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Can Metro Vancouver accommodate another million people by 2050?

Mike Howell

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Here’s a sentence you probably didn’t think you’d read in this space: Fertility rates in Metro Vancouver have shifted by large margins over the past 20 years.

Here’s another one: Overall, fertility rates for younger women aged 15 to 30 are on the decline while rates for women aged 30 to 45 have seen a spike.

Interesting, right?

But what does this have to do with civic affairs, you ask?

Quite a bit, actually.

In fact, it’s key information that Metro Vancouver planners use when projecting growth for Vancouver and its surrounding municipalities.

And with growth, as many of us who live in the region have seen, comes the need for more everything — housing, roads, transportation options, schools, community centres and medication — to remain calm while your personal space erodes.

That last bit was me being sarcastic, but I know there’s some truth to the anxiety many of us are

feeling as a combination of growth, increased costs and 24/7 pressures of life continue to be a reality of living in a bustling region.

The topic, I’ve come to learn, is never far from a conversation with a friend or neighbour, some of whom are considering moving out of the region or downsizing to ease those pressures. The fact is the region is not getting smaller, with Metro Vancouver’s 2016 base population of 2.57 million anticipated to increase by about one million by the year 2050.

This is not news for civic affairs observers, but a report that went before Metro Vancouver’s regional planning committee Jan. 11 provides insight in to how growth is forecast in the region. The report, authored by senior regional planner Terry Hoff, was produced to inform many of the rookie politicians new to the Metro board about growth projections.

It’s an illuminating read.

Off the top, I mentioned fertility rates. On the other side of that information is the death rate.

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Metro Vancouver planners predict another one million people will be living in an already congested and expensive region by 2050.

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The number of deaths will increase more rapidly than the number of births over the growth period, although the good news for seniors is they are living longer, with a 91-year-old woman having an 88 per cent chance of surviving one more year.

But, as the report points out, future immigration is the primary variable affect-

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ing population growth and related housing, employment and land use considerations in the region. About 300,000 immigrants, which includes refugees, arrive in Canada every year.

Metro Vancouver’s share of Canada’s immigrants is currently about 11 per cent and is assumed to marginally decrease as larger shares

of immigrants settle in other areas of Canada and elsewhere within B.C. Net immigration for Metro Vancouver is assumed to be in the 30,000 to 40,000 per year range through the projection period of an additional one million people living here by the year 2050.

Data trends show the City of Vancouver has accommodated the region’s largest share of recent immigrants over the past 20 years. Even so, the numbers declined over that period, from 36 per cent to 30 per cent. Why? Although the report doesn’t provide a definitive answer, the cost of housing and a low vacancy rate are factors. That is why the somewhat less expensive City of Surrey saw an increase in immigrants from 13 per cent to 22 per cent over that period. Neighbouring municipalities have also seen an uptick.

That’s just immigrants.

Overall, in the past 15 years, an average of 12,000 people per year moved from other parts of Canada to Metro and about 11,000 people per year moved out,

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with varying impacts for each municipality.

Data that tracks people moving in and out of Metro from other parts of B.C. tells another story. Through 2011 to 2016, there was a net outflow of about 5,300 people per year from Metro to other areas of the province.

“The intra-provincial flow dynamics vary among municipalities and have a significant impact on growth for particular municipalities,” said the report, noting Vancouver, Surrey, Langley Township and Maple Ridge had the highest net out-flow to other areas of B.C. Drilling down even further into the data, the report shows that 40,000 Metro residents changed municipalities between 2011 and 2016. Vancouver, with about 3,400 people per year leaving, and Burnaby (1,600 per year) saw the biggest losses, whereas Surrey, Langley and Maple Ridge saw the biggest gains.

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New info released year after shooting that killed innocent bystander Alfred Wong, 15, was killed in a shootout on Broadway in January 2018 Jessica Kerr

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It has been one year since two people, including a 15-year-old innocent bystander, were killed in a brazen shootout on Broadway, and on Jan. 11 Vancouver police released some new details.

Kevin Whiteside, 23, and Alfred Wong, 15, were both shot Jan. 13, 2018 on Broadway near Ontario Street. Sgt. Mike Heard, who is heading the investigation, said Friday that police believe that Whiteside was in the area to allegedly kill 28-yearold Matthew Navas-Rivas, who was at Indochine restaurant that night with a female companion.

