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Cops with rifles, trucks blocking roads — are we under siege?

Lawyer Adrienne Smith worries VPD measures creating ‘culture of fear’ at public events Mike Howell

mhowell@vancourier.com

Hey Vancouver, are you prepared for an active deadly threat?

It’s a serious question the Vancouver Police Department posed back in May when it launched a campaign and accompanying video on how to defend yourself if, say, someone walked into an office or a school and started shooting people.

What a terrible thought.

But the police are in the prevention and protection business. So while the campaign is understandable, it is equally disconcerting when connected to the social media storm that erupted June 10 during Italian Day on Commercial Drive.

By now, many of you probably heard or saw that cops were armed with carbine rifles and city dump trucks were parked across the strip to prevent a maniac from mowing down the crowd of people gathered to celebrate.

The guns and trucks are not new.

They were visible last year at the annual fireworks event at English Bay and at Canada Day celebrations at Canada Place. The guns and trucks have been regular sights at Remembrance Day events, too.

This is not unique to Vancouver, as I witnessed last year at a Tri-Cities Remembrance Day ceremony, where a City of Coquitlam snowplow blocked the main road leading to the cenotaph. RCMP officers, some dressed in green military

Vancouver police were equipped with carbine rifles June 10 at Italian Day on Commercial Drive. City dump trucks were purposely parked across the strip as part of the security measures. PHOTO NIKKI ZAWADZKI

combat gear, carried rifles.

This, unfortunately, is the new world order.

In this country, you can trace the origins of the public displays of force to the shooting of soldier Cpl. Nathan Cirillo in 2014 at the National War Memorial in Ottawa and the death of Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent in Quebec, who was murdered in a hit-andrun by an Islamic extremist.

Those tragedies, along with more recent mass killings in France, London, New York and Toronto, make a logical case for the VPD’s current measures, despite what they might do

to a person’s anxiety.

But should we be worried? Is there something the VPD is not telling us? Are we becoming a police state?

Lawyer Adrienne Smith, who tweeted out the photo accompanying this column and triggered a social media debate on the police measures, is worried the VPD is creating a culture of fear around public events.

Smith, a member of the VPD’s LGBTQ advisory committee, said in an email that she heard from many people after Italian Day, “particularly people of colour, who were uncomfortable with this

level of display of armed uniform officers at what has always been a community and family event.”

To those who say the police’s presence was warranted, Smith said: “I’m not saying that some of the recent vehicle ramming and public shooting events that occurred in cities around the world are not deplorable. I’m suggesting that a better way towards public security is a renewed commitment to principles like peace, order and good government, rather than increases in offensive tactical equipment and artillery.”

That said, I can recall

former VPD chief Jamie Graham telling a reporter that if the general public knew what he did, they wouldn’t be able to sleep at night. He didn’t elaborate, leading to wild speculation about whether Vancouver is a target.

Our history in Vancouver and other parts of the province show we have not been immune to determined people committing unthinkable atrocities. The Air India bombing is the best and worst example of that.

There’s also the famous case of Al Qaeda member Ahmed Ressam preparing explosives in the 2400

Court Motel on Kingsway before heading south in an attempt to detonate a bomb at the Los Angeles airport.

Anyone old enough to remember the Squamish Five bombings?

I caught up with Vancouver Police Chief Adam Palmer last week after a police board meeting to hear from him on the new world order. He did his best to allay fears residents may have about the guns, or the what-to-do-in-adeadly-threat campaign, or the need for dump trucks at large public events.

Palmer was clear there is no specific threat to Vancouver. But he further explained that tragic world events — motorists driving into large crowds, the killing of Canadian soldiers at home — have shaped the department’s safety and security measures.

“We’re going to be out there keeping families safe, keeping people safe, but we have precautions in place — sometimes behind the scene, sometimes more overt — that will be necessarily in place if something goes sideways,” Palmer said. “I don’t want it to be a situation where something goes wrong and then everybody turns around and says, ‘Well VPD knew about all these world events and why weren’t they out there, and why weren’t they prepared?’

So we are prepared.”

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Cancer a factor in Louie’s decision not to seek re-election Vision councillor had ‘good chunk’ of lung removed, wife also battling cancer

Mike Howell

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For the better part of his time as a city councillor, Vision Vancouver’s Raymond Louie has been known by his colleagues as the finance guy and the party’s analyst of minutiae.

He has also been the stoic one, the private one.

Rarely has he revealed much about his private life to the public. Council watchers will know he once raced bicycles, once owned a Cal 240 skateboard and that his parents ran a bakery on Commercial Drive.

So it was a rare opening up of the 53-year-old Louie when he revealed last year in the council chamber that he had a recent battle with cancer.

He alluded to it briefly in the heat of arguing for proposed vehicle and cycling improvements on the section of West 10th Avenue that includes the B.C. Cancer Agency and other medical centres;

he weighed in because he didn’t appreciate one councillor concluding all cancer patients were against the changes.

Louie didn’t elaborate on his illness. Now he has.

In September 2016, Louie had “a good chunk” of his left lung removed to prevent cancer from spreading. He said he’s “all clear” now and feels good.

But his wife, Tonya, still has a type of cancer known as gastrointestinal stromal tumor. She is stable and taking medication.

The couple, who will participate in the Ride To Conquer Cancer in August from Vancouver to Seattle, are parents to three children: one is 23, another is 19 and the youngest will soon be 13.

They live on the East Side in an old house near East First Avenue and Nanaimo Street.

So when Louie revealed last week that he wasn’t seeking re-election in the Oct. 20 municipal election, the speculation about his

Vision Vancouver Coun. Raymond Louie will not seek re-election in this fall’s municipal election, partly because of his bout with cancer and his wife’s continued treatment for the same disease.

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reasons for doing so focused on the perceived demise of the once-powerful Vision party and how all its council incumbents except Heather Deal were abandoning ship.

The likely factors for Louie’s departure seemed more linked to the disastrous fifth-place finish by Vision candidate Diego Cardona in last fall’s byelec-

tion or perhaps the recent opinion polls showing Vision trailing the rival Non Partisan Association.

Partisan types on Twitter and Facebook chiming in that it was time for a change at city hall could not have gone unnoticed by Louie, who became a target of some personal attacks when news broke June 13 that he wasn’t seeking re-election.

Some of the criticism may have been spot on, some of it was just nasty.

None knew about the cancer.

Louie will tell you it’s not the main reason for not seeking re-election. More, he said, that his 16 years as a councillor — three with COPE, the rest with Vision — and the “70-hour work weeks” have taken its toll and he needs a break.

But cancer hitting both he and his wife was a reality check.

“It’s made me realize that our lives are sometimes shorter than we realize, so it’s important for us to recognize that when we

have our health, we should take advantage of that,” he said. “That’s the same for myself, as it is for my wife, who also has cancer.

It’s a very challenging life dynamic right now.”

Added Louie: “I need to spend more time at home, spend more time with my wife and my youngest, especially. And I’ve got an 84-year-old mother that I should probably spend some time with, as well. It’s time to do a little bit for me versus what I’ve been doing for the last 20 years.”

The first four of those 20 years was working with COPE, which culminated in an unsuccessful run in the 1999 election. He continued to be involved with the party, studying council agenda after council agenda with the likes of Fred Bass and Tim Louis until he was elected in the 2002 landslide. He has served as a Vision councillor since 2005.

Note: A longer version of this story can be viewed at vancourier.com. @Howellings

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News Cheep thrills: Bird brains flock to Vancouver for international wingding Jessica Kerr

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Vancouver is going to the birds this summer.

The city plays host to two bird-centric events this August — the 27th International Ornithological Congress, which takes place every four years and attracts ornithologists (bird scientists) from around the world, and the inaugural Vancouver International Bird Festival.

The congress is considered the oldest and most prestigious meeting for bird scientists. The first one took place in Vienna, Austria in 1884. Canada has only hosted the congress once before, in Ottawa in 1986.

This year not only marks the event’s return to Canadian soil, but also the first time the meeting has been held on the Pacific coast.

Vancouver was awarded the 2018 congress in 2014 and preparations have been underway ever since.

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events for the general public as well as delegates — and the Vancouver International Bird Festival was born.

“The congress will never come here again, but we’re hoping the festival will become an annual event,” Elner said. “That’s hugely important to us because we can see this great legacy of what’s becoming of birds, but also leaving this proverbial egg.”

All things bird related will take flight with an opening parade Aug. 19.

“No one should miss it,” Elner said. “We’ve got over a 100 children in bird costumes, they’re on stilts and they’re basically parading from the Coal Harbour community centre along the seawall to Jack Poole Plaza.”

The festival includes at Bird Expo Aug. 22 to 25 at the Vancouver Convention Centre.

“In that expo we have virtually every element of birds, connection to birds, that you can think of from ancient coins to stamps to travel to binoculars to cameras, you name it,” Elner said. “So it’s really just a great way for the public to come in and really spend a

Vancouver goes to the birds in August. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

great afternoon listening to lectures, looking at products and the message being that through birds we can get back into nature.

“Every day is completely different.”

Along with lectures, the expo will include a number of special events.

