B.C.’s natural gas supply may be limited this winter
Reduce your use Due to the rupture of the Enbridge-owned natural gas transmission pipeline earlier this fall, B.C.’s natural gas supply will be restricted this winter. Even though the line is now repaired, it’s operating at a lower capacity and will be transporting a reduced amount of natural gas to FortisBC this winter. We’re doing everything we can to ensure all our customers receive the natural gas they need. You can help by reducing your use. Every bit you save helps ensure we have the natural gas to keep homes warm and businesses working. fortisbc.com/reduceyouruse
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Why we need to conserve natural gas this winter
If the Enbridge-owned natural gas transmission pipeline is repaired why isn’t it business as usual?
Enbridge expects their pipeline system to transport up to 85 per cent of its full capacity following approval from the National Energy Board (NEB). Engineering assessments will continue on Enbridge’s system until they receive approval from the NEB to return to 100 per cent capacity. During this period, our supply will be limited when demand is at the highest, such as an extended cold snap.
Here’s how you can help Conservation will ensure we can provide the natural gas our customers need this winter. And with more than one million customers, a little conservation can go a long way. Here’s how you can help: Turn down the heat at home: if just 11 homes set their thermostat 3 °C lower for when they need heat, it could save enough natural gas to provide heat and hot water for one home for a year.1
Savings are approximate, assuming a thermostat setback of an additional three degrees Celsius for when heat is needed in a natural gas heated 2,300 - 2,600 square foot home located in a FortisBC service area. On average, a home this size consumes 90 gigajoules of natural gas annually.
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Assumes an additional setback of three degrees Celsius for 10 hours each weekday, saving 90 gigajoules of natural gas over the heating season, enough to heat one average sized home for a year.
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Turn down the heat at work: if a 23,000 square foot office set its thermostat 3 °C lower during office hours, it could save enough natural gas to provide heat and hot water for one home for a year.2 Take shorter showers: save hot water by shortening your showers by two minutes.
Put on a sweater: if you’re cold, reach for a sweater, socks or blanket instead of turning up the heat. fortisbc.com/reduceyouruse Connect with us
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Is Vancouver getting a renters’ advocate, or not? Mayor says renters’ advocate and renter advocacy and services officer are two different positions
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I was really hoping to tell you when the City of Vancouver will hire a renters’ advocate. Instead, I’m going to complicate matters. That’s because after interviewing Mayor Kennedy Stewart, Green Party Coun. Pete Fry and Abi Bond of the city’s housing department and conducting an email exchange with a city communications person, I’ve learned the city could be looking to hire two people to cater to renters’ needs. Huh? That was my reaction, too. Anyway, many city hall watchers will recall that hiring a renters’ advocate was one of Stewart’s promises during his mayoral campaign. In fact, he promised to hire a renters’ advocate within his first 100 days in office. For those counting, that brings us to sometime in
February, assuming the mayor considers Saturdays and Sundays in his calculation of 100 days. If not, then a renters’ advocate should be in place by St. Patrick’s Day in March. But here’s where it gets complicated… The city posted a job in July for a “renter advocacy and services officer.” That was four months before Stewart got elected. As the posting said, the main purpose and function of the position would be to “focus on coordinating city efforts to directly meet renter needs and maximizing external partnerships with existing renter serving organizations and advocacy groups.” That kind of sounds like a renters’ advocate, no? Apparently not, according to the mayor, who told me he’s really looking for a lawyer who can untangle questions a renter may have about a legal predicament related to their hous-
Mayor Kennedy Stewart promised to hire a renters’ advocate within his first 100 days in office. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET
ing, or lack of housing. That’s why, he said, he added an amendment to Fry’s motion a couple weeks back about the need for a renters’ office in a city where
more than 50 per cent of residents rent. That amendment requests that a renters’ office also have the ability to provide “direct legal advice to concerned parties.”
“Some landlords and building owners are on the up-and-up, and they’re being quite straightforward with people, and others are not,” Stewart said. “So to be able to get some actual legal advice on whether the documents are lawful, whether they’re following particular provincial and municipal guidelines is really important. And that’s what I saw this position doing, and see this position doing.” Before I get to more about what Stewart said, I should tell you that Bond told me a renter advocacy and services officer could be hired by Christmas. She said that person will likely be working across city departments, overseeing city policy related to renters and landlords and supplementing and enhancing work of the Residential Tenancy Branch and renter organizations. Which, again, sounds like the work of renters’ advocate, no?
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I told Stewart I didn’t want to confuse readers (which, I’m sure, I already have) in providing an update on when the city will hire a renters’ advocate. He assured me the renters’ advocate and renter advocacy and services officer are two different positions. “They have a different set of skills,” he said, noting the renter advocacy and services officer’s skills will be in social planning. “We need someone with legal expertise to do this.” But while saying that, he also pointed out the city has more than 30 lawyers and perhaps one or more of them could be called on to help with the renters’ file. More certainty, he added, will come when staff reports back early in the new year on the feasibility of setting up a renters’ office and how much it will cost. Certainty, said more than half of the city’s residents, is a good thing. @Howellings
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B.C.’s surplus this year has grown to $1.3 billion, and the government’s operating debt has been eliminated for the first time in 40 years, B.C. Finance Minister Carole James said Monday, Nov. 26 in a second quarter budget update for 2018. “Our economy’s strong,” James said. “And that’s why we’ve seen our surpluses strengthen, we’ve seen our debt-to-GDP ratio improve, and elimination… of the operating debt.” Higher income and corporate taxes have added $1.7 billion to government coffers, of which $813 million is from increased personal tax revenue, and $842 million from corporate income tax revenue. Revenue from taxes and royalties are down in certain sectors, however, including the forestry and the natural gas sectors, although revenue from mining is up. A decline in revenue from forestry is partly the result of wildfires, which this year will cost the government $572 million in firefighting costs.
