarding — all these likes that you get and posts and responses,” Small said in an interview. “Sometimes all these little urgent things crowd out what’s important.”

Technology such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat is personalized to target each individual, to persuade them in various ways and to predict what will keep them online longer.

How do all of these distractions affect students?

And particularly, how do they affect young people, for whom technology has always been a way of life?

“I think it has a profound effect and I’ve talked a lot to school teachers about this,” Small said.

Small refers to an article in the Atlantic by Jean Twenge, a professor of psychology at San Diego State University.

It says that today’s teens, a generation she calls iGen, have completely changed from previous generations.

Teens today are less likely to hang out with friends and more likely to stay home in their room, on their phones, Twenge’s research shows.

They are less likely to date, to have sex, to get their drivers’ licence, and to drink alcohol

or do drugs. However, they are more likely to experience loneliness, anxiety and depression, the article says.

Twenge links all of this to the rise in smartphones.

And Small says the more time we spend cycling between tasks on our phones, the better our brains become at it. “When it’s always on short cycles of attention — text, text, text, email, email, Instagram, Facebook — your brain becomes quite competent at partial continuous attention where your brain is always paying attention to multiple things, but never anything deeply.”

There are advantages to this partial continuous attention, like being able to multitask at work, but there are also disadvantages. “When you get really good at something, it’s often at the expense of something else,” Small said. “In this case, the something else could be attention density, the ability to read deeply for long periods of time without the compulsion to check your phone every 60 seconds.”

So, what’s a mere human to do in the face of all this alluring, addicting technology?

Small says it’s all a matter of balance. He likes to go for a walk every day, purposefully leaving his phone at home. The exercise gets the blood flowing to the brain and the chance to daydream results in better memory and even new ideas.

Instead of multitasking, he tries to “task switch” every 20 minutes or so, which allows him to completely focus on one thing. “Realize that multitasking will take a toll. Your productivity will probably drop, your focus will drop and you will be more tired at the end of the day.”

And just as the brain gets good at what it does repeatedly, it’s also possible to “sculpt” your brain, simply by practising what you want to get good at. “Your brain is going to sculpt itself anyway, so you might as well get involved,” Small said.

On that note, it’s time for me to turn off my computer, put down my phone and head out for an uninterrupted walk in nature. Maybe when I get back I will be able to read a book.

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Opinion

How NPA fills ‘empty vessel’ will determine its fate next election City’s oldest elector organization needs to tell voters why it wants to govern Vancouver Mike Klassen

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Vancouver’s NPA has a reputation problem — in that lately they have almost no public reputation at all.

Stop someone on the street in our city and ask them what the NPA, or Non-Partisan Association, stands for and you will most likely get a blank stare, or a wistful, “They oppose bike lanes, riiight?”

Backers of the city’s oldest elector organization need not panic about this — yet. Sometimes it is helpful to start with a blank canvass before going to the voters.

But with seven months left until the next election, they better get cracking.

Former mayor and fivetime elected city councillor Sam Sullivan likes to remind people that the NPA has always been like an empty vessel, where the organization becomes whatever its leader and caucus members put into it.

When the NPA portrays itself as both pragmatic and socially progressive, the organization succeeds. When it does not, it falters.

We may be closing in on a civic election, but traditional NPA supporters and other Vancouverites looking for something new will be watching to see how that “vessel” gets filled.

It has been nearly two decades since the NPA has been Vancouver’s dominant political force. Long gone are the days when winning an NPA council, park or school board nomination made electoral victory a near certainty.

Today, each candidate will have to slug it out to woo wary voters.

Former mayor and five-time elected city councillor Sam Sullivan compares the NPA to an empty vessel, where the organization becomes whatever its leader and caucus members put into it. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

While politics is never a bed of roses, the NPA might start by reminding Vancouver of who they are and what they have stood for when in government.

I believe if there is a single reason NPA governments succeeded in the past, it is because of their adherence to the principle of a non-partisan public service. Political wonks will get what this means,

but the average voter would likely not appreciate how this value has been lost in recent years.

Pivotal public policy directions such as CityPlan, the Greenways initiative, prioritizing pedestrians and transit over cars, and Clouds of Change — Vancouver’s groundbreaking environmental plan — were not realized by NPA councils by imposing their political

will on staff, but by setting a course so that the civil service can do good work.

As a city, Vancouver desperately needs an ability to be visionary again, but does anyone remember what that means?

Political organizations also must strive to recruit candidates from our city’s diverse communities, then work even harder to get them elected to office.

It was under the NPA banner, for example, that Vancouver’s first openly gay city councillor, Gordon Price, and the first ever Chinese woman city councilor, Sandra Wilking, got elected.

Now former Musqueam band councillor Wade Grant is seeking an NPA nomination for council. Grant’s own reputation is strong, and if nominated, the association

should pull out all the stops and be the first electoral organization to get an indigenous Canadian elected to Vancouver city council.

To succeed this time the NPA will have to understand how they fell short in past elections. In 2014, the association won a majority on park board, came just short of winning school board, and lost a council majority after a dog fight for the two bottom ranked seats.

What might make a difference for the NPA is acknowledging, and building a strategy around, the current popularity of the Vancouver Greens. That would mean running short slates on council, park and school board to leave seats open for their Green counterparts, whom they have aligned with more often than not on council and board decisions.

By running only eight councillors, five park board and six school board candidates, the NPA should leave room for Green incumbents plus an additional seat on council. Many consider, as I do, that Vancouver Greens’ Pete Fry has a good shot at earning a council seat alongside Adriane Carr. For the NPA, running larger slates would be a recipe for failure.

To succeed in 2018, however, it will not be good enough for the NPA to just talk about its past, or to simply attack their moribund Vision Vancouver opponents. They need to decide quickly what they would do for the city over the four years, and beyond.

It is time to fill up that vessel, and the clock is ticking. @MikeKlassen

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Re: “Pain at the pumps hits drivers as price of gas soars over $1.54,” March 22.

