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Went for a walk the other day in a beautiful park to clear my head from this wacky election season and emerged from the woods feeling pleasantly impaired from the experience.

Didn’t take much work, just put one foot in front of the other and enjoyed the forest, the sounds and the smells. It helped, of course, not being strafed by a crow or an owl, or getting some face time with mama bear.

I share this anecdote knowing it’s that time of year when more people come out of hibernation to enjoy the green space in their neighbourhoods and cities.

Some of you, undoubtedly, will visit Stanley Park.

Consider this question next time you’re there: What if Stanley Park was simply an extension of the downtown peninsula and occupied by a forest of expensive highrises?

Ugh, right. Don’t worry, that’s not going to happen.

But what has happened in the Metro Vancouver region

between 2009 and 2014 is that more than 1,600 hectares of old and mature forests, wetlands, riparian areas and other “sensitive and modified eco-systems” were lost.

I put quotes around the last part of the sentence because I lifted the information from a report that went before the Metro Vancouver regional parks committee June 13, after the Courier’s print deadline.

Before I get to the report, take a guess what the loss of 1,600 hectares over a fiveyear period represents when compared to a football field, or some other immediately identifiable large space?

Answer: The equivalent of four Stanley Parks every five years.

Quite incredible, but not surprising when you consider the conversion of natural areas for residential, industrial, agricultural and commercial uses in the region over the past two decades.

The loss of green space is not new, as the report points out in selling the need to devise a strategy to acquire more parkland and expand existing parks in the region.

The region has lost the equivalent of four Stanley Parks every five years between 2009 and 2014. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Loss and degradation has occurred since the late 1800s. More people equals more housing equals more infrastructure equals the need for more everything to cater to a growing population.

The regional district identified this concern way back in 1967 when the region experienced a significant population growth. It devised a strategy to protect green space, and two years later, the first six regional parks opened to the public in 1969.

The population was roughly one million people.

Since then, the system

has grown to a network of 22 regional parks, five greenways, two ecological conservancy areas and three regional park reserves.

The region’s population is now 2.5 million people and expected to reach 3.7 million by 2050. That growth and pressure is not good news for nature or humans, as this quote from the report outlines: “Visitation to regional parks continues to grow twice as fast as population growth, but growth of the system is challenging in an increasingly competitive and expensive land market.”

And there’s this: “Ten per cent of the region [approximately 30,000 hectares] consists of sensitive eco-systems that are still ‘unprotected,’ some of which could be acquired for regional parks; however, that land is disappearing.”

With that comes a depressing conclusion — that the insane cost of land and its continued development in the region is also affecting the protection of nature.

I guess it’s our own fault, or someone else’s fault, or possibly all those politicians, economists, developers and other evangelists who continue to tell us that growth is good.

Meanwhile, the district has what it calls a bold plan to expand park land and provide more green space for us Metro Vancouverites. Of course, it involves spending lots of money.

The “regional parks acquisition fund” is set at $7.57 million annually and there’s approximately another $13 million in something called “current reserves.”

That money is to be spent on a long list of ideas, includ-

ing collaborating with all levels of government, First Nations and non-governmental organizations such as land trusts to leverage more park land.

The plan also recommends negotiating land assemblies and linking the region’s greenways to unprotected areas.

New funding sources such as development cost charges will also be considered to help pay for action taken.

Whatever is done is necessary if you believe eco-systems are good for humans and animals. It’s also necessary, maybe even too late, when considering global climate change models are projecting an increase of 3 C in Metro Vancouver by the 2050s.

That warming trend is expected to lead to a doubling of days over 25 C, a 20 per cent decrease in the amount of rain in the summer and an increase in extreme weather events.

If that isn’t depressing enough, the snow pack will continue to decrease and the sea level will rise by at least one metre by 2100. So we’ve got that going for us.

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News 10th Avenue roadwork nearly done John Kurucz

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After close to seven months of congestion and complaints, two-way traffic is about to return to the portion of West 10th Avenue adjacent to Vancouver General Hospital.

City staff has targeted June 30 as the completion date for street upgrades that began in late November of last year.

The portion of 10th Avenue between Oak and Willow streets has been confined to one-way traffic since that time while a series of upgrades were done to the roadway, sidewalks, lighting and bike paths.

The south side of the road was completed earlier in the spring, while the north side work wraps up at the end of this month.

Between now and then, one-way eastbound traffic flow is still in effect.

“When people use the end product, I think everyone will understand when we said in the beginning what the objectives were around improving safety and comfort for everyone with a focus on patients,”

Seven months, $4.5 million and numerous complaints later, 10th Avenue upgrades near VGH should be completed by June 30.

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said Devan Fitch, the city’s manager of project delivery.

When shovels hit the ground last year, the work included widening the roadway to allow better separation between vehicle, pedestrian and bike traffic and increasing the amount of pick-up and drop-off areas.

Shorter crosswalks, more wayfinding materials and increased parking for HandyDART services were also included in the city’s plans.

The Courier received numerous complaints, both online and anecdotally, since the work began. Available parking, congestion and difficulties finding drop-off points close to health facili-

ties were the most common issues brought up.

“With a constrained corridor and a need to get construction done, there’s only so much that we can do,” Fitch conceded. “We’ve strategically implemented and we’re listening to the feedback we get. Where we can make changes, we do.”

The work on both sides of the street cost $4.5 million and that price tag was split between the city and TransLink.

Whether the work continues east to Cambie Street will be determined by council later this year. Should those improvements be given the green light, the work will get underway next year.

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Longtime city planner vies for COPE mayoral nomination UBC professor Patrick Condon centred his campaign platform almost exclusively around housing and affordability John Kurucz

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Somewhere between calls for a rent freeze and an invitation to “Feel the Bern,” Patrick Condon delivered salvo after salvo when assessing city council’s work on housing and affordability.

“Our current administration’s recent admissions of failure and weak attempts to reverse course have been as effective as a row of beanbags holding back a tsunami,” Condon said.

That critique, and many others, were central during the Monday morning news conference in which the former city planner and UBC professor announced his candidacy for the COPE mayoral nomination.

The June 11 news conference was held on a strip of the seawall just east of Granville Island to illustrate the key pillar in Condon’s platform: housing.

A co-op near Sitka Square is home to longterm tenants who have had their rents and mortgages largely immune from market forces, in some cases for three decades. Those costs are all below 30 per cent of tenants’ income.

“Our children, often

between the ages of 20 and 35 or 40, know for sure that they can’t have a family in this city anymore — the city that they grew up in,” Condon said. “They’ll have to leave. They’ll be exiled because they don’t have the cash or the entry fee.”

Condon wants 50 per cent of the city’s housing to be non-market and if elected, would lobby for the purchase of city lands for those housing types.

He called for an immediate freeze on rents and wants the Residential Tenancy Branch to establish more legislative safeguards to protect against renovictions.

Condon also seized on Vancouver’s lack of an official city plan, suggesting zoning policies favour developers, while confusing residents. He wants to change the funding formula developers pay — community amenity contributions and development cost levies — in an effort to curb speculation.

“Waves of global cash are crashing over our city washing us, or more precisely, washing our children off the land,” Condon said.

At 68, Condon’s career in planning spans decades.

He’s the founding chair of

UBC’s urban design program and UBC’s Design Centre for Sustainability.

He panned the proposed subway plan along Broadway as the “half way Broadway subway” and called the project “ludicrously expensive.”

His preference is light rail that emits no greenhouse gas emissions.

Condon was asked specifically what differentiates him from the other centre left candidates, including independents Shauna Sylvester and Kennedy Stewart, and Vision candidate Ian Campbell.

Without naming names, he suggested some on the left “use progressive terms without really deserving it.”

“I think there’s some justification for challenging that label,” he said.

“My campaign is proudly left, in the Bernie Sanders mould of the left. And when the market fails, I’m very much in favour of having the people come together and do something about it.”

As of yet, no one else is seeking the mayoral nomination for COPE. The party will vote on its candidates Aug. 19.

Vancouver’s civic election is Oct. 20.

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Vancouver Park Board in hot water over whirlpool closures Jessica Kerr

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Vancouver Park Board is revisiting plans to decommission hot tubs at three community centres after several commissioners raised concerns about the move.

Last week, Green party commissioner Michael Wiebe, along with NonPartisan Association commissioners Sarah KirbyYung and John Coupar, questioned staff on the planned closure of the whirlpools at Kitsilano, Marpole and Dunbar community centres.

Director of recreation Donnie Rosa told commissioners that the aging hot tubs have become a safety concern. None of those community centres have pools so there are no lifeguards on site and, she added, a lack of consistent maintenance has led to a lot of issues and shutdowns. The hot tub at Kits community centre has already been shut down for several months due to mechanical issues.

“We’ve worked with Vancouver Coastal Health, WorkSafeBC and TSBC [Technical Safety B.C.] to figure out ways to improve

them and what we came to was decommissioning was the right option,” Rosa said.

“These are older whirlpools and unfortunately there are design issues that make them unsafe.”

Rosa said the board will consult with users at the community centres before reporting back to commissioners with the results and possible alternate uses for the spaces.