Artists for Conservation has been working on a series of bird paintings that will be assembled into a mural.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature has identified almost 700 species of endangered birds

and Artists for Conservation is doing 10”x 10” paintings of almost every single one on the list. The paintings will be put together to create a mural, called “Silent Skies,” that will come in at more than 120 feet long, Elner said, adding that it will be unveiled for the first time at the expo.

There are also a number of public presentations planned, including: • Birds for Peace — a team started by an Israeli ornithologist working for the country’s air force. For

the past 20 years he’s been working with a Palestinian ornithologist through the auspices of a Jordanian general and a French scientist.

“They’ve had Palestinian youth and Bedouin youth and Israeli youth coming together in basically conflict zones and working on bird conservation,” Elner said.

• Purnima Barman — The 2017 winner of the Whitley Award, also known as the Green Oscars, and the 2018 winner of Nari Shakti Purakar, the highest civilian award for women in India, Barman is an advocate working with women and their communities across Indian for stork conservation.

• Jennifer Ackerman — an American science writer and author of The Genius of Birds, which looks at how the brains of birds are different, and more powerful, than the human brain.

“You know, we have [the term] ‘bird brain’ as an insult, but in fact their brains are markedly more sophisticated than the human brain,” Elner said.

Another highlight of the week is the bird tours.

Tours of significant bird

areas in the host city and country are a usual feature of the International Ornithological Congress but organizers in Vancouver decided to open the tours up to the public.

More than 50 tours are planned — from day trips in and around the Lower Mainland to multi-day excursions to Haida Gwaii, the Okanagan and Vancouver Island.

“We got provincial funding and we’re now working with the Indigenous Tourism Association of B.C. to create as a legacy bird tours as a way for people coming to Vancouver to enjoy themselves and get into nature and also create a local industry and business around birds,” Elner said.

“The public can sign up now, we really encourage them to come on these tours with the ornithologists.”

For more information about the Vancouver International Bird Festival, visit vanbirdfest.com.

For more on the International Ornithological Congress 2018 and the bird tours visit, iocongress2018.com. @JessicaEKerr

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Majority of Vancouverites oppose feds’ pipeline purchase Mike Howell

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Almost 60 per cent of Vancouverites polled about the federal government’s decision to purchase Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline and related infrastructure for $4.5 billion say they are opposed to the deal.

A Research Co. poll released Tuesday found 42 per cent strongly disagreed and 17 per cent somewhat disagreed with the sale of Kinder Morgan’s existing pipeline system, which the federal government announced May 29.

Of the 400 respondents polled between June 9 and 11, a total of 10 per cent strongly agreed with the government’s decision and 18 per cent somewhat agreed.

Thirteen per cent said they were not sure, leaving room for either side to boost public opinion on the deal.

Mario Canseco, president of Research Co., said the results show the “animosity” of Vancouverites over the deal but don’t conclusively determine whether those same people oppose the expansion of the existing pipeline.

Up until the purchase, Canseco noted, there appeared to be a shift in support for the expansion project, with those who were moderately opposed coming on side with the pro-pipeline positions of the governments of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Alberta Premier Rachel Notley.

“Most of that middleof-the-road opinion was moving more to a position of support, but with the situation we have now with the feds getting involved and essentially buying this pipeline, I think we’re seeing a lot of people who are starting to wonder whether this is the right course of action,” he said.

The release of Research Co.’s findings comes five days after Canseco’s firm released results showing independent mayoral candidate Kennedy Stewart, who was arrested March 23 and charged for blocking workers access to Kinder Morgan property, as the front-runner among decided voters in this year’s mayoral race in Vancouver.

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purchase of the pipeline would appear to bode well for the campaign of the retiring Burnaby-South NDP MP, who pleaded guilty to criminal contempt of court and paid a $500 fine for his actions related to the arrest.

This week, Stewart finished his last session in Parliament by presenting another petition opposing the pipeline.

Reached in Ottawa Tuesday, Stewart said he thought it was fair to link both poll questions — one on support for a mayoral candidate, the other on support for

the federal government’s purchase of the pipeline — to conclude that a majority of respondents were more likely to vote for him in the Oct. 20 municipal election.

“We seem to be the leaders on this issue,” said Stewart, noting Ken Sim, the Non Partisan Association’s mayoral candidate, has not said whether he supports the pipeline project. “People strongly opposed to anything are motivated to take action, and that would also be volunteering and donations.”

Stewart was the first

choice for 26 per cent of respondents. Sim was runner-up at 23 per cent and Ian Campbell of Vision Vancouver at 18 per cent.

Campbell, a Squamish hereditary chief, and his nation have been fierce opponents of the pipeline project and launched legal action to stop it.

NPA Coun. Hector Bremner, who is expected to run for mayor with a new party, finished with 10 per cent and independent candidate Shauna Sylvester with nine per cent. A previous poll from Research Co. put Green Party Coun. Adriane Carr as the front-runner in the race but she has decided not to run for mayor.

Although Stewart said he recognized the top issue for him and Vancouver voters is housing affordability, he believes there will be residents who strongly oppose the pipeline project and seek out a candidate who has demonstrated that opposition.

“This may actually be their ballot question — they may walk in and say, ‘I don’t really care about the other factors, I don’t care if they’re left or right, but I’m

so opposed to this pipeline that we need somebody in city hall that’s going to fight it,’” he said.

In an interview prior to winning the NPA’s leadership race, Sim told the Courier he would be concerned “with anything that could adversely affect our environment.”

But, he added in the May 31 interview, the city’s doesn’t have control over whether the pipeline will be built.

“If the pipeline actually is ever built, as mayor of Vancouver I would make sure that all our environmental standards were set as high as possible, and I would do everything in my power and the city’s power to make sure those standards are met and enforced,” Sim said.

Canseco said he will continue to poll residents right up until election day, noting it’s still several months before voters going to the polls. He cited the large number of undecided voters as a factor in making a prediction.

“It’s astonishing,” he said, noting his recent poll showed 47 per cent of respondents have yet to decide on a mayoral candidate.

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Adding new residents and homes, which include townhouses, rental and social housing, will mean extensive upgrades to the existing water, sewer and drainage networks are needed.

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Park board stays the course on Langara upgrades Mayor’s motion to discuss alternative land uses left on the sidelines Jessica Kerr

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On Monday night, the Vancouver Park Board stood behind the planned drainage improvements at Langara Golf Course and voted against working with the City of Vancouver to look at possible alternate uses for the site.

The $3-million project that would significantly improve winter golf conditions has been up in the air since March. On March 12, park board commissioners approved the project and sent it to city council for consideration. Two days later, the project was put on hold when Mayor Gregor Robertson introduced a new motion directing staff to approach the park board to discuss possible alternate uses for the land — a public park with restored wetlands, a trail network, sports fields and a competition-standard

track and field facility, and to look at options to partner with Musqueam First Nation, Langara College, the YMCA and the province for future use of the land.

In April, the board passed a motion introduced by Non-Partisan Association commissioner Sarah Kirby-Yung to look into proceeding with the first half of the project. On Monday, park board staff presented commissioners with four possible options for the drainage project and two options to respond to the mayor’s motion — directing staff to work with city staff on a master plan for the golf course, or to have staff continue to work on the board’s current planning initiatives.

In a unanimous vote, commissioners decided to go ahead with the full drainage improvement project next year and opted to stay the course with the

current planning processes and not start a master plan for Langara Golf Course.

“As the Vancouver board of parks and recreation our job is to look at our overall parks and recreation system as a whole and to provide a balance and a diversity of recreation options,” KirbyYung said before the board voted on the matter, adding that the “suite of options” includes things such as golf, tennis, swimming, skating and track and field.

“I would note, for example, we have 14 track and field facilities across the city, we have three championship golf courses, we have 240 other parks,” she said, including a number of parks in the area.

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sioners voted to go ahead with the full upgrade of all 18 holes. Because the cost of the project comes in at more than $3 million, it will have to go back to city council again for approval before it can go ahead.

The project would start in April 2019 and likely be completed in the fall.

Langara is one of three full-sized public golf courses in the city. It was built in 1926 by the Canadian Pacific Railway and purchased by the City of Vancouver in 1973.

Council designated it a permanent park in 1993.

According to staff, golf is the second largest source of revenue for the park board, bringing in close to $10 million annually in green fees alone. Langara accounts for almost $2 million of that and sees roughly 50,000 rounds played every year. @JessicaEKerr

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Vancouver police are once again warning the public after another virtual kidnapping case in the city.

Officers are investigating the third reported case this year and say the elaborate extortion schemes have cost victims hundreds of thousands of dollars.

In the most recent case, a young woman in her early 20s from Mainland China, who is studying in Canada on a student visa, received a call from someone pretending to be a Chinese police officer.

The call even appeared to come from an actual Chinese police phone number — a common practice used by fraudsters called “spoofing.”

The suspects convinced the woman she had been implicated in a money laundering investigation in China and was required to transfer Chinese funds for police and court costs. She paid the money through a Bitcoin ATM. In April, the department warned the federal government about digital currencies, such as Bitcoin, being used to launder money.

The virtual kidnapping scheme didn’t end after the victim paid up.

