Vancouver Courier April 12 2018

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Carr, Sylvester at odds over who can best unify the city Green Party Coun. Adriane Carr still considering mayoral run, despite Shauna Sylvester entering race Mike Howell

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I’m sure all of you municipal politics junkies might have overdosed on the number of stories written and broadcast last Thursday about Shauna Sylvester announcing that she’s running as an independent for mayor of Vancouver.

Well, I’ve got another one.

It’s about Sylvester deciding not to run for mayor.

Say what?

That’s right. Sylvester told a couple of reporters after her official launch that she would shut down her campaign if someone else stepped up who can “unify this city in a way that I cannot.”

I asked: Would that someone be Green Party Coun. Adriane Carr, who still hasn’t ruled out a mayoral run?

“I think Adriane has made a decision to only run as a Green candidate,”

she said. “So I think that would suggest that she can’t unify this city, if she’s only going to run as a Green candidate.”

Well, well, well… Carr can’t unify the city?

I called up Carr and read her that exact quote.

“It’s true that I’ve indicated that I’m ready and willing to run, but as a Green,” she said, pointing out her long history with the party. “It’s about transparency for me, it’s about being genuine, it’s about being honest. The public knows I’m a Green.”

She continued: “Where Shauna is wrong is that being Green doesn’t mean you can’t unify. I am working all the time at the council table to unify council. Greens, actually, in many circumstances around the world are a unifying force — collaborative in the style of politics, eschewing hyper partisanship.”

Carr said Sylvester’s

Independent mayoral candidate Shauna Sylvester and Green Party Coun. Adriane Carr are at odds over who is best suited to unify the centre-left vote in a campaign to win the mayor’s seat in Vancouver. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

entry into the mayoral race doesn’t change her plan to meet with OneCity, COPE and Vision Vancouver to gauge whether those parties would endorse her as a mayoral candidate. Sylvester, for the record, doesn’t yet have the support of any of those parties.

“If I’m the candidate that the other parties say, ‘Yep, she’s got the best chance to win, she’s got that experience and the collaborative style that we’re looking for,’ then I’ll run for mayor,” Carr said. “If I don’t get that support, then my chances to win go way down.”

Interestingly, Carr said she and Sylvester had telephone conversations leading up to Sylvester’s announcement April 5.

Carr’s understanding from those conversations was that Sylvester would step aside if Carr were to run for mayor as a Green, which is not what Sylvester said in Thursday’s scrum.

“She indicated to me that if I stepped forward, and if I declare as the mayoral candidate, she wouldn’t run,” Carr said. “I don’t know how she’s interpreting when I say ‘running.’ So I’m clear with you, I’ve never changed my position since the AGM of the Green Party, which is I’m ready and willing to run [as a Green].”

Carr was clear that she does not want to have her and Sylvester battle it out at the ballot box. That competition for centre-left votes, she said, would give rise to the Non-Partisan

Association. Carr does not want a repeat of last October’s byelection, where four candidates on the left siphoned off each other’s votes and gave the NPA’s Hector Bremner a clear path to victory.

Carr couldn’t say when she’ll make a decision on a mayoral run, but expects it will be sooner than later.

“I’m not foolish enough to run if I don’t think I have a good chance to win,” she said of the fight for the mayor’s seat, which will be left vacant by the retiring Mayor Gregor Robertson.

When I spoke to Sylvester earlier in the week, I suggested it was a gamble to announce her candidacy for mayor without confirming support from OneCity, COPE, the Greens and Vision Vancouver. Her response: “And that is a gamble I’m willing to take.”

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OneCity candidates announced John Kurucz

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Released Monday afternoon, OneCity’s nominee list for the October election has a bit of everything: familiar faces, newcomers and one seemingly glaring omission.

Among the seven candidates listed running for school board and council, Judy Graves’ name was nowhere to be found.

“I’m not putting my name forward, but we’ve got really excellent people running,” Graves told the Courier Monday. “I’m definitely taking a break for this election cycle.”

Graves finished fourth in last October’s byelection won by the NPA’s Hector Bremner. The 68-year-old said she remains loyal to the party and may run for office again in the future.

OneCity’s council nominee list includes RJ Aquino, Ben Bolliger, Christine Boyle and Brandon Yan. The party’s school board hopefuls include incumbent Carrie Bercic, Erica Jaaf and Jennifer Reddy.

Aquino is a former member of COPE’s executive who split with that party

The lone elected official in OneCity’s four-history, Carrie Bercic is again running for school board, Judy Graves is sitting this election out and party veteran RJ Aquino is running for council

over concerns about its direction. He ran under OneCity in the civic election in 2014 and finished 26,000 votes shy of eighth-place finisher Geoff Meggs.

A life-long Vancouverite, Boyle is a United Church minister with a background in communications. Bolliger, meanwhile, is a former federal NDP staffer who lives in the West End and works in the health care system.

Another life-long Vancouver resident, Yan is active in the LGBTQ2+ communities and holds a master’s degree

in urban studies from SFU. Bercic is the lone OneCity candidate elected to office in the party’s short, four-year history. Her 17,800 votes were enough to finish eighth among trustees last fall. Jaaf’s 17,100 votes were 400 short of ninth-place finisher Ken Clement. Reddy works in the education sector, with a focus on finding employment for youth under the age of 18.

OneCity’s candidate’s forum is scheduled for 4 p.m. on April 15 at the Strathcona Community Centre.

Voting day is Oct. 20.

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Dianne Turner’s tenure with the Vancouver School District began in late 2016 with tumult, controversy and cries of partisanship.

It ended last week without a press conference, outrage or much of anything.

The Courier has learned Turner’s tenure with the district ended April 2. She served in an advisory role to help a pair of recent transition phases: for the trustees elected in October 2017 and after Suzanne Hoffman’s hiring as superintendent in January.

She was appointed as the district’s official trustee in October 2016 after the previous board was fired for failing to pass a balanced budget.

“We asked Dianne Turner to remain as a special advisor after the VSB election to ensure a smooth transition and to support the new Vancouver Board of Education,” Education Minster Rob Fleming told the Courier in an email. “I’m pleased with the work she has done assisting the new board, and that VSB is now on a positive trajectory.

I thank Dianne very much for

her work as Special Advisor and wish her all the best.”

Turner was the district’s official trustee — the lone political voice at the VSB — for the year-long period spanning October 2016 to October 2017. Prior to her time in Vancouver, Turner worked briefly with the ministry of education. A ministry rep confirmed that she is not going to back to work in Victoria.

Turner was paid approximately $280,000 for her work with the district.

Turner declined an interview request with the Courier, although her Linkedin profile suggests she’s now working as an education consultant.

Current board chair Janet Fraser is one of the few trustees who saw Turner’s time with the district travel full circle. She was informed

by Fleming earlier this month that Turner would no longer be working with the district but offered few details, other than to say the decision was Fleming’s alone. Hoffman told the Courier in January that any decisions related to Turner were Fleming’s call as well.

One of Turner’s primary mandates was to reverse was

what referred to as a “toxic” workplace culture that manifested between previous board members and senior staff throughout 2016. A handful of internal audits and reports suggested bullying had become commonplace among previous trustees, prompting several senior staffers to leave the district on sick leave or find new jobs altogether.

Fleming was asked specifically to assess the job Turner had done to change those relationships.

“Bullying of any kind is not acceptable and I was disturbed by what I read about the previous atmosphere at VSB,” he said.

“The elected board offers an opportunity for renewal that will benefit students, parents, teachers and staff.”

When asked to assess how Turner handled the scrutiny association with her position, Fraser responded with this: “I presume she was fairly certain she knew what it would be like being the official trustee,” Fraser said.

“I appreciate she took on the role for our district and when asked by the minister to do the two different roles, she was willing to step in.”

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Habitat Island a no go, for now Public asked to stay off until rotting pole can be removed

ARE YOU CONCERNED ABOUT YOUR HEART HEALTH?

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The Vancouver Park Board is asking people to stay off Habitat Island for the time being.

Park operations manager Yann Gagnon made the call to close the island last week after staff discovered that one of the island’s three wildlife poles, which were installed in 2009 when the island was constructed, is in an “advanced state of decay.”

The poles are essentially tree trunks that were dug into the ground to act as habitat for wildlife. Gagnon said staff will eventually remove the pole and reopen the island to the public. However, it is currently home to a pair of nesting Northern Flicker woodpeckers.

“There are a few cracks there and it was assessed at a very high likelihood of failure,” he told the Courier.

“To protect my staff and the public I made the decision to close the island until we’ve abated the risk.”

He said the park board

St. Paul’s Hospital Healthy Heart Program is looking for study volunteers for a 3 year study of 50 people which will take place in Vancouver.

Researchers are studying whether diet coupled with exercise can reduce hardening of the arteries, also known as atherosclerosis, which can lead to heart disease and stroke.

Title of the study: MRI-Enhanced dietary portfolio plus exercise on cardiovascular risk Principal Investigator: Dr. Jiri Frohlich The study diet is mainly a vegetarian diet rich in plant sterols, high in soluble fibre, nuts and soy foods with or without the addition of intensive exercise.

Habitat Island is currently closed to the public because one of the wildlife poles is in an advanced state of decay and at risk of falling.

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will monitor the birds but will not remove the pole until the nest is empty, or the birds move on.

“The bird biology is kind of unpredictable,” he said.

“A lot of species of bird can make a nest and abandon it for another better nest, so for now we’re just not taking the chance. The poles were installed as habitat nesting

poles and they are used as such so it would be somewhat ironic to remove them while they’re nesting in it.”

He added that a park board biologist is keeping an eye on the birds.

“We observed them [last week] and they looked happy, so we’re going to be waiting until this is done.” @JessicaEKerr

All participants will receive extra monitoring of their heart health including an MRI, nutrition counselling by a Registered Dietitian and some free study foods. Half of the participants will receive regular exercise counselling by an Exercise Physiologist.

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I chose Tapestry. I wanted the freedom to decide what to do with my time. During golf season, I like to get up, grab a quick breakfast, and head off to the course for the day.

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Where to avoid driving this year Naoibh O’Connor

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Fifteen kilometres of roads. Eight kilometres of water mains. Five kilometres of sewers. That’s what city crews will be working on through the rest of this year, so drivers may want to seek alternate routes to get to their destinations.

Jerry Dobrovolny, the city’s general manager of engineering services, said about three quarters of the infrastructure in the city is water, sewer and roads worth billions of dollars, which require ongoing upgrades to ensure they remain in good working order. Whenever possible, the city tries to combine work at particular sites, such as water work and sewer replacement, to reduce the number of overall street closures or disruptions.

This year, major city projects in the $10 million-plus range include: • Fraser Street: water, sewer and street upgrades underway until the summer of 2018.

• Smithe Street: water, sewer and street upgrades through to the summer of 2018.