“We are looking at and working with the community, including the CCAs [community centre associations], to look at how to repurpose the space for best and highest use,” she said.

Both Coupar and Kirby-Yung said they had heard from a number of residents upset about the impending closures.

“There’s a lot of resistance in the community, as we all know at the park board people are very happy when you build things, they’re not so happy when you shut them down,” said Coupar, who is the park board’s liaison to Dunbar Community Centre. “There’s a lot of seniors in the Dunbar area, the hot tub is used quite a bit for therapeutic use and I think it is really important that we try and find some

solution to that.”

Before Kitsilano Community Centre shut down its hot tub late last year, Bill Wadsworth used it five to seven days a week.

He says the hot tubs are “an integral part of the community and the people they serve” and started an online petition aimed at saving them.

“In my opinion this is another attempt in a long string of cost cutting measures by an underfunded park board that is slowly going broke,” he told the Courier. “It is the reasoning behind the park board’s plans to decommission a number of community swimming pools in the city. The failed attempt to install pay parking along Spanish Banks…

“On one hand, city hall wants to brand Vancouver as a world class city,” he said. “Part of that world class stature is [having] the amenities that come with that. So while the city has been building bike paths like there is no tomorrow, the city has been robbing the parks board of vital and essential funding to maintain, refurbish and repair the city’s community centres and pools.” @JessicaEKerr

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Vancouver city council’s decision June 6 to switch from alphabetical to randomized name order on the 2018 municipal ballot will be confusing to voters, according to a COPE candidate for city council.

Anne Roberts, a retired Langara journalism instructor who’s served as a school trustee and city councillor in past years, came to that conclusion through experience.

Roberts ran successfully for school board in the 1993 race when the ballot order was determined by a draw. She kept the sample ballot from that year to use for class discussions about civic elections.

“I do remember we were told after this one time … that people found it very difficult. There were lots of problems and so they decided to abandon it. I never heard anybody on our side complain [about abandoning it] because it was difficult to try and find who you were looking to vote for,” she said.

“If you only have one vote

for mayor, that’s easier to find — you can go down the list. When you’re choosing 10 for council out of 50-some people [it’s more difficult],” A July 9, 1996, administrative report from city staff recommended ballots be switched back to alphabetical order. It stated: “In 1993, the City Clerk recommended, and Council approved, the order of names be determined by lot. With the number of candidates seeking election for city office, the resulting random order made it difficult for voters to locate candidates names on the ballot. This proved confusing for voters, and resulted in numerous complaints from voters at the polls on election day. It is therefore recommended the city return to the practice of arranging the names of candidates alphabetically by their surnames, as provided

by Section 78.”

The winners from the 1993 election can be found listed on the city website.

Their vote count isn’t digitized but it can be found through the City of Vancou-

COPE council candidate Anne Roberts ran for school board in 1993 when names were listed according to a draw. She says adopting a ward system would be a better move. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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Council’s decision to adopt a randomized ballot for the upcoming election was out of concern there is a bias towards names at the top of the list. Six of 10 current councillors have last names beginning with A, B, C or D. Similar results have been noted in other recent Vancouver elections.

Some suspect the bias is towards both the top and the bottom of the ballot,

with those in the middle earning fewer votes, while party affiliation also plays a significant role.

Council’s June 6 decision only affects the mayoral, council and park board races. The Vancouver School Board is considering its options and must make a decision by Aug. 6. Trustees will debate the potential policy change at the June 25 board meeting.

The Vancouver Charter,

meanwhile, allows for one of two types of ballots — alphabetical or one where name order is determined by lot. Roberts told the Courier she was surprised news reports about the ballot order proposal, and subsequent decision to switch to a randomized list, didn’t include mention of the 1993 experience.

Information about that election wasn’t in the June 6 report to council, although staff did outline concerns that voter confusion and longer voting times might be an issue — the Township of Langley, for example, had a randomized ballot between 1993 and 2011 but reverted back to alphabetical order after the 2011 race due to complaints. Its 2011 ballot listed 41 candidates.

Vancouver’s election ballot in 2014 had 119 names.

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and adding staff at voting stations. The Vancouver elections office also told the Courier that the current ballot style differs from what was printed in the 1993 race.

Names are now listed by last name and then by first name, with party affiliation listed to the right. Names are aligned to the left of the box, rather than the right. Voters fill in ovals to the left of each name rather than connecting the arrows.

Roberts suspects people might think she’d be in favour of the randomized ballot style because her last name starts with R but she says that’s not the case because she believes the list of candidates in an at-large system can run too long.

“Under an at-large system it’s just too confusing, especially for a city as large as Vancouver. If you’re in a small community and just had a few people running, great, but Vancouver needs to go to a ward system for a lot of reasons. I’m just saying this is not a real fix when you’ve got 50 names to go through.

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So you want to be mayor of Vancouver? Take a number Crowded mayoral field could use YouTube video on how to run a city Allen Garr

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Have a kind thought for those pollsters who have been toiling in the field, testing the public mood on the question of which possible mayoral hopeful would be the preferred choice of Vancouver voters. Changes in possible candidates are so frequent they can barely get off the phone to enter their data before it is out of date.

The last publicly announced leader in a publicly released poll was Green Party councillor Adriane Carr. She has since bowed out thinking it would be better to take an almost sure thing and hang on to her council seat than take a flier on the mayor’s job.

The original scheme agreed to by the handful of left-of-centre parties — Vision, COPE, OneCity, the Greens and Jean Swanson, who was granted her own spot having come a respectable second in last fall’s byelection — was to put forward an agreed upon independent candidate. That went out the window when Vision (seeing I suspect that first-out-of-the-gate independent candidate Shauna Sylvester wasn’t drawing

Left-of-centre mayoral hopefuls Shauna Sylvester, Patrick Condon, Kennedy Stewart and Ian Campbell are part of an increasingly murky field of choices voters will have to wade through this election. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

flies) decided it would nominate its own candidate from among those who put their names forward.

That plan didn’t quite work out as planned. One of only two potential candidates, Taleeb Noormohamed, hit a health issue bump leaving Ian Campbell there to be declared Vision’s choice.

Campbell, as you may know, is an Indigenous leader with the Squamish Nation and has been central to their development plans along with the Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh for

three large chunks of land in Vancouver. Aquilini Development and Canada Lands Company are involved in some of the projects.

While Campbell says he is planning to move to our fair city, he was and may still be a resident of North Vancouver.

His first public outing, a radio interview last week with CBC’s Stephen Quinn proved a bit of a disaster.

Campbell was more into skating rather than straight talk. His persistent evasion of the simple question “What do

you think of the NDP government’s ‘school tax’ on homes assessed at more than $3 million?” was just embarrassing.

By the way, Ian, those houses are mostly on the West Side not the West End. But Campbell is just one of four (so far) left-of-centre mayoral wannabes who have zero experience of governing at the municipal level. That includes Sylvester, Kennedy Stewart (who at least has run and won federally as an NDP member of parliament) and the latest entry, UBC academic Patrick Condon.

Condon, by the way, was hoping for a COPE endorsement. It is not that he expects to be Vancouver’s next mayor, but it is a simple fact of municipal news gathering that parties with a mayoral candidate get much better coverage than those without.

I have the feeling that a YouTube video on how to be a big city mayor would be welcome. I found the video on building cabinets and small car repairs most helpful. So why not, How to Run a City?

It could also help those other guys, the ones over on the right of centre.

The Non-Partisan Association’s mayoral nominee, Ken Sim, may be a wiz at running a private business, but he may find it challenging to expose himself to public scrutiny.

As for rookie NPA councillor Hector Bremner, he does not take rejection well.

I’m told he is no longer attending NPA caucus meetings. He is so far setting out to do everything he can to make sure Sim fails. By the end of this month, Bremner is expected to launch his own political party.

All of this is good news for the left-of-centre crew still scrambling to get its act together. They will also be cheering on former Conservative MP Wai Young who is forming a political party of her own.

It is almost becoming like a fashion statement.

That will take a slice of the right-of-centre vote. Her beef seems to be that the NPA discriminates against folks of Chinese heritage who she signed up when she was still part of that party.

You may find it hard to reconcile that criticism with the fact that NPA is running a mayoral candidate in Sim who is of Chinese heritage.

But back to my point: Who knows which of these folks will still be standing the next time a poll is taken. @allengarr

Pricey Vancouver feels the pinch of province-wide teacher shortage BCTF president says 2,000 teachers needed Tracy Sherlock

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Vancouver schools could still be short teachers in September, despite hiring more than 700 teachers in the past year and a half.

The teacher shortage is significant province-wide, but Vancouver has been particularly hard hit because of the cost of living in the city — many teachers who live in the suburbs but who have taught in Vancouver for most of their careers have left for teaching jobs closer to home.

About 100 teachers on call have resigned from the Vancouver School Board in the last 18 months and about 125 full-time teachers have resigned or retired this year, with another 100 ex-

pected to retire this month, a VSB staffing update says.