“The suspects continued to threaten her with an arrest unless she paid additional money, and convinced her to provide them with compromising photos,” Vancouver police media relations officer Sgt. Jason Robillard said in a press release.

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The photos were sent to her family via WeChat, a Chinese language social media app, along with ransom demands that made it look as though she had been kidnapped.

The woman’s family paid the ransom, clearing the remaining balance she was convinced she owed.

“These deplorable crimes are having a huge impact on these young, trusting students, and their families,” Robillard said. “We want to remind all foreign students that the Chinese police will not arrest you in Canada, and if you are confused or scared, please reach out to your local police department in Canada. We are here to help.”

He added that investigators believe the suspects are not based in Canada and Vancouver officers in the major crimes section are working with Chinese official and other police agencies.

“It remains unclear how the victims are chosen.”

The department has received three reports of virtual kidnappings so far this year, and two reports of attempted virtual kidnappings.

“Investigators believe that there may be more incidents that have not yet been reported,” Robillard said.

Anyone with information about these crimes is urged to call department’s major crime section at 604-717-3679 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800222-8477. @JessicaEKerr

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Election finance rules have changed the game Mike Klassen

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The perception of how municipal election campaigns are orchestrated is sometimes imagined as a cigar smoked-filled lounge at a gentlemen’s club, where the city’s business elite agree upon their mayoral and council candidate choices in between sips of fine brandy.

Of course, money will flow like water from the aforementioned cabal, affording first-rate staff and political campaign collateral to promote these candidates to the voting public.

While this may actually have happened somewhere in the past, the reality of local government elections is much cruder. Identifying quality candidates is painstaking work, raising funds is a slog and getting the public out to vote for your candidate is tantamount to shoving an elephant uphill.

Now recently legislated rules around how we fund election campaigns add a whole new wrinkle.

The Local Elections Campaign Financing Act

(a.k.a. LECFA) sets limits on what cannot be contributed in terms of financial or in-kind services to a political campaign. The legislation aims to ban corporate and union donations. However, the rules allow services and labour to be contributed — provided they are paid for at fair market value.

Elections B.C. is responsible for ensuring the compliance by candidates and elector organizations (EOs), and no doubt this is taking up a lot of their resources to manage.

What candidates and EOs such as the Vancouver Greens, COPE and the NPA are grappling with now is how to abide by LECFA’s requirements.

For example, it is not uncommon for candidates to have their campaign materials — such as flyers and brochures — donated by a supporter. However, if that graphic design, photography or printing is provided by someone who makes their living as a designer, photographer or printer, those would be considered professional services, and would have

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to be paid for at full market value.

To give those things away would be considered a corporate contribution, and therefore in breach of the legislation.

In recent months, the Vancouver District Labour Council (VDLC) has been very public about its efforts to broker a deal between left-of-centre EOs for an agreed upon slate of

candidates. Last weekend, members of the OneCity elector organization voted their allotted number of candidates based upon this VDLC-led deal. It is expected that Vision, COPE and the Vancouver Greens will follow suit.

Given the new rules about corporate and union donations, the work done by VDLC does raise questions as to how negotiating a slate

does not amount to a union donation, given that staff time was involved, presumably use of their office, and of course the news release it issued on VLDC letterhead after the deal was reached.

So far, they have been silent on the matter.

When the legislation was being debated last November, B.C. Liberal MLA Todd Stone pressed Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing Selina Robinson for clarity on what constituted a contribution from a corporate or union donor.

“What we’re trying to address here [with the legislation],” said Stone, “is the undue influence that thirdparty organizations, whether they be unions, whether they be business organizations, have on the political process when it comes to in-kind… donations; when it comes activities that are not disclosed that involve knocking on doors, that involve canvassing, that involve doing surveys and sharing that information discreetly with candidates and elector organizations.”

In his view, the legislation did not address the poten-

tial influence of third party contributors who offered candidates their support.

Robinson was unequivocal in her response to Stone.

“Third parties need to be independent,” replied Robinson. “They can’t gather data and feed it to a particular candidate. Then they’re working for the candidate.”

She added, “All those need to be listed and declared and put in disclosure as part of campaign contributions. Our expectation is that everyone will follow the guidelines as they’re laid out.”

Given the intense and ongoing interest on all sides in the outcome of the October election, it is hard to imagine that no staff time and resources of businesses or unions are currently being allocated toward one or more campaigns across the province. Elections B.C. has the unenviable task of trying to sort it all out.

Every campaign candidate must get up to speed on what constitutes a campaign contribution and what does not as it includes a lot. Maybe even the brandy and cigars. @MikeKlassen

City attempts to make room for ‘missing middle’... finally Louie bids adieu, Sim emphasizes business over community service

Michael Geller geller@sfu.ca

It’s déjà vu all over again.

I’m sure I wasn’t the only Vancouver architect and planner who thought of this when the City of Vancouver announced the “Making Room” program last week.

To quote from the city’s announcement: “The goal... is to provide more housing choice within neighbourhoods for families, downsizing seniors, and other households seeking housing that sits in the ‘missing middle’ between singlefamily homes and higherdensity homes.

“The Making Room program also represents a transition away from neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood planning to a comprehensive, city-wide approach.”

I applaud the city, especially since I have been advocating for more duplexes, townhouses, laneway houses and other forms of “gentle densification” within existing single-family zones since I arrived in Vancouver in 1974.

More importantly, any-

one familiar with the Mayor’s Task Force on Housing Affordability, which Gregor Robertson co-chaired with Olga Illich in 2012, knows the city’s latest proposals are exactly what the mayor’s task force recommended six years ago.

It, too, recommended new zoning categories to accommodate townhouses, stacked townhouses and higher density ground-oriented housing in single-family zones. It also proposed “lock-off” suites, an idea developed in Burnaby for SFU’s UniverCity project.

While most Vancouverites should support these initiatives given today’s housing affordability crisis and the reality that many who previously opposed neighbourhood change are now seeking new housing choices, there no doubt remains some opposition to these sensible proposals.

Hopefully the looming Oct. 20 election, which could result in significant changes in council composition, will encourage the current council to finally approve the required zon-

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Columnist Michael Geller applauds the city for proposing the Making Room program, which advocates for more duplexes, townhouses, laneway houses and other forms of “gentle densification” within existing single-family zones. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

ing changes before leaving office.

So long, Louie

Speaking of the election, I was disappointed to read this past week that longserving councillor Raymond Louie, who I long expected to one day be Vancouver’s first Chinese-Canadian mayor, is not running again.

I have always had a lot of respect for Louie, and not just because he supported my proposals for zoning

changes to allow modular laneway houses and lock-off suites in the city. He was always one of the most hardworking and knowledgeable members of council, and I have fond memories of campaigning with him at a Jewish community function early in the 2008 election campaign, even though we were running for different parties.

I wish him well, in whatever he chooses in the next stage of his career.

This brings me to two other candidates who have a chance to be Vancouver’s first Chinese-Canadian mayor.

Wai Young, a former Conservative member of parliament for Vancouver South, was initially considering a run for the NPA’s mayoral nomination before announcing she was running with a new organization called Coalition Vancouver. While she has considerable public and community service experience, she is not someone I will be supporting in the forthcoming election.

Ken Sim is a successful Vancouver entrepreneur who co-founded Nurse Next Door in 2001 and Rosemary Rocksalt in 2013. Born in Vancouver and attending Churchill and Magee secondary schools and UBC’s Sauder School of Business, he has strong ties within the city.

I have never met Sim but am told he is a smart and likeable individual.

However, I no doubt soured our relationship when I criticized an email sent out by his campaign

comparing him with the other two NPA mayoral candidates.

While the email mentioned “leadership, training and outcomes” in terms of business accomplishment, it made absolutely no mention of any of Sim’s public and community service.

This prompted me to write back to his campaign pointing out he was not seeking a position as a CEO. He was seeking to be my mayor. I thought he was demonstrating considerable chutzpah to think he should be mayor without at least acknowledging the importance of public and community service.

On June 21, I plan to attend the NPA gala dinner to hear Sim. I hope his remarks will demonstrate he now has a greater appreciation that running a city is not just like running a company.

If he does this, and soon starts to offer some wellreasoned proposals on how to improve housing affordability, he may well be Vancouver’s first ChineseCanadian mayor. And, it’s hoped, a very good one. @michaelgeller

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Word ‘queer’ still offends Re: “Year of the Queer controversy reminds us that not all diversity is visible,” May 23.

A number of people talked about the use of the word “queer” by the LGBT community. I thought Tim Stevenson said the only smart thing: “There’s nothing queer about us.” He meant there’s nothing weird about us — the word’s original meaning.

He added that he now accepts the word because younger people are using it.

Well, I don’t accept it. Several people made the point that it’s important to unite the various groups in the LGBT community with the word queer. But when you form alliances, in this case with bisexuals and transgendered people, you don’t give up your own identity. I feel, as a gay man, that calling myself queer would be tantamount to giving up my identity because I agree with Tim SteAlvin Brouwer PUBLISHER

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Those gays and lesbians who call themselves queer are committing a transgression against their identity, in the interest of forming alliances. And they haven’t successfully reclaimed the word queer. It’s still an insult.

