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Some observations of council’s first full week of public meetings Mike Howell

mhowell@vancourier.com

So your new mayor and city council survived their first full week of public meetings.

They worked some long days and nights and heard from dozens of speakers on important issues to this city, including the opioid crisis, renters’ rights, fighting for social housing and developing a city-wide plan.

They all seemed to get along and were self-congratulatory in their efforts to reach compromise on most items, although a debate on rescinding the previous council’s vote on allowing duplexes across most of the city got a little frosty.

You can read my report at vancourier.com.

Governance and when to introduce a motion, when to stand up or stay seated while speaking and other fun parliamentary procedure stuff is admittedly for some of the rookies a work in progress.

Which is understandable.

In the meantime, some observations of the week that was: • There were more

recesses than allowed at a primary school.

• City clerk Katrina Leckovic and deputy clerk Rosemary Hagiwara, who were present to steer the mostly rookie council through the meetings, are very, very patient people.

• If you were playing a drinking game that forced you to pour one back every time the word “amendment” was said, you’d be in the drunk tank, or worse.

• Evidence to support those first two observations brought to you by Green Party Coun.

Adriane Carr: “Let’s just have a two-minute recess and the people whose amendments and amendments to amendments can get together to resolve this.”

• “Friendly amendment” is still a funny phrase and probably better suited as the name of an earnest folk duo from the U.S. • COPE Coun. Jean Swanson likes to knit at her desk in between introducing motions and challenging others. She also has the most vocal support from the gallery, as the hoots and applause showed.

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• NPA Coun. Melissa De Genova, who was re-elected Oct. 20, has not lost her love for requesting a point of order. She also made it quite clear — a few times — that her microphone used to get cut off regularly under the previous Vision Vancouver-led regime.

• Green Party Coun. Pete Fry used the term “spatial justice.” To which Swanson asked: “What’s that?” Fry’s response: “It’s the notion of shared space for the

commons.” Fry described himself as a “word nerd.”

• OneCity Coun. Christine Boyle lives in a duplex, NPA Coun. Rebecca Bligh used to live in a duplex and NPA Coun. Colleen Hardwick told reporters she has a “duplex licence” to prove she lives in a duplex.

• Phrases used by city manager Sadhu Johnston to describe the series of motions and amendments made on the fly during the three full days and nights in the council

chamber: Very irregular, not standard, substantive changes are abnormal.

• NPA councillors De Genova and Sarah KirbyYung are both married to police officers, which will make for interesting debates concerning policing — as was hinted during debate over the need for an opioid task force when Swanson said “one of the concrete things we need is for the police to stop criminalizing and stigmatizing people who use drugs.”

• Mayor Kennedy Stewart’s political and diplomatic acumen will be tested as chairperson of the Vancouver Police Board in dealing with police issues raised by councillors.

• By my count, council took almost 30 minutes to vary one item on the agenda; the previous council would normally take a minute or two.

• So far, none of the councillors are providing spicy commentary via Twitter during the meetings like Andrea Reimer and George Affleck used to do.

• Courier photographer Dan Toulgoet has a very loud camera, as audio

recording revealed when this reporter couldn’t make out ending of decent quote from councillor. (Teethclenching face emoji.)

• I don’t believe words or phrases such as dialoguing, holistic approach, placemaking, right-sizing or intersectionality were used during the three days of meetings, which was good news for regular folk (including reporters and editors) who favour simple, easily understood words over jargon and vague buzzwords.

• That said, one councillor did talk about “building social licence.” And it wasn’t Pete Fry. Kirby-Yung please provide definition for my boss and general public.

• Final observation: The media table is still of the deep vein thrombosisinducing kind of design and the cost of security on council days must be pricey.

• Final, final observation: Some reporters’ minds tend to wander at the end of a busy week and they write the craziest stuff.

Next regular council meeting is scheduled for Dec. 4. @Howellings

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Templeton secondary support worker killed in suspicious crash Police now believe Nicole Porciello was the victim of a homicide

Jessica Kerr

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A Burnaby woman killed in a suspicious crash on Barnet Highway Nov. 16 was a student support worker at Templeton secondary school in Vancouver.

Nicole Porciello, who also went by the last name Hasselmann, died after a single-vehicle crash last Friday night. First responders were called to the 8000-block of Barnet Highway around 10 p.m. after an SUV hit two light posts and crashed into the ditch. Burnaby RCMP arrived to find a man unconscious inside the vehicle. Porciello was lying nearby, it appeared that she had been thrown from the vehicle during the crash, police said in a press release.

Burnaby RCMP initially reported that the crash was suspicious and that the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) had been deployed to help investigate. Police

have since confirmed that Porciello’s injuries were “indicative of foul play.”

Porciello was a student support worker at Templeton secondary school and counsellors from the Vancouver School District’s critical incident team were at the school Monday to “provide additional support to our students and staff who have been affected,” Patricia MacNeil, district spokesperson, said in an email. “They will be also available in the coming days to provide support, as it is needed,” she said.

“Information and resources for parents/guardians on ways to support their child through time of grief is being provided.”

The school’s parent advisory council tweeted Sunday that Porciello was “dearly loved by all who knew & interacted with her at Temp & @DrARLord @VSB39; students, teachers, staff and families. She will be missed.”

“District staff and the Templeton community

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wishes to extend our support and condolences to the family,” MacNeil said.

IHIT is asking for the public’s help to develop a timeline of Porciello’s activi-

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“The development of the victim’s timeline is

important in any homicide investigation and it is proving to be crucial in this case,” IHIT spokesperson Cpl. Frank Jang said in the release.

Anyone who may have seen her on Friday in Burnaby in the 700-block of Ridgeview Drive, the 8000-block of Barnet Highway, or in Port Moody in the 200-block of College Park Way is asked to contact the IHIT tip line at 1-877-551-IHIT (4448) or by email at ihitinfo@ramp-grc.gc.ca.

Anyone who saw the vehicle Porciello was in, which is described as a 2017 charcoal grey KIA Sorento SUV, at any of those locations are also asked to contact investigators.

The driver’s identity has not been released, but police said he and Porciello knew each other. He remains in hospital but is expected to make a full recovery.

With files from Cayley Dobie, Burnaby Now @JessicaEKerr

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A rezoning application for an East Vancouver rental building has been revised in response to public feedback gathered last spring.

The application deals with a land assembly of seven residential legal lots between 708 and 796 Renfrew Street and 2906 to 2908 East Georgia St. near the PNE. It’s being considered under the Affordable Housing Choices Interim Rezoning Policy.

Revised plans, which will be presented at a Dec. 10 open house, are designed to “improve compatibility with the neighbourhood,” according to the modified application. Revisions include changes to height and massing.

The revised project, which would still be built to Passive House standards, now features two separate buildings that are four storeys along Renfrew, and five-storeys from the lane.

The floor space ratio has been reduced from 2.96 to 2.07, while the number of secured market rental units have dropped from 77 to 73. Parking spaces have been reduced from 81 to 40. There would be 133 bicycle spaces. Commercial uses proposed for the ground level fronting Renfrew Street have been

A revised rezoning application for a site on Renfrew Street in East Vancouver include changes to height and massing.

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removed and replaced with ground-oriented residential units with a deeper setback from Renfrew.

The original proposal for a 77-unit, five-storey secured market rental building was presented at an open house last April.

That application included retail space and townhouses on the ground level. At that time, residents raised concerns about the height of the building, the inclusion of at-grade commercial uses, the fit within the neighbourhood and traffic.

Some neighbours also question how knocking down recently built homes for the project contributes to the city’s goal of being the “greenest city.”

If approved, the building would replace several single-family homes, some that are relatively new.

Two were built in 2017 with laneway homes.

Three others were built in 1930, 1948 and 1992.

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in 2017 at between $1.1 and $1.8 million.

Demolition permits are required to take down a building in Vancouver.

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That shift is expected to capture 70 per cent of residential demolitions.

