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THE VANCOUVER COURIER T H U R SDAY, DE C E M B E R 1 3 , 2 0 1 8

News 12TH & CAMBIE

Prisoner counts calories in complaint over ‘malnourishment’ Mike Howell

mhowell@vancourier.com

Have you got any idea how many calories you consumed today?

I’m going to assume the majority of readers thinking about that question don’t have an answer.

Some people, however, count every calorie.

That would include a U.S. citizen who ended up in the Vancouver jail back in May. The 40-year-old man overstayed his visa and was being held in the jail on behalf of the Canada Border Services Agency.

He was in the jail, which is located on East Cordova, for just over 18 hours.

I’ll let him explain why he complained to the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner about his stay.

Here’s some of what he wrote in his complaint. His name was redacted.

“I was 40 years old on the dates [May 20 and 21] I was detained in VPD jail.

With the 4 X 420 calories offered during those three meal times, I ate 1,680 calories, according to my

memory of the calorie information listed on the packages. According to Health Canada’s website, for a male 31-50 years old, the following minimum caloric intake requirements based upon physical activity levels are: 1) sedentary, 2,350 calories; 2) low level activity, 2,600 calories; 3) active, 2,900 calories.”

He continued.

“If I fall into the minimum category of sedentary, I have been underfed by 670 calories. If I fit into other categories of low level active, I was underfed by 920 calories. If I fit into active level, I was underfed by 1,220 calories.”

He went on to quote more calculations from the Health Canada website and argued his caloric intake in jail met only the requirement of an elementary school student.

“Malnourishment or starvation can cause psychological effects, especially in a jail setting that may cause some inmates/detainees/arrestees to act out or misbehave in ways they would not otherwise have done,” he said. “I

The Vancouver Police Board dismissed a complaint from a U.S. citizen who said he was underfed during his stay in the Vancouver jail. The man received four bagged lunches — each containing a fruit bar, an energy bar and a fruit juice. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

believe there is a possibility that this rises to criminal charges. If this happened at a boarding school, or a nursing home for dependent elders, I believe it would be investigated that way. I request it be investigated that way here, too.”

He got his wish.

But before I get to the results of the police investigation, you’re probably wondering what type of food our American friend ate. If I read his complaint correctly, he had four

“bagged lunches.” Each one contained a fruit bar, an energy bar and a fruit juice.

The police investigation confirmed the complainant received four bagged lunches — one when he arrived, another six hours later and two more eight hours later (he asked for an extra lunch, and received one).

“The complainant consumed a total of 1,680 calories over a period of 18.5 hours — an average of 91 calories per hour, or if extrapolated, 2,179 calories

in a period of one day,” said a police report that went before the Vancouver Police Board Dec. 6. “Had the complainant remained in the jail, he would have received a hot meal that would have allowed him to exceed the recommended daily caloric intake as described in Health Canada guidelines.”

The report acknowledged “it is not possible to ensure that every prisoner receives the exact amount of Health Canada recommended calories each day.” Quoting from the Health Canada website, the report noted “the requirement for energy varies between individuals due to factors such as genetics, body size and body composition.”

The complainant never mentioned his size, but the lack of calories wasn’t his only issue.

He said he wasn’t offered a shower or clean clothes and didn’t get any time outside of his cell “for natural light, exercise, recreation or socialization.” The VPD’s response was the complainant gave “no indication that he required, or requested a shower.” And his clothes,

police said, were not “wet, soiled or inappropriate so as to provoke a change of garments.”

As for time outside, the VPD said it’s not possible to “provide individual levels of attention and services to the broad spectrum of clients who are housed at the jail on a short-term basis.”

The police board dismissed the man’s complaint after hearing from Insp. Fiona Wilson, who prepared the report for the department. Board member Thomas Tam asked Wilson how much food an inmate is allowed.

“In this particular case, the gentleman on his third meal asked for an extra lunch, and he was provided with one,” Wilson told the board. “So our staff know that if someone is hungry, we’re not going to just ignore them. We’ll give them as many meals as they would like.”

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News November 29, 2018 – January 5, 2019

Park Board wants extra $600K for park, garden maintenance

Jessica Kerr

jkerr@vancourier.com

Vancouver Park Board commissioners approved the 2019 budget Monday night, including a request to city council for additional funds to help maintain the city’s parks and gardens.

The budget, which includes $128.12 million in operating costs and $63.75 million in capital spending, was presented to council Tuesday for consideration along with the overall budget for the city. Council will hear from staff and the public before making a decision Dec. 18.

Council has the final say over the park board’s budget and councillors have the ability to make adjustments before approving the annual operating and capital budget for the park board.

Along with approving the proposed spending for operational and capital costs, commissioners added in a request for an additional $610,000 to “enable service improvements to Vancouver parks with a focus on horticulture, cleanliness and safety…”

Last week, commissioners unanimously approved a motion, brought forward by commissioner John Coupar, asking staff to report back with how much additional money would be needed to increase care and maintenance in parks and gardens.

A staff memo in response to the request outlines that an additional $610,000 — $340,000 for staffing costs and $270,000 for materials — would be needed on a permanent basis to improve horticultural service standards.

“Park maintenance standards have slipped over the past decade due to insufficient funding from the city,” Coupar said Monday. “I’m very happy to see how quickly staff have responded to my motion…

The funding recommendation they’ve brought forward is very reasonable and will lead to immediate improvements in our parks if council agrees.”

The memo states that the park operations budget has only seen an annual average increase of 1.3 per cent over the last five years. Over that same time, the park operations department “has been significantly impacted by the emerging issues of homelessness and public realm disorder. These issues have resulted in increased public complaints over park cleanliness and safety.”

As a result funding earmarked for horticulture has been diverted to more basic services, such as garbage clean up.

“In addition, highly skilled labour is also being called upon to address these issues, among others, resulting in a noted de-

crease in acceptable horticultural service standards,” the memo reads.

Fees and charges

The proposed $128,124,176 operating budget for 2019 will be funded by an estimated $61,597,742 in revenues brought in through user fees and other charges, and $66,526,434 in tax-based revenue transferred from city hall.

Commissioners approved an average fee increase of 0.9 per cent for 2019, with a few exceptions. Commissioners voted to keep single-visit admission prices for pools, rinks and fitness centres at 2018 levels. Fees for Flexipasses and most 10-visit passes are going up by between 0.9 and two per cent.

Commissioners also voted to change the age designations for the pre-school and child categories for fees.

For 2019, the “pre-school” category will include kids aged up to four years old (previously it was 0 to two) and “child” will be ages five to 12. Pre-school aged children are generally admitted for free, while kids aged five to 12 get a 50 per cent discount off the adult (19 to 64) admission. Youth (13 to 18 years old) and seniors (65 and up) get a 30 per cent discount.

