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Two-person mayoral race in Vancouver a thing of the past Mike Howell

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This mayoral race is a doozy. Never in my time of covering Vancouver civic elections — from the 2002 race to present — have so many credible candidates wanted the job.

And when I write “credible,” I mean people with a community profile and either a history in politics or something close to it.

I won’t name them to avoid being pilloried for favouring one candidate over another.

Suffice to say that not all 21 mayoral candidates are qualified to run the city.

In the past five elections, it has largely been a two-way race for the mayor’s chair — COPE’s Larry Campbell and the NPA’s Jennifer Clarke in 2002, Vision Vancouver’s Jim Green and Sam Sullivan (NPA) in 2005, Vision’s Gregor Robertson and Peter Ladner (NPA) in 2008, Robertson and Suzanne Anton (NPA) in 2011 and Robertson and Kirk LaPointe (NPA) in 2014.

As a reporter who covered

Golok Buday and Wai Young were among eight mayoral candidates who participated in Monday’s mayoral debate at SFU’s downtown campus, hosted by the Vancouver Courier, Business in Vancouver and Vancouver Is Awesome. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

these races, I can tell you it was a more focused exercise to report, write and analyze the candidates’ speeches, policies and how they carried themselves in questionand-answer periods at news conferences and debates.

This is not the case this campaign.

I’m getting inundated with news releases from various parties and independents.

Most are coming via email, a few via social media and some have left phone messages. Every candidate and party wants to get their messages

out, their policies publicized, their promises promoted.

While previous campaigns were busy, this campaign is about to reach a whole other level of information overload as we get closer to election day, Oct. 20. Sorting through the news releases, the tweets, the Facebook messages and phone messages is a tedious task.

I guess we can blame Robertson for retiring, coupled with new campaign finance rules that shut out big money donations from developers and unions.

There’s also the reality that Vision is not running a mayoral candidate, the first time in the party’s history.

In addition, all but one Vision councillor — Heather Deal — are calling it quits, leaving Vision’s 10-year majority rule at city hall for the taking. Maybe that’s why 158 candidates are vying for 27 available positions — from the mayor’s chair to council, school board and park board.

As a civic affairs reporter, this is all very exciting and daunting, at the same time.

Apologies in advance to

candidates and voters, but we’re not going to get to every news release and follow up with interviews and analysis. We’re not going to attend every news conference, or return all phone messages. That’s impossible.

As of writing this, I’ve been to three news conferences this September — one with Vision Vancouver, one with COPE and one with independent mayoral candidate Kennedy Stewart.

A few television camera operators showed up and reporters were scarce; I counted one at the Vision newser, none at COPE and one at Stewart’s event.

The good news is I pretty much got to ask all my questions at the three events. The bad news is I can’t necessarily write about one candidate’s housing policy promises without comparing them to the policies of all the other “credible” candidates.

Same goes for writing a profile about one candidate and not the others.

Frankly, this democracy thing has really put a cramp in my journalism style.

So that’s where you come in.

If you really care about the direction this city may or may not take in the next four years, you probably want to do some research and check out who is running and what they stand for. You’ll find some of that information in previous, present and future stories in the Courier.

You’ll also find it in other media and on the city’s website, where candidates have uploaded photographs, bios and some of their ideas.

If video is more your thing, check out the archived livestream of our mayoral debate with eight of the candidates.

That occurred Sept. 17 at the downtown campus of SFU. The candidates were peppered with a variety of questions from the Courier (I got to ask a few), Business in Vancouver and Vancouver Is Awesome.

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Voters will have 21 people to choose from to become Vancouver’s next mayor.

The city released a final list Sept. 14 of mayoral candidates who filed nomination papers with the city’s election office. All will be vying to replace Mayor Gregor Robertson, who is retiring after 10 years as the city’s leader.

The candidates are: • Maynard Aubichon • Hector Bremner (YES Vancouver) • Golok Z Buday • Sean Cassidy • Ping Chan • David Chen (ProVancouver) • Connie Fogal (IDEA Vancouver) • Mike Hansen • Fred Harding (Vancouver 1st) • Sophia Cherryes Kaur Kaiser • Jason Lamarche • Katy Le Rougetel • Tim Ly • Lawrence Massey • Rollergirl • Satie Shottha

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Ken Sim (NPA) Kennedy Stewart Shauna Sylvester John Yano Wai Young (Coalition Vancouver)

It will be the first time in Vision Vancouver’s history that it will not run a mayoral candidate, meaning the party won’t have a chance to reclaim the mayor’s seat until the 2022 election. Ian Campbell was the party’s mayoral candidate until he withdrew Sept. 10 from the race.

The 21 mayoral candidates are in addition to the 71 candidates running for 10 positions on council, 33 for nine spots on school board and 33 for seven spots on park board. Eleven parties are represented in the election.

The full list of candidates can be viewed on the city’s website at vancouver.ca.

The period for the public to challenge the nominations has passed. But candidates can withdraw their nomination or have their endorsement by the elector organization withdrawn by 4 p.m. on Sept. 21.

Candidate nomination documents are available on

the city’s website and at the city clerk’s office at city hall and the election office on Broadway, between Cambie and Yukon streets. Candidate financial disclosure documents are also be available for viewing. The same documents are posted on the city’s website.

New for this election is a randomized ballot, instead of the traditional alphabetical order. City council approved the change earlier this year. Research has shown many voters are more likely to vote for those listed first on a ballot.

The randomized ballot will be selected by draw on Sept. 21. The city is expected to livestream the draw, which will occur in the evening. Advance voting runs Oct. 10 to 17, with locations to be listed on the city’s website.

The city plans to post profiles authored by the candidates on its website and include them in a printed voters’ guide available at community centres and libraries starting Sept.

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Election day is Oct. 20.

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Vancouver Heritage Foundation is staging a new tour later this month that explores the layers of history in the city’s West End. The self-guided tour, which runs from 12 to 5 p.m., Sept. 29, includes 15 stops in an area bounded by Robson Street and English Bay and Burrard Street and Stanley Park.

Judith Mosley, executive director of VHF, said the neighbourhood features a diversity of heritage places to explore.

“The West End has evolved a lot over its history so the stops on the tour aim to reflect that. We have some stops that are very much the early housing — the Victorian and Edwardian housing — so we’ll be visiting Mole Hill Community Housing Society, which is just a superb example of preserved housing that has been repurposed and restored,” she said. “We’ll also be visiting a couple of different apartments that reflect that era of 1910s and 20s when densification came into the West End. Apartments, of course, are a huge part of life in the West End.” Apartment stops include Kensington Place and the Queen Charlotte. The Queen Charlotte, which was featured in a 2015 VHF Heritage House Tour, was built in 1928. For this tour, participants will get a look into an apartment not previously shown.

The mid-century era will also be highlighted in the tour through the low-rise Vancouver Park Board office at the gateway to Stanley Park.

The historic Queen Charlotte building is part of Vancouver Heritage Foundation’s West End Heritage Tour. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

“It’s a gem of a midcentury modern building, designed and built in 1962.

It’s a real treat to go inside there,” Mosley said. “Visitors will get to see a space they don’t normally get inside and also hear about the archeology of the area and the work the park board is doing in that realm, which is a really important part of the history of Stanley Park and the whole of the West End —[to understand] that the history goes back a really long way.

