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‘Level playing field’ in Vancouver civic election 12TH & CAMBIE

Municipal affairs minister says advertising rules set by B.C. Liberals ‘don’t do enough to take big money out of politics’ Mike Howell

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All these “show me the money” challenges by mayoral candidates, parties and backroom strategists are not something I thought (naively) would be the issue they’ve become in this civic election campaign.

The provincial government’s new campaign finance rules were supposed to fix that.

But, as we’ve seen, there’s more to be fixed, or at least clarified so everyone is perfectly clear how much they can spend, when they can spend it, who they can receive money from and when and why they have to disclose it.

Municipal Affairs Minister Selina Robinson has something to say about all this. I’ll get to her comments once I provide a summary of what has gone on this year in Vancouver’s civic campaign.

The first real controversy surfaced in April when NPA president Gregory Baker demanded Robinson apologize for accusing the party of looking for ways to skirt new campaign finance rules that ban union and corporate donations.

The story from Baker was the party was taking donations to keep its office open on Pender Street. In doing so, Baker pointed out, the party was abiding by the Local Elections Campaign Financing Act, as written by Robinson and the NDP. At the time, the Act did not limit union or corporate donations or restrict the source of donations for a party’s expenses required to rent an office, pay for staff, insurance, supplies and other costs to keep an office running between elections.

Municipal Affairs Minister Selina Robinson says advertising rules set by B.C. Liberals for this year’s civic election “clearly don’t do enough to take big money out of politics.” PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Robinson reacted and amended the legislation to “ensure that union and corporate donations cannot be used to fund any expenses of elector organizations during the year of a general election.”

The minister said “this change will ensure that we have a level playing field for candidates by keeping the big money out of local elections.”

That was in April.

Last month, billboards popped up around town featuring the mug of Yes Vancouver mayoral candidate Hector Bremner. After weeks of mystery, the Globe and Mail learned it was developer Peter Wall who paid $85,000 for the billboards. Bremner claimed he didn’t know who paid for them.

One of Bremner’s strategists, Mark Marissen, then took to Twitter shortly after this news broke to challenge independent mayoral candidate Kennedy Stewart.

He wanted the former NDP MP to disclose how much money the Vancouver and District Labour Council was spending to promote Stewart and 26 other candidates for council, school board and park board.

The VDLC responded via Twitter, saying it spent $23,178.37 on 100,000 flyers it mailed out to Vancouver households and $4,704.57 on a social media ad campaign.

What the labour council didn’t tweet — and what was reported by Dan Fumano at the Vancouver Sun — is that it is also paying the salaries of four union employees seconded to work on its campaign to get Stewart and the other candidates elected.

As I learned in my interview with VDLC president Stephen von Sychowski, two of the union employees belong to

the Hospital Employees’ Union, one is from the Canadian Union of Public Employees and another from the United Food and Commercial Workers.

Two of them began work Sept. 4 and two others joined Sept. 24.

Some of their work is also focused on getting Linda Buchanan elected mayor in the City of North Vancouver and candidates Angela Girard and Mack McCorkindale onto North Vancouver city council.

As von Sychowski understands it, all of the VDLC’s campaign work is within the rules. And whatever has to be disclosed, will be disclosed, he said.

“We’ve been working hard to make sure that we have a solid, clear understanding of the rules and it’s been challenging at times because they are brand new, and untested,” he said, noting he doesn’t anticipate the VDLC campaign will exceed the allowable $150,000 it can spend on advertising during the campaign period.

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a work in progress Here’s what Andrew Watson of Elections BC sent me via email when I asked him about all this.

“A candidate’s campaign and the advertising activities of a third party election advertising sponsor must be independent from each other. The advertising activities of a third party sponsor can support a candidate.

Door knocking and canvassing to support a candidate do not constitute third party advertising under the Local Elections Campaign Financing Act. Therefore, expense limits and disclosure requirements for third parties do not apply to these activities.”

The municipal affairs minister, meanwhile, sent me a statement regarding the Act and how it’s played out in this campaign. I’ve taken what I believe to be her most salient points and pasted them below.

“The third party advertising rules set by the previous government clearly don’t do enough to take big money out of politics. The third party advertising framework will be monitored throughout the 2018 general local elections to determine if any

further changes are needed.

This is the first election with both spending and contribution limits, and this gives us the opportunity to see where revisions might be needed after the elections are over.

Any specific incidents of concern regarding campaign financing or advertising rules are appropriately addressed to Elections BC; they have the jurisdiction to look into such matters and take necessary actions if there are contraventions of the rules.

We will be reviewing various other aspects of the 2018 general local elections, including experiences with contribution limits and expense limits, to determine what future changes are needed to provide a level playing field.

We will continue to work to make sure British Columbians get the fair elections they deserve, free of the influence of donors with deep pockets.”

Until then, that “level playing field” appears a little lopsided, as independent candidates have pointed out as they campaign without

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The election is Oct. 20.

Update:

Since I posted an online version of this piece last week, I was reminded via Twitter that city councillors George Affleck (NPA), Andrea Reimer (Vision Vancouver) and Adriane Carr (Green Party of Vancouver) wrote a joint letter to Robinson in November 2017. The letter outlined concerns with the new campaign finance rules, saying the biggest concern they had is the legislation “does not take into account political activity by outside third-party groups.”

The letter points out “these groups will conduct campaign-style work that includes polling, voter identification and get-outthe-vote activities.”

The hope from the three councillors was that the minister “will welcome amendments that will strengthen [the new rules], and make our local government elections fair for candidates and voters alike.” @Howellings

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The majority of homes envisioned in a four-storey, mixed-use development proposed for a property between 1102 and 1138 East Georgia Street near Glen Drive are three-bedroom units.

If approved, the complex would replace a singlestorey commercial/industrial building on the site, which is located across from Admiral Seymour elementary school.

The majority of homes envisioned in a four-storey, mixed-use development proposed for a property between 1102 and 1138 East Georgia Street near Glen Drive are three-bedroom units.

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A family-friendly courtyard is included in the project, as is office, retail and restaurant space at street level. Familysized rental apartments and condos are increasingly in

A four-storey, mixed-use development proposed for property between 1102 to 1138 East Georgia Street near Glen Drive.

demand as single-detached homes have become out of reach for most Vancouver residents. City policy requires multi-family developments include a minimum of 35 per cent family housing — defined as two and three-bedroom units — with a target of 10 per cent being three bedrooms.

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Residents bent out of shape over Concerns raised about potential traffic, noise and the commercialization of the park Naoibh O’Connor

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A community organization is raising concerns about the Bacio Rosso “gourmet cirque cabaret show” that debuts in Queen Elizabeth Park Oct. 28. It’s expected to run for almost five months.

The Riley Park South Cambie (RPSC) Community Visions Steering Committee said residents weren’t consulted before the Vancouver Park Board approved the Bacio Rosso event in 2017. Now committee members are worried about potential noise and parking problems in the neighbourhood. They also question the event’s appropriateness for a park setting.

Set-up for the Bacio Rosso show is underway in Queen Elizabeth Park’s south parking lot near the public tennis courts. The cabaret show has been described as “a fully immersive entertainment experience featuring international circus artists, comedy, singers, magicians and a four-piece musical ensemble.” It also features a four-course gourmet meal.

Set-up for the Bacio Rosso gourmet cirque cabaret show is currently underway in Queen Elizabeth Park’s south parking lot near the public tennis courts. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

The three-hour show will run five nights a week until March 10, followed by a two-week tear down.

Depending on how the market responds, the organizer is able to shorten the production in year one, to the end of January, which has happened in other markets. If the show proves popular and the organizer wants to hold it in future years, it would come back to the board for approval.

Performances take place inside an antique magic mirror tent called a Spiegeltent, which seats about 300 people.

“Gourmet cirque cabaret” was first introduced to North America by the

German company Pomp Duck and Circumstance in New York in 1995. The following year it expanded to Atlanta. A permanent show, Teatro ZinZanni, has been running in Seattle since 1998.

Similar shows are also offered in several major European cities including Berlin, Vienna, Amsterdam, Nuremberg, Stuttgart, Basel and Munich by Palazzo Produktionen.

But Allan Buium, chair of the RPSC community visions committee, said its members weren’t aware the cabaret was happening until some residents in homes neighbouring the park received event notices in their mail boxes this September.

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Buium sent a letter to the park board outlining the committee’s concerns, including those about the lack of consultation and possible noise pollution and parking problems.

“If public consultation had occurred, more appropriate sites would have been recommended and a public park would not have been compromised for a source of revenue,” he wrote.

Buium said by approving the event without consultation, the park board acted in isolation of other city departments, such as ones dealing with traffic, and it failed to get feedback from the “community’s watchdog” — the RPSC. Buium also cited concerns about poor transit service to the show and its distance from the Canada Line. He said it’s unlikely people will cycle to the event during the rainy winter season. A lack of utilities at the site means generators must be used, he added, while he also questioned whether the noise and light will negatively affect birds in the park.

It’s not the first time an activity or event has taken place in the park or has been proposed for the park. In 2015, a zipline was set up with the Vancouver Park Board sharing some of the profits with the operator. In 2007, there was a proposal to build a 60-metre observation tower in QE Park, but that idea was eventually rejected.

Buium isn’t convinced the park board should entertain such ideas.

