Vancouver Courier August 16 2018

NEWS REFURBISHED BIRDS BACK AT OLYMPIC VILLAGE 5 OPINION SHOULD CITY DUMP CHARITY DONATION BINS? 10 VANCOUVER SHAKEDOWN OLD TREES UPROOTED BY NEW HOMES 16 OBITUARY ARTS JAZZ FEST’S KEN PICKERING REMEMBERED 17

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Go ahead, name a city councillor who brings value to the job Only four incumbents on the 11-member council are seeking re-election Oct. 20 Mike Howell

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Received an email the other day from a reader who reminded me of something I wrote in April 2017.

It was about city council and how much money each of the 11 elected representatives earned and whether they bring value to the job; for the record, it’s more than $82,000 for councillors, more than $160,000 for mayor.

The reader asked for a follow-up.

So, I’m obliging… sort of.

First, here’s what I wrote back then…

After being a dedicated council watcher for what seems like an eternity, I can say that not every politician at city hall always earns their keep, or brings value to an argument.

I’m not going to name names.

But let me give you a clue…

Grab a piece of paper, write down each councillor’s name.

Next to it, write at least one good idea or policy that he or

she has introduced that could have made or made a noticeable difference in this city.

Not the party, the person.

If you get stumped, then you’ll have your answer or answers to what will become an $82,000-a-year question in next year’s civic election.

Well, that election is only a few months away. In fact, it’s Oct. 20.

So now that we know only four incumbents are seeking re-election, it’s probably a good time to get out that pen and paper and get a head start on rating Melissa De Genova (NPA), Heather Deal (Vision Vancouver), Adriane Carr (Green Party) and former NPAer Hector Bremner (Yes Party).

But don’t expect me to help you do the research.

Loads of information is available on the city’s website, where you can find out how each of them voted on, say, tax increases, the Northeast False Creek Plan, various housing developments and bike lanes.

City councillors Heather Deal, Melissa De Genova, Adriane Carr and Hector Bremner have all said they will seek re-election Oct. 20. Bremner, however, is running for mayor. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

You can even watch previous council meetings, where you can see what each of these four had to say about an issue, and how they conducted themselves on the council floor. You can also email them — first name, dot, surname @ vancouver. ca to challenge them.

Reading the Courier is

also a good suggestion for insight.

As for the dozens of council wannabes, some of them, including mayoral candidates, have been very active on social media.

Some have held news conferences. All, I expect, will be going full tilt come September — or at least

they should be, if they’re interested in getting elected.

Housing is obviously the number one issue in this campaign.

But incumbents and wannabes may want to include three other issues in their campaign, as identified by city manager Sadhu Johnston in a memo he wrote to council in March of this year. The memo, which was recently posted on the city’s website, had to do with the launch of a “new look” home page on the website.

Here’s what Johnston wrote: “The home page has been visually updated and re-organized to make it easier for users to access the information they most need. For example, we know from our statistics that some of the topics users of our site are most interested in are tax management, permits and garbage pick-up, so those items are now prominent as part of a ‘quick click menu.’”

So there you go — it’s

all about taxes, permits and garbage.

Adjust your platforms accordingly, candidates.

As for getting up to speed on housing, candidates should probably check out an event Aug. 28 hosted by the City of Vancouver Renters Advisory Committee and LandlordBC. It’s called “Delivering rental housing in your community” and runs from 6 to 9 p.m. at city hall.

You must register in advance.

Emphasis will be on the “financial considerations and the critical role municipalities and their political leaders play in the process.”

What you will learn, according to organizers, is “invaluable knowledge to inform your campaign and ensure you can speak with authority on the subject of rental housing when canvassing your constituents and debating your competitors.”

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Big birds return to roost

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They’re back. After nine months away, Olympic Village’s resident birds returned home Tuesday morning.

The Birds by artist Myfanwy MacLeod was first installed in 2010 after the Winter Olympics. The sculpture had to be removed back in November for repairs — the pair of giant sparrows was showing signs of severe damage due to the weather as well as people climbing, riding bikes and skateboarding on large sections of the birds.

Eric Fredericksen, public art program manager for the City of Vancouver, said the sculptures, which were originally made of foam with a hard shell, were first sent to Calgary where they made moulds of the originals. The moulds were then sent to a foundry in China where the sculptures were cast in aluminum before being sent back to Calgary for painting.

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chosen due to the size of the sculptures and the timing — there are only so many foundries that could accommodate the job. There is one in Washington state the city has worked with in the past but it was booked up.

The city wanted to have the sculpture back in time for the 27th International Ornithological Congress and the inaugural Vancouver International Bird Festival, which are set to take over the city Aug. 19 to 26.

The cost of removing, rebuilding and reinstalling the sculptures is expected to come in under $400,000; original estimates

pegged the cost at around $425,000. The money is coming from a reserve fund previously set up for maintenance of public art.

To celebrate the congress, the reinstallation of The Birds is joined by another project by MacLeod in partnership with the Contemporary Art Gallery. From Aug. 13 to Sept. 3 a series of posters featuring birds called Neighbours will be displayed throughout the city in transit shelters. The posters are a part of the gallery’s series examining humans’ relationship with, and impact on, the natural world. @JessicaEKerr

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Vancouver gang task force delivers ‘major blow’ to Jessica Kerr

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Vancouver police say they have delivered a major blow to organized crime in the Lower Mainland.

“Project Territory represents a significant, and I would say one of the largest that I’ve seen in my career, disruption to the ongoing gang violence in the region,” Supt. Mike Porteous said Aug. 10.

The 17-month-long investigation has resulted in 92 criminal charges against 14 individuals, including the parents of some of the gang members. Porteous said the individuals are closely aligned with the Red Scorpions, specifically with Jamie Bacon and Kyle Latimer, who was arrested this week, and had conflicts with several other organized crime groups in the Lower Mainland.