It’s not just the more recent history that’s perhaps represented in the architecture.”

Tour-goers will also get to see the 1903-built Leslie Lane House, two churches, including St. Paul’s Anglican, which was built in 1905, and private gardens.

“Many of the stops are private spaces, several of them are private residences and a couple of them have gardens that people will be able to explore,” Mosley said.

“One of the spaces we’ll visit is a courtyard in a development that’s not normally accessible to the public. So, we’re getting people not just inside buildings but exploring

spaces and areas that give a perspective on the history and story of the neighbourhood.

“It’s a fun way to spend an afternoon but it’s also a great way to really connect with the stories of the place where we live.”

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Ticket holders will have a discount on parking and access to a complimentary bike share day pass. Mosley said transit is also a good option for getting around the neighbourhood and walking distances are short between many of the stops.

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Details of a multi-million dollar deal that soars north of $70 million between the Vancouver School District and BC Hydro was made public Sept. 13.

The district is receiving up to $75 million from the utility company in exchange for the parcel of land underneath Lord Roberts Annex, where a new substation will be built.

That $75 million price tag allows the district to build new schools in Coal Harbour and another overtop the current Lord Roberts site.

Once the new school in Coal Harbour is built, by 2023, Lord Roberts students will move in, the annex will close and construction on the substation would begin.

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school once the substation is built. Vancouver Coastal Health’s chief medical health officer Patricia Daly’s office did an independent assessment of the proposal last year and found that the Hydro proposal could be “accomplished in principle without significant negative public health impact.”

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Democrats Abroad remind Vancouverites of other election Jessica Kerr

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Election talk in Vancouver this week isn’t just centered on who is going to replace Gregor Robertson as the city’s next mayor — some voters are more concerned about elections south of the border.

With the U.S. midterm elections looming in November, members of Democrats Abroad were out in force Sept. 17 across from Vancouver’s Trump Hotel encouraging any American citizens living in Vancouver to sign up and vote.

“We’re telling everyone about VoteFromAbroad. org,” said organizer Cameron Mitchell Jr, an actor who divides his time between Vancouver and Los Angeles.

“You can do it from home, your office or anywhere.”

Mitchell said there are an estimated 183,000 Americans living in the region and the organization wants them to know they can still vote in elections at home.

“All U.S. citizens living in Canada are entitled to vote in the critical Nov. 6 election, regardless of how long they’ve been here or [if they] have ever voted before,” said Democrats Abroad Vancouver chair Susan Brennan, who is originally from Chicago. “Every vote counts. But they have to register to vote and the deadlines are soon.”

Mitchell stressed that there are less than 50 days until the

Tammy Flynn Seybold was among the volunteers urging American citizens living in Vancouver to register to vote in the upcoming mid-term elections. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

mid-term elections and U.S. citizens need to register to vote before the end of September.

On Nov. 6, Americans will go to the polls to vote — 35 of the 100 seats in the senate, and all 435 seats in the lower House of Representatives, are up for grabs.

Mitchell said this mid-term election in particular is one of the most important in the history of the country “because of what’s at stake.”

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2006, was one of several volunteers at Monday’s event.

She stood on West Georgia right across the street from Trump International Hotel with a sign reading “Make sure love trumps hate” and waving an American flag.

She said that while she’s a life-long Democrat, it was Donald Trump’s election win in 2016 that drove her to become more involved with Democrats Abroad.

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Flynn Seybold said watching what’s been going on in the U.S. in the last couple of years has been “horrifying.”

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Candidates have their say at lively mayoral debate Jessica Kerr

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The Courier, Business in Vancouver and Vancouver is Awesome co-hosted the first mayoral debate of the election campaign Monday night at SFU Harbour Centre. Here’s what eight of the candidates had to say on the issues.

Due to the format of the debate, all of the candidates were not asked the same questions.

Rental floss

When asked about what they would do to help renters in the city, YES Vancouver’s Hector Bremner said his new party would implement a three-year action to approve 50,000 to 70,000 more rental units for “those that need it” and aim to “prioritize and cut the red tape” and cut the community amenity contributions that, he said, have triggered many rentals to be turned into condos.

Independent candidate Kennedy Stewart said he would commit to creating 85,000 new housing units in the city over the next 10 years, 60 per cent for renters and 25,000 units at below market rental rates. He also said that in the meantime he would bring in a renters’ advocate.

“We’ve got to look after current renters,” he said.

Fred Harding, with Vancouver 1st, also targeted the city’s community amenity contributions (CACs), which are in-kind or cash contributions developers must pay when the city grants a rezoning permit.

Harding gave the example of one case where a developer had to pay $43 million in CACs. “That gets passed on to rent,” he said. “It’s not sustainable. It’s untenable and we really have to do something about CACs.” He said the party would reduce, if not eradicate, CACs.

Housing plans

In talking about what types of housing should be allowed in the city’s singlefamily neighbourhoods, Non-Partisan Association candidate Ken Sim criticized the current Vision Vancouver council for “trying to ram something through that will

fundamentally change how our city looks” — a public hearing was scheduled for Tuesday, after the Courier’s press deadline, to determine whether duplexes will be permitted in most single-family neighbourhoods, with staff looking at the possibility of allowing triplexes, fourplexes and four-storey apartments in low density neighbourhoods.

Sim said there needs to be a city-wide plan and promised consultation with all residents.

Independent candidate Shauna Sylvester said the policy is coming “very, very late” and it fails to provide an affordable mechanism for upzoning. “That’s the problem.”

ProVancouver’s David Chen said the party has always advocated for a citywide plan. “You can’t just open up the streets to development without a plan.”

Bike drop

On bikes lanes, Coalition Vancouver candidate Wai Young, more than once, reiterated her campaign promise to tear out the new 10th Avenue bike lane by Vancouver General Hospital and on the Cambie bridge, as well as stop the proposed separated bike lane through Kits Beach park and audit the rest of the bike lanes in the city.

“Some of them just don’t make sense,” she said.

Independent candidate Golok Buday said the issue is how the bike lanes are paid for and planned.

Housing the homeless

When asked how to tackle the issue of homelessness, Sim said he would “camp out in Victoria and Ottawa to get funding from our partners in government…

It’s going to be hard but we need someone to champion it and actually take a stand and have political courage.”

Bremner said the city needs more “no barrier housing and a lot of it now.”

Young said the city needs to lobby the province for more treatment programs, and also referenced the example of Portugal’s five-year strategy on ending homelessness.

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about all of the unlicenced marijuana dispensaries in the city, saying that any dispensary that does not meet the city’s regulations should be shut down. He also talked about taking fines a step further and turning them into tax liens.

Harding agreed saying that dispensaries that do not qualify for a licence should close.

He said the city needs “some common sense around dispensaries” and he has already engaged a local lawyer who is an expert on the matter.

Where’s the fun?

When asked how they would boost the city’s civic profile and combat Vancouver’s reputation as “No Fun City,” Sim said it’s “completely ridiculous” that people can’t buy a beer or a bottle of wine in corner stores. “As mayor of Vancouver, we’ll make that happen,” he said.

Stewart said that the city really needs affordable spaces for musicians and artists.

For the full debate, go to vancourier.com.