• Quebec Street and First Avenue: street and safety upgrades.

• St. Catherines Sewer Trunk: sewer separation and pedestrian safety work from the spring until the winter of 2018.

• 10th Avenue Corridor: Heath precinct safety improvements, which started in the fall of 2017 will continue until the summer of 2018.

• 10th Avenue (Alma to Macdonald Street): water and street work from May 2018 until the summer of 2018.

Major third-party utility projects include: • Fortis B.C. gas line upgrade along East First Avenue. It will see East First Avenue have partial and full closures over the spring and summer months and will be the largest job on a major arterial street in the city this year. Find other

details from Fortis B.C. at fortisbc.com.

• Oakridge Centre Area Improvements: utility and street upgrades adjacent to Oakridge Centre to support growth around Cambie Corridor.

The complete list of roadwork planned in Vancouver can be found at vancouver. ca/roadwork or through the city’s Van Connect app.

To address some of the anticipated congestion due to the work on East First Avenue, the city will be extending rush hour regulations on Hastings and Broadway. Morning rush hour regulations will run from 7 to 10 a.m., while evening rush hour will run from 3 to 7 p.m.

Meanwhile, rush hour regulations along Georgia Street downtown will be updated later this year.

Dobrovolny also said there has been record levels of filming on Vancouver streets in recent years and he expects 2018 to be another very busy year. More than 150 productions will be filming throughout the city.

“It’s a tremendous boost to our economy in terms of all the jobs and all the activity that it generates and we know it’s also disruptive for neighbourhoods and for commuters,” he said.

Various special events are also planned in coming months that will affect road use. Large-scale ones include: • Vaisakhi Parade: April 14 • Earth Day parade: April 21 • Vancouver Sun Run: April 22 • BMO Half Marathon: May 6 • Italian Day: June 10 • Car Free Days: June 16/17, July 8 • Greek Day: June 24 • Scotiabank Half Marathon: June 24 • Canada Day celebrations and parade: July 1 • Khatsahlano street party: July 7 • Celebration of Light: July 28, Aug. 1, Aug. 4 • Pride Parade: Aug. 5 • Our City Ride: Aug. 18 @naoibh

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Opinion Metro Vancouver brouhaha points to public service’s growing problem Mike Klassen

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A former town councillor from Penhold, Alta. named Danielle Klooster wrote a widely read op-ed a few years back titled “5 terrible reasons to run for municipal office.” I would urge every person thinking of running for mayor or city council to read it before entering politics.

In her piece, Klooster also describes why anyone should consider running for public office at all.

You should seek elected office, she writes, “because you wish to serve your community, to provide good leadership, to plan and build for the future. You should run because you have a contribution to make, ideas to be shared, passion that won’t abate and a commitment to do the right thing no matter what.”

Then she adds, “You should run if you understand that you will have to sacrifice popularity and family time, and that you will have to sometimes make decisions that benefit the community as a whole

but don’t benefit you personally.”

What Klooster does not say, however, is that you should run because of the pay cheque.

The recent actions of local government politicians — in particular Metro Vancouver board chair Greg Moore and deputy-chair Raymond Louie — have put the question of what being a mayor, city councillor or a Metro Vancouver board member is into a hard light.

Is elected office about serving the public, or is it about the remuneration and the travel perks you receive?

Through their public statements and their actions, Louie and Moore and many of their colleagues have signalled they view public life is about the latter.

The chair and his deputy have recently returned from their taxpayer-funded Australia junket, billed as a transit system “learning tour.” According to Moore, this is a trip where he mixed in a little vacation time, telling a reporter he would add a stop to the Great Barrier Reef — presumably to “learn” about coral.

According to columnist Mike Klassen, the recent actions of Metro Vancouver board chair Greg Moore (right) and deputy-chair Raymond Louie have put the question of what being a mayor, city councillor or a Metro Vancouver board member is into a hard light.

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According to the Province newspaper, Moore has racked up more than $80,000 in travel expenses since 2013, jetting around to nearly 20 global destinations including Paris and London.

This the same Greg Moore, by the way, who announced — via a statement issued (inappropriately in my view) on the City of Port Coquitlam’s website

— that he is not seeking re-election in October.

Can someone help us to understand the value of flying low-level public officials to far-flung destinations? These trips burn through tens or hundreds of thousands of your tax dollars each year.

In a recent interview, West Vancouver Mayor Michael Smith was apoplectic over the duo’s latest Aussie junket.

“I think it was last year Louie and Moore went to Ecuador for a conference.

These travel expenses are never brought to the board for approval and there is no explanation why they need to go. And there is no subsequent report coming to the board what came out of the conference,” commented Smith.

Of course, this travel brouhaha follows Louie and Moore’s full-throated defence of a “retirement allowance” (retroactive to 2007) for board members who leave office either voluntarily or with the help of voters.

After much public backlash, Moore announced last week the board will reconsider changes made to the remuneration bylaw.

If the board fails to rescind that allowance, chair Moore stands to earn a $65,000 lump sum payment.

Speaking at Metro Vancouver, Louie argued for the back-dated “pension” scheme by saying, “Part of the attraction and retention of getting people to come to this table… is to ensure

that they are appropriately compensated.”

As Louie and Moore have, municipal officials all over the province are voting themselves pay increases, mostly arguing they are not paid enough.

The stipend municipal officials receive is for their time spent preparing for and attending meetings.

Being a city councillor was never intended to be a full-time position, yet these positions have become filled with career politicians who hold seats for 10, 20 and sometimes more than 30 years.

The constant increases in pay and perks explain why we see so little turnover in local government.

The very idea of serving the public is being extinguished by self-interest.

As Klooster says, run for office because you want to abide by your passion for your community, not because you want a job. Those seeking municipal office should have a plan for what they want to accomplish in that role and — importantly — have a plan to get out. @MikeKlassen

Encouraging investment in rental properties key to affordability Michael Geller geller@sfu.ca

Over the past two months, there has been growing concern about the negative impacts of the B.C. government’s proposed housing taxes, especially the so-called Speculation Tax. While approximately 80 per cent of British Columbians support a tax to curb real estate speculation, myself included, it is becoming increasingly apparent this tax is not going to achieve this.

Nor was it intended to, according to UBC economist Tom Davidoff, one of the architects of the government’s tax proposals.

Instead, he wanted to restructure the Canadian taxation system to collect more money from foreign buyers avoiding Canadian income taxes.

The provincial government called it a Speculation Tax knowing this would appeal to voters upset by foreign buyers and rising housing prices.

Davidoff openly admits he was shocked to discover the tax would apply to vacation properties in the Gulf Islands and B.C. interior.

While the government has tweaked the program to exclude some vacation properties and introduced variable tax rates depending on whether you live in Cranbrook, Calgary or Kolkata, few expect this tax to improve overall housing affordability.

On the contrary, the new provincial taxes, combined with rising interest rates and more stringent mortgage qualification, could have severe impacts.

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According to some real estate economists, a 35 per cent decline in housing prices, which is not out of the question, could cost the average homeowner $245,000 in equity. Housing starts could fall by half and 54,000 BC jobs could be lost, increasing the unemployment rate to 7.5 per cent.

While I oppose the socalled Speculation Tax and so-called School Tax, there are tax measures that would create more affordable rental housing.

How do I know? Because they produced most of the affordable rental housing found around Vancouver today.

Between 1958 and 1973,

knowing that new rental housing typically operates at a loss in the initial years, the federal government offered a tax incentive program to encourage investment in purpose-built rental buildings.

Indeed, as my dear friend the late Morris Wosk once told me, coins from the washing machines and dryers sometimes represented the difference between positive and negative cash flow.

The new program allowed doctors, dentists, lawyers and other professionals to take advantage of Capital Cost Appreciation (CCA) provisions and other tax benefits, and write off rental property losses against other income.

During this period, 35,000 rental units were built around the city, including most of the low-rise walk-ups found throughout

the West End, Kitsilano, Kerrisdale and Marpole.

Not only did these tax incentives result in a lot of rental housing, they created significant employment for architects, builders and suppliers to the construction industry.

When this program came to an end, another followed.

Between 1974 and 1981, thousands more rental housing units were created through the Multiple Unit Residential Building program.

Like the earlier program, it too offered tax incentives to investors that could be used to reduce other income. However, unlike the earlier program, MURB units could be strata-titled and had to remain rental only for a prescribed period.

Nonetheless, four decades later, many apartments con-

tinue as relatively affordable rental housing.

More recently, at least 45 per cent of Vancouver’s new condominiums units have been purchased by investors. Most will be rented out. The same thing has been happening in Toronto.

Once again, investors will lose money in the initial years. However, over time they will earn a profit.

Unfortunately, the recently announced provincial taxes are going to increase the cost of ownership and rental housing due to higher Property Transfer Taxes and additional holding taxes while awaiting approvals.

Instead, the provincial government should be emulating past federal governments and creating tax programs to encourage investment in rental housing. @michaelgeller

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Letter writer should defer and have a good time Re: “Government wants in on the action,” Letters, April 5.

Letter writer Francis Hart and others who are house-rich and cash-poor can defer their taxes at the prime rate the province borrows money at: -2 per cent. Yes, that’s minus 2 per cent. And it’s at simple interest, not compound interest, to be paid once the home sells.

If they are house-rich and cash-poor, they could sell, move into a smaller place and use the remainder to have a good time.

Travel or whatever.

The previous Liberal government implemented policies that favoured wealthy homeowners during their reign. Now it’s time for policies that help most British Columbians, not the wealthy few.

Marc Erickson, Vancouver

Fairmont building questions and suggestions Re: “Moving historic Fairmont building recommended ‘as a measure of Reconciliation,’” April 5.

Am I missing something here? The Fairmont was built as a boys school, then used as a hospital before being RCMP Headquarters.

It wasn’t a residential school nor a foster home for Indigenous children caught in a scoop up.

So, where’s the pain for MTS Partners coming from? Is everything connected to the Mounties pain for MTS? Sorry, but the skeptic in me suspects the real pain is MTS Partners having to deal with the expensive hassle of a Class A Heritage building.

However, I have two solutions. Either MTS bulldoze the Fairmont, because why should they care about white colonial heritage on unceded territory? Or they can introduce assistant director of planning Susan Haid to Sandra Gajic of Vancouver Music Strategy. Then perhaps the Fairmont could be relocated to a place where it can best serve as a music venue. After all, one person’s poison is another person’s cure.

Alan Thurgood, Vancouver

Apostrophe now Re: “More government funds on the way for public transit,” April 5.

I’ll go back and read Jessica Kerr’s article in a moment. I was stopped by her misplacing the apostrophe in Mayors’ Council. She was consistent throughout; I’ll give her that. One mayor: mayor’s.

Several mayors: mayors’.

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Taking a shine to cooperative commissioners Re: “Community centre critical of park board agreement,” April 5.