“As a result of that we had an ongoing violent conflict,” he said, also naming a group led by Sameet, Gary and the late Randy Kang. “Multiple shootings and murders in the region are attributed to the conflict and the Kang/

Left: Police seized $800,000 worth of Red Scorpion-designed jewelry and a Desert Eagle gold-plated .44-Magnum pistol. Right: Vancouver police officers stand over the $833,000 seized during Project Territory, which targeted a Lower Mainland organized crime group. PHOTOS DAN TOULGOET

Latimer group has participated in those over the past few years.”

The investigation also resulted in the seizure of 93 firearms, more than 16,000 rounds of ammunition and 59 prohibited devices, including silencers, over-capacity magazine, automatic weapons and a pressure cooker bomb. Officers also seized 10 kilograms of fentanyl, 40 kilograms of cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin, $833,000 in

Canadian cash, $800,000 in Red Scorpion-designed jewelry and $350,000 in collector cars.

Project Territory is just one part of a larger operation. Started by Vancouver police in March 2017, Task Force Tourniquet involved several investigations targeting four major, violent crime groups in the region.

The provincial Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of B.C. joined the operation in September 2017,

and by January of this year every police department in the Lower Mainland had committed resources to the task force, as did the RCMP’s Integrated Homicide Investigation Team.

Porteous said at its peak, some 45 full-time investigators from across the region were working on Task Force Tourniquet.

“Project Territory was wide-sweeping and has been very successful,” said Staff Sgt. Lisa Byrne, team com-

mander on the task force.

“We have taken weapons off of the street and disrupted violent activities being committed by several different crime groups.”

Since March 2017, the work of the task force has resulted in 34 individuals facing a total of 201 charges. Additional charges are expected as the investigation continues.

Byrne said investigators also noticed some disturbing trends in organized

crime in the region. One trend officers discovered t was that gang members a c are subletting high-end rental properties, often fa- r cilitated by a management c company that specializes t in providing properties to w k gang members.

“They are doing this because these properties con-a tain security features which j they believe keeps them safe c mostly from rival gangs,” she p said. “These are often towersf either in the downtown coresa of various cities — Surrey, fi Vancouver, Richmond — or o other buildings throughout the region and high-end a properties in North and e West Vancouver.” s One management com- o pany was renting proper- c ties to several different rival crime groups. h “My team found this par- o ticularly disturbing because o we had rival gang members housed within dozens of o metres of one another and h the potential for spontane- a ous violence and gun play t was obviously something a that was super concerning r for us when we saw this p happening,” Byrne said. f

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organized crime She added that shortterm rental properties are also being used. In many cases the property is being rented by the management company then sublet to the gang members, often without the property owner knowing what’s going on.

And gang members and their associates aren’t just looking for a place to call home. Byrne said the properties are often used for processing fentanyl and cooking drugs, storing firearms, cash and drugs, or hosting parties.

“Several of these parties are also linked to violent events where drive-by shootings occurred, assaults occurred and murders occurred,” she said.

Byrne said investigators have also noticed a trend of parental involvement in organized crime groups.

“In the broad spectrum of all of the projects that we have run over the last year and a half, we have noticed that parental involvement, at times, can be anywhere ranging from being complicit in the activities, willfully blind of their children’s

activities, or completely unaware of their children’s activities,” she said.

The three parents arrested as part of Project Territory are facing charges of participating in a criminal organization.

“In order to start to combat this gang violence problem, enforcement is not the only thing that police departments are doing,” Byrne said. “Parental engagement is necessary to assist in preventing gang involvement.”

Porteous said the department has seen a decrease in gang-related violence in the 18 months since Task Force Tourniquet started, adding that during the course of several of the related investigations police were able to intercept gang members allegedly on their way to kill someone.

“This type of strategy works in mitigating violence and we’re seeing a downtick. I just looked at the statistics in Vancouver recently and we’re down somewhere like 40 per cent for shootings,” he said. @JessicaEKerr

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The City of Vancouver has filed a petition with the B.C. Supreme Court seeking to declare the owners of a fire-damaged heritage home at 3737 Angus Dr. in violation of the Heritage Property Standards of Maintenance bylaw.

The city wants a mandatory order forcing the owners to comply with the requirements of the bylaw and it’s also asking for an order that would force the owners to pay for the costs associated with the proceedings.

The homeowners are Miao Fei Pan and Wen Huan Yang.

The house was purchased for $10.7 million on Oct. 5, 2012. It was assessed at $14.2 million as of July 1, 2017.

A fire, which investigators concluded was caused by arson, significantly damaged the roof and walls of the Angus Drive home in October 2017. It was vacant and unfurnished at the time, the report from the fire department stated.

A protective covering wasn’t put on the house after the incident to protect it from the elements despite orders from the city to do so.

The petition through the B.C. Supreme Court is the latest move by the city to address concerns about the state of the 1910 heritage building, which is in the First Shaughnessy Heritage Conservation Area — Vancouver’s first-ever conservation area. The house was designed by architects Samuel Maclure and Cecil Fox, and built by contractors Coffin and McLennan.

The Heritage Property Standards of Maintenance bylaw was adopted in 2015.

In June, the city prosecutor’s office also approved charges under the Heritage Property Standards of Maintenance against the owners — charges which have yet to be proven in

court. The information was sworn at Robson Square Provincial Court June 20.

Count one in that case 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 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.

The main difference between the petition and the charges that had previously been laid is that the petition to the B.C. Supreme Court is considered a civil matter while the charges are a prosecution.

In addition to seeking a declaration that the owners are in violation of the bylaw, the city, through the petition to the B.C. Supreme Court, wants an order that: • requires the owners to hire registered professionals and submit a complete heritage alteration permit application to repair the building within 15 days of the date of the order; • requires the owners to make complete applications for building, plumbing, trades and electrical permits, as may be required, within 15 days after the issuance of the heritage alteration permit; • requires the owners to retain a contractor within 15 days after the issuance of the application permits; and • requires the owners to complete the restoration

work in accordance with the approved plans within three months after the contractor is retained.

In terms of timeline for the B.C. Supreme Court matter, the steps in the process are: 1. The petition and affidavits are served personally on the defendant owners of the property; 2. The defendants must file and serve their response and supporting affidavits within 21 days, but this period can be extended either by agreement or by order of the court; and 3. The city then can reply to the response if there is anything in the response that hasn’t been addressed in the petition or supporting affidavits.