“Why does the Park Board continue to seek revenue generating projects at QE Park? Is this to be a major objective for QE Park’s future?” he asked in the letter. “There are other ways and places to generate revenue for our parks but there must be the political will to seek alternatives.”

He cited comments in 2017 by the Green Party’s Stuart Mackinnon, the only park board commissioner to vote against staging the cabaret show in the park, in which Mackinnon raised concerns about the commercialization of public spaces.

Octavio Silva, the park board’s manager of business development, told the Courier that each year 600 to 700 events are permitted in parks and beaches but the VPB doesn’t have the capacity to consult with the public for each one. Silva said staff con-

sider noise, light and traffic impacts when assessing potential events.

He called the Bacio Rosso cabaret a “smaller scale” event.

“If it had been a large event, we wouldn’t have placed it in that location,” Silva said.

Guests will be directed to come into the event through the park and also to park their vehicles in the park.

The primary entry point will be at Cambie and 33rd.

One hundred vehicles can be accommodated in free parking immediately adjacent to the event site.

Additional parking is also available on the plaza and on Park Drive north of 33rd.

Silva said the VPB and the organizer don’t expect there to be many more than 100 vehicles because people will likely travel in groups of two to four, and some will take taxis or transit.

“We’d like to reassure residents we’ve given it some careful consideration to ensure that we structured the event in a way that pushes the majority of the activity into the park itself,” he said. “For those residents that are on the south side of 37th, we are putting in no event parking signs on the event days.”

As for noise concerns, Silva said the impact is expected to be minimal — 45 decibels or less based on meter readings at similar event locations.

The park board’s revenue-sharing formula with the organizer is considered commercially sensitive, but Silva said most such agreements include a fixed or guaranteed component as well as “participatory rent.”

“The better they do, they better we do,” he said, adding, “All that revenue goes back into the delivery of park and recreation services here in Vancouver.”

The park board also says the event produces other benefits such as collaboration with and support for local musicians, artists and culinary companies, and that it will enhance “visibility and visitation” for the event site.

The event producer will offer community youth circus camp programs in the future to introduce children and youth to the “art of cirque.” The circus camps would be conducted during daytime hours in the Spiegeltent, with the potential to expand to other park board locations.

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Thought big money was finally out of Vancouver politics? Think again Broken election finance laws favour unions Mike Klassen

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Legislation meant to level the playing field for candidates in our municipal elections has done just the opposite. But are voters who have been flimflammed by a poorly written law going to be upset enough to send a message at the ballot box?

Election day is coming up fast on Oct. 20. On that evening we will see how gaping loopholes embedded into our new laws have altered the outcome of our elections.

Today, democracies around the globe are under threat. In countries such as Venezuela and Turkey, autocrats have altered their constitutions to grant themselves unlimited reign.

Who would have ever thought our elections would be so easily corrupted?

Last year, the B.C. government established the Local Election Campaign Finance Act (LECFA) to

bring fairness to municipal campaigns.

Instead, it feels more like a sham.

For independent mayoral candidate Shauna Sylvester, it became too much.

On Monday, she issued a news release declaring that “private big money interests are still forcing their hand-picked candidates on the taxpayer by funneling thousands of dollars into their election campaigns.”

She is specifically referring to the Vancouver District Labour Council (VDLC), a body that represents the interests of several public sector unions.

Over the summer, the VDLC announced that Burnaby NDP MP Kennedy Stewart as its choice for mayor in Vancouver, and a slate comprised of Vision Vancouver, COPE and others for council and school board.

Endorsing a union-friendly slate is not uncommon.

But the VDLC’s work did not end there.

Since that time, the union group has blanketed Vancouver with 100,000 voter cards promoting Stewart et al. VDLC has also hired at least four full-time election organizers to coordinate

According to columnist Mike Klassen, the Vancouver District Labour Council is exploiting loopholes in new campaign finance laws by providing staff to promote Kennedy Stewart and other candidates. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

campaign activities and volunteer teams.

Unions provide for extended “book-off” time to second workers to campaigns, which according to VDLC’s job posting will be reimbursed up to $10,000 per staff person.

Tens of thousands of union households have been inundated by direct

mail and contacted by paid phone banks promoting the Stewart slate. Polling firm Strategic Communications, known for its work with Vision Vancouver and the NDP, has been identified as one of the companies contacting voters.

Similar union-organized activity is being reported in other municipalities, includ-

ing Burnaby, New Westminster, and in the Tri-Cities and on the North Shore.

None of this campaigning is considered to be an election expense for Stewart or any of the 26 other unionendorsed candidates.

There are advertising limits set in place by the legislation, but unions rarely if ever advertise. Instead, their funds are spent behind the scenes running campaigns and coordinating lists of voters.

How much direct voter contact by Stewart’s campaign is happening is not clear. I have witnessed a handful of complaints on Twitter from people asking how his campaign got their phone numbers.

Using third-party lists for election campaigns is strictly forbidden thanks to the province’s privacy legislation.

Both voters and even candidates themselves were led to believe that LECFA would prevent the overt influence of unions and businesses. Instead, it appears that unions have been given a free hand to spend on campaigns promoting candidates.

When the LECFA legislation was tabled last November by Minister Selina Robinson, she was

made aware of this gap by the B.C. Liberal Opposition during debates. But she said the government could only make “an informed decision” on flaws in the legislation after the election.

Days ago, Premier John Horgan repeated his government’s intention to review these “gaps” after the results of this election are tallied up.

That looks a lot like inspecting the henhouse only after the wolves have had a visit.

This strikes me as careless in the most extreme sense.

Voters are cynical enough about politics without rigging rules to benefit one group over the other.

If Stewart and the other union-supported candidates form the next city council, school and park boards, how can the public see the election results as legitimate?

It places a big asterisk beside their names going forward as to the fairness of the election, and will surely make it harder for them to govern.

The 2018 election has more twists than any in recent memory, but the broken legislation to get big money out of politics is what will be remembered most. @MikeKlassen

Too many candidates are promising more than they can deliver Michael Geller

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“So, who should I vote for in the upcoming municipal election?”

Hardly a day goes by lately when I’m not asked this question. Unlike previous elections when the choice was between two or three political slates, this year there are 10 parties and 158 candidates running for 27 positions for mayor, council, school and park board.

To assist voters, the city has prepared a comprehensive list of the candidates, their priorities, platforms, biographies, social media, contacts, and documents including statements of disclosure. (You can also find the Courier’s online candidate guide at vancourier.com.)

The disclosure statements are revealing.

Other than NPA mayoral candidate Ken Sim, few candidates own shares in any corporations or any real estate, except in some cases a principal residence.

Does this matter? I think it does, since those elected will oversee a corporation with 2018 operating ex-

penditures of $1.4 billion and capital expenditures of $426.4 million.

As I write this column, I am reminded of the column I wrote before the 2014 election.

It included the story about a Grade 3 class election in which eight-year-old Jamie offered specific ideas about how to make his class a better place, while Olivia promised to give everybody free ice cream. While she had no idea how she would pay for it, she won by a landslide.

During the 2014 election campaign we were promised a Broadway subway to UBC, the most open city hall in Canada, free swimming lessons, a $30-a-month transit pass, a tax on vacant foreign-owned properties, 4,000-plus units of rental housing and 1,000-plus childcare spaces.

Not surprisingly, few of these promises were fully realized.

This year, most election promises relate to improving housing affordability.

If elected, COPE councillors will ask the provincial government to imme-

Columnist Michael Geller favours the NPA’s Ken Sim or independent candidate Shauna Sylvester as mayor of Vancouver.

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diately set a zero per cent rent increase for the next four years. This is akin to offering free ice cream to every renter. If such a policy was implemented, it would be disastrous for the city’s rental stock. No COPE candidates will be getting my vote.

Mayoral candidate Kennedy Stewart is promising 25,000 new purpose-built rental apartments over the next decade and a tripling of the Vacant Home Tax from one per cent to three

per cent. While I respect Stewart’s political acumen, I question whether his first promise is realistic given new rent controls; his second promise would be a major mistake.

Shauna Sylvester’s housing plan focuses on new coop housing, which currently accounts for just two per cent of Vancouver’s housing stock. She wants to make Vancouver the “North American capital of co-ops and co-housing.”

As CMHC’s program

manager-social housing in the early 1970s, I approved many of Vancouver’s housing co-ops. Sylvester’s goal will require a significant increase in senior government funding or new attitudes on the part of financial institutions if it is to be realized.

Rather than focus on stimulating thousands of new-build apartments or coops, the NPA proposes to allow two secondary suites in detached homes. Given how long it takes to approve and build new housing, this could well provide an effective short-term remedy.

OneCity is proposing to downzone the Little Mountain site from its approved mix of condominium and rental housing to rental only. While I have consistently opposed this project, I shudder at the thought of this, and so should any fairminded voter.

So, who do I recommend?

My recommendation for mayor is between Sylvester and Sim. Sylvester is personable and intelligent with considerable board and public policy experience. She would likely best manage

what is expected to be a fractious council.

Sim offers no public sector experience. But by all accounts, he’s decent, caring and could bring some much-needed fiscal acumen to City Hall.

My council recommendations include Vision’s Heather Deal and the Greens’ Adriane Carr, given the need for some institutional memory, joined by Pete Fry (Green Party), Colleen Hardwick (NPA) and independents Rob McDowell and Adrian Crook.