Thank you Ainslie Kwan for providing the names of the park board commissioners who, in your opinion, really tried to work with the Community Centre Associations on the JOA. Come the municipal elections in October, I know which commissioners I’ll be voting for: Shum, Wiebe and Mackinnon. I hope they all run again.

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Goodnight and goodluck “CTV Vancouver parts ways with Tamara Taggart and Mike Killeen,” online, April 9.

I mean this sincerely, who watches broadcast news anymore? I know that my parents do (in their 70s) but I do not know one other person who dials in for news at a specified hour.

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••• Another major cut by Bell Media all to save $$$ cutting all of CTV’s long time news anchors and replacing them with less seniority ones. Good work Bell Media soon enough you will be out of business as viewers will turn away to get their daily news elsewhere. Mike and Tamara were the heart of the six o’clock CTV news you can never replace them. Good luck to you both I know you will find a much better place than CTV news. A place where you were certainly be valued for your experience and knowledge.

Rita Amato via Online Comments ••• Well I agree that the TV news trend of replacing older anchors with younger ones is a huge mistake. That strategy would probably pull in viewers if the country and the world were stable and ordered, but when people flip on the TV News in 2018 they want an old grandfather-type figure to reassure them that the world isn’t likely to come to an end next Tuesday. Trying to go with younger anchors to attract younger viewers is stupid because it’s just an attempt to compete with what people find most attractive about the internet. TV News needs to cast itself as a viable alternative, rather than a substandard copy.

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He describes it as “spiralling out of control a little bit.”

But not for long. Higgins is prepared to lose it for a good cause.

He is going to allow someone to shave it off as part of a fundraising campaign aimed at creating welcome packages for people moving into two temporary modular housing complexes being built in the Downtown Eastside not too far from where he lives in Grandview-Woodlands.

A 39-unit complex at 1131 Franklin St., which will be run by PHS Community Services, is expected to open in late April, while a 39-unit complex at 525 Powell St. for women in the Downtown Eastside, which will be run by Atira Women’s Resource Society, is expected to open in May. Higgins’ goal is to raise $3,900 — $50 towards items for each of the 78 residents.

He’ll buy products such as soap, shampoo, shaving kits, cleaning products, dishes and utensils. If they want to, contributors will be able to help him package everything up for the residents. The campaign started at the beginning of April and will run for two weeks.

As of Tuesday, Higgins had collected $2,998 through his fundraising page, which he’s called “Bare necessities for people moving off the street” — the “bare” being a nod to his intention to lose the beard.

The person who donates the largest amount will have the honour of shaving off his chin sweater.

Chris Higgins is running a fundraiser to collect money that will be used to create welcome packages for residents in two new temporary modular housing complexes. Whoever donates the most will be able to shave off his beard. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Higgins, who works for the city, was inspired by Marpole residents who created welcome packages for residents of a modular housing complex in that neighbourhood.

“When I saw those [Marpole] efforts, I thought, wow, this is really cool…

I’m a news junkie, and a Vancouver junkie, and I really like all of the things that are happening in the city. So I had been reading lots about it and all the stories I had read to date were negative. Then I saw this positive action and I thought I could do something like this.”

A friend of Higgins had already suggested he do some sort of fundraiser to remove his beard, and his wife also wants to see it off.

So he contacted the Marpole group for tips about creating welcome packages and he reached out to the non-profit operators of the two modular housing projects to get advice on what’s needed.

He’s pleased with the results of his campaign so

far, which has sparked banter between contributors, including one joking about taking a rusty axe to his beard.

Higgins is also reaching out to see if children in the area want to make welcome cards.

He maintains it’s important for the incoming residents to feel welcome in the neighbourhood they’re moving to. Modular housing complexes have attracted mixed reaction since the provincial government announced funding for 600 units to be created for the homeless in Vancouver.

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The president of the University of B.C. issued an apology Monday to survivors of Indian residential schools for the role the university played in supporting a government system that ruined the lives of thousands of young children.

Santa Ono delivered the apology before the official opening of the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre on the university’s campus, where more than 500 people gathered in and outside a large tent alongside survivors, their families and Indigenous leaders.

“On behalf of the university, I apologize to all of you who are survivors of the residential schools, to your families and communities, and to all Indigenous people for the role that this university played in perpetuating that system,” Ono said. “We apologize for the actions and inaction of our predecessors, and renew our commitment to working with you for a more just and equitable future.”

A big example of that commitment is the $5.5-million centre that is spread over two floors and covers 6,500 sq. feet of space near the university’s main mall and library. From outside, the heavily windowed cedar building resembles a wedge and faces a landscaped grassy slope, set off by tiered seating and a pond.

Inside, the first floor has a series of offices for private meetings and interactions with survivors while the

University of B.C. president Santa Ono delivered an apology to the Indigenous community before the opening of the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

downstairs is an area where survivors and the public can step into a history Ono described as “heinous.” A wall of large interactive screens allows the visitor to tap a finger on pinned marks representing the 18 former B.C. residential schools and scroll through links, videos and documents related to the school.

The centre, which was paid for by donations received from the university, is meant to complement the National Research Centre for Truth and Reconciliation in Winnipeg.

Linc Kesler, senior advisor to Ono on Aboriginal affairs and director of the university’s First Nations House of Learning, emphasized the centre isn’t a museum or mausoleum.

Kesler said it was a place for learning and understanding, and to ensure the university’s teachings are relevant to community concerns.

He remarked on the centre’s central location on campus.

“Everyone will see it, everyone will know it’s here,” he told the Courier as visitors toured the centre. “We think that’s very important because it is — as the president’s apology was — a recognition that this is important history. It needs to be known, and to have it here is really good fortune.”

Barney Williams, a residential school survivor, spoke at the ceremony and thanked Ono for his apology and the creation of the centre. Williams, 78, a member of the Tlaoquiaht First Nation, was raped, beaten and starved in residential schools near his home village on Meares Island and in Kamloops, where he attended high school.

“Education was supposed to give us just that — education,” he said. “It wasn’t meant to rip our hearts out and to kill the Indian in the child, but that’s what it was all about.”

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Williams visited the campus in April 2017 and spoke at a similar ceremony to celebrate the raising of the “pole of reconciliation” totem, which is a short distance from the centre. At the time, he told a large crowd that he didn’t want sympathy.

“We tell you these stories because they happened,” he said then. “We tell you these stories because this is the history that Canada has.

We’re also here to tell you that it’s a Canadian problem, it’s not just a First Nations problem. This problem belongs to everybody.”

Williams’ speech was followed shortly after by Adina Williams, a young UBC student who is not related to Barney. Her father was a residential school survivor and her mother a victim of the “Sixties Scoop,” where children were placed in foster homes or put up for adoption.

She talked about the lack of knowledge many Canadians have about the residential school system, which dates back to the 1840s and ended in 1996. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada estimated more than 6,000 children died at residential schools, although other estimates in Indigenous communities suggest thousands more perished.

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Williams said she continues to be frustrated about peoples’ ignorance of residential schools, including a teacher at elementary school who compared punishment in residential

schools to being struck with a ruler to the hand.

“This is why the dialogue centre is not only a timely addition to the UBC campus, but it also a necessary one,” she said. “The dialogue centre will play such a critical role in closing these wide knowledge gaps that have been ignored for far too long.” @Howellings

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Students learn living history from Vets gave students guided tour of the Chinese Canadian Military Museum SANDRA THOMAS sthomas@vancourier.com The fact Chinese men were able to serve Canada in the Second World War, but were still not allowed to vote was an irony not lost on several grade four students from Sir Wilfred Grenfell Elementary School during a recent visit to the Chinese Canadian Military Museum.

The visit was arranged after their teacher, Sylvia Seto, had her students write Christmas postcards to Bing Wong and Neil Chan.

Seto told the Courier why she thinks it’s important to teach children about the past.

“As a teacher, I think it The students were guided on is very important that the museum tour by Second we teach our students World War veterans Bing about the soldiers and Wong, Tommy Cheong veterans, especially Wong, Neil Chan, Paul Lee Canadian veterans, who and Kelly Kwong, all in their have made sacrifices and 90s.

Noah Hutchison (LEFT) and Heaven Garrido learned a lot from veteran Tommy Cheong Wong during a tour of the Chinese Canadian Military Museum. PHOTO: DAN TOULGOET

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WWII veterans contributions towards peace and freedoms we enjoy in Canada. There are fewer and fewer World War Two veterans alive since many of them are in their 90s. It is important that children remember, honour and respect these soldiers and

veterans for all they have done for our country.”

Why did you focus on the Chinese Military Museum?

The Chinese Military Museum is the only one of its kind in North America

and it is right here in our city of Vancouver. My friend’s father, Neil Chan, and my friend’s fatherin-law, Bing Wong, are WWII veterans, both 94 years old. My class wrote both veterans heartfelt cards thanking them for

The Story of Force 136 is a tribute to the Chinese Canadians who signed up for a dangerous and secretive mission in Southeast Asia during the Second World War.

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Selina Lau and Timothy Phan checked out the exhibits at the Chinese Canadian Military Museum during a special tour recently.

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their sacrifices and service during WWII when Chinese Canadians were discriminated against and were initially denied from enlisting in the war. The majority of the students in my class are of Asian descent. I felt it was important for them to know that what they and their parents have now, wasn’t always like that.

What do you think impacted the students most?

I think the students felt honoured to be able to meet two WWII veterans as well as two other Chinese Canadian veterans, to hear their stories, see their photos in the museum and have their photos taken with them. The students learned about the discrimination

Chinese Canadians faced decades ago. They learned that the Chinese had to pay a Head Tax to be allowed into Canada, they were not allowed to vote and they were not allowed to use public swimming pools. They also learned how scary it was and how brave these soldiers were to be dropped behind enemy lines in Japan.

Do you have plans to continue this program in the future?

I teach a history unit on WWI and WWII every year in November — Lest We Forget. I don’t want this young generation to grow up and forget about the sacrifices and contributions these soldiers and veterans have made.

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Premier John Horgan announced March 21 that the provincial government is launching a new, fourpart surgical strategy aimed at reducing wait times for the health care British Columbians need. One of the first components of the strategy will see five hip and knee replacement programs implemented throughout the province.

“For far too long, far too many British Columbians

were left on waitlists instead of getting fast access to the surgery they needed to enjoy full, active lives,” said Premier Horgan at a press conference. “We’re getting people back on their feet faster by dramatically increasing access to hip and knee surgeries.”

These programs will address the long waits faced by people. In 2016 and 2017, 30 per cent of people waiting for hip surgery and 38 per cent of people waiting for knee surgery waited more than 26 weeks.