As they left the restaurant, Whiteside opened fire on Navas-Rivas, who Heard said was unarmed that night and had been targeted in the past. An unidentified second shooter returned gunfire. Whiteside was hit and died later in hospital.

Wong and his family just happened to be driving east

on Broadway when the shooting broke out. The teen was hit by a stray bullet and died two days later.

A third person, a Vancouver man in his 30s, sustained minor injuries and was treated at the scene. Heard said investigators believe that man had no connection to the shooting.

“This reckless violence really shook our community and we have zero tolerance for it in our city,” Heard said. “We have been in close contact with Alfred’s family over the past year and have been providing them with information and support.”

Navas-Rivas was killed six months later on July 15 in another targeted shooting near Tillicum Community Annex on Cambridge Street in East Vancouver. Investigators don’t believe that incident was related to the shooting that killed Whiteside and Wong.

“Unfortunately, due to Mr. Navas-Rivas’ criminal lifestyle, there’s a lot of

A red Pontiac Montana, seized about a month after the shooting, is believed to have been involved in the shootout on Broadway. Vancouver Police Sgt. Mike Heard (left) and media relations officer Jason Doucette (right) released new information about the incident last week.

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people who had reason to harm him or kill him… we believe these two incidents are separate and different,” he said. “Two different people targeted him.”

Whiteside was also known to police and had connections to gangs. He

had multiple convictions, including ones for possession for the purpose of trafficking, assault with a weapon, breaking and entering and possessing a firearm while prohibited.

He was subject to a lifetime firearms ban.

In addition to new details about the shooting, police revealed information about two vehicles believed to be involved in the incident. One is a red Pontiac Montana that was seized about a month after the shooting.

Heard said that officers have not yet been able to speak to the owner.

Investigators also released dash-cam video from the night of the shooting that shows a dark pick-up truck turning left, crossing several lanes of traffic onto Ontario Street from Broadway at the time of the incident.

Heard said officers would like to speak to the occupants of that vehicle.

“This has been an active, complex investigation,” he said, later adding, “I am pleased with the progress we have made to date. We have released these new details today because we know there are people with important information about these deaths who have chosen not to talk to our investigators. We are asking them to do the right thing and contact us now.”

Anyone who may have information about this incident, who has not yet spoken with police, is asked to call detectives at 604-7170515 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477. @JessicaEKerr

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Pedestrians may have noticed new murals sprucing up the tunnel connecting Vancouver’s Granville Look Park.

Stephanie Brook, a thirdyear economics student at UBC, began the street art gallery project two years ago as a way to promote local artists and increase the visibility of street art in Vancouver.

Unlike other murals around the city, those in the Granville Street tunnel have an expiration date of about a year when the walls are painted over with new works.

Brook selects the artists who can paint whatever they want on the three-by-two metre wall space allotted to them. Out of the dozen artists commissioned in 2018, 10 have completed their murals so far.

“It’s kind of an experiment to see how artists like having their work up for just a year at a time, and it gives a lot more artists the chance to do something like this. Whereas if they were more permanent, it would just give the six to 12 artists their chance and no one else,” Brook said.

Third-year UBC student and artist Gorka Fraeters Irigoien has painted murals in the tunnel two years in a row and said the project brings life and colour to a grey city.

“When the first instalment occurred, I was sort of sad that it wouldn’t be a permanent mural. Once I understood the beauty of this changing mural project, I was just happy and felt very fortunate that I was able to leave my mark in that way,” he said.

Irigoien’s mural, located near the west entrance of

A dozen artists got the chance to have their murals decorate the walls of the pedestrian tunnel connecting Vancouver’s Granville Look Park for a year. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

the tunnel, includes bright swirling colours to create the image of a person. He describes his recent mural as a representation of Hegel’s dialectic. “It has an upwards looking, transcendent, colourful figure whose self-consciousness explodes into his surrounding environment, only to re-enter his mind.”

Brook had the opportunity to pursue her interest in street art when an assignment in her microeconomics policy course challenged students to interact with the municipal government and public policy to initiate change in the city.

The initial idea was for a drop-in public art space for any artist to express themselves. After a month of phone calls, Brook presented her idea to Vancouver’s Graffiti Management Program. The project developed over time into a street art gallery to feature a different group of artists each year.

Artist Faba Rodea, who signs her work “Cielito Lindo,” moved to Canada four months ago and painted her first mural in

the Granville Street tunnel last year. Her piece is also near the western entrance, next to Irigoien’s mural.

