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Mayor Robertson pushes for decriminalization of illicit drugs Mike Howell

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In this line of work, it’s always helpful when you ask a question that you receive an answer — even if it takes a couple of days, a week or however long ago it was when I asked in a previous column: “Should Vancouver city council push to decriminalize illicit drugs?”

I asked the question because the city issued a news release March 9 about the opioid overdose crisis and buried the fact that a Canadian municipal government was calling on senior governments to “convene a multi-sectoral task force to implement immediate decriminalization of personal possession of illicit drugs.”

There was no news conference, no bold headline calling for decriminalization, no written support from the mayor or councillors — just a one-liner near the bottom of the release, which was an odd placement in the text for such a public call for a radical change to drug laws.

Anyway, 19 days later via

another news release, we now know Mayor Gregor Robertson is officially on board with the city’s call for decriminalization, albeit near the end of his third and final term as mayor.

Still, his support is kind of a big deal since Robertson is still in charge at city hall and doubles as chairperson of the Vancouver Police Board, which sets policy for the police department.

The feds, however, have the ultimate power to change drug laws.

Such a move is not exactly a non-starter, since some federal Liberal MPs and national NDP leader Jagmeet Singh have called for removing criminal penalties for personal possession of illicit drugs.

I’m not sure how the rest of council feels about a call for decriminalization, although I did speak to Vision Coun. Kerry Jang, Green Party Coun.

Adriane Carr and NPA Coun. George Affleck, who appear to be on board.

Expect council to further discuss the issue later this

Mayor Gregor Robertson says decriminalization of personal possession of illicit drugs would be “a lifesaving shift at a time when the current approach is a humanitarian disaster.”

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month at city hall.

The mayor’s public support for decriminalization came the day after the Public Health Agency of Canada released a depressing report showing 5,869 people died of a drug overdose in this country between Jan. 1, 2016 and September 2017.

The majority died in B.C., followed by Ontario, Alberta and Quebec.

Vancouver alone lost 365

people last year to overdose, with coroners’ investigations continuing and the death toll expected to rise.

Robertson said the current legal framework for drugs in Canada is failing and resulting in thousands of people dying. He said the country needs a new regulatory approach for drugs that ensures addiction is treated as a health issue, not a criminal one.

“Decriminalizing posses-

sion alone won’t solve the problem, but — combined with enhanced prevention and treatment options — would be a lifesaving shift at a time when the current approach is a humanitarian disaster,” he said.

His line about “decriminalizing possession alone won’t solve the problem” sounded familiar. So I went back and checked an email VPD Sgt. Jason Robillard sent me March 16, which read, in part: “We are of the view that decriminalization of personal possession of illicit drugs alone would not address the issue of opioid deaths since the supply would still be controlled by the illicit market.”

That said, Robillard told me the VPD would welcome an invitation to be part of that multi-sectoral task force city staff recommended in the March 9 release to discuss decriminalization.

Whether that task force is ever implemented is unknown at this point.

So too is guessing who will be the next mayor of

Vancouver and whether that person pushes for decriminalization or some other “lifesaving shift.” Some might say making such noise is futile because the city has no power to make changes to drug laws, anyway.

It’s a valid point.

But action has to be taken, as Robertson, Premier John Horgan and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have all said since they were elected.

Without question, all levels of government have spent millions of dollars on fighting the crisis. That’s included the widespread circulation of the overdose-reversing drug naloxone, developing education campaigns, opening more injection sites and funding studies that show prescription heroin and hydromorphone are keeping drug users alive.

What’s clear, though, is no amount of politics, press releases and press conferences benefited the people who died last year, this year and the others who will be dead by municipal election day in October. @Howellings

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More government funds on the way for public transit Feds and the province announce more than $4.1 billion over the next decade Jessica Kerr

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More government funding is on its way for public transit in the region.

On April 2, the provincial and federal governments announced more than $4.1 billion in funding from Ottawa over the next 10 years for infrastructure projects that will be cost-shared with the province, municipalities and other partners.

“Signing this new 10-year bilateral agreement with the Government of Canada means more people in B.C. stand to benefit from record infrastructure investment — nearly $10 billion in partnership with all levels of government,” Claire Trevena, provincial minister of transportation and infrastructure said in making the announcement.

Across the country, more than $33 billion in federal funding will be invested through similar agreements with the provinces and territories.

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in infrastructure are key to building a strong Canada — connecting people, creating good jobs for the middle class, and building our economy and communities for the future,” said Amarjeet Sohi, federal minister of infrastructure and communities. “We are pleased to have reached a new agreement with British Columbia to invest in infrastructure projects that will benefit all communities for years to come.”

Just last month, the province and the Mayor’s Council on Regional Transportation announced $7 billion in infrastructure funding to pay for phase two of the council’s 10-year plan, which includes the expansion of the Millennium Line along Broadway to Arbutus, expanded capacity on the existing Expo and Millennium lines and the construction of a light rail line in Surrey, as well as increases in bus and HandyDART services, and improvements to sidewalks, bikeways, multi-use paths and roadways.

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agreement between the Province of B.C. and the federal government moves us even closer to being able to deliver a whole host of transit and transportation improvements which will keep our region livable for years to come… I’m excited to work with our partners at the federal, provincial and municipal levels delivering this vision. I thank the province and the federal government for acting to make our plans reality.”

Last month, Desmond said construction of the Millennium Line expansion to Arbutus Street and the Surrey light rail is expected to begin in late 2019 or early 2020.

“Our current projections would be the Broadway subway operational by 2025 and the Surrey light rail, the first 10-and-a-half kilometres, operational by 2024,” he said.

The next step in the process is public consultation starting in April and into May before the plan goes back to the mayor’s council for approval in June. @JessicaEKerr

Amarjeet Sohi, federal minister of infrastructure and communities (right), and Claire Trevena, provincial minister of transportation and infrastructure, announced more than $4.1 billion in funding from Ottawa over the next 10 years for infrastructure projects. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan, who also chairs the Mayor’s Council, called Monday’s announcement a “ground-breaking event in our communities.”

“I know that the cooperation between the mayors, cooperation with the province and the cooperation

with the federal government is something that is going to continue to build our communities in the long run,” he said. “This is just the beginning of the investments that we’ll see over the next decade. This is just the beginning of what we see as a bright future for the

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TransLink CEO Kevin Desmond issued a statement following Monday’s announcement: “Today’s agreement represents another milestone on the path toward a fully funded Phase Two of the Mayor’s 10Year Vision,” he said. “This

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Century-old wooden paver blocks exposed on Vancouver street Heritage Vancouver Society’s Patrick Gunn finds history below the surface Naoibh O’Connor

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History has a way of revealing itself if you pay enough attention. Sometimes it’s just below the surface and slowly peeks out.

Such was the case this weekend when Patrick Gunn of the Heritage Vancouver Society came across some old wooden paver blocks partially exposed in the 200 block of East Georgia Street, which was formerly known as Harris Street. He said they’re about 118 years old. A few patches are now exposed in the immediate area.

Gunn said they turn up once in a while, usually in older areas of the city, although less so in the last few years.

Union Street also has them.

“Two huge piles were dug up when a new building went up — the street area next to the sidewalk when water pipes were upgraded.

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The paver piles, one by one, started to disappear over the week or so they were there...” he wrote in a message to the Courier, while adding, “There was a large stretch around the Urban Winery in Railtown, a fully

exposed street when all the asphalt was removed, but the entire street was repaved.”

Gunn said wooden pavers were apparently economical at the time, they were easier on horses’ feet than stone paver blocks and they were

quieter. He believes fir was used and soaked in creosote to expand their lifespan, but wooden pavers went out of popularity around 1910.

“It’s amazing how one can read the city by just looking down or looking up, and taking a pause to see what’s actually there, and ignoring complacency in the environment,” Gunn wrote.

Gunn, meanwhile, dug up a news item from the Vancouver Daily World, dated Nov. 12, 1909, which pointed out wooden paving blocks were being stolen for fuel.

“The police department have received many complaints from street contractors that paving blocks were disappearing in large quantities and asking aid in having these practices stopped,” the news report states. “Wood paving blocks are considered a splendid fuel for the stoves, requiring no cutting and besides being fine and dry make a hot fire.” @naoibh

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Community centre critical of park board agreement Killarney Community Centre most recent to sign new joint operating agreement Jessica Kerr

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As more community centre associations finalize the new joint operating agreement with Vancouver Park Board, not everyone is happy about it.

“While we are relieved that we now have a contract with the park board, the KCCS [Killarney Community Centre Society] board’s decision to sign this agreement was not an easy one,” said Ainslie Kwan, past president of Killarney Community Centre Society.

“The gains have come at a heavy price — as community volunteers and to our community. Unfortunately, this is not an agreement that deserves celebration.”

Killarney signed the agreement last week. To date, of the 19 centres offered the new joint operating agreement (JOA), 13 have signed. Donnie Rosa, director of recreation, said the board is close to an agreement with another four of the six associations

that have yet to sign.

Last April, after a year of consultation, park board commissioners voted to approve the JOA and initially gave the community centre associations (CCAs) a signing deadline of Sept. 30, 2017.

However, several associations delayed signing the document citing a number of outstanding concerns.

The document is comprised of the main body of the agreement, which is the same for every community centre, and a series of appendices, which vary from centre to centre based on each facility’s specific needs.

After several associations came forward with some outstanding concerns, board commissioners approved adding two clauses to the agreement that brought the two sides closer, while negotiations continued with the individual associations on changes to the appendices.

