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Guess who just received a 2.7 per cent pay increase?

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Hands up all of you beginning the new year with a 2.7 per cent pay increase.

Anyone? OK, I see a few people in the back of the room with their hands in the air. Familiar faces, too.

In fact, I’m certain those faces are familiar to readers.

They should be because they’re your mayor and 10 councillors, the same crew who recently approved a 4.5 per cent property tax increase for this year.

After that revelation, I predict two Vancouver-style responses: Outrage, as in Grampa Simpson shaking his fist at the clouds type of outrage, and disassociated acceptance, as in what hundreds of thousands of Vancouverites practise each civic election when not bothering to cast a ballot.

Some might even think the increase is fair and warranted.

Regardless, this 2.7 per cent bump shouldn’t be viewed as a surprise. Every Jan. 1, as I’ve pointed out in previous pieces, the mayor

and council of the day get a pay increase. It fluctuates and has involved formulas that factor in the Consumer Price Index, the average weekly wage for B.C. and data from Statistics Canada.

Back in 2014, for example, it was a 3.24 per cent increase. In 2015, it was 0.82 per cent.

I should note that calculating the mayor’s salary requires more math and involves multiplying the remuneration paid to councillors by a factor of 2.02.

Before I get to what put these annual raises in play, let’s get to what Mayor Kennedy Stewart and councillors will earn this year. Stewart will pull in $174,258 and councillors will make $86,266. All 11 politicians will receive an additional $3,048 each to cover extended health benefits they don’t receive.

In addition, there’s increased pay for duties of deputy mayor ($3,195 per month served), acting mayor ($1,162 per month served) and duty councillor ($3,195 per month served).

Mayor Kennedy Stewart and his 10-member council received a pay raise of 2.7 per cent effective Jan. 1. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Stewart and those councillors appointed to the Metro Vancouver board also make extra dough, but I want to stick to the reason for writing this piece — the annual pay increase.

Way back in 1995, an independent panel decided the mayor and councillors needed a raise. Part of the rationale was based on mayors and councillors in other big cities making more cash than the Vancouver crew.

Which, by the way, still holds true today.

For example, the mayor

of Edmonton pulled in $200,586 last year and councillors earned $113,325.

In 2016, Vancouver councillors made a move to get them closer to their counterparts in Edmonton and other cities by approving a series of changes to the payroll, which boosted their pay from $71,061 at the beginning of 2016 to $80,029 by the end of 2016.

The city’s Statement of Financial Information for 2016, however, will show councillors’ earnings for the year hovering around

the $100,000 mark. That’s because council not only approved an $8,968 boost to their salaries but another “one-time payment” of $8,968 and $3,048 to cover benefits.

That same year, the mayor at the time — Gregor Robertson — finished 2016 with earnings of $166,628.

All these numbers have probably boggled your mind and might have left you enlightened/crestfallen/ nonplussed, maybe even wishing you would have run for a seat at city hall.

But I’m going to guess that for a bunch of you, there is no pay increase coming your way this year. In fact, there probably wasn’t one last year or the year before.

I’m also going to guess your expenses will be greater this year, that your commute time/transportation costs will likely increase and your housing costs — whether it be for rent or bills associated with owning a home — will be more expensive.

My guess work here is based on conversations with family, friends, colleagues

and some neighbours.

There was a time when a councillor’s pay was supposed to represent what the average full-time Vancouverite was earning. In fact, up until August of 2018, this short preamble was posted on the salary page of the city’s website: “Councillors salaries are based on the average earning of Vancouver residents who are employed full-time, using census data for Vancouver.”

That would mean “the average earning” would be $86,266 per year.

I challenged the city on that statement and, not surprisingly, it was removed from the website.

Probably had something to do with the most recent census data showing the median income in 2015 for a one-person household in Vancouver was $38,449 and $89,207 for a household of two or more people.

The “total household” median income was $65,327.

Lone parent families earned $52,242.

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Nothing could wipe the smile off Insp. Jim McCardell’s face Friday morning as his daughter joined the ranks of the Vancouver Police Department.

