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Are you ready to get your vote on, Vancouver? Civic election goes Oct. 20 in wide-open race for 27 positions

Mike Howell

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Well, here we go — civic election campaign time. Are you excited? Maybe you’re angry, instead. Or, perhaps, like many eligible voters, you don’t care enough about your city to bother casting a ballot; voter turnout reached 50 per cent in the 2002 election and hasn’t surpassed that since. Which is sad. But I’m not here to preach. I’m back typing after a break in August and wanted to bring you up to speed on what to expect over the next seven weeks. You may have read or heard about some of the candidates campaigning for mayor, council, school board and park board. There’s a ton of them. This week, the city ofﬁcially launched the call for nominations. Candidates have until Sept. 14 to ﬁll out

nomination packages. The city will then post a full list of names for the 27 positions. Voters can begin making their choices Oct. 10 to 17, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., in advance of election day, Oct. 20. Locations for advance polls can be viewed on the city’s website. The ballot might throw you off when you first see it because the names will be placed in random order. The thinking behind a randomized ballot is that some voters tend to vote in an A-B-C manner. Evidence from the 2014 council race shows Affleck, Ball, Carr, Deal and De Genova were elected. Compelling results, although the Greens’ Judy Zaichowsky did win a school board seat in the 2017 byelection. Anyway, shuffling names, for example, could conceivably give Vision Vancouver council candidate Wei Qia Zhang a better chance of getting elected. Many candidates running

Advance polls will open from Oct. 10 to 17 in lead up to Oct. 20 election day. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

for mayor will get their ﬁrst real test on the campaign trail at a Sept. 17 mayoral debate. I happen to know something about this event

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debate at SFU Harbour Centre in the Fletcher Canada Challenge theatre between 7 and 9 p.m. All seats are already accounted for, but the event will be live-streamed on the three websites and Facebook pages of each publication. No doubt we’ll hear a lot about housing and what candidates plan to do to bring some affordability back to Vancouver, if that’s even a possibility in today’s lopsided market. Whatever candidates have to say during their campaigns, they will not have much time to do it. New rules have moved up the election date by a month. Yes, some keeners began campaigning weeks and months ago, but voters don’t tend to get stoked/angry/ interested about a civic election until after Labour Day. Also new for this election is a ban on union and corporate donations, and a limit on the amount an individual can donate to a party

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or candidate. It’s $1,200. Which means no more multi-million dollar campaigns funded by developers and unions. Candidates, however, can still spend a considerable amount of money. Vancouver mayoral candidates, for example, can burn through $210,174.60 during the campaign. Those elected will serve a four-year term. That’s a long time and comes with great responsibility in a city known for its myriad crises — from housing to the opioid crisis to people living with mental illness. Affordable and available childcare is another issue for many residents in this city, especially those saddled with high rents/mortgages and whose salary is far below the $83,000 per year of a city councillor. The election is Oct. 20. My prediction: Someone other than Gregor Robertson will be elected mayor, and I will write about the winner. @Howellings

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More people using Arbutus Greenway Naoibh O’Connor

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A 12-hour snapshot of the number of people using Arbutus Greenway reveals a signiﬁcant increase from 2017 to 2018. On one summer weekend day in 2017, 1,970 used the route compared to 2,750 in 2018, according to city statistics. The city currently doesn’t have automatic counters on the greenway — someone has to be sent out to do a count — but it’s in the process of installing automatic counters to better track use. Lon LaClaire, the city’s director of transportation, said he’s pleased that people are increasingly taking advantage of the transportation greenway “It’s very encouraging to see that use this early in the opening of a project. Usually it takes a little longer to see numbers that high. I think it’s probably due to the quality of the corridor,” he told the Courier. City staff want people to travel the length of the nine-kilometre corridor to

Nesting Nest, at 57th and Arbutus Greenway, is on display until Sept. 13. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

get familiar with it as they continue to work on development plans. Vancouver city council approved the design vision and implementation strategy for the greenway on July 11, including prioritizing the development of two of the eight zones ﬁrst (zones three and eight), the northern and southern extensions to the Fraser

River and False Creek, as well as short-term spot improvements on the temporary path. Further consultation is planned for those aspects although dates have yet to be determined. A public hearing, meanwhile, was held Sept. 5, after the Courier’s print deadline, with proposed amendments to the Arbutus Corridor Ofﬁcial Development Plan to remove lands not required for transportation purposes. Details were outlined in the design vision and the 2016 purchase agreement between the City of Vancouver and CPR. See the story about the so-called “Option Lands” online at vancourier.com Ongoing and upcoming events on or along the greenway include an art installation called Nesting Nest at 57th and Arbutus Greenway. Designed by artists Christian Blyt, Cameron Cartiere and Jaymie Johnson, it was erected to celebrate last month’s 27th International Ornithological Congress.

The sculpture features nests woven from invasive plant species. It’s on display until Sept. 13. This Sunday, Sept. 10, the three-kilometre Walk to End Social Isolation takes place at 10 a.m. in Kerrisdale on the Arbutus Greenway. One group will start at 33rd Avenue and another at 52nd Avenue. They will meet at Kerrisdale Park at 11 a.m. to listen to prayers from an Indigenous elder, speakers about how they overcame personal loneliness and to develop strategies to prevent social isolation. Every Sunday in September, Dunbar Village Community Services Society is hosting events in the overﬂow parking lot of Kerrisdale Arena to promote different community sports such as hockey, soccer and family biking. The ﬁrst event is Sept. 9 — there will be demo cargo bikes, trikes and e-bikes. The City of Vancouver is also looking at future opportunities for public events and programming, in collaboration with Viva Vancouver and Public Art. @naoibh

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A Downtown Eastside man who died of AIDSrelated complications in 2003 and a Japanese word for sister inspired the names of two of Vancouver’s temporary modular housing complexes. Chartrand Place, a 39-unit building at 1131 Franklin St. managed by the PHS Community Services Society, is named after Michel Chartrand. Chartrand lived at the original Portland Hotel. He was diagnosed with HIV early in the AIDS epidemic and lived longer than expected at the time. “… His memory is a testament to the full life a person can have when provided with safe, stable housing and a sense of community,” the PHS website states. Jennifer Breakspear, the society’s executive director, said staff fondly remember Chartrand and naming the complex after him seemed a good way to honour him his legacy. “[Staff] say he, himself, credited being able to live in

Chartrand Place, a 39-unit building at 1131 Franklin St., is named after Michel Chartrand who died in 2003. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

supportive housing — having safe, stable housing that was attached to medical care and services — for prolonging his life,” Breakspear said. “He came to us as a very sick person. By all accounts, he lived longer and was healthier because of that continuum of care. That’s what we’re hoping... is going to be experienced by a number of folks who otherwise would be suffering from ill health due to homelessness.” The society will also be managing a new modular

housing complex at 2132 Ash St., which is expected to open Sept. 7. It’s being named M. Mitchell Place for Margaret Mitchell, a NDP Member of Parliament who died in 2017 at age 91. The naming suggestion came from the False Creek Neighbourhood Association. Breakspear said it’s primarily because Mitchell lived in the area for a while and was an advocate for housing, poverty reduction and supporting women and children. Breakspear said names are important because they

set a tone and an aspiration for a project. “Naming is also difﬁcult, and it’s loaded, so you want to get the right heads in the room and bounce things off of community members,” she added. The operators of each modular housing complex determine their buildings’ names. The 39-unit complex at 525 Powell St., run by Atira Women’s Resource Society, has been named Aneki Housing for Women. The society says “Aneki” is meant to honour the building’s location in “herstoric Japantown,” as well as the organization’s mandate. “As described by the Japanese women we consulted, Aneki is an informal or slang word a younger brother would call his older sister or a ‘Yakuza’ man would call his female superior/boss. As one artist, an immigrant from Japan who has lived a few blocks from the site for more than a decade explained with a laugh, ‘It is rough round the edges, like this amazing neighbourhood,’” the society wrote in its terms of reference in April.

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often have a story The modular housing complex in Marpole at 7430 and 7460 Heather St. is called Reiderman Residence. Run by Community Builders, it features two buildings with a total of 78 units and is named after Jennie Reiderman, who worked for the non-proﬁt organization between 2010 and 2016. She was diagnosed with cancer in 2016 and died in late 2017. In its rationale for the

By the numbers A year after the provincial government first announced $66 million to build temporary modular housing complexes for the homeless in Vancouver, 208 people have been housed. In all, eight complexes, which feature a total of 502 units, have been approved — four of those have opened and are tenanted. Another two complexes, which include a total of about 100 units, are still at the development permit stage. The city’s latest homeless count found 2,181 homeless people, an increase of 43 people from 2017. Of those counted, 659 were living on the street and 1,522 were living in shelters, com-

choosing the name, Community Builders wrote in its terms of reference that the organization wanted to operate the building with the same passion and dedication that Reiderman inspired in everyone around her. “[She] worked tirelessly with the elderly, vulnerable and sickest of our tenants and homeless individuals. She often spoke of wishing to be involved in a project that would focus on seniors pared to 537 street homeless and 1,601 sheltered in 2017. People of Indigenous identity make up 40 per cent of Vancouver’s homeless population but only 2.2 per cent of Vancouver’s overall population. Approved: • Reiderman Residence — 7430 and 7460 Heather St. (78 homes built and tenanted) • Chartrand Place — 1131 Franklin St. (39 homes built and tenanted) • Aneki Housing for Women — 525 Powell St. (39 homes built and tenanted) • Sarah Ross House — 4480 (formerly 4410) Kaslo St. (52 homes built and tenanted) • M. Mitchell Place — 2132 Ash St. (formerly 595 and 599 West Second Ave.) (52 homes built.

