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Will YesVancouver be the name of Hector Bremner’s new party?

NPA rookie city councillor’s move to form new party comes less than six months before Oct. 20 municipal election

Mike Howell

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You may have heard NPA Coun. Hector Bremner wants to start a new party.

You may have heard the reason for embarking on this ambitious venture is because Bremner was dumped by the NPA board as one of its potential mayoral nominees.

What you probably haven’t heard, unless you have paid attention to city politics for more than two decades, is that a splinter party forming as a result of dissatisfaction within its own organization is not a new thing in Vancouver.

But with less than six months to go before an election, and a rookie councillor planning to go full splinter on his NPA mates, well that’s kind of new and certainly challenging, if not a little bit cray-cray.

Before I get to Bremner’s thoughts on this, let’s go back a few election cycles.

I won’t go into the deep history of the metamorpho-

sis of all organizations but Vision Vancouver hatched in 2004/2005ish after thenmayor Larry Campbell and some of his COPE councillors — Raymond Louie, Tim Stevenson and Jim Green — decided to distance themselves from the “wild-eyed revolutionaries” of COPE. Those were Campbell’s words.

Apparently, Campbell and company made the right choice: Vision has ruled city hall since 2008; COPE has no elected officials.

Over the years, various NPA members have abandoned their party to create other organizations. Anyone remember The Electors’ Action Movement of the Lower Mainland Association?

That was created in June 2013, but the party never did run a candidate in the 2014 election.

It’s a fact that strong party brands such as the NPA and Vision have carried the day since 2005, with

NPA Coun. Hector Bremner wants to form a new political party in time for the Oct. 20 election. But he has yet to rip up his NPA membership. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

the Greens gaining ground in recent years, along with the emergence of OneCity; COPE still has work to do to rebuild the once powerful mainstay of civic politics.

But this year, as us media types have reported, candidates and parties will be restricted on how much money they can raise and spend in this election.

There’s also a ban on union and corporate donations.

Will that mean Vancouver will see its first independent candidate elected since the mid-80s when Carole Taylor won a council seat?

Independent mayoral candidates Shauna Sylvester and Kennedy Stewart hope so.

So does independent council candidate Sarah Blyth.

But I’m getting off track here…

Let’s get back to Bremner who, by the way, told me he has yet to destroy his NPA membership. I heard his new party might be called YesVancouver. Bremner wouldn’t deny the name when we chatted over the phone.

“Good rumour; I like that name,” he said. “It’s a good one. Would you like that name? I think it’s a great name. You know the hardest answer to get out of government is that answer.”

Bremner said he had a meeting two weeks ago with more than 50 people to discuss the new party. If the party goes ahead, Bremner said he expects there will be a leadership contest and he’ll compete for the job.

Adrian Crook, Wade Grant and Scott de Lange Boom, who all intended to seek council nominations with the NPA, are expected to join Bremner. Bremner said people have also contacted him with an interest in seeking spots on school

board and park board.

“One cannot underestimate the overwhelming desire out there for something new, something positive and something solutionfocused,” he said. “So I’m really excited about it.”

But stacking his party up against the NPA and former Conservative MP Wai Young’s Coalition Vancouver is surely to siphon off votes from the centre-right electorate. Bremner doesn’t think so, nor does he think it’s a little late in an election year to create a new party.

“No, the parties are all polling at like nothing. I think the top party awareness is maybe around eight per cent. Everyone else is in and around the five to six per cent. Nobody knows any of the parties. Nobody even knows who any of the candidates are. People won’t really start paying attention until probably late August, early September.”

The election is Oct. 20.

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Invasive Japanese beetle lands in Vancouver Province orders city to spray 19.3 hectares of public land with larvicide in attempt to eradicate threat before it spreads

Jessica Kerr

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The Japanese beetle, an invasive pest that can significantly damage plants, gardens and agricultural crops, has landed in Vancouver.

“This is a very serious pest,” said Dr. Jane Pritchard, director of plant and animal health, and chief veterinary officer, with the Ministry of Agriculture.

“We are very worried about it escaping the area.”

The ministry has ordered the city and Vancouver Park Board to treat approximately 19 hectares of publicly owned land in the vicinity of False Creek in an effort to eradicate the beetle.

The areas, including a number of parks, will be sprayed with a larvicide called Acelepryn.

Pritchard with said the larvicide is considered “very safe.”

“We have selected a larvicide that has a very low environmental impact and is very safe…. It will

only actually kill the grubs or larvae that are in the soil eating the roots of turf grass,” she said, adding it will not affect people, pets, mammals, birds, bees or other animals.

The larvicide will be sprayed at ground level and, because the beetle only goes through one lifecycle, will have to be applied only once this year.

The treatment areas will include a 200 metre buffer around where the beetles have been detected and includes areas in and around the following parks: David Lam, George Wainborne, Coopers’, Charleson, Sutcliffe, Emery Barnes, May and Lorne Brown, CRAB (At Portside) and Thornton.

Howard Normann, director of parks, said the park board will begin spraying next week. After a park is sprayed it will be closed for the day to allow the larvicide to dry.

The beetle was first spotted in Vancouver last summer by the Canadian

The Japanese beetle, an invasive pest that can significantly damage plants, gardens and agricultural crops, has been found in Vancouver. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Food Inspection Agency.

It was detected in one of the agency’s traps set in the city by the agency as part of routine surveillance for the pest. As a result, CFIA set an additional 800 traps around the city and found more beetles.

Approximately 950 beetles

were found in 42 traps.

The majority, about 90 per cent, were found in David Lam Park.

In an effort to stop the beetle from spreading to other areas of the region the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is prohibiting the movement

of plants and soil out of a large area of the city that stretches from Burrard Street east to Clark Drive, and from West 12th Avenue all the way to Burrard Inlet. Between June 15 and Oct. 15 the restriction also includes “above ground” plant

matter, such as prunings and branches with leaves.

The good news, however, is that residents can still put items such as plants and yard trimmings, in the city’s green bins.

In the event that plants or soil are moved out of the designated area without permission residents can face fines of between $500 and $1,300. Businesses can be fined up to $10,000.

Unlike the well-known European chafer beetle, where the damage is caused by animals and birds digging up the grass to eat the grubs, the Japanese beetle has the potential to damage and kill plants. The larvae feed on the roots of lawns and other plants while the adults, which are considered heavy feeders, attack the flowers, foliage and fruit of more than 250 plant species, including roses, blueberries and grape vines.

For more information visit vancouver.ca/japanesebeetle. @JessicaEKerr

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Police fired the rounds after the man failed to get on the ground outside the restaurant at 2570 Commercial Drive, according to the Investigations Office report released May 24 and authored by Chief Civilian Director Ronald MacDonald.

“Following a review of all the evidence collected during the course of this investigation, there is no evidence that the officers committed any offence in the course of this interaction with [the man],” MacDonald wrote. “In fact, evidence showed the officers acted at risk to themselves in meeting all of their duties as police officers. The injuries suffered by [the man] were as a result of his own actions.”

Police were called to the restaurant just before 9 p.m. after a man was seen sitting outside with a can of gasoline and threatening to harm himself. He then walked into the restaurant and, according to 911 records, said: “Who took my phone? People who didn’t take it, get out.”

He poured the contents of the gas can inside the restaurant. An employee pressed a panic button and told staff and customers to leave the restaurant, which they did.

Video showed the man by himself and retreating to the back corner of a hallway near the washrooms.

Outside, police closed down the street to traffic and pedestrians. Police noted a gasoline trail inside the restaurant that led directly to the front door.

There was an overwhelming odour of gas fumes, MacDonald said in his report.

At one point, video showed the man sitting alone in the empty restaurant, drinking from a can and smoking a cigarette. A police dispatcher reported the man said, “I’m not leaving until I get what I want.” He then poured gasoline on chairs and tables.

Police tried to speak to the man but he was screaming and refused to engage.

A negotiator arrived on scene but the report said the man had “an aggressive demeanour towards her and called her a f---ing bitch numerous times.”

A background check on the man revealed he was

involved in a separate incident that week in Vancouver “where he was intoxicated and displayed violent behaviour.” As negotiations continued, members of the VPD’s emergency response team arrived and developed a plan with firefighters, which involved spraying the man with foam to prevent him from lighting himself on fire.

But before the plan could be executed, a fire erupted at the back of the restaurant where the man was located. He caught fire and ran towards the front door, where firefighters sprayed him with the foam.

“A witness officer stated police deployed Arwen rounds to get [the man] on the ground, but they had little to no effect,” the report said. “The IIO recovered two Arwen rounds from the restaurant. [The man] was taken into custody at 9:38 p.m. BC Ambulance transported him to hospital as he suffered second and third degree burns. Medical evidence indicated that there were no injuries from the deployment of the Arwen rounds.”

The report did not state the current condition of the man.

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Mayor Gregor Robertson says he’s appalled the federal government decided Tuesday to buy Kinder Morgan’s existing Trans Mountain pipeline system and expansion project for $4.5 billion, despite concerns of increases in climate pollution and risk of a major oil spill in local waters.

Robertson was reacting to news delivered in Ottawa by Finance Minister Bill Morneau and Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr in which Morneau repeated what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau first told Canadians in November 2016 in approving the expansion project: It’s in the national interest.

“It’s appalling that the federal government is willing to spend over $4 billion of our tax dollars to buy a Texas oil company’s pipeline that massively increases climate pollution and puts tens of thousands of jobs and our coast at risk of oil spills,” Robertson said in a statement posted on

his Facebook page. “Those billions should be invested in clean renewable energy and creating many more permanent jobs with no risk to our economy or environment.”