A statement of significance produced by heritage consultant Elana Zysblat said that the arts-andcrafts-style home, known as the Frank W Rounsefell Residence, is important for “how it illustrates the establishment of Shaughnessy Heights as the exclusive Vancouver neighbourhood developed by the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1907 between West 16th & King Edward Avenues, Arbutus and Oak Streets.”

Rounsefell was a wealthy businessman and community leader in the late 19th and early 20th century.

The home is also associated with Donald C. Cromie, who was publisher and owner of the Vancouver Sun newspaper between 1942 and 1964. Cromie owned and lived in the house from 1955 to 1967.

Zysblat’s report notes that character-defining elements of the house include: its continuous use as a single-family residence since 1911, its prominent location on Angus Drive in First Shaughnessy, its rectangular, horizontal form in the arts-and-crafts style, and its large garden. @naoibh

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‘Knitter extraordinaire’ Janis Waller has died Lifetime Senior Volunteer of the Year winner remembered Sandra Thomas

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Between January and September of last year, Janis Waller knit more than 200 baby hats and donated them to St. Paul’s Hospital, with each hat taking about 90 minutes to create.

In addition to knitting the hats, she also delivered them — as well as ones knit by other volunteers— to the hospital.

The “knitter extraordinaire” knit with five different groups in Vancouver and Burnaby and collectively they donated many tiny toques to local hospitals. Waller was a member of the West Coast Knitters’ Guild, which knits items for various charitable projects, including Christmas sales that benefit Nova House in Richmond, a safe house for women and children fleeing abusive situations, and

the Purple Hat Campaign, which endeavours to give a purple baby hat to every new mother leaving the maternity ward in October and November to raise awareness about shaken baby syndrome.

It was Waller’s dedication to community that won her the Vancouver Courier’s Lifetime Senior Volunteer of the Year Award last year, which came with a tour to Iceland valued at more than $5,000, courtesy of Ageless Adventures. Waller’s win was announced last year at the 2017 Lifetime Seniors Talks + Tables event, presented by the Courier and St. Paul’s Foundation.

Unfortunately, the Courier received word last week that Waller recently passed away before she was able to take that trip.

When nominating Waller last year, Linda Hull told the Courier, “She is always willing to share her yarn stash with anyone who needs a ball or two for their projects. I can think of only three things that she has ever knit for herself.”

Waller was also an active member of the St.

James Anglican Church where, in addition to singing in the choir, she helped organize the bi-annual rummage sales and, of course, knit many items for the sales that benefit the work the church does with residents of the Downtown Eastside.

Waller’s obituary reads, in part, “Janis Waller, knitter extraordinaire and supreme organizer, has passed away in her 72nd

year. She will be lovingly remembered by her husband Paul, brothers Philip, Andrew and Henry, and numerous nieces, nephews, aunt, uncle and friends.”

A requiem mass was held Saturday, Aug. 11, at St James’ Anglican Church. Donations may be made to the St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation, in memory of Janis Waller.

With files from Jessica Kerr. @sthomas10

Janis Waller (right) was the recipient of the 2017 Lifetime Senior Volunteer of the Year Award presented by the Courier.

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Should the City of Vancouver dump clothing donation bins?

Mike Klassen

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Her name was Sveta.

She was the 39-year-old woman whose tragic death took place just weeks ago as a result of getting stuck head first in the chute of a clothing bin stationed near West Point Grey Community Centre.

We know Sveta’s name because of a series of handwritten messages her devastated companion, Michael, left in a notebook set out by the community centre to memorialize her passing. The Vancouver Sun reported that Michael camped with Sveta nearby in a small tent, the scabs on his legs indicating a difficult life on the street.

Sveta’s accidental death is one of several local fatalities in recent years resulting from people becoming stuck in the ubiquitous metal bins.

Much more often, however, first responders are sent to rescue those who get an arm, neck, torso or their entire body trapped in the bin.

Some are calling to make the bins safer. I think we must ask whether the bins’ downsides outweigh the benefits.

Organizations such as Diabetes Canada, InclusionBC, Developmental Disabilities Association and

Columnist Mike Klassen thinks it’s time to ask if the downsides of clothing donation bins outweigh the benefits. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

even Vancouver Fire Fighters use the bins to fund charitable causes. Clothing and book donation bins are often owned by for-profit companies that license a charity’s name in exchange for partial proceeds from what is collected.

If you have one of these bins in your neighbourhood, you know them for the eyesore they quickly become.

The bins are visited by those who scavenge the clothing and dump what they do not want on the ground beside it.

If the container is overflowing, count on finding

bags of T-shirts, jeans, old socks — even furniture and mattresses —piled up beside it. The resulting mess around these bins triggers hundreds of 3-1-1 calls each year, for which taxpayers pick up the tab.

Items picked out of the bins do not only help clothe the needy. Unlicensed “pop-up” vendors will resell the clothes on a busy sidewalk. What does not sell is often thrown away.

Take a look at the clothing articles dumped into the Grandview Cut near Commercial Drive.

The City of Burnaby

has already chosen to ban these bins from public property. Richmond still has the bins, but with restrictions in place. Vancouver has dragged its feet on regulating them.

According to a Metro Vancouver study, an average person in the region throws out an astounding 19 kilograms, or 42 pounds, of textiles every year. The bins have become a convenience for landfill operators who do not want to bear the cost of diverting textiles away from the waste stream.

It should be no surprise to our cities why so many

articles of clothing are winding up in the dump — people are buying more stuff.

Adjusting for inflation, replacing garments has never been more affordable than it is today.

There are multiple reports on the damage these receptacles are doing by allowing clothing articles to be collected, baled and delivered in shipping containers to far flung developing countries.

Textile industry watchdogs claim that cities in East Africa and Central America have especially felt the brunt of this clothing being

dumped on them. The flood has helped to wipe out indigenous clothing manufacturers and the jobs that go with them. Much of the clothing winds up in landfills overseas.

