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Owners of fire-damaged Shaughnessy home facing charges Naoibh O’Connor

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The City of Vancouver prosecutor’s office has approved charges under the city’s Heritage Property Standards of Maintenance Bylaw against the owners of a fire-damaged heritage home at 3737 Angus Dr. in First Shaughnessy — the city’s first-ever heritage conservation area.

The owners have so far failed to put a protective covering on the house, which has left it open to the elements.

The charges were sworn at Robson Square Provincial Court June 20.

The homeowners are Miao Fei Pan and Wen Huan Yang.

Count one alleges that between Feb. 17 and May 14, 2018, the owners failed to repair and maintain all buildings, structures and features at the property “to reasonably prevent or retard damage caused by weather, wind, sun, moisture, infestation, rot, decay or similar causes...”

Count two alleges that between Feb. 17 and May 14, 2018, the owners failed

Last October, a fire damaged this house at 3737 Angus Dr. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

to comply with an order dated Nov. 1, 2017, and “extensions thereto,” directing that the building at 3737 Angus Dr. “be maintained so as to reasonably prevent further damage caused by weather, infestation, rot, or similar decay, on or before February 16, 2016.”

A conviction could result in a court-imposed fine of up to $10,000, according to the city. No court date has been set yet.

Attempts by the Cou-

rier to reach Miao Fei Pan and Wen Huan Yang have so far been unsuccessful.

This is the first time the city has pursued such charges under its Heritage Property Standards of Maintenance bylaw, which is relatively new. It was enacted in September 2015.

The city is also looking into several other options to “ensure compliance with the order,” but staff did not tell the Courier what those measures are, other

than to say details would be released when available.

The property was assessed at $14.2 million as of July 1, 2017. The three-storey house was built in 1910.

Fire’s aftermath

The fire that damaged the Angus Drive home took place Oct. 22, 2017. An investigation found arson to be the cause. Police investigators weren’t able to gather enough information to confirm the identity of a suspect

and recommend criminal charges. The file was closed in April of this year, but it could be reopened should additional information becomes available, according to Vancouver Police Department spokesperson Const. Jason Doucette.

Shortly after the fire, on Oct. 27, 2017, the city examined the home and noted the roof structure was extensively damaged, but the lower level openings were all boarded and perimeter fencing and 24-hour security was in place.

The city told the Courier earlier that a structural engineer representing the property owner determined the building could be salvaged following a site visit in late October — an assessment that was supported by a city district building inspector.

On Nov. 1, 2017, the city ordered the owner to install the protective covering over the building.

The owner then asked for extensions after informing the city that the extent and nature of the damage requires selective demolition of the damaged sections, which would require more

time to complete in order to address WorkSafeBC requirements due to structural and material hazards.

The city granted those requests and gave a Feb. 16 deadline to comply with the Nov. 1 order. The city inspected the home after Feb. 16 and found that the owner had not complied with the order.

As of June 22, when the Courier last visited the house, the roof was still uncovered.

There is no provision under the Heritage Property Standards of Maintenance bylaw that allowed the city to do the work at the owner’s expense. Any change to that bylaw would require amendments to the Vancouver Charter, which would need to be approved by the province.

The city told the Courier in February of this year the city could apply for an injunction asking the court to force the owner to do the work.

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Changes afoot on Cambie Bridge Martha Perkins

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It seems Vancouverites’ sense of entitlement is no match for Canadian politeness.

Last week, the City of Vancouver opened the new bike lane on the west side of the Cambie Bridge. It also implemented a new protocol for the shared bike/pedestrian lane on the east side.

Unfortunately, the changes on the east side of the bridge were made before the signage could go up, which largely left the task of figuring it all out to the hundreds of people who use the sidewalks every day.

Until last week, pedestrians and cyclists going in the same direction used the same lane. One lane was for everyone going north; the other lane was for everyone going south.

It was, for the most part, fairly safe, but the shared use of the lane made some people uncomfortable, says Lon LaClaire, the city’s transportation director.

The new lane on the sunset side of the bridge is intended for southbound

There’s a new protocol for cyclists and pedestrians on the Cambie Bridge. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

cyclists only. It will be a slightly more complicated for ingress and egress for some people. On the south side, access is next to the Olympic Village Canada Line station while on the north side it’s at Beatty and Nelson.

There is still a narrow separated sidewalk for pedestrians.

That leaves northbound cyclists having sole access to the sunrise side of the bridge. They have the side of the lane closest to road traffic. Pedestrians simply have to politely make way for one another on the scenic side overlooking False Creek.

However, in the first few days, there was mild confusion on the bridge after people sensed a change was afoot. Suddenly cyclists and

pedestrians were faced by oncoming traffic in what they had thought was their lane.

LaClaire says the city worked with cycling groups to spread the word about the changes and had staff on the north side of the bridge to explain the changes to cyclists.

Gradually, over time, and with few witnessed shouts of “Get out of my lane!” people seemed to figure it all out. By Tuesday morning, most people seemed to be settled into the new formation and were back to ignoring one another.

Proper signage, including painted symbols on the sidewalks, is ongoing and LaClaire says the city will go easy on enforcement as people get used to the changes.

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A month’s worth of confusion around Hector Bremner’s political future is now over.

At least as far Hector Bremner is concerned.

The first-term NPA councillor was denied the opportunity to be an NPA mayoral candidate. (Ken Sim eventually got the gig.)

In response to his party’s rejection, Bremner create his own party. Via a lengthy Facebook post last Thursday, he outlined the group’s name and founding members.

Enter the Yes Vancouver Party, which for those of you keeping score at home was accurately called by Courier city hall beat reporter Mike Howell in late May. Bremner’s online post suggested the party formally came together a few weeks ago after a meeting of 50 core supporters established the new party’s constitution, bylaws and founding board members.

A specific platform has not been released, other than a reference in Bremner’s announcement to “fixing the housing crisis.”

Nine founding board members were appointed and room has been left for three others to join the

board after the party’s official launch. The board will square away its president, vice president and secretary in the coming weeks.

“I am very proud that these leaders have agreed to guide our new party,” Bremner said. “This is just the beginning.”

For now, the nine following Bremner into battle include: • Kerry Gibson, president of EcoCentury Technologies, which Bremner describes as a “socially directed developer and distributor of clean technologies.”

• Howard Grant, an elected council member of the Musqueam First Nation. Grant is also the executive director of the First Nations Summit and former senior manager with the federal government.

• Dak Molnar, managing director of the Molnar Group, which works in both rental construction and commercial development.

The firm has built rental stock in Vancouver for four decades.

• Eugene Hodgson works with the banking firm Corpfinance International Limited. His Linkedin profile says he’s held jobs in government and the private sector in the areas of finance and investment. He formerly volunteered with the Van-

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• Leah George-Wilson is a practising lawyer at the Indigenous Law Group of Miller Tittered + Co. She’s a former chief of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation and was the first woman to serve in the position.

• Ricky Chibber is the owner of two small businesses, though Bremner’s announcement doesn’t specify any further to say he’s experienced in window distribution. He has 14 years’ experience working in large corporate settings, Bremner says.

• Tim Crowhurst is president of Sea Level Communications and a former Immigration Appeal Judge. Bremner’s post says Crowhurst formerly worked in Ottawa for cabinet ministers, but does not elaborate.

