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FOI woe in search of Vancouver city hall severance money Mike Howell

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I’ll begin by saying I tried.

I tried to find out the names and positions of all 13 city staffers who received severance packages in 2017 and the money they received.

I know there were 13 because the number was listed in the city’s statement of financial information document for 2017. This is the same document that reveals the first initial and surname of all city employees — except police officers — who earned more than $75,000 a year.

For example, city manager Sadhu Johnston earned $337,914 in 2017.

Another few examples: Rena Kendall-Craden, the city’s director of corporate communications, collected $168,609; Barbara J. Van Fraassen, the city’s director of access to information and privacy, made $125,167.

But for those 13 people who received severances, no names or money was included in the document.

So began my inquiry to get the info.

In previous years, I would send an email to the city’s communications department.

Within a week or so, I’d receive the names and dollar amounts.

I’d then make efforts to contact some of the big fish on the list and find out more about why they received what they received.

I saw the whole exercise as public service journalism, letting taxpayers know where their money was going. But this year, that fairly simple exercise no longer became simple.

A city communications staffer informed me that I’d have to pursue my request via a Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act request. That, of course, pissed me off.

Here, in full, is the emailed explanation I received: “These types of requests need to be handled under FOI because there is thirdparty personal information involved. Compliance with the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act requires the city to undertake

Mukhtar Latif, the city’s former chief housing officer, received a severance payout of $266, 170 in 2017 after being fired last January. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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I wasn’t asking for their date of birth, bank account number or where they live.

Just their name, position held and dollar amount. Not a lot to ask, I thought, but I’ve said that increasingly over the years as more public information gets hidden behind FOI and PR walls.

But I dutifully requested the info through an FOI request. That was April 12.

I received some of the info I

requested July 17.

“Some information in the records has been withheld under Common Law Settlement Privilege,” the city email said.

A quick Google search of “common law settlement privilege” tells me it has something to do with protecting communications by parties as they try to settle a dispute. So what that meant is only nine of 13 people were OK with me and you learning how much money they received in severance.

So who are they?

I’ll start with the biggest fish because this is where my tale of FOI woe gets even more depressing. That big fish was Mukhtar Latif, the city’s former chief housing officer, who received $266,170.

What’s depressing is not what Latif received, but that I already wrote a story about his payout BECAUSE THE CITY GAVE ME THE INFORMATION IN MAY 2017 AFTER I SIMPLY ASKED FOR IT. Sorry, about the caps but I waited the better part of four months for the city to tell me

what they already told me more than a year ago.

The only others to collect more than $10,000 were Joe Snadel, manager of building maintenance, who received $73, 769.30, Sarah Zaharia, a communications strategist in the mayor’s office, who left with $11,890.66 and Martin Pykalo, a project manager, who made $10,191.20.

The other five received severances that ranged from $921.55 for D. McCandless, a recruitment coordinator, to $6,775 for K. Kelly, a systems analyst.

Project manager A. Breck received $6,323.80, S. Krieger, another project manager, got $4,028 and R. Tobiassen, occupational health and safety superintendent, made $3,260.

Hardly newsworthy.

As for the four others who don’t want us to know their names, positions or how much severance they received, I have 30 business days to request the Information and Privacy Commissioner review my file.

Once I pull the pen out of my eye, I may get in touch.

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Hollywood Theatre is saved

City council unanimously approves a heritage revitalization agreement for iconic theatre on West Broadway

Mike Howell

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The Hollywood Theatre has been saved.

Vancouver city council unanimously approved Tuesday a heritage revitalization agreement to protect the 1930s iconic theatre on West Broadway and allow a six-storey mixed-use building to be constructed on the balance of the site.

“We’re saving the Hollywood, and we’re saving it for arts and cultural uses, which could not be a happier day for me,” said Vision Vancouver Coun. Heather Deal, who recalled going to two-forTuesday movie nights at the Hollywood when she was in graduate school.

“The Hollywood has been such an important part of Kitsilano and the city of Vancouver for so long.”

Green councillor Adriane Carr also went to movies at the theatre on the 3100-block West

The 11-member city council unanimously approved Tuesday a heritage revitalization agreement to protect the 1930s iconic theatre on West Broadway and allow a six-storey mixed-use building. The theatre closed in 2011. PHOTOS DAN TOULGOET

Broadway. She praised the community, the Save the Hollywood Coalition, theatre owners Bonnis Properties, the architect involved in the new plan and city staff for developing a solution that would save the theatre.

At one time, the owners wanted to convert the theatre into a fitness centre, which triggered a movement to save the Hollywood and led to Tuesday’s decision by council.

“This has been a very long, very protracted, very

emotional process within our city and it’s landed so positively,” Carr said. “It’s only because of the people and their willingness to be collaborative, to listen to each other, to work things out that we have got where we are.”

The owners have pro-

posed a community use agreement that will see the venue allow music performances, live theatre, movie screenings, as well as hosting corporate, private and non-profit events, says the city staff report that went before council.

The theatre opened Oct. 24, 1935. It was designed by architect Harold Cullerne, who was an early advocate of affordable housing and designer of the first PNE prize home. The Fairleigh family ran the theatre for 76 years until 2011.

A city staff report noted the theatre’s “fine example of Art Deco style, with numerous exotic features such as hieroglyphic decorations, an undulating façade, inset scrolled figures, black and gold tiles, the original frameless glass ticket booth and prominent marquee and exterior signage.”

