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Tracking Mayor Kennedy Stewart’s first 100 days Hiring a renters’ advocate, creating a lobbyist registry among new mayor’s promises in first 100 days
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In four years from now, more than 400,000 eligible voters will get a chance to give Vancouver’s new mayor, Kennedy Stewart, a definitive performance review at the ballot box. “C’mon,” said the voter, “give the guy a break — he just got elected!” Point taken. “And he may not seek a second term!” But let’s say he does. To help voters make an informed decision in 2022, I thought it would be helpful to have a handy checklist of the promises Stewart made in the campaign to track his progress, or lack of it over the next four years. I’ve gone through my notes, his platform and the many emails I received from his campaign team dating back to May when Stewart announced he was running for mayor as an independent candidate.
Mayor Kennedy Stewart has made many promises, including building 85,000 new homes over 10 years, tripling the empty homes tax and changing the city’s electoral system. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET
Some of his promises require other levels of government to get on board, some — such as the need for a renters’ advocate — were initiated under the previous Vision Vancouver administration of Gregor Robertson. There’s also the fact Stew-
art is an independent mayor, without a majority to help him implement all his plans, some of which — 85,000 homes over 10 years! — have an expiry date in 2028. Unfortunately, I don’t have the space here in print to list all of his
promises, so the best I can do is give you his first 100 days. Once you’ve read this, and are curious about the rest of his promises, I urge you to go to vancourier.com, find the search bar and type in “Kennedy Stewart, promises.”
There you’ll find a longer version of this piece, with a long list of his promises, including tripling the empty homes tax, building an average of 2,500 non-profit homes per year for households earning $80,000 or less and changing the electoral system for the next election. In the meantime, here’s what I’ve put together for Stewart’s first 100 days. His first day, by the way, began Nov. 5. He promises to: •Hire more staff and make changes to clear a backlog of building permits, with a focus on rental housing projects. • Hire a renters’ advocate to work with council and ensure renters have access to legal advice and advocacy they need to fight unfair evictions and rent increases. • Set up an emergency task force in the Downtown Eastside, with the primary goal of tackling the opioid crisis and saving lives. • Launch a review of
city policies — particularly those related to taxes and permits — that impact small business. • Require elected officials to proactively disclose assets and prohibit them from working outside city hall, if these activities are likely to conflict with their public duties. • Prohibit officials and “key staff members” from accepting government contracts or lobbying for 12 months after leaving their positions. • Create a lobbyist registry, which would require lobbyists to declare details of their activities in an online registry. Levy fines for non-compliance. Make the information available to the public. So there you go, voters — that’s Stewart’s first 100 days. You might want to cut this out and put it on your fridge. I’ll give you an update in mid-February. I promise. @Howellings
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Eight Vancouver daycares part of B.C.’s low-cost childcare program Pilot project aimed at offering daycare for no more than $200 a month Jessica Kerr
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More affordable daycare is coming to Vancouver. On Nov. 9, the B.C. government announced 53 “prototype projects” across the province, eight in Vancouver, where childcare will cost families no more than $200 a month. The project is being funded by an investment of $60 million through the Early Learning and Child Care agreement with the federal government. In all, parents of about 2,500 children, more than 300 in Vancouver, will be eligible for the reduced rates. The announcement is a major step in the province’s 10-year childcare plan unveiled earlier this year.
“We are finding new ways to make it easier for families to get by every month and to save for the future,” Premier John Horgan said in making Friday’s announcement. “Through this kind of action, where we significantly reduce the cost of childcare, we can make life more affordable for so many B.C. families.” Under the program, childcare providers at the new “prototype” sites will receive additional government funding to cover their operational and administrative costs. In return, they will reduce parent fees to a maximum of $200 per month for full-time enrolment during regular hours. The sites will also share feedback with the provincial government to help inform future implementation of universal childcare. The eight prototype sites in Vancouver are: Frog Hollow Neighbourhood Satellite Daycare, Collingwood Neighbourhood House, Hastings Park
Child Care Centre, Langara Child Development Centre, Bob and Kay Ackles YMCA Nanook House, Woodwards YMCA Child Care, Emma’s Early Learning and Care Centre and Hummingbird Under Tree. The sites were selected after a call for applications in June. Priority was initially given to sites offering infant and toddler spaces, however the government expanded eligibility to include other types of licensed child care. “Prototype sites give us a glimpse of what the future of universal child care in B.C. can be, and are critical as we design and refine our program moving forward,” said Katrina Chen, B.C.’s minister of state for child care. “They build on the work we’ve already done to bring affordability relief to thousands of families through universal fee reductions and the Affordable Child Care Benefit.” @JessicaEKerr
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zoning policy for sustainable large developments. Aside from the new hospital and health care campus, the proposal features commercial, office, hotel, institutional and limited residential uses that provide a variety of health-related support functions, according to the application. It also includes plans for retail and commercial space. Building heights would range from about 20 to 60 metres, there would be a new road network through the site that would connect the existing streets, and there would be two childcare facilities. The project would be completed in three phases, with 2024 being the target for a finished hospital.