“It was unbelievable,” he told the Courier, Jan. 4, after his daughter, Madison McCardell, was sworn in along with 18 of the newest members of the department.

Const. Madison McCardell is now the third generation of the McCardell family to serve with VPD. Her father, who currently oversees the department’s emergency response team, K9 unit and negotiators, is a 33-year veteran of the force.

His father, Percy McCardell, also served with VPD, retiring as a staff sergeant in

it’s just being around the environment and working in the jail… that kind of pushed me in the right direction. It just helped reassure me that this is what I wanted to do.”

Things have changed since her grandfather Percy McCardell joined the VPD during the Second World War. “He told me stories growing up and he said when he got hired, which was of course during the war, they gave him a billy club and a gun and he was in a suit and they said you need to walk from here to here on Fraser Street and that’s how you started,” Jim McCardell said.

“Things have changed a lot, they really support these kids with lots of training.”

Madison McCardell and the other new recruits will now spend most of the rest of the year in training at the Justice Institute of B.C. before hitting the streets of Vancouver.

To meet the rest of the VPD’s newest recruits, go to vancourier.com. @JessicaEKerr

Police find no evidence girl was lured from school playground The investigation into the alleged assault of a six-year-old girl continues; however, Vancouver police say investigators have not yet been able to corroborate the claims.

In a press release issued Dec. 28, media relations officer Sgt. Jason Robillard said that investigators “have found no evidence to-date to corroborate a claim that a six-year-old girl was lured off of Sexsmith Elementary School property in early December.”

On Dec. 5, the girl was allegedly lured from the playground at the school, located on Columbia and West 59th Avenue, by a

stranger. It is alleged that the suspect took the girl to a nearby location and assaulted her before walking her back to the school.

The suspect is described as a darker-skinned man, approximately 30 years old with brown or grey hair and wearing grey pants.

A week later, Vancouver police appealed to the public for witnesses and anyone with dash-cam footage from the area to come forward.

Robillard said a team of detectives from the department’s sex crimes unit and youth services section have investigated tips from the public, interviewed staff

and students, canvassed neighbourhoods, and obtained and reviewed numerous pieces of video footage but have been unable to corroborate the information initially provided to police.

“We feel this is an important update for parents, staff, students and the broader community to be aware of,” Robillard said. “Investigating any allegation that affects one’s personal safety, especially the health and safety of a child, is a priority for the Vancouver police.”

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“We’ll be closing in on 100 [years] once she retires in 2050, I guess,” Jim McCardell said.

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“It was take your kid to work day and that showed me a bit of each department,” she said, adding she decided to pursue a degree in kinesiology first.

She studied at the University of B.C. Okanagan and after graduating with a bachelor of arts in human kinetics was hired by the VPD as a special constable in 2017 and started working at the jail. She said the experience working in the jail helped confirm she wanted to go into policing, something that had always been a part of her life.

“I grew up with the police department,” she said. “I went to events, I went to Christmas parties, a lot of our family friends are respected police officers, so

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Vandals target trees at Spanish Banks Park board says it will seek ‘stiff penalties’ for those involved Jessica Kerr

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Eight trees at the foot of Tolmie Street were recently vandalized.

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Vancouver police and the park board are investigating after a number of trees were vandalized at Spanish Banks.

Eight trees at the foot of Tolmie Street recently had the tops sawed off and limbs removed. Park board staff made the discovery

late Jan. 3 and is now working with the VPD to find out who is responsible.

Intentionally damaging trees is a criminal offence and the park board said it intends to seek stiff penalties for whoever is responsible.

Howard Normann, director of parks, told the Courier it appears that some of the trees were cut most of the

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way through as long as a couple of months ago and with the tops blowing off during the recent windstorm, while others were damaged more recently.

“We know that some were cut very recently,” he said, adding, however, that all the cuts are “very clean” and that some kind of saw was obviously used.

The damaged trees range in age from around five to 15 to 20 years old, with some upwards of 20 to 30 feet tall.