The Dec. 10 open house for the rezoning application runs from 5 to 7 p.m. at Hastings Community Centre.

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$40-million loan helps gets East Van rental building off the ground Naoibh O’Connor

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A federal government program for construction loans delivered through the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation has helped a new rental building at 1771 East 18th “see the light of day,” according to Cressey Development Group vice president Jason Turcotte.

Turcotte and Jean-Yves Duclos, the federal Minister of Families, Children and Social Development and minister responsible for Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, spoke about the program — the Rental Construction Financing Initiative — at a Nov. 19 press conference at the construction site for Cressey’s “Conrad” project on East 18th.

Once completed in September 2019, it will provide 111 rental units geared towards middle class families in two attached buildings — one that’s three-and-a-half-storeys and another that’s six-storeys — as well as four more units in a three-storey infill townhouse and two-storey restored heritage house.

The 1911 heritage home was relocated from one area of the site to another. It was owned by the Conrad family for which the rental project is named.

More than 60 per cent of the units in the development will have rents at or lower than 30 per cent of median household income in the area. Through an agreement with the City of Vancouver,

this affordability level will be maintained for 60 years.

Duclos said demand for housing in Vancouver has far outstripped supply, and affordability has worsened due to the rental market vacancy rate being at a nearrecord low of .09 per cent.

“This, of course, has driven up costs to the point where the very people who work hard to make our cities and Vancouver run [unable to] afford to live in them,” he said. “Teachers, nurses, construction workers, clerks — many of these middle class families and workers find it impossible to live, work and make ends meet in our urban centres.”

He said projects supported through the Rental Construction Financing Initiative will provide muchneeded relief for those who don’t qualify for assisted housing but also can’t afford market rents.

The Rental Construction Financing Initiative provides low-cost construction loans for 10-year terms to enable developers such as Cressey Development build affordable rental housing in markets where it’s needed most, according to Duclo.

In the case of the Conrad, Cressey received a loan of about $40 million to create the 115 rental units.

“This gives developers stable, predictable and low cost [loans] in the earliest stages of risky development.

The loans are ensured by CMHC, which means the developers can get preferred

Rendering of the “Conrad” rental development, which is under construction at 1771 East 18th.

interest rates and they can more easily renew their mortgage loans throughout the life of the project,” Duclos said.

The program, part of the federal government’s National Housing Strategy, was launched a year and a half ago — in April 2017.

In the 2018 budget, the government increased the fund by 50 per cent. Over the next three years, Duclos expects it will create about 14,000 new rental units for middle class families across Canada.

To qualify, projects must meet affordability, energy efficiency and accessibility criteria.

Ten per cent of the units in the Conrad will be accessible, all of its units will be adaptable or universal, it will be 23 per cent more energy efficient than required by national building codes, and it will achieve an 18 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.

Turcotte said it’s becoming increasingly difficult to

construct rental buildings.

He said historically low interest rates and municipal rental housing policies, such as the City of Vancouver’s Interim Rezoning Policy for Affordable Housing Choices and the Rental 100 program, have helped over the past decade.

“In spite of this positive climate, the supply of rental housing over this period of time, although vastly improved from decades prior, has fallen short of demand, resulting in unprecedented upward pressure on the cost of rental housing,” he said. “Now that window is closing. With rising inter-

est rates, soaring land and construction costs, we are at risk of the supply drying up, which will only exacerbate an already critical shortage.”

Turcotte maintains the National Housing Strategy’s goal of facilitating construction of purpose-built rental housing is critical in the effort to address Vancouver’s affordability crisis.

“In face of these aforementioned threats to the viability of new rental housing development, the Rental Construction Financing Initiative, which we are thrilled to be a part of, has helped to ensure the project we’re standing in front of has seen the light of day, as it will for many other such projects across the country,” he said.

Getting the Conrad built hasn’t been easy. The site featured five single-family homes, including the heritage house. One of the lots was owned by the city.

As the project was going through rezoning, it faced neighbourhood opposition. A group called Cedar Cottage Area Neighbours argued it was too high, too dense, it would result in the loss of too many mature

trees, and it wasn’t compatible with the single-family neighbourhood.

But rezoning, which was considered under the city’s Interim Rezoning Policy for Increasing Affordable Housing Choices, was ultimately approved in 2016.

After rezoning, the city sold its lot to Cressey.

Turcotte acknowledged the rezoning was complicated and took about five years. During that period, he said there were five consecutive interest rate hikes and double-digit construction cost increases.

While the process created some benefits, he said its length made the project more expensive to produce.

When asked what he would say to residents fighting similar projects, Turcotte said: “I would encourage them to keep an open mind, to recognize that housing is a need and likely the house they live in wasn’t always there either.

It’s very rare that we finish a project and have communities that don’t actually appreciate the contributions that that new project brings. I appreciate change is often a scary thing but usually the benefit at the end is very welcome.”

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Justin Mulcahy helped launch the Snacks for Kids program in 2013, and it’s since expanded to help 2,000 kids across 40 schools in Vancouver

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Talking to Justin Mulcahy is a lot like watching an interview with a Conn Smythe trophy winner.

The player has just been named MVP of the NHL playoffs, but insists it’s not all about him.

The team did the work, he was just the beneficiary.

He happened to be in the right place at the right time.

While Mulcahy characterizes his actions in the same light, his colleagues with the Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services see things differently.

Mulcahy was recently named Vancouver Firefighter of the Year by his peers, management and union local for his longstanding commitment to a basic, fundamental principle: that every kid deserves healthy food regardless of income.

Mulcahy helped establish the Snacks for Kids Program in 2013, an entirely volunteer-driven operation that gets healthy meals to thousands of

kids across the Vancouver School District who may otherwise go without.

“It’s not an individual award,” Mulcahy insists. “There are so many Vancouver firefighters that support our charity and work on this project and there are so many members of the community who have backed it. It’s really a great opportunity to showcase what we’re all doing and working together toward.”

As is the case with most upstart programs, the snack rollout started small.

Mulcahy and a colleague got the ball rolling in 2013 and their efforts first reached about 165 kids.

Now that number sits north of 2,000 and the program is in 40 schools across the city’s East Side.

“The Vancouver School District is delighted that City of Vancouver Firefighter Justin Mulcahy has been awarded the honour of Vancouver Firefighter of the Year,” said a VSB statement emailed to the Courier. “It is wonderful his dedication to the

Justin Mulcahy was named Vancouver Firefighter of the Year in early November for his involvement in a volunteer program called Snacks for Kids, which delivers food to kids across the city who may otherwise go without. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Vancouver Firefighter Charities’ Snack For Kids Program is being recognized with this award.”

The program started off entirely self-funded and was subsidized by way of firefighter pay and leg work alone. Businesses and

philanthropists have since jumped on board and a volunteer pool numbering in the hundreds makes the whole thing work via a system of bi-monthly purchases and drop-offs.

The food delivered is meant to serve as a stop

gap between meals — think veggie thins, beef jerky, granola bars — though larger, take-home bins full of food are offered during spring and winter break.

“We can’t think of someone who embodies the Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services’ values of commitment to the community, and caring for the most vulnerable more than Justin Mulcahy, and we were honoured to name him as Firefighter of the Year,” fire department spokesperson Jonathan Gormick told the Courier.

A large part of the charitable venture is centred on subtlety. Deliveries are done specifically in such a way that students don’t know who, or why, certain kids are getting those meals. School teachers and staff let the firefighters know who needs what, and the rest is taken care of in a confidential way.

“We see a lot of trauma and accidents and, at times, fatalities,” Mulcahy said. “But what is more distressing at times for firefighters is seeing some

of the human conditions people live with. This is just an opportunity for us to do something constructive in society. It’s kind of an extension we’re already doing in the community.”

Mulcahy says he and other firefighters have stacks of cards and letters of thanks from the various school communities. He says even the younger, elementary school-aged kids understand the significance of what he and his coworkers are doing.

