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Stewart wants other mayoral candidates to disclose donors NPA’s Ken Sim points out Stewart’s union ties, Bremner’s link to Wall Financial Mike Howell

Ken Sim told reporters at a news conference Tuesday that “we’re working on it right now,” when asked about disclosing his donors prior to election day; he made the comment prior to Stewart issuing his challenge via a news release.

“Our plan is to release information on anyone who’s donated more than $100,” said Sim, whose news conference was billed as the party bringing “transparency and accountability back to city hall.”

In his opening lines at his news conference, Sim pointed out Stewart received the endorsement of the Vancouver and District Labour Council, which came with the distribution of 100,000 flyers mailed to residents promoting Stewart and other candidates endorsed by the council.

The distribution of the flyers occurred prior to the campaign period and had no spending limits.

Sim also mentioned the billboards around town featuring Yes Vancouver mayoral candidate Hector

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Independent mayoral candidate Kennedy Stewart launched a challenge Tuesday to other mayoral candidates competing to become Vancouver’s next mayor to disclose donors to their campaigns before advance voting begins Oct. 10.

Stewart has regularly disclosed his donors on his campaign website and wants other mayoral candidates to follow a precedent set in the 2014 campaign.

That’s when mayoral candidates from Vision Vancouver and the NPA, plus the campaigns of COPE, OneCity and the Greens, disclosed their donors prior to the election.

“Every debate I ask [the other candidates] and nobody says anything—they all just look uncomfortable,” Stewart told the Courier.

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We’ve got a change election, it’s a very different landscape and the electorate are looking for who they can trust, and that’s why I’m doing this.”

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NPA mayoral candidate Ken Sim says his party will disclose its donors prior to the Oct. 20 election. He held his first news conference of the campaign Tuesday at the party’s headquarters at Broadway and Ontario. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Bremner, which were paid for by Peter Wall of Wall Financial, according to a report in the Globe and Mail newspaper.

“It’s really disappointing and, frankly, goes completely against the spirit of the new electoral transparency rules,” said Sim, referring to

new rules in play this campaign that ban union and corporate donations and limit donations to $1,200.

Tim Crowhurst of the Yes Vancouver campaign said in an email to the Courier that they planned to follow the existing rules set by the provincial govern-

ment and will disclose donors after the Oct. 20 election. The deadline for candidates, parties and third-party advertisers to file their donor list and contributions with Elections B.C. is Jan. 18, 2019.

“We will be following the rules, not Kennedy’s games,” said Crowhurst, who questioned Stewart’s challenge, pointing out the former NDP MP’s association to the Vancouver and District Labour Council, which boasts 50,000 union members in the city.

Asked about his connection to the labour council, Stewart said the organization has not hidden its support for him and the other 26 candidates featured on the flyers. The front of the flyer features a large photo of Stewart. The back of the flyer lists candidates for school board, park board and city council.

The candidates belong to OneCity, Vision Vancouver, COPE and the Greens.

Coalition Vancouver, which is running mayoral candidate Wai Young, said in an emailed response to

Stewart’s challenge that the party had no ties to developers, big business, or unions.

“We are 100% for the people,” the email said.

“Socialist Stewart has already used a loophole in the rules to accept money from unions prior to the writ being dropped so we all know where his bread is buttered.”

The Courier emailed and called the campaign of independent candidate Shauna Sylvester about Stewart’s challenge to disclose donors, but had not received a response before the Courier’s deadline.

A total of 1,195 donors contributed $123,556.95 to Stewart’s campaign, between May 10 and Sept. 24.

Seven out of 10 of Stewart’s donors contributed less than $100, with the average donation $103.40. Some notable donors include Fin Donnelly, NDP MP for Port Moody-Coquitlam, who gave $1,200, former NPA president Dale McClanaghan ($1,150) and former NDP MP for Vancouver-East, Libby Davies ($400). @Howellings

T H U R SDAY, SE P T E M B E R 2 7 , 2 0 1 8 THE VANCOUVER COURIER

News New modular housing site approved Naoibh O’Connor

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The City of Vancouver’s director of planning has given the green light to a 52-unit temporary modular housing complex for the homeless just west of Hinge Park next to Sole Food’s Olympic Village Farm. This brings the total number of approved units up to 554 at sites across Vancouver. The provincial government is providing $66 million for 600 units throughout the city.

The new building’s address is 265 West First Ave., formerly 215 West First Ave. Construction is expected to start at the end of November and it will open for occupancy at the end of January 2019.

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West First site include: • reviewing urban design elements such as setting the building back further from the street • retaining existing trees on the site along West First • establishing a community advisory committee.

Based on feedback gathered during open houses about the project, which generated 95 comments cards and 191 emails, the city will add extra garbage cans to the Olympic Village neighbourhood, regularly trim and maintain blackberry brambles and weeds along the sidewalk on West First, add extra resources to clean up and maintain the vacant sites in the area next to the modular housing complex and explore ways to beautify the vacant site to the north of

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City selects random ballot order Mike Howell

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The city declined a lastminute request on Sept. 21 from a group of independent candidates to place numbers next to candidates’ names on the Oct. 20 civic election ballot.

Council candidate Brandon Yan, who is running with OneCity, will also get to keep his Chinese name listed next to his English name on the ballot, despite concerns raised this week by two Coalition Vancouver candidates saying it gives him an advantage at the polls.

Both cases were before the city as it prepared Friday to hold a random draw to determine which order candidates would be listed on the ballot. In previous years, names of candidates were listed in alphabetical order.

City manager Sadhu Johnston cited several reasons for the decision not to place numbers next to the 158 candidates running for mayor, council, school board and park board.

“The main one is the size of the ballot,” Johnston told the Courier during the city’s

draw at city hall. “There’s a lot [of information] already on the ballot, and as soon as you add a column with numbers, it shrinks the names even smaller.”

As well, he added, there was some concern that giving each candidate a number would repeat the “order bias,” which is something the city is attempting not to do this election by having a random draw of names.

“There was also concern about the association with certain numbers,” Johnston said. “Certain cultures have very negative versus very positive associations.”

In Yan’s case, Johnston said the city’s election rules do not forbid candidates from using both versions of their names. In a previous election, council candidate Audrey Siegl of the Musqueam Indian Band used her Indigenous name on the ballot.

Rollergirl, Spike and Mrs. Doubtfire are also on the ballot.

Coalition Vancouver school board candidates Ken Denike and Sophia Woo filed papers in B.C. Supreme Court Sept. 18 challenging the city’s laws

Independent mayoral candidate Jason Lamarche let out a hoot when his name was drawn first. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

that allowed Yan to use his English and Chinese name on the ballot.

“We’re not blaming him for it, he said he got permission from them to do it,” Denike told the Courier.

“They should never have given him that permission… it’s really an unfair advantage.”