The deal between the federal government and Kinder Morgan means the Government of Canada will use a loan guarantee to fund the resumption of the expansion project’s planning and construction work. The 987-kilometre pipeline is to run from Alberta to Burnaby and largely twin an existing pipeline built in the 1950s.

“The Trans Mountain expansion project is of vital interest to Canada and to Canadians,” said Morneau, arguing the pipeline will preserve thousands of good well-paying jobs. “Our government’s position is clear: It must be built, and it will be built.”

The addition of a new pipeline will almost triple the number of barrels of oil shipped per day from 300,000 to 890,000 and translate to a seven-fold increase in tanker traffic in and around Vancouver waters.

The mayor noted the city

is still fighting to recover $550,000 in costs from the federal government’s Ship Source Oil Pollution Fund related to a minor bunker fuel spill that occurred three years ago in English Bay. Last week, a B.C. Supreme Court ruling dismissed the city’s petition challenging the province’s environmental assessment certificate for the pipeline expansion project. The city is reviewing the ruling and has 30 days to decide whether to appeal the decision.

Included in the federal government’s announcement Tuesday was that the Alberta government is expected to contribute to get the project built. That contribution, which could be up to $2 billion, would act as an emergency fund and only come into play if required due to unforeseen circumstances.

Morneau said it is not the government’s intention to be a long-term owner and that it will work with investors to transfer the project and related assets to a new owner or owners “at the appropriate time.”

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The gospel on all things two-wheeled In light of Bike to Work Week, here are some reminders to alleviate clashes John Kurucz

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Could a thumbs up or a simple wave of acknowledgement be the glue that binds the sometimes precarious relationship between Vancouver’s cycling community and vehicle drivers?

Boris Martin suggests it’s more complex than that. But a head nod is a good start.

Martin is the co-founder of the mobile bicycle repair firm Velofix. He’s been on a bike for most of his 26 years, first as a commuter and then riding semi-professionally across Canada and Europe.

He and others from the cycling community spoke to the Courier in the midst of Bike to Work Week to assess the sometimes fragile relationship between motorists and cyclists, the city’s bike infrastructure and both the known and unsaid rules of the road.

As someone who relies on both cars and bikes, Martin is in a unique position. In a short span of time, he could be in his car witnessing a cyclist fly through a fourway stop only to repeat that same move on his bike 10 minutes later.

“People make mistakes, so it’s better to just turn the other cheek,” Martin said. “We’ve got to stop having the ‘This was bad, f*** you’ conversation and

Velofix co-founder Boris Martin wants more thumbs up and middle fingers down in the relationship between cyclists and motorists. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

move towards ‘Hey, thanks for stopping’ and emphasize when someone in a car does something right. A thumbs up on a bike, I think, goes a very long way.”

HUB Cycling’s acting executive director Laura Jane suggests proper route planning is the best way to ensure two-wheeled safety. Taking designated bike lanes whenever possible and riding at a leisurely pace are also key.

“Nearly all the serious crashes that occur in the City of Vancouver are because of drivers speeding, texting or simply not paying enough attention,” Jane told the Courier in an email. “We like to remind all people driving vehicles

to be patient and respectful — and watch for people biking, especially before turning at intersections.”

Concerns around speed are not confined to motorists. As part of ongoing seawall upgrades, the city is installing signs throughout Stanley Park to emphasize the need to slow down. The speed limit on the seawall and other shared pathways is 15 km/h.

“The seawall is for slow cycling and is a shared path with many people meandering at a leisurely pace,” city spokesperson Maria Bekiaris told the Courier via email. “To aid those who are commuting who wish to move more quickly, we

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Bekiaris also outlined a number of precautions cyclists must take: always wear a helmet, have lights on both ends of your bike, wear bright clothing and walk your bike across crosswalks.

Situational awareness is also paramount. Be aware of your surroundings, make eye contact with other road users, put down your cellphone and take your earbuds out.

Having cycled semiprofessionally in Belgium, Holland and Germany, Martin has seen those cultures adapt to sharing the road pretty seamlessly.

Making that comparison to Vancouver or even Canada, however, is a bit of a stretch.

“Cycling has been a culture in those countries longer than this country has been a country,” he said.

“It’s just so deeply instilled both from a sport perspective and a mode of transportation perspective. It isn’t a conversation around ‘This is a good thing and we should do this.’ It’s a way of life and people are used to that.”

Martin argues Vancouver isn’t necessarily in need of more bike lanes to catch up with the Hollands of the world. He suggests Vancouver is home to some of the best cycling infrastructure in North America. Instead of building more, riding more will be the catalyst for change.

“Pushing to get more butts on bikes is part of the answer. I think there’s a lot of people who may have some resistance to cycling,” Martin said. “Getting more people on bikes to try it will help them see that it’s a viable mode of exercise or transport and will help that resistance diminish.”

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Donations sought for Walk for Rape Relief John Kurucz

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As Clay Tang reflects upon the women in his world, he offers up a statistic that is both sad and sobering.

“I don’t know one woman in my life who hasn’t experienced some sort of assault or abuse, or even just some sort of inappropriate action towards them — not one,” Tang told the Courier Monday.

Tang is one of about 20 men who volunteer with the Vancouver Rape Relief Funding Alliance, which acts as the funding arm of the Vancouver Rape Relief Society.

This Sunday, June 3, he and a few hundred others will walk around the seawall in solidarity with women who’ve experienced that trauma.

The 39th annual Walk for Rape Relief is one the primary fundraisers for the society, which supports women and children in the midst of escaping violence from men.

“I’ve never had to worry about going out or worrying about what to wear or what time of evening it is,” Tang said. “I know that is a very common thing for most women to think about.”

Sunday will mark Louisa Russell’s 18th walk. Far from it being a somber event, the 10-kilometre walk is more like an opportunity to reconnect and reflect.

“It’s a lot like a big family or community reunion,” said Russell, who works in crisis and trauma intervention with the society.

“This day is as much about raising money as it is about public education because for every one person that we ask for a donation, it’s an opportunity for us to tell them about Vancouver Rape Relief.”

Whether it’s talking about the society’s work, or just talking in general, getting the conversation started is a major part of Sunday’s event. Both Russell and Tang point to the

Me Too movement as a massive shift that’s helped remove stigma and get dialogue moving.

It’s also served as moment of pause for men to reconcile behaviours they’ve witnessed, or been a part of, in the past.

“A lot of men talk about how they grew up in a family where their father was violent and they never felt resolved about that,” Russell said. “They want to understand that or come to terms with that.

Some men are actively really rejecting sexist behaviours in other men — they don’t want to be that guy. They want to find another way to talk to women and have relations with women.”

Established in 1975, the society offers peer counselling, legal advice and a 24hour crisis line, among other services. An accompanying transition house in Vancouver serves about 100 women and their children a year as they rebuild their lives.

Part of the point of Sunday’s walk is to raise money for the transition house and other services the society provides: everything from cab fares to and from a courthouse to ensuring the crisis line remains open.

About $20,000 of the $35,000 fundraising goal had been met by midafternoon on May 29.

“You have to really intentionally stick your head in the sand to not know about this anymore,” Tang said. “Guys are less able to feign ignorance, that’s been a big change.”

Outside of the walk itself, food and live music will be served up near the event’s start and end point at Ceperley Park. Registration begins at 9:30 a.m. and the walk kicks off an hour later.

Those unable to attend can donate online at canadahelps.org and search for “Vancouver Rape Relief.”

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Changing city requires new school boundaries But revisions must be made with care and attention Tracy Sherlock

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Vancouver has changed.

It’s no longer a quiet and quaint city, full of families who live in single family homes, with fathers who make a quick commute downtown to get to work.

Instead, it’s a big, busy city – one where families tend to live in condos downtown, where mom and dad can walk to work. Those who want to live in a house, move out – way out – and spend hours commuting to work.

That change has wreaked havoc on the Lower Mainland’s school systems.

In Surrey, where family homes are more affordable,

thousands of students are educated in portables. In Vancouver, the downtown schools are full-to-bursting, while larger schools in the more traditional neighbourhoods are emptying out.

It’s no easy thing for a school district to keep up, particularly because they are at the mercy of the provincial government, which isn’t keen to build new schools, or upgrade old ones, in a city with excess school space in some areas.

But there is no excess space downtown, in Kitsilano or in False Creek. In fact, local children have to win lotteries to get into neighbourhood schools, which have perpetual waitlists. That’s why the VSB came up with a plan to adjust school boundaries in those neighbourhoods.

Any change to school boundaries is going to be painful, but none more so than when it affects parents

Shirley Anthony is hopeful that Yaletown parents can convince the Vancouver School Board to revisit its planned catchment area for Elsie Roy elementary school. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

who have moved into a neighbourhood specifically to be near the school or when siblings might end up

at two different schools.

Shirley Anthony, mom to Vivien, 4, and Evelyn, 1, exemplifies our changing

city. She and her husband moved into Yaletown before they even had kids but the local school – Elsie Roy

Let the rich eat cake; we’ll eat the rich

Allen Garr

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This view of mine may surprise some of you but let me start by saying this: The protests against the provincial NDP’s misguided “school tax” will likely continue and so they should.

In case you missed it, this is the surtax the province intends to apply to property tax bills for all houses with an assessed value of over $3 million. If the money to be raised was indeed for schools it would not be dumped, as it will be, into general revenues.

If the crisis we are dealing with is housing affordability, this political ploy may placate those among us who feel disenfranchised in a city where they grew up and have found that the cost to either

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own or rent a place to live is well beyond their means.

More likely, the social destruction caused by the rapid rise in the cost of real estate will only be exacerbated as a result.

