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12TH & CAMBIE IS THIS THE LAST WE’VE SEEN OF VISION? 4 NEWS MORE WOMEN ELECTED, BUT CEILING REMAINS 5 OPINION NPA MAKES INROADS DESPITE ITSELF 10 FEATURE HALLOWEEN NEIGHBOURHOOD HAUNTS 24 October 25 2018 Established 1908

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Is the once mighty Vision Vancouver done as a party?

Once powerful civic force loses grip on city hall, fails to elect council candidate

Mike Howell

mhowell@vancourier.com

It couldn’t have been a worse 12 months for Vision Vancouver.

That, I know, is an understatement.

Many critics of the once powerful party have been lighting up social media and the Internet with predictable grave-dancing zingers as far back as last October, when Vision council candidate Diego Cardona finished a disastrous fifth in the byelection.

Here’s a taste from a comment on our website: “Gregor — the biggest failure this city has ever seen.”

That was among the less colourful broadsides of the mayor and his party. Repeating others here won’t add much to a story many of you have been reading since the Vision train left the station in 2008 and returned Saturday night missing some wellknown passengers and in need of an overhaul.

So what happened?

For starters, Vision failed to run a mayoral candidate after the party’s choice, Ian Campbell, withdrew from the race. Then one day before the election, Vision revoked the endorsement of council candidate Wei Qiao Zhang because of an undisclosed incident.

Prior to those two events, along with Cardona’s byelection loss, Vision’s popularity had been waning. The party’s sights on winning a fourth term at city hall became less clear when Mayor Gregor Robertson announced in January that he was retiring.

Saturday night’s election results showed how much trouble the party was in.

Was it the housing crisis?

Robertson’s failure to make good on his promise to end “street” homelessness by 2015? Bike lanes? Taxes?

Whatever it was, Vision failed to get anyone elected to park board and longtime council incumbent Heather Deal finished 13th; I called her and Cardona Monday,

Vision Coun. Heather Deal lost her bid Saturday for re-election, leaving the party without any representatives on council.

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but hadn’t heard back by the time this piece was posted.

Only school trustee Allan Wong, who was first elected in 1999 with COPE and crossed the floor to Vision in 2013, retained his seat.

He becomes Vision’s lone flag bearer.

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any of us would have liked to see,” said Ange Valentini, Vision Vancouver’s executive director. “I think what’s really important is that a strong group of progressives were elected to city council who have a real opportunity to build on Vision’s legacy.”

She was referring to the

election of Jean Swanson of COPE, Christine Boyle of OneCity and three Greens — Pete Fry, Michael Wiebe and incumbent councillor Adriane Carr. Independent candidate Kennedy Stewart was elected mayor, although Vision never did endorse him or Shauna Sylvester, as the party suggested it might.

The five NPA candidates elected to council were Rebecca Bligh, Lisa Dominato, Colleen Hardwick, Sarah Kirby-Yung and incumbent Melissa De Genova. So no more Andrea Reimer, Tim Stevenson, Kerry Jang or Raymond Louie, who — like Robertson — decided to retire and not seek reelection with Vision.

The veterans must have known what was coming.

And so goes the party with the big agenda that once boasted close to 20,000 members. This was the party the mayor and others described as a “big tent” party, where a cross-section of residents, including

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The party’s best days are clearly behind them, with the cascading events over the last year suggesting Vision has reached its expiry date.

Not according to Valentini.

“I don’t think that’s the case. That’s not my view. I wouldn’t say this is the end of Vision, at all.”

Added Valentini: “Vancouver’s our home, and it’s not like we’re going anywhere.

We have lots of work to do, and we’re here to collaborate and assist, and continue community building, and work in partnership with the people who were elected.”

But back to the obvious observation: The party went from three consecutive majorities at city hall to not electing one Vision council candidate. That’s quite a dip for the party, isn’t it?

“I’m not going to disagree with you on that one.”

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More women elected to council but still work to be done Eight out of 10 councillors elected Saturday night are women Jessica Kerr

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Vancouver might not have elected a woman mayor this time around, but eight out of 10 seats on the new council are being filled by women.

That’s a significant increase over 2014, which saw an even split of men and women elected to council.

The new school board remained the same with women elected to six out of nine trustee positions, the same number that were elected in last year’s byelection. On park board, just two of seven commissioners elected this time around are women, a slight decrease from three in the last election.

And while female candidates’ successes at the council level might be a first for the city, there is still a way to go, says Ellen Woodsworth, a former city councillor and founder of Women Transforming

Cities, a group whose aim is to make cities friendlier to women and girls.

“For women, it’s very difficult to get elected,” she told the Courier. She added that factors such as income level, a woman’s household responsibilities, childcare, eldercare and even the current at-large electoral system used in Vancouver all play a factor in the fact that fewer women feel able to step up to run for public office.

“We know that with a ward system eight per cent more women get elected,” Woodsworth said.

That is something that could be changing. Among his campaign promises, mayor-elect Kennedy Stewart stated that the 2018 election would be the last at-large election in the city.

He told the Courier Monday: “We’re having a referendum provincially on proportional representation.

We need to wait for those results, and see what the results are in Vancouver.

If there is a vote for proportional representation in Vancouver, then I would move forward with trying to bring proportional represen-

Former city councillor Ellen Woodsworth is co-chair and founder of Women Transforming Cities.

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tation to the city. If it doesn’t go that way, then I would try to bring neighbourhood constituencies to this city.”

Shauna Sylvester had hoped to become the city’s first female mayor, but fell short, placing third behind Kennedy Stewart and the NPA’s Ken Sim. She earned 35,537 votes to Stewart’s 49,812 and

Sim’s 48,828.

On election night, Sylvester acknowledged the push to have more women in power in the city.

“I know that there are many in the city that want more women to assume leadership roles… and there are a lot of women on this city council,” she said in her concession speech. “We

may not have heard the shatter of the glass ceiling but it’s coming. The cracks are really showing and I know around this room there are women who are going to break through it.”

Sylvester told the Courier Saturday night that throughout the campaign she was pressured to step down as a candidate.

“There was so much pressure on me to step back, so much pressure, and there was a group of younger women who said, ‘You just can’t. What’s the message you’re delivering to us. That’s just not OK,’” she said. “And we sat down and we went through a little workshop… and walked out of that [thinking] ‘I can’t step back.’”

Women Transforming Cities first organized ahead of the 2014 election to identify issues facing women and corresponding actions the city could take to address them. Ahead of this election, the group surveyed women’s groups about key issues and hosted a forum that included discussions around top election issues. Its recommendations, 33 policies in 11 areas, include reserving 50 per cent of low-income housing for women and including childcare spaces in all large developments.

WTC then sought commitments from electoral parties and candidates running in the election. @JessicaEKerr

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Four incumbents return to diverse Vancouver School Board John Kurucz

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Janet Fraser is the last person on Earth to describe herself as a rock star.

Vancouverites voted otherwise.

Lost in the headlines of Kennedy Stewart’s mayoral win or Vision’s near extinction is Fraser’s standing as the highest vote getter of all 158 names on Saturday’s ballot.

Having garnered 75,237 votes, Fraser easily cruised to her third straight mandate on the Vancouver School Board, besting the second-highest vote getter among trustees — fellow Green Party incumbent Estrellita Gonzalez — by almost 20,000 votes.

To put Fraser’s numbers in perspective, Adriane Carr topped all council candidates with 69,885 votes, while park board incumbent Stuart Mackinnon received 73,718 votes. Stewart, meanwhile, got just shy of 50,000 votes.

Fraser also topped the polls in last year’s byelection by close to 4,000 votes.

“It’s very humbling that

so many people have put their trust in me to be a trustee going forward,” she told the Courier Tuesday. “I think it shows that they trust the work that I’ve done over the past four years and it has resonated with them.”

The incoming, nine-person board consists of four incumbents, including Fraser, Gonzalez, Fraser Ballantyne (NPA) and Allan Wong (Vision). The five newcomers include Jennifer Reddy (OneCity), Oliver Hanson (NPA), Carmen Cho (NPA), Lois Chan-Pedley (Green Party) and Barb Parrott (COPE).

Much has been made of the lack of ethnic diversity on council and even on the park board, though the same doesn’t hold true on the school board.

“Having a number of people from different backgrounds and different cultural communities on the board will really bring different voices to the table and help us serve our students,” Fraser said.

Culture is among Fraser’s top priorities. Once the new trustees are brought

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Janet Fraser has been elected three times in four years, while Allan Wong has been a Vancouver school trustee since 1999. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

up to speed, Fraser plans to draft a motion that puts the board’s commitment to reconciliation into policy across all board-related activities.

“We do a lot of good work, but we don’t have a frame work to look at the big picture of reconciliation, to tie together all the different pieces that are happening in the district,” Fraser said.

On the other end of the ballot, Wong finds himself as the lone Vision Vancouver survivor across all levels of city government. Wong is the VSB’s longest serving trustee, have been first elected in 1999.

“I just listen to people,” Wong said when asked about his political longevity. “Anything that comes through the board, I spend

a lot of time and effort going through. I ask for reports and I follow through. I advocate for public education, not in the rah-rah sense but on the more tangible side.”

Wong formerly aligned himself with COPE, but has run with Vision since 2013.

Will he have a change of heart now that Vision is almost an afterthought in Vancouver?

“I have no thoughts about leaving Vision moving forward,” Wong said.

A grad of UBC’s multicultural teacher education program, Wong suggests Vision’s fortunes in the election were the result of misdirected frustration over Vancouver’s housing mess.

“A lot of people have come to me and said it’s unfair to label Vision with that because a lot that comes from other levels of government,” Wong said.

“With the new provincial government, a lot of that is too little too late.”

Wong sees two areas of immediate needs once the new board gets moving: lobbying for more provincial money and creating more space for students in growing areas of the city.

“There are pockets in the Cambie corridor, downtown, UBC, where those areas need space and we need student space there very quickly,” Wong said.