Rodea expressed her gratitude towards Brook as well as the other artists.

“They make it their job to teach through art and take art elsewhere,” she said.

Rodea describes her mural as a symbol of continuous movement, with a large paper boat and a kite flying in the background. Transformation is represented with a butterfly known to migrate from Canada to Mexico annually. All of this comes from the breath of an abstract girl painted blue to represent multiculturalism with the addition of lyrics from a traditional Mexican song —“Cielito Lindo” — the inspiration for her signature.

The murals will change in late 2019. Brook hopes to expand the project to more locations and will consider incorporating a theme for next year.

Artists interested in participating in the 2019 project, can contact Brook at granvillestreetart@gmail.com.

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The federal government is giving Canadians until Feb. 20 to pipe up on phase two of the nation’s ongoing roll out of legal cannabis.

Proposed regulations around edibles, extracts and topicals were released Dec. 20 and the main talking points centre around allowable THC levels, messaging and ensuring the packages are kid proof.

The main psychoactive ingredient in cannabis, THC will be confined to under 10 mg per package of edibles and 1,000 mg per package of topical creams or extracts.

Any beverage containing THC can’t be mixed with alcohol or other vitamin or mineral extracts, while limits will also be placed on any caffeine content.

Tantalus Labs CEO and Vancouverite Dan Sutton has been producing sun-grown cannabis since 2012 and gives the preliminary measures two green thumbs up.

“Any entrepreneur or [licensed producer] has a blue ocean of opportunity within this framework and any time spent complaining about restrictiveness is better used thinking about how to best serve the expectant market,” he told the Courier in an email. “Vaporizers, concentrates, edibles and beverages will all be exciting segments come October. Groups that start work early will be at a significant advantage.”

The proposed framework will become the law of the land by Oct. 17.

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• no claims can be made touting health or nutritional benefits • labelling will include the standardized cannabis symbol and a health warning message • prohibiting the production of food and edibles in the same facility

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• restricting the use of ingredients — sweetener or colourants — that could appeal to minors or encourage consumption • no flavours that could appeal to minors can be placed on product labels or vaping products • a hard cap of 10 mg of THC per unit or 1,000 mg per package • no claims can be made touting health or nutritional benefits • cannabis symbols must be displayed on all packaging

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• restrictions will be placed on the types of permissible ingredients • a hard cap of 1,000 mg of THC per package • child-resistant packaging • no claims can be made touting health or nutritional benefits • cannabis symbols must be displayed on all packaging Although largely supportive of the framework, Vancouver

lawyer Kyla Lee suggested the 10 mg cap on edibles specifically could create unintended consequences.

“For a lot of people that’s not enough THC to produce the desired effect,” Lee told the Courier. “So because of the huge amount of packaging that is required from the Health Canada packaging regulations, it’s going to create a lot of waste because people are going to have buy multiple products to get the same impact.”

Largely unmentioned are any stipulations around possession, driving, travelling or where Canadians can use any of these products.

Those talking points were front and centre prior to last year’s first go at legalization, and Lee expects those measures to be introduced before implementation.

“But it would be nice to see the government putting that messaging out there now because it’s good for people to have that consistent reminder especially when it comes to edible product,” she said. “Because you can eat your 10 milligrams of THC and feel fine for quite some time… and then half an hour later it hits you. You don’t want to be behind the wheel at that time.”

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Modular housing complex for Indigenous residents opens ‘New Beginnings’ located on Heather Lands Naoibh O’Connor

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New Beginnings, a 98unit temporary modular housing complex located near Cambie and 33rd, marked its official opening Jan. 11, with Lil’wat Nation elder Seis’lom and Musqueam elder Shane Pointe providing ceremonial blessings and songs.

Seis’lom called the twobuilding housing complex, which is designated for Indigenous people, a safe place for residents to come, “perhaps on their road to recovery… perhaps to reunite with their families and, for that matter, for them to come home to their own spirit.”

Pointe recognized all those involved in the project, from the three host First Nations to the City of Vancouver to the workers who put the buildings up.

“What they’re doing, in my mind, is they’re demonstrating true Coast Salish words — nə́ca̓ ʔmat ct — nə́ca̓ ʔmat ct simply means we are one. Those wonderful people came together as one to help all of our relatives, to help all of our relatives who need the help the most. The poorest among us, they need the most help.”