Let’s “eat the rich.” That should divert attention away from whatever failures in providing affordable housing governments may be found complicit.

It was the philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau who during the French Revolution observed: “When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.”

We have simply replaced a lack of food with a lack of housing and mostly the left has raised this appetizer with some success at every election.

(There was the anomalous and desperately

misinformed proposition from right-wing mayoral wannabe Hector Bremner.

He said that our housing problems could be mitigated if we bought up all the big lots in Point Grey and subdivided them up for affordable housing.)

However, what the NDP has done in their “eat the rich” approach is create a tax on wealth, which does not now exist in Canada.

And, even at that, they have been most clumsy about it.

You may say that people who live in or own homes worth more than $3 million deserve to be nailed. But you would have to agree that not all of them are filthy rich folks who make their way home in a Rolls Royce.

Many of those home owners are stretched as it is because they are either paying off

mortgages or are seniors who have simply stayed in place while their real estate values went through the roof and they are now living on a fixed income.

As my colleague Michael Geller has pointed out, the Swiss have a wealth tax which is applied to their property tax bill. But there is a fundamental difference.

Wealth is measured as a net value. Mortgages, for example, would be deducted from home values.

When folks kvetch about their inability to pay even more on their property tax, their MLA David Eby says, well you can “defer your taxes”.

Even if you are willing to do that it raises another point. If the idea of jacking up property taxes is to improve the quality of

education with a “school tax”, the province will not get any of this cash for years or even decades until the property is sold.

Back in the 1990s when the NDP was in power and Mike Harcourt was premier, he introduced a similar piece of legislation.

At the time, he intended to raise property taxes on homes worth $500,000 or more. It took only a week of protests for Harcourt to realize how misguided that would be for all of the reasons cited above.

That is why he is now speaking out against the current “school tax.”

Like others, he is observing that the most effective way to raise additional funds, to eat the rich as it were, would be to simply increase the

elementary – was a definite selling feature. The couple chose to live downtown because they could both walk to work. They had demanding careers – before deciding to stay home with the kids, she was in corporate communications and he is the vice-president of corporate development for a mining company.

They didn’t want to add a major commute to their already very busy days, especially because they wanted children.

“We are literally a block away (from Elsie Roy).

We play there every day at the playground. We can see the school from our house,” Anthony said.

Vivien will be starting kindergarten this fall, but she didn’t get a space at Elsie Roy. Her mom said 79 students applied for 40 spots, with siblings getting 17 of those spots.

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level of provincial income tax for the top income earners. It would be more accurately focused and the revenue would be more immediately available.

There is one other point. You may have noticed how Mayor Gregor Robertson and his Vision council have remained mute on this issue while their friends in Victoria plunder the property tax pot. Property tax is the principal source of revenue for municipalities and one they are generally hesitant to over use. While a portion of that tax does go to schools, Vancouver already pays more than its share to fund the city’s classrooms.

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VSB revising its proposal Continued from page 10 Vivien is number 12 on the wait list and Anthony is still hopeful she will eventually get in, if not for kindergarten then for Grade 1. “We are so close to being able to get in, I can almost smell it.”

But if the proposed boundary changes go through, her daughter will be removed from the waitlist because the family’s home will be in the Crosstown school catchment. And, even if Vivien does get in, her younger sister would still be considered cross boundary and would only get in after the in-catchment students.

Anthony’s five-minute walk to Elsie Roy would be replaced by a nearly 20-minute trek through the tunnel under B.C. Place, which is darkly lit, loud and home to some of the city’s homeless population.

“I cannot even imagine taking my daughter under there,” she says. And not only that, if the two kids are in different schools, she would have to drop them off at two different places at the same time. Further, she says, the number of high-density developments that are planned for the area will make the boundary change irrelevant within a short time.

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build another Crosstown to service the area,” she says.

“They are ripping us out of the neighbourhood.”

About 120 people have signed a petition created by Anthony urging the VSB to stop the changes and another 363 people have signed a petition urging the board to grandfather in siblings.

VSB’s director of facilities Jim Meschino said the school board has tried many strategies to find more space. At False Creek elementary, changing rooms are being converted into classrooms, he said. They’ve placed as many portables as possible wherever they can. At Elsie Roy, portables aren’t an option because the city owns the land and the school board uses only the air space, Meschino said.

He’s not sure if the proposed changes would eliminate student lotteries, but he is certain they will alleviate wait lists.

The district has been asking the province for years for new elementary schools in Coal Harbour and in Olympic Village and a new, bigger school at King George secondary.

Board chairwoman Janet Fraser said she has been impressed with parents’ passion for their communities.

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“We are definitely hearing the concerns that are being raised,” she said.

Those concerns have had an effect. After weeks of advocacy by Anthony and others, on Monday night the VSB put a halt on the changes, which will now be revised and brought back to the board in January 2019, with changes held off until September 2020.

Fraser said the extra time will be used to consider what parents have said, including the concerns about siblings being separated when boundaries change.

There’s no going back.

We don’t live in pre-Expo ’86 Vancouver anymore and our schools need to catch up. Unless the province comes through tomorrow with the money for three new downtown schools, changes are necessary. Done right – by listening to parents and tweaking the changes – the new boundaries should be a win for everyone.

Members of the public can register to speak at the VSB meeting on June 13 and a final decision will be made on June 25. Comments can also be made by emailing engageplanning@vsb.bc.ca.

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

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For several decades, the back pages of the Province were essential reading for anyone looking to fully inform themselves on the Vancouver sports scene.

That was because readers — this reporter included — knew this was where they would find the voice (figuratively speaking) of Tony Gallagher.

Gallagher’s career with the Province began in 1970.

Now, almost a half-century’s worth of stories later, Gallagher is set to be inducted into the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame on May 31 for his contributions to sports journalism.

In the beginning, fresh out of school at UBC where he started his career on the school paper, the rookie reporter was immediately put to work covering local sports. This included the WHL’s New Westminster Bruins, as well as the city’s short-lived foray into the flash-in-the-pan World Hockey Association, the Vancouver Blazers.

Hockey was Gallagher’s beat and before long he found himself covering the Canucks.

Hockey acumen was what kept Gallagher in the rink.

Starting in 1976 he entered the press box at the Pacific Coliseum, and proceeded to cover the Canucks thoroughly, and relentlessly, for the next four decades.

Gallagher established his name among Vancouver sports fans, and those in the sports industry, by establishing a network of well-placed sources and steadfastly refusing to ever back down from confronting a player, general manager, or anyone else in the organization if criticism was warranted.

The latter skill speaks to the one of the fundamental

challenges of sports journalism. Beat reporters are ingrained with a team, covering them day in and day out for years at a time. It is therefore natural for relationships within the organization to grow to a point where the line blurs between friend and story subject. Objective analysis subsequently becomes impossible.

It is even more impressive then that Gallagher managed to walk the line between keeping the confidence of trusted sources without sacrificing the integrity of a story by going soft on someone he knew.

This is perhaps best exemplified by his relationships over the years with the Canucks’ various general managers. Gallagher was known for never holding back in his critiques of the men in charge, whether they cared for it or not.

“If you’re not pissing off the GM, then you’re probably not doing the job properly,” he told the Courier.

Jake Milford, GM during the Canucks 1982 Stanley Cup run, dubbed Gallagher “The Undertaker” for his dogged pursuit of a story, and willingness to bury someone when called for.

Gallagher would continue to butt heads with successive GMs, including Harry Neale, Pat Quinn and, most notably, the notoriously media averse Brian Burke. Even with the 2008 introduction of Mike Gillis, a friend of Gallagher’s through Gillis’ previous role as agent to Canucks stars such as Pavel Bure and Markus Naslund, the writer never compromised his style.

“I said ‘You know it’s going to strain our relationship. I’m going to be writing things you’re not going to like,’” Gallagher said to Gillis upon his arrival in

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the Vancouver front office.

“And that happened but we managed to maintain the friendship throughout.”

Gallagher fears this readiness to challenge those in a sporting organization is lacking in modern journalism.

“The willingness and courage to do it,” Gallagher says of the crucial qualities necessary to push someone you interact with everyday to reveal the truth about a situation. “That’s the difficult part that I think a lot of people really find trouble with — actually confronting the person after you’ve written poor things about them.

That’s where so many of the journalists just don’t have the jam for that sort of thing.”

As far as the players went, Gallagher earned respect among them for his fair and forthright appraisals. This allowed for strong working relationships to form with Canucks stars such as Bure and Cliff Ronning. As a result, Gallagher often received scoops from the players that the city’s other sports reporters could only dream of.

Even now, as Gallagher enjoys retirement and time spent with family in Hawaii, he is not shy of voicing his opinion on the current state of the Canucks, whether it be on his various radio appearances or in conversation.

Whether one agrees with these opinions, it cannot be argued that they are not well thought out or refreshingly forthright.

Like many fans, he was left unimpressed by the coaching

keeping people honest over the years is perhaps what he’s most proud of. Any time a questionable comment or story was presented to the public as fact, he felt the need to set the record straight.

Despite all the success, however — reaching the top of the sports journalism world in one of the biggest markets in the country —, Gallagher still wonders if he accomplished all that he set out to in his career.

“You try to do as well as you can every day in the business and some days the stories are impactful and some days not so.

“When you look back at the end of it you wonder ‘Well what did I achieve?’ What does a journalist every really achieve. What’s he done?”

tenures of John Tortorella and Willie Desjardins, years he describes as a “dark tunnel” in Canucks history.

Gallagher said the latter’s coaching style can best be summed up as “tragic.”