Late last month, the London Drugs and Tong and Geraldine Louie foundations donated $6.5 million to St. Paul’s Foundation for the provincial heart centre at the new hospital. The cardiac centre at the new facility will be called the Tong Louie Cardiac Wing in recognition of the donation. In 2017, billionaire Jimmy Pattison announced he would contribute $75 million for the new hospital. The open house for the rezoning application runs from 4 to 7 p.m. at Creekside Community Centre on Nov. 20. The application will be subject to council approval following a public hearing. —Courier staff
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Council wants $3.5 million from province to tackle overdose crisis
Mike Howell
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Mayor Kennedy Stewart and council unanimously approved a motion Nov. 13 to request the provincial government contribute at least $3.5 million to help the city tackle the overdose crisis as it stretches into its second year of more than 300 lives lost in Vancouver. Stewart will now write a letter to Premier John Horgan and Judy Darcy, the Minister of Mental Health and Addictions, to ask for the money, which is the same amount the city generated in 2016 when the previous council approved a property tax increase. “I do think that more funds are required,” Stewart told reporters after the meeting. “We do have a very finite property tax base here in the city, we can’t shoulder it all ourselves. So I think it’s totally prudent to go forward and ask for additional funding.” In December 2016, the Vision Vancouver-led administration successfully passed a .5 per cent tax hike — which generated $3.5 million — on top of an
originally proposed 3.4 per cent increase. The .5 per cent tax became known as the “fentanyl tax” in reference to the huge surge in drug deaths connected to the synthetic narcotic. That increase is now built into the city’s budget. The Non Partisan Association councillors opposed the .5 per cent increase in 2016, arguing the request was lastminute, that there was no public consultation and that addressing the opioid crisis was the responsibility of the provincial government. At Tuesday’s council meeting, NPA Coun. Melissa De Genova, who was re-elected Oct. 20 and joined by four new NPA councillors, moved the motion to request funding come directly from the provincial government. “This is urgent because we’re dealing with a budget next month,” she told reporters, but didn’t provide specifics on where and what the money would be spent on, if the city’s request is fulfilled by the province. The $3.5 million generated from the 2016 tax hike was used for a variety of programs and staff, includ-
More than 300 people in Vancouver have died of a suspected drug overdose this year. City council wants more money from the provincial government to tackle the crisis. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET
ing $1.8 million to deploy four Vancouver Fire and Rescue medic teams around the clock, instead of relying on overtime and taking firefighters and vehicles from other parts of the city to respond to overdose calls in the Downtown Eastside. At Tuesday’s meeting, council received an update on the overdose crisis from city staff and Dr. Patricia Daly, the chief medical health officer for Vancouver Coastal Health. Their data showed the number of overdose deaths has not abated in the last three years, with 304 suspected deaths recorded
in Vancouver between Jan. 1 and Nov. 4 this year. Last year, the total number of deaths reached 367 in Vancouver, which was a substantial increase over the 234 in 2016 and 138 in 2015. In the past decade, the lowest number of overdose deaths occurred in 2008 when 38 people died. Fentanyl has been responsible for the surge in deaths, with 79 per cent this year connected to the deadly drug. Last year, 81 per cent of deaths were connected to fentanyl, 65 per cent in 2016 and 23 per cent in 2015. In 2012, when 65 people died
of an overdose in Vancouver, only two per cent were linked to fentanyl. A graph Daly used in her presentation showed overdose deaths for all of B.C. would have continued to average about 200 a year between 2007 and 2018, if fentanyl and carfentanil had not infiltrated the city’s illegal drug supply. What Daly said Tuesday, and what she’s told the previous council in other updates on the crisis, is that a clean drug supply is needed for severely addicted people. As well, she said, more doctors need to be trained across the city and province to link up drug users with treatment plans focused on drug replacement therapy. For the last three years, various health care experts have teamed up with emergency personnel, frontline workers and others to reduce the number of drug deaths in various ways, including opening clinics. An overdose emergency response centre opened at Vancouver General Hospital in December 2017. Though the crisis has not abated, Daly showed data that suggested there would
have been 2.5 times more deaths if not for interventions such as the overdosereversing naloxone, the opening of overdose prevention sites and opioid agonist therapy programs. Stewart, meanwhile, planned to introduce a motion Wednesday (after the Courier’s print deadline) to set up an “opioid emergency task force.” It will be his third meeting as mayor, after having been sworn in Nov. 5 with what is largely a council of rookies. Asked what another task force on the topic could achieve that others haven’t, Stewart said. “I do think people do know what needs to be done. It’s really just compiling that, making recommendations to council and to move ahead with those actions.” In an emailed statement to the Courier, Darcy said she had a “productive discussion” with Stewart last week about the crisis. As part of the ongoing work to reduce drug deaths, Darcy said the ministry is working with municipalities to “identify additional areas of investment to stem the tide of this achingly long emergency.” @Howellings
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This month, the Vancouver School District rolled out a new registration process for kindergarten students effective in an effort to avoid confusion among parents and streamline record keeping for district staff. The new registration system is divided into two components, both online and in person, and runs from Nov. 1 until Jan. 31. The online portion takes roughly 15 to 20 minutes to complete and requires parents to input information around the child’s name, birth date, country of birth, allergies, address, siblings enrolled and emergency contact information. As that information is collected online, the system automatically tells a parent where their catchment school is. A confirmation email is sent to the parents who are then tasked with verifying that info in person after the fact. The new system’s benefits are two-fold: it gives parents time to track down and consolidate information such as postal codes or emergency contacts, while giving school administrators an online master list to track enrolment numbers. In the event that demand outpaces available space,
in-catchment siblings will continue to receive priority placement. A random draw will then follow to determine additional placements and establish a waitlist. Entering any of those details on Nov. 1 or Dec. 1 does not affect the process, which is specifically designed to avoid a first-come, first-served scenario that in past years saw parents lining up endlessly or camping outside of a school. “The district moved to this from an experience years ago where people were camping out at Elsie Roy or lining up on the first day and being worried,” deputy superintendent David Nelson told the Courier. “So we said, ‘Here’s a three-month window, you complete your application in there, you are in the priority period.’” Many guidelines carry over from the previous paper process. All students registered by Jan. 31 will receive priority to attend their catchment school. Those parents who opt for Choice Programs — French Immersion, Aboriginal Focus, Montessori, Fine Arts, and Early Mandarin Bilingual — can apply beginning in midJanuary. The cross-boundary application process begins Feb. 1. “The biggest thing for me here is that we’re not spending a lot of time and resources trying to track down information that we could’ve got on the front end,” Nelson said. “That to me, will save parents and schools time.” @JohnKurucz
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First artist in Indigenous cultural residency announced Musqueam artist Chrystal Sparrow chosen for A-Frame residency at Second Beach Jessica Kerr