Normann said while the damaged trees will never be the same, they will continue to grow. The damage, however, means the trees will stay the same height.

“It would stop these trees from getting any taller in the future,” he said.

Normann said police officers are canvassing the neighbourhood for any tips but so far no witnesses have come forward.

“Trees are for the enjoyment of everyone and we are dismayed by this thoughtless, intentional damage to our urban forest,” park board chair Stuart Mackinnon said in a press release. “We ask

Trees are for the enjoyment of everyone and we are dismayed by this thoughtless, intentional damage to our urban forest.

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that anyone with information on the incident to please some forward.”

The trees are part of a grove of conifers in that area. The sandy soil at Spanish Banks makes for difficult growing conditions for trees, and this particular grove provides habitat for local birds, shade for beach goers and also acts as protection from sand whipped up by winds along the beach.

Anyone who witnessed anything suspicious in the area of Tolmie Street and Northwest Marine Drive over the past two weeks is asked to contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477. @JessicaEKerr

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Most donation bins already off Vancouver streets Naoibh O’Connor

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Ninety per cent of clothing donation bins have been removed from street right-of-ways in Vancouver, according to the city.

The City of Vancouver provided the update on Jan. 3, a few days after a 34-yearold man became trapped and died in a donation bin in West Vancouver on Dec. 30. West Vancouver temporarily sealed all donation bins in that municipality as a result of the incident.

The removal of donation bins on Vancouver street right-of-ways began last fall after the death of a 39-yearold woman during the summer. She became trapped and died in a donation bin outside West Point Grey Community Centre July 23.

The City of Vancouver launched a review of donation bins immediately after her death.

In September 2018, following the review, the city’s engineering department asked all operators to remove bins from street right-of-ways

by Nov. 30, 2018 due to ongoing safety concerns.

Street right-of-ways include sidewalks, alleyways and boulevards.

The City of Vancouver’s Jan. 3 update indicated about 90 per cent of the more than 100 donation bins that had been previously located on street right-ofways have been removed and any remaining ones would be removed in early 2019.

Bin operators have also removed bins at West Point Grey Community Centre, Kensington Community Centre, Vancouver Aquatic Centre, and from inside all park board facilities at the request of the park board.

The Vancouver School Board has also ordered removal of bins located on school board property.

There are donation bins located on city lands that have been allowed on a caseby-case basis by the building

Donation bins located on city lands such as at firehalls will be reviewed in early 2019. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

or property owner/operator such as at fire halls. These locations will be reviewed in early 2019. Donation bins on private property will be reviewed in early 2019 as well.

Donation bins also continue to be located in supervised areas of the City’s Zero Waste Centre and Landfill Residential Drop-off Area.

“The city recognizes the value used clothing donations provide to those in need and to local charities,” the city’s update stated.

Jeremy Hunka, a spokesperson for Union Gospel Mission, told the Courier on Jan. 3 that he wasn’t aware clothing donation bins were being removed from street right-of-ways in Vancouver, but he called the decision a “positive” step.

Hunka maintains they should all be voluntarily taken out of service until they can be retrofitted so they don’t present a safety hazard.

He says it’s not just a city or Metro Vancouver issue, but a national one where urgent action is needed because it’s a case of when, not if, someone else dies. (On Jan. 8, five days after Hunka made that comment, a woman died in Toronto after being stuck inside a donation bin, which prompted calls for a review of donation bins in that city.)

Hunka said it’s “mindboggling” that it’s taken this long for the problem to be addressed, while adding he’s not pushing for donation bins

to be banned permanently — just taken out of service until “we know they’re not going to kill anyone.”

Ray Taheri, a professor in the school of engineering at UBC’s Okanagan campus, and his students are currently working on ways to retrofit the bins.

Hunka said he would like to know how many currently exist on private property in Vancouver and what the upcoming review entails.

Inclusion BC also announced on Jan. 3 that the organization and its member agencies would remove 146 donation bins in Greater Vancouver, the Fraser Valley, the Sunshine Coast, the Interior of B.C. and Central and North Vancouver Island. The process has already started and all the bins are expected to be gone by early next week. They will be put in storage until safety modifications can be made.