A bevy of expensive yet disappointing free agent acquisitions also have him questioning the competency of current GM Jim Benning.

Supposed big name signings such as Louis Eriksson and Brandon Sutter have failed to wow the fans, or produce on the ice. (Gallagher does concede that, unlike past GMs, Benning does not seem particularly concerned by what the media has to say about his performance.)

As he gets set to receive his honour, Gallagher, who reitred in 2015, says that

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Vancouver Craft Beer Week keeps on chugging Grant Lawrence

heartily accepted the “Cracking of the Can” honour.

Being the good Canadian that I am, I consider myself highly proficient in the art of shotgunning. That’s why I suggested I do just that to the organizers of VCBW with the cracking of that first can. Showbiz, spectacle, and all that.

“We have to ask you not to,” the VCBW communications manager explained.

There were a couple of reasons they didn’t want me to rip a hole in the side of the can and swallow the entirety in under two seconds. Despite BC’s beer boom, liquor laws in this town are still tighter than 49th Parallel’s tasting room on a Friday afternoon.

She went on to detail that that the beer that I had the honour of cracking was a carefully crafted collaboration between three Sea-to-Sky breweries: a tall-boy double dry hopped pilsner concocted

by Backcountry Brewing from Squamish, Coast Mountain Brewing from Whistler, and Beere Brewing from North Van (yes, Beere

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“Sorry, no shotgunning.”

That’s the response I received from Vancouver Craft Beer Week’s communications manager, a few hours before the official opening of Vancouver’s 9th annual week-long celebration of all things hoppy, sudsy, and malty.

I had been invited to crack the first can of the festival, a tradition that kicks off VCBW, this year at the Maritime Labour Centre in the heart of Yeast Van’s booming brewery district. In a few short years, East Van has gone from having just one (Storm Brewing, the area’s longest-lasting craft brewer, which began in 1994) to dozens, turning East Vancouver into one of the busiest craft brewing communities in North America.

Since the only liquids I drink are beer and water, and I have the daily joy of riding my bike to and from work five days a week through our beer district’s goodtime-gas-gauntlet, I

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Brewing. Beere is the actual last name of the owner).

It also turns out that shotgunning such a collaboration, prepared for flavour and taste, may appear a bit disrespectful. It could encourage copycat behavior, which is admittedly how I

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first learned to shotgun beer, a few decades ago in the bushes near Horseshoe Bay. So I agreed: no shotgunning. And yet, when I cracked that first can on Friday night to loud applause from the hundreds of beer enthusiasts

your back, stool hoisting, thumb wars, and more.

I was surprised to see so many muscle-bound men and women stepping up from a scene that sells a product that produces beer guts and hangovers. The B.C. craft brewing community is a surprisingly fit bunch. Surrey’s Russell Brewing emerged triumphant, winning the 2018 Feats of Strength trophy.

The frothing festivities of VCBW continue all through this week, with trivia, tap takeovers, tours, and other events occurring throughout the city. Everything comes to a head in a two-day festival at the PNE this Saturday and Sunday, June 2 and 3, featuring more than 300 craft beers and ciders, bands, DJs, food trucks, and fun.

Partial proceeds go to Music Heals and Eastside Boxing’s women’s self-defence training series. For tickets and event information, go to vancouvercraftbeerweek.com.

And remember: no shotgunning.

crowded into the historic Maritime Labour Centre, a loud chant rose like foam in a mug: “CHUG! CHUG! CHUG!” I couldn’t help it: I started chugging. The chant grew louder. Despite the collaborative beer being a tallboy, seven per cent strong, with more hops than Bugs Bunny, I knew I could do it.

The organizers’ words crept into my head as I guzzled: “… responsible consumption… non-excessive drinking… liquor inspectors… you could ruin everything….”

To the crowd’s dismay and the organizers’ relief, I pulled my mouth from the can. I did some quick math, which gave me an explanation to satisfy the crowd: “that’s nine straight gulps for nine straight years of Vancouver Craft Beer Week!

WHOOO!!!!” Phew.

Shortly after the Cracking of the Can, the annual Feats of Strength contest between breweries began: hilarious challenges like planking while balancing a pint on

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Arts & Entertainment “If it is to be, it begins with me:” DTES arts space makes creation more affordable Becca Clarkson

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A newly renovated studio in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside hopes to break barriers to creation by offering affordable rehearsal and performance space.

KW Studios hosted a grand opening May 26 to celebrate major renovations and improvements that the owners hope will assist underserved artistic communities.

“The artistic process is important for the health of humanity,” says Barbara Bourget, who with Jay Hirabayashi, is the artistic director of Kokoro Dance Theatre Society as well as a coproducer of the Vancouver International Dance Festival.

The pair worked with and used the performance space of a local contemporary dance group called EDAM (Experimental Dance and Music) until four years ago, when they decided it was time to give more to the artistic community by creating a space of their own.

“If it is to be, it begins with me,” says Bourget, who has been dancing since she was four – 63 years ago.

“You can’t complain and complain and then not do anything about the lack of affordable studio space.”

The City of Vancouver selected Kokoro to become the primary tenant of 7,168 sq. ft. of office and studio cultural amenity space in the Woodward’s Heritage Building back in October 2014.

“People have been generous with their help because we’ve been working very hard not just to create our own space, but a space for the whole community,” says Bourget.

After nearly $1 million in grants and funding from the city, Canadian Heritage,

Urban Weave #2, part of KW Studios Mural Project, was unveiled as part of the major renovations May 26. PHOTO RICHARD TETRAULT

Canada Council for the Arts, B.C. Arts Council and the Vancouver Foundation, the new 1,050 sq. ft.

KW Atrium Studio on the main floor has a sprung dance floor and large sliding windows that open into the adjacent Woodward’s Atrium. The 3,802 sq. ft. KW Production Studio in the basement is fully equipped with state-of-the-art lighting and sound equipment, public washrooms, a dressing room with showers, a recording studio, and an isolation recording room.

On the second floor, the KW Workshop Studio is a 397 sq. ft. multi-purpose room for workshops, meetings, and small rehearsals.

“We speak from personal experience regarding the struggle to find affordable, fully equipped rehearsal and performance space which, far too often, becomes a barrier to creation,” Bourget says, adding that dance is even lower on the artistic totem pole in Vancouver, where choreographers are hard pressed to find the room to design their art.

That’s why she and Hira-

bayashi are offering flexible, competitive rates based on the specifics of proposed projects, time frame and demands of the space.

“That’s what artists do — when something isn’t there, they create it,” says Bourget of why they found it important to take on this gruelling project themselves. “Cultural spaces are really important and it’s artists who really care about it and do it really well, so why shouldn’t artists be doing it?”

On April 12, the Vancouver Foundation approved a grant of $225,000 for KW Studios Accessibility Project for a period of three years but Bourget hopes KW Studios will be a cultural hub for at least 20 years, the guaranteed duration they have ownership over the space.

In addition to the launch of KW Studios, the event was also the official unveiling of the commissioned 38’ x 13’ Urban Weave DTES mural painted by Richard Tetrault with assistance from Kee Toy Joseph.

The mural, in the basement hallway leading to the KW Production Studio, was

created with funding from the City of Vancouver’s Great Beginnings Program.

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Eastside Flea operators take the reins on massive Creative team behind Main Street artisan market opens up sprawling art and music space on Malkin Avenue John Kurucz

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Whether she likes them or not, Jill Whitford has just about had enough of avocados.

She’s standing in the midst of a sprawling 20,000 square-foot warehouse that has been completely transformed over the span of two months.

What was once home to

a produce wholesaler and more recently an avocado factory will soon become Vancouver’s newest arts and culture space.

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What’s going on with car insurance in B.C.?

It’s no secret car insurance has been getting more and more expensive.

Ever wondered why? For a start, there are more and more crashes. In fact, each year there are about 300,000 crashes on our roads – that’s close to 820 per day. More crashes lead to more insurance claims. In BC, there has been a sharp increase in both injury and vehicle damage claims. What’s more, the costs of these claims have gone up. Injury claims alone cost close to $3 billion a year.

So what’s being done about this?

You may have heard the provincial government and ICBC have announced changes to car insurance in B.C. Under the new plan, more money will be available for your medical care, treatments and other benefits, like wage loss.

The changes include: • Doubling of the overall money available for medical care and treatment.

• More types of treatments covered including kinesiology, acupuncture, counselling and massage therapy. This means you won’t need to wait for approval.

• More money covered by ICBC for individual treatments.

• Higher wage loss payments and benefits for household support.

How is this possible?

To allow more money for the care of people injured in crashes, the government has also announced it will introduce a $5,500 limit on pain and suffering payouts for minor injuries.

This means the amount of money you can receive for the emotional distress of being in crash will be limited. But this limit is entirely separate from the money available to you for medical care and the other benefits described above.

In fact, with the new changes these benefits are actually going up.

This limit will not apply to major or catastrophic injury claims – like broken bones or brain injuries.

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“When it does come together and it does work, and you have so many people provide so much immense support, it

makes all the effort worth it,” Whitford told the Courier. “And it makes it happen really easily once you do secure that space.”

Whitford and a team of four others took over the

Will I still be covered?

The limit on pain and suffering payments does not take away your right to a hire lawyer or seek compensation for any additional economic losses. Just the same as today, if you are injured in a crash and not at-fault, you can get more money for wage loss and treatment costs over and above what is covered by ICBC accident benefits.

So who decides if an injury is minor?

Under the new plan, just like today, a medical professional – not ICBC – will determine the diagnosis of your injuries and this will be used to establish whether it falls under the definition of a minor injury or not.

How will the definition of a minor injury be determined?

