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Retiring Vancouver mayor, councillors to get ‘transition allowance’ Mike Howell

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Here’s a question that is bound to generate some thoughtful and articulate responses: How much money should Mayor Gregor Robertson and the six city councillors who retire this fall receive on their way out the door?

Expected answer number one: Nothing.

Expected answer number two: Something, I guess.

Expected answer number three: Who’s Greg Robinson?

The fact is, Robertson and the six councillors who retire after the Oct. 20 election are entitled to some cash to help them “transition” into whatever it is they do post-politics.

I’ll tell you why in a few sentences, but thought I’d get right to the dollar amounts.

Let’s start with Robertson, who was first elected in 2008 and re-elected in 2011 and 2014. When he’s done, he will have served 10 years. So what’s that worth? A cool $28,843.87.

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councillors Tim Stevenson and Raymond Louie, who were both elected way back in 2002 as members of COPE, will each receive $19,114.47. Their Vision mates, Andrea Reimer and Kerry Jang, will pick up $13,202.51 each.

NPA councillors George Affleck and Elizabeth Ball will receive $9,670.64 each.

Geoff Meggs, who resigned last year as a Vision councillor to become Premier John Horgan’s chief of staff, was already paid $7,335.73 for serving two terms.

The four councillors who want to stick around for another term — the NPA’s Melissa De Genova, the Greens’ Adriane Carr, Vision’s Heather Deal and Yes Vancouver’s Hector Bremner — will all be entitled to a payout, too, if they lose their reelection bids.

De Genova would get $5,866.78, Carr a little bit more at $9,670.64 and Bremner $1,616.11. Deal would leave her seat on council with $16,035.00, which is probably enough

Mayor Gregor Robertson and six city councillors who retire after this fall’s civic election are entitled to a “transition allowance” when they leave office. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

to take her timeworn SUV through a car wash.

Now some explanation on why these public servants are entitled to the cash…

Back on Feb. 24 of 2016, council unanimously approved a “transition allowance” as part of a bigger package that included a salary increase that boosted councillors to $82,000 per year, a one-time lump sum of $8,968 to cover off their past year on the job and

an additional $3,000 for extended health benefits.

The increases were based on a review conducted by a committee that examined what other councillors across this great land earn for doing the people’s work.

I won’t list the salaries of all city councils here because I’ve written about this before, but know that councillors in Ottawa ($93,999) and Winnipeg ($89,346) make a better living than

the Vancouver crew.

Anyway, my focus of this piece was supposed to be about the “transition allowance.” So here, in short, is the committee’s rationale for the allowance: The absence of a transition allowance is a material difference in the benefits provided by the city when compared to the market. The majority of comparable cities offer post retirement/transition payments to council members.

Earlier this month, I circulated an email to the mayor and retiring councillors to have them justify their retirement allowances.

I heard from Vision Coun.

Andrea Reimer, NPA Coun. George Affleck and Mayor Gregor Robertson, all via email.

Reimer: “The fact that I am answering this at 2:15 a.m., and I started work today at 8:30 a.m. — and this is a pretty average day — probably tells you that a salary increase from what was considered part-time wages was justified. However, the point of appointing third party HR professionals to

an independent committee was to get their advice, so I thought it was important that we take it.”

Affleck: “Well, I voted against it at the time.”

Then he emailed a piece I wrote about the vote back in 2016. What Affleck voted against was a pay increase.

So did Reimer. The minutes, however, of the meeting show that both of them and the rest of council were unanimous in voting for the transition allowance.

Robertson: “The current compensation framework for council members is based on recommendations from an independent committee. Council members receive fair and transparent compensation for their work that is in line with other municipalities but well below comparable work in the private sector and other levels of government.”

For those of you interested in receiving some of that fair and transparent compensation, you’ve still got until Sept. 14 to launch your campaign. The election is Oct. 20. @Howellings

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Jean Swanson says she has no regrets about getting arrested and serving several days in prison for protesting the government’s purchase of the Trans Mountain pipeline.

In fact, she said she would do it all over again.

“It was an interesting four or five days, really interesting,” Swanson said Monday, one day after being released from Alouette Correctional Centre for Women in Maple Ridge. “I’m hoping there will be a lot more people doing it, until we get this pipeline stopped… It was definitely worth it. I don’t think I’ll do it again in the near future, but I could maybe do it again in a few months.”

The COPE city council candidate was among a group of eight protesters arrested June 30 for taking part in a blockade at the gates of Kinder Morgan’s Burnaby tank farm. Swan-

son and six others, including former B.C. Teachers’ Federation president Susan Lambert, were sentenced Aug. 15 to seven days in jail. In the end, the protesters served four days.

Swanson remained defiant, speaking to the media and supporters on the steps of B.C. Supreme Court downtown before heading inside for the sentencing hearing.

“It actually felt really good,” she said of standing up to receive her sentence.

“There was all kinds of support there and people were so supportive and it felt good. It felt like I was doing the right thing.”

She described the experience of going to prison as eye-opening.

“I am a very privileged person. I am white and I have a home and I have a nice old-age pension that I don’t have to work for,” she said. “So I’m way more privileged than most people in jail. So you get a glimpse of what they’re treated like.”

On Sunday, Jean Swanson was released from Alouette Correctional Centre for Women in Maple Ridge. PHOTO FACEBOOK

Swanson said she was first put in a cell in the basement of the courthouse.

“That was the worst.

That was just a small space.

Everything was really hard

there’s a lot of bureaucracy. You have to do what the guards say.”

Swanson said one of the things that really stood out to her were her fellow inmates.

“When we got to the jail the other prisoners were unbelievably awesome and sweet and kind and helpful,” she said.

“Susan Lambert, when she was arrested, she said that we were political prisoners, which I agree with. We were political prisoners,” Swanson said.

“But I started thinking afterwards that all those other women are political prisoners, too. Most of them anyway because using drugs should be a health issue not a criminal issue but they’re in there.

Being poor should be a justice issue not a criminal issue. Being homeless shouldn’t be allowed in this country, yet there are people in there because it’s better than the street.

They told us that.” @JessicaEKerr

and there was a toilet/sink thing in there and a really hard bench and a really bright fluorescent light and a roll of toilet paper and that was all that was in there,” she said. “We were in there for four or five hours with no contact, by ourselves. We were all in individual cells. We couldn’t talk to each other.”

From there, she said, they were told to take their shoes off, shackled, put in handcuffs and “thrown into a cage in a car to go out to jail.”

The prison includes various levels of security, and Swanson said she first spent some time in the more secure area of the prison.

“There was a cell there where the light is kept on all night and the beds are really hard,” she said.

“And then we got transferred to medium security,” she added. “The actual facility was nice, I mean there was even a window that you could have open and it’s out in the country and you could go outside, but still

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News Vancouver man claims he was targeted by police because of his race Jessica Kerr

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A Vancouver man is suing the city claiming he was targeted by police earlier this year because of his size and the colour of his skin.

In a notice of civil claim filed in B.C. Supreme Court Aug. 10, 21-year-old Jamiel Moore-Williams claims he was dealt with by police “in a heavy handed manner” due to his “physical size and appearance including skin color.”

Moore-Williams is a black man who works as a personal trainer and is a football player. He played for the UBC Thunderbirds in the 2014-15 season and was listed at 6’4” tall and 250 pounds at that time.