At park board, I hope Stuart Mackinnon will be re-elected along with other Green candidates and the NPA’s John Coupar.

My school trustee recommendations include the Greens’ Janet Fraser and NPA’s Chris Richardson.

Space does not permit a more complete list. Therefore, I urge you to read the candidate profiles, attend remaining campaign events and make your own choices.

Then cross your fingers.

It’s going to be a fascinating election night and the next four years. @michaelgeller

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He wrote about the lack of governing experience various candidates had. He stuck to the facts regarding Bremner, Stewart and Sim, but for some reason singled Young out for a personal choice

regarding her appearance. He remarked that she “powders her nose with a compact that looks remarkably like a cellphone.” Excuse me? What the hell does this have to do with her ability to govern?

I expect more from the Courier’s journalists. It is not appropriate to comment on a female electoral candidate’s appearance or choice of accessories she uses to enhance that appearance. It’s sexist and wrong. I hope I won’t see this kind of thing again in this paper.

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Artist Lexie Owen has placed bronzed items, such as bananas, avocados and milk cartons, on the shelves of Harry Mah’s McGill Grocery, as part of her most recent art installation entitled, fittingly, Corner Store. PHOTOS GRANT LAWRENCE

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Art in aisle one: Curious corner store exhibit casts items in bronze

East Vancouver’s McGill Grocery is home to an unusual art exhibit Grant Lawrence

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When you pop into your friendly neighbourhood corner store, one of the last things you would expect to see is a solid bronze banana.

Or, for that matter, a bronze avocado. Or a bronze potato. Or a fivepound bronze can of pop.

All nonchalantly placed throughout the shelves, exactly where they would normally be found.

Those and several other eye-catching castings of perfectly regular corner store items have been causing customers to react with a mixture of confusion and delight for the past two weeks at the venerable McGill Grocery, at 2691 McGill St. in East Vancouver.

“We’ve definitely had some customers who are dumbfounded when they see the pieces,” co-owner Harry Mah told me.

Mah is a longtime community leader of the Burrardview annex of HastingSunrise, where McGill Grocery is the beating heart. Many refer to Mah as the unofficial mayor of the neighbourhood. Mah runs the store with his brothers, Peter and Charles.

The Mahs inherited McGill Grocery from their mother, Oy Hee Mah, who purchased it in 1977, after the family immigrated from Toishan, China. According to Harry, a store of some kind has been in operation on that corner of McGill and Slocan dating back to at least the 1930s.

So what of the bronze castings currently found throughout the store — items that my kids think are part of some kind of awesome treasure hunt?

They are the creations of emerging artist Lexie Owen. The gleaming groceries are a portion of Owen’s most recent instal-

lation entitled, fittingly, Corner Store. The other half of the exhibit can be found at Access Gallery at 222 East Georgia in Chinatown, where a miniature corner store has been recreated in the gallery.

Owen has been the artistin-residence at Burrardview Park Fieldhouse — located a block and a half away from McGill Grocery — for the past four years, and considers herself a social practice artist.

“I’m really interesting in social structures and how those social structures materialize in the way that we relate to the world,” Owen, an Emily Carr graduate, explained to me.

“It’s become very apparent during my time in this neighbourhood of just how valued McGill Grocery is, especially the way the Mah brothers interact with this community,” Owen continued.

“I really wanted to find a

way to recognize that, and I also realized that they were already doing what the city wanted me to do with my residency, which is to create community engagement.”

The interaction Owen speaks of is the friendly Mah brothers’ uncanny knack for not only knowing seemingly all of their customers names, but their kids’ names and their grandparents’ names. The Mahs treat those who walk into their store more like friends stopping in for a visit rather than clientele.

People hang out. It’s like Cheers without the beer.

And even though it’s small, McGill Grocery always seems to have that one exact thing you need.

“Just the fact that they’re now second-generation running a corner store is pretty remarkable in this day and age,” added Owen.

“Ever since I started the residency, Harry in particular has always been really

supportive, so I eventually just asked Harry if I could place some sculptures in the store. He said ‘yes’ without hesitation.”

It turned out that Mah was looking for a way to raise Owen’s profile in the neighbourhood.

“Even though she had done various community projects, there were people who didn’t know she was even in the fieldhouse, let alone what she was doing,” said Mah. “So when Lexie approached me with this idea, I said sure, perfect, go for it.”

Since then, McGill Grocery customers have been hands-on with the art, curiously hefting the heavy, solid bronze casts (the can of beans tops out at 10 pounds). And the Mah brothers have found themselves as inadvertent curators, explaining the art to their bemused customers. Some folks have even offered to buy

certain pieces, such as the bronze banana.

“We explain to them that this is art, and that art can exist anywhere, that beauty can be found in everyday items,” said Mah. “What Lexie has done is taken the art out of the gallery and put it in the store, and put our store products into the gallery.”

The Corner Store exhibit runs concurrently at McGill Grocery and Access Gallery until the end of October. Before Owen’s residency at the Burrardview Park Fieldhouse wraps up at the end of this year, she’s planning a Corner Store walk of the neighbourhood on Saturday, Oct. 27 from 1 to 3 p.m., and a Fieldhouse Arts Salon in November, inviting everyone in the neighbourhood with a creative practice to display their work.

No word on the price of the bronze banana. @grantlawrence

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NPA raises $837,207 in push to win Vancouver election Mike Howell

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Developers and prominent business people are among more than 4,400 people who helped the Non-Partisan Association raise $837,207 in its ongoing campaign to get its mayoral candidate Ken Sim and 19 other candidates elected in the Oct. 20 election.

Robert Macdonald of Macdonald Development Corporation, Ian Gillespie of Westbank Corp., Future Shop founder Hassan Khosrowshahi and members of the Gaglardi family all donated a maximum of $1,200 each to the NPA’s campaign. (Tom Gaglardi is the owner of the NHL’s Dallas Stars.)

The party released its donor list Tuesday and it revealed more than 360 of the donations totalled the maximum allowable contribution of $1,200, although some contributors also gave $1,200 to the separate school board campaign, which is allowed under new campaign finance rules.

The grand total of donors, the party said, was 4,460 people.

“We were anticipating to

raise more, but it’s been very difficult,” said NPA president Gregory Baker, referring to new campaign finance rules that ban union and corporate donations and limit donations to a maximum of $1,200.

In the 2014 civic election, the NPA raised about $2.4 million while its rival, Vision Vancouver, spent $3.4 million on a campaign that led to Mayor Gregor Robertson and his party winning another majority at city hall. The goal of the new campaign finance rules was to get the so-called big money out of politics.

For the most part, Baker said, the new rules have had a direct effect on corporate donations, although he acknowledged owners of companies are making individual donations to the party. That was expected, as it was with parties that traditionally rely on union donations, he said.

But, he added, the support independent mayoral candidate Kennedy Stewart and 26 other candidates for council, school board and park board are getting from the Vancouver and District Labour Council is “a clear attempt to circumvent” the new finance rules.

NPA president Gregory Baker said the party hoped to raise more than the $837,207 it collected, but new campaign finance rules made that difficult. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

The labour council has spent more than $25,000 on brochures and social media advertising and is paying the salaries of four workers seconded from their respective unions to work on the campaign to get Stewart and the other candidates elected.

Stephen von Sychowski, the president of the VDLC, and spokesperson Andrew Watson of Elections BC told the Courier last week that the labour council’s work is allowed under the Local Elections Campaign Financing Act. Baker pointed out the

NPA has four staff, too, but their salaries are being paid for with some of the $837,207 raised by the party. Other costs paid for by the party include advertising, printed materials, rent for two offices, signs and internet charges.

In April, when the NPA was accused of circumventing the Act by accepting separate and unlimited donations for operating expenses, the provincial government amended the rules to ensure that union and corporate donations could not be used to fund

any expenses of elector organizations during the year of a general election.

“It’s odd that [the government is] not addressing this issue with the same speed at which it addressed the previous one in April,” Baker said of the provincial government’s response to the VDLC connection in the campaign.

Stewart told the Courier Tuesday that his campaign has raised close to $200,000, without the support of the VDLC. He said his campaign and the VDLC campaign are independent of each other. He also noted Municipal Affairs Minister Selina Robinson has promised to review the finance rules after the election.

“I’ve said all the way along that I support that review, especially when it comes to spending in the pre-election period,” he said. “So I look forward to that. But at this point, with 11 days left, we’ve got what we’ve got.”

As for independent candidates who say the current set-up gives Stewart an advantage, he pointed out that some of the independent candidates complaining about the VDLC connec-

tion were also interviewed by the labour council in hopes of being endorsed.

“You can’t really have it both ways,” he said.

Stewart has regularly updated his website with the full names of donors and the amount they contributed to his campaign; the NPA listed its donors’ surnames, but only the first initial of their first name.

Stewart said he wasn’t surprised by the amount of money the NPA raised and that a big chunk of it was the result of $1,200 donations.

“They’re a right-of-centre party, so their supporters have deep pockets and 1,200 bucks is nothing,” he said.

“So I’m not really surprised by that, but it does send a clear signal that progressives have to work together here to keep the NPA out — just because of the huge spending advantage they still have.”