The new board will elect a chair and vice chair, along with being sworn in, on Nov. 5. @JohnKurucz

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The Vancouver Green Party, which elected three of its candidates to city council Oct. 20 — Adriane Carr, Pete Fry and Michael Wiebe — will be pushing for a citywide plan in coming months.

A citywide plan is a promise the NPA, which elected five councillors, also made.

Carr told the Courier it’s among her top priorities and hopes to accomplish it within 18 months. She envisions such a plan would focus on affordable housing, transportation and sustainability and be “co-created” with residents.

It’s also a priority for Fry who feels a comprehensive plan will kick-start a conversation with residents about what we, as a city, aspire to do.

The affordable housing crisis will be among the most difficult problems for the incoming council to address.

Some of the more contentious topics are around the recent 7-4 council decision in favour of allowing duplexes in most single-family zones, whether to increase the empty homes tax and how to maintain and create purposebuilt rental buildings.

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In September, Carr was among councillors who voted against the duplex motion, citing concerns about consultation. The motion was a “quickstart” action in the city’s Making Room program.

The Green Party’s Adriane Carr and Pete Fry, along with Michael Wiebe, were elected Oct. 20. PHOTO ROB KRUYT

City staff are now working on a report, expected sometime next year, on the possibility of allowing other forms of housing such as triplexes, quadraplexes and small apartment buildings in single-family zones.

Carr said she didn’t feel there was “good” consultation and that the duplex proposal arose out of a “vague question” during public consultation for the city’s housing program.

“I don’t think you can make that kind of citywide change and not have done really good consultation.

That’s why I think that whole notion of duplexes or triplexes or quadraplexes should all be wrapped into a citywide plan where people actually get to sit down, at the neighbourhood level and citywide, and have that robust discussion,” she said.

“You can accommodate

an awful lot of density in ways that actually fit well in historic neighbourhoods that doesn’t alter, and actually even enhances, neighbourhood character. I believe people in this city would be really excited about doing that. Instead of having people divided on the issue of adding in a duplex or triplex, we’d have a city that’s united around these varied options.”

Fry agrees process was the problem.

“It’s not to say that I think neighbourhoods should have a veto per se, but I do think we can get better results when we frontload the planning process with good consultation and good co-creation so that we’re working together and coming up with things together and we’re saying this is how we want it to look…

It’s not a matter if you get this kind of new density, it’s a matter of how.”

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to push for citywide plan Fry said he was also concerned that the mass rezoning for duplexes didn’t include rate-of-change controls or measures to make sure affordable housing isn’t displaced. He expects duplexes would more likely wind up on the East Side rather than more pricey areas on the West Side and potentially lead to the demolition of existing more affordable homes or suites.

“My concern is we are not doing a good enough job preserving homes for people who actually live and work in our city and we don’t want to exacerbate it further — driving up land prices in the interest of making money in flipping and speculation and that kind of thing,” he said.

The purpose-built rental question

Last July, Carr proposed a moratorium on the demolition of purpose-built rental buildings, which LandlordBC argued would have “huge unintended consequences,” especially since existing stock is ageing and in need of repair or replacement.

The proposal was referred to the city’s Renters Advisory Committee.

Carr said her objective for the moratorium was to allow the time to find alternative and varied sources of funding to repair buildings that are repairable through energy retrofits.

She’s concerned knocking rental buildings down means existing affordable units will be lost.

“Landlords, as well as the Urban Development Institute, or people within it, have told me a good idea is to really push the federal government into reinstating the tax incentives that they used to offer for the building of purpose-built rental,” she said. “And I’ve been told by many people in the develop-

ment industry that it would be great to expand the tax benefits not only for building but for retrofits, repair and for maintenance. I would really want to see a push for that.”

Carr expects a response on the moratorium proposal from the Renters Advisory Committee within the next few months.

The empty homes tax question

While it wasn’t part of the party’s election platform, Carr said the party would consider increasing the empty homes tax depending on the outcome of a staff report on the effectiveness of the program.

“What we want to see, and what I want to see, is how is it working? Are there any gaps in that program — are we sure that the rules are fair and really transparent?

There’s been some confusion around how do you get exceptions, what is an exception, etc. Let’s get that information. I like to ground decisions on real data, so I’d like to get that real data before saying, yes, I think we need to increase it [to] three per cent or whatever.”

Whether the Greens can accomplish some of their goals on a divided council remains to be seen, but Fry is optimistic.

He believes the party can work collaboratively with all other members of council, which include five from the NPA, one from COPE and one from OneCity, as well as independent mayor Kennedy Stewart.

“I do think, as Greens, we have a position where we can be the glue that helps to bind this council together.

Obviously, with Adriane and I getting a significant amount of votes, I think it’s clear we pull support from across the spectrum,” he said. @naoibh

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NPA snatches defeat from the jaws of victory — again Thanks to incompetence, what should have been an easy win turned into an embarrassing series of gaffes and strategic blunders

Mike Klassen

mike@mikeklassen.net

What to make of the raucous municipal election season, now behind us?

I take some satisfaction that many election scenarios were previewed in this space.

In recent months, I wrote about the spectre of a city council dominated by women, the eradication of Vision Vancouver, the influence of “dark money” thanks to new legislation and how Derek Corrigan’s disgraceful demovictions in Burnaby would hound Kennedy Stewart’s campaign.

If I am left with one overarching impression from this election — it is that despite claims to the contrary, the NPA’s political brand is the only one that matters on the centre-right.

To use a few pop culture references, the NPA is like the creature from Alien getting blasted through the airlock into deep space, but still able to clamber back into the craft.

Just like when the Grinch stole the Christmas trimmings, you can deny the NPA millions in corporate donations through legislation, but NPA voters still arrived at the polls in big numbers, likely humming

Notwithstanding his likeability, Ken Sim’s limited public profile before the campaign and lack of political experience didn’t do him or his party any favours, says columnist Mike Klassen.

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“Fahoo Fores Dahoo Dores” while marking their ballots.

Several pointed out the population is declining in the NPA’s traditional West Side enclaves. Yet they can still get five seats on council and raise a ton of money through individual contributions.

By comparison, just look at the charred embers of all the also-ran elector organizations and independent candidates, whose cumula-

tive percentage of popular vote barely eked into the double digits.

The only thing those fringe campaigns succeeded in doing is ensuring Kennedy Stewart won and labour unions remain in control of city hall.

Yet despite their staying power, the NPA has itself to blame for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. This is their fourth

mayoral loss in a row, and the third dominated behind the scenes by people whose forte is not politics.

Thanks to the NPA’s incompetence, what should have been an easy win turned into an embarrassing series of gaffes and strategic blunders by its board of directors.

Notwithstanding his likeability, Ken Sim was always going to struggle as the NPA’s torch bearer. He

had built up no public profile before the campaign, and had no experience in civic politics.

Instead of holding an open nomination meeting, the NPA board opted to appoint the other candidates.

The decision to reject someone such as Rob McDowell, in spite of his long service behind the scenes, was particularly egregious.

By rebuffing popular two-term councillor George Affleck, the NPA campaign continued to hobble itself with many of its voter base. Many small “l” liberals such as former councillor Peter Ladner, and former and current Liberal MPs Stephen Owen and Joyce Murray threw their support behind independent candidate Shauna Sylvester.

During the campaign, the NPA fell into the trap of not knowing what it stood for.

It took the bait on bike lanes and rapid transit and could barely take positions on these and other critical issues.

It had no plan to inspire voters about Vancouver’s future. The NPA’s basement suite housing promise never made sense.

Behind the scenes, the NPA could not even come up with a campaign team structure right up to the Labour Day weekend.

Even then, many top team

members had never worked on, nor knew how to run a winning election campaign.

If it were not for the NPA brand and some candidate name recognition, it is almost lucky that they elected anyone at all.

It is time for that organization to do some housecleaning and elect board members whose goal is not to meddle in politics but stand up for the city.

Other takeaways from the Vancouver election is the resurgence of COPE, and the establishment of the Vancouver Greens as a political tour de force.

COPE now have footholds on council, park board and school board.

This is something you could never have dreamt after they were swept aside by voters back in 2011.

The Green’s massive electoral success on council, school and park board puts them firmly on top in Vancouver politics today. It will only be a matter of time before we become more familiar with Adriane Carr’s seatmates Pete Fry and Michael Wiebe on council.

Congratulations to all of you who were elected.

You have a lot of work ahead of you. @MikeKlassen

Some advice for the winners in Vancouver’s election Michael Geller

michaelarthurgeller@gmail.com

Whew! While some campaign signs are still up, the election is finally over.

I spent election night at CTV’s Vancouver studio with outgoing NPA councillor George Affleck, former Surrey mayor Dianne Watts, pollster Mario Canseco and Gordon Price.

One of the most exciting and nerve-racking election night decisions is when a candidate should be declared “elected.”

It was easy for CTV’s Decision Desk to “kill Corrigan” and declare Mike Hurley Burnaby’s new mayor. But many were surprised how early CTV declared Kennedy Stewart’s victory, including those over at Global TV. While there were some anxious moments for the CTV team as the evening wore on and Ken Sim closed the gap, ultimately the “Decision Desk” was astutely correct.

Ten years ago, I was an NPA council candidate. While my 44,353 votes would have

put me in ninth place this year, I was 1,524 votes short of a council seat when I ran.

This year, 61 of the 71 candidates running for council also lost. While some were fringe candidates, many others were highly credible, and are no doubt still hurting over the results.

Don’t despair.

As Brita Owen once told me, her husband Philip Owen ran unsuccessfully many times before eventually winning a park board seat.

He went on to become one of Vancouver’s most beloved and respected mayors.

This year, name recognition was a major factor in who got elected. But so was the ballot design. Just ask Vision’s long-serving councillor Heather Deal who was listed last on the ballot because of the new randomized order and did not get re-elected. More about this in a future column.

Now I would like to offer some advice to the winners.

Kennedy Stewart, while I was critical of aspects of your campaign, congratulations on your victory. You

Columnist Michael Geller says he looks forward to seeing how Green Party councillors Adriane Carr, Pete Fry and Michael Wiebe implement their housing ideas. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

say you are willing to work across party lines, and I hope you will continually demonstrate this. A good start will be to appoint Green and NPA councillors to the Metro Vancouver Board and Council committees.

