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When big money is not really banned from civic politics Mike Howell

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You’ve probably heard that Vision Vancouver and the Non-Partisan Association are scrapping again.

When aren’t they?

True.

This time it’s about money.

First, some background: As regular readers will know, the provincial government created legislation last fall that bans union and corporate donations to municipal parties and candidates. That means it’s up to individuals like you to finance your favourite party or candidate.

Maximum donation: $1,200 to a party or candidate.

For years, city councillors from all political stripes at city hall supported recommendation after recommendation to have the provincial government change the laws to put a halt to the multimillion dollar campaigns.

So when the NDP-led provincial government brought in the new legislation, councillors past and present rejoiced. Big money would now be out of civic politics. This October’s municipal election

would be fought without the influence of corporations and unions. Goodbye Concord Pacific, goodbye CUPE. Not exactly.

Fast forward to this month and we now learn the Local Elections Campaign Financing Act allows parties to collect money from unions and corporations — and collect as much as they want — to fund “the day-to-day administration of an elector organization that operates on a continuing basis outside of campaign and election periods.”

That quote is courtesy of Andrew Watson, the manager of communications for Elections BC, who said such operational expenses include rent of an office, staff wages and supplies. Watson answered that question in relation to news that surfaced suggesting the NPA, which operates a year-round office on Pender Street, was raking in the corporate cash to pay for its expenses.

Except, as I was told by NPA president Gregory Baker, it’s not true. In fact, Baker said the NPA hasn’t taken a cent from corporations since the legislation was enacted

Vision Coun. Andrea Reimer plans to introduce a motion May 1 to close the “loophole” in the provincial government’s new rules that ban union and corporate donations. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

last fall. But, he added, that doesn’t mean the party won’t seek corporate donations for future operational expenses, as allowed by Elections BC. That admission triggered Vision to request the provincial government close the so-called loophole in the legislation. That request was followed by Vision Coun.

Andrea Reimer promising to introduce a motion at the May 1 council meeting to ask the same thing of government — with support from the NPA’s four councillors.

This is all very interesting since Reimer led the charge to get big money out of civic politics. Now that rules are

in place, apparently they’re not entirely good enough.

Reimer, who accused the NPA of exploiting the intent of the legislation, called the “loophole” an honest mistake by government.

“The honest response to that would be to point that out to the minister, not to quietly truck along taking money from sources that you said you don’t want included [in civic politics],” she said.

But if that was a mistake, asked NPA Coun. George Affleck, then is it also a mistake to allow a person to donate $1,200 to as many independent candidates as one wishes?

His point is that say you

wanted to donate $1,200 to his colleague Melissa De Genova’s campaign, then you could not donate any more cash to another NPA candidate or the party.

Affleck pointed out that independent mayoral candidate Shauna Sylvester has strong ties to Vision Vancouver. So does former Vision park board commissioner Sarah Blyth, who announced last week she is running as an independent candidate for council.

So, in effect, a person could donate more money to a slate of like-minded independent candidates than they could to a political party. Interesting. But could that seriously amount to enough cash to have independents topple candidates from parties such as the NPA and Vision?

Affleck thinks so, Reimer is not so sure.“When is the last time a loose coalition of independent anything got elected in the city of Vancouver?” she said, noting the majority of voters have historically favoured parties over independents. “They would have to have a colossal amount of money to be able to overcome the bias that

voters have [about supporting civic parties].”

You don’t think that will change with these new campaign finance rules?

“The experience in jurisdictions around the world that have campaign finance rules is still that there is a big advantage to running with a party,” she said. “The disadvantage to independents has nothing to do with corporate money or parties, or any of that. It’s that they present as someone who doesn’t have the skill set that they’re actually running for, which is to work with other people effectively to bring legislation in.”

For now, Affleck and Baker say the NPA continues to abide by current legislation and will abide by any changes to the legislation.

They’re both clear that any criticism of the legislation and what it allows should be directed at the provincial government and Municipal Affairs Minister Selina Robinson, not at the party.

As I understand, Robinson’s office is on the case.

In the meantime, the scrapping continues.

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Dual Vancouver rallies face off over sex-ed curriculum Alexander Kurial alexhk24@gmail.com

Dual rallies were held in Vancouver April 23 outside B.C. Teachers’ Federation headquarters in support of and in opposition to the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identities 123 curriculum being taught in B.C. schools.

The SOGI program, which was developed by the B.C. Teachers’ Federation and the Ministry of Education, and introduced by the provincial government in 2015, aims to educate students and teachers on issues regarding gender and sexuality in school children.

While celebrated by LGBTQ+ and progressive groups, opposition to the curriculum has been vocal. Much of this has been spurred by social conservative activist Kari Simpson and her group Culture Guard, which were behind the anti-SOGI rally.

Morgane Oger organized the counter rally in support of SOGI. A prominent transgender rights activist, and possible mayoral candidate, Oger felt it was

important to counter the anti-SOGI rally with one in support of gender and sexuality education in schools.

“When a society knows that people are being oppressed, it is our common responsibility to stand together and put an end to this oppression,” Oger said.

“This is why we try to lift up equity-seeking groups.

There are people over there [at the anti-SOGI rally] who, when they think of LGBT, they think of disease and sin and these outrageous anachronistic ideas.”

Despite those opposed to the education program, Oger said she’s not concerned the group will have an effect on the new curriculum, or the current state of LGBTQ+ rights in general.

“Canada has never gone backwards on human rights, and this is not going to be the place that it starts,” she said. “We are really a diverse mosaic in Canada, and we’re not going where Kari Simpson is trying to take us.

These words have no credibility in Canada in 2018.”

A Grade 11 student, who attended the rally and has since asked not to be

Demonstrators held a rally in opposition of a group who was protesting Sexual Orientation and Gender Identities 123 curriculum being taught in B.C. schools. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

named, said the SOGI curriculum will be a major benefit to children in their development.

“When I was growing up, I didn’t have these resources, and I had to learn all by myself through the internet. There was a lot of misinformation... I was really scared and didn’t know who I was,” she said.

“So I think if this education is provided at schools and kids are able to learn about it at a young age, it will be so much easier for them to know who they are and

where they fit.”

BCTF president Glen Hansman agreed. He stressed the importance of the SOGI program and made it clear the curriculum was in B.C. schools to stay.

“Whether they like it or not, trans youth are part of our school communities.

We have both the legal and moral obligation to make sure we’re proactively not just making those school spaces safe, but also inclusive,” Hansman said.

Like Oger, Hansman believes those protesting

SOGI are poised to be left on the wrong side of history.

“This is a dwindling fringe group,” Hansman said of Culture Guard.

“We’re long past the point in Canadian society where same-sex marriage has been legalized, where human rights codes provincially and federally have changed.

Society has moved on.”

Hansman also made reference to past incidents involving Simpson, who has had a contentious history with the B.C. school system. In 2017, she posed as a parent to gain access to a lunch hour sex education discussion at Lord Byng secondary school.

While there, she handed out pamphlets that were deemed discriminatory and offensive, and later posted images of the presentation to social media without authorization. As a result, the Vancouver School Board sent Simpson a letter telling her to stay off school property in the future.

Simpson has also launched multiple unsuccessful legal actions against various groups, including the BCTF and the Ministry

of Education. Recently, her appeal of a failed $11-million defamation lawsuit against late radio host Rafe Mair was rejected by the B.C. Supreme Court.

Despite this, Simpson has remained defiant in her pursuit of eliminating the SOGI program. She expressed confidence after the rally that momentum was on her side.

“This is a big movement, there’s a lot of energy and a lot of determinations. This isn’t going away, and the politicians need to reevaluate what they’re doing,” Simpson said.

She went on to claim the BCTF was acting nefariously in its implementation of the SOGI curriculum.

“Public school isn’t up for political hijacking by the B.C. Teachers’ Federation or sex activists,” Simpson said. “Nobody has said that the B.C. Teachers’ Federation has that right to abuse our children within this system for their political purpose. It won’t be tolerated, it will be stopped.”

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They came by the hundreds to Chinatown Sunday to hear in English, in Cantonese and in the Chinese dialect of Sze Yup how Vancouver’s civic government was truly sorry for the historical discrimination that previous city councils caused and perpetuated against the Chinese community.

The long-awaited apology was delivered by Mayor Gregor Robertson (in English) and former city councillors Maggie Ip (in Cantonese) and Bill Yee (in Sze Yup) at the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Vancouver on Pender Street, where more than 500 people sat and stood to witness the historic event.