The myth about textiles is that they can be easily recycled. In fact, reusing fabrics is costly and difficult, which is why only one per cent ever makes it into new articles of clothing. A slightly larger percentage finds its way into carpet padding or is shredded to make insulation products.

There are alternatives for donating clothing that do not pose a safety risk.

Our household drops off clean clothes at a Salvation Army depot during business hours. However, only about 10 per cent of the clothing donated to these places is considered good enough to be resold in a retail store.

In light of Sveta’s death and many others, we should be thinking long and hard if these bins are a risk to public safety. How the charities recoup lost revenue is another question. The practicalities of dealing with textiles in the waste stream is not something governments should outsource either.

Regardless of how you look at this issue, the status quo is not an option. @MikeKlassen

Spain in the membrane: What Vancouver can learn from the Spaniards Michael Geller geller@sfu.ca

I often enjoy checking to see what I was doing on a particular date in years gone by.

Eight years ago today, I had just completed a trip to Spain that included a house exchange in Begur, a coastal medieval village about an hour and a half from Barcelona.

Upon returning home, I prepared a list of ideas, big and small, that might improve Vancouver. Here, in no particular order, are some of the things I noticed.

Parking by the minute

Many Spanish parking garages charge you by the minute, not the hour or half hour. While perhaps not as profitable for the operator, it is much fairer. Vancouver parking meters charge by the minute. Perhaps Impark, EasyPark and other parking lot operators should be encouraged to do so, too.

Cigarette butt holders

For years, I have been upset by Vancouver streets lit-

tered with cigarette butts. In Spain, I came across plastic devices that fold into a cone and can be inserted in the beach, or just about anywhere, to collect cigarette butts. Some incorporate advertising. Surely, we can adapt this for Vancouver.

discourage cars from intruding into bicycle lanes, and cyclists from intruding into the car lanes. Now why don’t we do this?

Adding floors to existing buildings

Painted traffic boxes

To avoid blocking traffic, major intersections often have painted boxes that must NEVER be entered by motorists unless the driver is certain he can get out before the light changes. Given the congestion caused by cars often blocking Vancouver intersections, we should start doing this here.

Decorative parking garage doors

Instead of industrial-looking, open metal grill doors, many multi-family developments incorporate decorative garage door designs.

This is something most local architects don’t even think about. However, since garage doors are often quite

Vancouver would be wise to adopt raised bike lane markers found in many Spanish cities. PHOTO iSTOCK

prominent along a street or lane, it would be a good way to beautify Vancouver.

Attractive garbage containers

In Spain, I rarely saw ugly graffiti-covered metal dumpsters like those found along Vancouver streets and lanes. Instead, there are colour coded garbage containers (with provision for recycling) with foot operated covers.

Yes, they prevent dump-

ster diving, but perhaps that’s a good thing too.

For those concerned that this would eliminate revenue opportunities for the homeless, I say let’s find them other work opportunities.

Raised bicycle lane markers

While many bicycle lanes are completely separated, in some situations a small raised marker is set into the pavement to help

Rather than demolish older buildings, it is much more common to add floors to existing buildings.

This is an idea I came across in many Asian cities as well. While there are a few instances of adding floors to older buildings in Vancouver, this is an idea worthy of further application. One possibility: using lightweight prefabricated modular units hoisted into place.

Pedestrian streets

While we talk about creating more pedestrian streets in Vancouver, throughout Spain they are everywhere, in cities and small towns. For many reasons, we should start doing this in Vancouver and surrounding municipalities. It is not just a “big city” idea.

More public art and decorative fountains

There is a much stronger tradition of public art throughout Spain, when compared to Vancouver.

Yes, we are trying, but there is so much more we could be doing. One idea, adding public art in the centre of muchneeded traffic roundabouts.

Celebrating architecture

The architecture of Barcelona is one of its key attractions. But when people think of Vancouver, they think of nature — the mountains, the ocean, Stanley Park and, yes, Granville Island. But we too have interesting architecture that should be actively promoted and celebrated.

To be fair, there is much that Spanish cities could learn from Vancouver, especially when it comes to managing graffiti.

Those of you who have been to Spain may have other suggestions to add to my list. I look forward to hearing them. @michaelgeller

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It’s not just the venue, ambience, music and food.

What makes or breaks a great evening are the people (or the person) you are with.

What makes the difference in the party of life? Your family — the important people you live with every day are always at the top of the list. But who can you turn to when you need a helping hand, some encouragement, honest feedback or a word of advice?

— real friends make you feel better about yourself. Studies have shown that most people feel worse about themselves when they see how great their Facebook friends look and how much more fun they’re having.

The reason of course is that most people use Facebook as a forum for showing their best self(ies) after at least a dozen shots are trashed, their accomplishments and activities. When you’re hanging out with real friends in real life, they don’t act like you’re on a date.

along. You may have casual school or work friends. You get along well when you’re in the same place every day.

Most often we lose touch when the class is over, we graduate or we change jobs.

We have friends who are enablers or co-conspirators.

They feed our worst habits.

You can have family friends They can be shopping who are, just like family, friends who encourage us always there and together for to spend more than our life — even if you don’t get partners would. They could be drinking or gambling buddies. These friends amplify our flaws, bring out the worst in us and lead us deeper into debt and addiction.

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SOUTH RUNWAY CLOSURE South Runway Maintenance On Wednesday, August 29 and Thursday, August 30 the South Runway will be closed from 10 p.m. until 7 a.m. the following morning for critical maintenance of the runway.

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Six decades later, the Coaster remains the most popular ride at Playland. It’s still powered by its original 1923 Westinghouse engine. See related video at vancourier.com. PHOTOS DAN TOULGOET

Playland’s iconic roller coaster celebrates 60 years of chills and thrills

Jessica Kerr

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Tim Baldwin has been on more than 1,000 roller coasters in his life, so when he says something’s good you’d better believe it.

Baldwin is the communications director for the American Coaster Enthusiasts. And he is quite the enthusiast, travelling from his home in Texas to Vancouver to ride the Wooden Coaster at Playland more than once.