You might also want to borrow an idea from Philip Owen and host a monthly TV show during which residents can phone in to voice concerns and support for your actions.

Adriane Carr, congratulations on again topping the polls. I endorsed you and the Green Party’s housing plan since while no one can “fix” housing affordability, many of your ideas could contribute to a more affordable Vancouver. I look forward to seeing how you, Pete Fry and Michael Wiebe implement your ideas.

Jean Swanson, we have known each other since the mid-’70s when as a CMHC

architect and Social Housing program manager, I participated in the development of new Downtown Eastside projects including the first renovated SROs. You were a force to be reckoned with then.

In 2008, as a volunteer with the Building Community Society, I was shocked to discover the shelter component of welfare had not been increased for 14 years. I proposed that you and I jointly write a Vancouver Sun op-ed urging the provincial government to increase the amount.

Sadly, you and your colleagues rejected the idea fearing this would only put more money in landlord’s pockets. You were wrong, but now that you’re on council, I hope you will become more understanding of real estate economics.

Also, please abandon your call for a four-year rent freeze. It is beyond the city’s mandate and completely inappropriate unless you’re going to freeze property taxes, maintenance and operating expenses as well.

Christine Boyle, everyone speaks highly of you, including my wife and daughter.

However, I was disturbed by your party’s call for the downzoning of the Little Mountain property to rental only. While this property has been mismanaged by the province, city and developer, any downzoning at this stage would be a reckless act for a municipal government.

Finally, to all the NPA councillors, congratulations.

More than two thirds of the items to be brought before you will relate to planning and development. While Melissa DeGenova and Colleen Hardwick understand planning, I’m afraid you must now learn the difference between FSR, UPA and Site Coverage.

Early next year, the Urban Development Institute will again offer its Development 101 course for new politicians. I hope you and other council colleagues will attend since none of us wants to see housing affordability as the number one issue in the 2022 election. @michaelgeller

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Money, money, money Re: “Thought big money was finally out of Vancouver politics?

Think again” and “Too many candidates are promising more than they can deliver,” Oct. 11.

I would like to address several claims that were published in the Courier.

First, the opinion piece by Mike Klassen.

He discusses the “overt influence of unions and businesses” on elections as though they were both bad or even in any way comparable. They are not. When a large corporation donates $10,000 to a political party, that’s each of 10 directors donating $1,000, or maybe they voted to spend the corporation’s money. When a medium-sized union donates $10,000 to a political party, that’s each of 1,000 members donating $10.

Which one is more representative of the people as a whole, i.e. a democratic process?

Second, the opinion piece by Michael Geller. He has some interesting ideas, but many of his points in this article are totally wrong.

Geller thinks that only people who have corporate experience should run government. I disagree. On the one hand, corporations generally have the purpose of making profits for the shareholders, and that is generally diametrically opposed to serving the needs of the people, which is the purpose of government. On the other hand, elected officials are there to make political decisions, not to do the work themselves. For that they hire experts.

Geller conflates a child offering free ice cream with a mayoral candidate promising affordable housing. There is no connection between the two. Ice cream is a luxury; we can easily survive without it. People cannot survive without housing. A state that cannot ensure that all the people are housed is a failed state.

The kind of people that you should elect to government are people with decent human values, without too much concern about their background. And you definitely should not elect people who will not guarantee affordable housing.

Victor Finberg, Vancouver ••• Columnist Mike Klassen’s column about “big money” was very typical of his style of journalism. As usual, basically a hit job on the progressive left.

Similar to his hatchet job on Gregor Robertson some time ago. I wrote to the publisher suggesting that they provide an alternative view from the left, to no avail. Sure, you have Allen Garr but he does not represent the left in any way.

Surely the Courier can do better? Klas-

sen is and has always been nothing more than a right-wing NPA hack. I’ve been a devoted Courier reader for more than 35 years. Shame on all of you.

Gerry Thorne, Vancouver

Garr misinformed Re: “New mayor will need to learn where the washrooms are located,” Oct. 18.

Columnist Allen Garr needs to clarify what he meant by “And except for the newly emerged OneCity — Vision, the Greens and COPE all added candidates to the ballot beyond what the VDLC approved.”

COPE negotiated with VDLC and an agreement was made to allow COPE to run three council candidates. Mr. Garr has misinformed voters. At the very least an apology and retraction are in order.

Laura Stannard, COPE member and volunteer

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Michael Kissinger

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City needs to focus on affordability Re: “What’s so bad about a rental freeze?” Letters, Oct. 18.

Online commenter Katt rightly laments the “mass exodus” not only of young professionals who cannot afford to live in Vancouver, but also “core infrastructure workers.” Proprietors of restaurants, cafés and other workplaces “can’t find people to fully staff their businesses because those staff members don’t make enough money to afford housing in the city.”

A case in point is ShuRaku, the popular Japanese restaurant located on Granville Street downtown, which after many years has had to close because of — as reported in the Georgia Straight — “an extreme shortage of staff” owing in part to “increased living expenses.” A great loss for Vancouver, and a gain for no one.

A different sort of business, but equally afflicted, is the Portland Hotel Society. This is a non-profit that, according to an article in Star Metro, employs close to 750 people whose job it is to provide social housing for those in need. Ironically, many of these workers, though paid a fair wage, cannot afford to live in Vancouver and as a consequence either commute from “as far away as Mission” or “live in their vehicles.” The society cannot retain sufficient staff and is considering subsidized housing for its own employees.

The number one challenge for the newly elected city council is to curb inflation in housing costs and make Vancouver once again a city where ordinary people can afford to live and work.

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Mayor-elect promises housing crisis ‘in better shape’ by 2022 Mike Howell

mhowell@vancourier.com

Will Vancouver still be in an affordable housing crisis when the next civic election rolls around in 2022?

It was a question the Courier put to Kennedy Stewart Monday, two days after he narrowly defeated the NPA’s Ken Sim by 984 votes.

“We’ll be in better shape,” he said. “You can’t promise that it’s going to be completely solved, but what I want to do is show clear progress on that file. I’ll do that by being much more transparent, and to make sure the city sees what efforts are being made, seeing where we’re succeeding and seeing where we’re not succeeding.”

His answer was one of many he gave during a 15-minute telephone interview, in between phone calls his staff was managing to set up with Premier John Horgan and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

The following is a condensed and edited version of the interview.

Why do you think it was such a close race?

There were essentially 21 candidates splitting the vote and just adding to the confusion. And I didn’t have a party brand, the NPA did.

And the other thing is, when the [financial] numbers are out, I bet they outspent me five or six to one during the campaign period. That’s probably part of it.

You say you didn’t have a party brand, but you’re a former Burnaby NDP MP and heard accusations during the

thing you try to implement?

campaign from opponents who described you as “the NDP mayoral candidate.”

A lot of [the NPA’s] attack ads were that I was Vision 2.0, and they were also saying I was NDP. They tried to attack me with all that stuff, but the independent [brand] seemed to hold up OK. But certainly, you did nothing to distance yourself NDP and said at a news conference last week that you were “a proud New Democrat.”

I never will [distance myself from the party]. I mean I’d been an NDP MP for seven years. So it would be kind of disingenuous for me to do that.

Critics are saying the NDP is now leading city hall. What do you say to that?

It’s the NDP values I take with me, but I am taking my role as an independent mayor [to city hall]. That’s what I campaigned on. So that’s how I’ll act at city hall. I will try to work with all parties. In between media calls [today], I’m trying to talk with all the councillors just to get a sense of where they want to take the city, and see how I can help them — on things we agree on — achieve those things.

As you’re aware the NPA’s Ken Sim and his party were critical of your platform. Now the NPA has five councillors on the 10-member council.

What’s going to be your approach in governing a council where half of the members are not on your side?

It’s to treat people as independents. The NPA, although they all have the

Independent mayoral candidate Kennedy Stewart won a tight race Saturday, defeating the NPA’s Ken Sim by 984 votes.

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colour purple [of the party] on their signs, they actually run fairly independent campaigns. When you look at their individual websites, they have different priorities. In the past, they may have voted as a bloc because of the Vision Vancouver majority, but now they have a chance to govern — they actually have a chance to get things through, if they can cooperate, too.

Eight women were elected to council Saturday. I’m not sure that has ever happened before…

I was pushing forward with equity issues in the House of Commons. It was a big thing for me.

So I’m looking forward to maybe building some policy around women’s issues.

You won Saturday, but you only received 28.72 per cent of the vote. What do you say to those residents who didn’t vote for you?

There’s the [60 per cent of]

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folks who didn’t vote at all in the election. I’m going to have to get to know them more, and give them different ways to participate in the policy process. Electronic petitions, for example, in the House of Commons — that’s one way I was able to bring people who aren’t usually involved, into the political process. So I’d like to bring that into the city.

For the rest of the folks that voted — but not for me — there was a lot of agreement, for example, around building rental housing on city-owned land. Ken Sim campaigned on that, Shauna Sylvester did.

So I do think there’s a lot of agreement about what people wanted done, even if there was disagreement around who they wanted to do it.

Should residents assume that because you were endorsed by OneCity and had good things to say about the Greens and Jean Swanson from COPE, that they’ll always be on your side with every-

I would not assume that.

We’ve sketched out our broad policies and I think the devil’s always in the details. So that’s where we’ll have to compromise. We just saw in Victoria that the speculation tax brought in by [NDP Finance Minister] Carole James that she had to adjust it based on what [Green Party leader] Andrew Weaver wanted, and Andrew Weaver also had to make adjustments. So I think that’s what we’re going to see on this council — is constant adjusting and adjustments, and compromise, which I think is a better type of governance, anyway, rather than just ramming things through.

You have said that Saturday’s election would be the last time that voters in Vancouver will vote in an at-large system.

What do you mean by that?