The theatre is listed on the Vancouver Heritage register in the “B” evaluation category. The new owners will retain and restore the heritage building and construct a six-storey building with a commercial space on the ground floor and 40 units on the upper floors. @Howellings

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R.I.P. Uncle Fester

Bloedel Conservatory’s rare corpse flower became a media sensation

Jessica Kerr

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Uncle Fester’s 15 minutes of fame are over.

The rare corpse flower that attracted crowds of curious onlookers to the Bloedel Conservatory and garnered international media attention for 10 days collapsed last Friday morning.

Uncle Fester attracted 17,000 visitors to the conservatory. At the peak last Monday and Tuesday, people waited upwards of four hours to catch a glimpse, and whiff, of the rare bloom — whose smell has been described as the stench of rotting flesh.

Eight thousand visitors made their way through the doors on those two days alone.

By comparison, Bloedel saw a total of about 15,000 visitors for the entire month of July last year.

The titan arum, scientific name Amorphophallus titanium, arrived in Vancouver in 2016. Since then it’s been growing at a local nursery.

“The growing itself was easy; the worry and the fear of doing something wrong to Uncle Fester was high,” Bloedel superintendent Bruce McDonald said. “There was always this anxiousness to it.

Uncle Fester, the rare corpse flower at Bloedel Conservatory, collapsed Friday morning.

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There were a lot of what ifs — what if he’s going to flower, what if he’s not going to flower, what if he flowers and he doesn’t fully open, it’s just like all these things running through the back of your mind.”

In the end, while this year’s bloom came as a surprise, everything went well, he said.

The bloom was short lived. Fester bloomed at 6

p.m. on July 15 and was already starting to close up again by about 2 p.m. the next day. The muchanticipated smell lasted for an even shorter time.

“When I got here in the morning it stunk to high heaven but then it just started to dissipate,” McDonald said on July 16, adding, “I think we disappointed on that respect.”

This isn’t the last Van-

couver has seen of Uncle Fester. The corpse flower is expected to bloom again, likely in the next five to 10 years.

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Confessions of a reluctant tick magnet

The tick must have slipped through a small rip in my jeans. I had felt a strange stab of pain in my knee joint as I emerged from the woods on a walk with friends. I dropped my pants. My wife spotted it.

It was about the size of a sesame seed, its dark body contrasting against my skin.

You could see its hind legs wriggling as the tick eagerly burrowed its way through my skin to tap into my blood stream.

“TWEEZERS!” Ticks love me. It happens almost without fail: I traipse off into the forest and I come out with a tick. It’s gross, it’s painful, and it’s worrisome. I don’t use enough bug spray (anything with DEET), or the best kind, which is hard to find in Canada (anything with permethrin).

My wife says I’m a tick magnet because of my thick body hair, which makes it easy for ticks to latch on.

Ticks can’t jump or fly, so they climb up to the top of a

blade of grass and stick out their two front legs like fish hooks, waiting for something furry to come along, like a deer, raccoon or me.

Once a tick latches on, usually to your feet or ankles, it will crawl up your body, searching for a dark nook of skin where it will take a stab and hopefully go unnoticed. Then it will suck your blood for as long as it can, possibly injecting you with an extremely dangerous and debilitating disease in the process. If that wasn’t evil enough, some ticks have a numbing agent so you can’t feel their bite.

Certain ticks carry Lyme disease. If not caught early, Lyme disease can be a very serious, complicated and life-long illness. Oddly, three female singers, otherwise unrelated, have all been diagnosed with Lyme disease: Shania Twain, Avril Lavigne and Kathleen Hanna (Bikini Kill, Le Tigre). All of their careers have been affected.

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Another way, this same doctor told me, is to shower every day. While washing yourself, you can feel for the foreign, hard little bump that is a suckling tick.

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burn it off with a match. As weird as this sounds, you want to keep the tick in one piece and alive. Yes, alive.

Unfortunately, Lyme disease is one of the most misdiagnosed and misunderstood diseases in North America because symptoms may vary widely. Experts argue over exactly where in North America Lyme disease exists (it was first diagnosed in Old Lyme, Connecticut, and is usually associated with north eastern USA).

All agree that you can only catch Lyme disease from a tick bite, and the only way the B.C. Centre for Disease Control can test if your tick is a carrier is if you deliver your tick to them alive.

We were a long way from the centre at 655 West 12th Avenue. How do you keep a tick alive? You care for it. It’s kind of like getting stabbed by a mugger and then offering him a drink and a place to stay.

Carefully place the tick in a small Tupperware container.

Add some cotton or tissues soaked in water. Open up the container every couple of

hours to let the stale air out and new air in (remember, ticks can’t jump), and add a few drops of fresh water here and there. You are now caring for a tick.

Once your tick is comfortably set up in its new home, thoroughly clean your bite point with soap, water, and a dab of Polysporin. Wash your hands, too. You’ll want to keep an eye on the bite for what’s called a large “bull’s eye rash”, one potential indication of Lyme disease.

Several days later, my friends dropped off the offending but well-cared-for ticks at the B.C. Centre for Disease Control. The lab workers were thrilled that one of the ticks was miraculously still alive. A few days later, we received the results: the living tick had tested negative for Lyme disease. No bull’s eye rashes appeared on either of us, so we’re assuming the dead tick was negative, too.