Revenue from B.C.’s housing market is also down, but that is the result of deliberate attempts to cool an overheated market and tackle the real estate speculation that has driven Vancouver housing prices to unsustainable levels. Revenue from the property tax transfers is down $150 million. New housing starts were down year-to-date, as were home sales. The NDP government is prepared to forego revenue from property transfers taxes in order to stabilize the market through tax measures aimed at curbing real estate speculation. Relying on revenue from real estate growth “is risky and unsustainable,” James said. While the B.C. economy continues to fire on most cylinders, there are risks, one of them being continued revenue losses at ICBC. The Crown auto insurer is on track to post a $900 million loss this year. That follows a $1.3 billion loss in 2017, which taxpayers covered in the last budget when the government wrote off ICBC’s deficit. “These kinds of losses are the result of the last govern-
ment completely ignoring the challenges at ICBC, and we’re going to correct them,” James vowed. B.C. continues to lead the country in economic growth. B.C.’s economy grew by 3.8 per cent in 2017, according to Statistics Canada — a 1.5 per cent increase to the forecast used for the 2017 provincial budget. Going forward, James said her government will assume a conservative growth estimate of 2.4 per cent for 2019, and continues to build in sizeable contingencies into the budget One of the biggest challenges for B.C.’s economy is a labour shortage. B.C. unemployment rate has been the lowest in the country for the last 15 months, James said. “That represents real challenges for employers,” James said. She added her government’s investment in child care and housing affordability are intended to help address the affordability issues that contribute to the inability of businesses to attract and maintain workers. @nbennett_biv
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Deanna Chan, communications and community engagement assistant at the garden, said Nov. 27 that staff has not yet been able to confirm if Madonna, the most famous of the garden’s koi which is more than 50 years old, is still alive. “At this point we’re still hopeful,” Chan said. To the staff and the many regular visitors to Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, the koi are more than just fish. “They’re cultural treasures,” Chan said, adding that koi symbolize abundance and good fortune, and, like many features of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, the inclusion of the koi is modelled after the scholar’s gardens of the Ming Dynasty. “They’re very special fish.” Chan said the loss of the koi over the last week has been difficult for staff. “It’s quite sad,” she said, adding that many of the koi have been living at the garden for decades, some since it opened in 1986. “They really become part of the family, part of the team.” In an effort to rescue the remaining koi in the pond, the water level is being
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“We hope, if this is successful, we will be a role model or [an] example to the other non-profit organizations in the city, especially in Chinatown and the Downtown Eastside,” he added. Boni-Maddison Architects is involved in the project. Retail spaces will be included at grade level, while a laundry room will be on each floor. S.U.C.C.E.S.S. will operate the social housing units. The applicant has preliminary approval from BC Housing for both financing and funding for the project. Fifty units will be about 262 square feet in size, while the remaining five units will be accessible and slightly larger — between 287 and 319 square feet, according to the application. After several speakers questioned the livability of such small units during the DPB hearing, the applicants said they would work on that issue. Rents for the residential units will be based on the Downtown Eastside Local Area Plan. New social housing developments in the Downtown Eastside must have at least one third of the homes renting at shelter/ pension rates to meet the minimum zoning bylaw requirement set out in the Downtown Eastside plan. But developments can go beyond this minimum. Several
speakers called for 100 per cent of rents to be at shelter/ pension rates and they asked that commercial uses reflect the culture and community and don’t serve to gentrify the neighbourhood. Others, however, argued the neighbourhood needs more of a mix of tenants and a mix of businesses so it becomes a more balanced community, rather than just having social housing and social enterprises because the area is becoming “awash” in crime, drug activity and graffiti. The applicant is still in conversations with BC Housing about the possibility of deepening the level of affordability, while tenants for the commercial space have yet to be determined. The applicant will have to enter into a housing agreement with the City of Vancouver and an operating agreement with BC Housing.
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to replace one of city’s oldest buildings of the existing structure. The building isn’t on the city’s Heritage Register, but it was identified as a key priority site to be included in the Heritage Register upgrade that was submitted to the city last fall. A Statement of Significance (SOS) about the property describes the building as a “unique example of a timber-frame and masonry commercial structure built in the boom years following the Great Fire of 1886.” Caleb Goodmurphy was the building’s original owner and builder. When it was being built in 1890, it was described in the Vancouver Daily World as “An Elegant Family Hotel — A New Brick Hotel — Handsome Private Residences.” The Uchida family — a prominent Japanese-Canadian family — bought it in 1906 and owned it until 1942. The family includes the first Japanese women to immigrate to Canada, the first Nisei girl born in Vancouver, the first female graduate from UBC and an Order of Canada recipient. Chiyoschichi Uchida was one of the first labour contractors to the Hastings Saw Mill, which was known for its willingness to hire Japanese men, according to the SOS, which also notes that Dr. Matasaburo Uchida operated a medical practice out of the building between 1928 and 1942, while Wakabayashi Tofu works was located at the rear. In the early 1940s, the Secretary of State of Canada, as well as Jimmy Jung and Jung Ming, were listed as owners. Yoo Koo Low is listed as the owner in 1971, while the Ming Sun Benevolent Society is the current owner. The SOS notes the benevolent society “originates as a clan organization for the Wong families from Hoiping County in Guangdong province in China and has had a long association with Powell Street since the 1920s.” Historic names for the property include Russ House (Russhouse Hotel), the Uchida Building and the Ming Sung Benevolent Society Building. Heritage advocates consid-
er it important for more than its historic structure — crucial factors include its association with the original builder, the Japanese community and Japantown, the fact rooms were rented on an ongoing basis over many decades, and its association with the ChineseCanadian community. Anthony Norfolk, a member of the Vancouver Heritage Commission, told the DPB he only learned about the development application on Nov. 22, and he was concerned not everyone involved in the 2013 conservation effort was informed about the plans. Notifications were sent to more than 150 area property owners and more than 500 Downtown Eastside interest groups, but not specifically to everyone involved in the conservation effort. The Heritage Vancouver Society considers the loss of the almost 130-year-old building significant, even in its current state — aside from the brickwork being removed, it still has its original form as an early 1890s structure/hotel, a form that has fast disappeared from the streets of Vancouver. The organization submitted a letter to the DPB at the Nov. 26 meeting, which indicated it was “dismayed” about the proposed demolition of “another piece of Vancouver’s architectural and social heritage.” “We are also very disappointed that although the building was recommended as a Priority Site for the Vancouver Heritage Register Upgrade, it has gone unnoticed by the City and not even referenced within the current development application for the existing structure,” the letter states. At a minimum, the heritage society wanted the historic façade retained and reconstructed, calling it a “key mid-block form that is a critical part of the historic Japantown streetscape.” The organization also wanted: • an updated SOS to current National Heritage Standards to be undertaken as part of the terms of development approval • a heritage revitaliza-
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the application, Jerry Dobrovolny, one of the members of the DPB and the city’s general manager of engineering, said he was frustrated by the lack of heritage preservation in projects coming before the board and he would like to see staff, applicants, heritage organizations and community groups to work through those issues in future applications, but he could not say no to the creation of 55 new social housing units.