We’re having a referendum provincially on proportional representation. We need to wait for those results, and see what the results are in Vancouver. If there is a vote for proportional representation in Vancouver, then I would move forward with trying to bring proportional representation to the city. If it doesn’t go that way, then I would try to bring neighbourhood constituencies to this city. Both of them require provincial approval.

So, a ward system?

Yes, a ward system, but sometimes people are more familiar with provincial and federal constituencies.

But the city had a referendum on a ward system

more than 10 years ago, and a majority of voters rejected the idea. So what makes you think voters would want it this time?

There won’t be a referendum because I’ve clearly stated in my platform that this is the last at-large election and I’ll do everything I can to change it. That will take negotiation from council. Knowing that proportional representation is very important to the Green Party, then we should start with that. If we can’t get that, then we’d move to wards. I mean, look at [the new] council — with the exception of Pete Fry, it is entirely white. We know from the U.S. experience, that is the biased outcomes of at-large systems. With a ballot that’s a mile long, and the lack of visible minority presence on council, that should be a clear indication that this electoral system is past its sell-by date.

So your number one reason to get rid of the at-large electoral system is what?

For me, it’s that it’s shown in many, many U.S. court cases to be racist.

It’s very disproportional, too, in that one party can win all the seats with 40 per cent of the vote, which happened in 1996. It’s very biased against ethnic minor groups, and that’s not acceptable in this day and age.

Stewart and the 10 newly elected councillors, including re-elected incumbents Melissa De Genova and Adriane Carr, will be sworn in Nov. 5.

A longer version of this interview is at vancourier.com. @Howellings

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Get to know your newly elected councillors Courier staff vancourier.com

Voters elected eight new city councillors and two incumbents this year. Here’s who they are and what their number one priority is over the next four years.

Rebecca Bligh — NPA

Having finished ninth in the polls with just over 44,000 votes, Bligh is a newcomer to the political world. Bligh’s professional background is in consulting and coaching and she’s lived in the city for 30 years.

A mother of two teenagers, Bligh currently calls East Vancouver home. Her past volunteer work includes stints with the Dr. Peter Centre and Dr. Peter Aids Foundation.

What is your number one priority that you hope to implement over the course of the next four years?

“My number one priority over the next four years is to build bridges with elected council and mayor in order to deliver on my campaign commitment — to unite a strong government to bring about change and opportunity for Vancouver residents.

For the sole purpose of being more effective and delivering results, we must look to harmonize what has been historically divisive political agendas. In the immediate, it appears quite obvious to me, we cannot move forward without a citywide plan. Meaning we must project 15 to 20 years into the future and ask ourselves, ‘What will Vancouver require in terms of liveability?’ Then and only then, can we get to work, with confidence, in building a city where people can thrive.”

Melissa De Genova — NPA

De Genova is the lone NPA holdover from the previous council and received the third-highest amount of votes (53,324) after Green incumbent Adriane Carr and newly elected Pete Fry. Her time in politics will now stretch into its second decade, as De Genova entered public life in 2011 as a park board commissioner. She holds a political science degree from Simon Fraser University, works as the director of development for the Vancouver Resource Society and owns a marketing and event production company. De Genova lives in East Vancouver with her husband and infant daughter and was named to Business in Vancouver’s “Top Forty under 40” list in 2016.

Number one priority over next four years?

“Building a familyfriendly Vancouver is my number one priority this term at Vancouver city hall.

Affordable child care and appropriate housing options are crucial to the success of making our city a place where families and seniors can thrive. We need to hit the reset button and explore new ways for meaningful public consultation — this includes fewer meetings at city hall and more meetings in the communities. City council needs to consider tools for engagement that fit into the busy schedules of those who are working to afford rent or scrape together their monthly mortgage payment. Our city needs to explore innovative solutions, like borrowed-light bedrooms. We need to prioritize expediting permits and reducing fees for the most affordable family housing and incentivize the development of licensed child care facilities. Our mandate is to serve the people of Vancouver, and we need to find ways to make our city livable and sustainable for future generations.”

B.C. Lee. This time out, Hardwick garnered the fifth-highest amount of votes among councillors (47,811) and the second most among the five elected NPA councillors. Hardwick’s career in TV and film dates back to the 1980s and her company New City Productions has produced work for Universal Pictures, Paramount Studios, MGM, CBS, NBC, ABC, Showtime and Lifetime networks.

Hardwick is a life-long Vancouverite and lives in Kitsilano.

Number one priority over next four years?

“The obvious politically correct answer is to say — solve the affordability issue.

But that oversimplifies a complex set of interrelated problems. I believe the key steps include a forensic audit and core review in order to determine where we stand so we can plot our course forward. This means a full, independent review of city finances to ensure tax dollars being spent responsibly and identify areas for improvement. It also means a review of city policies and programs introduced in the

past 10 years to evaluate whether they are making Vancouver more liveable and affordable. This will go a long way toward restoring the public trust. Starting with the line item detail in the city’s budget, we must make transparency and disclosure the default.

Armed with the knowledge of where we stand financially, we can implement measures that address affordability by conducting a new city-wide plan that respects the nuance of neighbourhoods with a mix of densities including rental or below-market housing units, more closely aligned with incomes. Introducing new housing forms on unassembled lots will underpin these connections, enhancing how we care for the young and the old and each other. We need to undertake a study to determine if our transit spending is making our housing crisis better or worse. If worse, how can we redirect that spending?

None of these goals will be achieved without restored public faith in our municipal political institutions, processes, and leaders.”

Sarah KirbyYung — NPA

Kirby-Yung is an outgoing, one-term Vancouver Park Board commissioner who served in both the chair and vice chair capacities.

She works in the tourism industry and in marketing and communications.

Kirby-Yung holds both a master of business administration and a bachelor of arts degree. She’s also a former director of marketing for Tourism Vancouver, Vancouver Public Library Board trustee and co-chair of the city’s Creative City Task Force.

Number one priority over next four years?

“I’m looking forward to getting to work for the city of Vancouver and our residents. Vancouver elected a diverse council and they want us to work together.

My first priority is to talk with my fellow councillors to determine where we have common ground, as we will need to collaborate to deliver on the pressing challenges we face. I know we have shared priorities across parties like affordability, streamlining permitting and

supporting small business, but in some cases different ideas on how to address these issues. The question will be how we come together to move forward as collective representatives of the city in order to make positive change. I’m also passionate about supporting our growing seniors’ population.”

Adriane Carr — Green Party

Carr was elected to a third term on council Oct. 20. She topped the council poll, earning almost 70,000 votes — 20,000 more than independent mayor-elect Kennedy Stewart.

Carr holds an MA in urban geography from UBC and has taught at Langara College.

She’s been involved in environmental issues for years, including those related to Clayoquot Sound. She co-founded the BC Green Party in 1983 and was its leader between 2000 and 2006. She served as deputy leader to federal Green Party leader Elizabeth May between 2006 and 2014.

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Lisa Dominato — NPA

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“My number one priority is to enable a range of affordable housing options for families, seniors, young people and vulnerable citizens through community partnerships, expedited processes, public lands, intergenerational home sharing involving seniors and students, and property philanthropy… These efforts must be coupled with transportation planning that considers public transit and walkability.”

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Greens top polls for park board Green Party candidates finish in top three spots for park board

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Vancouver’s park board will be a little bit greener over the next four years.

Voters elected all three

Green Party park board candidates Oct. 20. Incumbent Stuart Mackinnon returns, topping the polls with 73,718 votes for a third term, along with his running mates Dave Demers and

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The trio of wins gives the party another seat at the table, taking the number of Green Party park board commissioners from two to three.

“I think what we’re saying and what we’re doing seems to resonate with the people of Vancouver.

Certainly at park board it’s a third Green voice around the table, which is terrific,” Mackinnon said, adding, “But Greens purposely in this election did not run a majority slate because we believe there should be lots of voices around the table.”

And while the Non-Partisan Association saw gains at the council table, taking five of 10 council spots, the party lost some ground at the park board level with just two candidates elected.

Incumbent John Coupar will return for a third term along with newcomer Tricia Barker. Fellow NPA candidate Ann-Marie Copping was in a close battle for the seventh and final seat with COPE’s John Irwin but in the end, Irwin won by just 250 votes. Incumbent NPA commissioner Casey Craw-

Incumbents Stuart Mackinnon (Green) and John Coupar (NPA) are returning to the park board along with five new commissioners.

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ford was not re-elected after finishing in 10th spot.

COPE’s Gwen Giesbrecht rounds out the new board, with the left-of-centre party electing candidates to the board table for the first time since 2008. COPE held a majority on park board for one term following the 2002 election.

“I’m really excited that we have, certainly, a progressive majority on the board with three Greens and two COPE, and I know that both John Coupar and Tricia Barker from the NPA are great proponents and lovers of parks and recreation,” Mackinnon said.

The NPA took a majority on park board in 2014,

winning four of seven seats.

That was reduced to three in December 2016 when Erin Shum split with caucus and sat as an independent for the remainder of her term.

Coupar said that with no one party claiming a clear majority on the board, commissioners will have to work together over the next four years to get anything done.

“I think the last four years are somewhat of an indicator. I think we had quite a collaborative board the last four years,” he said.

“It wasn’t a highly political board, we got a lot of things done positively for Vancouver and I think we’ll see a lot of that work continue.” @JessicaEKerr

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These are the three types of proportional representation B.C. is considering Jessica Kerr

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Just when you thought we were done with voting, the ballots in B.C.’s referendum on electoral reform will start going out to households across the province this week. But what exactly are we being asked to vote on?

The ballot will include two questions — the first will ask whether B.C. should switch from the current firstpast-the-post election system to a system of proportional representation; the second question asks voters to rank three systems of proportional representation.

So, what is proportional representation and how does it work? The Courier spoke to Richard Johnston, a political science professor at the University of British Columbia.

“The basic idea is that the entitlement of a party to a number of seats in the parliament or legislature should be as closely proportional to its share of the popular vote as arithmetically possible,” he said. “That’s it.”

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The principle is simple.

It’s in the execution where things can get complicated.