Katharine Shipley, president of the Vancouver Secondary Teachers’ Association, said she hears from at least one teacher every week that they’re quitting to move to Vancouver Island to take a teaching job where they can afford to live.

The VSB is trying to keep up with all the departures, and by mid-May had interviewed nearly 120 UBC secondary school teacher candidates, with another 100 elementary teacher candidates completing their work experience in Vancouver schools before the end of the year.

B.C. Teachers’ Federation president Glen Hansman estimates that solving this unprecedented province-wide teacher shortage would take another 2,000 teachers.

A healthy teacher-on-call list would have about 700

or 800 people on it, whereas in Vancouver this year, there were only about 400 and about half of those were retired teachers, said Chloe McKnight, president of the Vancouver Elementary School Teachers’ Association.

With such a short on-call list, it often means when a teacher calls in sick, they are not replaced. In April, the daily average for unfilled teacher absences was 50.

That’s down slightly from the three months before that, the hiring update says.

“The BCTF is very concerned with the effect of the shortage on our members, and on the students that we work with — in particular, students with special needs who have had to bear a disproportionate burden due to the regular cancellation of services for them due to specialist teachers being reassigned into classroom positions,” Hansman said.

When a teacher is not

replaced, other teachers — often those who work with students with special needs or English language learners — are pulled in to cover.

That means the students with special needs lose out.

In Vancouver, 663 classes have seven or more students with special needs and 1,817 classes have four or more such students.

BCTF has filed a provincial grievance, which is now in arbitration, Hansman said. Vancouver teachers are part of that grievance, and McKnight said they have about five other grievances underway related to the restored contract or the lack of replacement teachers.

The VSB did not provide a staff member to be interviewed for this column, instead referring to the hiring update and providing an emailed statement.

“Recruitment is always ongoing, year-round,” VSB communications said in the emailed response. “This

year, the district stepped up efforts including attending more career fairs across the country which has yielded a lot of success. The recruitment team will continue to work through the summer.”

To attract and keep teachers, McKnight would like to see student loan forgiveness or a shortened salary grid, to allow new teachers to start further up the pay scale. Shipley said non-market housing is needed so that teachers can afford to live in the city.

As well as those suggestions, the BCTF is calling for mentorship programs, housing and moving allowances, as well as support to teachers seeking additional qualifications. A government task force had similar findings in December.

Both McKnight and Shipley are hopeful that next year will be better, in part due to the return of the elected trustees and the hiring of superinten-

dent Suzanne Hoffman and secretary-treasurer David Green.

“Overall, things feel better, but the teacher shortage will continue,” Shipley said.

Of course, another trustee election is looming in the fall and the teachers’ contract expires in a year, so things could change again before they even get settled.

This round of bargaining promises to be interesting, given the Supreme Court of Canada restoration of class size and class composition rules, some of which have not been updated since 1993 and which do not apply consistently across the province.

But for kids’ sake, let’s hope the VSB is able to hire enough teachers before this fall to — at a minimum — regularly replace teachers who are off sick.

Tracy Sherlock writes about education and social issues.

She can be reached at tracy. sherlock@gmail.com.

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Developers have the power Re: “Will YesVancouver be the name of Hector Bremner’s new party?” May 31.

I read with interest the article on Hector Bremner. Of course he likes YesVancouver. Anything would be better than NPA. To anyone who doesn’t remember the TEAM or NPA parties, you’re lucky.

Vision began with good intent but very quickly became co-opted by the Vancouver developer/real estate lobbyists.

All professional politicians very quickly gravitate towards the monied interests in the region. For Vancouver, that’s the developers.

One look at Oak Street will show you how much power these people have. Marpole was supposed to be spared because of its low income housing.

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AGING PARENTS? Do they need a little extra help to live safely at home?

As a resident, I see a new card with another meeting over another property or three every week.

One of Oak Street’s largest buildings with low income rent is going down as I write this.

Terry McKinney, Vancouver

Buyer beware Re: “Mayor Robertson ‘appalled’ at feds’ $4.5 billion purchase of pipeline,” May 29.

If Justin Trudeau had announced plans to spend $4.5 billion on solar energy, this would have shown a strong commitment to the environment.

If the prime minister had decided to invest $4.5 billion in the marijuana industry, this would have demonstrated some business sense.

Buying the Kinder Morgan pipeline shows neither.

James Young, Vancouver

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Putting coyotes (and residents) on alert East Vancouver resident wants to spread the word about what East Vancouver coyotes are up to jkerr@vancourier.com

An East Vancouver woman is hoping to recruit more people to help spread the word about coyote activity in the city.

Judith Webster started a coyote text message alert group last year. Members let the group’s moderator know if they see a coyote and then a text message goes out to alert the rest of the group.

“Any sighting texted in to the moderator’s number by anyone in the group is then texted out to everyone ASAP with the goal of receiving information in real time so that people might be able to take appropriate action in time to avert a tragedy,” Webster said. “We like the text to include time, location, number of coyotes, direction headed and any other relevant information about the sighting.”

She said the aim of the group is to educate people about the animals’ activities and movements in the area.

“The group itself has just been really educational to a lot of people… they had no idea how active coyotes were,” she said. “Some of them have actually changed their pet management strategy.

One person, said she had always just thought of coyotes as a theoretical threat, that’s how she described it, and now she brings her cats in at dusk.”

Webster first came up with the idea after one of her own cats was attacked by a coyote back in 2005.

She’d been thinking about it for several years and got the idea of sending out

group texts from a book she was reading. She said she was spurred into action last year after hearing two stories of coyotes attacking cats in a week.

“I just thought enough is enough,” she said, and started putting up posters and recruiting others to join the group.

“The group is around 90 now, but I’m trying to double that,” she said.

“We’re just a bunch of people that are trying to somehow level the playing field and get sightings out before an accident happens, for people to get their cats in or get their dog on a leash if it’s in an off-leash park nearby.”

The core area covered by the group is between 12th Avenue and East Hastings Street, and Clark Drive and Renfew Street.

“It’s really hard to know how many coyote packs there are and how much they overlap, so I kind of warn people if they’re joining from outside that core [area] that we could completely miss their coyote packs,” Webster said.

Coyotes in the city

Greg Hart, urban wildlife program coordinator with the Stanley Park Ecological Society, said no one has ever done an exact count of the number of coyotes in the city.

“Based on habitat uses and home range sizes and pack sizes in other cities, it’s been fairly consistent across North America, we assume there’s around 200 coyotes in Vancouver itself and probably 2,000 to 3,000 in the whole Lower Mainland,” he told the Courier.

Originally native to the

Judith Webster and roommate Imre Toth with rescue cat Frostanie. Webster, with help from Toth, started a coyote text message alert group last year. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

prairie grasslands of the southwest United States, coyotes have thrived in more urban environments.

“As people have settled right across the continent, we’ve removed their biggest predator, which is the wolf, and we’ve established these cities, which if you look at a city with homes in it that’s basically a field,” Hart said. “Our lawns are grasslands and we do a great job of generating rodents and food for them.”

Small rodents such as mice, rats and squirrels make up a large part of the coyotes’ diet, so they are naturally attracted to areas that attract rodents — open garbage and compost bins and bird feeders.

“They’ve done scat analyses in different cities to try and figure out what exactly these animals are eating and they find that

40 to 60 per cent of their diet is small rodents,” Hart said.

Coyotes first moved into the Lower Mainland in the 1930s, but weren’t spotted in Vancouver proper until the 1980s, Hart said.

In 2001, the ecological society launched its CoExisting with Coyotes program.

“Coyotes were kind of this new creature and there wasn’t a lot of information available to the public out there and people didn’t know what to do with them,” Hart said. “There were a couple incidents where coyotes were aggressive and made the news and this program was started as a way to monitor coyotes… and provide consistent education and tools and resources for the public.”

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includes a map of recent coyote sightings.

“Many of our sightings are just people seeing a coyote trotting down the street at night and that’s still a sighting but it’s certainly not a reason for concern,” Hart said. “We try to get an idea of how habituated the animals are and depending on that our response varies.

“Ones that are seen just going about their business, eating a rat or a squirrel in the park, that’s great. We tell people not to feed it and to scare it away.”

However, the group will take action if a coyote starts showing up in the same area regularly during the day.

“That’s showing an animal that’s way more comfortable in that area, it’s starting to get habituated and so we’ll do outreach in that area,” Hart said.

If it’s a park, staff and volunteers will set up a table to educate park users and if it’s a more residential neighbourhood they will go doorto-door talking to residents about what they can do.

“If we work together as a community we can really change this coyote’s behaviour and make it go back to being a more wild animal,” he said, adding that coyotes are naturally timid and afraid of humans.

Tips include removing potential food sources, including ensuring garbage gets into the garbage, and never deliberately feeding one.

“Almost all instances of animals losing fear and actually becoming aggressive towards people are traced back to people who were feeding them,” Hart said.

“That food is such a powerful motivator.”

If a coyote starts showing up during the day, scare it away by making loud noises, yelling and holding your arms out wide to appear larger. For those coyotes that are a bit more habituated, Hart recommends making a rattle by filling a can with coins and rocks and shaking it to scare the animal away.