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Way back in 2016 — before the entire school board was fired and before an NDP government was in power — the Vancouver School Board had a plan to close 20 schools. Twelve schools would be closed outright, and other eight would be repurposed into “swing space” that would be closed to local kids, but open for kids from other
schools that were being seismically upgraded. Vancouver’s got a major space problem in its schools — overall, they are just 85.7 per cent full, with utilization ranging from 18 per cent at some schools to 159 per cent at others, a VSB memo states. Schools on the city’s East Side, in single family home neighbourhoods, tend to be emptier than those on the West Side. In fact, of the 12 schools on the chopping
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According to a VSB memo, Vancouver schools are just 85.7 per cent full, with utilization ranging from 18 per cent at some schools to 159 per cent at others.
100-year-old school receive seismic upgrades when a replacement school would actually save millions of dollars in the long run. A solution to the first problem may have been found. Students might
It is our priority to ensure students attend seismically safe schools as quickly as possible while at the same time providing educationally appropriate swing sites during construction. Patricia MacNeil, VSB’s Director of Communications
be able to go to school in some empty classrooms at Magee secondary, where there are also some unused portables. Sounds reasonable, right? Certainly, it’s a shorter commute. But here’s the thing — Magee sits on the same
grounds as Maple Grove elementary, which is slated to be rebuilt any minute now. Construction could begin in January, says mom Monica Tang, who is a member of the Parent Advisory Committees at both Maple Grove elementary and Magee secondary schools. Fortunately for the Maple Grove students, there is enough room there to build a new school beside the old school, so students won’t have to move during construction. Maple Grove, like Cavell, is already over capacity, so space for things like outdoor play, libraries and gym time will be at a premium, especially once construction gets underway. An emergency meeting last week was jam packed with parents and neighbours, but Tang said there wasn’t a lot of information shared. Concerns were raised about the lack of consultation, safety for the kids and traffic problems in the area that will exacerbated with another 300 kids getting dropped off. “We understand that this needs doing. We empathize greatly with other schools, including Cavell, that are going through the same pro-
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cess,” Tang said. “We are just asking for clarity and transparency in the process and information sharing.” Patricia MacNeil, VSB’s director of communications, said the district is talking to parents at all three schools and will consider the information as part of its final decision, expected in December. “At that time, parents will be provided with details,” MacNeil said. “It is our priority to ensure students attend seismically safe schools as quickly as possible while at the same time providing educationally appropriate swing sites during construction.” With a new board and an urgent need to update that shelved 2016 plan, VSB is working on a new plan to be made public in January. Its priorities will include reducing excess capacity and balancing enrolment demand with available space, as well as making sure all schools will be safe in an earthquake. It won’t be a surprise if school closures make a reappearance in that new plan. Tracy Sherlock writes about education and social issues. She can be reached at tracy.sherlock@gmail.com.
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why ever change?!?”). Whatever the case, the B.C. NDP slow-walked a service that has already been implemented everywhere else so they can... study it. Then their plan seems like it was specifically designed to allow ride-sharing while not really allowing it. Sort of like what Vancouver did with Airbnb. “Hey, you can have this service... but not really (wink, wink).” To be clear, the B.C. Liberals were awful on this issue as well. But at least they didn’t promise to introduce it as part of their election platform by a certain date and then promptly break their promise when in power. Maybe once the government changes we can really have a choice that doesn’t involve this awful (B.C. NDP-taxi cartel] plan. Ted Dantoncal via Online Comments
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Left: Crown Preschool teacher Nina Monahan, who attended the school as a youngster, and her daughter Felicity, four, who currently attends the preschool. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET Above: Dads join in a sing-a-long at Crown Preschool in the mid-1970s. PHOTOS SUBMITTED
Dunbar preschool celebrates 70 years of community building Things have changed over the years, but Crown Preschool has always relied on parent participation Jessica Kerr
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It’s a rainy November morning, and there’s a quiet busyness at Crown Preschool. About a dozen three- and four-year-olds are spread out around the large space — some are making paper snowflakes at one table, while two others practise tracing letters at another. Others play in the homemade kitchen, and a parent volunteer keeps a watchful eye on a small group of children playing with blocks. Started by a group of parents 70 years ago, Crown Preschool has always run on the power of parents. “The teachers are the only employees and the parents are responsible for everything else so they are the board members, they do a lot of the jobs around the preschool,” says Nina Monahan, one of two current teachers, and a former student. She grew up in the Dunbar neighbourhood and attended Crown Preschool when she was three years old. “I don’t really remember anything, but that’s just me,” Monahan says with a smile. All three of her own children have attended Crown, two in the last four years since she started teaching there. Her youngest, Felicity, four, plays nearby while her
mom talks to the Courier after class has ended for the day. The school is run as a not-for-profit society and “every position is run by a parent of the pre-school,” says current co-president Amanda Girard. Parents take care of everything from budgeting, hiring and payroll to helping out in the classroom and providing the daily snack. Girard first got involved with Crown Preschool when her oldest was two. Her younger child was just a few months old at the time, and she was looking around for a parent-participation preschool that would allow her to also bring along her infant. “I fell in love with the school and the teachers, the whole atmosphere,” she says, adding that it was one of the only ones she called that would allow her to bring along her baby.