We should also note this isn’t the first time B.C. voters have been asked about switching from the current first-past-the-post electoral system to a form of proportional representation — referendums in 2005 and 2009 were both defeated.

This referendum is asking voters who are in favour of moving to proportional representation to rank three proposed systems — mixed member proportional, dual member proportional and rural-urban proportional.

Mixed Member Proportional (MMP)

MMP was first invented for use in Germany in 1949, but is also the system currently used in New Zealand, Scotland and Wales.

The system divides MLAs into two tiers — local and regional. Local MLAs would be elected as they are now.

Voters cast a ballot for the candidate they would like to see represent the constituency, and the candidate with the most votes wins that seat.

However, residents then cast a second vote for a regional representative. It’s the second vote that determines what the overall share of seats each party is entitled to.

“So if a party gets 40 per cent of the votes cast, then it will get 40 per cent of the seats, to an approximation,” Johnston said.

Any seats that are won at the local level are awarded and subtracted from the overall total. The regional seats are then allocated based on each party’s percentage of that vote.

“So some parties will get a small top up, some parties will get a bigger top up, other parties may get seats only through the higher tier, but the total number of seats will be a number that is broadly proportional,” Johnston said.

He added, “It’s an attempt to have local representation mesh with an overall proportional result.”

Dual Member Proportional (DMP)

This system was designed in 2013 by Sean Graham, a civil servant in Alberta.

It’s not in use anywhere but was one of several electoral systems proposed in a 2016 plebiscite in PEI. “From a representational point of view, it’s kind of interesting, kind of smart, but it’s very hard to describe,” Johnston said.

With DMP, almost every riding would elect two representatives. Most of the province’s electoral ridings would be amalgamated with a neighbouring constituency to create larger two-member districts. The largest rural districts would likely remain unchanged — parties would run a single candidate and the candidate with the most votes would win the seat.

In the amalgamated ridings, each party would nominate up to two candidates to run in each riding and then designates its number one candidate and which will be number two.

On election day, voters cast a single vote for the party, not the individual candidates, and the number one candidate for the party that finishes first gets one seat.

“At this point, half the seats in the house are assigned,” Johnston said.

“Then a counting mechanism is set in [motion] to assign the other half.”

The second seats are then allocated to ensure each party’s share of seats is roughly the same as its share of the popular vote province-wide, needing at least five per cent of the vote to get any second seats.

Rural-Urban Proportional (RUP)

Johnston said this system

“attempts to address straight up what is in some ways a big rhetorical problem for proportional representation in a place like British Columbia, which is that B.C. is vast and mostly empty.”

“They’re trying to preserve some semblance of the existing constituency makeup of the low-density part of the province,” he said.

RUP would combine two proportional systems — MMP and the Single Transferable Vote (STV) system.

“The low-density parts of the province, basically the interior and the north, you would essentially have MMP — individual constituencies and then an upper tier of [representatives] selected by basically the same system as described in MMP,” Johnston said.

In the rest of the province, where there are a lot of people but not a lot of turf, ridings would be bundled into larger, multi-member districts and MLAs would be elected using STV. STV was the electoral method proposed by the B.C. Citizens Assembly and was included in the 2005 and 2009 referendums. It uses a preferential ballot where voters rank their preferred candidates on the ballot.

With STV, the counting of the ballots is more complicated, Johnston said, but it is already in use in Ireland, the Australian senate and in Malta. It usually requires several rounds of counting.

Each riding would have a minimum number of votes needed to win a seat. Any candidate that reaches the quota is elected. If that candidate has more than the required number of votes, the extra votes are transferred to the other candidates based on the voter’s rankings.

The candidates with the fewest number of votes are dropped and those votes are also transferred to the remaining candidates using the voter’s next choice.

Voting packages will arrive in mailboxes across the province between Oct. 22 and Nov. 2. Completed ballots must be returned to Elections BC by 4:30 p.m. on Nov. 30.

Anyone who does not receive a package by Nov. 2 can request one by calling Elections BC at 1-800-661-8683 or online at elections.bc.ca/ ovr. The deadline to request a voting package is Nov. 23.

For more information about the referendum, visit elections.bc.ca/referendum. @JessicaEKerr

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Analysis Here’s a snapshot of who didn’t vote John Kurucz

had some friends running for the park board. So I voted for them. I knew nothing about the other[s]… so I didn’t vote for any of them. So in all, I cast four votes.”

There’s that damn lengthy ballot rearing its head again.

“I feel voting in this city does not matter anyway. No one cares about the poor.”

Ouch.

“Had seven staples in my head from a fall Friday evening. On the couch recovering.”

Could’ve voted in the advance polls, but valid point.

“I voted but there were signs all over saying ‘it’s too busy come back later,’ I’m sure that stopped [people].”

This was a common refrain that I heard many times on Saturday.

The most interesting response I got out of the 30 comments posted actually encouraged non participation. Rather than re-post all 350 words, the Coles Notes version goes like this: there is no proof voting changes anything, everyone we’ve voted in since the dawn of time has been power hungry and self-serving and has nothing to change the status quo.

“The only acceptable way to move forward from the current system is mass nonparticipation. Participation in the current system legitimizes and enables it. We then have a placebo for action, and continue on our way having placed our power and our trust in the hands of a system that was never designed for us, and is incapable of helping us. If it was, it would have already. We can’t walk down Hastings Street and continue to believe that this system will save us,” the post reads.

Yikes.

The next civic election happens in 2022. That’s four years to give it some thought.

jkurucz@vancourier.com

Well Vancouver, you’ve gone and stepped in it again.

We’re in the midst of unprecedented crises in housing affordability and opioids and the middle class is disappearing en masse.

Evidently, barely 40 per cent of you give a damn.

Voter turnout in the Oct. 20 election was 39.4 per cent. It was 43 per cent in 2014 and traditionally hovers in the low 30s.

Only twice has voter turnout exceeded the 40 per cent threshold since 1996.

By comparison, federal elections during the same time period have consistently brought in close to 60 or 70 per cent. Provincial elections, meanwhile, have attracted between 50 and 60 per cent of voters since 2001.

I spoke to academics and an election reform advocate two weeks before the election to understand the reasons why. Ridiculously long ballot, too many parties and a lack of a ward system, they said.

I voted at Holy Trinity Anglican Church on Saturday morning, around 10:30 a.m. All in, the process took 40 minutes. This gave me plenty of time to survey my fellow voters. At least 85 per cent of the roughly 60 people in the room were seniors.

I was reminded of this scene when I received voter turnout numbers in my inbox on Monday morning. I wondered if the very people — millennials, xennials or whatever you want to call them — who have the most to gain or lose bothered to vote.

And so, as any scientifically valid pollster does, I turned to social media. I put the question on my Facebook page and on Twitter: If you didn’t vote, tell me why.

Being the tire fire Twitter

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is, I got a few anonymous responses: It was sunny out, so I didn’t vote. Who cares?

One person said he voted but some of the fringe candidates made “the entire thing look like a cheap farce.”

To Facebook we go. I’m 39, and most of the people who piped in were between their mid-20s and mid-40s.

These are the generations that will inherit tomorrow the decisions made today.

Here’s a sampling of some of the responses I got.

They’re verbatim, save for some editing for spelling and grammar.

“I did not do any research whatsoever towards any of the candidates and didn’t want to vote for someone I didn’t agree with. I know people can say to vote for the independent to further the notion of parties beyond the few major parties ... not to justify my ignorance but deep down I simply did not want to vote for Green or an independent if I didn’t agree with them and/or their platform.”

Fair enough. The same person took ownership of the situation and said he’ll educate himself better in four years’ time.

“I voted but it was very limited. I voted for the mayor of the party I thought was the least douchey and wasn’t full of shit. Hard choice. And I

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Autumn leaves turn East Van street into international attraction Photogenic neighbourhood’s popularity brings faux picnics, tourists and residential resentment Grant Lawrence

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Imagine getting home from work to find a family you’ve never met having a picnic on your front lawn.

As you survey this scene of strangers, you realize it’s just that: a scene. The picnic is staged in an effort to capture a perfect moment under a stunning canopy of bright autumn leaves. Once the shot is captured, the family packs up their faux lunch and mills about in the street for a while.

Such odd activities and encroachments have become commonplace on Cambridge Street in East Vancouver every fall season.

The red-hot attraction is a two-block cluster of towering, 60-foot red maple trees.

Each autumn, their leaves turn a dazzling crimson, accented even more so this season, contrasted against the bright blue skies that we’ve basked under for much of October.

Add it up and the result is a perfect fall storm of unexpected tree tourism in the Hastings-Sunrise neighbourhood. When I went by the corner of Cambridge and Penticton streets this weekend, it was like a street festival, with at least 100 people wandering around the intersection, iPhones, cameras and selfie-sticks aloft.

The vibrant autumn leaf show along Cambridge Street is popular among locals and tourists this time of year. But it’s never been this popular, say some residents, who are tiring of the crowds.

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Dawn Pemberton is a renowned soul singer who has lived on Cambridge Street for 15 years. She’s noticed a sharp increase in interest in the past half dozen years.

“It’s getting out of control,” Pemberton told me. “I’m right in the thick of the insanity. On the one hand, it’s great that people are enjoying nature and loving the trees, but now there’s tour buses showing

up. Tourists are climbing on other people’s parked motorcycles. They aren’t paying attention to traffic as they try to get that perfect shot. I’m worried someone is going to get hurt.”

I was stumped as to how this leafy street in East Van became such a spruced up hotbed for fall foliage. It seems the answer is a combination of old fashioned word-of-mouth branching

into the power of the world wide web. When I rooted around the intersection, I met people pining over the trees from Shanghai, Hong Kong, India, San Francisco and South Africa.

“We found out about these leaves from Baidu. com,” one woman told me.

When I asked what Baidu was, she looked at me a little dumbfounded. “It’s like Google,” she replied, “for

China and Chinese people.”

She also told me the colour red is very symbolic in Chinese culture. “Red is for luck, happiness and good fortune. Red is very special.

This street is very special.”

