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New council could scrap majority vote for duplexes Mike Howell

mhowell@vancourier.com

I know many of you are excited about the possibilities of what a new mayor and council might do to make Vancouver a more affordable city.

They’ve got four years to make a mark.

But, it appears, they’re going to be doing some serious housekeeping before they get started.

Let me explain…

Let’s go back to that vote Sept. 19 at city hall that saw Mayor Gregor Robertson, his five Vision colleagues and Coun. Hector Bremner vote in favour of allowing duplexes in most singlefamily neighbourhoods.

Remember how controversial that was?

Well, Robertson and those six councillors are gone now, but two of the councillors who voted against that “quick start” in the city’s new Making Room housing program were re-elected. That would be Green Party Coun. Adriane Carr and NPA Coun.

Melissa De Genova.

And, as I reported last week, both Carr and De Genova wanted to make that point known for a second time in voting against the enactment of the bylaw that would put the new duplex zoning amendment in motion.

They did this Oct. 30 at the last council meeting with the old gang.

But after some feedback from city manager Sadhu Johnston, which was based on discussions with the city’s legal department, both councillors reluctantly agreed to vote for the bylaw.

Johnston didn’t get into the nitty gritty of the details, but said it was a longstanding practice of council to approve the enactment of a bylaw, despite how a councillor voted at the conclusion of a public hearing.

So that was that.

But this isn’t over, folks.

Carr told me Monday that she plans to introduce a motion “as soon as possible” to rescind the vote on duplexes. She is still checking on the “legal lan-

A 7-4 vote in September by the previous city council to allow duplexes to be built across most of the city may be rescinded by the new council, which was sworn in Monday. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

guage” of her motion but hadn’t heard back from staff at the time of her speaking to the Courier.

“I’m in limbo without clear direction on how to proceed, but I do expect that information will come to me,” she said. “The goal, all the way along, was to not pass that particular bylaw or motion because there was really insufficient public consultation on it — especially at a time when

people yearn to be engaged in a discussion how the city is going to develop and accommodate growth.”

It appears Carr, who is one of three Green councillors, might have the support of De Genova, who is one of five NPA councillors on the new council.

“What I can say is that I would be in favour of revisiting the situation,” De Genova said. “But then again, I also have fiduciary responsi-

bility to the City of Vancouver, and I’d have to consult with my legal staff and see if that would be problematic for the City, or if it could open us up to any scrutiny, or cause hardship for people who had already put plans in [to build duplexes].”

De Genova said she had already been contacted by a person who has applied to build a duplex on their property. Both she and Carr made it clear they’re not against duplexes — “I’m against blanket zoning,” said De Genova, arguing the public wasn’t properly consulted about allowing duplexes across the city when Robertson introduced his motion.

So what does city staff think of this?

In an Oct. 29 memo to the former mayor and council, Gil Kelley, the city’s director of planning, outlined some of the things that could happen: Generally, a new council is free to reconsider previous bylaws and resolutions of its predecessors.

If the new council wanted to take steps to reverse some

or all of these [duplex zoning] amendments, council would need to hold a public hearing prior to approving an amendment to reverse the amendments that are currently proposed.

If (as is the case here) the matter being reconsidered is a zoning bylaw amendment, then a key issue is what to do with the applicants who have sought to develop their properties in accordance with the impugned amendments.

Section 570 of the Vancouver Charter authorizes a method of preventing or withholding such applications.

The new council could also be amenable to have the city issue permits for duplexes until it revises the bylaws to forbid them. No resolution would be needed under section 570 if council was not concerned about the approval of some duplexes.

The Greens and the NPA both campaigned on the need for a city-wide plan.

That is another motion Carr expects to introduce at the Nov. 13 council meeting.

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Kennedy Stewart: ‘So far, so good’ on first day in office Council holds inaugural meeting at city hall after being sworn in Monday Mike Howell

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There was no arguing, no points of order and no microphones cut off in what was a cordial first public meeting Monday of Vancouver’s new mayor and 10-member council.

After being sworn in to office a few hours earlier, Mayor Kennedy Stewart and his council met for less than an hour at city hall to formally pass a series of appointments of councillors to various boards, committees and commissions.

“My whole intention from the beginning was to make everybody feel like it is a new start — a fresh slate — and I think we accomplished that tonight,” Stewart told the Courier after the meeting.

“So, so far, so good.”

Earlier in the day, Stewart and the 10 councillors were sworn in at Creekside community centre. Stewart used his inauguration speech to promise respect in his approach to governing, saying he would consult with

councillors and residents before making decisions.

He noted at city hall how the news conference that followed the ceremony included all councillors, which was a reflection of the spirit he said he is focused on promoting as an independent mayor leading a mixed council.

For the first time in decades, there is no majority at city hall, although the NPA has five of the 11 seats. The Greens have three, while OneCity and COPE each have one on a council populated with eight women.

Over the next few weeks, Stewart and councillors will meet with various city staff to be brought up to speed on issues and learn how to carry themselves in the council chamber as they take on the business of the city.

The next council meeting, which is scheduled for Nov. 13, is expected to test that respectful spirit Stewart and councillors have stated, with several motions expected to be introduced in the council chamber.

Mayor Kennedy Stewart and his new council are promoting a spirit of co-operation as they embark on their four-year term together. They met at city hall for the first time Monday.

PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

COPE Coun. Jean Swanson, for example, said she will introduce two motions, one of which is related to a promise that former mayor Gregor Robertson made to ensure all housing built at a city site at 58 West Hastings be rented at pension and welfare rates.

The other, Swanson said, is related to “renovictions,” a popular term among housing advocates to describe the practice of landlords renovating buildings and only allowing tenants to return if they pay higher rent.

The Nov. 13 meeting

begins at 9:30 a.m. and will be livestreamed on the city’s website.

Council appointments passed Monday were: • Vancouver Public Library Board — Christine Boyle • Public Art Committee — Sarah Kirby-Yung • Vancouver City Planning Commission — Pete Fry • Vancouver Civic Theatres Board — Lisa Dominato • Vancouver Heritage Commission and Vancouver Heritage Foundation Board — Colleen Hardwick • Joint Council on Childcare — Jean Swanson • Vancouver Economic Commission — Kennedy Stewart • City of Vancouver Public Housing Corporation — Kennedy Stewart, Melissa De Genova, Adriane Carr, Christine Boyle and Jean Swanson • Vancouver Civic Development Corporation — Kennedy Stewart, Melissa De Genova and Colleen Hardwick • Pacific National Exhibition Board Chairperson

— Lisa Dominato • Parking Corporation of Vancouver (EasyPark) — Michael Wiebe • Vancouver Art Gallery — Kennedy Stewart and Sarah Kirby-Yung • Standing Committee on City Finance and Services — Melissa De Genova (chairperson) and Pete Fry (vice-chairperson) • Standing Committee on Policy and Strategic Priorities — Adriane Carr (chairperson) and Sarah KirbyYung (vice-chairperson) • Metro Vancouver directors — Kennedy Stewart, Adriane Carr, Melissa De Genova, Christine Boyle, Colleen Hardwick, Michael Wiebe and Lisa Dominato • Union of B.C. Municipalities representative — Pete Fry • Lower Mainland Local Government Association representative — Colleen Hardwick • Federation of Canadian Municipalities Board — Rebecca Bligh. @Howellings

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The newly elected park board commissioners were sworn in Monday night during a ceremony at VanDusen Botanical Garden. PHOTO JESSICA KERR

New park board sworn in Two incumbents, five new commissioners Jessica Kerr

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It’s official. Vancouver’s new park board commissioners were sworn in Monday night at a special ceremony at VanDusen Botanical Garden.

After a thank you and short tribute to the work of the outgoing board, which included Michael Wiebe and Sarah KirbyYung, who were sworn in as city councillors earlier in the day, the new commissioners were sworn in and took their places at the table.

“Tonight at this table you see seven commissioners who have very large shoes to fill,” said Green party commissioner Stuart Mackinnon,

who was re-elected to a third term on Oct. 20.

“The commissioners for the last four years have been incredibly hard working and dedicated and I can’t thank them enough on behalf of the citizens of Vancouver… we may not always agree around the table, but I think we can all say that we have the best interests of parks and recreation, and for the citizens of Vancouver, in our hearts.”

Non-Partisan Association commissioner John Coupar also returns to the board for a third term. The incumbents are joined by newcomers Tricia Barker (NPA), the Greens’ Dave Demers and Camil Dumont, and

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Mackinnon was elected board chair, a position he’s held for the last year, and Demers was elected vice-chair. Giesbrecht and Barker were elected to serve as committee chair and vice chair.

“I look forward to four years of hard work, good times and tough times in this city,” Mackinnon said. “I thank you all for your support because we’re going to need it over the next four years.

It is for you that we are elected, it is for you that we are working.”

The new board gets down to business with its first regular board meeting Nov. 19. @JessicaEKerr

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News BCIT students won’t wait for green light to roll out pot delivery service Young entrepreneurs say there should be no difference between cannabis and alcohol delivery John Kurucz

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Would-be entrepreneurs are lining up to break into Vancouver’s cannabis market despite clear legislation from the province that suggests they’re instead breaking the law.

The latest case comes from a pair of BCIT computer science students who want to set up a mobile cannabis delivery service that will launch once dispensaries across the city get the green light. None currently have the proper licenses from both the city and the province.

Kyle Dulay and Clayton Rannard are 21 and 19 respectively, and their budding business is called Leefey.

Their system would, in theory, work via an app that links consumers to dispensaries and eventually cyclists and drivers on the back end to deliver the product.

