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Election season brings another wacky week of politics Mike Howell

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From now until the Oct. 20 municipal election, it’s probably best I begin every piece about this wacky election season with a lead sentence that goes something like this: “Boy, what a wacky election season.” How wacky? So wacky that in the space of ﬁve days, this is what happened: • Mayoral nominee Taleeb Noormohamed dropped out of Vision Vancouver’s leadership race May 31 after he suffered “a sudden cardiac event.” The 41-year-old tech entrepreneur was the only competition to Ian Campbell of the Squamish Nation. Campbell will now likely be acclaimed as Vision’s mayoral candidate (see Courier’s website). • Political outsider Ken Sim won the NPA’s mayoral nomination contest Sunday, defeating park board commissioner John Coupar and self-described ﬁnancial analyst Glen Chernen. Sim won 977 votes to 602 for Coupar

and 379 for Chernen (see Courier’s website). • The Vancouver and District Labour Council announced Monday it brokered tentative agreements with Vision Vancouver, the Green Party of Vancouver, OneCity, COPE and Jean Swanson, who was the runner-up in last fall’s council byelection. The agreement, I’ve been told, was struck to avoid a pile of candidates vying for limited spots on council, school board and park board (more on this below). • Hector Bremner, the NPA city councillor who was ousted as his party’s mayoral nominee, hosted a meeting Monday night at a bar at the Woodward’s building to further discuss plans to create a new party in which he will compete to be the mayoral nominee (more on this in an online Q&A conducted at the bar). • Former Conservative MP Wai Young, who is reportedly running for mayor with an organization called Coalition Vancouver, issued her ﬁrst news release

NPA Coun. Hector Bremner is expected to launch a new party before the end of the month, Ken Sim won the NPA’s mayoral contest and Taleeb Noormohamed dropped out of Vision’s leadership race because of health reasons. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

to the Courier Monday after repeated requests over the past couple of months for an interview. (The moment I ﬁnish this piece, I’ll make another request for a chat). The deal with Vancouver and District Labour Council, which represents 50,000 union members in Vancouver, was all the chatter Monday on Twitter. The “deal,” by the way, still has to be ratiﬁed by parties and should not be viewed as creating a coalition, but to avoid vote-

splitting on the centre-left of the political spectrum. That’s what I was told by VDLC president Stephen von Sychowski and Vision spokesperson Michael Haack. Pete Fry of the Greens has also chimed in on Twitter, saying “there is no deal to work together.” Though VDLC’s release didn’t say how many spots each party agreed to, I did some power calling and emailing late Monday afternoon to ﬁnd out. By the way,

the agreement is not related to separate talks to endorse a single mayoral candidate. The Greens will run three for council, three for park board and three for school board. OneCity will run two for council and three for school board. COPE will run two for school board, two for park board and two for council “plus Jean Swanson, should she also seek a COPE nomination,” according to COPE. Swanson told me she will make an announcement Saturday. Meanwhile, Vision said it will run five for council, three for school board and two for park board. Running five for council is interesting because the VDLC agreement clearly states that after each party declares its nominees, it will “then determine endorsement for each of the five organizations in accordance with its recommendation process, and its decisions not to endorse any more candidates than the seats available, or to endorse a majority for any party at any level.”

The VDLC defines a majority as a maximum of four candidates if a party is running a mayoral candidate, and a maximum of five if it is not. With Vision running a mayoral candidate, that brings the total to six people hoping to fill the 11 spots at city hall. What’s up with that? Haack told me Vision wasn’t willing to run fewer candidates and recognizes the maximum the VDLC could endorse is four council candidates. The VDLC’s von Sychowski’s response to Vision’s decision to go beyond the maximum number of candidates: “In this election, we want to have everybody at the table, we want to include everybody in our process and in our discussions and our endorsements. But we don’t see any one group having dominance in that space, or having a majority position in that space.” VDLC delegates are expected to vote July 17 on which candidates they want to endorse. More wackiness, undoubtedly, to come.

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A four-storey mixed-use building with manufacturing use could replace the old 3 Vets building at 2200 Yukon St. Proscenium Architecture + Interiors has filed a development permit application with the City of Vancouver for a project that would feature manufacturing use on the first and second storeys and general office use on the second, third and fourth storeys. 3 Vets, a family-run outdoor equipment store, shut down last December after 70 years in business — almost 50 of those years in the building at 2200 Yukon St. The owners had been dealing with high property taxes, as well as increased competition with big-box retailers and online shopping. They sold the building for $20.4 million in a deal that was finalized in April 2017. The property, at Yukon and West Sixth, had been assessed at $14.9 as of July

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1, 2017, up from $11.9 million the previous year. A Canada goose, meanwhile, has become a fixture at the 3 Vets parking lot over the past several years. The development permit application was filed in March. It envisions a 54,492-square-foot building with a proposed floor space ratio (FSR) of 3.0, a proposed height of 60.04 feet and three levels of underground parking with

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Xpey’ elementary becomes ofﬁcial with Indigenous naming ceremony Once known as Sir William Macdonald, Xpey’ reﬂects importance of cedar John Kurucz

elementary because of its proximity to Burrard Inlet. It was replaced with a permanent structure one year later and named after Sir William Macdonald, a tobacco merchant and educational philanthropist. The school became an Aboriginal focus school in 2012, and the new name aligns with the change from a local catchment to a district catchment. The name-change exercise was two years in the making and initiated in late October 2015. A re-naming committee was struck consisting of the school’s principal, VSB staff and representatives from the student and parent population. More than 30 names were submitted over a weeklong process by 45 people. Cedar Cove received the most votes among committee members. District staff then asked Musqueam Nation members for help with the new moniker. A translation and phonic equivalency were returned to the board in early October of last year. “It’s in them, it’s in their families,” said Xpey’ PAC co-chair Jolene Andrew. “That’s how they talk, that’s what they believe and that’s how they feel. We’re talking to them in a way that they really understand it.” @JohnKurucz

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A grove of cedar trees once towered above the intersection of what is now Victoria Drive and Hastings Street. Members of the Musqueam First Nation believe those trees cleansed evil from the soul and whispered to one another. Those whispers gave way to a rousing chorus of thanks and recognition June 1 as elders from a number of local First Nations gathered to recognize the importance of cedar — or Xpey’ in the Musqueam dialect of henqeminem — to future generations. While Sir William Macdonald elementary ofﬁcially became Xpey’ elementary last year, the naming ceremony necessary to Indigenous cultures took place last Friday. “For us, this is a legal name change,” said Musqueam Nation member James Kew. In accordance with Musqueam custom, the ceremony required the presence of families and witnesses as well as gift exchanges. Friday’s family was made up of teachers and administrators from the Xpey’ school community. The witnesses were elders from the Squamish, Musqueam and TseilWaututh First Nations.