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Holes in city’s 10th Avenue priorities Re: “10th Avenue roadwork nearly done,” June 14.

The city’s engineering department certainly has an interesting priority list for 10th Avenue. It can spend $4.5 million in seven months for improved bicycle lanes opposite the entrance to the VGH Emergency facilities but it cannot find any money to fill in a hole in 10th Avenue and Commercial, which has existed for at least two years. Maybe the hole is not big enough?

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Opinion VANCOUVER SHAKEDOWN

The problem with Vancouver’s Car Free Day is your car Too many people driving to car-free street parties Grant Lawrence

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Don’t get me wrong. I love Car Free Day. In recent weeks, Main Street, the West End and Commercial Drive have all hosted car-free events to roaring success.

In particular, Main Street’s Car Free Day was the largest in the city, stretching from Broadway to 30th Avenue. Unfortunately, for all of Car Free Day’s achievements throughout the city, it appears that many party-goers are completely missing the point: they’re driving cars to Car Free Day. The aim of Car Free Day is to promote pedestrianfriendly public spaces. Matt Hern and Carmen Mills are the co-founders and coorganizers of Car Free Day. They held their first Car Free Day on Commercial Drive in 2004.

In 2008, they added Main Street and the West

End. According to their website, Hern and Mills felt the urge to create “a street festival where those from the neighbourhood could be engaged to rethink the range of uses for neighbourhood streets.”

The unfortunate situation that has arisen like an obnoxious cloud of exhaust is that side streets become traffic jams. How’s this for irony: it’s impossible to find parking on Car Free Day. Driving a car to Car Free Day is like bringing your drone to the symphony. It’s totally inappropriate, and it makes life hell for those around you, the exact opposite of the event’s intent.

To wander down streets that have replaced cars with happy faces for as far as your eye can see is an amazing sight. To step into the side streets to realize these arteries are clogged with cars snaps you from the dream.

My dentist lives east of Victoria Drive and says

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that on Car Free Days on the Drive, there’s no parking for blocks, including as far as her house.

A Main Street retail vendor, who asked not to be named, was also critical of the event, but for different reasons.

“Yeah, not a fan,” the retailer, who was out-of-

province for the event, told me. “The hospitality places do well — coffee shops, restaurants, bars — but for retail not so much. Car Free Day actually hinders my business. Because of the festival atmosphere, it feels like most people are looking for free stuff, and the side streets are a zoo. Why do

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Dave Gowans co-owns Red Cat Records at 4332 Main St. and offers a different perspective.

“I find the event very well-organized. The volunteers work really hard,” Gowans said the day after Main Street’s event. “It’s true that sales don’t equal the amount of people that come through the store, but I tend to think of the long arc. All of these new people found our store. Maybe they don’t want to carry a record around with them on Car Free Day, but hopefully they’ll be back. We also get to mount a stage on the sidewalk. We had six bands play and it was a lot of fun.”

Gowans lives a block away from his store and admits that driving a car to Car Free Day is a weird problem. “On the side streets, people are honking, getting angry, yelling at each other.

That part of it is pretty ridiculous. I mean it’s just one

day a year, you know?”

Hern and Mills have obviously always encouraged the central point of their initiative: “Get in the spirit of Car Free Day and leave the cars at home. All festivals are centrally located and are easily accessible by transit and by bike.”

Gowans had another idea to help ease the ironic congestion: “Open up public transit,” he suggested. “Make it free for the bus routes that service the neighbourhoods on Car Free Day. That would encourage more people to take transit to get down here and leave the car at home.”

Upcoming street-closure events that encourage you to park it include the Strathcona Street Party at Cordova and Campbell Street on June 23, Greek Day on Broadway on June 24, the Khatsalano Street Party on West Fourth Avenue on July 7 and Car Free Day on Commercial Drive July 8. @grantlawrence

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Community

Point Grey grads, 50 years apart, reflect on past, present, future jkurucz@vancourier.com

It took Chris Kelly close to three years, 21 days at sea and more than 12,000 kilometres’ worth of travel to finally get Math 12.

It took him three kicks at the can, since lessons from a textbook at Point Grey secondary wouldn’t take.

His friends had all graduated high school and moved on to UBC while Kelly shifted between community colleges in an attempt to understand algebra and algorithms.

He unlocked those secrets on the Pacific Ocean of all places, while serving as a navigator aboard a freighter destined for Sydney, Australia.

Forty years and a few other missteps later, Kelly retired after serving as the superintendent of schools in both Richmond and Vancouver.

Not bad for someone who had little interest in academics and didn’t get to graduate on time.

Kelly and fellow Point Grey classmate Nick Orchard look back on the summer of 1968 with healthy doses of reality and nostalgia as they prepare for their 50th class reunion, on June 22. Orchard carved out a successful international career in TV production, working at the BBC and CBC on shows such as EastEnders and The Beachcombers.

He’ll join Kelly and about 60 other alumni Friday for a school tour and questionand-answer session to share pearls of wisdom with current Point Grey grads who say goodbye to high school next week.

Before doing so, the class of ’68 grads spoke to the Courier to reflect on why they are who they are, and how they became the people they are today. The Courier also spoke to two outgoing students who are getting

to live here, I’ll come back. I love this place. I think it’s the ideal place for someone who wants to be inside or outside.

primed to leave mom and pop’s place for the first time.

Ryan Davies, 17, and 18-year-old Ben Clayton are headed to Queen’s and Waterloo universities respectively. Buddies since Grade 8, they’re both going on to study engineering.

The following excerpts are taken from two-plus hours the Courier spent at the West Side school talking to two very different generations of Vancouverites.

You’re both of a generation that doesn’t know a time before the internet. How do you avoid being constantly distracted?

What do you remember about this exact timeframe in your life 50 years ago?

Kelly: I wasn’t looking ahead at all. It wasn’t because I was aimless, but I had been so intensively involved in this peer group and the events at this school that I didn’t have a sense of what would come next.

Things happened somewhat randomly in the ensuing four or five years.

Orchard: It was a glorious time. I knew I was going to go on to university, but it wasn’t until halfway through my Grade 12 year that I saw a UBC calendar and realized there was a theatre department there. I thought I could drift for four years if I went into theatre, and so I did. I didn’t have any clear sense of direction as to what I would do when those four years were over.

Did your life end up going in the direction that you thought it would, based on your hopes for the future when you were 18?

Kelly: No. I was never thinking about that consciously. But I think subconsciously it was completely in the works because school was kind of like a theatre. And I don’t mean that in a superficial way. My time here at Point Grey was incredibly formative and engaging. I loved my time

Class of 1968 grad and former Vancouver School Board superintendent Chris Kelly, 2018 grads Ryan Davies and Ben Clayton, and 1968 alumni Nick Orchard. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

here. I was not a scholar nor did I pretend to be because I wasn’t that interested in academics and studies. I was interested in the social component of school.

Orchard: I was not a stellar student. But what this school did to me was that it taught me all kinds of social stuff: how to get along with people, how to get something accomplished. Working as a producer, you have to learn how to work together and get people pointed in the right direction.

What do you make of the world these 18 year olds are about to step into?

Kelly: The thing that’s patently obvious to me is that the 18-year-olds today, just by dint of circumstance, they have much higher levels of sophistication in terms of knowledge and awareness.

They have a more deeply developed sense of personal capacity than we ever had. I don’t think you can compare the breadth of what someone like Ben or Ryan has within themselves from the standpoint of awareness and possibility compared to the two of us at the age of 18. I’m not

saying lesser or more. But the world has become more and complex, both positively and negatively, and it’s had this residual effect on child and youth development. Whether they like it or not, they’re exposed to more in the way of challenges and issues than we ever were.

Orchard: It still looks pretty good. If you come from this neighbourhood, I do think that has something to do with it. You do have the support systems that some other places might not have. I have renewed faith in young kids.

For many years I feared that kids were not as active and involved as we were. They seemed self-centred and only concerned about what’s in it for them. But I’m really inspired by kids who are standing up and being active again. That seems to be turning around and I think that’s a good thing.

••• Over to the Grade 12 students for a Generation Z take on the world. The longest Clayton has been away from home was a month. For Davies, that time frame shrinks down to a week. They can both do laundry. Clayton

says he can cook, while Davies answered the question with a prolonged “Uhh...”

How is the feeling of impending graduation different than what you thought it would be in Grade 8?

Davies: In Grade 8 I knew so little. My high school expectations were based on high school movies: cross a stage, shake a hand grab a scroll and then your parents kick you out of the house to find a job.

Clayton: I didn’t really have an idea of what I wanted to do after high school when I started Grade 8. I was just more excited about what was to come. Now I’m excited for what comes next.

If you move back to Vancouver after your studies are done, how will you afford to live?

Davies: If I can earn enough money to live here, that’s the goal. But it’s not expensive without reason. You have the mountains and the ocean right in front of you. If I can make enough money to live here, I want to live here.

Clayton: The end goal isn’t necessarily to come back here.

I’ll live wherever I can within my means. If I have enough

Davies: In high school today, clicks are definitely a thing and popularity is definitely tied to being able to use your phone. But at the same time you can’t let that consume you. Knowing where you’re going is highly regarded. Going on your phone 24/7 might get you a lot of friends, but it also might lead you to going nowhere.