and medically vulnerable people,” the writeup stated. The 52-unit modular housing complex at 4480 Kaslo St., which is being run by Atira, is called Sarah Ross House. Ross of the Neskonlith Indian Band came to Vancouver from Kamloops to escape racism, her letters and diaries state. She lived in the Collingwood neighbourhood with her extended family until her death in the late 1950s. Grand opening is Sept. 7) • Little Mountain — East 37th Avenue near Main Street (46 homes under construction) • 610 and 620 (formerly 688) Cambie St. (98 homes under construction) • 5077 and 5095 Heather St. (98 homes approved) Total: 502 homes

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Connect Hearing, with hearing researcher Professor Kathy Pichora-Fuller at the University of Toronto, seeks participants who are over 50 years of age and have never worn hearing aids for a hearing study investigating factors that can influence better hearing. All participants will have a hearing test provided at no charge and if appropriate, the clinician may discuss hearing rehabilitation options including hearing aids. Qualifying participants may also receive a demo of the latest hearing technology. The data collected from this study will be used to further our understanding of hearing loss and improve life-changing hearing healthcare across Canada. Why participate in the hearing study? Hearing problems typically result from damage to the ear and researchers have spent decades trying to understand the biology behind hearing loss. More importantly, researchers now realize the need to better understand how hearing

loss affects your everyday life*. In this new hearing study, Professor Pichora-Fuller and her team are trying to find out how people learn to live with hearing loss and how new solutions could help these people take action sooner and live life more fully. It is estimated that 46% of people aged 45 to 87 have some degree of hearing loss1, but most do not seek treatment right away. In fact, the average person with hearing loss will wait ten years before seeking help2. This is because at the beginning stages of hearing loss people often find they can “get by” without help, however as the problem worsens this becomes increasingly harder to do. For some people this loss of clarity is only a problem at noisy restaurants or in the car, but for others it makes listening a struggle throughout the entire day. By studying people who have difficulty hearing in noise or with television, we hope to identify key factors impacting these difficulties and further understand their influence on the treatment process.

If you are over 50 years of age and have never worn hearing aids, you can register to be a part of this new hearing study† by calling: 1.888.242.4892 or visiting connecthearing.ca/hearing-study.

* Pichora-Fuller, M. K. (2016). How social psychological factors may modulate auditory and cognitive functioning during listening. Ear and Hearing, 37, 92S-100S. † Study participants must be over 50 years of age and have never worn hearing aids. No fees and no purchase necessary. Registered under the College of Speech and Hearing Health Professionals of BC. VAC, WCB accepted. 1. Cruickshanks, K. L., Wiley, T. L., Tweed, T. S., Klein, B. E. K., Klein, R, Mares-Perlman, J. A., & Nondahl, D. M. (1998). Prevalence of Hearing Loss in Older Adults in Beaver Dam,Wisconsin:The Epidemiology of Hearing Loss Study. Am. J. Epidemiol. 148 (9), 879-886. 2. National Institutes of Health. (2010).

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Beyond the Conversation founder Amie Peacock has ﬁrst-hand experience with the effects of social isolation. In 2001, her mother came to Vancouver from the Philippines. She was visiting with the thought of moving to the city but after just six months she went home. “She really experienced the isolation and loneliness,” Peacock said, adding that her mother had been very socially connected to her community at home. She didn’t speak much English and struggled to make new friends and connections in Vancouver, her health declined and she decided to return home. “It was very isolating for her,” Peacock said. “She had lost something so important to her.” Peacock started looking more at the issue of social isolation and the idea of belonging in 2013 when she volunteered at the UBC learning exchange, helping new Canadians learn English. She said she saw a change after a few months as her students’ language skills started to improve. Peacock said she even challenged her class to volunteer to help others learn English and more than half did. “It was beautiful.”

That experience birthed another idea. In 2015, she started Beyond the Conversation, a non-proﬁt volunteer-led organization aimed at ending social isolation through conversation. The group sets up and facilitates conversation groups with the aim of empowering participants to connect with people in their community.

As they walk, we encourage people to engage Amie Peacock

There are currently 11 conversation groups running at different locations around the city and one in Surrey, with the goal of opening more across the region. As well, Peacock said, the group is also working to deliver presentations around isolation and mental health to high school and postsecondary students. To further the goal of helping people connect, Peacock and Beyond the Conversation are organizing an event — the Walk to End Social Isolation — on Sunday, Sept. 9. The walk will be divided into two groups — one will start at 33rd Avenue and Arbutus Greenway

and the other will start at 52nd Avenue and Arbutus Greenway. The two groups will leave their starting locations at 10 a.m. and then meet in the middle at Kerrisdale Park. “As they walk, we encourage people to engage,” Peacock said. Once at the park, there will be entertainment, food trucks, activities and a few people will share their stories. One such person will be Manjit Thandi, who experienced social isolation after her family moved to Canada from India in the 1950s. Even decades later, after marrying and having a family, and dealing with some of the lingering issues through therapy, she said she still struggles when faced with mingling in larger groups of people. She said that joining Beyond the Conversation has played a big role in helping her feel more conﬁdent. “I ﬁnd it so much easier to talk with people,” she said, adding that volunteering to help others who feel isolated has helped her as well. “I need to be able to help people connect.” @JessicaEKerr For more information, or to register for the Walk to End Social Isolation, visit beyondtheconversation.ca.

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Residents feeling harassed by city over Empty Homes Tax Michael Geller geller@sfu.ca

As readers of this column are aware, I am not a fan of Vancouver’s Empty Homes Tax, a.k.a. the Vacancy Tax. Although the tax was intended to address Vancouver’s housing crisis, every Vancouver homeowner is now required to submit an annual property status declaration to determine if their property is subject to the tax. Mayor Gregor Robertson, who once naively promised to end homelessness, promised this tax could put up to 25,000 properties back on the rental market. While I am not blind to what many consider the injustice of homes being kept empty while others have nowhere to live, I opposed this tax for many reasons. For one thing, it suddenly morphed from a vacant home tax into an “underutilized” home tax impacting many B.C. homeowners who had legitimate reasons for owning a second home in Vancouver. When I asked city staff why the tax should apply to these people, I was told these owners could rent out their homes when they were not living in them. A stupid and preposterous response. In one case, we discovered the tax even applied to the owner of a vacant lot in Kerrisdale that had never been built on. I also questioned how the program would be administered, noting the difﬁculties other international jurisdictions had encountered when trying to implement similar taxes. We are now getting some answers. While for most of us Aug. 31 marked the end of summer, for some Vancouver homeowners it was a critical deadline. It was the date by which they must submit additional information to the city’s Vacancy Tax ofﬁce auditors to avoid paying the tax. I learned about this from two Vancouver property owners, Cathy and Bill. Cathy has lived in her

house where she raised her family since 2004. She is an active member of the Kerrisdale Community Centre and prior to the Feb. 2, 2018 deadline signed “yes, I live here” on the city’s declaration form. She was subsequently asked to provide additional information. She suspects this may have been because the two homes beside her were empty. On April 25, she went in person to city hall (since privacy considerations prevent her from emailing information) and presented her B.C. driver’s licence and ICBC insurance to prove her residency. However, this was not adequate for the auditors in the Vacancy Tax office. They wrote back requesting her ICBC residential address history for 2016/2017, along with a homeowner’s insurance policy, or correspondence from a government authority regarding receipt of benefits, or a CRA Notice of Assessment, etc. Cathy is compiling the necessary documents and will comply with the request. But she wrote to me because she’s feeling unduly harassed by the city. Bill is also upset with the city. He claimed an exclusion from the tax since his downtown apartment, which is a second home, was being renovated. The city is now disputing whether his $100,000 renovation fits the definition of a “major renovation.” I do not know all the details of his situation. What I do know is his lawyer is now involved, and the matter may end up in the courts. These are just two stories sent to me. But I suspect there are many others feeling harassed by vacancy office auditors. The so-called Empty Homes Tax was intended to bring tens of thousands of additional rental units onto the market. But it has failed. It will no doubt generate revenues for the city; enough, it’s hoped, to cover the ever-increasing administrative costs.

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But at what other costs? Longstanding Vancouver residents are feeling harassed and legal disputes are brewing. To add insult to injury, the province has decided to bring in its so-called Speculation Tax. While many consider it a wealth tax, it too is a vacant or “underutilized” dwelling tax. To date, we have received little information on how it will be imple-

mented and administered. But if Vancouver’s Empty Home Tax is any indication, the B.C. government should reconsider this ill-conceived program, if only on administrative grounds. Outside of Vancouver, it will not have much help analyzing the piles of photocopied documents to be delivered to its ofﬁces. What a mess. @michaelgeller

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As students return to classrooms this week, things should be much calmer and more organized compared to last year. Last summer, there were hundreds of vacant teacher positions in Vancouver, making school start-up challenging. But this year, there were only about 80 unfilled jobs and those are being filled this week, said VSB superintendent Suzanne Hoffman. “There are no classes without a teacher today,” Hoffman said in an interview Tuesday. Hoffman, who just started with the VSB in January, said the number of teachers on call is also way up. Teachers on call fill in when a regular teacher is sick or away for some other reason. There are now more than 900 teachers on call in Vancouver, Hoffman said. That’s up significantly from only 400 last year, when teacher absences would often go unfilled. Last year in April, about 50 teachers who were away were not re-

placed every day, often leaving special needs students without supports. This year, that shouldn’t happen. The district has also boosted the number of educational assistants who work directly with students with special needs and now has a partnership with Langara College to train them. Hoffman can’t guarantee every EA and every teacher who is sick will be replaced, particularly during cold and ﬂu season. “But that is what we are striving and aiming for,” she said. Teachers continue to retire and move to other districts, but Hoffman is determined to make the VSB an “incredibly desirable” place to work by showcasing some of the things that are happening in Vancouver schools. Vancouver still has 60 schools that need seismic upgrades, including six that will be under construction soon and 10 that are approved but still in the planning phases. That leaves 44 schools that are unsafe in an earthquake yet to be addressed by the provincial government. B.C.’s Education Minis-

