Vancouver Courier August 30 2018

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Moving out As the city tries to increase the amount of family housing geared towards Vancouver incomes, it’s too little too late for families like Byran Stewart and Andrea Robbie’s.

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WorkSafeBC issues stop work order on fire-damaged heritage home Jessica Kerr

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The saga continues for a fire-damaged heritage home in Shaughnessy.

Work was about to start recently on the mansion at 3737 Angus Dr. that was significantly damaged in a fire last October that was deemed arson. However, WorkSafeBC issued a stop work order Aug. 24 following an inspection that determined the structure is an “immediate danger to life and health” and “may also contain hazardous material(s), which could pose a health risk to workers/persons at or near the workplace.”

“The homeowners retained us earlier this summer to coordinate the extensive repairs and restoration work on the badly damaged home, in accordance with the city’s heritage bylaws,” Troy Van Vliet, principal of Tavan Developments Ltd., said in an email.

He said that last week, shortly before work was set to begin, the company advised WorkSafeBC of the work and invited investiga-

tors to inspect the site for “possible safety considerations and concerns.”

According to the inspection report, WorkSafeBC inspectors visited the site on Aug. 20 and 21.

The stop work order was posted at the site at 4 p.m. on Aug. 24. The order includes the condition that work not proceed until a demolition plan is developed to address the risks and the plan is reviewed by WorkSafeBC. A City of Vancouver spokesperson told the Courier Monday that the city was not aware of any work being carried out at the property because there are no permit applications on file for the address.

The home was damaged in a suspicious fire last October and, since it’s in the Heritage Conservation Area, it is a protected heritage property and is subject to the Heritage Property Standards and Maintenance bylaw. The city examined the home on Oct. 27, 2017, noting the roof was extensively damaged but the lower level openings were all boarded

WorkSafeBC issued a stop work order before work could begin on the fire-damaged heritage home at 3737 Angus Dr.

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up and perimeter fencing and 24-hour security was in place.

The city previously told the Courier that a structural engineer representing the property owner determined the building, which was assessed at $14.2 million as of July 1, 2017, could be salvaged following a site visit in late October — an assessment that was supported by a city district building inspector.

On Nov. 1, the city

ordered the owner to install a protective covering over the building to minimize weather and water damage.

Since then, the owners, Miao Fei Pan and Wen Huan Yang, asked for extensions, stating that the extent and nature of the damage requires selective demolition of the damaged sections, which will require more time to complete to address WorkSafeBC requirements due to structural and material hazards.

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yet be installed.

Earlier this summer, the city launched legal action against the owners.

In June, the City of Vancouver prosecutor’s office approved charges alleging that the owners failed to repair and maintain all buildings, structures and features at the property “to reasonably prevent or retard damage” and failed to comply with the original order directing that the home be maintained to prevent further damage.

A conviction could result in a court-imposed fine of up to $10,000, according to the city.

The city went a step further last month filing a petition in B.C. Supreme Court asking for a mandatory order forcing the owners to comply with the bylaw and pay for the costs associated with the proceedings.

Built in 1910, the house was designed by architects Samuel Maclure and Cecil Fox, and built by contractors Coffin and McLennan.

A statement of significance produced by heritage consultant Elana Zysblat said that the arts and

crafts-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 and 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 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 Shaughnessy, its rectangular, horizontal form in the arts-and-crafts style, and its large garden.

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“We know how much Vancouverites value their outdoor pools and beaches, and all things aquatic,” park board chair Stuart Mackinnon said in a press release.

“We responded to the hot, dry summer by extending pool and water park hours

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Kits, New Brighton and Second Beach outdoor pools have seen a record number of visits this summer. Since opening on the May long weekend, 272,642 people have visited the three pools — a 10 per cent increase over 2017.

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Wildfires’ impact on health hazy John Kurucz

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The science of assessing wildfire smoke is a fairly straightforward exercise, as particulate matter readings are updated almost hourly and the number of fires burning are recorded daily.

What the fires are doing to human health, however, doesn’t appear to be so cut and dry.

For starters, Vancouver Coastal Health doesn’t even track those specific numbers.

Spokesperson Tiffany Akins said the data that’s kept is based on symptoms such as a tight chest or coughing.

While there has been anecdotal chatter that those symptoms are being reported, linking them directly to the wildfire smoke can’t be done across the board.

“Generally, we haven’t been seeing a substantial increase in respiratory patients through our emergency departments, except for increased calls and concerns to the Lung Clinic at St Paul’s Hospital, from people with serious respiratory illnesses such as [chronic obstructive pulmo-

nary disease],” Akins said in an email to the Courier.

Conditions Tuesday and over the previous weekend were markedly better than the hellish conditions seen for the majority of August.

The 11-day, record-setting air quality advisory ended Aug. 24 but was again issued two days later.

Once put back in place on Aug. 26, it represented the 19th day of the year in which air quality advisories were in place, tying the record set last year. The province has experienced more than 2,000 fires since April, a threshold that’s only been broken twice since 2007. More than 970,000 hectares of land have burned, making 2018 the worst fire season on record.

Much like what’s being seen at hospitals for humans, there hasn’t been much of an uptick at hospitals for our four-legged friends either.

The early summer heatwave, rather than the wildfire smoke, was a much bigger problem for staff at both the Vancouver Animal Emergency & Referral Centre and Vancouver Animal Wellness Hospital.

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ma or underlying pulmonary or cardiovascular problems exist will pet owners need to exercise caution. The symptoms to be mindful of include sneezing, irritation around the eyes and nose, restlessness or discharge coming from the eyes.

“In cases like these, we will have patients that are already diagnosed or they are borderline, so they will now become clinical and require medication,” said Dr. Marius Vasilescu of the Vancouver Animal Wellness Hospital. “Unless there’s a fire nearby, we won’t see severe cases of smoke toxicity.”

Vancouver Animal Emergency & Referral Centre manager Avery Gillick lives near Yaletown and saw a noticeable decrease in the number of dogs being walked in his neighbourhood throughout August.

Should extended periods of heat return before summer’s done, Gillick recommends the following: “Make sure you keep your dog inside when possible, bring a spray bottle on walks, and walk your dog in the early morning or evening,” he said.

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Parents of children at one Vancouver daycare have been left scrambling for alternative arrangements after the operator decided to close.

“I’m really heartbroken because that centre is amazing, the inclusivity of that centre — the diversity of that centre is huge,” said Angela Giannoulis, whose three-year-old son has been attending the Phil Bouvier Family Childcare Centre for two years.

The centre, which is operated by the Vancouver Native Health Society (VNHS), is in Strathcona and mostly serves families from that neighbourhood and the Downtown Eastside.

“This neighbourhood… is very diverse culturally, socioeconomically... When you go in and you see all the different kids that are there from all the different backgrounds, they’re all there learning and growing up together, it is amazing because it helps to break those barriers of class and racism and all those things from an early age,” Giannoulis said.

She said that parents were first notified of the society’s intentions on June 4.

On July 10, the City of Vancouver issued a statement touting that the daycare centre had been saved by a $42,000 grant from the city through the 2018 Social Grant program, which includes an annual grant as well as transitional funding. The Central City Foundation, which owns the building, agreed to share the cost of transitional funding.

In a statement emailed to the Courier Friday afternoon, the city said that the $42,000 had not yet been released to VNHS because the society has not yet met the conditions of the grant, which includes the require-

The Phil Bouvier Family Childcare Centre is operated by the Vancouver Native Health Society. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

ment of a transition plan and an updated 2018 budget.