Students took part in a naming ceremony last week at Xpey’ elementary. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Because First Nations traditions are oral and not written, members of several Indigenous communities needed to be present to relay the news of the day. “I think it’s very poignant that we stand in the school to do this work because as longhouse people, it was our longhouse that was our school, it was the longhouse that brought everyone together to do work like this

today,” said Musqueam member Wade Grant. “It’s no different now as we stand in these halls and we call witnesses.” Musqueam members used to gift workers with blanket, but Friday’s gifts were exchanged via a 50-cent transaction. Fifty cents was the amount arrived at based on the cost of a Hudson’s Bay blanket in centuries past. Tseil-Waututh elder

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ings are coming back into our hearts.” The ceremonial aspect of the day’s events gave way to students singing, dancing and drumming alongside First Nations members. The Coast Salish anthem was performed by a group of 10-yearolds. The original school, which began in temporary buildings at Victoria and Pender streets in 1905, was named Cedar Cove

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Archives acquire LGBTQ2+ collection The stories of Vancouver’s LGBTQ2+ community are now a permanent part of the city’s archives. The BC Gay and Lesbian Archives, a collection established and maintained since 1976 by Ron Dutton, an active, long-time member of Vancouver’s LGBTQ2+ community, has been donated to the City of Vancouver Archives and is now available to the public. For more than 40 years Dutton has acquired and described textual records, photographs, periodicals, ephemera and audio-visual material of signiﬁcant to the LGBTQ2+ community in Vancouver and throughout the province. Over the years, he has provided access to the materials from his West End apartment. Concerned about the future of the BCGLA, Dutton donated the entire collection to the city archives. “The BC Gay and Lesbian Archives was founded in 1976 to collect, organize, preserve and make publicly accessible the ongoing stories of Vancouver’s gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and two-spirited communities, from earli-

est historical times to the present,” Dutton said in a press release. “In these 42 years, hundreds of researchers have passed through my home as they examined this ever-expanding collection.” Dutton said that at more than 750,000 items, he can no longer house the collection. “I am thrilled that the BCG+L Archives now resides with the City Archives. The Archives has the technical resources and sympathetic staff needed to sensitively manage this collection, ensure its preservation, and position it within the context of the city’s overall history,” he said. “I intend to continue collecting both old and new materials that document my community’s evolution, for deposit at the City Archives.” The collection consists of: • 16.4 metres of subject ﬁles • 8.6 meters of periodicals • 2,000+ posters • 7,500+ photographs • 220+ moving image recordings • 60+ sound recordings The content of the collection includes video documentation of charity drag balls; extensive photo documentation of the Pride Festival

from 1981 to 2009; textual, photographic and video materials related to HIV/AIDS activism; and, subject files pertaining to a wide range of topics including art, immigration, censorship, gender identity, hate crimes, health services, religion, sports and youth activism. “We are honoured that Ron has chosen the City Archives as the permanent home for his collection,” said Heather Gordon, city archivist. “Not only does the collection reflect the diversity within the LGBTQ2+ community and its evolution over the past 40 years, it documents a community whose lives and activities have historically been underrepresented in archival holdings.” All 2,181 subject files are now available and can be viewed in the archives’ Reading Room. Periodicals are being processed and will be available by the fall. Earlier this year, Postmedia donated more than two million photographs from the 1940s to 1995 to the city archives, the largest single donation in the city’s history. —Courier staff

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Vancouver Mural Festival organizers have partnered with Live Nation Canada to host an outdoor concert at Jonathan Rogers Park as part of this year’s event. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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Outdoor concert slated for Mount Pleasant park as part of Mural Festival Jessica Kerr

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The annual Vancouver Mural Festival will be a lot louder this year. On Monday, Vancouver Park Board commissioners approved an application from Live Nation Canada to host an outdoor concert at Jonathan Rogers Park as part of this year’s festival. The Vancouver Mural Festival Celebration Concert is set for Saturday, Aug. 11 from 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Started in 2016, Vancouver Mural Festival is organized by the Create Vancouver Society, a nonproﬁt organization dedicated to artistic and cultural development through the creation of permanent large-scale public murals.

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Good Night Out Vancouver’s street team is back in action. “The Good Night Out Street Team will resume its work to help increase the sense of safety of vulnerable people participating in the nightlife economy on Granville St.,” the group said in a statement prior to last weekend’s rollout. The street team is made up of four individuals that maintain a visible presence on the Granville strip on Friday and Saturday nights. The team is on the street from midnight until 3:30 a.m. engaging with patrons and supporting vulnerable people during those peak hours as bars and clubs are closing. The street team ﬁrst ran as a pilot project last fall. During the eight-week run, which ended in November, the team connected with hundreds of people and offered a number of services, including: assisting vulnerable patrons access public transit or taxis; liaised with licenced establishments to help ensure the safety of vulnerable patrons during closing time; support over-intoxicated people; acting as hosts to help increase the sense of safety in the Granville Entertainment District; sharing information about nightlife safety and harm reduction; and, helping patrons charge phones for safety reasons. At a meeting in early May, Good Night Out Vancouver coordinator Stacey Forrester told city council that during the eight-week pilot project the group found that 87 per cent of people they spoke to didn’t feel safe in, or moving through, the Granville strip, an area of town she

noted as having a “very precarious” reputation. “I get emotional when I think about how harassment and fear of violence prevents some people from partaking in the rich music, arts and culture aspects of our city,” she said. At the meeting, council passed a motion directing staff to work with Good Night Out to secure a collaborative funding model to support the street team on a permanent basis. In the meantime, the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association (DVBIA) has stepped up to fund the program for the next few months. “The summer will be a pretty critical time for the street team to be out,” said DVBIA CEO Charles Gauthier. The association helped fund the street team’s initial eight-week run last year, as well as for New Year’s Eve and during the Juno Weekend in March. The team works closely with licenced venues, security staff and business owners to prioritize the safety of patrons and the general public. The street team members are trained in non-violence communication, ﬁrst aid and overdose management and administering naloxone, and they are highly visible sporting peach T-shirts and matching backpacks. Launched in 2015 by Forrester and Ashtyn Bevan, Good Night Out Vancouver was adapted from a similar campaign in London. The group’s mandate is to increase patron safety in bars, clubs and other nightlife venues in the city, with a focus on the safety of women and the LGBTQ2+ community. —With ﬁles from John Kurucz

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Is Vancouver about to become ‘Sim city’?