“I think I’ve been there three or four times and every time I go there I’m reminded of how fantastic a ride that is,” he told the Courier in a telephone interview. “I hope the people of Vancouver truly cherish it because they have something really special there.”

The Coaster marks its 60th anniversary this year.

Designed by Carl Phare and

constructed in 1957 and ’58 by a team led by Walker LeRoy, not everyone was initially convinced the design would work.

As the story goes, in 1958 a group of engineers from the province came out to inspect the nearly completed ride.

The experts laughed and told the two men their project would fail. They didn’t believe a roller coaster train would be able to make it around the collection of dips, bends and curves powered only by gravity and momentum after the first hill.

LeRoy bet the group $100 to prove them wrong.

He strapped a plank to the wheels of an unfinished train and cranked up the motor, a 1923 75-horsepower electric Westinghouse that still drives the ride today. With nothing but a rope to hold onto, LeRoy set off, somehow managing to stay on the plank for the 90-second ride that can reach speeds of more than 70 kilometres an hour.

The rest is history.

The ride was ready for the opening of the 1958 PNE and has been providing thrills and rattling nerves ever since.

A ride with personality

“I like to think of it as a rite of passage growing up in Vancouver, that it’s part of your experience being a Metro Vancouverite,” says Jeff Strickland, vicepresident of operations at PNE/Playland.

Over the years, the Coaster has become Playland’s most popular ride. Last year it was ridden 359,152 times.

“The cool thing about this ride is that you can’t buy a ride like this anymore.

It’s so — I don’t want to say old — it’s so seasoned and unique that the ride has so much personality that a steel coaster doesn’t give you,” Strickland says.

The weather and the humidity level in the air can affect the speed of the ride. If it’s hot and dry, the trains run faster than on a cooler, wetter day.

“Where you sit on the train gives you a different experience,” he says. “If you’re up front, of course, you have a different vantage point and if you’re at the back of the ride you certainly get whipped around a bit more.”

Baldwin gets excited talking about what sets the Coaster apart from other rides.

“The layout is so neat.

A lot of times coasters start out strong and then they lose their speed and die out, and I think this one is strong all the way to the finish,” he says. “The turns keep getting tighter and you continue to get airtime — that’s kind of coaster lingo for negative G forces where you pop out of your seat — and this ride is just loaded with that. It’s just so much fun.”

Landmark status

In 2009, the American Coaster Enthusiasts (ACE) named the Coaster an ACE Roller Coaster Landmark, a designation that is reserved for rides of “historical significance.”

The ride is the only one in Canada to earn the designation and was the first outside of the U.S. The first recipient was named in 2002 and since then a little more than 40 rides have earned an ACE Roller Coaster Landmark plaque.

“With more than 2,000 roller coasters worldwide,

that speaks to the specialness of each of these designations,” Baldwin says.

It has also been designated one of the city’s Places that Matter by the Vancouver Heritage Foundation, which aims to highlight and commemorate the people, places and events that have shaped the city.

Cost to coast

But what does it take to keep a ride running for seven decades?

In 1958, it cost $200,000 to build the Coaster. Today the PNE/Playland spends about $100,000 a year maintaining the ride.

Every morning, before the park opens, a team carries out a routine inspection of the ride. It takes about two hours and any major issues are addressed before the ride starts running, says Shawn Joinson, manager of Playland maintenance and ride operations. He first started working at the park when he was 15 years old.

The off-season maintenance schedule starts in mid-November and runs until pre-season inspections start in early April. Join-

son says there is a team of roughly four to five employees working on the ride in the offseason.

Over the years, some of the wood and other parts have been replaced, but Joinson estimates about 50 per cent of the ride is still original from 1958, including the massive motor, 82-foot-long leather belt and wheel that pull the train up that first hill.

“They don’t make them like they used to,” he says.

And Canada’s oldest working roller coaster isn’t going anywhere anytime soon.

Strickland says there is a longterm plan for the Coaster.

“It’s a timeless ride,” he says. “We have a master plan for this park, for the site, with many rides that we expect to retire and many that we expect to keep for the next 20 or so years. This one is infinite given the way we continue to replace portions that keep it running well.” @JessicaEKerr This year’s edition of the PNE runs Aug. 18 to Sept. 3.

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News Vancouver police identify victim in road rage shooting

Public Hearing: September 5, 2018 Wednesday, September 5, 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 the following: 1. 2018 Annual Inflationary Adjustments to Density Bonus Contributions To amend the Zoning and Development By-law to implement 2018 annual inflationary adjustments to Density Bonus Contributions. The inflationary adjustments to Density Bonus Contributions allow the City to keep pace with annual changes in property values and construction costs and help ensure the continued delivery of necessary growth-related amenities and infrastructure.

2. Miscellaneous Amendment: 155 East 37th Avenue (Little Mountain) To make miscellaneous amendments to CD-1 (704) (Comprehensive Development) District at 155 East 37th Avenue (Little Mountain) to correct inadvertent errors.

3. 2040 Columbia Street (Lougheed Residence) To add the existing building at 2040 Columbia Street (Lougheed Residence) to the Vancouver Heritage Register in the ‘C’ evaluation category, and to designate the heritage building’s exterior as protected heritage property.

4. Amendments to the Zoning and Development By-law Regarding the RM-8A/8AN Districts for townhouse areas in Cambie Corridor and Grandview-Woodland To establish new zoning districts, RM-8A/RM-8AN, and rezone specified areas in Grandview-Woodland and Cambie Corridor to RM-8A/RM-8AN to enable the development of townhouses as identified in the Grandview-Woodland Community Plan and Cambie Corridor Plan.

5. Amendments to the Arbutus Corridor Official Development Plan and Regional Context Statement Official Development Plan To make amendments to the Arbutus Corridor Official Development Plan and Regional Context Statement Official Development Plan to remove lands no longer required for transportation or greenway purposes, in alignment with the Arbutus Greenway Design Vision. These lands will retain their existing zoning.

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Vancouver police have identified the victim in last week’s alleged road rage shooting.