• Jocelyn Wong Wilson is vice-president of the boutique ad firm InLanguage Advertising, which, Bremner says, has worked with companies across Canada.

• Daniel Yoo has worked in the tech sector for 18 years and is an SFU grad.

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Green Party says it’s not walking away from labour council agreement Jessica Kerr

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Vancouver’s Green Party maintains it has not turned its back on the agreement with the Vancouver and District Labour Council.

“We haven’t walked away from it or anything like that, some people are trying to present it as that’s what we’re doing,” party spokesperson Jacquie Miller told the Courier.

In early June, the VDLC announced agreements with the Green Party of Vancouver, Vision Vancouver, OneCity, COPE and Jean Swanson to run a specific number of candidates per party so as not to split the left-of-centre vote. At the time, the Greens said it would run three council candidates, three for park board and three for school board.

However, at June 27’s nomination meeting, party members elected four council candidates, three for park board and four for school board.

Miller said the decision to increase the number of candidates was made at a board meeting Monday night. However, she added, “The numbers we ultimately decided to run were the numbers we went to VDLC with.”

She said initially the party said it wanted to run three council candidates if Adriane Carr was going to run

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After Adriane Carr decided not to run for mayor, the Vancouver Green Party decided to select four rather than three potential council candidates. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

for mayor, and four council candidates if she decided against a mayoral bid.

Carr announced June 8 she would not run for mayor.

Miller said the board made the decision based on several factors — increasing membership, which has grown from around 200 to more than 750 in recent weeks, favourable polling results and the party’s successes in the last few elections.

“Ultimately the board felt that the party can elect those numbers and those were the numbers that we needed to run on behalf of our membership and our membership wouldn’t accept anything less than those numbers,” she said.

Miller said the party is hopeful it can update the VDLC agreement.

The party posted a statement on its website June 28: “The Green Party of Vancouver is in continuing discussions with the Vancouver District Labour Council about the number of candidates the Green Party of Vancouver will run, noting that Vision Vancouver, OneCity and COPE have all received VDLC support for running more candidates than the VDLC intends to endorse.”

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Long-awaited Killarney Seniors Centre opens Jessica Kerr

beautiful,” said Lorna Gibbs, another member of the building committee and long-time advocate for the centre.

“So many people have helped,” she told the crowd, adding that it was an emotional day.

It was an emotional day for many — one of the main driving forces behind getting the centre built, Keith Jacobson, died in June 2016 after a long battle with cancer.

“Keith started this process and I made a commitment to Keith that I would… see it through,” Kwan said. “He was really the driving force behind bringing this centre to south east Vancouver. He, along with Lorna, have worked tirelessly and he really had his finger on the pulse of what seniors in this area needed and this is a true legacy to him.”

Jacobson was on many minds at the opening.

In speaking on behalf of Mayor Gregor Robertson, Coun. Raymond Louie got emotional talking about Jacobson’s commitment to getting the seniors centre built.

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It’s been nearly two decades in the making.

On June 28, the new Killarney Seniors Centre officially opened its doors and several hundred people showed up to celebrate.

“The turnout was amazing and it really speaks to the level of commitment in this community to how badly this space was needed,” said Ainslie Kwan, chair of the Killarney Seniors Centre Building committee.

“It’s been a long journey.”

The 10,000 square-foot, LEED Gold certified centre is attached to the existing Killarney Community Centre and provides a dedicated space for seniors programs.

It includes five multipurpose rooms, a roof-top patio, lounge with fireplace and TV, and commercial kitchen. The centre also includes several accessibility features, including an elevator, hearing loops, auto door openers in the washrooms and distress buttons.

“This is one thing we have waited so long for and it is

Lorna Gibbs, a long-time advocate for the new Killarney Seniors Centre, smiles at the official opening Thursday, June 28.

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mind,” he said. “The one thing that I promised Keith is that I would see this through.”

Coming in at $7.5 million, funding the centre was a joint effort with money coming from the federal and provincial governments, as well as the City of Vancouver with the Vancouver Park Board providing the land and key support from the Southeast Vancouver

Seniors Arts and Culture Centre Society.

“As we open this modern and vibrant facility, we are making good on our commitment to provide the seniors in southeast Vancouver with a place to socialize, exercise, relax, share meals together, and have access to a broad range of programs so they can lead fulfilling lives,” said park board chair Stuart Mackinnon, who

encouraged all seniors to visit the new centre.

“As I enter my mid-60s, I know I’m going to be a regular, too,” he said with a chuckle.

The new centre is bound to be well-used. There are currently around 27,000 seniors living in Vancouver and a full third of them live in the Killarney neighbourhood. And while there are seven seniors centres west of Cambie Street, this the first community facility dedicated to serving the growing population of seniors in southeast Vancouver.

More than 2,000 seniors currently use Killarney Community Centre and that number is expected to grow by 15 per cent with the opening of the new centre.

Minister of National Defence, and MP for Vancouver South, Harjit Singh Sajjan attended the official ground breaking ceremony in January 2017 and was back Thursday for the grand opening.

“We are proud to announce the opening of the Killarney Seniors Centre, which will bring much-

needed programs and support services in southeast Vancouver,” he said. “This new facility will ensure that Vancouver’s seniors continue to thrive.”

George Chow, MLA for Vancouver-Fraserview and minister of state for trade, was also on hand for the festivities.

“With such a beautiful new centre, seniors in Killarney and southeast Vancouver have a place that supports a healthy, connected and interactive lifestyle for years to come.”

While the building is complete, the work isn’t over.

Kwan said the Killarney Community Centre Society will now start working with the seniors to equip it with whatever it needs. In fact, she said, at the last meeting the board approved spending $90,000 on a state-ofthe-art sound system.

“Our seniors programs are currently running and we will slowly transition them over into the new building and then we will be working with our seniors programmer to come up with all the new programs that our seniors want,” she said.

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The City of Vancouver is considering another site for temporary modular housing — about 50 homes next to Olympic Village.

The new building is proposed for 215 West First Ave., just west of Hinge Park and next to Sole Food’s Olympic Village Farm. Sole Food works to transform urban land into street farms and is working with the city and B.C. Housing on possible links between urban farming and the proposed development.

With the consideration of this latest site, more than 550 new homes on nine sites are in various stages of development — 156 are already build and tenanted.

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City staff anxiously await outcome of October election Mike Klassen

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Any aspiring city councillor in Vancouver must understand there are three key stakeholder groups that fundamentally represent the power within the city. They are the real estate developers, the public sector unions and city staff. I refer to it as Vancouver’s power axis.

The success of any administration will depend upon its ability to manage relationships with all three.

City staff, some of whom are being driven to exhaustion preparing thousandpage council packages in the final months of the Vision regime, are bracing themselves for the political upheaval that is almost certainly coming after the election in October.

With so many incumbents not running again, what can we expect from the next council? Will the Vancouver District Labour Council’s backroom negotiating help get its pro-union slate elected?

Will Tides Canada proxies be pulling the levers at city

hall? Will the NPA regain power after a decade in the political wilderness? Or will it be “none of the above”?

For staff, it means planning ahead for any of these scenarios post-election. It can be a heartburn-inducing time for the civil service, determining where the political winds will blow this fall.