All the changes to fees and charges will go into effect Jan. 1. @JessicaEKerr

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Mayor Kennedy Stewart supports 4.9 per cent property tax hike Property owners also facing utility fee hikes for sewer, water and solid waste fees

Mike Howell

mhowell@vancourier.com

Mayor Kennedy Stewart says he supports a proposed property tax increase of 4.9 per cent to help pay for the city’s $1.5-billion operating budget and $371 million in new spending for projects such as a $20million upgrade to the Granville Bridge.

Stewart announced his decision Tuesday to reporters gathered outside the council chamber after he and city councillors heard a presentation from Patrice Impey, the city’s general manager of finance, on both budgets and the rationale for the tax increase.

The mayor and council had yet to vote on the budgets and were to hear from more than 30 people who registered to speak Tuesday afternoon, after the Courier’s print deadline.

Council is scheduled to deliver a final vote Dec. 18.

“I think it’s important for folks to know that of that 4.9 per cent increase, most of that is outside the control of council,” said the mayor, noting 2.2 per cent is related to inflation and collective agreement increases for employees, 1.7 per cent is to cover the new provincial government-driven employer health tax and one per cent is for infrastructure upgrades.

The tax increase, if approved, means an owner of a single-family home assessed at $1.8 million will pay $108 more than this year’s bill. The owner of a median business property assessed at $855,300 will pay an extra $193.

The mayor acknowledged the 4.9 per cent is not the full cost of what property owners will pay next year. Utility fees for sewer, water and solid waste are also set to increase, meaning the total hit to an owner’s wallet when blending the tax and fees is closer to 6.3 per cent.

“Nobody likes to pay new taxes, but for an average condo owner, this will mean about three dollars a month that they’ll be paying,” said Stewart, emphasizing the need to fulfill commitments to hire more police officers and firefighters. “I’ll be supporting the budget. I’ve looked at it very carefully, sat through many briefings by staff and I do think it’s prudent.”

In questions to senior staff during Tuesday morning’s portion of the meeting, OneCity Coun.

Christine Boyle noted many were new to the job and asked what delaying a vote until the new year would mean for the budgets.

Impey said it was “a best practice” to have council

Mayor Kennedy Stewart says he supports a proposed property tax increase of 4.9 per cent.

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approve the budgets before the end of the year, even though April 1 is the final deadline set in law. This way, she said, staff is able to plan ahead for next year’s projects.

“All the infrastructure renewal that needs to be done would be delayed,” Impey said. “Other investments we’re trying to achieve — housing, etcetera — would all be delayed.”

Jerry Dobrovolny, the city’s chief engineer, pointed out that revenue

anticipated from increases in utility fees would not kick in Jan. 1, if approval of the budgets was delayed. He said such a delay could significantly affect construction schedules of infrastructure projects.

NPA Coun. Melissa De Genova, the chairperson of the city’s finance committee, said Tuesday she wasn’t prepared to say whether she supported the budgets until she heard from speakers and had more questions answered from city staff.

De Genova said she will ask city staff whether some of the revenue collected from the empty homes tax — which is used to fund the administration of the tax and the balance placed in a fund for affordable housing — could be redirected to general revenue to lower property taxes.

“I really don’t want Vancouver to win an award for becoming the second or first least affordable city in the world — we’ve been sitting at the third least

affordable city in the world for quite some time now,” said De Genova, who is one of five NPA councillors on the 11-member council. “Without a clear majority on city council, I think that it’s important that we work together to try and make this budget as affordable as possible.”

In a response to a reporter’s question about delaying the budget vote, Coun. Pete Fry, one of three Green Party councillors, said that such a move would complicate the capital budget and “certain expenditures and commitments.”

“We need to be more mindful of the big picture,” he said. “I was realizing that between Metro [board of directors] and Vancouver [council] and all the electeds who have left have really left us in a position where we have to account for a lot of what they failed to account for.”

A city survey conducted to coincide with staff’s budget recommendations showed that only 15 per cent of residents and seven per cent of business owners were prepared to pay a four per cent property tax increase. That compares to 66 per cent of residents and 59 per cent of business owners who said they would be willing to pay a one per cent tax increase. @Howellings

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THE VANCOUVER COURIER T H U R SDAY, DE C E M B E R 1 3 , 2 0 1 8

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Cycling advocate died while doing what he loved Naoibh O’Connor

noconnor@vancourier.com

Longtime cycling advocate Arno Schortinghuis, who “travelled the world on two wheels,” died unexpectedly Nov. 30 while riding home from a meeting about cycling.

The 72-year-old president of the BC Cycling Coalition and Richard Campbell, the organization’s executive director, had met earlier that day with TransLink in New Westminster about the B.C. bike summit being held in June.

Afterwards, Schortinghuis took the SkyTrain part way home and then hopped on his bike to travel along Vancouver’s Ridgeway Greenway.

He was found on 37th Avenue just east of Ross Street.

He suffered a spinal cord injury, which possibly led to cardiac arrest. But there were no witnesses, and it’s unclear exactly what happened.

Campbell said when it came to cycling advocacy, Schortinghuis would do whatever needed to be done — from administration work to arranging meetings with politicians.

“He did so much, worked very hard and was a really kind and gentle person — really good to work with,” Campbell said.

Aside from the BC Cycling Coalition, Schortinghuis was involved with many cycling organizations throughout the years. Previously, he was a board member and past president of HUB Cycling (formerly Vancouver Area Cycling Coalition), a cochair of the HUB Cycling Regional Advisory Committee and a board member of Bike to Work BC Society/ GoByBike Society. He was also a founding member of Canada Bikes.

Schortinghuis met his wife Jean Matthewson in 1977. They have two adult children.

“I’ll miss my partner in adventures most,” she told the Courier.

The couple went on a three-month-long cycling tour in Europe last summer, including biking through Hungary, Denmark and the Netherlands.

Schortinghuis was born in the Netherlands. He moved to Ontario with his

Arno Schortinghuis died Nov. 30. He was known as a tireless advocate for cycling in the region. FILE PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

family in 1949 when he was three. He moved to B.C. in the mid-1970s.

Matthewson said her husband, who was a computer programmer for Finning before he retired, always talked about the mental, physical and environmental benefits of cycling, saying it’s not wasted time if you

go from A to B on a bike instead of sitting in a car.

But she said cycling advocacy wasn’t the only volunteer work he was involved with during his lifetime. He also volunteered for the Federation of Mountain Clubs of B.C., for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind and on school parent advisory committees.