According to court documents, Moore-Williams was out with friends on the Granville strip in the early morning hours of Feb. 11. At about 2:30 a.m. he stepped onto Helmcken Street at the intersection of Granville Street to avoid being hit by rocks “thrown by a person seeming to be in mental distress.” A VPD officer in a squad car honked at Moore-Williams as he tried to cross the street against a red light and he reacted by “throwing his hands in the air in surprise and perhaps making a rude gesture towards the officer.”

The lawsuit claims Moore-Williams was then approached by another officer and tried to explain why he stepped into the street. The officer demanded he show his identification, which MooreWilliams claims he held out in his right hand.

According to the court documents, additional officers then converged on him at the same time: “Three officers each grabbed one of

A Vancouver man is suing the city claiming he was targeted by police because of his size and colour of his skin. PHOTO CHUNG CHOW

the Plaintiff’s appendages: left arm, right arm and one leg. The Plaintiff’s remaining leg was taken out from under him by a police officer. Other officers pounced on the Plaintiff, kicking and hitting him in the head and body.”

Moore-Williams claims that another officer then Tasered him between seven and 14 times.

He was issued a ticket for jaywalking and also charged with two counts of wilfully resisting or obstructing a peace officer and is scheduled to go to trial early next year.

The lawsuit names 10 Vancouver police officers, and includes another five unnamed officers.

In the notice of civil claim, Moore-Williams maintains he had not been drinking or using drugs that night and has no known mental illness “and was not displaying any signs of mental illness at the time.”

The lawsuit claims that officers used excessive force “including but not limited to punching and kicking the Plaintiff in the head and body, with or without weapons” and used “potentially lethal force with a taser.”

Moore-Williams suffered a concussion and injuries to his hands, arm, neck and back.

Moore-Williams is also claiming police violated his

charter rights starting with “the unnecessary attention, by the VPD officers, to this big black man who stepped onto the street in an area where club goers frequently cross or step onto the street.”

Additionally, the lawsuit says the incident caused extreme physical, psychological and emotional trauma.

None of the claims have been proven in court and representatives from both the City of Vancouver and Vancouver Police Department declined to comment on the lawsuit.

“We are aware of the civil claim filed in the Supreme Court of British Columbia,” media relations officer Const. Jason Doucette said in an email. “It wouldn’t be appropriate for the VPD to comment on a matter that is currently before the courts.”

The incident, and the actions by two police officers, is currently under investigation. The province’s office of the police complaint commissioner ordered a Police Act investigation shortly after the incident occurred.

As well, the office asked the RCMP to look into the interaction to see if there was any criminal conduct by the police officers involved.

Deputy police complaint commissioner Rollie Woods said the matter is still being actively investigated.

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Daily air quality advisories are stretching into the double digits, while health indicators have reached dire levels that prevent even the fittest among us from being outside for extended periods.

Metro Vancouver was under its eighth straight day of an air quality advisory Tuesday, with the same precautions being emphasized daily: avoid prolonged physical exertion outdoors, keep tabs on the elderly and infants and seek out clean air in malls, libraries or community centres.

Last year was record setting in the number of air quality advisories issued — as 19 warnings went out.

The previous record, set in 2015, sat at 10.

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How has this happened?

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The easiest piece of the puzzle is population. There are simply more of us, in more pockets of the province, which inevitably increases the chance of man-made fires.

Varying estimates suggest anywhere between 30 to 50 per cent of the current fires are caused by people.

Climate change is another obvious answer, but far from the only one. A professor of forest and conservation sciences, Daniels says precursors to today’s fires were seen more than two decades ago.

The mountain pine beetle epidemic that started in the 1990s was a substantial sign of things to come. For starters, it killed millions of hectares of trees and created

Expect more summers of wild fires and smoky Metro Vancouver skies, says a UBC prof. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

an abundance of fire fuel that was never properly disposed of on a large scale.

The beetle’s proliferation also highlighted how certain trees — lodge pole pine, for example — were planted above others, namely for economic reasons. Those decisions created uniform forest types which, in turn, created untold amounts of fuel and a weakened resiliency to fires.

The ideal scenario, says Daniels, is a forest full of mixed species and mixed densities of those species.

That diversity allows for more fire resilience, more nutrients in the ecosystem and less fuel.

Another mitigating factor is the nature of how we fight fires — in short, we’ve gotten too good at it.

Daniels says some remote fires should left to burn off, albeit in a controlled manner, so new ecosystems can start from scratch. That practice has already begun in parts of B.C. “It seems kind of wasteful in the short term because you create all this smoke and you burn all this timber,” she said. “But it creates diversity in the landscape. If you let a fire burn, it rejuvenates a new forest.”

Another remedy is the immediate need for fuel mitigation. Daniels points to a 2004 study that suggested 1.6 million hectares of forested areas around B.C. are on the cusp of urban areas and chock-full of fuel. Those forests need to be thinned out, and the fuel on the ground removed before

any sort of predetermined burn can happen.

That process also includes an unpopular notion, at least politically — cutting a bunch of trees down.

Where older, thicker trees are more fire resilient, younger trees often act like wicks that pick up flames from the forest floor and transport the blaze up in to the tree canopy.

“We need a substantive investment, in the order of billions of dollars, in order to treat those fuels, to create safeguard zones around those communities,” she said.

Firefighting costs alone from last year’s wildfire season in B.C. have been pegged at $580 million.

Daniels said that number can jump anywhere from two to 30 times higher once other factors such as rebuilt infrastructure and human health costs and are tallied.

Places such as California and parts of Australia that were once seasonal fire worries are now year-round concerns.

Daniels doesn’t foresee that happening in B.C., but a summer without haze is a different story altogether.

“I think we’ve crossed a threshold,” she said. “Even in the past we’ve had variations from one year to the next. But I think what we’ve seen in the last 15 years is more of these years with fairly big fires with greater impacts. I think that part of it is here to stay.”

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Historic wooden paver blocks no match for summer heat Naoibh O’Connor

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Exposed wooden pavers on Dunlevy Street near Hastings have been paved over by city crews after some of the blocks dried out due to hot, dry temperatures in the last few weeks.

The heat caused them to break into parts.

The remaining blocks of wood were paved over to prevent any public safety issues from the damaged wood, says the City of Vancouver.

Wood blocks in roadways can get damaged for a variety of reasons including weather, seasonal temperatures, vehicle traffic and being exposed over time.

Downtown Eastside resident Karen Ward noticed the damaged wood before it was paved over and posted a photo on social media.

Patrick Gunn of Heritage Vancouver Society calls the wooden blocks “a unique part of the city’s layered history, directly under our feet, [that] helps to physically illustrate how the city was built.

“Each time a patch is uncovered, it certainly creates

a lot of interest and conversation,” he told the Courier.

“It’d be fantastic if a small area could be exposed, repaired and stabilized in a non-critical area, even a walking segment, similar to what a few cities in the U.S. have done with their uncovered wooden pavers.”

He said Heritage Vancouver loves what the city did when crews exposed and repaired a full stretch of granite pavers a number of years ago on Hamilton Street next to Victory Square.