Outside, dozens more stopped in the streets to watch the proceedings broadcast on large video screens positioned near the Keefer Memorial Square, where a monument stands in recognition of the contribution Chinese war veterans and railway workers made to Canada.

“On this day, on behalf of city council and the City of Vancouver, I sincerely apologize for these past injustices and their cruel effects on individuals and their families, and commit to ensuring that similar unjust practices are never again allowed to fall on any group or community,” said Robertson from the centre’s stage, which included the 10 other members of city council and city manager

Kelley Lee, seated next to her war veteran father Monty Lee, got emotional Sunday as she listened to an apology from the mayor and two former city councillors. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Sadhu Johnston.

Those injustices date back to Vancouver’s first civic government, which made it clear at its first meeting in 1886 that “no Chinaman or Indian shall be entitled to vote in any municipal election for the election of mayor or alderman.”

That position served as a launch point for decades of legislated and targeted racism by city leaders, including restricting where Chinese people could own and run a business. Housing covenants, including one on the house owned by Coun.

Raymond Louie, were used to prohibit Chinese residents from purchasing property.

Councils of the day also lobbied the federal government to pass racially discriminatory immigration policies, including the Chinese Immigration Act in 1923, which formally kept Chinese people from immigrating to Canada.

Through its contracts and grants, council policies

also forbade people of Chinese heritage from working or doing business with the city. It wasn’t until 1952 that a Chinese person was hired at the city.

“For the first half of the City of Vancouver’s history, racial prejudice and discrimination against our ChineseCanadian residents was commonplace,” Robertson said. “And yet for those 60 years, rather than standing up against the injustice of racism, many of our elected officials including mayors and councillors used the legal power of the city to enact and expand laws targeting Chinese residents.”

Sunday’s event attracted a mix of generations from the Chinese community, including veterans, business leaders, academics, artists, young people, politicians, city bureaucrats and police officers.

Members of the Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China in Vancouver also attended the event.

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long-awaited apology Canadian Forces Lt. Col. George Ing, Hilbert Yiu of the Chinese Benevolent Association and 17-year-old student Melody Choi — took turns at a microphone to thank council for the apology and to give context to its importance.

Ing, who is in his 80s, spoke of the sacrifices made

by Chinese-Canadian soldiers who served in the Canadian Forces during the Second World War, despite not being allowed to vote on the soil on which they were born. Some were in attendance, including 99-year-old Ronald Lee who Ing convinced to stand up before the crowd and be recognized; he received a standing ovation.

“Some lost their lives… and never returned,” Ing said. “Those that did survive and returned home took up the fight for the right to vote.”

Full voting rights were not granted to ChineseCanadians in Vancouver until 1949.

Yiu noted the provincial and federal governments earlier apologized for past discrimination against the Chinese. He applauded the city’s move to do the same, saying it was an “important milestone”

in the history of Vancouver’s civic government.

“It is hard to imagine, in today’s context, the sufferings endured by early Chinese,” said Yiu, president of the association. “But the impact of family separation, economic hardship and social isolation is still deeply felt by their descendants. Today, the descendants of the early migrants are integrated members of society and are making huge contributions to a society that did not welcome their ancestors.”

Added Yiu: “Unlike the past, let us now welcome all newcomers to the city and treat them with respect and acceptance.”

Choi’s great grandfather had to pay a head tax when he came to Vancouver in 1912.

She also has great uncles and an aunt who are war veterans. Unlike her relatives, Choi’s experience in Vancouver is that it is one of the most progressive cities in the world.

“As a fifth generation Chinese-Canadian, I can sincerely express my deepest gratitude to all those who have laid the foundations for me to live my life now with the liberties and rights that

were denied to those before me,” she said. “The hardships and discrimination endured by previous generations should be things of the past. Our lives — my life — is better because of them.”

Andy Yan, director of the city program at Simon Fraser University, welcomed the apology but said Vancouver still has much work ahead to bring all communities together. Standing on a balcony as he overlooked the crowd at the centre, Yan said the story of struggle and triumph in the Chinese community is an ongoing one that he and others concerned about the city’s future will be watching.

“There’s a challenge towards going beyond spectacles of apology and into the job of building an inclusive, multiethnic metropolis,” he said.

“Whether it comes to housing affordability, access to our democratic institutions and employment inclusion, we have a sizeable job in front of us. It’s an issue facing a lot of cities, but it’s these moments that we remember how we got here, and from the lessons of the past, we move forward.”

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Government to plug leaky election finance legislation Mike Klassen

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Legislation enacted by the B.C. government last fall to cut off “big money” from municipal election campaigns hit a bump in the road this month. Bill 15, also known as Local Elections Campaign Financing Amendment Act 2017, was earlier criticized for failing to address the influence of third parties.

Now it looks like the legislation will have to be amended if the recent statements of the minister in charge are an indication.

The apparent glitch in the legislation has even caught the attention of the opposition B.C. Liberals, who have already tabled their own amendment to the act.

Selina Robinson, the B.C. government minister responsible for the legislation, responded to the Vancouver Courier last week, stating: “We have staff looking into what changes may be needed to ensure that we are able to give British Columbians the fair elections they want, free of the influence of donors with deep pockets.”

Then on Monday, opposition MLA Todd Stone got the jump on government by tabling his own private member’s bill. His bill is called the Local Elec-

Getting big money out of local elections has become like playing a game of whack-a-mole, according to columnist Mike Klassen.

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tion Campaign Financing Amendment Act, 2018.

“The Local Election Campaign Financing Act refers to ‘a campaign contribution,’ which was already defined in the act as ‘funds exclusively for campaign use,’” commented Stone. “This confusion has caused Elections B.C. to recently determine that contributions from unions and corporations will continue to be allowed and that there are no contribution limits on money raised for operations at the municipal level, basically, for anything that’s not a direct campaign expense.”

He added, “This bill

would remove this confusion and bring the Local Election Campaign Financing Act in line with the provincial campaign finance legislation.”

So why is there now so much “confusion” over what constitutes a campaign donation in municipal politics?

Last November, I wrote that Bill 15 was an invitation to allow outside groups to engage in influencing municipal election without ever having to declare any contributions at all. This phenomenon is referred to by the sinister sounding expression “dark money.”

Whatever you think of

the old way of funding election campaigns — through union and corporate donations as well as individuals — at least you could track the funding back to the source. When so-called dark money enters politics, the public is, well, left in the dark.

We know money flows into election campaigns like water. The new regulations may slow those dollars from flowing in, but cash could still pour into thirdparty groups like pucks on a lousy goaltender.

When it comes to these new rules governing election finance, NPA councillor George Affleck

is not mincing words, tweeting out the Act has “flaws,” not loopholes. He claims that the legislation discriminates against elector organizations in that it limits the amount of donations per candidate.

Vision Vancouver’s Andrea Reimer was more charitable, calling holes in the legislation that permit societies unlimited fundraising to cover operations expenses “an honest mistake.”

While they are disagreeing publicly, behind the scenes there was a unique accord between the NPA, Vision and the Vancouver Greens when it came to

concerns about the original legislation.

In a letter to Minister Robinson dated Nov. 20, 2017 and co-signed by Affleck, Reimer and Adriane Carr, the trio recommended changes to the original bill.

The letter says our province has a “long, proud history” of campaigns involving elector organizations.

Their letter specifically recommends donations be the same for candidates whether they run as independents or in an elector organization. Affleck spelled out why in a tweet last week.

“To raise $4 million a party needs 3,333 donors at $1,200. 27 independent as unofficial slate need 124 donors w/ $1,200 to each = $4 million.”

Using Affleck’s math, it would appear the current legislation, whether intentionally or not, discriminates against candidates who run with an elector organization. It also might explain, he suggests, why longtime Vision Vancouver insiders Shauna Sylvester and Sarah Blyth have recently declared “independent” runs for office.

Give credit to the B.C. government for their efforts so far. It is not their fault that getting big bucks out of local elections is like playing a game of whack-a-mole. @MikeKlassen

Red tape remains a major culprit in skyrocketing real estate As city trumpets reduction of processing times, it proposes increased Community Amenity Contribution rates Michael Geller geller@sfu.ca

Why is housing in Vancouver so expensive? The answer depends who you ask.

While most acknowledge our region has a constricted land supply due to water, mountains and the Agricultural Land Reserve, many believe the fault lies with foreign buyers, especially from China, and the thousands of homes they leave empty.

Others blame speculators who buy and flip presale condos and properties as if they were playing a game of Monopoly.

Increasingly we are told there is an imbalance between supply and demand.