Meanwhile, a Research Co. public opinion poll released Tuesday showed Stewart remains ahead of the NPA’s Ken Sim in the mayoral race, with 34 per cent of decided voters saying they will cast a ballot for Stewart and 20 per cent for Sim. @Howellings

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Vancouver voters answer $300-million question Oct. 20 ballot to include three capital plan borrowing questions

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Every four years, Vancouverites vote on who we want to make decisions about how the city runs, but the electorate also gets to call a few of the shots.

In addition to voting for the mayor and council, school board trustees and park board commissioners on Oct. 20, voters will also be asked to weigh in on whether or not the city should borrow money to complete a number of projects — from upgrades to streets and bridges, traffic signals and technology to maintaining and renovating parks, community centres and fire halls.

Every four years, city council approves a capital plan. Council approved the 2019-2022 plan back in July. It includes $2.8 billion in projects — $1.3 billion for building new assets and $1.5 billion to renovate or maintain existing assets.

“It’s quite a large plan and we fund it in a number of ways,” said Patrice

Impey, Vancouver’s chief financial officer.

More than $1 billion of the plan is funded through existing reserve funds.

“That revenue that we take in and we put aside in a reserve and then that’s available for us to fund the capital,” Impey said.

About $600 million of the $2.8 billion is “in kind” from development contributions — for example, a developer building a condo also includes something for the city, like a daycare centre.

Approximately $600 million is funded on a payas-you-go basis — utility revenues used to fund capital utility projects.

The city will take on debt to fund the remaining approximately $500 million.

A portion of that debt, about $200 million, is for utilities. Under the Vancouver Charter, council has the ability to borrow money to fund water and sewer projects.

“What appears on the ballot is only the debt that’s required to have

The planned renewal of Ray-Cam Co-Operative Centre is just one of the many projects that’s part of the 2019-2022 capital plan. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

authority from the electorate,” Impey said.

This time around that’s about $300 million for a myriad of projects — including repairs and structural work on the

Granville Bridge; major maintenance, replacement and enhancement of traffic signals and street lighting; and replacement or renewal of community centres, including Mar-

pole-Oakridge, Britannia, Ray-Cam and West End. In all, voters will be asked to answer yes or no to three capital plan questions on this year’s ballot for projects totalling $300 million.

Check out the questions ahead of time at vancouver. ca/your-government/capitalplan-borrowing.aspx.

To be approved, each question needs a 50 per cent majority plus one.

Impey said that over the last five elections support for the capital plan borrowing questions has ranged from 50 per cent up to 75 per cent.

“When we determine how to use debt and when to use debt as a funding source, again it’s a small percentage of the overall $2.8 billion, but we really do a lot of work to make sure that we have our debt at a manageable level and we measure that really by our debt rating,” Impey said, noting that the city currently has a triple A credit rating from both Moodys and S&P. She also said the city usually takes on debt over a 10-year period.

Vancouver’s current outstanding debt is at $598 million.

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The move is in response to complaints registered in the 2014 election when residents of the Downtown Eastside and Strathcona had only two facilities open on voting day to cast a ballot — the Carnegie Centre at Main and Hastings, and Britannia Community Centre near Commercial Drive.

“We’re bringing voting to the residents to make it easier for them,” said Rosemary Hagiwara, the city’s chief election officer, noting the move means 32 temporary voting locations from Dunlevy Street to Burrard Street.

The mobile service is an extension of what the city provided in the previous election for patients in hospitals and residents in long-term care centres.

The city will now offer 90 of what they call “special voting facilities” leading up to election day.

This year’s mobile service began Tuesday at Covenant House on Drake Street and will conclude Oct. 19 at the WISH drop-in centre for women on Alexander Street. Other stops will include the First United

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What the voter will see is a “mini” version of a voting place, with a vote tabulator, ballots, ballot box and staff on hand with a laptop to check off voters’ names, said Hagiwara, who couldn’t predict a definite number of how many people might use the service.

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“I think, on average, a lot of the places will have 100 to 200 [people], but it really depends on whether they will participate or not,” she said.

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Paul Hendren, the city’s election outreach lead, said the combined geographic areas of the central business district and Hastings corridor had the lowest voter turnout in 2014 at 34.1 per cent. He said it wasn’t much better in Strathcona at 39.4 per cent.

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Hendren said many factors could be attributed to the low turnout, including people who have never voted and don’t plan to, and those who don’t have access to computers and media to know about an election.

Travel is another factor.

He and others from the city have been visiting the Downtown Eastside since June to educate more people about the election, the issues and how to get on the voters’ list. The city is also working with community groups and identified peers to work as “election ambassadors.”

“It’s not a politically disengaged community,” Hendren said of the Downtown Eastside. “The people down there are very interested in this election and they want information and they seem excited to vote.”

Jeremy Hunka, a spokesperson for Union Gospel Mission, said the facility will open its doors Oct. 11 and Oct. 16 for the city’s mobile election crew. Hunka said the service removes barriers for voters who might not otherwise get a chance to vote in the Oct. 20 election.

“People in our community, quite frankly, have more at stake than the average person in this election,” he said, noting the number of homeless people and others living with a mental illness or drug addiction, or both. “They’re the most vulnerable and their voice needs to be just as loud as anybody else.” @Howellings

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Widespread winds of change discourage incumbent candidates Mario Canseco Glacier Media

By the end of this month, British Columbians will have chosen new mayors and councils all across the province.

A sizable number of incumbents decided not to seek office again this year, opening the door for what will seemingly be very different municipal governments.

In Metro Vancouver alone, more than half of mayors will not see their name on the ballot this year — including those in the two most populous municipalities: Vancouver and Surrey. Voters in Burns Lake, Nanaimo and Ucluelet will not have a chance to re-elect their mayors.

Many reasons have been outlined for the exodus of incumbents. One of them is indubitably the changes in campaign finance legislation brought in by the current provincial government of British Columbia.

Without the benefit of (over the table) corporate and union donations, it is practically impossible for incumbent mayors to run the same type of campaign that they ran four years ago. In larger municipalities, signs and door-knocking have already replaced targeted media advertisements.

Another issue that may have altered the plans of

incumbent mayors is the change from three-year to four-year terms that became effective in 2014.

This modification could have turned off politicians who still wanted to serve their communities but were not ready to make a commitment until 2022.

But aside from campaign finance and term duration, there is another hindrance for incumbents that is closely connected with the political developments we have seen over the past two years in Canada and the world. The electorate has become increasingly critical of whoever is the current holder of the top job. This sentiment has manifested itself in unexpected victories for minor parties and independent candidates.

Last year, Emmanuel Macron became president of France after an election where neither of the two dominant parties in the country’s democratic history — the Socialists and the conservatives rebranded as Republicans — made it to the run-off.

A province-wide poll conducted by Research Co. last week shows that almost half of British Columbians (46 per cent) do not like where their municipality is going and believe it is time to change course when it comes to their local government.

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Regionally, mayors and councils in the Okanagan and northern B.C. can breathe a little easier this time around. Almost half of residents in these areas (49 per cent) claim to like where their municipality is going and believe no change is necessary.

The situation is more dire for incumbents on Vancouver Island and in the Lower Mainland, where 48 per cent of

residents think it is time for change.

This municipal campaign is already more complicated than previous ones. New parties are emerging in some areas, and independent candidates have filed their paperwork in record numbers. There is a palpable anger against specific decisions, depending on whom you ask and where.

The issue that will

have to be defined in the next three weeks is which candidates will provide the best vehicle for the change that voters want to see in their municipalities. If things were indeed going in the right direction for most residents, more mayors would have probably chosen to stay on the ballot in 2018.

Mario Canseco is the president of Research Co.

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News Vancouver police officers will not face random testing for cannabis use Last incident of officer not being ‘fit for duty’ was in 2010 Mike Howell

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The Vancouver Police Board has approved a policy in advance of cannabis legalization that outlines guidelines for officers and staff members on the use of the drug. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

not compromised,” the report said.

The RCMP, however, is set to announce its new policy banning Mounties from using legal pot within 28 days of a shift.

While some other police departments are imposing timeframes on when an officer or staff member can report to work after consuming cannabis, the VPD said such a measure would be

difficult to monitor because length of impairment can vary from person to person.

“The most important thing is making sure officers show up fit and sober for duty,” said Police Chief

“Other factors can include how frequently cannabis is consumed, the quantity, and one’s own tolerance to the drug. These factors make cannabis a very different drug than alcohol and for these reasons there is a considerable amount of information that employees should be made aware of.”

The VPD sought the legal opinion of a lawyer from firm Roper Greyell to ensure its policy is in compliance with applicable labour law and arbitrator decisions, the B.C. Human Rights Code, the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act and the Workers Compensation Act. The policy also confirms police on duty can still consume alcohol or drugs, if working in an undercover role.

“In such circumstances, the supervisor shall weigh the concerns regarding the consumption of alcohol or controlled drugs against the specific needs of the police operation,” the report said. @Howellings

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The Vancouver Police Department will not implement random testing of its employees for use of cannabis or set a timeframe when an officer or staff member can last use the drug recreationally before reporting to duty.

The decision not to proceed with either measure is outlined in a VPD policy and accompanying report created to set guidelines for employees who use cannabis recreationally and for medical purposes. The Vancouver Police Board adopted the policy Sept. 27 in advance of cannabis being legalized Oct. 17 in Canada for recreational use.