Kwan said that Killarney felt let down by the whole process, adding that commissioners failed to ensure the process had integrity.

Ainslie Kwan, past president of the Killarney Community Centre Society, said that while the society was relieved to have an agreement with Vancouver Park Board, it came at a heavy price.

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“The process clearly lacked any ability for CCAs to negotiate and was filled with artificial and meaningless deadlines and an overarching threat of eviction,” she said. “Commissioners allowed this process to continue, even though they were clearly informed by their constituents that it was not working…

“I know that many of us across Vancouver feel strongly that the park board treated us with disrespect,” she said. “With the exception of Erin Shum, who consistently fought for the community and, to a lesser extent, efforts by commissioner [Michael] Wiebe and chair [Stuart] Mackinnon to move the process forward,

we felt abandoned by commissioners.”

Kwan said it appeared that negotiations were largely left up to the board’s lawyers, which, she added, did nothing to facilitate the collaboration needed to come to an agreement and it became a battle of risk management versus community needs.

Rosa was brought on board in September and, Kwan said, helped to move things forward “when we were trapped in an endless loop of park board lawyers saying no to our input.

Without her, we might still be in that place.”

Rosa acknowledged the Killarney society’s criticisms of the process.

“This is the process that we thought would be most inclusive and would get us to an end point,” she told the Courier, adding that “hundreds of changes” were made in the process.

Kwan said the process had further damaged the relationship between the CCAs and the park board.

“These [the commissioners] are the same people who promised during the last election, that they were committed to rebuilding the relationship with CCAs,” she said. “It is worse now than it was then.”

Rosa said that the model of running community centres as a partnership between a municipality and a board made up of community volunteers is ideal, when it’s working.

“I think that we’ve turned a page by coming through the other side of this JOA,” she said when asked if the model is working in Vancouver.

Rosa added that the two sides recently had the first system-wide meeting and agreed to have two co-chairs, herself and one representing the CCAs. The meetings will include staff and will discuss plans, issues and attempt to come to consensus around programming and other services and “focus on the community in the community centres,” she said. @JessicaEKerr

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Pockets of Vancouver’s arts and culture communities are galvanizing and consolidating their efforts to push back against a city that’s increasingly pushing them out.

Scheduled for Thursday, April 5, a forum called “Where Culture Works: How Can Vancouver Preserve Culturally Valuable Spaces?” will delve into preserving culture spaces and the workers who make them tick.

The forum is being organized by Coworking BC co-founder Denise Brennan, who operates a 5,000-square-foot office in Railtown that’s inhabited by all manner of creative types — referred to as culture workers — in a communal, office-space setting.

“Their work is not supported financially by any category, so the idea of arts and culture is an incomplete one,” Brennan told the Courier. “Although I’ve spent most of my life supporting people who are producing art and culture, there is no system in place to recognize that work.”

Thursday’s speakers will represent an array of the city’s mosaic. Indigenous, black and South Asian community leaders will speak to the realities in those cultural sectors, and the panel discussion will be moderated by Joannah Connolly, editorial director of Glacier Real Estate.

“With so many artists, musicians and collaborators increasingly squeezed out of their working spaces by rising rents, taxes or redevelopment, it’s crucial that protections are put in place to keep creatives in the centre of our city,” Connolly said. “Whether development is seen as necessary or merely inevitable, how can we find ways to meet Vancouver’s growth needs without ripping out its artistic heart?

If we can’t find solutions, new housing and commercial spaces could come

at the cost of a neighbourhood’s soul. Our panel discussion aims to raise and debate a range of ideas for preventing this fate.”

Brennan’s been in her shop on Railway Street for three years and about 60 people inhabit the space.

On the personal side, she sees at least one friend a week leave Vancouver for cheaper cities. On the business end, she loses at least one coworker a month.

Many relocate to Kelowna, Alberta or Montreal for more affordable options.

“Renovictions are a massive part of it,” Brennan said. “Lots of people are leaving because once they get renovicted, they look around and there is nowhere that they can afford to live.”

Somewhere in the middle, between friends and coworkers, Brennan, as the operator of the space, has to reconcile and deal with costs. They’ve been the stuff of nightmares for any small business owner.

Rent increases, triple net leases and skyrocketing land values have resulted in a $3,000 increase in monthly costs since 2015.

Operational costs have jumped $1,800 in that same period.

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Could Shauna Sylvester be Vancouver’s first female mayor?

Head of SFU Centre for Dialogue has the CV to unite the centre-left

Allen Garr

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At this point I would say that Shauna Sylvester could very well be the first female mayor elected in the Vancouver’s history. For weeks now this neophyte in the world of public electoral politics has been saying publicly that she is actively considering running as an “independent candidate.” If you haven’t heard much about her, you will soon enough. Rumours are rife that, to get ahead of the pack, she will be launching her campaign Thursday morning, April 5.

That’s when the current head of SFU Centre for Dialogue will roll out her CV to impress us with her economic and green credentials and her skills at bringing disparate people together.

Sylvester confirmed to me a few days ago she was also in conversation with various civic political power brokers and three of the four centre-left parties — Vision, OneCity and the Greens — expressing her ambitions and seeking support.

OneCity, in particular, has yet to be convinced and is still waiting to hear about Sylvester’s platform, particularly around housing affordability. They also point out

Shauna Sylvester, the current head of SFU Centre for Dialogue, is expected to launch her campaign for mayor this week. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

it will be hard for Sylvester to separate herself from her long and close association with Vision. She was on the Vision board and has done work for the mayor’s office.

COPE is apparently not on Sylvester’s speed dial.

No serious worries there, though. The only high profile opposition COPE could put forward would be Jean Swanson, who they endorsed

when she came second in last year’s council byelection.

Swanson now says she may run for council, but she will not seek the mayor’s chair.

Swanson’s team is also participating in a discussion with the other four parties in a meeting sponsored by the Vancouver and District Labour Council to figure out how to work as a left-ofcentre coalition for Octo-

ber’s election.

Vision, the city’s governing party for the past decade, recently announced they are “not formally opening a mayoral nomination process at this time.” The only possible candidate they could have turned to, and the only one of two councillors who has not said they will be stepping down at the end of this term is Raymond

Louie, (the other being Heather Deal). But not everyone loves Raymond.

And should he choose to run under the Vision banner, he will inevitably carry all the baggage left behind

by Gregor Robertson.

What about the Greens’ sole council member Adriane Carr’s intentions? After all, she did top the council polls in the last election. But two things stand in her way: While the Greens are “polling,” I suspect she would be reluctant to run as an “independent” and risk losing the most powerful position of any Green locally. She’ll be able to live with Sylvester.

As for other names that have been floated as possible centre-left independent candidates such as former COPE city councillor and NDP MP Libby Davies, federal NDP MP Don Davies and current NDP MLA Spencer Chandra Herbert — while they may all have given it serious thought, they have demurred.

So what about the other guys, the Non-partisan Association, the NPA that for decades was Vancouver’s naturally governing party? They obviously see the failure of Vision to effectively deal with succession in its own ranks as Robertson was pushed out

the door as an opportunity to retake city hall.

But they stand to be defeated by their own internal squabbling. Recall that their last two mayors — Philip Owen and Sam Sullivan — were both defeated by their own party in their desire to seek a nomination for another term in office.

Now we have a three-way tug for the NPA nomination two months from now.

The most competent and experienced candidate is park board commissioner John Coupar. He clearly has the support of the party’s old-line establishment.

But recently elected city councillor Hector Bremner, while seriously lacking in experience, may have the best machine for rounding up membership votes.

The third candidate Glen Chernen, formerly of the Cedar Party… well, I’m not sure how he will make out.

But the NPA also has a problem on their right flank.

Former Conservative MP Wai Young is forming her own party in a run for mayor that threatens to peel away the Christian right as well as the likes of the crowd that has been opposed to modular housing for the homeless in Marpole. @allengarr

Significant changes likely coming to school funding in B.C. Tracy Sherlock

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The B.C. NDP government has made some significant changes since coming to power last year — they’ve introduced hefty new property taxes, changed the way our medical system is funded and tried to end money laundering in our casinos and big donations in our politics.

Will there be a similarly significant change to the way schools are funded once a review of education funding is complete?

It’s impossible to say, but a recent discussion paper asks some tough questions.

Should school funding be linked to student success?

Should a change be considered in the way students with special needs are funded? Should the budget be based on head count, courses, credits or some other way? How can the province make sure students across the province get equal educational opportunities?

Answers will have to wait until late this summer, when a final report with recommen-

dations is expected. Hints, however, about the direction the review is taking can be found within the discussion paper, which includes survey responses from 350 people.

Clearly, the government is considering somehow linking funding to student success, given what’s in the discussion paper, which says “B.C.’s funding model is becoming outdated relative to other provinces.”

Parents can also expect changes to how students with special needs are funded. This may be a move to a funding model that predicts how many students with special needs and vulnerabilities are expected and then funds accordingly, rather than relying on individual diagnoses of special needs.

Graduation rates are much lower for students with special needs, Indigenous students and children in care, which shows undeniably that something needs to change.

But what’s not clear is whether a more predictive and less diagnostic funding model will make things better for students with special

A recent discussion paper asks some tough questions about educating funding, school district budgets and how students across the province can receive equal educational opportunities.

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needs. The report argues that money currently spent on counting, assessing and administering services for students with special needs could be redirected to actually educating them.

Several school districts say they spend between 15 and 20 per cent of their overall budget for special needs students on administration, assessments, paperwork and reporting, resulting in about $100 million a year that could be redirected, the paper says.