The five independent candidates who requested numbers be attached to names on the ballot were Adrian Crook, Erin Shum, Wade Grant, Sarah Blyth and Rob McDowell.

“We all want to focus on fair solutions,” their statement said. “Therefore, we are asking the city for a numbered ballot to help all Vancouverites better find the candidates they wish to vote for. Numbering the ballot would also help people who do not have English as a first language find the names they are looking for.”

Independent mayoral candidate Jason Lamarche will not likely face a problem of voters finding him on the ballot. A city staffer pulled his name first out of

a raffle barrel that was used Friday to draw names.

The barrel was placed on the mayor’s desk and filled with pieces of paper marked with each candidate’s name. Lamarche, who ran unsuccessfully for council with the NPA in the 2011 election, was sitting in the council chamber and let out a hoot when his name was announced.

“It’s definitely going to help because I’m at the top of the list,” said Lamarche, when asked whether being the first name on the ballot gives him an advantage over the 20 other mayoral candidates. “People are going to be looking at this pre-formatted list all throughout the election now, so that is going to continuously put eyes on me, which means I have to be at the top of my game.”

COPE candidate Anne Roberts won the 15th spot on the council ballot. A former school trustee and city councillor, Roberts believes candidates at the top of the ballot have an advantage but that party affiliation is more important.

“I belong to a party, I belong to COPE, I belong

to something that people do know, that has a history,” she said, noting the city used a random ballot in the 1993 election and the winners were affiliated with a party. “That’s through all of Vancouver history — the party is the main thing that determines it.”

NPA council candidate Lisa Dominato, who currently serves as a school trustee, agreed party affiliation will play a role in her getting elected, but added that voters will also look at the leadership qualities of candidates.

Dominato said it is difficult to say whether her name listed 22nd on the ballot will make a difference in her winning a seat at city hall.

There are 71 council candidates vying for 10 spots.

“I think voters are increasingly voting a-la-carte,” she said. “So some will vote slate, but others will be picking and choosing.”

Earlier this year, council passed a motion to replace the alphabetized order of an election ballot to hold a random draw of names. The purpose was to “level the playing field,” Johnston said.

—with files from Jessica Kerr @Howellings

T H U R SDAY, SE P T E M B E R 2 7 , 2 0 1 8 THE VANCOUVER COURIER

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This City of Vancouver wants to engage voters and increase public awareness around the Oct. 20 election. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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With the election less than a month away, the City of Vancouver is rolling out a number of programs and initiatives aimed at engaging voters and increasing the public’s awareness around the election.

With a total of 158 candidates listed randomly on the ballot and less election advertising thanks to new campaign funding rules, this year’s municipal election could seem a little daunting to the average voter.

In an attempt to clear up any confusion, the city is offering up some tips and tools for voters.

“We don’t want anyone to be surprised on election day that people are appearing in a random order instead of alphabetically,” said Paul Hendren, election outreach lead with the City of Vancouver. “We do have a lot of different ways that we’ll be communicating to people about randomization ahead of time.”

The city is encouraging residents to use the Plan Your Vote tool, which was first launched during the 2014 election campaign.

“It’s a great tool. It helps people pretty easily walk through selecting their voting date, time and location,” Hendren said, adding that it also allows voters to look through candidate bios.

One of the more helpful features this election, especially with the randomized ballot, is that residents can mark down

the candidates they are interested in and, at the end email, or print out a list of those names.

“It’s a summary plan that can be printed or emailed and it will display the candidates in the order that they’ll appear on the ballot,” he said.

The order that the names will appear on the ballot was determined in a draw Sept. 21 and voters can view the full list of candidates — 21 for mayor, 71 for council, 33 for park board and 33 for

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school board — on the city’s website in alphabetical order as well as in the random order that will appear on the ballot.

Plan Your Vote will be available on the city’s website starting Sept. 27.

Print copies of the voters’ guide will also be available at community centres, libraries and inside this edition of the Courier.

“The guides will have a worksheet with the randomized list people can bring with them when they go to vote,” Hendren said, adding that for the first time this year the guide will also be available in simplified and traditional Chinese, Punjabi,

Advanced polls

Hendren said the city has the most dates and locations of advanced voting for this election, and recommends people take advantage and cast their ballot ahead of time.

“It’s really good if people can go on one of the advanced days, the lineups tend to be much shorter,” he said.

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“I think the other thing that’s important for people to know… is that it’s one random list on all the ballots,” he said. “You just need to see the ballot ahead of time and you’ll be able to know exactly what you’re going to be looking at on election day when you go to vote.”

The guides will have a worksheet with the randomized list people can bring with them when they go to vote.

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Rezoning application submitted for St. Paul’s Hospital development Proposal for 18.5-acre False Creek Flats property includes hospital, health care campus, retail uses, commercial space, childcare facilities and hotel Naoibh O’Connor

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IBI Group, on behalf of Providence Health Care, has submitted a rezoning application to the City of Vancouver for the new St. Paul’s Hospital development destined for an 18.5-acre site in False Creek Flats.

Vancouver city council approved a policy statement for the property at 1002 Station St. and 250 to 310 Prior St. in June of 2017.

The rezoning proposal, filed earlier this month, includes a new hospital and integrated health care campus, retail and commercial space, a hotel, two childcare facilities and a new road network. The rezoning process is expected to take more than a year. It will include public consultation, which is expected to begin this fall and continue through next spring, and reviews by the Urban Design Panel and city staff. The application will be subject to council approval following a public hearing. Providence Health Care (PHC) announced in April of 2015 that the aging St. Paul’s Hospital on Burrard Street would be replaced by a new state-of-the-art hospital and health care facility.

Estimates for the project, which have circulated in the news for several years, have pegged it at $1.2 billion, but PHC spokesman Shaf

Hussain said that figure is wrong and a cost estimate has never been part of any official announcement. He said a final figure hasn’t been finalized yet. The provincial government is currently reviewing the business plan.

Providence Health Care, however, plans to eventually sell the land where St. Paul’s is currently located and invest the money into the construction of the project, while the provincial government under Christy Clark committed $500 million towards it in 2012. PHC also plans to raise funds through the St. Paul’s Foundation. The foundation hasn’t officially launched its capital campaign, but billionaire Jimmy Pattison announced in 2017 he would give $75 million for the new hospital.

Early design concepts for the site, which still need to be refined, are included in the rezoning application package. Building heights will range from approximately 20 metres to 60 metres. The hospital and integrated health care campus is situated in the centre of the site, while townhouse and retail space is proposed for a small chunk of land to its north

by Prior Street. Office and retail space, as well as a hotel, is envisioned along Station Street and National Avenue. Research and professional buildings

are also proposed along National Avenue.

“These are early concepts. We need to do more consultation,” Hussain said.

“The city needs to do more consultation.”

Outside of the rezoning proposal, Hussain said St. Paul’s Hospital and PHC have been doing a lot of work on the clinical planning part of the project — what goes in the hospital, what clinics are needed, what’s the movement of patients, what are the right locations for programs and services to make it work well for patients, and what technology will be needed.