Schortinghuis’ contributions to the region’s cycling community, meanwhile, were highlighted through online tributes.

Colin Stein wrote about Schortinghuis on the Van Bikes website. The piece notes that the first time

Schortinghuis became involved in cycling advocacy was when the city was rolling out residential bike routes and wanted to put in the 37th Avenue Ridgeway Greenway.

“Over the past decade, Arno put most of his waking life (or so it seemed) to advocating for and promoting cycling safety, accessibility, urban commuting and touring — to decision-makers, planning and engineering staff at all levels of government, in meetings, at public events, and across all forms of media — always with a characteristic twinkle in his eye,” Stein wrote in the post.

“He was always the person to check a fact, look up legislation, debunk fake news, gently put down a troll, appear on-camera, help make quorum, start a new committee, and store (and haul out) the extra bus bike rack for a demonstration at a Surrey library.

Arno was that guy.”

Stein, who had known Schortinghuis since 2013, said he will be missed for many reasons, including his historical knowledge of cycling advocacy in Vancouver and his subject matter expertise.

Better Environmentally Sound Transportation (B.E.S.T.) described Schortinghuis on its website as a “local cycling legend” who “was a champion for increased sustainable transportation options and, in particular, the creation

of safe and effective cycling infrastructure.”

Erin O’Melinn, executive director of HUB Cycling, knew Schortinghuis for about a decade.

“He was very well loved.

He got along with everyone, even when he was pushing hard to make change...” she told the Courier.

O’Melinn said Schortinghuis devoted thousands of volunteer hours to improve cycling in the region and had probably travelled on more bike routes in Metro Vancouver than any other cyclist she knows.

“Arno was an institution in cycling advocacy, and worked tirelessly for many years to improve cycling conditions within HUB Cycling, BC Cycling Coalition and Canada Bikes, among many other worthy causes.

His generosity of heart combined with his tenacity made him a unique advocate who has left a distinct mark on safer and more accessible cycling,” she wrote in a follow-up email.

“He travelled the world on two wheels, coming back with new ideas for local improvements, and gave so much of his time to see these improvements take place here.”

About 80 people took part in a 35-kilometre memorial ride in Schortinghuis’ honour Dec. 8.

A private memorial for family is planned for Dec. 17. @naoibh

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VPD will continue to arm officers with rifles at public events to deter terrorism Complainant says public display of heavily armed cops ‘looks like fascism’ Mike Howell

mhowell@vancourier.com

Vancouver police will continue to arm officers with rifles at some of the city’s large public events and block roads with dump trucks to deter any threat of terrorism.

The public safety strategy, which was in play downtown at the recent Santa Claus parade, will go on despite a formal complaint lodged with the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner.

The Vancouver Police Board dismissed the complaint Dec. 6 after reviewing a report from the department that outlined the need for such measures in a world where terrorist attacks are frequent.

“The VPD acknowledges the complainant’s concerns that the sight of officers with carbine rifles can be concerning, however, in reviewing best practices and speaking with subject matter experts, we are satisfied that this strategy is proportional in keeping the department’s public safety mandate,” the report said.

The complainant, whose name was redacted from her written complaint, argued the VPD’s strategy is “overkill” and “it looks like fascism.”

She made the complaint in June, after police armed with carbine rifles were deployed at Italian Day on Commercial Drive.

“The presence of over-armed police is both intimidating and triggering to a lot of the general public,” she wrote. “It doesn’t make people feel safer or protected, it looks like fascism you would expect in third world dictatorships.”

The complainant noted many immigrants and refugees who have settled in Vancouver have come from countries ravaged by wars. The presence of police with rifles makes people nervous, she said.

“Other minority groups and First Nations people

are also triggered emotionally by heavily armed police, depending on their own personal and historic relationships with police and Canada as a country,” she said.

The complainant suggested “speed bumps or sand bags or road blocks of any variety” would be more effective in stopping a moving vehicle than rifles. She did not complain about the presence of dump trucks on Commercial Drive during Italian Day. The VPD report cited an increase in “terrorisminspired vehicle ramming attacks” in North America and Europe in its rationale for deploying officers with rifles and blocking roads with dump trucks.

From 2013 to 2017, terrorists carried out 25 attacks with vehicles in North America and Europe, resulting in 156 deaths and 790 people injured.

More than half of the attacks involved the perpetrator exiting the vehicle used in the crime to carry out additional violence with a bladed weapon, gun or explosives.

In April of this year, 10 people died in Toronto after a van sped through a busy business centre, jumped the sidewalk and ran down pedestrians.

One of the VPD’s own members, Insp. Fiona Wilson, was directly affected by terrorism when her father, Ian Moore Wilson, died in August 2017 after a van plowed into pedestrians in Barcelona. Her father was one of 13 victims.

More than 200 public events occur in Vancouver each year, with only five per cent requiring additional public safety measures such as rifle-equipped police and dump trucks.

Those events include the Celebration of Light, Canada Day, New Year’s Eve, the Santa Claus parade and the Italian Day event, which was spread over 14 blocks and attracted about 300,000 people.

Remembrance Day events in Vancouver have also seen an increased presence of police armed with rifles. That display is connected to the shooting in 2014 of soldier Cpl. Nathan Cirillo at the National War Memorial

in Ottawa and the death of Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent in Quebec, who was murdered in a hitand-run by an Islamic extremist.

The VPD report said “the biggest advancement in police capability to respond to active deadly threats in Canada” has been the introduction of

the carbine rifle.

“When equipped with the modern electronic sight, the carbine is both incredibly fast and extremely accurate at distances much farther than handguns, and could achieve a disabling shot, including in crowd situations,” the report said. @Howellings

Vancouver police were equipped with carbine rifles in June at Italian Day on Commercial Drive. City dump trucks were purposely parked across the strip as part of the security measures.

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Could B.C. be headed for another teachers’ strike?

Contract expires in June with many issues still unresolved

Tracy Sherlock

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After four years of labour peace, trouble could lie ahead for teachers.

Their contract expires in June, and talks are expected to start soon. It’s the first round of bargaining since teachers won back the right in the Supreme Court of Canada in November 2016 to negotiate classroom conditions.

That’s also when their 2002 contracts were restored, bringing back rules on class size, class composition and the numbers of specialist teachers. In the two years since, B.C. has hired nearly 4,000 teachers, gains that may be at risk if a possible change to education funding goes through.

Back in April, I wrote about a pending review of B.C.’s education funding model. A report was expected by last summer, but it still hasn’t been publicly released.

The report is expected to recommend a change in how special needs students are funded, away from a reliance on individual diagnoses to a prevalence funding model that predicts how many students with special needs and vulnerabilities are expected.