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More choices, fewer exams and some potential problems Tracy Sherlock

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Things are changing in B.C. schools — Grade 10 students will get a new curriculum this fall, and schools have one year to prepare for new Grade 11 and 12 guidelines.

The new curriculum, with its focus on competencies, big ideas and learning standards, is old hat for students in younger grades who have been studying under it since 2015. But the graduation program was more challenging to upgrade and was delayed by a year last fall.

B.C. Teachers’ Federation president Glen Hansman said the kindergarten to Grade 9 changes have been “strongly supported” by teachers, but since no one has yet used the new graduation program curriculum, the jury is still out.

Hansman’s main concerns are that school districts have the necessary equipment to teach the new material and that teachers get adequate training, especially around the Indigenous content, which

Hansman says is the “most transformative piece” of the new curriculum.

“It’s one thing to say we’ve incorporated this in a meaningful way into Physics 12, but what does that look like to the teacher who has been teaching Physics 12 for a long time?” Hansman said. “The teacher may want to do it meaningfully, but is unsure where to go.”

The big changes include exams — now there will be only two mandatory graduation exams, one in numeracy and one in literacy. They can be written anytime between Grade 10 and Grade 12 and are not attached to any particular class. The results of these tests will no longer affect a student’s grades in a class, but they will be printed on the student’s permanent transcript.

A big unknown is whether post-secondary schools will use the test results as a basis for acceptance or whether the Fraser Institute will use the results to rank schools.

“We remain skeptical of those sorts of large scale assessments at the provincial level, but it is definitely

Grade 10 students in British Columbia will get a new curriculum this fall, and schools have one year to prepare for new Grade 11 and 12 guidelines for next fall. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

a move forward from the [previous] provincial exam regime, which won’t be missed, except by a few,” Hansman said.

The other significant change is that the curriculum is designed to be more learner-focused and flexible.

“Society and the citizens of tomorrow will rely less on content knowledge (what they know) and more on what they can do with what they know,” the education ministry says on its website.

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Take math for example — the standard math classes will still be available, but new courses have been added such as Geometry 12, History of Math 11 and Computer Science 12. In science, it will no longer be a choice between chemistry, biology or physics. Students will be able to take Science for Citizens 11, Specialized Science 12, or Environmental Science 11 and 12.

Social studies now include courses such as Geno-

cide Studies 12, Asian Studies 12 and Contemporary Indigenous Studies 12.

These choices sound excellent, although in practice it may be difficult for schools to actually offer them. In the recent past, many schools didn’t even offer all of the math choices, which were much more limited than under the new curriculum.

Career education replaces Planning 10, and students must complete a capstone project. (A capstone project is a piece of work that shows the student’s learning and completes their K-12 education.)

Daily physical activity is no longer a required part of the standard curriculum, but physical education options have increased.

While Ontario’s new Conservative government made headlines earlier this summer for a plan to roll back sexual education, which included topics such as same-sex marriage and online bullying, B.C.’s sex education curriculum includes a focus on valuing diversity and respecting differences. In 2016, the B.C. government made it mandatory to include

specific references to sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) in their anti-bullying policies.

Vancouver has had such a policy since 2014, but Richmond just introduced one in June and it proved extremely controversial.

B.C.’s sexual education curriculum predates this latest update and won’t change much, other than who teaches it in secondary schools, since health has been moved away from career courses and into physical education courses, Hansman said.

“Students need to be informed. They need to have accurate, inclusive and up-to-date information about their bodies so they can make wise choices for themselves and for others,” Hansman said.

The updated graduation program is a reflection of our times and a step in the right direction. Let’s hope the necessary equipment and training are provided so students can thrive.

Tracy Sherlock writes about education and social issues for the Courier. Reach her at tracy.sherlock@gmail.com.

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Pacific Coliseum celebrates 50 years of music, memories and mayhem Riots, concerts, Stanley Cup runs — the ‘Rink on Renfrew’ has seen it all John Kurucz

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Depending on whom — or what – you believe, hockey fans may have divine intervention to thank for the Canucks’ entry into the NHL close to five decades ago.

Though the hockey gods have yet to reward the city’s long-suffering fanbase with a Stanley Cup, the club’s backstory does include a hope and a prayer.

Optimism loomed large over Vancouver when the Pacific Coliseum first opened its doors in 1968. The rink’s construction was meant as a signal to NHL powers that be that Vancouver was ready for prime-time hockey.

But just to be sure, a chaplain by the name of George Turpin blessed the barn at its opening event — an Ice Capades show on Jan. 8, 1968 — to add another voice to the lobbying movement.

That dream materialized on Oct. 9, 1970, albeit in anticlimactic fashion: a 3-1 loss to the Los Angeles Kings. Two lost points aside, Vancouver finally had an NHL franchise and its first, top-tier facility for sporting and concert events.

“The feeling at the time was that this was one of the first signals that Vancouver was growing up and

becoming a big city,” PNE spokeperson Laura Ballance told the Courier.

To commemorate the Rink on Renfrew’s 50th birthday, the Courier spoke to a pair of principal players who were there from Day 1. Celebrated radio, TV and music personality Terry David Mulligan interviewed the likes of Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, the Doors and AC/DC before their gigs at the Coliseum.

Orland Kurtenbach, meanwhile, was the first captain in Canucks history.

Captain Canuck

At 81, the original captain Canuck’s memories of the inaugural game are admittedly murky. He remembers Barry Wilkins scoring the first goal in franchise history.

But Kurtenbach doesn’t recall the club’s first fisticuff, despite his attachment to that piece of history.

Kurtenbach’s donnybrook with Dale Hoganson was indeed a Vancouver first.

“I have no recollection of that,” he laughed. “But when I got to Vancouver, the years I had there were like my best years in the minors and in junior where things just clicked.”

Coming off back fusion surgery and having bounced around several clubs in the late ’60s, Kurtenbach was 34 upon arriving in Vancouver. Despite that, he put up career-best numbers in 197071 and again the next season playing alongside Wayne Maki and Murray Hall.

“Why that is, I don’t know,” he said. “It was a new day for many, many individuals in the hockey

world and a lot of them just grabbed it and went with it.”

Kurtenbach played with or against some of the most iconic names in NHL history. Some of them laced up the blades on Coliseum ice, others were gone from the league before Vancouver’s arrival. Original Six goalies Terry Sawchuk, Johnny Bower, Glenn Hall and Gump Worsley are at the top of Kurtenbach’s tender list. Gordie Howe was the best overall talent, Bobby Hull was the most exciting and Bobby Orr was the most skilled.

“With Bobby Orr, he changed his game around all the time. How does a defenceman win the scoring race so many times? He was unbelievable. Bobby Orr was a natural talent,” Kurtenbach recalled.

Kurtenbach retired from the NHL in 1974. He still follows the club religiously and participates in alumni activities when time permits, given his recent move to Vernon.

There’s a riot going on

While Kurtenbach’s dustup was a historic first, it’s far from the most notable set of knuckles chucked at the Coliseum. That distinction goes to the greatest of all time, Muhammad Ali, who won a 12-round decision over Canadian George Chuvalo on May 1, 1972.

Almost one month later to the day — and in keeping with Vancouver’s penchant for riots — more blood was shed, though this time outside of the Coliseum. About 2,000 would-be concert goers turned Renfrew Street into

a warzone on June 3, 1972, many of them miffed over being sold fake tickets to a Rolling Stones gig that night.