“The intent of the grant was to allow the space to continue operating while partners work on a longterm solution to this issue,” the statement reads. “The City has communicated with VNHS and CCF, and is disappointed more immediate action to meet these conditions had not been taken.”

The city is asking the Central City Foundation to confirm its commitment to maintain at least 49 licensed childcare spaces.

“If this cannot be met CCF is obligated to appoint another operator, or otherwise meet its legal obligations to the city.”

In 2007, the foundation received a $200,000 grant from the city to renovate the building. One of the stipulations was that it remains a daycare centre for at least 15 years. If not, the foundation will have to repay the $200,000 back to the city.

“The City knows parents are very concerned, and shares those concerns,” the statement reads. “We will continue to work together [with] CCF and with the Province to find a solution for keeping the valuable childcare spaces available to families who need them most.”

The timing of VNHS’s decision has also raised some questions, coming at the same time employees moved to unionize. According to Labour Relations Board docu-

ments, in mid-May the society brought in a consultant to assess the operation. On May 28, the consultant reported back to the society recommending that the daycare be shut down and replaced with a family drop-in centre. On May 30 the Labour Relations Board notified the society that it had received an application from the BC Government Employees Union for certification for employees.

That evening, the society’s board of directors met and passed a resolution to close the daycare.

On June 4, the centre held a staff meeting where staff was told the daycare centre would close at the end of July.

Two days later the union filed a complaint of unfair labour practice with the Labour Relations Board alleging, among other things, the closure of the daycare is motivated by anti-union sentiments.

The vote on joining the union went ahead on June 8 but the board ordered that ballot box be sealed while outstanding issues were dealt with. The union applied for an interim order prohibiting the closure of the centre, which the society initially opposed.

The hearing at the Labour Relations Board went ahead on July 9 and the society withdrew its objections and agreed to negotiate a settlement. The ballot box was unsealed and the count revealed that 95 per cent of VNHS employees voted in favour of joining the

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The society and the union negotiated a settlement agreement to govern relations between the two sides while a collective agreement is worked out. Part of the settlement agreement is the commitment to keep that daycare centre open until November.

With all the uncertainty surrounding the centre, parents are still looking for alternate childcare arrangements while pushing to save the daycare centre.

An online petition urging the city, the province and the foundation to find a new operator for the daycare was launched and has gathered more than 1,400 signatures

since mid-June.

The Central City Foundation issued a statement saying it “remains committed to supporting the community and we continue to work with Vancouver Native Health Society to allow them to fulfill their mandate to serve Indigenous families in the inner city… We understand that VNHS and the Ministry of Child and Family Development along with the City of Vancouver are working together for a new model of Indigenous childcare and early years planning.”

The Vancouver Native Health Society declined to comment at this time as its media relations officer is away until after the Labour Day long weekend. @JessicaEKerr

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Plenty of candidates this election, but so far very few ideas Mike Klassen

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As the dog days of Vancouver’s smoky summer draw to a close, and with a municipal election a mere seven weeks away, am I alone having trepidation about our city’s future?

If elections are supposed to be about hope and change, I for one am not feeling it coming from the options I am seeing so far.

Vancouver streetscapes have never looked so poorly maintained, with sidewalks strewn with litter and cigarette butts. Public spaces across the city are seeing a troubling number of discarded needles and more than the occasional mound of human waste.

The challenges are more than aesthetic, however, with the city’s social and physical infrastructure seeming to strain from neglect.

It must be a shock to visitors stepping off cruise ships or airlines to arrive at a place that, up close at least, does not live up to our travel brochures. Agencies that promote tourism and woo businesses to

Come election day, Vancouver voters will be faced with a long ballot of candidates. Unfortunately, beyond half-baked plans to make housing more affordable or opposition to pipeline expansion, most campaigns are devoid of practical ideas, says columnist Mike Klassen. PHOTO iSTOCK

our city have also been oddly silent in the face of Vancouver’s accelerating examples of urban decay.

With these current conditions, you might think the livability of the city might make for a good election issue to campaign on.

Beyond half-baked plans to make housing affordable or the opposition to an oil pipeline expansion, what are

candidates talking about?

Regrettably, not much.

One exception would be independent mayoral candidate Shauna Sylvester, who has recently begun releasing planks from her election platform. Thus far, she has put forward interesting ideas on supporting seniors and the city’s small business community. Her plan to improve

municipal accountability is a welcome back-handed slap at Vision Vancouver’s sealed fortress at city hall.

Speaking with Sylvester, she is thoughtful and passionate about the city. Like the (now former) Member from Metrotown — Kennedy Stewart — she also opposes the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion, though Sylvester is campaigning on

other issues unlike Stewart.

Sylvester’s challenge (and that of all other campaigns, for that matter) is finding a way to connect with voters in this atypical election.

For example, her policy proposing electoral reform (a mixed ward/at-large council) sounds like it was crafted in an ivory tower because it probably was. Her advisors include academics and some of the city’s creative elite.

What I have yet to see are ideas that matter to average Vancouverites — such as those who ride the bus to work and back every day. They are not fretting about the makeup of the council — they just want them to get the job done.

I have a more fundamental question for this crop of candidates: why run for office unless you plan to work hard to make the city run better?

Being a city councillor is not supposed to be sexy work — in fact, it is a pretty tough job. Which is why it is surprising how many names might be on this year’s ballot.

Being a councillor may not be glamorous, though

you would hardly know that if the actions of the outgoing mayor serve as a guide.

Gregor Robertson hardly missed a chance to go to Copenhagen, Paris or New York to be on the world stage. Issues in his own backyard appeared to hold little interest, whereas trying to solve the world’s problems certainly did.

In reality, the city is not functioning well enough for council to endeavour to save the planet right now.

With the 50 or so days left until election day on Oct. 20, is it too much to expect candidates or elector organizations to tell us how they plan to make Vancouver a better place to live, work and recreate?

I welcome any good ideas brought forward by prospective candidates, and will share them with readers in my future columns.

Ultimately, it will be Vancouver voters who decide what kind of council we have. There will be plenty of names on the ballot, but whether there will be any election platforms worth voting for remains to be seen. @MikeKlassen

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Modular management unproven Re: “Temporary modular housing approved for Cambie site,” Aug. 15.

In June, the False Creek neighbourhood just west of Olympic Village received notice that a modular housing development for the homeless was being “considered” in the vacant city lot in the 200 block of West First Avenue. Soon two small billboards were erected in front of the property in question, with information and site drawings for the “proposal.”

Further, there were already modular homes moved onto the “proposed” site, even though the city stated that a decision had not yet been made.

Shortly thereafter the neighbourhood at large was invited to a community open house at Beaumont Studios, hosted by the City of Vancouver.

Many issues are still unclear, yet there have been no further updates given to the community from the city since the open house in June. Meanwhile, city engineers are busy measuring for water, sewage and power. This does not feel like no decision has been made.

Our neighbourhood is already inundated. We are not NIMBYs, as one is commonly called when opposed to social housing. We have four buildings for the homeless in our immediate neighbourhood alone — Marguerite Ford directly behind my condo building at the corner of Cook and West Second Avenue, the Yukon building at Fifth and Yukon, the

new modular homes at the Cambie and West Second Canada Line station, and the modular homes at Main and Terminal. The problems that accompany this kind of housing are enormous.

The Marguerite Ford building has been a disaster since day one. We live daily with the repercussions — the residents shooting up behind our homes, cooking drugs on our barbecues, overdosing in our back lanes, stealing from our patios, defecating.