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Like a cat that refuses to use up its nine lives, Vancouver’s storied Non-Partisan Association looks to have avoided a near-death experience with the selection of businessperson Ken Sim as its next mayoralty candidate. Sim, a 47-year old Vancouver-raised ChineseCanadian, handily defeated his opponents — park board commissioner John Coupar and the litigious Glen Chernen — during a marathon 12-hour candidate selection meeting held last Sunday. Sim’s win seemed to surprise the candidate himself, indicated by his short, but gracious, remarks after the vote. Considered the dark horse candidate among the three choices, Sim’s convincing victory is a testament to having a personal network who will sacriﬁce part of their Sunday to help a friend. Nearly 50 per cent of the 1,970 votes cast went

to Sim in what has been described as an upset victory. The NPA might count itself lucky that so much controversy has swirled around it in the last several weeks, as it attracted a large turnout of Vancouver media who was expecting a win by the controversial Chernen. In the end, however, Chernen never had enough supporters to win — not even close. For weeks, political insiders have been spinning that Chernen’s membership signups well-surpassed those of his rivals, and he would easily sail into the role as the NPA’s leader. That turned out to be a load of bunk. Sim is an unknown quantity among political circles. Like the current mayor, he is making the leap into politics from his time as an entrepreneur. But unlike the terminally awkward Gregor Robertson, Sim comes across as articulate and unscripted. Sim even showed he has a knack for politics by climbing off the stage at the Hellenic Centre candidate meeting,

Ken Sim handily defeated his opponents at the NPA’s mayoral candidate selection meeting on Sunday. Now the real work begins, says columnist Mike Klassen. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

addressing those in attendance down at ﬂoor level. Speaking without notes, Sim described his humble beginnings growing up in Vancouver as the child of immigrants. It helped him to come across as the most relatable mayoral candidate so far, if nothing else. It is probably not lost on the NPA that Sim’s candidacy could activate voters in the city’s Chinese commu-

nity, which make up about a third of Vancouver’s population. Sim placed a value on his own heritage by touring historic Chinatown with media the day after the vote, sharing memories from his time spent in that neighbourhood. With a mere ﬁve and a half months until election day, Sim has a gigantic though not impossible task ahead of him.

First, he must become a quick study on the issues facing the city. Though he promises a more businesslike approach to running city hall, reading a balance sheet is only part of the job. He will have to somehow build trust among Vancouver’s power axis — labour unions, city staff and real estate developers. Second, he will have to do an audit of the NPA in terms of its strengths and weaknesses. He must immediately shore up support on their board, form a campaign team and begin looking to build a roster of candidates from incumbents and other aspirants. Assuming the NPA does not make the mistake of running a full slate, that means there are 20 open positions for council, park and school board minus those who are running again. Thirdly, Sim will have to raise his proﬁle among city voters. He can only do that if the NPA regains its repu-

tation as an organization that supports moderate, forward-looking candidates. Easy peasy, right? Even if Sim pulls off all the above, he and the NPA will still have to take on the labour-backed coalition of Vision Vancouver, the Greens, COPE and One City. In what appears to be a breach of the Local Government Election Finance Act (a.k.a. “Bill 15,” which bans union and corporate donations) worthy of an Elections B.C. investigation, the Vancouver District Labour Council announced an agreement they cobbled together among these parties to run joint slates for all three boards. In the weeks ahead, I predict an all-out assault on Sim’s credibility from politicos on the left and possibly from the right. After all that pummeling and more, if the candidate is still standing, Vancouver could become known as Sim city. @MikeKlassen

Cities need to be designed for pedestrians, transit, bikes… not just cars geller@sfu.ca

Do you hate city planners? If so, you’re not alone. “Who Hates Planners and Why?” was one of the workshops at the Planning Institute of British Columbia’s annual conference in Victoria last week. Attended by more than 450 delegates, the event marked the institute’s 60th anniversary. Founded by eight members in 1958, PIBC now has 1,600 members throughout B.C. and the Yukon. While the founding members were all men, today women outnumber the men. While we usually associ-

ate planners with municipal land-use, zoning and developments, PIBC members work in many different ﬁelds. They include resource and environmental management, heritage conservation, transportation, economic development and law. Professional planners use their knowledge, skills and experience to help create more livable and sustainable communities and environments. In so doing, they often raise the ire of politicians, citizens, developers, architect and others. In the opening keynote address, internationally renowned planner Gil Penalosa inspired the audience

with a presentation on how planners must adapt to a changing world. As life expectancy increases, it is increasingly important to design cities for those who are eight and 80, not just those 30 and athletic. In the past, we designed our cities to accommodate cars. However, those under 16 do not drive and many seniors are as afraid of losing their drivers license as getting cancer. We need to design cities for those who don’t have a driver’s license. Since streets comprise 25 to 35 per cent of the space occupied by cities, we must design for pedestrians and cyclists as much as cars.

Rather than worry only about potholes, we need to worry about broken sidewalks and playgrounds. Penalosa argues good sidewalks and cycle paths dignify a community. For years, he has been promoting the idea of Ciclovias, a Spanish term that means cycleway. They began in his home city of Bogota, Colombia in the 1970s, when the main streets were blocked off to cars for runners, skaters and cyclists each Sunday and public holiday. Today they are happening in Paris and Delhi and dozens of other cities around the world. Penalosa challenged plan-

ners to consider that in 40 years we are going to double the size of cities. Half of the homes we will require are yet to be built. As we plan cities of the future, we must not repeat the mistakes of the past half century when we built primarily low-density neighbourhoods, devoid of commercial areas, linked to downtowns by extensive expressways. We also need to focus on preventing pedestrian injuries and deaths. One way to do this is to reduce road speeds to 30 km in all residential areas, an idea gaining currency around the world. We need to improve public transit, whether it be

rapid bus, light rail or subways. In Penalosa’s opinion, a civilized city isn’t one where the poor have cars, but rather it is one where the rich use public transit. This means designing more comfortable, weather-protected bus-stop shelters. Penalosa concluded his talk by challenging the audience to plan the city for children. If we want them to walk to school, we must retain and build small neighbourhood schools. We must never forget the perspective at 95 cm — the height of a child. A longer version of this column appears online at vancourier.com.

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Readers pipe up over pipeline Re: “Mayor Robertson ‘appalled’ at feds’ $4.5 billion purchase of pipeline,” May 29. It should come as no surprise that Mayor Gregor Robertson is appalled at the federal government’s announcement to purchase the existing Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline for $4.5 billion. With this action, our prime minister has shattered his credibility as our charming climate change hero and profoundly betrayed our coastal indigenous communities. Remember it was Trudeau who strutted onto the world stage in Paris and declared, “Canada is back my friends… we are here to help.” What he didn’t disclose to his adoring admirers was that, in truth, his government was committed to ﬁnancially supporting the energy industry in its drive to dramatically expand the exploitation of the tar sands. According to his government’s ministerial brieﬁng books released under access to information legislation in 2016, greenhouse gas emissions from Alberta’s oil are projected to increase a staggering 124 per cent between 2010 and 2030. Remember also, it was this teary eyed prime minister who vowed “to go beyond” the 94 calls to action cited in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report and commit to “a total renewal of the relationship between Canada and indigenous peoples.” This promise now rings hallow. Without even waiting for a federal court to rule on action launched by seven B.C. First Nations attempting to halt the Trans Mountain upgrade, Trudeau wants shovels in the ground and the project completed without delay. The expanded pipeline capacity will result in a seven-fold increase Alvin Brouwer PUBLISHER