The new school year in Vancouver comes with many changes, including more teachers, slightly fewer students and lots of optimism. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

ter Rob Fleming is promising “another incredibly busy year investing in schools,” with about $2 billion in seismic upgrades and school construction promised over the next three years. The province will spend $6.6 billion on K to 12 education this year and Vancouver’s allotment is nearly $500 million. Hoffman said Fleming is “well aware of our needs as a

district” and that she expects some announcements soon. “I live in hope,” she said. Although enrolment is up province-wide, in Vancouver it’s down by about 575 students from last year, to about 48,059 students. In Vancouver, there is wildly uneven enrolment, with schools in some areas full to overﬂowing and schools in single family home neighbourhoods —

particularly on the city’s East Side — with lots of empty spaces. Last year, the district started a process to change school boundaries, but that was put on hold when parents balked at the possibility of siblings being separated. The district is taking another look and will report back some time this winter, Hoffman said. There is a civic election this fall, on Oct. 20, and Hoffman said she is looking forward to working with a new board that will have a four-year mandate. OneCity trustee candidates, including sitting trustee Carrie Bercic, have raised the issue of lead in school water, saying that unsafe levels of lead were found in one-quarter of B.C. schools, some of which are in Vancouver. OneCity is calling for every school to have a water reﬁlling station that provides safe, clean drinking water. Fleming said the province has provided $750,000 across the province to clean up the drinking water, saying “contaminated water is a huge student safety issue.” Hoffman says parents

should not be worried because the district is following ministry guidelines to test water and ﬁx any problems immediately. “What we are doing to make sure the water is safe is making sure that on every ﬂoor in every school in our district, there is a source of clean drinking water,” Hoffman said. In August, there were news reports about drug needles being found near schools, and Hoffman said as soon as they were informed, the VSB worked with the city and park board to address the problem. “Sweeps are done when school is in session on different occasions at regular intervals throughout the day,” Hoffman said. Hoffman has plenty of work ahead of her, but she is enthusiastic about the potential. “I think there are lots of opportunities coming and I’m excited, I really am,” Hoffman said. Tracy Sherlock writes about education and social issues for the Vancouver Courier. Contact her at tracy. sherlock@gmail.com.

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Meet Colin Ross, a survivor of the opioid crisis ‘I’m a decent person and a drug user. It doesn’t have to be two different things’ Mike Howell

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Being Colin Ross can be complicated. His 37-year-old life, as far back as he can remember, has been this way. Why? It’s a long story. But to tell it, the former chef wants you to reconsider the first impression you may have of him after studying his photograph: yes, he’s a heroin user, looks a little rough and is one of those determined guys who roots through dumpsters for discarded goods that he turns into a profit on the street. Sit him down in a Main Street café, with a coffee in front of him, and the Edmonton-born, Canmoreraised “hurtin’ Albertan” will tell you there’s more to his life than a dependency on drugs and the grind of binning and vending. Ross lives in a subsidized apartment in the West End, where he creates art with some of his dumpster finds. He remains connected with his sister in Kerrisdale and regularly visits his niece and baseball-playing nephew. Then there’s his longheld passion — educating students, doctors, politicians and others interested in his life as a drug addict. He estimates he’s done at least 60 talks in eight years at schools and conferences. In 2013, he acted in a play, Maladjusted, about the mental health system. The sharing of his story was inspired by his membership with the Mayor’s Task Force on Mental Health and Addictions, the city’s advisory committee of people with lived experience and his participation in the Mental Health Commission of Canada’s At Home/Chez Soi housing experiment and speakers’ program. In April, he spoke to city council on behalf of Megaphone Magazine to help secure an $85,000 grant to set up a speakers’ bureau. The goal is to continue the work of the At Home program, his work with the city and focus on removing the stigma many in the public attach to drug users, the homeless and the mentally ill. “I’m very passionate about changing the way people look at people who are strug-

Colin Ross at the Pier Health Resource Centre near Main and Hastings, preparing to inject liquid hydromorphone into his arm. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

gling,” he said in one of a series of interviews with the Courier in recent months. “I’m a decent person and a drug user. It doesn’t have to be two different things.” Trust him, he said, he didn’t choose to lead the life of a drug addict. That reality can be traced to an untreated bipolar disorder, severe anxiety and having alcoholic parents who separated before his ﬁrst birthday. Depression, anger, isolation and going through his own bout of alcoholism have been other experiences. Ross, who had a criminal record as a juvenile in Alberta — mainly for petty stuff such as shoplifting and vandalism — has lived on the streets and overdosed once. He himself is amazed he’s still lucid, still here. The frequent illicit drug death reports from the BC Coroners Service suggest Ross is vulnerable: the largest group of people dying from drug overdoses are white men in their 30s, who have had a long history of addiction. So much of the reporting about the opioid crisis has focused on the dead. Ross is a survivor. How has he done it? The answer involves a caring sister, a good doctor, ﬁnding his own apartment, trying a variety of treatment options, being asked to share his story with people in power, some luck and an internal drive to stay alive. That drive, as well as some of the frustrations of managing an addiction, was evident on the days the

Courier accompanied Ross to a pharmacy, a doctor’s appointment, on walks through the Downtown Eastside and visits to coffee shops. What follows is a chronology of sorts, beginning in April and ﬁnishing in July, that provides a glimpse into the life of a man who doesn’t know that he’ll ever be drugfree, but is determined to get stable and be more present in the lives of others.

‘Warm hug from God’

In the back room of Pier Health Resource Centre, near Main and Hastings, Ross is sitting in a chair as nurse Amanda Pelcz prepares a dose of liquid hydromorphone, a pain management opioid designed to reduce cravings for heroin. It’s a mid-morning on a Thursday in late April. The sun is out and Ross’s bike ride from his West End apartment has left him wiping his brow with paper towel. Ross is one of 53 participants in the pharmacy’s injectable hydromorphone program. He became a patient in June 2017. Twice a day, he injects himself under the supervision of a nurse. Then he takes an oral dose of hydromorphone in the evening at his neighbourhood Shoppers Drug Mart. It’s a daily routine that he admits can be onerous, but has substantially decreased his dependence on heroin. It’s also meant he doesn’t have to spend as much time binning to pay for his heroin habit, which at its high point can reach $40 a day. “When you see people

beat to shit, it’s because of what you’ve got to do to get the drugs,” he said. “Coming in here, I deal with a pharmacist and a nurse as opposed to some dealer in a piss-smelling back alley. It’s a completely different atmosphere, which puts you in a different head space. It gives you some dignity, is the other thing.” Ross takes the syringe from Pelcz and injects 50 milligrams of hydromorphone into his tattooed left arm. He gives the drug a few moments to take effect before he explains the sensation. “There’s a little initial rush, which I like to call a warm hug from God,” he said. “It’s like a deep breath. All your muscles — everything — is relaxed. It’s like a sigh, a full body sigh.” But it’s not heroin, which he developed an addiction to as a teenager. “Good heroin would do the same thing in a lot ways, but do it way better. Like decaf to real coffee.” Over the years, Ross has tried methadone, Suboxone and a steady oral dose of hydromorphone, which doesn’t produce the euphoria experienced with injection. None, he said, has been as effective as heroin in treating his mental and physical pain; he has arthritis in most of his joints and various other nagging injuries. Ideally, he wants to try diacetylmorphine, which is medical grade heroin. The Crosstown Clinic, located a few blocks from the pharmacy, is the only clinic in North America that offers

the drug to chronic drug users. Ross has expressed a desire to his doctor, David Tu, to become a patient. But the popularity of the program, which has seen impressive results where patients have stabilized enough to secure housing and jobs, has meant a long waiting list. Tu is the reason Ross is more stable than he’s ever been. It is difﬁcult for Ross to talk about his doctor without getting emotional. On the advice of a friend, he searched out Tu more than seven years ago, who took him on as a patient. “He’s a saint — he saved my life,” Ross said after taking the required 15 minutes in the pharmacy’s waiting room to relax and ensure he’s showing no ill effects from the hydromorphone. “He’s a wonderful doctor, just a good human being. He really understands addiction. He’s done a lot of good for a lot of people.”

‘Therapy is a bridge’

It was Tu who got Ross into the pharmacy’s injectable hydromorphone program, which was developed by colleague, Dr. Christy Sutherland, the medical director of the PHS Community Services Society. Sutherland entered into a partnership with Pier owner, Bobby Milroy, to set up the innovative and groundbreaking service, which provides another treatment option for those unable or not interested in accessing the Crosstown Clinic. “You end up helping a

group of people who would not otherwise be allowed to be helped,” said Milroy, standing outside the pharmacy on the day of Ross’s visit in late April. “As a result, you’re saving lives. It doesn’t work for everyone, and I don’t think it will be everyone’s choice of treatment, but it’s simply one more option.” Ross was Tu’s first patient to participate in the pharmacy’s program. Over lunch at a restaurant adjacent to his office at the Vancouver Native Health Society on East Hastings, where he sees about 70 patients on drug replacement therapy, Tu explained the referral. He reiterated what Ross said about methadone, Suboxone and oral hydromorphone not providing the results they both hoped for. “None of that allowed him to not continue to use injectable street opiates,” Tu said. “And when you’re injecting on top of what’s being prescribed to you, you’re going to develop a higher tolerance and experience those same withdrawal symptoms. So you’re not going to get that stabilizing.” For some context to Ross’s situation, Tu recounted a brief history of opiate replacement therapy in the United Kingdom, Switzerland and other parts of Europe, which have been progressive on drug policy and harm reduction initiatives for years. But what the body of literature concluded in those countries’ experiments, and holds true in North America, is that about 10 per cent of addicts will not stabilize by oral therapy alone. Diacetlymorphine and injectable hydromorphone were found through various studies to be the only option for that 10 per cent. Tu pointed to the North American Opiate Medication Initiative, more commonly known as the NAOMI trials, which revealed almost 10 years ago that study participants in Vancouver could not accurately discern the difference between the effects of diacetylmorphine and injectable hydromorphone. Hence the reason to get Ross started on the injectable hydromorphone program. “There’s going to be five to 10 of my patients at one time that are not successfully stabilizing on oral for whom you’ve got to look for something else,” Tu said. “It doesn’t make sense to keep on trying something that’s not working.”