Willis Charles Hunt, 33, was shot and killed early Friday morning following what police are calling a road rage incident.

Just after 1:30 a.m.

Aug. 10, police received a 911 call about a man shot near Bridgeway Street, just under the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge.

Officers and paramedics arrived minutes later but Hunt could not be saved and died at the scene. A 32-year-old woman who had been in the vehicle, a grey Toyota Matrix, with Hunt suffered minor injuries.

Vancouver police media relations officer Const.

Jason Doucette said the suspect was driving a white sedan.

“It is still very early in this investigation and our detectives are working to confirm the circumstances that led to this man’s death,” Doucette said in a press release.

“We are reminding anyone who may find themselves involved in a road rage incident to remain calm, not to engage the occupants of the other vehicle, and to call 911 if you feel your safety could be at risk.”

No arrests have been made.

Homicide detectives are asking anyone with dash cam footage from the area of McGill and Renfrew streets between 1:30 and 2 a.m. Friday, Aug. 10, or who may have information about this incident, to contact investigators at 604-717-2500 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-2228477.

The death is Vancouver’s 14th homicide of the year.

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Rash of tree removals runs counter to city’s Urban Forest Strategy Beloved neighbourhood tree lost to development Grant Lawrence

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“A beautiful Douglas fir tree native to the West Coast stood tall for more than 65 years before being violently cut down in a few hours on Friday, July 20, 2018.”

So begins a petition that has been circulating around my East Vancouver neighbourhood. It seeks penalties against a developer and builder. It has so far garnered 128 signatures and 72 mostly furious comments.

Even if you don’t know the details of this story, you’ll probably recognize the scenario. An old house was purchased and rented out for a few months. Then the tell-tale plastic orange fence framed by two-by-fours was erected around the city trees along the sidewalk.

“Dad,” declared my fiveyear-old son, obviously a born-and-bred Vancouverite, “the orange fence! That means that house is going to be ripped down, right?”

Right.

You know the deal after that: the house is demolished, usually in a day, along with pretty much every living thing on every square centimetre of the lot, something I call the scorched earth syndrome.

I get why certain houses are tear downs, and why it’s cheaper to build from the ground up than to renovate, but I’ve never understood why every bush, tree and blade of grass must be ripped out, chopped down and overturned before a new house can be built.

“It’s because contractors are basically trying to build

The removal of a 65-plus-year-old Douglas fir upset a number of East Vancouver residents who’ve started a petition to seek penalties against a developer and builder. PHOTO GRANT LAWRENCE

homes as fast as humanly possible,” explained a busy Vancouver contractor who insisted he not be named. He currently has four major jobs on the go, none of which are the development in question.

“Most builders don’t really care about trees and foliage and will find any reason to get rid of them. It’s just way easier to work with a bare lot than have to work around bushes and trees, both above ground and below.”

I assumed as much. Apparently, the city will allow you to remove any bush or tree on your property with a trunk that measures less than 20 centimetres in diameter at a height of 1.4 metres from the ground.

That’s roughly a 64cm circumference. If you want to get rid of anything measuring 20 cm across or larger, you need a tree removal permit, and that’s a procedure that will involve either a certified arborist or an accredited plumber.

Among various other reasons, the tree you want to

remove has to be proven to be interfering with your sewage line or water main, or is “dead, dying, or hazardous.”

There must be a hell of a lot of builders finding hazardous trees in this town, because the scorched earth method of development seems omnipresent and appears contrary to the city’s Urban Forest Strategy.

Announced in 2014, the goal is to plant 150,000 trees by 2020.

“It’s not morally right, but trees create obstacles,” said the contractor I spoke to. “If a builder doesn’t like what one arborist has to say, they get another one.”

The neighbourhood petition states that “the landmark tree was not only an eagle habitat but also offered protection and sustenance to other wildlife. Residents close by benefitted from its cooling shade.” It was one of three trees planted by the former homeowners to commemorate the births of their children.

So… what happened?

According to a confusing account of the incident in the Vancouver Sun, the city ordered the tree in question to be protected. To do that, the foundation wall of the property’s laneway house couldn’t be built deeper than 45 centimetres.

An onsite arborist apparently expressed concern

about the tree’s roots once they were exposed. A second arborist was brought in who said the roots looked fine. At some point, the city was supposedly alerted that the excavation might have compromised the tree.

A stop-work order was placed on the entire construction, and the tree was deemed hazardous. After growing to a lofty height of about 70 feet since the early 1950s, it was gone in a day. Construction resumed, with the condition that the owner will eventually plant a replacement tree. With the Urban Forest Strategy in mind, shouldn’t two trees be planted for every one removed?

“Residents of Trinity Street and the Burrardview/ Hastings-Sunrise community are outraged at the death of this tree and its removal,” states the petition.

It’s a tough situation.

The owner of the property said the plan was to keep the tree. To his credit, he saved some other bushes and shrubs with orange fencing. He intends to live

in the home with his young family, which includes two toddlers. It’s a hell of an unfortunate way to enter into a close-knit neighbourhood.

When those initial questions about the roots arose, the owner supposedly tried calling city hall multiple times.

“It can be really frustrating dealing with city hall when it comes to trees, but if you go in person to the Development and Building Services Centre at 10th and Cambie, you’ll never wait more than 20 minutes,” said the anonymous contractor I spoke told to. “And, by the way, they’re watching you.

They have aerial Google views of the city for every year going back to 2007 and can zoom right in on your property. If you mess with a tree, they’re going to know about it. They’re basically hippies with power.”

The city is still investigating the matter. Right or wrong, the total or near-total excavation of lots clearly needs attention if, in fact, the city is serious about its healthy urban forest plan.

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For Vancouver jazz fans, Ken Pickering’s legacy is that he brought the world’s top and emerging musicians right to their front door.

For Vancouver jazz musicians, it’s the numbers of doors he opened for them, all around the world.

“He believed in us,” says Gregg Simpson, a former jazz drummer who, for the past three years, had also been Pickering’s neighbour on Bowen Island. “He loved the music and cared about the scene. He was the scene for local musicians.”