That the program serves schools east of Main Street exclusively isn’t lost on Mulcahy either.

“We have an extremely high cost of living and some really low-income postal codes,” Mulcahy said. “But we also have people in every neighbourhood struggling to meet the demands of living in a city like ours. Even in what are now more affluent schools on the East Side, there are kids who fall through the cracks. We’re trying to fill in those cracks.” @JohnKurucz

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There’s a rogue otter eating the koi at Dr. Sun Yat Sen garden Park board hoping to trap and relocate fish eater Jessica Kerr

jkerr@vancourier.com

It’s a waiting game at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden as Vancouver Park Board staff are hoping to catch a rogue river otter that has been dining on the garden’s resident koi fish.

Howard Normann, director of parks, said Nov. 20 that the park board was first alerted to the presence of the otter on Sunday but the animal was spotted in Chinatown as early as Thursday.

“It was spotted on the Andy Livingston playing field on [Nov. 16], but officially we got notice from the garden on Sunday that it had an issue with the otter eating the koi, so we mobilized [Nov. 19],” he said. “We did an assessment this morning trying to figure out where or how the otter was coming into the garden and put out a trap and hopefully, without too much other damage here with the koi, we’ll be able to relocate the otter.”

Normann said that it’s believed the otter has eaten as many as five or six koi so far. The garden was home to 16 koi in total, including one named Madonna, who is a bit of a celebrity. The fish is more than 50 years old and has been living at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen for more than two decades.

“Everybody loves Madonna. It’s a bit of a mascot here,” Normann said, adding that “to the best of our knowledge” Madonna is still alive and well.

He said that it’s not unusual to see otters in the city but this is a first for Dr. Sun Yat-Sen. “We have otters throughout our system — Vanier Park, Stanley Park, Hinge Park... — but in Sun Yat-Sen absolutely not. It’s such a unique facility in the middle of

a city, particularly here you’ve got busy streets.

How it got here, and survived, I don’t know. It’s a one off.”

He said it’s not known exactly how the otter got into the garden.

“No idea. The gates are accessible. These river otters, I understand, can climb trees. There are some drainage pipes coming and going from this pond system. It’s a large pond system as you can tell. There’s lots of little arms and nooks and crannies that have pipes, so possibly swimming through the storm sewer system… to be honest, no idea.”

Staff set up a covered box trap with fish oil and chicken to try and lure the otter into the trap and then relocate it to Stanley Park. The free part of the park is currently closed to the public.

“The actual garden itself on the private side is open,” Normann said.

“People can pay to come in. They can stand there to hopefully get a glimpse of the otter, if that’s what they want do, but we’re just trying to keep it quiet and calm so the otter’s relaxed, will wander around the shore, smell the chicken or the fish oil and head into the trap.”

If the trap doesn’t work, Normann said staff will move to plan B. “It’s a bit of a learning experience for us… this is interesting for us because our biodiversity strategy in the park board has been ‘let’s re-wild, let’s get more wildlife back in the city.’ We have a beaver at Hinge Park, we have herring returning to False Creek, so it’s kind of really a good news story but on the other hand we didn’t really expect this.”

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Cities should embrace the C word: consultation Engaged communities key to Vancouver’s future

Mike Klassen

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It was a dark and unforgivably rainy evening last week, when a reported 130 community members from the Fraser Street neighbourhood packed into the Polish Community Hall near King Edward Avenue. The hall was outfitted with round tables with up to eight people seated at them — each with a suggested discussion topic scribbled on a sheet of paper.

These discussions included building height, housing affordability and even “east-west equity,” which apparently referred to the comparable amount of building density on Vancouver’s West Side.

The evening was organized by local Member of Parliament Don Davies, and the proceedings were organized by staff and volunteers of the NDP MP. Naturally, there was a sign-in sheet to record the community members in attendance. And while this event might be viewed as a thinly disguised voter engagement exercise in advance of

the 2019 federal election, neighbourhood planning is not the traditional bailiwick of federal politicians.

Davies, I believe, came to organize this gathering motivated by concern over the community’s future. He lives mere blocks away from where the hall is situated and, like me, is raising his family in Vancouver’s storied and highly diverse Fraser Street neighbourhood.

Months back I met the MP on an unrelated matter, when he asked me where I thought Fraser Street was going. Proposed developments in the area were not only increasing building heights, but assembling entire blocks into new multi-family developments mixed with new commercial space.

One six-storey building will be targeted to seniors and will be built on cityowned land. Another large development will feature one, two and three-bedroom market rental apartments, some costing in excess of $3,000 per month.

What is coming to Fraser Street is not unique. We

Communities are well-served by opportunities to meet face to face with neighbours, to sound off and to listen in a room with their peers, says columnist Mike Klassen. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

are seeing similar growth happening all around our city today. But the fact that 100-plus people came out on a bleak November night tells me there is a pent-up desire to talk about where the neighbourhood is going.

I recognized many people in the room from previous community engagements.

Before 2009 when the Vision government disbanded them, several so-called CityPlan committees existed to

shepherd along community visions created for parts of the city such as KensingtonCedar Cottage (KCC, of which I was a committee member), Riley Park-South Cambie and Dunbar.

Each committee was supported by a city staff liaison who worked for the planning department.

KCC (which includes a large portion of Fraser Street) and Dunbar were the first two neighbour-

hoods in the mid-1990s that completed community visions through the CityPlan planning process.

Though the plans provided a roadmap for new housing types, such as rowhouses, that would allow the communities to densify, surprisingly few singlefamily blocks gave way to multi-family developments.

Davies himself used the fact that no one had updated Fraser Street’s community vision in over 20 years as a basis for his meeting at the Polish Hall.

It is true that the development happening in this community, like so many others, is being driven in part by zoning policy and by the real estate market.

But as for the community itself, they have been largely absent from the conversation.

Some urban thinkers disdain community consultations for the delays it can cause and downward pressure it can bring on density.

It is true that an unruly crowd can make it difficult to advocate for change.

The reason I believe city

governments put a lid on consultations is that they stir up local controversy.

However, one public official said embracing controversy is better because it means people are paying attention. Councillor Robert Liberty from Portland, Ore. — who spoke in Vancouver 11 years ago this month — argued that you want the public to have their say, provided the conversation remains civil.

Meetings like the one Davies hosted are not a walk in the park. Many in the room were clearly frustrated by the city’s current direction. Getting to a coherent consensus would be a difficult challenge.

However, the community is well-served by these opportunities to meet face to face with neighbours, to sound off and to listen in a room with their peers, rather than through their smartphone or computer.

Which is why we should be doing more to engage communities about our city’s future. @MikeKlassen

In unaffordable Vancouver, we need to start thinking small

Tiny houses, lock-off suites, laneway suites, houseplexes are necessary housing options Michael Geller

geller@sfu.ca

Small is beautiful.

This was the theme of a recent conference organized by Small Housing BC (SHBC), a non-profit organization created to promote smaller homes throughout the province.

SHBC defines “small housing” as just enough space to live in. Depending on the household, it may be anything between 200 and 1,500 square feet, in a variety of different forms.

Vancouver has been relatively progressive in allowing smaller dwellings compared to other jurisdictions. In California, accessory dwellings (ADUs) were illegal until quite recently, when a broad coalition was successful in legalizing them. Now, in some jurisdictions, they are becoming mandatory.

When Vancouverites think of small housing, we tend to imagine basement suites, laneway houses, or small highrise condos.

But there are many variations: tiny houses, lock-

off suites, houseplexes to name just a few.

In the early 1990s, Jack Poole and David Podmore’s VLC properties developed 600 Drake St. offering new rental suites under 350 sq. ft. When the proposal was first considered at council, then-alderman Jonathan Baker said living in these units would be like living in coffins. He was wrong.

Two decades later, Reliance Holdings developed Vancouver’s first micro-lofts in a renovated Gastown building. Those choosing to live in these homes were “trading space for place.” While they were renting a 340 sq. ft. unit, they could enjoy a three million sq. ft. living room. The city is their living room.