“We are embedding the innovations of the former

Richmond Hip and Knee Reconstruction project into our program because it is a public health-care system solution that is proven to work for patients,” said Health Minister Adrian Dix. “Our strategy will not only mean people spend less time waiting for hip and knee replacements, but that we keep up to demand for all surgeries by investing in more surgeries and implementing operating room efficiencies.”

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“We are thrilled to be part of this important work and announce the new hip and knee replacement centre at Vancouver General Hospital,” said Dr. Bassam Masri, Vancouver Coastal Health’s surgeon-in-chief for Vancouver Acute and the head of the orthopedics department. “Streamlining the intake and assessment process for hip and knee replacement surgery reduces wait times for patients, providing them with comprehensive, wraparound care

before and after surgery so they can get back to living their lives in the best way possible. With people spending less time in hospital, we are able to perform more surgeries.”

In 2016/2017, approximately 14,390 hip and knee surgeries were performed, and by 201819, more than 19,250 will be done annually. That translates to a 34 per cent increase in hip and knee surgeries. This will significantly reduce the number of patients waiting.

West Vancouver resident Christopher Hebb had both of his hips replaced at Vancouver General Hospital.

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Seniors’ discount returns to B.C. Ferries As of April 1, the seniors’ discount on passenger fares on B.C. Ferries has been restored.

LOUISE DICKSON Those over 65 can ride B.C. Ferries for free, Monday to Thursday, although the vehicle fare still applies.

It’s part of the government decision to roll back fares 15 per cent on minor routes and to freeze fares on the three major Vancouver IslandMainland routes. A scheduled fare increase of 1.9 per cent due April 1 will not go ahead, according to a statement from B.C. Ferries.

These measures, which were included in the NDP’s election platform, were confirmed in the provincial budget.

B.C. Ferries and the province reached an agreement to fund these reductions at a cost of $43.2 million in 2019 and $54.8 million in 2020, for a total of $98 million.

B.C. Ferries is contributing $39 million to the $78 million in fare reduction.

The province is contributing the remaining $59 million for fare reductions and increased B.C. seniors’ discounts.

“We are focused on the affordability of ferry travel.

Our present financial position allows us to use some of our net earnings to reduce fares for our customers,” said Mark Collins, president and chief executive officer of B.C. Ferries. “This major additional contribution by the province expands efforts to improve affordability.”

B.C. Ferries has also reduced the buy-in level for Experience Cards by 15 per cent, to $95 for vehicle and driver and $55 for passenger fares.

Last year, the company offered customers a total of $7 million in discounted sailings.

B.C. Ferries reinvests all of its net earnings to provide fare discounts and hold or reduce fares, to invest in new vessels and terminals, to improve service by increasing the number of sailings and to minimize borrowing to lower the interest paid on debt, says the statement.

The seniors’discount on B.C. Ferries fares has been restored.

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Reservation fees have been reduced to $10 from $15 for customers who book seven days in advance.

Reservations made less than seven days in advance and up to one day prior are $17. Reservations booked the day of travel are $21.

The cost of 10 assuredloading tickets is unchanged at $1,550.

B.C. Ferries will continue to offer customers discounts on some sailings to help move traffic to less busy sailings and open up space on popular sailings. B.C. Ferries will announce the discounted sailings closer to the times of availability, says the statement.

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What is noise-induced hearing loss? What noise have you been exposed to?

What are the causes? And how do you The ringing in the ears after a rock concert or exposure to other damaging noise levels is treat a noise-induced hearing loss?

After age-related hearing loss (Presbycusis), noiseinduced hearing loss (NIHL) is the 2nd most common cause of hearing loss and affects both young and old. A noise-induced hearing loss is a permanent hearing loss caused by prolonged exposure to high levels of noise. Hearing deteriorates gradually from the noise exposure.

Studies show that elderly people in less-developed countries have better hearing than their counterparts in Canada, because they haven’t been exposed to as much noise pollution. But younger people everywhere in today’s noisy world are at risk from NIHL, especially when not wearing hearing protection while working with loud machinery or listening to loud music (especially while wearing headphones).

Sound intensity is measured in decibels of hearing level (dB HL). A whisper is about 30 to 40dB HL, normal speech is about 50-60dB HL, and shouting is about 80 to 90dB HL. Lawnmowers and loud music in confined spaces are about 90 to 95dB HL, circular saws and jack hammers are about 100 to 110dB HL, and a screaming jet engine is about 120dB HL. Two things to consider here are the noise intensity and the length of exposure to it. Generally, the louder the sounds, the shorter the time those sounds can be tolerated without causing permanent NIHL. For example, 80dB HL might be tolerated in an 8-hour work day. But each time the noise level is increased by 5dB, the time exposure sufficient to cause NIHL will be cut in half.

are not understandable and sound like mumbling.

The natural resonance of the outer ear and ear canal is caused precisely by the unique shape of the outer ear and the length of the ear canal. With normal a strong warning of permanent NIHL risk. hearing, softer high-pitched consonant sounds of The tiny hair cells inside the speech are naturally increased in loudness so as to inner ear, or cochlea, are bent be better-heard. Excessive noise, however, causes by incoming sound. When too a mirror image of this unique resonance, as can be much loud noise blasts and seen by the shape on the audiogram. While NIHL flattens those hairs cells, the is entirely preventable, the sad thing is that it is message to the brain will be that it is hearing a sound when there is no sound. permanent.

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Dr Ted Venema earned a BA in Philosophy at Calvin College and an MA in Audiology at Western Washington University. After working for three years as a clinical Audiologist at The Canadian Hearing Society in Toronto, he went back to school and completed a PhD in Audiology at the University of Oklahoma. He was an Assistant Professor at Auburn University in Alabama. In 2017, Ted began teaching in the new Hearing Instrument Practitioner program at Douglas College in Coquitlam BC. He continues to give presentations on hearing, hearing loss and hearing aids.

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Community COURAGE TO COME BACK

Fatherhood birthed clarity and revelation for former addict Martha Perkins

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Three months before he was supposed to be finally reunited with his birth father, Josh Dahling got news that sent him into a tailspin.

His father had been murdered in Greece and his body dumped into the sea. Dahling was needed to provide formal identification of the man he had not seen since childhood.

It was a traumatizing experience in a young life already filled with trauma — immigrating to Canada from South Africa, his father’s deportation a short time later, debilitating poverty, being introduced to drugs at the age of seven by his stepfather, sexual and physical abuse, daily fights at school and seeking escape from it all through drugs and alcohol.

“I think everyone who’s lived that lifestyle knows you have some pretty dark secrets,” says this year’s recipient of the Courage to Come Back award in the addictions category.

But it was his own experience as a father that helped Dahling slowly build his life back together.

In the moments after his son was born, he experienced a moment of clarity and revelation.

Although the future was an incredibly daunting proposition, his normal reaction to panic and run was replaced by something else: knowledge that he was not only a father but that he had to be a father. He was going to be there for his son so that his son could have the childhood everyone deserves — a childhood Dahling had been denied.

It wasn’t easy. A later custody battle for his two daughters meant Dahling

and his three children lived in Burnaby but had to travel, sometimes daily, to Nanaimo so his children could attend school there. Health problems, including PTSD, meant that Dahling needed to go on disability, supplementing his meagre income with website development and the generosity of friends.

He had to put his own education on hold to devote himself to being a single parent but continued to help others as they battled through their own addictions.

Today, his son is studying to be a plumber and Dahling’s daughters are thriving as well. Dahling’s own life is pretty good, too. He and his partner run the Camp Kerry Society, an end-of-life and bereavement service for people across the province.

It had been at a Camp Kerry Society retreat that Dahling had had another revelation: people actually say out loud “I lost my father” or “My mother died” rather than try to bury the pain and soldier on alone. He embraced the healing power of being able to talk through your grief and now believes bereavement leave should be provided in the same manner as maternity leave.

“Over 90 per cent of the people I’ve worked with who had addiction issues had a significant loss around the time their addiction started or accelerated,” he says.

When Dahling was courtordered into a treatment program, his intention was to get clean, get out and start using again.

“I liked the way drinking and drugs made me feel,” he says. He wanted, and needed, the escape from reality. “I actually didn’t think I had a problem. It felt like I was being stopped — it felt like the world had a problem

Josh Dahling says if he’d been exposed to the grief counselling provided by the Camp Kerry Society, of which he’s now the director of youth services and director of operations, it would have helped him avoid a lot of the hardships brought on by trauma and addictions. PHOTO MARTHA PERKINS

with me. I was determined to go back to doing drugs and being a rock star.”

For the first two years of his sobriety, “I did everything you’re not supposed to — I worked in a bar and saw how regular people drank, which was weird.”

That time in his life also coincided with a court appearance for assaulting an officer during an altercation.

The officer said charges would not be pursued if Dahling agreed to go into schools to share his story about the dangers of that lifestyle.

“I said drugs made me feel great and I wasn’t going to tarnish my reputation,” Dahling says of his initial response. Faced with the court case, however, he quickly acquiesced.

That experience gave him

exposure to social workers, not as a child afraid of being taken away from his mother and siblings, but as an adult who could see the good they can do in children’s lives.

It was when he was studying to be a social worker he discovered a way to deal with the dyslexia that had previously made school such a struggle. He put green and red cellophane paper over the pages of a book “and the words didn’t float around any more.”

During his studies he learned about such things as PTSD and the residual impact of suffering the loss of his father three times — leaving South Africa a year before his father could join them, the deportation and identifying his rotting corpse. He put words to the

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jumble of emotions he’d felt as a child, and why he had dealt with life with anger and being intoxicated.

When he met Dr. Heather Mohan, a registered clinical therapist and music therapist who had founded the Camp Kerry Society as an outreach program through Lions Gate Hospital, he realized the program needed to be more widely available. Together, in life and through the organization, they have built it into a service that provides counselling and support to a multitude of people.

“If I’d have had Camp Kerry [when I was younger], it would have been life changing for me,” Dahling says, adding that “only two of the hundreds, if not thousands, of kids I’ve worked

with has been a statistic.”

They rely on donations, constant applications for government grants and the proceeds from a thrift store they opened in Sapperton.

He works full time as its director of youth services and director of operations. He handles those responsibilities on top of volunteering for every school trip and fundraiser at his children’s schools.

There are still ramifications of his childhood trauma. He wakes up at midnight every night, conditioned to being alert during the time when his mother’s boyfriend would often beat her. However, he’s also stopped being angry at his mother for not protecting her children more. He realizes she had her own traumas growing up in apartheid South Africa and that she always tried to do her best. His father, too, had not had it easy, having been disowned by his family.

That peace of mind was “the missing link” in his sobriety.

He also gets emotional sustenance from his job.

“When people are dying, the majority aren’t thinking of themselves. They’re thinking of how they can make life better for those they are leaving behind. If everyone lived that way we wouldn’t have so much suffering.

“I’m about to get an award for doing something that I think people should be doing anyways. We should all give to our communities and helping other people.”