However, more supply on its own does not appear to be the answer. One only needs to look at the record number of condos under construction without any apparent price reductions.

My colleagues in the

development community believe a major problem has been the complex and timeconsuming approval system.

Last November, an early morning photo appeared on social media. Taken outside Vancouver’s Development and Building department, it revealed a row of architectural drawings and brief cases lying on the pavement.

The owners were nowhere to be seen. They were off keeping warm somewhere. The plans and cases were place holders, so their owners could, they hoped, submit permit applications that day.

I thought of this photo last week when I received a Vancouver communications department press release.

Headlined “New measures implemented by City Hall within the last year to speed up the delivery of new housing and streamline planning and development processes in Vancouver are

showing results,” the release went on to report: • A 50 per cent reduction in development permit timelines as part of an affordable housing pilot — with initial approval now under 13 weeks.

• An 80 per cent reduction in times for landscape reviews for single family homes.

• A 30 per cent reduction in wait times at the Development and Building Services Centre.

The release added that more improvements were to come, including policy changes to create greater transparency and simplified regulations.

While architects, builders and developers have often criticized the city for its unnecessarily complex and lengthy approval process, Vancouver city staff, especially Kaye Krishna, general manager of development, buildings and licensing, deserve recognition for their

success in reducing processing times.

Faster approvals should help reduce the cost of housing, especially if the province’s proposed socalled speculation tax and school tax apply to residential development sites awaiting approvals.

(I can’t help but smile at the irony that by adding costly taxes, the province claims to be improving housing affordability.)

However, the Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away.

Shortly after receiving the city’s press release on reduced processing times, I received a draft council report proposing increased Community Amenity Contribution (CAC) rates.

For those not familiar with the term, CACs are contributions provided by property developers when city council grants development rights through rezoning. CACs fund park

space, libraries, childcare facilities, community centres, transportation services and cultural facilities.

They are in addition to Development Cost Levies (DCLs), which are also paid by property developers, based on square footage, to help fund parks, childcare facilities, social and nonprofit housing, and engineering infrastructure.

For a six-storey building along the Cambie Corridor, the CAC will increase from $68.18 to $115 for each square foot of additional floor space approved by rezoning.

(I tip my hat to the city staffer who determined $68.18 would likely be more palatable for some Cambie Corridor developers than $64.14.)

Many question whether these charges increase the cost of housing. City staff and politicians believe not, since their consultants have

told them CACs simply reduce the price developers will pay for land.

Developers disagree but agree to make these payments as long as their cost can be passed on to future buyers.

The fact that developers are prepared to pay $11 million for single-family lots along the Cambie Corridor proves to me land prices are not being reduced by CACs. Given these land costs, increased CACs, DCLs, and a proposed new Utility DCL to come into effect in September 2018, combined with escalating construction costs, interest rates and “soft costs,” developers are gambling they can find buyers willing to pay at least $1,500 per square foot when they go to market.

And we ask why housing is so expensive in Vancouver. @michaelgeller

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Of course Alberta wants to get its oil to market, and of course B.C. doesn’t want it being piped through to our coast. In other words: you’ve got your Alberta cowboys versus your B.C. hippies and First Na-

tions. Yes, that totally oversimplifies this battle, but, fundamentally, that’s basically it.

B.C.’s environmental opposition should come as a shock to no one, since it could be strongly argued the global environmental movement began right here in B.C. Greenpeace, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, the Green Party of Canada and Dr. David Suzuki, to name some key players, all got their start right here. And many B.C. First Nations are fighting the pipelines in court.

What might be most surprising in this increasingly dirty political punch-up is our federal government, led by a UBC-educated prime minister who shows off

a lot of shirtless love for the natural splendour of the West Coast, doing its absolute damnedest to force the pipeline through This from a supposedly forward-thinking government on the subjects of climate change, environmental protection and awareness.

In light of the 2015 Paris Agreement, you would think that Canada would be actively looking at ways to pull us out of the fossil fuel racket and in to the renewable resource sectors. In 2016, Trudeau signed the Paris Agreement with a smile. Late last year, the UN wasn’t smiling back: Canada was called out as one of the biggest feet-draggers of the 196 countries that signed on.

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And yet, HSBC, Europe’s largest bank, announced last week they would “mostly stop” funding oil sands, coal power plants and Arctic drilling, according to the Financial Post. This follows in line with other large banks, such as ING, who have made similar progressive moves in order to meet the emission reduction targets set in that Paris Agreement.

John Sauven, executive director of Greenpeace U.K., of course welcomed HSBC’s pledge, saying that, “tar sands are becoming an increasingly toxic business proposition.”

Sigh. Remember when that idea of a new country called Cascadia was floated about on a cloud of marijuana smoke a few years ago? It was a

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West Coast fantasy that would amalgamate B.C., Washington and Oregon into one sovereign nation.

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“Guns, gangs and drugs go hand-in-hand, we know that,” Avelar said. “What we’re seeing is that girls are being used, they’re becoming directly involved in it.

They’re being used as couriers in the drug trade. They are the right-hand woman of the guy who’s in charge of these [drug] lines.”

Parmar worked in covert intelligence during her years with the provincial gang unit, working on some high profile cases — including the Surrey Six homicide — and part of her job was to monitor wire taps.

“I had the opportunity to listen to these guys and girls when they didn’t think anyone was listening, so it was a very interesting take on how they think,” she said.

“These girls are no longer just there for pillow talk and to be on the arms of these guys — they’re now getting directly involved,” Parmar said.

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Once they became partners, Avelar and Parmar started working on the presentation, Her Time, aimed at educating people on the risks of dating men who are involved in organized crime or drug trafficking, and teaming up with women who have lived, and survived, that life.

“There’s a lot of information that we can bring to the public and try to educate them but what’s more powerful than hearing the story from someone that’s lived it,” Parmar said. “And then to see them actually stand next to two police officers and be friends, that’s a powerful message as well.”

In December, they officially launched Her Time.

While the program has the support of the department, it is not an official Vancouver Police Department program, and the two officers do the work and presentations on their days off.

During a recent presentation to a group of sociology students at Langara College, the officers told the students many of the women they see getting

involved with men in gangs are, on paper, not ones anyone would expect to be drawn to that lifestyle.

“We’re finding girls from affluent families, we’re finding educated girls going to university, we’ve even found girls that have become lawyers and doctors that are dating a lot of guys involved in organized crime,” Parmar said. “They’re aware that their boyfriends do this but it’s the glamour and the status of it. They’re in the nicest, newest cars. They’re wearing the nicest shoes.

They’ve got the nicest, updated bags.

“These are beautiful girls, on the arms of these drug traffickers, that don’t have any history, have no criminal record, in fact, have had no negative interaction with police at all.”

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tackle issue of women and gangs “I had such a good life growing up,” she said.

“Birthday parties, all the neighbourhood kids came.

My step-father was in my life. Yearly passes to Science World, the aquarium.”

At 20, she was working at a clothing store in a mall when a chance meeting at a nightclub changed the course of her life.

“I was at a club dancing and this random girl comes up to me and she’s like, ‘You dance really good,’ and I’m like, ‘OK, you’re weird.’”

The two started talking and became friends. The woman ended up moving in next door to Chipman and her sister. One day, she said, her friend invited her to go to work with her. Chipman said she, again, thought this was strange but went along and ended up at Brandi’s Show Lounge downtown where her friend worked as an exotic dancer.

“I was so naïve at the time,” she said. “I was really scared. I was so, so scared.”

But she went ahead and danced that night.

“The first night, when I made like 500 bucks at 20 years old, I was like, ‘This is awesome.’ And the money just went up and up and up and up,” Chipman said.

That was the same year she started dating her ex-boyfriend. At first, she said, he was a “normal guy,” who also worked at the club, but a couple of years into the relationship he started selling drugs.

She said she knew what

he was doing was wrong but the money and lifestyle were enticing.

“I don’t want to glamourize it, but I got to reap all the benefits — vacations, staying in five-star hotels, nice clothes and the shoes and the bags, the cars, all that stuff. That was my life.”

In 2006, Chipman’s boyfriend was heading to Bellingham with a large amount of ecstasy pills, and she went along with him. It was a routine trip for the couple.

“When he would go to the states, I would go with him and I’d just go shopping, thinking nothing of it.”

He had arranged to meet another man in the parking lot at Bellis Fair mall, and Chipman waited in the car with her boyfriend for three hours for him to show up.

Eventually, she said, a car pulled into the parking lot and he told her she could go into the mall.