Inclusion BC will accept clothing donations at indoor and monitored collection sites until safety issues are resolved.

“Inclusion BC was deeply saddened to learn of the death of a man in one of our clothing donation bins in West Vancouver.

Our deepest condolences go out to all who have been touched by this tragic event,” the release stated.

“Safety is a top property for Inclusion BC and our member agencies that participate in the ClothesDrop recycling program.”

Ways to donate used clothing Drop-off alternatives: • City of Vancouver Zero Waste Centre, 8588 Yukon St. Hours of operation Monday to Saturday: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Sunday: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

• City of Vancouver’s landfill and recycling depot, 5400 72nd Ave. in Delta Hours of operation Monday

to Friday: 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Both locations listed above are supervised and accessible to the public only during open hours.

• Zero Waste Drop-off events hosted by the City and held throughout the year to collect used clothing and other materials.

• Donations can also be made by dropping of clothing at thrift and consignment stores, homeless shelters as well as by calling charities that provide home pick-ups.

For a complete list of options of where you can drop off used clothing, search for “clothing” in the VanCollect mobile app or on the City’s Waste Wizard website.

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News Theatre company delves into #metoo movement by asking #whatnow Artistic producer Marisa Emma Smith is looking for interview subjects to anonymously share their stories John Kurucz

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Marisa Emma Smith spent her holidays engaging in conversations fraught with some of the worst experiences imaginable.

It sounds horrible at first blush, but Smith’s end result has all the right intentions.

An artistic producer with Vancouver’s Alley Theatre, Smith is trying to bridge the gap between the continued outrage associated with the #metoo movement and a way to move forward, make sense of it and deal with the aftermath.

“Now that we know about this and we know it’s a big thing, what do we do? What happens now?”

Smith said.

multiple perspectives and so we can humanize it,” Smith said.

Four interviews had been conducted by mid-December, and Smith hopes to have 20-plus done by mid-January. Each interview is done anonymously to avoid legal ramifications and interviewees can opt out at any time. Some people have reached out to Smith or vice versa, and Smith’s questions are sent in advance.

The lone male Smith’s interviewed so far represents the bystander: someone who suspected something bad was happening, but didn’t know what exactly and didn’t intervene.

“In the moment, there’s this feeling of ‘what is this?’ There’s almost denial,” Smith said. “People don’t know in the moment what’s happening. After the fact they realize what it was. There’s self-denial and a bit of shame.”

Good Night Out Vancouver coordinator Stacey Forrester knows the bystander effect all too well, and workshops around that very phenomenon are among the most requested

I’m interested in sharing the human side of this story, the strange, funny and nuanced responses of that experience from multiple perspectives and so we can humanize it.

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Smith is in the early stages of mounting a new production called #whatnow that will see the light of day in July 2019. She’s employing a storytelling method called “headphone verbatim theatre and dance,” which sees actors and dancers spontaneously reacting to recordings that are channelled through earphones.

In the case of #whatnow, those voices will come from people who were sexually harassed or abused, others who stood by and didn’t intervene and others still who perpetrated those incidents.

The end goal is to process the information and use it as a type of catharsis and restorative justice.

“I’m interested in sharing the human side of this story, the strange, funny and nuanced responses of that experience from

that Forrester’s 20-person group conducts.

“I think people are realizing that the type of street harassment or public realm harassment happens with lots of people around and the bystander effect is real,” Forrester told the Courier. “They don’t intervene for a lot of reasons: they don’t know how, they don’t feel safe to do it themselves.”

Forrester and her team have worked on the #whatnow project from the outset and members are present during the dialogue process to help interviewees process their emotions.

When the production morphs into its first iteration next year, Good Night Out members will give workshops to the performers involved.

Smith’s vision will get its initial look in July 2019

at the Orpheum Annex.

Although it’ll be open to the public, those opening days will be more like a dry run to hone the project and gather more ideas. The full production is expected to debut in 2020 or 2021.