The Courage to Come Back gala is May 10 at the Vancouver Convention Centre. It is a major fundraiser for Coast Mental Health. You can find out more about the awards or buy tickets at CourageToComeBack.ca.

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APRIL 21

10:00 am – 12:00 pm Opening Launch of Asian Heritage Month & explorASIAN Festival 2018 Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society, SFU David Lam Centre DESCRIPTION: Dignitaries, partners and the public join in celebrating the launch of the explorASIAN Festival 2018 and Asian Heritage Month with Pan Asian performances and presentations.

VENUE: Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre, Simon Fraser University, 149 West Hastings St., Vancouver INFO: office.vahms@gmail.com, explorasian.org, FREE event, light refreshments

5:30 pm – 9:30 pm Pan Asian Recognition Awards Gala Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society DESCRIPTION: Recognition Gala event for the explorASIAN Festival 2018 with Pan Asian performances, 10 course Chinese dinner, raffle, silent auction and recognition awards for outstanding Pan Asian community leaders and organizations.

VENUE: The Pink Pearl Chinese Restaurant, 1132 East Hastings St., Vancouver INFO: office.vahms@gmail.com, explorasian.org, tickets $70.00 per person, $650 table of 10

FEBRUARY 10 – MAY 27

Beta Vulgari: Sugar Beet Projects Exhibition Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre DESCRIPTION: This exhibition highlights the relationship between sugar and Japanese Canadian history in Western Canada: sugar’s purity, genericity, neutrality and its history and condition of labour.

VENUE: Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre, 6688 Southoaks Cres., Burnaby INFO: FREE event, 604-777-7000, jcnm@nikkeiplace.org

APRIL 18

APRIL 19

5:00 pm – 7:00 pm ACAM 350 Film Screening UBC Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies Program DESCRIPTION: The Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies Program is pleased to host our second annual film screening for ACAM 350: Asian Canadian Community Media.

The films, which seek to engage communities in making ethical collaborations, cover a wide range of Asian/Asian Canadian topics.

VENUE: UBC (TBA) INFO: FREE event, acam.events@ubc.ca

3:00 pm – 5:00 pm, May Melfil Chai House DESCRIPTION: The Ismaili Council of BC and Dreamzz Radio are pleased to host the May Mehfil Chai House as part of the Asian Heritage Month explorASIAN Festival with this year’s theme “Pan Asian Routes”, featuring writers and performers of Asian heritage.

Admission by donation, Chai and snacks will be provided.

VENUE: Ismaili Centre Social Hall (second floor), 4010 Canada Way, Burnaby | INFO: 778-708-0690

MAY 6 & MAY 13

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm, Chinese Tea Ceremony & Photography Discussion, Viridian Gallery DESCRIPTION: Drop by and enjoy a Chinese tea ceremony with a chance to meet up with the artist Axel Breutigam of the current exhibition and the gallery curator Dong Yue Su for a casual talk of fine art photography.

VENUE: Viridian Gallery, 1570 Coal Harbour Quay, Vancouver INFO: FREE event, info@viridiangallery.ca, viridiangallery.ca 6:30 pm – 10:00 pm, Love Speaks #31, Hafez Literature Club DESCRIPTION: An evening celebration of Persian literature, music & arts.

VENUE: Evergreen Cultural Centre, 1205 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam INFO: info@hafezliteratureclub.com

10:00 am – 5:00 pm Treasures: East & West Bjarne Tokerud Bookseller Inc., Vancouver Lipont Art Centre DESCRIPTION: Exhibition of fine Chinese and Japanese works of art, antiques, furniture, vintage photographs, and books, and non-Asian rare books of Canadian history and photographs.

VENUE: Vancouver Lipont Art Centre, 4211 No. 3 Rd., Richmond INFO: FREE event, 604-285-9975, lipont.com, bjarnetokerud.com

APRIL 22 – MAY 31

Portraits of Nature, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden OPENING RECEPTION: May 4, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm DESCRIPTION: This poetic exhibition by Gloria King is a photographic exploration of the magical landscapes, gardens, and plants native to the Vancouver area, as well as those from China, Africa, South Asia and Hawaii.

VENUE: Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, 578 Carrall St., Vancouver INFO: vancouverchinesegarden.com, 604-662-3207

APRIL 26

4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Graduation, Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies Program DESCRIPTION: Please join us in celebrating the ACAM Graduating class of 2018! This event will feature graduating student speakers, a light evening reception, and a preview of what’s ahead for the UBC ACAM Program.

VENUE: St. Johns College, 2111 Lower Mall, University of British Columbia, Vancouver INFO: FREE event, stjohns.ubc.ca/events, acam.events@ubc.ca

MAY 1 – 31

Pan Asian Routes Dimasalang III International Artist Group, Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society (VAHMS) OPENING RECEPTION: May 3, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm DESCRIPTION: Pan Asian Routes is a visual art exhibition in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Dimasalang Artist Group (Philippines 1968) VENUE: Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch, 350 West Georgia St., Vancouver. Exhibition at the Moat Gallery; Reception to be held at the Alma VanDusen & Peter Kaye Rooms INFO: dimasalang.org, leo@leocunanan.com, FREE event

MAY 2 – MAY 27

Irodori – We Love Canada, Gallery Bistro OPENING RECEPTION: May 12, 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm DESCRIPTION: Chieko Art Studio’s 20 Artists hail from Japan, Korea and Taiwan VENUE: Gallery Bistro, 2411 Clarke St., Port Moody INFO: FREE event, gallerybistroportmoody.com, info@gallerybistroportmoody.com

MAY 2 – MAY 31

A Bridge to Taiwan, Taiwanese Canadian Cultural Society DESCRIPTION: A series of Taiwanese Films VENUE: Taiwanese Cultural Centre, 8853 Selkirk St., Vancouver INFO: info@tccs.ca, tccs.ca

MAY 3

6:30 pm, Night Shift: Magnetic Threads,

Museum of Anthropology DESCRIPTION: Experience an unexpected mix of live performing arts by some of the most interesting artists from Vancouver and beyond at MOA’s monthly cabaret party!

VENUE: Museum of Anthropology, 6393 NW Marine Dr., Vancouver INFO: moa.ubc.ca; FREE with museum admission

MAY 5 – 31

Unthreaded, Ian Tan Gallery OPENING RECEPTION: May 5, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm DESCRIPTION: Aligning with the festival mandate, the exhibition features five Asian women who have come together to celebrate the common threads and unique identities of their Pan-Asian backgrounds through visual art.

VENUE: Ian Tan Gallery, 2342 Granville St., Vancouver INFO: FREE event, iantangallery.com

Essence Art Exhibition North Vancouver Community Arts Council OPENING RECEPTION: April 26, 7pm - 9pm DESCRIPTION: Essence Art Exhibition is a collection of works by five Filipino artists about the roles, struggles and triumphs of all women. The artists express their observations, feelings, and sensibilities arising from personal experiences and international influences.

VENUE: CityScape Community Arts Space, 335 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver INFO: FREE event, nvartscouncil.ca/eventsexhibitions, exhibitions@nvartscouncil.ca

MAY 5

11:00 am - 4:00 pm Pull of the Net: A Multicultural Celebration, Gulf of Georgia Cannery Society DESCRIPTION: FREE, family-friendly event to celebrate multiculturalism of the West Coast fishing industry, inside the historic cannery in Steveston village.

VENUE: Gulf of Georgia Cannery National Historic Site, 12138 Fourth Ave., Richmond, BC INFO: gulfofgeorgiacannery.org, 604-664-9009

MAY 1

Illumination of Vancouver City Hall City of Vancouver (COV), Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society DESCRIPTION: In celebration of Asian Heritage Month of May and the launch of the explorASIAN festival 2018, Vancouver City Hall will be illuminated in RED! This year’s festival “Pan Asian Routes” will place a special focus on Pan Asian migration and the legacy, culture and accomplishments of the growing and diverse communities of Canadians with Pan Asian heritage.

VENUE: 453 W 12th Ave., Vancouver INFO: explorasian.org, office.vahms@gmail.com

VENUE: Richmond Art Gallery, 7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond

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MAY 3 – JUNE 17

MAY 5

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm, “All Our Father’s Relations”: Exploring a New Learning Tool for Educators & Facilitators, PCHC Museum of Migration Society in partnership with All Our Father’s Relations DESCRIPTION: Participate in a film screening about one MusqueamChinese family’s journey and a facilitated discussion on how to use this documentary for intercultural teaching and learning.

VENUE: UBC Learning Exchange, 612 Main St., Vancouver BC INFO: FREE event, right.relations.productions@gmail.com, pchcmom.ca, allourfathersrelations.com

Japanese Canadian Internment Legacy Sign Unveiling: Lillooet, 1:30 Sign Unveiling ceremony, 2:30 Reception at Fort Berens Winery, Ministry of Transportation & Infrastructure; Japanese Canadian Legacy Committee DESCRIPTION: Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Japanese Canadian Internment (1942-2017), a historic sign will be unveiled for the self-supporting sites of East Lillooet, Bridge River, Minto, McGillvray Falls, Taylor Lake by the Province of British Columbia and the Japanese Canadian Legacy Project Committee.

VENUE: Lillooet Internment Memorial Garden, Highway 12 & Sumner Rd., Lillooet, BC INFO: FREE, open to the public, centre.nikkeiplace.org, lsaimoto4@gmail.com

MAY 12

2:00 pm, Scripting Aloud DESCRIPTION: Seasonal public staged reading event that helps develop original or adapted short- and long- form scripts for multiple channels and platforms, focusing on diverse, inclusive content, writers, and performers.

VENUE: TBA | INFO: scriptingaloud.ca, scriptingaloud@gmail.com

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm A Century of Asian Canadian Writing Ricepaper Magazine DESCRIPTION: Ricepaper magazine has been a pioneering periodical devoted to Asian Canadian writing for over twenty years. Ricepaper’s focus has shifted from predominately arts and culture reporting to the publication of original literature. In featuring editors from past generations of Ricepaper, this event showcases the evolution of Asian Canadian literature, publishing, and the art of editing.

VENUE: Sun Wah Centre, 268 Keefer St., Vancouver INFO: ricepapermagazine.ca, info@ricepapermagazine.ca 8:00 pm, “Chinese-Canadian Miracle Concert” BC Chinese Music Association, Fundraiser for BC Children’s Hospital Foundation DESCRIPTION: Orchestra music by BC Chinese Orchestra VENUE: Gateway Theatre, 6500 Gilbert Rd., Richmond INFO: bccma.net 10:00 am – 11:00 am, Dialogue on Human Rights – 30 Years After Redress, National Association of Japanese Canadians DESCRIPTION: National Association of Japanese Canadians Human Rights Speaker Series.