“I open the car door and it’s like right out of a movie.

This was a Saturday afternoon, a hot day in May, May 6. The mall parking lot was full, the mall was full of f***ing people, and about 10 cars pulled out of parking spots,” she said. “I had FBI, DEA, immigration, customs, local and state police, they all got out of the cars with vests, guns pointed at me, yelling, ‘Get on the ground. Get on the f***ing ground.’

“I got on the ground. I was arrested. So was my exboyfriend.”

After she was arrested, Chipman was sitting in the

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back of one of the police cars when the officer in charge knocked on the window.

“They rolled down the window, he looked at me and said, ‘I hope you love him because he just took away a big part of your life.’”

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Chipman said she had about eight possible charges against her but because she was “just” his girlfriend she was charged with knowing about a crime and failing to report it.

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court, he said to me, ‘I would love to let you go home but I cannot have girls thinking that they can date men like this, be involved in this lifestyle, and get away with it.’”

She served eight months in prison. Her ex, who she never spoke to again after they were arrested, was sentenced to three and a half years, and the couple’s legal fees ran upwards of US $35,000.

Chipman could have been sent to the women’s prison in California but asked the judge if she could stay in Washington state so her family could visit. That

meant serving out her sentence in a detention centre usually meant to house prisoners temporarily before getting shipped off to prison.

Chipman didn’t see the light of day for eight months — she became depressed, cried every day and lost a lot of weight.

She was one of the lucky ones because her family remained supportive. Her parents and siblings were sad, she said, not mad or upset.

“I’ve never seen my older brother cry. When they came to visit me in jail my whole entire family had blood-shot

eyes from crying,” she said.

“It made me feel so small as a person because all they did my entire life was just encourage me to be better and I did the exact opposite. It really affected me in the sense that I just let them down because even though no one said it, I knew that I did.”

After getting out of prison, Chipman moved in with her mother and started rebuilding her life.

“It was definitely a slow process because I didn’t have any of the same friends and I sure didn’t want to have any of the same friends,” she said.

She started working at a gym and got more and more involved in fitness training and started body building.

“I tried competing once and I did well and I just went with it,” Chipman said, adding that she won the Canadian nationals in 2012 in the bikini category and became a professional body builder.

She met Avelar through body building and signed on to share her story through Her Time.

Chipman shares her story in the hopes of helping steer others away from going down the same path.

“The effect it had on my family, my friends, trying to just re-introduce myself back into society after not seeing f***ing fresh air for eight months. It was hard.

It was so, so hard,” she said.

“If I can prevent anyone from going through that, that makes me happy.” @JessicaEKerr

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The Columbia StrEAT Food Truck Festival PHOTO: CHUNG CHOW

14 reasons to ‘staycation’ in New Westminster Sandra Thomas sthomas@vancourier.com

A FLOURISHING ARTS, CULTURE AND FOOD SCENE MAKES THE ROYAL CITY A GREAT OPTION FOR A DAY TRIP OR WEEKEND. Sitting on the boardwalk of the New Westminster Quay on a rare sunny afternoon in March, my husband and I watched tug boats of all sizes navigate the Fraser River while hauling lengthy log booms, empty barges and oversized containers of sawdust.

And we weren’t the only ones watching this working river in action. We were joined by dozens of curious couples, families and individuals watching with rapt attention while enjoying the warm, sunny afternoon, many sipping coffee and enjoying a treat from the adjacent River Market.

It was not that long ago the quay was pretty much the main attraction to New Westminster

— besides shopping for a wedding dress — but that is no longer the case. While the quay is certainly still a very popular spot, due to the city’s more affordable real estate, lower retail rental costs, access to transit and a surge of new and often younger residents, New West is flourishing with an influx of popular eateries,

galleries, events and festivals — all just a short SkyTrain ride from Vancouver.

History is also a very important part of the city’s fabric — and a boost to tourism. In 1859, after Queen Victoria named the area the City of New Westminster after her favourite part of

The Inn at the Quay was designed to emulate a cruise ship and offer great water views. PHOTO: SANDRA THOMAS

London, it became known as the Royal City. New West is also the original capital of B.C., an honour it held until the City of Victoria garnered that title in 1871.

With so much to do in New West, here are some ideas to help narrow down your choices for a first visit to New West. Return trips to take in more experiences and more great food are just a short SkyTrain ride away.

If you go: WHERE TO STAY We stayed at the Inn at the Quay, which couldn’t be more central to all the action.

The hotel offers great water views of the Fraser River and

A visit to the New Westminster Quay boardwalk means a rare look at a real working river.

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is within walking distance of transit, shopping, restaurants and attractions, including the Anvil Centre. The hotel was built on stilts so the guest rooms sit above the river. An interesting fact — the hotel is managed and operated almost entirely by women. The Inn at the Quay is the number one TripAdvisor hotel on the Fraser River Boardwalk.

Food and drink Because my husband and I haven’t been able to get to every great spot to eat in New West — yet — I’ve also included some suggestions from colleague Lindsay William-Ross, senior writer from Vancouver is Awesome.

THE BOATHOUSE RESTAURANT We were lucky enough to visit this waterfront restaurant during “Crab Fest,” and dug into a decadent seafoodthemed dinner while enjoying views of the Fraser River and the quay’s boardwalk. Visit boathouserestaurants.ca.

IWONA PIEROGIES My husband and I were immediately charmed by this quirky little hole-in-the-wall, which serves up a wide range of artisan pierogies, including pork and beef and various potato versions, cabbage rolls and, for dessert, strawberry, raspberry, and blueberry pierogies. Visit iwonapierogies.com.

PIVA MODERN ITALIAN This modern Italian restaurant in the Anvil Centre was greatly anticipated in New West. Look for boar meatballs, salumi boards, fresh pizzas and pastas, and an array of vegetarian (and vegan) options for lunch and dinner. Visit pivarestaurant.ca.

Events JULY 28: COLUMBIA STREAT FOOD TRUCK FESTIVAL What’s better than more than 150 vendors, including 90 food trucks, eight beer gardens and live music? Free admission to the StrEAT Food Truck Festival. Visit downtownnewwest.ca.

FRIDAYS ON FRONT This family-friendly night market will run every Friday from July 6 to Aug. 24 on the 600-block of Front Street.

Enjoy live music, food trucks and the Vagabond Bar Truck, serving local Steel & Oak beer and Pacific Breeze wine. Visit downtownnewwest.ca.

Attractions ANVIL CENTRE Designed to accommodate a wide range of events, arts and cultural activities, and city and community-led programs, Anvil Centre is a vibrant gathering space and is New Westminster’s newest commercial and cultural hub.

FRASER RIVER DISCOVERY CENTRE This interpretive centre showcases the Fraser River’s role in shaping B.C.’s ecological, cultural and economic diversity through interactive exhibits and interesting programs.

Its vision is to connect communities while celebrating the living, working Fraser River. Admission to the exhibit galleries is by donation.

Visit fraserriverdiscovery.org.

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New cream works faster and is more targeted than oral medications. Key ingredients penetrate the skin within minutes to relieve arthritis pain, joint stiffness, and muscle soreness. Users report significant and immediate relief.

By Robert Ward Associated Health Press TORONTO – Innovus Pharmaceuticals has introduced a new arthritis pain relief treatment that works in minutes.

Sold under the brand name Apeaz™, the new pain relief cream numbs the nerves right below the skin.

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Anesthetics are used in hospitals during surgery. They block nerve signals from the brain so that patients don’t feel pain and they work fast.

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“There will be a pleasant warming sensation that is followed by a cool, soothing one. This is how you know that the active ingredients have reached the affected joint and tissue.”

Works In Minutes For arthritis suffers, Apeaz™ offers impressive advantages over traditional medications. The most obvious is how quickly it relieves pain discomfort.

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Published pre-clinical animal studies have shown that the ingredients in Apeaz™ can also prevent further bone and cartilage destruction.

There are also no negative side effects like from oral medication. Apeaz™ delivers its ingredients through the skin. Oral medications are absorbed in the digestive tract. Overtime, the chemicals in pills can tear the delicate lining of the stomach, causing ulcers and bleeding.

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Those with terrible arthritis in their hands and fingers, love how easy Apeaz™ is to open.

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Instant Pain Relief Without a Prescription Many Apeaz™ users report significant improvements in daily aches and pain. Many more report increased flexibility less stiffness, and decreased muscle soreness. They are moving with less pain for the first time in years, like Henry Esber, an early user of Apeaz™.