“We see ourselves as no different than someone like Skip the Dishes delivering

alcohol to your door — it’s the same service, but with cannabis,” Dulay told the Courier. “We haven’t talked to anyone at the city, we’ve been talking to lawyers. As far as lawyers are concerned, they say the deliver model is legal.”

However, the province begs to differ.

Since long before legal cannabis rolled out Oct. 17, the province has said the delivery model is a nonstarter, save for deliveries made by Canada Post.

In that case, cannabis is ordered online from B.C. Cannabis stores only. The product is delivered by Canada Post to an individual’s home, or local post office, and must be received or picked up by an adult who can provide proof they are 19 or older.

Dulay says the same safeguards are in place with his business. ID must be provided and a $10 fee would be charged to those who can’t produce valid proof of age on top of not receiving the order.

It’s nearly identical to

Clayton Rannard and Kyle Dulay are co-creators of the Leefey cannabis delivery app. They hope to launch the business once dispensaries in Vancouver receive the proper licensing to operate.

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a pitch made by Calgarybased company Save the Drive, which hoped to launch into the marketplace across Canada, including in Vancouver, as of Oct. 17.

“The rules are con-

tinually changing. For [the provincial government] to say we are breaking a law, it’s not law yet for us to break,” founder Chanel Graham told the Courier in early September.

The Courier reached out

to Graham to see if her business had since launched in Vancouver, or anywhere else in Canada, but didn’t receive a response.

As for Dulay and Rannard, they hope to get rolling in downtown if and when their business launches. They have a stable of about five delivery people, both on bike and in cars. That number would increase to 10 as the business blossoms, and those drivers would be paid either part-time or full-time wages depending on the business’s profitability.

Dulay’s main argument in launching the business is that delivery models abound for alcohol, and that the cannabis should be treated the same.

“I think we would fight it, if we were asked to shut down,” he said. “There’s nothing illegal about what we’re doing. You have companies like Skip the Dishes delivering alcohol to people’s doors, and we’re providing the exact same service for a recreational drug. We’re following all

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It wouldn’t be that easy to take us out.”

The Courier put that exact question to the ministry of public safety and solicitor general — if companies such as Skip the Dishes can deliver booze, why can’t private enterprise crack into the cannabis delivery market?

A ministry spokesperson provided this response: “While the province’s Liquor Control and Licencing Act has been referred to throughout the development of the provincial regulatory framework, there are distinct differences between non-medical cannabis and alcohol that require consideration when developing public policy,” the spokesperson wrote. “Federal legalization of cannabis marks the end of nearly 100 years of prohibition and the B.C. government is taking a cautious and balanced approach to implementation of the provincial legalized cannabis regime.” @JohnKurucz

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News ‘Historic agreement’ paves way for affordable housing on Expo Lands Units would be geared towards households earning between $30,000 and $80,000 annually, and 50 per cent targeted to families Naoibh O’Connor

Robertson called it an historic agreement between the three parties.

“These are urgently needed homes in our downtown as the city is booming and growing, and the supply of affordable housing is always a challenge,” he said. “We work hard to deliver the housing for people who live here in our city — who work in Vancouver, people who are on average incomes.”

Robertson said the delivery of non-market housing is at levels this year that the city hasn’t seen since the early 1980s. He said council approved 7,137 new homes in 2017, while 1,702 social and supportive homes were approved that same year.

“This is the single highest year of non-market housing approvals on record in a decade,” Robertson added. “But affordable housing remains a massive challenge, not just here in downtown Vancouver, but right across the whole region and across the province.”

He said it’s critical to address the housing prob-

lem with provincial and federal partners.

“Thanks to the agreement we’ve signed, we will have almost 700 affordable non-market homes built here in Yaletown. This also expedites the implementation of the Northeast False Creek Plan, which will see the viaducts come down and a whole new neighbourhood built between here and Chinatown.”

Robertson credited the NDP provincial government for its investments in affordable housing since it was elected.

Selina Robinson, the provincial minister of municipal affairs and housing, said too many people living and working in B.C. can’t find an affordable place to live. She then criticized the former Liberal government.

“This crisis was ignored by the previous government for far too long and we are taking swift action to address it together with our partners across the province and that includes the City of Vancouver [through] partnerships like this one today,” she said,

describing it as an important first step in building hundreds of affordable homes for families and seniors.

Robinson said the province is investing more than $7 billion over 10 years in housing and through those investments it will be able to provide the capital funding required to build the homes on the three sites, which the City of Vancouver would lease to B.C. Housing.

“This partnership will enable us to build a healthy and vibrant community on land that has sat vacant for more than two decades,” she said.

Rents for the units still need to be determined, but the housing would be below-market with a mix of different rents, so there will be levels in line with B.C. Housing’s funding programs.

“If we have funding from the federal government, and hopefully we do, that increases the affordability.

We’ll be able to get more affordability into these projects,” Robertson said.

Specific development proposals for the sites still have to go through the City of Vancouver’s rezoning approval process. If approved, the projects would take another two or three years after that before they’re open. “[Timing of the buildings] will vary on the approval process, as these need to come in through planning and for rezonings at council,” Robertson said. “I’m very hopeful that the next council and their mayor are supportive of these rezonings so that we can see this housing built. This is a framework agreement that sets us on that path, but their approval will be required to deliver this affordable social housing here.” @naoibh

Commercial Drive’s Wonderbucks property sold

2017 after rent and property taxes increased. The building has been vacant since then.

The property was put up for sale in the spring of 2018 as a “retail corner with development potential.”

The 1801 Commercial Dr. site is zoned C-2C, which allows for commercial activities and personal services that require central locations to serve neighbourhoods. Residential uses above grade level and pedestrian-oriented shops are permitted, while a building, typically to a maximum height of four storeys, could be allowed,

according to information the City of Vancouver provided to the Courier last April.

The building would be assessed for its heritage value if the property is redeveloped. If it were to be deemed to have value or significance, additional incentives beyond what is allowed for in the C-2C zone could be considered in exchange for preservation, rehabilitation and designation of the building or parts of it.

The land on East Second Avenue, meanwhile, is zoned RM-4, which allows for multi-residential uses.

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As many as 650 affordable non-market housing units could be built on three vacant sites in Yaletown through an agreement between the City of Vancouver, B.C. Housing and Concord Pacific.

The announcement was made Nov. 2 at Gregor Robertson’s second-last press conference as mayor of Vancouver.

Concord Pacific owns six sites in the former Expo lands that have been undeveloped for decades.

The new memorandum of understanding proposes transferring ownership of three of the sites — 450 Pacific St., 990 Beatty St. and 1050 Expo Blvd. — to the City of Vancouver to build affordable non-market housing, using funding from the provincial government, and rezoning the remaining three sites — 1502 Granville St., 431 Beach Ave. and 900 Cooperage Way — for mixed-use market housing, which Concord Pacific

Concord Pacific owns six sites in the former Expo lands that have been undeveloped for decades. The proposal would see it transfer three of the sites to the City of Vancouver for social housing and retain ownership of the other three. IMAGE COURTESY CITY OF VANCOUVER

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of the recently approved Northeast False Creek Plan, which outlines the eventual construction of more than 2,000 affordable homes, including the up to 650 units on these three sites.

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Killarney church land may be used to build a seniors’ care facility Developer files rezoning application for a four-storey complex

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Land formerly owned by a Killarney church, which sold for $13 million in October 2017, could be used as the site for a new seniors’ complex.

SVP Investments and Development has filed a rezoning proposal with the City of Vancouver to change the zoning on the land at 2499 East 48th Ave. from one-family dwelling to comprehensive development to allow for a four-storey “class B” seniors’ care facility.

The land was previously part of a sizeable property between

Nanaimo and Clarendon streets and East 48th and Waverley Avenue where Corpus Christi Catholic Church and Corpus Christi elementary school sit.

A portion of the site, a grass field parallel to Clarendon Street, which formed 17 per cent of the overall Corpus Christi site, was put up for sale in April of 2017.

It had most recently been assessed at almost $11.8 million.

It was sold to help fund the church’s redevelopment project to replace the school and build a new parish hall under the gym at an estimated cost

of $17.3 million, and then seismically upgrade the church and rectory at an anticipated cost of $8.5 million.

Selling property is an increasingly common strategy churches use to help fund projects or secure their financial futures.

SVP Investments and Development’s proposed plan for the site — Sunrise

of East Vancouver Assisted Living Community — envisions a 100-unit facility with 44 underground parking spaces and 12 bicycle spaces.

Integra Architecture Inc. is involved in the project.

While the land is currently zoned single-family, the project is being reviewed under the Victoria-

Fraserview/Killarney Community Vision, which allows staff to consider rezoning for affordable, social or seniors housing.

There are already higher density uses on land across the street — Clarendon Court, an assisted living complex, and Shannon Oaks, an independent living complex.

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the rezoning application is scheduled for 5 to 7:30 p.m., Nov. 29, at Corpus Christi school at 6344 Nanaimo St. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vancouver and SVP Investments and Development did not respond to queries about their respective projects. @naoibh

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Some familiar faces surround Kennedy Stewart’s mayoralty Mike Klassen

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This week, the fresh faces of a new Vancouver city council stood before family, friends and political supporters in a gymnasium at Creekside Community Centre as they were sworn into office.

Former NDP MP Libby Davies led the ceremony, advising the incoming councillors to play nice and eschew partisan politics.

In a nutshell, it was her “Can’t we all just get along?” moment.

