Vancouver Courier September 13 2018

NEWS ESTABLISHED POLITICAL PARTIES LOSING THEIR GRIP 6 OPINION CAMPBELL’S EXIT COULD SPELL CURTAINS FOR VISION 10 VANCOUVER SHAKEDOWN SKOOKUM? DAMN NEAR KILLED ’EM 16 FEATURE LIFETIME BABY BOOMERS IN BLOOM B1

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Vision Vancouver may have new leader in Ian Campbell’s departure throws party into disarray as Oct. 20 election day looms Mike Howell

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Monday’s announcement by Ian Campbell to withdraw as Vision Vancouver’s mayoral candidate has the party scrambling to possibly name another leader before Friday’s deadline to file nomination papers with the city’s election office.

Ange Valentini, Vision’s executive director and campaign director, said Tuesday the party may also consider endorsing another candidate already in the race.

“There’s lots of conversations going on about whether the [Vision] board will appoint someone else to run for mayor,” Valentini said. “There are people

Ian Campbell shocked many Monday when he announced in a statement that he withdrew from the mayors’ race as Vision Vancouver’s candidate. The party says a new leader may be appointed

by Friday. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

asking us if they can join the team and run for mayor.”

She said some of the party’s board members and candidates have proposed making space “for one of the independents to come

on board, or actively throw support behind endorsing one of the other progressive candidates.”

She didn’t name which candidate, but independents Kennedy Stewart

and Shauna Sylvester align with some of Vision’s values and policies.

Valentini confirmed that all 10 of its candidates for council, school board and park board will remain

in the race, and the party planned to file nomination papers Wednesday at the city’s election office, after the Courier’s print deadline.

One of those candidates is longtime councillor, Heather Deal, who is the lone council incumbent to seek another term.

“Apparently a lot of people are asking Heather Deal to run for mayor,” Valentini added. “She just texted me to ask me what she’s supposed to say to that one.”

Campbell, a hereditary chief with the Squamish Nation, surprised many Sept. 10 when he announced in an emailed statement that he had withdrawn from the race.

He made the decision after reflecting on the “political landscape and my complicated personal journey.”

He was not made available by Vision to elaborate on his decision, nor did he return phone or email messages left by the Courier. Campbell’s decision was made five days prior to the Friday deadline for candidates to file nomination papers.

Valentini said she couldn’t comment further on Campbell’s decision, other than to say the party was disappointed.

She spoke of Campbell’s qualities and experience as a leader, and that internal polling showed he was “doing really well and people in Vancouver were prepared to get behind him.”

“Seeking public office is a tough decision, it’s tough on their families and people make their own calls and there’s not much we can do about that,” she said.

News of Campbell’s decision shocked Ian Baillie, a longtime advisor to Vision Vancouver and the party’s executive director from 2009 to 2011. Baillie was involved in the party’s campaign in 2008 when Vision boasted close to 20,000 members.

He pointed out the party has won every general election since 2008. He said Campbell’s withdrawal from the race, coupled with the fact the party is running only one council incumbent, “doesn’t leave much of a party, to be honest.”

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place by Friday “We’re talking about political realities here — the party’s not in a good position,” he said. “There’s nothing you can say, frankly, otherwise with any credible voice. It’s quite amazing.”

Campbell’s departure comes as a new public opinion poll released Tuesday put Stewart as the frontrunner in the race for the mayor’s chair, with Sylvester and the NPA’s Ken Sim trailing closely behind.

The Research Co. poll found that 23 per cent of voters think Stewart is a “good choice” for mayor. An additional 19 per cent of voters said the same about Sylvester and a further 18 per cent said they would choose Sim. The poll was taken before Campbell’s announcement.

With him out of the race, it would appear the campaigns of Stewart and Sylvester will gain some momentum on the centre-left side of the political spectrum, although neither candidate would speculate on the effect of Campbell’s departure.

“It came as a real surprise, and I’m still really digesting it,” Stewart said Sept. 11. “It does change

the race significantly, but it really doesn’t change what I’ve been doing. Yesterday, we had a major housing announcement and again I’m getting up today and getting

He’s got to be hearing what I’m hearing and what my team is hearing in the community — people are not supporting Vision.

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ready for the second part of my housing announcement tomorrow morning.”

Sylvester, who described Stewart as an NDP mayoral candidate because of his years as an NDP MP in Burnaby, said she respected Campbell for his decision but didn’t expect him to withdraw from the race, noting “he was carrying the Vision council candidates with him.”

“I don’t know what it does

for my campaign,” she said.

“But anytime a candidate decides to withdraw, people will be looking to where they want to put their support. I hope that they will look at the platform I put forward, the way in which I’m undertaking this campaign and that they will see themselves in that platform.”

Campbell’s decision has led to speculation that Green Party Coun. Adriane Carr, who was a frontrunner in public opinion polls earlier this year to become mayor, would change her mind and run for the top job instead of re-election as a councillor.

Carr told the Courier Sept. 11 that she filed her papers the day before with the election office to seek re-election as a councillor.

The Green Party is not running a mayoral candidate and has said it will not endorse anyone for mayor.

“I was a bit surprised, but not fully surprised,” said Carr of Campbell’s decision. “He’s got to be hearing what I’m hearing and what my team is hearing in the community — people are not supporting Vision.” @Howellings

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Poll shows support slipping for NPA, Vision Almost half of residents would like to see several parties represented on council Jessica Kerr

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Adriane Carr is among four Green candidates running for council Oct. 20. In a recent Research Co. poll, 46 per cent of respondents said they would “definitely” or “probably” vote for the Green Party of Vancouver, while 39 per cent indicated an intention to vote for independent candidates.

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As the election campaign ramps up, a new poll shows that the parties that have traditionally formed council are not as popular.

Almost half of Vancouverites would like to see several parties around the council table, says an online survey conducted by Research Co. Forty-six per cent of respondents said they will “definitely” or “probably” consider voting for Green Party of Vancouver candidates in the Oct. 20 election, while 39 per cent will definitely or probably cast ballots for independent candidates.

“The Green Party is definitely outperforming all others in Vancouver when it comes to city council,” Research Co. president Mario Canseco said in a press release. “There is also a large component of the electorate that is currently looking into independent candidates as viable options.”

About one-third (32 per cent) of respondents said they would definitely or probably consider voting for city council candidates from

the Coalition of Progressive Electors (COPE). The ranking is lower for Vision Vancouver and the NonPartisan Association (NPA) — both came in at 30 per cent. Yes Vancouver received 24 per cent approval, One City 19 per cent, Coalition Vancouver 13 per cent, Vancouver First 12 per cent and ProVancouver nine per cent.

We do see a lot of people who don’t want a majority anymore.

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Almost half of Vancouverites would definitely or probably like to see several parties represented on council while 38 per cent would prefer to see a single party have a majority.

“We do see a lot of people who don’t want a majority anymore,” Canseco said in a telephone interview.

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He added that both the new campaign finance rules and a growing sense of frustration amongst voters could sway people’s decisions at the ballot box.

The survey was conducted before Vision Vancouver’s Ian Campbell dropped out of the mayoral race late Monday afternoon.

“It’s a whole new ballgame,” Canseco said of the campaign following Campbell’s announcement. He added that in terms of polling: “Everything we’ve done up to now is essentially useless.”

In terms of the mayoral race, the survey asked respondents to rank each candidate.

Across the city, independent Kennedy Stewart was the best ranked candidate with 23 per cent of respondents saying he is a “good choice” for mayor while 10 per cent deem him a “bad choice.”

Another independent, Shauna Sylvester, also had a positive ranking with 19 per cent saying she is a good choice versus eight per cent deeming her a bad choice. It was also more good than bad for the NPA’s Ken Sim (18 per cent versus 14 per cent).

ProVancouver’s David Chen broke even with 11 per cent good and bad.

The remaining candidates had more bad responses than good — Wai Young of Coalition Vancouver (10 per cent versus 16 per cent), Yes Vancouver’s Hector Bremner (14 per cent and 16 per cent) and Fred Harding of Vancouver First (14 per cent and 16 per cent).

As far as housing, which is arguably the top issue this campaign, the survey asked Vancouverites how much confidence they have in the declared mayoral candidates to help make it more affordable.

Stewart topped the poll with 33 per cent of respondents expressing “complete confidence” or “some confidence” in his ability, followed by Bremner and Sylvester at 26 per cent each, Sim (24 per cent), Harding (22 per cent), Chen (21 per cent) and Young (19 per cent).

The results are based on an online survey conducted between Sept. 4 and 7 among 400 adults in the city. The margin of error is +/- 4.9 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.

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At a ceremony to mark the opening of the city’s latest temporary modular housing complex, which will house the homeless at 2132 Ash St., Shane Pointe of the Musqueam Indian Band chanted in his language to welcome and bless the building.

Pointe said there’s nothing more important than shelter and it’s important to help vulnerable people “be as comfortable as they can so they can increase their self-esteem, their dignity and their human beingness.”

The 52-unit complex, located by the Olympic Village Canada Line station, is named M. Mitchell Place in honour of former NDP Member of Parliament Margaret Mitchell, who died in 2017 at 91. Mitchell was an advocate for housing and poverty reduction and worked to support women and children.

The PHS Community Services Society will run the building.

Pointe said the great houses his ancestors lived in be-

Musqueam elder Shane Pointe chanted in his language to welcome and bless the new modular housing complex opening at 2132 Ash St. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

fore contact with Europeans were massive — anywhere from 20 to 100 people lived in them collectively.

“They lived together, they ate together, they raised their children together,” he said, adding that the modular housing complex represented the same thing for him. “It’s a safe place for [residents] to be so they can regain the strength that they’ve lost for whatever reason. In the chant, I asked the infinite to come and be here to lift up the spirit of this house, this development — give it the strength it needs

to provide the safety for the human beings that are going to live here collectively, the human beings that are going to re-grow in their selfesteem and their dignity.”

Tenanting for the complex, which was built by Horizon North, is expected to take three or four weeks. Aside from the 52 units, which have a living/sleeping area, kitchenette and bathroom, the building features a laundry area, commercial kitchen — something the first few modular complexes don’t have — and a garden. Six of the units are wheelchair accessible. There

will also be support services available 24/7.

The provincial government provided $66 million in funding to build 600 units of modular housing on sites across Vancouver.

Throughout the province, the government is funding a total of 2,000 units.

George Heyman, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change Strategy and the MLA for Vancouver-Fairview, was on hand for the opening. He said supportive housing is an important element in helping people re-build their lives.

“Fifty-two more people will now have a place to call their own, a place that will hopefully change [their lives] and [the lives of] thousands of others who currently don’t have a place that they can call home, both here in Vancouver and in other places around the province,” he said.