People of Indigenous identity make up 40 per cent of Vancouver’s homeless population but only 2.2 per cent of its overall population.

The 98 units at New Beginnings are among just

over 600 units that have been built, or are being built, on 10 sites across the city through funding from the provincial government.

L’uma Native Housing Society will run the complex, which is located at 5077 and 5095 Heather St. One building is for women, while the other will be co-ed.

L’uma formed more than 38 years ago to provide affordable housing to the Aboriginal community.

Kent Patenaude, the society’s president, said over the years the organization has strived to improve Aboriginal people’s lives through a variety of programs and services.

“The New Beginnings project represents the next step in our progression in achieving this goal,” he said.

Residents will start moving in mid-January but it will take several weeks to fill up all the units.

Support services will be provided to residents 24/7, including meals, life and employment skills training, health and wellness support and opportunities to do volunteer work.

Each unit is about 320 square feet in size and includes a bed, a kitchen, a seating area and washroom with a shower. Twelve are wheel-chair accessible.

The complex sits on a portion of the 21-acre Heather Lands property, which is slated for development. The landowners — Canada Lands Company and the MST Partnership, which includes the Mus-

queam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations — provided a five-year licence agreement to the City of Vancouver for the project.

Mable Elmore, MLA for Vancouver-Kensington, said people have been struggling for far too long under the housing crisis in Vancouver.

“For many Indigenous peoples, the struggle to find a safe and affordable place to call home is even greater. And we know that Indigenous people are overwhelmingly represented in the homeless population. Governments have a clear responsibility to help...

These homes, and the ones like them that are opening across the province, will change the lives of thousands of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people who currently don’t have a place to call home.”

Green Party Coun. Pete Fry, who spoke on behalf of mayor and council, said the modular housing complexes being erected are making a “huge difference” in the city.

“As I stand here wrapped in the warmth and protection of this [ceremonial] blanket, I think of our Indigenous brothers and sisters, [and] my friends in my neighbourhood — Strathcona — too many of whom are living rough on the streets. And, I think of the warmth and protection this facility will offer them — these new homes, 98 homes for people who are at risk of homelessness. It’s a beautiful thing.”

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News Deadline to file Empty Homes Tax declarations is Feb. 4 Roughly half of residential property owners have submitted Empty Home Tax declarations with just over a month before the Feb. 4 deadline.

Residential property owners must submit declarations annually or face having their properties deemed vacant and be subject to the empty homes tax, which sits at one per cent of the

property’s 2018 assessed taxable value, as well as a $250 penalty. Payment is due by April 12, 2019 or a five per cent penalty can be applied.

As of Jan. 7, 94,685 property owners had submitted declarations.

The City of Vancouver revealed late last year that the expected revenue collected from the first year of the tax would be higher than anticipated.

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million. About $21 million had been collected by late November 2018.

Part of the funds are being used for implementation and operating costs ($10 million), while the rest is dedicated for affordable housing initiatives, $8 million of which has already been allocated.

The city says that most properties won’t be subject to the Empty Homes Tax, including when a property is used as a principal residence by the owner, his/her family

member or friend, or other permitted occupier for at least six months of the year; the home is rented for residential purposes for at least six months of the year in periods of 30 or more consecutive days; or if the property meets the criteria for one of the eight exemptions.

While the objective of the Empty Homes Tax was to return empty or underutilized properties for use as long-term rental homes for people who live and work in Vancouver, the city

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Opinion

120-foot ladder gives rise to public art debate $671,000 ‘ladder to nowhere’ a strange fit for one of Vancouver’s poorest neighbourhoods

Mike Klassen

mike@mikeklassen.net

Public art in Vancouver is a subject that always evokes strong feelings in many, and I am no different. It can be said that some of the works we see here are captivating, while some can be classified as dreck.

As provocative as some pieces are to me or you, I would never argue that we should pull back on finding ways to support the arts in our city. On the contrary, we must do more collectively to support our community of artists.

While Vancouver has a few noteworthy examples of where art animates our surroundings — the murals overtaking bland edifices in Mount Pleasant, for example — I struggle to think of which pieces the city really embraces as its own.

What lately inspired me to put pen to paper on this topic is a piece called 108 Steps, a.k.a. the ladder to nowhere. It is a hulking 120-foot metal structure, painted grey and permanently installed in a central boulevard along busy Kingsway at Gladstone Street.