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Monahan and fellow teacher Samantha Winter move around the room as their students go from station to station — from the blocks to the sand table, to play with Play Doh or puppets. The room is large and bright. Colourful carpets adorn the floors and the students artwork is hung up around the room. One corner includes a shelf bust-
ing with books, a bench and a collection of a few small bean bag chairs. In another, art easels stand at the ready armed with paper, jars of paint and brushes, and big colourful pieces of chalk. The school started in the fall of 1948 after the Queen Elizabeth elementary school parent-teacher association (PTA) decided it needed a kindergarten for its five year olds. Kindergarten was not mandatory in B.C. schools until the early 1970s. A local mom, Meek Jones, was helping in another private kindergarten at that time. She was approached by the PTA and offered $100 a month to teach kindergarten for Queen Elizabeth. She accepted and stayed with the school for almost a quarter century. Originally called Queen Elizabeth Kindergarten, the school’s first home was in Dunbar Heights Baptist Church. Several dads built tables and other equipment for the school and blocks, which remained in use for decades to come, were made at Vancouver Vocational Institute. In 1949, the school changed its name to Crown St. Kindergarten and until 1963 offered a five mornings a week program for five year olds. The program cost $5 a month and there were usually 25 children in the class. One parent would
stay and help each day. The 1960s brought change for Crown. At that time, many co-op kindergartens started closing as more schools started offering kindergarten classes — Crown expanded to offer a class for four year olds. And in 1965 the preschool moved to its current location at St. Philip’s Church. Two years later, Tom Thumb Preschool also moved into the church and is also still in operation today. In the late 1960s, Jones started adding three year olds to the classes. Today Crown offers a toddler class for two year olds one day a week and preschooler classes for three and four year olds three or four days a week.
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While some things have definitely changed over the years, from its start with the Queen Elizabeth school PTA in 1948 one thing has remained the same — parent participation has been integral to the operation of Crown Preschool. Monahan and fellow Crown teacher Samantha Winter say that having the parents deeply involved in the day-to-day operation of the preschool creates a special kind of community. The parents and teachers meet on a monthly basis, and the school provides education for parents, bringing in
speakers to talk about different topics — a nutrition expert on picky eating, experts on attachment parenting, physical development and positive discipline. “We have a very different focus for our program, which is, I think, to bring families together rather than just to provide a place where there kids can go,” Monahan says. “That’s really the heart of it and it feels really different. It feels much more social and community oriented, and we feel like we support parents as much as children.” Winter adds, “We get to know them so much better, it’s not just a drop off and a pick up and just seeing their face a little bit. When they do come in and they help and provide snack and stay after to tidy up, we get to know them and we have conversations with them and so we build a better bond with them.” “[Parents] are so involved in the business of the preschool that they are really invested in a very different way as well from other styles of school,” Monahan says. Both say the parent-participation-style of school offers a type of community some feel is lacking in the city. Winter grew up in Lillooet in B.C.’s Interior and when she three years old there weren’t any preschools in town.
“There was one, but it was sort of out of town a little bit, and my dad actually created a parent-participation preschool, which was the embodiment of a small community all coming together,” she says. “It was really nice growing up and then moving here and having my own family and really missing that small-town feel where you know everybody or you’re involved in everything and so being in this environment again is really lovely to get that sense of that global village. Everybody is still connected even in this big city.” Monahan agrees. “In Vancouver these days, so many people lament the loss of community and connection, and continuity as well — it’s a city that’s changing a lot,” she says. “We feel like these little beacons of hope sometimes in Vancouver that they still exist and that people are still willing to commit the time to do it, and we notice that a lot of parents that do come to this style of preschool stay really involved, so they’ll be involved in their PACs at school and volunteer a lot. It’s a really good launch for parents to see the benefits of doing the work to be part of a community and that stays with them a long time I think.” @JessicaEKerr
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UBC introduces first cannabis prof in B.C. John Kurucz
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Claudette Cardinal refers to her life’s defining moment as “three lost days in Vancouver.” It was 1995, she was trying to make her way from Edmonton to Victoria and found herself stuck in the Downtown Eastside injecting hard drugs. She kicked drugs after that episode, but the demons continued. After her daughter died of an overdose, Cardinal plummeted into alcohol addiction and contracted HIV. “I was a walking pain monument from head to toe,” she said. Somewhere around 2009 or 2010, cannabis became Cardinal’s way to cope — spiritually, emotionally and physically. She’s now studying to become a youth drug counsellor. Back then, Cardinal couldn’t have imagined an announcement like the one that took place Friday, Nov. 23, in downtown Vancouver. A newly-created position at the University of B.C. will see a dedicated professor, M-J Milloy, oversee clinical trials of cannabis in
M-J Milloy was named the Canopy Growth Professor of Cannabis Science at UBC. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET
relation to opioid treatment. In the first nine months of 2018, an estimated 1,143 people died of a suspected opioid overdose in British Columbia. Milloy’s position is the first of its kind for B.C. It’s the revelation of a lifetime for Cardinal. “People say cannabis is the gateway. No. For me the gateway drug was alcohol,” Cardinal said. Milloy’s position is branded as the Canopy Growth Professor of Cannabis Science, and it comes partly because of a $2.5-million infusion from the can-
nabis research firm, Canopy Growth. The provincial government also contributed $500,000 to the program. “What we hope to achieve together is to minimize the harm that substance use may cause the Canadian society and to maximize the potential benefits of cannabis as a therapeutic treatment,” said Dr. Mark Ware, chief medical officer with Canopy Growth. Milloy is a research scientist at the British Columbia Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU). As a substanceuse epidemiologist, his research has focused on the inter-relationships between illicit drugs and HIV, a field he’s studied for the better part of the last decade. Some of the work done in Milloy’s new role will seek to corroborate and further recent studies he’s been a part of. Research Milloy recently conducted showed that among 2,500 hard drug users in the Downtown Eastside, cannabis helped 20 per cent of those people stay with treatment after a six-month period. Some of Milloy’s research earlier in the decade showed those with HIV had sig-
nificantly lower levels of the virus in their blood if they used cannabis once a day. “This was for me as close to an eye opening moment because it suggests cannabis was not simply about symptom management or about recreation,” Milloy said. “Indeed, it was addressing the fundamental disease process for people living with HIV. It opened my eyes.” Health professionals from across the spectrum spoke to the significance of Friday’s announcement. Study efforts in the past were stymied because of the previously illegal designation associated with cannabis. There was also stigma attached to the plant that prevented people from taking part in clinical trials. “It’s a highly stigmatized drug… This isn’t suddenly ending overnight,” said Dr. Dermot Kelleher, dean of UBC’s faculty of medicine and vice-president of health. “We continue to face issues around the interpretation and the importance of cannabis research. I think we are at a turning point, but I think we have a long way to go.” A longer version of this story is at vancourier.com.