“That makes a really loud noise. They have sensitive hearing and that’s a really intimidating gesture for them,” he said. “It’s something I carry with me every time I do site visit and I find it to be a really helpful, useful tool.”

As for pets, Hart recommends keeping cats indoors as much as possible, especially at night and in the early morning, and keeping small dogs on leash.

In cases where a coyote is acting aggressively towards humans, B.C. conservation officers are called in to deal with the animal.

There have been a couple of high profile incidents in recent weeks involving coyotes in the Lower Mainland.

Last month conservation officers killed two coyotes in Burnaby after a threeyear-old boy was mauled just outside his home near Burnaby Mountain Golf Course May 15. In that case, the officers said the animals had become “thoroughly habituated.”

That same week a North Shore woman fought off a coyote to save a small dog on Powerline Trail near the Grouse Grind.

For more information about, or to sign up for, the coyote text message alerts email vanyotes@yahoo.com. @JessicaEKerr

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4. CD-1 Rezoning: 118-150 Robson Street and Heritage Designation of the Facades of the Northern Electric Company Building To rezone 118-150 Robson Street and an approximately 143.8 square meters (1,548 square feet) adjacent portion of road from DD (Downtown) District to a CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a 29-storey mixed-use development that includes strata residential units, a hotel, and retail and service uses at grade. A height of 87.2 metres (286 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 10.07 are proposed. Four facades of the existing Northern Electric Company building are proposed to be retained and designated through a Heritage Designation By-law.

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Vancouver City Council will hold a Public Hearing to consider zoning for these locations:

1. Amendments to the Chinatown HA-1 and HA-1A Districts Schedule, Design Guidelines 2. Increasing Housing Choice in Grandview- and Policies (see A on map) To amend the HA-1 and HA-1A Districts Woodland – Proposed Amendments to the Schedule of the Zoning and Development Zoning and Development By-law By-law and design guidelines to address Council will consider amendments to the Zoning and Development By-law. If approved, community concerns about the changing character and the pace of development in the proposed changes would introduce new district schedules RM-11/RM-11N and RM-12N, Chinatown. These amendments will include introducing a maximum net Floor Space amend the C-2 district schedule, and rezone Ratio (FSR); changes to maximum outright certain areas from RS-1, RS-5, RS-7, RT-4, building heights in HA-1A; requirements to RT-5, and RT-5N to RM-11, RM-11N, RM-12N, provide non-residential uses; provisions for or C-2.

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retail mezzanine and laneway retail spaces; maximum widths for development sites (i.e. site frontage); and maximum widths for storefronts. The changes also include a recommendation to revoke the Rezoning Policy for Chinatown South.

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detected in the traps set in the city by the agency — the traps are set as part of its outine surveillance for the pest. As a result, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency set an additional 800 traps around the city and found more beetles.

Approximately 950 were found in 42 traps with the majority, about 90 per cent, found in David Lam Park. Spraying of Emery Barns Park began June 13.

Seven more parks in the False Creek area are set for treatment with the larvacide, including: • May & Lorne Brown – June 14 • Thornton – June 15 • Charleson – June 17-20 • Sutcliffe – June 22 • Coopers’ – June 25 • George Wainborn – June 26 • CRAB (at Portside) – June 27-28 All areas will be sprayed with a larvacide called Acelepryn.

Dr. Jane Pritchard, director of plant and animal health, and chief veterinary officer with the B.C. Ministry of Agriculture, said Acelepryn “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.

Parks will not be closed but residents are advised to stay off the grass for 24 hours after spraying to give the larvacide a chance to take effect.

Howard Normann, director of parks, said signs will be posted at affected parks and staff will be on hand to explain the procedure and answer any questions.

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ESL teacher Kari Karlsbjerg’s book My New Life in Vancouver aims to help new Chinese Vancouverites transition to life on the West Coast. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Navigating new life in Vancouver, from brunch to Wreck Beach My New Life in Vancouver draws on Kari Karlsbjerg’s 16 years of teaching English to thousands of new Canadians John Kurucz

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Of all the places to tackle the nuances of the English language or uniquely Vancouver customs, Kari Karlsbjerg suggests the breakfast table as an ideal starting point.

How coffee is served and in what size, the way eggs are cooked or the kind of meat that rounds out the meal are details that both serve the stomach and start conversations.

Those talking points fill the pages of Karlsbjerg’s book, My New Life in Vancouver. Aimed specifically at new Chinese Vancouverites, the book draws on Karlsbjerg’s 16 years teaching English as a second language.

“They’re here and they have a lot to offer, but what they ask me all the time is, ‘How?’” Karlsbjerg said.

“I’m trying to be brutally practical in the book and straightforward.”

Karlsbjerg’s book covers not just literal translations but also cultural and societal norms wrapped around 365 entries that touch on aspects of Vancouver life

specific to each day on the calendar.

An ESL teacher at Vancouver Community College for the past decade, Karlsbjerg has taught more than 20,000 students. She’s seen common questions arise — where to volunteer, how to find a doctor — but then there are peak Vancouver topics.

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“They always ask me, ‘Is it really true?’” Karlsbjerg said.

Eggs and nude beaches aside, there are huge cultural chasms that Karlsbjerg attempts to navigate with readers. Many of her female clients are surprised that men help with domestic duties in the home. Those who are single and ready to mingle don’t know how.

Others with kids aren’t used to celebrating birthdays and need tips on what that party looks like.

Reacting, or acting out, also requires a re-think in some cases.

“Being free to express yourself, like it’s OK to say your opinion, that’s new. It’s OK to say you’re upset,” Karlsbjerg said.

“For them it’s either keep reserved or go really angry.”

Outside of her role as a teacher, Karlsbjerg has first-hand experience in being a stranger in a strange land. She spent four years in Denmark with her husband, and the language classes she took there failed to address everyday practicalities. She recalled one lesson where the emphasis was learning the names of animals in Africa.

“It was fun to learn those words in Danish, but I needed to go to the bank. I needed a friend,” Karlsbjerg said.

That need for friendship is being addressed outside the pages of the book as well. Karlsbjerg and the book’s translator, Yi Zheng, organize regular meet-ups to put theory into practice and get newcomers out into the community. “For us growing up here, we don’t even notice these challenges but there are so many levels of cultural differences,” Karlsbjerg.

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Vancouver fire department’s newest recruit won’t be helping put out fires any time soon, but she has already started helping firefighters deal with the stresses that come with the job.

“It’s no secret that mental health challenges is one of the big issues facing first responders,” Chief Darrell Reid said.

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West Vancouver roadside vendor marks 25 fruitful years Loyal customers have included professional athletes, celebrities and future wife Grant Lawrence

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Let’s agree: some of the greatest treats that summer has to offer are in-season local fruits and vegetables.

Few know this better than Brian Latta. This year, the local produce vendor is celebrating 25 straight seasons of selling the freshest of summer flavours at his outdoor stand in West Vancouver. The man is a North Shore legend.

When you pull into Brian’s Fruit Stand — currently open seven days a week until September, located just off Highway 1 in the Park and Ride at the Westmount exit in West Vancouver — the first thing you’ll notice is Latta’s charming, million dollar smile.

If you’re a regular, he’ll greet you by name, usually followed by some sort of compliment or question about your life. It’s this kind of personal, conversational touch customers seem to love almost as much as his outrageously delicious strawberries. Many have been shopping at Latta’s fruit stand for his full 25-year run, my family included (full disclosure: I’ve known Latta since high school).

“I never thought it would last as long as it has,” reflects Latta. “I thought this would be a summer job to get me through Cap College.”

Back in the early 1990s, Latta was helping out a couple of friends selling berries out of a pickup truck. The friends moved away and Latta simply picked up what they had left behind.

“The first thing I did,” remembers Latta, “was to seek out different farmers

from around the Fraser Valley to see what else I could sell besides berries.

I realized I could carry a much wider variety of local produce and stay open much longer throughout the summer season.”

The stand is the perfect stop if you’re headed for the Horseshoe Bay ferries or Whistler for a summer retreat.

Depending on when you pop by, Brian’s Fruit Stand offers strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, plums, corn on the cob, tomatoes, cucumbers, apricots, cherries, peaches and much more. It could be argued Latta was way ahead of his time with regards to the now-omnipresent local food movement, having offered sustainable produce grown in our backyard for decades. But how did a summer college job turn into a lifelong career?

Latta doesn’t hesitate: “I love this job. It’s very rewarding. I source healthy food from B.C. growers and my customers really appreciate the quality of farm fresh fruits and veggies. The relationships I’ve built over the years are very fulfilling — from the growers to the customers — but ultimately it’s my customers’ enthusiasm that has kept me in the game for so long.”

Latta keeps those loyal customers up to date with an infamous newsletter that is so salaciously written — complete with recipes, tips and over-thetop descriptions of the orgasmic delights of his summer selections — that it could arguably be described as food porn. Get your juices flowing and sign up for yourself at briansfruitstand@gmail.com.