Another person from Victoria told me she had spotted the leaves on Instagram and had to see them for herself. Vancouver photographer Spencer Finlay’s blazing shot of Cambridge Street’s cardinal canopy has racked up nearly 3,000 likes and 137 comments on Instagram, many asking, “Where’s that?”

The turning of the leaves usually lasts about three weeks but has been extended this year, thanks to the lack of fall storms and the prolonged ridge of high pressure that has kept Vancouver in unseasonal sunshine. But the popularity of the trees — and the antics of the tourists going out on a limb — has some neighbours seeing red.

Fee Johnson has lived on Cambridge off and on over the years and has never seen anything like she has this past month.

“I had people pose on my porch and then tell me off when I tried to open my door because it wrecked their picture,” Johnson told me. “And yes, I had a family set up a picnic on my front lawn. Another guy

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While I was on Cambridge Street, I witnessed an angry male cyclist yelling at several older women to get out of the street. I called him out for it, and he was immediately apologetic.

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Gum art gives public something to chew on And four other events that make Vancouver awesome this week Lindsay William-Ross

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Bubble Trouble

This Halloween, 2018 VIVA Awardwinning artists Hannah Jickling and Helen Reed will launch the new public artwork QA CHEW’S BUBBLE TROUBLE, a limited-edition gum and the latest sweet in the their ongoing Big Rock Candy Mountain residency.

The fruity and “surprisingly earthy” flavours of the gum were developed with local students at Queen Alexandra elementary school. The gum will be distributed for free on Halloween across Vancouver’s busiest trick-ortreating neighbourhoods. The launch coincides with the opening of a group show at Western Front, Mouthfeel (Nov. 1 to Dec. 15), featuring Jickling and Reed as well as works by Dina Danish, Diane Borsato and more.

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Halloween SkyTrain Party

Fire up your Compass Card and get ready to ride into Halloweekend with the 12th annual SkyTrain Halloween Party. This is the all-ages, good times, on transit Halloween party that brings all the Halloween merriment right onto the SkyTrain.

Oct. 26, 8 to 9:30 p.m.

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Vancouver Health Show

Showcasing the latest trends for health-conscious consumers, Vancouver Health Show attendees will find everything they need in one place for two days. In addition to

Hannah Jickling and Helen Reed will launch the new public artwork QA CHEW’S BUBBLE TROUBLE, a limited-edition gum distributed for free on Halloween. It coincides with the group art show Mouthfeel, at the Western Front.

new and exciting health products, the show will feature interactive hands-on demos and a diverse range of topical and trending educational seminars on topics such as fitness goals and healthy meal prep.

Discover the newest products on the market that will inspire every room in your home to be the clean, green space of your dreams.

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SPARK Animation 2018

Show some love for the little guys — as in animated short films.

SPARK Animation will feature many Vancouver shorts, particularly in the “Made in Canada” program, including Amanda Strong’s Biidaaban, which won Best B.C. Short at VIFF’s B.C. Spotlight Awards. The festival features several days of diverse programming.

The full schedule is available online.

Oct. 25 to 28

Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour St. sparkfx.ca

Hot Dog Water Picnic

No, your eyes don’t need checking.

Hot Dog Water is real (well, inasmuch as any water touting miraculous health benefits is real) and you can sample it this weekend as part of this performance art pop-up. Serving as a sort of counterevent to the posh and pricey “In Goop Health” wellness summit, Hot Dog Water will give you food for thought right outside the venue. And if you want to shell out $37.99 for a bottle of water infused with a single wiener, well, that’s on you.

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This is not my Chilliwack

Municipal election results clearly show more education is needed around SOGI

SOGI is just one of many topics about diversity discussed regularly in I grew up in Chilliwack. schools, alongside race, I graduated from high ethnicity, religion and ability. school in this Fraser Valley SOGI-inclusive education community, as did my two simply means speaking sisters. I also got married about sexual orientation and there and my son was born gender identity in a way that at Chilliwack General Hospital. ensures every student feels It’s where my mom and dad like they belong. are buried. It’s where some of And, might I add, just my best friends live. like there is no “gay And it’s where some agenda” there is no “SOGI members of the Chilliwack curriculum,” as Neufeld School Board, including likes to call the initiative. In controversial trustee Barry the Facebook rant that got Neufeld, believe an antihim into so much trouble bullying program aimed at last year, Neufeld wrote, “… making schools safer and But now the B.C. Ministry of more inclusive for all kids is a Education has embraced bad thing because it includes the LGBTQ lobby and is protections for LGBTQ2S+ forcing this biologically children and youth. The absurd theory on children initiative they’re so afraid in our schools.” Of course of is called SOGI 123, which that was after he quoted stands for “sexual orientation the famously homophobic and gender identity” — a American College of collaboration between the Pediatricians, which says B.C. Confederation of Parent allowing children to choose Advisory Councils and the B.C. their gender identity amounts to “child abuse.”

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Just to be clear, the College of Pediatricians was created in 2002 to protest gay adoption, because apparently its members are against seeing unwanted children placed in loving homes. The problem is, and I’m talking to you — the Chilliwack voters who rallied behind Neufeld — many confuse it with the American Academy of Pediatrics, a group that is truly dedicated to the health of all children. Neufeld later folded under pressure and apologized for the “child abuse” remark, but not until taking some serious flack.

According to the Chilliwack Progress, Neufeld also predicted the government would soon start apprehending children to put in homes to explore homosexuality. Seriously?

I mean, it’s truly beyond words, but apparently there were enough voters in Chilliwack who believed his lies that not only was

Neufeld re-elected, but he got the second highest number of votes.

Come. On. Now. Earlier this year, the B.C. Teachers’ Federation filed a human rights complaint against Neufeld for his comments about transgender people.

CUPE 411, the union which represents non-teaching support staff in Chilliwack, filed a complaint with the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal alleging that their employer failed to protect its membership from Neufeld’s transphobic and homophobic statements about SOGI. But Neufeld isn’t the only anti-SOGI candidate voted to the school board in Chilliwack. Nope, those Chilliwack voters went whole hog and elected two others, including biblical creationist Darrell Furgason and Heather Maahs. The three candidates were

dubbed collectively and deservedly, the “Hate Slate.”

Other local areas to vote in anti-SOGI candidates include Abbotsford (Phil Anderson and Korky Neufeld) and Richmond (Richard Lee).

So, I have to ask those voters, do you seriously think there is not an LGBTQ2S+ child living amongst you? Would you turn your back against your beloved child because of sexual orientation? Do you think it’s OK for other students to bully LGBTQ2S+ kids, at a time when there’s a good chance that child is considering suicide? Is it so wrong to love these kids instead of believing the vitriol spewing from these fanatics who use the word of God to back up their false facts?

And finally, do you not consider turning your back on these kids to be the true child abuse?

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I watched the Vancouver election and all I got was this dumb button Itemizing the highs and lows of this year’s exhausting exercise in democracy Now that Vancouver’s civic election is mercifully over, we’ve had some time to reflect on what happened, what didn’t happen and whether these jeans make our ass look fat. They do, by the way.

Here are some random observations from the coffee-stained trenches of community news and civic politics, a.k.a. The Weekend at Bernie’s II of journalism — overlooked and underappreciated, but so essential to the fabric of democracy.

More people like bike lanes than Trump-style social media strategy

Give failed Coalition Vancouver mayoral hopeful Wai Young some credit.

She carved out a spot for herself in a crowded field of candidates — it’s just that not nearly enough people wanted to join her in that spot. She started her campaign by saying she’d tear up Vancouver’s beloved bike lanes and introduce some sort of “mutual respect” agenda and it went downhill from there. She even resorted to giving her opponents on social media catchy, pejorative nicknames such as “Socialist Stewart,” “Burnaby Bully,” “Dithering Ken Sim,” “Plain Cracker Ken Sim” and “Say Yes To Hidden Cash Hector.”

Sound familiar? Sure, it was entertaining, but in the end Young placed fourth, far back from the top three candidates, while her Coalition Vancouver team landed several bike lanes away from the winner’s circle.

Vision’s kiss was on no one’s list

Notice how Vision —

Vancouver’s ruling party for the past 10 years — didn’t endorse a mayoral candidate after its own candidate, Ian Campbell, stepped down?

That’s because it would have been the kiss of death to whomever they endorsed.

You can bet both independent candidates Shauna Sylvester and our eventual mayor Kennedy Stewart (who easily could have run under the Vision banner) were praying if not outright instructing Vision to not endorse them publicly. Kind of like how we removed “big fan of The Cosby Show” from our online dating profile a couple years ago.

Hey ho, it’s Burnaby Joe

Though it happened outside of Vancouver’s electoral boundaries, let’s hear it for punk icon Joe “Shithead” Keithley for finally winning a spot on Burnaby council. The D.O.A. frontman and perennial political bridesmaid was elected to public office after umpteen attempts.

No word yet if this will affect D.O.A.’s umpteenth reunion show, following its umpteenth final show.

I like big buttons and I cannot lie

Let’s give props to OneCity’s button game.

Not only did the upstart party manage to elect one city councillor and one school trustee (that’s one more elected official than Vision, if you’re counting), they also had the best looking election buttons, with at least three different designs, including a craft-brewery friendly wood grain number for councillor-elect Christine Boyle.

What’s up with CBC flaking out?

While watching the live stream of CBC Vancouver’s election coverage and doing shirtless crunches and planks on our shag

carpet, we noticed a few things. First, when did broadcaster Stephen Quinn start rocking the Mandy Patinkin look? In a word: hot. Second, who knew suit-wearing reporter Justin McElroy cleaned up so well?

And thirdly, whose decision was it for CBC’s election broadcast to go off the air at midnight, before all the votes were counted and the mayor’s race yet to be decided. Was there a rerun of Murdoch Mysteries they were obligated to run? It seems ludicrous CBC would invest all this time and effort on election night and not see it to the bitter end.