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Vancouver Park Board announced Nov. 7 the first Indigenous artist chosen for a new residency at Second Beach. Musqueam artist Chrystal Sparrow is the inaugural artist selected for the A-Frame Activation: Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Cultural Residency. “We are honoured to have an artist of Chrystal Sparrow’s ability and lineage to inaugurate our A Frame activation at Second Beach,” park board chair Stuart Mackinnon said in a press release. “This cultural residency will provide tremendous opportunities for the sharing of creative practices and deep wisdom handed down by generations of Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples on their unceded, traditional territories.” Sparrow has a long family history of Coast Salish art and carving techniques, passed down through three generations from her late grandfather Edward Sparrow Sr., who painted stories and myths, and her late father Irving
Sparrow, who was a master carver. Her design style is described as “feminine Coast Salish,” sharing her experiences as a young woman among male artists in her family. She works in a range a media including painting, jewelry, leather and cedar weaving. Sparrow’s public work includes the design of the bronze medal for the HSBC Canada Sevens Rugby Tournament, the Salish Sea Waters panel that hangs in Vancouver city hall and a Salish Beauty Cedar carving at UBC’s Thunderbird Arena that was carved for the 2010 Olympics. The goal of the yearlong artist residency is for a community member from the Musqueam, Squamish or TsleilWaututh Nations to work in a creative, communityengaged space in their unceded territory now known as Stanley Park. During her residency, Sparrow aims to provide an interactive educational and experiential opportunities for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. The A Frame Fieldhouse at Second Beach will serve as her studio until next summer. Spar-
row offers open studio and other learning opportunities to the public every Monday evening from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at 8701 Stanley Park Dr. @JessicaEKerr
Musqueam artist Chrystal Sparrow in 2016 at the unveiling of her Salish Sea Waters panel that hangs in Vancouver city hall. Last week, the Vancouver Park Board announced Sparrow as the inaugural artist chosen for the A-Frame Activation: Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Cultural Residency at Second Beach. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET
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Parents say province wasting money seismically upgrading school Tracy Sherlock
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Parents at Edith Cavell elementary say the province is being short-sighted and wasting taxpayers’ money to fix up their old school to make it safe in an earthquake, when they could spend slightly more to build new. The province is willing to pay $15.6 million to seismically upgrade the 98-year-old school on Vancouver’s West Side, ignoring deferred maintenance issues and a required expansion, but it isn’t willing to pay $21.2 million for a new school. On the face of it, that may seem like a prudent fiscal decision, but when the costs of operating the building are spread out over 40 years, building new would actually save nearly $2.5 million. “With a provincial NDP government, it’s really shocking the way they are handling this,” said Kevin Harris, Cavell Parent Advisory Council seismic committee spokesperson, who has two children at Cavell, with another ready to start kindergarten next year. “They are basically following in the footsteps of the Liberals, piggybacking on all of the political agenda the Liberals had and the tactics they used and they’re just continuing them, which doesn’t really fit with their political base.” Yes, in the short term, money would be saved by simply making the old school safe in an earthquake. But in the long
term, doing only the seismic upgrades, while leaving other maintenance problems to fester, will be more expensive, the project definition report shows. A 2016 Vancouver School Board report found $700 million in so-called deferred maintenance at Vancouver schools. This is maintenance that needs to be done but hasn’t been funded. At Cavell, asbestos, lead paint, silica, mercury and PCBs have been found. It’s not known exactly what other deferred maintenance is in the building, but the project report lists an extra $6 million in maintenance costs over 40 years if the school is upgraded versus replaced. But there is even more at stake. Cavell elementary is just west of 20th and Cambie. As anyone who has driven down Cambie Street in the past decade knows, that area is booming with construction. Along with the Canada Line has come massive development, which has filled up all of the schools nearby. It’s common in the neighbourhood to find two to four single family homes knocked down and replaced by either 50 to 70 midrise apartments or 20 to 30 townhouses, the same project report says. Cavell is already full, with four portable classrooms on site and four in-catchment kindergarten students were turned away this year and sent to Shaughnessy elementary, which is two
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catchments away. The VSB has requested an expansion and could have one approved as soon as late spring 2019, the board’s communications department said in a statement. But an expansion is not part of the project approved by the province. That’s likely because there are about 5,000 empty seats in Vancouver schools, mostly on the city’s East Side. The overall picture is complicated by the fact that schools in some areas — such as along the Cambie corridor — are full to overflowing, while they are mostly empty in other areas. “[The province] wants schools closed, and the VSB is not making those hard decisions, so we’re stuck in the middle of this fight,” Harris said. “I think the government is doing this because there is a political appetite to get as many seismic projects done as possible before
the next election. “I think they’re doing this because they’re not happy that on a district-wide basis, Vancouver schools are under capacity and the VSB over time hasn’t been able to successfully address that.”
Pointing fingers
When asked why the province is only funding seismic upgrades and not an expansion or the required maintenance, the Ministry of Education appeared to be pointing fingers everywhere. In a written statement, first the ministry said the former Liberal government failed to adequately move Vancouver seismic projects forward, leaving 64 at-risk schools in need of upgrades. Then it said it approved the proposal the VSB put forward and it includes upgrades to the electrical and plumbing systems as well as asbestos removal, where necessary.
Cavell parents are also upset the plan is to bus their kids all the way to Boundary Road near Imperial Street during the renovations. Students will be at two different schools, making it difficult to have a school community, and they will have to bus for up to 45 minutes each way. The ministry pinned that decision on the VSB, too, saying boards of education decide where displaced students will attend school. On the plus side, the ministry said it was pleased to hear that the VSB’s new trustees and staff are meeting with Cavell parents to consider best options. Harris says parents across Vancouver should be paying attention, because more than 50 other schools still need upgrades and those parents may find themselves in the same position. Trustees appear to have little say over the process, possibly due to changes made in 2017 when the board was run by a government-appointed trustee, Harris said. “This doesn’t make any sense, any way you look at it for our school, but fundamentally the process has changed,” Harris said. “… That’s going to be a huge problem for every other school in Vancouver that’s going to be going through this.” The Ministry of Education said there had been no changes to the role of the VSB in the seismic project office decisions since the office opened in 2014. Board chair Janet Fraser
said after the October election the board appears to have very little decision-making ability on these projects. “It seems as though we can approve the project office’s choice or not have a project,” Fraser said. When asked again last week about what the board could do, she said the new board hasn’t yet had a chance to discuss Cavell. “I anticipate it will be a priority of the board to work with the ministry, noting the framework of the MOU, to address the issues raised by the Cavell school community,” Fraser said in an email. “As the expansion project was submitted in our last capital plan I hope this can be coordinated with the seismic project.”
Tough choices
The next few years are going to be challenging ones for the Vancouver School Board — as Harris says, there are tough choices to be made. With aging schools, uneven enrolment and a crazy housing market, it will be a delicate balancing act. It’s critical that schools be made safe in case the big one hits and the NDP government has made commendable progress on that. But it doesn’t make a lot of sense to pour more than $15 million into a 98-year-old building that’s already not big enough and is in need of repairs, to say nothing of bussing kids nearly 10 kilometres to school every day. Let’s hope saner heads prevail before this project goes ahead.