“When it comes to the rezoning, this is a process the city leads and we work closely with them,” he said.

The target for completing the hospital is 2024.

Other development on the site may be completed in a similar timeframe to the hospital, according to the application, which states the overall development will take place in three phases.

“We hope that a new hospital helps rejuvenate [the area],” Hussain said.

“The city has a great plan for False Creek Flats. This is going to be a major development in that area but we are going to make sure we work closely with the city and the neighbourhood to make sure it’s integrated well into the future plans of the neighbourhood.” @naoibh

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Tiny Mount Pleasant park was a labour of love New parklet at Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House three years in the making Jessica Kerr

jkerr@vancourier.com

If the Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House is the living room of the community, its new parklet is the front porch.

“This is a public space,” said Jocelyne Hamel, executive director at the house. “The neighbourhood really has a shortage of small public spaces.”

The tiny park, which takes up just two parking spaces worth of space on Prince Albert Street at Broadway, was just completed over the summer but was in the works for several years. It features benches, a chalkboard, a small garden and a table.

Inside there is a collection of cards and games people can borrow.

“It was certainly a labour of love,” Hamel said.

Three years ago, the house approached the city and VIVA Vancouver about collaborating on a parklet. The city launched the parklet program as a pilot several years ago

and there are currently 14 throughout the city. The first parklet was installed in 2011 on 14th Avenue and Main Street.

“It was actually a pilot initiative and the parklet was meant to be in place for six months,” said Jenniffer Sheel, branch manager of street activities at the City of Vancouver.

The one at Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House is the first developed with a non-profit, all the rest have been sponsored by local businesses.

“It’s the first partnership where they’re owning and operating the parklet as a non-profit but we have had other partnerhips with non-profits with other aspects of building parklets,” Sheel said.

“This is the first one that has spearheaded the application and has been leading it.”

The neighbourhood house worked with the community on the design of the space. Aside from its location, the parklet has another tie to the Mount Pleasant, Hamel said. The cedar used to construct most of the structure was salvaged from one of the buildings demolished to make way for the Rize development at Kingsway and Broadway.

While the structure is

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complete, Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House has launched an online fundraiser to raise money to add some finishing touches — including custom armrests for the benches to help seniors sit and stand comfortably, indigenous plants for the

garden, more games and a steady supply of chalk and brushes for budding artists, and a commemorative plaque.

For more information about the project or to make a donation, visit mpnh.org/showyourlove. @JessicaEKerr

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OPINION

Could Vancouver voters elect an all-woman city council?

Strong field of female candidates with political or community experience Mike Klassen

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The 71 names on the Vancouver city council ballot present a big challenge for voters in terms of whittling it down to just 10 choices. But as I look over the names, I’m struck by the fact that it is the women on the list that stand out for their experience in either politics or community service.

Let’s face facts. When it comes to politics in Canada, the guys have had a good run. Even today only about one-quarter of elected officials in our country are women. If we were to elect an all-male council today, would we really be all that surprised?

Having a city council entirely made up of women — now that would be downright newsworthy.

Other jurisdictions have

much higher proportions of women in politics, and so should we.

Vancouver has never elected a woman as mayor, not for the lack of trying. May Brown, Suzanne Anton, Meena Wong and Jennifer Clarke are women who have led Vancouver’s most-established elector organizations as the mayoral candidate and came up short.

In the 2018 election, two women with decidedly different visions for the city dominate the mayoral race — Shauna Sylvester and Wai Young. Whether you agree with either candidate’s policies, there is no denying they have both run effective campaigns to date.

I would put Sylvester in the “head” category as her policy-heavy campaign is as wonkish as they come.

She has lot of ideas worth championing, but she is

perhaps missing the connecting tissue for voters.

With mere days to make big inroads, Sylvester needs her defining issue.

Young, by contrast, is all about the “gut,” and it is the gut that most often draws people to the polls. Her stance on bike lanes will rile supporters of active transportation, but she is prepared to sacrifice their votes.

However, a recent poll

by Research Co. suggests that neither are a threat to labour-endorsed Kennedy Stewart or the NPA’s Ken Sim for the win.

Whereas, when it comes to seats on council, it is anybody’s race. The randomized ballot will surely lead to some election night surprises, and those running with established elector organizations (i.e.

NPA, Vision, COPE) will have a slight edge.

In terms of name profile and a track record in the community, there are easily 10 women who could form a council.

With so much turnover happening in the council chamber, council would benefit by having the institutional memory Vision’s Heather Deal would bring.

She and Adriane Carr of the Vancouver Greens will bring much-needed council experience.

Experienced NPA candidates include incumbent councillor Melissa De Genova, and her counterparts Sarah Kirby-Yung and Lisa Dominato — formerly of park board and school board respectively. Dominato has shown herself to be an effective consensusbuilder during the abbreviated school board term.

The NPA’s Colleen Hardwick, daughter of the

late Walter Hardwick, is a movie-industry veteran who has spent the past decade building an online community development platform.

Among her counterparts on the left, Christine Boyle of the OneCity party has distinguished herself as a young leader and social justice advocate. Her background as a United Church minister could come in handy in the often-combative council chamber.

Erin Shum is an outgoing park board commissioner and now independent council candidate.

She has been an effective campaigner and well-spoken in public forums.

COPE’s Jean Swanson is arguably the city’s bestknown poverty activist. Her policy ideas make for good headlines if not practical application. Nonetheless,

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she represents an important constituency in the Downtown Eastside and should have a seat at the table.

If elected, Michelle Mollineaux from Vancouver 1st could bring her community experience and background in high tech. She’s also a long-time resident of the city’s underrepresented south side.

I am also impressed by the experience of candidates Brinder Bains and Glynnis Chan from Yes Vancouver.

Of course, there are other qualified women council candidates I have not named, but voters have their own homework to do before the polls open.

The point is Vancouver will have a good chance to bring women to the forefront of our politics, and not just “because it’s 2018.”

It’s just a good idea. @MikeKlassen

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Split class column gets an A+ Re: “Split classrooms prepare students for real life,” Sept. 20.

Thank you Tracy Sherlock for the excellent article on combined/split classes. My wife and I both taught Grade 1 and 2, keeping the children with us for two years.

The article would have been the perfect handout for nervous parents.

We agree completely with everything Sherlock wrote. One thing we had not thought of was the way she phrased the idea that the youngest in a family had the opportunity to be one of the oldest classmates. We usually called it leadership opportunities. I often joked that the Grade 2s did all the teaching.

We found that having more advanced/ older kids in a class motivated the younger ones. They badly wanted to catch up.

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We called it “combined” rather than “split.”

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ment; so did the kids and parents. One of the big worries kids have at the start of the school year is “who will their teacher be?” Staying for a second year solves that problem.