There are city workers taking transit into our neighbourhood from outlying areas to clean up the needles, garbage, bottles, clothing; junk left strewn around the park, green spaces and streets. These hard workers cannot afford to live here, yet they are hired to clean up the mess from those living in existing housing developments for the homeless. There are young families who worry about children playing freely in the playground due to discarded needles. This is not a homeless problem as much as a drug and mental health epidemic.

We are all trying to build a life and community here. I question any kind of community building as a mandate as we have yet to feel any integration from the homeless housing already in existence.

We’re not opposed to people getting homes; we’re opposed to a dramatic surge in one concentration without a proven management strategy.

The modular housing development is supposed to be a different model. But the city has yet to prove that management of housing the homeless in a neighbourhood can be done constructively and without significant negative impact.

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Back to School September 4, 2018 Keep the area around your school a safe place to walk, cycle and roll by following the posted signs. If you are driving, consider parking several blocks away and walking to the school. It’s an active way to start and end the day.

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PNE parking wars continue to divide Hastings-Sunrise Not in my backyard vs park in my backyard Grant Lawrence

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When my family first moved into HastingsSunrise, a neighbour was quick to inform us of the unwritten rules of parking on our new street. We had just relocated from the West End, where parking chaos ruled 24 hours a day, so we were all ears.

It was explained to us that we were to always park directly in front of our home.

We were not to park in front of anyone else’s home, unless we absolutely had to.

As soon as the space in front of our home opened up, we were to move our car into it. Disrespect this rule, and we’d be seriously upsetting our street’s feng shui.

This neighbour also told us if we followed this simple code of conduct, there would never be any need to obnoxiously reserve our

parking spot (which was on city property) by placing buckets, cones, plywood, handmade signs or any other physical objects in the space. That was considered uncouth — something tolerated south of McGill, but not on our street.

We did as we were told and, lo and behold, it worked — 98 per cent of the time we have a parking spot.

With ever-increasing density, this type of parking urgency in East Vancouver is a constant battle on most streets, and it’s never more apparent than during the PNE. That’s when the hyperlocal phenomenon known as the “Parking Ladies” or the “Granny Cartel” is out in force, waving homemade parking signs on the corners, in an attempt to lure fairgoers into black market parking on lawns, laneways and in garages and carports, for a slightly cheaper rate than the official PNE parking lots.

Award-winning Vancouver filmmaker Mina Shum perfectly captures the parking barkers with both

The phenomenon known as “Parking Ladies” or the “Granny Cartel” has become a fixture of the annual Pacific National Exhibition.

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humour and empathy in her beautiful 2017 movie Meditation Park, which was filmed on location. Shum has lived in the neighbourhood for 25 years.

The PNE parking issue has existed for longer than that. The earliest mention I could find was a Vancouver Sun article from 1987 called “PNE area residents warned of law against parking jam.”

The article detailed $15 fines for residents who crammed more than three vehicles on their property at a time.

One ambitious chap in the 3300 block of Turner Street apparently managed to cram 20 cars into his backyard.

About five years ago, increasing gentrification of the Hastings-Sunrise neighbourhood caused the issue to overheat again.

An acceleration of complaints resulted in a 2012 crackdown that produced a huge sign at Hastings and Renfrew: “Backyard parking is a major irritant to some residents. BE A GOOD NEIGHBOUR. Consider

parking in PNE lots, taking transit, or riding your bike to Hastings Park events.”

Announcing fines that ranged from $100 to $2000, the city said “residents are not permitted to solicit motorists, obstruct or impede passage on the streets (including sidewalks and lanes) or call out for the purpose of attracting attention.”

Uh huh. If you were take a drive up Renfrew Street during the last two weeks of August, you’d have to be careful not to plow into groups of shouting seniors waving homemade parking signs. The woman I spoke to at the corner of Dundas and Renfrew offered me all-day parking for $15 on her front lawn (the PNE charges $20 all day in their main lot).

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One mom commented that, because of the Parking Ladies, one of her daughter’s first words was “PARKING!” Another mentioned it took the Parking Ladies 15 years to stop jumping out in front of her car, when they finally realized she actually lived on their block.

One person said it’s often not just the ladies on the corner who are in on the action — several other houses on various blocks subcontract their yards out for a split of the profits.

Whatever side of this annual debate you park yourself on, you have to admit it — the Parking Ladies are one of the defining cultural features of Hastings-Sunrise — just as long as they aren’t selling public street parking. I also draw the line on those buckets and cones. That’s uncool.

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Vancouver families leave city for better City of Vancouver says it’s working on creating the ‘right supply’

questioning existing policies that enable pricey rentals.

The city, for instance, gives development cost waivers to qualifying secured market rental projects if rents meet or fall below certain targets. In the “east area,” it’s $1,496 for a studio, $1,730 for a one-bedroom, $2,505 for a two-bedroom and $3,365 for a three-bedroom.

In the “west area,” maximum rents under the rental incentive guidelines are $1,646 for a studio, $1,903 for a one-bedroom, $2,756 for a two-bedroom and $3,702 for a three-bedroom.

“The city approves these developments with what’s considered affordable rentals,” Stewart said. “They just approved one in Kerrisdale and the threebedrooms are going to start at $3,700. You’d have to be making well over $100,000 to do it.”

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It’s taken more than two decades for Bryan Stewart and Andrea Robbie to give up on Vancouver. But like countless individuals and middle-income families before them — some of whom have written long, public goodbye letters — they’re ditching the city.

Instead of a letter or a blog post, Stewart announced the couple’s decision on social media.

“After 2nd renoviction in last 8 months, after 20 yrs of fighting for Vancouver neighbourhoods for families, it looks like like [sic] our family will be moving to White Rock! I wish all my Vancouver friends the best of luck continuing to fight the good fight for families!,” he tweeted July 12.

Stewart and Robbie, who have a six-year-old daughter, Sadie, and a 12-year-old dog, Maggie, plan to live in that municipality for only a few years before leaving the Lower Mainland altogether — all in hopes of settling down in a community that makes financial sense.

But they’d rather stay.

While talking to the Courier, Robbie choked up several times about her family’s inability to find secure, affordable, familysized housing that’s pet friendly.

“Sharks are on the land, not in the sea anymore. I feel everything has been ripped from us — twice now,” she said.

Efforts by the city to address affordability and adopt more policies that aim to increase the amount of family housing geared towards Vancouver incomes have come too late for the couple. They maintain it will take years to see the fruits of any new initiatives.

Rather than sticking it out, they’ve signed a lease in White Rock where they’ll head at month’s end.

“I’m broken-hearted. This is my home,” Robbie says.

Whether Vancouver is doing enough to keep families from leaving remains debatable, but Susan Haid, the city’s director of long range and strategic planning, said the city has bolstered its efforts to improve housing diversity and create the “right supply.”

“We would really like families to stay. We know that there are challenges right now and I think we’re really taking those head on,” she said. “…We need

Calgary bound

Byran Stewart with wife Andrea Robbie, daughter Sadie, 6, and their dog Maggie, 12. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

engagement right now. There is a lot of action happening and we encourage families to be part of that conversation.”

Moving On

Robbie, a long-time Vancouverite, moved here from Vancouver Island 25 years ago.

Ten years ago, she met Stewart, who’s originally from Squamish. He’s lived in the city for two decades.

Robbie runs a small business out of her home, works part time in a restaurant and also has an adult son who no longer lives with them.

Stewart, who used to run his own business doing small renovations, now works for an engineering company but he still spends weekends and vacation time on contracting projects to earn extra cash — most recently to cover moving expenses.