A big variable: Special interest groups hijacking the local agendas. Never in the history of Vancouver has the vocal minority been able to affect the muzzled majority in such a manner. The pin-the-tale on the donkey strategies at City Hall have left taxpayer drivers sitting fuming in traffic jams looking at seven months of empty bike lanes (at a cost of huge infrastructure dollars) as well as major corridor lane closures to accommodate political-donor developers. We are paying obscenely more in fuel costs than even Abbottsford, never mind the rest of the country. The slackademics and government-grantsters have handcuffed the flow of legitimately produced oil (with standards as high or higher than any competing nation) and applauded the death of the once local mass-employing refineries that, again, operated more efficiently than the ones we import from.

There is little wonder at the scramble to get out of the elected positions coming up this October — they know we are fed up with the cost borne for nepotism and catering to professional protesters. Regrettably the damage they have done to the “majority” of our lives through artificial inflation will leave us all with unhealable wounds.

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Re: “Changing B.C. electoral system shouldn’t be easier than a strata bylaw,” March 22.

Where to start in refuting Mike Klassen’s flawed arguments against moving to a much fairer electoral system?

The opponents of electoral reform are afraid that if PR (proportional representation) is adopted, they will either lose their stranglehold on power or B.C. will go to hell in a hand basket.

They will use any argument to appeal to voters to stop this mad rush to electoral reform. One of their favourite arguments is that because strata rules require changes in bylaws to have the approval of 3/4 of the residents, this referendum should require 3/4 approval. They neglect to say that in all levels of government, most if not all important bills only require a 50 per cent +1 majority. Think abortion, assisted death, voting age, legalization of marijuana, the right to vote of women, Asians, Indigenous Peoples.

In echoing the talking points of the opponents of electoral reform, Klassen, in righteous indignation states, “If as few as 30 per cent of voters cast ballots in the referendum as some suggest, this means that as little as 15 per cent of voters will choose the electoral system for 100 per cent of British Columbians.”

What does he think happens every time we have an election? Election after election in every town, in every province and in Canada elects a government based on the results of votes cast by whomever decides on that day, to vote. The B.C. Liberal Party was elected in every election but the last, with just around 40 per cent of the vote and got to tell the other 60 per cent of voters how things were going to be. This is how they want things to continue.

Want a much fairer electoral system, where your vote is guaranteed to elect a person who will represent your interests? Vote YES for PR. Daryl Sturdy, Vancouver ••• A strata vote consists of maybe 20 committed people voting on something very important to them. A referendum is a different animal — if people don’t care they won’t vote, those that do will. If Brexit can happen with 51 per cent and Trump can win with 49 per cent of the votes, I don’t see why B.C. can’t go with 50 per cent +1.

The first time this was put to the people the threshold was 60 per cent and Yes got 57 per cent. If that had stood, we would have had a fair system for many years

now and people would know how well it worked. Klassen complains that people won’t cast ballots in a referendum; well people don’t vote in numbers in an election because they feel their vote doesn’t count.

Change the system and they will come.

Tony Burt, Vancouver ••• Mike Klassen asks “why is 50 per cent plus one adequate to change B.C.’s whole electoral system?”

Two answers and two comments: First, using proportional representation (PR) only changes the way we vote.

Most of the voting system would remain in place, unchanged.

Second, 50 per cent plus one is a majority and that’s how democracy is supposed to work.

Klassen appears to support “first past the post” — a voting system that typically gives 100 per cent of the power to a political party that receives around 40 percent of the votes. This is minority, not majority rule. Both parties to the current B.C. government campaigned on changing the electoral system to PR and voters representing a majority have already given the government a mandate to proceed on electoral reform.

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How much do you pay for pot?

StatsCannabis is a crowdsourcing platform for all things marijuana Jessica Kerr

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Statistics Canada wants to know how much you pay for pot.

The government agency recently launched StatsCannabis, a new online statistics hub that includes a crowdsourcing platform, to gather information around cannabis use in the country includ-

ing how much Canadians are paying, the quantity and quality, reasons for buying, and average usage and consumption ahead of impending legalization this summer.

“The legalization of cannabis has important social and economic implications for Canada and Canadians,” a Statistics Canada spokesperson said in an email to the

Courier. “If this legislation is approved, all levels of government will need information related to the production, distribution and consumption of nonmedical cannabis prior to and following legalization to support the development of policies and regulations.”

By visiting the website at surveys-enquetes.statcan.gc.ca/cannabis Cana-

Public Hearing: April 17, 2018 Tuesday, April 17, 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. 35-43 West 6th Avenue (Coulter House) To add the existing building at 35 West 6th Avenue (Coulter House) to the Vancouver Heritage Register in the ‘C’ evaluation category, and to designate the exterior of the existing building as protected heritage property.

2. 969 Burrard Street and 1019-1045 Nelson Street To amend CD-1 (445) for 969 Burrard Street and 10191045 Nelson Street to increase the permitted building height from 169.50 to 169.75 metres as measured to the top of the roof slab, and from 178.60 to 178.89 metres to the top of the mechanical appurtenance, to account for a discrepancy in the measurement of building height.

3. 339 East 1st Avenue To rezone 339 East 1st Avenue from I-3 (Industrial) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District, to permit the development of a six-storey office building with a partial seventh storey containing common amenity, and a total floor area of 13,325.5 square metres (143,434 square feet). A height of 33.65 metres (110.37 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 2.98 are proposed.

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According to the data collected so far, Quebec

4. 1133-1155 Melville Street To rezone 1133-1155 Melville Street from DD (Downtown District) to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District, to permit the development of a 36-storey office building with a floor area of 57,636 square metres (620,390 square feet). A height of 167.64 metres (550 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 21.21 are proposed.

5. Minor Amendments to the Zoning and Development By-law to Enable Liquor Retail Stores in Grocery Stores To amend the Zoning and Development By-law to enable liquor retail stores in grocery stores. A new definition for Grocery Store with Liquor Store and amended definitions for Liquor Store and Neighbourhood Grocery Store are proposed for consistency with the definitions used in Provincial regulation.

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 April 6 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.

has the lowest price at an average of $5.89 per gram. B.C. came in at $6.93 per gram. The Atlantic provinces average $7.04 per gram, the Prairies pay $7.25, Ontario comes in at $7.38 and the Territories top the country for most expensive pot prices at $9.35 per gram.