VENUE: Online event | INFO: najc.ca; national@najc.ca

Admission by donation, richmondartgallery.org, gallery@richmond.ca, 604-247-8300

MAY 5

1:00 pm, Artist Talk by Karilynn Ming Ho Meet the exhibiting artist as she shares the process and ideas behind her work in the Gallery’s current exhibition For the Left Hand Alone DESCRIPTION:

MAY 17

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm, Cross-Cultural Collage Night DESCRIPTION: Hands-on art-making event for ages 16 +. All materials and basic instructions in English, Mandarin and Cantonese.

MAY 26

1:00 pm, Exhibitions Tour in Mandarin DESCRIPTION: Learn more about our exhibitions at this tour to be conducted in Mandarin.

MAY 26

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm, Video Screening with Ho Tam

DESCRIPTION: Exhibiting artist Ho Tam will screen a selection of

his video works to coincide with his gallery exhibition, Cover to Cover, investigating the mediated construction of public persona.

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MAY 12

MAY 6

3:00 pm – 5:00 pm, Tracing Malong/Guhit ng Ating Malong, Migrante BC in partnership with Co. Erasga DESCRIPTION: Evening of dance centred around the malong (the wrap-around garment associated in the Mindanao region) with community sharing and arts dialogue for Asian Heritage Month.

VENUE: Glad Tidings, 3456 Fraser St., Vancouver INFO: 604-879-5850, migrantebc.com, companyerasgadance.ca, migrante.event@gmail.com

MAY 19

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm, 4th Annual Tagore Spring Festival 2018, Vancouver Tagore Society DESCRIPTION: A multicultural celebration of Spring through dance, music and poetry, inspired by Nobel-laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s idea of cultural diversity and pluralism.

VENUE: Surrey Councils Chambers, Surrey City Hall, 13450 – 104th Ave., Surrey INFO: vancouvertagoresociety.org, vancouvertagoresociety@gmail. com. Gates open at 6:30 pm. Admission by donation.

MAY 20

10:00 am – 12:00 pm, Walking Tour: Reflections on Asian Canadian Life & Work, Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizens’ Association DESCRIPTION: Hear the stories of how Asian Canadians lived and worked in the Powell Street area over 75 years ago.

VENUE: Meet near Chapel Arts (304 Dunlevy) at the corner of Dunlevy and East Cordova, Vancouver | INFO: FREE event, open to public, gvjcca@gmail.com, gvjcca.ca, 604-777-5222

MAY 20

7:00 pm, Surrey Golden Melody Concert, BC Chinese Music Association DESCRIPTION: Orchestra music by BC Chinese Orchestra VENUE: Surrey Bell Centre, 6250 144th St., Surrey | INFO: bccma.net

MAY 27

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm, World Poetry Celebrates First Nations & South Asian Cultures, World Poetry Reading Series Society DESCRIPTION: First in Vancouver! First Nations and South Asian cultures come together through dance, music and poetry.

VENUE: Alice MacKay Room, Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch, 350 West Georgia St., Vancouver INFO: FREE event, ariadnes@uniserve.com, 604-526-4729

MAY 27 & 28

Taste of Taiwan, Taiwanese Canadian Cultural Society DESCRIPTION: Chef from Taiwan to showcase Taiwanese cuisines VENUE: Taiwanese Cultural Centre, 8853 Selkirk St., Vancouver INFO: info@tccs.ca, tccs.ca

MAY 27

11:00 am – 1:00 pm, Exploring Vancouver Chinatown’s Ever-changing Cultural Landscape, Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC, Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society DESCRIPTION: Please join John Atkin, Bob Sung & Hayne Wai in exploring Chinatown’s unique and ever-changing cultural landscape in relation to the past, present and future.

VENUE: Chinese Cultural Centre, 50 East Pender St., Vancouver INFO: office.vahms@gmail.com, by donation, explorasian.org

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2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Ganito Kami Noon, Paano Kayo Ngayon? This is How We Were Before, How Are You Doing Now? 100 Filipino Film Series, Consulate General of the Philippines Vancouver, Dahong Pilipino, Anyone Can Act Theatre, Tulayan - Filipino Diaspora Society, Kathara Pilipino Indigenous Arts Society, Arnis Kali Maharlika, UP Alumni Association in BC DESCRIPTION: One of the best of classic Filipino Cinema, Ganito Kami Noon, Paano Kayo Ngayon? This is How We Were Before, How Are You Doing Now?, is a Filipino romantic musical drama film set in the year of Spanish colonization in the Philippines with English Subtitles. A panel discussion will follow the movie.

VENUE: Alice MacKay Room, Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch, 350 West Georgia St., Vancouver.

INFO: FREE event, leo@dahongpilipino.ca.

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The Lost Fleet Exhibition, Vancouver Maritime Museum Exhibition extended to June 17, 2018 LECTURES: May 3 at 7:30 pm and May 24 at 7:30 pm DESCRIPTION: THE LOST FLEET exhibition centres around the seizure of Japanese-Canadian fishing vessels during WWII. VENUE: Vancouver Maritime Museum, 1905 Ogden Ave., Vancouver INFO: lectures FREE with admission, info@maritime.com, 604-257-8300

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APRIL 27 – MAY 26

7:00 pm – 9:30 pm NATIONAL CANADIAN FILM DAY A Time to Swim & Re Lekuah, directed by Ashley Duong and presented in partnership with VAFF, explorASIAN, SEACHS, REEL CANADA, Museum of Vancouver and the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre DESCRIPTION: A Time to Swim looks at an exiled indigenous activist from Montreal who returns to his childhood village in Borneo and struggles to navigate a complex web of interests and tensions in a race to save his culture. The Vancouver premier of Re Lekuah is the first music video in the Kelabit language sung by Alena Murang.

VENUE: H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, 1100 Chestnut St., Vancouver INFO: FREE event, info@vaff.org

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10:00 am – 9:00 pm & May 6, 10:00 am – 6:00 pm, Thanks Mom Give Life 2018, Thanks Mom Give Life Steering Committee and Canadian Blood Services DESCRIPTION: Partnering with Canadian Blood Services, Thanks Mom Give Life 2018 is a public awareness campaign on “Give Life” through blood, stem cell, cord blood or organ/tissue donation. Come register or find out more!

VENUE: Surrey Guildford Town Centre (Centre Court), 10355 – 152nd St., Surrey INFO: thanksmom.org, info@thanksmom.org

11:30 am – 5:30 pm, VIA Spring Show 2018, Vancouver Ikebana Association DESCRIPTION: An afternoon of Ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arranging. Displays, live demonstrations at 1:30 pm and 3:30 pm, and hands-on workshops.

VENUE: Alan Emmott Centre, 6650 Southoaks, Burnaby INFO: Admission by donation, vancouver-ikebana.ca, vancouverikebana@gmail.com

MAY 14

7:30 pm, Dr. Jai Li Pipa Recital, BC Chinese Music Association DESCRIPTION: Pipa recital by Dr. Jia Li from the China Conservatory of Music, Beijing, China.

VENUE: Norman Rothstein Theatre, 950 West 41st Ave., Vancouver INFO: bccma.net

10:30 am – 12:00 pm Past, Present and Future of the Punjabi Market, Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society DESCRIPTION: Take a walking tour of Punjabi Market and learn about its history, present cultural landscape and what the future of the Punjabi Market means to the city and the community.

VENUE: Lobby, Sunset Community Centre, 6810 Main St., Vancouver INFO: By donation, explorasian.org, office.vahms@gmail.com

MAY 24

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Asianess Workshop, Imtiaz Popat DESCRIPTION: This workshop will explore what it is to be Asian?

Globally the term Asian means all of Asia, but in North America it means East Asian. So the word South Asian needed to be created. How do South East Asians and West Asians fit in? Or do they? Join in the the conversation as we explore Asianess to fit in with this year’s Pan Asian theme.

VENUE: UBC Learning Exchange, 612 Main St., Vancouver INFO: 778-708-0690

MAY 26

11:00 am, 90th Anniversary Historic Japantown Walking Tours, Vancouver Japanese Language School & Japanese Hall, Vancouver Heritage Foundation, Nikkei National Museum, Landscapes of Injustice, Chocolate Arts DESCRIPTION: Celebrating the 90th anniversary of our 1928 Heritage Building and Japan/Canada Relations, this building and walking tour of the Powell Street neighbourhood will take you back in time to pre-war Japantown and the story of Japanese Canadians.

VENUE: Japanese Hall, 487 & 475 Alexander St., Vancouver INFO: vjls-jh.com, vjls@vjls-jh.com, 604-254-2551

MAY 27

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm, Mixed Me: Multi-ethnic Storytelling for Teens & Kids, Hapa-palooza Festival, Museum of Vancouver, Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society DESCRIPTION: For story-tellers and storylovers! Hapa-palooza Festival, a celebration of mixed heritage arts and ideas, presents an afternoon of multi-ethnic storytelling for teens, kids, and families. Please join three exciting mixed race authors — poet and memoirist Chelene Knight (Dear Current Occupant), young adult writer Michelle Kim (Running Through Sprinklers), and animator/children’s book author Jeff Chiba Stearns (Mixed Critters: An ABC Book) — for creativity workshops focusing on youth, children, or authors who write for youth, followed by readings and discussion of their newest works.

VENUE: Museum of Vancouver (Joyce Walley Room), 1100 Chestnut St., Vancouver INFO: FREE event, info@hapapalooza.com

MAY 26

3:00 pm – 6:00 pm “Hot+Noisy” Chinatown Mahjong Social, Youth Collaborative for Chinatown DESCRIPTION: Bringing the “hot+noisy” back to Vancouver Chinatown through community free-play mahjong between cultures and generations! All levels welcome, with teachers on hand. No gambling.

VENUE: Chinatown Plaza Mall, 180 Keefer St., Vancouver (if the weather’s nice, find us OUTSIDE in Memorial Square (Keefer & Columbia) INFO: FREE event, ycc-yvr.com, ycc.yvr@gmail.com

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April is Sexual Assault Awareness month and Good Night Out Vancouver has partnered with local breweries to educate the public in the most refreshing way.

The Brewers Row Charity Collaboration Brew is an annual project that brings together craft breweries along Port Moody’s Brewers Row to create a beer that raises both awareness and funds for a local non-profit.

Good Night Out Vancouver coordinator Stacey Forrester said the group had the idea to create a Good Night Out beer last year but put the idea on the backburner until earlier this year when they approached Port Moody’s Twin Sails brewery.

“We put together a proposal and we happened to get it into Twin Sails around the time they were considering people to make the charity beer for,” she said, adding that the group wasn’t even aware of the project.

Good Night Out Vancouver was chosen for this year’s Brewer’s Row Charity Collaboration Brew. Each can of the beer contains a fact or trivia about sexual assault and harassment.