Twenty-two people were arrested by police, while 31 VPD officers were injured.

Mulligan memories

Five years before that, Terry David Mulligan found himself back in Vancouver after close to a decade in Alberta and Saskatchewan. He was on the cusp of becoming the West Coast’s go-to music journalist, with a 40-year career spanning CFUN radio, CBC and MuchMusic. And what a job it was: Led Zeppelin, the Doors, the Who, Janis Joplin, Bob Marley, AC/DC, Frank Zappa and James Brown, all at the Coliseum.

It was 1967. The Summer of Love was in full swing, and Mulligan happened to be walking by the Russian Community Centre in Kits. The doors were open, and he heard Joplin’s band rehearsing inside.

They became pals to the point that he interviewed her six times before her death three years later.

“She was one of those artists who was fantastic on stage, but if you put a microphone in front of her and asked questions, she had problems with that,” Mulligan said. “She was skittish, very self-conscious and nervous, so she drank Jack Daniels to calm her nerves. But she insisted that I drink with her.”

Along came Hendrix one year later in September 1968. It’s one of Mulligan’s

few surviving interviews from that time period.

“He was fantastic,” Mulligan recalled. “Here was this guy who lit his guitar on fire. He was just a wild, wild guitarist. But he was kind, thoughtful, generous and polite. It threw me for a loop. I was so used to braggadocious people, full of themselves.

Not Hendrix. He was cool.”

1970 was a particularly big year for Mulligan. He went shoe shopping with Jim Morrison along Davie Street prior to the Doors gig at the Coliseum in June. He was also tasked with being one of the evening’s emcees alongside fellow CFUN alumni John Tanner. After what was thought to be the evening’s final curtain call, the pair asked the crowd if they wanted more.

Big mistake.

“At that point, the Doors are in their limo and leaving the building. The stage manager grabs us and says, ‘You f***ers owe me $10,000! That’s what it’s going to cost to have this band go back up on stage!’

We were in deep s*** for a long time because of that one,” Mulligan said. “They were threatening to make the radio station pay.”

Mulligan also emceed the launch of Greenpeace in October 1970. The gig featured Joni Mitchell, James Taylor and Chilliwack. Mulligan is certain he’s the first person to ever utter the word “Greenpeace” into a microphone, though he’d forgotten specifics around the show until a documentary was released decades later.

“I see [a photo of] myself

on stage, bending over and adjusting Joni Mitchell’s microphone,” he recalled.

“What the f*** am I doing on stage adjusting Joni’s microphone? What kind of gig was this?”

The loudest show he ever attended also happened at the Coliseum.

The culprit?

Bob Marley, strangely enough.

“They were the first and only artists that actually made the support beams in the Coliseum vibrate,” Mulligan said of the November 1979 show. “It was the sheer volume and the bass. I was leaning against the column and you could feel the music actually hit the concrete.”

New rink in town

The Coliseum’s uncontested run as the only go-to, 15,000-plus joint in town ended in 1995. The Canucks went to General Motors Place (now Rogers Arena) that year, and the Coliseum’s anchor tenant, the Vancouver Giants, followed suit in 2016, setting up shop in Langley.

Dozens of gigs still take place there annually, along with trade shows, cultural festivities and other events that aren’t yet ready for prime time at Rogers.

Despite that shift, it would seem nostalgia hasn’t left the building.

“We get people knocking on the door on a biweekly basis to this day,” Ballance said.

“Some want to poke their head in and have a look, others just want to sit quietly by themselves and reminisce.” @JohnKurucz

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Notice of Nomination for the 2018 General Local Election Starting September 4, 2018, nominations will be received for the following offices in Vancouver for a four-year term: • Mayor (one to be elected) • Councillors (ten to be elected) • Park Board commissioners (seven to be elected) • School trustees (nine to be elected)

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Tired of all that smoke? Get used to it Grant Lawrence

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“Get Used To It.” That’s the title of a smokin’ new song I was sent this week by Cranbrook singer-songwriter Doug Francis Mitchell. Here’s a harsh toke of the lyrics: “Whether you believe it or whether you don’t / Our weather is changing and it ain’t no hoax / Doesn’t matter which way you vote / We’re going to have to learn to cope / With more smoke, more heat, no rain for weeks / Better get used to it folks.”

It may not be the second coming of “Blowing in the Wind,” but the song gets the point across: the dog days of summer in B.C., and most of Western Canada, means smoke, and it sucks. Big time.

A large percentage of B.C. forest fires are lightning caused. Depending on what you believe, this summer’s higher-thanusual lightning bursts are either a result of climate change or a perfectly natural occurrence.

But when lightning strikes excessive fuel such as pine beetle kill considered by many to be a result of climate change, the forest ignites.

Unfortunately, our human existence in pretty much all of these territories means we cannot let Mother Nature complete her cycle. Brave souls by the thousands must try to intervene to save homes, businesses, communities and lives.

As of this week, there were 560-plus fires burning in B.C. There have been more than 1,900 wildfires this year to date.

It’s estimated that humans have been the cause of roughly 460 fires in 2018. Breathe that in for a moment. That means that about one quarter of the fires could have been caused by ignorant idiots being reckless and selfish in our tinderbox province; one or two people igniting an inferno causes everything from discomfort to misery for millions.

Some people make mistakes. I know of one fire in a remote place that destroyed a barn and spread into the forest. It was supposedly caused by oily rags spontaneously combusting when temperatures hit the high 30s.

Other times, you get lucky.

In July, I attended a “float party” in Desolation Sound. Everyone was to meet on our boats at a small island for a barbeque. Come sunset, we’d raft up our boats and drift with the current to watch the moon rise.

It was a beautiful, clear summer evening.

I smelled the smoke before I arrived at the party. This was Desolation Sound so I’m used to a certain kind of purple haze that often floats with the breeze. But this wasn’t pot. I figured maybe they had cedar plank salmon on the barbeque. Nope.

When I came ashore, I said hello to a few people, but I could still smell something burning, as could others.

I followed my nose, which led me up a mossy bluff on the island, and there it was: in a shallow gully, a telltale plume of grey smoke twisted its way up from within the thick, crunchy moss. I immediately dumped out my entire can of Lucky Lager onto the source.

Within seconds, the smoke twisted up again, like a ghostly hula dancer.

My heart began to pound.

I was staring down at the earliest stages of what could easily become yet another devastating forest fire.

I called out to the rest of the party — a collection of oyster farmers, summer residents and local scallywags — that the moss was burning. We dumped several buckets of water onto it, but persistent plumes of smoke kept popping up, Whack-A-Mole style, at different spots in the gully.

Soon, a chain gang formed from the ocean to the bluff, dumping bucket after bucket into the smouldering moss that was just inches away from a patch of parched pine and fir trees that were ready to go up like match sticks.

It took a dousing of at least 60 full buckets of water and digging up the entire gully to finally kill the burn. Even then, we were nervous about leaving the island, until a retired park ranger who was in attendance at the party offered to anchor his sailboat beside the island overnight to keep watch.

What caused it? There hadn’t been any lightning. None of the partiers would admit to carelessly tossing their butt or roach

into the moss. It very well could have been smoldering for hours, the result of previous irresponsible campers or tourists.