“By producing data on cannabis, Statistics

Canada aims to ensure that Canadians are wellpositioned to understand the socioeconomic impacts of legalization, in the event that Bill C-45 is passed,” the spokesperson said. “The statistics produced will support the development of appropriate laws, policies and regulations at all levels of government.” @JessicaEKerr

Development Permit Board Meeting: April 3 The Development Permit Board and Advisory Panel will meet: Tuesday, April 3, 2018 at 3 pm Vancouver City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Ground Floor, Town Hall Meeting Room to consider the following development permit applications: 7433 Cambie Street (500 West 57th Avenue) (Pearson Parcel A) To develop the site with a 22-storey, mixed-use building and a 26-storey, mixed-use building with 307 market dwelling units, 138 secured non-market rental dwelling units, 44 Pearson supportive units and retail use on the ground floor all over four levels of underground parking accessed from a new internal street. This is Parcel A of Phase 1 of the Pearson Dogwood redevelopment.

Copies of the draft by-laws will be available for viewing starting April 6 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-wait-times or @VanCityClerk on Twitter.

1810 Alberni Street To develop the site at the southwest corner of 1810 Alberni Street and Denman Street with a commercial and residential mixed-use project situated in the C-5Azoned West End area. It comprises an 18-storey tower anchored on a threestorey, 40-foot high podium, for a total of 21 storeys, rising to a permitted height of 210 feet. The proposed building houses 36 high-end suites and provides 24 muchneeded, social housing units on the second and third floors, at a location that is near all amenities, shopping and public transit.

The ground floor features 3,900 square feet of commercial retail space facing both Alberni and Denman all over three levels of underground parking.

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Cannabis Substitution Project claims it helps opioid users kick City won’t support efforts without rigorous scientific evidence and changes in drug laws Saša Lakić

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Last Sunday, roughly 150 people lined up at the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU) building on East Hastings Street and waited their turn to be let in and given a free bag of cannabis products.

Depending on the week, the package usually contains two or three kinds of edibles, a couple of joints, a capsule of THC oil and sometimes infused honey.

The packages are doled out by Neil Magnuson, who started the Cannabis Substitution Project more than year ago for drug users looking to ease their cravings for opioids.

Brad Williamson, who makes use of the program, rolled joints with two other volunteers at one of the two rolling stations inside VANDU. The recovering heroin user said in the two years he has been complementing his methadone use with cannabis, he has not relapsed.

Before he embarked on a “marijuana maintenance program,” he would relapse whenever he tried to quit cold turkey. Without a consistent supply of cannabis, the withdrawal symptoms were too taxing, he said, even after taking Kadian, a slow-release morphine drug, which he takes to detox from methadone. He said the cannabis suppresses the sickness that comes with eliminating opioids.

“As far as symptoms go, edibles are way better. They cure more symptoms for me.

Edibles actually help with the nausea,” Williamson said. “Now that I have used marijuana as a maintenance for that, it actually helps.”

Man in the middle

Throughout the week, Magnuson, a long-time pot activist and co-organizer of Cannabis Day and the 4/20 festival at Sunset Beach, collects donations from local cannabis companies, such as Apothecary Labs, Green Wilderness and Cannabis Culture, and puts together the packages, while volunteers help with rolling on the day of distribution.

His initial involvement with cannabis activism was sparked 20 years ago when he attended the first 4/20 rally at the Vancouver Art Gallery, after which he actively started reading up on the history of cannabis in society and advocating for pot legalization. Before that, he worked mainly in the insurance restoration industry and continues to do some maintenance work for Cannabis Culture.

Magnuson said amid a national opioid emergency, governments should look beyond “stupid laws” in order to help those who are struggling daily with addiction. He said the success of his initiative is testament that it should be funded and supported by the govern-

Jennifer Nelson (left) and Amanda Rainey volunteer at VANDU every weekend rolling joints to be given to opioid users as part of the Cannabis Substitution Project. PHOTO SAŠA LAKIĆ

ment. So far his attempts to get the government involved have gone unanswered.

“I went to city hall and presented it to them and wrote a letter to follow up to explain what the project would be about, and appealed to them for funding and support,” Magnuson said. “And they wouldn’t even talk to me about it.

[Coun. Kerry Jang] kept hanging up on me. I have been all over about him lots of times in person and on the phone until he hangs up on me, asking him to explain to me why in a world of alcohol would cannabis be regulated more harshly.”

Lack of clinical certainty

Not everyone is convinced, however.

The province and the city want clinical certainty

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and legalization first before moving ahead with outright support for cannabis as a means to curb the use of harder drugs.

In a phone interview, Jang said he could not remember ever talking to Magnuson or receiving any letters. The outgoing Vision councillor said any claims that he does not support cannabis substitution are “bulls***.” He called the use of cannabis as a substitution to street drugs “promising,” but that any adoption and subsequent support of it by the city warrants rigorous scientific research first.

“Cannabis substitution will be covered under CIHR, which will be a proper clinical trial,” Jang said referring to the mandate of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to study the plant’s potential uses and

effects. “Currently, it’s still illegal, so how can we fund an illegal project? To simply ask the city, ‘Oh, we want you to fund this,’ well, a) it’s illegal, and b) who would do the research? VANDU?” Dr. M-J Milloy, a research scientist for the B.C. Centre on Substance Use, echoes Jang’s position on clinical trials. Milloy said there is anecdotal evidence cannabis can be used as a substitute for hard drugs, but medical professionals require more definitive scientific evidence and conclusions.

“We can’t be sure if reductions in opioid use are the results of cannabis itself or a result of something else,” Milloy said, suggesting that a reduction in opioid use could also be an individual reaction to cannabis by the user.

“Until we do a controlled clinical trial, where we have

placebos and blinding, we really can’t conclude that cannabis is an effective substitute for either illicit opioids or licit opioids.”

In 2017, Milloy’s colleagues at BCCSU conducted a study of 122 crack cocaine users from the Downtown Eastside and found cannabis use can help reduce the frequency of crack cocaine use. Another study of 25 crack cocaine users in Brazil saw 68 per cent of them stop using the drug altogether over a nine-month period of cannabis use.