Davies, a former Vancouver city councillor, was joined in the audience

by NDP MP and former COPE city councillor Jenny Kwan, as well as retired NDP MP Svend Robinson and former NDP premier and independent Vancouver mayor Mike Harcourt.

Union leaders such as MoveUp president David Black were also there to celebrate the new council — and, in particular, the Vancouver District Labour Council’s hand-picked candidate for mayor, Kennedy Stewart.

The ceremony closed with Stewart reading his first speech as Vancouver’s newly minted mayor.

For someone who had just been handed the city’s chain of office, Stewart’s speech was surprisingly devoid of any mention of Vancouver at all. One might attribute this to his serving as a Member of Parliament in Burnaby, but I think it was more deliberate.

Stewart, like Davies before him, directed part of his message to the majority NPA and Green councillors on his council. He opened by thanking the other mayoral candidates for staying away from “divisive politics” like we are seeing around the world.

He promised “respect” for his fellow councilmates and for citizens. As well, he aspires to lead a city government based upon openness, transparency and a “willingness” to build trust.

If there were values that were absent during Vision Vancouver’s time in office, it would include those three.

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Newly minted Vancouver mayor Kennedy Stewart would be wise to start thinking locally rather than globally, says columnist Mike Klassen. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

ing a conciliatory message to these councillors — who can make or break his own civic agenda — Stewart repeated at least six times to lead as a “globalist” mayor.

Vancouver, said Stewart, should become a “true world city.”

You could say that we have had our fill of “global” politics in Vancouver. With its perennial battle over the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion under Mayor Gregor Robertson, the city was continuously on the

front lines of a global battle for energy supremacy.

Stewart is a key opponent of that project, even allowing himself to be arrested earlier this year at a Kinder Morgan protest.

One could argue Vancouver might want to step back off the global stage for a while — if only to get its house in order. The issues of housing affordability, transportation or strengthening municipal services take precedence for the majority of residents here.

I only recently became aware how volatile the term globalist has become. It is widely used a pejorative among far-right political supporters and xenophobes.

Stewart explained the difference between being “globalized” and globalist, hinting that Vancouver was globalized by foreign capital and outsiders. He said globalized cities are “hostage to global forces” and often “foundering on stormy seas” — which he presumably wants to change here.

He did not say how he would help Vancouver embrace globalism.

What Stewart did reveal that day, however, is who will help him run the mayor’s office — namely Neil Monckton and Anita Zaenker. It is Stewart’s prounion dream team with close ties to the provincial NDP. Zaenker comes to the mayor’s office straight from her role as an organizer with the B.C. Federation of Labour. She once reported to George Heyman while working at the B.C. Government Employees Union, before he

became an NDP MLA. Over a decade ago, Zaenker was part of the breakaway “Diet COPE” faction that later formed Vision Vancouver.

Monckton is a longtime ally of Stewart. Both were involved in the now defunct Think City urban policy shop, along with Monckton’s father-in-law SFU, professor Doug McArthur, another former NDP staffer.

Georgia Straight’s Charlie Smith predicts McArthur will be an adviser to Stewart.

While running Stewart’s election campaign, Monckton attracted some unwanted media attention by getting caught in a phone recording. He called small business operator and NPA supporter Mike Jagger to badger him into taking down a tweet.

The resulting embarrassment for Stewart’s campaign caused Monckton to delete his Twitter account.

We will soon see if Stewart’s mayoralty is more defined by council’s collegiality, or the aggressive style of his staff member.

Wards or not, Vancouver’s electoral system needs reforming Michael Geller geller@sfu.ca

In his final column after 19 years writing for the Courier, my colleague Allen Garr reported that Kennedy Stewart has long favoured a ward system, rather than the current at-large system. I, too, would like to see a ward system implemented before the next election since the current system is flawed.

However, if wards are not brought in, other reforms should be, both to encourage increased voter turnout and the election of politicians more representative of

the city’s diversity.

To those who struggled with this year’s ballot, I would like to offer an apology.

As regular readers of this column may recall, I have long opposed the listing of candidates alphabetically on a long ballot since I believe this offers an advantage to candidates whose names begin with A, B and C. Outgoing councillor Andrea Reimer also championed this issue, and the city agreed to randomize names on this year’s ballot. While I proposed that ballots be designed so that every candidate had his or her name on top an equal

number of times, Reimer advised this was not permitted by the Vancouver Charter.

Unfortunately, not only was this year’s ballot randomized, but there were 158 candidates for mayor, council, school and park board, and no numbers beside the names.

While many candidates were affiliated with 10 different parties, many excellent candidates ran as independents. However, no independents, except for Mayor Kennedy Stewart, were elected.

There are approximately 453,000 eligible Vancouver voters. Sadly, this year’s

turnout was only 39 per cent, which was less than in 2011 and 2014. While the winning council candidates received at least 43,000 votes, 26 council candidates received fewer than 10,000 votes.

This has prompted me and others to suggest we need a better system of “prequalifying” candidates. Currently, candidates running for office in Vancouver are only required to present the signatures of 25 nominators and pay a $100 deposit that is refunded after the election.

Pollster Mario Canseco recently asked Vancouver

voters whether they would prefer an increase in the required number of signatures or deposit, and a ward system.

Three in four agreed the number of signatures required for a nomination should be raised to 100 from 25. Just over half would like to see the deposit raised to $500 in future elections, noting that these changes could cause some prospective candidates who throw their hat into the ring “for the fun of it” to think twice about their actions.

As for wards, I was disappointed to see that only a

small majority of Vancouver voters (52 per cent) supported the idea, even though this would likely increase diversity and the chances of good, independent candidates being successful.

The incoming city council has four years to decide whether to institute a ward system in Vancouver. If Vancouver doesn’t bring in wards, I hope we do reform our municipal electoral system to give good candidates a better chance of winning.

A longer version of the column is at vancourier.com. @michaelgeller

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Left: Located at Burrard and 15th, the Gothic-style Canadian Memorial United Church was dedicated on Nov. 8, 1928 and the first service was held on Nov. 11, 1928, exactly 10 years after the end of the First World War. PHOTO VANCOUVER ARCHIVES, CVA 786-34.10. Right: Minister Beth Hayward and music minister Lonnie Delisle will lead a Remembrance Day service on Sunday. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

Vancouver church marks 90th Remembrance Day Canadian Memorial United Church was built as a memorial to peace Jessica Kerr

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This Remembrance Day has extra special significance at Canadian Memorial United Church.

The stone church has sat on the corner of Burrard and 15th for 90 years.

It was built as a memorial to peace — a vision of Methodist preacher Col. George Fallis, who served as a padre in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War. “It was just this revelation while he was on the battlefields burying all these young men of ‘I need to do something that really speaks to how horrible this is,’” said Minister Beth Hayward, who has been with the church for six years.

“His vision was for what he called a memorial to peace, a physical place for all of Canada to celebrate with that vision of we’ve got to find another way.”

After crisscrossing the

country fundraising, Fallis, who was originally from Ontario but had previously ministered at a church in Kitsilano, raised enough money to build the Gothic-style church.

The groundbreaking took place in July 1927 and construction began.

Canadian Memorial United Church was dedicated on Nov. 8, 1928 and the first service was held on Nov. 11, 1928, exactly 10 years after the end of the First World War. Every year since that first Nov. 11 service, the church has held a special Remembrance Day event to honour those who served and died in wars as well as promote peace.

“We want to honour those that gave their lives while simultaneously saying there must be a better way other than war,” said Minister Lonnie Delisle, director of music at the church.

“This is not about war commemoration so much

as it is people that fought and we want to honour that while simultaneously holding out peace as the ultimate goal and standard.”

It’s not just the physical building itself that makes up the memorial; many elements inside the church also serve as testaments to peace and remembrance of lives lost in battle.

Canadian Memorial holds the only other copies of the Books of Remembrance outside of the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.

The books hold the names of every Canadian soldier killed while serving in uniform.

The chapel features more than a dozen stained glass windows — there is one for each province that was part of Canada at the time (Newfoundland didn’t join confederation until 1949) and the Yukon Territory.

The windows were designed and created by the Robert McCausland studio in Toronto. Each one contains a religious motif with the

provincial coat-of-arms, and depicts historical events from each province.

To cover the costs of the windows, Fallis undertook a national fundraising campaign. His first stop was Victoria where he met with then-premier John Oliver and other provincial leaders. Fallis went on to visit every province, securing funds to cover the cost of each province’s window.

He chronicled his journey in a book, A Padre’s Pilgrimage.

There is also a series of memorial windows representing different branches of service in the war efforts during the First World War — The Soldier, The Sailor, The Airman, The Nurse.

Canadian Memorial is also home to a 90-yearold Casavant Frères pipe organ, purchased with money mostly donated from the U.S., including a large (for the time) contribution from the famous Rockefeller family.

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The annual Remembrance Day ceremony starts at 10:30 a.m. and includes performances by the church choir and orchestra, as well as guest speaker and peace advocate Tessa Blaikie Whitecloud, and a wreathlaying ceremony.

“Not only will we reflect collectively on those that fought for our peace and freedom, we’ll also recognize the importance of our church as a tangible memorial to peace and its continued vision to enable people to live lives that exemplify peace,” Hayward said.

Following the ceremony, there will be an open house from 12:30 p.m. until 1:45 p.m. and then a Remembrance Day concert featuring Vancouver’s Universal Gospel Choir starting at 2 p.m. @JessicaEKerr

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“There was a member of the congregation who kept going to Col. Fallis as the minister and saying, ‘You’ve got to ask the Rockefellers for money,’” Hayward said.