Former mayor Philip Owen once waxed to me — a full decade out of office — about how to get things done at city hall.

“You have to follow the process,” he said. “For public policy to succeed. you need to get buy-in from staff, citizens and your business community.

There are no shortcuts.”

If you are too impatient to get that “buy-in” from the civil service, you can start firing them as Vision Vancouver did in its purge of the senior management team after taking office.

Vision’s shift away from a non-partisan public service to one more aligned with the political aims of the mayor and council has had long-term ramifications for staff morale.

The City of Vancouver’s future success hinges upon having a highly functioning civil service, says columnist Mike Klassen.

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After ousting Judy Rogers mere days after his swearing in, Gregor Robertson filled the city manager position with Penny Ballem, who previously answered to then Premier Gordon Campbell as deputy minister of health.

With Ballem in charge, a long string of the city’s senior managers — including

some of its most promising emerging leaders such as deputy city manager Jody Andrews — were either sent packing or left of their own accord.

In the coveted number two spot, the deputy city manager position was filled by a hand-picked Vision appointee named Sadhu Johnston,

freshly transplanted from his time at Chicago city hall under Mayor Richard Daley.

Johnston would come to be seen as Robertson’s enabler in the public service. Like the mayor, he is an ardent environmentalist and actively involved in issues such as the opposition to more frequent oil tanker shipments in Burrard Inlet and raising awareness on sea level rise.

He even has a noteworthy personal connection to Robertson — Johnston married his wife Manda on Cortes Island at the Hollyhock retreat before taking his post at the city.

Robertson is a Cortes Island property owner, as well as a former board director at Hollyhock.

Johnston would eventually succeed Ballem, who was also ultimately fired by Robertson. By all accounts, Johnston is well-liked by rank and file members of the public service, as well as by council. Where Ballem was a disruptive force, Johnston has brought relative stability to the hall.

One can only guess at

how Johnston, as well as other general managers within the bureaucracy, will adapt to shifting priorities under the next council.

However, future administrations would be wise to forgo sacking senior managers as Vision did, and thereby signal their support for keeping party politics separate from municipal administration.

Thanks to demographics and a myriad of global forces, what the public expects from local governments is being shaken up.

The City of Vancouver’s future success will therefore hinge upon having a highly functioning civil service.

Staff have plenty to do responding to the city’s aging population, transportation gridlock and the ballooning price of housing and energy.

They should also be tasked with exploring innovations, such as using smartphone apps to optimize permitting backlogs that are frustrating citizens and driving up costs.

Let’s hope the next council firmly grasps the need to support city staff. @MikeKlassen

Property taxes should better reflect different types of homes Michael Geller geller@sfu.ca

Everyone knows that July 1 is Canada Day, while our neighbours to the south mark July 4 as Independence Day. But both are special days for other reasons.

In British Columbia, July 1 is also Valuation Day. It is the date B.C. Assessment estimates the market value of your home to determine next year’s property taxes.

July 4 is the date the balance of this year’s property taxes is due. (I hope you didn’t forget.)

My first 2018 Courier column was about property taxes. Since then, property taxes have been in the news on an almost daily basis, thanks to Vancouver’s Empty Home Tax, and the province’s so-called School and Speculation Taxes.

I recently sat down with veteran broadcaster Stu McNish who hosts “Conversations that Matter” to discuss these taxes and other concerns about B.C.’s property assessment system.

We are being told our property taxes are too low and should be increased to collect money from foreigners who do not pay Canadian income taxes, and to transfer wealth from homeowners in $3-millionplus homes and those with second homes, to those struggling to afford housing.

While I oppose these NDP government tax changes, I would like to see changes to our current property taxation system to make it more equitable and effective.

While travelling in Vietnam, I noticed a lot of tall, skinny buildings, often

in rural locations. I asked my guide why the buildings were designed this way and was told it was because of property taxes. Skinny buildings paid lower taxes than wider buildings since they required less roadway, sidewalks, water and sewer pipes.

In B.C., residential property taxes are based on the value of a property.

I once owned a house on an island at the end of a long road and a downtown highrise apartment. Since both were assessed at the same value, the property taxes were the same.

However, the apartment required fewer roads and services to be constructed and maintained. It received no municipal garbage collection; residents paid for private collection through their strata fees.

While property taxes cover more than just roads and sewer pipes, if we want to promote more efficient uses of singlefamily land, and encourage people to live in more compact, sustainable forms of housing, B.C. Assessment should have more than one residential classification category.

As a minimum, I would propose two categories: one for homes on single-family lots and one for multi-family properties. In future, there could be additional categories for rowhouses, apartments and possibly rental housing.

Each category would have its own mill rate. This is the mathematical factor used by municipalities to calculate property taxes, based on assessed value. Single-family properties would have a

higher mill rate than townhouses and apartments.

Although the total taxes collected would remain the same, the result would be higher property taxes for single family homes and lower taxes for multifamily homes of the same assessed value.

While my single-family neighbours might not like this approach, it would better correlate taxes with services. Ultimately, it would encourage more efficient use of land and reward people for living in more compact housing forms.

I also encourage the B.C. government to change its tax policies as they relate to certain ALR properties. British Columbia law stipulates that agricultural properties with more than two acres can keep their farm status with very significant tax breaks, if

they sell just $2,500 worth of farm products a year.

This can be achieved with a vegetable garden or a few dozen chickens in a corner of the estate.

As a result, many Southlands and Richmond mansions are paying less in tax than small East Vancouver houses.

I complained about this in a Courier column exactly four years ago. Sadly, nothing has happened.

Our property tax system requires other changes to prevent local shops and restaurants from shutting their doors because of high property taxes, since they are based on “highest and best use” (which may be a future highrise), not as a florist or fish market.

But that is another story for another day. @michaelgeller

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The real problem with Car Free Day is its hypocrisy.

Car free days are typically manifested by closing streets to all traffic which results in transit buses being detoured away from the event venue.

People wishing to attend the event are seduced into using their car to get to the venue. The exact condition that Grant Lawrence argues against.

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Lobby group calls on province to adopt rideshare immediately Money is being lost and safety is being compromised, says Ridesharing Now BC at Vancouver press conference John Kurucz

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Affordability, commerce, safety and freedom of movement are all taking massive hits for every day that the Ubers and Lyfts of the world aren’t on B.C. streets.

That was the message coming out of downtown Vancouver last Thursday when Ridesharing Now BC lobbied to allow the service in Vancouver. A dozen representatives of the coalition questioned Vancouver’s position as the largest city in North America to ban ridesharing.

The provincial NDP promised to allow the service last year, but there’s been no indication when the transportation ministry will make the shift. Surrey Board of Trade CEO Anita Huberman has heard rumblings that legislative change may come in the fall or by the end of this year.

“We need ridesharing now,” Huberman said. “We can’t wait until the fall, we can’t wait until Christmas.”

BarWatch chair Curtis Robinson spent years in the Granville Entertainment District as a VPD member and transit police.

“I had a first-hand view of the problems that everybody deals with on Granville Street at 3 o’clock in the morning. The solution to this years ago was late night transportation — it remains true today,” Robinson said.

“Late night SkyTrain service til 3:30 in the morning and rideshare would make an incredible difference.”

Safety was a key talking point, in the context of both work and play.

Vancouver Pride Society executive director Andrea Arnot characterized ridesharing as a tool in harm reduction.