A vast majority of survey

respondents — 77 per cent — said some students who require services and supports are not getting them.

“Education is a basic right for all students — not just typical students but those with complex learning needs as well,” one survey respondent wrote. “I believe that if competencies are important to society, we need to shift our culture to that of complete inclusiveness… and that means meeting the needs of all students — not just the majority.”

Expect something in

the final report to address inequities among school districts. The discussion paper notes that about 89 per cent of school districts’ budgets are spent on salaries and benefits, which are dictated by collective agreements and therefore beyond the district’s control.

Across the province, there are 60 different collective agreements for teachers and 71 collective agreements for other school staff, the report says. Those agreements all contain different language about class size, class composition and the numbers of specialist teachers required.

It’s patently inequitable when some districts have firm rules, while others do not. Vancouver’s contract is among the richest in the province, but the funding formula review or next year’s teacher contract negotiations could change that. It’s a near-certain bet that the province will try to address the inequity one way or another. And, barring a massive hike to the education budget, this review will mean some districts get

more while others get less.

Also probable: a change in how school districts balance their budgets. The discussion paper echoes concerns of the previous Liberal government that school districts tend to budget overly conservatively to avoid deficits, which means they end up with surpluses each year.

Although the surplus cash must be used for education in the long run, the system means the government puts out more cash sooner than is necessary. Last year, there was $300 million in accumulated surpluses across the province, the discussion paper says. The tone of the discussion paper suggests a change will be coming to cap those amounts.

The new funding model, which the government says will be responsive, equitable, stable, predictable, flexible, transparent and accountable, is expected to be in place by the 2019-20 school year.

Tracy Sherlock writes about education and social issues. She can be reached at tracy.sherlock@gmail.com.

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those who have been doing exactly the same over their careers and lives, have managed to work and save and build some comfort in retirement and who are now being punished for it. Perhaps a tax revolt is in order.

Francis Hart, Vancouver

Government wants in on the action Re: “A wealth of reasons why B.C.’s Speculation Tax misses the mark,” March 12.

I must commend the many valid points Michael Geller brings up in his article. It was a matter of time that the provincial government wanted in on the action.

While the speculation tax is designed to curb tax evasion from offshore ownership of B.C. properties, the tax should be called what it is, a wealth tax plain and simple.

This situation has become lamentable — with the many years of free-for-all condo development supported by the City of Vancouver, aided by gratuitous building permits issued to a cooperative development industry with the promise of future and lucrative (read: greedy) property tax revenues.

The City of Vancouver created a perfect storm from post Expo 86: let’s open up the city to the world to become the safe harbour of Hong Kong’s 1999 exodus of capital prior to annexation by mainland China — though not one significant (fore) thought was spent on affordability, which would have been prudent at the time. The taxes this city government is levying are contradictive to their efforts — they are just driving up the cost of housing, which will be passed on by the developers. So why should the B.C. government stand on the side? They want in as well.

The more troubling “wealth tax” policy and perhaps overlooked is the school tax increase, though Geller touches on it briefly.

“The impact of the school tax increase is much greater than first appreciated. West Side seniors owning properties worth more than $3 million will see their tax bill rise.

Already some are complaining.” This government is also creating a hardship for seniors who are locked into their homes that were purchased long ago and prior to this madness. This is contemptible. There will be the litany of arguments about paying additional school tax revenue by people who don’t have children in the system now or never had children to start with. Perhaps it’s also a concession to the union teachers eagerly looking at massive pay increases (in their upcoming contract negotiations) after being beat up by the Liberal government for several years. Who’s not to say that next year the school tax (masked assessment value tax) minimum will be lowered to residences at assessed values of $1 million-plus?

What is left to face is the divisive nature that this government is creating in our tax system — those who are out there working and paying taxes and trying to get ahead and Alvin Brouwer PUBLISHER

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In his column, Mike Klassen writes: “In Europe, ‘hung parliaments,’ where governments elected by PR take hundreds of days to form, are commonplace.” There are two claims in this passage. The first is that hung parliaments are commonplace; the second is that with hung parliaments, governments take hundreds of days to form. While the first claim is true, the second is not. In their paper “The Duration of Cabinet Formation Processes in Western Multi-Party Democracies,” political scientists Daniel Diermeier and Peter van Roozendaal draw on a dataset of 304 government formations to show that depending on the circumstances under which a new government must be formed, the average duration ranges from about two weeks to a month.

It’s true that there’s been a handful of news-making cases where the process has taken much longer. But it’s a bad habit to make conclusions about what’s common on the basis of what makes the news, because what makes the news tends to be the exceptional.

Stephen Tweedale, North Vancouver ••• In my small strata we have been trying to change our no-pet bylaw for years. A bare minority defeated it yet again this year. Fair enough, I suppose.

Not quite end of story. The few no-voters are well aware that some owners have pets that aren’t problems in the building and they choose not to complain. They even stop and pat them when they see them. Mmmm.

No system is perfect, but somehow I can’t see this compromise functioning in the legislature. Province wide, everyone should have fair representation (even if I disagree with them) and we can learn from other jurisdictions how to meet the needs of the minority without trampling the wishes of the majority. That is not the case with our present system. And it will never happen with a 3/4 vote.

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Or a young couple about to have their first child.

Often, it’s an older couple whose house has become too big and expensive to keep, especially now that an additional school tax will significantly increase their property taxes.

I regularly talk to community groups and organizations about the pros and cons of alternative housing choices for students, millennials, empty-nester couples and seniors.

Many want to know where to find affordable housing. What should they look out for when buying a new or resale home? Is it better to move into a townhouse or apartment?

Is concrete that much better than woodframe? How can you avoid the oftentimes reported pitfalls of condominium living?

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In the past, many empty-nesters told me they would move out of their house if only they could find a suitably designed townhouse or apartment in their neighbourhood.

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Furthermore, children and grandchildren are now living in Langley, Abbotsford, Squamish or Vancouver Island. Perhaps it’s time to cash out and move closer to them.

Today’s millennials are facing a different set of problems. Affordability is the critical issue. While most are resigned to never living in a single-family house, just renting or buying a decent apartment in Kitsilano, near Main Street or Commercial Drive is often out of the question.

Lately, we have heard a lot of words and promises from all levels of government about the need to address Vancouver’s housing crisis. However, the reality is that most people I talk with are not going to benefit from government assistance.

Instead, it will be targeted to people in far greater need: the homeless and those in shelters, low-income senior renters, or poor single-parentled households on B.C. Housing’s waitlist.

What we need are more housing choices at prices the rest of us can afford.

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Firstly, there’s the high price of land. Given values along the Cambie Corridor and other Vancouver

neighbourhoods, the cost of land for a space equal to that occupied by the chair you’re sitting on is $1,900. The land cost for a 600-square-foot onebedroom apartment is $265,000.

If that is not bad enough, the city recently announced increased Community Amenity Contribution payments along the Cambie Corridor up to $125 per square foot of building area. This equates to $80,000 or more for a small one-bedroom apartment. This is in addition to other city charges including development levies, permits and engineering fees.

That’s $375,000 and we haven’t yet paid for any of the consultants, marketing fees, financing and other costs, or construction.

When this is added in, that new Cambie Corridor one-bedroom apartment will likely cost $720,000 before any developer’s profit.

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Alisa Gil Silvestre was 13 when her doctor at B.C. Children’s Hospital told her she had to make a choice between dying or having an operation that might mean she would never speak or eat again.

By agreeing to have a tracheostomy and being hooked up to a 24-hour ventilator, any hope of independence would be quashed by the need for round-the-clock care; once the ventilator took over her lungs’ responsibility for breathing, someone would always have to be seconds away to provide ongoing medical support.

It wasn’t the first time Alisa had to face the likelihood of death. She was born with Congenital Muscular Dystrophy, an inherited disease in which the muscles that control movement progressively weaken and for which there is no cure.

By the time her left lung collapsed and, for the first time, defied any attempt to make it work properly again, Alisa had already been in and out of hospital several times for a variety of reasons including hepatitis, pancreatitis, the H1N1 virus and spinal fusion surgery. One hip was permanently dislocated; that’s what caused her entire body to shift and put pressure on her lung.

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same disease had died a year after similar surgery.

Would that be her fate, Alisa wondered. If so, was it better to forego the surgery and die now?

On May 10, the 22-yearold college student will be on the stage at the Vancouver Convention Centre to receive the 2018 Courage to Come Back Award in the youth category. It’s in recognition of how she continues to rise above challenges and, in doing so, be a role model to others. It also honours her commitment to raising money — $250,000 and counting — for Muscular Dystrophy Canada.

“Truthfully, I hate being called an inspiration, and a lot of people in my situation would agree with me,” she says, her wheelchair pulled up at her family’s dining room table at their home in Burnaby. “For me, it’s just me living the life I have to the fullest extent that I can.

This is the life I’ve been given so I need to figure out what works for me and what doesn’t.”

Looking back at the decision she had to make nine years ago, Alisa — which is pronounced Ah-leesa — says that what inspired her to say yes was her sixmonth-old twin sisters, Lianna and Brittney Gil Felts.

(Alisa’s parents, Carlos and Teresa, divorced when she and her older sister Julia were children; her stepfather is Trevor Felts.)

Alisa Gil Silvestre is the 2018 recipient of the Courage To Come Back award in the youth category. The 22-year-old college student lives in Burnaby. PHOTO JULIA GIL SILVESTRE

“It was really important to me that Lianna and Brittney knew who I was, not just from photos, and I couldn’t imagine not being part of their life,” Alisa says.