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Feature Tu said Ross experienced a “dramatic turn” in the ﬁrst four months of his therapy and found the hydromorphone helped him stabilize and focus on his work in the harm reduction community. The goal was to free Ross, whose monthly welfare cheques help pay for his rent, food and phone bill, from the stress of binning and vending, effectively decreasing his use of heroin. “He’s starting to see himself as a good person, someone who can contribute,” he said. “And when he has that, it will drive him to make choices that will likely be more positive and afﬁrming, and put him on a good path.” Tu continued: “The therapy is a bridge — hopefully — to some sort of transformation. It can be a very long bridge, it could be a shorter bridge. But it’s a means to an end, as opposed to an end itself.”

‘You’re always playing Russian roulette’

The path of that bridge took a turn two weeks after the Courier’s interview with Tu. Ross was no longer participating in the injectable hydromorphone program. The hydromorphone was “making me feel really gross, which is really weird because I’ve always liked it.” The routine of having to bus or bike to the pharmacy twice a day was also grinding him down. He had been doing this for almost a year, living a life where he was tied to the pharmacy. That’s what he told Tu during an appointment in mid-June. A few weeks prior, Tu prescribed long-acting morphine capsules for Ross, which cut back his visit to a pharmacy to once a day. Tu to Ross: “How do you feel about continuing on the long-acting morphine?” Ross, sitting in Tu’s ofﬁce: “It’s not ideal, but I wouldn’t say it’s upsetting me or anything like that.” The conversation shifted to talk about the Crosstown Clinic and diacetylmorphine. Ross agreed to visit the facility while Tu would again try to get him in the program. Ross: “I’ve actually never been in there, but I think I know a lot of what goes on. I’ve never done diacetylmorphine, but I’m assuming it would be something I’d like more.” In the meantime, Ross hoped to get a prescription from Tu for several doses of long-acting morphine that

mom and me with what’s happening in his life.”

One day at a time

Colin Ross and his sister, Bir, as young kids and on Bir’s wedding day. PHOTO COURTESY BIR KAUR O’FLAHERTY

he could take with him on a week-long trip to northern Alberta. He was feeling stable enough to return to his home province to attend a music festival. His father, who had remarried and had kids, would be there. So would a lot of friends. He needed to recharge, he said, and get out of the city for a while. He raised enough money, along with some assistance through a GoFundMe campaign, for a plane ticket. Tu agreed to write a prescription, but had more questions for Ross. Tu: “How has your stress level and mood been over the last little while?” Ross: “For the most part, pretty good. I’ve been a little stressed out and kind of pissed off a bit, but it’s been in the face of things that would really stress anybody out.” Tu: “Yeah.” Ross: “I haven’t been off the deep end. I haven’t had a day where I was really feeling uncontrollably angry just for being angry, or being set off and not being able to calm myself down.” Tu: “So you’ve been able to maintain a kind of equilibrium?” Ross: “Yeah.” Tu: “More good days than bad days?” Ross: “For the most part, it’s been pretty good to be honest.” Tu reminds of him of the contaminated drug supply that killed 365 people in Vancouver last year, and has killed 231 in the ﬁrst seven months of this year. More than 1,400 people died across the province last year, with the majority of deaths linked to fentanyl. Ross’s response to Tu, and one he repeated to the Courier several times, is that he’s careful when

using drugs. He uses injection sites when there are no lineups and always uses a small amount of heroin for his ﬁrst injection. He ensures he’s around people equipped with the overdose-reversing medication, naloxone. Even so, Ross overdosed about a year ago in an alley outside the Washington Hotel, near Main and Hastings. He regained consciousness in the hotel’s injection room, before being transported by ambulance to St. Paul’s Hospital. “You’re always playing Russian roulette, but for me it’s as close to playing with a gun full of blanks,” he said, describing his overdose as “minor.” He believes to this day the naloxone wasn’t necessary. “I never say I’m not taking any risks, but I’m as risk-free as you can possibly be.”

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His sister, Bir Kaur O’Flaherty, has heard him say that a lot — that he’s careful, not to worry, he’ll be ﬁne. It’s little comfort for someone who pays attention to the news and hears story after story about the opioid crisis and how it’s devastated families across the province. “It only takes one time, and that’s it,” she said, sitting on a sofa in a cafe at the Jericho Village shopping centre. “But I have a practice and belief in my life that if he’s going to die, he’s going to die. I would, of course, be devastated, but it doesn’t matter what I do to not make it happen, I just have to let it go.” The siblings have a special bond, with O’Flaherty taking responsibility for her brother

when he was 15; she was 18 at the time, and had recently moved from Alberta to Commercial Drive. She watched her brother get entrenched in a drug lifestyle, argued with him about it — which resulted in long stretches of not talking to each other — and tried to get him help. A few years ago, she was successful in helping him get into Onsite, the detox centre above the Insite supervised injection site on East Hastings; Ross has been through various detox centres in B.C. and Alberta at least seven times. She’s listened to him, offered advice and has been like a mother to her brother. Ross often refers to his sister as the “black sheep” of the family. She’s married, with two young children, lives in Kerrisdale, works as a doula, an administrator at a midwives centre and teaches yoga. The siblings’ mother, Jackie, lives in her basement. Ross has had a challenging relationship with his parents, but said he is now close with his mother. His father, also named Colin, is still in his life, however tenuous the connection may be. But it’s always been his sister he’s leaned on, which he again did a couple of weeks ago. That trip to Alberta he was looking forward to? He didn’t make it. He called his sister in tears somewhere between Vancouver and the Abbotsford International Airport. He missed the last afternoon bus to the airport by eight minutes. The plane left without him, and he was unable to recoup any of the money he spent on the ticket.

“It was shitty, just really shitty and it was the ﬁrst time I’d been worried about him in a long time,” she said. “He turned his phone off and I didn’t hear from him for two or three days.” He eventually showed up at her son’s baseball game, where he took his niece to a playground. He didn’t look as rough as she thought he would. He seemed content, happy to be there. “What I came to realize probably a good eight or so years ago is that my version of OK and his version of OK are two very different things,” she said. “So for me to look at his life based on what that would feel like for me, it’s very not OK. But for him, when I look at where he is now, he’s doing spectacularly well, comparatively.” That’s when the conversation turns to Dr. Tu, whom she described as amazing. His quality of care convinced her that Ross is in good hands. Without Tu, without the treatment options, his subsidized apartment, the advocacy work, O’Flaherty is conﬁdent her brother would be dead. “Like a long time ago,” she said. If he were a boy in today’s world, O’Flaherty believes her brother would be on a different path. As a child, he was hypersensitive, intelligent and talented. He was bored in school. “They know about this now, and deal with it differently,” she said O’Flaherty continues to have hope for her brother. He is showing signs of being more present and more comfortable in his own skin. “In some ways, he’s doing better than I’ve ever seen him doing. The anxiety has really lessened by quite a lot, and he’s able to be open and honest with my

So what happens next for Colin Ross? In mid-July, over coffee at a Main Street cafe, he said he hadn’t slept in three days. He was still taking the long-acting morphine, but was continuing to use heroin. Evidence of that was his drug dealer buzzing his phone with text messages. He talked a little bit about his failed trip to Alberta, shaking his head in disgust as he explained what happened. “So I spent a whole bunch of money to go to Surrey for the day,” he said. “That was my vacation. It was a big, big letdown.” He’s still waiting to hear from Megaphone Magazine about the speakers’ bureau. He’s likely to get more speaking gigs via the city’s lived experience committee when school is back in session. His doctor also talked about having him speak at his kids’ school. He needs a purpose, he said. Idle time is not good for him. While he’s talking about what he needs, he wants more to be done on the treatment front for drug users. Don’t get him wrong, he said, he is grateful to live in a city and province that is progressive in its drug policy. But why isn’t there more widespread availability of medical grade heroin? Why can’t he take prescribed drugs home with him? Why does he have to be tied to a pharmacy up to three times a day? Ross understands not every drug user can be trusted in a take-home program. But then, he said, assess each person’s situation and create a plan that works for the individual, not hinders efforts to get better. Because right now, he said, nothing beats the high he gets from the heroin he buys in the streets, where hundreds have died. Will he ever be abstinent? “I was thinking about that the other day. If things I need to happen in my life happen, and I can move forward, then I do see abstinence in my future. But if I spend another couple of years in this situation, I’m starting to get dug in and I don’t know that I’ll ever get out.” For now, it’s one day at a time. “I’ve accepted myself for who I am, and I’m trying to make the best of it,” he said. “Maybe my life is supposed to be silver, not gold.” Note: This story was ﬁrst posted to the Courier’s website in July. @Howellings

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Kerrisdale’s giant sequoia to be cut down THIS SEQUOIA TREE ON WEST 41ST AVENUE, A KERRISDALE LANDMARK, WILL SOON BE REMOVED DUE TO ITS AILING HEALTH. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