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in tankers brimming with Alberta bitumen navigating our fragile marine ecosystem. When Trudeau swept to power, Mayor Robertson thought he ﬁnally had a trusted friend in Ottawa. He was desperate for federal support to properly address the growing problem of homelessness, housing affordability, the opioid crisis and our transition to a green economy. Who can forget the positive chemistry that seemed to radiate from these two politicians as they hugged in front of city hall following the 2015 federal election? Although the prime minister made all sorts of warm aspirational statements about our city, we now know his government’s real commitment was not to help alleviate the crushing poverty endured by some of our most marginalized citizens but to spend billions getting a pipeline to tide water in Burrard Inlet. In retrospect, Justin’s real bromance was never with our handsome mayor but with the oil executives hidden away in the sleek glass towers of downtown Calgary. Conor Murphy, Vancouver

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Yes, no and maybe so Re: “Will YesVancouver be the name of Hector Bremner’s new party?” May 31. Hector Bremner’s whole platform seems to be building luxury condos and houses for foreigners and low-cost housing for locals... Build everywhere, even on our dwindling green-space. He certainly seems to have a lot of developer money behind him, perhaps this is why he has so much exposure. Another politician working for himself. Little experience, political jargon and a lobbyist. We may need change people, but let’s not fall for another inexperienced leader who will make our problems worse. Lisa Ross, Vancouver

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News Group wants municipal election candidates to address women’s concerns Women Transforming Cities to host forum June 24; feedback to form basis of Hot Pink Paper Campaign 2018 Naoibh O’Connor

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The 2018 civic election is still months away but one female-centred organization is already working on efforts to influence political parties and candidates’ campaigns. Women Transforming Cities (WTC), a group whose aim is to make cities friendlier to women and girls, has initiated its “Hot Pink Paper Campaign 2018.” The campaign, much like the inaugural one it organized for the 2014 municipal election, will identify pressing issues facing women, as well as corresponding actions the city could adopt to address them. The organization is currently surveying women’s groups about what they think are key issues and it’s hosting a June 24 forum in Vancouver that will include discussions on top election issues, areas identified in the 2014 campaign that still need to be worked on and emerging issues. Once issues and actions are identified, Women Transforming Cities will seek commitments from electoral parties and candidates running in 2018. Ellen Woodsworth, founder and co-chair of the group, also served as a city councillor under COPE. Woodsworth said WTC is already calling on political parties to put a gendered intersectional lens on their platforms, to support at least

50 per cent diverse female candidates and to support a woman for mayor. The latter proposition is looking increasingly unlikely as far more men than women showed interest in launching mayoral bids. Ian Campbell and Taleeb Noormohamed were seeking the Vision Vancouver mayoral nomination, but Noormohamed dropped out last week after a “cardiac event.” Vision is expected to acclaim Campbell as its candidate. Ken Sim, John Coupar and Glen Chernen competed for the NPA mayoral nomination June 3. Sim won the race, earning almost half of the votes. After splitting from the NPA, Coun. Hector Bremner announced his intention to run for the mayoral nomination for a yet-to-benamed new party. Burnaby MLA Kennedy Stewart is running as an independent candidate as is Shauna Sylvester from Simon Fraser University’s Centre for Dialogue. Green Party Coun. Adriane Carr is considering running for her party’s mayoral nomination but is waiting for Vision to select a candidate before making a ﬁnal decision. Not much has been heard from former Conservative MP Wai Young, who once said she was interested in the NPA mayoral nomination. She has set up a “Wai Young for Mayor” website

Ellen Woodsworth, co-chair of Women Transforming Cities, hopes to make women’s issues top of mind in the 2018 election campaign. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

under a new organization called Coalition Vancouver. Woodsworth is disappointed by the dearth of female candidates and the lack of party support for one, considering Vancouver has never had a female mayor — all 39 have been men. “I’m disappointed more women haven’t come forward and I’m disappointed that parties haven’t found some women that they would give the support to that’s needed for that person to feel able to take it on,” she said, adding, “We’ll continue to encourage women.” Once it’s ofﬁcial who actually is running for mayor,

WTC would consider endorsing a candidate based on their commitment to the issues the organization identiﬁes as important. The June 24 forum includes a session featuring women who’ve run or been elected to ofﬁce. They will talk about their experiences and systemic barriers to women in local government, as well as municipal issues they consider key to women’s success. The feedback will form the basis of the Hot Pink Paper Campaign. The forum was made possible thanks to federal government funding announced earlier this year. The funding is for a three-year project

to help remove barriers to women’s political and civic participation in Vancouver and Surrey. WTC is working in partnership with the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women on the project. Woodsworth, meanwhile, is encouraged by some developments in recent years. She points to the fact that, in January, council approved a 10-year Women’s Equity Strategy designed to make Vancouver “a fair, safe and inclusive city for all women, including selfidentiﬁed women.” She’d like to see advancements in governance such as a proportional represen-

tation ward system, which would make it easier for women, who don’t have a lot of money or connections, to run and succeed as independent candidates in neighbourhoods. While half of Vancouver’s city councillors are currently women, Woodsworth said “there’s nothing structurally in place to ensure it happens again. There are no guidelines for parties to ensure women to run, to help them to run. More work could be done.” Once women are elected, there are also few initiatives to help them such as easy access to childcare. That said, she’s heartened by the upsurge in movements such as #metoo and #timesup, as well as ﬁndings in the 2017 McKinsey Global Institute report, which indicated the economic value of having more women in the labour force. “So there have been lots of different initiatives that have made political parties start to take a look at ways in which they could bring forth policy and make a difference,” Woodsworth said. The WTC June 24 forum, which runs from 12:30 to 4 p.m., is free and open to the public. Registration is preferred. @naoibh More information can be found at www. womentransformingcities. org/pathways.

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The Vancouver Tenants Union is calling for wide-ranging changes to the Residential Tenancy Act including a four-year rent freeze, increasing the grace period for late payment of rent from ﬁve to 14 days, an end to renovictions, prohibiting discrimination against tenants with children or pets, and the elimination of security deposits. These recommendations are among 50 the union submitted May 29 to the government’s newly formed Rental Housing Task Force. The three-member task force, headed by Vancouver-West End MLA Spencer Chandra Herbert, is collecting feedback that will inform recommendations it makes to modernize the Residential Tenancy Act. Numerous organizations have submitted briefs, including LandlordBC, Tenant Resource Advisory Centre (TRAC), BC Real Estate Association, BC SPCA, Canadian Home Builders Association of BC,

the City of Vancouver and Together Against Poverty. The task force is also visiting 10 B.C. communities this month to gather input, including a stop in Vancouver June 27. The VTU’s recommendations cover a broad range of tenant concerns, but its three primary recommendations are to re-implement vacancy control by limiting rent increases to once every 12 months regardless of whether there has been a change of tenants, to require automatic dispute resolution hearings for all evictions and to legislate measures to retain affordable housing stock. “These recommendations are rooted in the belief that if we protect people’s housing and their housing rights we can make a huge impact on poverty and the quality of life in this province,” the VTU’s submission states. Vacancy control was prioritized because “it will disincentivize evictions issued for a proﬁt motive, slow the destruction of low-income rentals, lower RTB caseloads and facilitate posi-

tive, good-faith relationships between landlords and tenants,” according to the VTU. The union also argues that landlords should have to apply for dispute resolution with the RTB and schedule a hearing before issuing an eviction notice, and that tenants in residential properties of more than ﬁve units should be told three months in advance of a landlord’s intention to sell the property. They should then be given ﬁrst priority on putting forward a purchase proposal for the building, according to the VTU. Liam McClure, a member of the Vancouver Tenants Union, said the group has been working on the recommendations for months in anticipation of a review of the Residential Tenancy Act. They were endorsed by the group’s membership. “This has been in the air for a while. Everyone is aware things can’t keep going as they have been going,” he said. “We’re hoping that this process leads to some changes and stronger