For a quarter century, Brian Latta has sold local fruits and veggies from the side of the road. PHOTO GRANT LAWRENCE

One of the great upsides of the job is that it’s a fourmonth gig that financially sustains Latta year round.

Think about that for a second. The only consistent downside (besides working while everyone else is on vacation) is the daily commute. Latta, or his longtime trusted right hand man John Silver, must do the drive every morning to the Fraser Valley to bring in the freshest produce possible.

“Yeah, it’s becoming more of a challenge every year due to the increase in vehicles on the road,” says Latta, who leaves for the valley at the crack of dawn and gets back to the North Shore to open up the stand each day by about 11 a.m.

It stays open until about 6 p.m. or when he sells out.

“The customers make the long days worth it. People are so appreciative of this simple little business. It’s always fun and lively.”

The fruit stand also acts as a kind of social hub/confession booth of sorts — everyone tells Latta and Silver their stories, which means these guys often know more about the community’s

comings and goings than the North Shore News.

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West Van, his customer base has always included a dazzling array of celebrity shoppers. “You never know who’s going to show up,” Latta laughs. Famous hockey players, actors and musicians have all been regulars over the years.

“I’ll always remember Pat Quinn,” says Latta of the former Vancouver Canucks’ player, head coach, president and GM who died in 2014. “Pat had a great smile and a really warm, engaging presence. He was a keen fisherman and knew I was too, so besides hockey, we’d always talk fishing.”

Over the years, Latta has

seen the ups and downs of daily life from his view behind the berry boxes. Like Quinn, other older customers and even some of Latta’s closest family members have passed away. There have been some dark times.

But summer returns. Latta met his wife, international marketing maven Jessica O’Callaghan, at the fruit stand. They now have a two-year-old boy. He was in his dad’s arms to celebrate opening day of the 25th anniversary of what has become one of the North Shore’s best — and healthiest — summer traditions. @grantlawrence

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From the Hub City to Van City, it’s tubbing time Bathtub races return to Vancouver for the first time since 1996

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It’s not often you see Vancouver nick ideas from our neighbours to the west, but if there’s one thing Nanaimoites know, it’s bathtubs.

Indeed, fibreglass tubs and small outboard motors won’t be confined to the other side of Georgia Strait for the first time in 22 years when bathtub races return to Vancouver waters in midAugust.

Plans for hijinks on the high seas have been in the offing for the better part of a year, but were made official last week near Kits Beach where the races will take place Aug. 11 “There are a lot of people who remember the days of the bathtub races coming here from Nanaimo,” race director Jamie Pitblado told the Courier. “We’re bringing them back people are really excited. And they get even more excited that it’s not the Nanaimo to Vancouver course, it’s going to be hap-

Loyal Nanaimo Bathtub Society Commodore Greg Peacock is ready to tub. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

pening right off Kits Beach so they can come watch it all afternoon.”

The races will be the centrepiece of KitsFest, which runs Aug. 10 to 12.

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Loyal Nanaimo Bathtub Society Commodore Greg Peacock gave those in attendance Thursday a primer on what tub life entails.

“As a kid I went over to Vancouver Island to Nanaimo and my cousin was on

a team,” he said. “It was a bunch of his coworkers and some family members, they got together with a six pack, they went in their backyard and built a tub and hung an outboard motor off the back of it. They spent the winter doing it and they all got together and went out.”

The race stopped making the trek over to Vancouver in the mid ’90s largely due to safety concerns and financial reasons.

Safety concerns haven’t necessarily abated, as only three of the 38 registered racers finished last year’s event in Nanaimo.

Ocean chop in the neighbourhood of 12 to 14 feet tends to do that to a small boat, but that’s not a concern in the Vancouver contest.

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Some tricking and modifications will be allowed and Pitblado expects some of the vessels to top out at about 45 miles per hour.

“From a safety perspective, we have no concerns about being able to do this in any weather,” he said.

One of the more colourful mayors in B.C. history, Nanaimo’s Frank Ney was the skipper who initially made the boat float. He championed the first races in 1967 and this year’s event is dedicated to the original Nanaimo pirate on what would have been his 100th year of tubbing and landlubbing.

“That’s what makes bathtubbing bathtubbing — it’s a bunch of friends, they get together to build one of these things,” Peacock said. “You’ve got to remember it started for fun. It was a silly event.”

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Heather Lands proposed as site for temporary modular housing Naoibh O’Connor

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A portion of the 21-acre Heather Lands development site is the latest location proposed for temporary modular housing in Vancouver.

If approved, the property at 4949 Heather St. could house approximately 100 units for the homeless in two buildings, according to a June 7 press release from the City of Vancouver.

Last September, the provincial government announced $66 million for the City of Vancouver to build 600 units of temporary modular housing — a total of 2,000 units are being built across the province.

Vancouver’s homeless count conducted over two days in March found there were 2,181 people living without a home — the highest the figure has been since data was first collected in 2005.

The Heather Lands proposal would bring the number of modular housing units to more than 500.

Seven other sites are in various stages of development — 156 units are already open, while 46 units at Little Mountain were recently approved. Each complex features 24/7 support services.

Locations for the remaining units are expected to be announced before the end of the year.

Like the others, the site at 4949 Heather St. is subject to the development permit application process.

The city is getting in touch with residents, businesses, schools and community groups about the proposed plans.

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The feedback will also provide BC Housing and the selected non-profit operator that will manage the complex with community feedback on the proposed operation of the buildings.

On May 15, the city approved the Heather Lands policy statement, which will guide growth and development on the property, which is between West 33rd and 37th at Heather Street.

Three First Nations — the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh — and Canada Lands Company are redeveloping it.

The new community being planned will include 2,500 new homes, in buildings ranging from three to 24 storeys, at least 40 per cent of which will be secured for either low- or moderate-income households, according to the policy statement.

The policy statement acknowledges that temporary uses such as modular housing, artist studios, farmers markets, sales centres and community gardens may be accommodated to make efficient use of land and “activate” sites prior to redevelopment or during the construction phase, according to the city.

To date, temporary modular housing projects have attracted mixed reactions in Vancouver. The most

vociferous opposition has been in Marpole where two buildings housing 78 units opened earlier this year.

A group that calls itself the Caring Citizens of Vancouver Society lobbied unsuccessfully against the project, including challenging the development permit process through the B.C. Supreme Court and the B.C. Court of Appeal.

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An exhibition curated

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Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art

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The Nasty Women of Comedy bring their “fierce, feminist and funny” show to the Biltmore June 18.

West End Car Free Day

One of the best ways to get to know Vancouver’s vibrant West End neighbourhood is to join the fun of the annual Car Free Day party. On Saturday, Denman Street from Davie to Robson will be closed to vehicle traffic and replaced with a fun street festival for the whole family. Restaurants extend their patios, and there will be lots to eat and drink. Car Free Day also means live arts and music on three outdoor stages.

June 16, noon to 7 p.m.

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Global Soundscapes Festival

This year, the Global Soundscapes Festival will give the stage to an assortment of musical performances from the Middle East. The festival

will welcome international guests who are stars in their fields, including conductors, string ensembles, classical singers and specialty musicians (think setar, tombak and santur). Don’t know what those instruments are? Well, maybe this is the way for you to find out. Events will be held over the course of 12 days in June, primarily at Granville Island’s Waterfront Theatre and the Orpheum Annex.

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Ice Cream Socials at Beta5

Summer is the sweetest time of year in Vancouver, made even sweeter by the creative treats being served up at the Ice Cream Socials every weekend at Beta5.

The wildly inventive sundaes Beta5 will have on offer are all inspired by pop music, and each weekend will take us further through the history of the genre.

For June 16 and 17, it’s time to “Imagine” with a black-and-white sundae inspired

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Female immigrants share shoe stories Becca Clarkson

bclarkson@vancourier.com

Would you be able to condense your life story into 600 words and narrate it in your second or third language to a room of strangers?

That’s what 12 female immigrants will do for The Shoe Project: Walk in Their Shoes — a writing workshop-turned-performance piece making its West Coast premiere at the Museum of Vancouver, June 22.

The women have been working with a local writing coach since February to put together stories of finding refuge here, on the condition that it’s themed around shoes. “‘The shoes I wore to Canada, the shoes I dreamed I’d wear when I came to Canada, the shoes I left behind, etc.,’” project creator Katherine Govier explains.

The project began as a writing workshop seven years ago in Toronto at the Bata Shoe Museum, and it was the curator who suggested the prompt. Since inception, there have also been performances in Calgary, Canmore and Halifax.

Govier was inspired to help women coming to Canada with literary, language-focused backgrounds who were being held back by their level of English.

“I wanted the rest of Canada to know what they have to say, what they’re bringing with them,” says Govier.

Nima Bolow says incorporating shoes into her story about fleeing Somalia 10 years ago was akin to taking a personality test.

“Once we recognize the importance of shoes in our life, it taught me who I am as a person,” says Bolow.

“I’ve learned how I am connected to my tradition and my shoes represented the choices I made, what my values and priorities are.”

Bolow wrote poetry back

12 female immigrants take part in the writing workshop-turnedperformance piece The Shoe Project. PHOTO SAIMA HUSSAIN

home, but says that starting her life from scratch in Canada left very little time and energy to pursue old hobbies and habits.