“I didn’t want to miss out on them and I didn’t want them to miss out on me.”

Up until that point, Teresa had been making most of the decisions in her daughter’s healthcare but since the ramifications of the surgery would be

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Alisa’s to bear, “I had to just respect the fact it was her life and she was the one who had to deal with it.

As hard as it was, I took a step back and let her think things through. When you truly love someone, you have to let them make a choice. It was brutal.”

“I’d been through a lot in my life prior to this,” Alisa says of why she considered not having the surgery and accepting death as

the outcome. For her, the biggest fear was losing the ability to speak. “I talk a lot,” she says with a smile.

“Anyone who knows me knows I never stop.”

The very fact that Alisa is here to reflect on that decision, and express herself so thoughtfully, is evidence that not only did she say yes to the surgery but, after a lengthy recovery, regained her ability to speak and eat.

Today, Alisa is in her second semester at Douglas College. Originally she was taking anthropology but there was a lot to memorize and she didn’t know if she could pursue it as a career.

She’s switched to geography to study with her sister Julia but is considering whether to go to BCIT to become a dental receptionist.

Health challenges continue but not with the same frequency. Last year she had “a weird random cold” that sent her to Vancouver General Hospital. “It was really scary,” she says of the transition to an adult hospital where no one knew her.

More pressing is her need to replace the ventilator she’s had since she was 14.

The new one just doesn’t feel right. “I need to be comfortable and not just healthy,” she says of her fight against protocol for the new machine. “There’s a reason I’m getting mad and upset. They need to fix it so I’m not bawling my eyes out in discomfort.”

In the immediate future, she and Julia are planning a trip to San Francisco. Once again, it’s a scary proposition for her mother but, as Alisa says, her parents always strove to make sure she didn’t feel different or excluded.

“They never held me back so I didn’t feel I had to be cautious. How else are you supposed to become independent if you don’t do your own thing?”

Alisa knows that a lot of people find her attitude brave and admirable. She, however, simply thinks it’s how she was born. “A lot of time I don’t think my situation is why I am who I am,” she says. “My mom and sister are very fiery women, my grandmother, too.

They’re anything-is-possible type people. Even if I was able-bodied, I think I’d be a similar person.”

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Moving historic Fairmont building recommended Relocating heritage ‘A’ building would cost at least $6 million Naoibh O’Connor

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Moving the historic Fairmont building from the Heather Lands to another site promises to be an enormous

task, especially since a new site still needs to be found.

But that’s exactly what’s being recommended as three First Nations and Canada Lands Company prepare to redevelop the property, which sits between West 33rd and 37th avenues at Heather Street, and was home to the RCMP’s headquarters and operations centre until 2012.

In 2014, the Musqueam,

Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations and Canada Lands Company entered into a 50/50 joint venture for the ownership and redevelopment of the 21-acre site.

The three First Nations are known as MST Partners for the project.

Work on a policy statement to guide the redevelopment is underway and is expected to go to council for its consideration later this spring.

The first round of open houses last fall revealed three options for the redevelopment, including a request for the removal of the Fairmont building “as a measure of Reconciliation.”

The preferred concept, outlined at open houses March 10 and 12, envisions a cultural centre where the Fairmont building is now located.

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repurpose the building, “it represents a difficult era for the First Nations people in Vancouver, when customs and culture was oppressed and the Nations peoples were shifted off their traditional lands,” according to the relocation proposal.

A new cultural centre, meanwhile, would showcase Indigenous-inspired architecture and provide a venue for sharing culture, traditions and values of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples, as well as provide space for the local community.

Based on the proposal, if a new site cannot be found for the Fairmont building within a timeframe the City of Vancouver estimates to be in the three- to five-year range, it could be demolished.

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The Tudor Revival Fairmont building at 4949 Heather St. dates back to 1914. Designed by Vancouver architect Samuel Maclure, it’s listed on the Vancouver Heritage Registry as an “A” building and it’s been recognized as a federal heritage building.

Measuring about 28,000 square feet, including the basement, it was initially opened as Langara School for Boys. The federal government bought it in 1918 and turned it into a military hospital for a brief period before the RCMP took over the property for its e-division headquarters in 1920. The RCMP used the Fairmont building and other buildings on the site until relocating to Surrey a few years ago.

The Fairmont building is currently being used as office space for Canada Lands Company, which also leases some of the space.

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Relocating the Fairmont building is a viable option, according to Susan Haid, the city’s assistant director of planning.

Based on its structural integrity, it can be transported to another site as a single unit or in three pieces. Haid estimates a straight-forward move and putting it back together would cost at least $6 million. But a final figure would be based on various considerations, including how far it has to be moved.

The building also needs seismic upgrading.

The city would cover removal costs through community amenity contributions collected from developments for heritage initiatives.

Public feedback on the preferred concept for the overall redevelopment, including the proposal to relocate the Fairmont building, is still being accepted.

The final policy statement is subject to council approval.

During open houses last fall, the prospect of the building’s removal generated 120 responses, about half of which favoured the idea for reasons ranging from reconciliation to an interest in seeing the construction of a facility that better reflects First Nations’ values. Those who expressed concern cited reasons such as its designation as a heritage “A” building and a preference for finding a location to move it to and retrofitting it for reuse rather than demolishing it.

Late last year, the city also hosted a session about the topic with representatives from the First Nations and Canada Lands Company, RCMP veterans, heritage advocates, community members and city staff.

Haid said those talks, which were guided by the city’s reconciliation framework, revealed diverse views, but she said there was “quite a lot” of support for relocation and the discussions were “really open, really encouraging and really, really interesting.”

Haid added there was interest in ensuring all of the stories and the many layers of history associated with the site, including the building, are told, as well as support for ideas around reconciliation and having a centre of healing.

“So we will be looking at an interpretive program.

That can involve many different forms. It could involve landscape design, interpretive media [and] it can go well beyond this site to tell some of the stories,” she said. “…The point is that everyone feels included and we tell those stories and we figure out a way to do that that is welcoming to everyone. Certainly, the [First] Nations have emphasized that they’ve been on these lands for centuries and the history of their relationship with the land is also something that they want to tell as part of the story of this site.”

It remains unclear what the Fairmont building would or could be used for if it’s relocated but it’s an issue the city has looked at to some extent.

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d‘as a measure of Reconciliation’ “[In] some early work we did on the policy statement going back a year and a half [that looked] at repurposing opportunities, we looked at what if it was [used for] housing, what if it was seniors, what if it was a school... Those we’re broad explorations but typically they would require quite a bit of upgrading and, in some cases, they might need an addition,” Haid said. “...

In terms of finding a donor site and a purpose, we would be open to uses that might both keep it as it is but might look at additions attached.”

Building history

For its part, Heritage Vancouver Society says it may not be a bad idea to relocate the Fairmont building based on the complexities of the issues involved, depending on how effectively the various histories and other important values, including the significance of reconciliation associated with the building and site, are recognized and communicated through interpretive programming to current

The Fairmont building, which currently sits on the Heather Lands site, may be relocated. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

and future populations.

“With this site, it’s complex — there’s architectural value, there’s historic value, there’s natural value, there’s social value and value for different groups, including First Nation and non-First Nation,” said Bill Yuen, a spokesman for Heritage Vancouver. “How we look at it is how will the changes on the site represent these values and to what de-

gree? ...How are we and future generations going to understand explicitly what happened, positive and negative, in tangible and intangibles ways?”

Yuen recognizes the negative value the building represents to the First Nations, but he noted it was also used as a school, and as a hospital run by nurse Jean Matheson.

“As a hospital, which is rarely brought up, it was for

war veterans to help them with trauma from the war.

They used the word shellshocked. But it was also run by a female nurse. She was actually important in B.C. nursing history and she ran the site in 1919,” Yuen explained. “So you have these ideas surrounding female leadership, but also healing, which is one of the points that MST [Partners] is making… They want this

new building to be a place of healing so there’s obviously connections there.”

Aside from how the building was used over history and its architecture, Yuen said other important aspects include its meaning to First Nations people and the significance of its removal as part of reconciliation — if that happens.

“So it’s not simply, keep the building, demolish the

building, move the building. How are we, and future generations, going to be able to understand the significance of this? There’s probably going to be needed continued dialogue among stakeholders — First Nations groups, neighbourhood groups, RCMP veterans — all these different groups about how these differing values will be communicated and guarded and which ones are drawn out more than some other ones. There’s a lot of work, if we think about it, from a heritage perspective.”

Haid, meanwhile, is hopeful a new site and new use for the Fairmont building can be found if the policy statement and relocation plan are approved.

“I’m encouraged that [relocation is] feasible and I’m really encouraged that we have a really reasonable stretch of time to explore this,” she said. “So, I’m hopeful... We’re certainly going to give it the best try.”

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Yves Potvin spices things up at Vancouver culinary school Martha Perkins

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Yves Potvin first arrived in Vancouver on a $200 bicycle, having pedalled 5,500 kilometres from Montreal to the Pacific Ocean.

Three decades and two highly successful food companies later, he left Vancouver for a well-earned holiday and ended up in a wheelchair.

Now he’s back on his feet, both physically and entrepreneurially, as the new majority owner and president of the Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts.

Potvin is the man who introduced veggie dogs to North America. First experimenting in his Vancouver kitchen, he had found a way to make meatless “meats” much more appealing to cook and eat. Soon, his products were commandeering the vegetarian section in grocery store coolers.