Shame on all 61 per cent of you

Considering the myriad of issues facing Vancouver — homelessness, housing crisis, opioid epidemic, transit, just to name a few — not to mention the visceral disdain for Vision Vancouver we’ve witnessed over the past year and the record number of candidates stepping up to take their place, it is ridiculous and shameful that only 39 per cent of eligible voters bothered to fill out a ballot. Yes the ballot was long, and in a randomized order instead of alphabetical, and it takes a while to fill out, and you might have to line up to put your ballot in the voting machine, and you’re busy and have things to do, blah, blah, blah. But seriously. Elections happen once every four years.

If you have time to watch an episode of The Walking Dead — seriously, kill Negan already — or drink a beer or type a Facebook post about your dislike of “Mayor Moonbeam,” you have time to vote.

And if you think that’s being a little harsh, maybe go to a country where its citizens don’t have the vote and ask how that’s working out for them. @KudosKvetches

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When it comes to legendary craft breweries in this province, there are dozens that have had a significant impact on shaping the B.C. beer scene. Victoria’s Driftwood Brewery has undoubtedly earned a place in that pantheon with its lineup of trendsetting Belgium-meets-West Coast beers. Fat Tug IPA quickly set the standard for West Coast IPAs in this province when it was released in 2010, and still does today. Sartori Harvest pioneered local fresh hop beer. Farmhand Ale was the first saison many B.C. beer drinkers ever tried — as was White Bark the first witbier.

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Anatomy of a stunt: How to set yourself on fire and survive Vancouver stunt team reveals how they crafted The Man in the High Castle’s ‘Burning Monk’ scene

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Realism is important in The Man in the High Castle — which might sound surprising, considering the locally shot Amazon Original series is dystopian fiction.

The Man in the High Castle takes place in an alternate reality where the Allies lost the Second World War. It’s the 1960s, and what was once North America is now divided into the Greater Nazi Reich and the Japanese Pacific States. Fascism is the status quo, but a resistance movement is rising.

While The Man in the High Castle (the third season hit Amazon earlier this month) is dystopian fiction, it also rings true. Fascism is having a moment; we’re one election, war, or missile crisis away from living The Man in the High Castle. And when The Man in the High Castle leans into that realism, it’s doubly terrifying, and doubly engrossing.

Thus, realism was top of mind when stunt coordinators Jeff and Maja Aro first read the fourth episode of the third season and noted the presence of an unnamed character they’d come to refer to as the Burning Monk.

The character was inspired by Thích Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk who self-immolated at an intersection in Saigon in 1963 to protest the South Vietnamese Diem regime.

In the High Castle script, a robed monk walks purposely through a violent riot. He pours a circle of gasoline on the pavement, sits within it, and lights himself on fire.

It was up to the Aros — a married couple who run Sea to Sky Stunts and have been involved with The Man in the High Castle since its first season — to recommend a course of action to the

Stunt coordinators Jeff and Maja Aro were tasked with recreating the self-immolation of a Buddhist monk for an episode of the Amazon Original series The Man in the High Castle.

producers. Should they create the Burning Monk with computer-generated imagery? Light a mannequin on fire? Or attempt the stunt with a human being?

Their preference was for the latter, because of that aforementioned commitment to realism.

In fact, Jeff wanted to be the one to self-immolate.

“It’s exciting as a stunt performer to be able to do something that exciting,” says Jeff. “It’s a challenge for me mentally and physically.”

Once they’d made their recommendations — and production green-lit their course of action — the Aros immersed themselves in research and development.

R&D meant studying videos of Thích Quang Duc (“It was a statement,” says Maja, adding that she found the videos difficult to watch.

“He wasn’t hurting anyone else. People had to watch.

People had to start paying attention”), and also bringing Colin Decker of Fire For Hire onto the team.

Decker — along with

business partner Dustin Brooks — was nominated for a technical Academy Award in 2007 for developing a firebarrier gel that can be applied onto human skin and lit on fire, creating the illusion that the flesh itself is burning.

With Decker’s assistance, they calculated how long Jeff would have before the fire would get too hot. They arrived at a number: 10 seconds.

“Once we understood that amount of time, then we could work backwards and make sure we had a procedure for extinguishing me,” says Jeff.

The scene presented a key challenge: the monk was seated. “And when you’re not moving, the fire gets way hotter and you can’t move away from it, and you’re stuck in it,” says Jeff.

They planned to start the fire low on his back, and ensure his robe was comprised of natural fibres (“Any synthetic fibres would melt and cling-wrap to you and burn you worse,” says Maja).

On the day they shot the

Burning Monk in Gastown, Maja says she was the calmest person on set. “Some of the producers were giving me hugs. They were like, ‘How are you not nervous?’ But I feel calm. I feel confident.”

Calmness and confidence aside, she did have an ambulance on standby.

“When you’re breaking down a stunt like this, you’re always thinking worst case scenario,” says Maja.

Eventually, the first assistant director handed the set over to Maja. She called for the cameras to start rolling.

The team fuelled Jeff (who was already covered in the fire-barrier gel) with the accelerant, and applied the gel to his nose and mouth, at which point he had to start holding his breath.

And with that, they set Jeff on fire.

They’d prepared for two takes, but got what they needed in 10 seconds — and the Burning Monk was subsequently extinguished.

Jeff ended up with a few blisters. He’d shaved his head that morning. “There was nothing holding the gel behind my ears, so that gel ran off quite quickly, and behind my ears is where the heat became too much,” he says.

Maja is currently stunt coordinating The Man in the High Castle’s fourth season; Jeff is stunt coordinating on Lost in Space.

The Burning Monk represents a career highlight for them both, but it’s one they’re quick to share with the High Castle team.

“There was a lot of trust,” says Maja. “There were a lot of people who brought that to life.”

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Family’s haunted house is a labour of love Halloween haunt attracts celebrates couple’s anniversary

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It’s not unusual for a couple to have a special way to celebrate their love for one another.

For Shawn and Trina Rundgren, that special way is “scaring the crap out of people.”

The Vancouver couple got married Oct. 31, 2006, and each year their anniversary has been spent a little spookier than most.

There are two reasons why they chose the day dedicated to remembering the dead to pledge their love to one another.

“First and foremost we both love Halloween and the fun of it all,” Trina says.

“And secondly, for a little bit of a spiritual reason.”

Since both of the couple’s grandfathers passed away before the wedding, Trina says it was a way to include them in the celebration.

“All Hallows’ Eve was considered a night that the spirits of the past could roam the earth,” she explains. “So we picked that night to let all of our family be with us.”

The Rundgrens celebrated their first anniversary with a Halloweenthemed party with family and friends at their South Vancouver home. More than a decade later that party has grown into The Halloween House of Horrors — a family-run haunted house walkthrough with animatronics and actors.

“We started decorating the yard a bit more each year and people started commenting on it,” Trina says.

“We got to a point where we had so many decorations that we didn’t really have the ability to just display it… It really had to become something more.”

The couple now enclose their garage and build a tunnel walkthrough that’s sure to scare the bejesus out of visitors.

“It’s quite scary. It has a little bit of everything — it’s gory, it’s spooky, it plays on a multiple of different fears,” Trina says.

“I want to keep it a bit of a surprise but based on reactions from friends and family, I’d say the scare factor is a seven out of 10.”

While many people go to Fright Nights and Potter’s House to celebrate the Halloween season, Trina says she wanted to highlight the smaller haunts in Vancouver neighbourhoods.

“We like being able to provide something for the families to do that is a little more low key,” she says.

“We don’t charge a fee but rather we ask for food or cash donations for the Vancouver Food Bank.”

Last year the couple collected more than 200 pounds of food and around $300 for the charity.

“That’s been super rewarding.”

The mother of two says people may judge how she and her husband celebrate their love, but she wouldn’t

have it any other way.

“It’s definitely a family affair for us now. It’s not only a great way that Shawn and I connect and celebrate our wedding and marriage, but the kids are involved and they love it and every year it gets bigger and bigger,” Rundgren says. “We love having all

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Feature Continued from page 13 As a councillor, Carr has been a Metro Vancouver Board member, council’s representative to the Lower Mainland Local Government Association, and a council liaison to the Vancouver City Planning Commission, Urban Indigenous Peoples Advisory Committee, Vancouver Food Policy Council and Cultural Communities Advisory Committee.

Number one priority over next four years?

“It’s a tie but they’re related. [The first is] implementing and actually accomplishing within 18 months a city-wide plan that focuses on affordable housing, transportation and sustainability — bringing down our greenhouse gas emissions — so [that] it’s a really robust plan and it’s done really consultatively, in fact, co-created with residents. The second is I really believe strongly we have to re-do the kinds of asks we’re asking of developers in terms of housing. We’re not going to get to the kind of numbers we need, and the affordability we need, unless we do things differently. And that is to actually implement a Vancouver-made, Whistler model where the ask of developers is not just for a community amenity contribution. This would be for upzonings. But, instead, the ask [would be] for a portion of the housing to be delivered to the city, in essence, not necessarily in our hands but with covenant on title. It would be for worker residents – sold or rented at a price that is affordable for worker residents.”

Pete Fry — Green Party

Fry earned the second highest number of votes in the city council race this election — almost 62,000.

It’s not the first time Fry has put his name forward for political office. He ran for a city council seat in 2014, placing in 19th in the race for 10 positions. In 2016, after Jenny Kwan stepped down to run federally, Fry ran as a Green Party candidate in the provincial byelection for Vancouver Mount Pleasant, which the NDP’s Melanie Mark won.

He also ran as a Green Party candidate in the 2017 Vancouver byelection to fill the seat vacated by Vision Vancouver’s Geoff Meggs. Fry landed in third place behind both Hector Bremner, who won, and COPE councillorelect Jean Swanson.

Fry is self-employed. He works as a graphic designer and in strategic and creative communications where he’s dealt with small businesses, as well as arts and nonprofit groups.

He’s chaired and sat on community boards including the city’s Downtown Eastside Local Area Plan, the Strathcona Residents Association and Our Place.

He’s lived in Vancouver most of his life and currently lives in Strathcona with his wife.

Fry’s mother is Hedy Fry, the federal Liberal Member of Parliament for Vancouver Centre.