“All my focus went on how to integrate — you reach this goal and you go to another one, goal to goal.”

Bolow says working with the other performers made her appreciative and thankful for her own experience, which she plans to continue writing about after the project.

“Sometimes you think you have a hard life or difficulties but then you see others and realize how lucky you were,” Bolow says. “It’s amazing to see someone else from the other side of the world go through the same journey as you, on different roads and paths, but same challenges.”

The universal elements of 12 separate experiences is what stood out most to writing coach Caroline Adderson.

“Many of them come from contrasting cultures, but they’re like a group of sisters,” says Adderson .

Govier says choosing the candidates is like choosing a basketball team. “We want people who can work

together, who complement each other — young, old and different religions.”

Alison Matthews coached voice while Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg taught movement to performers from Syria,Tibet, Eritrea, Colombia, Somalia, Indonesia, Iraq, Bangledesh and El Salvador.

For Adderson, the program is about more than improving writing, performance and speaking skills.

“It’s also about identifying potential leaders, people who could benefit most from the program,” Adderson says, explaining that while they only interviewed 20 applicants for the Shoe Project, as many as 50 women could easily have qualified.

“One woman from Kurdistand, an ex-journalist, reported on women’s issues, honour killings, women’s rights, genital mutilation.

She should be giving talks at schools of journalism.”

Bolow came to Canada with hopes of getting an education to become an immigration officer.

“One of her dreams was to get to Canada and get an education, and her and her

sister risked their lives along the way,” says Adderson, adding that it took seven years for the pair to get their whole family here.

Both Govier and Adderson are hopeful that, by hearing Bolow and fellow performer’s stories, audience members will have a deeper understanding of the refugee experience and offer support.

“It removes the mask from the word immigrant and refugee. You meet real people and hear about their feelings, struggles, wishes, longing — they’re just trying to belong,” say Govier.

A longer version of this story is at vancourier.com. @bexinVcity More information at museumofvancouver.ca.

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For the second time in six months, the future of live music at Granville Island’s Backstage Lounge is shrouded in uncertainty.

The venue’s sound engineer Nick Tyzio told the Courier he’s been left in the lurch due to a lack of communication from the venue owner — the neighbouring Arts Club Theatre Company — and pretty much anyone else he’s reached out to for answers.

“As far as I know now, we’re open for the rest of the summer,” Tyzio said. “If we stop doing live music, it’s a loss of culture for Vancouver and B.C. This shouldn’t happen. We should be regaining these things.”

News of the venue’s re-branding first broke in September 2017, when it was suggested the Backstage Lounge would become a restaurant. The club’s final show was slated for Dec. 31, 2017, though Tyzio said that deal eventually fell apart.

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continue into 2018, bands and promoters stopped coming and confusion set in.

“It’s hard to book bands when you don’t know if you’re going to be open,” Tyzio said. “Before we got the news, I was sometimes working seven days a week and now I’m down to one or two. Bands did their final show there and they didn’t want to come back because they thought they might look silly.”

The Backstage Lounge has been at its current location since 1979, and Tyzio has worked there for about a decade. The Arts Club Revue Stage and Backstage Lounge was home to Atlantic Canada House during the 2010 Olympics and hosted gigs by the likes of Sloan, Hey Rosetta! and Ashley MacIsaac.

Should the music be silenced, there will be virtually no live music locations in Vancouver west of Cambie Street (other than downtown). The Fairview Pub near Oak Street and Broadway could be lost due to a redevelopment application.

“Everybody is in shock,” Tyzio said. “Everyone works

there because it has live music. They love live music.

This was like a sledgehammer to the head for everyone.”

Arts Club publicist Sarah Barton-Bridges was short on details in an email to the Courier.

“We are currently looking into updating the Backstage Lounge into what would be a more sustainable model for the venue,” she said.

“This is a long-term project, so the lounge will remain open as is throughout the summer while we research best options. The vision is that the venue will remain a casual place for food and drink on Granville Island.”

A follow-up email from the Courier asked how those changes would affect the dozens employed there, and for a definitive yes or no answer on the future of live music at the club.

“Staffing levels are fluid throughout the year usually, with summer always being the peak,” Barton-Bridges responded. “And at this point, we are still looking into options and ideas for the venue but hope to have more details on what that will look like soon.”

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Father-son musicians make Leos history John Kurucz

jkurucz@vancourier.com

By now, you may have heard of the Bennett boys’ coup at last month’s Leo Awards.

If not, the abbreviated backstory goes something like this.

Daryl Bennett has been in the film score game for 30-plus years, has awards out the wazoo and has shared the stage with the likes of Ray Charles and Celine Dion. At 56, Bennett is a decorated veteran in Canada’s film and TV landscapes.

His son, Eli, meanwhile, is the young up-andcomer. The 29-year-old gave his dad a historic dose of comeuppance on May 26 by beating his old man in a category they were both nominated in.

Eli’s score for Believe: The True Story of Real Bearded Santas, won the former Vancouverite a Leo in the category Best Musical Score in a Feature Length Documentary.

Daryl’s already got four Leos, thank you very much, along with two Grammy nominations and similar nods from the Geminis, Canadian Screen Awards and Genies.

Dad is happy to dote — Eli’s score was “brilliant” — but the awards show sheen has given way to some friendly family rivalry.

To that end, the Courier dug deep into the Bennett backstory — Who does mom love more? Who wins in an arm wrestle?

Who survives longer on a desert island?

Before getting the skinny, here’s the tale of the tape.

Eli Bennett: • Age: 29 • Birthplace: Vancouver

• Current residence: Burnaby • Film scores: more than 30 • Instruments played: saxophone, keyboards • Height: 6’2 • Weight: 160 pounds

end of me. I’d give myself maybe a week.

Daryl: He hates camping.

I would last longer. I’d last about two weeks.

Daryl Bennett: • Age: 56 • Birthplace: Vancouver • Current residence: Port Coquitlam • Film scores: more than 150 • Instruments played: drums, cello, keyboards • Height: 6’4 • Weight: 185 pounds

Eli: Have you looked at my face? I don’t think I’ve hit puberty yet and I’m 29.

Daryl: Me, without a doubt.

What’s the last day job you’ve had?

Eli: I’ve never had a day job. Never have, never will.

Daryl: Me neither. Except I was a Keg waiter for six months.

Eli: He’s had a day job, I have not. Make sure you include that.

Daryl: Of course, I had moved out of my parents’ house when I was 18.

Eli: I got married last August and then I moved out. Everything is delayed 10 years when you’re a millennial — 28 is the new 18.

Who wins in arm wrestle between the two of you?

Daryl: Me. Eli: Dad for sure.

Daryl: I’m a drummer, I’ve got bigger arms.

Eli: I prefer the phrase “brains over brawn.”

Who does Betty (the family matriarch) love more?

Daryl: I’d say if it came down to a sacrifice she would have to sacrifice Eli. Eli: I’m not sure that would be her actual answer.

You are both stranded on separate desert islands. Who survives the longest?

Eli: I have zero survival skills. If there were mosquitoes, that would be the

Who can grow a better beard?

Who is in better shape?

Daryl: I just lost 30 pounds by changing what I eat: no carbs and no sugar. But I don’t exercise at all, that’s why Eli is in better shape.

Eli: I stay in shape simply by playing gigs. I dance on stage for four hours.

music — to make people feel something. It seems like a simple idea but a lot of times in movies it’s not there.

Who’s the better composer?

Eli: Ask the Leos this question. They’ll give you the answer… but he’s obviously the better composer.

Daryl: Obviously.

Eli: I’m just riding his coattails. @JohnKurucz

Daryl and Eli Bennett have five Leo Award wins between them.

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What’s the difference between music you hear on the radio versus music heard in film scores?

Daryl: With film scores, it’s more about emotion and drama than your standard song writing.

Eli: One has a certain structure. Pop songs are pretty much the same, they follow the verse-chorus structure. But with score music, each scene is different and each film is different. There are tools you can use, but you have to do what the scene needs.

What has to happen for you to be satisfied with a score so you know that it’s complete?

Daryl: If I can sit and watch a film queue that moves me, I know it’s almost done. I’ll start to well up and know we’ve got something here.

Eli: A huge takeaway that I’ve learned from my dad is that scoring needs to fit the scene, it needs to touch people, it needs to have an emotional element. That’s the role of

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Arts & Entertainment THE SHOWBIZ

Fierce Girls web series empowers Indigenous girls

Sabrina Furminger

sabrina@yvrscreenscene.com

Like many web series created with kids in mind, Fierce Girls wants its young viewers to embrace their inner superheroes.

Unlike most series, however, it employees a distinctly Indigenous approach that runs counter to Hollywood ideas around superheroes, according to Fierce Girls’ lead producer and director, Loretta Todd.

Billed as the world’s first superhero series created for Indigenous girls, Fierce Girls follows two teenagers with warrior spirits who (according to the press release) “use their newly acquired superpowers to empower young women and celebrate the strength and beauty of being Indigenous in a challenging world.”