“He just kept dismissing her and writing her off until eventually he did write a letter to the Rockefellers.”

To Fallis’s surprise, John D. Rockefeller Jr. responded and sent $2,500. “[There] was a lot of money from the states that was contributed to [the organ] in honour of American soldiers that fought in World War I with the Canadian Forces,” Hayward said.

As it did 90 years ago, Remembrance Day falls on a Sunday this year. To mark the event Delisle created an original composition, “Peace Come Reign,” which will debut at Sunday’s Remembrance Day service.

“The piece that I wrote, it comes from a place of recognizing that peace has to begin within and some-

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Grade 3 students honour B.C.’s First World War casualties Stratford Hall students are making decorative poppies for dignitaries from across North America and Europe

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When Cyril Causey finally got back to Canada, he made a point to never look back.

It was 1945, the Second World War was over and tens of millions were dead.

Causey was loathe to ever talk about his time as a Royal Canadian Air Force pilot, a role that saw him fly missions over the U.K. and other parts of northern Europe.

Two generations later, his granddaughter Lindsay Causey is doing that talking for him.

Causey is a Grade 3 teacher at Stratford Hall in East Vancouver. Around this time each year for the past decade, Causey has made a point of telling her students about Cyril’s life and the lives of others like him.

“My grandpa just didn’t want to talk about his service,” Causey said. “My grandma told me that he came back from World War II a changed person. He wasn’t the same. He obviously saw a lot of friends pass away and blood everywhere. He wanted to come back and live a normal life in Canada.”

Causey’s 20 students are now in the process of creating decorative poppies that will be given to dignitaries from across Europe and North America as

Lindsay Causey’s Grade 3 students make decorative poppies to give to international dignitaries who’ll be present during Remembrance Day ceremonies at Mountainview Cemetery. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

part of a 24-hour Remembrance Day ceremony at Mountainview Cemetery that runs Nov. 10 and 11. A handful of Causey’s students will also attend the ceremony and present those poppies to consul generals from France, Belgium and Holland who’ll be on hand to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day. The portion of cemetery known as Jones 45 is the final resting place at Mountainview for

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“I have that connection and that drives me to share it with my students,” she said. “I want them to

know about history. It’s important for them to know about their family history, but it’s also important to know about Canadian history.”

Guy Black is a Canadian Forces Reserves veteran and longtime advocate for veterans across Canada.

He’s organizing the Mountainview ceremony alongside help from volunteers from the U.S. and across Metro Vancouver and Vancouver Island.

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teers has spent the last 18 months building more than 6,000 ornamental poppies that will be placed throughout Mountainview.

The poppies are made of foam and stand roughly a foot and a half in height.

One will be placed next to each grave of 4,000 First World War veterans interred at Mountainview.

After Remembrance Day, the poppies will be moved over to Vancouver Island for a similar ceremony in the future.

“Two things are key for this type of event — the location and the poppy. If I did a presentation like this at a school, maybe the kids don’t get the message,” Black said.

“But if you’re standing in the middle of a cemetery surrounded by graves, I think that’s very strong and very direct. And then the poppy itself is directly linked to one of those graves of a veteran.”

The ceremony begins at 2:45 p.m. on Nov. 10 with a parade through the cemetery, followed by speeches and placement of the decorative poppies. As night falls, 100 candles will be placed throughout Jones 45 as a piper from the Seaforth Highlanders performs “Amazing Grace.”

Rotating, uniformed sentries will then stand guard in 15-minute intervals until the following day, when a Remembrance Day ceremony begins at 11 a.m.

“I hope [my students] develop a sense of appreciation and respect for the men and women that risked their lives in conflicts like World War 1,” Causey said. “And I hope they appreciate the safety, freedom and opportunities that they enjoy as a result of those sacrifices.” @JohnKurucz

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by a number of leading Canadian personalities, athletes and organizations including recording artist Justin Bieber, artistic luminaries Margaret Atwood and Sandra Oh, former Mrs. Universe Ashley Callingbull, and Hockey Night in Canada’s Don Cherry and Ron MacLean.

Several organizations, including the National Hockey League Players’ Association, the Teamsters Union of Canada and Ancestry.ca, are also participating. The

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by TELUS. “For every Canadian, the bright red poppy stands for our country’s greatest values and the debt we owe to the brave souls who put everything on the line to fight for us,” said Don Cherry in a press release. “I’m dedicating my digital poppy to my great uncle, Sergeant Thomas William MacKenzie who died in battle four days before Armistice Day in 1918.”

Danny Martin, deputy director of the Royal Canadian Legion, said Canadians have enthusiastically supported the Legion’s lapel poppy campaign for many years and the traditional on-street donations will continue across the country.

“But in an increasingly cashless society, we wanted to give people another way to support their veterans,” said Martin. “The Legion’s new digital poppy campaign will allow people to donate online and share their remembrance in a meaningful, personalized manner.”

Once downloaded, the digital poppy can be posted on the donor’s social media feeds of their choosing, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn. Digital poppy owners will also have the option to use their digital

poppy as their profile images, as well as adding personal stories and significant photos to their postings.

Digital poppy ambassadors are telling their own stories as they commit to sharing their digital Poppy this year.

“I’m dedicating my digital poppy to Brigadier General T.G. Gibson, my spouse Graeme’s father,” said Canadian literary icon Margaret Atwood. “He fought in World War Two in Italy and then through Holland and into Germany. The main street of Deventer in Holland is named after him, as he and his troops were able to liberate it without destroying it, thanks to information smuggled to him by the Resistance.

There are many Canadian soldiers buried there, and the schoolchildren place white roses on their graves every Easter.”

International model, actor and activist Ashley Callingbull tells a particularly poignant story.

“I’m working with ancestry. ca to re-connect with my great grandfather, Maxime Papin, who along with many Indigenous Canadians served with distinction in the Canadian military. My digital poppy is dedicated to him and I’m asking my

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social media followers to do the same in support of our veterans.”

All funds raised from both the traditional lapel and the new digital poppy are directed to the Legion’s Poppy Fund. This is the first time Canadians will be able to donate online in such a manner.

The Poppy Fund is a significant fundraising

initiative for the Legion and supports essential programs and services for all of Canada’s veterans, including Canadian Armed Forces, the RCMP and their families.

“Donations made via mypoppy.ca will be distributed to a Legion branch that is nearest the donor’s address,” said Martin. “In this way, funds

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support local, communitybased initiatives for veterans.”

The introduction of the digital Poppy, and the opportunity for online donations, represents a fresh, invigorated approach to the Legion’s annual national poppy campaign as it presents a new, modernized source of funding for the Legion’s

Poppy Fund. It’s designed to reach younger audiences of potential donors who recognize and embrace the impact and power of social media-based initiatives such as the digital poppy.

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VPD dog mistakenly bites senior during arrest of burglary suspects Police: ‘Somehow, the 75-year-old man got in between the suspect and the dog’ Mike Howell

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A 75-year-old man was mistakenly bitten in the leg by a Vancouver police dog Oct. 30 while officers were attempting to arrest three suspects in connection with a burglary to a home on West 37th Avenue near Granville Street and another break-in in Maple Ridge.

Const. Jason Doucette, a VPD media liaison of-

ficer, wouldn’t discuss the extent of the man’s injuries but said he required treatment in hospital before being released.

The man was in the parking lot of the former Fraser Arms hotel on Southwest Marine Drive, near Granville Street, and was exiting his truck at about 5:30 p.m. when he was bitten.

“We feel very badly about that, and I can tell you the dog handler himself is affected by this,”

said Doucette, noting a VPD dog biting an innocent person is rare in the estimated 7,000 calls per year answered by the force’s team of 15 German Shepherds. “Our main priority now is for this man to get healthy and we’re providing him support in any way we can.”

The incident occurred after police pulled in behind a pickup truck in the parking lot of the former Fraser Arms hotel. The

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truck and suspects matched the description given to police from a witness to a burglary about an hour earlier on West 37th Avenue, Doucette said.

Police arrested two of the suspects in the parking lot but a third man fled and tried to get into a taxi full of people. As he did this, police had released a dog to chase and apprehend the suspect, Doucette said.

“As part of training, the plan was to deploy the dog to immediately affect the arrest,” he said. “Somehow, the 75-year-old man got in between the suspect and the dog.”

The handler called off the dog, police administered first aid on the man and called paramedics, Doucette said. The suspect continued across Granville Street, where he was able to force the driver of a Mercedes out his car at a gas station. Police, using a second dog, were able to arrest the suspect before he could drive the car away.

The suspect also required a trip to the hospital to be treated for a dog bite.

Graham Scott Beattie, 40, of Surrey has been charged with two counts of breaking into a dwelling house and one charge of attempted theft of an auto over $5,000.

Harold Jason Gillis, 42, of Richmond has been charged with two counts of breaking into a dwelling house and Joseph Leon Kidd, 34, of Vancouver is facing one count of breaking into a dwelling house.

Police recovered stolen property from the suspects but didn’t disclose the contents.

Doucette said it would be a management decision on whether the dog that bit the innocent man would continue to be on duty. He said the incident is under review by the department and will be forwarded to the VPD’s professional standards unit and the Office of Police Complaint Commissioner.

“Our officers will dissect this piece by piece,” Doucette said. “We’re going to slow it down, we’re going to look at all the available information — that includes talking to witnesses, that includes video surveillance, that includes talking to the officers that were there.”