We’ll never know but, luckily, we caught that potential blaze before flames could erupt. At least 460 other times this summer, people haven’t been as fortunate as we were that bone-dry eve-

ning in Desolation Sound.

Songwriter Doug Francis Mitchell is right when he sings that “we’re going to have to learn to cope.”

With increasingly smoked out summers, it means that each and every one of us must become responsible stewards of our land and forests. Don’t even think about lighting that match. And get used to it.

The hazy, non-existent view of Vancouver from Gabriola Island is a sign of things to come. PHOTO GRANT LAWRENCE

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David Hutniak, CEO of LandlordBC, and Karen Sawatzky, chair of Vancouver’s Renters Advisory Committee, say the need for more purpose-built rental housing is great. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Rental Housing 101 for candidates Renters Advisory Committee and LandlordBC co-hosting Aug. 28 workshop designed for Metro Vancouver municipal candidates Naoibh O’Connor

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The City of Vancouver’s Renters Advisory Committee and LandlordBC want candidates running in upcoming municipal election races across Metro Vancouver to brush up on their understanding of purposebuilt rental housing.

They’re co-hosting an Aug. 28 non-partisan workshop called ‘Delivering Rental Housing in your Community.’ The primary speaker is Byron Chard, principal and chief financial officer for Chard Development Ltd. The event is billed as a “deep dive” into the process, “from the early stages of making the decision, right through to the day the shovels are in the ground.”

Organizers say it’s particularly relevant to first-time candidates who may be less familiar with the issues.

In Vancouver, six out of 10 councillors won’t be running for re-election, nor will Mayor Gregor Robertson, which leaves room for many new faces at the council table.

Due to the low vacancy rate and the difficulty people are having finding affordable units, rental housing promises to be a top issue in this year’s campaign.

Renter households account for more than half of this Vancouver’s population — 53 per cent. Since 2010, more than 7,000 new rental units have been approved, built or are under construc-

tion. Far fewer rental units were built between 1980 and 2009, while there was a spike between 1950 and 1969. That means much of the existing, and often more affordable, stock is old and in need of upgrades or replacement.

The city’s Housing Vancouver strategy aims to see 72,000 homes built over the next 10 years, with twothirds of those as rental.

David Hutniak, CEO of LandlordBC, which represents owners and managers of rental properties, said there are real challenges getting purpose-built rental housing built. He said more is needed and civic politicians have huge influence over that.

“It’s our view that part of the problem is there is a knowledge gap in terms of what it takes to get it done and the cost drivers. We want to share a broader basis of what roles cities and municipalities have in that process,” Hutniak said. “… We have an impending election, so it’s like the invitation says, ‘If you want to get elected, you better understand how to build purpose-built rental in your community.’ That’s fact. So that’s what we’re trying to do here.”

While Hutniak has seen some positive traction on the construction of rental housing, he said there’s a persistently low vacancy rate coupled with a growing population and the fact buying a home is out of reach for a majority of people who live in the region.

“There’s a huge gap here and when you look at jurisdictions like Seattle that are putting 12,000 to 15,000 or 16,000 units of rental into the market on an annual basis since 2015, that’s kind of a benchmark. That’s where we need to be and we’re nowhere near that.”

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News Karen Sawatzky, chair of the Renters Advisory Committee, is equally concerned, especially as she’s a life-long renter.

“Helping to get candidates educated about the process, the different challenges and the costs involved in rental housing, is really important.

Hopefully, the event will help forward the dialogue and discussion about rental housing, how to address that vacancy rate and how to improve the housing situation for renters so that they have more choices about who to rent from,” she said.

“Right now, renters have so few options.

That really means they have very little power.

The vacancy rate means that landlords have all the power. We need to have more rental housing built, especially secure, long-term rental housing because a lot of our rental housing here, in the City of Vancouver and regionally, is in insecure forms such as secondary suites and condominiums.”

Sawatzky hopes the workshop attracts election candidates with a wide variety of political opinions and approaches to housing. Even if they think the rules should be different, she said it’s important for them to understand existing rules and processes.

The workshop is especially important for first-time candidates, she added, because if they are elected, they will have housing applications to vote on right away. The information provided at the event will help them make more informed decisions, help them understand how policy decisions affect what projects even get proposed, and help inform their platforms prior to the Oct. 20 election.

“It’s quite a complex topic. Developing rental housing is not a straight forward, easy thing.

There’s a lot of different moving parts — there’s financing, all the different things you can do on the land, and all the rules that govern that…,” she said.

“A three-hour workshop is not going to make anyone an expert in this but, hopefully, it will increase people’s knowledge so they can speak knowledgably, ask better questions and maybe come up with more informed ideas about how to improve the situation.” @naoibh

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 growthrelated amenities and infrastructure.

2. 155 East 37th Avenue (Little Mountain) To amend CD-1 (704) (Comprehensive Development) District at 155 East 37th Avenue (Little Mountain) to clarify the maximum permitted floor area for residential uses in Sub-area A, to exclude below-grade residential storage from FSR calculations, and to correct an inadvertent error on the heights of buildings in sub-areas 2 and 3.

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 to remove lands no longer required for transportation or greenway purposes, in alignment with the Arbutus Greenway Design Vision, and to bring forward a consequential by-law amendment to the Regional Context Statement Official Development Plan. These lands will retain their existing zoning.

6. 950 West 41st Avenue (Jewish Community Centre) To amend CD-1 (285) (Comprehensive Development) District at 950 West 41st Avenue to permit the phased redevelopment of the Jewish Community Centre campus with a nine-storey replacement building, including private childcare on the eastern portion of the site, and a mixed-use building with 26- and 24-storey residential towers containing 299 social housing units, additional Jewish Community Centre uses, and commercial uses at grade. A maximum height of 88.0 metres (289 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 4.49 are proposed.

Short-term Rental Regulations Take Full Effect on September 1

Short-term rentals are now permitted in Vancouver in principal residences only – the home where you live. Anyone operating a short-term rental must have a business licence and include it on all online listings.

The registration period to comply with the regulations ends August 31. After this date, you can still apply for a licence, but all short-term rentals listed without a licence will be subject to fines up to $1,000.

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FOR MORE INFORMATION: vancouver.ca/short-term-rentals or phone 3-1-1

Development Permit Board Meeting: September 4 The Development Permit Board and Advisory Panel will meet:

Tuesday, September 4, 2018 at 3 pm Vancouver City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Ground Floor, Town Hall Meeting Room to consider the following development permit applications: 1551 Quebec Street To develop the site with a 17-storey, residential building, over three levels of underground parking with access off of Switchmen Street.

349 West Georgia Street (Post Office) To develop the site with two office towers (21 and 22 storey) with the retention of the post office façade and structure containing commercial and parking uses. The proposal includes a Heritage Density Transfer.

TO SPEAK ON AN ITEM: 604-873-7770 or kathy.cermeno@vancouver.ca

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THESE APPLICATIONS INCLUDING LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTIES: vancouver.ca/rezapps or 604-873-7038 Anyone who considers themselves affected by the proposed by-law amendments may speak at the Public Hearing. Please register individually beginning at 8:30 am on August 24 until 5 pm on the day of the Public Hearing by emailing publichearing@vancouver.ca or by phoning 604-829-4238. You may also register in person at the door between 5:30 and 6 pm on the day of the Public Hearing. You may submit your comments by email to publichearing@vancouver.ca, or by mail to: City of Vancouver, City Clerk’s Office, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 1V4. All submitted comments will be distributed to Council and posted on the City’s website. Please visit vancouver.ca/publichearings for important details.