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The large tree on West 41st Avenue is too sick to be saved SANDRA THOMAS sthomas@vancourier.com The stately sequoia tree that has graced West 41st Avenue in Kerrisdale for close to 90 years is ailing and needs to be cut down. That’s the word from Bill Trafford with TPMG Capital real estate, which manages the property. In an email to the Courier, Trafford said the towering tree was recently examined by a horticulturist and the results were “not good.” “Unfortunately the tree roots extend under the road and the tree has been under heavy stress,” wrote Trafford. “We’ve had a tree company take care of the tree for several years, but it was their latest recommendation that the tree come down. A full report was forwarded to the Kerrisdale Business

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Association as they had concerns too...” Terri Clark, executive director of the Kerrisdale Business Association, said she’s heard from many residents concerned about the tree, which she describes as looking more and more sickly as time went on. “I know about trees and the way they act. Sometimes when a tree drops its leaves people think it’s dead when it’s not,” says Clark. “But, this whole thing is red and dropping bark. It’s probably been dead for two years.” Clark says the sequoia has been under acute stress the past several years, especially when you consider the three consecutive extremely dry summers Vancouver suffered. As well, the tree is completely surrounded by

concrete and buildings — not an ideal situation for a giant sequoia. “It’s in a completely inappropriate place,” says Clark. Clark says after hearing concerns from many locals the association contacted TPMG Capital in February and, with permission from the board, offered to pay to have an arborist assess the tree. “They declined and said they had their own people looking at it,” says Clark. Clark says she has a large tree in her own back yard so knows the kind of space they need. “I’ve found roots 100 yards away in the neighbour’s yard,” says Clark. “They’ll go anywhere to survive.”

Clark and other members of the association hope once the tree comes down the property management company will donate some of the lumber so they can have slab benches made to place along the new Arbutus bikeway “ensuring a part of it can remain where its life’s journey began.” A note about the sequoia on the association’s website reads in part, “the response of Kerrisdale’s populace has been amazing; so much love and concern for a stately wooden sentinel reminiscent of a time when the surrounding neighbourhood was only forest.” “It’s so sad. It’s breaking everyone’s heart,” says Clark.

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Are you the next Kerrisdale Idol? COURIER STAFF After 15 years, the curtain is closing on the annual Kerrisdale Idol competition singing, always a highlight of Kerrisdale Days. Over the years the talent search has drawn talented singers of all ages to the stage during Kerrisdale Days and this weekend is no exception. And no wonder. With a top prize of $1,000 — plus bragging rights — it makes sense aspiring singers would want to give it their all in front of a home town crowd in hopes of winning the title.

served basis. Then, once they’ve obtained their place in the contest, singers must impress a panel of three opinionated judges, the event’s emcee and Talent Time’s Paul Anthony.

KERRISDALE DAYS IS CELEBRATING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SANDLOT WITH A FREE SCREENING IN ELM PARK, SEPT. 7.

walk, bus or bike to Elm Park, 5800 Elm St.

The sign up starts at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 8 at north Yew Street and West 41st Avenue Street, but ambitious singers typically begin lining up much earlier to ensure they secure one of the 30 coveted spots.

But, there’s a catch. There are only 30 spots in the competition and singers are taken on a ﬁrst-come, ﬁrst-

The Kerrisdale Idol competition runs from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. under a large white tent where the public is invited to drop by and discover new talent.

NOTE: In case of rain, Film Night will take place the next day, Sept. 8. If you have any concerns about the weather, call the association’s phone line after 5 p.m. at 604-266-9875.

Also part of Kerrisdale Days is the annual Film Night event in Elm Park, scheduled for Sept. 7 at 7:45 p.m. — weather permitting. This year the Kerrisdale Business Association and

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prodigy and his rowdy team, resulting in many hilarious shenanigans. This is the 25th anniversary of this classic ﬁlm.

Kerrisdale Days, in celebration of the village’s 112th birthday, includes sidewalk sales, birthday cake, free horse and carriage rides, face painting, a large inﬂatable slide, music and clowns.

Grab a blanket or lawn chair, plus a ﬂashlight, and

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UBC linguist creates ancient language for Hollywood ﬁlm Alpha Melissa Shaw

Christine Schreyer started by translating three test scenes for lead actor Kodi Smit-McPhee when the ﬁlm’s producers reached out to her in 2015 and went on to create an entire language for the movie. “I did research on proto-languages — those are estimated languages, for the approximate time range of the movie, which included Proto-Nostratic, Proto-Eurasiatic and Proto-Dené-Caucasian,” she said in a news release. “We know, for example that some languages are related, like French,

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A UBC professor who specializes in linguistic anthropology and language revitalization has created an ancient language for the Hollywood historical drama Alpha. The recently released ﬁlm was shot mostly in Canada and is set in the ice age 20,000 years ago. Alpha tells the story of a young hunter who becomes separated from his family and befriends a lone wolf to survive in the wilderness.

Spanish and Italian. So, it’s a case of taking those related languages and estimating them back in time, with a little creative licence as well.” Schreyer previously worked on the 2013 movie Man of Steel, developing the Kryptonian language and created the language, Eltarian for the 2017 Power Rangers movie. Game of Thrones actor Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson plays Tau in Alpha and was dedicated to learning the new language for his role. He speaks four languages includ-

ing Icelandic, Faroese and Danish. “As I was learning, I began to see a pattern and it started to make sense,” he says. “Then it just jumped out, word by word. Phrase by phrase. You could really feel this was not thrown together in a day. This was built with knowledge and craftsmanship.” Alpha received an 84 per cent rating on the ﬁlm review aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes and is playing in select theatres across the country, including Vancouver’s International Village Cinemas.

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Property Tax Exemptions for 2019 The City of Vancouver hereby gives notice of the intention of City Council to exempt certain eligible not-for-proﬁt properties used for senior citizens housing from taxation for one year (2019 taxation year). A bylaw will be brought forward to Council on September 19, 2018 in accordance with Section 396(1)(g) of the Vancouver Charter.

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The properties to be considered for exemption in 2019, including an estimate of the amount of City taxes that would be imposed without the exemption for 2019 and the following two years, are shown in the table below.

NAME

FOLIO

ESTIMATED TAXES 2019 ($)

ESTIMATED TAXES 2020 ($)

Baptist Foundation of BC

266-772-26-0000

13,000

13,400

13,800

765-266-06-0000

30,800

31,700

32,700

Baptist Housing Society of BC

631-232-04-0000

82,000

84,500

87,000

Beulah Garden Homes Society

634-300-92-0000

29,900

30,800

31,700

Beulah Garden Homes Society

634-300-52-0000

31,200

32,200

33,100

Beulah Garden Homes Society

634-300-04-0000

11,800

12,100

12,500

Brightside Community Homes Foundation

638-077-07-0000

13,300

13,700

14,100

Brightside Community Homes Foundation

648-078-05-0000

8,000

8,200

8,500

Brightside Community Homes Foundation

645-194-47-0000

13,100

13,400

13,900 12,800

Brightside Community Homes Foundation

641-234-20-0000

12,100

12,500

Brightside Community Homes Foundation

665-230-68-0000

8,500

8,800

9,100

Brightside Community Homes Foundation

670-230-83-0000

6,200

6,400

6,600

Brightside Community Homes Foundation

670-230-89-0000

8,800

9,100

9,400

Brightside Community Homes Foundation

683-230-82-0000

7,600

7,800

8,000

Brightside Community Homes Foundation

722-283-48-0000

34,000

35,000

36,100

Brightside Community Homes Foundation

605-113-66-0000

15,200

15,600

16,100

Broadway Pentecostal Benevolent Association BC

650-274-27-0000

25,800

26,500

27,300

Calling Ministries

710-072-06-0000

86,100

88,700

91,400

Chau Luen Kon Sol Society of Vancouver

192-592-92-0000

19,100

19,600

20,200

Christ Church of China

192-592-04-0000

13,900

14,300

14,700

Columbus Charities Association

306-720-45-0000

22,600

23,200

23,900 16,300

Finnish Canadian Rest Home Association

828-251-94-0000

15,300

15,800

Finnish Canadian Rest Home Association

828-258-06-0000

7,600

7,800

8,000

King Edward Court Society

710-072-95-0000

46,900

48,300

49,700

M Kopernik Nicolaus Copernicus Foundation

817-300-22-0000

6,300

6,500

6,700

Mennonite Senior Citizens Society of BC

755-237-51-0000

51,700

53,200

54,800

New Chelsea Society

270-670-95-0000

13,400

13,800

14,200

New Chelsea Society

693-253-64-0000

35,100

36,100

37,200

Parish of St.Paul Vancouver

609-117-44-0000

38,300

39,400

40,600

Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vancouver

596-196-49-0000

11,500

11,900

12,200

Society for Christian Care of Elderly

613-119-54-0000

106,700

109,900

113,200 11,800

Soroptimist Club of Vancouver BC

683-165-54-0000

11,200

11,500

South Amherst Housing Society

244-805-96-0000

6,600

6,700

6,900

The V E L Housing Society

577-259-06-0000

12,000

12,400

12,800

The V E L Housing Society

596-250-04-0000

7,500

7,700

7,900

Ukrainian Senior Citizens Housing Society

300-810-95-0000

12,200

12,600

12,900

Vancouver Kiwanis Senior Citizens Housing Society

125-832-84-0000

16,300

16,800

17,300

Vancouver Kiwanis Senior Citizens Housing Society

300-811-05-0000

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Left to right: Geoff Berner is at the Accordian Noir Festival Sept. 14 to 16. Angel Olsen plays the Westward Music Festival Sept. 13 to 16. Jay-Z and Beyonce are at BC Place, Oct. 2. LEFT PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Five music highlights to warm up fall arts season Sure, the weather is colder, the leaves are turning brown and there will be scarf sightings, but don’t let that get you down. Fall is alive with the sound of music. From free-ranging festivals and mariachi superstars to indie darlings and hip-hop royalty, here are ﬁve concert events that’ll get you off the couch and moving.