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If Vancouver’s new city council is serious about supporting measures to help house the middle
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He spoke at SFU earlier this month about making cohousing more affordable for families and seniors. Durrett argues that while city staff and politicians publicly support cohousing, the approval process remains daunting and adds unnecessary costs residents have to cover. He maintains the city’s approach to groups that want to build cohousing should be: “How can we make this happen?” “There’s so much rhetoric around trying to help middle class people stay in Vancouver and such a dearth of reality around that,” Durrett said. “There’s very little traction when it comes to real projects getting to be more affordable… and, over and over again, the cohousing groups would like to make it more affordable.” While there are a number of cohousing complexes across the Lower Mainland, only one has been completed in Vancouver so far — Vancouver Cohousing on East 33rd near Argyle. Another cohousing building, Little Mountain Cohousing in Riley Park, is expected to open in 2019, while city council approved rezoning for a “cohousing lite” project called Our Urban Village last July. It’s destined for Main Street and Ontario Place. However, buying into such projects in the Vancouver market can be costly, partially due to land values. Unit prices typically reflect market rates for the neighbourhood, although proponents point to advantages including additional communal space outside individual apartments and a sharing economy within buildings where residents share items such as tools or cars and assist each other with necessities such as child or senior care that make day-to-day life easier and cheaper. Durrett, who lives in cohousing in Nevada City, Calif., thinks more
complexes should be built in Vancouver and that buy-in could be less expensive. He’s concerned potential cohousing groups are being scared off by the often yearslong process and money required up-front to see a project get off the ground. While he said cohousing doesn’t need or deserve affordable housing subsidies, he argues civic governments should actively “facilitate” the unique style of living because it produces “highly functional” neighbourhoods that benefit society as a whole. The collaborative form of living created through cohousing, he added, also reduces loneliness — a problem that plagues this city based on results from a Vancouver Foundation survey from a few years ago. “It’s actually hard to support middle class housing because people don’t even know where to start. Cohousing is a great place to start because not only are you boxing people up affordably, you’re giving them a support system in a real high-functioning neighbourhood that they would otherwise have a hard time accomplishing,” Durrett said, while adding cohousing addresses social issues. “High-functioning neighbourhoods are hard to come by [that] address pathologies that government can’t really address although they try. They get close and it’s very expensive… There are things that can only be accomplished at the neighbourhood level.” In terms of some of the unnecessary costs, Durrett points to the fact Vancouver cohousing groups have had to include affordable rental units within their projects as a condition of rezoning. In Vancouver Cohousing’s case, two of the 31 units had to be rentals in perpetuity. The group had hoped to sell the units to a non-profit organization, but that deal fell through so residents picked up the expense.
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build says proponent In the recently approved “cohousing lite” project, three units will be reserved for affordable homeownership or as moderate income rentals. If the ownership option is selected (it requires a change to provincial regulations), the units would be sold at about 35 per cent less than market value to incometested buyers. Durrett considers the expectation that cohousing groups subsidize such units “absurd.” “Making the middle class subsidize the middle class is not sustainable. In fact, it will scare people away from cohousing. Cities like Vancouver over and over again talk about how much they want to support cohousing and then they do things like that,” he said. “I mean, would you ever imagine going to a block of 30 houses and saying you 30 houses have to buy and own and manage two houses for people who qualify? You wouldn’t do that. If you wouldn’t do that to them, you shouldn’t do it to a cohousing project. And there are so many line items like that.” Other ways the city could help reduce cohousing costs are by guaranteeing construction loans and/or guaranteeing residents’ permanent loans, according to Durrett — even if that means rules need to be changed to make that possible. He estimates that could save cohousing groups hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Taryn Griffiths, who attended the lecture, knows how quickly financing and building costs can add up. She’s a member of Vancouver Cohousing, which opened in 2016. It took four years from concept to completion. (Durrett was the initiating architect on the project.) Griffiths said the Urban Design Panel process “definitely” added to the final budget. “There was a time delay of a few months plus we had to redesign the project twice because of their rejections,” she told the Courier, although she thinks the community ended up with a better design. But some changes to the original plans proved pricey. Griffiths said the 6,500-square-foot com-
mon area is almost twice the size the group was initially considering because the city insisted it needed to be larger. The larger size has also created higher ongoing utility and maintenance costs. The front and sides of the complex, meanwhile, had to be “articulated” to create a more interesting building, which increased the price tag by causing delays in construction. “There is a lot of work available to construction trades and ours was a difficult build because of articulation and other elements. It was difficult to get trades to complete the work. They would come and do the easy work and then leave for other work. Then we would have to find new trades to complete the work. This created a domino of delays and we ended up behind schedule,” Griffiths said. The building permit process was also much longer than she imagined it would be — the site was rezoned in April 2013 and the project didn’t break ground until July 2014. “Our completion date ended up behind schedule by about six months due to the development permit process and construction delays. I can’t put an exact figure on it for additional costs — however it was in the hundreds of thousands of dollars,” she said. But Griffiths is optimistic Vancouver Cohousing’s experience paved the way for a better process. After they moved in, a few residents were invited to give a presentation to the city’s planning department about cohousing. “We were able to help them understand how cohousing is different from other forms of housing, the benefits for residents and cities, and we spoke to some of the difficulties we experienced during the process of development,” she said. “We were the first in Vancouver and it was a steep learning curve for us all — cohousers and the city. I am hopeful for other future cohousing groups that the city wants to improve its process. We get emails all the time from people who want to move into Vancouver Cohousing. So far, only one unit has been put up for resale. It would be great if all Vancouverites had the opportunity to join a cohousing community if they wish to.” @naoibh
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particularly late at night and early in the morning when we’re more blurry eyed and foggy headed. The labels are not always easy to read and may be worn off. Dispose of these no longer used medications the safe way. Don’t take the easy way out of tossing them in the trash (where animals may ingest them) or toilet (where they contaminate water). They can be safely disposed of for free at your local pharmacy and some medical clinics. They aren’t recycled, we have them safely removed and processed without harming the environment. Of course, people leave medications in many places outside of the bathroom, including bedside tables, kitchen tables and counters. I suggest to my patients to keep their regular daily medications in a convenient place where they will be prompted to remember each dose. But another important consideration is the risk to others. Keep them beyond the reach — and exploration — of small children and animals.
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A suspect fleeing on foot from Vancouver police collided with what is believed to be an unmarked police car Oct. 30 before being taken to the ground by a police dog in a chaotic takedown on Southwest Marine Drive. Those new details emerged Nov. 6 after a video surfaced on the internet that captured footage of a portion of the arrest not revealed in a VPD news conference Oct. 31. It was the same arrest where an innocent 75-year-old man was bitten by one of two police dogs used in the operation to nab three burglary suspects connected to break-ins in Vancouver and Maple Ridge. Police originally said the suspect was arrested in a Mercedes at the Chevron gas station where Southwest Marine Drive meets Granville Street, near the former Fraser Arms hotel. The video, which was taken by a motorist with a dashboard camera, shows the suspect in a grey tracksuit run from the area of the gas station, across Southwest Marine Drive and into the parking lot of the former hotel. The suspect then attempts to come back across Southwest Marine Drive but collides with a grey sedan, believed to be an unmarked police car. The suspect continues to run but trips on a median before a police dog knocks
him to the ground and into to the side of a car idling in traffic. Several police officers set on the man, with some of them punching him as he tries to remove the dog’s mouth from his leg. The audio is muted for most of the video, but the dog handler, who delivers two punches, can be heard yelling to “let go of my dog.” Prior to the chase, two other suspects were arrested without incident in the parking lot of the former Fraser Arms hotel. All three suspects were in a pickup truck when police rolled up behind them to make the arrests at around 5:30 p.m. Police released a dog to apprehend the suspect who fled, but the dog ended up biting the leg of a 75-year-old man, who had just exited his truck in the parking lot. At that point, police said, they called off that dog from the operation. The man was treated in hospital and released. Police refused to release the extent of the man’s injuries. Const. Jason Doucette, a VPD media liaison officer, told reporters at the Oct. 31 news conference the suspect tried to get into a taxi (as seen on the video) before he was arrested — with the help of a second police dog — inside a Mercedes at the gas station. “The suspect was able to get the driver out of that vehicle, and as he attempted to get away in that car, it did not go into motion,” Doucette told reporters at the time. “But our dog
handlers were able to get him in the driver’s seat, along with our officers. He was taken into custody before any further harm could be done.” Asked Nov. 7 why details captured in the video footage were not shared at the Oct. 31 news conference — and show the suspect not being arrested in the gas station — Doucette said he relayed the information to media that he had at that time from investigators. Doucette wouldn’t say whether the grey sedan, which emerged from the gas station and collided with the suspect, belonged to police. But, he acknowledged, the car was “driven in a manner consistent with being part of the investigation.” The police apologized to the 75-year-old man and are reviewing the arrest plan to learn what went wrong and how to prevent another innocent victim from being bitten by a dog. Meanwhile, the suspects remain in custody. 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. @Howellings
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Law firm takes on one of B.C.’s first roadside cannabis violations Lawyer says case could take up to a year to resolve John Kurucz
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A Vancouver law firm is taking on one of the first legal challenges in B.C. since cannabis legalization last month, in a case the firm suggests will signal a litany of court and constitutional challenges in the months ahead. The case stems for a traffic stop in Victoria on the evening Oct. 26, when a man in his late 30s was issued a 24-hour driving prohibition and a violation ticket for operating a vehicle while in possession of cannabis. The case has since been taken on Vancouver firm Leamon Roudette Law Group. Partner Sarah Leamon asked that her client’s name not be published, but did say he’s held a federal medical cannabis license for five years due to a debilitating case of spinal arthritis.