Jennifer Breakspear, executive director of PHS Community Services Society, said living in the complex will help former homeless residents feel safe and less alone.

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Any new business venture requires a bit of a hope and prayer, and Chanel Graham’s new baby is no different.

But given where the laws of the land currently sit, Graham may need far more than divine intervention for her fledgling business long before it even hits opening day.

Graham is the founder of a mobile app called Save the Drive, which is similar to Uber Eats or Skip the Dishes. But rather than delivering cookies or cuisine, Save the Drive would deliver cannabis.

The operative word here is “would,” as Graham’s current business model is illegal according to a rep with the provincial ministry of the attorney general.

Graham has run into the same legal hurdle in Alberta, where she plans to launch the venture on Oct. 17 in Edmonton and Calgary, along with in Vancouver and Toronto.

Graham said she hasn’t talked to anyone from the City of Vancouver, nor anyone from the B.C. government either.

“We haven’t had any discussions as of yet, because until Oct. 17 nothing is set in stone,” she said in an interview from Edmonton.

“The rules are continually changing. For them to say we are breaking a law, it’s not law yet for us to break.”

Chanel Graham is the founder of Save the Drive, a mobile cannabis delivery service she hopes will be given the green light by Oct. 17.

Save the Drive works via an app that requires sign up and proof of legal age.

The technology then allows users to see product in each dispensary in their vicinity, make their selection and pay the piper.

From there, in theory, the driver delivers cannabis to a marketplace Graham describes as “pretty wide” open: those too sick to leave their homes, recreational users who have imbibed too much and still others who don’t want to get up off the couch.

“There are also people who are looking for discretion, maybe they don’t want to be seen walking into a dispensary,” Graham said.

Graham wouldn’t disclose proposed cannabis price points, nor how or what she intends to pay the

200 drivers who would be employed by her company.

It may not matter.

As it stands now, B.C. laws explicitly prohibit Graham’s business. Online sales of non-medical cannabis from licensed private businesses aren’t allowed.

A licensee cannot operate a non-medical cannabis delivery service or enable one to be operated in association with their store.

More locally, cannabis retailers in Vancouver will require a provincial cannabis retail licence, a municipal development permit and a municipal business licence to operate. Once legalization becomes a reality on Oct. 17, provincially licensed cannabis retailers will be the only place to legally obtain non-medical pot. The Courier asked both the city and province if business plans similar to Graham’s had been submitted for vetting, regardless of their legality. Neither government body answered the question.

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“We plan to discuss it if we need to with Members of Parliament or the liquor commission and work towards an actual goal of being able to operate,” Graham said. “We do not plan to break any laws.” @JohnKurucz

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Green Party Coun. Adriane Carr and NPA Coun. Melissa De Genova were the two votes against the amendment.

Any potential rezoning of the land will be considered in a future process, which will include public consultation. The various parcels currently have different zoning designations.

The triangular parcel to the north is in a zone called False Creek Comprehensive Development District, which

Vancouver council voted 6-2 at a Sept. 5 public hearing to remove seven parcels of land at the north end of Arbutus corridor from the Arbutus Corridor Official Development Plan.

Known as the “Option Lands” in the 2016 purchase agreement between the city and CPR, the properties sit between West First and West Fifth avenues, measuring a total of about 60,000 square feet.They aren’t needed for

The city could use its portion to fund the greenway development or fund other city priorities.

Prior to the hearing, some residents, including candidates running for ProVancouver in the upcoming election, criticized the purchase agreement, and how the Option Lands’ clause was communicated to the public. Others, such as current NPA Coun. George Affleck, say the $55-million price tag for Arbutus corridor could have been much higher without the clause.

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If the lands are rezoned, CPR has the option to repurchase them from the city for $1, according to the purchase agreement. If CPR doesn’t exercise that option, it will share the proceeds of any sale of excess lands.

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THE VANCOUVER COURIER T H U R SDAY, SE P T E M B E R 1 3 , 2 0 1 8

OPINION

Ian Campbell’s departure signals the demise of Vision Vancouver Political shakeups, independents run amok and ‘dark money’ — welcome to the 2018 election

Mike Klassen

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The statement released late Monday afternoon by Vision Vancouver mayoral candidate Ian Campbell was as sure a sign the once mighty electoral organization that has led city hall since 2008 is as dead as Polly the Parrot in the famous Monty Python sketch.

Like poor Polly, Vision does not appear to be “just resting.”

With the registration deadline looming, Campbell announced he was quitting as Vision’s mayoral candidate after his lacklustre candidacy failed to connect with the public.

Many, including this writer, asked how a North Vancouver resident could justify running as a mayoral candidate in our city.

Campbell, when interviewed by CBC radio, appeared to mortally wound his candidacy by confusing Vancouver’s West End and West Side neighbourhoods.

While Campbell was vague about his motivation

for quitting, you can be certain he felt pressure to leave the field to allow voters on the left to coalesce around another candidate.

This is the second Vision Vancouver mayoral candidate to leave the race under unusual circumstances this year — in May, 41-year old Taleeb Noormohamed ended his nomination campaign, citing health reasons.

It is incredible to think how far Vision Vancouver has fallen since it surged to power in 2008. Back then, thousands signed up as members to ultimately support their telegenic leader, Gregor Robertson.

Flush with donations from Americans connected to environmental activism, Robertson was able to first secure Vision’s mayoral nomination and ultimately the seat of power at city hall.

Mayor Gregor, as he came to be known, never sought to represent the whole city.

Rather, he and his handlers elevated partisan politics at city hall to new heights, cleaving Vancouver along political lines.

According to columnist Mike Klassen, Ian Campbell’s lacklustre candidacy failed to connect with the public. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

That inability, or unwillingness, of Vision’s leader to make a connection with so much of the city is a huge factor in the party’s demise.

By the end of his second term, Robertson was apologizing and pleading for a do-over. During his third term, city hall watchers were more captivated by his love life on Instagram than any of his policies.

In less than nine months, Vision Vancouver has seen all three candidates who

would lead the party into the election walk away.

Leaderless and broke, the organization will now almost certainly fade into oblivion.

Shakeups of established elector organizations (EOs) is one of the twists of 2018’s civic election season. Increasingly, we are seeing the consequences of legislative changes that have altered election campaign fundraising rules, and shaved weeks off the election cycle.

As I stated in a November

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2017 column, Bill 15 — the Local Elections Campaign Financing Amendment Act (LECFA) — is having wide-ranging impacts on municipal campaigns.

Its effects are being most felt in the larger cities such as Surrey and Vancouver, where multiple incumbent mayors and councillors are not seeking re-election.

The bill was rushed into law by the new B.C. government in order to be enacted before the 2018 municipal elections. The loopholes in the legislation were evident from the beginning, even forcing the government to amend the Act by order in council.

In that column, I also predicted that so-called “dark money” (where the source of the funds is never reported publicly) would creep into the campaign, which has borne out. Advertising from a shadowy group called Vancouverites for Affordable Housing began to appear in August.

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Some are keen to note that LECFA puts greater fundraising restrictions on EOs like Vision Vancouver or the NPA than it does on independent candidates. However, if the intention was to eradicate EOs, just the opposite has happened. Because so few incumbents are running, groups with their own mayor, council, school and park board candidate slates have popped up like mushrooms.

The expected long ballot will surely trigger yet more calls for changes to elections in Vancouver. I can already hear the renewed rumblings for a ward system, which will balkanize the city even further.

While it is too soon to call what impact Campbell’s departure will have on the race for mayor, it finally clears the path for others to form a post-Vision city government. @MikeKlassen

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Not onboard with proposed subway Re: “Province, feds team up for transit announcement,” online, Sept. 4.

TransLink’s proposed $3-billion “Broadway subway” would be an irresponsible, entirely unjustifiable abuse of taxpayers’ monies.

Instead of building a subway (to increase ridership capacities), the frequency of the 99 B Line buses that currently service the Broadway/UBC corridor should be doubled or tripled.

Currently, these buses’ (winter months) maximum frequency is one bus every three minutes.

The B.C. government should require TransLink to: A) Schedule 99 B Line buses to travel in pairs, and or in threes during rush hour periods, while retaining a three-minute interval between each two or three bus grouping.

Or, alternatively, B) Increase individual bus frequencies to one every two minutes, (or one every one and a half minutes).

If the above suggestions are not adopted, then, before any government funding is provided to pay for the proposed “Broadway subway” project, TransLink should be required to implement a twoyear trial of bus rapid transit (i.e. creating bus-only lanes) from Broadway and Commercial westward to UBC. Such a system could be up and running in a few short months, for an infini-

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tesimal fraction of the $3-billion cost of TransLink’s proposed 3.4 mile-long “Broadway subway” to Arbutus Street — five miles short of UBC! Bus rapid transit worked well along Richmond’s Number 3 Road in the early 2000s, previous to its replacement with the over-economized, lacking-in-ridership-capacity Canada Line.

Unlike the unconscionably profligate subway mega-project that it would replace, Broadway BRT would act to ensure that planning for new and expanded commuter rail lines, and for long overdue replacement bridges and tunnels, in all of Metro Vancouver’s member cities — especially those south of the Fraser — is done objectively for a change, instead of being driven by stale political agendas of some civic politicians, more than a small few of which are not running for re-election this year.

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Aggressive cyclists need to park it Re: “Vancouver’s holier-than-thou cyclists are ruining it for everyone,” Sept. 6.

A great piece in the recent Courier. I too am a longtime bike commuter (for more years that I care to admit) and I share in the disappointment that a small element seem to consider cycling as some kind of war and see the bike lanes as territory to be aggressively defended.

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Outgoing councillors Reimer and Affleck As longtime colleagues and adversaries at city hall, Vision Vancouver councillor Andrea Reimer and NPA councillor George Affleck have played a significant role in running and shaping Vancouver. Both have also decided not to run for office this election to pursue other opportunities with, presumably, friendlier work hours and a lower volume of angry emails and tweets from disgruntled constituents. So, as the Oct. 20 election looms, and gets more unpredictable by the day, we thought who better to ask for their reflections, insights and advice on the highs, lows and importance of municipal politics.

Andrea Reimer The 2018 municipal election season in Vancouver started with a lot of promise. It wasn’t that long ago that journalists and armchair quarterbacks trumpeted in giddy articles and social media posts that this would be, without a doubt, the most exciting Vancouver election. Ever.

But then as the year has worn on, it’s felt like one of those summer blockbusters where the hype compels you to check it out, but once you get to the theatre you have a sinking feeling that what looked like an interesting cast and non-stop action is overshadowed by a plot so flimsy you feel like it’s disintegrated before the

opening credits are even finished.