Added Doucette: “Our goal here is to arrest the bad guys and to ensure public safety. In this situation, something didn’t go as planned, and we’re going to try to identify what happened here and how we can prevent it in the future.”

Doucette said he believed the injuries to the 75-year-old man did not meet “the threshold” of the Independent Investigations Office, the organization tasked with investigating police incidents involving death or serious harm.

Ronald Macdonald, the IIO’s chief civilian director, confirmed the organization is not investigating.

“This is very rare, and we’re sorry that it happened,” Doucette added.

The last publicized case of a VPD dog biting an innocent victim occurred Sept. 19, 2016 in New Westminster. Vancouver police were attempting

to arrest suspects connected to a kidnapping and homicides at a house on Dieppe Place, near Grandview Highway and Boundary Road.

During the arrest, Vick Supramaniam had a portion of his ear torn off by a VPD dog. The dog also grabbed the man’s leg and pulled him down a hill. Police apologized to Supramaniam. The IIO announced July 31 “the actions of police were justified, and thus does not consider that any police officer has committed an offence under any enactment.”

The Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner’s tracking of police dog bites shows VPD recorded 122 bite reports from April 1, 2016 to March 31, 2017. That decreased to 80 from April 1, 2017 to March 31, 2018.

Most recently, from April 1, 2018 to Sept. 30, 2018, the VPD recorded 41 bite reports.

Provincial rules that came into effect in September 2015 require all officers to complete a detailed report for each bite incident, take photographs of injuries and provide related data to the police services division of the Ministry of Justice.

The standards, which were the first of their kind in Canada, also require annual testing of every dog handler team. That includes dogs demonstrating their ability to be called off a suspect, remain under control while biting and promptly release a bite upon hearing a handler’s command. @Howellings

Extra Leaf Collection Extra leaves that don’t fit in your Green Bin should be placed in paper yard waste bags or store-bought bins, stored in a dry area and set out for citywide collection by crews on the following designated weekends: • November 17 to 18, 2018 • December 15 to 16, 2018 • January 12 to 13, 2019 (Christmas trees also collected) Leaves may be collected on either Saturday or Sunday (not both days) To avoid a missed collection, set leaves out for collection before 7 am on the scheduled Saturday.

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Vancouver police are reviewing how one their police dogs mistakenly bit a 75-year-old man Oct. 30 in the parking lot of the former Fraser Arms hotel. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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Partaking in Parksville From strip malls to farms, expect the unexpected when it comes to dining in this coastal town SANDRA THOMAS sthomas@vancourier.com Parksville is a bit of a conundrum to me.

On one side of the highway you’ll find stunning ocean vistas and white sand beaches, while the other side is made up largely of strip malls and a downtown area that can best be described as stark. But, it’s also downtown where you’ll find some of the best eating not just on Vancouver Island, but in Canada.

Something my husband and I have discovered by visiting Parksville more than once is that while its

food scene continues to grow and evolve, the lack of pretension from the owners and staff at these establishments definitely adds to their charm.

The same goes for the flourishing craft beer/liquor/ wine mom and pop shops we’ve had the opportunity to visit. Of course there’s a lot more going on in Parksville/Qualicum Beach than eating and drinking, but as we move towards the holidays what better subjects to focus on? So if you’re heading to this island community make sure to

The view from our patio at Sunrise Ridge Waterfront Resort. PHOTO SANDRA THOMAS

check out some of these popular spots.

BREAD AND HONEY FOOD CO. 162 Harrison Ave., Parksville There’s a reason Bread and Honey came in at number 10 in Yelp’s Top 100 places to Eat in Canada in 2017.

In that same competition, this hole-in-the-wall was also named the best place to

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eat in Parksville and ranked number three in all of B.C. During a recent visit we sat at the tiny counter and drank great coffee out of mismatched mugs. The menu is eclectic — think grilled cheese with truffle honey; smoked albacore and avocado toast; and orange Creamsicle French toast served with vanilla bean ice cream — and the pastries are divine. TIP:

this popular eatery is only open from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday to Saturday.

In one corner of the room a woman played the guitar and sang as we lined up at the counter to order REALM FOOD CO. from a menu offering a 2-180 Craig St., Parksville lot of healthy choices. But I would normally avoid despite all of those healthy a restaurant that serves ingredients, the team at “kombucha on tap,” but I Realm still managed to pack had heard nothing but great a whole lot of flavour into things about Realm so we our brunch dishes. I had the Cowabunga pan seared enjoyed a recent Sunday brunch there with friends and carrot loaf (French toast) CONTINUED ON PAGE 18 I’m so glad we did.

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and it was as beautiful to look at as it was delicious to eat. Their local eats are complimented by an all organic and natural wine list, craft beer, cider, cocktails, smoothies, elixirs, an espresso bar — and — kombucha on tap.

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ISLAND SODAWORKS BISTRO 124 Harlech Rd., Qualicum Beach I’d written about Island SodaWorks a couple of years ago, but there have been some changes since then.

The popular bistro became a co-operative this past April when founder Mandolyn Jonasson teamed up with employees Cathrine Kitchen and Donna Mills Bowman.

But besides becoming a combined effort, the café, located in a former fire hall, still offers what’s described as “fine peasant eating.”

That turned out to be a great choice. We had a beautiful view from our deck and — with no dinner reservations to worry about — we relaxed with a glass of wine and some decadently rich blue cheese from Little Qualicum Cheeseworks at Morningstar Farm, a short drive off the highway. It was also there we picked up our Mooberry Winery, so it was no surprise the two paired together perfectly as we watched the stunning sunset from our deck. TIP: And when it comes to a Little Qualicum is home to farm-to-table experience, Canada’s first milk on tap — these women aren’t fooling warm up at the farm with the around. They raise a number freshest latte you’ll ever get. of farm animals, plants and herbs themselves and their As we enjoyed the last rays bone broth alone is worth of sun we tossed up a salad the visit. made with fresh ingredients purchased at the Qualicum SUNRISE RIDGE Beach farmers market, WATERFRONT including a sweet and RESORT spicy locally made dressing Shop local and eat at your that took those already vacation rental great veggies to a whole 1175 Resort Dr., other level.

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A visit to Parksville/Qualicum is not complete without a stop at Morningstar Farm, home to Little Qualicum Cheeseworks and Mooberry Winery.

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Renfrew Ravine gets $1-million renovation Improvements aimed at making park more accessible

Jessica Kerr

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One of the city’s hardest to get to parks just got a lot more accessible.

A renovated Renfrew Community Park and Renfrew Ravine Park are open to the public, and more members of the public will now be able to access both parks.

The $1-million project includes staircases with better access to trails, enhanced trails and wayfinding, fencing and benches, and two bridges across Still Creek — the longest visible creek in Vancouver.

Still Creek runs through both parks with almost one kilometre, about 65 per cent, still visible. In 2012, spawning salmon returned to the creek for the first time in 80 years.

Renfrew Ravine Park, which was previously only accessible through a space in the trees and a makeshift trail down the steep ravine, now features a staircase and an elevated boardwalk that runs along a portion of the creek.

At the community park, improvements to the trails have made the park more accessible for people in wheelchairs, scooters, or using other

mobility aids, or people pushing strollers.

Albert Lee, vice-president of the Renfrew Park Community Association, noted that the improvements not only make the park safer and easier to use, it also means he will now be able to walk the trails with his wife, who uses a wheelchair.

Alex Man-Bourdon, a park board landscape architect, said the vision for revamping the parks started in 2013 with a master planning process that included public engagement and collaboration with local residents, the Renfrew Park Community Association and other community groups such as Still Moon Arts Society, which hosts an annual lantern festival in Renfrew Community Park.

Tuesday’s event marking the opening of the renovated parks included a class of Grade 2 students from nearby John Norquay elementary school parading into the park on the new trail carrying large lanterns.

The master plan includes a total of about $9 million in upgrades for the two parks, which combined are about 11 hectares in size.

“That is a lot to take on at once, so we phase these things and roll them

out in smaller chunks,” Man-Bourdon said.

The recent renovations, which also include a new dog park at the community park near Renfrew Street and 22nd Avenue, are just the first phase.

“One of the things that the community identified as being the most important was better access to trails, biodiversity, naturalized areas, as well as the dog park, so those are the phases that we brought on first,” he said.

The project was unanimously approved by park board commissioners back in February. @JessicaEKerr

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Renovations making Renfrew Ravine Park more accessible to the public include a staircase and an elevated board walk. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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Sometimes, it’s all about timing. The first weekend of November marked the beginning of Vancouver’s winter farmers market season. Two outdoor markets will be in operation each weekend from now until May: Saturdays at Riley Park beside Nat Bailey Stadium, and Sundays at Hastings Park beside the Agrodome.

As any vendor or patron who frequents the winter farmers market can tell you, when it comes to weather, it’s like your choices at the market: you never know what you’re going to get.

This past Saturday, you may have noticed that it poured relentlessly all day, flooding streets and triggering mudslides. Nobody but the hardiest of West Coast souls wanted to be out in what was a classic November washout.

And yet, those colourful tents popped up around Nat Bailey, and faithful customers in Gortex and galoshes braved the monsoon for the best in food

Fresh maple taffy on a stick is a farmers market favourite of the Lawrence clan. PHOTO GRANT LAWRENCE

and drink that is all grown, baked and made by local farmers and businesses.

What a difference a day makes. On Sunday, the storm had blown itself out.

Just like that, Vancouverites were treated to a warm and sunny day for the opening of the fourth season of the Hastings Park Winter Farmers Market.