Pickering died of throat cancer on Aug. 10. A co-founder of what’s now the TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival, he also provided jazz fans with their musical fix as owner of Black Swan Records, back when vinyl reigned supreme, and was the long-time artistic director of Coastal Jazz and Blues Society, which hosted the festival.

In 1985, Pickering asked Simpson’s band, Lunar Adventures, to play at the first Vancouver jazz festival

at Granville Island and kept asking them back for the next 10 years.

Almost as important as giving musicians exposure at festivals and concerts, Pickering was instrumental in providing local jazz musicians with work when big names came to play in Vancouver. He was committed to giving young musicians every opportunity he could.

“Once you got someone with Ken’s connections and administrative abilities, that’s when the scene really took off, especially for free jazz,” says Simpson. “He always liked the newest things that people had never heard of. He was very eclectic. He put it all together and kept it together.

“And he was very erudite. He knew what the real stuff was.”

In a 2015 profile in the Westender, Pickering said, “I think the jazz discovery, for me, happened around the age of 15, and I was immediately proselytizing for jazz.

It was just the biggest thing in my life, and I became a bit of an evangelist.”

He was childhood friends with John Orysik, another festival’s co-founder.

They’d met in Grade 2 and, as teenagers, would wax philosophical about music on their walks to Templeton secondary school.

“We would talk all the way to school about music and life and all that. I think John’s passion for jazz music began almost coincidentally with mine, just because I think we were very influenced by each other’s tastes — in music and life — in those tender teenage years.”

“It was a time of great discovery,” Orysik, the society’s media director told reporter Kristi Alexandra.

“It was about searching for meaning, it was about creating community, it was about being creative and expressing your humanity through music. We were attracted to that, and there was so much variety, and it was coming from all over the world. Jazz is a global music, and we were listening to the artists that were coming to town that were important.”

This year’s festival was the first one that Pickering missed.

“Many of you know by

now that I’m dealing with another round of health issues that surfaced in early May,” he wrote on Facebook. “After weeks of tests of every kind it’s become clear that the cancer has come back aggressively…

Chris [Fedina, his partner] is strong and we have lots of good support in the immediate vicinity here on Bowen.

Because of my new reality I’ll almost certainly miss my first festival since 1985. A strange feeling... There’s nothing I wish more than to see everyone take in some live music and enjoy themselves.”

He did manage to take in one show and, ever the jazz evangelist, used Facebook to encourage people to do what he couldn’t.

“If I was in town today, there’s so much good shit, at the Roundhouse, David Lam Park, tonight at Ironworks with Eric Revis Quartet (Vandermark, Kris D, Chad T) and Jaime Branch’s Fly or Die will be an evening to die for … well maybe bad choice of words, but it will be awesome! If you’re in town don’t miss it.

Thanks again for all the love as I battle this illness thing.”

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Putting the VR in YVR Sabrina Furminger sabrina@yvrscreenscene

It wasn’t that long ago that virtual reality existed solely in the works of cyberpunk writers and futurists — a madcap concept that belonged to a sci-fi future.

Welcome to the future.

That sci-fi future is now.

And, in the rapidly expanding VR sphere, Vancouver is emerging as a global tastemaker.

Virtual reality in 2018 is almost exactly as cyberpunk writers imagined it would be: an immersion in a different world facilitated by headsets such as the Oculus Rift and Samsung Gear.

VR tech began in earnest in the mid-1990s and kicked into high gear in the 2010s with the introduction of consumer headsets. It’s been widely embraced by the gaming community, although it’s used by documentary and narrative storytellers, too.

According to Statista, it is a $12.1 billion USD industry with an estimated 171 million users around the globe.

In Vancouver, VR’s growth is evident in the multiple VR arcades that are popping up around the city, events such as the Vancouver Virtual Reality Film Festival and the establishment of the VRAR. Academy, which offers a three-month program in VR and AR development.

VRAR.Academy grads don’t have to leave the city in order to wield their skills.

In three years, the local VR industry has ballooned from six studios to nearly 200 players, says Nancy Basi, executive director of Vancouver’s Film and Media Centre at the Vancouver Economic Commission.

“We are in an enviable global position and widely recognized as a global Top Five hub for VR/AR, with more and more sources describing us as number two in the world,” says Basi. “However, the continuation of this success requires three ingredients — talent, capital, and crosssector collaboration.”

Ollie Rankin is an example of the first who is striving to shore up the second and third. A visual effects veteran (his credits include The Lord of the Rings films), he is currently working on post-production for Downloaded, an interactive, immersive, and narrativedriven VR film that Basi is executive producing.

In Downloaded, the viewer works with a live-action character (Riverdale’s Tiera Skovbye) to escape from inside a computer following an experiment gone wrong.

Rankin describes Downloaded as “a hybrid of a film and immersive theatre and an escape room and a game.”

Although the VR sphere has expanded in recent years, it still has a way to go before its footing is secure, says Rankin.

“There are hundreds of companies that are dabbling in VR but, with

a few exceptions, they’re all struggling in one way or another,” he notes.

“AR is going to have the advantage there of being more directly applicable as a business tool. As more and more industries pick it up, it will pave the way for AR as an entertainment platform, and then VR will come into its own.

“It’s not going to be a quick transition,” he adds.

“We have at least another decade of technological advancement before it’s really as simple to get that full experience that you can have at a VR arcade in your home.”

But there is a hunger for content such as Downloaded. He intends to have a demo ready in time for the Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality Global Summit at the PARQ Hotel next month.

“A lot of people say that VR is an isolating, anti-social experience because you put on a headset and headphones and you cut off the world around you. But, like immersive theatre experiences, always the highlight of going to one of those things is talking about it with your friends afterwards,” says Rankin. “No one person has experienced the entire thing themselves — but as a collective, you may have experienced almost everything, and you can piece it together as a group. That’s one of the things that I want Downloaded to do as well — to encourage people to collectively piece together the whole story.”