Number one priority over next four years?

“At the root of it is the whole idea of a comprehensive city plan that really informs a lot of other things that we need to accomplish.

A city plan, in and of itself, doesn’t sound very exciting but I think it’s an opportunity to kick start a conversation about what we, as a city, aspire to do. When I say, we as a city, I mean the citizens and residents, not just city councillors and staff. It’s an opportunity for how we want to re-set some of the stuff that’s not working in our city. That includes housing and how we’re adding new homes and housing choices to neighbourhoods across the city — revitalizing those neighbourhoods; and how we’re addressing homelessness and the opioid crisis….

It’s about changing the culture at city hall and about changing the culture of how we as a city are moving forward and working together.

It’s about openness and transparency and collaboration and co-creation.”

Michael Wiebe — Green Party

Wiebe is a one-term park board commissioner. He was voted chair of the park board for a one-year term in 2016

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— the VPB’s first-ever Green Party chairperson — after being nominated by Erin Shum.

While on the park board, Wiebe has been involved with the Persons with Disabilities Advisory Committee, Indigenous Peoples Advisory committee, the LGBT2+/TGV2S committee, as well as several others.

He owns eight ½ restaurant lounge and he is also a consultant for restaurant businesses on their practices.

Wiebe is co-founder of Vancouver Art House Society, which helped save the Rio Theatre from development, and is past president of the Mount Pleasant Business Improvement Area.

He used to work in the Office of the Premier in the board resourcing and development office and was involved in the best practice guidelines for public board governance.

Wiebe, who also helped create the Vancouver Lifeguard Association, landed in sixth place for the 10 council seats this election with more than 45,000

votes.

Number one priority over next four years?

“My number-one priority is to restructure the way engagement and consultation is done to co-create the citywide plan.”

Christine Boyle – OneCity

A founding member of OneCity, Boyle is a United Church minister, community organizer, climate justice activist and parent.

She joined the team at the Canadian Memorial United Church and Centre for Peace as minister of community life in 2016. She also spearheaded national efforts within the church to divest the churches’ funds from fossil fuels. In 2015 she was a civil society delegate to the COP21 Climate Summit in Paris.

Prior to that, Boyle worked in strategic communications at the Columbia Institute’s Centre for Civic Governance, organizing training conferences for local leaders in B.C., Saskatchewan and

Number one priority over next four years?

“My number one priority is affordable housing. We’re likely to have another cold winter, and so we need to immediately ramp up the building of temporary modular housing, and then get a plan in place to protect renters, build more purposebuilt rental in every neighbourhood, and be planning for complete communities with affordable housing options and improved transit access across the city.”

Jean Swanson - COPE

A poverty activist, Swanson has lobbied for four decades on behalf of the working poor. If there’s a housing, affordability or

social justice protest in the city, it’s a safe bet that she’ll be there. Swanson, 75, ran for mayor in 1988 and finished second behind Hector Bremner in the 2017 byelection. She was named to the Order of Canada in 2016 for her long-standing devotion to social justice and for her work with the residents of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Swanson was among a group of protestors arrested earlier this year during a blockade at the gates of Kinder Morgan’s Burnaby Mountain tank farm. She received a seven-day jail sentence, serving four days at Alouette Correctional Centre for Women in Maple Ridge in August.

Number one priority over next four years?

“I don’t think I can make it just one, there’s three or four. So, a rent freeze, ending homelessness and getting a mansion tax to provide revenue for both ending homelessness and building lots of nice social housing for renters.”

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An unfermentable sugar added to beer to make it sweeter. Basically, yeast is lactose intolerant. They have no patience for lactose, and they won’t stand for it.

If you’ve ever picked up a bottle of craft beer, read the label and wondered to yourself what does all this gibberish mean, well, you’re not alone. Thankfully, the Growler is here to help you decode the jargon.

Kettle sour

Traditionally, sour beers took years to age and develop in wooden barrels under the watchful eyes of master brewers and blenders. Then someone figured out you could toss a bunch of yogurt in the brew kettle and git r’ dun in a day.

Suck it Belgium!

IBU

International Bittering Units. This is a measurement of how bitter a beer is. Ten IBUs is roughly equal to sticking with How I Met Your Mother for nine seasons only to be rewarded with that giant dump of a series finale. Forty is what Canucks fans feel anytime Mark goddamn Messier is mentioned.

100+ is finding out your best friend just got together with your ex and now they’re moving across country with your dog I mean what the f***, come on.

Bottle-conditioned

All those abbreviations and mysterious terms associated with your beer actually mean something.

ABV

Alcohol By Volume.

This is the percentage of your beer that is made up of happy juice. Preferred to the International Blackout Unit due to confusion with the acronym.

Brett

Brett’s the guy in the back who puts the labels on the bottles. He’s a funky dude with most of his fingers that loves him some Def Leppard.

They let him put his

name on the bottle if he manages to show up for work on time (which only happens sometimes). Cheers, Brett, you magnificent bastard!

Where’s that $15 bucks you owe me?

You know how when you put conditioner in your hair, your showers might take a bit longer, but your hair feels so friggin’ sweet after? Well, brewers add a bit of yeast and sugar to their beer to naturally carbonate it. Pretty much the same thing.

Nitro

Short for nitrogen, which is used to make the beer bubbly instead of carbon dioxide. It’s also a key molecular component of nitrous oxide, so if you get giggly after a dozen pints of Guinness, now you know why.

Wild ale

Some beers just can’t be tamed, man. Some beers are going to live their life like there’s no tomorrow. Some beers are going to see the world, and while you’re stuck in your boring ass life, at your boring ass job, they’re out there experiencing everything the world has to offer.

Thank God for daddy’s money.

The Fall 2018 issue of The Growler is out now.

You can find B.C.’s favourite craft beer guide at your local brewery, select private liquor stores, and on newsstands across the province.

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Jim Benning was a very talented defenceman in his playing days, known for his vision and playmaking ability.

In his final year in the WHL, he led the Portland Winterhawks in scoring with 28 goals and 111 assists in 72 games, making him the third highest-scoring defenceman in WHL history.

His offensive production in the NHL never quite lived up to his massive WHL numbers, but he still carved out a solid NHL career, playing 610 games with the Toronto Maple Leafs and Vancouver Canucks.

Benning’s past as a defenceman makes it all the more bewildering that he hasn’t been able to improve the Canucks’ defence as general manager. The Canucks entered the 2018-19 season with the exact same group of defencemen as last season, a group that struggled to transition the puck up ice, provided limited offensive support to the forwards, and gave up the sixth-most goals in the NHL last season.

The Canucks are banking on a couple of their younger defencemen like Ben Hutton and Troy Stecher to take a big step forward, but it might be asking too much.

To be fair to Benning, the cupboards were bare when he joined the organization. It had been nearly a decade since the Canucks drafted a defenceman in the first round and had limited success in later rounds. Benning is in his fifth year as GM, however, and there’s a limit to the amount of blame that can be pinned on the previous regime.

When you look at the moves that Benning has made to address the Canucks’ defence over his tenure, it’s not pretty. His biggest trade chip in Ryan Kesler brought back Luca Sbisa, who was prone to mental lapses in the defensive zone. He traded prospect defenceman Gustav Forsling to the Chicago Blackhawks for Adam Clendening, who lasted just 17 games with the Canucks while struggling with the speed of the NHL game defensively.

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Big Numbers • 39 According to hockey statistics website Natural Stat Trick, the Canucks have the second-worst scoring chance percentage in the NHL. The Canucks have taken just 39 per cent of the scoring chances in their games this season.

• 4 In Elias Pettersson’s absence, Bo Horvat stepped up in a big way.

Of the nine goals the Canucks scored without Pettersson, Horvat had three of them and assisted on another, for four points in four-anda-half games.

The verdict is still out on defenceman Erik Gudbranson. What’s mostly agreed upon is that the Canucks paid too high a price to acquire him. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Benning tried to find diamonds in the rough in Philip Larsen, Matt Bartkowski and Philip Holm, but each of them didn’t work out for various reasons.

Then there’s the big one, in more than one sense: Erik Gudbranson. Opinions are split on Gudbranson — some see him as the physical two-way defenceman the Canucks desperately needed, while others question whether he’s even an NHL defenceman. That’s not an exaggeration: that’s how divided Canucks fans are on Gudbranson. What’s mostly agreed is that the Canucks paid too high a price to acquire him, sending Jared McCann, a high second-round pick, and a fourthround pick to the Panthers.

Benning and the Canucks did well, however, in acquiring Richmond native Troy Stecher out of the NCAA, and trading for Derrick Pouliot.

What’s most telling is who is playing the biggest minutes on the Canucks’ defence: Alex Edler and Chris Tanev, both defencemen who Benning inherited when he started the job. Benning hasn’t been able to find top-four defencemen capable of easing the burden on Edler and Tanev.

At least, not yet.

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The Canucks do have two blue-chip prospects on defence that are just not yet in the lineup: Olli Juolevi and Quinn Hughes. Both were top-10 draft picks and they carry the weight of the future of the Canucks’ defence on their shoulders.

Juolevi is in his rookie year in North America, cutting his teeth in the AHL. He has five points in eight games so far with the Utica Comets and has been relied upon for big minutes, including on the first power play unit. He will almost certainly make his Canucks debut this season.

Then there’s Hughes, who has the potential to be an elite offensive defenceman. His speed, skill and ability to read the play make him an incredibly exciting prospect. Between him and Juolevi, the Canucks should have at least one toppairing defenceman, and possibly two.

The Canucks desperately need them both to reach their potential.

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Stick-taps & Glove-drops • I’m dropping the gloves with any Canucks fans who harassed Michael Matheson on social media after his hit on Elias Pettersson.

The Panthers defenceman reported receiving death threats. Apparently, so did some of the Canucks for evidently not responding to Matheson’s hit in the “right” way.

• A tap of the stick to Jacob Markstrom, who took Anders Nilsson getting a string of starts like a pro, working hard with goaltender coach Ian Clark and only allowing one goal to the Boston Bruins on Saturday in his return.

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