The government and ICBC have been consulting with medical treatment providers to determine what types of injuries would fall under a minor injury definition.

Over the coming months, this definition will be refined through regulation while still working with medical professionals for their input. In addition, other jurisdictions that already have a definition in place will also be reviewed in order to learn from past experience.

What if I disagree with my claim?

Under our new plan, if you have concerns about your injury claim, there will be a new, independent dispute resolution process starting April 1, 2019. If you disagree with ICBC, based on the new plan, the Civil Resolution Tribunal will make decisions on the: • classification of an injury as a minor injury • entitlement to receive accident benefits claimed • decisions around who is at fault in the crash and settlement amounts for all motor vehicle injury claims below a threshold that will not exceed $50,000.

Why are these changes needed?

In order to cover rising claims costs, B.C. drivers would need to pay on average at least $400 more for their full basic and optional coverage by next year – an average premium of approximately $2,100.

These changes will stop you from paying rate increases of 30 per cent or more in 2019, while providing increased care for anyone injured in a crash.

Malkin Avenue warehouse in East Vancouver in April. Split between two floors, the top level is a mix of both private and co-op art spaces. The lower level covers at least 10,000 square feet and includes rehearsal spaces, photo suites and huge performance area that will play host to gigs, markets, speaker series and more.

Whitford’s group is also behind the wildly-popular Eastside Flea Market that gives creative types a place to sell their wares.

Securing a space to create content that’s sold within blocks of one another is a natural fit.

“We have something that I don’t think anybody else in the city has, which is the community already built around the Eastside Flea,” said Alberta Randall, who covers off on the operational side of the warehouse space. “Some of these people have been working with us for the past five-plus years and they’re our family, so we already have this army of local makers and vintage pickers who will support us and who need us to support them.”

Like most others in the Vancouver arts scene, finding the space was an exhaustive process that spanned months. Whitford looked throughout the east side, combed Craigslist every day and worked with multiple realtors during the threemonth search.

Once she found it, word spread instantly. No advertising was needed, save for a couple Instagram posts. Every private artist suite was filled within 24 hours.

“We got flooded with emails, inquiries and questions from people who wanted to see the space that day,” Whitford said. “People were trying to leave deposit cheques then and there. They were telling us ‘I’m a professional artist, I have nowhere to create and it’s affecting my livelihood.’

They were so desperate.”

The flood of attention wasn’t surprising to Whitford. She says it’s a fact of life that’s permeated across virtually every artistic discipline in Vancouver.

“It’s nothing that we didn’t already know,” Whitford said.

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“Working in the small business and creative communities, we’re constantly hearing there’s a lack of space to sell your goods, make your goods, to store your goods or to do anything that is independent. The space doesn’t exist and when it does exist they are insanely expensive.”

The studio’s life could be a short one. Whitford

has a two-year lease and there’s talk of developing the area. Plans are also afoot to relocate St. Paul’s Hospital into the neighbourhood.

“Our lease will be up and we’ll definitely struggle to find another space — it’s only going to get harder from here,” Whitford said. “It will come to an end eventually, and it will be sad but

that’s OK. You just make it last as long as you can.”

Eastside Studios’ opening day bash on June 1 will include a food truck, craft beers, an outdoor patio area, DJ sets and performances by Necking, Monsoon Moon and Babe Corner.

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There’s rapid growth and then there’s what Atomic Cartoons has experienced in the last several years which, to adequately illustrate, would probably require some kind of slickly animated time-lapse sequence whipped up by one of the company’s award-winning artists.

The Vancouver-based animation firm – which was acquired by Thunderbird Pictures in 2015 and will celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2019 – grew from 25 employees in 2011 to more than 400 in 2018. The staggering growth required them to move from their longtime Mount Pleasant digs into a sprawling space across the alley once occupied by Kit & Ace.

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Atomic’s rapid expansion has occurred in step with growth within the local animation industry.

The Vancouver Economic Commission reports that Vancouver is now the number one visual effects and animation cluster in the world; more than 10,000 artists are employed at roughly 60 VFX and animation houses.

Despite its eye-popping growth, Atomic Cartoons has no intention of growing indiscriminately, says its president, Jennifer McCarron. Atomic is all about playing the long game.

“We spend a lot of time talking about how we preserve Atomic’s culture as we grow, and we actually say no to a lot of work now because we feel like we’re at a place now that it’s manageable,” says McCarron, who

noted that the company turned down $20 million in work in December alone. “We don’t want to take on work that we can’t execute. It’s hard saying no, but we have to be sure that we can execute on it. It’s not about space; it’s really the talent, because we put such a premium on people.”

Atomic Cartoons was founded by a quartet of artists in 1999. The company quickly established itself as an artist-driven boutique firm specializing in 2D animation with their original projects Atomic Betty and Pirate Express. McCarron – an animation veteran who was VP of production at Rainmaker Entertainment – joined Atomic in 2011, when the company was eager to deep-dive into the world of computergenerated animation.

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McCarron says she was initially drawn to Atomic by its culture, which dates back to the company’s founding and begins and ends with a focus on the artists. “They really value the people and the art,” says McCarron. It’s a rare quality in an industry with a high turnover of employees. “We spend a lot of time worrying and caring about career progression, because we really want people to stay at Atomic, and build a career,” says McCarron.

This is why McCarron and other members of the Atomic leadership team spend one hour each day meeting with artists to talk with them about their career goals.

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To find those stars, Atomic works closely with all of the local post-secondary institutions and has recently expanded its outreach efforts into high schools to “get people thinking that this could be a career for them,” says McCarron.

Beyond its confluence of stars, Atomic’s recent growth can also be attributed to “an exploding need for content now for companies like Netflix, Amazon, Apple, and Disney Streaming,” adds McCarron. “We’ve been uniquely positioned,

because we do highquality work because of the people who work here, to capitalize on that and also sell our own content, which has been a change.”

Atomic’s lengthy filmography includes Max & Ruby, Little Charmers, Babar and the Adventures of Badou, Transformers: Rescue Bots, Marvel Super Hero Adventures, and a series of shorts for Mattel and Mojang based on the Minecraft video game. Its original work includes Beat Bugs, an awardwinning series inspired by the music of The Beatles, and – coming to Netflix in 2019 – The Last Kids on Earth, a serialized animated adventure-comedy based on Max Brallier’s

New York Times bestselling book series.

“Vancouver is shifting, and it’s really exciting,” says McCarron. “Traditionally it was a real service town and now, because of the talent, we’re being seen as creators.

That is a big seismic shift.

Traditionally you’d get the [intellectual property] out of Los Angeles and then execute upon it, but now we’re being trusted to create the IP and then deliver on it. It’s been a hard shift but I’ve seen the fruits of that labour with every studio in town. We’re trying to cultivate storytellers.”

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Folks at the Rio Theatre are levelling up their fundraising efforts to include partial ownership of the beloved 80-year-old East Vancouver theatre.

A new crowdfunding initiative is focusing on investors and shareholders.

The new partnership between Rio operators and Vancouver firm FrontFundr invites potential investors to kick in upwards of $1,000 each to become shareholders. Each $1,000 increment equates to a one per cent share in the Commercial Drive property, while those who kick in $25,000 or more will have voting rights on the theatre’s four-person board.

Going the FrontFundr route, “they can assure the investor that we’ve been checked and that what we’re doing is legit. It provides protection to the investors as well as giving them information,” theatre operator Corrine Lea told the Courier.

A slew of previously

undisclosed information was released to coincide with the FrontFundr push, namely the purchase price needed to save the Rio from redevelopment — on that front, $7.5 million is the magic number.

The close date for the purchase is July 7, while the FrontFundr campaign to raise $1 million ends June 28.

Roughly $4 million hangs in the balance as of now, though portions of that will be covered from a range of funding streams: $500,000 from the Indiegogo campaign, $500,000 put up by Lea herself and an undisclosed chunk of change from private investors.

Lea got a $4-million mortgage approved, roughly the same amount the property is worth according to BC Assessment. A separate appraisal from a Vancouver bank has that number pegged at closer to $8 million.

Another previously unsaid nugget on the FrontFundr page: “We’re not completely opposed to development, we just want to become the steward for the Rio Theatre, ensuring

the community needs for a multi-use cultural venue are the main priority.”

Lea clarified that statement by noting the necessary balancing act needed for potential investors to see some form of return. She wants the theatre to remain as is, but is open to options: adding nearby businesses or services that complement the Rio’s business model.

There’s also the potential need for a re-build given the Rio’s age.

“I personally don’t want to do that because that means I would have no theatre for a couple years and we’d have to build a whole new thing,” Lea said. “But if there’s no choice and the building is not stable, then at least if I’m on board and I’m an owner, at least we can build the new theatre that we want. We can insure that it’s the size it needs to be and that it’s a multi-purpose theatre.”

The FrontFundr campaign can be found online at www.frontfundr.com/ Company/rio_theatre.

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Cheers to the Negroni And four other reasons Vancouver Is Awesome this week

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explored by local playwright Amy Lee Lavoie in her latest effort, C’mon Angie!, which will be premiered via Flying Start and the Touchstone Theatre in association with the Firehall Arts Centre. C’mon, Angie! stars Kayla Deorksen and Robert Moloney with Lauren Taylor directing, and uses a crew of young behind-the-scenes production talent.