Clayton: Being able to do something that you really don’t need your phone for is really important — stuff like sports, music or being outside. Having a creative outlet is really important. I’m the kind of person who doesn’t get super addicted to a phone.

Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

Davies: I have no idea.

Hopefully I’ll be working as an engineer, making good money. From there I’ll sort out the rest of my life in terms of having a family and a house. It will be pretty typical, I think. Have a family, get married, settle down and raise some kids. The way my parents raised me, they are both my idols. If I could be like them, that would be the ultimate goal.

Clayton: I’d be really interested in working for a biomedical engineering company, whether it’s doing it myself through a start-up or working for a cool company involved in biomedical research. I’ll be looking to settle down in the 10 years after I’m 28. I’m not necessarily looking for financial fulfilment, I’m more interested in personal fulfilment.

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the Dalai Lama. John Kabat-Zinn founded the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care and Society at the University of Massachusetts in the 1980s.

In December 2017, the UMass Medical School announced the creation of a new division dedicated to its academic study.

The insights you gain in meditation and the attitudes of mindfulness will benefit you most when you apply them to the rest of your life — how you see yourself, others and your world, experience your emotions, consider your thoughts and respond to the circumstances and events of your life.

Today, many counsellors and physicians teach or recommend mindfulness meditation as part of the management of stress, anxiety and depression.

We might begin meditation by spending 15 or 20 minutes each day simply sitting in a quiet place in a comfortable position. We turn our attention to the natural flow and sensations of the breath without trying to control it in any way. This can be used as a safe and calming anchor to which we can return at any time.

So what is mindfulness and who needs it?

You might benefit from the practice if you’ve ever been lost in thought and ran through a red light, lost your temper and said something you regretted, had difficulty forgiving someone who has harmed you, or asked yourself, “What was I thinking?”

Kabat-Zinn has defined mindfulness as “paying attention in a particular way — on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally.”

The practice seems deceptively simple and most people think it’s just about being in the present moment.

Some think of it only as a form of meditation that you might do for a few minutes a day after which you go about your business as usual.

The practice of meditation is just the beginning.

We can shift our attention to sounds as they arise in our immediate environment — close by or in the distance.

We simply attend to the arising and disappearance of sounds as they enter and leave our awareness.

We don’t need to identify each sound. We are simply aware of them as they come and go.

We can turn our awareness to sensations in the body: the pressure at points of contact with our clothing, the ground or the chair; warmth or coolness; vibrations or tingling. If a sensation is too uncomfortable, we may shift our attention elsewhere to a part of the body that is more comfortable or back to the anchor of the breath.

With practice, we are able to maintain awareness and attention without being reactive, without aversion, clinging, judgment or identification. With time, we recognize that everything within our awareness is ever changing — nothing is constant – no sensation, no mood, no emotion and no thought.

We are able to attend to each thought as it arises without getting carried away in a train of thoughts or a story in the remembered past or imagined future. We can note thoughts as they arise, without judgment or identification, and let them go. We can do the same with the transient feelings and emotions that arise without getting caught up and carried away with them.

...it is an effective approach to managing depression, anxiety, stress and chronic pain.

We experience moods, feelings and emotions, but we are not our moods, feelings or emotions. We can see them as transient, temporary conditions like a mist, a fog or a shower.

They pass through us or we pass through them.

When we are not mindful, we are lost in our thoughts or we identify with our emotions,

saying “I am angry” or “I am sad.” When we are reactive and when we ruminate, we become enmeshed in our thoughts and carried away by our emotions.

We can be mindful when walking, attending to the sensations of each step, the sounds and pressures on the feet and the movement of the legs. This becomes a mindful anchor from which what we hear, see feel and think arises in our open and accepting awareness. When we walk without mindfulness, we are leaning forward towards our destination, unaware of the world around us and the experience of being alive.

Mindfulness only begins with meditation. When you apply the healthy attitudes of non-reactive acceptance, gratitude, compassion and mindful action to everything in your life throughout each day, you will discover a deeper level of peace, happiness and meaning.

Like the healthy habits of nutritious meals and regular physical activity, the daily practice of mindfulness can foster health and a sense of wellbeing.

Dr. Davidicus Wong is a family physician. His Healthwise Column appears regularly in this paper. For more on mindfulness and achieving your positive potential in life, see his website at davidicuswong. wordpress.com

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Football fan headed to World Cup to cheer on Brazil

Jessica Kerr

jkerr@vancourier.com

Rodolfo Motta has two passions in life — travel and football. Those two worlds are colliding this week as he takes off to take in all the action at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.

It’s a trip that’s been four years in the making.

Originally from Rio de Janeiro, Motta got a behind-the-scenes look at the 2014 tournament in his home town. He had tickets to only a couple of games but ended up working as an event producer and host in the hospitality areas for World Cup sponsors.

“That atmosphere, being there was amazing,” he said.

“That’s when we decided, me and my friends, to go to the next World Cup.” Things have changed a bit in the last four years, and the four friends have gone in different directions — Motta moved to Vancouver in 2016, one friend moved to Portugal, another is now living in St. Petersburg, while a fourth stayed back in Brazil. However, the foursome, who have been friends since high school, stuck to the plan.

On Monday afternoon, Motta was wrapping up a few things at the office — he works in student and career services at University Canada West downtown — before heading to the airport for an 8:45 p.m. flight.

He’s the last of the group to arrive in Russia.

They have tickets to

Vancouver’s Rodolfo Motta is flying all the way to Russia to watch Brazil play in the 2018 FIFA World Cup. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Brazil’s second and third games of the group stage, which will see the yellow and green face off against Costa Rica on Friday and Serbia next Wednesday.

After that, things get a little complicated.

Passes for the rest of the tournament are sold in packages, and at the outset ticket buyers have to commit to one team. If that team is knocked out at any point, those pass holders then follow the winning team.

When Motta and his friends went to purchase their passes, Brazil was already sold out so they bought passes for Sweden.

The rationale? If Brazil finishes first in its group and Sweden finishes second in its group, the two teams will face off in the first round of the knockout stage. If Brazil beats Sweden, they have tickets to every Brazil match to the final.

That’s the plan, at least, but so far things haven’t gone exactly as planned.

Brazil tied Switzerland in the team’s first match of the tournament Sunday, which wasn’t supposed to happen, Motta said, and Sweden beat South Korea 1-0.

“At this point we don’t know what we’re going to do with our tickets — if

we’re going to sell it and buy new ones. But it was just the first game so we still have some hope,” he said.

The World Cup, and football in general, is a pretty big deal in Brazil.

“Generally speaking,

Brazilians love football and even the ones that don’t love football, when it’s World Cup it’s a thing. It’s our thing,” Motta said, adding that everything shuts down in Brazil during game time.

“It’s pretty big,” he said,

adding that expectations are high this year, especially after the team’s performance in the last World Cup. In 2014, host team Brazil lost 7-1 to Germany in the semi-finals. Germany went on to beat Argentina in the final and Brazil came in a disappointing fourth.

“I think one of the good things about Brazilians is that… after a point we think that some sad things can be funny,” Motta said, reflecting on the loss in 2014.

“And it was very, very sad but after the fourth goal that Germany scored we were laughing because it turns into a big joke.

“We’re pretty much over the Germany thing… a little bit,” he said with a laugh.

For Motta, this year’s World Cup is about more than just football and winning.

“If we win that’s even better but being there and seeing my friends, it’s been two years since we’ve all seen each other, so having a fun time — beer, football, friends — it’s about that. It’s about our friendship and having everyone together again.” @JessicaEKerr

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Kettle-Boffo Commercial Drive redevelopment cancelled Proponents say expectation of multi-million dollar community amenity contribution killed plans

Naoibh O’Connor

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A plan to redevelop a site at Venables and Commercial Drive, which could have produced 30 supportive housing units, a drop-in centre for people with mental health concerns, and market condo units, has been scrapped.

The proponents behind the Kettle-Boffo project say the expectation of a cash CAC (community amenity contribution) of between $6 and 16 million killed the project.

Nancy Keough, executive director of the Kettle Society, and Daniel Boffo, principal of Boffo Properties, announced the decision in a June 19 online post. “[I’m] deeply disappointed. It’s a bit surreal [for] a project like ours that had everything going for it — community support, council support. It was unfortunate that it failed,” Boffo told the Courier June 19.

Keough is equally discouraged. She said the expectation of the cash CAC made the project a no-go because the Kettle and Boffo had considered the benefits of 30 housing units and a new drop-in centre to be the contribution to the community.

“I thought we had won the battle. I was so excited with all the community support… All I can say is I’m so disappointed, not just for the Kettle but for

all our clients. The drop-in needs to be rebuilt and [it was] housing for people that had been waiting for years,” she said. “We’ve hit the end of the road. For us, we’ve invested all these years in trying to make it happen and it’s not going to happen with that CAC.” Keough called it a lost opportunity and said the city needs to look at its processes and figure out a way to make it happen.

The project

The Kettle Society owns its building at 1725 Venables St., which provides housing and support to people with mental illness. The non-profit has said it needs to expand because it lacks enough private space for patient counselling, sufficient room for clients’ meals and overall space to provide other services and support.