In Vancouver, we think of a small lot as 33 feet by 120 feet and a small house around 2,000 sq. ft. However, there are examples of very livable homes on much smaller lots.

In 1972, I helped design an Ontario subdivision with detached houses on lots averaging 30 feet by 80 feet.

A recent conference organized by Small Housing BC touted the benefits of smaller homes. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

While it did not turn out as attractive as I hoped after my colleague Daniel Libeskind convinced our boss some of the homes should be sited at random angles, it produced very affordable housing.

Langley, Wash. architect Ross Chapin’s “pocket neighbourhoods” have been much more successful. They comprise four to 14 small detached houses, typically less than 1,000 sq.

ft., oriented around a common open space on a larger single or double lot. Parking is usually clustered away from the street.

This layout promotes a close-knit sense of community and neighbourliness with an increased level of contact amongst residents.

The duplex, which has recently garnered much attention in Vancouver, can be another form of smaller housing. What is

not commonly known is that duplexes are strata developments. For many, a semi-detached dwelling, which is half a house on its own lot, might be a better alternative.

Rowhouses are another small housing example.

They can be rentals, condominiums or “fee-simple.” Fee-simple rowhouses are individually owned and not part of a condo.

While Vancouver permits basement suites in single-family houses, there is no reason why they should not be allowed in duplexes and rowhouses.

“Houseplexes” are small, multi-unit buildings designed to look like a large house. In some neighbourhoods, they can include five homes without looking much different from the street than the larger singlefamily house next door.

“Lock-off suites” are small, legal secondary suites within apartments, about the size of a master bedroom. First conceived at Simon Fraser University’s UniverCity community, they achieve two objectives.

Firstly, they can assist a condominium buyer to buy a larger two, three or fourbedroom unit by providing rental income until such time as they can afford the larger unit. Think of it as “a mortgage helper in the sky.”

Secondly, they provide affordable rental housing within condominium developments.

In his closing remarks at the conference, Urban Development Institute president Jon Stovell noted small housing has often generated significant community opposition. Some opponents even compare it to 19th century tenements. Instead, it should be viewed as just another housing choice.

While it may not be for everyone, for millennials, it can be the first rung on the rental or ownership ladder. Conversely, for many seniors, it may be a backyard “granny suite” or small home in a collective building.

In an unaffordable city like Vancouver, small is not only beautiful, it’s necessary. @michaelgeller

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Affordability lies in rental housing Re: “Tracking Mayor Kennedy Stewart’s first 100 days,” Nov. 15.

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Mayor reacts to housing CEO’s new job with development company Stewart wants new rules to prohibit private sector from poaching city staffers Mike Howell

mhowell@vancourier.com

Mayor Kennedy Stewart says he will soon seek city council’s approval to bring in new rules at city hall to ensure developers and other city contractors are prohibited from hiring senior city staff for a “cooling-off” period of 12 months.

Stewart recommitted Tuesday to what was a campaign promise in fielding questions from reporters on news that Luke Harrison, the CEO of the Vancouver Affordable Housing Agency, has taken a job with Horizon North, the company that won the contract to build 600 temporary modular homes in the city.

“I do intend to bring forward a motion to council shortly that will outline how we can give the public more confidence when these personnel shifts happen, and part of it would be the

cooling off period [of 12 months],” Stewart said. “I can’t do anything now about this move, but future moves should fall under these new pieces of legislation.”

The mayor cautioned, however, that he didn’t believe Harrison was in a conflict-of-interest in leaving the city at the end of this month to become Horizon North’s vice-president of development. Stewart’s assessment was based on the city manager’s office assuring him the contract for the 600 modular homes is now with the provincial government’s housing arm, B.C. Housing.

In October 2017, the thencity council approved a staff recommendation to authorize the Vancouver Affordable Housing Agency to negotiate a contract with Horizon North for the design, supply, delivery and construction of up to 600 units of temporary modular housing on sites in Vancouver.

Harrison was the CEO of the housing agency at the time when Horizon North, Britco and a partnership between Ladacor Ltd. and Atira Women’s Resource

Luke Harrison, the CEO of the Vancouver Affordable Housing Agency, has accepted a job with Horizon North, the company building 600 units of temporary modular housing for homeless people in the city. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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A staff report said the bids were evaluated by “representatives from VAHA and managed by Supply Chain Management to ascertain if the bids offered good overall value to the city.”

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that went before council Oct. 4, 2017.

The city said in an emailed statement Tuesday that Harrison was not involved in the selection of Horizon North and that the contract was then assigned to B.C. Housing because the funding for the 600 units of temporary modular housing was coming from the provincial government.

“The city does not currently have an active con-

tract with Horizon North,” the statement said.

In his campaign to become mayor, Stewart said senior civil servants have valuable knowledge and relationships that can “potentially create unfair and profitable advantage for their new private sector employers, simply because of the position they currently occupy with the city.”

Stewart’s motion to council, which he said will come “very soon,” will see corporations that violate a 12-month cooling off period be suspended from selling goods or services to the City of Vancouver. Also, the city would suspend — for up to 12 months — the processing of development or other permits for firms flouting the cooling-off period.

Harrison, who has been at the helm of the Vancouver Affordable Housing Agency for two years, said he doesn’t plan to do any business with the city “in the foreseeable future.” He pointed out the contract Horizon North was awarded through the city and assigned to the province went through a procurement process.

“It’s not like things can be directly negotiated in those processes — it’s an open procurement, an open bid and it’s done through both of our procurement departments,” said Harrison, who accepted the job with Horizon North about a month ago.

Harrison said the election of a new mayor and council, and Stewart’s plan to implement new conflict-of-interest rules, played no part in his decision to accept a job with Horizon North. Besides, he said, the new council has signalled it wants to continue striving to seek solutions to the affordable housing and

homelessness crises.

Asked whether he thought Stewart’s proposed conflict-of-interest legislation is fair, Harrison said: “It’s obviously important that those things are transparent to anyone coming in to a position at the City of Vancouver to know about before they accept the role.

But if that is there, and people choose to work with that knowledge, then I think it is a fair thing to do.”

Harrison said his role with Horizon North will be to get modular housing built in other cities in Canada. He also mentioned the West Coast of the United States as a region with severe homelessness.

“Obviously, we’ve been doing a lot of modular construction and development in Vancouver over the last year, and I would say I’ve drunk the KoolAid and become quite a believer in what the technology can do,” he said.

Rod Graham, president and chief executive officer of Horizon North, said he wasn’t aware of Stewart’s desire to implement legislation to avoid the private sector hiring city employees for 12 months after they leave a position.

“If those are the rules in place, then I would abide by them as an ethical and above-board business person,” said Graham, who described Harrison as “a talented guy who could go work anywhere, frankly, and I certainly respect his altruistic streak in that he wants to make a difference in society.”

Ryan Bigelow of the city’s business planning and projects group will serve as interim CEO of VAHA after Harrison departs Nov. 30. @Howellings

Vancouver’s only classical music store to close after 40 years

Age, along with the broader category of classical.

Sikora’s is also well-known for its knowledgeable staff of music lovers.

Owner Ed Savenye began his relationship with Sikora’s as a customer in the 1990s, according to the CBC, eventually entering into ownership in partnership with others, including the Sikoras themselves.

Right now the store is offering discounts on their inventory in a closing clearance sale. Sikora’s will close its doors for good on Feb. 28, 2019, which happens to be the 40th anniversary of its opening.

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East Vancouver youth recovery home celebrates 30 years Peak House gives youth between 13 and 18 a home, and sense of belonging

John Kurucz

jkurucz@vancourier.com

For a house full of teenagers, the first thing that strikes you upon entering their nondescript East Side home is the cleanliness.

There’s not a sock on the ground. Beds are made.

Waste is all properly sorted.

This isn’t cleanliness for the sake of cleanliness.