We could rave on at length on this topic.

Geoff Peters and Marion Runcie, Vancouver

Biking column speaks to a broader conversation Re: “Vancouver’s holier-than-thou cyclists are ruining it for everyone,” Sept. 6.

You captured perfectly what my own observations have been and what (I perceive) is at the heart of so much of the conflict on the roads and bike lanes. 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.

Anyway, pieces like yours coming from within the cycling/commuting community are really important and part of what (I hope) becomes a bigger conversation about how we can all co-exist on our streets. Thank you.

Shawn Mitchell, Vancouver

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Sculptors shaping Canadian culture from East Van studio Chance encounter reveals hidden world of dragons, geese and one giant air freshener

Grant Lawrence

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“What is he building in there?”

That’s the title of a cryptic spoken word piece

by Tom Waits, from his classic 1999 album Mule Variations.

I’ve asked myself that very question every time I cycled past a mysterious, post-apocalyptic-like workshop studio in Railtown.

Located in the eastern block of Alexander Street, a ramshackle wooden structure sits on a unique, isosceles triangle-shaped lot, buttressed directly against the railway tracks. At any given time, hammering, drilling and scraping can be heard from within its confines, along with the highpitched whine of saws and other machinery. Clouds of white dust sometimes billow over the back wall. A chain link fence topped with coiled razor wire surrounds the entire property.

Every few weeks, some giant, outrageous stone sculpture briefly appears in the driveway. I rarely ever saw anyone around, but promised myself when I did I would stop and find out — who are they and what are they building in there?

Finally, I spotted a tall figure emerging from the garage door adorned with

Mary-Ann Liu and Paul Slipper work out of a mysterious, post-apocalyptic-like workshop studio in Railtown. PHOTO GRANT LAWRENCE

a STOP sign. The person’s face was obscured with a mask, and his clothes were covered in grey dust. I stopped my bike and gingerly called to him through the fence. He slowly turned towards me and removed the mask.

“Hi. So, uh… what are you building in there?”

After explaining my intentions for this column, the man smiled, unlocked the front gate, and invited me to “come in and find out.” Little did I know I was entering the domain of two of Canada’s great sculptors: Paul Slipper and Mary-Ann Liu. Their endangered Van-

couver space is called Slipper Liu Studio. Between their current studio and a previous location “down the tracks,” they’ve worked in Railtown for decades.

“We’ve been around for so long this area wasn’t even called Railtown,” recalled Slipper. “Yeah, I think it was just called Skid Row,” added Liu. Slipper and Liu share the space with another Vancouver sculptor. Slipper works with stone, while Liu specializes in casting bronze and other metals. It looked like they’d been occupying their shed for decades.

Curled photos, notes and souvenirs covered the walls,

and tables and work areas were filled with stone and metal objects and artifacts.

You might not know it, but you’ve probably seen Slipper and Liu’s work.

Permanent art pieces exist throughout the Lower Mainland and beyond.

Most notably, in 2000, Liu created and sculpted The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Ottawa.

And if you’ve ever looked up while walking around Chinatown, you’ve no doubt noticed one of the beautiful dragon lantern streetlights. There are more than 350 of them. I always assumed they had been there for a century.

Wrong. Liu designed and sculpted those dragons, which were installed in 1992. Based on the Vancouver installation, another 60 of Liu’s dragons were commissioned for the streets of Chicago.

Slipper and Liu also have permanent public art on display at places like the Coquitlam Skytrain Station, the Lynn Valley Centre and along the Mount Seymour Parkway.

And that sculpture of stone luggage at the Vancouver International Airport?

That’s Slipper’s work.

When I visited their crammed studio, the front yard was filled with a gaggle of Canada goose sculptures, each created from huge, 1,000-pound granite boulders plucked from the Cheakamus River. The geese were bound for a park in Red Deer, Alta.

Also in the front yard was a giant stone replica of a classic tree air freshener that used to hang from your car’s rear view mirror. It’s 10 feet tall, weighs 500 pounds and can be yours for $28,000.

And even though Liu and Slipper’s art pieces are often extremely heavy, they’ve both managed to avoid any sort of serious injury — not even a broken toe between them. The only major occupational threat is silicosis,

known as the “stone lung disease,” which can impact anyone exposed to rock dust for a long period of time. If you’re a sculptor, the disease can effectively turn your lungs into your medium. Slipper and Liu are extremely careful with their safety gear.

Unfortunately, neither of them owns that special little slice of industrial land their studio sits on. The property has been sold and is of course slated for development. Slipper and Liu don’t know how much time they have left on Alexander Street. “This place is like a second home, and we’ll ride it out for as long as we can,” Slipper told me.

“And even though this land has been sold,” Liu added, “we’re not panicking. Yet.” Before I left, I asked Liu how it felt to be the creator of something as emblematic as the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

“I feel really privileged to be chosen for that,” she mused. “It’s my little bit of immortality, but as artists, we can never rest on our laurels. There’s always a new challenge for us around the corner.”

What are they building in that shack down on Alexander Street? Now you know: iconic Canadian art. @grantlawrence

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Split class column gets an A+ Re: “Split classrooms prepare students for real life,” Sept. 20.

Thank you Tracy Sherlock for the excellent article on combined/split classes. My wife and I both taught Grade 1 and 2, keeping the children with us for two years.

The article would have been the perfect handout for nervous parents.

We agree completely with everything Sherlock wrote. One thing we had not thought of was the way she phrased the idea that the youngest in a family had the opportunity to be one of the oldest classmates. We usually called it leadership opportunities. I often joked that the Grade 2s did all the teaching.

We found that having more advanced/ older kids in a class motivated the younger ones. They badly wanted to catch up.

Grade 2s seemed so mature and worldly to the Grade 1s.

We called it “combined” rather than “split.”

We loved teaching in that environ-

ment; so did the kids and parents. One of the big worries kids have at the start of the school year is “who will their teacher be?” Staying for a second year solves that problem.

We could rave on at length on this topic.

Geoff Peters and Marion Runcie, Vancouver

Biking column speaks to a broader conversation Re: “Vancouver’s holier-than-thou cyclists are ruining it for everyone,” Sept. 6.

You captured perfectly what my own observations have been and what (I perceive) is at the heart of so much of the conflict on the roads and bike lanes. 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.

Anyway, pieces like yours coming from within the cycling/commuting community are really important and part of what (I hope) becomes a bigger conversation about how we can all co-exist on our streets. Thank you.

Shawn Mitchell, Vancouver

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Is this the year for independent candidates New campaign finance rules, decline of established parties contributing to upswing Mike Howell

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Election after election in Vancouver, the result has for the most part remained the same — political parties and their candidates obliterate any chance of independents winning a seat, no matter the person’s profile in the city.

Take Sandy Garossino’s experience, for example.