Since the organization couldn’t get money from higher levels of government to expand, it forged an arrangement with Boffo Properties for the project.

Boffo Properties owns buildings on either side of the Kettle Society — the former Astorino’s location and the dry cleaning site at the southwest corner.

The city owns the parking lot to the north. Boffo had discussions with the city to amalgamate the parking lot with the redevelopment.

In 2016, council ap-

City manager Sadhu Johnston (left) and chief planner Gil Kelley said the project’s proponents never filed a rezoning application so formal negotiations about CACs couldn’t begin. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

proved the GrandviewWoodland Community Plan, which included a clause that allows council to consider up to 12 storeys on the Kettle-Boffo site.

Staff had considered scaling it back to nine storeys in response to some residents’ complaints about the redevelopment proposal being too high and too dense, but project proponents argued it wasn’t viable at a lower height.

The vision for the redevelopment in 2016 was for 200 one- to three-bedroom market housing units, 30

supportive housing units for the society to own and operate and a larger space for its other services.

Preliminary renderings had been released but a rezoning application hadn’t been filed.

Boffo said the project had been in the works since 2011 when they submitted a zoning letter of inquiry to the city, after which they were working through the Grandview-Woodland community planning process.

“Our 12-storey proposal was great because it had no cost to taxpayers and provid-

ed a huge community public benefit that was in the range of $39-plus million when you average it all out,” he said.

“We’ve been working two years, in some cases with the city — we had other challenges as well — but the real challenge was the CAC process. We were not successful in being able to move through that. It’s a flawed process that needs to be changed,” he said.

Boffo maintains there needs to be a more “collaborative, transparent and clear process” for the review of the pro forma.

“We found there was a lack of consistency along the process and [it was] constantly chasing moving goal posts,” he said.

“When you’ve worked through a project like ours for seven years and [it was] a project that had everything going for it — if ours can’t succeed, you wonder whose can.”

tion with all of the departments,” he said, adding that the city had offered to provide what amounted to a $12 million grant to the Kettle as part of the project to make it work.

“That would have been deducted from any eventual CAC amount... [then] the city would require some additional contribution, as it always does, from the private development side of it. The developer and the Kettle, together, decided that where those initial numbers resided was not acceptable to them and that’s their choice. We remain open to discussions with the Kettle, or any of the partners, to find a way through, including the Kettle and any partner it wants to engage.”

City manager Sadhu Johnston echoed Kelley’s remarks, stressing the city had been asking the developer to pursue an application so formal negotiations could begin.

“We’re disappointed they’ve decided not to proceed. We think the Kettle is a really great partner. We have the land still and we actually will approach them about doing a separate project without the developer, just with the city, to see if we can still deliver on the benefits to that community of what the Kettle offers.”

A longer version of this story is at vancourier.com.

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Gil Kelley, the city’s chief planner, said the developer didn’t file a rezoning application. Discussions that led up to the proponents’ decision to cancel the project had been pre-application consultation conversations.

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If you plan to go car-free on your trip, which I would recommend, a San Francisco CityPASS can help lighten the load on your wallet.

Each adult ticket booklet is $89 and valid for nine days. It offers three days of unlimited public transit — including buses, those old timey street cars and the iconic cable cars, which are normally $7 per ride — and gets you free admission to the California Academy of Science, Aquarium of the Bay, Exploratorium, SF Museum of Modern Art and a one-hour boat cruise, plus discounts on shopping and bike rentals.

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Many years ago I wrote a blurry travelogue about my boozy exploits staggering around the City by the Bay called “I left my liver in San Francisco.” It was an enjoyable trip, from what I remember, filled with cocktail joints, resurrected speakeasies and a classic tiki bar with scheduled thunderstorms and an equally dangerous happy hour.

Last month I returned to the scene of the crimes against my endocrine system. This time, however, would be a tamer affair.

Partly because I’ve learned to treat my ruggedly handsome 46-year-old body with more respect, and mostly because I was travelling with my partner and her 10-year-old son.

Turns out you can still have a lot of fun soberly traipsing around San Francisco with a precocious, baseball- and bacon-obsessed child in tow. Who knew?

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First off, a word to the wise. Avoid travelling to San Francisco on the exact dates the American Urological Association’s annual convention is in town. Apparently, 18,000 urologists streaming into a city soaks up a lot of hotel rooms and dampens your chances of finding affordable accommodations. OK, enough pee jokes. Thankfully, we nabbed a last-minute deal through Expedia for Hotel Zoe near Fisherman’s Wharf. Not only were our

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Take me out to the bacon-scented ball game

Our trip’s first order of business was catching an afternoon baseball game at AT&T Park. If there’s a more picturesque waterfront stadium in professional sports, I’ve yet to see it. The ballpark also offers a feast of food choices, though the 10-year-old junk food aficionado in our midst opted for the baconwrapped hotdog with a bag of rainbow coloured cotton candy as an appetizer. He’s a Renaissance man/boy.

Tea time

After the 9-5 drubbing the San Francisco Giants unleashed on the Colorado Rockies, we decided to burn off our stadium calories by walking to Chinatown for dinner. Rebuilt after the 1906 earthquake, San Francisco’s Chinatown is the oldest and largest in North America and pro-

vides a colourful and quirky mishmash of old and new.

After perusing the neighbourhood’s many tourist shops, where we picked up some unofficial Golden State Warriors T-shirts at the equally unofficial price of $3.99 and a 30-cent box of bang snaps, we headed to Z&Y Restaurant. The popular eatery is famous for a few things: its sweatinducing Szechuan dishes, a visit from Barack Obama a few years back and its “kung fu tea” service. The latter is a 1,000-year-old practice known as “gongfu cha,” where tea master Xumin Liu performs what looks like martial arts filling patrons’ teacups from a sword-length copper kettle. The tea tastes pretty good, too.

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While Fisherman’s Wharf can feel a little crowded and tacky to some tourists who like to pretend they’re not tourists (read: me), there’s one attraction I will endorse wholeheartedly — Musée Mécanique. Located at Pier 45 and family-owned since 1933, the antique penny arcade is one of the world’s largest privately owned collections of coin-operated mechanical musical instruments and antique arcade machines in their original working condition. Admission is free and the games (more than 200 of them) cost between 25 and 50 cents a pop. While Skeeball, Whirly Bird, player pianos and sharp shooter games are familiar to many, some of the amusements are downright bizarre and macabre. “Opium Den” is a minute-long vignette on the dangers of opium addiction illustrated by miniature figurines (it doesn’t end well, BTW).

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Fran filled with free wine, pirates and opium dens There’s also a creepy arm wrestler, laughing puppets and a mechanical boxing game, in which I absolutely destroyed my 10-year-old opponent. Not that I’m bragging or anything.

A bridge too far

Despite the abundance of buns-of-steel-making hills, San Francisco is a great city for biking, with cycling routes, rental shops and tour companies aplenty.

Equipped with three softseated hybrid commuter bikes from Bay City Bike Rentals and Tours, we embarked on what we thought would be a leisurely ride to and across the Golden Gate Bridge. Our self-guided journey to the bridge took us along the northern shores of the Marina District and nearby Palace of Fine Arts.

The visually impressive structure, which was erected for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exhibition, eventually fell into disrepair and was rebuilt in 1965. Now it’s one of the most photographed wedding and graduation backdrops in the city.

From there we wheezed and puffed our way through the Presidio — a 1,500-acre national park and former military post that includes grassy Crissy Field, sandy Baker Beach, the Walt Disney Family Museum and, for our replenishing purposes, the Presidio Social Club. Housed in a former circa-1903 military barracks, the restaurant is both classy and understated, boasts an airy patio, serves a mean Shirley Temple according to our prepubescent food critic, and is dignified enough for the likes of House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, who I saw eating a salad.

Unfortunately, American politician sightings, comfort food and Shirley Temples did not provide us with enough liquid courage to complete our Golden Gate Bridge crossing. A quarter of the way across, the bridge’s height, traffic noise and bike lane-oblivious pedestrians proved overwhelming and unconducive to our easy-going pursuits.

So we pedalled back to our hotel and soothed our souls at the nearby Baked Bear Custom Made Ice Cream Sandwiches shop, which will send both your Instagram account and glycemic index off the charts.

View to a thrill

If gravity-defying heights without the windburn and exhaust is what you’re after,

From penny arcades and made-to-order ice cream sandwiches to the murals of Clarion Alley, there’s plenty to do in San Francisco for a kid and his adult travel companions. PHOTOS MICHAEL KISSINGER

take an elevator ride up to the 39th floor of the Marriott Marquis hotel and grab a coveted seat at the View Lounge. Sure, the cocktail prices reflect the height at which they’re made, but the lounge’s arching floor-toceiling windows resemble a superhero’s secret hideaway overlooking the city and kids are allowed from 4 to 9 p.m.

I have it on good authority the View Lounge also serves a mean Shirley Temple.

Hint: If you want to get a window seat and beat the urologist crowd — who doesn’t? — get there right when the lounge opens.