In 2001, he sold what’s now called Yves Veggie Cuisine but he didn’t stop tinkering with ways to feed the growing appetite for vegetarian food.

He launched his second

business — Gardein — in Richmond in 2003.

In 2014, he sold Garden Protein International for $154 million to Pinnacle Foods. He stayed on for a year and then decided that while he was far from wanting to retire, he was ready for a break.

“Having a business [like Gardein] that grows 30 to 40 per cent is very time-consuming and tough on the body,” he told the Courier in the midst of a non-stop day of meetings at PICA. “When you build two businesses, you’re always on the go and on high adrenaline.

When you slow down, your body says it’s time to take care of yourself.”

His body gave him that message loud and clear when he developed debilitating sciatica during a flight from Vancouver to Europe on his first real escape from being a businessman. Not able to walk unaided, his body forced him to stop its constant forward motion for the next three months.

“It was an awakening that your health is the most important thing,” he says today. “As they say, wealth

Julian Bond, the vice-president and executive chef of the Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts (left), is excited about Yves Potvin’s arrival as president and majority shareholder. PHOTO MARTHA PERKINS

is your health.”

Now he feels his batteries are recharged and he’s full of plans to help revamp and re-energize the school whose 3,000 graduates can be found in many restaurants in Vancouver and around the world.

“It’s exciting and fun,” said PICA’s vice-president and executive chef Julian Bond, the minoriy shareholder.

Last year, PICA’s founder Sue Singer retired

to Ontario, generating a lot of interest from potential new partners. The sale was finalized last June, but the new ownership was only recently announced.

Bond thinks Potvin is a natural choice to lead the school into the next phase of its future.

His business perspective is important, Bond said, both for the school and its graduates. “You have to know the true value of a lime. This industry is in your pennies.

You only make money by counting your pennies, not your dollars.”

Already Potvin is coming up with ways to invigorate both the school and the student-run Bistro 101 restaurant, including adding a new outdoor patio and a cart for student-made ice cream sandwiches.

Other possibilities include expanding its wine program and adding training for service staff, nutrition, food manufacturing and a variety of restaurant related pursuits such as blogging.

On top of the six-month and one-year program, the school is also looking at a three-month advanced program so chefs can upgrade skills without having to take a long time off work as well as a wider range of shortterm cooking classes.

“We want to bring the serious amateur back here,” he said.

An exchange with a culinary school in China is being considered, along with a renewed focus on specialty cuisine. Potvin isn’t about to turn everyone into a vegetarian but he is aware of the huge growth

and popularity of vegetarian restaurants.

Bistro 101, with its enviable marinaside view of Granville Market, could also host a more varied spectrum of events.

Sustainability will get a renewed focus in day-to-day practices, such as banning plastic straws, as well as new technologies.

This all makes for a busy schedule for Potvin. As much as he is tapping into his extensive business expertise to make changes that will strengthen PICA’s presence in Vancouver’s food scene, he’s also cognizant of the lessons he learned when he pushed himself too hard. He plans to continue to travel and bring back new culinary ideas and best practices, but the idea of retirement is anathema to him.

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If going kid-less is key to curbing global warming, then Dr. Jack Chang just might be a cardinal of climate change.

Chang has been in the vasectomy game for four years and slipped the snips on somewhere between 7,000 and 8,000 men out of Vancouver’s Pollock Clinics.

Virtually all of those men come to him armed with information, choices and dialogue with their families and partners. The same can’t be said in other parts of the world, where cultural, religious, governmental and social norms stigmatize the contraceptive practice.

That’s where World Vasectomy Day enters the picture (yes, such a thing exists). Established in 2012 and typically observed in November, the international events entail education around family planning, doctor training and free vasectomies.

Those World Vasectomy Day-related initiatives have taken Chang to Kenya, the Philippines and Haiti to spread information around a largely taboo subject in those places.

“Everywhere we go, no matter where we go, there is resistance,” Chang told the Courier. “The common

Dr. Jack Chang, shown here on a trip to Kenya, has performed vasectomies on between 7,000 and 8,000 men out of Vancouver’s Pollock Clinics. He also travels to countries around the world to spread information around a largely taboo subject in those places.

refrain is ‘our men don’t do this sort of thing.’”

Chang was in Kenya last year and encountered nextlevel opposition in trying to spread the word. Some Kenyans thought vasectomy meant sex change. Others thought it was a tribal witch hunt meant to influence government policy.

More locally, other myths centre around how the procedure may negatively affect men’s sex life.

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“There are so many misconceptions regarding vasectomies. Some people think they’re going to lose their erections or lose their libido,” Chang said.

“In Africa, they feel like they’re going to turn into a woman.”

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To put that in perspective, Chang estimates 30 were done each year in Haiti prior to 2010. On average, men who underwent the surgery had five kids in their family. One man had fathered 12 children. Chang said some patients travelled 10 to 20 hours for the operation.

“It’s not about the number of procedures we do any more. That used to be something we really focused on,” Chang said. “Now it’s about what kinds of conversations can we have with people, what kind of myths we can dispel and how we can promote more positive masculinity within countries where lots of violence and domestic abuse are attributed to men.”

Whether it’s in Vancouver or abroad, Chang wants to make men more accountable and a part of the family planning process. In fact, most men coming to his Vancouver location are looking to do just that.

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Pender mercies ease stress of taking B.C. Ferries on long weekend Middle ground of southern Gulf Islands full of rustic charms grant.lawrence@cbc.ca

If you want to experience the family-friendly, laid-back ease of the southern Gulf Islands this spring, but feel that Salt Spring is too busy, Galiano too close and Saturna too far, allow me to recommend the pictureperfect middle ground of the Pender Islands.

My family just spent Easter Weekend on the Penders, so we did all the scouting for you. First tip: don’t travel to the Gulf Islands on a long weekend.

The ferries are squirrely busy and the ferry stress just isn’t worth it, even with reservations. It’s almost as if long weekends take B.C. Ferries by surprise, especially on the island side.

Once you’ve actually made it, there’s plenty to explore and lots of places to wine and dine on the twin islands of North and South Pender, which are linked by a quaint, single-lane bridge.

The meandering road from the Otter Bay ferry terminal will lead you to the Pender Islands Community Hall, a beautiful barn-like post-and-beam structure that is the heart of the islands. It’s also where you can quickly find out what’s happening while you’re on the Penders. The Saturday morning Salish Eagle ferry from Tsawwassen is fairly well-timed to drop you off right in the middle of the year-round farmer’s market held on the main floor of the hall. Upstairs is a great theatre for live events.

Down the road is the Driftwood Centre, the main shopping hub of the islands, where you’ll find

Grant Lawrence and his family spent Easter long weekend on North and South Pender Island and lived to tell about it.

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Jo’s Place, a friendly joint for brunch or lunch. A few doors down is Talisman Books, one of the best independent bookstores in B.C. That’s the place to buy tickets for the events happening at the hall. The Driftwood is also where you’ll find the liquor store, pharmacy, gas station, grocery store and a nice central meadow for the kids to run around while you’re shopping.

Farther along you’ll come across Woods on Pender, which is the

latest accommodation to go head to head with Pender’s many Airbnbs.

Woods offers a fully glamping hipster experience in kitted-out Airstreams, log cabins and a remodeled motel.

Woods also boasts of some of the islands’ best dining at their Coffee + Kitchen, but check the hours of operation carefully, and reservations are recommended. Otherwise, you may get the bum’s rush, as my family did when we made the

mistake of showing up and sitting down for brunch on a holiday Monday. You’d think, right? Nope.

That led us to seek out family-friendly food elsewhere, and there are plenty of options up and down the islands. If you follow the road down to Magic Lake, be sure to stop in at the very cozy Slow Coast Café for light eats and a nice atmosphere. My singersongwriter wife even sat in on the jam that goes down every Sunday afternoon in the side room featuring

several fine local players.

If nature is your kick, some of the best options are found on the South Island. As soon as you cross the bridge, take the first left down to the Mortimer Spit, which gives you a great view of the canal between the islands, and, if your kids are napping in the car, this is the perfect beach to hang out at while keeping your car and kids in view and close proximity.

Farther down the South Island you’ll come across the Enchanted Forest, an

easy walk along a boardwalk through emerald rainforest wetlands, leading to a waterfall. A little further still is Poets Cove, Pender’s largest high-end resort that is built upon an ancient Tsawout First Nation village site that dates back thousands of years, though you’d never know it now.

Like many Gulf Islands, their First Nations history is sadly underrepresented.

One of the Penders’ most beautiful locales is Brooks Point, a geographic wonder that takes you through several different landscapes in the short time it takes to walk from the road to the shoreline. Follow the boardwalk through a marsh, which will lead you into a dark forest until you suddenly emerge into the grassy open meadows and rocky outcrops of the point. The beaches are stunning and filled with sun-bleached driftwood.

Walk along the ridge to the lighthouse for the best views.

As for getting around, if you didn’t bring a car, don’t sweat it. Pender has a bus service and a rideshare program called Car Stop (you’ll see the signs every few turns along the roads). Think of it as a kind of friendly island-time cross between hitch hiking and Uber. The Car Stop system is particularly useful if you’re planning on a Pender bender by hitting up Island Sea Star Vineyards, Twin Island Cider, or the boisterous pub in Port Browning. As always, check on operating hours before you go. Almost everything is seasonal.

If you can avoid a B.C. Ferries nightmare, Pender Island could be your dream destination.

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Cause for alarm among first responders Documentary reveals high rates of PTSD and suicide among paramedics Sabrina Furminger

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They’re the heroes who race into peril when everyone else is running in the opposite direction: police officers, firefighters, paramedics.