The ladder — which to me has all the charm of the underside of a railway

Public art piece 108 Steps was made possible through a $671,000 contribution by Westbank, the luxury condo developer best known locally for building the Fairmont Pacific Rim and the Woodward’s building. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

trestle — was made possible through a $671,000 contribution by Westbank, the luxury condo developer best known locally for building the Fairmont Pacific Rim and the Woodward’s building. The developer showcases 108 Steps with pride on their website.

The Norquay neighbourhood where the 40-metre

high protuberance makes its home could desperately use enhancements to the public realm. Before Westbank’s Kensington Gardens development came to this strip, the area was mostly known for an oversized dollar store, the nearby cold beer establishment, a KFC restaurant and the largest golden arches sign in East Vancouver.

Setting aside the real public safety risk the ladder poses should someone try to scale it someday, I wonder if anyone considered the symbolism of situating this costly piece in the heart of one of the city’s lowest income neighbourhoods.

Perhaps the neighbourhood gets the last laugh though, because when I

look at it on my eastbound commute I can’t help thinking the ladder could be viewed as a one-finger salute to city hall.

The fact that so many of Vancouver’s public art installations are concentrated around the downtown core is something that should be rectified going forward. The city has many high streets on the South and East Side that could be enlivened by memorable public art.

One Vancouver artist who I have long admired is Jeff Wall. I was struck by the fact one of his colourful Cibachrome images had been staged on a nondescript block near Rupert Street.

Rarely have I seen a piece been so embraced by our city as Ken Lum’s East Van cross sign (“The Monument for East Vancouver,” which references an old gang insignia) installed beside Clark Drive. I recall rushing out to see it installed nine years ago this week, just prior to the beginning of the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The sign today is starting to look neglected. The property abutting it is overgrown with cottonwood trees that threaten to obscure part of the sign. I have yet to confirm if a building

is being planned for that property in front of it.

Due to its frustrating placement facing the industrial land to the west, opportunities to photograph and even posing in front of the cross are limited. If someone thought to erect a viewing stand there, the lonely VCC-Clark Skytrain station might become a Mecca for Instagram users.

I also would like to see some more audacious pieces here — such as the Miss Mao sculpture by the Gao Brothers (installed in Richmond during the 2010 Games), and Device to Root Out Evil (the infamous “upside-down church” the park board sold to the City of Calgary in 2008). The best art pieces are sometimes the most subversive.

With matching funding from philanthropists, it would be exciting to have our city reignite the zeal for public art we saw back during the Olympics throughout our city and in surrounding municipalities.

While it is hard to quantify the value, we know that public art done well defines urban spaces, drives economic benefits and evokes local pride. Simply put, Vancouver cannot be complacent about its public art.

Faced with new taxes, more B.C. seniors are deferring their property taxes Michael Geller geller@sfu.ca

Two weeks ago, I wrote about the increased taxes many Vancouver residents will be paying as a result of the latest BC Assessments and new provincial taxes.

These include the so-called School Tax and so-called Speculation Tax, recently renamed the Speculation and Vacancy Tax even though it will apply to second homes occupied up to 182 days a year.

In the article, I informed Courier readers about section 19(8) of the BC Assessment Act, which allows a property to be assessed at less than market value if it has been a principal residence for at least 10 years and assessed at a higher value because of its redevelopment potential for townhouses or apartments.

I invited readers to email me for further details.

I subsequently heard from many of you.

Some questioned whether the recent Vancouver

policy allowing duplexes in single family zones would allow an appeal under section 19(8). It will not.

Others thought the School Tax was particularly unfair since it will not be used to fund schools, and unlike good taxes, is not proportionate to one’s ability to pay.

A few worried how the city could operate if it didn’t receive property taxes. The city will continue to receive money to operate, but it will come from the province, not the taxpayer.

Many readers, worried about paying their increased tax bill, were disappointed to learn their properties would not qualify for a reduced assessment under section 19(8).

I suggested that they consider deferring their taxes under the provincial program.

While some agreed it is probably time to start doing so, others did not like the thought of a government lien against their property, having worked so hard to pay off their mortgage.

Columnist Michael Geller questions the effectiveness of the province’s School Tax, Speculation Tax and Homeowners Grant Program. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

I noted that while the program’s interest rate has increased, it is only 1.45 per cent for those 55 and over and 3.45 per cent for the Families with Children and Financial Hardship Programs.