Amanda Rainey, manager of the opioid replacement therapy program at Surrey’s Health Gate Medical Clinic, said she was in disbelief when one of her patients told her someone was handing out cannabis products to combat the danger of opioid use in the Downtown Eastside.

So she decided to check out the Cannabis Substitution Project for herself last January and ended up also volunteering as a joint roller. She said she has seen people who have gotten off methadone and managed withdrawal symptoms by using cannabis.

“It’s not a cure, by any means,” said Rainey. “But it does help if they’ve got the pain or something. If there’s problems with the sleeping, instead of taking all their prescribed meds, there is something that they’re able to do instead.”

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Instead, it’s Coronation 47, a week leading up to the Black and White Ball at the Commodore Ballroom during which the 46th elected Monarchs of Vancouver, the Mother Court of Canada, will step down and a new regime will begin.

Reigning Emperor Tommy D. , who helped organize the event with a team including reigning Empress Jane Smoker, says voting to name the new Monarch Court took place March 24.

“The new empress will be crowned Friday,” says Tommy D. The Imperial Court System in the U.S. was founded in San Francisco in 1965 by drag queen José Sarria, who soon became the catalyst of a volunteer fundraising

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Against Women (WAVAW), Health Initiative for Men and Zee Zee Theatre, which represents marginalized groups.

In the U.S., the first court outside of San Francisco was formed in Portland, OR, in 1971 followed by Seattle, and then Vancouver in 1976 by the self-proclaimed Empress of Canada, ted northe — always spelled in lower case. northe founded the Imperial Court System of Canada in 1964 and became the titular head of the charitable organization in 1967. He remained Empress of Canada until his passing in April 2014. In B.C. the court is called the Dogwood Monarchist Society.

“Myself and Jane have spent the year raising funds and whatever we make this week is added to that amount,” says Tommy D.

Tommy D. says the goal of the Imperial Court System has always been to raise money for charities. Each year the elected empress and emperor are able to choose their own charities to raise funds for. This year’s charities include, Rainbow Refugee, Women Against Violence

Also stepping down at the ball are the imperial crown princes of Vancouver Clayton Alexander and Sean Malmas, as well as imperial crown princesses Kendall Gender and Gia Metric. Tommy D is expecting between 300 to 400 out-of-town visitors to converge on Vancouver as part of the pomp and circumstance, which includes drag shows at various venues all week.

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Peer support worker Michael Faithfull helps people on disability overcome their income-tax anxiety — and get a much-needed rebate. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Filing an income tax return fills most people with dread.

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Last year, they filed a record 630 tax returns, and this year is promising to be even busier.

“With people who are anxious, I sit them down, calm them down and try to bring some humour into it,” says Faithfull, who works out of a cramped and file-filled office at Coast’s Seymour Street resource centre.

Asked why many people on social assistance don’t file even though it can be to their advantage, he says it’s the added stress and anxiety that comes from dealing with paperwork and bureaucracy, as well as an unfounded fear they owe taxes.

The average income of his clients is $12,000 a year — up from $11,200.

It was the first rate increase for people on disability since 2002.

They get an average rebate of $100 quarterly and a one-time sales tax refund of $75. Even if they have an additional source of income, it’s often to their advantage to file.

Faithfull started doing taxes five years ago. He started with 10 returns in a building that houses 86 residents. Word got around of the service — and the rebate — and the number doubled the next

year. It’s been steadily increasing ever since.

Faithfull expects even more clients this year, in part because of a loss of advocacy positions among other agencies. Many places have stopped offering the service.

“We’re the only place that says you can come any time in March or April and we’ll file it on time,” he says. “It’s a service that’s necessary and important.

It’s missing [at other agencies], especially in the Downtown Eastside.”

For those who haven’t filed for a few years, they have to wait until after the April 30 deadline crunch because their returns take more time.

This will Faithfull’s last year on tax duty, however.

On March 7 he turned 64 and he’ll soon be retiring as a peer support worker.

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As a lederhosen-clad, Bavarian oompah band plays the popular German ditty “Beer Barrel Polka,” residents of Youville Residence in Vancouver nod their heads and tap their hands and feet in time to the music.

While the music plays, residents are served a fourcourse, German-inspired meal, including veal rissole, beef broth, Hamburg-style pan-seared salmon and Bavarian cream topped with fresh berries.

Tiffany Chang, district manager for Sodexo, the company contracted to prepare food for Vancouver Coastal Health and Providence Health Care hospitals, says themed meals are just one way to encourage care home residents to get enthusiastic about their meals.

“We really focus on seasonal, local produce and have partnered with [sus-

tainable seafood program] Ocean Wise to serve locally caught fish such as salmon and haddock,” says Chiang.

But the program isn’t just about care homes serving up more delicious food. Vancouver Coastal Health and Providence are transforming the way food for patients in hospitals is sourced, prepared and served. To that end, they’ve created a new bedside service in partnership with Sodexo, which means patients have dedicated service attendants who help them review menu items, answer questions, take orders and hand-deliver each of the day’s meals.

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sesame ginger cod, jambalaya, sweet and sour pork and chicken tortilla soup, as well as traditional offerings such as beef pot roast and pulled pork. Meals are also cooked as close to serving time as possible.

Chiang says the thought behind the improvements was to not only make hospital food more tempting, but also to lessen food waste, a huge cost to health authorities. In 2012, Vancouver Coastal Health and Providence Health created a goal to reduce food waste from 35 to 10 per cent. The national average for food waste in hospitals is 40 per cent.

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Concept for 21-acre Heather Lands redevelopment unveiled Project envisions residential buildings, cultural centre, park space and potential for new francophone school

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Residential towers, a cultural centre, a daycare, park space and the potential for a new francophone school are what’s envisioned for the Heather Lands, a 21-acre site between West 33rd and 37th avenues at Heather Street.

In 2014, three First Nations — the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh — and Canada Lands Company entered into a 50/50 joint venture for the ownership and redevelopment of the property.