There’s a reason for this, but it might not be what you think. Campaign finance reform is having a dramatic impact on the election. And while it pains me to say it as the lead proponent for this essential democratic reform for more than a decade, not all of the impacts of getting big money out of politics are good, at least not in the short term.

Civic elections are controlled by the provincial government, and while they fund it for their own elections, successive provincial governments have chosen not to fund independent, continuous offices for civic elections. This has a number of implications, but the most significant during the election year is that pretty much the only way you know an election is going on is because a representative of a political party shows up at your doorstep or gives you a call.

In the past, parties had a lot of money to do this.

More than $5.5 million was spent in the last Vancouver election, and that’s largely what they spent it on.

The other thing parties spent money on was polling and focus groups to find out what mattered to you. They talked to experts about the best way to do those things at the municipal level and, then through that process,

Vision councillor Andrea Reimer. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

were able to create policies that matched voters. People are understandably more inspired to vote for policies they themselves have essentially created.

Now, without the money and not much time since the reforms were introduced, parties cannot develop or re-tool processes to be as robust. It feels and looks more like a game of bumper cars than a campaign trail with no one heading in any obvious direction and definitely no one going anywhere quickly.

The other impact of campaign finance reform is that a much higher number of people see an opportunity to run for office, reminiscent of the 1996 election campaign, which had 58 mayoral candidates. But while it might feel like a time for opportunity, resourcepoor environments favour pooling scarce resources

behind the smallest number of candidates needed to get policies passed by a government. Each new candidate entering the race only makes it harder for voters to connect their vote with a viable outcome of a clear group of people and policies governing the city.

And that’s not all. Shrinking media budgets, an open mayor’s seat, a shorter campaign period, foulsmelling third party ads and more than a whiff of whacky in some of the election shenanigans are not helping inspire voters by counterbalancing the tectonic shift created by campaign finance reform.

The upshot of all this is that voter turnout, already appallingly low at 44 per cent in 2014 (and that’s up by almost 50 per cent since I was elected in 2008), is likely to be at its lowest point in more than a de-

cade. Producing a government that will be in office four years without a strong mandate from voters at the very time when Vancouver most needs to take bold action on the local impacts of global, social, environmental and economic challenges, is arguably as bad as the perception that big money was corrupting democracy.

The good news is that while you may have felt powerless against big money, the only person who can solve the threat to our democracy in this election is… you. And unlike the 14 years I spent advocating to provincial governments to get big money out of municipal elections, all you need to do is circle Oct. 20 on your calendar (there is also an app for that at vancouver.ca/yourgovernment/2018-election. aspx), choose a time you’re going to vote and go do it.

Please don’t tell me there is no one to vote for. In an election with more candidates running than even the fabled 1996 municipal election, I can guarantee you that there is at least one candidate you would feel good about supporting. Values alignment is a critical question, but equally important is whether they can do the job: curiosity, intelligence, stamina, genuine care for people go a long way when you are on your 12th straight hour of meetings

for the third day in a row on everything from sewage and garbage to the opioid crisis. Most importantly, do they know what cities do and how to get the things they want done within the narrow jurisdiction and fiscal tools cities have access to? It’s a tough job and distinct from the parliamentary system and constitutional authority MLAs and MPs enjoy.

A final word: Just as the success of a democracy can only be as wide as the number of voters who engage in elections, a council can only be as successful as the range of lived experience it represents. For too many years, many lived experiences have not been represented at all on council or been represented in much smaller numbers than they should. With so many candidates on this ballot, your vote could see the next level of breakthroughs for under and unrepresented communities.

If you want government to be invested in you, you do need to invest in government. Oct. 20 is your chance to ensure Vancouver has a strong, representative government moving forward.

Andrea Reimer is a threeterm Vancouver city councillor, a former school trustee and was recently awarded a Loeb Fellowship to study urban policy and democracy in cities at Harvard.

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reflect on serving the city and its future George Affleck I have always been a bit of a nerd about local politics.

When I was a kid — I’m talking 11 years old — I would watch city council meetings on the local cable channel to see what was going on and what the mayor and councillors were debating. By the time I was a teenager, I had already put on my list of life goals that I would one day run for political office. In fact, I might have entered politics earlier if friends, family and even strangers had not talked me out of it.

When I was around 17, a school board-related issue crucial to my age group made me so mad that I was motivated to run for school board in Langley, where I grew up. But what I mostly remember was personally polling anyone who would listen about the idea of running for office. I had already been on student council every year so to me, at that time, the leap to school board seemed logical. But my polling sadly proved otherwise. The general consensus was that I was too young and my opinion on the matter at hand was not serious enough or important enough to justify my lofty goal of electoral victory.

Dashed by others telling me what I should NOT do, I let the idea go. But it bothered me for some time; in fact, I decided soon after that, when I was regretting

my decision not to run, I would always push forward and take chances, even when people said it was impossible.

So, my list of life goals became a serious to-do list.

Including running for office, I wrote that I wanted to run my own business, write a book, test my skills in comedy performance, travel the world and learn guitar amongst other things that have been added and taken away. Thus far, I have achieved everything on my 17-year-old-boy goal list barring one thing — I’ve mastered only two chords on the guitar. There’s still time to learn a third, right?

This preamble about life goals and people telling you what you can and cannot do is really the start of my first ever, and perhaps last, advice column.

When the Courier’s Mike Howell asked me to write something down about being in office that would be helpful, but remain non-partisan in the truest sense, and provide tips to the growing list of possible elected representatives, I was honoured but also challenged. Being partisan and political is something that comes very naturally to me. It is not that I am intentionally trying to be a s*** disturber; it comes from a passion for the job and for our city.

So, let’s start with this: If you are running for office, I want to commend you for stepping up and taking the risk, no matter your political stripes, because to give your

NPA councillor George Affleck. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

time, energy and knowledge to this city will, I hope, make Vancouver better for the future. How you succeed, of course, depends on many factors but let me provide my perspective that I hope is somewhat helpful to you.

Before political life, I worked as a journalist for some years and part of that job meant that when you would come into the office each day and were assigned a story, even if you knew very little about it, by the end of the day you had become a kind of expert. You would do your research, analyze the pros and cons, interview experts and then provide a balanced story for the reader/ listener/viewer to better understand the issue at hand and to further debate at the water cooler, in the coffee shop or at the dinner table.

Being a politician requires many of the same attributes of a journalist, with a dose

of theatrics, a dollop of bravado and, if you can muster it, some diplomacy thrown in for good measure.

There are generally two kinds of people who get into politics: the policy wonk and the retail politician. We are often one or the other, but rarely both. My advice — try to be both.

Retail politicking is a performance piece with soul.

It’s quite often what will get you elected or make you stand out. It’s often clichéd in our minds by photo opportunities of politicians kissing babies, shaking hands, eating innumerable rubber chicken dinners, walking in parades and more.

But don’t discount the retail politicians. It’s that grassroots engagement where one learns or gets a sense of what people are saying about the place they live and how it’s governed. It’s the stuff beyond policies and procedures. It’s

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the basis of what truly makes an elected person a conduit of the people’s moods, which should be a big part — but not all — of how you make decisions once elected.

The policy wonk is another matter. The best way to define this person is someone who loves the science of governmental administration and doesn’t usually want to run for office because… well, to be frank… they are not often people people. However, so much of what you do in municipal government is perfect for the policy wonk because, while civic politics may seem very, very glamorous to an outsider (cue laugh track), about 80 per cent of your time is spent reading big reports, asking questions of staff, and then incorporating and understanding the historical context of a decision, along with its potential impact on the future.

But to be effective in office, once you have done your homework, read the reports from the city’s talented engineers, planners, social services staff, lawyers and so on, you must also incorporate the public’s interest as a whole in your decision making.

Credit can be given to many un-elected leaders for building a great city like Vancouver. But the role of our city’s elected council is key. Every four years a new council is elected and given a mandate to provide general direction to staff about where the city will be going and what the priorities will be.

Staff should then, for that term, come back to council with reports that are intended to match the council’s wishes, and therefore the people’s.

It’s kind of circular — the role as an elected civic leader is to provide direction, empower staff, have them come back with the policies and procedures to achieve these goals and then council gives the work the stamp of approval for implementation.

The world, and certainly Vancouver, does not need any more divisive, ego-only, wedge-issue politicians. To win a seat in office, sure, it’s helpful to be appealing to the electorate. But once elected, please just do the work.

In Vancouver, more than 600,000 people are relying on their elected council to build the city as whole, for all of us. So, respect the staff.

Respect the people. And find your inner nerd to do the job as best you can. And don’t forget that voters are an intuitive bunch — never discount how they may be feeling.

They are usually bang on.

And equally important: know when your time is up and enjoy a graceful exit. And if at all possible, avoid Mike Howell’s email requests to write a column at the end of your time in office.

Adios Amigos.

George Affleck is a twoterm city councillor and former journalist. Affleck founded and remains president of Vancouver-based marketing firm Curve Communications.

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THE VANCOUVER COURIER T H U R SDAY, SE P T E M B E R 1 3 , 2 0 1 8

Volunteer Scrutineers for Capital Plan Borrowing Questions The City of Vancouver has (unpaid) opportunities for volunteer scrutineers for the Capital Plan borrowing questions in the upcoming election, with voting on October 10-17 and on October 20, 2018.

The Capital Plan is the City’s financial plan to invest in our city—including water pipes and sidewalks, libraries and community centres, fire halls and affordable housing, parks and street trees, vehicles and technology.

The Capital Plan Borrowing Questions A portion of the funding for the 2019–2022 Capital Plan is proposed to come from borrowing that requires voter approval.

During the voting period, including advance voting and general voting day, voters will be asked to give Council the authority to borrow these funds. The questions to be voted on are included in a By-law approved

by Council. Eligible voters may vote “yes” or “no” to the three questions. A copy of the text of that By-law is reproduced here:

A portion of the funding for the 2019–2022 Capital Plan is proposed to come from borrowing that requires voter approval. If you are eligible to be a Vancouver elector (voter), you can apply to volunteer as a scrutineer for either the “yes” or “no” side of the questions on the ballot for the City’s 2019–2022 Capital Plan.

1. TRANSPORTATION AND TECHNOLOGY Are you in favour of Council having the authority, without further assent of the electors, to pass by-laws between January 1, 2019 and December 31, 2022 to borrow an aggregate $100,353,000 for the following purposes?

A. Street and Bridge Infrastructure To provide for major maintenance, reconstruction and enhancement of the arterial and neighbourhood transportation networks, sidewalks, greenways and cycle routes and to undertake major maintenance of bridges and other structures, including repairs and structural work on Granville Bridge. $47,429,000

2. CAPITAL MAINTENANCE AND RENOVATION PROGRAMS FOR EXISTING COMMUNITY FACILITIES, CIVIC FACILITIES AND PARKS Are you in favour of Council having the authority, without further assent of the electors, to pass by-laws between January 1, 2019 and December 31, 2022 to borrow an aggregate $99,557,000 for the following purposes?