Independent candidate Shauna Sylvester (centre) answers a question at Monday’s mayoral debate, while Coalition Vancouver’s Wai Young (right) and Fred Harding of Vancouver 1st wait their turns.

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Sylvester could play spoiler in Stewart’s quest to be mayor Allen Garr

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At this point it looks like Shauna Sylvester has the best chance of making sure that former two-term NDP member of Parliament Kennedy Stewart fails in his attempt to become the next mayor of Vancouver.

Don’t get me wrong. I don’t think Sylvester has a chance of winning. She will simply be the effective spoiler on the left.

None of the polling I’ve seen so far has her any better than in fifth place.

She’s running behind the two major right-of-centre candidates Ken Sim and Hector Bremner, and she’s 15 points behind Stewart who is in the lead.

And I should point out Stewart, who may be a bit too pink for you, is the most seasoned — which is to say the most competent — politician in the whole bunch.

This horse race could change as the campaign is now officially under way.

And now there are certainly loose votes in the centreleft barrel. That’s because possible mayoral candidates have been bailing out at a great rate. I’m thinking there should be a cardiolo-

Mayoral candidates Kennedy Stewart and Shauna Sylvester are both running as independents in the Oct. 20 election. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

gist on call during the next election cycle.

Vision hopeful, a bright young man named Taleeb Noormohamed, pulled out as a result of a “sudden cardiac event.” The Coalition of Progressive Electors (COPE) had their eye on UBC academic Patrick Condon as the guy they would like to head their ticket. He ended up having a stroke.

Then a few days before the deadline to get on the

ballot, Vision’s mayoral candidate Ian Campbell imploded and headed for the door. News broke this week that he had a “stayed assault charge” related to an incident involving his common-law spouse that dates back to 2010.

It was, I’m told, a detail he failed to reveal in what he would later refer to as his “complicated personal journey” when asked during his pre-nomination screening

by Vision lawyers. It was only thanks to an intrepid reporter from radio station CKNW digging around in court records that the news broke.

Add to that the decision, not surprising, that Vision councillor Andrea Reimer demurred when she was asked to re-consider leaving politics for a turn at Harvard and instead stand as Vision’s candidate.

And voila, supporters and elected officials of the party

that has steered the ship of state for the past decade were on their own and without a paddle.

One had hardly enough time to catch their breath over that news when two long-time Vision councillors (and NDP members), Tim Stevenson and Kerry Jang, announced they were supporting Stewart.

The saving grace in all of this for the left is the fact that across the road, on the right of the spectrum, life is lumpy.

Bremner has been hopping from one foot to another while facing questions about who the deep pockets are — calling themselves “Vancouverites for Affordable Housing” — that have been funding those billboards pushing Bremner’s candidacy all around town.

(Actually if they really wanted to create a bit of havoc, they would be funding billboards supporting Sylvester.)

Meanwhile Bremner and the main guy pulling his strings, Mark Marissen, are at war with the Non-Partisan Association ever since their bitter divorce when the NPA turned down Bremner’s bid to run as their mayoral candidate.

NPA backroom guys sus-

pect Bremner’s camp knows who is running the smear campaign against Sim. The latest allegation is that Sim has split from his wife. NPA president Gregory Baker insists that is just not so.

But then Baker is also convinced that, without a mayoral candidate over at Vision, some of those votes — federal Liberals, I assume — will go to Bremner.

And what about the issues, you may well ask.

Well, most of the candidates across the spectrum are in agreement: affordable housing tops the list. No surprise there. In fact at this week’s council meeting, the last before we head to the polls, councillors were discussing that very matter, after the Courier’s press deadline, and the possibility of setting up a Housing Endowment Fund.

Finally, how can anyone with a life at all expect to make their way through the unprecedented dozens of independent candidates for council, school board and park board on a ballot that isn’t even in alphabetical order?

Well, between now and the time you head for the ballot box, what can I say?

I’m from the Courier and I’m here to help.

Split classrooms can help prepare students for real life Tracy Sherlock

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Parents of young children are often surprised to learn that in many B.C. elementary schools, classes include students from more than one grade.

Split classes — also known as combined or multi-age classes — are commonly used in schools, but they’re not always readily accepted by parents.

Such classes will include, for example, students from Grade 2 and 3 in one class.

A Facebook friend recently posted about split classes, asking others for their opinion and experience. The post got about 50 comments and most of those said this type of class is completely normal and often beneficial for students. But some parents were anxious about it, particularly those concerned about their child being the older child, placed with a younger grade.

Combined classes have been around forever. Of course, one-room schoolhouses were all combined classes. But even in the 1970s, when I was in

elementary school, I was in a combined class for three of my eight years. My two children were in combined classes for their entire elementary school experience.

And it doesn’t end at elementary. Just like in life, there are often combined classes in high school, especially for electives. In university, every class is a combined class, with some older students returning to school and others at various points in their post-secondary education.

Despite what parents might think, there are advantages to combined classes, both for the older and younger children. While research from the University of Saskatchewan found no significant difference in students’ academic achievement between single and multi-grade classes, there are social benefits, many of which flow to the older children in the grouping. They learn to be leaders, they get an opportunity to develop their confidence and they can also cement their own learning by teaching the younger students material they’ve already mastered.

Split classes — also known as combined or multi-age classes — are commonly used in schools, but they’re not always readily accepted by parents. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

“Students in multi-age classrooms demonstrate more positive attitudes toward school, greater leadership skills, greater selfesteem, and increased prosocial and fewer aggressive behaviours, compared to peers in traditional graded classrooms,” says a Vancouver School Board brochure on combined classes.

In families, children are set into their sibling group — they’re either the oldest, the middle or the youngest, or perhaps an only child.

Those roles will shape their personality and stay with them for life. But combined classes give children the opportunity to experience a different alignment, one in which they’re sometimes the oldest and sometimes the youngest. As anyone with siblings knows, there are advantages and disadvantages to both.

Children learn and develop at different rates.

Not every seven-year-old has mastered the same skills, so that means in any

Grade 2 class, there will be a wide range of development, knowledge and abilities.

Even in a single grade class, teachers must teach to students who need to stretch themselves and others who are struggling. In a combined class, there will be a slightly wider range of abilities.

Combined classes are not necessarily used in schools solely because they offer some benefits to students. There is absolutely a practical, administrative argument for combined classes. They give educators more flexibility in organizing classes, so that the same group of students isn’t always together from Kindergarten to Grade 7.

This means that if there are some students who don’t get along for reasons that could range from bullying to a simple personality clash, they can more easily be separated. For example, if there are three different choices of Grade 3 class, say a 2-3 and two 3-4 classes, rather than one single class, there are more options for placement.

One significant benefit of combined classes is that

they open up the possibility for a student to stay with the same teacher for two years in a row.

Research from the American Psychological Association shows that students who have close, trusting relationships with their teacher will attain higher levels of achievement.

Having the same teacher for two years in a row means learning can be picked up in September right where it left off in June. The trust and expectations are already there and a new relationship doesn’t need to be forged.

Life is not organized into single age groups.

Sometimes in life, we are the mentor, at other times the mentee. Sometimes we’re the boss, other times we’re not. Either way, we have to work together.

Giving children the opportunity to experience different roles in elementary school does what school is designed to do — prepare students for real life.

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

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Kwan says she is no double-dipper Re: “MLA millions secret under freedom of information law,” online only, Sept. 4.