Hollywood-style superhero narratives can ring hollow for Indigenous audiences, says Todd. “In the Indigenous way, you’re supposed to be not better or worse than anybody, and so what happens when two everyday kids start to have superpowers? Would

you think you’re better than everybody else or would you use those special powers to still be immersed in who you are and your culture?”

Fierce Girls’ protagonists live on opposite sides of the planet: Kisik (portrayed

by Jenine Yuksel) is Cree/ Metis and lives with her single mom in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Anika (Kaea Taurere) is Māori and lives with her single dad in Rotorua, New Zealand.

Kisik and Anika navigate the pitfalls of early adolescence (including burgeoning sexuality and fraught relationships) and growing up female and Indigenous while collaborating on a comic book and trying to help people in their communities.

In order to make an impact, the girls learn they have to diverge from the militarized superhero narrative as seen in Hollywood blockbusters and instead draw strength from their cultures. “[The characters] turn to the culture, to the adults, to mothers and grandmothers for help, because they realize they can’t do this all them-

Fierce Girls follows the adventures of Kisik (portrayed by Jenine Yuksel), who is Cree/Metis and lives with her single mom in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, and Anika (Kaea Taurere), who is Māori and lives with her single dad in Rotorua, New Zealand.

selves,” says Todd. “They need community. They need strong, loving adults.”

In this way, Todd says Fierce Girls issues a challenge to the adults to be there for youth. “So when our youth act out or our youth have issues or our youth come to you and say, ‘Listen, there’s something going on,’ there’s someone there and we have the infrastructure and the means to do something about it.”

Fierce Girls also offers a trans-media experience, integrating live action, animation and several character-driven social media accounts in order to tell a complete story across multiple mediums.

“I wanted to create this opportunity for Indigenous girls to see themselves in media and see themselves on the Internet, because our kids live on the Internet now,” says Todd.

She’d be happy to make

Kisik and Anika social media stars while she’s at it.

“I’d love to create some social media stars within our own community, but not based on the same celebrity tropes that we get in western culture, so that our kids can be popular and have popular culture on the internet, but it doesn’t have to be within the celebrity streams that we have happening,” says Todd. “I’m trying to counter that kind of narrative.”

Fierce Girls is a co-production with TangataWhenua. com, an independent Māori news and information portal in New Zealand. The series hits the web June 21, National Indigenous Peoples Day. Fierce Girls isn’t the only screen project of Todd’s fuelled by Indigenous history and practices. These are also hallmarks of Coyote’s CrazySmart Science Show, the science-centric edu-tainment series that Todd created and executive produces.

“We’re not just trying to take western science and put an Indigenous spin on it,” says Todd, who will receive an award for artistic

innovation from Women in Film and Television Vancouver on June 19.

“We’re trying to show that Indigenous science can coexist along with western science, that our kids can learn western science, can take from western science and at the same time come from a place of Indigenous science.

In the past, a lot of scientists said, ‘There’s no such thing as Indigenous science — it’s just folklore.’ They didn’t understand that there actually is Indigenous science.”

The 13-episode, half-hour APTN series is currently filming its second season.

“Studies show that when kids see themselves in the curriculum, they tend to do better,” adds Todd. “Our kids don’t see themselves in the science curriculum. With Coyote Science, I wanted our kids to see themselves in science and see that we have Indigenous science so that they don’t think that it’s something that they’re left out of.”

Details at fiercegirls.tv.

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Follow the lederhosen: Bavarian

Berchtesgaden acknowledges but is not defined by its infamous past

of the Eagle’s Nest, which operates as a seasonal restaurant.

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Michael Kissinger

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Nestled in the Bavarian Alps, the quaint German town of Berchtesgaden (pop. 7,662) has a long and rich history that often gets obscured by its brief and not-so-quaint history as a Nazi stronghold and home to Hitler’s “Eagle’s Nest” mountaintop retreat. That is changing, however, as travellers outside of Germany discover Berchtesgaden’s eclectic, meadow-y charms — whether it’s a tranquil lake cruise, schnapps sampling or search for the perfect pair of lederhosen to fit one’s ruggedly handsome frame. But enough about me.

History lesson

Refreshingly matter-offact about Berchtesgaden’s infamous past, the Dokumentation Obersalzberg

Grassl distillery offers samples of its many schnapps flavours.

PHOTO MICHAEL KISSINGER

information centre bills itself as “a place of guided learning and remembrance” featuring more than 950 photos, documents, posters, films and sound recordings from Hitler’s reign. The U.S. military took over the area

in 1945 and helped bring recreation and tourism back to the land before leaving in 1995. A massive expansion of the mountainside facility is currently underway. Hiking trails abound, and it’s a short drive from what remains

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town boasts alpine charms aplenty Lederhosen land

To be honest, when I first saw a couple dudes wearing lederhosen in Berchtesgaden, I assumed they were reenactors hired by the tourism board to give the village streets an extra dose of Bavarian jauntiness.

Turns out, lederhosen is a deliberate fashion choice for many in these climes. And while some tourist shops sell cheap knock-offs made in China for 200 euros a pair, the real deal can be found at Aigner Engelbert.

The family-run business hand stitches every pair of custom-made lederhosen, which can run in the thousands of euros and have a year-long waitlist. The most comfortable and expensive material you can order your lederhosen in? Deer leather.

Good to know.

Schnappy hour

Need to take the edge off after blowing a couple grand on a sweet pair of lederhosen? Head down the street to the Grassl distillery, known for its gentian schnapps, which uses the medicinal-tasting gentian root foraged high

Berchtesgaden sports picturesque views, alpine ambience and even artisanal lederhosen.

up in the Alps. You can also sample your way through Grassl’s vast selection of schnapps, herbal and fruit spirits, liquers and gin before deciding what to purchase. If cans of venison soup are more your bag, they’ve got that, too.

Full steam ahead

Of course, the heady buzz of schnapps and lederhosen can only last so long. So you may want to invest in some full-body pampering afterwards.

Besides offering stylish, mountainside accommodations, Michelin-

starred dining at Le Ciel and its own helicopter pad, Kempinski Hotel Berchtesgaden brings the alpine experience to its spa facilities. In addition to an indoor and 36-degrees heated outdoor pool, spa goers can indulge in a “thermal alpine herb

massage,” cool their jets in a meditation lounge with floating water beds, or let it all hang out in the Finnish and herbal saunas or a steam bath with colour therapy. I opted for the steam bath which, full disclosure and unbeknownst to me ahead of time, main-

tains a strict no-clothing policy. The eucalyptusscented steam did wonders to clear the schnapps fog clouding my brain as I sat silently across from an elderly German couple, also in the buff. Perhaps they mistook my pale Canadian body as a ghost or some sort of manatee with legs, but they exited the steam bath shortly after my arrival, leaving me alone with my deep, albeit blurry, thoughts: Are the hills really alive with the sound of music? How would my life be different if I had been named Werner? Can you tell a lot about someone from the length of their lederhosen? What did they put in those schnapps?

This writer was a guest of Lufthansa and Kempinski hotels, neither of which reviewed or approved this story prior to publication. @Midlifeman1

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With the Stanley Cup playoffs firmly in the rearview for everyone except Alex Ovechkin, sportsstarved Vancouverites can now turn their attention to the beautiful game.

The FIFA World Cup kicks off in Russia, Thursday, June 14 and carries on until July 15.

Here’s a sampling of all the places around town to take in the diving, low scores and questionable hairdos.

Malone’s Social Lounge & Taphouse 608 West Pender

Malone’s will be open early for most World Cup games (see full schedule here at for any games missed, replays will be broadcast later in the day. Anyone who comes in before 11 a.m. to watch a World Cup game will get a scratch card with a chance to win a high-quality knitted scarf.

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The Pint 544 Abbott

The Pint is the unofficial Brazil house and the official Mexico and Germany house, and will be open early for all those games.

With 75 televisions, three bars and seating for up to 500 people, big crowds of fans are expected for all the matches. Game sound guaranteed. There is no cover during the first round.

Rio Brazilian Steakhouse 689 Denman

Watch the World Cup with an authentic Brazilian vibe. Rio Brazilian Steakhouse is the spot for all Brazil fans. The bar is decorated and matches will be shown on a projector as well as three big flat screen televisions.

London Public House 700 Main

One of two official England houses in the city, London Public House will be open early and will broadcast all England games on its new projector

and nine flat-screen TVs. Festivities include an English-inspired event menu, swag and giveaways.

cover charge. Games will also be broadcast in the restaurant, which is all ages and free entry.

Portuguese Club of Vancouver

Manchester Public House

The club will be open early for all Portugal matches and other big games during the group stage. Once the tournament gets to the knockout rounds, the club will likely be open for all games. Matches will be broadcast on five different TVs, and food and drink specials will have a Portuguese flair.

Another official England house, Manchester Public House will be open early for all England and Germany games, as well as a variety of other 6 a.m. matches broadcast on its projector and 12 screens.

Festivities include an English-inspired event menu, swag and giveaways.