Copies of the draft by-laws will be available for viewing starting August 24 at the City Clerk’s Office in City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, Monday to Friday from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. All meetings of Council are webcast live at vancouver.ca/councilvideo, and minutes of Public Hearings are available at vancouver.ca/councilmeetings (posted approximately two business days after a meeting). For real time information on the progress of City Council meetings, visit vancouver.ca/speaker-wait-times or @VanCityClerk on Twitter.

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Lose the shirt and free the nipple Sunday GoTopless Day and Free the Nipple events coincide with Women’s Equality Day John Kurucz

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The term “sun’s out, guns out” takes on a decidedly different meaning for Denise Belisle.

She wishes it wasn’t so.

Belisle is the organizer behind Vancouver’s annual GoTopless Day, which happens Sunday, Aug. 26. Now in its 11th year, the annual jaunt through downtown includes dozens of women freeing their breasts from the shackles of bras, blouses and whatever else encumbers them.

Freeing their chests is part of a much larger call for freedom — freedom from ogling, freedom from stigma and freedom for women to do what they want, when they want with their bodies and minds.

Those talking points will be front and centre when Belisle and others bare their busts during a half-hour walk that winds through the West End to the Vancouver Art Gallery — Aug. 26 is also Women’s Equality Day. “We are protesting against being objectified and sexualized, but it’s more like a peaceful march,” Belisle said.

Since its inception in 2007, GoTopless Day has been seen attendance numbers hover between 50 and a few hundred. It started off in English Bay, when Belisle

Denise Belisle is the organizer of Sunday’s GoTopless Day walk in downtown Vancouver.

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and a handful of others hopped in a convertible with a megaphone and a message.

The route changed five years ago, and participation numbers have grown almost every year. The walk has grown to the point that it’s now taking place in close to 50 cities worldwide.

One constant that’s dogged GoTopless Day, however, is dogs. Many men ogle, take photographs and sexualize the women over the very points they’re trying to make. Going topless is legal in B.C. and Ontario.

“I get stopped by guys all the time asking to have a picture taken,” Belisle

said. “If you consider a guy walking topless, nobody even blinks an eye. These are the little things that in Canada, in Vancouver, I’m bringing awareness to.”

That said, men are invited to take part in the event, so long as their nipples are covered in tape or they’re wearing bikini tops. After all, it was a man who first championed GoTopless Day 11 years ago.

A former auto racing journalist, Claude Vorilhon founded GoTopless Day in 2007, three decades after a purported alien encounter caused him to change his name to Rael and start

up a religion called the Raelian Movement loosely based on alien colonization and free love.

Belisle says the topless walks aren’t a vehicle to spread those religious ideologies and is a separate ball of wax altogether.

Though not affiliated with the GoTopless Walk, a “Free the Nipple” bike ride also happens Sunday, from noon to 3 p.m. The route starts at Sunset Beach and winds around the Seawall.

Info for both events is online at facebook.com/ events/53583680351703.

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In Animal Behaviour, five animals — a leech, a pig, a praying mantis, a cat and a bird — meet to discuss their assorted inner angst in a group therapy session led by a canine psychotherapist (voiced by Vancouver actor and improviser Ryan Beil).

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Alison Snowden is a filmmaker, an animator and an Academy Award winner.

And, at certain points in her life, she’s also been tremendously shy.

That’s how Snowden ended up in a confidence building class 20 years ago, intent on digging down to the root cause of her chronic shyness.

What she found there was creative fodder.

“There was an exercise where you had to look in a mirror and say to yourself that you love yourself – ‘I love you’ – and that was so hard,” recalls Snowden, seated beside her husband and collaborator David Fine in their home in Kitsilano. “I could see everyone grimacing.”

Two decades on, Snowden’s experiences in that class inform Animal Behaviour. Written, directed, and animated by Snowden and Fine, the short film won the Grand Prix at Rio de Janeiro’s Anima Mundi (positioning it as an Oscar contender) and will screen next month at the venerable Toronto International Film Festival.

In Animal Behaviour, five animals — a leech, a pig, a praying mantis, a cat, and a bird — meet regularly to discuss their assorted inner angst in a group therapy session led by a canine psychotherapist (voiced by Vancouver actor and improviser Ryan Beil). Their session is interrupted by the arrival of an ape with anger management issues who can’t quite grasp the point of therapy.

The film begs a couple of questions, says Fine.

“Should people change their behavioral qualities that come naturally to them to fit in better, or should other people accept them for who they are? And is therapy helpful, or is it just navel-gazing?”

This isn’t the first time that Fine and Snowden have mined their lives for animation inspiration.

In 1993, they won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for Bob’s Birthday; in it, a man named Bob struggles with the arrival of middle age as his wife Margaret plans a surprise birthday party. The short was inspired by the couple’s experiences turning 30 and served as the pilot for the British-Canadian adult animated series Bob and Margaret.

Fine and Snowden met in a London film school in 1980. They were each there to study live action filmmaking but they gravitated towards the animation department, where students such as Nick Park (who would go on to create Wallace and Gromit) and Mark Baker (who co-created Peppa Pig) honed their skills.

It was Fine the Torontonian who introduced Snowden the Brit to the animated works of the National Film Board of Canada: films such as Special Delivery, Why Me? and The Big Snit that demonstrated that “you can make an independent short story in any style you want and it doesn’t have to be that classic Disney animation,” she recalls. “That’s when I developed an interest in animation.”

In their final months of university, Snowden and Fine collaborated on Second Class Mail, an animated short film about an inflatable mate that earned them their first Academy Award nomination (which leads to Snowden’s advice to emerging filmmakers: “Make a short film that’s very short to show your sensibilities and your style.”)

Together, they’ve told both adult and kid-oriented animated stories in short and serialized form: in the aforementioned Bob and

Margaret; in Shaun the Sheep (which they helped develop); in George and Rosemary (an award-winning NFB short about a senior in love with the woman next door; they earned an Oscar nom for that, too); and as writers on the juggernaut British preschool TV series Peppa Pig. Speaking of Peppa Pig, their now-20-year-old daughter, Lily SnowdenFine, was the original voice of the titular piglet.

Since settling in Vancouver in 2004, Snowden and Fine have held tight to their independence while collaborating with homegrown studios and networks.

“There are a lot of really good studios in Vancouver doing very impressive work, and a lot of production here, which is a great environment to be in, and at the same time, there’s a long history of indie work,” says Fine.

“The unfortunate thing is that the city is so hard to live in. The industry attracts young people, but then young people go, ‘It’s too expensive to live here.’”

The housing crisis is a heavy topic. So is mental illness. Snowden hopes that Animal Behaviour — which was produced by the NFB and will screen locally at the Spark Animation Fest in October — will inspire discussions around mental illness and therapy.

She imagines it being screened on the first day of psychology classes as a kind of lighthearted intro to the weighty topic.

“I’ve always thought they should do more psychology in schools,” says Snowden.