Your article cited that “Jenny Kwan, 51, became MP for Vancouver East in 2015 after 19 years as an MLA. And, she’s not far behind Hogg in double-dipping. CTF figures put Kwan’s pension at $75,820 annually” on top of her MP salary.

For the record, I have never doubledipped in my 25 years of public service. After I was elected as the MLA in Vancouver Mt. Pleasant in May 1996, I served my remaining term of city councillor until the fall civic election. During that period, I did not keep my council salary, instead I returned every penny of that salary to the city.

For the 2015 October federal election, I resigned my MLA position in August and I have not taken any money from the transition program or the severance package program. As well, I have not taken a dime for my MLA pension. Your report suggests that I have been doubledipping and collecting an annual $75K pension is simply wrong.

It is a shame that the reporter did not pay me the courtesy of contacting me to fact check or comment before publishing the news story.

I would appreciate it if the Vancouver Courier and Glacier Media set the record straight by retracting those erroneous suggestions that I was double dipping.

Jenny Kwan, Member of Parliament for Vancouver East

Densification not working Re: “Vancouver residents feeling harassed by city over Empty Home Tax,” Sept. 6.

Though I would agree with Michael Geller that the city’s vacant home tax is unlikely to have the desired effect of freeing up thousands of rental units, I’m still waiting for Geller to admit that his long-standing solution of increased density hasn’t worked either. Indeed the likely outcome of putting pressure on owners of vacant condos is that many will choose to put them on the market thus simply adding to the supply of expensive real estate. Few will become

rental units, never mind whether they would be considered “affordable.” I’ve been writing to various levels of government for about 15 years on the necessity to promote the construction of 100 per cent rental buildings, like cities used to do back in the ’60s and ’70s. Only recently have I seen some movement in that direction, but of course it’s too little too late as market rents have now reached exclusive levels. One doesn’t need to have a background in urban planning like Geller to realize that this has long been a terribly run city as far as housing is concerned.

Charles Leduc, Vancouver

Cyclists need to be educated Re: “Holier-than-thou cyclists are ruining it for everyone,” Sept. 6 The writer’s comments about poor behavior by cyclists were bang on. One need only stand outside Stadium/Chinatown station and observe the behaviour of cyclists at Citadel Parade and Dunsmuir; not only do they blast through cycle-specific red lights, but I’ve seen them weave between pedestrians in the crosswalk as they do so. Or spend 10 minutes wandering around the upper end of False Creek at Science World where several bike paths converge and have a look at how cyclists behave.

The cycling lobby has been very successful in its efforts and the city has continually built out our cycling infrastructure. The number of cyclists has increased tremendously during the 30 years that I have commuted by bike. But now new challenges arise. One thing all parties concerned, both cycling advocates and local government, now need to consider are increased efforts towards public education regarding cycling and how to cycle safely and responsibly.

Richard Rickard, Vancouver ••• Finally someone is calling out the lack of civility and downright dangerous and rude behaviour of cyclists. I am a cyclist of a certain age and although some of the time I feel like a teenager on my bike, recent experiences in “the pack” of commuters who whiz past around and practically on top of me has taken some joy out of cycling. I used to bike to work downtown long before there were paths and never felt like fellow cyclists would take me out to shave a few seconds off their commute.

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Market rental building proposal draws criticism, praise Naoibh O’Connor

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A battle is underway over a redevelopment proposal that could see a six-storey, 38-unit market rental building replace four single-family homes on Grant Street.

The rezoning application, which is being considered under the Grandview-Woodland Community Plan, involves an assembly of properties between 1535 and 1557 Grant St., which were built between 1908 and 1912.

The proposal, submitted

by Stuart Howard Architects, includes 22 bachelor or one-bedroom units, eight two-bedroom units and another eight three or fourbedroom suites, as well as 23 parking spaces.

The zoning for the area allows for four storeys and up to six storeys for rental.

An open house was held

A battle is brewing over a proposed six-storey rental building in Grandview-Woodland. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Sept. 11.

Opponents of the project at the open house, many of whom seemed to live in homes on streets around the proposed redevelopment site, argue it’s too tall, lacks character and heritage elements, won’t be affordable, doesn’t provide enough parking and will set a precedent in the neighbourhood if it’s approved.

Supporters insist it will provide much-needed rental housing in a city that sorely lacks it.

Karen Oliver lives almost across the street from the site in question.

She argues it will “wreck” a neighbourhood she’s lived in for 40 years.

“I hate this project. I feel like it’s busting the neighbourhood open,” she told the Courier.

Oliver insists the building should be no more than four storeys and said the prospect that it will be affordable is “absurd” since units will be priced at market rates.

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Grandview-Woodland site? Depends who you ask “It’s the end of an era for me as far as I can see,” she said.

Jillian Robertson, who’s lived in a condo near the proposed redevelopment site since 1996, shares some of Oliver’s concerns. Robertson said the building design doesn’t fit with the rest of the neighbourhood and that market rents will be “outrageously expensive.”

“I believe we need to increase density but we need something harmonious with the neighbourhood and also affordable for people,” she said. “Everyone I’ve spoken to is opposed.”

Several people at the open house told the Courier they supported the project.

Owen Brady, a 33-yearold who rents near Clark Drive and Adanac Street, said he’s “strongly in favour” of it and that it’s critical the public keeps supporting applications for purpose-built rental buildings.

“There’s lots of rentals in the neighbourhood already and having more will help.

It will not hurt [the neighbourhood]. The city has a dire need for more secured market rental,” he said.

“I’m concerned about [unit prices] but it’s replacing a few single-family homes that would go for millions of dollars. Comparatively, it is affordable and it also creates more housing stock that takes pressure off the existing housing stock, so rents for older stock would tend to get cheaper.

Thirty-eight units is never going to solve the city’s housing crisis but it’s a step in the right direction.”

Brady is concerned opposition to the redevelopment might derail the project and it will wind up being a fourstorey condo.

“This is just the type of housing we need. We need it all over the city, but we need it here, too,” he said.

Stuart Smith agrees.

Smith doesn’t live in Grandview-Woodland but showed up at the open house as a member of the pro-housing group Abundant Housing Vancouver.

Smith, a 38-year-old life-long renter, said he’s

interested in zoning changes because the city has a “severe housing shortage.”

He said six storeys should be legal on every lot in every neighbourhood.

“Single-family zoning is restricting the amount of homes that can be built in the city, so when you replace a single-family home with a larger building, doing it one at a time is not as useful as doing it all over, but 38 homes is more than two or three,” Smith said. “If that’s going to allow 38 more families to live in the city, that seems to be better than not allowing them to be here.”

Rob Fisher is a member of the Britannia-Woodlands Area Group, which has been circulating a flyer opposing the project that labels the building “a blockbuster” and questions how it keeps “the vibe of the Drive.”

His property backs on to the site.

“We don’t think this design fits this neighbourhood or, especially, this particular site,” he said, explaining the block is unique.

The properties envisioned for the rental building sit mid-block on Grant Street between Woodland and Cotton drives. The lots are shorter than typical lots, so they’re closer to each other than they’d normally be, and no lane separates their homes from those to the north on Kitchener Street.