Anyone interested in sharing their story with Smith’s team can do so by emailing whatnowplay@ gmail.com by Jan. 15.

Alley Theatre artistic producer Marisa Emma Smith and Good Night Out Vancouver coordinator Stacey Forrester are taking the #metoo conversation on to the stage. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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Buckle up as teachers and province bargain over student funding How province funds students with special needs will be a particularly contentious issue

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As teachers and the government prepare for bargaining this year, hints are beginning to emerge about the arguments that could arise.

B.C. Teachers’ Federation president Glen Hansman wrote a letter to Education Minister Rob Fleming late last month expressing concerns about some of the language used in a controversial report released in December about how the province’s $5.7-billion funding for school districts is allocated.

The report was written by a panel and makes many recommendations, but the most contentious are those about funding for students with special needs.

It’s an important issue because every child has a right to education, but supports vary across the province. B.C. is striving for “inclusive” education for all students, but sometimes students with special needs are left out or even

asked to stay home if supports aren’t available.

The report calls for some of the funding for students with special needs to be allocated using a prevalence model — the expected number of students with special needs — rather than funding specific students.

Supporters says this will save money in costs to identify students with special needs, but detractors say it means students may not get the supports they need.

Initially, the funding model was slated to change in the fall, but those changes have been put on hold, pending more consultation.

In a section of the report about inclusive education, the panel calls collective bargaining language a barrier to change and says, “this is especially evident in those school districts with highly complex and restrictive class composition language that is limiting school districts’ ability to meet student needs.”

Students, parents, trustees, teachers and the public should all prepare for some tense negotiations, says columnist Tracy Sherlock, with how best to pay for support for students with special needs likely to be at the heart of it all. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Hansman, in his letter, takes umbrage with those comments, noting there is nothing stopping districts and the province from providing supports over and above those guaran-

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teed by collective agreements. Hansman notes that the report conflates the collective agreements with provincial reporting requirements, which are not one and the same. Reporting requirements are imposed by the province, not required because of the collective agreements.

All of this relates back to the court case teachers won in November 2016, restoring class size, class composition and specialist teacher ratios stripped by the Liberal government in 2002. The contract that

expires this June was negotiated after a five-week teachers’ strike in 2014, and this bargaining session will be the first since the court win.

Class composition rules govern how many students with special needs can be in a class before extra supports need to be added or class size needs to be reduced. The rules on this vary across the province, and about onethird of districts don’t have any rules. Some districts, notably Vancouver, have very strong and specific rules.

This leads to inequities across the province, a fact strongly pointed out in the report as being unfair to students and acknowledged by Hansman in the letter.

“To address these inequities across the province, though, the government’s approach should not be taking away what exists in some school districts, but to take steps to ensure similar protections are available in all 60 school districts,” Hansman writes. “This could be done through collective bargaining. It can also be done in the meantime by simply providing appropriate funding so that improved and comparable supports are in place for all students in B.C.” It comes down to this.

Everyone agrees it’s not fair that students in some areas of the province get more supports than those in other places. It’s clear all students deserve equal access to education, whether they have special needs or not and whether they live in Vancouver or Prince George.

The authors of the funding report say the best way around this is to wipe away the classification and counting of students with special needs and fund schools based on the law of averages.

The teachers say the best way to deal with it is to provide all students across the province access to a high level of support.

The elephant in the room is the cost. Since 2016-17, $591 million has been added to the education budget, mostly to fund the restored contracts required by the court case. Nearly 4,000 new teachers have been hired. Those amounts would be considerably higher if every district was staffed at the same level as, say, Vancouver.

Students, parents, trustees, teachers and the public should all prepare for some tense negotiations, with how best to pay for support for students with special needs likely to be at the heart of it all.

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Meanwhile back on board the Wind Spirit I had, incredulously, managed to stash all of our belongings in the generous storage areas of our stateroom — and yes, I over-packed.