BCTF president Glen Hansman called the possible change “problematic and troubling” in a recent issue of Teacher magazine.

He says some districts would win, but others would lose, relative to their actual needs. The timing with the start of bargaining couldn’t be worse.

“We certainly hope this is an oversight and not a bargaining strategy,” Hansman writes.

In 2014, Vancouver teachers joined educators across the province on the picket line as schools closed for five weeks over parts of two school years. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

If the prevalence model is approved, it could make the teachers’ gains on class composition meaningless because students would no longer necessarily be identified as having special needs.

Surrey Teacher Laura Barker wrote an open letter saying this would have “devastating consequences on the ground, in classrooms and schools, and would once again harm our most vulnerable special needs students.”

The panel that conducted the review was made up of consultants and

education administrators and did not include any teachers.

Back in 2015, I investigated the rates of students with special needs and found that the number of students identified as “gifted” in B.C. dropped in half, from 2.5 per cent of students in 2002 to just 1.1 per cent in 2015.

Why? The province stopped funding gifted students, and an argument can be made that without the extra funding, teachers and parents no longer pursued the expensive

option of getting a student identified as gifted.

At the same time, the number of students identified as having autism spectrum disorder grew significantly, from 0.3 per cent to 1.2 per cent of students. A diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder comes with extra funding.

Last year, 12.9 per cent of students in B.C. had special needs, up 3,020 students from the year before, the ministry says.

A lot of money — one report says $100 million a year — is spent on identify-

ing students with special needs, money that could be spent on educating them, rather than labelling them.

On the other hand, if students are no longer identified, it’s going to be hard to give them the education they need. It’s a tricky balance, but it needs to be done right.

Although the NDP government has increased education spending by $580 million since coming to power, most of that money was dictated by the restored contract. In all, $6.6 billion will be spent

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on K-12 education this year, the government says.

There are still 400 unfilled teaching positions in the province, the BCTF says.

In a letter to BCTF, Minister of Education Rob Fleming promised to “actively engage” with the BCTF about the report before releasing it to the public and said that the “government completely respects and honours the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision.”

The Ministry of Education says the report will be released before Christmas.

Changes to the funding formula were supposed to be in effect by next September, but now the ministry says Fleming will announce next steps when he drops the report.

Another bargaining issue, different, but related to the funding review, is the inequity between school districts. Across the province, there are 60 different collective agreements for teachers, all of which contain different language about class size, class composition and the numbers of specialist teachers.

Another bone of contention in the negotiations will be salaries. Despite the shortage of teachers in B.C., BCTF says salaries here are among the lowest in the country.

Last time there was a teacher strike in B.C. was in 2014, when schools were closed for five weeks over parts of two school years. It’s definitely not an experience anyone wants to repeat.

Tracy Sherlock writes about education and social issues.

She can be reached at tracy. sherlock@gmail.com.

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Dreck the halls with meat socks, sword oil Michael Kissinger

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Every year the Courier scours the streets of Vancouver and the lonely recesses of the internet for Christmas gift ideas that are unusual, strange and just plain wrong. You’d think after 14 years, we’d run out of things to write about. Not so. For every pair of bacon boxer briefs, Golden Girls action figure set and R2D2 laundry hamper no longer on the shelves, there’s a sloth neck pillow, meat covered socks and breast milk lollipops to take their place.

It truly is a wonderful life.

these eye-catching flared skirts aim to make reproduction seem fashionable instead of the worst decision of your once awesome, diaper-free life.

Narwhal Corkscrew

$29 at Front and Co., 3772 Main St., frontandcompany.com Why narwhals aren’t called unicorn whales remains one of life’s great mysteries next to “What happens when we die?” and “Who let the dogs out?” They also make exceptionally good-looking wine bottle openers. Incidentally, in my hometown Nanaimo, a “narwhal corkscrew” refers to a certain act between two consenting adults in the bathroom stall of a Tim Hortons.

Pot Pinchers

$20 at Front and Co. Take cooking Kraft Dinner for that special someone to the next level with these pot holders that resemble lobster claws.

Made out of heat resistant silicone, Pot Pinchers won’t be the only things in your kitchen forced to withstand intense temperatures. You’re going to spill scolding hot pasta water all over your bare forearms. It’s a given.

Sperm and Egg Flare skirt

$55.26 at etsy.com Made in Canada from 88 per cent polyester and 12 per cent spandex performance-knit fabric,

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Bob Ross Soap

$6 at Front and Co. PBS’s afro-ed host of The Joy of Painting died more than 20 years ago, but his legacy and money-making image lives on. The Joy of Bathing Soap lathers up clean and crisp with a hint of honey and oatmeal, which is kind of weird because I always assumed Bob Ross smelled like coffee breath and patchouli.

Breast milk lollipops

$8 US for four at lollyphile.com The creative team behind hipster candy company Lollyphile have done their homework.

They’ve even gone so far as thanking “all the mothers who kept sharing their breast milk with our flavor specialists until we were able to candify it.”

Sadly, or wisely, no breast milk was actually used in the making of these lollipops. That said, a word of advice: loving the flavour of breast milk is not going to do your Tinder profile any favours.

Portable Infrared Sauna

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weapons,” Hanwei Sword Oil is also probably the sexiest sounding thing that’s ever contained “petroleum distillates.” And I know a thing or two about petroleum distillates. Perhaps I’ve shared too much.

Introduction to the Italian Longsword DVD

$24.95 at Academie Duello It might sound like part of an inappropriate pickup line you’d hear at a nightclub on the Granville Strip — is there any other kind?

— but Introduction to Italian Longsword is actually a made-in-Vancouver DVD about the finer points of two-handed swordsmanship. Is it getting hot in here?

down? Heavily tattooed, millennial psychic from Scotland, Kyle Gray is here to help with such things as “trusting and developing your inner guidance,” “manifesting and creating a life you love and deserve” and “living after midnight, rockin’ to the dawn, lovin’ ‘til the morning, then I’m gone, I’m gone.”

That last one might be lyrics from a Judas Priest song, but my vibrational levels are so off the charts right now I can’t be certain.

$14.99 at Ignite Smoke Shop Few things say “duuude” more than a vinyl shoulder bag shaped like a guitar decorated in the colours of the Canadian flag and tiny pot leaves. To paraphrase Premier John Horgan, if you were more woke you’d M know that this bag was lit.

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But what are the chances you’re ever going to wash the thing, anyway.

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the fashion conscious, the Ostrich Pillow comes in a variety of colours, including sleepy blue, midnight grey and, presumably, celibacy beige.

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cool, so scrap that. But Sugar Spoon Skull is without a doubt a terrible album.