In 2011, the former Crown prosecutor chose to run as an independent for council. She had a huge media profile at the time for leading the charge against Paragon Gaming Inc.’s proposal to substantially increase the number of gaming tables and slot machines at what became its new casino, Parq, adjacent to B.C. Place Stadium.

Garossino was a cofounder of the Vancouver Not Vegas coalition that included former politicians, retired police officers and judges, artists and religious leaders. She was on the front page of newspapers, appeared on radio shows and was a familiar face on television news.

City council rejected Paragon’s bid in April 2011. People praised Garossino and the coalition for their work. Eight months later, Garossino’s name was on the election ballot. She placed 22nd in the council race, winning 20,866 votes, enough to fill Rogers Arena.

It was, by far, the best showing among independent candidates. But Garossino would have needed more than double the number of votes she received to win a seat.

So why didn’t she run with a party?

“Because I really wanted to raise the issue about foreign capital entering the real estate market and what that was going to do to housing affordability, and none of the parties wanted to address that,” she recalled last week.

“They were all really afraid to touch that.”

Vision Vancouver won another majority that year, with George Affleck and Elizabeth Ball winning two seats for the NPA and the Greens’ Adriane Carr narrowly securing the 10th council spot with 48,648 votes.

The biggest factor against a Garossino victory was the party machines of Vision

I think, right now, the brands are weakened.

Vision is a weaker brand and the NPA always has to throw a huge amount of money to establish their brand. I think the brands themselves are suffering, independent of the campaign finance rules.

Sandy Garossino

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Vancouver and the NPA, which raised millions of dollars from businesses and unions to fund their candidates’ campaigns; she spent $35,000 on her run.

Both parties also had well established brands, which likely helped candidates with lesser profiles than Garossino win votes.

Anyone remember Joe Carangi, or Francis Wong?

Both NPA candidates received more than 41,000 votes in the council race.

“I had great media interest that year — just phenomenal,” Garossino said. “You might be on the front page of a newspaper, but the average person isn’t really paying attention. I think that’s even more so now, but then there’s less money now in politics. That is really showing up and I think the inability of the parties to dominate in that way is really opening a door. I think it’s great.”

What Garossino was referring to is the new campaign finance laws that ban union and corporate money and limit individual donations to $1,200; thirdparty advertising, however, still allows the spending of an unlimited amount of money prior to a campaign period, which began after billboards around town

displayed support for Yes Vancouver mayoral candidate Hector Bremner.

Finance reform, coupled with Mayor Gregor Robertson and the majority of his council team retiring, are factors Garossino believes could give rise to the election of one or more independent candidates this time around.

Poll supports election of independents

A recent Research Co. poll supports Garossino’s belief, with 39 per cent of respondents saying they will “definitely” or “probably” cast ballots for independent candidates. A total of 49 independent candidates are campaigning to be elected as mayor, councillor, school board trustee or park board commissioner.

Still, the brands of the NPA and Vision Vancouver persist. The Greens have also emerged as a force, with representatives on council, school board and park board. A total of 11 political parties, including COPE, OneCity, Coalition Vancouver, ProVancouver, Vancouver First and Yes Vancouver, are running candidates in the Oct. 20 election.

“Generally speaking, I think that is true — brands do carry the

day,” Garossino said.

“But I think right now, the brands are weakened.

Vision is a weaker brand and the NPA always has to throw a huge amount of money to establish their brand. I think the brands themselves are suffering, independent of the campaign finance rules.”

Though Mrs. Doubtfire and Spike are among the mix of independents running this year, there is a long list of independents whose names are familiar to city hall watchers and either have previous political experience or are known for work in their community.

That includes mayoral candidates Kennedy Stewart, the former BurnabySouth NDP MP, and Shauna Sylvester of the SFU Centre for Dialogue, who was a Vision Vancouver board member when Garossino ran in 2011.

At the council level, independent candidates of note include former Vision park board commissioner Sarah Blyth, who has been on the frontlines of the opioid crisis, and former Vancouver Police Board member Wade Grant of the Musqueam Indian Band.

Also on the council ballot are Adrian Crook of Abundant Housing Vancouver, who blogs about living with

five kids in a condo, former NPA school trustees Penny Noble and Barbara Buchanan, park board commissioner Erin Shum and former NPA candidate Rob McDowell, a longtime diplomat and member of Vancouver’s LGBTQ advisory committee.

Another factor in this year’s race is the ballot itself. Last Friday, the city held a draw to randomly choose the order of candidates. It was done because of concerns that voters tend to vote for the top names on a ballot, which have for several elections been listed in alphabetical order.

On this year’s ballot, only one candidate affiliated to a party is listed in the top nine choices for mayor. In fact, only six parties are represented among the 21 candidates. Five of the first 10 names on the council ballot are independents.

Vision Coun. Heather Deal, whose name was always near the top of the ballot in previous elections, is last on the list of 71 candidates vying for 10 spots on council. NPA Coun. Melissa De Genova, like previous years, is near the top of the ballot in the fourth spot.

Independents would appear to have less of a chance at getting elected

to the nine-person school board (five independents among 33 candidates) and seven-person park board (three independents among another 33 candidates).

But never say never, said Garossino, who “would love nothing more than to see” an independent elected, although she was quickly reminded what she said earlier about people not paying attention to municipal politics.

“I could be falling to prey to what I described.

Political junkies see things, but the average person on the street — the average voter — doesn’t.”

Independent candidate elected in 1986

Back in 2011, before Garossino launched her campaign, she met for coffee with Gordon Price, who was an NPA city councillor from 1986 to 2002. Price talked to Garossino about her decision to run as an independent.

“She was absolutely adamant about running [as an independent], and I always thought that was such a loss,” said Price, the past director of the City Program at Simon Fraser University and current fellow at the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue.

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“She’d make a great councillor, maybe a great mayor. But, no, she was insistent on running as an independent, and it went nowhere.”

He recalled that Carole Taylor was the last independent council candidate to get elected to council. That occurred in 1986 — the same year Price was first elected — but came after Taylor was left off the NPA’s candidate list and forced to run as an independent.

A keen observer of local politics, Price is unable to predict what will unfold in next month’s election. There is evidence, however, that some independents could get elected, he said, citing many of the same reasons Garossino did.

“The conditions seem to be as good as they’ve ever been for the possibility of independents to win,” Price said. “You have so many vacancies, the new [finance] rules don’t give the parties as much of an edge as they did before — an edge, hell, an electoral bulldoz-

er — and there are some good people running.

Depending on your taste, there’s something on the menu for pretty much everyone.”

That said, he noted the election of a variety of independents could create chaos in the council chamber.

“If people think that the free flow of ideas and exchange is something they would like, they will get very tired of what just appears to be argumentative back-and-forth, and no consistent governance,” Price said. “And that’s where I think the toleration for this would be pretty limited, unless a group of people get together to form a coalition that effectively becomes a party so they can govern, and you’re kind of back where you started.”