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The left divided will always be defeated

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Just before I slip away for the summer, the latest municipal election news worth looking at includes last week’s poll results -which could mean a loss for the left-of-centre -- and the long awaited endorsement of a mayoral candidate by the Vancouver and District Labour Council.

The VDLC endorsed independent candidate and NDP Member of Parliament Kennedy Stewart as their mayoral choice. This is not good news for Vision’s Ian Campbell. It is the first time since 2005, when the VDLC endorsed Jim Green, that the council has not thrown its support behind Vision’s mayoral pick.

In fact, there were three

candidates seeking the nod from the VDLC. Aside from Stewart and Campbell, another independent, Shauna Sylvester, also hoped for the labour body’s support.

And what makes covering politics such a laugh-loaded activity was, in this case, watching Sylvester’s crew as they attempted to make a silk purse out that sow’s ear of rejection. Don’t you know, crows her campaign manager and veteran political operative Trish Webb, Sylvester is now the “only truly independent candidate.” Which is to say no party and no significant civic organization is stepping up to back her. And, of course, she will carry on right to the finish line in October.

That brings me to the latest poll by Research Co. which was conducted

after COPE’s hoped-for candidate, UBC academic Patrick Condon, dropped out for health reasons and before The Georgia Straight put Hector “The Defector” Bremner on their cover along with a decidedly friendly profile inside.

The top line of the results has the NPA’s Ken Sim at 26 per cent and a sliver ahead of Stewart at 25 percent.

Predictably Sim has more support among West Side older men; Stewart is more appealing to East Side resident, women and younger folks. The spread between the two of them is well within the margin of error.

Campbell is in third spot with 20 per cent, Sylvester is at 11 per cent, the former Conservative MP and enemy of the bike lanes Wai Young is at eight per cent, Bremner

has five per cent and pulling up the rear is David Chen with four per cent.

And, no surprise here, 82 per cent of Vancouverites think housing affordability is worse in this city than in the rest of Metro Vancouver and 57 per cent have a negative view about the influence of developers.

Of course the election is still 12 weeks away and in politics that is an eternity.

Most folks only wake up to the facts of a civic election in these parts sometime after Labour Day. For now, as pollster Mario Canseco found, Sim is holding 70 to 80 per cent of the NPA vote and, unless Bremner can crank things up, that will continue.

On the left of centre, Campbell is only getting about 50 per cent of the votes

that went to Gregor Robertson last time out. Almost as many are going to Stewart and, again, that was before the VDLC endorsement.

And you have to assume that Sylvester is nibbling away at that cohort as well.

There’s one other point: the deal over sharing the ballot worked out by the VDLC, sort of. In the past these arrangements were between the political parties. This time the deal was made directly with the VDLC. Plus there was the express understanding that the parties were free to attack each other during the campaign.

That may well happen not just among the mayoral candidates on the left of centre, but among the candidates for council, school board, and park board --- knowing

full well that the left divided will always be defeated.

Understand though that Bremner and his Yes Vancouver party aren’t exactly kissing cousins when it comes to relations with the NPA. And that may be the only ray of hope the folks on the left have if they can restrain themselves from beating each other to a pulp on the way to the ballot box.

If, however, Bremner doesn’t catch fire and none of the three left-ofcentre mayoral candidates takes one for the team, as it were, and steps down before the ballot is finalized on September 21, well, who really knows?

Which is all the more reason to take some time off now.

See you in September.

High housing costs, low incomes: where’s the plan to reduce poverty? tracy.sherlock@gmail.com

There are people in B.C. who fear having their children taken away because they are poor.

There are people in B.C. who do not have enough money to buy healthy food.

And there are people in B.C. who don’t fill their prescriptions for life-saving medication, simply because they can’t afford it.

All of these concerns and many others were in the B.C. government’s recent report into poverty – What We Heard About Poverty in B.C..

“Ours is a province that works best when all of us can share in its prosperity – when inequality is reduced, barriers are removed, and people are put first,” B.C.’s Minister of Social Development and Poverty Reduc-

tion Shane Simpson said.

Mable Elmore, B.C.’s parliamentary secretary for poverty reduction, said affordable housing was the top concern in every community.

As was widely reported last week, Vancouver has the third highest housing costs in North America, but ranks among the lowest incomes on the continent.

Not only that, but B.C. is the only province without a poverty reduction plan, which is something the NDP has promised to change.

Last December, Simpson told me legislation would be tabled in spring 2018, followed by a detailed plan in September that would tackle housing, child care, income security and education.

But Simpson now says the legislation is taking longer than expected because of a desire to include accountability measures in it.

“In discussions with members of my Advisory Forum there was a strong consensus to include targets and timelines in the legislation that would hold government accountable,” Simpson said in an emailed response to questions about the plan. “I agreed, though it did mean that the legislation would take a little longer to complete. We now expect to introduce the Poverty Reduction legislation this fall and the strategy will follow.”

Simpson says it’s still too early to speculate on how much the plan will cost.

The government has taken some action – since forming government last year, it has increased welfare and disability rates and eliminated the tuition on adult basic education courses and English language courses. It has also made some steps towards estab-

lishing universal, affordable childcare and has invested in some affordable housing.

Beyond that, British Columbians will have to make do with this report to surmise what might be included in any upcoming poverty reduction plan.