“The links between booze and gender-based violence have been long established but the activities of Good Night Out in the past year have really enforced that there are conditions when people are drinking that really allow the normalization of not asking for consent,” Forrester said. “The key to this is that the messaging on all of the cans is a really

teachable moment and we thought it was just a really great way to normalize talking about consent in social situations.”

The beer, which was launched at an event over the weekend, is sold in four packs and each can includes a sticker that when peeled off reveals a different fact or trivia — including the fact that, on average, police in Canada receive more than 500,000 reports of sexual assault every year.

Of those, it’s estimated that one in five involve drugs, and alcohol is the most common drug used.

“Some are trivia, some are more serious, some include links to sex assault support services,” she said, adding that the cans also include the hashtag #nowyouGNO. “We’re really hoping that people photograph it and share it and tag us on Instagram and really turn it into a bit of an educational campaign until the beer is all gone.” @JessicaEKerr

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Two separate petitions target park board Residents against bike path and new pool Jessica Kerr

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A pair of petitions aimed at the Vancouver Park Board are making the rounds.

Keep parks for pedestrians

One petition is calling on the park board to make Kits Beach and Hadden parks off limits to cyclists.

“Clearly, these are pedestrian areas,” the change.org petition reads.

“Having cyclists zig-zag or race [through] foot traffic is already dangerous and disruptive to the vast majority of park patrons. We don’t want more disruption.”

Launched April 1, the online petition had more than 220 signatures as of Tuesday morning.

The board is considering a separated bike path through the Kits Beach area. A proposed route with various options was presented to commissioners at a meeting last month; however commissioners referred the issue back to staff asking for a more detailed plan.

Kits resident Peter Labrie, who started the petition, said a bike path “just doesn’t belong” in the parks.

“It’s going to change the whole vibe and we don’t really want that,” he said.

“It’s not that we’re against bikes,” he added.

“We just don’t want cyclists through a pedestrian area.”

The proposed route that was presented to commissioners March 12 would start to the west at Balsam Street and Cornwall Avenue and run northeast to Ogden Avenue and Maple Street, running through green space in the western and northern ends, and would mean the loss of more than 900 square metres of green space.

Residents opposed to the plan rallied ahead of last month’s meeting and packed the park board office as commissioners heard the report from staff.

This isn’t the first time residents have protested a paved bike lane in the area.

In 2013, residents rallied against a similar proposal.

The pathway is part of the city’s Point GreyCornwall Active Transportation Corridor, which runs between Kits Beach and

Jericho Park. City council approved the corridor in July 2013 and asked the park board to “proceed with upgrading of the Seaside Greenway in Kitsilano Beach and Hadden Parks as a priority project funded by the city’s capital budget.”

Later that year, park board commissioners approved several cycling and pedestrian alignment and infrastructure improvements affecting a number of parks. Most of the work has now been completed, with the exception of Kits Beach and Hadden parks.

The petition states that cyclists already access both parks along Ogden, Arbutus and Cornwall.

“The new lanes are unnecessary overkill. To protect these parks, for the benefit of the broadest spectrum of visitors, we want Kits Beach and Hadden parks to be a pedestrian-only zone.”

park is currently home to a community centre and ice rink, and some residents have taken issue with the plan, saying it would take away from the feeling of community users of the existing facility enjoy.

“For this advisory committee to be effective, it has to include both people from the neighbourhood in Kits, in particular those around Connaught Park, and people who use the

Kits Community Centre,” said Rebecca Lockhart, who started the petition and has voiced concerns over the proposal for Connaught Park, in response to the board’s announcement. “They are clear stakeholders, and while not aquatics users, the proposed destination pool for Connaught Park would have an unquestionable impact on them.” @JessicaEKerr

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Residents concerned about the proposed construction of a destination pool at Kitsilano’s Connaught Park are also petitioning the park board.

“We the undersigned ask that the park board engage in thorough and transparent public consultation in the Kitsilano neighbourhood regarding facility changes in Connaught Park as part of the VanSplash Plan,” the online petition reads.

“We ask the park board commissioners to not approve the construction of a destination pool with a sport-training focus as part of a community centre and/ or rink renewal at Connaught Park without clear approval from residents and key stakeholders.”

The petition was launched over the Easter long weekend and had more than 330 signatures as of Tuesday morning.

On April 5, the park board announced it will strike an external advisory committee to “assist in developing a revised version of VanSplash.”

VanSplash is a longterm plan for the city’s pools, beaches and other aquatic amenities. It includes a variety of recommendations and lays out a plan for the future of Vancouver’s indoor and outdoor pools, wading pools, spray parks and beaches, and other aquatic amenities, including a new, destination pool with a sport-training focus at Connaught Park. The

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Feeling spirited? The annual BC Distilled tasting event is your chance to taste and discover spirits from distilleries from around the province. Canada’s biggest artisan and micro-distillery event continues to grow, with 12 new distilleries featured among the nearly four dozen slated to take part in this year’s festivities. You’ll have the chance to sip, mingle and chat with reps from the 40 distilleries pouring their spirits.

April 14, 6 to 9 p.m.

Croatian Cultural Centre, 3520 Commercial Dr. bcdistilled.ca

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A Body of Art will bring together a number of local artists and body image activists with the aim to help women in Vancouver embrace an “every body is a good body” attitude using creativity. The day will be packed with workshops, including ones about from writing, movement and sketching. The goal is to facilitate “radical self-acceptance” for women and femme-identifying individuals.

April 14, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

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The Big Picnic: Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival is at Queen Elizabeth Park April 14.

Vancouver’s top Ocean Wise chefs come together with the Naramata Bench Wineries Association at the annual Wine For Waves event. Hosted at the Four Seasons Hotel Vancouver, Wine for Waves showcases the spring wine releases from more than 25 Naramata Bench wineries. Pours are paired with small, Ocean Wise seafood bites from local chefs and restaurants from Naramata.

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On Sunday, Slow capped off a triumphant 10-night stand at the Penthouse Night Club. PHOTO GRANT LAWRENCE

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Slow’s 10-night stand at the Penthouse was one for the ages Storied night club fitting place for reformed band’s rock ‘n’ roll resurrection

Grant Lawrence

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It was a stroke of rock ’n’ roll propaganda soaked in hubris that would have made Malcolm McLaren proud. After a weekend of wildly successful reunion shows at the Fox Cabaret in December, the recently reformed Vancouver band Slow upped the ante considerably when they announced a ridiculous 10-night stand at the Penthouse Nightclub on Seymour Street from March 30 to April 8.

In other words: Vancouver’s most notorious band was set to perform at Vancouver’s most notorious venue. A perfect storm or a recipe for rock ’n’ roll disaster? Skeptics in the scene thought the band was crazy for attempting such a stunt. These guys are all cresting 50 years old. Ten nights straight of pounding, howling, propulsive rock?

How would Tom Anselmi’s famously guttural bellow hold up? How would bassist Stephen Hamm’s arms not fall off? How would drummer Terry Russell not keel over by night three?

Amazingly, none of this happened. What did happen was — true to Slow’s ridiculous ambition, which somehow lay dormant for 30 years — the band rose up like a defiant phoenix to deliver a string of detonating shows many of this city’s rock ’n’ roll fans will never forget.

I was lucky enough to attend the final night on Sunday, April 8. I was excited, but I wasn’t sure

what to expect. As I stepped into the legendary nightclub and climbed its carpeted stairs, I immediately crossed paths with Anselmi, Slow’s lead singer. To my surprise, after nine straight nights, his voice sounded perfectly fine and strong, a great sign for the night ahead.

The crowd was led into a rarely used, private pair of small rooms painted black on the top floor of the venue, an area usually reserved for the many Hollywood films that shoot within the club’s storied walls. A lowrise stage was set up against translucent windows, which allowed the coloured lights from the club’s famous neon sign to bleed through onto the stage.

The crammed audience was an A to Z of the local scene: over in that corner was author, musician, Courier contributor and MC for the evening Aaron Chapman. Over in that other corner was Zachary Gray, lead singer of the Zolas. Also spotted was Vancouver Sun scribe John Mackie, guitarist/barber Rich Hope, Doug Donut from Death Sentence, Zulu Records owner Grant McDonagh and No Sinner’s Colleen Rennison, who would later join Slow on stage for an absolutely blistering, paint-peeling version of AC/DC’s “If You Want Blood, You Got It” — a highlight of the night.

Chapman, who literally wrote the book on the Penthouse (Liquor, Lust and the Law), kicked off the evening with a fun onstage welcome and Q&A with Penthouse owner and raconteur Danny Filippone.

Minutes later, most of Slow took the stage — drummer Russell, bassist Hamm, guitarists Ziggy Sigmund and Christian Thorvaldson, and well as additional back -up singers Jody Glenham and Vanessa Dandurand, and multi-instrumentalist Kurt Dahl on everything from keyboards to saxophone. The set began with a warm up of surf and rock ’n’ roll instrumentals, before Anselmi took to the stage and the band, simply put, exploded.

I’ve been lucky enough to experience a few transformative nights in clubs painted black in downtown Vancouver, and as Slow swaggered loudly from song to song, I quickly realized this was another one of those nights. The band sounded absolutely incredible in the intimacy of the room, immediately igniting a dance party and shaking the dust from the Penthouse walls.

I found myself leaning over to Mystery Machine member Shane Ward, both of us questioning whether the 70-year-old beams and joists of the Penthouse could withstand 10 straight nights of pounding from Slow and their fans.

Although the building was bouncing along with the rest of us, the floor held up, just like the band members themselves. On night 10, Anselmi’s singing was indeed full of power, as the band blasted through songs old and new, the highlights of course being their seminal hits “Have Not Been the Same” and “I Broke the Circle.” The band reached

its most fevered pitch on the surf/grunge/punk coughing classic “Bad Man” from Slow’s 1986 EP Against the Glass. Total fury.

Each night of the run featured special guests joining the band, a salute to the alternative Vancouver music and arts scene through the decades. On the final night, besides Rennison, Jazzmanian Devils frontman Dennis Mills jumped up, as did Heather Haley from the Zealots. Both delivered spirited performances.

The show came to its fiery conclusion on an encore of the Stooges’ “No Fun.” When the audience stumbled happily down the stairs, out the front doors of the Penthouse and onto the rainsoaked sidewalk of Seymour Street, all of us knew we had witnessed the end of a run shows that will go down in Vancouver rock ‘n’ roll history, something that seems to come naturally for Slow.

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Firefighter takes the heat in Master Chef Canada

Gary McKenna

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If you’re a Vancouver firefighter, you might be clamouring to get on a shift with Michael Varga.

While the Port Moody resident is an experienced first responder, these days, it is his skills in the kitchen that are getting all the attention — he’s a contestant on season five of Master Chef Canada.

Now, the country is learning what many in Vancouver’s Fire Hall No. 4 have known for years.

During a recent shift, Varga prepared a meal for his fellow crew members of ahi tuna club sandwiches served on brioche buns with jalapeño-bacon jam he made from scratch along with a roasted red pepper aioli and onion rings.