The couple had hoped to buy a home at one point, but they weren’t financially established enough when it might have been possible. Now it’s out of the question. Even though they collectively earn about $100,000 a year, they wouldn’t be able to come up with a sufficient down payment or easily cover a hefty mortgage.

Renting has its own challenges

— affordable places are hard to come by, especially for people with pets. Even if you snag a well-priced apartment or house, there’s no guarantee of being able to stay long-term. That’s a major problem for families with children who prefer not to move schools or fear losing a hard-tofind childcare space.

Robbie and Stewart lived in their rental home in East Vancouver for eight years until last October when they were handed an eviction notice and told to leave by Dec. 31. The landlord said family was moving in. The couple challenged the eviction but weren’t successful.

Thus began their search for a new place. Their wish-list included three bedrooms so they’d have enough space for a home office to share.

One possibility fell through at the last minute, leaving them desperate. Then a client offered to rent them their West Side home, which was vacant because it was going to be redeveloped.

It worked for much of this year, but the city wants asbestos removed as part of the development process, which means they have to move out much sooner than expected.

A new search proved difficult. They scoured listings in

Vancouver as well as nearby municipalities, but prices were steep for a three-bedroom.

They eventually found a rancher 35 kilometres away in White Rock. It’s a two-bedroom with a small den for $2,800 a month. They still have to pay the water bill, which pushes housing costs to about $3,000 and takes a substantial chunk out of their monthly budget. At that rate, and with all their other expenses, they can’t imagine staying in the Lower Mainland while still saving money for their future or being able to buy a home. They suspect they’ll eventually move to a community near Rossland, B.C. “We can’t really make any more money and we’re already paying 50 to 60 per cent of our income towards housing. When it gets to 65, 70 [per cent], we’ll move to the Kootenays,” Stewart said.

“I have a good job here. But at some point you say, good job or not, what’s leftover is not enough. [I] might as well make $30 an hour and take a pay cut, do whatever I have to, and go live in Castlegar or Nelson — wherever we can find a place.”

Much more needs to be done to make the city affordable for families, Stewart said, while

Not long after Stewart posted about leaving Vancouver, Brette Mullins followed suit. But he’s heading much farther afield — all the way to Calgary.

“With very sad news, my family and I are relocating to Calgary due to Vancouver, and the surrounding areas, becoming too unaffordable. With my farewell to a city I love, here is a rendition of ‘Good Night Vancouver,’” he tweeted July 25.

His “Good-Bye Vancouver” message lays the blame on Vision Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson and former Liberal Premier Christy Clark. He bids goodbye to Robertson who he said “destroyed our dream,” and Clark who he hoped would one day “find your heart.” He also called out “shady developers” and included a listing for a tiny, aging home sold for almost $2.4 million.

Mullins, until recently, was a project manager for Provincial Health Services. His new position is with Alberta Health.

His young family includes wife Noriko, who’s on maternity leave, and two children, Mila, four, and Lio, eight months.

Their rationale for moving to Calgary is quantified in a spreadsheet with a comparative analysis of the two cities. Aside from wages, the spreadsheet lists everything from housing and childcare costs to car insurance and gas expenses. Mullins even took traffic, provincial education funding and crime clearance rates into consideration.

His conclusion: he’ll earn slightly less in his new job, but based on his calculations, he’ll still be ahead by tens of thousands of dollars year-over-year.

“When I looked at the final numbers, I thought I could pay for my daughter’s and my son’s weddings, and their schools,” he told the Courier. “That just made sense.”

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housing options Although they’ve been paying reasonable rent for their rental home of four years — $1,500 for an 800-square-foot, twobedroom, one-bathroom place in East Vancouver, it’s tight for a growing family of four.

Mullins, who’s been renting in Vancouver for 11 years, said the couple considered buying a home about two years into living in the city. They were “dumbfounded” to be approved for a $750,000 mortgage.

Houses were priced at about $600,000 at the time, but they thought it was too much.

“I think we were just scared,” he said.

Over the past two years, they tried to buy again in municipalities including Burnaby, Port Moody and Port Coquitlam but were outbid by $50,000 to $80,000 each time.

With a desire to put down secure roots, they decided that if Mullins could find a good position outside of Vancouver, they’d leave.

He landed the job with Alberta Health and the family departed Vancouver Aug. 17.

They hope to buy a home as soon as possible in Calgary.

I have a good job here. But at some point you say, good job or not, what’s leftover is not enough.

Byran Stewart

The move is not without regret.

“There’s too many emotions.

I’m scared because [I’m] starting a new career, [I’m] moving [my] family. Is it the right decision? I mean, I want to stay in Vancouver,” he said.

“I love my job, I love working for provincial health, I love my city, but I can’t stand the people who run it. I can’t stand a lot of the people who are running the show. And I’m angry because I have to leave. My wife’s angry… she loves this place.”

All about the family

Between 2011 and 2016, the number of families moving to Vancouver climbed from 82,600 to about 89,600, Susan Haid told the Courier.

“However, the proportion of total households of families with children has gone down a bit from 34 per cent to 31 per cent,” she added.

The City of Vancouver’s High Density Housing for Families and Children Guidelines is its major initiative on family hous-

ing, which is defined as two and three bedrooms and up. The guidelines, which are meant to ensure homes are appropriate for families, address details such as common areas, amenities and offer guidance around layout.

They were first approved in the 1990s, but an update has been underway for 14 months.

More than 10,000 residents have been reached for feedback.

The update is needed because the housing market has changed significantly and more people are living in apartments.

A recent online survey conducted as part of the update revealed families mainly want a third bedroom for use as a child’s bedroom, a guestroom or as an office space. Families also want outdoor areas and flexible space to accommodate their changing needs over time.

The guidelines are linked to a city policy that calls for 35 per cent family housing (two- and three-bedrooms), at a minimum, in multi-family redevelopments, with a target of 10 per cent at three bedrooms.

It’s the city’s Housing Vancouver strategy, however, that’s one of the key initiatives meant to address the affordability crisis, land speculation and see that the “right supply” is built.

Adopted in late 2017, it envisions 72,000 new homes being built in the next 10 years, 40 per cent of which are aimed at families and adhere to the guidelines for family housing.

Part of the 72,000 target includes 10,000 new groundoriented units that are particularly appealing to families, such as townhouses, coach houses and laneway homes.

Haid said “affordable housing” spans many types of housing and many incomes in the city’s definition and initiatives, but one of Housing Vancouver’s “very big moves” is around creating the “right supply,” which better matches city workers’ incomes.

One target area is the $30,000 to $80,000 moderate-income bracket.

Many new rental housing initiatives, she said, such as the moderate income rental housing pilot project, are geared to that income level — below market but not necessarily social housing.

In terms of family housing, the city is also trying to create housing opportunities for household incomes of up to $150,000.

One possibility is “affordable home ownership,” but it requires legislative changes to the Vancouver Charter for the city to enable it.

“But it is something that we have been looking at, and it is something potentially geared to that income level of $30,000 to $150,000 per household, recognizing that there can be two or

Brette Mullins with wife Noriko and their children Mila, 4, and Lio, eight months. PHOTO SUPPLIED

multiple incomes,” Haid said.

In terms of social housing, the city calls for a minimum of 20 per cent social housing in all its community plans, with 50 per cent of those units being suitable for families with children.

The City of Vancouver is also in the process of launching its “Making Room” program, which council approved in June. Its goal is to increase the supply of medium-sized, medium-density housing throughout the city in singlefamily neighbourhoods, including laneway houses, townhouses, rowhouses and low-rise apartment buildings.