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Christmas tree lot marks 24 years of helping kids in need Jessica Kerr
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It’s opening day for the annual Aunt Leah’s Christmas Tree Lot at St. Stephen’s United Church, and as cars zoom along Granville Street, Angelina Oates talks trees. She points to the “demonstration forest” set up near the entrance where customers can get a look at the different trees available this year — there are eight different types of trees on offer. “All these trees here are a sample of every tree in the lot,” says Oates, who is looking festive in a green and red “elfie” hat. It’s still just over a month until Christmas when the Courier visits the lot on Nov. 23, but there are already a few customers checking out the trees. Aunt Leah’s Place, which has been offering services to kids in, and aging out of, the foster care system for 30 years, has been running its Christmas tree lot at this location for nearly a quarter century. It has since expanded to four other locations around the Lower Mainland — North Van-
couver, Burnaby, Coquitlam and a second, new location in Vancouver’s River District. There’s also two weekend pop-up locations planned for this year, one in East Vancouver and another in New Westminster. “The tree lots are one of our biggest fundraisers of the year,” said Oates, who is the charity’s director of social enterprise. She runs the Christmas tree lots and the thrift store. Last year, the tree sales raised more than $500,000. This year the goal is $620,000. And all of the money goes to support the work done at Aunt Leah’s Place throughout the year. “Aunt Leah’s works with foster kids across the Lower Mainland and young moms and babies,” Oates says. “The idea is we work at two ends of the foster care system. We work with the moms and babies to get them life skills, and all the skills, to be able to keep their baby out of foster care… And then we work with the other extreme, which is the kids that have been in care, they’re bounced around and now they’re almost getting ready
to move out, or older, and we want to teach them skills so they don’t end up homeless when they turn 19 and go out on their own.” Roy, who did not want his last name used, was one of those kids. “I went in and out of foster care, back and forth with my parents, and then my mom died,” he said. “I went back to foster care after living with my dad for a short period of time.” Roy was in foster care from the age of 12 until he was 16. He was homeless for a few years, but, despite his tumultuous teen years, graduated from high school. At the age of 19, he was referred to Aunt Leah’s by the Urban Native Youth Association and went through the Link program, which is aimed at young people over 19 who are no longer in foster care. Aunt Leah’s Place also has a program aimed at helping underage kids who are in care or close to aging out of care. Roy said the program helped him find housing and other support services he needed. “I didn’t have ID for the longest time and they helped me find the supports
to get it,” Roy said. “They set me up with counselling. Basically all they did was everything I needed.” Now 22, Roy said if he hadn’t found Aunt Leah’s Place his life would have gone “down the drain. That’s the best way I can put it.” The key is the support. Both Oates and Roy say that Aunt Leah’s isn’t about telling participants what to do, but rather supporting and helping them achieve whatever goals
they set for themselves. For Roy, after working in Aunt Leah’s warehouse, he decided that he wanted to take training to operate a forklift. The program helped him figure out what he needed to do to make that happen. Today, he’s completed his forklift training and is currently looking for a job in a warehouse. “They don’t necessarily help you if you just ask for it, you’ve got to jump through hoops, you’ve got to do that
walk, you can’t just be expecting anything,” he said. “If you need something they’ll tell you how to do it and then once you start doing it and once they see your perseverance they’ll help you… If you need help you’ve also got to help yourself.” Aunt Leah’s Christmas Tree Lots are open seven days a week until Dec. 23. For locations and hours, or to order a tree online, visit auntleahs.org/social-enterprise/tree-lots.