Westward Music Festival

This multi-day arts and

music festival has something for everyone. Don’t believe us? How’s this for an eclectic lineup: Blood Orange, Kali Uchis, Rhye, Poppy, Angel Olsen, Honne, Kelela, Metz, Saba, Ravyn Lenae, Ella Mai, Mudhoney, Odds, We Are the City, Tei Shi, Ramriddlz, Pell, Duckwrth, Buddy, Fatima Al Qadiri, Roni Size, Hannah Epperson, Jordan Klassen, Milk & Bone, Nehiyawak and Close Talker. Told you so.

Sept. 13 to 16 at various venues. westwardfest.com

11th Annual Accordion Noir Festival

Squeezebox players gather for their yearly jamboree, proving to the world that the mighty and sometimes maligned accordion is more than just a tool of polka bands (although there will be polka). Performers include writer, musician and friend of the Courier Geoff Berner, legend-

with Mariachi Juvenil Tecalitlán classics by the late singer-songwriter and former mentor Juan Gabriel.

ary busker-king Jason Webley, avant-garde composer Amy Denio and Tsunami Piñata, among others.

Sept. 14 to 16 at the WISE Hall. accordionnoirfest.com

Sept. 22, 8 p.m. at the Chan Centre for Performing Arts chancentre.com

Aida Cuevas: Totalmente Juan Gabriel

Bill Callahan

Vancouver appearance with guests Badge Epoque.

Sep. 25 at the Vogue Theatre ticketfly.com

Jay-Z and Beyonce

Power couples don’t get more ﬁerce than this. The parents of Rumi, Sir and Blue Ivy swagger into BC Place for a sure-to-be spectacle of hip-hop extravagance and power. Bow down to your king and queen.

American singer-songwriter Bill Callahan ditched his alias Smog long ago, but his baritone voice, deadpan delivery and wily lyrics that get to the heart of the matter remain ﬁrmly intact. He makes a rare

Described as the Aretha Franklin of Mexico and the “Queen of Mariachi,” Grammy award-winning, south-of-the-border superstar Aida Cuevas performs

Oct. 2 at BC Place ticketmaster.ca

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Pacific Spirit United Church (formerly Ryerson United Church) 2205 West 45th Avenue at Yew Street

Vancouver Chamber Choir | Kari Turunen, conductor Our opening concert will introduce Artistic Director candidate Kari Turunen from Finland. His repertoire is rich in music from Northern Europe and North America. Featured are Jaakko Mäntyjärvi’s evocative Canticum calamitatis maritimae about the sinking of the Estonia, and Canadian/Finnish composer Matthew Whittall’s E. E. Cummings setting love is a place. Other works in this eclectic programme are by Josquin, Lassus, Schutz, Finzi, Kreek, Chatman, Elder, Rautavaara, Runestad and Makaroff.

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PREVIEW FALL 2018

Killer productions round out performance picks From musicals and ballet to dead dogs and murder, this season’s theatrical performances are full of curious charms.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

The Arts Club presents the 2015 Tony Award-winner for best play, by Simon Stephens, adapted from the novel by Mark Haddon. The story centres on 15-year-old Christopher Boone, who is incredibly talented at math but never ventures beyond his street and strongly

distrusts strangers. When his neighbour’s dog is killed, Christopher challenges his own barriers to uncover the truth about the dog, his family and himself. Peek inside his mind as this incomparable show tests the boundaries of imagination and physical space. Sept. 6 to Oct. 7 at the Stanley Theatre artsclub.com

The Snapshots Collective: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street What better time of year

for theatre events that put you right in the heart of the action than Halloween, when being part of the thrills is part of the fun. Local group the Snapshots Collective will be performing Sweeney Todd, and their version of the ghoulish sitespeciﬁc musical will put you up close and personal with the demon barber himself. This show will deﬁnitely make your hairs stand up! Oct. 10 to 31 at Mrs. Lovett’s Pie Shop, 348 Water St. snapshotscollective.com

My Favourite Murder

Ballet BC: Program 1

Calling all Murderinos. This is your favourite irreverent true crime podcast brought to life on stage by its creators and hosts, Georgia Hardstark and Karen Kilgariff. You can expect to hear tales of true crime, told and discussed with the wit and charm the podcast fans know and love, plus some special guests. Stay sexy, don’t get murdered, and get yourself to the Queen Elizabeth theatre to see this one-night only show.

Three thought-provoking pieces are in the line-up for Ballet BC’s fall performances. Program 1 of the 2018/19 season includes Petite Cérémonie choreographed by Medhi Walerski, New Work by Emily Molnar and the Vancouver debut of Enemy in the Figure by William Forsythe. Watch the dynamic talent of Ballet BC’s company of artists in this set of exciting ballets.

Oct. 21 at Queen Elizabeth Theatre vancouver-theatre.com

Nov. 1-3 at Queen Elizabeth Theatre balletbc.com

Beautiful: the Carole King musical

Tracing the career of Carole King, and endorsed by the beloved Grammy winner herself, this toe-tapping tale took home two Tony Awards for its 2014 Broadway debut. Track King from her early days as a Brooklyn teen to her emergence as one of the most beloved singer-songwriters of our time. Filled with songs from King’s back catalogue, you’ll want to sing along. Nov. 13 to 18 at Queen Elizabeth Theatre vancouver-theatre.com

Five fun-filled festivals to float your spirits this fall Fall festival season in Vancouver is decidedly less obnoxious than its summertime brethren. The West End isn’t used as a communal toilet during the fireworks and Kits Beach is devoid of hundreds of yogis entering next-level karmic bliss while wearing $800 outfits. It truly is a beautiful time to be alive.

Vancouver International Flamenco Festival

Venues across the city get equal orders of muy caliente and unorthodox time signatures as the Vancouver International Flamenco Festival rolls into its 28th year starting Sept. 21. Dance lessons, open studios, masterclasses, performances and guitar wizardry will be offered at venues including Vancouver Playhouse, Scotiabank Dance Centre, Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre, Annex, the Kino and the Vancouver Public

Library.

Sept. 21 to 29 at various venues vancouverflamencofestival.org

Vancouver International Film Festival

Dr. Jane Goodall, RZA from the Wu Tang Clan and DJ extraordinaire Kid Koala all on the same marquee almost makes the need for a marketing plan null and void. So it goes for the 37th running of the Vancouver International Film Festival, which includes the Wu Tang founder producing a live score for the kung fu ﬁlm The 36th Chamber of Shaolin and a whole wack of movie premiers, Oscarcontenders and cinematic gems, including Jacques Audiard’s adaptation of Patrick deWitt’s The Sisters Brothers, Rupert Everett’s Oscar Wilde biopic The Happy Prince and Lars von Trier’s sure-to-be-talkedabout The House That Jack Built. Sept. 27 to Oct. 12 at various venues viff.org

Vancouver International Improv Festival

VIFF and VIIF happening at the same time? Oh the humanity. Not to be confused with the Vancouver International Film Festival, the Vancouver International Improv Festival brings together comics from across North America and Europe to celebrate spontaneity and laughter. The festival bills the headliner as The 1992 Chicago Bulls, though neither Michael Jordan nor Scottie Pippen had conﬁrmed their attendance prior to Courier deadlines. Locals who will be there, however, include The Sunday Service, Shakespeare After Dark and Vancouver TheatreSports.

Oct. 10 to 13. at various venues vancouverimprovfest.com

Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival

come together for their annual love-in at the Vancouver Writers Fest. Authors include Patrick deWitt, Rachel Kushner, Tommy Orange, Edin Robinson, Lisa Moore and Gary Shteyngart, to name a few.

Now in its 15th year, this a festival that celebrates resiliency and soul. To that end, the 12-day festival is centred around the theme of “Seeds of Justice, Seeds of Hope” in an effort to recognize those advocates who have pushed for human rights

Oct. 15 to 24 at various venues around Granville Island writersfest.bc.ca

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Joy in Singing 8pm Friday, October 19 Paciﬁc Spirit United Church*

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Presenting Kathleen Allan from Vancouver 8pm Friday, November 9 Paciﬁc Spirit United Church*

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Jon Washburn Conducts 8pm Friday, December 7 The Orpheum

Famous Choruses of Great Composers 8pm Saturday, February 16 Shaughnessy Heights United Church

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The Farewell Tour 8pm Friday, March 15 Shaughnessy Heights United Church

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Grandparents’ Day Opioid epidemic is contributing to the rise in the number of grandparents raising grandchildren COURIER STAFF The non-proﬁt Parent Support Services Society of B.C. says addiction, including the recent opioid epidemic, incarceration, abandonment, child abuse or neglect, and violence in the home are just some of the reasons grandparents

are giving up their dreams of a leisurely retirement in order to care for young grandchildren. And with children facing these issues at an early age, grandkids often need extra support from what’s known as their “grandfamilies.”