The report highlights many disadvantages faced by women – notably a significant wage gap, the struggles of single parenthood, difficulties finding housing that will accept children, fears of losing their children and extreme challenges in the legal system.

More than half of legal aid clients are women and threequarters of those women are single parents with children at home, legal aid organizations reported. Unresolved legal problems can cause physical and emotional health problems, relationship problems and the loss

of housing or employment. “[W]omen leaving abusive relationships are often forced to turn to non-profit organizations when their legal aid hours run out,” the report says. “This can result in women representing themselves, being unprepared and ill-equipped to navigate the legal system, and in some cases, being crossexamined by their abusive partner and/or the person who assaulted them.”

Yikes. Like much of this report, it appears money spent up front could greatly reduce reliance on social programs down the road.

Parents report keeping their children home from school because they can’t afford to buy proper clothing or healthy food.

They’re afraid to send them to school for fear of having their children apprehended and taken into foster care,

the report says.

People don’t have enough money for bus fare, they face discrimination in their housing search and foster children who age out of care often find themselves without housing or a job, the report says.

“More than anything, people want opportunity and they want to be included,” the report said. “They want to be appreciated and celebrated. They want their children to grow up proud and empowered.”

Whenever the long-awaited poverty reduction plan appears, let’s hope it is both specific and results-driven, as Minister Simpson’s committee advised. Accountability and definite goals will make it worth waiting for.

Tracy Sherlock writes about education and social issues.

Reach her at tracy.sherlock@ gmail.com.

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CDs are extinct? Not so fast, say indie record stores John Kurucz

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Oh, to be a CD in 2018.

Streaming sites mock your apparent lack of convenience.

Cassettes are somehow nipping at your heels, despite their inferior sound quality.

Vinyl, the very format you were brought in to replace, is outselling you by upwards of 80 per cent.

And, to top it all off, the Internet suggests you were on death’s door as of July 1.

Where to begin.

The demise of the disc was widely reported earlier this year, with all signs pointing to Canada Day as the end date for CD sales at Best Buy. A February report in Billboard Magazine said as much and major outlets across North America ran with the same story.

“Best Buy to Pull CDs” the headline said, along with a report citing “anonymous sources” with ties to what was once the largest music merchandiser in North America.

A little digging reveals a different story.

Best Buy U.S. spokesperson Bianca Jones told the Courier that the July 1 date was arbitrary at best, speculation at worst. The company had never issued a July 1 directive, nor has it pulled out of CD sales.

Instead, a smaller footprint in each store will still carry CDs, along with some vinyl and other music merchandise. Those discs under $5 or $6, referred to as “value CDs,” will live on down south.

Best Buy Canada, meanwhile, pulled out of the CD game in June 2016.

“That July 1 date really wasn’t anything on our radar, it wasn’t a starting point for us, it wasn’t any sort of date that ever mattered to our team,” Jones

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told the Courier in a phone interview from Minnesota.

That’s about all Jones would confirm. She didn’t say when the decision to scale back was made, how many CDs each store would sell, nor what precipitated the change. The Billboard article suggested CD sales were down 18.5 per cent in the U.S. last year, though Jones wouldn’t comment on the company’s sales trends.

The Courier reached out to a handful of independent music stores in Vancouver to make sense of the CD conundrum, and got input from shop managers from Red Cat, Beat Street, Highlife, Neptoon and Audiopile, along with Ryan Dyck, the label manager behind Vancouver’s Mint Records.

Prevailing trends emerged across the board in each interview. No one who spoke to the Courier was surprised by the Best Buy move. They all agreed that CD sales peaked sometime between 2001 and 2006 and will likely never make a comeback the way tapes cur-

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rently are. And given their druthers, all of them listen to vinyl almost exclusively.

“Sound quality, artwork, the feeling of holding it and placing it on the turntable is very unique,” Beat Street owner Avi Shack said in an email. “I have worked hard for many years to curate a specific and unique library of music catered to exactly my tastes. I also believe in listening to music the way it originally came out.”

It’s little surprise that each outlet reported vinyl outselling CDs. Some were a 60/40 split, others reported an 80/20 difference. Mint Records releases typically see a 50 per cent run of vinyl, with the remainder split equally between CD and cassette.

Yes, the most outdated, useless and worst sounding playback format imaginable is making a comeback.

Why? For starters, they’re cheap.

Vancouver shops are selling them for as low as $1 each.

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a time when music didn’t come from a computer. To some in that generation, Walkmans and cassettes are ironically cool again.

“It’s a nice artifact, but whether they listen to them or not, I’m not sure,” Dyck said. “It’s definitely a younger crowd.

They don’t remember tapes or they didn’t have tapes. It’s a novelty.”

On average, the price breakdowns at each location look something like this: new vinyl goes for anywhere between $20 and $50, used CDs range between $1 and $10 and tapes never go above $5.

In the case of Neptoon Records, Best Buy’s loss is Neptoon’s gain. It’s a continuation of a pattern seen since the mid-2000s when A&B Sound, Sam the Record Man and other large, music-specific chains went under.

As they did, a secondary market for CDs emerged and, at least in Neptoon’s case, that still exists today.

“For shops like us and

other indies, it’s actually a good thing when these places stop [selling CDs],” store manager Ben Frith told the Courier. “We actually sell quite a few CDs in here still. The CD business is A-OK for us. If you want anything other than the top 20, you’ve got to come to places like us to find it.”