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Every year during the first full week of June, bars and restaurants around the world pay tribute to the classic Italian cocktail, the Negroni. The elegant aperitif is traditionally made with one part gin, one part vermouth rosso and one part Campari, and is garnished with orange peel. However, for Negroni Week, participating venues offer up their own renditions, available to customers with proceeds going to a charity of choice. There are 60 spots in Metro Vancouver taking part this year, including The Keefer Bar, Annalena, Gotham, Reflections, YEW, UVA Wine & Cocktail Bar, Wildebeest, Tuc Craft Kitchen, Juke Fried Chicken, and Boulevard Kitchen & Oyster Bar — just to name a few.

June 4-10 60 participating venues in Metro Vancouver negroniweek.com/venues

Leaning into the Wind: Andy Goldsworthy

Immerse yourself in the stunning world of nature artist Andy Goldsworthy through the lens of filmmaker Thomas Riedelsheimer, who teamed up once again with the famous landscape artist for this 2017 film. Goldsworthy works outdoors, using natural materials — including the rain itself — to create sculptures and other works. Most of them will disintegrate, and they’re most often photographed or filmed before — or as — they do so.

June 1-7 Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour Street viff.org

West of Main Art Walk

Go ahead, take a walk on the art side. Hit up the West of Main Art Walk on the weekend and go on a DIY tour of various artists’ studios and galleries.

Grab your best walking shoes or your bicycle and make your way around the city, stopping to take a look at the work being done by talented local painters, sculptors, photographers, ceramicists, and more. Plot your own path using the event’s map and guide, available online.

June 2-3 from 11 am to 5 pm Participating studios around Vancouver artistsinourmidst.com

105 Hikes book launch

Celebrate the release of the just-published tome 105 Hikes In and Around Southwestern British Columbia by local scribe Stephen Hui with a book launch event at MEC. Hui will be on hand to sign his book, which is an update of the decades-old regional classic for outdoor adventurers. Grab a copy and get ready to map out a summer of exploring.

Saturday, June 2 from 2 to 4 pm MEC - 130 West Broadway | 105hikes.com

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The hockey blog that knows who needs the puck

Luca Sbisa thriving as a complementary player in Las Vegas Former Canucks defenceman may not be playing any better, but he certainly fits in better

Backhand Sauce Daniel Wagner

Luca Sbisa was doomed before his first season with the Canucks even began. Back in 2014, after Jim Benning acquired him from Anaheim in the Ryan Kesler trade, he made a terrible giveaway up the middle of the ice to Nail Yakupov in the Canucks’ final preseason game. The puck ended up in the back of the Canucks’ net and Sbisa made a fateful quote after the game.

“That’s what you call, in the hockey business, a pizza,” said Sbisa.

Part of media training for a hockey player should be to never use a slang term that rhymes with your last name. It just won’t end well.

Sure enough, “Sbisa’s pizzas” became a meme in Vancouver, partly because of the rhyme and partly because he delivered so many of them. To Sbisa’s credit, he was always trying to push the pace of play and quickly get the puck up ice to his forwards.

Unfortunately, those risky passes frequently got picked off by his opponents.

Sbisa ended up a focal point of the criticism of the Canucks, which was, to a certain extent, unfair. The Canucks had plenty of problems apart from Sbisa, which was readily apparent after he was plucked from the Canucks by the Vegas Golden Knights in the expansion draft.

The Canucks remained at the bottom of the standings while Sbisa is now just a couple wins away from hoisting the Stanley Cup. When the Golden Knights got off to a hot start with Sbisa playing in their topfour, some Canucks fans were quick to

Stick-taps & Glove-drops • A tap of the stick to the Vegas Golden Knights and their in-game experience crew. The praise they have received from around the league is well-earned, as it’s fun, entertaining, and perfectly befitting Las Vegas.

• I’m dropping the gloves with NHL officiating for missing a blatant cross-check on Ryan Reaves’ goal in Game 1. The power forward clearly cross-checked John Carlson to the ice moments before putting the puck top corner. That’s a game-changing moment and the officials dropped the ball.

As of Tuesday, former Canucks Luca Sbisa was three wins away from hoisting the Cup. CP PHOTO

claim that Sbisa had always been a great defenceman who was unappreciated in Vancouver. There’s just one issue: Sbisa is the same defenceman in Vegas that he was in Vancouver.

This is apparent just from watching the Golden Knights play — Sbisa is still prone to the occasional lapse in judgement in the defensive zone and dangerous pass up the middle — but also from the numbers.

Sbisa had the worst corsi percentage on the Golden Knights during the regular season, meaning the opposition badly outshot the Golden Knights when he was on the ice at even strength. He was on the ice for the highest rate of shots on goal against for the Golden Knights, as well as the highest rate of scoring chances against.

The biggest difference has been in goals, where he has benefitted from the Golden Knights’ offence and some excellent goaltending behind him.

Or rather, the biggest difference is that Vegas has room for a player like Sbisa where

Vancouver did not. The Canucks had so little room for error over the past few years that they couldn’t afford to have a defenceman on the roster that made so many of them.

The Golden Knights, on the other hand, have the ability to absorb some of those errors and find ways for Sbisa to contribute from the third pairing, like he did in Game 5 of the Western Conference Final.

Sbisa had the assist on the game-winning goal that sent Vegas to the Stanley Cup Final. He savvily kept the puck in at the line, made a quick sidestep to open up a shooting lane, and threw the puck on net, where it was tipped home by Ryan Reaves.

Along with Reaves, Sbisa is an unlikely hero in Vegas but he fits right in among such a ragtag assemblage of players.

Big Numbers •

44 – Game 1 drew record ratings for hockey in Las Vegas, earning a 44 share of the television market in Sin City. That roughly translates to one out of every two televisions in Las Vegas being tuned in to the game.

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“The chef here really knows his business.”

I’ve been a working man all my life. I worked hard, and I learned to appreciate the simple things. Having my mates over for a pint at the pub and enjoying an excellent plate of fish and chips being at the top of my list. The chef here really knows his business, and the boys always want to come back for more.

I still love a simple meal, and with all the choices chef makes available I’m trying new dishes and discovering new favourites.

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Life’s too short to say no to adventure SANDRA THOMAS STHOMAS@VANCOURIER.COM

One of my favourite jobs at the Courier — and I do wear many hats — is that of travel editor. I love travelling, writing about travel, and my volunteer position on the board of the B.C. branch of the Travel Media Association of Canada.

This past February, I was invited on a press trip dubbed the “Ultimate Las Vegas Bucket List.” And it was bucket-list worthy, right down to a spectacular

helicopter tour of the Grand Canyon, including a stop at the top during which I conquered one of my greatest fears and did one loop around the Sky Walk. My hands and legs were shaking so badly by the time I was done, it’s a wonder I didn’t collapse — but I did it and was pretty proud of myself.

But the very next day (Feb. 10) I received word that a helicopter from that same tour company, flying that exact same route, fell out of the sky killing five tourists from Great Britain and leaving two others with “catastrophic injuries.” I later read those tourists were also living out a bucket

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George Draskoy will compete in his 200th Dragon Boat Race a week before his 88th birthday George Draskoy is the quintessential Renaissance man.

A retired forestry engineer, today Draskoy is a reiki master, passionate about photography, restores vintage photographs using a computer, has a brown belt in karate, designs websites and is an accomplished dragon boat racer. In June Draskoy will compete in his 200th dragon boat race — a week before his 88th birthday.

Draskoy says he was inspired to take up dragon boat racing 18 years ago after attending the annual Dragon Boat Festival in False Creek.

“At that race I saw the Gift of Life team made up of people who had donated kidneys, hearts and lungs and

I thought, if they can do it, I can do it,” says Draskoy, who in 1951 won a swimming championship in Hungary.

It took Draskoy two years to finally join the team and he ended up at his first practice on Feb. 4, 2003.

“It was plus five degrees,” says Draskoy. “It’s only really cold when it’s freezing.”

Draskoy says dragon boat racing came natural to him.

As an eight-year-old boy, born and raised in Hungary,

...I thought, if they can do it, I can do it...

Draskoy began paddling his kayak on the Danube River.

“Then the Russians came and my kayak disappeared along with everything else,” Draskoy says of the Soviet occupation of Hungary after the Second World War. While taking part in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Draskoy was forced to flee to Yugoslavia. He was later jailed and then spent time in a refugee camp.

After three months in an internment camp, Draskoy arrived in B.C. in 1957 where, after an accidental meeting, he convinced the dean of the Sopron Faculty of Forestry at the University of B.C. to allow him to enrol. He then went on to earn a master’s degree in recreational use of forest lands at the University of New Brunswick. After

decades of working in forestry, including years with the parks department in Newfoundland where he retired in 1988 as chief of park interpretation, Draskoy moved back to Vancouver.

That’s when Draskoy began to pursue his passion projects. He is a prolific photographer and created a YouTube channel largely dedicated to the early days of forestry, his friends in the Hungarian community and his photographs.

When he’s not behind a camera, Draskoy designs websites, plays Mahjong and reads on his iPad, is a reiki master and, of course, is on the water in a dragon boat.

“I was born under the sign of Cancer,” says Draskoy, “so water is very important to me. I was born for it.”

Concord Pacific Dragon Boat Festival JUNE 22 – 24 George Draskoy says the Grandragons need more paddlers and wants to encourage men and women 50 and older to check them out during the Dragon Boat Festival, which takes place in and around False Creek from June 22 to 24. The festival is three days of free music, activities and world-class racing.

The Grandragons is the first mixed seniors dragon boat racing team in Canada and in the past 10 years has set the standard for that division. Based in False Creek, the Grandragons have taken a lead role in promoting seniors’ dragon boat racing on the West Coast of Canada and the U.S. Over the years, the team has developed into a strong competitor at dragon boat festivals, usually finishing in the top two in senior events and in the top third in competition with younger teams in recreational division events.