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AIDS Vancouver needs your help Help fill the shelves of the AIDS Vancouver Grocery Program SANDRA THOMAS STHOMAS@VANCOURIER.COM
AIDSVancouver HolidayGroceryEvent Dec.11 9:30a.m.–3:30p.m. 1101SeymourSt. aidsvancouver.org It was in 1983 when AIDS Vancouver came up with an innovative way to supply patrons with groceries, which not only helps them during rough times, but also allows them the dignity of choosing their own groceries at the “store” located within the AIDS Vancouver building on Seymour Street. The store allows registered clients of AIDS Vancouver to drop by on scheduled days to “shop” for groceries. With a grocery basket in hand, they can peruse the shelves and choose a limited number of items to take home at no cost. The program provides 16,000 supplemental grocery bags to approximately 1,200 clients annually. The program is run in partnership with several local community agencies, including the Positive Women’s Network, Portland Hotel Society, Vancouver Native Health Society, Woodward’s Community Housing and the Greater Vancouver Food Bank. Qualified clients are able to access the grocery store two to three times per month at one of five locations around Vancouver. At the AIDS Vancouver’s Seymour Street site, patrons can select from a variety of purchased and donated goods, including canned protein, cereal, milk, eggs,
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Arts & Entertainment VANCOUVER SHAKEDOWN
Little venue on the prairie, Amigos celebrates 30 years
Grant Lawrence
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Last weekend, my rock ‘n’ roll band played a joint 30th anniversary party. It was both the triple-decade anniversary of my band, the Smugglers, as well as a place called Amigos, a live music venue in Saskatoon, Sask. In the lead up to the show, a lot of people asked me why we were holding our anniversary in Saskatoon, so far from our hometown of Vancouver. The answer is that my band members and I have always had a lot of respect for longevity and legacy — to do something great, something special and something fun, for a long run. That’s Amigos all over. They opened their doors in Saskatoon as a venue and restaurant in the fall of 1988, at almost the exact same time the Smugglers formed in my parents’ basement in West Vancouver. Within about a year or two of our band’s existence, I was cold-calling clubs across Western Canada in an overly ambitious effort to book a tour far before we were
ready, or even had a record out. Back then, clubs along the touring circuit were just starting to welcome original music. They usually demanded a two or three-night stand, with three sets a night, and no opening acts. The tour was mostly a disaster. After the various club managers figured out the Smugglers were mostly still teenagers with barely one set of music, let alone three, we’d often be fired after the first night. But not at Amigos. We had heard a lot about the fabled rock ‘n’ roll oasis on the prairies from our bassist Beez, who was already a seasoned touring veteran with his Vancouver band Sarcastic Mannequins. He told us stories of how great Amigos was, how they supposedly fed the bands, gave them lots to drink, paid them and housed them in a notorious band room above the club. The brightly lit bar with hanging plants, cafeteriastyle tables and skylights wasn’t exactly the den of sin I was expecting. When we played our first night
Grant Lawrence’s band the Smugglers celebrated its 30th anniversary at Saskatoon’s musical oasis Amigos, which was also celebrating its 30th year as a live venue. PHOTO GRANT LAWRENCE
— which was just as bad as the rest of the tour — somehow Amigos didn’t fire us. Instead, we became friends with the owners and staff, and the Smugglers were booked to return time and time again. By
the mid-1990s, we were selling out Amigos with a lineup down the street. Amigos has made that kind of artistic investment into countless bands from across North America. Most remarkably, the club’s
30-year legacy of supporting musicians that perform original music has never deviated. By comparison, there sadly isn’t a single live music venue in Vancouver that can make the same claim. Even the mighty Commodore Ballroom went dark for a few years in the late 1990s. And though their doors have never closed, there have been some struggles for Amigos, too. Ticket sales for live music are down across the country. Sometimes the club struggles to pay the rent. Minimalist hipster restaurants have finally arrived in Saskatoon, which threatens Amigos’ legendary home-style Mexican platters. But still they persevere: burritos, beers and bands. Last weekend, the Smugglers made the return to Amigos to play on their stage alongside Calgary’s Chixdiggit and Saskatoon’s all-female prairie surf band the Garrys. To our delight, friends and fans descended upon the Paris of the Prairies from across North America to pay tribute to Amigos for a loud, raging, sold-out rock ‘n’ roll dance party that
went deep into the Saskatchewan night. The walls of the club were lined with a poster exhibit showcasing Amigos’ three straight decades of live gigs, including dozens of B.C. bands: Bob’s Your Uncle to Black Mountain, DOA to Delhi 2 Dublin, Oh Susanna to the Odds, the Smugglers to Shad. We all owe a lot to this place. It’s for those reasons that the Smugglers decided to celebrate our own 30th anniversary in the middle of the frozen prairie in November. The three men who have owned and operated Amigos over the course of this unprecedented 30-year run — Jim Clarke, Steve Benesh and Alex Clendening — deserve our respect. So does Brant Palko, who has booked the bands at Amigos for the past 20 years. These folks have dedicated their lives and livelihoods to being patrons of the independent arts, and that’s a rare and noble thing. On behalf of every band and musician that has ever performed on your stage, we can’t thank you enough. @grantlawrence
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Diversity on the Drive fuels Bella Ciao! Sabrina Furminger
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Carolyn Combs didn’t set out to make a culturally diverse film. Her original goal was to set a character-driven drama in her Commercial Drive neighbourhood. But if you’re setting your debut full-length film in a neighbourhood as complicated, vibrant and storied as the Drive, and the neighbourhood is informing the plot and the characters, you’re going to get diversity. “When we started making the film, I wasn’t trying to be diverse,” Combs says. “I wasn’t trying to be inclusive. I was telling a story about this neighbourhood and the world around me, and I think if we’re truly to tell stories about the world around us, they’re going to be diverse.” Bella Ciao!, which premieres this week at the Whistler Film Festival, takes place at the intersection of East Vancouver’s First Nations, Latin American and Italian communities: a confluence of cultures that is peak Commercial Drive.