“We are organizers of large events across the city and we’re looking at ways to safely move our staff and participants around the city.

Having safe rides where people aren’t drinking and driving [is] super important to us as an organization.”

Competition and political pressure were inevitably

Vancouver is the largest city in North America without Uber, Lyft and other ride hailing services.

linked at the press conference as well. The taxi industry has long opposed ridesharing, and that lobby is politically mobilized. Premier John Horgan has cited fairness for the taxi industry and questions over how the private industry would work in a province with a public insurer as reasons for the rideshare delay.

Poparide CEO and cofounder Flo Devellennes said his company would be in partial competition with Lyft and Uber if they were in operation. Poparide offers longer rides between Canadian cities — Vancouver to Whistler, or Toronto to Montreal for example — and has close to 100,000 members nationwide.

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“Certainly we are not advocating for the end of the cab industry as well. We think there is room in the economy for both.”

BC Restaurants and Food Services Association CEO Ian Tostenson also acts as the spokesperson for Ridesharing Now BC. He denied that the coalition has any desire to threaten the taxi industry and instead wants legislation in place that complements both sectors.

“There is a place in this economy for everyone.

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about the inclusion of a transit network in British Columbia that makes sense in this emerging economy.”

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Harbour Air Group vice president Chad Wetsch said his company has set up shuttle services at docking points in Vancouver, Victoria, Tofino and Richmond to make up for the lack of ridesharing.

More than 500,000 passengers used Harbour Air last year, but those shuttle services can’t make up for the gaps in demand.

“We’re great at [getting people from] Point A to Point B,” he said. “When you arrive at our terminals though, that’s where the complaints come from… The demand is still too high. We get numerous complaints from our passengers waiting.”

Sean Elbe’s position with the Vancouver Economic Commission is pretty simple on paper — support and foster tech jobs in what is the biggest tech hub in Canada. He’s working with Amazon right now to support what is one of the largest financial and employment commitments in Vancouver’s history.

Where his job gets tricky is explaining to those CEOs and corporate heads that there’s no Uber in the city they’ve just invested in.

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Your crappy barbecue brush is a health menace East Van bristle blower shares his view to a grill Grant Lawrence

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When you find hair in your food, does it freak you out?

As gross as that may be, discovering someone else’s locks in your burger won’t kill you, or even seriously harm you.

However, if a loose wire from a crappy barbeque brush makes it past the patty and into your mouth, or worse, down your throat, it can really mess you up.

As you gather around your barbeque this summer season, take heed. Last year, according to the Standards

Council of Canada, at least nine people in Canada were injured after ingesting metal bristles that became detached from barbeque brushes.

Here’s what happens: You take your cheap barbeque brush and attempt to vigorously clean the charred crap off your grill from last night or last weekend or last year. You don’t even notice when your cheap brush loses some of its razor sharp, tiny steel bristles, which can cling to the gunk remaining on grill. Later, when you start flipping burgers, the bristles can got lodged in your food, and then could end up in your throat, or worse, your children’s. Surgery is often an end result.

After feeling the heat from consumers, Health Canada fired up the burners to ban the meddlesome brushes, but eventually decided against it, even after admitting that wayward bristles have reportedly caused 28 injuries since 2004.

There is at least something being done, although it may seem like a bit of a smokescreen. According to a National Post article, instead of banning the brushes outright, Health Canada commissioned the Standards Council of Canada to develop “new guidelines for the product.” However, it could be up to a year and a half before those “guidelines” are put into practice, and barbeque season is now.

I recently passed through

a few of the big box stores on Cambie Street, and couldn’t help but notice sweeping selections of these exact types of cheap, plastic-handled barbeque brushes on sale in every store I entered.

I asked an employee working the barbeque section if he was aware the brushes had the potential to cause injury.

“Well, obviously a lot of the products in this store have the potential to cause injury if you don’t use them right,” he told me. “A hammer will do a lot of damage if you aren’t looking at where you’re swinging it.

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Qualifying participants may also receive a demo of the latest hearing technology. The data collected from this study will be used to further our understanding of hearing loss and improve life-changing hearing healthcare across Canada.

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Hearing problems typically result from damage to the ear and researchers have spent decades trying to

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Granville Island open to ideas for old Emily Carr building Courier Staff vancourier.com

CMHC-Granville Island has issued a “call for ideas” on how the north building vacated by Emily Carr University last year should be used.

The 120,000-squarefoot space will house a new arts and innovation hub.

CMHC-Granville Island wants feedback from specialists in the arts, cultural, creative and business sectors.

“This is the most significant redevelopment project on Granville Island in decades and an extraordinary opportunity for new organizations to establish a presence on the island,” Lisa Ono, manager of public affairs and programming for CMHC-Granville Island, said in a press release.

“By participating in the Call for Ideas, individuals and organizations will be able to help shape this new space on Granville Island.”

The creation of the hub, which will be home to a mix of arts-focused and innovative organizations

CMHC Granville Island wants feedback on how to fill the old Emily Carr building. PHOTO KEVIN HILL

as well as restaurants and services, is part of the Granville Island 2040 vision, which outlines future development on the island over the next two decades.

The Call for Ideas process aims to identify what types of organizations, businesses and activities should be included in the hub and gauge demand from prospective tenants. Feedback will be used to further refine the vision for this building as well as to help shape the criteria for the subsequent Request for Expressions of Interest (EOI).

Individuals and organizations interested in participating in the process can register at: artsandinnovation.com.

A series of building visits and information sessions will be held over the summer to help participants prepare their ideas in advance of the submission period, which will run from Sept. 1 to 30.

The is part of a multiphase redevelopment plan with an EOI process scheduled for 2019 and the opening of the Hub slated for 2021.

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Tenants, landlords spitball ways to fix Residential Tenancy Act In the competitive world of apartment hunting, Julie Horsman and her partner Riley Cann found what many can’t —an affordable rental that allows their dog, a 21-pound mutt named Smalls.

The price: $1,250 a month including utilities.

Horsman discovered the Arbutus Ridge one-bedroom, ground-level suite after searching for about three weeks, sometimes checking Craigslist by the hour. The couple has lived in it for just over a year.

To secure the home, Horsman made a sales pitch of sorts. She wrote a “crazy personal email” to the landlord.

“I was really honest. I was like, ‘My dog, he’s basically like a cat. He spends more time on the couch. He’s not going to cause any problems.

We’re nerds. I go to school and we don’t really do a lot a night. And I’m a clean freak so I’m going to really take care of the place. I hate mess.

We’re pretty standard people who aren’t going to trash the unit,’” she told the Courier in an interview after the June 27

Rental Housing Task Force meeting in Vancouver.

The meeting was the 10th of 11 held across B.C. by a three-member task force headed by Vancouver-West End MLA Spencer Chandra Herbert. Its mandate is to come up with recommendations to modernize the Residential Tenancy Act. The task force will now spend the summer studying feedback and researching options before submitting a report this fall.

Horsman, a 32-year-old university student who is studying pharmacy, took part because she wants more pet-friendly housing. Cann, a 29-year-old who works in healthcare informatics, cited housing security as his top issue.

“I love this city and I feel that my security is very easily compromised by the current market,” he said. “I don’t want to leave — and I won’t leave — but I would also like to live here with a feeling of security.”