to remember that those are completely subjective and every person is different. An officer’s interpretation of whether or not a person performing them correctly is also subjective.” Leamon said her client uses cannabis oil specifically, not dried cannabis flowers, for a condition known as ankylosing spondylitis. She also refutes the claim that any cannabis residue was on the vehicle’s dash, and suggested the law isn’t clear as to what constitutes cannabis in the first place. “The other question is, what’s cannabis? What’s falling under the definition of cannabis in a vehicle? Is residue cannabis? In my client’s case, this is going to be a live issue when this proceeds to trial, if it does,” Leamon said. Two different legal processes are now expected
Pandora’s box describes this situation perfectly. I think that there is going to be challenge after challenge. Lawyer Sarah Leamon
Leamon says her client was asked if he had consumed, or was in possession of, cannabis or alcohol by the officer and denied both. He did, however, note his medical cannabis license and was then asked to take a field sobriety test, which entails examining the driver’s eyes, observing how they walk and turn, and if they can stand on one leg. Leamon said her client failed the test not because of impairment, but due to the spinal condition he’s lived with for 10 years. The attending officer also claimed to have found cannabis residue on the dash of the vehicle. The Courier reached out to the Victoria Police Department to corroborate Leamon’s claims, but did not receive a response. “[My client] has told me in our conversation that he has difficulties with mobility, he has problems lifting his legs or walking in a straight line because of his condition,” Leamon said. “Those standardized field sobriety testing techniques, they’ve been around for decades, they’re accepted by our courts. But we have
to be in play, according to Leamon. She’ll first look to have her client appear before a justice of the peace to clear up the charge around possession in a vehicle. The 24-hour suspension is a different animal all together. “There is no ability for him to dispute this in front of the superintendent of motor vehicles, or any administrative hearing — we don’t have that ability,” Leamon said. “The only thing he’s able to do to get this thing taken off his driving record is to actually apply for a judicial review in the Supreme Court of B.C. That’s a very time consuming, costly process.” Leamon expects the two issues to drag on anywhere from three months to upwards of a year. Her case is the first she’s heard of in B.C., although Leamon said it’s far from the last. “Pandora’s box describes this situation perfectly. I think that there is going to be challenge after challenge,” she said. “There’s going to be a lot of uncertainty here in the law and there already is uncertainty
in the law. There’s uncertainty as to how officers are enforcing it at the roadside. There’s also going to be uncertainty with respect to how this actually ends up being litigated in terms of what our courts find and how they interpret this legislative scheme.”
Vancouver law firm Leamon Roudette Law Group is defending a Victoria man who was issued a 24hour driving prohibition and a violation ticket for operating a vehicle while in possession of cannabis. PHOTO iSTOCK
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Certified tea master Christine Wong hosts Tea Time at Chinatown House, one of several programs planned for the space aimed at sharing and celebrating not only Chinese traditions and heritage, but other cultures in the community. PHOTOS DAN TOULGOET
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It’s a Wednesday afternoon at the newly opened Chinatown House, and while the space buzzes with busy office energy, Christine Wong talks tea. In the small but bright kitchen space in the back corner of the office, she boils the water and chooses a small gold foil bag from a plate of different kinds of tea. She cuts open the bag and delicately unwraps the white paper inside to reveal a compact cluster of oolong tea leaves, a traditional Chinese tea. “This is very beautiful. Sometimes I just look at the tea, appreciate it, take in the colour and aroma,” she says before placing the tea in the gaiwan, a tradition Chinese tea pot that resembles a bowl with a lid. “It has a long history,” Wong says. “The Chinese used this kind of bowl for several hundred years. In the very beginning people use this gaiwan as a personal [tea] cup, but nowadays we just use it as a teapot.” She readies her gaiwan and four tiny teacups by warming and rinsing each one with hot water. Wong, who immigrated to Canada from Hong Kong in the late 1990s, is a certified tea master, and every Wednesday she hosts Tea Time at Chinatown House. It’s just one of several programs planned for the space aimed at sharing and celebrating not only Chinese traditions and heritage, but other cultures in the community. Wong says she uses tea as a way to form connections with younger generations. “It is very, very significant to make the bridge… This is my passion to do this kind of like intergen-
erational communication, but I need a tool… I think tea is one of the ways to do it. So I think it’s very important to connect the younger generation with our past to promote the culture,” she says, adding that it’s not just about promoting one country’s culture. “Nowadays it’s a global village in the sense that Chinese culture does not belong to one country.” Minna Van, executive director of West Coast Technology Innovation Foundation, the organization managing the space, echoed Wong’s sentiments. “It’s called Chinatown House because we’re in Chinatown, but it’s meant to embrace Chinatown culture, which is everybody and everything that is Chinatown, it doesn’t mean just Chineseness,” she says.
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While at its base, Chinatown House is a coworking and event space, it’s also meant to be a place to build and sustain the community through shared resources and programming — Wong’s tea workshops and Cantonese language lessons, a technology incubator and intergenerational cooking demonstrations. “We’re looking to expand,” Van said. “We’re working with multiple groups right now to bring in cooking demos from different cultures. We’re working on Venezuela, Syria and First Nations… We’re hoping to do a lot more cooking demonstrations. Right now we’re working with the Hua Foundation, which does a lot of wonderful programs around food and food security. They’re doing the Food and Race program, so talking about privilege and race in relation to food.” Other programs on the horizon include Create Chinatown, a monthly market featuring 15 vendors slated to start later this month, and a library.