$149 US at gethushme.com For anyone who needs to conduct private phone conversations but lacks the clout to have their own office or proactive mentality to get up and leave the room, Hushme is here to help. Described as the world’s first voice mask for smartphones, Hushme uses “innovative insulation materials” to keep your conversations muffled and your office persona a little creepy. It also looks like a futuristic ball gag that you’d wear in outer space.

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Moonlight Cushion

$36 at prezzybox.com If I had more ambition, I’d probably start an alt-country band called Moonlight Cushion. But for now, I’ll just write about how the Moonlight Cushion’s ultra-soft plush fur casing hides low-energy LED lights that cycle through the relaxing hues of pink, purple, yellow and green, turning your living room in a dojo of chill. Incidentally, Dojo of Chill would’ve been Moonlight Cushion’s debut album.

$59.99 at nhlshop.ca For anyone who enjoys the sloppy comfort of UGG-style boots but also the armchair athleticism of passively watching professional sports. They’re also easy to slip on and off because they don’t come with any of those pesky things like laces or self-respect.

Slice through meat like Elias Pettersson through the opposing team’s defensive zone, or something like that, with this set of officially licensed, kitchengrade serrated blades. The lack of official Canucks sporks, chopsticks or tiffins, however, indicates the team’s merchandise department needs to expand its multicultural horizons if they really want to corner the lucrative sports utensils market.

Station Map Coasters

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$54 at Front and Co. Give your three-week’s worth of dirty laundry the drubbing it deserves when you stuff it in what’s made to look like a punching bag. Who cares that your six-pack is more of a pony keg. If perspiration is the cologne of accomplishment, then your clothes smell like sweet, pungent victory.

Pimple Popping Toy

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This technological marvel is billed as a “creative acne toy” and uses soft, ecofriendly silicone material to provide users “a real acne removal experience” when the real thing somehow isn’t available. What a time to be alive.

Sugar Spoon Skull

$8 at prezzybox.com Sugar Spoon Skull isn’t just the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ worst album, it’s also a stainless steel reminder that sugar can kill you. Sure, trans fats, aspartame and bears can kill you as well, but they make for lousy eating utensils. Actually a bear spoon would be pretty

Bare chested hoodie

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Ostrich Pillow

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Vancouver Canucks Acoustic Guitar

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$89.99 at nhlshop.ca Truly terrifying, but undeniably comfortable, the Men’s Canucks Body Suit comes with two front pockets, a hood with drawstring and is made of 100 per cent flammable polyester. So be extra careful when you fill your boudoir with dozens of lit candles for a romantic evening with yourself.

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Taxidermy Grunge Ducks

$62.16 at etsy.com.

Jazz, punk and hip hop are all fine and dandy, but have they ever been reduced to an assortment of clichés worn by taxidermy ducklings? Sporting mini Starbucks coffee cups, toques and Sub Pop Records/Nirvana T-shirts, these downy soft odes to the Seattle music scene of the 1990s are undeniably cute if you forget for a moment they’re made of actual dead baby ducks.

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One of Vancouver’s last wooden playgrounds is on its last legs Parents from Queen Victoria Annex launch fundraiser for new equipment

John Kurucz

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Time has caught up with yet another vestige of old Vancouver.

It’s not necessarily drawing the ire of a beloved diner, business or building coming down, but rather, it’s simply time for change.

The wooden playground at Queen Victoria Annex off Victoria Drive is falling apart and close to the end of its life. Just last week, sections of the play area were roped off to prevent kids from playing on it.

“It’s rotting. It doesn’t look good,” said Philippa Dove, whose seven-year-old Tom goes to the school.

Built around 2004 or 2005, Queen Victoria’s playground is one of only two left at schools in the city that’s made of wood.

The district’s preference has been to shift to more all-purpose materials such as metal or plastic.

Dove and other members of the school’s parent advisory committee have

Philippa Dove and her seven-year-old son Tom at the wooden playground at Queen Victoria Annex, off of Victoria Drive. The school’s PAC is trying to raise about $70,000 to replace the old playground, which is rotting and falling apart in some sections. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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safety inspections, it would look to be removed from service.”

So while there’s no hard deadline to raise that remaining $70,000, getting the money together quickly is paramount to the school community in the here and now. The playground is also used by other kids and families in the neighborhood outside of the immediate school community, Dove said.

The current playground, according to Dove, is limited in terms of functionality and some of the pieces are too high for younger students.

“The current playground has a really limited range of intensive play experiences,” Dove said.

“It’s important for us to get the kids bouncing, spinning, swinging and climbing.”

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The PAC has been fundraising on and off for the impending fix for almost eight years. The financial push went into overdrive in the last year, and about $40,000 was raised through bake sales and donations.

The Rotary Club of Vancouver Fraserview pledged to donate money from its gala last month, and while final figures aren’t available yet, the PAC is hoping another $40,000 will be forthcoming. Figaro’s Garden on Victoria Drive is also donating a portion of Christmas tree sales to the PAC. All of that goodwill still leaves the PAC, and the 120 Queen Victoria students, about $70,000 short.

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Vancouver-based Native Shoes announced last week a new partnership with the Vancouver Park Board that will see the company’s worn out shoes re-purposed into safety flooring for new playgrounds.

President Kyle Housman said the company is aiming to help with the construction of 30 playgrounds over the next five years.

Started in Vancouver in 2009, the company makes “beast free” footwear — no animal products are used in any part of the production of the shoes — and with a new initiative, the Remix Project, the company is aiming to give its worn-out shoes a second chance at life.

“It started as an internal personal project of one of our employees,” Housman said, adding that the employee first figured out how to grind down the shoes by watching YouTube videos.

“Once he figured out how to do that and build the grinder, the idea was taken to the whole office and put to employees what could be done with the ground down bits of shoes,” Housman said.

The winning idea? Playground flooring.

“This initiative is special — giving back to the Vancouver community, where Native Shoes was born and calls home,” he said. “We look forward to working with the Vancouver Park

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Board to identify areas that would benefit most from playgrounds where communities can gather to keep it lite and have fun.”

Native Shoes approached the park board with the idea in the spring of 2017, said Lehran Hache, a landscape architect with Vancouver Park Board.

“I thought it was a great initiative and wanted to support their idea, so helped put them in touch with a local company Marathon Surfaces to test their product to make sure it would meet all safety and durability testing requirements,” she said in an email. “Luckily Marathon was happy to oblige and the ground-up Native Shoes passed all tests.”

Construction recently began on a new playground at China Creek North Park.

The existing playground needs replacing, and the new playground will be the first in the city to have safety flooring made from the recycled Native Shoes.