Rather, it’s introducing, in some cases for the first time, some semblance of order into lives that have had anything but in them.

Located near the north end of Nanaimo Street, Peak House is in the midst of celebrating its 30th year helping kids between the ages of 13 and 18. In some cases, that help is found through harm reduction or sobriety. In others instances, that help comes via stability.

“This is a home, this isn’t just another facility for services,” Peak House executive director James Kelly told the Courier. “We want to create a home environment. The reason it looks the way it does, the cleanliness, the décor and the art, is because young people deserve this.”

Peak House opened in May 1988, and at the time, was the first facility to offer a youth-focused treatment model in Western Canada.

Staffers are choosing to celebrate its 30th anniversary during the week running Nov. 26 to Dec. 2, which coincides with National Addictions Awareness Week.

‘It’s OK not to be OK’

No two visits or treatment models are the same at Peak House, though some common themes emerge. Abstinence is a must while enrolled in the 10-week program and the first two weeks are about

Peak House executive director James Kelly, along with program alumni Cory Oskam, gave the Courier a tour of the East Vancouver facility and some insights into how the 10-week program works.

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orientation and assessment.

Kids are taken to recovery meetings to see if those classes are a fit, and a focus is placed on recreation, art, poetry, conversation, music and spirituality.

In some cases, the kids leave sober. But that’s not the be all, end all.

“When they’re here, we’re not just talking about ‘don’t use drugs,’” Kelly said.

“We’re talking about what’s going on in their lives that makes drugs the best option. There’s addiction, but there’s other forces at play.”

Cory Oskam, 21, arrived at Peak House four years ago with the stated intention to not be drug free, but in control, and understanding, of why he smoked pot. Oskam identifies as transgender and says he’s lived with mental illness since the age of four. Two shots at the program failed to stick and he left less than a month into both stays. He

successfully completed the program on his third attempt.

“Being young and sober is hard,” Oskam said. “For a lot of people who come in here, that’s not how they live.

But it’s OK to not be OK.” Peak House has the capacity to house eight kids at a time and seven beds are spoken for when the Courier visits. The house is operated

by B.C. Housing and funding comes from Vancouver Coastal Health.

More than 20 staff members work at the facility in a range of disciplines: clinical counsellors, nurses, cooks, acupuncturists and Indigenous cultural coordinator.

After the initial intake process is done, the following weeks entail group and individual therapy, written work and a focus on what life looks like after those 10 weeks. That after-care regimen includes managing cravings, staying connected to family and friends and, in

some instances, going to back to their home communities.

But before that happens, clients have to understand why they use the substances they do. They also have to learn to live with up to seven other strangers for more than two months.

“I struggled with [the group setting] a lot,” Oskam said. “There were people I didn’t like and I didn’t get along with. [Kelly] sat me down and said, ‘There are going to be people at work you don’t like. There are going to be people on public transit you don’t like.

But you’ve got to be able to work through those emotions.’ Peak House gave me the ability to work through those emotions in a healthy and positive way.”

Intake rates fluctuate throughout the year at Peak House. The beginning of the school year, which typically represents a fresh start for many, is decidedly slow.

A month later, it’s usually full. The same goes for the holiday season.

Having been at Peak House for a decade, Kelly has watched the opioid crisis ravage every sector of the population.

“I can’t even call it a crisis anymore. This is just the current reality and it’s scary,” Kelly said.

Given the current level of need, Peak House staff are in the midst of a $300,000 fundraising effort to lay the groundwork for another piece of property in the city.

The new house would serve as a continuation of care from the initial 10-week treatment and would be meant for those who aren’t ready to go home, or into the workforce.

could say, ‘OK, this is how I’m feeling.’ I don’t want to say [life] is better or worse.

But I have grown up.”

For info or to donate to the Peak House fundraiser, go to peakhouse.ca or call 604-253-2187. @JohnKurucz

As the Courier’s visit wraps up, Oskam is asked how his life is better at 21 compared to before his arrival at Peak House.

“I struggle with emotions,” Oskam responds. “I don’t know them very well, so I had to learn them so I

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If you were a resident of Woodlands, also known as Woodlands Institution and Woodlands School, in New Westminster, B.C., you may be eligible for a payment from the provincial government.

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Vancouver School Board, province address student inequality Tracy Sherlock

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Income inequality is the biggest factor in children’s success at school, with poverty playing a major role, says Lisa Wolff, director of policy and research at UNICEF Canada. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

For the most part in Canada, school children are given equal opportunities to succeed. But some children — those who are Indigenous, in foster care, disabled or from certain racial groups — are left behind, a new report from UNICEF says.

The good news is that

Canada ranks ninth of 38 rich countries around the world; the bad news is that rising inequality could increase the gap for vulnerable children.

Income inequality is the biggest factor in children’s success at school, with poverty playing a major role, Lisa Wolff, director of policy and research at UNICEF Canada, said in an interview.

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Inequality, which is linked to many health and social problems, is highest in B.C. of all Canadian provinces and is growing fastest here, the B.C. Poverty Reduction coalition reports.

One in 10 school children are not reaching a basic level of reading by age 15, Wolff said.

“Income inequality has a big influence on achievement and on that gap and anything we can do to close levels of inequality that children start out with [will help],” Wolff said.

In Vancouver schools, the graduation rate for girls is 95 per cent and 94 per cent for boys. For Indigenous students, it’s just 84 per cent. Only 54 per cent of children in foster care graduate from high school by age 19, the most recent statistics show.

At the same time, and probably related, the B.C. government admits this province has the second-worst rate of poverty in Canada with 12 per cent of the population living in poverty.

The NDP government has promised to bring in the province’s first ever poverty reduction plan by early next year, and they promise it will reduce the overall poverty rate by one-quarter and bring down child poverty by one-half.

“That’s going to have positive effects on learning and on all sorts of areas of life,” Wolff said.

Other strategies that help include social policies, such as the Canada Child Benefit or universal high-quality child care.

“If we started stronger, with more supports for early childhood development and learning, that likely would help to close the gap,” Wolff said.

Last week, the NDP government announced 53 prototype child care projects, funded by the federal government, where parents will only pay $200 a month, per child. This is a significant step in the government’s promise to introduce

universal, low-cost child care in B.C., which should help kids get off to a positive start in their education.

The federal government has launched a poverty reduction strategy that includes a national housing strategy, something Wolff said could help.

“Kids can’t learn when they’re in poor, unstable or unsafe housing,” Wolff said.

Making sure students are getting a nutritious meal every day is another must, with one in six children living in families that experience food insecurity, Wolff said.

Two-thirds of secondary school students arrive at school without eating breakfast, she said.

“Lack of nutrition contributes to bullying, contributes to drop outs and contributes to kids who are not graduating,” Wolff said.

As many as half of all school children report being bullied either weekly or monthly, which negatively affects their learning, Wolff said.

“Bullying is a big problem in Canada,” Wolff said. “When kids are bullied to that extent… it affects all sorts of their ability to achieve in school.”

The Vancouver School Board is working on equity for all students on several fronts. The district has an Aboriginal Enhancement Agreement and the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Policy, both of which are designed to ensure inclusion, belonging and recognition of vulnerable learners. Also, school staff consider each student’s needs to provide support, the district said in an email response.

VSB’s strategies appear to be working. B.C. students had the highest rate of reading proficiency found in the UNICEF report card at 92 per cent.

Also good news: the UNICEF report shows the achievement gaps shrink over time, which means the school system is effective in reducing inequality. But it still can do better.

All kids deserve an equal chance for a successful life. Let’s make sure they get one.

Tracy Sherlock writes about education and social issues for the Courier. Reach her at tracy.sherlock@ gmail.com.

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The parade will include marching bands, dance troupes, festive floats and community groups, entertaining more than 300,000 spectators.