A. Maintenance of Community and Civic Facilities To provide for ongoing capital maintenance such as replacement of roofs, windows, elevators, heating/ventilation, electrical and plumbing systems. $59,175,000

“BY-LAW NO. 12202 A By-law to authorize questions for the assent of electors regardingthe 2019 – 2022 Capital Plan THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF VANCOUVER, in public meeting, enacts as follows: 1. Council authorizes putting to the electors, under section 245 of the Vancouver Charter, the following questions with respect to the following matters: “2019 – 2022 CAPITAL PLAN BORROWING QUESTIONS The Capital Plan is the City’s four-year financial plan for investments in infrastructure and amenities, such as sidewalks, streets, fire halls, parks, community centres and libraries.

The Capital Plan has two primary goals: • Maintaining existing infrastructure and amenities; and • Providing new infrastructure and amenities to support a growing population and economy.

Approximately $2.8 billion is planned to be invested during the 2019-2022 Capital Plan period.

Of this amount, $300 million is proposed to be financed through debt that requires approval by a majority of electors.

The $300 million amount has been organized into three questions, as follows:

B. Traffic Signals and Street Lighting To provide for major maintenance, replacement and enhancement of traffic signals and street lighting that are beyond economical repair or no longer meet operational requirements. $42,924,000

C. Technology Projects To provide for the renewal and enhancement of the City’s information technology systems such as data centres, servers and applications that support the delivery of and access to City services and programs. $10,000,000

TOTAL

$100,353,000

If this question receives the assent of the electors, Council has the power, without further assent of the electors, to pass by-laws, as and when Council considers appropriate, to borrow money for the projects described up to $100,353,000.

EXPLANATORY NOTE FOR QUESTIONS 2 AND 3: • Community facilities include buildings such as community centres, pools, rinks, libraries, childcare centres, cultural facilities, social facilities and affordable housing.

• Civic facilities include buildings such as fire halls, police buildings, administrative facilities and service yards.

Applications to be a scrutineer are available online at vancouver.ca/vote, and at the Election Office, 450 West Broadway from September 19 until September 28, 2018 between 8:30 am and 5:00 pm. Applications must be submitted at the Election Office, 450 West Broadway, from September 19 until September 28, 2018 between 8:30 am and 5:00 pm. After selection, applicants will be advised of the voting place(s) assigned to them.

3. REPLACEMENT OF EXISTING COMMUNITY FACILITIES AND CIVIC FACILITIES Are you in favour of Council having the authority, without further assent of the electors, to pass by-laws between January 1, 2019 and December 31, 2022 to borrow an aggregate $100,090,000 for the following purposes? purposes?

A. Community Facilities To provide for replacement, renewal or rehabilitation of existing community facilities, including Marpole-Oakridge Community Centre, Marpole Library, the City Archives, and other projects such as Britannia Community Centre, Ray-Cam Community Centre or West End Community Centre that are at the planning or design stage

B. Renovations of Community and Civic Facilities To provide for renovations or other upgrades such as renovations to community spaces, wheelchair access improvements, energy conservation upgrades and removal of hazardous materials. $23,975,000

C. Maintenance and Renovations of Parks To provide for ongoing capital maintenance, renovations or other upgrades of existing parks, park buildings and features within parks such as the seawall, pathways, playgrounds, playfields and sport courts. $16,407,000

TOTAL

$99,557,000

If this question receives the assent of the electors, Council has the power, without further assent of the electors, to pass by-laws, as and when Council considers appropriate, to borrow money for the projects described up to $99,557,000.

$62,840,000

B. Civic Facilities To provide for replacement, renewal or rehabilitation of existing civic facilities, including the first phase at Sunset Service Yard, seismic upgrade of the Kitsilano Fire Hall, and other projects such as Manitoba Service Yard or one of the downtown fire halls that are at the planning or design stage $37,250,000

TOTAL

$100,090,000

If this question receives the assent of the electors, Council has the power, without further assent of the electors, to pass by-laws, as and when Council considers appropriate, to borrow money for the projects described up to $100,090,000.”

2. This By-law is to come into force and take effect on the date of its enactment.”

The By-law may be inspected at the City Clerk’s Office at City Hall during regular hours (weekdays between 8:30 am and 5 pm) until October 19, 2018 and at each advance voting place on October 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17, 2018 from 8 am to 8 pm, and at all general voting day voting places from 8 am to 8 pm on October 20, 2018.

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Co-Existing with Coyotes and UBC’s faculty of applied animal biology are partnering up to learn more about Vancouver’s coyote population will have trail cameras in their yards to monitor coyote behaviour and movement.

In particular, the study will look at the effectiveness of a motion-activated sprinkler system as a way to deter coyotes and reduce conflicts between people and coyotes.

Originally from the prairie grasslands of the southwest United States, coyotes have thrived in urban areas such as Vancouver. There’s an estimated 200 coyotes in the city and between 2,000 and 3,000 in the

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Stanley Park Ecology Society and the University of B.C. want homeowners who frequently see coyotes in their backyards to help with a new research project.

The society’s Co-Existing with Coyotes program is partnering with Dr. Kristen Walker, a member of the applied animal biology faculty at UBC, in an effort to learn more about Vancouver’s coyote population.

Research participants

Lower Mainland.

As a result of living in more urban areas, coyotes have become mainly nocturnal animals to avoid interactions with humans.

However, fall is the dispersal season for many young coyotes in the city and, as they start to explore the city on their own, coyote sightings tend to increase.

To avoid attracting unwanted attention from a coyote, Co-Existing with Coyotes recommends removing any potential food sources from your yard, such as fallen fruit,

scaring coyotes away and keeping pets inside at night.

Coyote sightings can be reported to Co-Existing with Coyotes at 604-681WILD (9453), online at stanleyparkecology.ca/ conservation/co-existingwith-coyotes/coyotesighting or through the VanConnect app.

Residents who regularly see coyotes in their yard and would like to take part in the research project can call Co-Existing with Coyotes at 604-681WILD (9453). @JessicaEKerr

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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.

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 ($)

ESTIMATED TAXES 2021 ($)

Baptist Foundation of BC

266-772-26-0000

13,000

13,400

13,800

Baptist Foundation of BC

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

Brightside Community Homes Foundation

641-234-20-0000

12,100

12,500

12,800

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

Finnish Canadian Rest Home Association

828-251-94-0000

15,300

15,800

16,300

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

Soroptimist Club of Vancouver BC

683-165-54-0000

11,200

11,500

11,800

South Amherst Housing Society

244-805-96-0000

6,600

6,700

6,900 12,800

The V E L Housing Society

577-259-06-0000

12,000

12,400

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

11,000

11,300

11,700

$902,600

$929,200

$957,100

TOTAL

For more information: Property Tax Office 604-871-6349

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When I first started at the CBC, I remember being shocked that the host of the radio show I worked for never went out to gigs anymore, even shows stacked with his favourite bands.

At the time, that host was in his mid-40s with two young kids at home. I thought he was so incredibly lame, and I swore I would never be like him.

Cut to 20 years later: I’m in my mid-40s with two young kids at home. I hardly ever go out to see live shows, including those stacked with my favourite bands, which is so incredibly lame. I am now exactly like him.

Case in point: Due to domestic commitments such as “family movie night,” minor hockey and an assortment of antibiotics and ointments, I completely missed this past weekend’s inaugural Skookum Festival in Stanley Park. The event had no less than about 20 of my favourite bands performing. Due to extreme FOMO (fear

Rain did not damper the crowd’s reaction to Mother Mother’s spirited set at Skookum Fest. PHOTO KIRK HAMILTON/3AM REVELATIONS

of missing out), I tracked the festival every moment I could on social media.

Depending on where I scrolled, Skookum was either Vancouver’s greatest music festival ever, or the worst. If I checked Instagram, it was nothing but love, hugs and defiantly dripping, smiling faces in the pouring rain, while Father John Misty or Bahamas crooned to crowds of thousands in the background.

That was killing me, so I quickly flipped over to the much more negative Twitter, which provided plenty of schadenfreude-like entertainment. On Twitter, #SkookumFestival rants overflowed like a clogged Porta-Potty. @scalper66 #SKOOKUMFestival Stand in line for 1hr get two beers miss half the show then stand in washroom line 30min repeat and still stay sober, place is a joke, one massive line.

According to Twitter, it became apparent very early on that while the music at Skookum was top shelf, the logistics were not. That made me feel a little better about my own situation, stealing glances at my phone while the kids giggled through Minions.

Tweets raged about the lack of Porta-Potties, the lack of food and beer, and the epic lines — at a festival that billed itself under the banner of “Music. Food. Art.”

@Dubfreque Been to many fests in many different places and I’ve never experienced line ups like these I mean you think it’s ok to wait 45 minutes to use the bathroom? It literally turned into shit show last night with ppl relieving themselves everywhere #SKOOKUM @VelvetRPresley The messages #MyWife is sending me from the #Skookum festival are like soldier’s letters from the front. Sounds like she’ll be coming back from Vancouver with trench foot and a case of dysentery.

Some of those comments led me into the trenches of the #SkookumFestival Twitter conversation. To either torture or reassure myself, I asked Skookum 2018 attendees to rank their experience on a scale of one to 10. Here’s some of the replies I received: @BlackDogVideo 2/10. Insane line-ups for food (think well over an hour) and the same for the toilets.

Too many bands. You’ll miss some for sure. Stupid rain. @kelseyjm 6/10 Having a festival in Stanley Park is amazing & a great line up of artists. Lineups are expected but the lineups for bathrooms are insane. Logistics for leaving the park @ the end need work, trying to ride on unlit bike path with pedestrians

@paulpierobon 4/10. Line ups for food and washrooms were bad Friday, worse on Sat. I walked down Sunday and saw the massive entry lines at gates 1 and 3 and gave up. I have better things to do with my time. Good musical line up, great crowd, worst festival I have ever been to.

Yes, it rained. Yes, one person asked if “Skookum” meant “lineup” in Coast Salish. Yes, I heard people were offering cash for prime spots in the Porta-Potty lineups.

But it wasn’t all bad. On the musical side of things, I gleaned that Matt Mays was the sleeper hit of the opening night; that the Arkells brought the house down as expected on their rapid ascent to Loverboy’s throne; that Said the Whale debuted a song called “UnAmerican,” which could be their next radio hit; that Mother Mother played to a monstrous crowd; and that it was unclear whether it was raindrops or tears of joy streaking down fans’ faces at the St. Vincent set. Argh. FOMO! Here’s hoping that Skookum lives up to the actual meaning of its name, and flushes out the operational backups for beers, bathrooms and beyond. Maybe my timing will work out perfectly when I finally show up to Skookum for the Weakerthans reunion tour.