That’s one thing CDs have going for them — resale value.

At Audiopile on Commercial Drive, CDs make up only 15 per cent of the store’s merchandise. But as people rid themselves of CDs, others are happy to come in and take them.

Curiously enough, those on the hunt for discs on the Drive are predominantly in their 50s and 60s.

“They’re of a generation where you bought your music and you need to own it. They got rid of their vinyl in the ’80s and ’90s and most of them aren’t going back,” said store manager Mark Richardson.

It’s within that sweet spot of golden oldies that

Red Cat co-owner Dave Gowans suggests there is way for CDs to capitalize on a novelty niche.

Carrying an entire catalogue of CDs from seminal, long-standing artists is an enticing carrot to dangle for consumers who want the whole kit and caboodle in their hands.

Not only that, but compilation discs are also decent seller for Gowans. Major labels don’t typically press them anymore, and if you do find them on vinyl, they’re otherworldly expensive.

“It’s been really popular to shit on the CDs, with people saying ‘Oh I don’t listen to CDs.’ But they’re a really convenient format,” Gowans said. “We constantly have tons of people having problems with vinyl records — it skips, it’s noisy, the turntable doesn’t work, or they’re playing a $50 record through a $100 turntable. With a CD, you buy it used for $6, you put it on and it sounds great.”

Decent sound and price points aside, there’s another mitigating factor driving CD sales — cars.

Vehicles built before the early 2000s don’t have the capacity to stream or shuffle. That 15-year period spanning the ’90s through 2004 saw tens of millions of vehicles made with the capacity for CDs only.

While those factors may not point to any sort of renaissance, there are still the odd cases to be made for the survival of the CD. “It’s anyone’s guess whether the CD makes a comeback,” said Highlife owner Kevin Finseth. “I wouldn’t bet on it, but I think there will continue to be a small market for used CDs.” See vancourier.com for more insights into local CD sales. @JohnKurucz

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VQFF’s 30th edition — which runs Aug. 9 to 19 at venues across the city — will showcase more than 70 short and feature-length narrative and documentary films from 15 countries.

Those impressive stats are a far cry from VQFF’s earliest days, when finding queer films to screen at the fest was no small task, says VQFF executive director Stephanie Goodwin.

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Even today, queer spaces are sorely lacking in Vancouver, notes Goodwin.

There are no lesbian bars left in the city; one of the last gay clubs, the Odyssey, closed its doors on June 30.

“There are almost no exclusively queer spaces left in this city, and the queer film festival occupies a very important space because it creates uniquely, over 11 days, a queer space where people cannot just see themselves reflected on screen, but feel like the space reflects who they are,” says Goodwin.

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When men are the abused: male survivors move forward JohnKurucz

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Nick’s hopes for tomorrow include a girlfriend, a healthy social circle and a stress-free bus ride.

It sounds like pretty standard stuff for most 32 year olds.

But to attain what sounds like a straightforward future, Nick has to first unravel a complex and profoundly painful past.

Nick describes his childhood as being filled with manipulation, sexual abuse and isolation. He grew up in Winnipeg and says the abuse he endured came at the hands of a female family member.

That the abuse came from a woman stifled Nick’s ability to process it. Sometimes talking about what happened only made things worse.

“I’ve heard comments that if a woman doesn’t penetrate you, it’s not abuse,” said Nick, who asked that his last name not be published. “Someone once said to me, ‘At least it was a woman. It would have been worse if it was a man.’”

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“I started meeting people and making friends who were really abusive and they’d do stuff to degrade me and humiliate me,” Nick said. “It was like I felt like I deserved the worst things to happen me.”

Nick moved to Vancouver in 2015 and entered rehab.

He’s been sober for two and a half years and is in therapy to reconcile the sexual abuse he lived through.

Only Nick’s mom and a few friends know about his life’s details. He spoke to the Courier specifically to bring attention to male sexual abuse, which will be highlighted July 29 via a comedy show at the Kino Cafe to raise money for the B.C. Society For Male Survivors Of Sexual Abuse (BCSMSSA).

Nick has received counselling from the society since the spring and expects those sessions to continue in perpetuity.

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not knowing why I felt so closed off,” he said. “Even if someone accidentally brushes my shoulder on the bus, I just start to lock up.

I feel like they’re invading my personal bubble or my boundaries. I get angry about it and I don’t like feeling like that.”

Nick’s path to recovery took root earlier this year when he heard a podcast by Vancouver comedian Mark Hughes called Pulling the Trigger. The episode delved into Hughes’ history with sexual abuse and drug addic-

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in 2003 at a group meeting in Abbotsford. Hughes was still three years away from sobriety and in the midst of a nine-year prison sentence for robbery and break and enter. Hughes reconnected with Wright in 2010 and featured the society’s founder on a recent podcast.

“Because he’s an intelligent and self-aware guy, he was able to think about his life, what it had been like, and he saw that it’s not the kind of life he wanted to lead,” Wright said.

While Hughes stopped accessing the society’s services five years ago, Nick is readying himself for another round of therapy in September.

“I just need encouragement from other people. I need to see that the world isn’t a bad place,” Nick said.

“For a while, that’s how I viewed the world. I just didn’t feel safe. I do feel safe now.”

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“I knew what happened when I was a kid was wrong but I didn’t know if it would be considered a crime or if people would take it seriously,” Nick said.