The Grandragons team includes a wide range of paddling abilities and their coaches are Olympic-level athletes who have personally performed and trained teams in local, national and international competitions in a variety of water sports. Their mandate is to help each member paddle to the best of their ability. For more information visit grandragons.org.

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Beach accessibility mat installed at Kits Beach, water wheelchairs available at several locations Two of Vancouver’s most popular beaches are now more accessible for people with mobility challenges.

the freedom to visit the beach on their own if they want.”

As part of the second phase of its commitment to making local beaches more inclusive, Vancouver Park Board has installed a Mobi-Mat, a non-slip beach access path, at Kits Beach. The park board installed the first Mobi-Mat at English Bay Beach last summer.

Sailor Vaughn checks out the Mobi-Mat at English Bay Beach.

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“Feedback from the beach mat at English Bay Beach has been extremely positive,” park board chair Stuart Mackinnon said in a press release. “If you’re in a wheelchair, going to the beach can be an ordeal as you need the help of a strong friend or lifeguard. Beach mats give those with mobility challenges

Jacques Courteau, co-chair of the City of Vancouver persons with disabilities advisory committee, has praise for the Mobi-Mat after a visit to English Bay last week.

“I got out of my chair and lowered myself onto the ground,” he said. “It was

awesome to just stretch there on the warm sand. I stayed about one hour. It was glorious. I will certainly do this more often this year.”

In addition to the Mobi-Mats, the park board has 10 new water wheelchairs available at various beaches and pools across the city. The water wheelchairs will be available starting June 1 at Kits, Second Beach and New Brighton outdoor pools, as well as a number of beaches — English

Jacques Courteau, co-chair of the City of Vancouver Persons with Disabilities Advisory Committee, tried out one of the park boardÕs new water wheelchairs.

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The chairs do require an attendant and are available on a first-come-first-served basis at no charge until Labour Day long weekend. The chairs are available at the lifeguard station at each location between 11:30 a.m. and 8 p.m.

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“Inclusion and access are core values of the Vancouver Park Board,” Mackinnon said. “In addition to our commitment to accessible beaches, the Board has removed barriers to recreation based on income, race, gender and mobility and has forged a new relationship with community centre partners through a shared commitment to equitable access to recreation for all residents.”

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It starts with pausing to ask someone what would bring them comfort and joy. Inside the total rethink of seniors’ residential care taking place at PHC sites A quiet revolution is underway at Providence Health Care (PHC), and it’s transforming how we care for elders in British Columbia.

The revolution is called Residential Care for Me, and it has arisen out of the very frontlines of care, using innovation, research and compassion to change seniors’ lives through a thousand small but very meaningful moments. Residential Care for Me is already in phase two, being put into action on the ground through a process called Megamorphosis: a series of rapid, idea-to-action initiatives occurring in stages at PHC’s five residential care homes. Each cycle begins with a month of pre-work, in which staff of all types break from routine to slow down and connect with each other, residents and families – taking in their experience, learning what truly engages them.

Next, the ideas and insights gained, small or large, are put into practice over an intense, two-week testing period, with extra support from leaders and allowing the usual months of planning to be tossed out the window.

“You think you know a person very well,” says Heather Mak, a clinical nurse specialist who has been with the initiative from the start.

“But we knew residents from a clinical perspective: their care

needs, their medical condition, how we need to support them in their daily lives. What’s different was asking the question, “What would bring you comfort and joy?”

During the first cycle, which started at Youville Residence in February 2017, the answer from one resident’s family was surprising: a particular shade of bright red lipstick.

“If you had asked me about this lady, I could have talked about where she was in her stage of dementia, and how we were trying to be responsive to her needs,” says Mak. But by changing the priority to the emotional, the Youville staff can now provide the things that really matter to her: singing her favourite songs with her, and putting on her lipstick every day. One resident has become much more active and engaged after he took on the task of ironing the vestments for the weekly church service, while a retired physician finds comfort in always having a clipboard on hand for drawing charts. For another, staff prototyped a specialized poncho to help her feel less exposed and more dignified as she gets wheeled through the halls to the shower. Two new lighting systems help residents locate nurses and move around more safely at night, and the spaces have been redecorated to be warmer and more welcoming.

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A TRANSFORMATION IN

Members of the PHC Seniors Care team, pictured at Youville Residence in the beautifully decorated space mimicking 1960s Vancouver. From left: Jo-Ann Tait, corporate director, Seniors Care and Palliative Services; Heather Mak, clinical nurse specialist; Kim Smith and Robena Sirett, site and operations leaders; and Sonia Hardern, quality improvement specialist.

INSET: Music

therapist Lorri Johnson sings with Youville resident Gary.

ÒIt was a challenging process, one that forced the entire leadership team to ask a hard question: if we had to live in a residential care, would we be OK with how things are?

Would we want to live here?Ó

Frank plays a tune on his harmonica with music therapist Lorri Johnson.

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ÒYou might say at the end of the two weeks that the residents were different,Ó says Mak. ÒBut really, what was most different was us.Ó Jo-Ann Tait, pictured with Youville resident Suseesh.

Johnson uses rhythm sticks as part of the music therapy program.

“You might say at the end of the two weeks that the residents were different,” says Mak. “But really, what was most different was us.”

A PLACE YOU SHOULD WANT TO LIVE IN So far Youville and Brock Fahrni residences have undergone Megamorphosis, and Langara, Holy Family and Mount Saint Joseph Hospital are eager to get started. There is genuine excitement in seeing such immediate real-world progress arise to match the future envisioned in the Residential Care for Me initiative, which was first launched by Jo-Ann Tait, corporate director, seniors care and palliative services, along with other residential care leaders in March 2014.

As with many big ideas, the initiative was born out of frustration: faced with tight funding, aging buildings and the pressure of supporting people with increasingly complex care needs, Tait and her team knew something had to change.

“We had been waiting, I think, for some kind of funding miracle, or for someone to say, ‘OK, we’re going to support residential care in a different way,’” she says. “But we very quickly realized that there was no magic answer. Instead, the answer lay within us.”

The team turned to Sonia Hardern, a specialist in human-centred design at PHC, who said the process must begin with “the people who are on the extremes,” says Tait.

For one week in each care home, PHC executives came to sit with the most vulnerable residents – those who can no longer speak in a way that is understood – and experience the sounds and environments as they do. Meanwhile, residents who were able to speak for themselves were given cameras to document what was most meaningful to them.

Ultimately, two themes arose from this work. “We have a flow of the day that is very routinized. It’s based on running an institution – not on people and what they want,” says Tait. Those routines needed to be “blown out of the water” – along with unstimulating environments that felt more like a hospital than a home.

It was a challenging process, one that forced the entire leadership team to ask a hard question: If we had to live in residential care, would we be OK with how things are? Would we want to live here?

“We put ourselves in the shoes of a resident moving into care,” says Tait. “I think I had forgotten

what it was like to have that first-time experience: walking into a home and being overwhelmed by the sights, sounds and smells.

It brought me back to that very first time, thinking, ‘Oh my goodness. Why am I here?’”

A HOLISTIC APPROACH It’s a moment Kathleen Hamilton remembers all too well. She helped her mother, Beatrice, enter into the (now closed) Heather facility in Vancouver in 2002. “That first night, I almost took her home,” says Hamilton. “I remember going in – it was quite chaotic. My mother is a very gentle soul, but I could see that she was upset.”

Beatrice soon moved to St. Vincent’s: Langara, where care improved. But Hamilton was still frustrated by staff who were too focused on routine to listen to what she knew was best for her mother. Beatrice passed away in 2006, but Hamilton continued to fight for change through an association called Advocates for Care Reform. PHC reached out to her in the early stages of Residential Care for Me, and she became an important voice in its design.

“I’m just so impressed with what they’re doing,

and I think they’re the right people to do it,” says Hamilton. She loved seeing PHC connect with other care agencies across the world so they could build on what was already working, and reach out to universities like Emily Carr to learn how better design can improve care. “They are looking at this from a very holistic, big-picture approach,” she says.

And the impact of Megamorphosis is already reaching further. The learnings will be applied to a $2-million improvement project at the Holy Family Residence, made possible by two generous legacy gifts, and there are plans for a new, community-style residence at the former Heather site that will be the first of its kind in Canada. The underlying vision for each step, from a favourite lipstick to a major construction project, is to create a space that supports each resident’s own sense of security, comfort and joy – just like home.

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A highlight of the day includes Dialogue on Aging — a public presentation series with informative speakers, demonstrations and tables offering information on supports and services.

11 A.M. Sleep Matters Sleep consultant Glenn Landry: Glenn Landry has studied circadian rhythms and sleep for more than 20 years and his postdoctoral research focussed on sleep, aging and cognition.

12:45 P.M. Using Technology to Improve Safety and Quality of Dementia Care Lillian Hung: Clinical nurse specialist at Vancouver General Hospital

TALKS + TABLES TIPS The Lifetime Seniors Talks + Tables event is more than four hours long so you should plan strategically. Here are a few pointers to make your day that much more pleasant.

2:15 P.M. Getting Older and Getting Wiser: Mindfulness & Aging Elizabeth Drance: Geriatric psychiatric and clinical associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and the University of B.C.

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Former Lifetime cover model Cathy Browne helped greet guests at a previous Talks + Tables event.

! No pets allowed, with the exception of service animals. ! Bring a snack: Truffles Café is located in the visitor centre, but it can be busy at peak times.

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DonÕt want to drive to Alouette Lake? You can take a free shuttle bus to Golden Ears Provincial Park instead.