They’re now working with the City of Vancouver on the policy statement to guide the redevelopment.

It’s expected to be presented to council for its consideration later this spring.

The Heather Lands and surrounding area were part of the three First Nations’ traditional territory.

The RCMP’s headquarters and operations centre were on the property until they relocated in 2012.

Existing buildings on the site include an administration building, an office building and the historic 1914 Fairmont building.

Initial open houses about the redevelopment project were held last fall, followed up by open houses earlier this month when the preferred concept was unveiled.

The concept outlines details such as type and heights of buildings, public benefits and density.

Open houses for the preferred concept for the redevelopment of the Heather Lands were held earlier this month. A policy statement, which will guide the redevelopment, is expected to be submitted for council’s consideration this spring.

It also proposes that the Fairmont building be moved off the site and be relocated elsewhere in the city. In its place, a community centre with Indigenous-inspired architecture would be built.

The lands, which sit in the Cambie Corridor planning area, are proposed primarily as a residential community, says Deana Grinnell, regional director of real estate for Canada Lands Company.

Grinnell said feedback sessions last fall and this March have attracted a few hundred people.

“So many of our neighbours are familiar with the planning process right now. This is the third major site [being redeveloped], in addition to the Cambie Corridor planning area,” she said. “So they tend to be comfortable with the change proposed.”

The tallest of 13 midand high-rise buildings envisioned in the preferred concept are 20 and 24 storeys, but most range between 12 to 18 storeys.

Other buildings proposed are between three and seven storeys. Housing would accommodate

roughly 2,000 units.

A network of park and open space would cover about four acres, a daycare would house 69 spaces and the proposed cultural centre would provide space for sharing the culture, traditions and values of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples, as well as space for community use.

There is also potential for a much-needed school for the francophone school district (Conseil Scolaire Francophone or CSF) on the southwest corner, at 37th Avenue and Baillie Street.

It would serve as a replacement school for l’ecole Rose-des-vents elementary, which sits across the street from the Heather Lands.

Grinnell said a final decision on that issue has yet to be made. City council first has to endorse the policy statement in order to endorse the change in land use. Then, the provincial government and the CSF need to confirm the site meets their longterm needs. Feasibility studies up to now have shown it will, Grinnell says. After that, there needs to be discussions

around a long-term lease.

Joseph Pagé, a parent representative who’s been working on the francophone school file since 2007, called the possibility of a school on the Heather Lands “very encouraging.”

A 2015 Supreme Court of Canada ruling found that francophone students in Vancouver lack access to education services equivalent to those students in English schools, which violates Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms section on minority language education rights.

“We’ve been looking for a school west of Main Street for many years and there’s actually been a Supreme Court of Canada decision on the issue. To now have on the plan for the Heather Lands a potential school is encouraging but we’re not over the finish line yet,” Pagé said, adding, “As a community, we’re thankful for the First Nations because, of course, [our] constitutional issues are not their problem. They didn’t need to do this, but they agreed to do this.”

If council ultimately approves the overall policy statement, the subsequent rezoning process could take two to three years.

Construction and buildout could take another eight to 10 years.

The public can submit feedback about the preferred concept until April 9. @naoibh

Province scales back speculation tax, cuts rate for B.C. residents Finance minister Carole James says NDP is responding to concerns but standing firm on tax implementation Joannah Connolly jconnolly@rew.ca

Under changes to the proposed speculation tax, B.C. residents will now have to pay 0.5 per cent a year on second homes valued at $400,000 or above, finance minister Carole James announced in a phone conference March 26.

The tax will apply to B.C. residents who own any second or vacation home that is not rented out at least six months of the year, for periods of at least 30 days. Homes under $400,000 will be exempt, in order to ensure that most cabins are not caught in the tax, said James.

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the province will have to pay 0.5 per cent this year and a reduced 1 per cent thereafter. Non-Canadian residents will still have to pay 0.5 per cent this year and 2 per cent thereafter, as under the previous iteration of the tax.

B.C. income-tax payers who are paying the 0.5 per cent annual tax will still be eligible for a $2,000 credit to offset their speculation tax bill, which effectively offers relief on the first $400,000 of the home’s value.

James also told media that the catchment boundaries of where the tax will apply have been reduced, so that rural and island areas are not affected. The tax still applies in Metro Vancouver (but no longer

Finance Minister Carole James announced March 26 that B.C. residents will now only have to pay 0.5 per cent a year on second homes valued at $400,000 or above. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Bowen Island), Abbotsford, Chilliwack, Mission, Nanaimo-Lantzville (but no longer Parksville or Qualicum), the Capital

Regional District (but no longer Gulf Islands or Juan de Fuca), Kelowna and West Kelowna. Whistler has never been included in

the catchment area.

The minister added that, just as with Vancouver’s Empty Homes Tax, there would be exemptions for special cases, such as homes owned by seniors going into longterm care, or homes under probate.

James said that the ministry was working on a system to “temporarily” grandfather in exemptions on strata homes in buildings that do not allow rentals. However, she added that this could not be a permanent exemption as it could potentially incentivize strata corporations to exclude rentals or encourage speculators to invest in such buildings where the tax does not apply.

The minister said that under these new changes, 99 per cent of British Columbians will not have to pay the speculation tax.

When asked whether the reduction in the scope of the tax would affect the projected $200 million in annual revenues, James said that this original figure had been “conservative” and she didn’t expect the changes to make a difference.

“This tax only applies in urban housing markets hit hardest by the housing crisis,” said James. “With so many people desperate to find good homes in these urban areas, we need to take every step we can to free up and create more housing opportunities.”

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Parties, powerful performances and pride highlight Junos Canadian art and multiculturalism celebrated Grant Lawrence

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OK, now that was a party. In case you missed it, the Juno Awards were back in town last weekend, and Vancouver once again proved we can be a pretty great host city for a major event, even without Uber, the Georgia Viaduct (it was closed for the red carpet) or anything resembling seasonal temperatures.

Full disclosure: my day job is with CBC Music, the media partner of the Junos.

It was our gig, and we’re proud to have the Junos back at the CBC after many years away. We wanted to deliver, well, everything now.