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Nothing is as effective as this product. With Apeaz™, I get relief right away. I rub a little on my hands. It keeps the pain away. It also prevents the pain from getting really bad. It’s completely changed my life.”

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“This is why Apeaz™ is so effective for people with arthritis pain. It reduces pain while adding an additional potential layer of explains Damaj. jjoint support,” pp p j Apeaz is a Natural Health Product approved by Health Canada for the following conditions: • Arthritis pain • Simple back pain • Strains • Sprains • Athletic injuries • Muscle stiffness and pain • Wrist, elbow, shoulder, hip, knee, ankle, foot, muscle or joint pain

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Apeaz™: Quick Acting Pain and Arthritis Cream is Now Available Without a Prescription

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Annual Davie Street Party cancelled

Vancouver Pride Society says cost too prohibited SANDRA THOMAS STHOMAS@VANCOURIER.COM

Gender Free Haircut Club On May 6, Studio 209 hair salon on West Pender Street is hosting this city’s first Gender Free Haircut Club and inviting marginalized youth who identify as LGBTQ+ to come by for a cut.

The Vancouver Pride Society has cancelled the annual Davie Street Party for the 2018 Pride season due to the high cost of policing, security and traffic management.

A news release posted on the society’s website reads, in part, “VPS board and staff reviewed our financial position and budget after our 2017 fiscal year end

to determine how to best recover from a posted deficit.

The Davie Street Party is our most expensive event to produce.

that this event would need a substantial amount of additional partnered support or cost reductions to make it happen in 2018.”

“The City of Vancouver and regulatory costs for this event are approximately $79,500 with policing/ security/traffic management being over $37,000 of the total cost. It was determined

The society says at the beginning of 2018 it consulted with its long time partners, including the City of Vancouver, about collaborating and finding ways to reduce costs.

But despite hard work on everyone’s part, a solution wasn’t found.

“We will continue to work with our event partners and the City of Vancouver to reimagine the event for 2019,” the release continued.

Last year the street party cost the society more than $209,000.

The initiative, supported by Toronto’s Dress Code Project, is made up of an alliance of salons providing safe spaces for the LGBTTIQ2S community. Studio 209 stylists will be volunteering four hours of their day to provide these free haircuts.

Haircuts will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis, but youth are requested to register in advance by emailing missy@studio209hair.com so the salon can get a sense of how many will be attending.

On its Facebook page, the salon says the goal is to give queer youth “top-notch service and haircuts that fit their gender presentation, without the misunderstandings or judgement that can come from hairdo experiences at places unfamiliar with queer identities. We hope to help you look and feel like the real you!”

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Sellution returns to Main

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Tanya and Greg Johnston are about to challenge the notion that you can’t go home again.

The Vancouver couple is about re-open the popular consignment store The Sellution four blocks from the spot it previously inhabited on Main Street for the better part of two decades.

Come May 1, The Sellution opens its doors at Main and 20th.

“Main Street is fabulous for this kind of shopping,” Tanya said. “I love Main Street and used to shop on Main Street when I was growing up and throughout adulthood.”

Specializing in furniture, second-hand wares and consignments, The Sellution has been operating at Kingsway and Windsor Street since the summer of 2016. Prior to that, it was a mainstay at Main and 16th for 22 years.

That storefront is still vacant more than two years later.

“We had people in tears when we left Main Street,” said Greg Armstrong-Morris, who’s worked at Sellution for 12 years. “We had people

coming in and telling us things like, ‘I bought all of my daughter’s furniture for the nursery from you and she’s in university now.’ We have so many repeat customers.”

Previous owner Paddy Kelly had to abandon Main Street two years ago after her rent tripled. She was considering retirement around Christmastime when Tanya stopped in with a slew of furniture to offload. The impending sale was mentioned and the Johnstons signed on the dotted line in January.

Tanya has ties in the furniture and fixer-upper realms that go back two generations.

Her grandfather was a contractor who built and renovated apartment buildings across Kerrisdale and Marpole. He was invariably exposed to furniture on a regular basis and that appreciation trickled down to his granddaughter.

Not one to tinker with past success, Tanya says the business model and store offerings will closely resemble what past customers remember.

“It’ll stay pretty much the same, with some of our tastes added to it,” she said.

“I liked what Paddy did and I liked her store so I want to

emulate what she’s doing.”

The new digs will employ six people, including Tanya’s 13-year-old son Nickolas.

Armstrong-Morris will remain as the store manager.

He’s witnessed countless shops close along Main Street over the last decade but believes The Sellution 2.0 will have staying power.

“It’s the history that we have and that we’re going home,” he said. “So much has left the area, so for a store that was there for so long to be able to come back, I think that’s going to excite people and give them some hope for the neighbourhood.”

Outside of managing the shop, Armstrong-Morris also works in the film industry. He’s always around people who aren’t familiar with the city who are looking for pockets of culture unique to Vancouver.

“If they want to go shopping, they don’t want to go to Robson because that looks just like their Main Street back home,” he said.

“They want to go to an interesting neighbourhood where they can find local stuff. It’s Main Street and Commercial Drive.”

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Diva on a dime There are thrift stores — and then there are Kerrisdale thrift stores SANDRA THOMAS sthomas@vancourier.com

While Kerrisdale is home to many highend shops catering to wealthy West Siders, it’s also the location of several great thrift stores offering gently used, designer clothing at a fraction of what you’d pay new.

Of note is the HOB, short for Hospice Opportunity Boutique, on West 41st Avenue, which donates 100 per cent of its profits to help support the Vancouver Hospice Society and the end-of-

life services it provides. A small army of volunteers ensures the HOB runs smoothly without a paid manager.

The HOB is packed full of brand-name fashions, shoes, bags and jewelry.

Much of the clothing and accessories sold at the HOB comes from donations from the affluent community.

Every item is then sorted, washed and pressed or dry cleaned before hitting the floor. Jewelry is cleaned. Inspired by

the TV series Diva on a Dime, we visited the Hobb to find some of our very own fabulous, but frugal looks, with the beautiful Carmen Ruiz y Laza of CarmenTV at JoyTV/Zoomer Media, to act as model. Ruiz y Laza put her chic fashion sense to good use and helped choose all of the outfits herself.

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The amount of mud at Sunset Beach is nowhere near as significant as it was this time last year, but the mud-slinging is.

The days following last Friday’s 4/20 rally have seen every manner of accusation, from partisan politics to talk of legal action.

The most recent development was a suggestion by the city Monday that it may pursue legal action to recover costs from the rally organizers, the Vancouver 4/20 Event Society.

Figures from last Friday aren’t yet available, but last year’s bill from the city, split between the Sunset rally and a separate gathering at the Vancouver Art Gallery, checked in at $245,000 — $170,600 for policing, $34,600 for the park board and $25,000 for engineering-related expenses.

“While the city supports the right for individuals to protest and does not want cost to be a barrier to a protest, we expect commercial activity like the 4/20 event

to cover the total costs incurred,” city spokesperson Jag Sandhu told the Courier in an email. “We are continuing to look into that issue with legal counsel.”

The Vancouver Park Board sent the 4/20 society a bill for almost $67,000 last year, which included staffing costs, facility closures and field repairs, among others.

Society co-founder Dana Larsen ended up paying about $7,000 to cover the damaged field. Other line items from the park board’s bill included $32,000 in staffing costs and close to $8,000 in lost revenues from the closure of Vancouver Aquatic Centre and the nearby concession stand.

Larsen refused to pay staffing costs for park board or city employees who were slated to work the event anyway, though he’s since changed that stance and has pledged to pay for pretty much everything outside of the VPD’s tab.

“We’ve told the city we’ll cover their costs for everything except policing — all the traffic, sanitation, engineering and whatnot,” Larsen

told the Courier Monday.

This year’s rally generated more money than any other in the event’s 25-year history. About 300 vendors paid between $500 and $750 for vendor space. That alone translates to roughly $200,000 and Larsen said he’s prepared to write the city a cheque for somewhere around $50,000 if need be. His group spent about $150,000 in pre-rally costs that covered security, ambulances and protective covers for the field.

“Considering that amount of revenue they should be paying back to the costs,” Mayor Gregor Robertson told reporters Monday. “It’s a significant cost particularly to the park board and it’s not really fair to make everyone else in the city to have to cover those costs when so much money is changing hands at an event.”

Larsen’s intent is to make 4/20 a cost-neutral event and said previous rallies have always lost money. If there’s a surplus after he pays the city and the park board, he said all that money will go to charity. Last

week, his group donated $4,200 each to St. Paul’s Hospital and the Vancouver Fire Department’s Snacks for Kids program.