Let’s end this on a positively skookum note, eh? @darian4011 I’ve had an amazing weekend. You need to expect and be prepared for lineups when you have crowds of this size in a popup venue such as this. I’m sure they could have done with more food tents and toilets, but overall my experience has been a 10/10. Looking forward to next year!

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Arts & Entertainment THE SHOWBIZ

Sabrina Furminger

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As far as phrases go, “bite the bullet” is especially evocative. The imagery is violent and the act itself isn’t easy. Mostly, biting the bullet hurts like hell but you chomp down because whatever you’re biting the bullet to overcome is worth the discomfort.

Biting the bullet takes courage, and this courage is precisely what Farrah Aviva aims to capture every time she hands a bullet to a photo subject and invites them to bite down.

Aviva — an actress (UnREAL), producer (Welcome to Nowhere) and photographer — is the creative force behind Bite the Bullet Stories, a photography and social media project that launched this past summer.

Participants — so far mostly screen scene celebs and social influencers — are photographed biting down on a bullet that represents an issue that, on one hand, is painful to discuss but, on the other hand, needs to be discussed if there’s to be any hope of change.

Arrow star Emily Bett Rickards bit the bullet and spoke out against gun violence. “I’m biting the bullet to say I don’t think weak gun laws should be excusable and I think change needed to happen yesterday,” she wrote in a post accompanying

Farrah Aviva is the creative force behind Bite the Bullet Stories, a photography and social media project that launched this past summer. PHOTO FARRAH AVIVA

the portrait on Instagram.

Vikings star Alexander Ludwig bit the bullet to discuss his battle with addiction. Briana Buckmaster (Supernatural) bit the bullet on growing up plus size in a world that worships thinness.

Jessica Harmon (The 100) bit the bullet and opened up about life with severe acne.

“I had an idea but I didn’t really think it would resonate with as many people as it has,” says Aviva, the Vancouver-based multi-hyphenate. “It’s nice to see that there are so many like-minded people who believe change is possible, and they’re willing to put themselves on the line to make change happen.”

Bullets entered the picture via her father — he’s a hobby shooter — and informed The BangBang, her art exhibition that hung at the Opus Hotel as part of the 2018 Capture Photography Festival. The BangBang featured striking photographs of bullets, limbs, guns and skin that Aviva hoped would get people talking; one image was encircled by a frame that Aviva had crafted from 1,039 bullets.

But Bite the Bullet Stories goes further back than The BangBang and her father’s excess bullets. It extends to her love-hate relationship with social media and how, on “social media, everyone is striving for an unattain-

able amount of perfection.

Everyone is showing their best self, but they’re not necessarily showing their real self all the time.”

Thus, Aviva and her Bite the Bullet participants bring real-talk to social media.

“The idea is by sharing our vulnerabilities, we not only make others stronger, we make ourselves stronger,” says Aviva. “I want everyone to know that their struggles don’t have to cripple them.”

Aviva’s intent on going bigger and transforming Bite the Bullet Stories into a multi-pronged changemaker with a book and docu-series and active community. She recently bit the bullet herself and turned to crowdfunding for a boost (among the perks for IndieGoGo supporters: bullet pendant necklaces), and welcomed Ludwig and his Vikings co-star Kristy Dawn Dinsmore onto the project as public ambassadors.

“My goal is to take it beyond social media and create a community where people can go to voice their own struggles or find inspiration,” says Aviva.

“The support that’s coming — the messages that people send where they talk about how deeply touched they are — makes it worth it.”

Peruse the Bite the Bullet Stories at bitethebulletstories.com.

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Food Truck Festival on a roll And four other reasons Vancouver is awesome this week Vancouver trio Basilissa and many more local and visiting artists.

Sept.14 to 16 Wise Hall, 1882 Adanac St. facebook.com/AccordionNoirFestival/

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Greater Vancouver Food Truck Festival

Following a June visit to Vancouver, the Greater Vancouver Food Truck Festival returns as promised this month for one more day of food, family and fun. Get ready to get your fill of fab food served up from kitchens on four wheels. This free fest brings together two dozen food trucks from all over the Metro region, along with plenty more fun things for the whole fam to do.

Sept. 16, noon to 6 p.m.

Concord Pacific, 88 Pacific Boulevard fvfoodtruckfestival.com

Market Mexico

Experience Mexican culture through food, drinks, music, arts, crafts and shopping at a one-day free pop-up event. Experience market staples including tacos, tortas and elotes (Mexican corn). Try horchata, pastries and churros; and sip on aguas frescas, agave spirits and micheladas.

Sept. 15, 11:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.

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Accordion Noir Festival

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Tickle your musical fancy with the Accordion Noir Festival. Vancouver’s annual celebration of the world’s most misunderstood instrument is in its 11th year. Check out an array of jubilant programming starring the humble squeezebox, including performances by Jason Webley,

Culinary Garage Sale

The annual Culinary Garage Sale is one of the city’s most unique foodie fundraisers, and it’s a one-of-a-kind chance to get your hands on some pretty special kitchen gear, dishware and cookbooks. Held in support of Les Dames d’Escoffier’s B.C. Chapter, the Culinary Garage Sale is a wildly popular draw, thanks to its eclectic array of used, new and donated kitchen tools, baking gear, signed cookbooks, magazines and collectible dishware.

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Arts & Entertainment THE GROWLER: DRINK THIS

Blueberry Lemon IPA by Barkerville Brewing and Vancouver Island Brewing Rob Mangelsdorf editor@thegrowler.ca

One the best things about this job (other than getting paid to drink beer) is getting together with brewers I admire and seeing what sort of creative awesomeness they can come up with. And then drinking it!

For the latest edition of the Growler’s B.C. Brewers Collaboration Series, we had Barkerville Brewing’s Erin Dale and Vancouver Island Brewing’s Danny Seeton team up and create an IPA that’s bursting with fruit flavours.

The Blueberry Lemon IPA was made with B.C. blueberry puree and lemon rind, complemented by juicy Sacc Trois yeast, copious dry-hopping and, of course, love.

There’s so much going on here, flavour-wise.

Naturally there’s the citrus and berry flavours from the fruit additions, but there’s also notes of melon, grapefruit, pineapple,

stone fruit and tropical fruit from the Mandarina Bavaria, El Dorado and Citra hops. Then there’s the Sacc Trois yeast, punching up the fruit flavour even more.

On the back end, a healthy hop bitterness in the classic West Coast style is balanced by a sturdy malt character. The end result is a well-rounded, bold and flavourful IPA that will keep the scurvy away.

Blueberry Lemon IPA is in stores now all over the province. Grab a bottle soon before they’re all gone (because I drank them all!).

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Latest in the Growler’s B.C. Brewers Collaboration Series bursts with fruit flavours.

The Growler presents Blueberry Lemon IPA by Barkerville Brewing and Vancouver Island Brewing (6.4 per cent ABV, 62 IBU)

Appearance: Deep copper brown with a thick off-white head.

Aroma: Pineapple, grapefruit, berry, citrus.

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Over the past few years the Punjabi Market district at Main Street and 49th Avenue has been, well, evolving.

The building that the All India Sweets buffet used to occupy the southwest corner was torn down and a new mixed-use thing is currently going in, sending the beloved restaurant to a new location across the street. An illegal weed dispensary opened and then quickly closed. More and more shops are shutting their doors leaving much of the retail strip vacant, newspapers covering many windows where there used to be posters promoting acts from India performing in Metro Vancouver (often Surrey).

While it feels a bit grim, there are more than a couple businesses still open, and the business owners who have stayed are still very much keeping the spirit alive. Walk one block south from the core intersection and pop in to the Punjab Food Center and you’ll find what I consider to be the best deal on the best pop in town: Thums Up.

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Priced at $1 a bottle, the charm of the glass bottle alone is worth paying for.

After a decade of drinking it, I still can’t tell whether the bottles have been recycled a hundred times and are scratched because of that or if the weathered bottles are the result of being brought over on a slow boat from India, clinking against each other for weeks on end before landing at the port. Presented in the box they were shipped in, the temptation to grab an entire 24 is hard to resist.

I can describe the flavour as a lot like Coca-Cola but with a spice that I can’t quite put my finger on.

Drinking it straight out of a cold bottle on a hot day, I sometimes feel like I’m in a 1990s commercial, wiping sweat off my brow and going “Ahhhhh!” after downing a swig.

Next time you’re on Main Street pop in and grab a bottle and check it out. You might find yourself returning to pick up a box, or to dig in to the other imported pops from India.

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Pass It to Bulis

The hockey blog that knows who needs the puck

Most important battle at Canucks camp is for second-line centre Will the Canucks go with top prospect Elias Pettersson or a veteran?

Backhand Sauce Daniel Wagner

After Daniel and Henrik Sedin retired last season, the Canucks didn’t attempt to replace them in free agency. There are a couple reasons for that. First, the Sedins are irreplaceable. And second, the Canucks believe the prospects and young players in their organization have what it takes to step into top-six roles.

Bo Horvat and Brock Boeser emerged last season to take over from the Sedins on the first line, but that still leaves a significant hole on the second line. That’s particularly true at centre. While the Canucks have a lot of options on the wing, they still lack depth down the middle.

That means one of the most significant battles at training camp this year will be for second-line centre. Let’s take a look at the top candidates for the role.

Elias Pettersson

The Canucks’ top prospect should be in the lineup opening night, but will it be at centre? In the SHL last season, Elias Pettersson mostly played right wing. Even at the World Junior Championships for Team Sweden, Pettersson was on the wing.

The Canucks firmly believe that he’ll be a centre in the NHL, however, and have wasted no time putting him in that role heading into this season. At the Young Stars prospect tournament in Penticton, Pettersson centred the top line between Jonathan Dahlen and Kole Lind. In the preseason, with veterans in the mix, Pettersson is expected to again play at centre.

That doesn’t mean that Pettersson will centre the second line in the regular season, however. At least, not right away. While Pettersson’s skill set suggests he’ll be a great centre eventually, he will still face a significant learning curve.

It was already evident at the Young Stars tournament. Pettersson struggled in puck battles down low and looked uncertain in the faceoff circle. Those are areas where he can improve, particularly with a mentor like Manny Malhotra on the coaching staff, but could keep him on the wing to start the season.

Stick-taps & Glove-drops • A tap of the stick to the Canucks’ prospects, who dominated the Winnipeg Jets’ prospects at the Young Stars Classic in Penticton.