There’s a reason, Price said, that parties exist at all levels of government — and that’s to bring like-minded people together to create an identity or brand and govern.

“If you have a council

of independents — and we can see this in other municipalities around the region where the party system is not in play — they very quickly find out who, more or less, falls within the same ideological or political direction that they want to take and they become a de facto party,” he said Price said he is not encouraged by what he is hearing from people he speaks to about this election. Many are confused and not genuinely interested — factors that could lead to a low voter turnout, which could give an edge to candidates affiliated with parties, he said.

“I ask people all the time, ‘Where is the election at the moment?’ Almost universally, people say they’re confused — there’s too many parties, they all sound the same, there’s too many people, I don’t know them and frankly I’m not seeing anything in my day to day, and not really paying attention.”

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Annual Blessing of the Animals ceremony welcomes creatures of all types to Shaughnessy

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The folks at St. John’s Shaughnessy Anglican Church appear ready to look past the principle architect behind the Original Sin. This weekend’s Blessing of the Animals event is now five years in the offing and typically includes cats, dogs, goldfish and the odd rodent.

Despite the symbolic betrayal that dastardly snake pulled on Adam and Eve way back when, serpents are invited, too.

“A snake would be fine as long as it’s in the proper cage,” church administrator Janet Hamilton told the Courier.

Beginning at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 30, the ceremony includes prayers, songs and a sprinkling of holy water for the couple dozen pets expected to show up.

St. John’s Shaughnessy archdeacon John Stephens and reverend Liz Hamet gave Cody the Doberman coonhound communion in the form of a treat while owner Ali Zahedi looked on during the 2016 Blessing of the Animals ceremony. PHOTO REBECCA BLISSETT

Archdeacon John Stephens and reverend Liz Hamet will head up the proceedings, which are meant to coincide with the death of St. Francis of Assisi. St. Francis was born into wealth around 1180, renounced his earthly creature comforts and instead chose a path

of modesty and servitude.

He devoted his life to all things animals before his death on Oct. 3, 1226 and is now recognized as a patron saint of ecologists.

St. Francis is said to be the first Catholic who taught that the Earth itself is holy.

“St. Francis looked after the animals, and he felt a

lot more should be done for animals than just praying,” Hamilton said.

Sunday’s blessing bonanza won’t be confined to pets still among the living.

Dead pets will be memorialized via candles and old photos that will be added to a memorial board.

The event is expected to last about an hour and is open to anyone regardless of religious affiliation.

Each blessing, depending on the pet’s demeanour, takes about a minute.

“We’ve never had a problem,” Hamilton said.

“We’ve had a few ‘growlies’ or ‘barkies’ but then the owner deals with it very well.

There’s never been anything that’s been out of hand.”

Donations from Sunday’s service will go to the Vancouver Orphan Kitten Rescue Association.

A similar Blessing of the Animals ceremony at St. John’s Shaughnessy Anglican church was performed by archdeacon John Stephens back in 2016. PHOTO REBECCA BLISSETT

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Cherry Sour by Red Collar Brewing Co. Rob Mangelsdorf editor@thegrowler.ca

Take a trip around beautiful British Columbia and you’ll find that just about every town now has a brewery on its Main Street, alongside the bakery, the bank and the butcher shop.

It’s easy to get stuck in the Vancouver bubble, but once you get outside of the big city, it quickly becomes apparent there’s amazing beer being made just about everywhere in this province.

Take Red Collar Brewing Co. in Kamloops. The brainchild of craft brewing veteran David Beardsell, Red Collar has been putting out impressive beers that I think are flying under the radar, at least down here in the Lower Mainland.

Beardsell has brewed beer all over the world for nearly 30 years (including stops in England, India and even Western Samoa) but decided Kamloops would be the place to open up his own brewery in 2014, in part because the water in Canada’s Tour-

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nament Capital is perfect for brewing. His brewery on Kamloops’ main

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Drive-In Double Features at River District

Who says summer has to end? Make the most of the nights with a good old fashioned drive-in movie experience, and catch a free double feature in South Vancouver down at the River District.

It runs through the end of October on Saturday nights. This weekend you can catch a pair of superhero-style sequels, Incredibles 2 and Deadpool 2. Plus they’ve got free popcorn. Make sure to reserve your ticket in advance.

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Oscar-nominated director Brett Morgen (On the Ropes) explores Goodall’s life and career in his new documentary, Jane. The Oct. 4 screening will be followed by a 45-minute Q&A with Goodall, who will discuss her work with chimps and her hopes for the future. Oct. 4

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In the world of film festivals, the Vancouver International Film Festival is a bit of an outlier. It’s internationally renowned, but it isn’t obsessed with stargazing and paparazzi flashbulbs. It can boast plenty of premieres, but A-list films are rolled out without A-list red carpets or after-party shenanigans.

VIFF is a film festival for people who love film and people who make it. And there are plenty of both here in the B.C. version of Hollywood North.

VIFF’s 2018 edition kicks off this week with The Hummingbird Project, a drama about the muddy world of high-frequency stock trading, starring Jesse Eisenberg, Salma Hayek and Alexander Skarsgård. Then it’s full steam ahead until Oct. 12, when the festival closes with one of the most highly anticipated films of the year: Jason Reitman’s The Front Runner, starring a bewigged Hugh Jackman as failed Democratic presidential nominee Gary Hart.

In all, 380 narrative and documentary films from 78 countries will screen over the festival’s 16 days — including 10 feature-length films produced here in the 604 (like Bruce Sweeney’s Kingsway and Seung-Yup Lee’s The Darling) and the largest program of Canadian cinema on the planet.

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Kid Koala Oscar-nominated director Brett Morgen explores Dr. Jane Goodall’s life and career in his new documentary, Jane. Goodall will be at the screening for a Q&A.

Totally Indie Day

Homegrown content creators are invited to hunker down and dream big at Totally Indie Day. Attendees will receive a crash course in pop culture documentaries, web series development, production design, first features, editing and audience feedback from industry pros such as Brent Hodge (Freaks & Geeks: The Documentary), Zach Lipovsky (Freaks), Kat Jayme (Finding Big Country), Chris Jones (Golden Globe Award-winning production designer of Lady Bird), Kate Green (NarcoLeap) and three-time Academy Award nominated editor Jay Cassidy (American Hustle, Silver Linings Playbook, and Into the Wild). Sept. 29

VIFF Immersed

The future is now at VIFF Immersed, a conference and public exhibition dedicated to virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality storytelling.