That’s where Grandparents Raising Grandchildren (GRG) and the Walk for Grandparents come in. The Parent Support Services Society of B.C. is asking people across the province to walk Sept. 9 to celebrate the important role grandparents play in so many lives. The walk coincides with Grandparents Day, created to recognize grandparents everywhere. The society wants everyone to also think about the growing number of grandparents — and other relatives — who take on the enormous responsibility of raising

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Festival and Stroll, September 9 These events are often profound experiences for the children who discover they are not alone. They are also an opportunity for respite for grandparents and kinship caregivers.

children when the parents are unable to. In B.C. more than 13,000 children are being raised full time by their grandparents or other relatives. Parent Support Services of B.C. say the unique issues of “grandfamilies” include: • The children have often experienced trauma — 68 per cent of the children in the Grandparents Raising Grandchildren families surveyed in 2009 had physical, emotional or behavioural challenges. • Often both the grandparents and the children are experiencing grief and loss. • Many of these families experience ﬁnancial hardship — many use up all their retirement savings for child raising.

Services provided by Parent Support Services Society of B.C. include: • GRG/KINSHIP CARE SUPPORT CIRCLES:

Peer-to-peer support groups with trained volunteer facilitators, where caregivers can connect with others going through similar situations.

YOU MAY BE ELIGIBLE TO PARTICIPATE IN A RESEARCH STUDY Looking to see if falls may be caused by a drop in blood pressure after eating a meal and if a medication used to manage diabetes can prevent a drop in blood pressure after eating. The study involves 2 visits approximately 1 month apart. Each visit will take about 3-4 hours. Compensation will be provided for time and travel. You may be able to participate in this study if you: • Are 65 years of age or older • Have had a fall For more information please call:

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This toll-free line (1-855-474-9777) assists grandparents and other relatives raising a family member’s child to navigate complex services. The GRG Support line is staffed by advocates with expertise in advocacy, social work, family law, and government services pertaining to kinship caregiving.

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• The grandparents often have to deal with a range of legal issues, many related to access and guardianship. • Grandparents are parenting for a second time. • It’s unexpected — most grandparents do not expect to be parenting again at this stage of life

and have had to abandon plans to travel, etc.

For more information on the Grandparents Raising Grandchildren walk, visit grgstroll.ca. In Metro Vancouver the walk and festival take place at the New Westminster Quay from 10 to 2 p.m., Sept. 9. This fun event includes music, entertainment, kid’s games, face painting, a silent auction, information tents and a walk to raise funds for programs that support Grandparents Raising Grandchildren and other diverse families. Similar events are also taking place in Prince George, Victoria and Nanaimo.

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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 related CD-1 By-laws to allow for redistribution of existing floor area from the community centre site to adjacent market sites; to increase the maximum floor area to add 5,129 square metres (55,208 square feet) of affordable housing on Parcels 1 and 13; to remove EFL-specific parking requirements to align with the Parking By-law; and to make minor miscellaneous amendments to the EFL ODP and related CD-1 By-laws. 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, RS-5 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 currentlypermitted 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 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-wait-times or @VanCityClerk on Twitter.

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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, Foyer and Lounge FOR MORE INFORMATION: vancouver.ca/makingroom makingroom@vancouver.ca

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New World Belgian Witbier by Lighthouse Brewing Rob Mangelsdorf editor@thegrowler.ca

Esquimalt’s Lighthouse Brewing is celebrating a pretty significant milestone this year: 20 years of producing quality craft beer. Part of the second wave of B.C. craft breweries, Lighthouse launched in 1998 and its flagship Race Rocks Ale soon became ubiquitous in pubs, restaurants and beer fridges on Vancouver Island (though less so over here on the Mainland). In recent years, Lighthouse has been somewhat overshadowed by the cool new kids on the block, but that hasn’t stopped it from producing quality, accessible craft beer that can be drunk by the flat. Recent offerings such as Citrus Shore Session Ale and the Numbskull single hop IPA series prove they can still hang, and a well-timed brand refresh four years ago has helped keep it relevant. So how to celebrate the

Esquimalt’s Lighthouse Brewing celebrates its 20th birthday with its refreshing and tasty New World Belgian Witbier.

big 2-0, then? Whereas most breweries might choose to do something crazy to mark their 20th anniversary, such as a barrelaged barleywine or a hazy milkshake brut IPA with

glitter and activated charcoal (ugh), Lighthouse went a different route. Instead, its choice of the New World Belgian Witbier is very appropriate, representing what Lighthouse is all about: balance and drinkability. Not surprisingly, then, this is an exceptionally well-balanced, eminently drinkable witbier that has been elevated thanks to some luscious dry-hopping (hence “New World”). The traditional orange and coriander notes are present and accounted for, but so too is juicy grapefruit, citrus and sauvignon blanc. Refreshing and delicious — what better way to sum up all that Lighthouse does well.

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Holier-than-thou cyclists are ruining it for everyone Grant Lawrence

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There’s too much anger on Vancouver’s bike routes, and there’s no excuse for it. For the most part, I’m proud to say that I’ve been a bicycling commuter in this town for 25 years, long before there were almost as many designated bike lanes as there are pot shops. But I don’t want to lord my cycling prowess over you, or shout it in your face. One of the most positive results of the explosion of bike lines in Vancouver is the physical separation of bikes from cars. As you’ve likely witnessed, there were way too many conflicts between drivers and riders; drivers often thinking that cyclists were taking wild liberties, straddling the benefits of both cars and pedestrians; that cyclists generally peddle a better-than-everybody-else attitude. Some cyclists of course think of drivers as clueless slaves to the oil industry, wasting their lives in traffic jams, while cyclists joyfully pedal by, wind in their helmets. To my disappointment, the anger that often gears up between cyclists and drivers has somehow shifted over to the bike routes when there’s often nary a car in sight. I take the Adanac

As cycling has grown in popularity in Vancouver, so too has the number of cyclists behaving badly. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

cycling thoroughfare to and from work, Monday to Friday, year round. It’s one of the busiest eastwest bike arteries in the city. At rush hour, there are often so many cyclists that it really feels like the bicycles have won, that we are the champion commuters. Until we’re not. Several recent incidents

along the bike route have ﬂattened my enthusiasm for commuter cycling. One was a helmet-less hipster on a leftover ﬁxie (remember them?) who was racing westward down Adanac full speed between Commercial and Clark. An elderly woman was crossing Adanac. “GET OUT OF THE

WAY, YOU F******’ RETARD!” This is exactly what a young man on a bike yelled at a senior citizen trying to cross the street in Vancouver. The cyclist didn’t slow down. The pedestrian was startled and froze in her tracks. I was so incensed that I barked at the offending cyclist to ease up and show

some respect. He shot me an indignant look and kept on rolling. I apologized to the woman on the jerk’s behalf. She smiled and nodded. A similar incident happened on Union Street in Strathcona. An older man was crossing Union towards Benny Foods, on a collision course with yet another helmet-less hipster, this time urgently pedalling an old-school 10-speed, likely late for shift at a nearby craft brewery. The cyclist could have easily avoided the pedestrian, but chose not to. Instead, as if to send a message of pure assholery, the cyclist steered into senior’s path, forcing him to abruptly hold up to save himself from being clipped. It’s clear the pedestrian didn’t see the bike coming. I caught up to the cyclist. “That was rude and dangerous.” “Dude wasn’t paying attention to where he was going.” “He’s a pedestrian and has the right of way!” The hipster shot me a look and turned off the bike route in the direction of 18 craft breweries. Last week, at Adanac and Nanaimo, a young kid on an E.T.-style BMX turned into bike trafﬁc from a side street, slicing in front of several commuter cyclists who had to brake suddenly.

One man, who was possibly ﬁve times this kid’s age, took it upon himself to scream at him. “YOU’RE A F****** IDIOT!” The kid appeared to be fully freaked out. Look, I’m not trying to come off as some sort of crusading cross between Ed Begley Jr. and Charles Bronson. But, again, I felt my own anger rise up. I caught up to that jerk, too, but this time I chose a philosophical approach: “Why is there so much anger on the bike route?” “MIND YOUR OWN GODDAMN BUSINESS!” Is it adrenalin? Work stress? Is the infamous holier-than-thou attitude of the Vancouver cyclist turning on our own kind? This time it was my turn to turn off the bike route, in more ways than one. For better or worse, the city has given us hundreds of kilometres of designated bike lanes and routes. If you use them, you owe it to yourself and anyone else who may cross your path to CHILL OUT. This is not the Tour de France. This is commuter cycling through residential neighbourhoods. Don’t give city cycling a bad name. You’ve already beaten the trafﬁc. You’ve won. Be happy. Be nice. And pedal on. @grantlawrence

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September can be a bit of a bummer for Vancouverites. Summer is waning, school is back, the rains return and the two-month reprieve from gridlock is gone. Vancouver pop trio Belle Game is having none of those bad vibes. They’ve got the sweetest of Septembers lined up, starting this weekend with what could likely be the biggest gig in their nine-year run. Skookum Festival’s ﬁrst foray into Vancouver begins Friday and features a healthy mix of top tier names — Metric, The Killers, and Florence + the Machine — along with a slew of Vancouver acts and Cancon mainstays. Outside of Belle Game’s Sunday afternoon set, Stanley Park will also host Vancouverites Hey Ocean!, Yukon Blonde, Delhi 2 Dublin and Said the Whale. If those bands represent the here and now, then Buffy Sainte-Marie, Blue Rodeo and Barney Bentall are ﬂag bearers of Canadian music from decades past. Playing a hometown gig in Stanley Park in front of thousands may not even be the high water mark for Belle Game’s September calendar. Come Sept. 15, they embark on a monthlong tour with former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr that takes them across Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. The trio will play iconic venues such as the Fillmore in San Francisco, Irving Plaza in New York City and the Cannery Ballroom in Nashville. The Courier caught up with Belle Game guitarist Adam Nanji, who works for

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the Courier’s sister publication Vancouver Is Awesome, and vocalist Andrea Lo to talk about a path that’s seen them grow up in Vancouver to living in a van for extended periods. You’ve had essentially the same lineup since 2009. This is no small feat. How do you manage to not kill one another?