Elias Pettersson and Jonathan Dahlen stole the show, but Petrus Palmu, Jonah Gadjovich, and Adam Gaudette also stood out.

Veteran centre Sam Gagner could centre the Canucks’ second-line. But for all his goal-scoring abilities, he suffers defensively and on faceoffs. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Brandon Sutter

When the Canucks signed Jay Beagle, GM Jim Benning suggested that Beagle taking on checking-line duties could free up Brandon Sutter to play higher up the lineup. Sutter already played big minutes last season as the team’s checking-line centre, so moving up could only mean one thing: a more offensive role on the second line.

There are some clear arguments in favour of Sutter on the second-line: he’ll help support the rookie Pettersson with his two-way game and has a couple 20plus goal seasons under his belt.

The argument against, however, is equally clear: Sutter is not a playmaker, has generally been a drag on his linemates’ offensive production throughout his career and plays a north-south game that is unlikely to mesh well with Pettersson’s style.

Sam Gagner

Apart from Sutter, the Canucks do have one other veteran forward who can slot in at centre. Sam Gagner has plenty of offensive ability, consistently putting up 40-point seasons throughout his career, and has the creativity and playmaking to complement Pettersson. Gagner’s versatility is also appealing, as he can easily pivot back to right

wing if and when Pettersson is ready to play at centre or could even switch back and forth within a game.

The issue with Gagner is that he’s weak defensively and isn’t great at faceoffs either, so wouldn’t be much of an upgrade on Pettersson in that role.

• I’m dropping the gloves with the Montreal Canadiens. Not for trading Max Pacioretty, though that was certainly a messy situation. No, I’m dropping the gloves because they traded Pacioretty after midnight on a Sunday. Their poor fans had to wake up Monday morning to the news that their captain had been traded after they went to sleep.

Poor form.

Adam Gaudette

Finally, there’s the wild card: Pettersson’s fellow rookie, Adam Gaudette. Gaudette is a long shot to even make the team out of training camp and is more likely to start the season in the AHL with the Utica Comets.

With that said, Gaudette is one of the few centres in the Canucks’ prospect pool with legitimate top-six potential.

Don’t bet on Gaudette starting the season as a second-line centre, but don’t count it out entirely. A few injuries and a stellar preseason performance from Gaudette could lead to the Canucks putting together a second line of rookies to play a sheltered, offensive role.

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

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Automotive BRAKING NEWS

Ferrari 250 GTO sets price record at auction Brendan McAleer

crash-damaged 959s for that kind of scratch.

However, at this end of the market, a 250 GTO is like artwork, where the value of the piece doesn’t really have much to do with reality. Things cost this much because people with very deep pockets want them, not necessarily because the car is so special.

And, it should be noted that the previous owner wasn’t selfish with his machine, but often took it out for both display and to participate in vintage events. Here’s hoping that, despite being the most expensive auctioned machine ever, this Ferrari continues to be used and shared in some way.

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Monterey’s Car Week is, of course, more than just a collection of car shows.

It’s also the place where the cream of automotive art comes to be auctioned, often commanding the kind of prices that take your breath away.

It can often get a bit silly. Take, for instance, an accident-damaged Porsche 959 that crossed the block with a front end crumpled and riding on only three wheels. The car was the victim of a weird crash that saw it get hit while being transported by trailer. It still hit a cool half-million dollars at auction.

That’s pretty ridiculous, but nothing compared to the pinnacle of the auction results last week. The 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO that sold at the RM Sotheby’s auction on the weekend.

Most recently purchased in 2000 for $7 million, this is the third of the 36 cars produced, and had both extensive racing history in-period, and the musthave numbers-matching powertrain.

Bidding opened at an eye-watering $35 million, and ran all the way up to $48 million, a new world record. Needless to say, that’s a lot of money.

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being worth more than the brand-new 911 Turbo.

Seeing that Land Rover and others have jumped on the continuation model bandwagon, Porsche has evidently decided to follow suit. Their Project Gold (what, was “Project Profit” too obvious?) is a 1994 911 Turbo built to

1998 Turbo S standards.

No expense was spared, no detail overlooked.

Porsche sourced a periodcorrect sewing machine to get the stitching right, brought back workers from the original 993 line, and even hand-fitted Turbo S intakes so everything would look right. They

then painted this oneof-one machine a similar colour to the current 911 Turbo Exclusive, and the plan is to auction it off for charity. Hmm. Perhaps I will retract the Project Profit crack.

All the work was done

by Porsche Classic, which will doubtless now have

well-heeled customers lining up to have a similar treatment for their own classic 911 Turbos. But perhaps Porsche could go even further and examine what is missing from the modern 911 that makes people want to spend so much money chasing the past.

Porsche returns to air-cooled cars

Stuttgart doesn’t have many dummies. Having seen what’s been happening with the air-cooled 911 market, Porsche has been content thus far to mine their past from a heritage standpoint, showing off previous models when releasing new cars like the 911 Targa or the 718 Cayman.

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I write every day, and with help from the staff, I’ve hosted an international writers’ conference here and recently launched an online publishing company.

People oſten ask me when I’m going to start taking it easy and enjoy life, and I can honestly say that’s what I’m doing now.

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Babyboomers comeofage In this edition, Lifetime turns its attention to postwar babies SANDRA THOMAS | STHOMAS@VANCOURIER.COM

Also on this list are Oprah Winfrey, Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks. But, as it turns out, Mick Jagger is not — though he’s often mistaken for one.

boom following the Second World War. Depending on whom you ask, the dates can fluctuate — but there’s no doubt it refers to the large demographic born during the two decades following the war. Boomers born in the later part of that spectrum are sometimes considered members of Generation X.

“Baby boomers” is the term used today for those born between the early to mid1940s and 1964. The name refers to the postwar baby

Today, also depending on whom you ask, baby boomers are considered the generation that helped change the world by questioning everything

Astronaut Chris Hadfield is one. So is Geddy Lee from the iconic Canadian rock band Rush.

about the “establishment” and class snobbery and using rock music (with maybe some hallucinogens thrown in) as an anthem for peace and justice. (Not surprisingly, those same rock anthems are now being used to sell luxury automobiles to boomers.)

buy big, beautiful homes and nice cars. I believe much of that can be attributed to the fact most boomers were raised with a strong work ethic learned from watching parents bring home the bacon in postwar times when feeding their family wasn’t always a guarantee.

But then something shifted and almost involuntarily many boomers became members of that same establishment and took corporate jobs in order to

Now boomers have reached an age that allows them to enjoy a “seniors” discount or two, but they’re not ready to embrace that status full time. And while

many boomers still enjoy travelling, they’re likely not staying in the hostels of their youth. When it comes to food and wine, they also know what they want — as the saying goes, life’s too short to drink bad wine.

The same goes with their time. Many boomers are still working, but in their spare time want quality over

quantity — spoiling the grandkids, meeting good friends for coffee or a walk, golfing, travelling or taking that art class they’ve always wanted.

If any of the above sounds familiar, there’s a good chance you’re a baby boomer — and with this edition of Lifetime, we salute you.

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Artist Paul Wong is still asking the hard questions From counter-culture video art to artist in residence, Wong has never forgotten his Main Street roots

Artist Paul Wong says looking back on his body of work created over the past (almost) 50 years, he’s still as curious today as he was back in the ’70s and ’80s as a young punk rocker executing avant-garde performance art in public spaces and underground galleries.

Carol Hackett, Marlene MacGregor, Annastacia McDonald, Charles Rea and Jeanette Reinhardt — a self-professed “art gang” exploring the emerging glam and punk movements, and the already established gay scene, as well as their East Van neighbourhood.

“When we were active in that alternative counter culture, as baby boomers we thought we were going to change the world, but that didn’t happen,” says Wong. “But I still produce challenging work that asks difficult questions.”

...we thought we were going to change the world, but that didnÕt happen...

Some of Wong’s groundbreaking art from that time was featured in a 2014 exhibit at the Satellite Gallery entitled Mainstreeters: Taking Advantage, 1972-1982, alongside works by Kenneth Fletcher, Deborah Fong,

“In my own small way I wanted to provoke curiosity,” says Wong, “to use my role as an artist to be provocative.”

Since those early days, Wong has continued to create provocative art, but his latest

works are not playing out in underground studios. Instead, Wong is in the midst of a oneyear artist residency, dubbed Occupying Chinatown, at the Dr. Sun Yat-sen Classical Chinese Garden. The project began April 22 to coincide with the City of Vancouver’s formal apology for the historical discrimination against Chinese residents in Vancouver. Wong is creating a series of multidisciplinary artworks based on 700 letters in Chinese sent by 90 writers to his mother Suk-Fong Wong from 1946 to 2016.

Wong found the letters after her death in January, 2017.

The residency includes exhibitions, screenings, collaborative works with other artists, workshops, performances, events, a website and a book.

Occupying Chinatown was

commissioned in partnership with the city and Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden with support from the Audain Foundation and B.C. Arts Council. Wong’s collaboration with these established groups and government is a far cry from his early works, including a video installation created in 1978 called “in ten sity” following the suicide of a friend and fellow artist.

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the walls for 25 minutes to the music of the Avengers, Patti Smith and the Sex Pistols.

and “Wun Goh Wah” (Vancouver). Wong notes visitors to the garden can vote on where in Chinatown the sign will find a permanent home. He hopes the sign will end up at the entrance to an alleyway near the corner of Hastings and Pender streets.

Wong says while the themes of his work have shifted, he’s still producing art that questions “conventional, mainstream propaganda.”

Besides the letters, Wong also discovered dozens of jars inside his mother’s cupboards that weren’t what they appeared to be. These jars will also be used in the piece.

“My mother kept Chinese herbs and medicines in various jars — Miracle Whip, Nescafé, Cheese Whiz and pasta sauce,” says Wong. “There are all of these recognizable labels on jars with mystery ingredients.”

Wong says the jars represent a time when people used recycled jars to store items such as nails or screws — or the herbs and medicines his mother purchased. Wong is in the midst of visiting stores

“That alley is where the Green Door and Red Door restaurants used to be,” says Wong. “A lot of Occupying

I find it an interesting time to be between what was and what will be.

Chinatown is about retaining sites and places from when Chinatown used to be an isolated,

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segregated ghetto. I find it an interesting time to be between what was and what will be.”

Wong adds the spirit of Occupying Chinatown flows beyond the walls of the Chinese garden.

“It encapsulates what is Chinatown.”

For a schedule of Wong’s talks and exhibits, visit vancouverchinesegarden.com.

PAUL WONG IS GIVING LECTURES AS PART OF HIS ARTIST IN RESIDENCY AT DR. SUN YAT-SEN GARDEN.

A NEON SIGN DESIGNED BY PAUL WONG AT DR. SUN YAT-SEN GARDEN.

in Chinatown in an attempt to identify them.