“That podcast was the first time I heard someone say ‘yes, this is wrong.’”

Hughes grew up in two time zones away from Nick, but there are parallels in both backstories. He ran away from home and was forcibly

raped by the age of 15. The life-long Vancouverite was in an abusive relationship where drugs and sex were exchanged for a false sense of security. Attempted sexual assaults were commonplace while Hughes lived in the Downtown Eastside, where he became addicted to heroin and cocaine.

Now 38 and sober since 2006, Hughes bounced around prisons throughout Metro Vancouver from 1995 to 2007. “I got clean and then all this shit caught up with me,” Hughes said.

Don Wright has been a beacon of hope for Nick, Hughes and thousands of other men across the province. Wright founded the BCSMSSA in 1989 and the society sees an average of 120 clients in Vancouver each year.

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There are 13 water slides at Big Splash Water Park.

! ENTERTAINMENT: DJ Alibaba is there on Saturdays and while we were there played a great mix of tunes. ! COST: Ages four and older cost $28 plus tax for the day.

Children three and under must be accompanied by a paying adult. A Twilight Pass, from 4 p.m. to closing is $17 plus tax. ! HOURS: 10:30 a.m.–7 p.m. ! PARKING: $5 plus tax for the day. ! GETTING THERE: Big Splash is five minutes from the B.C. Ferries terminal in Tsawwassen, so for my family coming from the island, it’s an easy location to get to. If you’re travelling from Vancouver, you can take the SkyTrain to the River Rock Casino/ Bridgeport station and grab a free shuttle to the park, which is just off Highway 17 — you must have pre-purchased your tickets online to take the shuttle.

The Courier also had a few questions for general manager Harold Frederiks about the vision for the park:

There were a lot of disappointed people when it was announced Splashdown Park would close. What made your group decide to invest in this water park and save the day?

Exactly that. They heard the disappointment and wanted to invest in the community by investing in the waterpark, future hotel and housing development.

You’ve added a Las Vegas-style cabana program and DJ, so it looks like a move to attract young adults. Is that the case?

We want to be more of an all-ages experience.

Why Tsawwassen?

The park was already here; it just needed some loving.

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Bird Fest takes flight with bevy of events

Vancouver celebrates all things bird next month when thousands gather for the 27th International Ornithological Congress and first ever Vancouver International Bird Festival Courier staff vancourier.com

The countdown is on to the 27th International Ornithological Congress and the inaugural Vancouver International Bird Festival Aug. 19 to 26.

The festival opening

ceremony is set for Aug. 20 with a parade of birds and fanfare by the Vancouver Symphony Brass Quintet.

The parade, made up of stilt walkers in bird costumes, bird choruses and handmade bird puppets, will flock from Coal Harbour Community Centre to Jack

Hill’s Native Art has moved to Mount Pleasant

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Poole Plaza starting at 3:20 p.m. The quintet will play “Gathering Flock”, which was composed by Frederick Schipizky.

Other events include: • Words Rising, Birds Rising – A Coast Salish Artists Residency: Vancouver Park Board, in partnership with the Roundhouse Community Centre and the Vancouver International Bird Festival, is inviting three artists, one each from Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations, to work at the Roundhouse for two weeks as artists in residence. The focus is to bring an Indigenous lens to understanding local birds.

The artists are Christie Lee Charles, Wil George and Charlene George. The project is curated by Kamala Todd. Runs Aug. 20 to 29 at Roundhouse Exhibition Hall 10 a.m. until 4 p.m.

The opening reception and presentations are on Friday, Aug. 24 from 6 to 9 p.m.

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The beauty of birds provides inspiration to artists and artisans at several events . The opening parade will even include stilt walkers in bird costumes. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

community-engaged public art project that brings creative connections to urban birds directly into the hands of the citizens of Vancouver.

It’s a 10-kilometre community public art project consisting of several artworks along the on the Arbutus Greenway. The chART Fieldhouse team is taking a creative approach to highlighting the concerning loss of bird species and the real actions individuals can take to improve the odds for our feathered neighbours. Runs Aug. 21 to 26.

• Little Mountain Improv: Birdstravaganza: Join Little Mountain Improv as they celebrate with

a bird-themed comedy improvisation show. Come on out and give your best bird-themed suggestions to the group as they act out skits “on the fly” celebrating our quirky feathered friends. Tickets $5 at the door; 8:30 until 10:30 p.m. at Little Mountain Comedy Department (195 East 26th Ave.) • Artists for Conservation Show: This is the official visual arts partner for the festival and congress, showcasing some of the world’s best nature art through its annual juried exhibit, a collaborative mural, artist demo and lecture series and an artist booth expo. Offi-

cial opening 6 to 10 p.m. on Aug. 22 at the Vancouver Convention Centre.

• Return of the Hipster Birdwatcher: Calling all closet birders and naturecurious to join this laid back nature walk, hosted

by EyeLoveBirds, around Stanley Park’s Lost Lagoon.

Targeted at non-birders and offering tips on identification and interesting facts about local species along the way, the event is mostly a casual, social and fun get together.

There will be a mini-competition (think scavenger hunt for birds). All attendees will get the EyeLoveBirds Vancouver bird app for free on their iPhone, as well as a printed checklist of the common birds of Stanley Park.

Aug. 22, 7 to 9 p.m. starting at Stanley Park Nature House (712 Lost Lagoon Path). www.vanbirdfest. com/venue/stanley-parknature-house.