The two-day conference introduces attendees to the business of creating narrative-driven interactive content, while the three-day public exhibition features 14 VR, AR and MR experiences. Also on the bill: Lisa Jackson and the National Film Board of Canada’s Biidabaan: First Light, which had its world premiere at

Tribeca and guides its viewers through a highly realistic future Toronto reclaimed by nature. Sept. 29 to 30

Meet the Showrunners

We’re living in what’s been called the “Golden Age of Television” — an era where the quality and quantity of scripted television series rivals that of the glory days of Hollywood. This creator talk brings together a sampling of veteran television showrunners to share war stories — about getting green-lit, hiring a writer’s room and working with directors — and pull back the curtain on what it takes to succeed in a competitive TV landscape. With Simon Barry (Ghost Wars), Veena Sud (Second Seconds), Graham Yost (Sneaky Pete), Sarah Dodd (Cardinal), Amy Berg (Counterpart), Hart Hanson (Bones), Dennis Heaton (The Order), Graeme Manson (Snowpiercer), Michelle Lovretta (Killjoys) and David Shore (The Good Doctor). Oct. 3

An Evening with Jane Dr. Jane Goodall is known far beyond conservation circles for her groundbreaking work with primates, which began in earnest in 1960 when she travelled to Tanzania to work with chimpanzees.

In Kid Koala’s latest live innovation, the master Canadian DJ draws his audience into a communal experience of light and sound. The audience collaborates in groups of four at stations equipped with a turntable, an effects box and a small crate of colour-coded records.

Through subtly coloured lighting changes in the room, they’re cued to play along as DJs in a spontaneous collective, collaborating to create what VIFF describes as an “ambient vinyl orchestra.”

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Geeky Hooker brings crocheted scavenger hunt to town Elisia Seeber

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She goes by the name the Geeky Hooker and she walks the streets with a crochet hook.

Meet Cindy Wang, healthcare professional by day and crochet ninja by night. She’s also pretty funny.

The 34-year-old from Houston, Texas become known for crocheting little superheroes and leaving them in cities for people to find and keep.

And her next stop — after she swings by Seattle — is Vancouver.

It’s basically a crochet scavenger hunt, with updates posted on her Twitter and Facebook accounts.

When you find a critter, all that she asks is you take a picture of it and let her know where its new home will be.

Wang has crocheted the perfect Vancouver superheroes to drop off — Deadpool and Wolverine.

She told the Courier she started crocheting in 2011 out of sheer boredom.

“I came across a cute photo of a little crocheted ninja and thought to myself,

‘I wanna learn how to make that,’” Wang said in an email ahead of her visit.

“Next thing I knew I had a book from Amazon. com, a new set of crochet hooks and a pile of yarn from the craft store… The rest was hooking history.”

Wang’s interest then crossed over to her love of comic book characters.

“I got bored crocheting generic dolls when I first started out. I decided that by adding some fun colours I could turn these lumpy little dolls into lumpy little superheroes,” she said.

It was around the same time she was inspired by Catlanta, an artist based in Atlanta who leaves little cat magnets behind for people to find.

“I was also about to attend San Diego Comic-Con for the first time,” Wang said. “When I read about Catlanta in the news, I thought it might be fun to try something similar in San Diego with all these little superheroes that I didn’t plan on keeping.”

She added, “Thankfully people actually found a good portion of the little

The Geeky Hooker is dropping off Deadpool and Wolverine in Vancouver next week for you to find.

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guys that I hid around, and I had so much fun with it that I’ve kept up with the tradition every year at San Diego Comic-Con,” Wang said. “That expanded out to me doing drops now and then if I went on vacation.”

So far Wang’s dropped crocheted characters in San Diego, Houston, Austin, San Francisco, New York City, Portland and Chicago.

But her superheroes have ended up all over the globe.

Even as far as Australia, Taiwan and Italy.

“There’s something fun about dropping a little character and then just running off! Then I’m frantically checking Twitter to see if anyone’s found it.”

It you’re going to get involved in the hunt, the little charters might be hard to spot. They’re all only about three inches tall. And they’re hidden in just about anything — bushes, planters, tucked away into statues, random crevices in walls.

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So, what’s the purpose of all of it?

“Just to have fun, and hopefully create fun for others,” Wang said.

Here’s how you join the hunt: • Follow the Geeky Hooker on Facebook or Twitter, but Wang recommends Twitter for tracking.

• Follow the hashtag

#CRITTERDROP to filter out tweets if you want to see the ones pertaining to the drops only.

• Set up a Twitter mobile alert on your phone. This isn’t required, but it’ll help.

This way your phone will buzz every time Wang makes a post on Twitter.

• If you find a critter, let Wang know that you found it. Each one is tagged with a card with her contact info. She just asks for two things if you find one: send her a photo of your new friend, and let her know where the critter’s new home will be so she can add it her map.

She does this knowing that there’s a potential that anyone could swipe the critter and never get back to her, but it doesn’t make it any less disheartening when one goes missing.

Wang will be dropping one critter per day Sept. 28 and 29 in Vancouver.

There are no specific hints on where her critters will be dropped, it’ll just be one per day and she’ll drop them whenever the time and place feels right.

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Filmmaker hunts elusive Vancouver Grizzly Seven-foot flop subject of new documentary John Kurucz

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Petr Nedved, Dale Tallon and Bryant “Big Country” Reeves.

They’re considered by many to be the holy trinity of Vancouver sporting disasters, players with seemingly unlimited potential in their youth who then flamed out spectacularly once they reached the big leagues.

Kat Jayme wants to change that narrative.

A life-long Vancouver Grizzlies fan and Big Country devotee from day one, Jayme has spent the last three years looking for the elusive Arkansas giant who appeared to have dropped off the face of the Earth after his retirement from the NBA in 2001.

Jayme’s documentary Finding Big Country premieres this weekend at the Vancouver International

Kat Jayme, writer and director of the film Finding Big Country, with some of her memorabilia from the Vancouver Grizzlies’ six-year run in town. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Film Festival. The film chronicles her search for Reeves and the city’s apparent blasé attitude towards Vancouver’s short flirtation with professional basketball.

“I think we had a legend in our backyard,” Jayme told the Courier. “I didn’t understand that at the time, but after doing my research and

making this film, his legacy became clearer to me.”

On the surface, a 12.5 points-per-game career average does not scream “legend,” particularly given Reeves’ standing as a twotime Big Eight Player of the Year in college. It’s the same story for Nedved, who put up 145 points in his fi-

nal year of major junior and only 124 points in his three years in Vancouver.

As for Tallon, a secondoverall draft pick in 1970, he’ll forever be dogged by Hall of Famer Gilbert Perreault’s legendary career with the Buffalo Sabres that saw him amass 1,326 points.

All of that’s an aside for

Jayme, and her love for the seven-footer goes beyond boards and dimes.

Just seven when the Grizzlies moved to town in 1995, Reeves is emblematic of Jayme’s childhood. Her dad and grandfather took her to boatloads of games while the team was in town and Reeves was the guy who always stuck out.

“He was the biggest guy out there,” Jayme recalled.

“I knew he was our franchise player and his nickname was hard to forget. As a kid, he was the one that always stood out the most to me.”