Problems and potential solutions

The June 27 meeting had participants sit at tables marked either “renters” or

Renters highlighted concerns including: • unlawful screening processes • an inability to find pet-friendly rentals • bidding wars between renters • fear of losing an apartment by asking for repairs • challenges getting back security deposits • a poor appeal process through the Residential Tenancy Branch • absentee landlords failing to understand tenant rights • renovictions.

Vancouver Tenant Union member Stephanie Langford showed up at the Rental Housing Task Force meeting in Vancouver with a “Tenant Power” banner. PHOTO NAOIBH O’CONNOR

“landlords and property managers.” It wasn’t an enforced rule, and attendees were told at the start they were free to sit anywhere, but most seemed to organize themselves by those categories. Not surprisingly, considering Vancouver is about 60 per cent renters, there appeared to be far more renters than landlords or property managers.

A few civic election candidates showed up —

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COPE’s Jean Swanson, Anne Roberts and Derrick O’Keefe, as well as independent mayoral candidate Kennedy Stewart — along with a contingent from the Vancouver Tenants Union.

VTU member Stephanie Langford showed up with a “Tenant Power” banner. She left the Lower Mainland for 30 years to live in Ottawa but came back four years ago.

“I felt like it was a different place,” she said.

Langford rents a twobedroom place in an older apartment building in East Vancouver. She’s a registered nurse who teaches at university on contract, so she recognizes she’s in a better position than most, but she’s nearing retirement.

“I’m in stable housing but all of us wonder what’s around the block,” she said.

Meeting organizers, who divided the evening event into two sessions, asked participants to answer questions about challenges they faced, and potential solutions, by jotting down thoughts on sticky notes that were collected and organized based on theme at the front of the room.

They pitched solutions such as: • more government-funded affordable housing • tax credits for renters • ending discrimination against pet owners • mandatory training, education and licensing for landlords • tying rents to the unit not the tenant • a rent freeze • rules around a fair screening process • standards for maintenance • better enforcement of existing rules.

Landlords’ concerns included: • the high cost of providing affordable housing • a lack of tools to find good tenants • concern about over regulation • the lack of housing stock • insufficient damage deposits • tenants not maintaining properties • few tools to deal with problem tenants • a lack of information and guidelines around pets • the Residential Tenancy Branch being biased towards renters (which got a laugh from renters).

Landlords’ proposed

solutions included: • increasing the allowable damage deposit • creating a matching service for landlords and tenants • creating tools that would encourage landlords to allow pets • repealing the Residential Tenancy Act for being too restrictive • tenant screening tools • making it easier to evict bad renters • a mechanism to collect unpaid rent • mandatory tenant insurance • relaxing zoning rules to increase the rental supply.

‘Us against them’

If anyone expected a raucous debate to erupt between landlords and tenants, it didn’t happen. The event format was geared towards discussion at each table but not so much between tables.

That didn’t sit well with one participant who remarked at the close of the session: “It’s still us against them. I would have liked [landlords and tenants] to sit together.”

That sentiment was shared by Horsman.

“I would have liked a little more discussion between renters and landlords to try and resolve some bias that we have against each other,” she said. “That stigma that, ‘Oh, you rent.’ It’s like landlords look down on renters and renters are now looking at landlords as douche bags. It’s a common theme. It would have been nice to have more discussions so that we could really see each other’s sides.”

Horsman maintains good moderation could have kept such discussions from devolving into arguments.

Alexey Osipenko, an owner and a property manager, made a similar point in an interview with the Courier.

“What I didn’t like is that it was us against them. We are not in opposing camps.

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News I used to be a renter myself, then I eventually became an owner I became a landlord, I became a property manager,” he said. “We need to understand, actually, that people who are tenants now, one day they can become property owners as well. I think it would be poor economy if people stay for life as

tenants… that would not be a good thing to happen. I would like to see more mixing between the two [camps] so both sides understand the issues with each other.”

Next steps

Chandra Herbert wasn’t surprised by the high renter turnout given the unique

challenges renters have faced in Vancouver with its near-zero vacancy rate, including illegal evictions, mass rent increases, demovictions and renovictions.

But is he any closer to solutions?

“In many ways I know what to look for. In terms of coming up with solutions,

I’ve got some good ideas.

Now I have to check whether they are possible… I’ve got a lot of night time, summertime reading.” he said.

“I have a secure home. I want more people to [have one], so I don’t mind doing the work because, again, [renters are] going to have a better life. Our community

is going to be a better place to live if we’re not having to deal with the stress as much as we have been.”

Horsman and Cann anticipate improvements will be made to the act but they’re not sure to what extent.

“One thing that I thought that makes me optimistic was a lot of the suggestions on the

landlords’ and renters’ sides weren’t that much different… so I don’t necessarily think the interests are all that much different. I think everyone just wants an inclusive city where, whether you’re a landlord or a tenant, you feel like you belong,” Cann said.

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

Public Hearing: July 17, 2018

Public Hearing: July 18, 2018

Tuesday, July 17, 2018, at 6 pm Vancouver City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Third Floor, Council Chamber

Wednesday, July 18, 2018, at 6 pm Vancouver City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Third Floor, Council Chamber

Vancouver City Council will hold a Public Hearing to consider zoning for these locations: 1. Miscellaneous Amendments – Zoning and Development By-law, Various CD-1 By-laws, and Noise Control, Parking and Sign By-laws To make amendments to CD-1 (696) By-law for 500-650 West 57th Avenue (Pearson Dogwood), CD-1 (693) By-law for 809 West 23rd Avenue, CD-1 (679) By-law for 725-747 Southeast Marine Drive, and CD-1 (562) By-law for 508 Helmcken Street; to repeal superseded CD-1 (21) and CD-1 (598) By-laws; to amend various CD-1 By-laws to include ‘Grocery Store with Liquor Store’ use; and to amend the Sign, Noise Control, and Parking By-laws.

The amendments would achieve the intent of the initial rezoning approvals and correct inadvertent errors.

2. Development and Building Regulatory Review – Minor Amendments to the Zoning and Development By-law, the Downtown Official Development Plan, and Various Land Use and Development Policies and Guidelines To make various amendments to the Zoning and Development By-law, the Downtown Official Development Plan, and various land use and development guidelines and policies to simplify and update the regulations and streamline permit review processes.

3. 605-695 Southeast Marine Drive To amend CD-1 (99) (Comprehensive Development) District for 605-695 Southeast Marine Drive to add ‘Liquor Store’ as an allowable use to enable temporary relocation of an existing liquor store located at 725-747 Southeast Marine Drive.

4. 5809-5811 Main Street (198 Ontario Place) To rezone 5809-5811 Main Street (198 Ontario Place) from RT-2 (Two-Family Dwelling) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a 3.5-storey residential building with 12 co-housing units including three affordable homeownership units.

A height of 14.1 metres (46 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 1.62 are proposed.

5. 146-186 West 41st Avenue and 5726 Columbia Street To rezone 146-186 West 41st Avenue and 5726 Columbia Street from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit a townhouse development that includes two four-storey buildings and four two-storey buildings, containing a total of 40 market residential units.

A maximum height of 15.1 metres (49.4 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 1.88 are proposed.