Fortunately, no one asked me to explain why lower-income households with children or those suffering financial hardship must pay a higher interest

rate than wealthy seniors who take advantage of the deferment program since it is not means tested.

According to a recent report by seniors’ advocate Isobel Mackenzie, the number of seniors in B.C. who deferred their property taxes in 2017-18 grew by 53 per cent over four years. The total amount of property tax deferred last year was $208.8 million.

Like me, Ms. Mackenzie believes the tax deferment program can be a good, cost-effective program for lower-income seniors struggling to pay their taxes, who could use the additional money to hire more help around the house.

There are, however, some negatives associated with the tax deferment program. For one thing, should a homeowner want to take out a reverse mortgage or home-equity loan, they will likely have to pay the outstanding taxes at that time. Also, this program does not apply to those living on leased land.

As the additional School Tax on homes over $3 million kicks in, expect more seniors to start deferring their taxes. Indeed, several people told me that while they hadn’t deferred their taxes in the past, they will now because of this much-hated tax.

It is somewhat ironic that the School Tax was brought in to generate additional revenues for the province.

However, it may now need to borrow more money to give to the municipalities since more seniors will defer their property taxes.

Before leaving the topic of property taxes, I must again question why the province has not reconsidered its Homeowner Grant Program. It offers grants of $570 or $700 to B.C. residents, regardless of their income, if their home is assessed at $1,650,000 or less, anywhere in the province.

Properties assessed over that amount may receive a partial grant.

In most B.C. locales, $1,650,000 will buy you one of the nicest properties in town. Why is the province giving a grant to these homeowners? Or any high-income homeowners for that matter? Why not provide more grants to lowincome renters instead?

By the time you read this, I will be on my way to China from where I’ll be writing my next column. It will not be about property taxes. @michaelgeller

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In your article, I hear no report given on the opinion of the market or island vendors and businesses. You have to know it would put many, if not most, of them out of business. I’m not even in favour of a previous report I heard on seasonal rates for a new parking fee for fear it will deter business. There was quite an uprising when a parking fee was put in place during, I think it was, the Olympics. You can’t be making these plans without giving vendors a primary voice, unless you’re just going to turn it into a tourist destination and a weekend outing. These vendors and businesses pay a lot to be there.

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1. Ethel Morley’s jersey was given to her by Ken Hayden. It was originally his mother’s.

2. Morley turned 99 years old Jan. 16. She celebrated her birthday at Commodore Lanes Jan. 14 3. Ken Hayden announces Morley’s birthday at the lanes while she blows out the candles on her cake.

4. Commodore Lanes is Canada’s oldest bowling alley.

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Ethel Morley is 99 years old and still on a roll Bowler has been coming to Commodore Lanes since Second World War

John Kurucz

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Ethel Morley is not short on confidence.

After a 20-minute conversation with the Courier wraps up, her attention is directed to a bowling lane, where amid high fives and dabs from 20-plus pals, she proclaims: “I’m going to give you a lesson in a couple minutes.”

Morley is wearing an honorary jersey adorned with the number 99, along with a name bar that reads “The Great One.” Such a site in a hockey rink would be cocky at best, sacrilege at worst.

“Gretzky’s got nothing on you Ethel,” Commodore Lanes league manager Ken Hayden proclaims.

Again with the confidence.

“I’ve been bowling with Ethel for 15 years and she’s the best bowler on

our team — that’s what I tell everybody,” Janice, 81, tells the Courier.

Morley first bowled at the Commodore Lanes during the Second World War. On Jan. 16, she turned 99.

“I don’t feel any different and I don’t feel any older,” Morley says.

If friends really are the family we choose, then Morley is surrounded by family, both by blood and by kinship, on a Monday afternoon at Canada’s oldest bowling alley. Commodore Lanes opened on Sept. 8, 1930, when Morley was 10.

About 25 people, mostly women in their 70s, 80s and 90s, are chucking bowling balls down the lanes like nobody’s business.

After six or seven frames, Morley’s got the best score of the four others in her group. Morley may be the oldest person

there, but she tosses bowling balls with more pep than anyone else.

And it’s not even close.

“She throws the ball harder than I do,” says Hayden, 14 years her junior.

Bowling may be the tie that binds, but socializing is the straw that stirs the drink for Morley and so many other seniors in their twilight years.