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Railtown reignites its tailgate barbecue And four other reasons Vancouver is awesome this week Tremors Festival of Emerging Talent

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Rumble Theatre’s biennial Tremors Festival of Emerging Talent takes over the Italian Cultural Centre, giving audiences the chance a group of emerging artists’ talents in action. These directors, designers, producers, technicians and actors will do it all for a series of three fresh plays by Canadian playwrights: Selfie by Christine Quintana, Tiny Replicas

by Dave Deveau and Theory by Norman Yeung. Bonus: Tickets for all shows are pay-what-you-decide.

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Railtown Tailgate Barbecue

After a two-year hiatus, Railtown Cafe’s popular Saturday al-fresco-style Tailgate Barbecues are back at their original location in the heart of Vancouver’s historic Railtown District. Railtown chefs and co-owners Dan Olson and Tyler Day will fire up their custom-built, 12-foot smoker/barbecue barrel to heap plates high with mouth-watering, slow-smoked brisket and pork shoulder and beerbrined chicken and brats, as well as a choice of made-from-scratch sides.

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To mark 70 years of trolleybuses, the Transit Museum Society of B.C. is offering “fan” tours (meaning recreational) via a series of daytime and nighttime four-hour rides through the city on bus #2416 — a restored Canadian Car/Brill T48A built in 1954. This particular bus was one of the last built by the company, and it ran on the streets and via the trolley wires of Vancouver until 1984.

Tickets are $25 per adult and $15 per child. The price is definitely more than a ride on today’s TransLink, but that’s because it goes to support the work of the Transit Museum Society of B.C. Aug. 19, 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.

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The inaugural Vancouver International Coffee and Tea Awards Festival takes place in David Lam Park, and the event is totally free. The competition will have a panel of expert judges taking part in blind taste tests to name the champs, but there’s also a “People’s Choice” category, which means part of the festival involves you being a taster.

Aug. 19, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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Now this is something to chirp about: Vancouver’s love of birds has grown into a whole new festival. This celebration of birds and nature, culminating in a Bird Festival and Expo, aims to engage the public in a love of nature through birds. Flutter around town from tours to screenings, to family events and things for die-hard birders to enjoy. Check the action-packed schedule of events to ensure you don’t miss out and get your feathers ruffled.

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The Vancouver Canucks’ 50th anniversary won’t take place until the 2019-20 season, but a major piece of the preparations fell into place this past week.

The NHL requires advance notice when it comes to new jerseys, even if they’re just alternate jerseys that are worn on special occasions. The league needs to approve these things, like conservative parents hemming and hawing over their daughter’s choice of prom dress. It’s a long process.

The Canucks want to have a retro third jersey for their 50th anniversary, to go with their current home and away jerseys with the orca logo on the front, “Vancouver” wordmark overtop and blue and green colour scheme. The issue for the Canucks is that they have a long history of jerseys and logos that look nothing like each other. No other team in the NHL has such a wild collection of clashing colours.

So, which of those many, multifaceted jerseys would they submit to the league?

In order to decide, the Canucks held a fan vote between three options and, if you ask me, there was something a little fishy about it.

The first option was the “Flying V” jersey worn by Stan Smyl, Thomas Gradin and Richard Brodeur during their unlikely run to the 1982 Stanley Cup Final. The second was the “Flying Skate” — otherwise known as the plate of spaghetti — jersey sported by Pavel Bure, Trevor Linden and Kirk McLean when they took the New York Rangers to Game 7 in the 1994 Stanley Cup Final. Finally, there was the original Orca jersey introduced along with Mark Messier in 1997 in navy blue, maroon and grey.

The winner? The Flying Skate from the ’90s, which shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. It wasn’t even close: when the voting closed, the Skate had more than 16,000 votes, while the second-place Flying V had less than 5,000.

Let’s face it: it wasn’t a fair fight.

The original orca jersey is associated with the heyday of the West Coast Express — when Markus Naslund, Todd Bertuzzi and Brendan Morrison were arguably the best line in the NHL — but also with the

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• I’m dropping the gloves with NBC, who won’t be airing any Canucks games on national television in the U.S. Only the Canucks and Senators won’t have any games aired nationally in the U.S. Unfortunately, that seems pretty fair, considering they’ll likely be two of the worst teams in the league next season.

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The people have spoken, and they’ve chosen the Flying Skate as the Canucks’ retro jersey for its 50th anniversary season, although in reality the Flying V and Orca didn’t really stand a chance.

messy Messier era and years of playoff disappointments. Also, with the orca logo currently in use by the Canucks, the chances of fans choosing the same logo, albeit in different colours, as a throwback jersey were minimal to none.

Meanwhile, the “Flying V” jersey is an oddity only appreciated by connoisseurs of the bizarre. It’s an utterly unique jersey unlike any other in sports history, which has earned it a few fans, but also plenty of derision over the years. It makes frequent appearances on lists of the worst sports jerseys of all time.

Against the Flying Skate, they didn’t stand a chance. The Skate evokes intense nostalgic feelings for one of the most popular teams in franchise history. It’s the jersey of Bure, Linden, Cliff Ronning, Jyrki Lumme and Greg Adams.

It’s experienced a revival in popularity as “retro” has come into fashion, with the logo a frequent sight at Rogers Arena and throughout B.C. Against two lame duck opponents, the Skate glided to an easy victory. It was like

setting up a hopeful prizefighter with a series of journeyman boxers to build an “undefeated” resume.

It’s almost like the Flying Skate was the choice the Canucks wanted the entire time.

If the Flying Skate had been up against some tougher opponents, then it might have been a closer vote. The Canucks had other options, such as the original stick-in-rink jersey, but what might have really put up a fight is a variation using the old Johnny Canuck logo from when the Vancouver Canucks were in the WHL. It’s a logo that has a lot of support in the Canucks fanbase, with many eager to see it become the main logo.

That’s a retro look that could put up a fight against the Flying Skate. It’s too bad we’ll never see it put to a vote.

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most popular jerseys in Canucks history, and it’s also the longest running. A version of it was worn for 12 years, from 1985 to 1997, which will stand as the longest run for one Canucks jersey until the 2019-20 season, when the current jerseys will overtake it.

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