The Vancouver Police Department estimates about 40,000 attendees were at the park this year and in 2017.

No major incidents were reported, though two arrests were made: one for assault and weapons charges and the other for a breaching of release conditions.

Emergency Health Services attended to 23 medical emergencies and 10 overdose calls — eight people were taken to hospital for further treatment.

Larsen’s change of tune, at least on the financial side, is of little concern to Green Party park board chairperson Stuart Mackinnon. In an interview Tuesday, he maintained the stance that 4/20 will not receive a special permit licence due to the ban on smoking in parks and the damage done after each event.

While park board staff do liaise and pre-plan with the 4/20 group, Mackinnon has no interest in talking to Larsen personally so long as the rally remains at Sunset Beach.

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air in 4/20 aftermath “If he was willing to say to me, ‘You’re right Stuart, Sunset isn’t the place, help us find somewhere else,’ I would be willing to do that,” Mackinnon said.

“But Dana says they’re going to Sunset, so there is no conversation there.”

Mackinnon acknowledged the damage done this year is less severe than in 2017, when the park’s fields were closed for 10 weeks. A similar timeline was offered the day after 4/20, then modified to six weeks on April 23. That six-week figure is a weather-dependent, best-case scenario that will be extended in the event of prolonged rain. The field is currently fenced off because foot traffic will lengthen the timeframe needed for the field’s renewal.

When asked about the potential for legal action, Mackinnon offered this: “I wish the city luck, maybe they have more powers than we do,” he said.

The Courier was at Sunset Beach Monday morning and again in the evening. About 10 people passed through the fenc-

ing and were tossing Frisbees and playing soccer, activities that Mackinnon said will exacerbate the damage done.

Park users who spoke to the Courier generally agreed upon one thing: parking and traffic flow in the West End on 4/20 is a nightmare.

Otherwise, their opinions were mixed on 4/20’s place at Sunset Beach.

“I think it’s a good event,” said Kriston Palmer, who at 43 is a lifelong West End resident and 4/20 participant. “I think it needs to be fenced off because it should be a 19-plus event. Minors walking into the event is an issue the city needs to deal with. Other than that, I think we need space to be able to have this.”

Philip Norman has lived in the West End for four years. “If they could have it someplace else, that would be better,” he said “I don’t understand the 10-week closure. The damage looks pretty sparse. This field is used a lot anyhow, so it’s going to get some degradation obviously.”

Harald Veerman has lived three blocks from Sunset Beach for the better part of 30 years. He’s a cannabis user, but believes the event should move back to the Vancouver Art Gallery.

“There is a no smoking ban in the park. From that perspective, I kind of get where the park board is coming from,” Veerman said. “We are smoking in the park, and that’s not allowed. We are breaking the law and that’s agreed upon.”

Larsen said impending cannabis legalization doesn’t go far enough, in that edibles, extracts and medicinal products will remain illegal for at least a year after the bill is made law.

And barring any significant changes, Larsen says 4/20 will be back at Sunset Beach again next year.

“I can almost guarantee we’ll be at Sunset Beach again,” he said. “I don’t say that out of arrogance or trying to be difficult — I say that because there’s nowhere else to go.” @JohnKurucz

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Mayor Gregor Robertson made the announcement at a press conference Monday morning. He said that the revenue generated from the new tax will be invested in affordable housing initiatives, after covering the onetime implementation costs of $7.5 million and the firstyear operating costs, which come in at $2.5 million.

“Our hope was that the tax would be an incentive for owners to rent out their homes that are empty for most of the year,” Robertson said. “For those who didn’t make their empty home available for rent, they have made — or will be making — a welcome contribution to Vancouver’s affordable housing programs.”

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Mayor Gregor Robertson and Esther Lee, director of financial services, announcing Monday the empty homes tax is expected to generate $30 million in the first year. PHOTO JESSICA KERR

properties determined to be vacant — 1,200 were declared vacant by the owner while another 2,100 homeowners failed to make a declaration. Those properties were subsequently deemed vacant and are subject to the tax.

The remaining 5,200 properties were declared exempt from the tax for a variety of reasons, including 1,560 that were under renovation or redevelopment, 2,480 where the property title transferred during the year and 560 due to strata

restrictions on rentals. Other exemptions included cases where the owner had to go into care or had died, and properties that are occupied for more than 180 days for work in the city.

The majority, 43 per cent, of the 1,200 properties that were declared vacant by the homeowner are downtown. Thirteen per cent are in the West End, six per cent in Kits and five per cent in the Fairview neighbourhood. All other areas of the city were in the one to four per cent range.

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million in empty homes tax The tax is based on one per cent of the assessed taxable value of the property.

Robertson said the payments range from $1,500 up to $250,000, with the average payment at around $10,000.

Robertson said that while revenue from the tax has been earmarked for affordable housing, the city will consult with the public before making final decisions on how the

money will be used to support affordable housing.

The main aim of the tax was to provide an incentive for home owners to rent out homes that are not lived in full time. Robertson said that while the vacancy rate has only increased marginally, to 0.8 from 0.7, the city has heard anecdotally that the pressure on the rental market has started to ease.

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Spring is here and, with it, light, refreshing springtime beers. Beers with invigorating fresh flavours.

Beers that make you forget about the six months of freezing rain and snow we just survived. Almost.

In that spirit, Cannery Brewing’s Meadowlark Saison is a ray of sunshine in a tall can, a welcome relief to the damp drudgery we’ve endured.

Penticton’s Cannery Brewery has been around forever (well, 2001, to be exact) and, in that time, its figured out how to brew some damn good beer. While the brewery is more known for its perennial staples such as Naramata Nut Brown Ale and LakeBoat Lager, it’s had a string of consistently delicious releases that I feel aren’t getting the recognition they deserve: Hop

Chowdah NEIPA, Drupaceous Apricot Wheat Ale, and the sublime Rain Shadow Dry Hopped Sour to name a few.

Meadowlark Saison is the latest limited release from Cannery, and as expected, it’s pretty fantastic. This interesting take on the traditional Belgian farmhouse ale is brewed with rye, spelt, wheat and barley for a lovely, soft and light body. It’s a delicate beer with lovely fruit character, but everything is in perfect balance. Take the yeast, for example.

For a saison, the yeast character is remarkably restrained. The tart spicy,

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Vancouver women recount different paths to sobriety April is Alcohol Awareness Month and recent stats suggest alcoholism is on the rise in women John Kurucz

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Schmoozing was Ang’s crutch.

As someone who works in the entertainment and hospitality industries, she’s done a lot of it.

Those situations almost always included a glass of wine. The glass soon became a bottle, and over time the visual evidence of where her life was going quite literally started to pile up.

“I’m a smart person,” Ang told the Courier. “As I would see the bottles pile up over the course of the week, I said to myself, ‘This is probably a little over the top.’ Slowly over time it became somewhat more of a crutch, where I found I was drinking every night.”

Karen, on the other hand, traces her relationship with alcohol back 25 years. She had just started high school and stopped playing organized sports.

The bottle replaced the ball, the team and the camaraderie.

“That’s when everything shifted for me,” she said.

Karen and Ang both spoke to the Courier on the condition of anonymity.

April is Alcohol Awareness Month and both women are at different places in their paths to sobriety.

They’re linked, however, by disturbing stats that suggest alcoholism is on the rise for women in particular. Numbers published in March by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health suggest women with

drinking problems were less likely than men to receive advice (11.7 per cent compared to 19.3 per cent).

The Canadian Cancer Society notes that one drink per day increases a woman’s risk of breast cancer by up to 13 per cent. Stats Canada suggests binge drinking among women is on the rise, almost on a yearly basis.

Although they’ve taken different paths to do so, Ang and Karen are resolute in their efforts to not be a statistic.

“There’s this weird saddle that is put on women,” said Karen, 38. “You’re going to be a mother, you’re going to be taking care of babies, but you’re not going to be the breadwinner. Instead, you’re faced with pressure, isolation and you’re going to have this mom culture thing around you. There are a lot of women drinking by themselves at home.”

Karen has been sober for two years and credits a 12-step program for her success. A registered nurse at a Vancouver hospital, she bottomed out while on the job.

She did six weeks of inpatient care in Ontario, and has attended recovery meetings upwards of four times a week ever since.

Karen is a spiritual person, but not religious. Most, if not all, 12-step programs place a focus on God, but Karen and others find a way to work around that.

“It looks cult-y — there’s holding hands and chanting and all of that stuff,”

Karen has been sober for about two years, and credits her new life to a 12-step program.