Hayden’s family ran the Varsity Ridge bowling alley for three decades until its closure in 2013. Hayden was 70 at the time and could have easily called it a day. But with somewhere between 300 and 500 bowlers displaced, he moved over to the Commodore to continue on as league manager.

“When people join a bowling league, you know you’re going to meet and mix with other people,” Hayden says. “It doesn’t matter your colour, your

age or religion. It brings people together.”

Morley and scores of others followed Hayden’s lead, and the Golden Age Bowlers Club lived to see another day. Some of those in attendance Monday have been bowling alongside Morley for 20 or 30 years.

“Now, most of [her friends] are gone,” Morley’s daughter Toni Crittenden says. “This is very important to her.”

Morley was born in Northern Ireland and arrived in Canada, just outside of Winnipeg, when she was three months old.

She got married at 19, and her late husband Walter was a Royal Canadian Air Force mechanic during the Second World War. He was stationed near Jericho Beach, before serving in England and France.

Morley worked at the Bay on Granville Street

during the war years.

After work, she’d duck over to the Commodore for a couple games in the evening.

“A lot of this area is the same even though it’s got all these new buildings.

You can find your way around quite simply,” Morley says. “But this city was going 24 hours a day during the war. Packed street cars. You couldn’t get a seat.”

The post-war years saw the Morleys back in Manitoba, before permanently moving back to Vancouver in 1961 when they bought a house near Dunbar and 23rd.

“It cost us $14,900,” Morley says.

Parts of the 1970s were spent on Vancouver Island, and Morley now lives near Jericho Beach. Her husband died in 1997, and her five sisters are gone as well.

Morley had a stroke four years ago, but not much

seems to faze her.

The rapid growth of Vancouver is “progress that happens in all cities and towns.”

As for her stroke?

“I’ve had so many surgeries in my lifetime, it was just another thing to deal with,” she says.

Morley is at a loss to explain her longevity.

She didn’t adhere to any specific diet or exercise regime, though her mother lived into her early 90s.

Crittenden attributes her mother’s long life to exercise, reading the newspaper “front to back every day” and the kind of companionship she finds at an old barn like the Commodore that’s been left largely unchanged from the Vancouver of yesteryear.

“To see her enjoying this at age 99 is great,” Crittenden says. “I’m pretty proud of that.” @JohnKurucz

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Vancouver Park Board runs aground with marina users Jessica Kerr

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A group of boat owners at Burrard Civic Marina are crying foul over what they call “exploitative” fees charged by Vancouver Park Board.

Peter Derviller, who has kept his 40-year-old sailboat at Burrard Civic Marina (BCM) for the past four years, pays around $5,300 in moorage yearly. While it’s less than what he would pay at nearby Heather Street marina, he says he and his fellow Burrard boaters receive far less in services.

“What we’ve been able to ascertain from the financials… is that a typical boater in here is a 30-foot slip, which is what I have, which is the majority of people, pays between two and three times more into the service of the park board than the Heather marina patrons pay into the system, which is, we think, exploitative,” said Derviller.

Burrard and Heather Street are the two municipally owned marinas in the city. Burrard is owned and operated by the park board, while Heather is owned by the City of Vancouver and operated by the park board.

Mark Powers has moored his board at BCM for 14 years and currently pays around $5,000 a year, double what he paid 14 years ago. He acknowledges moorage rates at Heather marina are slightly higher, but argues patrons there receive a higher level of service and the marina is in better shape.

“They still have dinghy docks, they’re allowed dock [storage] boxes and all the floats were upgraded over the last eight years, roughly,” he said.

Powers, Derviller and other users say rates at Burrard continue to rise while services and the state of the marina have declined over the years. Users at BCM can no longer tie their dinghies up to the dock and must store them in a separate location within the marina, they are no longer allowed to have dock boxes, and laundry facilities and lockers have also been removed in recent years.

The Burrard marina was built in 1964, with help from a $290,000 loan from the Woodward family. It did get new, state-of-the-art docks in 1984, but 35 years later those docks are now showing their age.