“The Grandview-Woodland Community Plan is based on the standard 90-by-120-foot lots on a flat grade. That’s not this site at all. Somewhere else might be more suitable. In terms of a six-storey building, I’ll be honest, I don’t think it’s appropriate for this area and I don’t know that it’s necessary,” he said.

He maintains the building’s design lacks heritage style and character, it’s twice the height of every home around it and because of the slope of the street it will “loom” over its neighbours like an eight-storey building.

“That’s not just visual.

That’s also shade,” he said.

“That means my backyard is going to be either completely or mostly in shade

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most of the year now with this building.”

He also said the proposal doesn’t include adequate parking — 23 spaces for 38 units — which he said means there will be more cars in the street.

Fisher believes the city, with its current residential zoning, is already supplied with what it needs for today and for growth.

“The issue isn’t supply,

the issue is supply of affordable housing — affordable rental housing,” he said, adding, “We’re not against density. It just doesn’t work with this site.”

The Urban Design Panel, at its Aug. 22 meeting, recommended the project be resubmitted but it’s unclear why — the minutes for this item on the panel’s agenda have yet to be published online.

Representatives from Stuart Howard Architects would not take questions from the Courier at the open house, but instead provided a written “position statement.” It states, in part, “the proposal aims to deliver on the City of Vancouver’s growing and well documented need for secured rental housing, with a focus on families, affordability, quality and

long-term sustainability of the Grandview-Woodland neighbourhood.”

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Community ClarkWalk explores changing face of dwindling industrial corridor Photography, music and video part of interactive tour of Clark Drive John Kurucz

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Running a DIY art space in Vancouver seems almost counter-intuitive.

You want some people to know about it, but not everyone. Making money is nice, but not the be-all, end-all. Your landlords may not like, or even know, what you’re doing there, but you do it just the same.

So it goes with Stephen Lyons. He meets the Courier at his wink, wink, nudge, nudge art space near the north end of Clark Drive, where he’ll play host to an interdisciplinary exercise called the ClarkWalk.

“There are different layers of things that I want to achieve out of this, but I also want to be surprised by seeing this area through different perspectives,” Lyons said. “When you frame anything, people look at it, so I’m framing this area.

People are filling that frame in with their own stuff.”

Come Sept. 29, the

evening-long exploration of northern Clark Drive will combine photography, music and video. Participants will weave through the area from Sixth Avenue north to Powell Street, taking photos and using the hashtag #ClarkWalk.

While doing so, they have the option to listen to a curated playlist made up of roughly a dozen Vancouver bands and musicians including Lyons, the Nausea and Veda Hille.

As the day winds down, the accumulated photos will be posted throughout Lyons’ art space. He expects the end product to be a think piece on the area’s evolution: how creatives are being pushed out of rehearsal spaces, art spaces, music venues or out of Vancouver altogether.

Lyons has been on the receiving end of that unpleasant nudge twice in the last decade, as he and dozens of other artists were forced from similar spaces on Granville Street and Glen Drive.

Lyons’ current building

has been hovering under the radar for more than four years, though that could change soon. Leases and landlord issues could come to a head by the end of the year, displacing Lyons and hundreds of others who’ve used the building since 2014.

It’s for that reason Lyons is hesitant to list an address or refer to his arts space by name when speaking to the Courier.

That issue will be addressed on the day of the event by a few people who will be wearing ClarkWalk clothing.

“Affordability, availability and use of land are huge questions,” Lyons said.

“But regardless of that, there’s been a creative community that’s been operating here in this building and in buildings around here that don’t exist anymore and are dwindling. Marking a time and place both physically and creatively is important to me.”

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Community VANCOUVER SHAKEDOWN

Readers respond to cyclists behaving badly column… sometimes badly Age appears to be a factor in aggressive cyclists voicing their entitlement Grant Lawrence

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Two weeks ago, I wrote about my personal experiences as a daily bicycle commuter. I had witnessed repeated examples of needless aggression on one of Vancouver’s busiest bike routes. The pedaling perpetrators were angry white men, taking out their loud bursts of profanity-laden anger on senior citizens, pedestrians and, well, me, for trying to call them out.

Reaction to that column came down faster than an out of control fixie on the Adanac hill. It turns out that my encounters were not isolated incidents. The intent of my original column was to ask my fellow commuter cyclists to respect pedestrians, cars and each other.

That point seemed lost on many riders, who called me out on everything from my mentions of fixies and hipsters to helmetless riders and craft breweries. One reader suggested I shouldn’t be pedaling my tricycle in the bike lane. Another suggested I should change my diaper. One compared me to Bruce Allen. Several assumed I was a pedestrian and not a commuter cyclist.

“You really come off as a self-righteous snob, and it’s really off-putting. What could have been a good message gets ruined by that, especially your attitude towards those of us who still enjoy riding fixed gear.”

However, the volume of umbrage voiced by angry cyclists was mostly drowned out by the chorus of agreement I received from pedestrians of all stripes, particularly seniors. (I’ve chosen to leave all responses anonymous so these respondents will not, as one commenter suggested, be “strung up and disemboweled by angry, entitled cyclists.” Ouch!)

Here’s what happened to a 74-year-old woman near Oak Street and 25th Avenue: “The sidewalk outside a coffee shop on the corner was occupied by three bikers having a confab, front wheels meeting in the middle. I asked if they could please make room for a pe-

destrian. One of the cyclists replied, ‘There’s plenty of room.’ I answered that I might trip on one of their wheels and damage it. The cyclist replied, ‘If you do I’ll punch your head in.’”

Here’s more outrageous disrespect for an elder: “I am an 82-year-old woman who enjoys strolling the English Bay seawall. To get to it, I must take my life in my hands while crossing the bike path. Recently, a pair of cyclists rushed by me on either side, nearly hitting me. When I said they should take better care, one of them shouted that I should ‘go f*** myself.’”

And here’s a dispatch from behind the wheel: “I have encountered many incidents from young turks riding bikes, but the most egregious was two bikers travelling side by side going north on Hornby Street, in the left hand car lane. When able to come abreast in my car after trailing them for a block, I politely suggested that an expensive bike lane existed for them on the right side of the road. The loud anger and inflective responses directed at me was frightening.”

The age divide was a reoccurring theme: “It seems to me that cyclists under 30 have a spectacularly self-centred belief that they are special and that they are the exception, that for some reason they are exempt from rules, laws and expectations of acceptable behaviour. That what they want, where they are going, what they are doing, is the only thing that matters.”

A note from the seawall: “I’ve given up taking my young kids cycling on the Stanley Park seawall because the behaviour of other riders is inexplicably rude, hostile and fundamentally unsafe.”

And I’m not the only one calling out helmetless hipsters: “Darwin Awards go out the hipsters riding their fixies at night, wearing black, with no helmets or lights.”

Here’s one for the sidewalk surfers: “I am continually telling riders to get off the sidewalk. I get the finger and get sworn at a lot by these ignorant cyclists. I would like to see the police issue more tickets for sidewalks cycling.”

And hey, look, common sense from a cyclist: “If it looks like I might be on a collision path with someone I just... stop pedaling for a few seconds.

Grant Lawrence’s column on rude and dangerous cyclists struck a chord with pedestrians and other cyclists. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

I don’t really care if it was ‘their fault’ — my whole goal is to get to where I’m going without running into anyone or anything.”