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serves up culture, community and a cup of tea “I think a lot of people want to know what Chinatown is and books specifically on Chinatown are really hard to find so we’re getting everybody in the space, because they all have their own personal collections, we’re going to create a library just on Chinatown as a resource library,” Van says.
Co-working 3.0
Chinatown House is a different kind of co-working space — Van calls it a kind of a “co-working 3.0.” “The idea of sharing a space and resources is still there, but we are adding more to that model with community impact programming, food and collaborative opportunities,” she said. Van has been in the industry for more than a dozen years now and has seen how the idea of co-working spaces has changed. The foundation has a total of eight co-working spaces in the province. “The first iteration of it is the executive office, where someone manages it and you come in and it’s very formal and there’s definite rules… the second version is where everyone is sharing — sharing space, sharing amenities and you want to create some synergy,” she said. “The third version of it is now people have understood the concept of shared space, but now they want to have shared vision to move each other along the path.” It was founded by a group of entrepreneurs, urban designers, non-profit organizations and cultural curators with the aim of creating a new cultural hub in the community to encourage collaboration, dialogue and learning. “This is like the collaborative model with everyone working together in partnership, and I think that model works better for us at this point because it allows our members from other locations to be able to participate and feel like they have ownership of the space and curate it and create that impact,” Van said.
Community collaboration
Chinatown House is currently home to the City of Vancouver’s Chinatown Transformation Team, UBC’s Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies, Hua Foundation, Chinatown Today, Vancouver Computer Graphics Association, West Coast Technology Innovation Foundation and Tomo Spaces.
The organizations share resources and support each other’s work — however many were already collaborating on Chinatownrelated issues. “It acts as a hub that connects people who care about Chinatown and have innovative ideas,” said Helen Ma, senior planner with the Chinatown Transformation Team. The team was formed earlier this year and tasked with working with the community to foster living heritage and culture in Chinatown, as well as preparing a cultural heritage asset management plan. It is made up of six bilingual planners from a variety of backgrounds — social, cultural, heritage and community planning. “This plan will be built on a partnership model because it will take everyone working together to take actions to achieve the goal,” Ma says. “This plan will also serve as the foundation document for a possible future UNESCO World Heritage site designation, which can be an additional honour to the community if achieved.” Van says bringing together organizations from a variety of sectors was intentional. “We wanted to make sure that there’s a mix of for-profit, non-profit and government and academia because we find that there’s so much disjointedness when it comes to policy making and implementing a lot of policies that sometimes doesn’t make sense for the community so it would be nice to have this sort of collaborations.” Ma and other members of the Chinatown Transformation Team recently took some time out of their busy schedule to take Wong’s Tea Time workshop. “Tea has a wonderful way of bringing people together,” she says. “We are excited to see how this format can be an innovative way for us to engage the community, including seniors, youth, businesses and other groups. We would like to see more programs like that in the community for sure.” Chinatown House also has an area for people looking for a temporary work space. “If people just need a couple days, couple hours and they want to work on anything, or just get away from home and hang out in Chinatown, this is what they can do,” Van says. Van says so far Chinatown House has been welcomed by many in the community.
“It was actually really encouraging because some of the elders have said this is what we’ve wanted to do for so long, get everyone together because there’s a lot of division on what Chinatown is and could be but people haven’t been brought together so they’re in the same space to discuss that,” she says. “And then for the younger people who don’t quite have a clear idea of the language, the heritage, things
like the cooking demonstration, the Cantonese class, the tea master ceremony, the food and race program, Create Chinatown, we’re hoping to bring all that in to pull people in and say this is how you can explore your culture and other people’s culture.” @JessicaEKerr For more information about Chinatown House visit chinatownhouse.ca.
Members of the Chinatown Transformation Team take part in Tea Time at Chinatown House. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET
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Shindig celebrates 35 years Annual contest filled with disappointment, controversy, sweet victories and a pig’s head VANCOUVER SHAKEDOWN Grant Lawrence
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Japandroids. Death Sentence. You Say Party! We Say Die! Superconductor. Sons of Freedom. The Pack A.D. Slow. The Organ. The Real McKenzies. Besides being a who’s who of Vancouver alternative bands of the past several decades, those groups have another thing in common: they all took part in Shindig, and they all lost. This year marks the 35th anniversary of the venerable battle of the bands from UBC’s CiTR Radio. Over the course of its three and a half decades, Shindig has served as a trial-by-fire, rite of passage for more than 1,000 Vancouver-area bands of all shapes, sizes and sounds. Some bands (such as mine) were tossed out immediately in the first round like shit through a goose, while others ran the Shindig gauntlet, climbing through rounds that stretched over many weeks and months. Dave Ball was vice president of CiTR Radio in 1984 and is credited with co-founding Shindig. “For about five or six years before Shindig, there was something
called the Hot Air Show at UBC’s Pit Pub, which ended badly,” Ball recounts. “One of the finalists in ’83 was a band called the Gargoyles. They pissed all over the dance floor during their performance. The Pit Pub wasn’t too happy with that, and that was pretty much the end of the Hot Air thing.” A few weeks later, Ball and his CiTR pal Jim Main were having beers with Janet Forsyth, whose family owned the Railway Club and had recently taken over the Savoy in Gastown. “We were looking for a way to expand the audience and awareness of CiTR, so we floated the idea of a downtown battle of the bands to Janet. She was into it right from the start,” says Ball, who now runs a beer and wine u-brew on Vancouver Island. “CiTR president Gord Badanic came up with both the name and the logo, cribbed from the old American teen dance show from the 1960s. Gord went down to the library and photocopied the show’s logo right out of a book,” recalls Ball with a chuckle. “We were kind of hoping we’d get sued to get some publicity but nothing ever happened.” They didn’t need the publicity — Shindig was an immediate hit. “When we announced it, the criteria was that you had to be an amateur band playing original music with no recording contract,” remembers Ball (the same rules remain to this day). “With the backing of CiTR and Discorder Magazine, the response from local bands
was immediate and huge.” Forsyth slotted Shindig into the Savoy on Monday nights through the fall of ’84. “The Savoy was packed, wall to wall, every week,” Ball says. “Huge lineups... It became the place to see the best in up-and-coming bands. Our judges were supportive media types like Ellie O’Day, Tom Harrison and John Mackie.” That first year was so successful that Shindig was held twice over the school year: first in the fall of 1984, and again in the spring of 1985. It settled into its current format of once a year in 1986. Zulu Records put out a Shindig compilation LP featuring participants such as Rhythm Mission, NG3, Red Herring (the first-ever Shindig winners in ’84) and Nerve Tubes (the winners in ’85, who performed wearing nothing but transparent rain jackets, featuring future Odds member Steven Drake).