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Caren McSherry celebrates 40 years at the head of the cooking class Gourmet Warehouse owner dishes on Canada’s longest-running avocational cooking school John Kurucz

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Four decades spent in the most universal of settings, doing the most universal activity has taught Caren McSherry an abundance of universal truths.

Food makes people happy.

If it tastes good, it doesn’t matter what the meal is.

Don’t trust a skinny chef.

Cooking classes in a room full of drunk dudes are not ideal.

These are the lessons you learn when your entire adult life is devoted to the culinary arts. The owner of Gourmet Warehouse is in the midst of celebrating her 40th anniversary as head honcho of the longest-standing avocational — read: for fun — cooking school in Canada.

Located on Hastings Street near Clark Drive, the Gourmet Warehouse is a smorgasbord of activity when the Courier visits in mid-November.

That hustle and bustle and joie de vivre on the store floor serves as a nice parallel with the shopkeeper herself. McSherry is bursting with energy and life smarts that can only come from being around tens of thousands of people over the decades.

“Food is the common denominator,” McSherry said. “You can take away religion, customs and everything else, and whether it’s a funeral, birth, birthday party, celebration, or a wedding, the one thing we all do is food.”

That’s not where McSherry’s head was at back when it all started on Nov. 8, 1978. Instead, her first cooking class was held before a captive audience of six former coworkers. Her recipe of choice for the big night was for mayonnaise.

“In the back of my mind I’m thinking, ‘Why did I choose this? This is just silly,’ but it turned out perfectly. After we were done a girl’s hand goes up and she says, ‘That’s amazing, but why didn’t you just use Hellmann’s?’ That was the last time I was going to teach mayonnaise.”

McSherry initially taught out of her home at Georgia and Renfrew in between jaunts to Asia to broaden her repertoire.

As demand grew, so too did the need for a new space. McSherry settled on a warehouse at Victoria and Pandora in the early ’90s that seated 30 people.

There was no parking and the entrance was through a back alley.

Rustic yes, practical no.

McSherry ended up at her current location in 2004, when she decided to open a retail space for all things culinary.

“This place was a dump,” McSherry recalled. “When I moved in, I went down to city hall to get my permit and the guy behind the counter looked at me and said, ‘Lady, you look pretty clean cut to me. Do you know what you’re getting into?’ It was all I could afford. He thought I’d be broke in a month. I said, ‘Screw you, I’ll show you.’”

Though food has been the constant that’s buttered McSherry’s bread, there’s also been a constant need to evolve and re-invent. McSherry travels to Europe at the onset of each year to bring home the coming year’s trends.

She also changes her go-to meals based on the season: this time of year it’s all about butternut squash pasta, chicken pot pie, soups and stews.

And while Martha Stewart’s ornate meal planning ruled the roost at the turn of the century, now kitchen life is all about time management. “[Stewart] would set the table on day one, on day two you’d make the sauces — it was completely insane, but she had the draw because she was one of the first out of the gate,” McSherry said. “People were following her like she was a goddess. Now the three-day preparation for dinner on Saturday night are so beyond over.”

Another thing that’s “beyond over” is the notion that men have no interest in cooking.

McSherry saw that shift take hold within the last decade, and she now sees a 50/50 split in her classes.

The lifelong Vancouverite does offer classes to men only, though at times they’re not for the faint of heart. “There’s always a jackass in the crowd who would call for Chinese food on his cellphone in the middle of class. This

poor Asian guy with 10 buckets of Chinese food would walk in and all the guys would laugh,” McSherry said. “The jackass is sitting there saying, ‘We didn’t like your food, so we ordered Chinese takeout.’ You have to have thick skin to deal with drunk men.”

It’s the level of stick-toitness that sees McSherry as one of Vancouver’s most recognizable and beloved cooks. She’s a regular on TV and her seventh book, Starters, Salads, and Sexy Sides, was released in October 2017.

“I love cooking and I love to teach cooking,” McSherry said. “People are happy when they’re eating.” @JohnKurucz Gourmet Warehouse is located at 1340 East Hastings St.

Caren McSherry has taught tens of thousands of Vancouverites over her 40 years hosting cooking classes. For a video of McSherry giving reporter John Kurucz a cooking lesson, go to vancourier.com. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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Confessions of a Vancouver Minor Hockey Association dad Youngster’s on-ice obsession supplanted by Star Wars infatuation Grant Lawrence

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If you’ve ever had a kid signed up for an organized sport, you might know where I’m coming from.

Ever since my son was about one, he has showed a zealous interest for hockey. By the time he had reached two, he was on skates, and hockey ratcheted up into blind obsession. Other kids would beg to go to the toy store — Josh would want to go to the skate shop.

Other kids would want to go to Disneyland — Josh wanted to go to the Hockey Hall of Fame.

His little hockey stick became his security blanket. It went everywhere with him: to the grocery store, on flights and even canoeing (which was handy, since it could double as a paddle, which inadvertently became a totally unplanned but ridiculously ultra-Canadian moment). His hockey stick was eventually banned by his daycare.

My son only wanted us to read him hockey books, and the Brady Brady series became a favourite (recommended if you know another hockey-enthused young girl or boy). One of the Brady Brady stories

is about a backyard rink, which started my son up on a desperate wish for his very own backyard rink here in Vancouver. I told him it was impossible in our climate.

Cue the prolonged deep-freeze winter of 2016. So yeah, I built him a backyard rink. It was actually in the front yard, and it somehow worked (something about water turning to ice below the freezing level). The rink lasted a whole month.

We even skated on it on Christmas Day. All the while, my son begged to be on a real hockey team like the Ice Hogs (Brady Brady’s team) or the Red Wings (my son’s favourite team) so he could have teammates of his very own. By age four, he was signed up for hockey lessons at the rec centre with towering kids as old as seven. He hung in there.

Finally, once he turned five, he became eligible for the hallowed ice he had heard so much about: Hockey 1 (or “H1” for short). The only thing was, by the time he was finally eligible, my son’s infatuation with hockey had faded like my memories of the Canucks’ 2011 Cup run.

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Happily for his mom, Josh’s interests had varied into other fun things like… animals! Pirates! Disneyland! And, most recently, all things Star Wars. But nonetheless, like R2D2 boldly rolling into Jabba’s Palace followed by a timid C3PO (yes, that scene is

from the third movie — don’t judge), my family meekly followed Josh into the labyrinth that is the Vancouver Minor Hockey Association.

At first, we balked at the price, but then my wife learned of the VMHA league policy that “no

child should be unable to play due to financial restraints and that no family should suffer financial hardship in order for their child to play,” which made us think that the high costs likely go in part to offsetting that commitment.

The VMHA emails came down fast and furious, a near constant barrage that we could barely keep up with, and the season start was nearly two months away… hockey equipment swaps, tournaments, team photos and mandatory fundraiser initiatives. But hey, it’s called “organized” for a reason, eh?

Josh was expected to be on the ice three times a week — twice for practices and once for his weekly games. That proved to be a little too much for our family, so even though we’re paying for it, Josh hits the ice twice a week.

Like most kids, he far prefers the games to the practices, and who can blame him? At age five or 55, what would you rather be doing when suited up with skates and a stick?

It’s tough to convince a five year old that the practices are worth it, but he skates. Back at home, the light sabre sees more action than the oncebeloved security blanket

hockey stick, which now sits alone in the corner, waiting for action.

We had heard the rumours of crazed hockey parents in the stands, bellowing and shaking their fists like angry Tusken Raiders, but we haven’t experienced anything like that. We’ve met some great parents, many of whom are just as confused as my wife and me as to the ins and outs of minor hockey.

Meanwhile, on the ice, Josh has had to come to terms with the fact he’s not Brady Brady, or “Cindy” Crosby (which is what he earnestly calls Sidney). As we learn over and over at any age, concept versus reality can be tough to swallow. But he loves his teammates and his jersey, and he’s learning. He’s skating a little faster each time, and he even scores a goal here and there, which stuns and thrills his nerd dad, who completely shunned organized team sports until well into adulthood (go Flying Vees!).