“This policy will not prevent employees from taking their medication, but it does require the member to notify their supervisor so that appropriate adjustments to their work tasks are made to ensure their safety and the safety of others is

Adam Palmer, who spoke to reporters after the police board meeting. “In Vancouver, we don’t have an issue with it. The last time we had an officer show up who was not fit for duty was in 2010. So that was eight years ago — one officer. It’s very, very infrequent.”

That officer had been drinking alcohol.

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Peter Hodson was fired after he was caught selling marijuana in the Downtown Eastside. He was sentenced to three years in prison.

The report said drug testing of an employee will only occur “if there is good reason to suspect an employee is impaired,” or if a person is part of a substance use treatment program.

Training of all employees is underway on the legalization of cannabis and what it means for the department.

“The impacts of cannabis on an individual depend on a number of factors ranging from how the product has been consumed to the type of strain that was consumed,” the report said.

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Gourmet cirque cabaret coming to Vancouver

Bacio Rosso will combine circus acts, music, comedy and gourmet food in an antique tent in Queen Elizabeth Park SANDRA THOMAS sthomas@vancourier.com Canada’s first-ever gourmet cabaret cirque is coming to Queen Elizabeth Park.

Bacio Rosso has been described as Moulin Rouge meets Cabaret — and it all unfolds under an antique Belgian “spiegeltent” (travelling tent).

Bacio Rosso, which fuses cirque and comedy, also features a gourmet meal served while acts perform in the middle of the intimate setting of a circular big top

tent. The interior of the spiegeltent is lush red velvet lined with 2,000 bevelled mirrors and accented with handcrafted woodwork. A cast of entertainers from around the world will combine magic, movement and acrobatic performances for an evening featuring magicians, jugglers, trapeze artists, contortionists, clowns, singers and comedians.

The spiegeltent holds multiple stages, a full-service bar and dining tables that place audience members

in the heart of the action.

Every spiegeltent is not only given a uniquely personal name, but the goal is also to transport guests back to the romance of Old Europe. In the case of Vancouver, this living jewel box has been dubbed the Carrousel.

“Bacio Rosso is an opportunity for Vancouver audiences to experience the joy, magic and humour of this exceptionally enchanting evening and we could not be more excited to showcase the first of its kind in Canada,” says Bacio Rosso artistic director Scott Malcolm, who has spent 15 years directing Cirque Cabaret across Europe and the U.S.

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Gourmet cirque cabaret was first introduced to North America by German company Pomp Duck and Circumstance in New York in 1995. The following year it expanded to Atlanta. A permanent show, Teatro ZinZanni, has been running in Seattle since 1998. Malcolm is the past artistic director of both Teatro ZinZanni and Palazzo. Similar shows are also offered in several major European cities including Berlin, Vienna, Amsterdam, Nuremberg, Stuttgart, Basel and Munich by Palazzo Produktionen.

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The three-hour event runs from Nov. 1 to Jan. 1 2018, Wednesday through Sunday in Queen Elizabeth Park followed by a two-

week tear down. The producers hope to continue the show through spring 2019, but that has yet to be confirmed.

The Vancouver Park Board approved the event last November and set-up for the Bacio Rosso show is underway in Queen Elizabeth Park’s south parking lot near the public tennis courts.

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Poll finds some people still think you’ll get the flu from a flu shot STAFF WRITER, BURNABY NOW Most people think it’s important to get a flu shot — they just don’t necessarily plan on getting one.

A new poll of Metro Vancouver residents revealed 78 per cent of respondents believe the flu shot is important in order to help protect those who are more vulnerable to serious flu illness. But only 54 per cent of those polled plan on getting one.

The poll, conducted by Insights West on behalf of London Drugs, found among those who are unlikely to get a flu shot, the most common reason is a belief that it’s unnecessary because they’re healthy (34 per cent).

“There is a common misconception that if you are a healthy person then you don’t need a flu shot,” says Gianni Del Negro, a London Drugs pharmacist. “But even if you are in good health, it’s important to get immunized to help prevent the spread of

illness to high-risk individuals such as newborns, young children, pregnant women and adults with chronic medical conditions.”

Those who don’t plan on being immunized also cited concerns about negative side effects (24 per cent) and worries that the vaccine might make them sick with the flu (14 per cent).

“It is impossible to contract the illness from the vaccine itself because they are made with viruses that have been inactivated and are therefore not infectious,” says Del Negro. “Most people don’t have reactions to the flu vaccine — those who do may have soreness, redness or swelling at the injection site.”

OTHER POLL HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE: ! Nearly all British Columbians (97 per cent) who got a flu shot last year plan to get one this season. ! Older British Columbians, aged 55 and older, are more likely to get a flu shot this season (65 per cent), compared to those between the ages of 18 and 54 (52 per cent). ! Eight in 10 Metro Vancouver residents (84 per cent) are aware that the flu vaccine helps prevent hospitalizations and saves lives.

! Awareness among British Columbians about accessibility of flu shots is high. Nine in 10 (88 per cent) are aware that flu vaccinations are available free of charge for many Canadians (including children, seniors, pregnant women, aboriginal peoples, caregivers, and a number of other employment types).

Nine in 10 (89 per cent) are aware that Health Canada recommends Canadians protect themselves from the flu by being vaccinated (getting a flu shot) each year in the fall.

! A strong majority of Metro Vancouver residents (85 per cent) are aware that flu vaccinations are available at most pharmacies and can be administered by a pharmacist. ! One third of Metro Vancouver residents (35 per cent) believe that healthy people don’t really need the flu vaccination and onequarter (26 per cent) believe you can catch the flu from the vaccine. ! British Columbians who are unlikely to get a flu shot this year are significantly more likely

This year’s seasonal flu vaccine has been updated to protect against the viruses that health experts believe will be circulating during the upcoming season — both influenza A (H1N1 and H3N2) and influenza B. The flu shot was made available in B.C. beginning at the end of September.

to agree that the flu vaccination can have negative side effects (73 per cent).

Results are based on an online study conducted

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I didn’t expect to make new friends.

Now, this was not a group of flower children who had continued smoking joints over the decades, but instead it was made up of professionals — some retired and some not — who had not regularly used pot since the 1960s or ‘70s — if ever at all.

As it turned out, and much to my surprise, pretty much everyone sitting around the outdoor fireplace that evening said they had turned to medical marijuana for pain relief or for help for sleep disturbances. One 65-year-old explained he takes cannabidiol after his beer-league hockey games for knee pain, while another

said she was giving it to her elderly mother to help her sleep. Another said she used it to help her sleep after working graveyard shifts as a nurse’s aide and yet another said he was using it for chronic back pain. The one thing they all had in common was the fact they were using cannabis as an alternative to opioids and other prescription and overthe-counter drugs.

And whether it’s medical or recreational marijuana, what I’ve heard anecdotally and through interviewing dispensary owners, is that users of all ages are also turning to pot to cut down on their use of alcohol, narcotics and other recreational drugs.

Many believe marijuana and its derivatives do less

harm to the body than drinking a bottle of red each evening. And with the legalization of recreational cannabis in Canada scheduled for Oct. 17, many are looking forward to the day they don’t have to worry about getting busted for using pot. Of course, as with cigarettes or alcohol, there will be rules as to the where’s and how’s of using recreational marijuana, but it looks like the fear of getting busted for growing a plant in the basement will be gone.

That being said, baby boomers and seniors returning to marijuana should be warned the super strains grown today are not your grandma’s versions of pot. But with some careful research and proper advice, they could be.

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Vancouver woman attacked on night bus questions transit security John Kurucz

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Vancouver police are investigating a brazen late night attack aboard a bus leaving the Granville Strip that has left the victim questioning security protocols on late-night transit.

The attack took place shortly before 2 a.m. on Oct. 4 near the intersection of Granville and Davie streets. In the span of less than 10 minutes, the incident included alleged assault, sexual misconduct and attempted theft.

Speaking to the Courier exclusively, the victim, who has asked to have her name withheld, provided video of the final 90 seconds of her ordeal.

The video begins with a man appearing to pull up his pants and a bus driver approaching him. The man then approaches the woman, who is the only other person on the #14 bus, and asks for money.

She refuses, all the while filming the man who is

After leaving the bus, the alleged attacker punches the window the victim is seated near, re-enters the bus and attacks the woman both verbally and physically. He attempts to steal her phone and the pair fought outside the bus after the video ends.

hurling insults and profanity her way.

The attacker then gets off the bus, punches the window the victim is seated near, re-enters the bus and attacks the woman both verbally and physically. He

attempts to steal her phone and the pair fought outside the bus after the video ends.

The woman got her phone back, but was dumbfounded by the response from the driver, who she said didn’t call the VPD or transit police.

“He said he didn’t know what to do,” the victim said.

The Courier asked TransLink for comment, but didn’t receive a response prior to print deadline.

The woman suffered minor injuries — cuts and bruises — and the VPD confirmed to the Courier Tuesday morning that an investigation is underway.

“The suspect left the scene and was not identified. Investigators are reviewing further CCTV footage and the investigation remains ongoing,” Sgt. Jason Robillard said in an email to the Courier.

What the video doesn’t show is the minutes leading up to the attack. The perpetrator asked the victim for money while she was walking down

Granville Street and she refused. The man then followed her to the bus and forced himself inside without paying, according to the woman.