A.L: We’ve had quite a few lineup changes since 2009, but changes in a lineup don’t necessarily mean that the existing relationships are without their ﬂaws and/or challenges. Humility, accountability, personal awareness, and the willingness to speak up, listen and explore are all very important values. The tour with Johnny Marr — how did this materialize and what’s his/the Smiths’ influence on your music, if at all?

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recent show we played in Portland opening for Broken Social Scene. We met an incredibly nice young gentleman backstage, chatted about touring, gear, all the usual things. Turns out he’s not only a talented musician in his own right, he’s Johnny Marr’s son. I think Mr. Marr’s music has had an incredible inﬂuence on many bands, even if they don’t know it. They were as gentle as they were punk and in that sense, helped shape the “indie rock” that came out around the world years later. Speaking of not killing each other, the Marr tour is a month long. That’s a lot of time in the van. What’s the longest tour you have done, and how did you live to see the end of it?

A.L: I think the longest time we’ve been out was eight weeks with Broken Social Scene. It was a tour that was very close to our hearts, and we were amongst friends, so our time away felt

A.N: Jazz in the van. Waking up on tour is hard, but if you cue up Chet Baker Live in Paris in either the hotel room or the van, it makes even the bleakest surroundings feel romantic and meaningful. Other than that, we keep things healthy, we exercise, we ﬁnd good restaurants. It’s all about the show, and to me, the “rock and roll lifestyle” doesn’t contribute much to a great night on stage.

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A.L: It’s is an opportunity to connect with people on a very special and unique basis even if we don’t get a chance to shake hands with everyone we meet. I’ll always feel greatly humbled seeing the power of an audience and each individual in it. This interview has been edited and condensed. @JohnKurucz Belle Game plays on the Forest Stage at 3:45 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 9. Skookum details are online at skookumfestival.com.

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Last week marked the official end of #AsianAugust, the historic month that witnessed the critical and commercial success of three high-profile screen projects showcasing Asian American voices: Crazy Rich Asians, Searching, and To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before. It’s a far cry from 2016 when actors in two of the three projects became the faces of a social media campaign that highlighted the lack of Asian American representation in Hollywood: #StarringJohnCho and #StarringConstanceWu. The excitement — for onscreen representation of an underserved community; for screen stories that go beyond stereotypes — extended into Labour Day weekend, when Crazy Rich Asians continued its reign at the box office, becoming the highest-grossing Hollywood rom-com in nearly a decade. Audiences are happy. Studios are taking notice. And, in Vancouver, our

homegrown diverse filmmakers are ramping up their efforts with the knowledge that the crazy awesome success of Crazy Rich Asians could lead to more: more funding, more opportunities, and more representation on screen. #AsianAugust might be over, but its impact on Hollywood — and Hollywood North — has only just begun. “We’ve been here,” says actress and filmmaker Andrea Bang. “We’re all talented and we’ve got amazing, interesting stories to tell — and now, hopefully, they’ll be funded.” Andrea stars on CBC’s hit sitcom Kim’s Convenience, itself an outlier in an otherwise homogenous Canadian TV landscape. With her sister, fellow Vancouverite Diana Bang (an in-demand actress in her own right who turned in a scene-stealing performance as a North Korean official in 2014’s The Interview), Andrea co-wrote and co-directed Karaoke Mamas. The digital short is one of 40 short films funded

Vancouver sisters Andrea and Diana Bang co-wrote and codirected Karoke Mamas.

by Storyhive that premiere Sept. 6 — and one of three that feature Korean Canadians in leading roles. Karaoke Mamas tells the story of Sang-Mi, a recently divorced 62-year-old Korean Canadian woman in Surrey who enters a karaoke contest with her two friends in order to win a new television. The 10-minute comedy stars Eun-Sook Choi as Sang-Mi and Soon-Ja Hwang and Mi-Young Yu as Sang-Mi’s BFFs. “A lot of women in my

mom’s community — Korean immigrants, now Korean Canadians — they’ve lived a life, and we wanted to humanize them and put them at the centre of a story, because for the most part, they normally play someone’s mom,” says Diana. The sisters wanted to showcase the women that they grew up with. “We want people to fall in love with these women and see that they’re funny, they’re charming, and they’re strong,” says Andrea.

If they happen to energize traditionally marginalized actors in the process? All the better, Diana says. “So far we’ve seen that the lead actors — one of whom is a non-actor; the other two have only done local Korean community theatre — are already feeling really empowered and seen, and that is awesome,” says Diana. Karaoke Mamas had its unofficial premiere last week as part of a cast and crew screening for three Storyhive films that amplify Asian Canadian voices: Gong Ju, directed by Jerome Yoo and written by Yoo and Lawrence Le Lam, about a violent teen who is expelled from school in Korea and sent abroad to change her ways; and The Day We Met, Mayumi Yoshida and Nach Dudsdeemaytha’s moving film about a Korean Canadian adoptee (portrayed by the film’s screenwriter, Lee Shorten, mining his own experience) who must weigh the consequences of meeting his biological mother after deciding to

start a family of his own. “They can all be considered Korean Canadian films, and they’re all so different,” says Diana. “It just goes to show you that there are all kinds of Asian stories, and Asian Canadian stories, and there are so many more stories that need to be told and want to be told.” And those stories will come from a filmmaking community that understands that when one of them succeeds, they all succeed. “We’re not in competition with each other,” says Diana. “We’re just trying to elevate each other’s work and we’re lifting each other up, and that I’m grateful for. For the past couple of years, I’ve been looking for a creative community, and I’ve found one with the Asian Canadian filmmaking scene in Vancouver. It’s feeling more and more like home to me.” Karaoke Mamas hits Storyhive’s YouTube channel and Telus Optik on Sept. 6.

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A fresh new exhibit is going up at Betamax in Hastings-Sunrise. In Natural Plot Line, painter Bobby Mathieson captures historically or culturally significant moments in his work and expands on the emotional content through his paintings and imagery using vibrant shocking colour and form. The artist will be live on site Sept. 12 and 13 from noon to 5 p.m., creating one piece each day utilizing a technique called alla prima (Italian, meaning at first attempt). Sept. 12 to Oct. 20 Betamax Gallery, 2244 East Hastings St. betamaxstudios.com

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Vancouver’s Jennifer Croll has put together an awesome new cocktail recipe book called Free the Tipple, and all the drinks are inspired by legendary women. Each recipe is crafted to reflect the personality, style, and legacy of each woman. So, of course, The Beyonce is made with lemonade. Raise a glass to this new book at the official book launch party. Sept. 12, 7-9 p.m. The Emerald Supper Club, 555 Gore St. facebook

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What to watch at the Canucks 2018 Young Stars Classic Proving he’s a great ﬁt with Pettersson is Dahlen’s quickest path to a top-six role with the Canucks.

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Olli Juolevi stepping into the limelight

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For hockey fans, September is a time for hope and optimism. As training camp and the pre-season begin, the failures of the past are forgotten after so many long, hockey-less months, and every team starts with a blank slate, full of possibility. That’s particularly true this week, as prospects report to camp across the NHL. For the Canucks, their prospect pool provides one of the few glimmers of hope after three straight seasons of missing the playoffs. On Friday and Saturday in Penticton, the Canucks’ prospects will play two games against the Winnipeg Jets’ prospects at the 2018 Young Stars Classic. If you can’t make it to Penticton, the Canucks live-stream the games every year on YouTube or Facebook. While the Canucks’ top pick from the 2018 draft, Quinn Hughes, won’t be playing, as he’s already reporting to the University of Michigan, the Canucks will still have a bevy of top prospects in the lineup. Here are a few things to watch for this weekend:

Elias Pettersson at centre

The hope when Elias Pettersson was drafted was that he would be the team’s number one centre to take over from Henrik Sedin. They desperately need that hope to bear fruit. Pettersson set a new record for under-20

This will be Olli Juolevi’s third Young Stars Classic, and it’s time for the young defenceman to take more of a starring role. While Juolevi has been quietly effective in the past, a year spent playing against men in the Finnish Liiga should give him the conﬁdence to dominate the competition in Penticton. If Juolevi wants a chance to make the Canucks lineup out of training camp, it needs to start with a standout performance this weekend.

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players in the Swedish Hockey League, racking up 56 points in 44 regular season games before leading the Växjö Lakers to the SHL championship with 10 goals and 19 points in 13 playoff games. There’s just one problem: almost all of that came at right wing, not centre. The Canucks believe Pettersson will be a centre in the NHL and getting him adjusted to that position will likely start in Penticton. Of the 14 forwards listed on their Young Stars roster, just two are listed at centre: Pettersson and Adam Gaudette. A strong performance at Young Stars could set up Pettersson for success at centre heading

into the regular season, where he’s expected to be one of the league’s top rookies.

Jonathan Dahlen’s Swedish chemistry

We know Dahlen can play with Pettersson from their season together in the Allsvenskan, the second-tier Swedish league. Last season, the two proved they could perform apart from each other as well, as Dahlen dominated the Allsvenskan while Pettersson was breaking records in the SHL. Dahlen put up 44 points in 44 games, leading the league in points per game. Now Dahlen is likely hoping to rekindle his chemistry with Pettersson in Penticton.

The lone drafted goaltender on the Canucks Young Stars roster, and expected starter for Canada’s World Junior team, Michael DiPietro should provide some excitement in Penticton. DiPietro plays an aggressive style to make up for his lack of size, relying on his athleticism to make saves. While that can lead to nervous moments, it can also be wildly entertaining. “Let’s be honest here,” he said at last year’s prospect camp. “Nobody wants to watch a boring hockey game, so why not give them a little excitement?” So keep an eye on the Canucks’ end of the ice when DiPietro is in net, because you could see something spectacular.

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