The Grizzlies’ woeful six-year run in Vancouver ended in 2001, the same year Reeves retired from pro ball. Fourteen years later and armed with a UBC education in film, Jayme began her search. She spoke to beat reporters who covered the Grizzlies, former team employees and ex-club general manager Stu Jackson.

She didn’t get so much as a whiff of his whereabouts from any of them.

“That’s when I found that no one has found Big

Country — there’s no trace of him online,” Jayme said.

“When I talked to reporters, I was told he was considered the holy grail of interviews in Vancouver, so I made it my life’s mission to find him.”

Predictably, Jayme is mum on the film’s outcome. She won’t say if the title rings true or if she travelled to Reeves’ home — at least according to Wikipedia — in small town Oklahoma.

All that is secondary in Jayme’s mind, anyway.

“The film is about childhood dreams, childhood heroes and who they become in our lives,” she said. “But it’s also about dreams and failures and looking at those failures years later and looking at them in a different light.”

Advance tickets are sold out for both screenings of Finding Big Country on Sept. 30 and Oct. 8, though some remain for the Oct. 10 show at the Vancouver Playhouse.

See viff.org for details.

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Vancouver Canucks 2018-19 season preview Youth should provide entertainment, but winning likely isn’t in the cards

Backhand Sauce Daniel Wagner

For the first time in 19 years, the Canucks will enter an NHL season without the Sedins. It’s a time of transition and change — a “new era” as head coach Travis Green called it.

Whether or not you enjoy the beginning of this new era will largely depend on your point of view. Do you want to watch some exciting young players begin to carve out their own legacy in the NHL? Or do you want to watch the Canucks win games?

If it’s the former, you’re in luck. If it’s the latter, however, this could be an exceptionally frustrating season for you.

Let’s break down the coming season for the Canucks into its component parts.

Stick-taps & Glove-drops • I’m dropping the gloves with the rest of the Pacific Division for rudely getting better this offseason. For example, the Sharks added Erik Karlsson, the Kings added Ilya Kovalchuk and the Golden Knights added Paul Stastny and Max Pacioretty. They’re supposed to stay stagnant while the Canucks catch up.

• A tap of the stick to Gritty, the Philadelphia Flyers’ new mascot.

He looks absolutely terrifying, with wildly-rotating googly eyes, a rotund body, a gaping maw of a mouth and bizarrely unkempt orange hair. He’s amazing and immediately leaped to the top of my NHL Mascot Power Rankings.

Bo Horvat and Brock Boeser take questions from the media at the start of Canucks training camp.

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Offence

The Canucks will once again struggle to score. Brock Boeser is their biggest scoring threat, and he’ll try to avoid the dreaded sophomore slump and build on his 29 goals from last season. His centre, Bo Horvat, can hope for 25 to 30 goals, while left wing Sven Baertschi will look to best his careerhigh 18 goals from last season.

After the top line, the Canucks have more questions than answers. Can rookie Elias Pettersson carry the second line?

Will Nikolay Goldobin and Brendan Leipsic be able to break out? Can Loui Eriksson, the highest-paid player on the Canucks, re-find his scoring touch?

The majority of the Canucks’ scoring will have to come from the top two lines, as their bottom-six is built for defence, not offence.

Defence

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The Canucks are expected to return the same group on defence as last season, with any improvement having to come from within. Veterans Alex Edler and Chris Tanev form the core of the defence and will anchor the top two pairings.

Ben Hutton and Troy Stecher are both looking to bounce back from disappointing seasons. Hutton has come into camp in better shape and has earned more trust from head coach Travis Green, while Stecher has shown improved confidence in joining the

rush and being an offensive catalyst.

Michael Del Zotto and Erik Gudbranson round out the top-six, with Derrick Pouliot, Alex Biega and rookie Olli Juolevi likely to get plenty of playing time during the season when injuries inevitably come.

Goaltending

Jacob Markstrom won’t steal many games, but his first season as a number one goaltender wasn’t all that bad. Though he had a bad habit of giving up early goals, he finished the season with a save percentage of .912, right around league average.

That may seem like faint praise, but being an average NHL goaltender across 60 games is no small accomplishment.

If Markstrom can repeat that performance, goaltending won’t be a strength, but it will also be the least of the Canucks’ concerns. Backup Anders Nilsson is hoping to bounce back from a mediocre season, while prospect Thatcher Demko will be waiting in Utica for his shot.

Special teams

It’s time for a new generation to take over from the Sedins on the power play.

Adding Pettersson to Boeser on the top unit should give the Canucks two credible scoring threats on opposite sides of the ice, while Horvat and Baertschi can dish and

finish from the front of the net and slot.

Edler is the incumbent on the point, but younger defenceman like Hutton, Stecher or Pouliot will push for his spot. If the top unit clicks, they could become the Canucks’ biggest offensive threat.

The additions of free agents Jay Beagle, Antoine Roussel and Tim Schaller will take some of the weight off younger players and hopefully improve last year’s 21st ranked penalty kill.

Overall

As the Who once said, the kids are alright. Pettersson should compete for the Calder Trophy as rookie of the year, and other rookies like Adam Gaudette, Jonathan Dahlen and Olli Juolevi will push to get called up from Utica throughout the season.

The addition of these rookies just isn’t enough to push the Canucks into credible playoff position.

While the younger Canucks should entertain, the most likely result is a finish at the bottom of the Pacific Division and another high draft pick to aid in the rebuild.

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

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Dom Luszczyszyn, the Canucks have a six per cent chance of making the playoffs. The only two teams with lower odds according to his model are the Detroit Red Wings (two per cent) and Ottawa Senators (four per cent). Notably, the Senators projection came before they traded Erik Karlsson.

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The experts at Be Car Care Aware are also paying attention when it comes to educating drivers and, to that end, have debunked some common automotive myths.

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the rain, they’re also part of your vehicle’s safety restraint system, meaning that a cracked or damaged windshield can decrease the overall effectiveness of airbags, seatbelts, roof stability and your personal safety in the event of an accident. If your windshield is cracked, it’s important to have it repaired or replaced immediately.

suspension systems checked at least once a year and, even better, have that check partnered with a wheel alignment. It may be time to have your steering and suspension inspected if your vehicle experiences any one of these symptoms — pulling, uneven tire wear, noise and

are some things you can do yourself. Once a month, you should perform some basic checks on your vehicle, such as checking all fluid levels, including engine oil, power steering and antifreeze/ coolant. Drivers should also check hoses and belts, tires

vibration while cornering, or a loss of control.

Cars are so computerized that I should leave all checkups to the professionals

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Your engine should be warmed up by idling before driving It’s important for your engine to be warmed up before driving far, but not by idling.

Even in cold weather, the best way to warm up a vehicle’s engine is to drive away. With today’s modern engines, you should only need 30 seconds of idling — assuming that your windows are clear.

Suspension isn’t important to your car’s safety

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