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heritage tours. A highlight for me and my husband was the Faaroa River tour on the South Pacific island of Raiatea, the second largest of the Society Islands. After climbing onto a bright red boat with about 10 other Wind Spirit guests, we crossed open water until we came to the mouth of the Faaroa River where we were immediately surrounded by overhanging greenery and flowers, including wild hibiscus, purau trees, bamboo groves and Tahitian chestnut trees.

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Concept versus reality. It’s a phrase that I’ve been musing over in recent days, since I have once again emerged from the holiday season feeling like an exhausted, sickly, bloated, staggering, Santa sack of s***.

Earlier in December, my best friend came forth with an incredible offer: How would my family like to spend the back end of the holidays at their empty timeshare in Mexico? Free accommodation in sunny San Jose Del Cabo over the Christmas break? Olé!

My wife and I checked out flights, but decided that even with the free condo, we couldn’t afford the lastminute holiday air travel. Besides, I had agreed to some work at the CBC, and my wife was really looking forward to “hunkering down” at home over the holidays.

We politely turned down the free condo in Mexico.

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Within 48 hours, my wife had gone from “hunkering down” to hysterical.

Near the starting line of our Christmas Cannonball Run, help arrived when the grandparents showed up from Toronto. Unfortunately, their immune systems aren’t as used to the array of viruses my kids carry around.

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FORWARDS Sven Baertschi: B-. It’s been a tough season for Baertschi thanks to a brutal concussion that sidelined him for two months. He’s produced at a second-line rate when in the lineup.

Jay Beagle: C. Beagle’s first season with the Canucks took a detour with an early injury, but he’s found his groove on the fourth line and has been a solid penalty killer.

Brock Boeser: A. After a relatively slow start and some injury troubles, Boeser has found chemistry with Pettersson and is just a little short of a point per game.

Loui Eriksson: C. Some early chemistry with Pettersson looked promising, but Eriksson simply isn’t scoring, though he’s been one of the team’s best on the penalty kill.

Adam Gaudette: C-. You can see the potential in Gaudette’s game, but there’s a reason he was sent down to the Utica Comets.

Nikolay Goldobin: B-. For all the criticism Goldobin has received from fans and media, he’s still fourth on the Canucks in points and is the team’s best playmaker outside of Pettersson.

Markus Granlund: C-. Granlund’s having a fairly bland season so far, and he’s struggled on the penalty kill.

Bo Horvat: A. Horvat took on more of a defensive role when Beagle and Sutter were injured, but is still second on the Canucks in goals and points.

Tyler Motte: C. Motte’s speed is an asset on the fourth line, but he’s been inconsistent and has had issues at times on the penalty kill.

Elias Pettersson: A+. Pettersson has exceeded everyone’s wildest

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dreams for his rookie season and is one of the most exciting young players in the NHL. He might even be capable of single-handedly dragging the Canucks to the playoffs.

Erik Gudbranson: C-. A strong start to the season for Gudbranson has been overshadowed by more recent struggles. He has the worst onice goal differential in the entire NHL.

Antoine Roussel: C+. While he’s crossed the line at times with his agitating style of play, he’s also made an argument for playing in the top-six.

Ben Hutton: C+. Hutton came into the season looking like a new player ready to take a step forward, but it’s been tough with Gudbranson as his go-to defence partner.

Tim Schaller: D. The penalty kill was meant to be a strength of Schaller’s game, but it’s been a weakness so far, and he’s been unnoticeable at even strength.

Brandon Sutter: C+. Sutter missed a lot of time with a shoulder injury, but he’s been fantastic on the penalty kill when he’s been in the lineup.

Jake Virtanen: B. Virtanen’s early burst of goals has made #ShotgunJake one of the best parts of this season, but he’s also distributing the puck better than ever.

DEFENCE Alex Biega: C. When he’s been inserted into the lineup, Biega has been a spark plug.

Michael Del Zotto: D. Del Zotto has been a frequent healthy scratch this season and, unfortunately for him, the team has performed better in his absence.

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Thatcher Demko: I. Demko has yet to play a game for the Canucks, but he’s the de facto backup for the rest of the season after the Canucks traded Anders Nilsson. For now, he gets an Incomplete.

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