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respond to Rental Housing Task Force protections — making sure that landlords and tenants both have legislation they can rely on that’s simple and fair and offers tenants the protection they need in the housing market.” Vacancy rates sit at near zero in Vancouver, creating a desperate situation for renters in search of an affordable, long-term home. The Rental Housing Task Force will report its ﬁndings and make recommendations to Premier John Horgan and Selina Robinson, minister of municipal affairs and housing, in the fall. McClure hopes the majority of the VTU’s recommendations are adopted but he said even if half of them were it would be a “major, major improvement.”

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LandlordBC, meanwhile, says the provincial government should maintain landlords’ annual allowable rent increase of two per cent plus CPI (consumer price index) and rent control tied to the tenant rather than the unit, according to its submission to the task force. “Those two items are just so critical to keep people in the business,” David Hutniak, CEO of LandlordBC, told the Courier. “We hope to encourage people to build more. If either of those two are touched, it’s just not going to happen.” LandlordBC maintains the existing Residential Tenancy Act “strikes an effective balance between protecting tenants and allowing landlords to recover expenses and generate modest revenue surplus,” according to its submission. It insists changing the annual allowable rent increase formula or tying rent control to the unit rather than the tenant would “cause irreparable long-term harm to both renters and landlords.” “The economics of continuing to provide rental housing will unravel, as will the incentive and the ability to invest in one’s property,” LandlordBC states. “Further,

it will be impossible to build any or any business case for the construction of new purpose-built rental housing. This in our view is the only way in which the private sector can address the critical shortcoming in supply.” Hutniak says LandlordBC is supportive of government investment in social housing, including modular housing, and has backed B.C. government moves such as closing the loophole that allowed for ﬁxed-term leases, increasing the amount of notice renters are given if a landlord evicts them to demolish, renovate or convert the unit to a caretaker unit and increasing compensation for bad-faith evictions. The organization is also supportive of the government’s decision to provide $7 million in new funding over three years to the Residential Tenancy Branch. “If you look at it, it’s really supply and ﬁx that bureaucracy. Ninety-nine per cent of the [problems] that you see in the media, whether it be a bad renter or a bad landlord, you can always trace it back to someone who’s not understanding the [Residential Tenancy Act] or someone taking advantage of the act without necessary consequences. They have good laws, so they should now enforce them — make sure there’s true consequences for both parties… Bad landlords hurt our industry. We want these people to suffer consequences.” But Hutniak said there is a failure by some to appreciate that landlords are running businesses. “We’re providing market housing, not social housing and that has a different set of economics around it. We get it. Housing affordability is a huge issue here but we’re not responsible for it. We actually predicted this 25 years ago, 20 years ago. Now, we’re an easy target.” If landlords are legislated “to death,” Hutniak questions who will stay in the business or who will bother to invest. He points out it’s the pension funds and the banks that are ultimately going to decide not to invest.

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New stats show stroke prevalence among women — particularly those over 70

While it’s typically older adults who suffer from strokes, Jessica Shirra was an anomaly. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

JOHN KURUCZ jkurucz@vancourier.com Jessica Shirra is more than happy to be a statistical anomaly rather than a statistic. Now in her early 30s, the Vancouverite suffered a series of strokes over a 10day period in 2014. Getting that diagnosis was preceded by several frustrating hospital visits, misdiagnoses and mounting worry. “In the hospital I remember thinking ‘I don’t even know what a stroke is. I’m

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...her family had no medical history to point to as a precursor... when her health turned, her family had no medical history to point to as a precursor, she was young and ﬁt. Shirra estimates she had 20 strokes varying in severity over the course of about 10 days. The ﬁrst one she took note of happened while skipping rope at the gym. “I dropped my rope and felt a snap in my neck,” she recalled. “And then all of a sudden my vision

went really blurry in one of my eyes.” Her hospital visit concluded with a misdiagnosis, the ﬁrst of many over the following days. Shirra was repeatedly told she was experiencing anxiety or going through a bout of migraines. Within 48 hours, another startling episode happened as Shirra was walking to her car. “As I was walking, my leg gave out,” she said. “I remember looking at my leg and it didn’t even look or feel like my leg. It was the weirdest thing ever. At this point, I really felt like

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something was wrong.” Frustration and confusion were mounting after the second hospital trip. About a week later, the third major warning sign happened as Shirra got out of the shower. She went to tie her hair up in a ponytail, but her hands couldn’t do it. A subsequent walk-in clinic visit ended with an anxiety diagnosis. While leaving, Shirra tried putting her jacket on but couldn’t lift her hands above her shoulders. She was back in the emergency room at Vancouver General Hospital within 10

minutes. The ﬁrst MRI Shirra received suggested she may have multiple sclerosis. While waiting for further tests, and more than 10 hours after arriving, Shirra had another stroke in the ER. A second MRI conﬁrmed multiple strokes had happened over several days. She was hospitalized for three weeks and required four months of recovery once discharged. It was later revealed that a tear in an artery in Shirra’s neck was

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the root cause, an incident she can’t explain. Dr. Thalia Field, a neurologist with the Vancouver Stroke Program, acknowledged that while older people are most susceptible to strokes, cases like Shirra’s aren’t completely out of the ordinary. For more info, see www.heartandstroke.ca. A longer version of this story is available at vancourier.com.

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How to spend/survive 24 hours in the city that never sleeps Grant Lawrence does New York City in a day and lives to write about it Grant Lawrence

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Your challenge: you have exactly 24 hours to visit the largest city in the United States. What do you do? How do you manage your time? Where do you go? What do you see? That’s exactly the conundrum presented to me last week. I found out a month or so ago that my latest book was nominated for an award and the ceremony was going to be held at thee world-famous Copacabana nightclub in Times Square, New York City. I knew I had to be there, that it was a life opportunity not to be missed, but due to work and family obligations, I could only shave out exactly 24 hours to pull it off. If you’re ever faced with such a test, here’s how you do it. First piece of advice: Catch the nonstop flight on Philippines Air (Vancouver is the stopover between Manila and NYC) at a great price of $500-ish return. The flight leaves Vancouver at a comfortable 2:20 p.m. Onboard, you get a hot meal, booze, headphones, movies and a pillow and blanket all for free, which seems downright deluxe compared to current Canadian air travel standards. The flight gets you into JFK at 10:30 p.m., and since you’re packing light, you can breeze through customs and get into Manhattan by 11:30 p.m. Second piece of advice: Stay on Pacific time. If you’re anything like me, shuteye is the last thing you’ll want when you’ve landed in the City That Never Sleeps. There are plenty of options in every direction for late night eats and drinks. If you’re staying in Times Square, like I was, you’re right on the edge of Hell’s Kitchen, which is filled with great hole-in-the-wall bars and restaurants. Hike over to As Is at the corner of 50th Street and 10th Avenue for an excellent selection of craft beer and elevated bar food to get your 24 hours off to a buzzing start. The next morning, sleep in until 30 minutes before your pre-arranged late checkout, leave your luggage