The company is still looking for used, worn-out shoes to be used in the flooring for the China Creek North playground. It has a goal of recycling 10,000 pairs of shoes by the end of the year; about 6,000 have already been collected, and Native is offering a 10 per cent discount on a new pair shoes for every pair dropped off at its flagship store in Gastown (14 Water St.). @JessicaEKerr

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In the three months since Vancouver’s short-term rental regulations took full effect, the city has issued more than 120 tickets, is proceeding with legal action against another 17 listings and continues to see more than half of all active listings in the city licensed.

“We’re continuing to see approximately 70 per cent of all active listings have a licence,” Kathryn Holm, chief licence inspector, told

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the Courier. “That’s unprecedented. We can see in our research around the globe and to see a 70 per cent compliance rate so soon after the program launch is unprecedented.”

She attributed the program’s success to the “low barrier application process,” the four-month registration period and the city’s agreement with Airbnb.

“Airbnb and Expedia, the platforms representing over 90 per cent of the Vancouver market, made significant efforts to educate and sup-

port their hosts in getting into compliance with our new rules,” Holm said.

The week before the new regulations went into effect, the city and Airbnb announced an agreement that the platform require hosts to include a business licence number in listings on its website and, on Sept. 1, the company deactivated 2,400 listings that did not contain a licence. Since then, Expedia, the second-largest platform in Vancouver, also agreed to add a field for hosts to include a business

licence to listings on its VRBO vacation rental site.

According to the City of Vancouver, as of Nov. 30 there were 4,589 active short-term rental listings in the city (down from 6,600 in April) and 3,161 shortterm rental licences issued.

And, as of Dec. 9, staff had opened more than 1,600 case files and pursued a variety of “enforcement actions” against suspected unlicensed short-term rental units, including: • 363 investigations and audits

• 304 warning letters • 132 legal orders issued • 126 tickets issued • 59 units identified for inspection • three licences suspended • 837 case files closed Holm said a case file could be closed for a couple reasons — either the listing was removed, or the operator obtained a licence. She also said that in some cases there was not enough evidence to pursue an investigation.

“For us to pursue an investigation or enforcement, we

need an online listing and we need an actual address, down to a suite number, so if we don’t have that degree of information to pursue enforcement we close the case file at this time,” Holm said.

She said the focus of enforcement over the last three months has really been on the more egregious operators who have chosen to continue to list an unlicensed property. So far, 12 case files involving commercial operators with a total of 89 listings have been referred to the prosecutor’s office.

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units from the short-term rental market are helping to provide more housing for long-term renters.”

Holm, however, said it’s hard to say specifically how many units have been turned into long-term rentals.

“We are seeing evidence of listings that previously were for less than 30 days are now listed for only 30 days or more, so we are seeing that conversion, if that’s the right word, happening but to actually put concrete numbers to it is challenging

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Choir singer has 200-year-old connection to ‘Silent Night’ Chor Leoni’s baritone Greg Mohr is a descendant of Christmas classic author Kathryn Tindale

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This weekend, the Chor Leoni Men’s Choir will perform at St. Andrew’sWesley United Church and West Vancouver United Church for their annual Christmas shows.

But one song in their repertoire has a particularly strong connection to the choir.

Baritone Greg Mohr learned of is genealogical connection to Father Joseph Mohr, the author “Silent Night,” at a young age as part of the family lore. The song was originally written as a poem in the 1800s. The Mohrs confirmed the connection after a family member travelled to Germany and Austria and tracked the lineage back to Joseph Mohr making him Greg’s great-greatgreat-great-great-great uncle. “[The song] is meaningful, it’s about life, it’s about hopes and dreams

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and longings, it’s about peace for the world and about our place in that

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Stories vary about the first performance of “Silent Night,” but it is said that the church organ at St. Nicholas Church in Austria stopped working on Christmas Eve 1818. Not to be deterred, Father Joseph Mohr gave his poem “Silent Night” to the church musician, Franz Xavier Gruber, who composed a simple melody to be played on guitar. They performed the song together for the first time that day.

Chor Leoni will perform “Silent Night” as it was originally intended to close out their Christmas shows. A guitar will play the melody while the audience will be invited to sing along with the choir for the candle-lit performance.

“There’s something about the simplicity of the song that is why that guitar and just the voices, it’s just so beautiful and ethereal and really in the business of our lives and

that sort of hyper consumeristic approach that we have in our culture, to just go back to those simple words,” Mohr said.

The shows will also premiere Zachary Wadsworth’s commission “Snowflakes” to poetry

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Other performances include “Bashana Haba’ah,” a work in Hebrew that welcomes the new year and Paul Mealor’s “I Saw Eternity,” along with a selection of songs from Chor Leoni’s holiday CD, Star of Wonder.

In 2011 “Silent Night” was added to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) World Heritage list.

Chor Leoni performs at St. Andrew’s-Wesley United Church Dec. 14, 16 and 17 and at West Vancouver United Church Dec. 15.

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They are questions that can’t be met with social niceties or everyday well wishes.

“Why did my child die?”

“Why did my spouse leave me?”

“Why is a loved one profoundly ill?”

Beth Hayward doesn’t even attempt to answer them.

“I don’t give people easy answers and I don’t try to explain,” Hayward said. “None of that is black and white.”

For those questions where answers are found in a grey area, there’s Blue Christmas. Now a decade on since its inception, the annual gathering at Canadian Memorial United Church is slated for Wednesday, Dec. 19.

The hour-plus gathering is equal parts safe space and support group, but ultimately Blue Christmas is whatever participants want it to be.

Some sit in groups, some sit alone. Some people talk, others remain silent.

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Canadian Memorial United Church minister Beth Hayward will lead a Blue Christmas event at Canadian Memorial United Church Dec. 19. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET.

only set foot in the church once a year and have no interest in spirituality.

A couple attended for the first time three years ago

after the death of their infant.

They had no religious affiliation at the time and now attend services every Sunday.

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year: carols, reading from scripture, candle lighting, cookies and hot apple cider.

Anywhere from 50 to 70 people typically show up and attendees, who range in age between 20 and 80, come from all corners of the city.

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A couple of things that don’t seep into the proceedings — the need to be a believer or the need to participate.

“Sometimes in faith communities there’s this pressure of ‘Everyone come sit up front so we can be a community together.’ We don’t do that on this night.”

Hayward said. “We totally understand that some people want to sit in the corner by themselves and be in the community that way.”

Any donations made at Blue Christmas will go towards outreach work the church community does in the Downtown Eastside. Outside of financial donations, socks are also welcome. @JohnKurucz Blue Christmas begins at 7:30 p.m. and the church is located at Burrard Street and West 15th Avenue.