My wife has always been a strong proponent of the basic concept of the market: the fresh food, the open air, the socializing and the community. When she was living in Halifax, the Saturday morning market was the place to be, no matter how late everyone was partying the night before.

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market brings mixed weather and memories

There were plenty of returning vendors at the winter markets that we have gotten to know, as well as many new ones offering goods for our taste buds to explore, selling everything from harvest fruits and vegetables to fresh baked goods to organic meats and Oceanwise fish to craft beer and spirits.

Sadly, I knew of one vendor who wouldn’t be returning.

On a blustery, sunny Sunday at the market last winter, my son and I lined up at the popular Cheeses Crust food truck for a couple of owner Larry Jordan’s legendary grilled cheese sandwiches.

Larry was a classic farmers market character: he had a long grey beard and often wore a bandana, dark sunglasses and shorts, no matter what the weather.

Depending on the day, Larry’s mood could be as warm or as crusty as his sandwiches. On that Sunday last season, Larry was warm. We chatted for a moment, and Larry wished us a great after-

Vancouver’s winter markets sell everything from harvest fruits and vegetables to fresh baked goods to organic meats and Oceanwise fish to craft beer and spirits. PHOTO GRANT LAWRENCE

noon. I said the same to him.

My son and I wandered the market for another hour or so, until we

noticed the ambulance’s flashing lights. I had to shield my son’s eyes from the scene that was unfolding. Right beside

the Cheeses Crust truck, Larry Jordan was on the ground. He unconscious, on his back, with his shirt ripped open. He

was receiving CPR from a team of paramedics. I was stunned. I led my son away. I was later informed by a police officer that

Larry didn’t make it. He died that day, at the market, right beside his food truck. Larry Dean Jordan was 58 years old. For the final three months of the winter market, there was a memorial for Larry near where his truck often sat.

The Cheeses Crust food truck is now operated by Larry’s three sons.

This past Sunday, with skateboarders launching themselves into the air at the nearby bowl, and little hockey players emerging from the Agrodome, and others sitting in the sun in the Italian Gardens, I went to the market with my wife and my kids to meet friends and neighbours. I greeted vendors I recognized and met new ones I didn’t, and I sat down at a bench near where the Cheeses Crust truck was often parked.

You’re not supposed to drink beer at the market, but the moment struck me. I cracked a can of Persephone Goddess Golden Ale, and I raised a toast to the memory of Larry Jordan. @grantlawrence

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PREVIEW WINTER 2018 Five winter arts highlights to warm your cockles Courier staff

her latest, greatest album Hell-On. As an added bonus, Vancouver’s enigmatic indie rockers Destroyer open.

Nov. 30 at the Vogue Theatre voguetheatre.com

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Cold, wet weather and cocooning go hand in hand if you live in Vancouver. But the local arts and entertainment community has done its darndest to get you off the couch and kick those winter blahs to the curb.

Here are five winter arts highlights to get you through the season.

Christmas with the Bach Choir

If this doesn’t warm your cockles, nothing will.

The Bach Choir’s annual family-friendly holiday tradition returns with eight choirs and the chance to sing-a-long to traditional carols. “Hark the Herald Angels Sing” is going to be “lit,” as the kids like to say.

Dec. 2 at the Orpheum Theatre vancouverbachchoir.com

21st Annual European Union Film Festival

Billed as “Europe without the jet lag,” the Cinematheque’s annual celebration of new cinema from the European Union showcases films from 26 countries including…

Malta! And good luck finding any of these on Netflix.

Nov. 23 to Dec. 4 at the Cinematheque thecinematheque.ca

East Van Panto: Wizard of Oz

Theatre Replacement’s East Van Panto returns to the York Theatre for its annual skewering of local culture and “in the know” references. This time the

East Van Panto gets swept up by the Wizard of Oz, Nov. 28 to Jan. 6 at the York Theatre. PHOTO TIM MATHESON

gang takes on the Wizard of Oz in which Dorothy and Toto are flung to the magical Land of Oz, a.k.a.

Nanaimo and Hastings, after a pipeline bursts.

Hopefully she’ll remember, there’s no place like PoCo, there’s no place like PoCo.

Nathalie Paulin soprano

Nov. 28 to Jan. 6 at the York Theatre thecultch.com

Neko Case

Powerhouse singersongwriter Neko Case returns to her old stomping grounds in support of

Daniel Cabena countertenor

Isaiah Bell tenor

Ballet BC presents Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s Nutcracker

Let a little Christmas into your coal black heart when Ballet BC presents the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s Nutcracker. You know the one: music by Tchaikovsky, the dance of the sugarplum fairy, people in tights.

Dec. 7 to 9 at Queen Elizabeth Theatre balletbc.com

Stephen Hegedus bass-baritone

8pm Friday December 7, 2018 | The Orpheum Vancouver Chamber Choir and Orchestra Pacifica Singers | Nathalie Paulin, soprano Daniel Cabena, countertenor | Isaiah Bell, tenor Stephen Hegedus, bass-baritone | Jon Washburn, conductor

In this 48th season of the Choir, Jon Washburn will conduct his 48th performance of Messiah, Vancouver’s perennial Christmas favourite.

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Mulberry PARC Christmas Market Bard on the Beach’s production of As You Like It featured 25 Beatles songs, the licensing of which complicated staging the play but delivered record-setting attendance for the annual Shakespeare festival.

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Bard on the Beach’s bet on the Beatles brings in big ticket sales Attendance record allows Vancouver’s annual Shakespeare festival to expand 2019 acting troupe Tyler Orton

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For the Bard on the Beach production team, licensing 25 songs from the Beatles’ discography for a reimagined take on Shakespeare’s As You Like It might have felt like forever and a day.

“It was definitely a risk.

It’s not inexpensive to license the Beatles’ music,” said Claire Sakaki, executive director of the annual outdoor Shakespeare festival in Vancouver.

“The various people that own the Beatles’ songbook are notorious for being very careful for who they license the music to.”

The risk paid off for organizers who spent more than 18 months negotiating with the rights holders (Sony Music Entertainment Inc. owns 19 of the 25 songs used), who may have needed some persuasion to embrace the play’s radical reboot, which swaps pastoral France for 1960s Vancouver.

The festival logged more than 108,000 attendees from June to September — a record for the company and up eight per cent from a year earlier.

“Bard did a first-rate undertaking and it was a huge success and deserving of recognition,” Rick Antonson, former CEO of Tourism Vancouver, said in an email. “They continue to be motivating to all of us in the field.”

Antonson is in the midst of adapting his 2012 book, Route 66 Still Kicks: Driv-

ing America’s Main Street, into a musical featuring as many as 29 songs from the 1950s to the ’80s.

He said it’s not surprising it took Bard organizers a year and a half to secure the licences to songs — his own play has already faced refusals from rights holders for many of its chosen songs.

“I can tell you that gaining the creators’ trust for discussions is a lot of work and requires providing considerable background regarding the scene in which the song will be used, plus the dialogue of characters coming into and out of the scene and so forth — all required in order to ensure they understand how their work would be incorporated with our work,” he said.

But Bard’s record-setting ticket sales will allow the festival to boost its typical company of between 25 and 30 performers to 42 actors when it celebrates its 30th season next year.

The 2019 season will deliver the festival’s firstever production of Coriolanus, the return of its spaghetti-western version of The Taming of the Shrew last seen in 2007, a South Asian reimagining of All’s Well That Ends Well and an adaptation of the 1998 film Shakespeare in Love.

“We very much wanted to celebrate the last 30 years and our past but also look forward to what Bard will be for the next 30 years,” Sakaki said. “When we talk about the next 30 years, we need to ensure that we have an audience for the next 30 years and beyond.”

That means using much of the non-profit’s resources on education programs aimed at young people, sending performers to 200 classrooms throughout the school year and supporting theatre arts programs to train aspiring actors.

Sakaki said she’s very clear to people inquiring whether she and her colleagues at the summer festival get to take the winter off; the answer is no. And among the issues they’ll be addressing over the next seven months is how to adapt to wildfire smoke blowing into the city with more frequency during the summer. “[Wildfire smoke] turned right before it got to a place where it was going to be dangerous for people to perform. We altered what we could in terms of trying to reduce the physical exertion of some of the actors. And we stayed in close contact with them… the days that the smoke was quite bad just to see how people were feeling,” she said.

Other outdoor festivals were not so lucky.

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival revealed in late September that it lost US $2 million as a result of cancelled performances due to wildfire smoke.

“Thankfully we did not have to cancel any shows,” Sakaki said. “But it’s very concerning to us and we’re looking at what to do because I can only assume this is something we’re going to be dealing with on a more regular basis now.”

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Animated event recognizes forgotten women of Disney Sabrina Furminger

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Walt Disney — both the man and the mega-corporation — owes a debt of gratitude to a legion of women who had been, until recently, forgotten by history.

History forgot Margaret J. Winkler, the pioneering producer who gave Disney his start and brought animated shorts to cinemas.

History forgot Hazel Sewell, who changed the face of animation with sophisticated inking and painting techniques.

History forgot Walt’s wife, Lillian, and his sisterin-law, Edna, who huddled over a kitchen table and created the more than 13,000 cells that comprise the first Mickey and Minnie Mouse film, Plane Crazy.

There’s a reason history forgot these women, and dozens more, says Mindy Johnson. “History is exactly that — his story — and history is preserved, written about, archived and documented from a male perspective.”