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with the bellman at the hotel, and hit the mean streets. Third piece of advice: You probably know a few people in the Big Apple, but don’t try to see them. You’ll never pull it off. Explain your situation in advance. They’ll understand, and won’t get pissed off when they see your Instagram photos. You won’t have time for a leisurely brunch, so pop in to the Shake Shack (multiple locations) for a high-end fast food breakfast sandwich of cage-free eggs and applewood-smoked allnatural bacon. There’s plenty of ways to get around New York, the most obvious being your feet, the subway and taxis. It was a gorgeous day when I was there last week and I needed to move fast, so I opted for one of the many Citi Bikes, which are exactly the same kind of Mobi rental bikes available in Vancouver. There’s one big difference: there is no law that says you have to wear a helmet in New York. That means that, unlike Vancouver, Citi rental bikes do not come with helmets, which seems crazy, given the general mayhem of New York streets. I went for it anyway, and it’s a fast, energizing and semi-dangerous way to see the city. There are separated bike lanes on most of the north-south avenues, and plenty of designated bike paths on the west-east streets. Fourth piece of advice: When biking NYC, try

to be a kayak and not a salmon. In other words, treat the streets like a raging white water river and go with the flow. Always ride with the traffic and other bikes, never against (same rules apply for the Stanley Park seawall, eh?) My next stop was beautiful Central Park, to seek out the Balto statue (a sled dog that delivered serum to a bunch of sick kids in Alaska 100 years ago, a story that my son is obsessed with). Come for the statue, stay for the people watching. New Yorkers are a ridiculously fit bunch. There were more glistening six packs in Central Park than the entire Vancouver brewing district. Next was a trek to Tribeca for lunch, then pedal-powering through SoHo, Little Italy and the Bowery. After that, Washington Square Park, Greenwich Village and Union Square. Then it was a quick change in the hotel bathroom to be in time for a pre-awards show dinner at Sardi’s. That’s the legendary restaurant in Times Square where the walls are covered in celebrity caricatures. Everyone dining around you looks famous, too. The book awards show at the Copacabana was everything I hoped it would be. The Copa is a storied club that has raged through most of the popular music eras of the past 100 years (as well as serving as a set for such films at Goodfellas, Raging Bull and Carlito’s Way). Somehow, the Copa got

hung up on the disco era and has never changed. And somehow my book actually won a medal. After a quick pose for a press shot, it was back into the madness of Times Square and into a taxi for the airport. At 11:30 p.m. I was on board Philippines Air for the red-eye ﬂight direct to Vancouver. By 10:30 a.m. the next morning, I had gone from the Copacabana to kindergarten — it was orientation day for my son at his new school in East Van. Fifth piece of advice: Don’t do New York City in 24 hours. Grant Lawrence is the author of Dirty Windshields: the Best and the Worst of the Smugglers Tour Diaries, which won an Independent Publishers Award (IPPY) in New York on May 29, 2018.

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It’s that place you escape to with your family... or from your family. The cabin has long been held in high esteem by Canadians, and now the Vancouver Art Gallery is celebrating the dwelling in a new exhibit called Cabin Fever. Tracing the history of the North American cabin as an architectural form and a cultural construct, Cabin Fever includes renderings, artworks and commercial products as well as architectural models, plans and full-scale interventions. You supply the beer and HBC blankets, though. June 9 to Sept. 30 Vancouver Art Gallery, 750 Hornby St. vanartgallery.bc.ca

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Chef Meets Truck

The Chefs’ Table Society of B.C., in partnership with the Yaletown BIA, hosts Chef Meets Truck in Yaletown at the intersection of Hamilton and Nelson. The event will feature chefs hopping on board local food trucks to serve up the foodie event of the season. This collaborative effort will feature some of Vancouver’s top culinary talent, including Felix Zhou of Heritage Asian Eatery, Bryan Satterford of Juke Fried Chicken and Tony Starratt from Two Rivers Meats. June 12, 6 to 9 p.m. Yaletown (Hamilton and Nelson) yaletowninfo.com.

Calexico at the Rickshaw

The Arizona-based band’s ninth release is grittier but no less creative than Calexico’s eclectic norm. Recorded in a unique Northern Californian coastal home, The Thread That Keeps Us is evocative of time and place. The place to be in Vancouver is the Rickshaw, when Calexico performs as part of its current tour in support of the new album. 19+ only. June 8, doors at 7 p.m., show at 8 p.m. Rickshaw Theatre, 254 East Hastings St. rickshawtheatre.com For more events, go to

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Actress explores legacy of family’s internment Sabrina Furminger

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Jennifer Spence doesn’t have many stories about her mother’s family from the years leading up to the Second World War. She knows that both sets of greatgrandparents emigrated from Japan; that her mother’s parents were born in Canada; that her grandfather’s parents owned a rooming house at 561 East Hastings, a stone’s throw away from the heart of Vancouver’s once thriving Japantown. Spence knows far more about what happened to her family after the attack on Pearl Harbor in late 1941, when a wave of antiJapanese sentiment swept across the continent, and all Japanese Canadians — no matter where they were born, or how long they’d lived in Canada — were ofﬁcially labeled enemy aliens. Spence’s relatives were among the 22,000 Canadian citizens and residents uprooted from their lives, stripped of their belongings and jobs, and crammed into

internment camps far from the West Coast. Internment and what it means to be the descendent of camp survivors are topics that Spence — a Leo Awardwinning actress whose ﬁlmography includes Travelers, Continuum, You Me Her and Down River — hasn’t explored in her acting work, until now. The Vancouver actress is currently portraying internment camp survivors in two projects: BritBox’s upcoming television series The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco and a reading of Chay Yew’s stage play Question 27, Question 28, which will take place at the Nikkei National Museum and Heritage Centre on June 16. When she was growing up, her relatives rarely spoke with her about the camps, which she notes was fairly typical for that generation. “Internment was very difﬁcult for them and they chose not to speak about it,” says Spence. “But it didn’t stop them from being successful. They didn’t lament the past.” The Japanese term for that concept of moving on is shikata ga nai, says Spence.

Jennifer Spence’s grandfather and family, shown here in happier times before the Second World War.