A public hearing takes place Sept. 18 for one of the quick-start actions that could see most single-family zones opened up to duplexes. Over the next year, city staff will evaluate the possibility of allowing triplexes, four-plexes, townhouses and apartments. A report will go back to council in

the spring of 2019.

“The city, compared to, I think, all municipalities in the region, and probably provincially, has been undertaking the greatest amount of both policy and regulatory efforts to increase affordable housing and the diversity of housing and the supply of housing,” Haid said.

“We’ve really been combatting this housing crisis on all fronts — from an affordability perspective, an income perspective, a supply perspective and a diversity perspective. We’ve certainly been increasing supply but we need more right supply, so we certainly encourage families to work with us and we want families to stay and engage.”

Heading for a new home

Mullins isn’t waiting to see what the future holds for housing in Vancouver, although he had hoped to run for a council seat in the 2018 civic race under

ProVancouver headed by mayoral hopeful David Chen.

At this point, he maintains it’s near impossible for most middle-income families to stay if they want secure, affordable housing.

“There is no ability. You have a choice to rent for the rest of your life and you will not grow roots. You’ll not grow a rooted family where you can say, ‘We lived here and this is the house I grew up in.’ That’s just not going to happen. You will eventually have to keep moving around. That’s the price you pay,” he said.

When asked how he feels about the move, he said it’s a mixture of fear and relief.

“I’ll miss Vancouver. Hands down. I’m excited to finally get a home, have my kids play in the backyard, get a dog,” he said. “[But] no, I’m not excited about moving to another city. I wish I could do that here.” @naoibh

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Since then lobby groups and unions have worked hard to ensure workers’ rights and safety A story came through my Twitter feed recently about Japanese workers.

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Some of them are literally working themselves to death.

One woman was found dead with her cell phone in her hand — she had logged 159 overtime hours in a month.

The pressure on many urban office workers in Japan is to work longer and longer hours

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Fairness. Training. Safety.

It’s B.C.’s Time of Opportunity.

— to the detriment of their physical and mental health.

They even have a word for it — karoshi, which means occupational sudden mortality — which is alarming all on its own.

We North Americans might scoff at that ever happening here, but I don’t think workers in some industries are that far off.

Look, for instance, at the tech industry. There are countless articles detailing the unreal expectations placed on many software developers to not leave the office and keep working to finish looming projects. Many of these companies offer free food, ping-pong tables and comfy couches — not really out of the goodness of their heart, but to make it easier for workers to stay at work.

Apart from working long hours, there is also the issue of workplace safety that is putting many employees at risk. The worst example is perhaps a few years ago when an overloaded van carrying

...karoshi, which means occupational sudden mortality...

farm workers crashed with multiple fatalities because there were no real seats — just homemade wood benches — and no seatbelts.

I personally covered the death of Maple Ridge gas station attendant Grant De Patie, who was killed trying to stop someone trying to pull a gas-and-dash stunt. It was believed that DePatie was trying to stop the driver because he feared being docked pay to cover the cost of the stolen gas. He was run over and dragged to his death.

I mention all these examples because I want to give a shout out to all of the organized labour and advocacy groups that are out there working to protect people.

The Labour Day holiday in Canada arrived at a time when print workers in Toronto were battling just to get a nine-hour week (yes, nine hours). It was also at a time when workers feared losing their factory jobs to automation.

As you can see, 1872 (the time of the first known Labour Day event) might have been a long time ago, but in 2018 people are still dying on the job, working too many hours and fearing their jobs will be replaced by automation. (Hello, driverless cars and our future robot overlords!)

...there are many unions working to ensure their members are protected...

The death of the farm workers in that van produced new workplace regulations that were pushed by advocacy groups representing such workers.

Grant’s Law requiring payat-the-pump changes came directly out of the De Patie family’s lobbying of the provincial government (although, sadly, the B.C. Liberal government later allowed those changes to be watered-down through WorkSafeBC). Other advocacy groups are fighting to ensure federal temporary foreign workers are not exploited by unscrupulous fast-food outlet owners who find ways to claw back their wages. And, finally, there are many unions working to ensure their members are protected, as well as lobbying various levels of government to pass regulations to protect workers even further.

So on this Labour Day take a moment to thank all of these groups and unions out there making the working world a better and safer place.

For more than a century, the union presence in B.C. has improved the lives of all working people.

The new province-wide Community Benefits Agreement continues this tradition. All workers on key public-sector construction projects will get fair wages, fair treatment and a high standard of workplace safety. Local hiring will mean good jobs for women, Indigenous people and apprentices, leaving a legacy of skills and practical experience. On Labour Day 2018 we pay tribute to those who built B.C.’s labour movement as a force for positive change, and we look forward to a time of opportunity for all. Join us.

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Weekend conference offers workshops, networking, outdoor activities and fun Woman) of the St’langng Jaanas/Laanas clan in Haida Gwaii. Williams is a long-time Downtown Eastside resident, artist and activist and a passionate advocate who rallies against the discrimination, abuse, sexual assault, human trafficking and exploitation of Aboriginal and LGBTQ2S women and girls.

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A non-profit society dedicated to raising the visibility of older lesbians is hosting its annual conference this weekend at the Coast Coal Harbour Hotel.

The Bold Old(er) Lesbians & Dykes Conference (BOLDFest) is a weekend dedicated to meeting and sharing information and is also an opportunity for learning, networking, support and organizing. And while BOLDFEst was originally organized to recognise the needs of lesbians 45 and older, younger participants are also welcome.

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Meanwhile, the Intergenerational Dialogue workshop is being facilitated

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As well, the Bold Woman of the Year will be honoured.

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• Gotta Pee and other urgent matters: A comedy workshop with Claire Robson.

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Information Meeting: Proposal to Allow Duplexes in Most RS (One-Family) Zones The City of Vancouver is considering zoning changes that would allow duplexes in most RS (one-family) zoned areas across the city. Secondary suites and laneway houses already exist as housing options in these neighbourhoods. Duplexes would add a new option for property owners and increase housing choice in low-density neighbourhoods.

Please join us at one of our information meetings to learn more about the proposed changes and to ask questions to staff, in advance of the public hearing.

Saturday, September 8, 2018, 11 am – 2 pm Killarney Community Centre 6260 Killarney Street Seniors Centre Grand Hall Tuesday, September 11, 2018, 5 – 8 pm Hastings Community Centre 3096 East Hastings Street, Auditorium Wednesday, September 12, 2018, 5 – 8 pm Dunbar Community Centre 4747 Dunbar Street, Room 006 Thursday, September 13, 2018, 5 – 8 pm Peretz Centre, 6184 Ash Street, Auditorium FOR MORE INFORMATION: vancouver.ca/makingroom makingroom@vancouver.ca

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.

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Public Hearing: September 18, 2018 Tuesday, September 18, 2018, at 3 pm City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Third Floor, Council Chamber Vancouver City Council will hold a Public Hearing to consider zoning for these locations: 1. 349 West Georgia Street (Former Main Post Office) To designate as protected heritage property the exterior, and selected interior elements, of the existing building at 349 West Georgia Street (Former Main Post Office), which is listed on the Vancouver Heritage Register in the ‘A’ evaluation category.

2. 1170 Barclay Street (The Florida) To add the existing heritage building at 1170 Barclay Street (The Florida) to the Vancouver Heritage Register in the ‘B’ evaluation category, to designate the exterior and the structure of the heritage building as protected heritage property, to enter into a Heritage Revitalization Agreement to secure the rehabilitation and long-term preservation of the heritage building, and to permit an addition to the building.