But paramedics are more likely to suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder — and commit suicide — than other first responders. PTSD affects one in 10 Canadians; for paramedics, it’s estimated to affect one in four — and given the low rates of reporting, it could be much higher.

A new documentary from Vancouver director Kevin Eastwood highlights the PTSD crisis facing paramedics and seeks to break down the stigma that contributes to suicide ideation, substance abuse and suffering in silence.

Eastwood had been gearing up to make a documentary about the opioid crisis when a doctor friend in the Downtown Eastside suggested he take a closer look at paramedics instead.

“She said, ‘You know what nobody is talking about

enough is what is happening to the first responders,’” recalls Eastwood. That conversation took place one year ago, and the suggestion sparked After the Sirens, which airs this weekend on CBC Television.

After the Sirens delves into the crisis through the eyes of three paramedics who’ve experienced PTSD to understand what it looks like (depression, night terrors, violence, denial, high-risk behaviours) and what can be done to help people like them.

Through re-enactments and interviews, After the Sirens lays bare the on-the-job moments that traumatized these paramedics — walking through a house filled with homicide victims, a shooter still unaccounted for, as they assess whether each crumpled body they come across is alive or dead; tending to a man who has just murdered several women; discovering a close friend dead from an overdose; and the damage these horrors have wrought on their lives, including drug abuse, anxiety attacks and suicide attempts.

Eastwood met one of the paramedics — Clive Derbyshire, who works in the Downtown Eastside — while he was filming the award-winning documentary series Emergency Room: Life + Death at VGH. “[At the time] I had no idea

Director Kevin Eastwood sets up a shot. PHOTO JASSA CAMPBELL

about was what was going on inside for him,” recalls Eastwood. “I would see him in his workplace and he would be on the top of his game. He was a great paramedic, and I knew him as this charismatic and likable personality, so to learn that he was covering up a whole bunch of complex mental health challenges was revealing.”

In one of After the Sirens’ many gut-punching moments, Derbyshire reveals to a man who is refusing further treatment after surviving an overdose that he himself has used drugs in that same alley.

PTSD — which dates back to the First World War when it was known as shell shock — is not something that people can run from. PTSD often leads to significant biological changes in the brain, which can manifest in a variety of

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ways, including paranoia, flashbacks, literally feeling like you’re reliving the event and suicidal ideation.

Paramedics are particularly vulnerable to PTSD because of “how massive and widespread the stigma against PTSD actually is” amongst paramedics themselves, says Eastwood.

“I heard lots of people who I wouldn’t have expected to say such things referring to some of these paramedics as, ‘Oh, they’re just some of the crazy ones.’ That was

really surprising, and made me realize how much of a mountain the stigma is and has been for paramedics.”

Which is precisely why Eastwood feels a documentary like After the Sirens is essential: it drags the stigma into the light and, he hopes, changes attitudes. Still, Eastwood encountered some paramedics who were reluctant to participate in his film because they were worried it would negatively impact what people think about first responders.

“Some people said to me they’re nervous about speaking out because they don’t want the whole world to think, ‘Oh, you call a paramedic and they might be Nicolas Cage from Bringing out the Dead’ — and that’s obviously not the case, and that’s not the intent of raising awareness,” adds Eastwood. “There is a legitimate problem that’s happening, and there are disproportionate numbers of paramedics suffering that need to be helped.”

For Eastwood, one of the most profound moments during production occurred when one of the paramedics showed Eastwood a certificate first responders receive when they successfully save someone from a cardiac arrest.

This resonated with Eastwood, who survived a cardiac arrest in 2013. “I’m able to do this work right now because of the work of paramedics, and while it wasn’t this particular paramedic who saved my life, it was easy in that moment to transpose my gratitude from strangers who, I’m embarrassed to say, I didn’t even know their names,” says Eastwood.

“I’m one of the millions of people out there who owe their lives to paramedics, and so it seems odd that the people that we entrust and have an expectation of saving our lives, we’re not doing that great a job in return.”

After the Sirens airs April 8 on CBC Television.

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Michael Zaugg is the guest conductor for this last concert of the 2017-2018 subscription season. Originally from Switzerland, he is now the conductor and music director of Alberta’s Pro Coro Canada. Michael is a long-time friend and collaborator with the Vancouver Chamber Choir, whom he has hosted many times in Edmonton, Ottawa and Montreal. His programme will have many new and intriguing choral works by Rautavaara, Rheinberger, Whitacre, Archer, Saint-Saëns, Elgar, Knudson and Joby Talbot.

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Overdose prevention training the new norm for venues Naloxone kits and overdose training becoming as common as Foodsafe and Serving it Right courses John Kurucz

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Karmik co-founder Munroe Craig has seen a massive increase in naloxone training requests over the last 12 months. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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The vacationing Texan was having a night out on the town and looking to extend his party beyond pints and pizza.

It was in mid-December and the revelry took him to Downtown Eastside dive bar Funky Winkerbeans.

“He was very obviously looking for cocaine, but our staff wouldn’t direct him towards cocaine,” said bar manager Eric Neilson.

“Everyone warned him, the day shift and the night shift staff, to not buy random things from strangers because you’re probably going to get fentanyl.

He went out and bought something off the street and he was overdosing on the sidewalk in front of Funkys shortly thereafter.”

Three shots of naloxone later, the man was revived.

Neilson’s bartender saved the tourist’s life and has administered naloxone five times in overdose situations in the past few months alone. Funkys has two naloxone kits and several staffers trained to use them.

Whereas Vancouver bars, pubs and music venues used to emphasize Foodsafe and Serving it Right courses, their concern is increasingly focused on naloxone training to prevent overdose deaths.

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A few blocks east at the Smilin’ Buddha Cabaret (SBC), co-owner Andrew Turner doesn’t even keep track of how many times naloxone has been used due to how frequently it’s occurred. The life-saving opioid medication has been at the East Van venue/skate ramp — located steps away from the supervised injection site, Insite — for more than two years. Both SBC co-owners have first aid and naloxone training, as does security personnel.

“There’s a hidden toll being taken in terms of what frontline workers and community members are going through. It’s traumatic. We’re tired of watching friends die,” Turner said via email.

The Courier attempted to contact dozens of music and performance venues, bars and pubs to gauge whether

those businesses have naloxone, what prompted them to acquire the kits and how often they’ve been used.

BC Coroners Service statistics released Jan. 31 show that 1,422 people died of a suspected drug overdose in B.C. last year, with 365 in Vancouver. The statistics revealed 88 per cent of the deaths occurred indoors, with 60 per cent in a private residence and 28 per cent in other inside locations: facilities, occupational sites, public buildings and businesses.

Others occurred outside on the streets, sidewalks, parks and in vehicles.

The majority of people who died — 82 per cent — were male, with 90 per cent of overall deaths occurring to people between 19 and 59.

A stone’s throw east of SBC, the Rickshaw Theatre also has a naloxone kit and two staffers trained in its use. Theatre owner Mo Tarmohamed told the Courier he’s in the process of finding training for the 20plus staff at the Main and Hastings venue.

Likewise for LanaLou’s on Powell Street, where venue owner Lana Ryma confirmed the presence of a kit and two staffers who are trained in its use.

Managers at both the WISE Hall and Pat’s Pub didn’t respond to the Courier’s request for comment, though the promoter responsible for both venues and goes by the name “wendythirteen” did. She received naloxone training 18 months ago and carries a kit to every show she promotes, typically between two and five per month. She hasn’t had to use the kit yet, but knows of “dozens and dozens” of people connected to the punk and metal scenes whose recent deaths were attributed to fentanyl. The former Cobalt manager kicked cocaine addiction 20 years ago, alcohol addiction five years ago and remembers seeing fentanyl first emerge while still managing Funkys five or six years ago.

“We’d see all kinds of ODs across the street,” said wendythirteen. “They’d cross the street and collapse after shooting up in the tent city. And it’s not letting up now. What a mess.”

Pubs, bars and cocktail lounges are also taking notice. Donnelly Group spokesperson Paul Done

told the Courier that all 13 establishments owned by the entertainment conglomerate in Vancouver have kits.

“The first naloxone kits were issued to the nightclub venues in September 2016 with training given to first certified aid and door staff. Since then, kits have been issued to all pub and cocktail bar locations,” Done said in an email to the Courier. “Staff at all the nightclub venues along with key pub management have been trained in naloxone use. Training for pub floor staff is ongoing.”

Demand for training

Munroe Craig can attest to that continued uptick.

Craig is the co-founder of Karmik, a Downtown Eastside harm reduction group that offers services ranging from naloxone training to educating music festival goers about the drugs they might ingest.

In the last year alone, the number of naloxone training requests she’s fielded has skyrocketed: UBC, SFU, graffiti removal companies, a slew of construction firms, dispensaries, pharmacy students and community groups from across Western Canada have all reached out for training.

To put that increase in perspective, last year Craig offered the training course once every few months.

Now they’re happening every two weeks.

“I’m kept very busy, I must say. Unfortunately or fortunately, I’m not sure,” Craig said.

Karmik receives its naloxone kits free of charge from the B.C. Centre for Disease Control and the Towards the Heart Program. The training courses last about 20 hours, and volunteers are given naloxone kits once their training wraps up.

“Oftentimes people will find me and I have no idea who they are or how they found me, but word of mouth spreads very quickly,” Craig said. “If I could stop I would stop, but quite honestly there’s such a need for it that it keeps me going.” @JohnKurucz Information around naloxone training and availability is online at towardtheheart.com.