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The Libra Room 1608 Commercial

The Vancouver Alpen Club 4875 Victoria

The Vancouver Alpen Club will be showing all of the Team Germany games. Doors open 30 minutes before kickoff and the German bier starts flowing at 9 a.m. There will be door prizes and jersey giveaways during every game. The ballroom is 19+ only and has a $5

The Libra Room will be showing matches after 10 a.m. every day.

Red Card Sports Bar 560 Smithe

Red Card Sports Bar is the official Heineken House for Vancouver and will be open early for any game that starts at 6 a.m. or later. There will be prizes and giveaways, as well as a special breakfast menu.

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Matches running June 15 until June 27 will be shown at the downtown deli. Match times are 8 and 11 a.m. Those looking to arrange large bookings are asked to call 604-6828938 in advance of game day.

The Butcher & Bullock

911 West Pender

The Butcher & Bullock will be showing a full schedule of World Cup games on its massive 202-inch HD screen between June 15 and July 15, including the semifinals and final. See the full schedule at donnellygroup.ca. In celebration of the World Cup, the Donnelly Group teamed up with Phillips Brewing to create a special collaboration beer, Mild Card English Mild Ale, which will be offered at Donnelly Group pubs, including The Butcher & Bullock.

Library Square Public House 300 West Georgia

Library Square Public House has a full line up of World Cup games on its 15 TVs and 16-inch big screen between June 14 and July 15. See the full schedule at donnel-

Blarney Stone

216 Carrall

All games starting at 11 a.m. will be shown on the venue’s 240-inch big screen. The July 15 final will also be in the offing starting at 8 a.m. Book a table online at blarneystone.ca.

Goooooooooooal! Fans of the Brazilian team have several options of where to celebrate, or commiserate, during the FIFA World Cup. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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Each of Team Iran’s

three opening round games will be shown at both venues. Game times are 8 and 11 a.m. Food will come courtesy of Zeitoon Restaurant for games screened at the Rio. Games at the Lamplighter will be shown

over 12 TVs and two big screens. Both locations are offering ticketed events. Call 604-7248739 for info.

Yagger’s Downtown Restaurant and Sports Bar

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Games will be screened for the duration of the tournament, with daily start times at 11 a.m. The first match to be featured will be Spain versus Portugal on Friday, June 15.

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Iran’s opening group matches will be shown across the venue’s 80-plus screens. Game times are 8 and 11 a.m. for the three matches between June 15 and 25. Reservations can be made by calling 604428-5131.

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As they consider free agency, Canucks look at age of Stanley Cup finalists Jim Benning sees core group of 26 to 32 year olds as key component of winning

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The last time the Canucks had a massive amount of cap space heading into the off-season, general manager Jim Benning spent it all on two big-name, veteran free agents. It was Benning’s first summer as GM of the Canucks and a number of big contracts were off the books: Roberto Luongo’s $5.3 million, David Booth’s $4.25 million and Ryan Kesler’s $5 million.

That left plenty of room for Benning to sign Ryan Miller and Radim Vrbata to $6-million and $5-million cap hits.

The signings fit Benning’s stated intentions of turning the Canucks around quickly. This time around, however, Benning should avoid the temptation of free agency.

Daniel and Henrik Sedin’s retirement took $14 million off the Canucks’ cap hit, almost all of which will be available for the Canucks to spend. The issue is that the Canucks are not in a position to benefit from the addition of one or two veterans. Nor are many free agents likely to see the basement-dwelling Canucks as a premiere destination, so the Canucks would potentially have to open up their wallets to an uncomfortable degree.

It’s difficult to tell what Benning is planning to do with all that cap space, but Benning gave some hints at his plans in an interview with NHL.com.

When asked whether the Canucks will make a big splash in free agency to replace the Sedins, Benning said they will instead look to their young players to grow into that larger role. After saying that, however, he suggested they won’t be completely quiet.

“Let’s face it, it’s hard for 20, 21, 22-year-olds to lead an NHL team,” he said. “Look at the playoffs. It’s that age group, from 26 to 32, that you win with.”

When you look at the Stanley Cup champion Washington Capitals, they certainly fit that description. While some key players — Andre Burakovsky, Tom Wilson, Jakub Vrana and Christian Djoos — are younger than 26, the core of the team is in that 26 to 32 age range.

You can also look at the 2011 Canucks: Ryan Kesler turned 26 heading into the 2010-11 season, while the Sedins had just turned 30.

The truth is that nearly half the NHL is 26 to 32, so any given team is bound

Stick-taps & Glove-drops • A tap of the stick to Alex Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals for finally breaking through and winning their first Stanley Cup in franchise history.

• I’m dropping the gloves with those few members of the hockey media who chastised Ovechkin for how he celebrated the first Cup win of his career. Ovechkin’s revelries haven’t hurt anyone and he’s well within his rights to have some catharsis after years of playoff disappointments.

Big Numbers • 1991 The Washington Capitals became the first team since the 1991 Pittsburgh Penguins to win the Stanley Cup after trailing in all four playoff series. After losing the first game of the finals to the Vegas Golden Knights, the Capitals rattled off four straight wins to take the series.

The retirement of Daniel and Henrik Sedin gives the Canucks plenty of cap space heading into the summer. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

to have a large chunk of their players fall within that range. It’s also not difficult to find counterexamples: the Pittsburgh Penguins won their last two Stanley Cups with a core between 26 and 32, but they won back in 2009 when their core of Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Kris Letang, Jordan Staal and Marc-Andre Fleury were all in their early 20s.

Let’s say, however, most teams that win the Stanley Cup have a core group that is aged 26 to 32. Assuming that to be true, what should a team do with that knowledge?

Does this mean a team should go out and sign free agents within that age range in order to compete for a Cup? John Tavares is 27 and John Carlson is 28. If the Canucks shed some salary in trades, they could throw money at both of those players, giving them a first-line centre and a top-pairing defenceman. Would that fix the Canucks’ myriad problems?

No. The Canucks simply aren’t in a place where one or even two high-priced free agents would put them over the top.

What that 26 to 32 age range suggests instead is that a rebuilding team needs to put together a generation of players aged 18 to 24 that, in six years’ time, will be the core of a Cup-contending team. Add-

ing older players in free agency can make a team less bad, but is no substitute for building a core from within.

The Canucks have some key pieces in that age range right now. Bo Horvat is 23, Brock Boeser is 21 and Nikolay Goldobin is 22, and they’ll potentially be joined by rookies Elias Pettersson, Adam Gaudette and Jonathan Dahlen next season.

Where the Canucks lack future core players in that age range is on defence.

Troy Stecher is 24 and the Canucks have high hopes for Olli Juolevi, who just turned 20, but have little else on the blue line, making it essential they add defencemen in the upcoming draft.

If Benning is right about Cup-contending teams needing their core to be aged 26 to 32, Canucks fans could be in for a long wait as their young players grow and mature. If Benning doesn’t address the need for young defencemen in the system, however, that wait could be even longer.

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

• 7 Alex Ovechkin is only the seventh player in NHL history to lead both the regular season and playoffs in goal scoring, and the first since 1981, when Mike Bossy managed that feat. His 15 playoff goals also broke a Capitals’ franchise record.

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One car will wear the red, white, blue and gold of the old Rothman’s livery, while the other is even more interesting.

It’s kitted out like the infamous Pink Pig, the bulbous-looking 917/20 “Truffle Hunter” that showed that Germans might actually have a sense of humour. When the original’s dimensions were made fun of by the press, the team painted the car like a butcher’s diagram of cuts of meat.

The Rothman’s car looks pretty decent. As for the Pink Pig redux, it’s not exactly a slimming colour on a car that’s sometimes accused of being a bit porcine. Maybe there’s a vegetarian option?

Corvette pace car crash holds up race

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For General Motors executive VP Mark Reuss, Detroit’s annual IndyCar road course featured the latter.

Piloting a new 750 horsepower ZR1 Corvette as pace car, Reuss came up over a brief crest, appeared to hit a small bump in the track, and then speared into the wall.

Happily, no one was hurt, but the race was held up by about half an hour.

Highly embarrassing stuff, especially in front of the assembled cameras of the world. The crash, however, will arguably end up being good for the brand. Corvettes aren’t expected to be easy to drive, and the ZR1 variant is intended to be a complete monster, capable of taking on the world’s best. Reuss’s misstep in apparently turning off the traction control completely on a notoriously bumpy

course isn’t likely to scare away would-be buyers.

Rather the opposite, once machismo gets involved.

As usual, there’s a lesson for everyone here. Even if your car doesn’t have the power of the ultimate expression of Corvette-dom, think hard before you switch off traction control completely, even on the track. The world might not be watching, but the walls will be only too happy to say hello.

‘Super Cruise’ coming to Cadillac lineup

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Misuse of the system or design flaws have resulted in a couple of high profile crashes, most notably into a parked fire engine.

Which, you know, most human drivers might be able to avoid.

Cadillac’s system is called Super Cruise, which is a bit more accurate description of what it does.

Instead of being touted as an autonomously driven car, it’s a more advanced cruise control system, one intended to take the drudgery out of highway traffic.

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