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There is such a thing as a free ride Free bus will take you to Golden Ears Park from Vancouver this summer

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At 62,540 hectares, Golden Ears is one of the largest parks in B.C. and popular for its extensive trail system for hikers and equestrian use. Golden Ears also is home to Alouette Lake, a popular spot for swimming, windsurfing, water-skiing, canoeing, boating and fishing — and now you can travel there for free.

Operated by Vancouverbased Environmentally Sound Transportation, Parkbus will run every Saturday and Sunday, starting July 7 and ending Sept. 2, with departures from MEC’s Vancouver store (130 West Broadway) in the morning, returning in the late afternoon. You’ll need to pre-book your seat

online with a credit card deposit (to prevent noshows) — the reservation system opens in mid-June.

Ahead of your reserved trip, riders will get safety information and park details via e-mail. While on board, you can learn about Leave No Trace principles from a ride facilitator.

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The view from the patio of our townhome at Watermark Beach Resort in Osoyoos.

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Osoyoos offers family-friendly activities for all ages Rattling along in the back of a 1952 Mercury one-ton truck, my family and I took in the stunning views that surround Covert Farm Family Estate in Oliver B.C., located within Canada’s only desert.

and checked out the farm’s animals. When it comes to a multigenerational activity, it doesn’t get much better than Covert Farm where we could have all happily spent the rest of the day — if we didn’t have swimming on our list of things to do.

old Cooper (second bedroom upstairs) and the fold-out couch in the living room for my son Ted and Carter. With just a one-minute walk to the pool complete with waterslide, swimming was a big part of our weekend.

We also made use of the barbecue attached to our townhome and we grilled dinner outside when we The truck stops at places of weren’t enjoying the fresh interest around the 650-acre farm, which takes 1.5 hours During the May long weekend seasonal ingredients at Restaurant at Watermark, to navigate, and along the way we stayed in a split-level, where chef Adair Scott has our friendly and informative two-bedroom townhome created a menu focussed on guide Krista filled us in on at Watermark Beach Resort the local bounty offered by everything from the sustainable in Osoyoos and it easily the Okanagan, including wine and organic methods used by accommodated me and my pairings from vineyards just owners Gene and Shelly Covert husband (water-view room to their efforts to keep grapeupstairs), my daughter-in-law down the road. It was there we devoured a tasting menu loving bears from destroying Stephanie and five-month for dinner that included an crops. During those brief arugula salad with delicious stops we’d all pile out of the salmon falafels and a platter truck for a closer look at this of assorted grilled meats and working organic farm. local vegetables. We took the Back at the tasting room/ leftovers back to our place to store/outdoor sitting and grill a very tasty breakfast the play area the adults enjoyed a next morning. Meanwhile wine tasting and charcuterie our breakfast at the restaurant board while eight-year-old turned Carter onto brioche Carter jumped on the massive pillow-shaped trampoline, The Desert Model Railroad is a must see when visiting Osoyoos. played in the water feature

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French toast with fresh berries and vanilla cream, which may have spoiled him for any other version. There is also a group barbecue area beside the pool for Watermark guests to use, as well as fitness and yoga classes on the beach, a spa, and stand-up paddleboarding.

The Watermark is also ideal because it’s central to worldclass wineries and awardwinning golf courses and is a Mecca for cyclists.

of the top 20 things to do in B.C. on tripadvisor.com — it’s absolutely astounding. Owners Ulla and Poul Pederson and their family have created 4,000-square-feet of themed landscapes covered in more than 1,900 houses and 19,000, tiny hand-painted people. Our favourite scenes included a circus, music festival, Monster Truck track, lake and drive-in movie. Visit osoyoosrailroad.com.

We also ate delicious Mexican food and drank jalapeno margaritas and ice cold Coronas at Spirit Beach Cantina at the NK’Mip RV Park where we sat outside at a table overlooking Osoyoos Lake. The cantina offers live music, a patio with a great waterfront view and a casual, family-friendly atmosphere.

Eating aside, here are some other suggestions for a multigenerational trip to Osoyoos:

SUN HILLS RIDING CENTRE Carter enjoyed a long-lead horseback ride while we toured the centre, a humane riding facility where the majority of horses come from rescue situations, including several saved from a slaughter house. As well, owners Sherry Zarowny and Dave McGlynn use alternative riding equipment such as soft rubber hoof boots, saddles without hard frames and, whenever possible, bitless bridles. Visit sunhillsriding.ca.

OSOYOOS DESERT MODEL RAILROAD OK, there’s a reason this attraction has been named one

MEDIEVAL FAIRE AT THE DESERT PARK RACE TRACK We were all pretty excited to watch live jousting for the

first time at this annual event that transforms the race track into a bustling medieval faire including music, people in costume, kids games, axe throwing, stilt walking lessons, food trucks a beer garden and vendors. Visit osoyoosfaire.com.

Carter Bryant Thomas and dad Ted Thomas feed the llamas at Covert Farm Family Estate in Oliver.

CHERRY FIESTA The 70th annual Cherry Fiesta, the Osoyoos Canada Day celebration, kicks off July 1 with a pancake breakfast followed by a parade, children’s activities and entertainment. The festivities also include the biggest Canada Day fireworks display in Western Canada. Visit osoyoosfestivalsociety.ca.

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children, looking as though they may be straight out of a Wii video game, occupy the bow and stern to round out the quartet.

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“Vortex” breaks down planetary effects of plastic waste ALEXANDER KURIAL

New Douglas Coupland exhibit looks at devastating effects of plastics on the environment Society’s attitude towards plastics is having a devastating impact on both the environment — and humanity itself.

That’s the blunt message behind Douglas Coupland’s new exhibit “Vortex” on

display at the Vancouver Aquarium. Coupland uses a series of stark imagery to show how our treatment of plastic waste has had massive consequences for this planet and challenges us to do better to help negate and reverse similar damage in the future.

“I want to stay in my home.”

“There’s this adage growing up, ‘Just throw it away.’ Well what do you mean by ‘away’?” asks Coupland. “The thing about away is that everywhere is away now. And you can’t just chuck that there or use that there without affecting all these people and all of these systems.”

The centrepiece of the exhibit features a small raft adrift in a miniature sea of discarded plastic items. Water, a dense

“I’m worried about mom falling in her home.”

fog that wafts over the viewers, and ocean sounds all transport the audience to this forsaken stretch of ocean.

Aboard the raft sits an eclectic mix of characters. Andy Warhol leans out at the viewer, camera in hand to document the mess — and our reaction to it. A displaced migrant woman from an African country sits with a thousand-yard stare. Two

For all they have given us, plastics have had a highly detrimental effect on the environment in their 111 years of existence. Hundreds of millions of tonnes of plastic waste currently sits in the world’s oceans. The manufacturing of plastic requires large amounts of oil and releases carbon emissions into the atmosphere.

Coupland says this aspect of plastic’s impact on our society needs to be more widely understood. He hopes the inclusion of the migrant woman will help accomplish this goal and highlight the intersectionality of environmental and human issues.

“Perhaps she’s from Nigeria, where Shell sucks the oil out, destroys the environment and causes migration and environmental degradation,” says Coupland.

Coupland’s intention is not to leave the viewer depressed about our current situation, but rather inspired that we can affect change. Hence the inclusion of the aptly named “Plastic Boy and Plastic Girl” — the two children on the boat. They, according to Coupland, represent the hope that the younger generation will take stock of such a wide reaching problem and take steps to curb the damaging effects of plastic in the future.

The other main staple of the exhibit is a wall containing thousands of individual plastic items collected from the waters around Haida Gwaii. They represent the 12 discarded plastic items most commonly found off the coast of B.C. Coupland believes localizing the problem will cause viewers to reflect and take action on how they use and dispose of plastics.

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Seniors Advocate recommends new programs that could fall under home support On May 10, Seniors Advocate Isobel Mackenzie released a report which concludes that changes are required to address some of the existing transportation systems and recommends a new program required to fill some of the gaps.

Dubbed Seniors Transportation: Affordable, Appropriate and Available, the report looks at traditional transit, including HandyDART and Taxi Saver vouchers, which Mackenzie says offer support to some seniors some of the time, but can’t fill all transportation needs for all seniors.

Mackenzie says that while family and friends can fill many of the gaps, that’s a shrinking resource and not all seniors have that support. The report highlights the fact that getting a person from point A to B does not totally capture the transportation needs of frail and vulnerable seniors.

Many seniors may have the physical ability to take a bus or use HandyDART, but they have cognitive challenges that require someone to accompany them or their physical frailty requires someone to assist them throughout their trip. None of the current programs provide for these needs and even with recommended improvements,

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Mackenzie has recommended a new program called “Community Drives,” which would be administered under the existing home support program. The program assesses the physical and cognitive function of seniors, determines what their needs are, determines how much they can contribute to the cost of needed services and hires, schedules and supervises staff who assist seniors in maintaining their independence. Along with helping seniors get bathed, dressed and ensuring they take their medications, the program could easily schedule someone to pick up the senior and take them to a medical appointment. Using

Peggy Casey, a senior who is legally blind, uses the transit system six to seven times a month to travel from the West End. PHOTO: DAN TOULGOET

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Report. Mackenzie recommends that all Class 5 licence renewals that require a DMER be treated the same.

! Expanding the HandyDART system and expand weekend and night time routes. ! Improvements for The report notes that pedestrians because walking a roundtrip outing on ! Costs related to fuel and is a form of transportation Translink’s HandyDART costs parking be allowed as a used by many seniors. the province about $80, while tax deduction for friends an hour of home support can ! Examine the shortcomings and family who drive frail cost less than $38. of the taxi industry. seniors who are no longer able to drive themselves.

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