“It basically means, ‘What’s done is done,’ and a lot of survivors went by that — ‘What’s done is done, let’s get on with our lives.’” Regardless, Spence knows her relatives were among the 8,000 Japanese Canadians detained in the exhibition buildings and stables at Hastings Park before being sent to internment camps in the B.C. interior or, like Spence’s grandfather, to labour camps across the country (her grandmother managed to escape internment by seeking employment with the

Premier of Ontario). “People talk about blood memory and intergenerational trauma, and I think there’s something to that,” says Spence, who visited Hastings Park with Courier photographer Dan Toulgoet last week to shoot in and around the buildings where her great-grandmother and great aunts were housed before being sent to an internment camp in Tashmie, B.C. “There’s still that impact of something bigger reaching out from the past.” The Bletchley Circle: San

Francisco is a spin-off of the popular ITV series about an elite unit of female codebreakers who reunite after the war to solve crimes. The spin-off takes place in the United States in 1956; Spence’s character is Olivia Mori, who she describes as a codebreaker and an internment camp survivor. “Even though I’ve been fortunate in my life not to experience a ton of racism or anything as traumatic as being kicked out of my home and sent somewhere, there was some part of me that really understood the material,” Spence says. Spence is one of several artists participating in a live reading of the play Question 27, Question 28. The play takes its name from loyalty questions the American government began asking in 1943 of all Japanese Americans in internment camps. Spence will perform several roles in Question 27, Question 28, including that of a detainee who grips barbed wire as her ﬁance leaves the camp to ﬁght in the war. The June 16 reading is directed by Tamlyn

Tomita (The Good Doctor) and also features Laura Fukumoto, Genevieve Fleming and Yoshié Bancroft. Spence further explored the concept of intergenerational trauma when she prepared for The Suitcase Project, a photography based exhibition led by artist Kayla Isomura that launches in tandem with Question 27, Question 28. The project asked fourthand ﬁfth-generation Japanese Canadians and Americans between the ages of two and 50 to contemplate what they would pack in a single suitcase if they were ordered to report to an internment camp within 24 hours. “I packed sheets because of what I remember hearing about the conditions at Hastings Park, that you needed sheets so that you have some sense of privacy in the horse stalls,” says Spence. “[Internment] is a very humiliating experience that also causes you to be practical.” Information about Question 27, Question 28 and The Suitcase Project at nikkeiplace.org.

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A recent ruling by the Supreme Court of Canada has a Vancouver theatre company adjusting its play days prior to its world premiere. Victim Impact, a documentary play questioning how a former local notary ran one of the largest Ponzi schemes in Canadian history, is at the Cultch, June 8 to 17. “We’ve been waiting to find out what would happen with the Supreme Court, because it affects how the play ends and what it means for Samji,” says director Jiv Parasram. On May 31, the Supreme Court of Canada rejected Rashida Samji’s double jeopardy appeal. Samji, 65, scammed nearly 300 people, largely retirees and members of Vancouver’s South Asian community, into investing $110 million in a fictional winery expansion between 2003 and 2012. Samji’s double jeopardy appeal was over the $33-million fine against her by the B.C. Securities Commission. She felt the fine was punishment enough for the 14 counts of fraud against her and that she shouldn’t have to serve her six-year sentence. But writer Tim Carlson, who became interested in telling this story after his own father was a victim of a less severe fraud, says his

three years of research already suggested this ending. “Samji is the greatest unreliable narrator,” says Carlson both to the Courier and on his podcast, Victim Impact: The Fraudcast. “But she still garnered a lot of sympathy from the public because of her battle with cancer and family circumstances.” The journalist-turnedartistic-director/playwright says the podcast — which has three episodes and counting — allows him and his team to share the fruits of their three-year labour in a way a 90-minute play doesn’t. “It allows the audience to comb ﬁne-tooth aspects of the case addressed in the play,” adds Parasram. It is also a platform for people who have been victims of similar schemes to share their stories — be it publically or anonymously through a phone line, email or shared online documents. “The advertising of this play and podcast might encourage people to come out and learn more about this largely under-reported case,” says Carlson. “We might be able to stop the next great Ponzi scheme in Canada, or at least help one family recognize they’re in the midst of a fraud,” he adds. Parasram — who Carlson approached two years ago for his directing skills, as well as his personal connection to Metro Vancou-

ver’s South Asian Community — says Victim Impact is far from your average documentary play. While much of the show takes place in a serious court setting, there’s a level of absurdity throughout the production considering many facts are still mysterious. “As a lay person, even the process of Canadian law seems to be a little bit excessive and absurd, and we tap into ﬁlm noir aspects to lend humour to the unknown,” says Parasram. And while Carlson tags Samji as the unreliable narrator, Parasram says her victims serve as the chorus of the production. “There was some concern of the cultural representation on stage and ensuring the story we’re telling doesn’t just risk othering the case or othering the community,” says Parasram speciﬁcally of Vancouver’s Ismaili community. “We wanted to make a show that speaks to their concerns, since they’re the ones who have been in the spotlight for years.” Considering Vancouver has been dubbed the fraud capital of Canada, Victim Impact’s multimedia approach to investigative entertainment may be an effective tool in keeping locals out the spotlights of future scams. Details at thecultch.com.

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What it’s like to build homes in Vancouver Q&A with Bryn Davidson of Lanefab Design/Build Naoibh O’Connor

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Bryn Davidson, co-owner of Lanefab Design/Build, has been building homes in Vancouver since around 2008. The ﬁrm mostly works on projects in the city, but a few are on the North Shore and some are further out. Right now, Lanefab has 15 houses under construction, including full-size homes and laneway homes. About nine staff work in the ofﬁce and about 14 on site. Last week, the City of Vancouver announced a new pilot project to fast track home building permits. Called the Applicant Supported and Assisted Process, the program is for experienced homebuilder teams. It aims to reduce permit processing times from between 28 to 38 weeks to between six to eight weeks.

The ﬁrst phase will include 20 to 30 projects to test new ideas, which, if they prove successful, could then be scaled into the regular permitting process. Davidson’s ﬁrm plans to submit a project for consideration for the pilot. The Courier talked to him about what it’s been like to build in Vancouver and what he thinks of the new program. Davidson outlines some challenges but he also noted that the City of Vancouver has made positive steps in improving the process over the last year.

What kind of project would that be for?

What is it like to build in Vancouver? How difficult is it?

The first projects I did were in Alaska so coming from there, where it’s a bit of a Wild West, it was a shock to come to Vancouver and try and figure out how to navigate all the layers of process. It’s definitely a challenge. At the same time, we’re working on a project in San Francisco, which is actually worse in a number of different ways, but they’re both quite a challenge. There are just so many different hoops and so

Bryn Davidson of Lanefab Design/Build hopes his firm is among those involved in a new city pilot project designed to speed up the permitting process. PHOTO MARTHA PERKINS

many different agendas that you’re trying to work with. How long would it take to go through all the hoops?

It really depends on the kind of project. There’s the simple path that they call outright, which would be your typical single-family house or something like

a laneway house. For the last couple of years, we’ve generally budgeted about six months to get through that permitting process. The more complicated development permit process, we would allow at least a year, if not more, for the development permit and the building permit.