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These are the best books of 2018 by Vancouver authors True crime, autobiography, modern exploration, cooking and satire jump off the pages Grant Lawrence

is all about. You’ll also be tipped off to which local seafood is sustainable and which should be avoided (Chinook salmon for instance, if you are interested in orca preservation).

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Here’s my roundup of the top five best books released by local authors this year, just in time for your last-minute literary gift shopping. Let’s rejoice in the glory of our regionally written words!

Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Autobiography by Andrea Warner (Greystone) Buffy Sainte-Marie has managed to remain one of music’s most consistently relevant artists for more than 50 years. Her Polaris Prize win in 2015 for her brilliant album Power In The Blood is a recent testament to that, not to mention her 1983 Academy Award, her countless honourary degrees and her four Juno wins. But Sainte-Marie’s career was often a rocky road. Her life is beautifully chronicled in Andrea Warner’s in depth

There was no shortage of exceptional reads by local authors this year.

new book, telling us the story of a fearless artist in the face of blacklists, racism and the wrath of presidents. Sainte-Marie turns 78 in early 2019, and as Warner so skillfully reminds us, the singersongwriter has never been more pertinent.

Lines On A Map: Unparalleled Adventures in Modern Exploration by Frank Wolfe (RMB) I’m a sucker for books about true-life adventures beyond the end of the

road, so North Vancouverbased explorer Frank Wolf’s new book was totally addictive. I couldn’t stop turning the pages, nor could I stop interrupting the breathtaking narrative to flip back to check the lines on his maps, or marvel at the photographs of distant locales few humans have tread. Before I was halfway through, I was in wonder that Wolf is still alive. In fact, Wolf has survived countless worldwide explorations, and the magic of this book is read-

ing about how he did it.

Lines On A Map is written with self-aware humour, high-stakes survivalist drama and a frank awareness of our fragile, beautiful planet.

Murder By Milkshake: An Astonishing True Story of Adultery, Arsenic, and a Charismatic Killer by Eve Lazarus (Arsenal Pulp Press) Top-notch true crime writer Eve Lazarus has expertly unravelled one of Vancouver’s most notorious and sensational crimes: the drawn-out and disturbingly premeditated 1965 murder of Esther Castellani. Her husband, media figure Rene Castellani, was eventually charged and convicted with murder.

But was he guilty? Rene and Esther’s daughter Jeannine grew up wanting to believe that her father

was innocent. Now Jeannine, along with anyone who reads Lazarus’s fascinating book, knows the real story behind the bizarre Milkshake Murder.

Off the Hook: the Essential West Coast Seafood Recipes by DL Acken and Aurelia Louvet (TouchWood Editions) Yes, this is a cook book, and no, I don’t do all that much cooking, but this past summer I had the chance to dive into this beautiful book, and it stuck with me ever since. Off The Hook reads more like a love letter to the West Coast than your typical collection of recipes. The recipes and accompanying photos are easy and delicious: learn how to make your own blackened cod tacos or how to flash cook spot prawns, or discover what a Tofino Beach Boil

Property Values by Charles Demers (Arsenal Pulp Press) Some say the best kind of art reflects our lives back to us; it makes us think, laugh, cry, or at the very least, take notice of our surroundings in a different light. Vancouver author/comedian/activist Charlie Demers has managed to lace many of those attributes together in his searing and darkly hilarious 2018 novel Property Values.

As the pages turn, you’re taken on a fast-paced, sharply written drive-by that slams together two of Vancouver’s most infamous topics: real estate and gangsters. Demers unites both worlds in a fury of action that is at times very funny, disturbing, absurd and dead on the money.

Grant Lawrence is the author of three award-winning nonfiction books, most of which are at least partially set in Vancouver. @grantlawrence

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Hallmark Christmas movies occupy the same cultural space that reality shows inhabited at the turn of the 21st century.

They follow a formula.

They’re populated by archetypes: Best Friend, Good Girl, Bad Boy, Boy Next Door, Wise Elder.

They’re not particularly deep or complicated, but they’re satisfying to watch.

Many feature actors who used to star on network shows. They’re easily parodied. They’re garnering huge audiences. They’re multiplying.

Drop the words “Hallmark Christmas movie” into a conversation, and most people can immediately recite the narrative arc: a jaded, big city woman heads to the American heartland and (over the course of a couple wholesome hours punctuated by pratfalls, thwarted romance and Christmas tropes) finds love, a whack of baked goods and the true reason for the season.

Hallmark Christmas movies — like reality shows before them — are at once a cultural phenomenon, a punch line and a game changer.

And in Vancouver, Hallmark Christmas movies are even more than all of that. They’re an industry unto themselves — a mega-employer of thousands of local actors and crew.

According to production stats provided by Creative B.C., at least 18 of this year’s crop of Hallmark Christmas movies were filmed in Vancouver. That number doesn’t include the dozens of other Hallmark productions that shoot in the Lower Mainland annually, including When Calls the Heart and Garage Sale Mysteries, or Christmas movies produced by Lifetime and UPtv.

Vancouver actor Giles Panton has worked on five Christmas movies this year alone, including three for Hallmark: A Gingerbread Romance, It’s Christmas, Eve and A Godwink Christmas.

Giles Panton knows a few things about Christmas movies. The Vancouver actor worked on five this year alone, including three for Hallmark: A Gingerbread Romance, It’s Christmas, Eve and A Godwink Christmas.

Panton sees a connection between the ugliness in the zeitgeist and the popularity of Hallmark Christmas films.

“I think there are a lot of people who are stressed,” says Panton, who also recurred in the third season of Amazon’s The Man in the High Castle. “I think the debt-load is very high, and the world feels like a rough place. I think it feels nice to take a holiday from all of that,

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even if it’s on TV.” Like Panton, Lisa Durupt is a veteran of multiple Hallmark Christmas movies. This year, the Leo Award-nominated actress (Preggoland) can be seen in Reunited at Christmas, about a frazzled novelist (played by Nikki Deloach) struggling with writer’s block who heads to her grandma’s for the holidays and — spoiler alert — finds creative fuel and the true meaning of Christmas.

“You know what you’re getting when you sit down to watch these films,” says Durupt, who often plays the best friend or the sister. “They’re feel-good movies. Anybody at any age can watch them. You

can leave the room to go do something and come back and you won’t need to start over to catch up.

Somewhere along the way, they became a tradition, in the same way that Hallmark cards became a tradition.”

Funnily enough, the bulk of Hallmark Christmas movies are filmed in the summer. “They’re constantly kindly yelling at you to play to cold, to make it seem colder than it is,” says Durupt.