As long as our son is having fun, and has a sense of belonging, we’re committed to being hockey parents… until the games are scheduled earlier than 8 a.m. @grantlawrence

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Never Be Done: The Richard Glen Lett Story follows the acerbic comedian’s struggles with addiction and mental illness.

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Richard Lett was mean, but it was part of his shtick.

He was Canada’s George Carlin — an audacious comic with a gravelly voice, a lethal wit and a take-noprisoners attitude.

From the 1980s until the early 2000s, Lett was a regular headliner at Vancouver comedy clubs — a reliable, albeit divisive, comedian’s comedian. He punched down. He spewed obscenities. He courted controversy (like when he wrote and performed a song called “The Ballad of Bobby Pickton”).

His comedy wasn’t to everyone’s taste, but he was charismatic and whip smart and people loved to hate him.

And then October 2009 rolled around, and no one was laughing anymore, least of all Lett. The Vancouverbased comedian was losing himself to alcoholism, to drug addiction and to mental illness. The smart meanness that had defined his comedy was gone, replaced with indiscriminate venom. The clubs where he’d once performed to soldout crowds — Yuk Yuk’s, the Kingston — banned him from the premises for his bad behaviour. By the end of the year, Lett was homeless.

But Lett had a special witness to his downfall.

That October, Lett invited 20-something filmmaker Roy Tighe to film him at work in order to promote a one-man show that Lett intended to produce. But it wasn’t long before Tighe realized Lett was undergoing some kind of personal transformation, and he asked the comedian if he could follow

him around and film him in the trenches of his life.

Lett agreed, and seven years later, Tighe’s featurelength documentary, Never Be Done: The Richard Glen Lett Story, has its world premiere next week at the 2018 Whistler Film Festival.

Tighe filmed Lett from October 2009 until early 2010, gathering more than 500 hours of footage in the process. Lett doesn’t remember the bulk of it.

“One of the indicators of you having a problem is thinking you don’t have a problem,” says Lett in a recent phone call with the Courier. He’s been sober since Dec. 27, 2009.

“The ego that comes with addiction is self-centeredness, and I was blaming everyone else,” he says. “Everyone else was jealous about how cool and funny I was — it never occurred to me that I might have a serious disease that was on the brink of taking me out. When I met Roy, it just turned out that’s when everything went sideways. During that period of time, I don’t remember any light. If you invite darkness in, it will come.”

Tighe says he didn’t have a plan of action when he asked Lett if he could film his life. “I ran into this project headfirst, and I didn’t know what was going to happen,” says Tighe, adding that he initially didn’t know that Lett had a substance abuse problem. “I knew that there was a behaviour problem, and that he wasn’t like anyone else — but to be honest, as a filmmaker, I was drawn to that.”

Lett eventually returned to comedy, although it’s different now. “The way that you

come back is slowly,” he says.

The meanness is gone, and the humour is introspective. His comeback show, Sober But Never Clean, played to sold-out crowds at the 2016 Fringe Festival. He’s currently touring a show called One Nut Only, about his battle with testicular cancer. Comedy, he says, is secondary to his recovery. He regularly attends meetings and serves as a sponsor to multiple addicts and alcoholics.

“They say after five years of recovery, you hear a popping sound, and that’s the sound of your head coming out of your ass,” says Lett. “What that means is that you stop thinking about yourself. It’s not about what you can get but what you can give.” He hasn’t seen Tighe’s documentary yet, but hopes it will help people in recovery, and that it gets shown in places where people are “fighting the good fight.”

Helping people is certainly Tighe’s goal.

“It’s uncomfortable to watch Richard fumble around for days, trying to move out of his apartment, but that’s what it’s like when someone is mentally ill in this time in his life and he’s struggling with addiction,” says Tighe. “You sit in it, and you feel uncomfortable. This is set up for the audience to have an experience, just like Richard had an experience. I wanted people to feel what it’s like.”

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Emily Carr art students sell their art at annual sale And four other reasons Vancouver is awesome this week

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Emily Carr’s Legendary Student Art Sale

The tradition is strong: The Emily Carr Student Art Sale has been a longstanding event in Vancouver, giving us the chance to get a hold of the work of some talented up-and-coming artists. You’ll find hundreds of paintings, sculptures, drawings, ceramics, greeting cards, prints and other fascinating creations. The sale is timed perfectly for holiday gift giving.

Nov. 23 to 25 Emily Carr University of Art + Design, 520 East First Ave. facebook.com

performances throughout the event. ART JAM is a collaborative painting party designed for all artistic levels.

DJ Sam Chimes will keep the energy going while teams of participants create a canvas on a provided theme, right there on the spot. If you want to paint, get a team together and register yourselves ahead online.

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Italian Christmas Market: Mercatino di Natale

Christmas arrives early thanks to the annual Italian Christmas Market, or Mercatino di Natale. More than 40 vendors are slated to participate, offering Italian food products (think goods such as olive oil, panettone, Christmas cookies, honey and chocolate) as well as local liquors, wine, jewelry, pottery, crafts and more.

Nov. 23, 5:30 to 9 p.m.

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Friendsgiving 2.0 Trivia Night

So no one told you life was gonna be this way. Like if you’re a fan of the TV sitcom Friends who happens to be in Vancouver the day after the U.S. Thanksgiving long weekend, and you’re looking for some simpatico folks.

Find them at The Pint for a trivia night honed in on the Turkey Day episodes of Friends. It’s your very own “The One with the Late Thanksgiving.”

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There’s a brand new wintertime festival making its debut this week. Aurora offers you the chance to slip into a secret North Pole village, featuring light displays, magical characters and plenty to see and do. Go tube sliding, skate on a frozen river, shop from the marketplace, go on rides, see live entertainment, eat and drink your fill and, of course, stop by and say hello to Santa and his elves.

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You want stories about bags of chips… we’ll give you stories about bags of chips It’s not every day we pull back the curtain and reveal the wizardry that keeps this newspaper churning. But today is that day.

As newspapers move increasingly over to the digital realm, it becomes easier to measure what stories are being read and the reading habits of online readers.

And sometimes these habits can be a little dispiriting to a hardened journalist easily aroused by community news and municipal policy.

Case in point: Do you know what the most read story on our website was last week?

It was a story about a bag of chips.

Apparently, someone noticed a bag of chips from a local company in a recent episode of The Big Bang Theory.

Did the bag of chips talk or further the plot of The Big Band Theory? No, it was in the background of one scene.

But one of our sister papers wrote a story about the appearance of said bag of chips and it became one of the most read stories of the day, if not the week. So we reposted the same story in hopes of some of that viral digital dust rubbing off on us. And it did.

Oh god, did it ever.

The same thing happened the other week when we posted a story from one of our sister publications about Starbucks giving away free travel mugs. Web traffic

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Don’t get us wrong. We will often post stories on housing, real estate, the opioid crisis, city hall etc. that many of you will read.

But last week, for a several days, more of you were reading about a bag of chips than anything else.

So what are we to do?

Clearly, our reporters are not going to start following the chip beat. How many stories about bags of chips are there in a given week, anyway?

But something needs to be done.

Which is why, we here at K&K are going to focus more on what matters to the lumpen online masses, the digital hordes, the stimulusaddicted populous. Here’s a list of stories we’re working on for next week: • A plate of nachos with its own Instagram account.

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• Turns out that bag of chips from The Big Bang Theory just got its own spinoff sitcom called Tragically Chip. It’s about a family of chips who are down on their luck but stick together through thick and thin.

• After posting racist comments on Twitter, the bag of chips is fired from its own show. The remaining cast then get their own series called The Chips.