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Rio funding deadline extended About $600,000 is needed to purchase the property by April 16 John Kurucz

factor in spring break or the Easter long weekend. Even my banker was away on spring break, so with trying to get paper work done and all that, it became really evident that we needed more time.”

Lea wouldn’t say how much the private investment side of the deal has raised. About 20 people have pitched in to help.

“We’ve got a good, supportive team of interested investors — we’re just working out the details to get confirmation,” Lea said. “It shifts quite often but I’m confident that I’ll get it.”

Lea’s 60-day window to buy the property from Leonard Schein began Feb. 6. She initially asked for 90 days, but settled on a month less.

The Rio’s assessed value is roughly $4 million, and the purchase price is believed to be much higher than that.

According to Schein, Lea has exclusivity on trying to finalize the deal. He fielded two other offers in early February before accepting Lea’s. He’s not taking any other offers

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This week’s final funding push for the Rio Theatre wasn’t so final after all.

Theatre manager Corrine Lea announced Monday night that a two-week extension has been granted by property owner Leonard Schein to allow more time to raise money and finalize the deal.

The announcement came towards the tail end of an all-weekend telethon drive that featured dozens of performers and kicked up about $80,000 in donations.

April 7 was first targeted to get the deal done, while the new funding deadline is April 16. About $600,000 is needed in under two weeks as part of the crowdfunding campaign, while an additional $2 million is being collected through a team of private investors.

“Last week I knew that we were going to need more time,” Lea told the Courier Tuesday. “When I agreed to [the initial deadline] I didn’t

until the deadline passes.

And even if it does, he looks at April 16 as somewhat of a moving goal post.

“It depends on how close she is. I would like her to get it,” Schein told the Courier Tuesday. “She may need a few more days, but it’s better if she has a deadline. But it’s not necessarily a drop-dead deadline.”

The Rio’s Facebook page lists events spanning into September. That’s neither overconfidence nor coincidence, but due to the fact that Lea’s lease still has three years left on it.

“Anyone who buys the Rio will still have to honour our lease,” she said. “So when we say that we’re saving it from being torn down, it means ultimately it would be torn down, but it wouldn’t be tomorrow. It would be at least three years.” @JohnKurucz

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Library’s new Indigenous storyteller in residence gives fiery talk And four other reasons Vancouver is awesome this week Lindsay William-Ross

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Syets Yíy’ulh: Realistic Stories of the Great Fire T’uy’t’tanat-Cease Wyss shares stories about Vancouver’s Great Fire of 1886, at Vancouver Public Library Britannia Branch, April 7.

At this event hosted by the Vancouver Public Library’s new Indigenous storyteller-in-residence T’uy’t’tanatCease Wyss, hear tales of Vancouver’s Great Fire of 1886 from a perspective most of us have never considered: the

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Flavours of Hope

This special meal at Kitsilano Neighbourhood House offers the chance to bring locals together. With a feast prepared by a mother-daughter duo who are Syrian refugees, the next installation of an ongoing roaming pop-up dinner event gives guests a way to learn about the traditional fare of Damascus and the work being done in the Kitsilano community to help refugees. And, of course, eat, listen to music and engage with all the other diners.

April 7, 5:30 to 8 p.m.

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Reel 2 Real International Film Festival for Youth

This one’s for the kids: Dive into a week of inspiring films, thought-provoking discussions, hands-on workshops, immersive virtual reality and more at the 20th annual Reel 2 Real International Film Festival for Youth. Featuring everything from a pancake breakfast to special screenings to an entire showcase of films made by talented young folks, this is a must for any budding filmmaker and movie buff.

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Music lovers who rocked the grunge and alt scene in the 1990s have been talking non-stop about the return of the Breeders. The band was formed by the super duo of Kim Deal of Pixies and Tanya Donelly of Throwing Muses, but Donelly left in 1992 and was replaced by Kim’s twin sister, Kelley.

Though the band has been quietly active over the years, their new release, All Nerve, has struck a nerve, and the sisters — with bandmates Josephine Wiggs and Jim Macpherson — have hit the road in support of the album. Catch their Vancouver stop at the Commodore Ballroom.

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Can Vancouver’s music Producer and engineer questions makeup of Vancouver Music Strategy John Kurucz

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Matt Roach argues the Vancouver Music Strategy should address the livelihood of smaller venues such as the Rickshaw and the Biltmore, which are at a greater risk of closing than some of the city’s more established venues. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Lost in last month’s Junos buzz and requisite celebration of artists near the top of the industry food chain, the city issued a news release March 22 about the state of an

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.

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To amend CD-1 (445) for 969 Burrard Street and 1019-1045 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.

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.

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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.

ongoing piece of public policy called the Vancouver Music Strategy.

The news release was rife with congratulatory praise for Vancouver’s musicians, creators and the state of arts and culture across the province.

Enacted in early 2016, the strategy’s final recommendations go to council in the summer to “increase the integration and awareness for the music industry by the city.”

Sandra Gajic is the director of the Vancouver Civic Theatres and co-chair of the strategy.

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In an interview with the Courier, she clarified what that statement means.

In short, the city needs a consolidated strategy that spans departments — engineering, bylaws, social policy and business licensing — to serve as a one-stop shop for anyone in the creative sectors.

OK, but what will the end deliverables look like?

“It’s premature for me to say much, as we are working on recommendations which we are going to be going to council with in July,” Gajic said.

The strategy is led by an eight-person steering committee that was struck in the summer of 2016. Outside of Gajic, its membership consists of a social planner, two people from the opera and orchestra communities, a representative from Nimbus School of Recording & Media, and two others from Music B.C. and Music Canada.

Part of the committee’s work is to identify strengths and weaknesses in the city’s arts scene.

Let’s start with the strengths.

“It’s the quality of the talent that we have in the city,” Gajic said.

And the weaknesses?

“Affordability is one of the biggest threats,” Gajic countered.

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Two studies nearing completion are helping to shape the music strategy.

Both have received seed money from Creative B.C., an umbrella group representing the TV and film sectors, music and performing arts through grant money and mentorship programming.

Some preliminary findings from those studies include cursory looks at the province’s music business: 285 music companies, 160 recording studios, 200-plus festivals and $400 million worth of economic activity.

It’s worth noting that in the two years since the strategy’s establishment, the Media Club has gone belly up, the Rio Theatre is fighting for its life, the Cobalt is on the cusp of closure and the Red Gate Arts Society has to find a new home by May. Just last week, redevelopment plans for the Fairview pub — a long-serving West Side live venue — were made public.

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scene be improved by a committee?

In the last 10 years, Vancouver’s live music venue closure list includes Richards on Richards, the Columbia, the Brickyard and the Picadilly Pub. Mesa Luna and the Starfish Room went kaput in the early 2000s.

Which begs the question: how do 200 festivals or 160 studios benefit less established artists who are affected by affordability issues, venues closing and dwindling space for rehearsal space?

“Certainly the goal with the Vancouver study is to really look at some of the recommendations for solutions around some of this stuff, whether it’s housing related or even places to rehearse in, places to perform in and how we can continue to nurture and develop that talent,” Creative B.C. CEO Prem Gill told the Courier.

Managing expectations

As someone with close to 20 years in the music game, committee member Rob Calder sees live music in Vancouver as a glasshalf-full proposition.

“I’ve been trying to say that our music scene isn’t in trouble,” said Calder, who works in artist management and runs the artist management firm Secret Study. “We have some great venue owners, we have something

like 400 festivals in the province, we have some pretty established record labels and artist management companies as a foundation and we have a hugely respected recording industry here.”

Affordability is an obvious problem in his eyes, but machinations of the record business aren’t without blame.

“The tree of support has diminished. You used to have a buddy who was into helping out, who cut their teeth as a manager and they had all these opportunities to get with an indie distributor or direct to a store and you could go all the way up to hopefully a major record label signing you,” he said. “That system currently exists but I just don’t see enough being done to train and give opportunity to new music managers in this city.”

Of the research done by the steering committee, a few highlights stick out for Calder. At the top of the list is the creation of an entertainment commissioner, a civic staffer who acts as a conduit between city regulations and city nightlife.

San Francisco’s entertainment commissioner Jocelyn Kane’s bio reads as follows: “Jocelyn’s agenda is to make the lives of the Bay Area’s working musicians healthier, easier,

and cheaper. To that end, she is working to ensure health care is provided for all musicians living in San Francisco, open up a ‘welcome center’ for newcomer musicians, and create more exposure opportunities for San Francisco’s musicians.”

It’s not a be-all-endall, but Calder sees it as a start.

“It’s someone who understand both sides,” he said. “They understand the plight of the artist but they’re embedded within the civic government so they’re able to work with engineering, permitting, and help guide new policy in the city for a more friendly and active music space.”

Looking at the smaller picture

Vancouver’s steering committee isn’t working in insolation. An advisory committee has chipped in at two or three workshops over the last two years.

Advisory committee members include representatives from MRG, which owns the Vogue and Biltmore; Blueprint, which runs Fortune Sound Club and Venue; Nick Blasko, the brainchild behind Victoria’s Rifflandia and Rock the Shores festivals; and members from the both the Indigenous and South Asian music communities.

The omission of budding artists, smaller venue

owners and promoters is a sticking point for Vancouver producer and engineer Matt Roach. He’s worked with about 150 bands since entering the business full-time in 2009 and is a partner at East Vancouver’s Rain City Recorders.