6. 3123-3129 West Broadway (Hollywood Theatre) To designate the exterior and certain elements of the interior of the existing building at 3123 West Broadway (Hollywood Theatre) as protected heritage property, to secure the rehabilitation and long-term preservation of the heritage building, and to vary the Zoning and Development By-law to permit a new six-storey mixed-use building under the existing C-2C (Commercial) District.

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A maximum height of 21.8 metres (71.6 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 2.50 are proposed.

1. Amendments to the Zoning and Development By-law and Building By-law – Accessible Path of Travel Policy Review (see A on map) To amend the Zoning and Development By-law and the Vancouver Building By-law (VBBL) to mandate an accessible path of travel for specified low-density housing types, and to regain living space required to meet 2014 VBBL adaptable housing requirements in one- and two-family dwellings (on sites with a frontage of 10.06 metres or less).

4. 4175 West 29th Avenue (St. George’s Senior School) (see D on map) To rezone 4175 West 29th Avenue (St. George’s Senior School) from RS-5 (One-Family Dwelling) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the redevelopment of the St. George’s Senior School campus, increase the height to 18.9 metres (62 feet), allow for accessory staff and student housing, and introduce a maximum student enrolment.

2. Amendments to the Zoning and Development By-law – Laneway Home Regulations (see B on map) To amend the Zoning and Development By-law to make it easier and more cost effective to build laneway houses and to improve livability of laneway houses.

Key amendments include introducing an outright review process, changing the method of measuring height, increasing maximum allowable heights, allowing greater design flexibility on the second floor, introducing minimum room size requirements, and providing more flexibility for siting one-storey laneway houses.

5. 2133 Nanton Avenue and 4189 Yew Street (Arbutus Centre) (see E on map) To amend CD-1 (642) (Comprehensive Development) District for 2133 Nanton Avenue and 4189 Yew Street (Arbutus Centre) to increase the allowable floor area by 8,016 square metres (86,283 square feet) to a site-wide maximum of 75,081 square metres (808,165 square feet) for all uses combined, with a maximum of 65,016 square metres (699,826 square feet) for residential uses and a minimum of 10,065 square metres (108,338 square feet) of non-dwelling uses; and to increase the maximum building height from 57 metres (187 feet) to 60 metres (197 feet) for Block C and from 57 metres (187 feet) to 72 metres (236 feet) for Block D.

3. 988 West 64th Avenue and 8030-8130 Oak Street (see C on map) To rezone 988 West 64th Avenue and 8030-8130 Oak Street from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of three six-storey residential buildings containing a total of 130 market residential units.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THESE APPLICATIONS INCLUDING LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTIES: vancouver.ca/rezapps or 604-873-7038

Anyone who considers themselves affected by the proposed by-law amendments may speak at the Public Hearing.

Please register individually beginning at 8:30 am on July 6 until 5 pm on the day of the Public Hearing by emailing publichearing@vancouver.ca or by phoning 604-829-4238. You may also register in person at the door between 5:30 and 6 pm on the day of the Public Hearing. You may submit your comments by email to publichearing@vancouver.ca, or by mail to: City of Vancouver, City Clerk’s Office, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 1V4.

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All submitted comments will be distributed to Council and posted on the City’s website. Please visit vancouver.ca/publichearings for important details.

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Vancouver authors dumfounded by kids’ questions Dumb Answers to Kids’ Questions spins universal queries with doses of trolling and satire John Kurucz

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There’s an interesting dichotomy at play in Pierre Chan’s world.

On one hand, he suggests he likes kids. On the other, Chan refers to them as “pint-sized dweebs.”

He’s happy to mingle with other people’s offspring, but the thought of having his own makes Chan want to “stand next to a microwave and burn all of my sperm.”

It’s against that backdrop of humour and irony that Chan delivers to the world his second book, Dumb Answers to Kids’ Questions.

Spread over more than 100 pages of text and illustrations, Chan and illustrator Scott Schneider go after all the sacred cows of kids’ questions — birth, death, the afterlife — with colour and playful contempt.

“Kids are great, kids are cute, kids are fun and kids are innocent,” Chan told the Courier. “You can impart your messed-up wisdom on them. But I

just don’t like the negative aspects of kids. I’m too irresponsible and too selfish to want to have a child.”

The book is formatted to avoid the standard questionand-answer format and instead plays on interactions.

One example sees a young girl asking an astronaut if aliens are real. The astronaut first replies with a simple “nope,” though a few frames later shows an alien exploding from the astronaut’s chest to reveal a different truth.

The tone is reminiscent of other publications that resemble kids books but are steeped in sarcasm for the adult set, such as Go the F*** to Sleep or It’s Just a Plant: A Children’s Story of Marijuana.

“It’s a children’s book for adults,” Schneider said. “It’s squarely aimed, I think, at younger parents with small children who have read Goodnight Moon, they’ve listened to Raffi and they’re listened to the Frozen soundtrack for the 100th time.”

How Chan got into

Pierre Chan and Scott Schneider are the creators behind a soonto-be-released book called Dumb Answers to Kids’ Questions.

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publishing seven years ago smacks of irony. An advertising copywriter by day, Chan figured he’d give the publishing world a go through what he looked at as a popular, if not easy, route: a kids book.

That initial idea was to turn around a legitimate kids book filled with kid things. It didn’t take and

Chan soon fell into a prolonged bout of writer’s block. Turning to his colleagues to help get over the hump, Chan was told simply to write — any topic at any time — to help him get back on track.

His topic of choice?

Flatulence.

Lots of poems about passing wind came to be, so

him in a tough spot. He’s a proud dad, who loves being a dad and loves his progeny.

He isn’t immune, however, to trolling the little buggers from time to time and doesn’t blame the childless among us for doing the same.

“I totally get it, especially at Pierre’s age,” Schneider said. “But I don’t know a single parent who would say it’s rainbows and unicorns the whole time, because it’s just not. You take the good with the bad. It’s rewarding and I like being a dad. But I get how some people just wouldn’t want to do that.”

On Wednesday, the pair wrapped up their successful crowdfunding campaign to raise the necessary funds to produce hard copies of the book, which will also be made available in a digital format. @JohnKurucz

much so his first published offering was released in 2015 under the title Pfffffft: A Book of Illustrated Fart Literature.

Heady stuff to be proud of, indeed.

“My parents are so confused about what I do,” Chan said. “If I didn’t confuse them enough when I told them I was in advertising, this really boggles their mind.”

Yet another layer of irony reveals itself in the person chosen to illustrate Chan’s current offering. At 51, Schneider has sired four offspring, earning him the designation of having “awardwinning sperm” from his partner in publishing.

“When you have small children, you invariably read a lot of children’s books and they’re so ridiculous and simple,” Schneider said.

“As a parent, it’s nice when a children’s book like this comes along and it’s written for you. It’s a nice juxtaposition to Goodnight Moon and all the other classics.”

On the surface, Schneider’s inclusion in a book that satirizes kids could put

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In a media landscape where the president of the United States tweets “fake news!” one moment and peddles egregious lies the next, critical thinking isn’t some optional, elitist philosophy. It’s a survival strategy, and you’re never too young to learn how to think critically, says Venay Felton, founder and executive director of Reel 2 Real International Film Festival for Youth.

“Today’s generation is even more exposed to the media, and more diverse forms of media, from streaming services to Facebook,” says Felton.