“There’s so much depression. Kids have issues. Why do you have to wait until you’re in your 30s to go and sort out these emotions?

Wouldn’t it be better if we made an effort earlier to understand why we do the things we do?”

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New shows at the PNE include POPnology and Knights of Valour Milestones include 40 years of SuperDogs, 50 years of the Pacific Coliseum and 60 years for the wooden roller coaster Sandra Thomas

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Surely you joust. Knights in shining armour ride into battle as part of the PNE’s Knights of Valour. PHOTO CHUNG CHOW

From 1978 to 1980 it was Musketeer, Wolfgang and Dandy who ruled the Pacific Coliseum.

But then between 1980 and 2010, it was stars such as Turbo, Pot Roast, Fast Annie and Bubba that were thrilling the crowds. And now, 40 years since the creation of the SuperDogs, it’s 7 Up, Popcorn, Reef, Kismit, Beaker, Siren, Beezer, 3 Little Pigs, Chester, Hip Hop, Shock and Puff Daddy that will be showing off their agility and stamina daily during the Fair at the PNE, which runs now through Sept. 3.

Just days before the fair opened, PNE staff gathered to celebrate that 40th birthday with a cake created by a local dog bakery. The SuperDogs were invited to take bites — two dogs at a time. This celebration, dubbed Happy Barkday, runs daily at the Pacific Coliseum during the Fair at 12:30, 2:30 and 6:30 p.m. so all fairgoers will have an opportunity to wish the President’s Choice SuperDogs a happy birthday.

(Free with admission.)

But it’s not just the SuperDogs celebrating a landmark year at the PNE — 2018 also marks the 50th anniversary of the Pacific Coliseum, the first home of the Vancouver Canucks. As well, the iconic and much loved (feared) wooden roller coaster turned 60 this year.

And while the PNE is celebrating the past, it’s also embracing the future.

New to the fair this year is POPnology, which chronicles pop culture and technology “from science fiction to science fact.”

This is a fun attraction near the Coliseum, which both kids and adults are going to really enjoy. Adults will get a kick out of the displays showcasing vintage memorabilia, including the device created so space alien E.T. could “phone home,” the DeLorean

“time machine” from the 1985 movie Back to the Future, and one of the creatures from the Alien movie, first released in 1979. Meanwhile, kids of all ages will want to meet the friendly robot cruising around the space, check out the first 3D printed car and try the virtual reality headsets. Fairgoers can choose from a number of short VR films created to test their bravery. I chose the one featuring a close encounter with a very hangry Tyrannosaurus rex and, without giving anything away, it was very realistic.

The goal of POPnology is to inspire enthusiasm for the science fiction of today and technological reality of tomorrow. (Free with admission.)

After checking out the futuristic displays at POPnology, visitors to the fair can take a step back in time at the Agrodome where the Knights of Valour jousting show takes place live at 1, 3 and 7 p.m. daily. These are real live knights in shining armour — a couple of hundred pounds worth of shining armour, to be exact — who ride into battle with the intention of knocking each other off their horse using blunt-tipped lances.

The Knights of Valour are made up of world-class athletes, including Shane Adams, executive producer

and host of the History Channel’s TV series Full Metal Jousting. And demonstrating his champion jousting skills during a media tour was Charlie Andrews on his gorgeous charger Jägermeister. The jousting is the real deal and the Knights of Valour take their sport very seriously, so it’s spectacular to watch.

(Free with admission.)

Also new this year is the Lost World of Dragons, which celebrates the wonder of dragons and gives visitors of all ages the thrill of seeing them brought to animatronic life.

Meanwhile, car enthusiasts will want to take a stroll along the Street of Dreams presented by 360 Fabrication (Miller Drive) where refurbished, classic cars are on display along Vintage Lane and hot rods are lined up in Camshaft Court. Miller Drive dates back to 1910 — the early days of the fair — and runs along the front side of the agricultural complex. At the time, it created a grand entrance to the fair so it’s fitting the Street of Dreams will showcase some of the best collectable cars from that era and others, including a $1 million 1963 Lincoln that’s rarely on display to the public. The exhibit is open 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily. (Free with admission.)

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The first Canadian to attempt five Ironman races in five consecutive days once weighed 250 pounds and says he could easily drop $30 at the McDonald’s drive thru in one go.

“I look at it as an adventure race,” Chad Bentley, 45, says of the EPIC5 Challenge Hawaii. This year, seven participants from around the world will complete a triathlon on each of the Hawaiian Islands: Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Maui and the Island of Hawaii, Aug. 28 to Sept. 2.

Swimming 12 miles, cycling 560 miles and running 132.5 miles in five days may not sound like an adventure to the average person, but Bentley’s never been average.

He’s participated in multiple marathons, ultra-marathons and Iron Man races, as well as two Ultraman races and two Ultra520 races. (An ultramarathon is any footrace longer than the traditional marathon length of 42.195 kilometres, while an Ultraman is a three-day, 515 km multi-sport race.)

Even more impressive, Bentley only started running in 2005 when he and his wife moved from Yaletown to Abbotsford where there are plenty of trails to take their dog out.

“I loved my alcohol and I smoked like a chimney,” says Bentley who’s been sober since 2007 and now clocks in at 212 pounds, which is still considered hefty in the world of Ironman.

Before leaving the city, Bentley knew his lifestyle wasn’t sustainable, especially when having kids came into the discussion.

Today, he says he loves to imagine all the people waking up with hangovers when he’s halfway through a training ride.

Fellow Iron Man racer Rick Ellery met Bentley in 2004.

Chad Bentley, 45, is one of seven participants from around the world aiming to complete a triathlon on each of the Hawaiian Islands: Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Maui and Hawaii, Aug. 28 to Sept. 2, as part of the EPIC5 Challenge Hawaii. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

“I had just finished my first Iron Man that August, and Chad was really intrigued.

He wouldn’t stop asking questions,” Ellery recalls.

Bentley was proud of completing his first marathon in 2005. But considering he had barely trained for a month, the race took a toll on his body so he took a break from running. His idea of a break, however, was taking a month to hike the Himalayas. When he returned, he decided to train for a half Iron Man with a friend.

“Most people want to start with just a triathlon, but Chad was looking for a challenge — he didn’t waste any time,” says Ellery who was there to watch Bentley take on “Canada’s Toughest Half Iron” — a twokilometre swim, 87-km bike and 21-km run in Osoyoos.

Ellery remembers the look on competitors’ faces when Bentley emerged from the water. Bentley had modest expectations for his first race and despite his larger build ended up being a naturally gifted swimming.

“Only two other pros came out of the water at the same time as Chad did,

looking at him like, ‘Who is this guy who’s 75 pounds heavier than everyone else?’” Ellery laughs.

Bentley usually places in the top three when he races, but he says he’ll just be happy to complete the EPIC5, something he set his sights on a couple of years ago.

“You have to make sure you’re focusing on positive thoughts because there’ll be a shift in your body if you’re always negative — that’s how life works,” Bentley says.

He’s bringing a fourperson crew with him to Hawaii, meaning he has to account for all of their travel, including rental cars, while at the same time planning ahead for nutrition management and interisland travel with his gear and bike.

“I’d be happy if I could just get four or five hours of sleep a night, but I don’t think that’s realistic going into the last stretch,” Bentley says of his upcoming races. After intense activity for nine to 10 hours straight, he says his body will go into survival mode, making it difficult to sleep.