• Nature & Bird Expo: The three-day Bird Expo is the showcase of birds and nature in Canada, including exhibitors, speakers, yoga, poetry, art and more. Runs Aug. 23 to 25 at the Vancouver Convention Centre.

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They were a modern rock staple for the indie set in the 1980s and, thanks to some iconic hits --including “Pretty in Pink” from the John Hughes brat pack hit of the same name --, remain a favourite from the post-punk UK music scene. Catch Richard Butler (vocals), Tim Butler (bass), Rich Good (guitar), Mars Williams (saxophone), Amanda Kramer (keyboards) and Paul Garisto (drums) live in concert on their Vancouver tour stop.

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Here’s the purr-fect weekend activity for cat lovers: The first of its kind to hit Canada’s west coast, the one-day MeowFest will be a day full of celebrity cats, food trucks, speakers,

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Summer gets sizzling. Taking place outside at the Concord Pacific lot near False Creek on Sunday, Brewery & the Beast brings together some of the city’s finest meat slingers, cooking up eats in all sorts of styles. Expect to sample everything from barbecue, sous-vide, to smoked, grilled, and slow-cooked; most proteins will be provided by event sponsor Two Rivers Meats, one of the finest in the biz.

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For nearly three decades, teen thespians have had the chance to brush up their Shakespeare at a summer intensive workshop with Carousel Theatre that includes a free, family-friendly performance at Granville Island. This year the 13- to 18-yearolds take on the flights of fancy of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and admission is free (with reserved seats available for $6).

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Jim Benning hopes more size will lead to fewer injuries Canucks’ GM defends free agent signings because of their size

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but the Canucks now have six defencemen signed for more than $2 million. The only other team in the NHL with that many is the Pittsburgh Penguins.

right about the Canucks’ injury troubles. The team had the highest man-games lost to injury in the NHL (excluding goaltenders) with 367.

Erik Gudbranson’s a big player. That hasn’t stopped him from being injured. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

was nothing he could do about the spinal injuries that ended his career. Sven Baertschi is a smaller forward, but that had little to do with the puck that deflected off the glass and broke his jaw.

Injuries have a lot more to do with conditioning, recovery, nutrition and just plain luck than they do with size. In fact, larger, tougher players tend to get hurt more over time as they’re the ones hitting and getting hit the most. This is particularly true as players get older, as it’s harder to recover from the myriad small injuries that occur over the course of a season.

Then there’s the argument that size in the lineup prevents injuries to other players, presumably from intimidation. That’s been the defence of having enforcers in the lineup: if you go after our skilled players, they say, we’ll send our tough guy after you or, alternatively, after your skilled players.

Unfortunately, there’s no evidence that this actually prevents injuries at all. For example, Matt Cooke’s brutal headshot that effectively ended Marc Savard’s career came

while two of the biggest, most intimidating players in the NHL were on the ice with Savard: Milan Lucic and Zdeno Chara.

Last season in the NHL, a team’s size had little correlation with the number of games they lost to injury. In fact, what little correlation there was moved in the opposite direction: larger teams actually had more injuries on average. The St. Louis Blues were one of the biggest teams last season: they lost 320 man-games to injury. The Tampa Bay Lightning were the smallest: they lost 104 man-games.

Really, the distribution looks mostly random because it mostly is. But the clear takeaway is that bigger teams don’t get injured less than smaller teams and adding size in order to prevent injuries just doesn’t make sense.

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

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Backhand Sauce If you like the Canucks’ signings in free agency, it could be for a number of reasons. You might prize Jay Beagle’s Stanley Cup experience, Antoine Roussel’s energy and Tim Schaller’s penalty killing. More than that, you, like Jim Benning and the Canucks, probably like that they’ll take on defensive responsibilities so that the team’s younger, more skilled players can be put in a more offensive role.

Benning, however, sees another benefit to signing the three veterans: injury prevention.

“With those guys we signed,” Benning said during an interview on TSN 1040, “they’re big, strong guys... We’ve had a lot of injuries the last couple years and one of the things that we looked at is maybe we’re not big and strong enough up front.

“That was the thinking that went in behind signing those guys.”

It’s an understandable line of thinking. Big, strong players presumably get injured less than smaller, softer players and big, tough players might potentially protect skilled players from predatory hits, scrums and fights.

There’s just one issue: it’s not true.

Let’s start with the Canucks themselves. The biggest forward and biggest defenceman on the team are Brandon Sutter and Erik Gudbranson. They’ve also been two of the most injured Canucks since they were acquired.

Sutter missed 62 games in his first season with the Canucks, stayed healthy in his second season, then missed another 21 games last season. Gudbranson has missed as many games as he’s played over the last two seasons: 82. Their size didn’t prevent their injuries.

That’s not really their fault. Injuries happen for a whole host of reasons, many of them outside a player or team’s control.

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2018 Genesis G80 looks David Chao

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Introduction

The 2018 Genesis G80 is a smooth and sporty four-door sedan that commands power with respectful poise.

It’s an interesting time these days in the automotive industry – it appears there are so many changes happening that we can barely keep up with the continuous changes in everything from ownership of companies to launching of new products.

One of the “big news” in the luxury brands in recent years is the debut of whole new brand from Hyundai. New brands don’t get introduced anymore but Hyundai had the vision and the guts to create a new brand to go head-to-head with the likes of BMW, Audi, Lexus and Infiniti.