3. East Fraser Lands Official Development Plan 10-year Review Planning Program: Progress Update and By-law Amendments for a new Community Centre Site and Affordable Housing To amend the East Fraser Lands (EFL) Official Development Plan (ODP) and various CD-1 By-laws to allow for redistribution of existing floor area from the proposed community centre site to adjacent market sites and to increase the maximum floor area to add 5,129 square metres (55,208 square feet) of affordable housing in Area 1 and Area 2; including other minor amendments to remove EFL-specific parking maximums to align with citywide regulations in the Parking By-law and to increase the time limit from three to five years for interim uses in EFL. Also to amend the Zoning and Development By-law to remove the requirement for landscaped setbacks along stretches of Boundary Road, Kerr Street and Kinross Street.

4. 1444 Alberni Street and 740 Nicola Street To rezone 1444 Alberni Street and 740 Nicola Street from DD (Downtown District) to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of two residential towers containing 314 market strata units, 129 market rental units and a 56-space childcare centre.

A maximum height of 135.2 metres (443.5 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 14.48 are proposed.

5. Amendments to the Zoning and Development By-law for Most RS Zones to Allow Two-Family Dwellings (Duplexes) to Increase Housing Choice To make amendments to the RS-1, RS-1A, RS-1B and RS-6 District Schedules to increase housing choice in those areas by introducing Two-Family Dwelling (duplex) use; to provide more flexibility in the regulations for currently-permitted Two-Family Dwelling use within the RS-2 and RS-7 District Schedules; and to introduce Two-Family Dwelling with secondary suite or lock-off unit as permitted dwelling uses to each RS District Schedule being amended.

6. Amendments to the Zoning and Development By-law for RT-7 and RT-8 Zones (Kitsilano) and RT-10 and RT-10N Zones (Kensington-Cedar Cottage) to Increase Housing Choice To rezone the RT-7 and RT-8 districts in Kitsilano to RT-5, applicable in Mount Pleasant and Grandview-Woodland, to improve incentives for character house retention and infill, and to increase housing choices to include laneway houses and secondary suites within two-family dwellings; and to rezone RT-10 in Kensington-Cedar Cottage to RT-11, applicable in Norquay Village, to equalize the permitted density for the characteristic “small house/ duplex” developments permitted in both neighbourhoods, to improve incentives for character house retention and infill, and to include the additional housing choices of laneway houses and secondary suites within two-family dwellings.

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

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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 September 7, 2018 until 2 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 2:30 and 3 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 September 7 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-waittimes or @VanCityClerk on Twitter.

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Cat lover Margaret Atwood’s latest is for the birds Martha Perkins

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Donning cat’s ears and a bird angel’s wings, Margaret Atwood toured the 27th International Ornithological Congress in Vancouver to highlight the message of her Angel Catbird graphic novels: keep cats safe indoors and you’ll keep birds safe, too.

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ence your family’s behaviour than through nine- to 12-year-olds,” says the Booker Prize-winning author of The Handmaid’s Tale, adding, “You can teach much better through stories than numbers. It’s a very old human technology.”

The three Angel Catbird books are about to be released in a hardcover version: The Complete Angel Catbird.

Illustrated by Vancouver artist Johnnie Christmas, the graphic novels follow the Angel Catbird superhero as he “gets caught in the middle of a war between animal/human hybrids.”

Atwood said if she’d written the book in the 1950s, the superhero would have gotten his powers after falling into a vat of chemicals. In the 1960s, he would have been bitten by a radioactive spider.

In the 2010s, he’s a geeky scientist who gets genetically spliced with a cat and bird.

“He loves cats and birds both. He has commitment issues,” Atwood said.

Loving cats and birds doesn’t need to be mutually exclusive, one pitted against the other. Atwood doesn’t want people to have to take

sides. Instead, she wants cat lovers to see keeping their cats indoors — or with access to “catios” — is a way of showing that love with the added benefit of keeping birds safe.

“Your cat should be treated as well as a dog,” she said, noting that if a dog gets lost, it has a 60 per cent chance of coming home alive. If a cat gets lost, it’s 30 per cent.

“It’s not true that cats are smart about cars,” she said, noting that many get killed on roads. Cat mortality is also high because of run-ins with raccoons, coyotes and bears.

A long-time bird enthusiast, Atwood is co-author of the children’s book For the Birds and the printed essay “Birds.” Her long-time partner, Graeme Gibson, wrote The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany, and together they support many bird projects.

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Margaret Atwood learned a lot about squirrel anatomy from her cat.

It loved to kill squirrels and eat them, leaving only the gizzards as a memento.

Another cat preferred rabbits. It would hunt them at night, bringing the dead ones into her bedroom through an open window.

Today, Atwood wants to save birds from similar fates.

As the author of the Angel Catbird graphic novels, the Nobel Prize for Literature nominee is willing to don cat ears and wings to illustrate her point: don’t let your cat roam free.

“Cats are primed to hunt — they like doing it. It’s fun for them,” she said at an Aug. 21 media event during the 27th International Ornithological Congress, which came to a close on Sunday.

Why do cats hunt?

“It’s sort of, ‘Why does the sun shine?’” said Atwood.

“It’s not their fault. It’s natural that cats like to stalk things and jump on them but there’s no reason they can’t do that indoors... They can have just as much fun chasing a wind-up toy mouse.”

Cat predation is one of four leading causes of death for birds. The others are habitat loss, toxicity and flying into windows.

A cat lover herself, Atwood says she won’t reach many people if she simply uses statistics to make her case. That’s why she turned, instinctually, to storytelling to make her point.

And, as the daughter of a biologist who spent a lot of her childhood exploring the outdoors, she also knows how important it is to reach out to children.

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Build an end-of-summer staycation around filming locations Sabrina Furminger

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I have loved Vancouver — profoundly and with deep devotion — since long before I met her, thanks to a Cupid’s arrow delivered via network television.

I was born in Montreal and spent my teen years in a Toronto suburb. I was a geek, right down to the Urkel glasses, and like any good geek in the early 1990s, I lived for Vancouver-shot sci-fi fare such as Sliders and The X-Files.

Back then, I imagined Vancouver as a moody urban centre populated by paranormals and time travellers, where the natural and supernatural worlds ran wild and glass towers soared into the future.

When I moved to Vancouver in 2002, I wasted no time seeking out locations that I’d seen on The X-Files: City Square Mall, where Tooms had built his nest; the shark tank at the Vancouver Aquarium where Deep Throat and Mulder met in “E.B.E.”; the Ovaltine Café,

where I wolfed down pie like Mulder had in “Jose Chung’s From Outer Space.”

And I’ll be honest: the fact that my long-distance boyfriend lived in my beloved as-seen-on-TV Vancouver played heavily into my decision to make this city my home.

I wasn’t the first — or the last — starry-eyed fan to seek out Vancouver filming locations in order to soak in that moviemaking magic.

For years, fans have been devising their own DIY film tourism experiences — documenting their adventures on websites such as Fangirl Quest — or engaging tour companies such as Fans of Vancouver to walk them around the city and point out locations featured in screen projects like Supernatural, Deadpool, Twilight, The CW’s superhero shows, and 50 Shades of Grey.

But until last year, the city’s tourist bureau, Tourism Vancouver, didn’t have the funds to dedicate a fulltime person to film tourism, says Sonu Purhar.

Purhar heads a rap-

Filmed in Vancouver is a film tourism web portal that equips tourists with nearly a dozen itineraries bearing names such as Fifty Shades of Vancouver: A Fan Favourites Tour, Deadpool’s Vancouver and Walk in the Steps of the Superheroes in Vancouver.