Mission possible

For our final full day in town, we honed our seasoned tastes on the Mission District (“the Mission”). San Francisco’s oldest neighbourhood is having its moment among the hip folks but, as I learned, independent boutiques, craft beer and single origin coffee roasters aren’t exactly a high priority with the 10-year-old set.

That said, the colourful, mind-bending murals of Clarion Alley off Valencia Street were a hit, as was Mission Dolores Park. If it’s not too foggy, the petfriendly park sports sweeping views of the city and a pretty decent playground.

It’s also a short walk to 826 Valencia. Launched by author and McSweeney’s founder Dave Eggers, the eclectic space operates as both a student writing centre in the back and a “pirate supply store” in the front.

Visitors can explore the many nooks and crannies of the retail shop as well as purchase eyepatches, hook hands, spyglasses, adventure

kits, compasses, fool’s gold, calendars, anthologies from the 826 writing group and a boatload of so-charming-ithurts trinkets and seafaring memorabilia. You can also cool your heels in the tranquil, velvet curtained confines of the store’s

aquarium theatre and stare at a rather cute pufferfish named Pasha.

Parks, pirates and pufferfish aside, our real mission for visiting the Mission was burritos. And not just any burrito — San Francisco’s best burrito. The debate

over who makes the city’s best Mexican hand accessory has raged for years on the internet — dividing families, testing marriages and ending friendships with heaps of online polls, anecdotal research, celebrity endorsements and a controversial and muchdisputed “burrito bracket.”

After some information gathering, we settled on a scruffy, no-frills holein-the-wall that’s popular with the locals called El Farolito. It did not disappoint. In a moment of inspiration, I decided to obliterate any traces of vegetarianism lurking in my DNA and ordered the lengua (beef tongue) burrito. Turns out, 10-yearolds who couldn’t care less about craft beer and single origin coffee roasters aren’t the hugest fans of beef tongue, either. And neither are their mothers.

Luckily there were plenty of tasty alternatives to satisfy the culinary peasants in my group.

Bus a move

Feeling comatose from

our belly bulging burritos, we ended the day, and trip, by jumping on one of the many open-roofed, doubledecker tourist buses that roam the city. Not only did it wind through some of the neighbourhoods we couldn’t fit into our packed itinerary (Haight-Ashbury, Golden Gate Park), it took us across the Golden Gate Bridge and back, rectifying the previous day’s defeat.

And because we grabbed one of the last buses of the day, we had the entire rooftop to ourselves. It might not have been the 39th floor of a hotel lounge or the right field bleachers of a baseball stadium, but our 10-year-old fellow traveller was impressed with the view. And so were we.

Note: The writer received assistance from San Francisco Travel, which did not review or approve this story prior to publication.

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But not so with Metamorphosis, that rare environmental film that doesn’t want to leave its audiences hopeless or paralyzed with fear as the end credits roll.

Instead, the featurelength documentary actively seeks to inspire its viewers, while still being brutally honest about how bad things are (and how bad they’re likely to get).

“One of the things we really set out to do with the film was to add to the conversation, and while we do spend time in places that have been hit by climate crisis, we wanted to move through that and see how we can come out the other side,” says former Vancouverite Nova Ami, who co-directed Metamorphosis with partner in work and life Velcrow Ripper.

“We’re not saying it’s all good, but that the crisis is an opportunity for transformation.”

In the visually stunning National Film Board of Canada doc — which hits VIFF’s Vancity Theatre next week for four screenings — the filmmakers carve a path from the present to the future, first laying bare the ways in which capitalism and the mass extraction of resources have destroyed ecosystems and species and ways of life, and then, extraordinarily, highlighting the opportunities for life-

“We’re not saying it’s all good, but that the crisis is an opportunity for transformation,” say Vancouver filmmakers Nova Ami and Velcrow Ripper. PHOTO GRANT BALDWIN

sustaining transformation.

Ami traces the birth of Metamorphosis to the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan, the powerful tropical cyclone that slammed into the Philippines in November 2013 and claimed more than 6,000 lives.

Ripper and Ami are both veteran documentary filmmakers whose joint and individual projects have explored topics central to our times, including the conflict in the Middle East (Peacing it Together), the Occupy Wall Street movement (Occupy Love), and the forestry industry (1995’s Genie Award-winning Bones of the Forest).

For Ami — whose roots extend to the Philippines — and Ripper, the destruction wrought by Typhoon Haiyan led to intense talks “about how an event of that magnitude could change a person, and how humanity is being changed by this crisis that we’ve created,” recalls Ami. Those discussions led to further talks about change,

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specifically “about how we change, how we resist change, about resilience and, finally, metamorphosis.”

This is how the image of a caterpillar entering a chrysalis and emerging a butterfly became central to Metamorphosis, and how the filmmakers developed the film’s structure: from transformation, to crisis, to catharsis, to transforming that crisis, and finally, to symbiosis, the last of which Ripper describes as “the solutions part of the film, where we explore the possibilities for the future.”

Metamorphosis takes viewers to Milan, where architects design “vertical forests”: urban towers covered with trees and bushes that reduce CO2, produce oxygen, and give new life to the city. It heads to Arizona, where swimming pools are repurposed into self-sustaining gardens, lush with plants and fish that generate food for people. It shines a spotlight on Los Angeles, where a non-profit installs solar panels for families who

normally would not be able to access cleaner energy.

In total, the filmmakers visited more than 13 far-flung locations over nine months, with the goal of “creating a tone that wasn’t preachy or sentimental, and something that would be an invitation for people and not shut them down, because I think that’s a challenge now,” says Ripper.

As Ami and Ripper began to pull the thread on these global themes of change and metamorphosis, they also found themselves confronting those very themes in their personal lives.

“Around the same time that we conceived of the film, we also conceived of our child,” chuckles Ripper.

The couple named their son Phoenix — “that name itself is a sign of hope,” notes Ripper. Starting at four months old, Phoenix travelled with his parents and grandmother to urban and rural locations in flux all around the world: from Venice to Munich, New Mexico to Vermont, Guanajuato to the Canary Islands.

“I think that anyone who decides to bring a new child into the world at this time wants to find hope, because that within itself is a statement of hope, to bring new life,” adds Ripper. “The film doesn’t pull any punches. It does show exactly how bad it could get. It could lead to extinction. But we were strong believers in hope, that hope is a choice, and that we need to inspire hope.”

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“Complicated” and “fascinating” are among the words Vancouver-West End MLA Spencer Chandra Herbert uses to describe his work leading the threemember Rental Housing Task Force that will come up with recommendations to update the Residential Tenancy Act. It’s a daunting position to be in — trying to balance often competing positions held by renters, landlords and other interest groups.

But Chandra Herbert, who spoke to the Courier June 14 while en route to Nelson, the latest stop on the task force’s 11-municipality tour around B.C. to collect feedback, said it’s a responsibility he welcomes.

“I’m really glad I get the chance to do it, as much as it might bring a bunch of challenges down the road in terms of actually coming up with something that works for most people,” he said.

“It’s a challenge I asked for because it’s easy to point out the problems, as I’ve had to do for many years. Being able to impact the solutions is a much harder challenge but I’m glad I’ve got it.”

High demand for Vancouver feedback session

The task force had already visited Maple Ridge, Nanaimo and Kelowna when the Courier spoke to Chandra Herbert. Later this month, it returns to the Lower Mainland for forums in Vancouver (June 27), Burnaby (June 27) and Surrey (June 28.)

The Vancouver meeting, scheduled for 6 to 9 p.m. at SFU Wosk Conference Centre on West Hastings St., is already full. Space is limited to 200. As of June 13, 64 people were on a wait list.

Meeting locations were

selected through an analysis by the Residential Tenancy Branch. It included a review of the number of rental units in a community and the number of applications for dispute resolution.

Locations were also based on a mix of rural and urban areas, and the need to visit all regions of B.C. When organizers realized the Vancouver session was going to fill up quickly, an additional meeting was scheduled in Burnaby. It’s also slated for June 27, but earlier in the day, from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m.

No more meetings will be added. Due to time and budget limitations, it was only feasible for the task force to travel to the 11 communities because meetings need to wrap up by the end of June in order for the review process to begin.

The task force, which includes MLAs Adam Olsen and Ronna-Rae Leonard, is expected to make recommendations to Premier John Horgan and Selina Robinson, minister of municipal affairs and housing, in the fall of 2018.

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While some landlord-tenants disputes have been well documented over the years, Chandra Herbert said he’s so far been surprised that there is unanimity about some concerns.

One subject raised by both renters and landlords is not being able to enforce orders, whether it’s landlords not being able to get compensation for damaged suites or evict problem tenants or renters having trouble getting suites repaired or damage deposits back.

“It shouldn’t have surprised me. People generally want systems to be fair and if they see people gaming the systems they want there to be consequences. I guess that’s no different here,” Chandra Herbert said.

Balancing act

Based in Vancouver, Chandra Herbert is used to dealing with larger landlords of multiple buildings, but at the smaller community forums he’s come across many landlords from smaller buildings or homes with suites.

He said they were excited about the task force’s visit because they felt they hadn’t been seen or heard in many years. They wanted it known that there are good landlords unlike the ones highlighted in rental horror stories in the news.