“Everyone has a unique story, and when you walk down the Drive or pop into one of the coffee shops, you’re often not really aware of all of the histories around you,” Combs says. Bella Ciao!’s main characters — played by author, theatre artist and actress Carmen Aguirre, First Nations filmmaker Marie Clements (The Road Forward), Tony Nardi (La Sarrasine), Tayan Kootenhayoo and Alexandra Lainfiesta — individually struggle with identity issues, emotional and physical wounds and mortality. But they find strength and solidarity where their histories and traumas overlap. “They’re all seeking dignity,” says Combs. “They become open to each other. I want people to know that solidarity is possible, that working with each other is possible.” It’s something she’s seen play out on the Drive. The neighbourhood has been Combs’ home since she arrived in Vancouver in the mid-2000s. In 2009, she
began interviewing people in her housing co-op about their memories of the ’hood in order to develop a script about the Drive and its people. This is how Combs learned about the Chilean refugees who settled in East Vancouver in 1973, and how she met Aguirre. As a child, Aguirre had lived in the same housing co-op that Combs now called home; both of Aguirre’s parents had been involved in the Chilean resistance movement against Augusto Pinochet. Aguirre — an actress (Endgame) and author whose books include Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter and 2016’s Mexican Hooker #1: And My Other Roles Since the Revolution — was heavily involved in developing Constanza, the ailing Chilean refugee she plays in Bella Ciao! “She came on very early and she shaped the character — what was authentic, what wasn’t — and it was incredibly educational,” Combs says. Combs’ time on the Drive has changed her, as
has her experience making Bella Ciao! “I feel even more committed to being a responsible filmmaker, being responsible to my community, and making films in a respectful and ethical and responsible way,” she says. More info at whistlerfilmfestival.com. A longer version of this story appears at vancourier.com.
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Join us on Tuesday, December 11 to view and comment on the proposed 3,400m2, 5-level (2 levels below grade) Institute of Advanced Medical Isotopes (IAMI) at TRIUMF, Canada’s National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics.
Date: Tuesday,December11, 2018 Time: 4:30 - 6:00PM Place: Reception, TRIUMF Administration Building, 4004 Wesbrook Mall Plans will be displayed for the proposed IAMI building to accommodate a new TR-24 cyclotron and integrated lab and office space. IAMI will support medical isotope production and research into next-generation medical isotopes and radiopharmaceuticals. Representatives from the project team and Campus + Community Planning will be available to provide information and respond to inquiries about this project. This event is wheelchair accessible.
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Vancouver Chamber Choir | Nicol Matt, conductor This Christmas concert will introduce Artistic Director candidate Nicol Matt from Germany. He will be leading a wonderful and diverse Christmas repertoire including Francis Poulenc’s Hodie Christus natus est, Benjamin Britten’s A Hymn to the Virgin, Ola Gjeilo’s Spotless Rose, Ivo Antognini’s Laudate Dominum and other seasonal songs and carols by Reger, Rachmaninoff, Busto, Ramírez, Sixten, Chilcott, Berring, Sandström and more.
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Etsy does it at winter market And four other events that make Vancouver awesome this week
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Etsy Vancouver Market Winter 2018
Support talented crafters and artisans while you shop and enjoy a family-friendly weekend of holiday-themed fun at the Etsy Vancouver Market’s winter edition. Taking place both Saturday and Sunday, the Etsy Vancouver Market features handcrafted goods including jewelry, home décor, skincare products, artworks, fashion and more. To keep things festive, you can also enjoy carolers, a holiday scavenger hunt, balloon display, a tree display, horse-drawn carriage rides and photos with Santa. Dec. 1 to 2, Wesbrook Community Centre, 3335 Webber Lane etsyvancouver.ca/market
Vancouver Christmas Tree Lighting
Sure, it’s beginning to look at lot like Christmas on retail shelves and on the houses of a few eager folks who’ve fired up their light displays already. But it really starts to look like Christmas in Vancouver when the city’s massive 76-foot Christmas tree is lit at a fun, festive, family-friendly event. The tree-lighting event also features live entertainment and music from Side One and the Soul Gospel Choir, plus free cookies and hot chocolate. Santa will also be on hand for photo ops. Nov. 30, 6 to 7 p.m. (tree lighting at 6:30 p.m.), Robson Square amacon.com/vancouver-tree-lighting
Cosmic Nights: Ice Worlds
Leave the kids at home and hit up the Space Centre for a grown-up night under the
stars. This “spacetacular” event features a custom planetarium show, guest lecturer, music, drinks, science demonstrations and games. The planetarium show explores ice worlds such as Europa and Enceladus, and discusses NASA’s InSight mission to Mars. Did we mention the drinks happen to be beer and wine? Nov. 29, 6:30 to 10 p.m., H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, 1100 Chestnut St. eventbrite.ca
Yukon Blonde and the Zolas
Kelowna-based alt-rockers Yukon Blonde hit the stage at the Commodore as part of their tour in support of their 2018 album Critical Hit. Opening for Yukon Blonde are Vancouver’s the Zolas. Dec. 5, doors: 8 p.m., show 9:30 p.m. Commodore Ballroom, 868 Granville St. facebook.com
The Vancouver Foodster and Tasting Plates Holiday Edition
It’s the most delicious time of the year, and you can embark on an epic night of holiday eating during this one-night roving tasting event. The evening features several stops at markets where vendors will have samples for guests to enjoy. Rove from neighbourhood to neighbourhood, with stops at Be Fresh in Kitsilano, Silk Road in Kitsilano and Espressotec in East Vancouver. The Main Street Honey Shoppe in Mount Pleasant is the starting point for the night, where you’ll pick up your tasting “passport” you’ll take with you to the markets to get your eats and drinks. Dec. 5, 6 to 10 p.m. Begin at the Main Street Honey Shoppe, 4125 Main St. | eventbrite.ca
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A revitalized Jake Virtanen is showing more playmaking skill Backhand Sauce Daniel Wagner