• The singer of recently disgraced metal band Threatin teams up with the fired racist bag of chips, the plate of nachos with the lit Instagram account and the cute dog addicted to Starbucks Juniper Winter Lattes and forms a band called Testicular Hamster. The internet then implodes and shuts down for three days. But on the fourth day, the internet returns wet and new, like a chrysalis transforming into a beautiful butterfly. Except that butterfly loves Starbuck’s new Juniper Winter Lattes and has an Instagram account that is off the hook. @KudosKvetches

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The City of Vancouver recently revealed the four finalists for its annual book award. Now in its 30th year, the 2018 City of Vancouver Book Award’s shortlist includes writings “that each reflect Vancouver’s unique character and diverse culture.”

This list includes an eclectic assortment of genres — poetry, longform journalism, memoir and anthology. A central theme of this year’s finalists is “connection and healing,” says the City of Vancouver.

The 2018 finalists are: • Chelene Knight for Dear Current Occupant (Book*hug), a genre-

busting memoir of a childhood in precarious housing in 20 different homes in East Vancouver.

• Travis Lupick for Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City’s Struggle with Addiction (Arsenal Pulp Press), a deep dive into the citizenled advocacy that placed Vancouver at the van-

guard of harm reduction.

• Erín Moure for Sitting Shiva on Minto Avenue, by Toots (New Star Books), a meditation on the impermanence of life and memory — especially in our fast-changing city.

• Rachel Rose, editor of Sustenance: Writers from BC and Beyond on the Subject of Food (Anvil Press), a pairing of bold

new voices with awardwinning writers who serve us poems, memories, recipes, sumptuous photos and interviews that satiate and satisfy.

Finalists for the City of Vancouver Book Award are chosen by an independent jury that includes writers and academics.

The winner will be announced on Dec. 8 at

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Ben Hutton knows who needs the puck on the power play Young defenceman has quickly clicked with Elias Pettersson on first unit

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Big Numbers • 12 A fun stat from Sportsnet: Elias Pettersson is the first player since Alex Ovechkin to score 12 goals in his first 17 NHL games.

• 27.3 Pettersson has the highest shooting percentage in the NHL right now at 27.3 per cent. That’s generally a sign that regression is on the way and he’s unlikely to sustain that high a number, but he hasn’t shown any signs of slowing down so far.

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When Canucks head coach Travis Green harshly criticized Ben Hutton last season, some took it as a sign that Green didn’t like the young defenceman and that he might not be a Canuck for much longer. That’s not how Hutton took it.

“If he didn’t say anything or just didn’t care, I feel like that would almost be worse,” said Hutton at the end of the season. “If someone’s hard on you, it’s because they see you have more to give.”

So far this season, Hutton has been giving more and more, proving that Green’s tough-love approach and Hutton’s hard work in the summer has paid off. Since Alex Edler left the lineup with a knee injury, Hutton leads the Canucks in ice time, averaging 22:44 per game. He’s eating up minutes in all situations and playing some of the best hockey of his career.

The one place where he wasn’t directly replacing Edler was on the power play, where he instead was on the second unit, with Derrick Pouliot manning the point on the top unit. Over the past week, that’s changed.

With Pouliot, the first unit was struggling.

The Canucks have scored just two goals at five on four with Pouliot on the ice and have given up a shorthanded goal against.

Something had to change.

Over the past few games, the addition of Hutton to the top unit has seemed to provide a spark. Most noticeably, he’s been able to put the puck in the wheelhouse of Canucks super-rookie Elias Pettersson.

The young Swede has a rocket of a onetimer that makes him a dangerous scoring threat on the power play. While Pouliot has been unable to set up Pettersson for any onetimer goals, Hutton has assisted on two of them in the three games he’s been on the first power play unit. That’s a small sample size, but the early returns have been encouraging.

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ple goals, but his shot rate is twice as high with Hutton than it has been with Pouliot.

With Hutton at the point, Pettersson has been able to generate more shots on goal.

As much as it may seem simple to put the puck on a tee for Pettersson, the fact that the Canucks haven’t been able to consistently do so should tell you that it’s more complicated than you might think.

“Everyone likes to hit a one-timer different, whether it’s off their back foot, off their front foot, like to have one step in on it, or whatever,” said Hutton during the preseason. While Pettersson told Hutton to put the puck anywhere, it seems like he’s found the right spot.

Perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising that Hutton has quickly settled in on the first power play unit. If we extend our gaze back a couple season, Hutton actually leads all Canucks defencemen in the rate of goals the Canucks have scored with them on the power play. In other words, the power play has scored more with Hutton on the ice than with any other Canucks defenceman over the past three years.

That goes for Hutton himself: since he first joined the Canucks as a rookie, Hutton leads all defencemen in power play points. Considering Hutton has spent the bulk of that time on the second power play unit, that’s impressive.

As an added bonus, the Canucks have given up a lower rate of shorthanded goals with Hutton on the ice than with any other defenceman over the past few seasons. While that’s not often the prime concern on the power play, it’s worth keeping in mind: the point of hockey, after all, isn’t just to score goals, but to outscore the opponent.

While the Canucks’ best bet will be to get Edler back on the power play as soon as he returns from injury, there’s an argument to be made that Hutton deserves a longer look in that role.

• I’m dropping the gloves with the awful Pacific Division. Heading into Wednesday’s game in Anaheim, the Canucks were under .500 and had a minus-14 goal differential, but were somehow still in third place in the Pacific. The entire division shouldn’t be this bad.

• I’m dropping the gloves with Peter Chiarelli, who has surrounded the blazingly fast Connor McDavid with one of the slowest rosters in the league, then followed that up by hiring Ken Hitchcock, a notoriously defensive-minded head coach.

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Lavender ESB by Field House Brewing Rob Mangelsdorf editor@thegrowler.ca

Here’s the thing: English beers, they get no respect.

Are they warm and undercarbonated? Yes — or are North American beers too cold and fizzy? Are they weaker than a cup of tea at Nana’s house? Again, yes — or are they extremely sessionable? Are they too malty? Of course! They’re also delicious and complex and earthy and endlessly drinkable. The only thing they lack is appreciation.

I like to describe the classic English flavour profile as marmalade on toast.

The key to that is in the grain: malts such as Maris Otter and Golden Promise impart rich nutty, biscuity flavours, providing a depth of character that German and North American malts could only dream of.

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Though it may sound flowery, Field House Brewing’s Lavender ESB wisely lets its nutty malts do the talking.

the hoppiest of English styles, hence why we British Columbians have taken to it.

Abbotsford’s Field House Brewing is usually known for its Belgian-inspired farm-

house ales, but they’ve really hit the mark with Lavender ESB. While the lavender is very prevalent on the nose, thankfully it takes a back seat when you actually have a sip, complementing the herbal hop flavour. Like I said earlier, the star of the show is the malt character, with nutty notes of caramel, biscuit, vanilla and toast — and the lavender doesn’t get in the way of that. The beer is assertively hopped, per our North American tendency, but again, it doesn’t distract from the malt, instead cleaning up the finish and leaving on a pleasantly bitter note.

Do yourself a favour, though, and let this one warm up a bit. Give it a vigourous swirl in the glass and let it sit for a bit. You won’t be disappointed.

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The star of MTV’s hit show “Disaster Date”, his comedy has received rave reviews on NBC’s ‘Last Comic Standing’, NETFLIX, SHOWTIME, CNN’s “HLN”, Good Morning America, BBC, & NPR

Jayleen Stonehouse & Michael Creber

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He’s is the host of the “OUT OF TUNE” music game show, featured in “Variety” and “Cosmopolitan”

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“Audaciously imaginative!” THE NEW YORK TIMES

GARRETT CLARK ACERCATE MAS BAND

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Featuring Toshi Jackson Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Award” in 2011

ED, SALVE & FRIENDS Eddie Dayao on piano and keyboard Salve on vocals

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DEC. 9

Garrett has performed at 3 of the prestigious Just For Laughs Festivals (Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver) hitting many of the stages including opening for Todd Barry and Iliza Shlesinger

MATT BILLON Matt Billon honed his cool-headed, deadpan delivery on the stages of Yuk Yuk’s clubs across Canada

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