“There’s just so much more of it, and that’s why there’s a need for even more critical viewing skills.”

Felton has been helping kids develop their critical lenses for more than three decades, the bulk of it through the Reel 2 Real Fest, which she founded in 1998. Reel 2 Real typically takes place each spring, but its 20th anniversary called for an extra-special summertime event in the form of a free outdoor screening of Kahlil Gibran’s The

Prophet, the critically acclaimed animated feature film based on Gibran’s seminal work.

Reel 2 Real is built on the idea that media consumption shouldn’t be a passive experience. This is why every single one of Reel 2 Real’s screenings is accompanied by some sort of youth-oriented workshop, from claymation to digital filmmaking, from pixelation to sound design.

Felton started on this path more than 30 years ago, when she lived in New York City and worked for the Media Center for Children, screening films for children in their classrooms and then writing reviews based on their comments. “I was carrying 16mm films to classrooms all over the city and I thought there must be a better way to go about introducing kids to great films from around the world,” she muses.

In the case of Reel 2 Real, youth are engaged in the fest long before the hands-on activities and screenings. The festival’s director of programming works with a youth jury to lock down the Reel 2 Real schedule; before those deliberations can begin, the

kids must participate in a critical thinking workshop.

“We frame each discussion around a component of the film,” says Felton.

“We’ll talk about how music and sound influence what we understand of the film, and we’ll talk about the editing process. We talk about lighting. We break it down into different parts, and get them to develop a vocabulary for critiquing film.”

It’s a skill set that will serve them well into adulthood, adds Felton. “It’s even more important now, but it’s always been important,” she says. “There are many hidden messages in what we watch, so it’s good to always have a critical eye. These kids are really savvy.”

Reel 2 Real International Film Festival for Youth presents a free screening of Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet at 9:15 p.m. on July 13 in Ron Basford Park on Granville Island.

Animation workshops and VR demonstrations from the National Film Board of Canada will take place between 5 and 9 p.m. in Performance Works.

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Yellow Submarine docks at Park Theatre And four other reasons Vancouver is awesome this week

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Yellow Submarine at the Park

Get ready for a magical journey aboard one of the timeless icons of psychedelic pop culture. Fifty years after its initial release, the Beatles’ classic 1968 animated feature film Yellow Submarine docks at Vancouver’s Park Theatre for a five-day run in all its restored glory. Even if you’ve never seen this landmark flick, you’ll surely know the songs, from “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” to “All You Need is Love” and more.

July 8 to 12 The Park Theatre, 3440 Cambie St. facebook.com/events/467534343678182

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To celebrate the film’s 50th anniversary, the Park Theatre screens the Beatles’ animated classic Yellow Submarine for a five-day run.

Beer and a Curry x Main Street Brewing

Check out this Sunday night Beer and a Curry pop-up, teaming B.C.’s finest beer with India’s finest curries.

This time, it’s Main Street Brewing. Tickets cost $35 and include one Main Street Brewing beer, appetizers and tons of curry, plus loads of naan.

July 8, 7 to 9:30 p.m.

Main Street Brewing Co., 261 East Seventh Ave. eventbrite.ca

Stand By Me at Fresh Air Cinema

Catch one of the most impactful coming-of-age stories of the ’80s for free in the great outdoors when Fresh Air Cinema screens Stand By Me. Follow along as four boys find friendship and adventure on a life-changing trek through Oregon — and try to keep your dinner down when the infamous “blueberry pie” scene comes up.

Movies start at sundown, and it’s BYO lawn chairs and blankets.

July 10, gates at 5 p.m., show at 9:15 p.m.

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Indian Summer Festival

Every year, the Indian Summer Festival spices up the season with an array of culinary and cultural programming in Vancouver. Kick off the fest at the July 5 opening party, which features superstar chef Vikram Vij presenting a lineup of top local chefs who will take you on “a gastronomic journey around the world.” There are 25 free and ticketed events happening across Vancouver this year, including talks, film screenings, theatre, live music and art.

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Carnaval del Sol

An explosion of colours, flavours and sounds is coming to Vancouver thanks to Carnaval del Sol, which recreates a Latin American plaza right here in our city. The event

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Alex, Guest from Calgary, AB Alex grew up in a lower-income neighbourhood of Calgary and attributes much of his success to the role models in his community.

Now Alex is a role model himself, and with the strong relationship he’s built with his local Tim Hortons, he’s been able to give back in amazing ways, like organizing the world’s longest hockey game, which raised over four million dollars for Alberta Children’s Hospital. But no matter how much money he raises, the thing he’s most proud of is that he inspires the youth in his community to want to give back, too.

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BC Criterium Championships July 28th Jonathan Rogers Park/Mt Pleasant Watch the fastest racers in the province compete for cycling glory. Experience the Red Truck beer garden, sample one of the mulitudes of local Vancouver food trucks and bring the family out for a great time. Racing all day from 12-7pm. awesomegrandprix.com

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Arts & Entertainment THE GROWLER: BEER OF THE WEEK

Andina Brewing’s Jalea Guava Saison Rob Mangelsdorf editor@thegrowler.ca

It’s summer, so you want a beer that’s cold, refreshing and you can drink dozens of if given the opportunity. Normally, fruit beers don’t fit this bill: they’re often cloyingly sweet, with flavours that tend to overstay their welcome. The first couple are great, but by the third, your mouth starts to sour with a lingering aftertaste you’d rather do without.

Thankfully, there’s been a ton of great fruity beers released in the past couple months that don’t suffer this problem. They’re packed full of flavour, but finish clean and dry, enticing you to crack another… and another… and another.

Dageraad’s new Bright Side is a great example of well-balanced, crushable summer fruit beer.

It’s tart, bursting with flavour, light and refreshing, and perfect for drinking in large quantities without getting palate

Jalea Guava Saison from Adina Brewing is perfect for drinking on a summer day.

fatigue. Four Winds’ Vélo also fits the bill.

However, this week I want to talk about Andina’s Jalea Guava Saison, another delicious fruit beer I’d file under “crushable.”

If you’re not familiar with guava, that’s a shame, because it’s goddamn delicious.

It’s a tropical fruit with reddish flesh and bold flavours of strawberry, pear, passion fruit and

pineapple. If you’ve ever had agua fresca, chances

are it was heavily flavoured with guava.

The guava used in Jalea is imported directly from Colombia by Andina’s owners, the Amaya family, using their connections back home. The tart, peppery saison yeast balances the complex fruit flavours nicely, with just enough hop bitterness to dry out the finish.

All that flavour also hides a deceptively high ABV of 6.4 per cent, so be careful with this one. On a hot, sunny day, they are going to disappear pretty fast.

Judging by the speed at which these beers disappeared from my fridge, I wasn’t the only one who enjoyed Jalea.

Andina Brewing’s Jalea Guava Saison (6.4 per cent ABV, 29 IBU)

Appearance: Slightly hazy orangey-pink with a persistent white head.

Aroma: Strawberry, citrus, melon, floral.

Flavour: Strawberry, pear, lemon, melon, guava, apple, kiwi, passion fruit, floral notes, slightly spicy yeast character, pepper.

Body: Light-medium bodied with a tart, dry finish and smidge of lingering sweetness (but not too much!)