She said she saw him masturbating on the bus while staring in her direction. It was at that point the bus driver told the man to leave and she began filming.

The video has garnered close to 20,000 views since being uploaded to YouTube five days ago on Oct. 5.

The victim works in sales and regularly commutes across Metro Vancouver.

She said similar inappropriate behaviour — men leering, making inappropriate comments or even exposing themselves to her — happens on an almost weekly basis on transit.

“Stuff like this has happened to me before but this isn’t why I shared the video — I didn’t think this would become a big thing,” the victim said.

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Vancouver actress plays ex-cryptographer in historical drama Sabrina Furminger

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Not all heroes wear capes.

Not all heroes wield magical weapons. Not all heroes have chiseled pectoral muscles.

A different kind of hero gets their due in The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco. These heroes are audacious, resourceful, brilliant and undeniably heroic, despite not being Kryptonian or born of a lab accident. They’re based on real women from history who stepped up when their countries needed them, with no fanfare during or after.

The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco is the spin-off of The Bletchley Circle, ITV’s wildly popular series about a quartet of women in England who worked as code breakers during the Second World War and reunite years later to solve crimes.

The newer, locally shot BritBox series moves the action (and two of the original characters: Millie and Jean, played by Rachael Stirling and Julie Graham respectively) across the Atlantic to 1956 San Francisco, where

the duo take up sleuthing with a couple of American women who, like them, worked as cryptographers during the war.

Vancouver actress Crystal Balint plays one of those American women: Iris Bearden, a jazz musician, mother and underappreciated research assistant at Berkeley. Like many of her real-life counterparts, Iris’s wartime work is classified and buried in the past. Even her loved ones don’t know that she spent the war years decoding encrypted messages and saving lives.

“Thousands upon thousands of women were doing this incredibly complex codebreaking for the second half of the war,” says Balint, who researched American code breakers upon being cast in the show. “Once the war ended, the men came home and their jobs went to them and the women were asked to quietly step aside and go back to their lives of raising children and keeping house and home.”

In the United States, code breakers (the majority of

In The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco, Crystal Balint plays a jazz musician, mother and underappreciated research assistant at Berkeley.

whom were women) were recruited from Ivy League schools and by way of newspaper ads, says Balint.

Those women who passed the tests — and were unmarried, childless and willing to relocate — converged in a top-secret unit in Virginia called Arlington Hall, where they broke code for the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy.

The action of The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco takes place 11 years after that work was purportedly

over — more than a decade after female war veterans like Iris would have been expected to transition back to their pre-war lives.

“All these women have experienced this vast awakening of who they are and what they’re capable of and suddenly those things [like raising kids and keeping house] don’t seem like enough, but they have to be,” says Balint. “How do you reconcile that?”

“It would have been diffi-

cult for a woman of Iris’s ilk, marginalized both as an African American and a woman, to know your place, and to carve a path for herself,” adds Balint. “Through her work in the war, she had an opportunity to not just figure out who she is but realize how amazing she was, and that’s not something a lot of women get to experience even now. It’s a real gift, and to have to wrap that back up again is a challenge.”

But Iris asserts herself in her music, in her family, in a lab at Berkeley, and solving crimes with her old friend Hailey (played by Chanelle Peloso) and the recently arrived ladies from Bletchley Hall.

Balint — whose credit list includes Mech-X4 and Prison Break as well as well-received stage appearances in City of Angels and The Mountaintop — enjoyed sharing the screen with powerful women (“It’s not often as a woman that you get to work with other strong females”) as well as a long list of Vancouver-based actors in recurring and

guest starring roles, including Jennifer Spence, Ben Cotton, Peter Benson, Paul McGillion, Teach Grant, Jessica Harmon, Jordana Largy and Chelah Horsdal.

“Every single one of our guest stars was from Vancouver, and that was really empowering,” says Balint. It might be called The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco, but the series is “a real Vancouver gem,” according to its star.

The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco found an unlikely fan in Sharon Stone. The Basic Instinct actress tweeted out her love for the show shortly after the series premiere in late September.

“It was a shock,” recalls Balint. “I saw that and I fell off my chair. I had to double-check that it was really her, and it was.”

Will Sharon Stone pop up in 1956 San Francisco?

“I’m sure everyone is thinking the same thing,” says Balint.

The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco airs Fridays at 8 p.m. on Citytv.

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Arts & Entertainment

Haunted Trolley Tour delivers chills and thrills And four other reasons Vancouver is awesome this week

Lindsay William-Ross

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Haunted Trolley Tours

Get chills and revel in the thrills of the spookiest time of year with a fun tour of Vancouver’s haunted hot spots. This twoand-a-half-hour rendezvous takes guests on a spooky journey through the city’s haunted streets. Along the way, a tour host will regale passengers with gruesome tales of the Castelanni Milkshake Murder, the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver’s “Lady in Red” and more.

Oct. 12 to 31, select evenings.

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UBC Apple Festival

Taste your fill of more than 60 varieties of apples at this wildly popular annual autumn event. Stroll through the UBC Botanical Garden — you’ll want to save time for this after sampling all sorts of apple-inspired goodies such as pie, warm drinks and other treats. UBC is gearing up to have more than 34,000 pounds of apples on site.

Oct. 13 to 14 UBC Botanical Garden, 6804 Southwest Marine Dr. botanicalgarden.ubc.ca

Guo Pei: Couture Beyond

For the first time in its history, the Vancouver Art Gallery presents an exhibition dedicated to the art of fashion with the Canadian premiere of Guo Pei: Couture Beyond. Guo is the only Chinese national designer invited to join Paris’s prestigious Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture. The exhibit includes the imperial yellow cape — constructed from 55 pounds of embroidered silk and featuring a fivemetre train — famously worn by recording

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Bottom of the Pot Cookbook Dinner

Celebrate the launch of one-time Vancouverite Naz Deravian’s new cookbook, Bottom of the Pot, which focuses on Persian cuisine. This supper will include a buffetstyle feast from the book prepared by Deravian and chef Hanif Sadr, along with wine pairings (for an additional cost).

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Pets are vital parts of our lives, and so they are also welcome to be blessed at St. Andrew’s-Wesley United Church as part of a beautiful (and a little hectic) event. You’re welcome to bring any pet, or remembrance of a pet who has passed, and take part in a special service that culminates in the blessing of your animal by Rev. Dan Chambers and Jen Cunnings.

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Vancouver loves its coffee, from bean to cup. The city is packed with third wave coffee shops, where brewing is an art form, the graphic design on point and the Instagram opportunities bountiful.

The art of enjoying a cafe in itself is not a new concept, at all. It’s a timehonoured tradition, and one fuelled easily in numerous corners of the globe.

So when it comes to a list called the “Top 50 Cafes on Earth,” you can imagine the scope — and perhaps how hard it may have been to narrow that down.

Vancouver has a spot on the list, and its inclusion is making headlines. The storied Ovaltine Cafe, serving up classic “coffee shop” vibes of the diner variety since the early 1940s, is among the 50 selected by the UK’s Telegraph.

Written by “destination expert” Chris Moss, the piece explains the value of the “cafe,” as a “window on the world.”

“You see ordinary people — locals as well as visitors — coming and going, taking time out between work and home, meeting friends or colleagues, joining families,” the introduction continues.

True enough, the Ovaltine has been a beacon for the locals of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Steps from Main Street on Hastings, the Ovaltine — known by many from its striking neon signage, if nothing else — opened in 1942 and has remained a stalwart in the neighbourhood through decades of evolution.

The Ovaltine is a classic greasy spoon — BLTs, burgers and fries, pots

The Ovaltine Café on East Hastings boasts a retro look and classic neon signs that make it a favourite for Vancouver-shot film and television productions. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

of coffee sizzling on the burner — that had a new lease on life granted in 2014 when mother-daughter duo Grace (mom) and Rachel Chen took over ownership of the space.

The Telegraph files the Ovaltine in the section entitled “Time for a dinner date,” though for many the Ovaltine is a daytime spot.

Here’s what the Telegraph says about the place: “From the Edwardian building to the projecting pink neon signage to the unreconstructed décor — not to mention that anti-cool name — you’ve got to love this 1942 diner-cum-coffee shop.”

“Climb on to one of the red vinyl stools drilled into the floor by the long Formica bar or bag a highwalled wooden booth to enjoy a plate of omelette, pork chops or fried chicken with your filter coffee or Ovaltine shake — prepared on a vintage machine.

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So the Ovaltine is a bit of an unlikely choice, albeit a creative one, and a one that, all things considered, is well-deserved, since it is one of the city’s oldest operating restaurants and a special place for many that’s endured through the years.

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Where you can and can’t smoke, can you send pot in the mail, what to tell U.S. border guards and more John Kurucz

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Mary Jane, cheeba, Maui Wowie, herb and so on.

There are lots of names for cannabis and, as it turns out, even more parameters around what you can and can’t do once non-medical weed becomes legal Oct. 17.

The Courier reached out to everyone and anyone for answers: the city, province, Vancouver Police Department, the federal government, Canada Post and those in the legal community.

What came back was a mish-mash of answers.

Many website links were provided, as were referrals to other agencies or levels of government.

In some instances, spe-

cifics were a little… hazy.

The following answers apply to non-medical cannabis and users over the age of 19.

Where can I smoke pot legally?

Pretty much anywhere people smoke tobacco or e-cigarettes — except in vehicles and on boats.