Having it both ways:

“The thing that bothers me most is when cyclists switch from ‘vehicle’ to ‘pedestrian’ just to suit their needs. To be honest, it really surprises me how rude they

are and how often I hear cyclists being total arses.”

The asshole factor coupled with some common sense: “Cyclists are like internet

trolls: they can be assholes because they’re anonymous in their helmets and sunglasses and spandex can make a quick getaway. License the bikes like the old days and you’d see a lot more accountability from these wholly entitled cyclists.”

And finally, some logic: “We all take several tests to learn the rules of the road before we can drive a car.

For some crazy, unknown reason, this doesn’t happen with bicycles, and therein exists the problem. How can you follow the rules if you’ve never been taught the rules?”

So, Vancouver cyclists, what do you say? Is it time to gear down on the adrenalin?

Learn the rules of the road?

Show courtesy and kindness on the bike routes? Respect and yield to pedestrians?

CHILL OUT? The answer is within your grips. @grantlawrence

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Arts & Entertainment THE SHOWBIZ

Kingsway is a setting and metaphor in Bruce Sweeney’s latest Dark comedy screens at Vancouver International Film Festival Sabrina Furminger

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Kingsway is a road, an electoral district, a public transit corridor, a neighborhood, and a state of mind.

And now, it’s also a bona fide movie star.

Kingsway began hundreds of years ago as a foot trail for First Nations communities. In the 19th century, the Royal Engineers built it up and called it Vancouver Road — the wagon-friendly roadway connected Gastown and the colony’s capital in New Westminster.

That’s why Kingsway — which received its current moniker in September 1913 — runs at a diagonal, cutting across an otherwise perfect grid of streets (in Kingsway’s defense, it was here first, dammit.) It’s also why it’s a source of frustration for drivers who get caught in the Kingsway crawl and shake their fists at the inefficiency of it all.

Kingsway’s quirks make it the perfect setting for the latest feature film from Vancouver writer-director Bruce Sweeney (Last Wedding).

Sweeney named his movie after the iconic stretch of pavement, but only after his first title — The Love Life of

Left to right: Colleen Rennison, Jillian Fargey, Camille Sullivan and Gabrielle Rose have it out in Kingsway

Horvats — was rejected by everyone involved.

“Kingsway was the only one where people didn’t get mad at me when I said it,” Sweeney tells the Courier. “I thought that had to mean something.”

Kingsway is arguably the most Vancouver of the locally produced films at the Vancouver International Film Festival. It’s packed with local talent — Bard on the Beach actor and TheatreSports mainstay Jeff Gladstone, Down River actress and singer-songwriter Colleen Rennison and veteran thespians Gabrielle Rose and Camille Sullivan. And, unlike the bulk of projects

that shoot in the GVRD, Kingsway is most definitely, 100 per cent, unequivocally set in Vancouver.

Gladstone stars as Matt Horvat, an emotionally fragile academic who clashes with his hard-edged mechanic sister Jess (played

by Sullivan) and indulgent mother Marion (Rose) over his philandering wife, Lori (Rennison). To borrow from the film’s marketing material, “Kingsway is a romantic comedy about suicide, infidelity and in-laws.”

It’s also about intimacy and sex, and what happens when we’re not getting enough of either. “It’s universal, to try and get love,”

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says Sweeney. “Everyone knows what that feels like, and it’s the engine of the movie — and it kind of has to be, because if it’s about anything else, it can require a much bigger budget.”

Kingsway — which had its world premiere earlier this month at the venerable Toronto International Film Festival — is at its most Kingsway when it’s tackling outdated approaches to relationships, according to Rennison.

“There are archaic themes that are being challenged in this film — like the idea of staying in a marriage no matter what — that you can find a few parallels with this winding street that’s not necessarily as efficient as it used to be,” muses Rennison.

“You have the same conversation with anyone when you bring up that street,” adds Gladstone. “It’s so frustrating and so confusing and you think you’re going this way when you’re actually going backwards.”

Even that Kingsway landmark, the 2400 Motel, gets its moment in the spotlight.

The action of the film begins when Matt spots Lori’s motorcycle parked outside one of the motel’s retro cottages.

“The Kingsway neighbourhood is where you can go to get anything,” says Sullivan. “You can go to get your car fixed. You can go to a restaurant. You can go to get a rub and tug.

You can get whatever you want, but first you have to go in one direction, and you end up somewhere else — and I think that’s the movie, in a way.”

Sweeney was drawn to the notion of “the academic guy who’s married to this woman who’s got some oomph. She’s Colleen [Rennison] in real life.”

He’s full of praise for his other actors, too: for Gladstone, who he knew “had the chops to play someone who was an academic but who had a fragile underside”; for frequent collaborator Rose (“I know

exactly what she can bring, and she delivered as I knew she would deliver, because she’s this awesome dialogue muncher”); and for new collaborator Sullivan, whose character “had to carry the theme forward more so than some of the other characters, and she really ripped it up.”

Like other Sweeney films (The Dick Knost Show, Excited), Kingsway sparkles with bursts of improvised comedy.

Gladstone recalls, “Towards the end of shooting, [Sweeney] said, ‘This is it — at some point, people know the characters so well, you can just wind them up and let them go.’”

Kingsway wowed critics at TIFF, with NOW Toronto calling it Sweeney’s best film in years.

“I think what’s great about Kingsway is it’s this unflinching look at family, and family dynamics, with so much love underneath,” says Sullivan. “We bicker all the time, we fight all the time, we’re screaming at each other, but at the core of it is a tremendous amount of love.”

Kingsway’s hyper-local soundtrack features music from the Zolas, Sorry Edith, Destroyer, Colour Tongues, Blessed, Brasstronaut and Adrian Teacher and the Subs, as well as original songs by Gladstone, Rennison, Parker Bossley and Matt Turner.

Rennison and Gladstone will perform their Kingsway tracks with the Bad Ideas on Sept. 28 at Tyrant Studios, Penthouse Nightclub’s upstairs venue.

Kingsway will screen twice at the 2018 Vancouver International Film Festival, which runs Sept. 27 to Oct. 12 at venues across the city. Schedule and tickets at viff.org.

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Community

Offering haircuts and hope to Downtown Eastside residents

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Transformative project captured in new photography book

John Kurucz

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Alysha Osborne was quite content to roll into her second decade as a barber at a swanky downtown shop, though a chance encounter in Gastown changed her life, her profession and her outlook.

Last summer, Osborne exited a cab and overheard an exchange between a homeless person and a random passerby.

“The woman told this homeless person to f*** off and get a job. Then she started laughing,” Osborne recalled. “At what point did we to get this place in society where you can say something like that and then laugh at it and think that’s totally OK when it comes to a stranger?”

Heated words were exchanged before Osborne resolved to do more.

She’s now a quasi-crisis counsellor, advocate and philanthropist through a non-profit she’s established called 2 Paycheques Away.

The easy explanation for 2 Paycheques Away entails free haircuts and beforeand-after photos of people on the Downtown Eastside who are trying to turn their lives around.

The real-life, after effects go much deeper.

“You see it in the photos — we don’t ask them to smile or pose or do anything,” Osborne said.

“All the after shots you see with everybody smiling is all natural. It’s a sense of confidence.”