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Pass It to Bulis

The hockey blog that knows who needs the puck

Canucks’ free agent signings bring up spectre of Roberto Luongo’s contract Four-year deals for Beagle and Roussel could cause complications

Stick-taps & Glove-drops • A tap of the stick to Benning on re-signing Sven Baertschi. As much as his free agent signings didn’t impress, Baertschi’s threeyear deal at $3.37 million per year is good value for the second-line winger.

Backhand Sauce Daniel Wagner

One of the most important rules in negotiations is to know when to walk away.

At some point, the cost of making a deal exceeds the value produced by said deal.

Walking away from a deal can even force the other party to give you a better offer; anyone who has tried to walk out of a car dealership in the middle of buying a new car can attest to that.

In free agency this year, it seemed like GM Jim Benning and the Canucks didn’t know when to walk away. Benning signed Jay Beagle and Antoine Roussel, two bottom-six forwards, to four-year contracts worth $3 million per year. It’s the term that’s hardest to swallow, with the fourth year of both deals potentially causing some problems down the road.

Benning insisted that was “the market” for those two players. That seems odd when similar players signed for less money and less term. The Edmonton Oilers, for example, signed Kyle Brodziak and Tobias Rieder, two players who are at least superficially similar to Beagle and Roussel.

Brodziak is a 34-year-old fourth-line centre who saw similar defensive deployment to Beagle with significantly better results.

He signed for two years at a cap hit of $2.3 million per season.

Rieder is just 25 years old, kills penalties very well, and has more offensive upside than Roussel. He signed for one year, $2 million.

To be fair, Beagle and Roussel bring their own unique attributes, from Beagle’s Stanley Cup-winning experience to Roussel’s agitation. Also, the Canucks are not exactly an attractive destination for free agents right now, so a little overpayment might have been necessary. It’s that fourth year that is the problem, taking the two contracts into dangerous territory.

Roberto Luongo territory.

Here’s the backstory: In 2009, Mike Gillis and Laurence Gilman negotiated a new contract with Luongo that skirted around the salary cap in a clever way. By signing a front-loaded, 12-year contract, the Canucks could pay Luongo handsomely — he was paid $10 million in his first year — while keeping the cap hit down.

The Canucks got Luongo at a cap hit of $5.3 million, an incredible bargain for one of the best goaltenders in the league in his prime. It was one of the big reasons why

Sven Baertschi. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

The Canucks’ crafty contract with their former goalie Roberto Luongo could come back to bite them in the 2021-22 season. PHOTO PETER POWER/CANADIAN PRESS

• I’m dropping the gloves with the NHL, who have refused to make any firm statement on Slava Voynov. The Russian defenceman had his domestic abuse conviction expunged from his criminal record this week, opening the door to a work visa and reinstatement to the NHL, which should take a stand and bar his return. They haven’t and likely won’t.

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they were able to put together a powerhouse team for the 2010-11 season, adding Dan Hamhuis and Manny Malhotra in free agency, then adding Chris Higgins and Maxim Lapierre at the trade deadline.

Gary Bettman and the NHL, however, weren’t happy about how the Luongo contract, and others signed around the same time, circumvented the salary cap. So, with the next Collective Bargaining Agreement, they introduced the Cap Advantage Recapture rule, which became known as the Luongo Rule.

The particulars of the rule get complicated, but the essence of the rule is this: if Luongo retires before the end of his contract, the Canucks will get hit with a salary cap penalty equal to the advantage they gained when his cap hit was lower than his actual salary. That penalty will be spread out over the remaining years of his contract.

That means the cap penalty will be at its worst if Luongo retires with just one year remaining on his contract. In that worst-case scenario, the cap penalty will be a whopping $8.52 million in the 2021-22 season.

The final year of Beagle and Roussel’s contracts? The 2021-22 season.

That’s also the year that young, hopedto-be stars Elias Pettersson, Jonathan Dahlen, Kole Lind and Olli Juolevi will need new contracts. As much as the cap hit of the Beagle and Roussel contracts doesn’t hurt the Canucks in the coming season, when they have oodles of cap space, it could cause problems in a few years’ time.

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

9 Just nine of the dozens of

contracts signed by NHL teams on July 1 were for longer than three years. In general, the market dictated shorter-term deals.

77 million The richest contract

of the first day of free agency unsurprisingly went to John Tavares, who signed a sevenyear, $77-million contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs.

John Tavares. PHOTO WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

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Sports Everybody was kung fu filmmaking Acting Kung Fu runs from July 7 to Aug. 25 at the Moberly Arts Centre in south Vancouver John Kurucz

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Matthias Klenk’s two passions in life are kicking ass and filming the whole process as it unfolds.

Vancouverites of a similar constitution can take advantage of Klenk’s decade-plus worth of experience in both fields beginning this weekend through a pair of classes offered via the Vancouver Park Board.

The Moberly Arts Centre hosts Amazing Shaolin Arts, July 9 to Aug. 27, and Acting Kung Fu, July 7 to Aug. 25.

Both classes are led by Klenk, and both are for those over the age of 16.

“I can’t do your standard martial arts performing class because I’m not proficient in [mixed martial arts] or Jiu Jitsu,” Klenk told the Courier. “So I want this to focus on good looking, fancy moves you would see in old school kung fu movies.”

Klenk has practised kung fu for 12 years and studied with Shaolin monks in Germany and other martial arts types in Mexico. Outside of offering classes in community centres, Klenk also teaches privately across Metro Vancouver.

While the Shaolin training focuses exclusively on a particular style of martial art, the filming course gives students the basics in the worlds of kung fu, moviemaking and fight choreography.

Klenk describes Acting Kung Fu as being akin to an entry-level position in a corporation — it’s a long way to the top, there are no shortcuts and it could hurt on the way up.

The end goal for students is to understand the basics

Matthias Klenk is teaching kung fu and kung fu filmmaking out of the Moberly Arts Centre beginning July 7.

PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

of fight choreography and pacing, while gleaning an elementary grasp on kung fu. A 10-minute short film at the end of the course would be just gravy, Klenk added.

“It’s very complicated.

I’ve trained in kung fu for 12 or more years and I still think I’m no good,” Klenk said. “So to train for three months is a bit ambitious.

But what I want them to get out of it is so that they have the tools to be their own choreographers.”

Klenk’s journey with kung fu took root in the early 2000s in his native Germany. He continues training today with a Mexican sifu — a life-long coach and spiritual advisor — named José Guillen.

Klenk explained the sifu designation is earned, rather than given or anointed upon oneself. Someone with that designation only passes it on to others who are at an advanced stage in training their mind, body and spirit.

“In traditional kung fu, your teacher is your teacher for life. I still talk

to [Guillen] and still go down to Mexico to train with him. He may not be Chinese, but the training in Mexico is very tough.”

It was while in Mexico training 10 years ago that Klenk got caught up in film.

He studied in both Germany and Mexico, eventually earning a master’s degree in cultural studies.

So what’s the difference between choreographing standard fight scenes versus kung fu scenes?

“The movements are entirely different and kung fu moves look way more unrealistic,” Klenk said.

“In kung fu, there are many different forms from animals that you can use.

There are way more things to add into the scenes than just punching.” @JohnKurucz Klenk’s kick-ass courses run Saturdays from 11 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. and the registration cost is $80. For more info, see mysunset.net.

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