Here are a few of my personal highlights from Vancouver’s 2018 Juno Weekend.

Culture and gender

Huge kudos to 30-year Vancouver alt-rock institution Odds, who held down the stage at the Imperial last Thursday night as the backing band for the Juno Cup Jam, a pre-Juno Cup party that featured a cavalcade of Juno-nominated guest stars, notable musicians and athletes taking to the stage to belt out tunes by the Hip, Barenaked Ladies, Corin Raymond and more. I even got to bark out the Sonics’ garage rock classic “Strychnine.”

Juno Cup

I can happily report that my paranoid and pathetic ramblings from last week (all about my fear and insecurity of accepting the role as a goalie in the 15th annual Juno Cup) were for naught. The Juno

Highlights from Grant Lawrence’s jam-packed Juno Weekend included (clockwise from top left) Iqaluit band the Jerry Cans, Buffy SainteMarie (right), belting out a song at the Juno Cup Jam and playing alongside his hockey heroes at the Juno Cup.

Cup turned out to be one of the greatest experiences of my life. It certainly helped that I was traded at the last minute from the Juno-nominated musicians’ team (“Rock”) over to the ex-NHL-ers and Canadian Olympic stars (“Jock”). As a lifelong Canucks fan, you can imagine my dumbstruck awe when I nervously dragged my goalie gear into the locker room and saw my jersey hanging between those adorned with the names McLean, Ronning and Babych. My stacked team won a very close game in overtime in front of a packed Bill Copeland Arena in Burnaby. The win-

ning goal was a beautiful backhander by Canadian national women’s team Olympic champion Natalie Spooner. Celebrating the victory at centre ice with that group of players is something I’ll never forget.

Juno Gala

On Saturday night, the majority of the 2018 Juno Awards were handed out at a massive, private (but live-streamed) gala “under the sails” at Canada Place, the 31-year-old Expo legacy landmark. The waterfront location is of course spectacular; the views divine… if you’re outside. As a proud Vancouverite who loves

to show off our city, I was stunned to realize the aging ballroom under the Canada Place sails has… nary a single window.

K-OS factor

The weirdest moment of Saturday’s gala had to have been when Canadian hip hop star K-OS arrived late and missed his on-stage call time to introduce the tribute video to philanthropist Gary Slaight, the 2018 Humanitarian Juno winner.

As the video played, K-OS was seen sprinting full speed through the ballroom towards the stage. Not realizing he was a presenter, several security guards

instinctively gave chase and dive tackled K-OS to the ground. A few moments later, K-OS appeared on stage and out of breath, but otherwise seemingly OK, to present Slaight with his Juno. Bizarre.

The Big Show

You know an awards show is stacked when Arcade Fire is the opening act. That set the tone for the calibre of the Sunday night Junos broadcast from Rogers Arena, including a fiery performance from Arkells, the arrival of the incredible Jesse Reyes (she won Breakthrough Artist of the Year), a stunning Sarah

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Throughout the awards show on Sunday, gender parity and reconciliation were topics taking centre stage. There were several emotional moments that reflected the age we have — hopefully, thankfully and finally — entered into.

Iqaluit band the Jerry Cans took to the stage with an uplifting performance in Inuktitut and throat singing that quickly became a celebration of Northern music featuring several notable Nunavut musicians through the generations. It meant so much to these performers to be recognized on this national stage that many of them broke down in tears and group hugs as soon as they exited the stage.

Other highlights included the unstoppable Buffy Sainte-Marie, a Northern Touch hip hop reunion and the aforementioned Colombian-Canadian Jessie Reyes emotionally thanking Canada with her proud, teary-eyed parents standing behind her, arm in arm.

The importance of music education was also front-ofhouse all weekend long.

Beyond the glitz, glamour and industry of the Juno Awards, at the heart of weekend was a celebration of Canadian art and what felt like an honest effort to move us towards the kind of welcoming, empathetic, multicultural country that Gord Downie dreamed of us becoming — the Canada that I want to live in.

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Karmik founder Munroe Craig and Grade 12 student Mailen Cassullo will be at Thursday’s drug-checking night at the Powell Street Getaway. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Grade 12 student learns new life skill… how to detect deadly drug John Kurucz

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Graduation of any sort invites talk of party time.

Mailen Cassullo is poised to leave high school in a few months and the same holds true for her.

The party these days, however, is a lot different.

Cassullo is acutely aware of that fact and is looking to arm herself, and by extension her peers, with the tools to save a life, or identify a bad batch of drugs.

The 18-year-old Maple Ridge resident is partnering with Downtown Eastside harm-reduction group Karmik to better understand the realities of nightlife and party culture in 2018. She gets her first look Thursday, March 29 as part of a monthly drug-checking night at the Powell Street Getaway Resource Centre, a supervised drug consumption site.

“A lot of kids, especially around my age, they’re very uneducated on what could actually be in what they’re taking,” Cassullo said.

“They don’t really take that into account or pay attention to what they’re putting into their bodies and how that can actually kill them if it’s not what they think they’re taking.”

Thursday’s drug-checking program includes the use of a Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectrometer (FTIR), which tests for a range of substances: opioids, stimulants and other psychoactive drugs such as MDMA. The machine was first

rolled out in November 2017 as part a pilot project between the city, Vancouver Coastal Health and the B.C. Centre on Substance Use. Drug checking allows people to anonymously test samples of street drugs to be analyzed for their chemical makeup. Multiple drug types can be identified within minutes. Thursday’s session will also include the use of fentanyl test strips, which can detect fentanyl, carfentanil and other opioids within seconds.

Those test strips have been used at supervised injection site Insite since mid-2016. More than 1,400 checks were conducted between from July 2016 and July 2017 and 80 per cent of those drugs checked — cocaine, heroin, crystal meth or MDMA — tested positive for fentanyl.

BC Coroners Service data shows that 1,422 people died of a suspected drug overdose in B.C. last year, with 365 in Vancouver.

Karmik has had five practicum students over the past four years, and Cassullo is by far the youngest.

Outside of the upcoming drug testing night, she also wants to learn how to administer naloxone.

Pretty heady stuff for anyone, let alone someone who turned 18 last month.