Alongside photographer Mihailo Subotic, Osborne is now realizing her project in print form with the

Alysha Osborne and Mihailo Subotic host a launch party for their book, 2 Paycheques Away, Sept. 23 at the Penthouse.

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release of a 36-page book documenting more than a year’s worth of those haircuts and experiences.

The book will be released Sept. 23 and includes before-and-after shots, biographical info on the photo subjects and details of the roughly 25-minute conversations that take place during each encounter.

All in, the pair have helped about 200 people — mostly men — in the last year, while about 60 agreed to be in the book.

“Some people didn’t talk and some people gave us one-word answers, which was fine,” Osborne said. “I didn’t push it.

It’s like anyone, if you ask them a question about themselves, they like to talk. There was only two or three of them who said ‘no comment.’”

Subotic and Osborne do their handiwork in a small, windowless room out of Working Gear, a

volunteer-led organization near Oppenheimer Park that provides clothing and other resources to men re-entering the workforce.

Most of the barber gear has been donated by Osborne’s workmates at Barber & Co. “Imagine being in that headspace — you need a job and then you finally get one, then you get all this stuff for free, and then you get a haircut and then get your photo taken,” Subotic said. “It’s a huge upswing in that brief moment because you wouldn’t be there unless you were taking a big step forward.”

Few commonalities link the many photo subjects together. A lot of what precipitated their lives on the Downtown Eastside is circumstantial: family supports fell apart, drugs and alcohol enter the picture and the roofs over their heads are suddenly gone.

The book’s title hones

in on the very real precipice many Vancouverites straddle, in that two missed paycheques could result in disaster.

“A lot of these stories all started over some sort of trauma,” Osborne said.

It’s a trauma Osborne has lived with most of her adult life. Her stepmother died in the Downtown Eastside in 2010, after a life that included addiction and prostitution.

Her stepmom came to mind when compiling the book, but that’s not her target demographic.

“The idea that you can walk up to someone and tell them to get a f***ing get a job and walk away, that’s who this book is for,” she said. @JohnKurucz

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Nigredo Hotel at City Opera Vancouver

Film noir at the opera? That’s the concept of this macbre one-act chamber opera directed by Alan Corbishley, with music by Nic Gotham and libretto by distinguished Canadian author and playwright Ann-Marie MacDonald. It’s the tale of an encounter between a beautiful but crazed hotelier and a brain surgeon who seeks refuge after a traumatic car accident. Definitely not your usual night at the opera.

Sept. 20 to 22 The Cultch’s Historic Theatre, 1895 Venables St. thecultch.com

Vancouver’s First Annual Ribfest

Dive into this annual event that gets you up close with chefs, all for a great cause. Following a wine and canapes reception, eight chefs will serve exceptional tasting dishes in the eight kitchens at the Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts.

Grazing through the kitchens, you will have a chance to talk to the chefs and winery representatives about their passion for what they do. On the menu: sustainable seafood.

Sept. 23, 6 to 9 p.m.

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City Opera’s Nigredo Hotel is at the Cultch Sept. 20 to 22.

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Summer might be on its way out on the calendar, but for meat lovers, there’s never a bad time for a good ol’ barbecue fest. Roll up your sleeves and head to our first ever Ribfest for all the lip-smacking goodness of ribs (pork and beef), pulled pork, smoked and baked chicken, baked beans and southern-style slaw. Put on by the Ontario-based Crazy Canuck Smokers, the event has been making the rounds across the country this summer, and now it’s our time.

Sept. 21 to 22 | Plaza of Nations, 750 Pacific Boulevard facebook.com/vancouverribfest

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An Evening With Ira Glass: Seven Things I’ve Learned

Ditch the earbuds and listen to broadcaster Ira Glass live and in person. The creator, producer, and host of the longrunning This American Life weekly public radio program is in Vancouver for one night only. Using audio clips, music and video, Glass delivers a unique talk — sharing lessons from his life and career in storytelling.

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Sola Fiedler: Leap and the Loom Will Appear

Octogenarian Vancouverite textile artist Sola Fiedler’s new exhibit “Leap and the Loom Will Appear” showcases the colourful and impressive tapestries from her collection, including a new piece that depicts Granville Island. The show is part of the Textile Walking Tour of Granville Island, and brings the public into the intimate gallery space to see her work, made with upcycled clothing.

Sept. 21 to Oct. 2; opening night Sept. 20 1359 Cartwright St. (Granville Island) | solafiedler.com

TAKE NOTICE THAT a Special General Meeting of this Society will be held as follows: Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018 at 5:30 pm at Britannia Centre, Rink Mezzanine, 1661 Napier St, Vancouver, BC. A light meal will be served at 5:00 pm Membership in the Society must be purchased at least 14 days in advance (Sept. 26)

AGENDA: 1 Call to order 2 Approve Agenda 3 Adoption of Minutes of the May 2018 AGM 4 Extraordinary Resolution (Special Resolution under the B.C. Societies Act) 5 Voting 6 Announcement of voting results 7 Closing remarks and adjournment

Extraordinary Resolution (Special Resolution under the B.C. Societies Act): TAKE NOTICE THAT the following amendments to the Society’s Constitution and Bylaws will be moved as one (1) Motion as an extraordinary resolution, and concurrently as a Special Resolution as defined under the B.C. Societies Act, at the Society’s Special General Meeting scheduled for Oct. 10, 2018 and that that Motion will be dealt with by discussion and a vote of all voting members of the Society then present: MOVED, as an extraordinary resolution to be passed by a three-fourths majority of the Members present at this meeting of the Society, which shall also constitute a Special Resolution as defined under the B.C. Societies Act, THAT the Society’s current Constitution and Bylaws (except for any part thereof which was expressly stated to be unalterable) be and they are hereby ALL REPEALED, and that the form of Constitution and Bylaws enclosed with this Notice be substituted in their place (together with any said part thereof which was expressly stated to be unalterable, which is now restated in the same place or places in the said enclosed document) as the whole of the Constitution and Bylaws of the Society from that date forward.

MOVED, THAT this extraordinary resolution, which shall also be a Special Resolution as defined under the B.C. Societies Act, be registered with the Registrar of Corporations under the B.C. Societies Act as part of the process of filing Society’s Transition Application to the Registrar, as provided for in the Registry’s online filing system for all such Transition Applications.

Vancouver’s first annual Ribfest heats up the Plaza of Nations Sept. 21 and 22.

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Expedia recently released its list of Best Beer Towns in Canada, and the interwebs are abuzz with controversy as a result. Naturally, Vancouver was named numero uno, and for good reason.

You can’t swing an empty growler in this town without hitting a craft brewery and, by and large, they’re all pretty fantastic. Some are downright exceptional.

But as you look down the list, there are some interesting inclusions and some glaring omissions. While Penticton took home silver — followed by Abbotsford at sixth and Nelson at the 11th spot — Victoria was nowhere to be found (neither was Port Moody, for that matter). The city that gave us the modern brew pub, inspired the craft beer revolution and continues to produce cutting edge beers from the likes of Phillips, Driftwood and Hoyne, got nary a mention.

The recent collab between Category 12 Brewing and Abbotsford’s Field House Brewing Co. is funky and fruity.

Understandably, the city is crying foul.