Right from when he was drafted, there were questions about Jake Virtanen’s ability to make his linemates better. His 45 goals in 71 games in his draft year got Virtanen picked sixth overall by the Vancouver Canucks, but he had just 26 assists. He primarily scored his goals off the rush, using his speed to go wide on a defenceman and beat a goaltender with his shot, but he rarely looked to set up a teammate. In the NHL, the defencemen are more mobile and the goaltenders are harder to beat. Virtanen has needed to add another dimension to his game to grow into a top-six forward. While the goals have come early this season, another dimension has started to appear. One play in the Canucks’ meeting against the Los Angeles Kings last Saturday demonstrated a change in Virtanen’s game. He got a puck free on the forecheck and Nikolay Goldobin passed it to him off the boards. He was alone in the left faceoff circle. The old Virtanen wouldn’t have thought twice: he would have turned on the puck immediately to unleash a slap shot. For a moment, it looked like that’s exactly what he was going to do, as he pivoted around the puck and raised his stick up to waist height. Instead, he sent the puck across the slot to Adam Gaudette, who was streaking up the right side, and Gaudette fired the puck in for the first goal of his career. It’s not just that pass: Virtanen has been creating more and more scoring chances for his linemates in a way that he never did in previous seasons. According to Dar-
Jake Virtanen’s improved play has not gone unnoticed by Canucks coaching staff. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET
ryl Keeping, who tracks the Canucks microstats, Virtanen’s playmaking has significantly improved. He has far more shot assists — passes that directly lead to a shot on goal — than last season. The pass to Gaudette was superb, but it was a brief moment before the pass that was key: as the puck came to him, Virtanen picked his head up and took a brief glance in the direction of Gaudette. He knew exactly where to put the puck and exactly how much time he had to put it there. “[Gaudette] was yelling pretty loud for it,” said Virtanen with a smile. “If I shot it, it would’ve looked pretty bad.” Virtanen agreed that his playmaking has taken a step forward, however, and credits it to a couple things: experience and his work in the off-season. “The more I’ve played, the more time I
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feel I have,” he said. “I feel like as a young guy, you’re playing against men, it’s a little bit different. Going into my fourth year pro, you find you have more time on the ice, you think the game a little bit better.” As an 18-year-old kid in his rookie season, the speed of the game was a wakeup call for Virtanen, and it’s easy to understand why he would rush plays and stick with the simple things that made him a success in Junior: speed down the wing and shots from the outside. Now, with experience, the game has seemed to slow down or, from another point of view, he’s realized how much time and space he’s always had. In addition, Virtanen spent part of his off-season with stickhandling specialist Pavel Barber, which has given him more confidence with the puck. “I feel like a lot of the stuff I did in the off-season is definitely helping,” he said. “It’s definitely nice to see that paying off.” His head coach, Travis Green, sees a larger improvement in Virtanen’s game, beyond any one single aspect like playmaking. “I just think Jake’s overall game is developing, it’s not just his passing,” said Green. “It’s his overall attention to detail, his understanding of the game... as you grow in confidence, you probably, as a player, you feel better and you see the ice and everything comes easier and more natural.” Virtanen certainly isn’t resting on his laurels. He doesn’t want his hot start to the season to fade. “You take your foot off the pedal and it kinda just goes away,” he said. “So you’ve gotta stay on it and be on top of it all the time.”
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Big Numbers • 21 As Sportsnet’s Joey Kenward pointed out after Sam Gagner and Adam Gaudette scored against the Kings, the Canucks now have 21 players with at least one goal. No NHL team has more. • 19.5 While the Canucks clearly missed having Brock Boeser on the power play, they managed to score without him, with a respectable power play percentage of 19.5 per cent since his last game Nov. 2.
Stick-taps & Glove-drops • A tap of the stick to Elias Pettersson, who continues to dominate the rookie scoring race with 13 goals and 21 points heading into Tuesday’s game against the Los Angeles Kings. He’ll just need to keep an eye on Brady Tkachuk, who picked up right where he left off after his return from injury. He has seven goals and 13 points in just 13 games. • I’m dropping the gloves with Olli Juolevi’s knee, not that it needs more pain. The prospect defenceman flew into Vancouver to see a specialist, which is concerning. Juolevi has 13 points in 18 games with the Utica Comets in the AHL and the Canucks badly need him to meet his potential.
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While pedestrians are involved in less than one per cent of the overall traffic collisions, they account for more than 60 per cent of all traffic fatalities in Vancouver. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET
City, ICBC, VPD remind public to practise road safety SANDRA THOMAS sthomas@vancourier.com
“Road safety is a shared responsibility,” says VPD Constable Anne-Marie Clark. “Through ongoing education and enforcement, we will Throw in some rain — and continue to work with our slick streets — and the potential partners to make our roadways for car accidents starts to rise. safe for all pedestrians, cyclists, and motorists.” Jerry Dobrovolny, general manager of engineering Practice road safety services for the City of Vancouver, says everyone can at all times: play a part in ensuring we all WHEN DRIVING: get home safely. Slow down at intersections “The City of Vancouver has a and wait until pedestrians have goal to eliminate traffic-related crossed the road. Make eye contact with people walking if fatalities and serious injuries from happening on our streets. possible. Do not pass people Even when we build for safety, riding bikes unless you have 1.5 we need to work together as a meters of space. community to raise awareness WHEN CYCLING: about the rules of the road Take it slow (especially at and how we can all make sure intersections and roundabouts). we are travelling safely,” says Make eye contact with other Dobrovolny. “We depend on road users if possible. Use front everyone to take accountability and rear bike lights. Take bike for their daily behaviour and routes where possible. Yield to rely on our partners from people walking. ICBC and VPD to help educate WHEN WALKING: and enforce good behaviour.” When crossing the street, make eye contact with drivers and In particular, people walking cyclists if possible. Wear bright are the most vulnerable. Among people walking, seniors or reflective clothing to be more visible in the dark. Don’t are the most likely to suffer a jaywalk — use crosswalks and serious injury or fatality as a result of a crash — whether it’s a follow pedestrian signs and collision with a car or a bicycle. traffic signals. Thanks to the return of daylight saving time, many of us are driving to and from work in the dark.
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“Nearly half of all crashes with pedestrians happen between October and January, as visibility and conditions worsen,” said Aileen Shibata, ICBC road safety program manager. “Whether you’re driving or walking, the most important thing you can do is focus on the road. It’s up to each of us to do our part to help keep pedestrians safe.”
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