On top of that, he’ll need to constantly consume whatever food his stomach can manage.

As painful as this may sound, Bentley loves that the extreme races require a special level of focus.

“You can’t look ahead, you can’t think about the finish line, you have to stay present,” Bentley says.

“In a world where people are always thinking about something else and tied to technology, this is my meditation.”

The upcoming competition has another purpose: Bentley will be fundraising for a different charity on each stage of the EPIC5.

“I wanted to do something bigger than just go out and do the race and cross the finish line,” Bentley says of his $25,000 fundraising goal.

Charities include Canuck Place Children’s Hospice, the Millipede Project, Canadian National Institue for the Blind, the Minerva Foundation’s Indigenous roots program and the Terry Fox Foundation’s PROFYLE project.

Bentley says after talking with his wife, he’s agreed to slow down once his Hawaiian adventure is over.

“My kids are still young — they enjoy coming to the finish lines and travelling to watch me, but I want to focus more on them,” says Bentley.

Ellery is confident that Bentley will not only be the first Canadian to complete EPIC5, but will also be the most fun person to watch while doing it.

“Just watching and seeing what he goes through on race weekends — the discomfort, fatigue — most people would throw in the towel. But Chad’s always upbeat,” Ellery says. “When his body is aching, fatigued, thirsty and everything is telling him he’s had enough, he’s still really friendly and fun to be around.”

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Quinn Hughes could still be the best part of 2018-19 season Canucks’ seventh overall pick in 2018 won’t be on the Canucks, but could thrill in college hockey

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The Canucks’ hopes for the blue line rest on the shoulders of Quinn Hughes, the team’s seventh overall pick in the 2018 draft. He won’t be playing for the Canucks next season, however, as he’ll be heading back to the NCAA to play one more year for the University of Michigan.

It’s a decision Hughes didn’t make lightly, but it was the right call for both himself and the Canucks. First of all, Hughes has unfinished business in the NCAA. “I want to win the national championship,” said Hughes. “I was heartbroken when we lost to Notre Dame in the Frozen Four last year.”

A return to college gives Hughes the chance to develop in an ideal environment as a 19-year-old, playing big minutes in all situations. He’ll be the go-to guy for the Wolverines, rather than being eased into professional hockey in a sheltered role with either the Canucks or the Utica Comets in the AHL. It’s also what’s best for the Canucks, even if not having Hughes in the lineup might hurt their ticket sales. The Canucks are not close enough to being a playoff team to justify rushing a draft pick to the NHL to help right away.

With Alex Edler, Michael Del Zotto, Ben Hutton and Derrick Pouliot all with just one year left on their contracts, the 2019-20 season will give the Canucks a better opportunity to shape their defence for the future.

What may not be immediately clear is that this is what’s best for Canucks fans as well.

Certainly, Canucks fans are eager to see the flashy blue-chip blue-liner suit up in the blue, green and white. Fans showed up to the Canucks’ prospect camp practices and the summer showdown at Rogers Arena just to catch a glimpse of Hughes, so you can bet they’d love to see him in the lineup during the season.

Sometimes, what you really need is the anticipation. For an example, just look at last season.

One of the most exciting parts about the 2017-18 Canucks season had nothing to do with the Canucks themselves.

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87 points from an under-20 defenceman is truly astounding.

No one else even comes close to his 3.22 points per game; the next best is under two points per game. an under-20 defenceman since 1990 is more within reach for Hughes: Adam Fox had 40 points in the 2016-17 season for Harvard.

That would mean 11 more points for Hughes than he scored last season, but that’s very doable for the fleet-footed blueliner.

Fans will have to wait another season before they see blueliner Quinn Hughes in a Canucks uniform, but it will be worth the wait. PHOTO JEFF BASSETT/CANADIAN PRESS

America, but across the Atlantic Ocean in Sweden.

Elias Pettersson’s dominant performance in the Swedish Hockey League was a source of joy for Canucks fans in the midst of a mostly disappointing NHL season. There were certainly enjoyable aspects to the 2017-18 season, such as Brock Boeser’s outstanding rookie year and a near-perfect farewell to the Sedins, but the team’s overall struggles made it a tough season to watch at times.

Fortunately, there were near constant highlights and astounding updates from Pettersson’s record-breaking season in the SHL. As he surpassed the Sedins, Peter Forsberg and Kent Nilsson in points from an under-20 player in Sweden, it gave Canucks fans hope for the future in the midst of a pretty miserable present.

The same could be true of Hughes and the 2018-19 season.

Hughes is unlikely to replicate Pettersson’s SHL performance and sur-

pass the NCAA record for points from an under-20 defenceman, a record held by longtime NHL coach Ron Wilson with 87 points in 27 games back when the NCAA wasn’t as strong a league as it is now. Hughes does, however, have a shot at being the best player in college hockey and a potential Hobey Baker winner.

If Hughes had played in the NHL this season, he would have been exciting, but that excitement would have been tempered by the normal struggles of a 19-year-old rookie adapting to the best league in the world. Watching him from afar, Canucks fans will get to see the highlight-reel moves Hughes is known for and, hopefully, some jaw-dropping numbers that will get fans even more excited to see him in a Canucks jersey.

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Stick-taps & Glove-drops • I’m dropping the gloves with the Canucks for their overly draconian approach to protecting their trademark. A team of four preteen lacrosse players were set to wear customized jerseys with a version of the Johnny Canuck logo holding a lacrosse stick instead of a hockey stick. The closest thing to a compromise the Canucks could offer was letting the team wear the jerseys, then hand them over to be destroyed, which seems a bit over-the-top.

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If the conversation was just about the cars being built by Tesla, life would be simpler. The Model S was and is an unqualified hit. The Model X could stand to be a little prettier, but it’s also a success. And the Model 3, while nowhere near the mass-market vehicle promised (at least, not yet), has received accolades from critics and owners alike.

However, any discussion of the world’s foremost premium EV manufacturer has to include their financial picture, which is fairly complex.

Tesla consistently operates at a loss, which most of its proponents chalk up to constant investment in future product.

However, even the most die-hard fans have to feel a little worried about the number of missed production goals, and a factory that’s having a few teething issues.

Elon Musk, Tesla’s mercurial CEO, is assuredly a visionary, but does seem to trip over his own feet while staring out at the horizon. His latest move? Tweeting that he had “funding secured” for a move to take Tesla private at $420 per share.

The problem is, no investor seems willing to part with the funds, and Tesla’s board wasn’t aware of any deal.

Musk’s current position is that it’s the Saudis that are going to supply billions for the buyout, but that hasn’t happened yet – and much of the Saudi government’s funds are tied up.

Just to make this whole situation even more of a drama, rapper Azalia Banks – no stranger to social media controversy – suggested that Musk was in damage control mode after his ill-advised tweet, which he had made while under the influence. Banks had been a guest of Musk and his current girlfriend, Canadian-born electronic musician Claire Boucher, better known as Grimes.

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Remember when car companies were about cars? This is like some kind of wacky soap opera. Personally, here’s hoping Tesla can get its house in order, keep Elon locked up in his lab inventing the cool stuff, and get on with the business of building EVs and keeping its workers employed.

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