That would be if you’re doing a duplex or one of these new character homes projects. You have to go through a development permit process where you notify the neighbours, you put the board up, and you do all that. The city has actually made some decent progress since 2014, when it ﬁrst started getting really bad, on the straight-forward types of applications. But there’s a real systemic problem around their continued demand for development permits on small projects. We did a garage on the back of a house in a duplex zone and we had to go through a development permit process just to add this garage. The longstanding quip about it is there’s too many rules and not enough people. They’ve actually gone through the process of hiring more people and they’ve been working towards quotas, which has been improving the turnaround times. In the last three or four months, we’ve actually had more permits ready to go than we’ve

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We certainly welcome the idea. We’re going to see how it actually plays out. Projects like laneway houses should be simpler. There’s also a laneway house policy update happening right now as well. They’re working to make that process simpler. They’re attacking it on a few different fronts. If we could turn around a permit in six weeks or eight weeks, or something like that, that would bring us back to where [we were] back before 2014. Why did it become bad in 2014?

2014 was the perfect storm of a whole bunch of things. Mostly, it was the introduction of the new building code that required people, all of a sudden, to shift from standard two-bysix construction to something more energy efﬁcient.

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Project aims to speed up permit process They put a deadline on that. Everybody tried to get all their permits in all at the same time, before the deadline. It created this huge backlog and they’ve been dealing with that ever since. So they were trying to get in so they wouldn’t be required to meet those [new regulations]?

They basically said permits after Jan. 1, 2014 will have to meet this new code. So everybody in the industry freaked out and tried to cram everything in all at once. At the same time, there were also new requirements for accessibility, new, stricter tree bylaws. It was a perfect storm of new rules coming together and not really planning for that transition. At this point, in 2018, you’re encouraged by some of the improvements. Is that fair to say?

Yeah. Deﬁnitely. In 2014, they nearly put us out of business because of permit delays. We were within inches of being out of business. We had to lay off a bunch of people. At Christmas, we had all these

projects in for permit and no work. Now, we’re in the opposite situation. We’ve got three times as much stuff under construction as we’ve had in the past. So it’s deﬁnitely a big change from four years ago. How would the pilot project speed up permits?

We’ve been involved in these permitting workshops for the last year and a half. They’ve been talking about what they call a kind of a Nexus lane. I think the goal is to work with experienced teams to have a quick path. I don’t know exactly what that looks like yet. I’m not sure they do either. I know that when we go in to drop off a set of drawings, we go through a preliminary review at the table with a planner just so they make sure there’s enough in there to go into the queue. A lot of us have argued if we just spent another hour at that table, we’d basically be done. So can we just get in and do that? Part of it, also, is changing the process of how we deal with trees. Because the landscape has been a big bottleneck for

just about everybody. Why is that?

The ﬁrst thing is they’re trying to do way too much with landscape on singlefamily houses. They’re trying to micro-manage the design, which is really a pretty low priority. On the tree front, they had big ambitions to save a lot of trees, which is a good goal at a high level but the way they were managing that is they were asking for substantial changes to your building during the permit review. It’s just a completely absurd way to do it because the building is fully designed, fully engineered, and they’re coming back and saying, “Oh, you need to take a 10-foot-by-10-foot chunk out of the corner of your laneway house.” Basically, the big process has been to move that discussion from the end to the beginning, so we can sit down with the landscape designer and we can sit down with a planner at the beginning of the project and ﬁgure out where the building can go. That makes a big difference. I think they’re just trying to

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Contrary to popular belief, NHL referees actually call more penalties in the playoffs than they do in the regular season. This year, for instance, each team is averaging 3.23 power plays per game in the playoffs, compared to an average of 3.04 during the regular season. It’s surprising, because it’s abundantly clear the referees let a lot more go in the playoffs. There’s far more hooking, holding, tripping and cross-checking that goes uncalled during the playoffs, as the referees keep their whistles in check in the name of letting the players decide the game. It’s an understandable mindset: as a referee, you never want to inﬂuence the outcome of the game. It’s your role to be an impartial arbiter of the rules. Unfortunately, for the sake of attempted impartiality, a lot of those rules go out the window in the playoffs. The similar number of penalties between the playoffs and regular season suggests players will always test the limits and bend the rules as far as they can go until they break. That is particularly true when teams are battling for the ultimate prize: the Stanley Cup. The axiom “let the players play” inevitably leads to more clutching and grabbing, as players ﬁght for every competitive advantage. The irony is that “let the players play” doesn’t actually let the players play. A skilled player trying to get free for a breakaway suddenly has to deal with slashes, hooks and holds that would have been called during the regular season. A defenceman trying to do his job in front of the net instead gets cross-checked to the ice, allowing the offender to score. The playoffs’ leading scorer, Evgeny Kuznetsov, gets targeted with uncalled high hits, one of which took him out for an entire game.

• A tap of the stick to Michael DiPietro, who joined his fellow 2017 Canucks draft picks Elias Pettersson, Kole Lind, Jonah Gadjovich and Petrus Palmu by signing his three-year entry-level contract this week. • I’m dropping the gloves with the Washington Capitals’ pre-game show. Even if we didn’t have the over-the-top spectacle of Las Vegas to compare it to, trotting out Pat Sajak and Shaggy would have been a disappointment.

There may be more penalties in the NHL playoffs, but it’s also abundantly clear the refs put their whistles away for far more infractions in the post-season… and that’s not a good thing. PHOTO iSTOCK

If the hope is that “letting the players play” will result in more five-on-five play and fewer penalties, it’s not working. If letting things go in the playoffs ultimately results in the same number of power plays, then what is the point? One of the unfortunate side effects of letting so many penalties go uncalled is that it can actually increase embellishment. Players start wondering if the referees are even noticing the hooks and slashes and start to go down to the ice a little more easily, trying to draw attention to the penalty. It’s one of the biggest reasons there’s so much embellishment in soccer: when the referees don’t call a penalty unless someone gets injured, should it be any surprise when players start to feign injuries? I have a lot of sympathy for NHL referees, partly because I’ve been an official in other sports, and know how hard their job is. The fast pace of play combined with a great deal of scrutiny and some-

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times questionable leadership from the NHL head ofﬁce means they have one of the toughest jobs in sports. I understand the tendency to avoid calling penalties in the playoffs, particularly ones that are seen as “tickytack” calls. But those calls set the tone, establishing for the players what will and will not be allowed. When referees let so much go, questions of inconsistency become more pronounced, as players no longer know what will get called and what won’t. Ultimately, it’s the responsibility of the players to play within the rules. When the referees call the playoffs the same way they do the regular season, it will open up the game and then the players can play.

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in 70 games for the Vegas Golden Knights in the regular season, good for third on the team in scoring. It wasn’t good enough to get him into the lineup on Monday, however, as he was a healthy scratch.

34 After Monday, Evgeny Kuznetsov led the postseason in scoring with 31 points in 23 games, ﬁve more than Alex Ovechkin. The Conn Smythe could come down to those voting based purely on postseason performance and those voting based on Ovechkin’s long road to playoff success.

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