If you want proof of the Victoria beer scene’s creativity and relevance, however, look no further than the recent collab between Category 12 Brewing and Abbotsford’s Field House Brewing Co. (Field House, it should be noted, is undoubtedly a large part of why Abbotsford made Expedia’s list.)

The Experimental Brett Pale Ale is fermented with an interesting mixture of

yeast strains, including funky Brettanomyces and Field House’s own wild Fraser Valley yeast that the

brewery has isolated. The hops are equally interesting; the beer features an experimental strain simply called ADHA-527. Two thirds of the beer was aged for seven months in French oak barrels, resulting in a fascinatingly funky brew.

The nose is complex with Brett earthiness, tropical fruit and spicy herbal notes.

Fruit and floral citrus dominate the palate, with mild tannin and oak complementing the complex yeast character. Despite the many elements competing for attention, the result is surprisingly well balanced.

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Veteran forward Sam Gagner should attract some attention on waivers if put on waivers, but his $3.15 million cap hit for the next two years complicates matters. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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As the Canucks start the pre-season, they have an unusually high number of rookies with a real shot at making the roster.

Specifically, there are four that look NHL-ready: Elias Pettersson, Jonathan Dahlen, Petrus Palmu and Adam Gaudette.

“You look at our forward group and, man, there’s a lot of guys vying for jobs,” said head coach Travis Green. The issue is, those jobs only exist if the Canucks are willing to make a trade or lose a player on waivers.

The Canucks will have to waive at least three players that played 20-plus NHL games last season. That’s without any of the abovementioned rookies making the team. The more rookies on the roster, the more regulars will have to be waived or traded.

Putting a player on waivers exposes him to be claimed by any of the other 30 NHL teams. While most teams are similarly trying to pare down their rosters, general managers will be scouring the waiver wire looking for a bargain or a player with untapped potential.

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Sam Gagner Of the veterans on the Canucks roster, Gagner is the only one at risk of being waived. Since he had 31 points last season and 50 points the season before, he would attract some attention on waivers.

Complicating matters, however, is his $3.15 million cap hit for the next two years. It’s not that it’s too much money for Gagner (though you could argue that it is), but it will limit who could claim him as many teams will be tight to the salary cap.

There’s also the issue of his questionable defensive game. If a team has an opening for a power play specialist that plays minimally at even-strength, which is how the Columbus Blue Jackets used Gagner two season ago, then claiming him would make sense.

Otherwise, there is a chance he would clear.

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Brendan Gaunce, Markus Granlund Gaunce’s shutdown game makes him a valuable player on a fourth line that is expected to start a lot of shifts in the defensive zone. The offensive zone, however, is another story.

Gaunce has just five career goals in 114 NHL games.

Granlund, on the other hand, has a 19-goal season under his belt. That season came on the wing with the Sedins, however, and it was two years ago.

Last season, he was put in a primarily defensive role and struggled to produce.

A team that values defensive play might claim Granlund or Gaunce, but it’s more likely that both would clear if waived.

rookie on the roster, then Leipsic and Goldobin are on the bubble.

Both would likely have interest from other NHL teams, as they both have plenty of skill, have produced in the AHL, and have shown flashes of breaking through in the NHL. Keeping Goldobin, as the younger player with a potentially higher ceiling, should be the priority for the Canucks.

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Stick-taps & Glove-drops • A tap of the stick to Canucks coach Travis Green for matching up Nikolay Goldobin and Elias Pettersson early on in training camp, giving them both a chance to make plays and create offence with another talented young player.

• I’m dropping the gloves with Green, however, for being so circumspect about his pre-season lineups. Green typically plays things close to his chest, but with fans excited to see young prospects at Rogers Arena, it would have been nice for them to get a little more advance warning who would be playing on each night.

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parking lot at Cypress on a cold and misty day. It pootles up to the top parking lot, heads over towards a gathering of about 100 cars, and finds a parking spot behind a heavily modified Nissan GT-R. Everyone loses their mind.

The contrast between GT-R and Datsun Sunny (as it was called in other markets) was pretty amusing to observe. The GT-R was a horsepower-heavy machine, tweaked for the show circuit with a body kit, air suspension, multicoloured vinyl wrap, and big stereo. The Sunny was fitted with collector plates and a manual transmission.

It had around 70 horsepower and an AM stereo.

Today, when people hear “Datsun,” they often think of the elegant 240Z or the nimble 510, both of which went on to have a lasting motorsports pedigree. The 510 and the 240Z both proved that Japan could produce cars that measured up against the standard of the world, and racing outfits like BRE (Brock Racing Engineering) campaigned them against the established giants with great success.

As a result, 510 values have been high for ages, and 240Z prices are poised to shoot up as people recognize them as an alternative to the burgeoning air-cooled Porsche 911 market. Their fans are a mix of old racers from the Westwood days and younger buyers who love the feel of an old Japanese car, which are simple to work on and let you get your hands dirty.

As the featured marque at this year’s Monterey Historics, Datsun/Nissan had plenty to crow about.

They brought over the R382 racing car from the 1969 Japanese Grand Prix, dug the winning SCCA 510 of John Morton out of storage, and even had the R390 GT1 streetcar on display. This last is a twinturbocharged, mid-engined supercar from the late 1990s, built to get through racing loopholes. Nissan only made one, but the specifications are such that it could eat a contemporary Ferrari for lunch.

But anyway, leave all the smells of scorched rubber and high-octane fuel behind for the present, and take a good look at this little green Datsun 1200. There’s a pretty good reason why everyone at that Carbs and Coffee show was thrilled by the pedestrian econo-box

and only mildly amused by the heavily modified Nissan. People saved the 240Z and, to a lesser extent, the 510. They knew they were special from the outset, and preserved them.

The Sunny has a bit of a following in Japan and Australia, but hardly anyone cared about them on this side of the Pacific.

They were enjoyed by their first owners, used by their second owners, and by the time they trickled down to their fifth or sixth owners, heartily abused.

People fixed them with duct tape and stretched out the oil changes. They didn’t bother repairing the rust and fender damage. It wasn’t worth it.

Ordinary consumer cars like this get consumed.

At the end of the oil age, whenever that comes along, the last cars preserved will be specialty Porsches and Ferraris and Bugattis, the really rare stuff that can be placed on a pedestal and admired as art.

However, if you’re a true car person, or even just someone who remembers 1971 and owning a shirt with lapels big enough to land a Boeing 747 on, the fancy stuff is only of passing interest. People didn’t live in air-cooled Porsches, they lived in old F100 pickups and gargantuan Pontiacs and flatulent Volkswagens and brightly coloured little Datsun runabouts.

Ironically, the plentiful, ordinary cars of the world are the ones that define our driving lives, but then fade away to become the rarest machines out there. Perhaps it’s something to think of for those of us who are casting our eyes at the crop of 1980s and 1990s cars and trying to guess which ones will become classics. Sure, you can expect stuff like the VW Corrado, Toyota Supra Turbo, and Nissan 300ZX to all appreciate in value and become the kinds of things you expect to see at any car meet.

But as for unexpected delights, those are going to come from further down the food chain. Who will preserve the basic Honda Civic, the humdrum Chevrolet Cavalier, the bone-stock Ford Fiesta, the pristine Nissan Micra. The future of classic car collecting belongs to the obvious specialty machines. But, for true rarity, you’re going to have to look for something so common it disappears into the background.

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