The province’s regulations around a six-metre buffer near doorways and air intakes apply to pot as well.

And, when in doubt, make like Maude Flanders from The Simpsons and think of the children: don’t smoke pot on school properties, playgrounds, sports fields, skate parks and other places where children commonly gather. Beaches and parks are a no-go, given the Vancouver Park Board’s smoking ban.

Provincial and regional parks are also out of the question unless designated areas are provided.

How much pot can I have in my house and/or singlefamily home?

Four plants can be

grown per household, but can’t be visible from public spaces off of your property. But here’s the kicker: you can have up to 1,000 grams in your home at one time. That’s more than two pounds. Holy smokes, indeed.

Can I grow/consume pot in my front yard?

Yes and yes, but with asterisks galore. If your front yard has a fence high enough to make your new garden invisible from public view, grow those four plants to your heart’s content. As for smoking, ensure you’ve got a six-metre buffer zone from nearby doors, windows and air intakes. And make sure you’re nowhere near kids.

Can I grow/consume pot in my condo/apartment?

Renters in Vancouver can never catch a break. As if a one per cent vacancy rate wasn’t painful enough, chances are you can’t smoke or grow in your apartment. According to LandlordBC, pot smoking will be looked at the same way — you can’t do it —

as cigarette smoking in tenancies where it’s already forbidden to smoke tobacco (read: pretty much everywhere). Tenancy agreements issued after Oct. 17 will have to include specific clauses preventing smoking. The same rules apply to growing. The laws will be retroactive to tenancy agreements entered into before Oct. 17, preventing tenants from growing. Tenancies after Oct. 17 will have to include clauses that specifically prohibit growing.

How much pot can I have on my person when I’m out in public?

Thirty grams.

Can I drive after smoking pot?

Hard no. Don’t even think about it. The penalties can be massive, punitive and include fines, licence and roadside prohibitions or even jail time. Some of these offences can go on your permanent record, which would severely inhibit your ability to travel internationally.

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VPD Const. Jason Doucette told the Courier the following on this point: “Drivers must not operate a motor vehicle while their ability is affected by a drug or alcohol. New drivers in the Graduated Licensing Program will be subject to a zero-tolerance restriction for presence of THC.”

Are other types of cannabis legal (edibles, extracts, shatter), and if not, when will they be?

“Yes for possession. No for retail sales” is the response the Courier got from the VPD. The laws around edibles are likely to be more fully fleshed out next year.

Can I smoke pot in the presence of minors?

The provincial legislation has all kinds of safeguards specifically to shelter kids from the kush.

In this case, do the opposite of that timeless Nike slogan: just don’t do it.

Where can I legally purchase cannabis in Vancouver as of Oct. 17?

Nowhere. Seriously.

Both the city and VPD have confirmed as much.

“It is not expected at this time that any cannabis retail outlets will have completed the process to obtain a provincial and municipal licence to operate in Vancouver as of Oct. 17,” the city said in a statement to the Courier.

Can I take pot on a flight to Moose Jaw or elsewhere in Canada?

Yes. Up to the allowable limit of 30 grams, which will inevitably make places such as Edmonton, Toronto or Prince George seem worth travelling to.

That said, cannabis laws are different between provinces and territories: legal age, where you can smoke, consume and buy cannabis. Make sure to learn the laws before you fly the friendly skies.

Can I take pot on a flight to an American state where pot is legal?

Absolutely not. Don’t even think about it, dream about it or even visual-

other words, do what you need to do before arriving at a B.C. Ferries property.

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Non-medical cannabis becomes legal next week. The Courier has attempted to find out all the appropriate dos and don’ts prior to Oct. 17. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

ize it. Not even in states where cannabis is legal.

Can I take pot across the U.S. border, either in a car or train?

No. Don’t let flashbacks of Cheech and Chong’s van made of weed attempting

to cross the Mexican border cloud your decision making here. This cannot be overstated enough.

Can I carry or smoke pot on my boat?

Mostly no, but sort of

yes. The only exceptions are when you’re in an enclosed cabin on a commercially operated boat, or if you’re on a boat with sleeping accommodations, kitchen facilities and a toilet when moored or anchored.

Can I take pot on B.C. Ferries?

Yes. Travellers can carry up to the legal limit of 30 grams onboard. However, all terminals and vessels are smoke-free environments.

That includes tobacco, ecigarettes and cannabis. In

Canada Post did not answer this question directly.

What’s clear is that licensed operators can mail product to users across the country so long as the recipient is of legal age. Can your cool uncle Frank in Saskatoon mail some OG Kush to you in Vancouver provided it’s less than 30 grams’ worth?

This point is not clear. @JohnKurucz

Ask a lawyer...

The following answers were provided by Kyla Lee, a Vancouver criminal defence lawyer with Acumen Law Corporation who specializes in impaired driving law, procedure and police practice.

What do parents need to be mindful of in terms of the legality of cannabis in the home? Do you have to keep it stored or grown in a certain place?

“Parents need to be mindful about having cannabis in the home, in making sure that it is not stored anywhere that it is accessible [to] the children or that it is not used in a way that would make it enticing to children. For example, people who are making their own cannabis baked goods or candies expose themselves to significant legal jeopardy if those are in a form that is appealing to children and accessible

to them. The consequences aren’t just potential charges for distributing cannabis to children, it is also likely that [Ministry of Children and Family Development] investigations would flow from circumstances where parents are making cannabis available to children.”

You’re going to Seattle for a concert. The border guard asks you if you’ve ever used cannabis. What should you say?

“If you tell a U.S. border official that you have even just used cannabis, you could be subject to a ban on entry to the United States. Lying to the officials exposes a person to significant cross-border consequences as well, and can make the situation a lot worse. The best advice for anyone who is asked and concerned about the impact of the answer is to withdraw their application

to enter the U.S. and try again another day. Hopefully the U.S. and Canada will come to an agreement about border crossing soon, but for now any cannabisrelated answer is potential for exclusion from the U.S.” What happens when a VPD officer pulls you over and suspects cannabis impairment? What sort of test will be administered?

Can you refuse a test? If so, what happens?

“One of two things can happen. The police could issue a demand for a sample into an ‘approved drug screening device,’ which is a saliva tester. However, the VPD are currently taking a ‘wait and see’ approach to using the saliva testing equipment, so what is more likely is that you would be asked to participate in the Standardized Field Sobriety Tests. These are a series of three tests: horizontal gaze

nystagmus, one leg stand, and walk and turn which are designed to assess impairment of cognitive and motor function. If you refuse to comply with those tests you could be charged with a Criminal Code of Canada offence of refusing. The penalty on conviction is a fine, driving prohibition, and criminal record. So don’t refuse. The reality is that the results of the tests are not admissible as proof of impairment; they are only admissible to give the officer grounds to arrest and make a demand for further testing at the police station. So there is no advantage to refusing.”

How would the VPD assess levels of impairment? It’s pretty accepted that cannabis affects people differently and lasts in the body for a prolonged period. If a person smokes pot five days before being pulled over, it’s still in their

system but they’re not “impaired.” What happens in these cases?

“The Criminal Code has created two offences: one for impaired driving, where there is evidence of an impaired ability to operate a motor vehicle by a drug; the second for being in excess of a blood drug concentration limit. The second offence does not require proof of impairment.”

“To prove impairment, the police can simply rely on evidence of bad driving and physical observations, but they may also rely on the results of a Drug Recognition Evaluation test. This is a 12-step physical and psychological test designed to determine if a person is impaired, whether the impairment is caused by a drug or medical condition, and, if it is by a drug, what class or category of drug is causing the impairment.

If, at the end of the evalu-

ation, the officer believes that a person has a drug in their body, identifies it, and that drug shows up in the blood or urine, then the law presumes the person is impaired by that drug.”

“You can raise ‘evidence to the contrary’ to show that you are not impaired by the drug. That would be when medical cannabis might be a defence, or when the timing and rate of consumption of cannabis might be an issue. But the definition of evidence to the contrary in the drug impaired driving context is, as yet, untested and unlitigated. So it will take some time before we see where that goes. There is no ‘medical exemption’ or ‘retained THC’ defence for the blood drug concentration rules, which is hugely problematic and not at all based in science. This will lead to an inevitable constitutional challenge.”

—JK

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Here’s how to pair craft beer with food Rob Mangelsdorf

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“It’s fairly hard to find food that won’t pair with most beer,” says Chester Carey, Canada’s first certified Cicerone and a sommelier.

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Company’s coming, dinner’s almost ready, but you forgot to pop out to the liquor store to grab a bottle of wine. Obviously, you have a fridge stocked full of delicious, local craft beer, so screw it! Who needs wine with dinner? Beer it is!

Guess what? Beer is a vastly superior beverage to pair with food than wine.

Don’t believe me? Ask

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“Anywhere you can use wine, you can use beer, often to better effect,” he says. “Beer has that bread-like base flavour that works so well with so many different kinds of foods and its carbonation and wide variety of flavours also helps.

“It’s fairly hard to find food that won’t pair with most beer.”

While pairing beer with food is hard to get wrong, with a little practice and knowledge, you can get it so right that it elevates your meal and your whole dining experience. Sure, some foods, such as pizza and most salty pub grub, can pair with just about any beer — but we’re going deeper.