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idly expanding initiative at Tourism Vancouver that promotes the city as a destination for out-of-town film and television fans.

The crown jewel in the initiative is Filmed in Vancouver, a film tourism web portal that equips tourists with nearly a dozen itineraries bearing names such as Fifty Shades of Vancouver: A Fan Favourites Tour,

Deadpool’s Vancouver, and Walk in the Steps of the Superheroes in Vancouver.

The idea is to get these tourists to filming locations — such as the alley in Gastown where Deadpool delivered beatdowns in Deadpool 2, or the Columbia Street building that housed Ana’s apartment in 50 Shades of Grey — where they can snap a couple of shots for Instagram, and then “go two blocks further and there’s this incredible cocktail bar.”

“My main goal is to use these films and TV shows as a catalyst to get people to come to Vancouver,” says Purhar. “When they get here, we want to show them that there’s so much more to do.”

It’s a strategy that’s

worked for Ireland (home to Game of Thrones) and New Zealand (perhaps better known as Middle Earth in The Lord of Rings), and it’s been executed with the blessing of the film and television industry, says Purhar — which is why tourists shouldn’t expect to see any filming at any of the sites listed on the itineraries.

“We’re respectful and mindful of the film industry’s need to keep massive numbers of people away from live filming sites,” says Purhar.

She holds regular meetings with industry stakeholders like the Directors Guild of Canada and the Motion Picture Production Industry Association of BC “to ensure that everyone’s marketing efforts are aligned, that we’re doing something beneficial for everybody and we’re not surprising people with what we’re doing.”

The industry seems to be on board: Filmed in Vancouver’s banner photo — Deadpool against a Vancouver backdrop, arms wide open as if beckoning film tourists into a deep embrace — was created for the site by the team at 20th Century Fox. And Deadpool isn’t just posing for pretty pictures in order to draw visitors to his hometown. “[The studio] had Ryan Reynolds and his PR team look over the creative that we did,” says Purhar. “They actually worked on it and sent it

back with suggestions.”

Interested in partaking in an end-of-summer staycation of your own built around Vancouver filming locations?

Purhar suggests beginning your journey at the Sea to Sky Gondola (featured in Altered Carbon and The Magicians), the Orpheum Theatre (as seen in Supergirl, Timeless, Arrow, iZombie, and The Flash) or that prolific old chestnut, Gastown, each of which holds “a lot of iconic spots that people will recognize from film and TV productions.”

You probably won’t see any paranormals or time travellers — I never have — but you might just catch a hint of moviemaking magic in the air.

More info at tourismvancouver.com.

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Le Burger Week

It’s back! Le Burger Week — the Montrealbased, week-long celebration of the best and most outrageous burgers — returns to Vancouver for seven days of deliciousness. Launched in 2012, the annual, cross-country event has brought together burger lovers, who head to participating local restaurants to sample their special creations just for the fest and vote on their favourites.

Sept. 1 to 7 Participating Vancouver restaurants facebook.com

TAIWANfest

This all-ages Taiwanese festival on Labour Day weekend features storytelling, crafts, performances, films, exhibits and food.

TAIWANfest highlights the culture the Philippines this year, celebrated in the opening party and concert, and in fun events and attractions such as Jeepney rides. Live cooking demos, music, dance and lots to eat await.

Sept. 1 to 3 Vancouver Art Gallery Plaza, 750 Hornby St. taiwanfest.ca

Cheese and Meat Festival

There are few food partnerships that work as well as cheese and meat, so it makes perfect sense to have an entire event dedicated to them both, together. Back for its third year, the Cheese and Meat Festival returns to Vancouver with a day full of the obvious: cheese and meat. And lots of it! Multiple vendors will load up your charcuterie board

(yours to keep) with samples of meats, cheese and accompaniments (think pickles, olives, etc.) along with chocolate, all paired with wine, beer and spirits.

Sept. 1, tastings at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m., seminars at 1:45 p.m. and 5:45 p.m.

Roundhouse Community Centre, 181 Roundhouse Mews cheeseandmeatfestival.com/vancouver

Phoenix at the Commodore

Catch these French alt-rockers when they take the stage at the Commodore Ballroom. The band’s syth-pop style has evolved over their seven full-length album releases, including their most recent, 2017’s Ti Amo. Sept. 3, doors 6:30 p.m., show 7:30 p.m.

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Punjabi Market Tour

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The haze has been lifted from our skies and our province is slightly less burny then it was a week ago, but the trend of hazy beer appears to be persisting.

Which is great! If there’s one fad I can get behind, it’s fruit-forward, murky beers in funky, brightly-coloured tall cans. These delicious and approachable beers are juicy and lush beers, oozing with gobs of tropical fruit flavour despite not having any fruit in them.

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Moody Ales’ Huge Citrus is a great example of a fruity beer without any fruit in it.

Here, the massive citrus and tropical fruit flavours come courtesy of Mosaic and Cascade hops. Hazy (a.k.a. New England) pale ales and IPAs are normally characterized by a thick, chewy body and residual sweetness, usually due to copious amounts of oats in the grain bill. However, brewer Sho Agawa decided to keep things West

Moody Ales’ Huge Citrus is a hazy beer with staying power.

Coast instead: that means light-bodied and dry. Agawa was named the B.C. Beer Awards’ homebrewer of the year twice before he went pro, so I trust his judgment, and so should you.

The result of his efforts is an endlessly quaffable, refreshingly light-bodied and well-balanced beer. The citrus fruit flavours are bold

without being overly sweet, finishing dry and clean without being overly bitter. It’s light-bodied without being thin, somehow still maintaining the characteristic haze.

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Huge Citrus by Moody Ales Appearance: Deep hazy amber with a fluffy white head.

Aroma: Massive citrus nose, tropical fruit, grapefruit, orange, tangerine, peach.

Flavour: Grapefruit, mandarin orange, peach, mango, citrus.

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Bugging out over PNE’s buzz-worthy food offerings Save room for milkshake burgers, cricket caramel apples and deep-fried, bacon-wrapped Reese’s peanut butter cups

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Concessions says he had to find a replacement for hamburger buns while developing this deep-fried creation because the buns kept dissolving in the fryer. Instead, his deep-fried hamburgers are wrapped in flavoured pizza dough that gets nice and crunchy once it hits the fryer.

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Typically, if you found a bug in food you ordered at a restaurant, you’d call your server over and ask that the dish be replaced — or at the very least, taken off your bill.

But that’s not the case at this year’s Fair at the PNE where cricket-covered caramel apples are one of the big hits of the annual event.

And we’re not talking just a sprinkle of crickets, but more like a small colony of the leggy creatures pressed into warm caramel.

The cricket caramel apples are the brainchild of long-time vendor/evil genius Jason Faria, owner of Next Gen Concessions. He uses salted, oven-roasted crickets from Ontario-based Entomo Farms, which specializes in the sale of insects and insectbased products such as flour.

During a media tour of some of the more “interesting” foods available at the Fair at the PNE, we all had the opportunity to sample this buzz-worthy treat and while I did witness one man spit his piece of apple out, for the most part everyone brave enough to try the cricket caramel apple decreed it as pretty good or “not bad.” That was the same response I received from colleagues after sharing pieces back at the Courier’s office. I also tried a piece and, honestly, if you didn’t know what you were eating you wouldn’t give it a second thought — just don’t look at their little legs.