“Now people just toss jars away,” says Wong. “They harken back to another time, but now people just toss them away.”

I didn’t expect to make new friends.

Wong has also completed a neon sign as part of his residency called Haam Sui Fow Wun Goh Wah, which is temporarily mounted the garden’s Scholar Study. The sign translates to “Haam Sui Fow” (Saltwater City)

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This free, fun and informative event for seniors takes place Sept. 19 at VanDusen Botanical Garden SANDRA THOMAS | STHOMAS@VANCOURIER.COM

The Vancouver Courier, Providence Health Care and St. Paul’s Foundation have once again partnered to produce the annual Lifetime Seniors Talks + Tables event, which this year takes place Wednesday, Sept. 19 at VanDusen Botanical Garden — with presenting sponsor London Drugs.

Highlights of this informative day include Dialogue on Aging — a public presentation series with informative speakers, tables offering information on supports and services, and interesting demonstrations. The event runs from 10 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. and the Lifetime Senior Volunteer of the Year award will be announced by

B.C. Seniors Advocate Isobel Mackenzie at 2: 15 p.m.

Check out this schedule to best plan your day. The information tables will be set up in both the Floral Hall and the visitor’s centre from 10 a.m. to 2:15 p.m.

Clinical assistant professor of geriatric medicine in the Department of Medicine at the University of B.C.

Scientist in patient experience at B.C. Children’s and Women’s Hospital Associate Director of Neuroethics Canada 2:15 P.M. Lifetime Seniors Volunteer of the Year Award Presented by B.C. Seniors Advocate Isobel Mackenzie 2:30 P.M. Sleep Matters: Part Two Glenn Landry, PhD Sleep Consultant

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The Lifetime Seniors Talks + Tables event is four hours long so you should plan strategically if you want to spend the afternoon. Here are a few pointers to make your day that much more pleasant. ! There will be a table with greeters set up at both the visitor centre, which is home to the BMO Theatre, and above by the parking lot outside the Floral Hall. ! Dress accordingly. (Fingers crossed the sun will shine.) ! No pets allowed, with the exception of service animals. ! Bring a snack: Truffles cafe in the visitor centre sells food and drinks, but it can be busy at peak times. ! Also under the topic of “planning ahead,” choose which talk you most want to hear and get there early to ensure you have a seat. Same goes with demonstrations.

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THIS INTRICATE TAPESTRY OF THE VANCOUVER SKYLINE WAS CREATED BY SOLA FIEDLER.

Vancouver fibre artist spends years weaving city landscapes Massive, meticulously-made tapestries will be on display during Textile Society of America’s 16th Biennial Symposium SANDRA THOMAS | STHOMAS@VANCOURIER.COM

To say that Sola Fiedler is a rabid recycler would be an understatement.

FIBRE ARTISTS SOLA FIEDLER WILL BE DISPLAYING HER WORK ON GRANVILLE ISLAND FROM SEPT. 21 TO OCT. 2.

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In fact, the 82-year old Vancouver-based fibre artist has made recycling her life’s work and to that end has brought new vitality to everything from abandoned buildings to the textiles she uses in the oversized tapestries she spends years creating.

“Sola,” as she’s known, is also a keeper of history. The artist freezes time with her intricate weavings of iconic skylines of cities from across the globe.

Of particular interest are Olympic Games host cities.

They can take up to five years to complete...

“They can take up to five years to complete and that’s eight hours a day, seven days a week and that includes Christmas Day and

birthdays,” says Sola. “When they announced the Olympics would be held in L.A. in 2028, I decided that’s where I’ll celebrate my 92nd birthday.

That gives me 10 years to finish [the tapestry].”

The public can see Sola’s magnificent tapestries during an exhibit dubbed Leap and the Loom Will Appear, on Granville Island which coincides with the Textile Society of America’s 16th Biennial Symposium Sept. 19 to 23.

For the first time, Sola’s massive 2009 Las Vegas (11 feet by 7.5 feet) and 2002 Salt Lake City (10 feet

by seven feet) tapestries will be exhibited side by side. Her 2014 Vancouver tapestry (11.6 feet by 5.3 feet), on loan from Canuck Place Children’s Hospice; the iconic 2018 Canada 150 flag (eight feet by four feet); and a new 2018 Granville Island Tapestry (eight feet by four feet) will also be on display alongside a retrospective of Sola’s vintage works, totalling 17 pieces. Sola’s tapestries will be included on the self-guided textile walking tours curated

by Silk Weaving Studio, which highlight 24 artist locations on Granville Island.

Sola uses yarn from recycled sweaters from thrift stores,

and she typically makes searching for such discarded treasures a part of each day.

Sola estimates she’s saved more than 600 sweaters and T-shirts from the landfill a year.

But when it comes to designing these massive pieces, it’s not so much the materials she uses that make them so astounding, but in the way she studies a city in order to recreate it in pinpoint detail — from the number of floors in a building to the colour of the trees and water.

Making her work even more astonishing is the fact Sola doesn’t work from photographs. Instead, she moves to the city of choice and walks the streets

for months capturing minute details in her mind.

“I go and look at buildings and then in my head I plan how I’m going to do it,” Sola told the Courier during a recent interview. “I can complete about four square inches in a day.”

In reference to the aerial views she creates, Sola imagines them from above.

“In Vancouver I was an eagle, in Las Vegas I was a helicopter and in L.A., I’ll be a drone,” Sola says, laughing.

Leap and the Loom Will Appear runs Sept. 21 to Oct. 2, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., at 1359 Cartwright St. on Granville Island. An opening reception takes place Sept. 20, 6 to 9 p.m. and Sola will be in attendance. The walking tours take place Sept. 17 to 30.

To find the self-guided map, visit silkweavingstudio.com.

FIBRE ARTIST SOLA FIEDLER WILL DISPLAY HER LARGESCALE TAPESTRIES ON GRANVILLE ISLAND SEPT. 21 TO OCT. 2.

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These three hotspots might not be on your radar for brunch, but they should be SANDRA THOMAS | STHOMAS@VANCOURIER.COM

My husband and I love to go out for brunch.

Our weekdays don’t allow us the time for a leisurely breakfast, and we rarely go out for dinner because our work has us in different parts of the city on any given day.

But come the weekend there’s nothing we like more than taking our time over a great cup of coffee and enjoying brunch. In recent weeks, I’ve had the opportunity to check out these three spaces, two new and one that’s been around for a while — why have I never eaten at Burdock & Co before? They’re at varying price points and offerings, so depending on what you’re looking for there should be something on this list that fits your craving for brunch.

BURDOCK & CO 2702 Main St. Chef and owner Andrea Carlson opened Burdock & Co in the Little Mountain neighbourhood in 2013 and, as unobtrusive as the entrance is, the food is anything but. While we were there, I overheard two different couples (at different tables) from out of town tell their server they had heard and read so many great things about

D6 IN THE DOUGLAS HOTEL Parq Vancouver D6 is probably better known for its nightlife and as a place to see and be seen over cocktails after work or in the evening, but this indoor/ outdoor rooftop space also offers a wonderful brunch.

This spacious lounge features dramatic views of the city, but also of B.C. Place, which is so close I hear those in the know have taken to dropping

the food they had included Burdock & Co on their list of must-dos while visiting Vancouver. Meanwhile, for some reason this was our first visit — but not our last. The décor can best be described as non-fussy with white-washed brick walls with tables and accents made from salvaged wood and barn board. But there’s no need for flash when a restaurant serves food this good. The FLATBREAD wine menu is also PIZZA AT exceptional — D/6 LOUNGE with a global focus based on artisanal techniques with no unnatural additives.

We also enjoyed one of their craft-made gin and tonics with cucumber.

The menu changes with the seasons, so I can’t promise they’ll still be there, but if you get a chance to try the roasted radishes, just do it.

During brunch you’ll find a smaller, thoughtful menu including crispy fried chicken with potato pickle mayo and dill powder; bacon, carmalized onion and cheddar cheese frittata and soda bread; and pizzichi farro pasta with anchovy, dandelion, preserved lemon and black garlic. Visit burdockandco.com.

by D6 to listen to big name artists during rehearsal or even during a concert — hello Beyoncé and Jay-Z. Enjoy handcrafted cocktails, carefully chosen wines and unique small bites during brunch, including the Korean and lemon/pepper chicken wings, which take game day to a whole new level. Also on the menu is sushi, salads, flatbread pizzas and paninis.

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“You have to stay!”

“They’re turning the pods into escape rooms tonight, you don’t want to miss that.”

“How are you going to write about a pod hotel unless you sleep in a pod?”

So, folding under peer pressure, is how I found myself agreeing to spend the

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night at the new Pangea Pod Hotel in Whistler despite the fact I had nothing with me but the clothes on my back, my purse and the cord to my phone charger — minus the plug.

But being a travel writer there have been times in the past when I’ve arrived at a destination only to discover my luggage had not, so I knew I could roll with it — so long as I found a toothbrush.

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Luckily, besides the two towels resting on the mattress in my pod, the hotel was quick to help and supplied me with a toothbrush and miniature tube of toothpaste so I knew I’d be OK. But my next concern was how this baby boomer body was going to handle a night in a hostel designed to accommodate skiers, snowboarders and mountain bikers of a much younger demographic. Turns out, that was OK too.

The Pangea, located at 4333 Sunrise Alley, can best be described as an upscale hostel with sleeping pods that allow privacy compared to the dorm-style sleeping arrangements typically found at similar lodgings around the world. The creative minds behind the project, the first

of its kind in Canada, are Jelena and Russell Kling who spent years travelling and researching what works, and what doesn’t, when it comes to hostels across the globe before developing their own pod prototype for the Pangea.

Their plan is to offer stylish and comfortable accommodation and privacy at prices that allow travellers on a budget to visit Whistler, a mountain paradise as famous for its pricey hotel rooms as it is for its beauty and year-round outdoor activities.

“Pangea combines the affordability of a hostel with the perks of a boutique hotel,” says Russell Kling. “We wanted to cater to the type of traveller who enjoys the

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Rather than accommodating guests in warehouse-style dorm rooms, the Pangea has 88 private pods divided among eight suites. The suite I stayed in had eight pods, two washrooms, two showers, two sinks and two change rooms.

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After “checking in” to my pod I found a double mattress, good-quality sheets, two pillows, a piece of art on one wall and a mirror on the other. I chose to sleep in a bottom pod and despite the fact I had to crawl in and out of it on my hands and knees I found it comfortable to sleep

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The Living Room, the epicentre of the Pangea, is a communal space with a bar where guests can meet and greet, play one of numerous board games available to borrow, buy food, get a caffeine fix and enjoy an adult beverage. But even better than the Living Room on a warm summer evening, is the small rooftop bar where guests can enjoy a drink and food while looking out over the village stroll.