Everyone’s a critic
In the late 1980s, the Forsyth family sold the Savoy and moved Shindig up the hill to the Railway Club on Dunsmuir Street. That was where my band got unceremoniously booted in the first round in 1988. Comment cards from anonymous judges were handed to the bands at the end of the night, and their harshness is legendary. One of ours was particularly cruel: “The Smugglers are the worst band ever. You suck. BREAK UP NOW!” I eventually discovered that those comments were written by Bill Baker, co-owner of Mint Records. Luckily,
we didn’t break up, and Bill G signed us to Mint Records m six years later. “The Real McKenzies m also got kicked out in the t first round,” reminisces Aaron Chapman, former McKenzies’ tin whistle play-N er, Courier contributor and i award-winning author. “We changed the Pointed Sticks’ m song ‘Out of Luck’ to ‘Out of Scotch’ and got disquali- u w fied for doing a cover.” And while many speak w of a Shindig curse — win- t ning bands quickly going no-p where — some of Shindig’s notable winners include the b Salteens (1997), 3 Inches of T Blood (2002), Clover Honeyu (1998) and Maow (1994), the first all female band to win Shindig. Then called m t Meow, it featured Neko Case on drums, arguably the w biggest star to ever emerge t from Shindig’s ranks. t Discorder Magazine’s reviewer did not see Case’s b potential, nor did he approve A of Meow’s 1994 victory over the Papillomas (a Vancouver Island band that included g Courier city editor Michael h Kissinger) and Underwater Sunshine: “Meow were bad. t Really bad,” wrote editor Dylan Griffiths. “Listening to their clamourous cacophony was bad enough… BUT THEY WON!” After tweaking its name, Maow became yet another signing for Mint, which released debut records by no less than half a dozen Shindig participants, including four winning bands. Neko Case went on to join the New Pornographers and has a couple of Grammy nominations to her credit for her stellar solo career.
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(Left) NG3 rocks out at the Savoy during one of CiTR’s first Shindig contests. The annual battle of the bands has been going strong for 35 years and has included a who’s who of up-andcoming Vancouver bands, including Japandroids, Death Sentence, You Say Party! We Say Die!, Superconductor, Sons of Freedom, the Pack A.D., Slow, the Organ, the Real McKenzies, Maow (featuring Neko Case on drums), the Salteens, Mystery Machine and an early incarnation of Grant Lawrence’s band the Smugglers, to name a few. PHOTO COURTESY OF BILL FISH
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Going whole hog
Of Shindig’s countless memorable moments, the most notorious may belong to 1990 winners Windwalker. “Our lead singer Stuart Oijen, who now goes by Exu Nazares, told us he was going to ‘do something’ for our Shindig semi-final set,” former bassist Anthony Hempell recounts. “The rest of us in the band didn’t know what that meant and didn’t want to know. Suddenly, in the middle of the show, he pulls out a full-on pig’s head out of a garbage bag that he bought at Save On Meats. Then he started hacking it up with a machete, while our only illumination was a strobe light through a fog machine. My friend said there was a visible shock wave that went through the audience. And this was at the Railway Club, so there’s basically no distance between band and audience. Anyway, we won.” Windwalker’s lead singer also chopped through the guitarist’s patch cord and his own mic cable, then capped off his performance art by throwing the mutilated pig’s head into the
audience. He was hog wild on beating the grunge rock, wall-of-sound sensations Superconductor, featuring the acerbic Carl Newman, future lead singer of the New Pornographers. Competitive stories like that are riddled throughout Shindig’s history. In 2005, indie rock party band Fun 100 made it to the finals fittingly riding a 1994 Canucks theme, complete with their fans fervently waving white towels. Fun 100 lost to a band called Romance. “I was completely pissed off,” says former Fun 100 drummer Bruce Dyck, still exasperated 13 years later. “The judges said we didn’t win because we already had enough fans. So second prize was a gift bag from Scratch Records, which was filled with terrible CDs they couldn’t sell in the store.”
Eye on the prize
Arguably one of the key reasons Shindig has maintained its relevancy over 35 years is because of the grand prize: precious recording time in good studios. Local bands are still as broke as
they were in 1984, and a whack of free studio time won at Shindig has resulted in many a debut album. And yes, there’s still “Jokes for Beer,” something else that Ball came up with, though he credits its success to gregarious host Garnet Harry. It’s been an audience fixture ever since. Other Shindig hosts have included Cub singer Lisa Marr, Smugglers drummer Bryce Dunn, “Oral Dave,” Bill Baker and CiTR’s Ben Lai, who hosted Shindig for an incredible 15 years. You can find Shindig 35 at the Hastings Mill (formally Pat’s Pub) at Hastings and Dunlevy every Thursday night this fall, with current host Andy Resto. This week’s bands are Ghulo, Mellt and Rinse Dream. Jokes for Beer will still be told, judges will still probably scrawl out something mean, and bands will still get pissed off when they don’t win. And everyone will have a great time and will likely always remember their role in Shindig’s long and loud legacy. @grantlawrence
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A modern holiday season tradition, the Vancouver Christmas Market will bring its twinkling lights, Alpine village vibes and mulled wine to downtown for a monthlong stay. Santa and his sleigh will be there, along with Canada’s first walk-in Christmas tree (covered in 36,000 twinkling lights), a carousel, vendors and expanded food offerings that will have your cravings satisfied from rustic German fare to modern plant-based options. Nov. 21 to Dec. 24 | Jack Poole Plaza vancouverchristmasmarket.com
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Maureen Webb grew up poor. Even though she would go on to become one of the most celebrated casting directors in Vancouver — she won her fourth Leo Award for Best Casting in a Motion Picture earlier this last year — Webb never forgot what it was like to grow up on the outside of privilege. She also never forgot the positive impact arts programs had on her during the meagre years of childhood. She remembers discussing those arts programs with Cory Monteith, the Glee star who died in 2013. Webb had been close with Monteith since the early days of his career. Like Webb, Monteith had benefitted from youth arts programs. “One of the things we both laughed about was our experience with programs when we were young that were just for a certain kind of a kid,” says Webb. Webb — and her sister, Donalda Weaver — yearned to create a free, low-barrier performing arts program for all kinds of kids: one where there was no means test, and where the only criteria was location (in this case, a home address on Vancouver’s East Side), enthusiasm and commitment. In 2012, Webb and Weaver did just that. They launched Project Limelight — a free performing arts program for enthusiastic kids
ages eight to 15 living in the Downtown Eastside, Strathcona and Mount Pleasant. Monteith was Project Limelight’s celebrity champion from the very beginning. And when he died, his family named Project Limelight as one of the charities to which fans could make donations in his memory. The Project Limelight formula hasn’t changed much since 2012. Over the course of several months, the Limelight kids meet thrice weekly and work towards a show — often a musical built around a familiar fairytale. Their last one, Eastside Story, was an original work about a group of fairytale characters determined to save the basketball court where they play every night. Some of the kids come to Limelight with social or medical issues; in its first year, one girl didn’t utter a single word. “She was still in the play and we never heard her voice, but she had a wonderful time, and it was quite a feat to get her to be a part of it,” recalls Webb. The kids are fed a meal or snack every rehearsal. “We don’t bother to ask if they’re hungry — we just assume that they are,” says Webb. “It’s a part of our whole process. It’s nothing fancy, but it’s there and it’s healthy.” While several of the Limelight kids have gone on to careers in the industry — such as Kyla Matthews, who appears on Anne with an E, and Hunter Dillon, who recurred on The Exorcist — the organization’s goal isn’t stardom. “In very few cases is Limelight about encouraging kids to be actors,” says Webb. “I think that keeping it at a non-professional level makes it fun, and just being on stage is such an incredible experience.”