It all comes down to the fundamentals of beer and food pairing, which Carey calls the Three Cs: complement, contrast and cutting.

Complementing flavours are similar flavours that work well together, such as a fruity beer and fruity dish. Contrasting flavours are pairs of flavours, which while different, can enhance each other, such as fat and acidity, salty and sweet or sweet and sour.

As for the cutting effect, that refers to beer’s ability to lift spicy or oily flavours off of the tongue and scrub your palate clean, thanks to its carbonation and acidity.

So, with that in mind, here’s the Growler’s guide to pairing beer and food.

Pilsner

Pairs with: bread, seafood, cheese, salty snacks There’s a good reason why sausages and pretzels are staples of European beer halls, they are a natural pairing with a bready pilsner.

“Well-brewed pilsners actually have a lot of complexity,” says Carey. “The buttery character of the malt bill can make foods seem richer, while the hop notes will liven up the flavour.”

Try rich seafood dishes such as caviar or spaghetti alle vongole, or even escargot.

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Stout

Pairs with: roasted meats, cured meats, seafood, chocolate The bitterness of a dry stout will help temper the saltiness of seafood (like oysters) and cured meats, and let the natural sweetness shine through. Meanwhile, the malt character in stouts pairs well with roasted meats, as well as chocolate.

India Pale Ale

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Pairs with: spicy food, grilled meats, Asian dishes The hop character of IPAs works well with flavours of lemongrass and ginger found in many Asian dishes, especially Thai food. A simple steak grilled on the barbecue and seasoned with cracked pepper will benefit from the acidity of the IPA, “which plays nicely with the fat of

the meat,” says Carey.

West Coast Pale Ale

Pairs with: pizza, burgers, grilled meat, apple pie When it comes to “beerflavoured beer,” Carey says you can’t go wrong with pub classics such as burgers and pizza. “Pale ales often have a bready note with some hop complexity that works well with salty, bready foods,” he says.

Belgian Dubbel

Pairs with: red meat, North African cuisine, chocolate- and fruit-based desserts Darker Belgian beers, with their rich malty character, are a go-to for any kind of slow-cooked red meat, from Irish stew to bœuf bourguignon.

The notes of dried fruit and spice lend this style to dishes such as lamb tajine, while the caramel flavours help enhance rich desserts such as Black Forest cake.

Wheat Beers

Pairs with: salad, chicken, seafood Wheat beers tend to work well with salads due to their light and slightly sweet character. A Belgian witbier, with its subtle lactic note and citrus, is equally at home next to moules frites as it is a summer salad with bitter greens and goat cheese. A hefeweizen, meanwhile, would work well with a breaded chicken breast.

English Mild

Pairs with: sandwiches, charcuterie, cheese “A simple straight-forward beer that pairs with simple straight-forward food,” says Carey. With its light bready flavours, the mild is the perfect sandwich beer — but we’re not talking about grilled paninis with bell peppers and arugula. Meat, cheese, mustard, bread — simple.

Try it with a ploughman’s lunch, a cheese platter or cold meats.

Sour Ales

Pairs with: fruit dishes, fatty meat Sour beers are known for their acidity, which Carey says you should use to cut through fatty cuts of meat such as duck breast or pork chops. The fruity character in many sour ales lends itself to pairing with fruit-forward dishes and spicy Asian cuisine, not unlike IPAs. To learn more, visit thegrowler.ca

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It won’t be long before Elias Pettersson is the Canucks’ number one centre Canucks’ wunderkind is already surpassing expectations

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Any time a player has a hot start to a season, it can lead to a little over-excitement.

When that start to the season is also the start to the career of the team’s most hyped prospect, that excitement can reach a fever pitch.

The first two games of Elias Pettersson’s NHL career could not have gone much better for the 19-year-old Swede. He scored his first career goal on his first career shot, zipping the puck top corner on the Flames’ Mike Smith. He added a slick assist in that game, then followed it up with two goals and another assist on his second game, for a total of five points in his first two NHL games.

Since this is being written on Tuesday, Pettersson could have added to those totals against the Carolina Hurricanes after the Courier’s print deadline, or not; either way, the excitement will not dissipate.

What’s most impressive is that he’s doing this at centre.

Last year, Pettersson spent the bulk of his Swedish Hockey League season at right wing. On the wing he had fewer defensive responsibilities, didn’t need to take faceoffs, and had less pressure to make his linemates better. Transitioning to North America, the question was whether Pettersson could handle making the move to centre in the more physical, faster-paced NHL. That question has been answered. The new question is how long it will be before he’s the de facto number one centre on the team.

The long-term hope has always been for Pettersson to take over as the first-line

Elias Pettersson (40) and Nikolay Goldobin (77) celebrate during a Canucks game.

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centre, bumping Bo Horvat down to the second line. It was assumed that would take a couple seasons, but Pettersson’s quick start has some believing he could take on that role a lot sooner.

After Saturday’s game against the Flames, Canucks head coach Travis Green was effusive with his praise of Pettersson, describing him as “dynamite” and saying he was the team’s “best player tonight.”

“You could see tonight that I started to play him more and I want to protect him defensively,” said Green. “I have to figure out how much or if I have to protect him. He hasn’t played centre and he’s going to get tough matchups and he’s handled it excellently.”

Can Pettersson handle the tough matchups that a first-line centre inevitably faces? That includes taking on top defensive pairings and being deployed power-against-power against the top offensive players in the NHL.

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Those are the matchups being faced by Horvat’s line with Brock Boeser. Early on, that line has struggled. Boeser had just two shots on goal through his first two games, while Horvat’s only point came on the power play from a lovely assist by Pettersson. In terms of puck possession, the Horvat line has spent far too much time in their own zone. Pettersson, meanwhile, is even teaching Horvat with his play on the ice.

“It’s incredible not only what he’s doing with the puck but away from it,” said Horvat.

“He’s making stuff happen every shift and he’s a special player who’s only going to get better.

“I’m learning stuff from him, just his tenacity and how he’s hard on pucks and he has a lot confidence. To watch him do that stuff can help my game.”

As Green said, he’s discovering not just how much he has to protect Pettersson, but whether he has to protect him at all. So far, Pettersson has given every indication that he can handle whatever is thrown at him, and that includes his defensive game.

Pettersson is a nightmare in the neutral zone, breaking up passes and picking pockets. He’s positionally sound in the defensive zone and has a great sense of when to be aggressive and when to sit back and let the play come to him. It’s entirely possible that Pettersson is already prepared to face the top players on the opposition.

“I think really good players adapt well and it doesn’t take them long to realize little nuances that they might have to change,” said Green.

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Big Numbers • 205 Fun with early rate stats: At 2.5 points per game through his first two games, Pettersson was on pace for 205 points in 82 games, which would tie for the fourth-best season in NHL history.

• 13 The Canucks got off to a rough start with the referees. Through their first two games, they were shorthanded 13 times, more than any other team in the league, including teams that has already played three games.

Stick-taps & Glove-drops • A tap of the stick to Nikolay Goldobin and Loui Eriksson, who have quickly found chemistry with Elias Pettersson. You could argue that has a lot more to do with Pettersson’s talent level, but Goldobin’s offensive creativity and Eriksson’s two-way game have helped support the young centre.

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• A stick-tap to Elias Pettersson’s parents, Torbjorn and Irene, who flew from Stockholm to watch their son’s first couple of NHL games.

The camera had plenty of reasons to find them during the television broadcasts and their enthusiasm and intensity was delightful to see.

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One of the great things about the craft beer revolution is the many styles of beer that have been saved from obscurity — if not outright extinction — by creative brewers looking for the next “Big Thing.”

One style that’s popped up in recent years has been the gose (pronounced goes-uh). This salted, sour wheat ale originated in Leipzig, Germany, where it was ubiquitous in the city’s many Gosenschänken (gose taverns) during the 18th and 19th century.

The beer developed its distinctive flavour, it is said, due to the high salt content in the local water and, similar to the wheat ales of neighbouring Belgium, was flavoured with coriander.

Like so many regional European beer styles, the gose (pronounced goes-uh) was nearly wiped out due to world wars and the growing dominance of lager beers. By the 1970s, there was literally no one anywhere on Earth brewing a commercial ver-

Fernie Brewing First Ascent Gose takes a well-balanced, refreshing approach to the traditional origins of the gose style.

sion of the beer. Thankfully, the style was revived in the 1980s by historically minded East German brewers, and once the wall came down, American craft brewers slowly discovered the style.

A lot of local craft breweries here in B.C. have tried their hands at a gose (did I mention it’s pronounced goes-uh?) in the past five years, often adding fruit or different spices to the mix, or going crazy with the acidity.

But if you’re looking to dip your toe into this style, Fernie Brewing’s First Ascent Gose is a good place to start.

This well-rounded and well-balanced gose is a great take at the traditional origins of the style. The soft wheat character and minerality are contrasted by a restrained acidity. The coriander and citrus notes are present but not overpowering. The result is refreshing and endlessly drinkable — a great beginner sour ale for anyone intimidated by tart, acidic beers.

First Ascent Gose by Fernie Brewing (4.5 per cent ABV, 10 IBU)

Appearance: Deep gold, translucent with a healthy but fleeting white head.

Aroma: Slightly sour, briny, bready, coriander.

Flavour: Tart, citrus, coriander, bready malt character, wheat, spice, refreshing.

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