Issues that renters in larger cities have faced for many years, meanwhile, have started to arrive in smaller communities, including low vacancy rates and an inability to find affordable rent.

Chandra Herbert acknowledged weighing and balanc-

ing the various points of view being presented at the meetings won’t be simple.

The trick will be figuring out how to ensure renters’ rights are protected while making sure landlords have money to invest in properties to keep them liveable so the number of rental properties doesn’t diminish or they’re not pulled off the market.

“You’ll have one person say do this and another person say definitely don’t do that. We have to consider that we want people to have good quality, secure housing and that there are people who are also willing to provide it,” he said. “Because the government, so far, hasn’t be able or willing to, and maybe can’t provide all of the housing we would want for everybody. At least that’s historically, in Canada, what the case has been. We have relied on the private market. I expect that is going to continue for quite some time, for market housing anyway.”

Chandra Herbert, however, maintains most landlordtenant relationships are working. The government’s job, he said, is to make sure rules aren’t too onerous while at the same creating rules that offer a basic level of protection and fairness.

The government also needs to do a better job of tracking data so it can make better estimations about how policy will impact people, he said.

“There’s a huge appetite for change on both sides because we haven’t looked at this legislation for over 16 years and the housing pressures have certainly become more acute. Certainly, folks I’ve talked to have talked about the impact of poverty, mental health and addiction issues in the rental market and how landlords are [feel-

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ing they have to be] more like social workers in some cases. The whole crisis has gotten worse over many years,” he said.

“It’s interesting when one person will think one answer will solve everything. It’s much more complicated than that. The best we can do is make sure the rules are clear, obvious, that they can be enforced, that there’s fairness — the idea that people should have secure housing and be treated fairly, and that landlords who provide [rentals] are treated fairly too, that they see that the process is there to protect them and their investment as well, within reason.”

But both landlords and tenants, he added, need to understand Residential Tenancy Act rules.

“I’ve had to have some debates with [smaller landlords] who’ve said, ‘It’s my house, my rules.’ But you’re in a business relationship.

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“That’s another thing — a lot of people that I’ve talked to said a lot of the problems they’ve run into have been in large part because they don’t know the law. They don’t know the process and once the problem hits, it’s often too late to go back and try and learn your rights and re-

As Vancouver is the epicentre of much renter frustration, given the close-tozero vacancy rate, Chandra Herbert isn’t surprised its forum filled up weeks ahead of time.

But he said the task force has already heard from advocacy groups that represent thousands.

There’s an online discussion forum, individuals can send in written submissions and space is still available at the Burnaby session.

“It’s one of the challenges of any consultation. There’s always going to be somebody who says, well, why didn’t you call me and ask me for my advice? Well, we’re

making it as open as we can.

Otherwise the consultation would go on for years and we’d produce no product.”

Once the meetings are over, task force members will continue to research issues before forming their recommendations.

Chandra Herbert said that in some cases, people have highlighted problems but no one has come forward with solutions for them. In other cases, the proposed solution would create another set of problems.

The task force will be looking into how to deal with those issues while coming up with themes for the recommendations and possibly approaching people again to get their opinions on potential fixes.

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It will be hard for Canucks to go wrong with seventh overall pick

No matter what, Canucks will get a fantastic prospect Friday

Stick-taps & Glove-drops

Backhand Sauce

• A tap of the stick to Doug Wilson, GM of the San Jose Sharks. He took Mike Hoffman off the Ottawa Senators’ hands, then flipped him to the Florida Panthers for multiple draft picks, getting rid of Mikkel Boedker’s problematic contract in the process. That freed up cap space for a run at John Tavares or Ilya Kovalchuk in free agency.

That’s some impressive wheeling and dealing.

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General manager Jim Benning has done an admirable job restocking the Canucks’ cupboards. While there is still work to be done, particularly on defence, the Canucks have promising prospects in their system that provide some hope for the future.

Benning came to Vancouver with a reputation for amateur scouting and drafting and has, for the most part, delivered. Brock Boeser was a steal at 23rd overall in 2015, and the 2017 draft could be one of the best in franchise history if Elias Pettersson, Kole Lind, Jonah Gadjovich and the other players picked reach their potential.

It’s odd, then, that two of Benning’s highest picks appear to be such big misses. Those top picks are the most important to get right for a rebuilding team, and the Canucks appear to have missed the mark in 2014 and 2016. There’s certainly an argument to be made that the turnaround would be a lot faster for the Canucks with Nikolay Ehlers and Mikhail Sergachev on the roster.

That’s not to relitigate the picks of Jake Virtanen and Olli Juolevi, both of whom have long NHL careers ahead of them and could still prove their detractors wrong and become impact players. Instead, let’s look ahead to the first round of the 2018 NHL Draft taking place on Friday, where the Canucks really can’t go wrong.

After the first two picks of the draft, expected to be Rasmus Dahlin and Andrei Svechnikov, there is essentially no consensus on which players will go where. Czech winger Filip Zadina, who battled all year for the number two spot with Svechnikov, could go third overall or might fall all the way to ninth. Finnish centre Jesperi Kotkaniemi was expected to go in the back half of the first round for most of the year, but is now seen as the top centre in the draft and could sneak into the top five.

Where some drafts might lack for top-end talent, the issue in this draft is there appears to be too much talent.

It’s to the point where it’s become dif-

2018

• I’m dropping the gloves with the Ottawa Senators, who are about as dysfunctional right now as a professional sports team can get.

Between an assistant GM accused of sexual harassment, fan-favourite players getting shipped out of town and an owner who has threatened to move the team, it’s a mess in Canada’s capital.

Big Numbers Noah Dobson offers size to go with his offensive upside from the blue line and has been praised for his well-rounded game. PHOTO MARISSA BAECKER/CHL IMAGES

ficult to separate the best from the rest.

What that means for the Canucks, who hold the seventh overall pick, is that there really is no clearly wrong pick to be made.

At worst, there is just a “less right” pick.

No matter how the first six selections shake out, the Canucks will have plenty of options. If they’re looking for defencemen, Quinn Hughes, a dynamic skater who tore up the NCAA in his freshman year, could be available. If not, there’s the Swede Adam Boqvist, who has been compared to Erik Karlsson.

Noah Dobson and Evan Bouchard offer more size to go with their offensive upside from the blue line. Dobson has been praised for his more well-rounded game, while Bouchard dominated the OHL, leading all defencemen in scoring.

As for forwards, Oliver Wahlstrom is an elite sniper, who projects as a firstline, 30-goal winger. Kotkaniemi could be a first-line centre in the mold of Anze

Kopitar. If either Zadina or Brady Tkachuk slide down to the Canucks, they can happily select them and pat themselves on the back for a job well done.

No matter who the Canucks pick seventh overall, they’ll be getting a fantastic prospect, with less chance of making a mistake than in previous years.

The Canucks also deserve some faith heading into this draft after their reach for Elias Pettersson at fifth overall last year has paid off with such impressive early returns. With so few ways for the seventh overall pick to go wrong, there’s plenty of room for JBenning and Canucks director of amateur scouting Judd Brackett to get it right.

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

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0 The Calgary Flames had a rough season, finishing 11 points out of the playoffs. Amazingly, they have zero picks in the top-100 picks of the draft. They traded their first and second-round picks to the New York Islanders for Travis Hamonic, and their third-round pick to the Arizona Coyotes as part of the Mike Smith trade.

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5 On the opposite end of the

spectrum, the New York Rangers have five picks in the top-50 after blowing up their team at the trade deadline this year. That includes three picks in the first round.

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It was so hot, planes weren’t taking off or landing at the airport, but we had things to do and places to see so relied on the air-conditioned comfort of our rental car to get from point A to point B. And while it might not get that hot in Vancouver, the city did just receive its first extreme heat warning of the year — and that was in mid-June. So here are some ideas for keeping your vehicle cool, or at least coolish, depending on the day. And remember, even if you follow all these suggestions, there is never any reason to leave a child or pet unattended in a car or truck in warm or hot weather — ever.

WINDSHIELD SUN SHADE You can spend a lot on a custom-built shade that fits your windshield exactly or you can hit the dollar store and shop for bargains that will work almost as well.

They’re also available at many chain stores such as Canadian Tire.

CAR SEAT COVERS This tip is especially important if you have leather or vinyl seats and like to wear shorts or a skirt in the summer without burning the backs of your thighs.

If you can’t afford fitted covers, throw a blanket over your seat.

WINDOW SHADES These are especially important if you have a baby or children in the car because young skin can burn so easily through a car window. Styles available include pop out, pull down, suction cup, static cling or semi-permanent with a film you can buy and install yourself.

PARK IN THE SHADE COOL FROM This is an easy one. You THE BOTTOM UP might have to walk a little Because heat rises, it’s farther, but the shade important when you first from a tree, building or get into a hot car to close overpass helps keep the the top air vents, open the interior temperature of bottom vents and adjust your vehicle down your fan setting to especially if you can maximum. That leave the windows will push all that open a crack. hot air up and Before you get ...the city out your open back into the windows. car, open the did just Once your doors and receive its first car has windows for a couple of extreme heat cooled off open up minutes to warning of those top let some hot vents again. air escape.

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