There are currently 100 kids on Project Limelight’s waiting list. This weekend, Project Limelight hits the big screen with the world premiere of The Girl With No Superpowers. The 20-minute short film was written and directed by Chris Ross and Tim Carlson and stars the Project Limelight kids and veteran actors Ken Lawson, Jill Morrison, Natalie Moon and Jillian Walchuck. The film’s plot can be found in its title: it’s about a girl with no superpowers who enrolls in a school where everyone else is a gifted superhero. “The thing with Project Limelight, you know you’ve been successful when you see the kids on the day of the performance, or in this case, on the day of the screening,” says co-writer and co-director Ross. “When we brought the kids on the set and the lights were hung and the cameras were there and the set was all decorated, the experience of them seeing it all coming together, that was amazing.” Webb says she’s asked all the time to expand Project Limelight to other areas in need, such as Vancouver Island and Surrey. “Although we’re tempted, we just don’t have the bandwidth to do that,” she says, noting that Project Limelight recently vacated its longtime space because rent had became too expensive. “We’re going to keep it going. We can see the effect we’ve had on some kids’ lives, and I know what the arts did for me as a kid.” The Girl With No Superpowers screens Nov. 18, 7 p.m. at SFU Woodward’s. Details at projectlimelightsociety.org.
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As injuries plague Canucks, Bo Horvat has thrived in a more defensive role
Injured Brandon Sutter and Jay Beagle were meant to take pressure off the Canucks’ youth
Backhand Sauce Daniel Wagner
When the Canucks signed three bottomsix forwards at the opening of free agency this summer, one of the justifications they used was that the three forwards would allow them to put the Canucks’ young forwards in a position to succeed. Jay Beagle, Tim Schaller and Antoine Roussel would join the Canucks’ other veterans in taking on the bulk of the defensive duties, freeing up the youth to provide offence. “We want to give our young players a chance to play in skilled positions on the team and in offensive situations,” said general manager Jim Benning back in July. “We want to be a harder team to play against and I think the players we added make us harder.” The signings gave the Canucks lineup an old-school configuration: a defensive bottom-six forward group and an offensive top-six. It’s a structure that has been somewhat abandoned by the top teams in the league who favour more skill throughout their lineup, but perhaps one necessary for a Canucks team still in the midst of a rebuild. Having Brandon Sutter and Beagle on the third and fourth line helped shelter the likes of Elias Pettersson and Nikolay Goldobin early in the season, but Bo Horvat was also a somewhat unexpected beneficiary. Last season, head coach Travis Green heavily relied on Horvat to take defensive zone faceoffs. He and Sutter combined to take 1049 defensive zone faceoffs in 201718; the rest of the team combined took 688. The addition of a faceoff ace in Beagle took
Oddly enough, Bo Horvat’s scoring has improved since taking on a more defensive roll in the wake of injuries to several key forwards. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET
that responsibility out of Horvat’s hands. In the first five games of the season, before Beagle got injured, Horvat took less than 20 per cent of the defensive zone faceoffs. Even when Beagle left the lineup, however, Horvat was still somewhat sheltered: Sutter took 80 defensive zone faceoffs over the next seven games, while Horvat took 49. This allowed Horvat to start more of his shifts in the offensive zone, appropriate for a player expected to help carry the offence for the post-Sedin Canucks. Considering he had nine goals and 16 points in his first 19 games, on-pace for 39 goals and 69 points over an 82-game season, you would think it was working. With Sutter also injured, however, Horvat is back to taking the vast majority of the defensive zone faceoffs for the Canucks. Over the seven games since Sutter left the lineup, Horvat has taken a whopping 112 defensive zone faceoffs. That’s nearly 72
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per cent of the defensive zone faceoffs for the Canucks. Markus Granlund is second on the Canucks in that time: he’s taken 13 defensive zone faceoffs. Horvat is frequently double-shifted to take defensive zone faceoffs, then jump off the ice immediately. It’s not hard to understand why: Horvat leads the Canucks in faceoff percentage by a wide margin. He’s won 54.3 per cent of his faceoffs this season; next best is Sutter at 47.1 per cent, then Pettersson at 46.5 per cent. With Horvat taking nearly all of the defensive zone faceoffs, Pettersson has been more sheltered, taking just 20 defensive zone faceoffs all season. Pettersson is getting the Sedin treatment, even if his defensive game is stronger than you would expect for a rookie centre. Here’s the thing: instead of getting buried in his defensive zone duties, Horvat is actually thriving. He’s scored at a point-per-game pace with Sutter and Beagle out of the lineup and has posted better underlying numbers. During the first five games of the season, when Horvat was most heavily sheltered, he posted a 37.7 per cent share of shot attempts, meaning the Canucks were badly out-shot when he was on the ice at five on five. The Canucks were also outscored 6-2. With Sutter and Beagle out, Horvat has a 48.2 per cent shot attempt share, and the Canucks have out-scored their opponents 8-3 with Horvat on the ice at five on five. Perhaps Horvat doesn’t need to be sheltered at all and thrives under the pressure of playing a more defensive role.
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Stick-taps & Glove-drops • A tap of the stick to the Hockey Hall of Fame for finally inducting Willie O’Ree, the player who broke the colour barrier in the NHL and a tireless promoter of the game. It was long overdue. • But I’m dropping the gloves with the HHOF for inducting Gary Bettman while he’s still active commissioner of the NHL. Bettman will have a complicated legacy — he oversaw unprecedented growth in American markets, but also three lockouts, a lost season, and ongoing litigation in regards to concussions — and it’s bizarre to induct him while that legacy is still playing out.
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Erik Gudbranson. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET
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