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Before test driving the 2018 Lexus RX 350L, I had read that the auto company has embraced the Japanese tradition of “Omotenashi,” which loosely translated means going above and beyond for a guest while not acting as a servant.

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If you’re in the market for a performance that explores the inherent comedy of certain unavoidable changes to one’s body, such as the growth of skin tags, chin hairs and other random acts of aging, Colleen Brow has just the show for you.

Brow’s getting set to perform her new one-woman show, Ten Tips for a Collapsed Uterus, at this year’s Vancouver Fringe Festivaluntil Sept. 16. The long time North Vancouver resident describes the show as “mindless middleage musings” and “basically an immature show about maturation.”

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“I wanted to write a show about motherhood — that’s how it started,” says Brow.

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She hopes that the title of her show, while possessing an in-your-face directness, will also give people a sense of her comedy stylings and showcase

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‘middle-aged Fringe to a wide variety of unique performances every year.

“There’s deep, meaningful philosophical shows that will change the way you view your very existence. This isn’t one of them,” Brow jokes. “I am one person with a microphone doing some stand-up comedy and comedic stories.”

Brow adds, she’ll be talking a bit about “the perfect Gwyneth Paltrow.”

“Just because — once you get past the point of really caring about all that stuff and not being a young, hip woman reading Cosmopolitan magazine — you start looking at some of the things that young women are being encouraged to do today and I go, ‘Thank god I am not in my

20s right now,’” she says when describing a portion of Ten Tips for a Collapsed Uterus.

It deal with the number of extra self-care indulgences women are expected to partake in these days.

laughing for 60 minutes, Brow said she has already had the opportunity to try the show out at the recently held Nanaimo Fringe Festival, before adding, “You’re scaring me right now with that question!”

Her middle-age musing on the subject? She doesn’t want to have to deal with all the excessive extras. As an example, Brow says if she were to go camping and ended up forgetting to bring a pair of tweezers she’d come back looking like a “retired David Letterman.” It’s a facet of aging Brow’s OK with, and we all should be, she notes.

But she’s not actually worried.

Adopting the adage that “done is better than perfect,” Brow recognizes that writers and performers have to ply their craft regardless of how challenging it may seem.

“These are things you just laugh about,” she says.

And luckily for Brow, she knows that experience comes with aging.

“I just want you to come and enjoy some mindless middleage musings as thick and course as a rogue chin hair.”

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Chef Ned Bell is cooking up something new at the old Vancouver Club LINDSAY WILLIAM-ROSS | LINDSAY@VANCOUVERISAWESOME.COM

The city’s 125-year-old members-only Vancouver Club is getting a jolt of something new, at least in the kitchen. Vancouver star chef Ned Bell has joined the team as the new culinary director.

Bell, who is probably best known for his passion for cooking with sustainable seafood — and the accompanying advocacy — is also the head culinary mind of the Vancouverbased national Ocean Wise organization, headquartered at the Vancouver Aquarium.

At the Vancouver Club, Bell will apply his skills and talents to their practice of serving modern takes on regional cuisine. Bell will be building on the club’s commitment to serving fresh, local, organic and ethically raised products, including seafood (of course), as well as produce

at a time. He well represents our values and aspirations for club members to enjoy meaningful culinary interactions.”

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New group will discuss issues facing aging LGBTQ2S community Rainbow Roundtable will be a safe space to ask questions, says facilitator SANDRA THOMAS | STHOMAS@VANCOURIER.COM

The facilitator of a program dedicated to LGBTQ2S seniors, says some pioneers of the gay rights movement who have moved into care facilities are being forced back into the closet.

“These are the people who fought for my rights,” says Travis Jones. “They fought for gay marriage and equal employment rights. These are the same people who, after doing all of this good work, are going back into the closet after retirement.”

Jones says the baby boomer demographic entering retirement is growing exponentially in Canada and that applies to the LGBTQ2S community as well. To that end, Jones will be facilitating a drop-in gathering on Friday evenings at the Roundhouse Community Centre called Rainbow Roundtable, a weekly discussion group that includes speakers and activities. Jones hopes to connect members of the LGBTQ2S community from across the Lower Mainland to discuss the issues facing them

as they age. Returning to the closet after moving into a care facility is a key point of concern.

...almost 26,000 LGBTQ2S seniors living in the Lower Mainland.

“Due to historic employment marginalization our retirement outcomes look greatly different to the mainstream,” says Jones.

“Oppressive retirement budgets often require we leave our homes and enter

facilities whose care policies, workers and residents may not be actively supportive or even tolerant of who we are. This can often lead to returning to the closet, social isolation, general fear and discomfort, and most commonly, negative health outcomes.”

Jones says a 2012 study completed by the Fraser Health Authority and Vancouver Coastal Health estimated there were almost 26,000 LGBTQ2S seniors living in the Lower Mainland.

That number is expected to grow by four per cent by 2020.

The Rainbow Roundtable will be a safe space where members of the LGBTQ2S community

can gather and, hopefully, find answers to the many questions that life brings with aging.

“We intend to be a place for sharing our stories, wisdom and experiences of the challenges with aging in the LGBTQ2S community,” says Jones, who has a diploma in counselling. “We will be bringing in specialized speakers from a number of local organizations and service providers to discuss issues related to holistic health and wellbeing as we age.”

Jones wants to add Rainbow Roundtable to the list of community services available that connect older adults and elders across the Lower

Mainland and offer a social support system in a fun environment that’s interesting and inclusive for everyone. He says participants are encouraged to ask questions of the speakers (anonymously) on topics ranging from finance to health, something they might not have had the chance to do previously.

Rainbow Roundtable will run every Friday evening from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. beginning Sept. 14, at the Roundhouse Community Centre, 181 Roundhouse Mews in Yaletown. The first group of sessions will run until Dec. 14. The sessions are $5, but Jones is hoping to find a sponsor or donor to help offset that cost for those who can’t afford it. “$5 might not seem like a lot of money,” says Jones.

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Known for its themed afternoon tea services that put an awful lot of fun and whimsy into the British-based tradition, the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver has launched an Enchanted Forest tea.

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! Profiterole “Pinecone” Tuck into the private dining with white chocolate room of Notch8 Restaurant raspberry pastry cream & Bar and enjoy an escape and almonds — and some beautiful eats ! “Beehive” Tartlet featuring — right from the pages of a honey lemon curd and a charming folktale. passion fruit foam The room is decked out with woodland-themed decor (think fairy lights, moss, vintage story books) and your feast is served on a tea tier made of tree trunks.

You can select your own tea from their menu of Fairmont Lot 35 Tea, though the tea’s curators suggest Creamy Earl Grey or the Kyushu Japan Sencha.

Variations are available by request ahead of time for specific diet-dependent conditions such as gluten-free, as well as dietary preferences such as vegetarian and vegan.

They also offer a scaled down children’s version, too.

The Enchanted Forest Afternoon Tea runs until Nov. 18, with sittings Wednesday to Sunday at 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. Adults $59, Children $29.50 (ages 12 and under). Reservations are strongly encouraged.

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Several years ago Colleen started blogging about her rides and sharing her routes at letsgobiking.net. The website boasts more than 150 rides around the Lower Mainland, Vancouver Island, the Fraser Valley, Okanagan and Washington State.

About two and a half years ago, she started compiling some of the routes for the book. Let’s Go Biking includes 84 different routes focusing on Vancouver, Burnaby, New Westminster, the North Shore, Maple Ridge, Tri-Cities, Surrey, Delta, Richmond, Abbotsford, Langley and the Fraser Valley.

She designed all the routes for “families, seniors, people who like to stop and smell the roses.”

“This isn’t for the Tour de France set,” Ian added.

Colleen has biked every route.

As well she has a team of 50

“proof riders” who have also cycled the routes, suggesting tweaks and changes before a route was added to the book.

While the routes are designed for cyclists of all ages and abilities, from flat scenic trails to city greenways to quiet country roads, they are categorized as easy, moderate or adventurous.

Easy routes are generally shorter in distance on trails, quiet country roads and side streets. Moderate routes are longer on more challenging trails or roads — may have hills or some shared road sections. And adventurous rides have more complex routes, longer distances or hills, and shared road sections.

The book was also designed to fit in a map case that can be secured to the bike on the handle bars. Colleen said she paid particular attention to the size of the maps, ensuring it could be easily read while riding.

“It’s designed so that even I can read it and follow with a turn-by-turn so it’s right there in front [of the rider],” Colleen said.

Let’s Go Biking will be available at various book and bike stores, as well as on the website. Vancouver retailers include Reckless Bike Store locations on Davie Street and Fir Street, and the Book Warehouse locations on Broadway and Main Street.

The couple, who live in Belcarra, is self-publishing the book and have plans to donate proceeds from sales of Let’s Go Biking to HUB Cycling, Trails B.C. and B.C. Cycling Coalition.

“Those are all cycling advocates, they do a lot of work for everyone in the cycling world,” Colleen said. “The profits are going to be re-invested in cycling.”

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Documentary filmmaker wants your family photos from the 1930s Of particular interest are photos of weddings, children at play, fatherhood and motherhood

In a letter posted on Facebook, he says that federal and provincial archives tend MARTHA PERKINS | MPERKINS@VANCOURIER.COM to have photos of people who could afford to have their Not many cameras were Juan Bello is a London, Ont.photos taken. He’s looking for based documentary filmmaker. images of “ordinary” people around in the 1930s.

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That’s where Pacific Parklands Foundation has been lending a helping hand — with its Bus Grant Program. The foundation is pleased to announce a new partnership with YVR that will expand the reach of its bus program, which connects people to nature by providing funding for transportation to Metro Vancouver’s regional parks. Unfortunately, many groups face barriers to accessing regional parks with one of the main obstacles being a lack of funds for transportation.

Since the program began in 2017, applicants who have benefited include recent immigrant and refugee families, a community center from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, elementary schools and Ronald McDonald House. Field trips and regional park visits are not accessible options for many residents, but the partnership with YVR will change that.

“The costs for a trip like this pretty much make the trip out of reach for the children I work with,” said Harbinder Lalli, a teacher at Surrey’s Beaver Creek elementary school and a recipient of a bus grant in a press release. “Adding a program fee to the transport cost makes taking my students on trips like this impossible. This is a trip that they will remember for many years. It is a trip that sticks.”

Pacific Parklands Foundation is a registered charity founded in 2000 to raise funds to enhance, protect and expand Metro Vancouver Regional Parks. It’s the foundation’s mandate to ensure that regional parks are accessible to all citizens and the new Bus Grant Program aims to achieve this.

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