“In the harm reduction world there is so much powerful female-oriented leadership and it’s really important as females or people who identify as females to hone that and

provide mentorship,” said Karmik founder Munroe Craig. “It’s really incredible to see someone exactly like Mailen say ‘I’m going to put myself out there, I’m here for other people.’”

Cassullo’s time with Karmik is open ended.

Her involvement is part of a practicum placement that relates to her future career path — psychology — and her current interest in electronic dance music (EDM) culture.

Thursday’s drugchecking night coincides with the onset of Seasons Festival, one of the city’s bigger EDM showcases.

Cassullo has been to previous EDM gigs, and in other party situations, where situations have turned dire. “I’m not necessarily sure if it was fentanyl, but I have definitely seen things go wrong where people had to be rushed to first-aid tents,” she said. “It’s definitely not something you really want to see and it’s really unfortunate.”

Craig has organized two similar drug-testing nights in the recent past. Those accessing the service are between the ages of 18 and 49 and the vast majority of test cases — somewhere around 90 per cent — come back with fentanyl in them, Craig said.

What happens in the moments after a drug check is entirely dependent on the user. They’re asked if they know what the substances are, if they’re familiar with the source and what their next choice entails. They’re

also given the choice to dispose of the drugs.

“We have folks who are really grateful and really thankful,” Craig said. “It’s also a bit of an eye opener.

People are saying, ‘How this could be? My buddy told me this is 100 per cent pure.’”

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A powerful new exhibit at the Museum of Vancouver has recently opened, focusing on the rich culture, traditions, art and artifacts of Haida Gwaii and its people.

Haida Now, which runs until June 2019, takes visitors deep into the Haida’s supernatural origins, robust pre-colonial

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Remembering Jesus’ last supper with his disciples.

Good Friday | March 30 | 11.00am

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Easter Morning | April 1 | 10.00am

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When CTV approached Brent Butt and his partners about bringing Corner Gas back to the small screen, the Vancouver comedian was admittedly leery.

The sitcom — which ran for six seasons and followed the misadventures of gas station owner Brent (Butt), café owner Lacey (Gabrielle Miller), and zany friends and family in the fictional town of Dog River, Saskatchewan — was still universally beloved. It had even spawned a 2014 movie that played to sold-out crowds.

Why would Butt want to mess with that kind of legacy?

“I didn’t really want to go back to the well and just do the same thing over again,” says Butt, who created the show. “Are we tempting fate? Are we going to screw up the legacy of this? And I didn’t want to do that. We all thought we needed to do something different or there would be no reason to do it again.”

It’s a beautiful day in May of last year. Butt is seated on a couch in an engineer’s booth in Kozmic Sound, a busy recording studio near Cambie and Third.

He’s taking a break from recording audio for a version of Corner Gas that is at once familiar and “something different” — Corner Gas Animated, a 13-episode cartoon series that premieres on the Comedy Network April 2.

The original Dog River gang is all there: Brent, Lacey, Oscar (Eric Peterson), Hank (Fred Ewanuick), Davis (Lorne Cardinal), Karen (Tara SpencerNairn), Wanda (Nancy Robertson), and Emma (Emma’s original portrayer Janet Wright died in 2016;

the role is now voiced by Corrine Koslo).

Butt and his co-writers laid the foundation for the animated series in the original show, when they’d come up with jokes that were “too big for some reason or other, but I thought, ‘I don’t want to not be able to do these jokes,’ but I knew if we did them they would fracture the reality of the show,” says Butt.

“So we created this reality whereby we could pop out of our reality into peoples’ imaginations.”

In Corner Gas Animated, Butt and co. build on this convention.

There’s a battle between a unicorn and Sasquatch.

There’s a scene from Mad Max where Corner Gas is a standalone station in the middle of a post-apocalyptic desert landscape surrounded by barbed wire and 40 approaching dune buggies.

“In live action we were always limited in what we could do with time, money, space, physics, the laws of man. But now there’s things we can do that’s just bigger that still fits into this fantasy pop-out but we can push the envelope a little bit.”

The move into animation was a natural one for Butt, who worked as a graphic artist and comic book illustrator before launching his stand-up career.

Butt was heavily involved in developing the look of Corner Gas Animated and its characters, working closely with Vancouver animators Josh Mepham and Greg Huculak to achieve a style that “could stand shoulder to shoulder with the best of the U.S. primetime network animated shows, like The Simpsons and Bob’s Burgers,” says Butt. “It’s contemporary, animated, with clean lines and bright colours,

and it does have its own feel because our artists aren’t their artists. We developed our own look.”

The cast recorded the show together in studios in Vancouver and Toronto.

“So much of what made this show work was the chemistry that the actors had with each other when they were doing a scene,” says Butt. “It’s why we get together to record the shows. Everybody could do it individually and separately, but we all felt we’d be missing that thing that made it work.”

They were missing an essential ingredient, though: Wright, whose death in 2016 left the Corner Gas family heartbroken. “Long before we thought of anything else, it was devastating to us,” recalls Butt. “And then after some time goes by and you accept what’s happened, then the practical side kicks in and you say, ‘Well, we’re a long ways down this development road here on this project, what do I do?’”

Ultimately, it was Wright’s husband, Bruce Davis, who encouraged Butt to include Emma in the animated series and suggested Wright’s longtime friend Koslo for the role.

“If you were a fan of Corner Gas, I really think you’ll enjoy this show,” says Butt.

“You’re getting everything that you loved about the show, and it’s got a new wrinkle to it, but it’s absolutely Corner Gas. We didn’t add a Great Gazoo space man or anything like that.

There’s no talking monkey.”

Corner Gas Animated airs Mondays at 8 p.m. on the Comedy Network beginning April 2. @CornerGas @BrentButt

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Pass It to Bulis

Just one week left in this post-apocalyptic wasteland of a Canucks season Steady-on, Canucks fans — the end is almost here

Backhand Sauce Daniel Wagner

There are just four games left in the Canucks’ 2017-18 season. On Saturday afternoon, the Columbus Blue Jackets will be in town, and on Tuesday the Vegas Golden Knights pay a visit. On Thursday, they will face the Arizona Coyotes in a game that could determine where the two teams sit in the draft lottery. Finally, next Saturday the Canucks will end the season against the similarly sad-sack Edmonton Oilers.