Johnson is a film historian, former Disney employee and author of Ink & Paint: The Women of Walt Disney’s Animation. On Nov. 13, she’ll pay tribute to the unsung women of animation at an event called Pencils, Paint & Pixels: How Women Transformed Disney Animation — a panel that will also feature Disney animation legend Jane Baer (whose credits include Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Mickey’s Christmas Carol).

Women like Baer, Winkler, Sewell and the Disneys have always been present in the animation sphere, according to Johnson.

“We’ve mindlessly been looking past their contributions and concentrating only on our beloved men with pencils, and we love them, and their artistry is brilliant, but this is simply a balancing out and completing the story of how we’ve gotten to where we are in terms of animation,” says Johnson.

“It’s the other half that’s been hidden behind a celluloid curtain.”

Pencils, Paint & Pixels

those are all fabulous things, but I really aspire to a time where those efforts are no longer necessary.”

Locally, the industry still has a way to go. In 2017, seven Vancouver animation studios participated in a survey conducted by WIA. Of the studios’ combined 2,023 employees, 34 per cent were women; women accounted for 49 per cent of management positions, and only 19 per cent of department supervisors, an area that typically includes creative leadership.

That last statistic is especially eyebrow-raising considering that women outnumber men in animation programs by roughly 10 per cent, says Rose-Ann Tisserand, executive chair of WIA Vancouver and co-founder and CEO of Flying Kraken Creative Studios.

“We know that there are more women than men that go to school, and one of our deep dives is answering that question,” says Tisserand.

WIA Vancouver is currently establishing a mentoring circle program, and recently launched a juried

Mindy Johnson pays tribute to the unsung women of animation at an event called Pencils, Paint & Pixels: How Women Transformed Disney Animation.

is presented by Emily Carr University and the Vancouver chapter of Women in Animation (WIA), a globespanning organization dedicated to advancing women in the field of animation.

While women have advanced in the animation industry since the early days of Disney, there are still gains to be made, says Molly Mason-Boulé, executive

chair of WIA Vancouver and VP of content production, Electronic Arts.

“I think we’re changing, but I don’t think we’ve changed,” says MasonBoulé. “Right now, we’ve got these companies with their diversity and inclusion efforts, and we’ve got our HR teams and we’ve got advocacy groups like Women in Animation, and

competition called Five in Focus, which equips five women — a producer, a director, a screenwriter, an art director, and an animation director — with the tools they need to develop, screen, and distribute an animated film.

Johnson wants emerging animators to draw power from these historical women. “As I’m speaking with younger audiences, my biggest message is that we feel like, as women, we’re blazing trails and it’s going to be that much harder and it’s going to be more challenging, but we have an incredibly rich, deep well of herstory to dig into and incredible shoulders to stand on,” says Johnson.

“Trails have already been blazed. We just don’t know it. With that roadmap, it’s that much easier to chart the course ahead.”

Pencils, Paint & Pixels: How Women Transformed Disney Animation takes place Nov. 13 at Emily Carr University. Tickets and info at womeninanimation.org.

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All aboard the Vancouver Train Expo at the PNE Forum And three other reasons Vancouver is awesome this week Lindsay William-Ross

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Vancouver Train Expo

All aboard! Vancouver’s biggest event for train lovers of all ages is pulling into the Forum at the PNE for a weekend of geekery that’s off the rails.

This annual model railroad show is an absolute must for train enthusiasts young and old.

Nov. 10 to 11 | Forum at the PNE vancouvertrainexpo.ca

Aquarela do Brasil: An Explosive Celebration of Music and Dance

Experience a passionate evening of red-hot performances celebrating the profound impact Brazilian music has on the international music scene. Vancouverbased world music percussionistproducer Sal Ferreras will lead an ensemble of award-winning musicians who will perform alongside the infectious energy and exuberance of the dancers and drummers of Aché Brasil. Your toes will be tapping to the samba and bossanova beats all night long.

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Vancouver Podcast Festival With a focus on “True Crime, True

The Vancouver Train Expo goes off the rails Nov. 10 and 11 at the PNE Forum, while the Rio Theatre goes Back to the Future Nov. 9.

Justice,” Vancouver’s inaugural Podcast Festival will feature podcasters from Canada and the United States.

Guests may enjoy live-tapings, workshops, onstage Q&As, panels, and more at this multi-day event.

Nov. 8 to 10 | Various locations vanpodfest.ca

Back to the Future

Fire up the flux capacitor and go back in time as Back to the Future hits the big screen for the Rio’s late night movie series. Watch, and remember, as Marty McFly (and his sweet orange

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For many B.C. brewers, their love of delicious beverages thankfully extends past beer. Some breweries have tried making ciders, others are doing whiskies and spirits.

And some are going in a totally different, alcoholfree direction: soda pop.

And in the familyfriendly tasting room, it’s proving to be a big hit.

Victoria’s Phillips Brewing and Malting Co. was the first B.C. craft brewery to try its hand at naturally brewed sodas, and six years later they can be found in grocery stores and restaurants all over the province.

However, the decision to get into the fizz biz came by accident, says founder Matt Phillips.

“We were looking at soda for inspiration for our beers,” he says. “We were playing with ginger and root beer spices, and it dawned on us that no one was making sodas from real ingredients.

“So we decided to.”

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Electro’s Intergalactic Root Beer and Sparkmouth Ginger Ale, both launched in 2012. Phillips has since added a cola and an orange cream soda to the lineup, as well as the Phillips Fermentorium line of tonics.

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“Our sodas follow the c same ethos as our beer,” M l says Phillips. “They’re made from scratch, from c f fresh ingredients and k served fresh.”

Newly opened Loud- d mouth Brewing Company l in Abbotsford has built s soda into its business model since day one.

Founder Nicolas Mielty w says he wants to have craft e options for everyone that walks through his doors, m including those who don’t s n drink alcohol. i In addition to craft beer, Loudmouth’s tasting b room also offers tall cans, 355mL bottles, 650mL M bombers, growler fills and l tasting flights of its hand- t made all-natural sodas.

Mielty has been experi- m menting with soda pop for b years and says he first fell w in love with soda during a surfing trip to the U.S. “You’d find these little pizza shops with amazing sodas in glass bottles,” he says. “But we just don’t have that selection here.

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Much of the Canadian craft soda market is dominated by foreign brands: retro craft sodas such as Lemmy’s, Dad’s, Moxie and Mr. Cola are all manufactured in Washington State, while Fentiman’s is imported from England.

Even Jones Soda, which began in Vancouver, is now American owned and made.

Mielty says he’d like to see homegrown products take their place, and breweries are uniquely positioned to do just that.

“We have the mixing vessels, the CO2 tanks, the bottling lines, the pasteurization,” he says.

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B.C. craft breweries are going pop

Loudmouth’s soda selection is diverse, with nitro cold brew coffee alongside craft cola and root beer.

Mielty also plans to do a line of sodas inspired by craft beer, including sour fruit sodas, modeled after kettle soured ales, as well as dry-hopped pop.

“It’s actually pretty popular in Europe, but we haven’t seen it here,” he says.

There’s one thing you won’t find in his sodas, however: high fructose corn syrup.

“It’s astounding how much sugar is in some sodas,” he says. “You don’t need that much to sweeten it so [craft soda] is much better for you.”

Callister Brewing’s Diana McKenzie says it was a similar interest in making beer that led her to make pop.

“Soda can be so much more than Coke and root beer, much like the beer world has finally realized

only a handful of companies are doing anything similar locally, there’s less industry support and collaboration than what she’s experienced in the brewing industry.

“I’ve had to figure it out on my own nearly every step of the way,” she says.

But being small and adaptable has its advantages: McKenzie can use fresh local ingredients, make small batches and sell the soda as fresh as possible.

“I’m sure most breweries could do it if they wanted to commit the resources to it,” she says, “but at a larger size and scale, it may require more of an investment.”

Unlike beer, however, soda can be enjoyed by everyone.

“You can sell it to anyone and anytime,” says McKenzie. “It’s actually really liberating not to be as restricted.”

Left: Callister Brewing’s Diana McKenzie offers flavours such as Traditional Tonic, Raspberry Earl Grey, Ginger Mint and Spruce & Hop in 355ml bottles under the Canister Soda brand, available in the tasting room and other East Van retailers. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET Right: Phillips Brewing and Malting Co. founder Matt Phillips decided to launch a craft soda line in 2012 when he realized no one in B.C. was making sodas from real ingredients. PHOTO JAMES MCKENZIE

that beer isn’t just American lagers,” she says. “I want people to appreciate the possibilities and the range outside of big label commercial soda.”

Callister Soda offers flavours like Traditional Tonic, Raspberry Earl Grey,

Ginger Mint and Spruce & Hop in 355ml bottles from the tasting room and other East Van retailers.

The sodas are designed to be enjoyed on their own or used as a cocktail mixer.

“The Traditional Tonic is so different from what

people think of as a tonic, so I have some very dedicated tonic followers,” says McKenzie. “The Raspberry Earl Grey gets people so excited, they usually swear at me because it’s so good.”

There weren’t many resources available for learn-

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Prince Rupert’s Wheelhouse Brewing Co. is one of the pioneers of the Northern B.C. craft beer scene, and they’ll be celebrating their fifth anniversary in December, which is a pretty big deal.

Wheelhouse’s beers are also making an appearance at liquor stores down south for the first time, which is also a pretty big deal. I found bombers of Gillnetter Golden Ale, Foggy Har-

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Craigslist scammers try to bait Courier reporter into renting suite in Olympic Village

area of town that’s centrally located and close to my work.

It’s not affordable, nor sustainable, but it serves what I need for now.

I know my number will get called soon in the ongoing renoviction process, so I’m always on the lookout for a new place to live.