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she said. “But the biggest thing with meetings is that it’s community. It’s a whole bunch of people who have to same problem as me, in a room who understand where I’m coming from, who understand the daily struggles and they don’t drink.”

Karen said she had to stop drinking altogether, because once she started, she couldn’t stop.

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As medical director and co-founder of Alavida, Dr. Diane Rothon has worked in addictions for three decades and has treated thousands of alcoholics.

She’s a former provincial chief coroner and associate at the Canadian Institute on Substance Use Research of B.C. A reflection of recent stats and studies, women were Rothon’s primary clientele in Alavida’s first year in op-

eration. The gender gap has narrowed in the last year.

“It’s become very, very acceptable for women to drink like men,” Rothon said. “In fact, many women who believe themselves to be emancipated, strong, successful and self-determinant actually strive to drink like men. It’s like a badge of honour that they can hold their liquor and keep up to men, which is crazy because women are smaller being and they can’t keep up to men.”

The Alavida treatment method spans about two years. The first six months couple counselling with

dosages of drug called naltrexone, which blocks the release of endorphins brought on by drinking.

The following 18 months are filled with counselling, goal setting and monitoring sessions with counsellors and doctors.

Complete abstinence, she says, is unattainable for many. Rothon suggests the success rate for those attempting total abstinence is less than 10 per cent. Of the roughly 225 people she’s treated with Alavida, that rate is 78 per cent.

“I think the hallmark of the abstinence model is failure,” Rothon said. “People relapse on average seven times before they feel their first success and then they sometimes never go on to permanent abstinence. I think that repeated failure and the shame associated with relapse is tremendously damaging.”

Ang says naltrexone helped her on the first go. She had two glasses of wine, and called it a day. She stopped taking the pills well before the six-month cut-off, and is a year into her new life.

“I’m more assertive, I’m a little more calm and I’m probably less tolerant of things that I find I don’t like in my life,” she said. “I just don’t accept behaviours from other people and not say anything — I now say something. If there’s something that I don’t want to do, I am saying no. It seems to have given me a whole different level of confidence to keep this lifestyle that I’ve got.” @JohnKurucz

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Vancouver Opera Festival

Are you an opera lover? Or just opera-curious? If so, the Vancouver Opera Festival may be singing your tune. Under the banner of the Russian White Nights, the second annual Vancouver Opera Festival celebrates Russian composers with a Russian classic opera, a much anticipated opera premiere, a series of instrumental and vocal chamber music concerts and more — including family-friendly programming.

April 28 to May 6 | Various venues vancouveropera.ca

Vancouver World Music Festival

Now in its fifth year, the Vancouver World Music Festival shines a spotlight on talented global musical acts in our city. There are several events and programs to check out during the four-day fest, although the big event is the final day’s show. It’s an all-ages event, with admission by donation, featuring numerous live acts, demos, workshops and more, held at Trout Lake Community Centre.

April 26 to 29 | Various venues worldmusicfest.ca

Red Light Rendezvous

Take a journey back to a salacious time where liquor, ladies and lust ruled the streets. The Vancouver Police Museum’s exclusive tour, Red Light Rendezvous, takes you on a 90-minute walk through dark dens and hidden alleys where pimps and madams ruled the city with sex, prostitution and corruption. Set in the historic areas of Chinatown and Gastown, this tour lifts the veil on scandalous city secrets that were truly hidden beneath the sheets.

April 28, 4 p.m.

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Fraser Street Flavour Tour

Take a guided walk that focuses on food of all sorts. Vancouver is famous for its cultural diversity and the South Hill neighbourhood of Fraser Street offers a flavourful sampling of that diversity. Discover authentic cuisines and specialty products from around the world as participants explore the area from the perspective of a local’s life. It’s about a 10-block walk, with light bites included, and plenty of chances for conversations.

April 29, 1 to 4 p.m. | Meet at 6010 Fraser St. eventbrite.ca/e/fraser-street-flavour-tourtickets-45051119110?aff=es2

Vancouver Celebrates International Dance Day

For more than 35 years, International Dance Day has been celebrated worldwide on April 29, the anniversary of the birth of JeanGeorges Noverre (1727-1810) who is regarded as the creator of modern ballet. Vancouver definitely steps out for the occasion, with plenty of programming celebrating the art and athleticism of dance. From flamenco to a dance inspired by Einstein, there’s lots to enjoy on this toe-tapping day.

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Au Comptoir’s chef Daniel McGee welcomes Chambar’s chef Nico Schuermans and the Mackenzie Room’s chef Sean Reeve for a fourcourse collaborative Guest Chefs’ Dinner. The one-night event will see Schuermans, Reeve and McGee trade courses throughout a service that will also feature a dessert course courtesy Au Comptoir pastry chef Julien Salomoni.

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THE VANCOUVER COURIER T H U R SDAY, A P R I L 2 6 , 2 0 1 8

Community COURAGE TO COME BACK

After accident that left him paralyzed, pilot finds way to move forward Martha Perkins

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It was the holiday that Jim and Isabelle Ryan had spent years of parenthood waiting for.

Their four children grown, they lay on the beach in Maui in March 2016 and talked about the possibility of retirement — Jim as a pilot with WestJet and Isabelle as a physiotherapist.

It was hot under the sun so they decided to cool off in the Pacific Ocean. Floating around for 15 minutes, indulging in the freedom of not having a care in the world, they started to make their way back to their waiting towels.

They were about 10 metres from shore when a wave approached. Walking backward in the waist-high water to make it easier to retain his footing, Jim said to his wife, “We’ll dive through this wave and climb out.”

He dove, just as the wave crested. But rather than emerge on the other side of the frothing waters, he was tossed upside down, his head hitting the sandy bottom.

He remembers floating under the water and thinking, “I’ll have quite a headache tonight.” And then he started to swim to the surface.

Except his body didn’t move. His arms and legs didn’t do what his brain told them to.

That’s when his pilot training kicked in. When you have a problem, you have no other option than to stay calm and soldier through it.

OK, your body’s not doing what you tell it to. Try again. That doesn’t work.

Lungs are emptying with air and filling with water. Don’t panic. Assess this new problem logically: this is bad.

“I thought to myself, ‘This is what it’s like to drown. At least I’m not burning to death.’”

He was too busy being the pragmatic problem solver to see his life pass before his eyes. “I’m underwater and trying to figure out what I was doing wrong because nothing was working. I never felt the need to panic — I didn’t think I had the time to.”

Ryan doesn’t remember much after that. He knows his wife found him and, screaming for help, pulled his lifeless body to the surface. He knows the lifeguards quickly arrived to start CPR and that they, quite literally, brought him back from the dead. And he knows when he awoke in the hospital the next day, everything from his neck

Jim Ryan is the 2018 Courage To Come Back award recipient in the physical rehabilitation category. PHOTO TREVOR WEIMER

down was paralyzed.

If that was the end of his story, Ryan would not be wheeling onto the stage of the Vancouver Convention Centre May 10 to receive the 2018 Courage To Come Back award in the physical rehabilitation category.

Ryan will not tell you that the journey from that beach to the awards ceremony has been an easy one. As well as the loss of mobility, he’s suffered the loss of independence and privacy since he needs help for nearly everything. He’s had to watch his wife learn how to cope with their new circumstances, those dreams of retirement now consumed by the complications of his daily, sometimes hourly, needs.

But he also won’t tell you

he’s angry.

“I’ve always felt I didn’t have a choice but to move forward and make it all work,” he says from his home in Chilliwack. “I can’t change what is. I can only live with what I have.”

Life 2.0

Ryan spent the first four months of his recovery at Vancouver General Hospital followed by five and a half months at the G.F. Strong Rehabilitation Centre. All through those initial months, he thought his situation was temporary. “I didn’t allow myself to think I’d never walk again.”

His daughter gave him a cross-stitched sign: “One day closer to walking out of here.”

Life changed when Rick

Hansen rolled into his room at G.F. Strong.

“He’s one of those people who seems to understand other people and wants to help,” Ryan says of Canada’s man in motion, with whom he’s remained friends. “We had a really good conversation and I’m not sure why we clicked.

We had a conversation about life and I said I’m looking for a way to contribute. I’ve got two university degrees, been around the world and I’ve got to do something with this.”

Hansen had an answer: “Why don’t you be an ambassador for accessibility issues?”

That clicked, too.

Audience reception was, to him, surprisingly positive.