“I think the Vancouver Music Strategy is an amazing idea,” he told the Courier. “But what I’m not happy about is that since it was started in early 2016, the Media Club has turned into a Brown’s Social House. I don’t understand how on one hand [the city says] they want to do more for local music and on the other hand [they] let corporate interest shut down a seminal venue in this city.”

Roach is also skeptical of the venues represented in the strategy.

“The Commodore is never going to close, the Vogue is never going to close and the Queen Elizabeth Theatre is never going to close,” he said. “If the Rickshaw or the Biltmore closes, it would be a disaster for this city. A venue

owner doesn’t run a space as a legacy of love. If they don’t see remuneration at some point, they close.”

Roach said development pressures are putting the squeeze on the two venues. Condo residents near both clubs are complaining about noise.

This, after moving next to a live music venue.

“To me, that makes as much sense as nobody

from Anciients, a longstanding Vancouver band, being on the Vancouver Music Committee,” he said. “No one from the band or their management is asked for input here, and they just a won a f***ing Juno.”

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So, IBUs are International Bittering Units and they are used to measure hop bitterness in beer.

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There will never be anyone quite like the Sedin twins

Stick-taps & Glove-drops • A tap of the stick to players and teams around the NHL, who universally poured out praise for the Sedins when they announced their retirement. One theme was immediately apparent: no one — absolutely no one — in the NHL had a bad word to say about the Sedins as people and the praise for their on-ice play was likewise prolific.

Bidding farewell as Daniel and Henrik retire

Backhand Sauce

• I have to drop the gloves with Jim Benning and Trevor Linden, who promised the Sedins a return to competitiveness before the end of their careers and weren’t able to deliver. We can have endless debates as to why the Canucks have been so bad over the last few years, but the end results can’t be denied.

Daniel Wagner

“They’re one-of-a-kind,” said Victor Hedman, “but, obviously, two guys.”

No other quote better encapsulates Daniel and Henrik Sedin, two players who would be utterly unique in the NHL if it weren’t for the inescapable fact that there are two of them, almost exactly alike.

There are ways to tell them apart, of course: their heads have a slightly different shape. Their chins are subtly different, though the identical goatees slightly disguise that. Spencer Gillis, son of former Canucks GM Mike Gillis, claimed that his father used to tell jokes to the Sedins to make them smile since the only way he could tell them apart was by their teeth — though Daniel doesn’t recall Gillis telling them any jokes.

On the ice, the only difference between the two is that, when presented with an open net, Daniel actually took the shot instead of passing it to a teammate for an even-more-open net.

Nobody plays like the Sedins. Nobody.

Other great players get imitated, particularly as we enter an era where young players have had YouTube at their fingertips their entire lives. Moves that seemed impossible when they first happened — a shot between the legs or Pavel Bure’s skate-to-stick move — are now common tools of top young players.

Certainly some of the innovations the Sedins brought to the game have become ubiquitous — the classic slap-pass into the slot for a deflection is an example — but no one does it quite like Henrik and Daniel.

The way they cycled the puck and found each other with seemingly impossible passes can’t be replicated.

Attribute it to twin-telepathy, to the many years of playing together or, like Alex Burrows, to dolphin noises, but what they did on the ice will never be seen again.

A lot of it came down to hard work. Backing up all of their skill was a dedication to details and an innate toughness and grit that saw them barely miss a game in their careers.

What enabled the sheer optimism of their boldest passing plays was a surety that they could win the puck back if they needed to.

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Daniel and Henrik Sedin announced their retirement earlier this week. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

The Sedins never stopped working.

When they lost the puck, they worked tirelessly at getting it back and, more often than not, succeeded. It’s a big reason why their most successful linemates were those who could win puck battles and get the puck back for them, rather than players with good shots. They never needed a sniper; they just needed the puck.

They’re about to play their final NHL game, a Saturday night tilt against the Edmonton Oilers on Hockey Night in Canada.

As much as the city of Vancouver has had days for the news to sink in, it still doesn’t quite feel real. Perhaps it won’t even feel real until next season’s training camp rolls around and those familiar faces (or face) aren’t there.

The Sedins have meant so much to Vancouver, both on and off the ice. They were the first Canucks to win the Art Ross and Hart trophies and they led the Canucks to the most successful seasons in franchise history.

They donated $1.5 million to BC Children’s Hospital and were even more generous with

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7.3 Daniel may have been the

Ross Trophy, he had 83 assists to go with his career-high 29 goals.

The next best was Joe Thornton with 69 assists. Only 12 players had more points than Henrik had assists in the 2009-10 season.

goal-scoring Sedin, but he was still known more for his passing than his shot. At least until the 2011 All-Star Weekend, when he set the record for fastest time in the shooting accuracy competition, going fourfor-four in just 7.3 seconds.

their time to various charitable efforts. All of Vancouver is going to miss the Sedins.

“This city has meant so much to us, our families, even our parents and brothers flying over, they all enjoy being here and we’ve been treated first class,” said Daniel on Tuesday before the first of three farewell games. “From both sides, us and our fans, it’s been a good relationship.”

In their letter announcing their retirement, they made it clear they won’t be going anywhere.

“Vancouver has become home. This is our family’s home. We plan to be part of this community long after we retire.

Vancouver has given us so much and we’ve tried to give everything we have in return.

That won’t change.”

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RENTALS

APARTMENTS/ CONDOS FOR RENT GARDEN VILLA

1010 6th Ave. New West.

Suites Available.

Beautiful atrium with fountain. By shops, college & transit.

Pets negotiable. Ref req.

CALL 604 715-7764 BAYSIDE PROPERTY SERVICES

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THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 2018 THE VANCOUVER COURIER

HOME SERVICES

RENTALS

APARTMENTS/ CONDOS FOR RENT

ELECTRICAL #1 A-CERTIFIED Licensed Electrician, Res/Comm New or old wiring. Reasonable rates.

Lic #22774 604-879-9394

EXCAVATING LANGARA GARDENS

#101 - 621 W. 57th Ave, Van Spacious 1, 2 & 3 BR Rental Apartments & Townhouses.

Heat, hot water & lrg storage locker included. Many units have in-suite laundry and lrg patios/balconies with gorgeous views. Tasteful gardens, swim pools, hot tub, gym, laundry, gated parking, plus shops & services. Near Oakridge Ctrl, Canada Line stations, Langara College, Churchill High School & more.

Sorry no pets. www.langaragardens.com

#1 Backhoes & Excavators Trenchless Waterlines Bobcats & Dump Truck & All Material Deliveries

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Drainage, Video

Inspection, Landscaping, Stump/Rock/Cement/Oil Tank & Demos, Paving, Pool/Dirt Removal, Paver Stones, Jackhammer, Water/Sewer, Line/Sumps, Slinger Avail, Concrete Cutting, Hand Excavating, Basements Made Dry Claudio’s Backhoe Service

604-341-4446

• House Demolition & • House Stripping.

• Excavation & Drainage.

• Demo Trailer & • End Dump Services.

Disposal King Ltd.

Call 604-327-1178

info@langaragardens.com Managed by Peterson Commercial Property Management Inc.

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Hi-Rise Apartment with River View & Indoor Pool.

1 BR & 2 BR Available.

Rent includes heat & hot water. Remodeled Building and Common area. Gated underground parking available.

References required.

CALL 604 525-2122

BAYSIDE PROPERTY SERVICES

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BAYSIDE PROPERTY SERVICES

SUITES FOR RENT

A to Z CERAMIC TILES Installation, Repairs, Free Est. 604-805-4319

2 BDRMS, 2 full baths plus den, 1157 sqft, 1440 Creekside Dr. $2900. 5 appl, gas f/p, 1 prkg stall, 1 storage locker, 5 mins to Granville Island, fantastic view from living room, master bedroom and balcony over water, Granville Island & Downtown. Call Eric at 604 730 7411 or erict@pennyfarthing.net

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GUTTERS Ken’s Power Washing Plus SPRING SPECIALS

All Electrical, Low Cost.

YOUR ELECTRICIAN $29 Service Call.

Lic#89402.

Fast same day service.

Insured. Guar’d. We love small jobs. 604-568-1899 A LIC’D. Electrician #30582 Rewiring & reno, appliance/ plumbing, rotor rooter 778998-9026, 604-255-9026

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LAWNS CUT $25 and up Edge and Trim Wes 604-266-5912

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Experienced Gardener 30 years experience shrubs/perennial gardens text/call 778-323-4081

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HANDYPERSON

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SKYLINE TOWERS 102-120 Agnes St, New West

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2014 TESLA Electric in RAV4!

YES! Best of Both! Tesla E/V 2015 Volvo XC60 $29,850.

2017 LEXUS RX350 F-sport 2016 Jetta TSi Sport $19999.

Auto Depot 604-727-3111

BEST EXTERIOR Painters in Town!

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PAINTING (25 yrs exp.)

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2008 Land Rover LR2 $9999.

2008 Escape Leather $9999.

2007 Ranger V6 auto $9999.

2007 JEEP Compass $6850.

2006 Tacoma Pre-Runner pu

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Durango SLT 2001 $3850 Honda Civic 4dr 2002 $3850 Focus SE auto 2005 $2950 Hyundai Accent 2003 $2950 Mazda Protégé 1999 $1888

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2012 VW Jetta 4dr $9450.

2012 Scion IQ 4P $8888.

2012 Nissan Versa $7850.

2007 VW Rabbit HB auto 2004 Volvo S40 WAGON.

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Renfrew MEMORIAL SOUTH PARK Ravine Park

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Six 1,450sf family townhomes.

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