The PNE is famous for its annual creative culinary concoctions, and this year is no exception. Here are a few other highlights of the foods I tried during our tour:

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Deep-fried Kit Kat fries

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Bacon wrapped Reese’s peanut butter cups Long-time vendor/evil genius Jason Faria is the man behind the much-buzzed-about cricket-covered caramel apples.

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grey/black look of this ice cream Instagram worthy or off-putting, but the flavour was a delicious mix of pineapple and coconut. The presentation is also impressive — Merchant Concessions serves the ice cream in containers that hold dry ice that puts the “smoke” in Smoking Charcoal Ice Cream.

Southern Comfort Diggity Dog

Topped with crunchy fried onions, chipotle slaw and pulled pork, this dog was a hit with everyone who tried it. I also gave this dog a thumbs up for flavour and texture — the crispy onion gives it a nice bite. Diggity Dog is also serving the Korean BBQ dog this year topped with pulled pork, Asian slaw, a fried egg and cilantro.

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Also Instagram worthy is this combination of watermelon-flavoured ice cream served between slices of watermelon.

Milkshake burger

You like milk shakes. You love hamburgers. So, why not combine them, but with a twist. Brian Jones is serving up hamburgers topped with rock salts, caramel drizzle and vanilla ice cream or with garlic vanilla ice cream. It’s literally a hamburger with a scoop of ice cream placed on top of the lettuce on top of the patty. This is the same crew that brought us the cricket burger and cricket fries and gravy last year, so I can only wonder what 2019 will bring.

Deep fried burger

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Who doesn’t like bacon and peanut butter together? Pickled Pete’s from Okotoks, Alta., has combined sweet, salty and savoury in this treat, which is wrapped in dough and, you guessed it, deep fried.

S’lucious

For the first time, the PNE is serving alcoholic slushies in flavours including Frosé (rosé wine), lime and pina colada. You’ll find them around the barbecue section and beer garden and, get this, you’re allowed to walk around with them. How civilized. You can’t wander the entire fairground with your drink, but fairgoers no longer have to park their baby stroller on one side of the fence of the beer garden while they’re on the other enjoying an adult beverage.

So, while these foods aren’t something you’d want to live on year-round, eating weird fair food is all part of the experience at the PNE, which runs until Sept. 3. @sthomas10

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Olli Juolevi could follow in the footsteps of Troy Stecher in his rookie season Blue-chip defenceman prospect will be hard-pressed to make the Canucks out of camp

Backhand Sauce Daniel Wagner

The future of the Canucks’ defence rests on the shoulders of two prospects: Quinn Hughes and Olli Juolevi.

That’s not to discount the likes of Guillaume Brisebois, Jalen Chatfield, Jack Rathbone or Jett Woo, but the only prospects in the Canucks system with true top-pairing potential are their first round picks from 2016 and 2018. Hughes has the high-end offensive talent, while Juolevi has a steady, smooth game that seems like a perfect fit for the modern NHL. Hughes, however, won’t be plying his trade in the NHL in 2018-19. He has chosen to return to the University of Michigan for his sophomore season. Juolevi, on the other hand, should make his NHL debut for the Canucks this season.

The only question is when.

The Hockey News published its annual hockey pool guide with projections for points from players around the league.

Its projection for Juolevi was extremely bullish, not just for points, but for games played as well. They projected 31 points for the 20-year-old defenceman, in 72 NHL games.

The point total on its own seem optimistic — only Alex Edler has cracked the 30 points barrier among Canucks defencemen over the last four seasons — but the games played might be the most optimistic projection.

Juolevi faces a fairly significant obstacle to playing that many games for the Canucks: all

Former London Knights defenceman Olli Juolevi will have a chance to crack the Canucks’ lineup this season. PHOTO AARON BELL/OHL IMAGES

the NHL defencemen ahead of him on the depth chart. The Canucks are returning in the 2018-19 season with the same eight defencemen they used for most of the 2017-18 season: Alex Edler, Chris Tanev, Troy Stecher, Michael Del Zotto, Erik Gudbranson, Ben Hutton, Derrick Pouliot and Alex Biega.

It’s certainly possible that Juolevi is better than one or more of those defencemen and shows that to be the case in training camp, but will it matter?

Big Numbers

for Juolevi over 82 NHL games using hockey analyst Ian Tulloch’s NHL Equivalency. Over the 72 games projected by the Hockey News, that comes out to 23 points, which seems like a more reasonable expectation.

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There are a couple key differences between Juolevi and the eight defencemen already on the Canucks roster. One is NHL experience. Another is familiarity with head coach Travis Green. But the most important is likely waiver eligibility.

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It’s far more likely that, no matter how well Juolevi performs in the preseason, he’ll start with the Utica Comets in the AHL. That will give him the opportunity to play big minutes on North American ice after a season in Finland, rather than sitting in the press box or playing minimal minutes in the NHL. Juolevi’s best bet is to follow in the footsteps of Stecher, who was a revelation in the preseason back in 2016. A year later, Canucks GM Jim Benning said, “Like with Troy Stecher... if they come into camp and they deserve to be on the team, I’ll find a spot for them.”

He didn’t find a spot for him. Instead, Stecher started the season in the AHL, but got his chance in the NHL when injuries struck. By the end of the 2016-17 season, Stecher had played 71 games and tallied 24 points. Interestingly enough, that’s not far off from the projections for Juolevi by the Hockey News.

That’s a likely path for Juolevi: a strong start in Utica combined with the inevitability of injuries in Vancouver should result in a solid NHL opportunity.

Juolevi will get his chance to make an impression starting next week at the Young Stars Classic that kicks off in Penticton on Sept. 7.

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Colour me overwhelmed: 40 Golf R paint options Brendan McAleer

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The program is called Spektrum, following that long Volkswagen history of trying to make everything sound interestingly Germanic to its fans. As of this coming model year, U.S. buyers will be able to select from one of 40 unique paint colour choices when ordering their Golf R, at a cost of US$2,500. There will also be four standard colours at a much lower cost.

We’ve had this program (without the fancy name) in Canada for the previous year, and VW reports about a

15 per cent take rate.

That might not sound like much, but it’s very strong compared with the black/white/ grey monochrome that seemingly every other car comes in. People are buying their Golf Rs in purple, orange, bright green and shocking teal.

It’s absolutely wonderful, and I would encourage anyone thinking of picking up a Golf R to go for it. Yes, it’s not cheap (in Canada, the cost is $2,995), but having a rarity when it comes to sell might command a slightly higher resale. Not to mention, this is far less than Porsche charges for its custom paint work.

Here’s hoping VW’s foray into the U.S. market means that some other mainstream manufacturers might consider opening up their colour palettes a little. We might not need a Baskin-Robbins-sized flavour chart, but wouldn’t it be nice if Mazda gave you the option of a British Racing Green MX-5?

Fernando Alonso retires from F1

through with a win.

Alonso leaves behind a legacy of two world championships as well as two wins at the Monaco Grand Prix, considered the crown jewel of F1’s racing season. Speaking of crowns, he also has a win at the 24 Hours of Le Mans under his belt, so there’s a high likelihood he’ll try for the Indy 500

One of the most charismatic modern drivers is stepping away from Formula One. Spaniard Fernando Alonso has long been a fan favourite for his hard-charging style, but he’s apparently had enough of a long run of not quite getting a car that had the speed to follow

title next year, aiming for motorsports triple crown (Le Mans, Monaco, Indy).

Alonso is a great driver, and a crowd pleaser, but also known to be difficult to work with behind the scenes. Here’s hoping his retirement from F1 means a shakeup and a boost to other racing series as he tries his hand behind the wheel elsewhere.

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