He found his voice and has since taught at UBC, the University of the Fraser Valley and G.F. Strong. He’s given lectures to therapists and kinesiologists about the needs of quadriplegics in the healthcare system. WestJet has asked him to talk about accessibility issues for plane passengers. With the help of his son Daniel, he created a Facebook page called JimRyanRollingThroughLife, with almost 3,000 followers; his and his wife’s YouTube channel about his care is called JimIsabelle; and his blog and podcast channel is at MyQuadriplegic.Life.

He wants to get his message out in daily interactions, too. People tend to look away from someone in a wheelchair, perhaps

because they don’t want to be accused of staring. But Ryan doesn’t want to be invisible. He doesn’t mind people asking him questions and, if it gets too personal, he knows how to deflect the conversation.

Technology has been another life-changer. His house is getting outfitted as a smart home where Siri answers all of his questions and Alexa turns on the lights and opens the door for him.

“Siri and I have a love/ hate relationship — we love to hate each other,” he says with his typical dry humour. “And Google Home and Alexa fight when we’re not here.”

He’s not worried about the threat that Apple, Google and Amazon are going to learn a bit too much about him through the technology they provide. “If someone’s watching my life, they’re very, very bored,” he says.

He has deep empathy for his wife and how the accident has changed her life. Ryan says when people look at him, they know that something traumatic has happened — Isabelle’s trauma is hidden but it’s just as real. However, they know they’ll get through each problem and move onto the next.

“You can’t change the past,” he says. “You don’t have to like it or accept it.

It will always be part of your life but you have to move forward and try to find a way to live with your past. I still don’t believe I’m a quadriplegic. I think I’m going to wake up one day and walk.”

What about his own emotional trauma, the inner journey of one day being an airline pilot lying on a beach and the next day being a man who needs help — and two hours — to get out of bed every morning?

“I keep saying I don’t have enough time to be angry and depressed. I’m too old. If I spend a year being depressed, I’ll lose the years that I’m functional. I’m 58. I’m not going to destroy my life and my family’s being angry…

“We just keep working through it.”

The Courage To Come Back awards are a major fundraiser for Coast Mental Health. More information and tickets to the May 10 awards ceremony are available at CourageToComeBack.ca.

T H U R SDAY, A P R I L 2 6 , 2 0 1 8 THE VANCOUVER COURIER

Pass It to Bulis

The hockey blog that knows who needs the puck

Why the Canucks desperately need Rasmus Dahlin

Big Numbers • 50 The highest scoring defence to miss the playoffs belonged to the Arizona Coyotes, who racked up 50 goals from defencemen, led

by Oliver Ekman-Larsson with 14 goals. If they can get consistent goaltending, they’ll be a team to watch next season.

NHL draft lottery will reveal who gets stud Swedish defenceman

Backhand Sauce

• 75 The Toronto Maple Leafs had just 32 goals from their defence, but 75 first assists. Jake Gardiner and Morgan Rielly didn’t score a lot of goals themselves, but set up a ton of them for the Leafs.

Daniel Wagner

Elias Pettersson is coming off a stunning season in Sweden that saw him lead the SHL in scoring in both the regular season and playoffs. Adding him to a young forward core led by Brock Boeser and Bo Horvat, along with fellow prospects Adam Gaudette, Jonathan Dahlen and Kole Lind, gives the Canucks some hope for the future at forward.

In net, the Canucks have confidence in Thatcher Demko, who was stellar this year for the Utica Comets in his second professional season. With Demko and Michael DiPietro, one of the top goaltenders in the OHL, the Canucks have potential for a future number one goaltender.

Their biggest issue is on defence. Really, it’s not just defence, but offensive defenceman that the Canucks lack.

The Canucks got just 21 goals from their defence this past season; only the New York Rangers and Buffalo Sabres had fewer. That’s a far cry from the league leaders, the Nashville Predators, who got a whopping 56 goals from their defence, led

by P.K. Subban’s 16 goals. The Canucks were led by Alex Edler and Michael Del Zotto, who each had six goals.

The NHL’s best teams create offence from the back-end, with a mobile defence that can join the rush or spark a breakout with a great pass. That described the Canucks in their best season, in 2010-11, when they got 42 goals from their defence, twice as many as this season.

Let’s look at primary points — goals and first assists — from each NHL team this season. Defencemen on excellent teams can often pick up secondary assists simply because of talented forwards, so looking at primary points can give us a better idea of how defencemen have directly contributed to offence.

The league average per team is 98 primary points from defencemen. All but three playoff teams were at or above 98 points from their defence, with the exceptions be-

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Stick-taps & Glove-drops • I’m dropping the gloves with the NHL’s divisional playoff system, which has led to the two best teams in the regular season, the Nashville Predators and Winnipeg Jets, meeting up in the second round instead of the Western Conference Finals. This could be the best matchup of the entire postseason.

Defenceman Troy Stecher had just one goal and 11 points in his second season with the Canucks.

PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

ing the Pittsburgh Penguins, Boston Bruins and New Jersey Devils. The Penguins and Bruins each had a 50-plus point defenceman, while the Devils barely squeaked into the playoffs on the back of an MVP-calibre performance by Taylor Hall.

The bottom-10 teams in primary points from defencemen, including the Canucks, all missed the playoffs. The Canucks’ defence combined for 70 primary points, ahead of only the Detroit Red Wings.

So, that’s one issue: the Canucks defence doesn’t provide enough offence. The bigger issue is there’s no help on the horizon.

Troy Stecher and Ben Hutton were two young defencemen who put up points in their rookie years, but whose sticks went quiet last season. Olli Juolevi is the Canucks’ best defensive prospect, but he projects as a steady top-four defenceman rather than a point producer.

The two defencemen who led the Utica Comets, the Canucks’ AHL-affiliate, in scoring were Patrick Wiercioch, a journeyman veteran, and Philip Holm, who the Canucks traded to the Vegas Golden Knights for Brendan Leipsic. Potential NHLers on the Comets, such as Guillaume Brisebois, Ashton Sautner and Jalen Chatfield, project

to be third-pairing defensive defencemen.

Aside from longshots such as Jack Rathbone and Matt Brassard, the Canucks simply do not have offensive defencemen in the pipeline.

That’s where the Canucks have to hope for help in the 2018 draft.

On Saturday, the NHL will reveal the results of the draft lottery, announcing which teams will pick first through 15th. The Canucks have just a 7.5 per cent chance of winning the top pick, which would net them Rasmus Dahlin, the most highlyhyped defenceman in recent memory.

Dahlin has the ability to rack up points at an elite level and would provide an instant panacea to the Canucks’ woes.

If the Canucks miss out on Dahlin, there are other offensive defencemen available, such as Quinn Hughes or Adam Boqvist. The Canucks have little choice: they have to pick a point-producing defenceman in the first round.

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

• A tap of the stick to Daniel and Henrik Sedin, who were nominated as a duo by the Canucks for this year’s King Clancy Memorial Trophy. The award recognizes office leadership and humanitarian contributions to the community and was previously won by Henrik in 2016.

Henrik Sedin. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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Automotive BRAKING NEWS

Lincoln continues its renaissance

Brendan McAleer

of fast crossovers, the Navigator was big, unabashedly American and built for comfort first. Its incredible multi-function seats and brutish lines have been a knockout hit, and Lincoln simply can’t build them fast enough.

Now, there’s a new Lincoln log to add to the cabin: the Aviator.

A three-row, full-size crossover that slots in at about the same size as a Ford Explorer, the Aviator arrives looking like a nimbler version of the Navigator, and more than a little like a betterrealized Range Rover product.

Ford’s keeping its cards close to its chest on this

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Long a laggard in the luxury market, Lincoln has pulled itself from a swamp of confusing alphanumeric names and ill-defined brand identity to come rushing back to the fore. The Continental started the trend, and while sales of the big sedan aren’t great — sedans seem to be on a death-spiral everywhere — there was plenty of critical acclaim for the new direction.

Then came the Navigator, which firmly set a course for a new market.

Instead of trying to copy the European ideals

one, but the powertrain is supposed to be a twinturbocharged V-6, and there’s a plug-in hybrid option available. Further, undercarriage shots from the New York show floor reveal underpinnings that look very similar to Mustang parts, beefed up to handle the greater weight.

It’s really hard these

days to get worked up over yet another crossover, but the Aviator’s clean lines and handsome presence have got to be exciting to anyone who thinks designers need to scale back on needlessly aggressive grille treatments and think more about style as a cohesive whole. Out of nowhere, Lincoln’s back.

There’s a new Lincoln log to add to the cabin: the Aviator.

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