This entire season has seemed like a post-apocalyptic future, full of dread and despair. Precious commodities like goals and wins have been in short supply and the population at Rogers Arena has dropped to a fraction of its former glory.

What are some common themes of a post-apocalypse?

There’s the inciting incident, the apocalyptic disaster that kicks the whole thing off: a medical experiment produces the first of many zombies, a nuclear Armageddon destroys most of the world, or an environmental catastrophe.

Looking at the small scale of this season, you could point to all the injuries as that sort of disaster, but since the Canucks’ braintrust of Jim Benning and Trevor Linden keep pointing the finger backwards, let’s look at the big picture: the disastrous 2013-14 season under John Tortorella.

The entire team crashed and burned, as the Sedins were burnt out from playing too much. Tortorella alienated Roberto Luongo by starting Eddie Lack at the Heritage Classic, and Luongo was finally traded, despite Cory Schneider already getting traded at the draft, leaving the Canucks without a dependable goaltender. And finally, GM Mike Gillis was fired, leaving the incoming Jim Benning with a limited prospect pool and an aging core.

If that was the apocalyptic disaster, however, another common post-apocalyptic theme kicked in right after: man’s inhumanity to man.

The incoming Benning and Linden had an opportunity to immediately commit to rebuild civilization... er, the franchise, when they came in. Instead, they pushed hard for a quick turnaround. They edged into the playoffs that first season, seemingly proving to themselves that their approach worked,

Stick-taps & Glove-drops • A tap of the stick to Derek Dorsett, who is the Canucks nominee for the Bill Masterton Trophy. The trophy is given to the player who best exemplifies perseverance, sportsmanship, and dedication, often going to someone who has come back from injury. Dorsett, who returned from a spinal injury to, at one point, lead the Canucks in goal-scoring, certainly fits the bill.

• Let’s stay positive this week and give another stick-tap. Adam Gaudette gets a tap of the stick for signing his first NHL contract, joining the Canucks this past week after the conclusion of his NCAA season. Gaudette led all of college hockey with 30 goals and 60 points in 38 games and projects as a potential third-line centre for the Canucks.

The only glimmer of hope in the Canucks’ current post-apocalyptic hellscape lies in young players such as Brock Boeser. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

but have now missed the playoffs in three straight seasons.

Benning and Linden have continually preached “competing,” while signing veteran players to unwieldy contracts that have not helped them compete at all. They’re on their way to a thirdstraight finish in the NHL’s basement, while failing to acquire additional draft picks that might help them rebuild.

Truly, man is the real monster.

Fortunately, there’s one more postapocalyptic theme: hope.

Often the hope in post-apocalyptic fiction is figuratively and literally represented by youth. Children of Men revolves around the birth of a baby, the first in two decades. Waterworld has a map to the only dry land on earth tattooed on the back of a young girl.

In The Girl with all the Gifts, the titular zombie-like girl represents the future

of the world because of her capacity for empathy and education.

Likewise, the glimmer of hope in the Canucks’ current post-apocalyptic hellscape lies in the youth. Despite the team failing to acquire additional draft picks, the team does boast some excellent prospects and young players: Brock Boeser, Bo Horvat, Adam Gaudette, Elias Pettersson, Thatcher Demko, Kole Lind and Olli Juolevi.

The Canucks have some high-end talent in their prospect pool, even if that pool isn’t as deep as you might hope for a rebuilding team. All hope for the future lies with them.

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

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Automotive BRAKING NEWS

Range Rover outraces Ferrari

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Range Rover Sport SVR beats Ferrari

The Tianmen Road in China has 99 turns and is generally about as wriggly as a snake with the hiccups. Surely, setting a hill-climb record at such a place demands some kind of hardcore sports car?

Well, consider the racing shoe stomped here by a sort of Nomex Wellington boot. The former record for Tianmen was 10 minutes and 31 seconds, and was set by an Italian driver in a Ferrari 458.

The new record holder shaved 40 seconds off that time, and they did it in a Range Rover Sport.

The SVR version of the Range Rover is a sort of riposte to stuff like the Porsche Cayenne Turbo.

Fitted with a supercharged V-8, the SVR gets to 100 kilometres per hour in a little more than four seconds, but it’s clearly good in the corners as well. It’s the most popular of the vehicles developed by Jaguar Land Rover’s special vehicles group.

At least it is for now.

There appears to be a Velar SVR in development, as one was spotted at the Nürburgring recently. Expect both vehicles to be setting records in various PR stunts, and/or having their right rear wheels scraped against the curb by people parking without paying enough attention.

Porsche plans flying car

Flying cars have been predicted for more than 100 years now, from a futurist’s fantasy to the AMC Matador from The Man With The Golden Gun. It seems so simple: why not have a personal aircraft for everyone? Traffic jams would be eliminated!

Of course, the reason traffic jams would be a thing of the past is because we’d all be dead. People can barely operate a battery-powered toothbrush properly, let alone a car, so handing over the controls of an aircraft to the average schmoe is a recipe for human extinction.

Of course, if you’re Porsche, you’ve already spent a great deal of money engineering ways for neophyte drivers to zip around a track feeling heroic. Multi-level stability controls keep the shiny side up, meaning if the driver botches an apex, it’s no big deal.

At the reveal of its Strategy 2025 plan, Porsche global sales chief Detlev von Platen relayed that a flying personal car wouldn’t be such a bad idea. Specifically, that’s a flying sports car, capable of being autonomously flown to dodge bad traffic or driven when the roads are clear.

On the surface, this again seems like a good idea. However, your humble author sees this sort of nonsense as the peddling of the idea that, some day, the proles will have to miserably slog

along the ground while the rich arc over us, sneering down from their aerial Bentleys and the like. If anyone needs me in the interim, I will be building a pitchfork-flinging ballista in my shed.

Range Rover beat a record held by Ferrari on the 99-turn hill climb of Tianmen Road in China.

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