“You’re sweating buckets trying to look cold.”

Panton shot one of his 2018 Christmas movies while wildfires raged across the province. “It was a wonderful movie, but it was intense in the smoke and heat, wearing my full winter gear,” recalls Panton. “I had a scene where I was pacing around outside talking on the phone, and I was choking on smoke.”

But it’s worth the smoke and sweat, adds Panton. “In all of these films, the town comes together to do something amazing, or someone completely changes their life. Something magical and extra special happens around this time of year.”

He sighs. “I love Christmas so much.”

Last month, Hallmark launched its Countdown to Christmas app designed to help audiences keep track of the flurry of movie premieres.

But we can’t imagine the app is nearly as fun as the unofficial Hallmark Christmas movie drinking game that made a splash on social media last year: Take a drink when a “big city” person is transplanted to a small town, take a drink any time you hear “Jingle Bells,” finish your drink when the Christmas cynic is filled with holiday spirit.

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Take in the magic of the holiday season from your seat on a vintage BC Transit bus sporting reindeer antlers and Rudolph’s nose-so-bright as you tour local neighbourhoods twinkling with holiday lights.

The two-and-a-half-hour tours depart at 7 p.m. from the 29th Avenue SkyTrain station; the exact route will be determined closer to the event date to make sure the best and most brightly decorated homes are on the tour.

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vintage Woodward’s window displays. See the building’s iconic sails brighten with festive coloured lights and listen to live singers and musicians.

Now through Jan. 9 Canadian Trail (west promenade) and North Point, Canada Place canadaplace.ca/events/ christmas Left: An illuminated “Chrismoose” oversees the Christmas activities at Canada Place. Right: On Dec. 14 at vintage BC Transit bus sporting antlers and red nose will tour local neighbourhoods twinkling with Christmas lights.

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How about a little transitthemed merch to stuff in stockings or decorate your own desk or walls?

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Think about the flavours we often associate with Christmastime, and it makes sense.

Spice shows up in things such as mulled wine and gingerbread. Earthy fruit and citrus can be found in staples such as apple pie, cranberry sauce and mandarin oranges.

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Unlike a typical witbier, there is no orange peel and coriander here.

The spice notes of clove and pepper are present, though subtle, and are purely the work of the Belgian yeast.

The addition of pear gives the beer an earthy, fruity character, while the Cascade and Sterling hops impart a citrus character on the back end.

There’s just enough sweetness here that it won’t conflict with all the treats you’re stuffing your face with (no judgment), and the citrusy hop note dries out the finish, ensuring the sweetness doesn’t overstay its welcome.

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Like Brock Boeser last year, Elias Pettersson is on pace to shatter Canucks rookie records Pettersson is the odds-on favourite for the Calder Trophy as Rookie of the Year

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For the second season in a row, the Canucks have a superstar rookie leading the way and giving the fans hope for the future.

Last season, it was Brock Boeser; this season, it’s Elias Pettersson. And, just like Boeser last season, Pettersson is on pace for the best rookie season in Canucks history.

Boeser’s rookie campaign was unfortunately derailed by a season-ending back injury that prevented him from fulfilling his record-breaking potential, but he still tied the Canucks’ rookie record for power play goals with 10 and set a new record for power play points with 23.

The two players have actually had a very similar start to the season. Heading into Tuesday’s game against the Columbus Blue Jackets, Pettersson had 15 goals and 30 points in 26 games. At the same point last season, Boeser had 16 goals and 28 points in 28 games and was likewise leading the NHL in the rookie scoring race.

Pettersson is on pace to break at least six Canucks rookie records. He already has the record for most points in a game by a Canucks rookie with five, which he’s already done twice this season, but he’s also on pace for the most goals, assists, points, power play goals, power play points and game-winning goals.

The record for most goals is, unsurprisingly, held by Pavel Bure, who scored 34 goals in just 65 games back in 1991-92.

Bure did the bulk of his scoring in the back half of the season, scoring a remarkable 28 goals in his final 38 games.

Since Pettersson missed six games with a concussion, he’ll play a maximum of 76

Elias Pettersson’s stellar rookie season is giving Canucks fans something to cheer about.

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games this season, giving him a goal-scoring pace of 44 goals. Even if he was limited to 65 games like Bure, however, he would still be on pace to break Bure’s record: at his current pace he’ll score 38 goals in 65 games.

There’s an important caveat to that statistic: Pettersson’s 26.8 per cent shooting percentage is extremely high — only Edmonton’s Alex Chiasson has a higher

Stick-taps & Glove-drops • I’m dropping the gloves with the St. Louis Blues, who were apparently completely broken by their 6-1 loss to the Canucks.

Vladimir Tarasenko flat-out apologized to their fans after the game, then frustrations boiled

over in the following practice when Robert Bortuzzo and Zach Sanford dropped the gloves with each other and threw a few haymakers.

• A tap of the stick to Sven Baertschi, who has returned to practice with the Canucks, albeit in a non-contact jersey, for the first

shooting percentage in the NHL — and it seems unlikely he’ll be able to sustain it.

Even if his shooting percentage regresses, however, he still has an excellent chance of breaking Bure’s record.

The record for most assists by a Canucks rookie has stood for the entire history of the franchise. In the Canucks’ inaugural season, rookie defenceman time since suffering a concussion on Oct. 24.

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Dale Tallon (current general manager for the Florida Panthers) tallied 42 assists and that record has stood ever since.

Pettersson, however, is on pace for 44 assists this season, and his playmaking has just caught up to his goal-scoring.

His 44-goal, 44-assist pace means he’s also set to shatter the Canucks’ rookie record of 60 points in a season, held by Bure and Ivan Hlinka.

Then there’s the power play records.

Boeser tied Daniel Sedin, Trevor Linden and Rick Blight with 10 power play goals and set a new power play points record with 23 points. Pettersson is on pace for 12 power play goals and 26 power play points, and that’s on a power play that has largely struggled this season. If the Canucks can sort out their issues with the man advantage, Pettersson should easily break those records.

Finally, there’s one more record that he’s almost broken already: gamewinning goals. The rookie record for the Canucks is six game-winning goals, held

by Bure. Pettersson already has four. He needs just three more to break Bure’s record; he’s on pace for 12 total.

There are more rookie records that Pettersson is likely to set, such as evenstrength goals and points. There are a few that he might break, such as Dixon Ward’s +34 plus/minus. And there are other that he won’t touch, such as Henrik Sedin’s 450 faceoff wins as a rookie.

What is clear is that we are seeing one of the greatest performances by a Canucks rookie in franchise history; it’s a most extraordinary privilege to be able to say that two seasons in a row.

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