And he did that working within a budget — usually about $10 per person as firefighters pay for their own food (“People think our food is paid for. It is not.”) — and for people that don’t mind telling him when a dish isn’t working.

“If they don’t like something, you hear about it,” he says. “It’s like the [TV show] Shark Tank.”

But even for someone accustomed to the pressures that comes with firefighting — let alone cooking for firefighters — appearing on Master Chef Canada presents its own type of stress. In the first episode of the season, which aired last week, 21 contestants were whittled down to 12 during an hour-long cook-off that saw many sent home before they could even finish preparing their meals.

The judges based their decisions on technique, cleanliness and whether a dish is coming together in the appropriate amount of time, with cooks who are not making the grade receiving a tap on the shoulder before they are asked to leave.

“When you see them coming around, you don’t know if they are coming to talk to you or if they are coming to tap you out,” Varga says. “It got real. It got real pretty quick.”

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Michael Varga says competition on Master Chef Canada “got real pretty quick.”

the contest were stressful, he said, but he quickly found his groove, producing Moroccan-spiced lamb popsicles with a North African risotto and pomegranate that the judges enjoyed enough to send him on to the final 12 and the next episode.

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He also learned a lot from his father, a selftaught chef from Hungary, whom Varga helped a lot in the kitchen when he was growing up.

Master Chef Canada is not the first time the 39-year-old father of two has showed off his cooking skills on television. In 2016, he was on Chopped Canada’s Fired Up episode, which featured firefighters from across the country competing for a $10,000 prize. Varga won the contest and said he has enjoyed his TV experiences so much that he dreams of one day having a show where he visits fire halls around the world to see what his fellow

smoke-eaters are cooking.

“This has just got me so excited about cooking,” he says. “I would love to showcase what firefighters are doing in the kitchen and hear their stories.”

The meals produced at his fire hall are an important part of the shift, he said, noting the camaraderie that comes with making and sharing food together. He added that there are many great cooks working as firefighters and he has learned a lot from his fellow crew members.

The results of the most recent episode Master Chef Canada were not known until after the Courier’s print deadline. @gmckennaTC

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They pine for pizza, love a downward dog, watch Netflix and even enjoy the occasional cup of joe.

Indeed, there are realtors out there who are just like the rest of us.

That’s the portrait being painted by the Instagram account Realtors of Vancouver. Online since late last year, the account focuses exclusively on the personalities behind some of Vancouver’s real estate movers and shakers.

The Instagram feed is the product of UBC students Leo Chazalon, Daanyaal Sobani and Aditya Chinchure. Their goal is to promote what Chazalon calls “humane marketing,” which he describes as emphasizing personalities rather than professional pursuits.

“It’s about quitting all the commercial B.S. around what the real estate agent does for home buyers or home sellers,” Chazalon told the Courier. “It’s about going straight to the point as to who they are.”

Only a few criteria must be met in order to make the grade: prospective realtors have to be on Instagram, concerned with things other than dollars and cents and be “interesting” in the eyes of the three-person team.

Candidates are sent a direct message with an interview request and then meet with the threesome at a coffee shop near UBC. Chazalon says interview subjects don’t get to vet questions in advance, nor does the group receive any money from the realtors who are interviewed.

“By interesting, we mean they post stuff that’s not commercial B.S.,” Chazalon said. “We’re not here to promote their businesses, we’re not here to bring them more customers. We’re here to find the real estate agents who put themselves forward on Instagram as human beings in the first place before real estate agents.”

Chazalon got the Instagram idea off the ground in December 2017. About 20 profiles have been completed and the page has close to

1,000 followers. A business student, Chazalon naturally takes care of the business end, while Chinchure, a computer sciences student, covers the photography and web design. Sobani’s background in electrical engineering lends itself to tech questions and marketing.

Oddly enough, none of them want to work in real estate once their time at UBC is over.

So, why the interest in realtors?

“The logic behind having 15,000 realtors in Metro Vancouver is very hard to understand to me,” Chazalon said. “So what we’re trying to do here is to filter through all of them and see who are the ones who are most worthy of being good real estate agents to work with.”

Another puzzling point is how topics specific to real estate — foreign ownership or the affordability crisis — are never touched upon. In fact, when realtors wade into those waters, Chazalon points them in other directions.

Their brand is about

“entertainment” and “relatability” and crushing homeowner debt doesn’t fit in either of those categories.

“That’s a question that’s expected whenever you talk to real estate agents or whomever you talk to in Vancouver — there’s always this problem of the affordability crisis,” Chazalon said. “It’s something that’s very recurrent and almost repetitive and almost bor-

ing. We’re always looking for an answer to that question, but in the end there is no really true scientific answer for it and nobody knows what’s going to happen in the future.”

The future for Chazalon and company is a bit more concrete. They plan on launching a “humane marketing” public relations firm. They also build websites, of which four

have been sold to real estate agents after their Q/A was completed.

“We love listening to people, sitting over coffee and chatting with them.

Not only do we network, we find interesting stories and we have fun,” Chazalon said.

The trio’s Instagram handle is @realtorsofvancouver. @JohnKurucz

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A year ago, the Canucks were in a very similar position to where they are now.

They had just finished the season in the NHL’s basement and had several veteran players exit the roster.

The Canucks traded Alex Burrows and Jannik Hansen, Nikita Tryamkin bolted for the KHL, Luca Sbisa was claimed by the Vegas Golden Knights in the expansion draft and Ryan Miller left in free agency.

On the first day of free agency, GM Jim Benning directly replaced the five departing players with five veterans: Sam Gagner, Alex Burmistrov, Patrick Wiercioch, Michael Del Zotto and Anders Nilsson. These five players had varying levels of success — Wiercioch spent the entire season in the AHL, while Burmistrov was released from his contract and went back to Russia — but the intent was clear to replace the players they lost.

Once again, the Canucks have veteran players leaving the roster. The difference is they are the best players in franchise history and a little more difficult to replace.

“It doesn’t happen very often where two of your top scorers are leaving the team,” acknowledged Canucks head coach Travis Green to the media on Monday. “I think to sit here and say some young guys are just going to fill those holes, we don’t know yet.”

“We need Bo Horvat to keep improving,” he continued. “We need Adam Gaudette to have a great summer.

Brock Boeser, can he get better? Right throughout our lineup, you can almost go player by player and that’s the only way to improve. Newer players that come in, younger players that are trying to make the team. What kind of impact can they have?”

It’s asking a lot of the Canucks young core such as Horvat and Boeser, or top prospects such as Elias Pettersson and Jonathan Dahlen, to step up and fill the shoes of two giants like the Sedins, but the alternative is fraught with risk: free

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• I’m dropping the gloves with NBC, which couldn’t clear some programming conflicts and will be airing two playoff games in the first round on the Golf Channel, of all places. That might be a bad omen for the teams involved — the Lightning, Devils, Ducks and Sharks — suggesting that they might be playing golf a little earlier than planned.

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agency. The departing Sedins leave $14 million in cap space behind, with the salary cap itself expected to go up by $3 million to $7 million.

That kind of cap space opens the door for seeking out a quick fix by throwing money at the problem. Could the Canucks convince John Tavares to come to Vancouver for $11-12 million per year on a long-term deal? Should they or would that lead to massive salary cap problems in the future?

“We’re not going to replace Daniel and Henrik’s leadership in that locker room or their production on the ice,” said president of hockey operations Trevor Linden. “Rushing out and trying to do that, I think, is... I think we have to be very careful with how we approach that.”

“The thought of replacing 100 points and what they bring to the organization in leadership... I don’t think it’s replaceable,” he added.

The real issue is the Canucks don’t need to replace just the 100 points the Sedins are taking with them into retirement. The Canucks had their 100 points this past season and were still one of the worst teams in the NHL. They need to find more than 100 points from some combination of young players stepping up or free agent acquisitions.

The Canucks were one of the lowestscoring teams in the league last season and lost their second and third-leading scorers. It’s not enough to replace those points; the Canucks need a massive improvement to their offence heading into next season.

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

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Top Gear tractor hits 140 kilometres per hour Brendan McAleer

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Top Gear sets tractor speed record

Top Gear deserves recognition as probably the best-loved motoring program in the world, but it’s had a tough couple of years. Now, however, with new hosts settling in, it has finally hit its stride. You can feel the enthusiasm radiating off the screen.

Sometimes that enthusiasm can take a strange turn or two, as has happened here. Seeking (supposedly) to help stop tractors from blocking up rural roads, the team at Top Gear fitted a custombuilt machine with a 507 horsepower Chevrolet V-8, and then went out to stir up the dirt.

As-equipped, the “Track-tor” proved itself capable of a heady 140 kilometres per hour top speed, good enough to land in the Guinness World Record book as the world’s fastest tractor.

Not too shabby.

However, just before we clear the garden implements away, why not cast your gaze over to Honda, which is about to field the Mean Mower. Powered by a 189 h.p., 1,000 cc motorcycle engine, the Mean Mower can hit a reported 215 km/h.

I feel like landscaping just became a blood sport.

Jaguar jumps into autonomous driving

Autonomous driving technology suffered a major setback recently with news that a pedestrian had been killed in a collision with one of Uber’s self-driving Volvos in Tempe, Ariz. Actually, let me rephrase that: someone’s personal tragedy is far more important than any technological innovation.

However, Waymo, born from Google’s selfdriving car team, was quick to distance themselves from Uber’s failure. They claim that their cars are more advanced, with multiple sensors and more time spent testing.

At least one major manufacturer seems convinced — Jaguar. At the

New York International Auto Show this week, Waymo and Jaguar announced a new partnership based around autonomous versions of the all-electric I-Pace crossover. Waymo will buy some 20,000 of the vehicles over the next two years, marking a huge expansion into its fleet.

Further, those who prefer to drive themselves should fear a Waymo future less than an Uber one. The latter has continually proven itself the worst of predatory capitalism, and would do pretty much anything to stop having to pay drivers. The former is headed by John Krafcik, formerly of Hyundai, and noted owner of both a Porsche 911 and a Caterham 7. I’d be inclined to go for the car guy rather than the would-be corporate overlords.

If FCA is smart, they’ll find some way to plump for the latter, as the original Viper is destined to be an unlikely collectible.

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However, perhaps this time there’s a silver lining to be found. When the Walter P. Chrysler Museum closed its doors last year, there was the sense that perhaps its 400-car collection would either get tucked away, never to be seen by the public, or broken up and sold to collectors.

Thanks to the Viper factory closing down, Fiat-Chrysler has the space to keep its collection open to the public.

More than that: the old Viper plant is some 400,000 square feet in size, which means the current Chrysler collection only takes up about a quarter of the available space. There’ll be room for more, including meeting rooms, and perhaps a restoration area.

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