With just more than two years in the market, the luxury automaker Genesis still has ways to go to create a strong presence among the many well-established brands. But with a lineup of six upcoming vehicles planned by 2021, Genesis is setting its sights high.

worse – looks like a BMW and Infiniti combined. ing Nevertheless, it does have Hyundais a sleek, refined appear- physically ance which is graced by button the striking crest grille, in large alloy wheels and an In elegant character line run-you ning along the vehicle. door The interior has been unlocks finely crafted like a you tailored suit and it is obvi-you. ous that a lot of thought went into ergonomics Pe and practicality. There is ample legroom in the options front and rear and the what interior feels spacious and The luxurious all over. The Technolo technology in the Genesis 3.8L G80 includes a 9.2-inch giving touchscreen with naviga- at tion, a wireless charger, a lb.-ft head-up display, as well rpm. as Android Auto and Ap- (Sport ple CarPlay capabilities. twin-turb There are countless other V6 features including the lat- horsepow est safety measures such and as emergency braking and at pedestrian detection. the In fact, the interior is trim) one of G80’s strongest at- DOHC tributes, with a gorgeous 420 design and welcoming feelrpm (the car “wakes up” with torque a music-like tone). eight-spe transmiss dai’s drive of  Financing rates turer as low as 0.99% mium The  Additional savings the L/100km on all new Civics 9.7 way  2017 Honda

The 2018 Genesis G80 is a smooth and sporty fourdoor sedan that commands power with respectful poise.

Genesis offers clear and up-front pricing as well as “Genesis at Home” – a service that provides test drives at your house, at-home delivery of your new car, at-home pickup for maintenance (with a free courtesy car), complimentary navigation map updates and 24/7 roadside assistance.

Design

Designers of the Genesis G80 imagined an “archer about to release an arrow” when designing the vehicle, apparently. They envisioned the G80 to have a sense of “athletic grace and confident poise.”

The Genesis G80 draws from various luxury model designs which give it a European flair but it also can come across generic.

This is both appealing and not-so-good, as it easily rekindles feelings of a BMW or an Audi, but it lacks uniqueness.

The G80 – for better or

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smart and drives great The only frustrating point is – like all Hyundais – you have to physically push the small button on the door handle in order to unlock the car.

In most luxury brands, you just have to touch the door handle and the car unlocks automatically as you pull the door towards you.

Performance

Canadians have three options when it comes to what is under the hood.

The G80 3.8 (Luxury or Technology trim) has a 3.8L DOHC V6 engine, giving 311 horsepower at 6,000 rpm and 293 lb.-ft of torque at 5,000 rpm. The G80 3.3T (Sport trim) comes with a twin-turbo 3.3L DOHC V6 engine, packing 365 horsepower at 6,000 rpm and 376 lb.-ft of torque at 1,300 rpm. Finally, the G80 5.0 (Ultimate trim) comes with a 5.0L DOHC V8 engine with 420 horsepower at 6,000 rpm and 383 lb.-ft of torque at 5,000 rpm.

All three come with an eight-speed automatic transmission and Hyundai’s HTRAC all-wheeldrive system. It is worthy of note that the manufacturer recommends premium fuel for this model.

The fuel economy for the G80 clocks in at 13.8 L/100km in the city and 9.7 L/100km on the highway for the base model.

The 2018 Genesis G80 is almost 4,700 lbs, making it some 500 lbs heavier than the closest competitor, the BMW 540i xDrive. While this weight may impact the G80 a bit on straightaways, the G80 behaves in a world-class fashion, with just-right steering feel and concise handling. The low profile tires can be jarring at times driving over bumpy

roads, but the overall experience is smooth and refined. Almost every passenger commented that the car “felt super expensive” – most of them never realized that this is a Hyundai brand.

To be specific, the G80 drives more confidently than the BMW 5-series, and even a tad sportier than the Audi A6. The steering feels more neutral and provides greater road sense than the Lexus GS models, too, making the G80 definitely one of the best mid-sized luxury sedans in the marketplace.

it will slowly get noticed in this highly competitive market.

Through the mantra of “human-centred luxury,” Genesis is poised make a difference with the G80, with a target squarely aimed at the global luxury brands. With the release of six new vehicles by 2021, Genesis is well on its way to make a real impression.

The interior has been finely crafted like a tailored suit and it is obvious that a lot of thought went into ergonomics and practicality.

Summary

The Genesis G80 comes in four trims, including Luxury, Technology, Sport, and Ultimate. Standard features are many and include heated and ventilated Nappa leather front seats, heated leather steering wheel with power tilt, windshield wiper de-icer among others. The standard safety features are contained within Genesis Smart Sense and include blind spot detection, rear-cross traffic alert, lane keep assist, rearview camera and multi-view camera, autonomous emergency braking with pedestrian detection, driver attention alert, pre-safety seat belt and adaptive cruise control.

The 2018 Genesis G80 was given the IIHS Top Safety Pick+ rating, one of the highest ratings a vehicle can receive.

The base price for the 2018 Genesis G80 is $55,000 MSRP for the Luxury trim, and moves up to $65,000 for the Ultimate trim.

Given the fact that the Genesis is some $5000 to $10,000 cheaper than similar Audi, BMW and Mercedes competitors,

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