John Kurucz

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Imagine an apartment hunt that starts on Craigslist, directs you to a phone number in the U.K., gives you a primer on chemical engineering and ends up on the TripAdvisor website.

The whole thing was fantastically farcical, if not depressing, and serves as a cautionary tale for wouldbe renters swimming in a seemingly shark-infested pool, all looking for the same elusive meal.

In this case, the meal is an impossibly sweet deal on a brand new apartment in Olympic Village.

The shark-infested pool represents scammers and swindlers looking to capitalize on Vancouver’s white-

‘Probably too good to be true’

A screen grab of the initial correspondence with the supposed owner of a condo for rent in Olympic Village.

hot rental market that hasn’t gone above a one per cent vacancy rate since last year.

But first, the backstory.

‘Always on the lookout’

I live near Granville and

Broadway in a decent onebedroom apartment that’s changed ownership and building managers every year since 2014.

It’s to the point that I don’t even know who owns my building, which

is your standard four-storey walk-up built in 1965.

To put the yearly flipping ritual in perspective, the property I live at was assessed at $12.1 million in 2017. In 2016, that number was $9.2 million.

The building is being renovated en masse and renovictions have already happened to at least six tenants.

My rent is north of $1,400 for about 650 square feet in a sweet

Which brings us to early October, when my cousin sent me a Craigslist ad.

His email said “probably too good to be true, but worth a try.”

And so I tried, sent an email asking for specifics and the following came back: “The rent for the whole apartment is $1,175/month utilities included (heat, hydro, water, electricity, maintenance fees, two parking spots, laundry in-suite, washer and dryer also included, cable and internet).

In case repairs are need [sic] in the apartment, the building management will help you and I will cover the costs. Pets are allowed.”

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Holy jumping Jehoshaphat! This, for a brand new suite, in a brand new building in Olympic Village that’s walking distance to work.

As it turned out, the suite was supposedly purchased by a young couple who was promised 10 years’ worth of work in Canada, but that contract went south and they had to head east — back home to England of all places to work in chemical engineering.

Things smelled fishy right away. I typed the couple’s names into Google, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and nothing came up.

I slept on the initial response and got back to them two days later with a bit of info about myself: where I work, how long I’ve worked as a journalist and if I needed furnishings.

No banking or financial information was exchanged.

All they knew about me personally was that I moved to Vancouver in 2003 and my place of employment.

By this time (three days later), the ad had been flagged and removed from Craigslist. I asked why and it was at this point that things completely went off the rails. They didn’t need to meet me in person, the place was mine site unseen and the damage deposit was only $125. I couldn’t see the place in advance, but I’d get the keys once I’d paid my first month’s rent.

Uh huh.

Not only that, all transactions would be handled through the vacation website TripAdvisor.com. All I needed to do was provide all of my personal information, banking information and the first month’s rent.

Smelling the bullshit piling up, I decided to play along and asked the following questions: why would you give me your place without meeting me, why is a travel site in charge of transactions and why is the damage deposit far less than half of the rent?

“TripAdvisor has great services and they are really professional. I can access the funds just after TripAdvisor have [sic] your final answer about the transaction. If u refuse to keep the apt you will receive a full refund from them...”

My final bit of correspondence happened on Oct. 15, when I asked for assurances that the whole thing wasn’t a scam.

I received no response.

‘Eight different red flags’

Reading through the emails after the fact, it’s evident that the tone changes, as does the “landlord’s” grasp of the English language.

So, I turned all of the correspondence over to the Vancouver Police Department, the Better Business Bureau (BBB) and to TripAdvisor as well.

“We tell people all the time if it’s too good to be true, it’s too good to be true,” is what VPD Const.

Jason Doucette told me.

Ditto for Jeanette Jackson with the BBB, who noticed eight different red flags within 10 minutes of looking over the correspondence.

“Why are they telling you about their career in a rental ad? Their style of writing in the two emails is completely different,” Jackson said. “The question about ‘Let me know if you have the funds available’

would never be asked by a potential landlord.”

Before someone from TripAdvisor got back to me for this story, a quick Google search yielded answers on the company’s FAQ webpage. The same scenarios and queries have been posed since 2015, and the same answer is offered each time: this is a scam.

TripAdvisor spokesperson Molly Burke emphasized the fact that the company never sells or advertises rental homes on classified sites.

“If you come into contact with a homeowner claiming to be affiliated with TripAdvisor and the conversation was initiated on a site other than TripAdvisor (or one of our subsidiary sites: HouseTrip, Niumba, FlipKey, Holiday Lettings or Vacation Home Rentals), cease communication,” Burke said.

Jackson said the BBB is alerted to these types of scam all the time, though they peak when student housing fluctuates in the spring and fall.

Had I, or someone else, been duped here and took the matter to police, the VPD would have likely pursued fraud charges, among others.

“We encourage anyone who feels they’ve been a victim of a crime or has information about a crime to make a report with their local police,” Doucette concluded. “With something as simple as this, this is too good to be true. It’s like those CRA scams — you just know, don’t do it. The number one thing is, don’t send any money.”

Be forewarned, fellow renters. @JohnKurucz

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Has Jake Virtanen finally figured it out?

It might be more accurate to say Canucks finally figured him out

Backhand Sauce Daniel Wagner

When you look at the Canucks’ top scorers, it’s the young stars leading the way. Elias Pettersson, unsurprisingly, leads the Canucks in goals and points, with Bo Horvat and Brock Boeser not too far behind.

Third in goals and fourth in points, however, is a slightly less expected name: Jake Virtanen.

The Canucks’ 2014 first round pick had five goals and seven points in 15 games heading into Tuesday’s meeting with the Detroit Red Wings. While he’ll never be a great playmaker, he’s on pace for 27 goals, which would eclipse even the most optimistic projections for this season.

That includes the optimism of Canucks’ general manager Jim Benning, who had high hopes for Virtanen. In a conversation with the Athletic’s Jason Brough, he said, “[Virtanen] needs to try to get 15 or 20 goals for us this year, and it’s dirty goals. It’s those tip-ins in front of the net, it’s rebound goals... he’s going to have to start paying the price in front of the net.”

While Virtanen is on pace for more than the “15 or 20 goals” that Benning desires, he’s still not scoring the “dirty goals.” Instead, Virtanen is scoring goals the way he always has: off the rush, using his speed and heavy shot.

His first goal of the season against the Calgary Flames was pure speed after coming out of the penalty box. Brandon Sutter hoisted the puck into the offensive zone and Virtanen burned past Mark Giordano to be first to the puck and tuck it between Mike Smith’s legs. His fifth goal was also scored on a breakaway, where his speed held off two Chicago defenders. Another goal scored into an empty net was also made possible because of his speed.

Virtanen’s other two goals were snipes from long range, beating the goaltender cleanly with the speed and accuracy of the shot.

It seems like Virtanen is finding some success this season without playing the type of power forward game that Benning, along with many Canucks fans, hope to see. After all, that was what the Canucks

Stick-taps & Glove-drops • A tap of the stick to the Canucks’ NCAA prospects. Quinn Hughes has seven points in seven games, while freshman defenceman Jack Rathbone is off to a great start with six points in three games.

Forwards Tyler Madden and William Lockwood each have five points.

• I’m dropping the gloves with the Arizona Uber driver who recorded and released a video of several Ottawa Senators players badmouthing their team and special teams coach. There’s a presumption of privacy in that situation that was violated.

Big Numbers • 1.67 Heading into Tuesday, Elias Pettersson was second in the NHL with 1.67 points per game, behind only the Colorado Avalanche’s Mikko Rantanen. When you take into account ice time, Pettersson is ahead, with a league-leading 5.77 points per hour.

Jake Virtanen might not be getting the “dirty goals” his coach and GM hoped for, but’s he’s proving himself as a free-shooting, speedy, two-way winger. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

saw in him when he was drafted: a big, strong, goal-scoring power forward. Benning extolled his “meanness and ruggedness” when Virtanen was drafted, but even in junior he did the bulk of his scoring from the outside or off the rush.

Coach Travis Green seems to have recognized this. He has Virtanen on the second power play unit, but not as the net-front presence, like you would normally expect from a power forward expected to score “dirty goals” off tip-ins and rebounds.

Instead, Virtanen is generally playing on the right half-boards, where he can use his shot from the right faceoff circle.

At even-strength, Virtanen has mainly played on defensive-oriented lines, with Sutter his most frequent linemate. That means less time spent in the offensive zone, where power forwards frequently do damage off the cycle, but it also means more opportunities to create offence off counter-attack rushes with his speed and shot. He has also been able to use his speed to close down on oppo-

nents quickly, and has a team-leading 15 takeaways, tied for 13th in the NHL. It seems like Green has embraced the player that Virtanen is today instead of the player the Canucks hoped he would be when they drafted him. Perhaps that player is a lot closer to the likes of David Booth than Milan Lucic, but there’s tremendous value in a free-shooting, speedy, two-way winger.

Certainly, it would be ideal for Virtanen to take the puck to the net with more authority and frequency. It would be great if Virtanen could get some “dirty goals” to go with his breakaways and snipes.

Perhaps he will “get it” at some point in the future; until then, putting Virtanen in a position to succeed as the player he is today is the best course of action.

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

• 32 Nikolay Goldobin has just one goal so far this season, but he actually leads the Canucks in shots on goal at five on five with 22, and is second on the team in scoring chances at all strengths with 32, behind Bo Horvat’s 35, as measured by analytics site Natural Stat Trick.

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