“These things get beaten up over the years, you know, in this environment… it’s been twisted with the tide

rability of rates. She said cent lower than average. and blown by the wind and it When he did the math she is committed to get the deteriorates,” Derviller said. using the numbers provided committee up and running A portion of the docks by the park board, Powers in the new year, ahead of were replaced this year in a came up with a just over 19 staff setting moorage rates $3.5-million project that is per cent difference. Then, for 2020. As well, she said, not yet complete and only when he crunched the num- the park board will start represents 10 per cent of bers using the rates he got holding bi-annual meetthe total marina. himself, the difference was ings with marina users to “I think it’s substantially less than eight per cent. increase communication. complete, there’s just a little “I really want to take away At the budget meeting bit that will probably flow this feeling of mistrust with he called the park board’s into the new year,” said staff and want to be comcalculations flawed. park board deputy general “Part of what’s at the heart pletely transparent about how manager Shauna Wilton. of all this is how you define we’re doing the rates movThere is also some money what a comparable marina ing forward,” Wilton said. in next year’s budget to look is, and how you compare the “That’s really important… at future upgrades.

“There was a study comrates because, quite frankly, I’m trying to figure out how Burrard Civic Marina users Ken Christie and Mark Powers. missioned several years ago some of them do the rates to help the marina commuPHOTO DAN TOULGOET that kind of had a laundry differently, they include nity come along with us on list of immediate upgrades different things in the rates,” that journey so I’m hoping rate increase and the 30 per that needed to be done and Wilton said, adding that that transparency is it.” another set of numbers with Derviller said he would then ones that could be con- cent gap in rates, Powers some of the rates could have the names of the marinas.

Powers then decided to like to see a freeze on the sidered for the future so they decided to start looking into changed by the time Powers do his own investigation rates at Burrard Civic actioned all those immediate things. He requested the did his comparison. and got the rates from those upgrades… Some of that numbers staff had used and “There wasn’t any attempt Marina, adding that there is a perception that all boat was first given a list of moor- marinas himself — most money is earmarked to just to try to change the data,” have their rates posted owners have a lot of money. do another study in terms of age rates for 11 marinas she said. “I think it’s just a “These are not the boats of online. The math, he said, what are the priorities and staff consulted. However, matter of different people rich people,” Derviller said. doesn’t add up. the corresponding names if there’s any quick hits or looking at numbers in differTwo sets of calculations “These are boats are worth, small projects that we could of the marinas were not on ent ways, quite frankly.”

Wilton said after hearwere done, one for rates for at best, twice as much as they do as well,” Wilton said. the list — Wilton said the Derviller and Powers boats 21 feet and under, and ing the concerns of marina pay every year in moorage. In names of the marinas were were among several other other words, half the value of left out because the informa- another for boats 22 feet and users, the park board has marina users who signed up tion had been given to staff committed to forming a up. For boats less than 22 your boat goes into the park to speak to park board com- confidentially. He then filed feet long, the graph provided committee made up of staff board pocket every year for missioners at the budget by staff indicates rates at and marina users to look at your moorage.” a Freedom of Information @JessicaEKerr meeting earlier this month, the concept of the compaBurrard marina are 32 per request and eventually got voicing concerns around fee increases at the marina.

In 2017, a park board staff report said that moorage and land storage rates at Burrard are roughly 30 per cent lower than comparable local marinas, and proposed raising the rates gradually over the next four to five years with an eight per cent increase in 2018. A further two per cent increase was proposed for 2019, but after hearing complaints from a number of marina users who spoke at the meeting, park board commissioners voted to lower the increase to one per cent.

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Former cop to review Vancouver police’s ‘street check’ practice Mike Howell

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A former Edmonton police superintendent and her consulting company have been given a $52,500 contract to conduct an independent review of the Vancouver Police Department’s practice of “street checks” on citizens.

Ruth Montgomery, president and owner of Pyxis Consulting Group Inc., has been hired by the Vancouver Police Board to review what civil liberty and Indigenous groups have suggested is a discriminatory practice conducted by police in Vancouver.

The board announced the hiring of Pyxis Jan. 4.

Montgomery, who served 27 years as a police officer, declined an interview request and referred questions to the police board, which ordered the review in September 2018 and expects it be completed by this July.

“We will not comment on our work at this time,” said Montgomery in an email to the Courier.

Montgomery’s LinkedIn profile indicates she’s been

involved in a wide variety of work related to gender equity and management training since leaving policing, and recently co-authored a review of the Edmonton Police Service’s street check practice.

The review was prepared for the Edmonton Police Commission and released in June 2018. Curt Taylor Griffiths of the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University led the review.

Joshua J. Murphy, also of SFU, was a co-author.

The review, which is in the hands of the Edmonton Police Service, made several recommendations aimed at better training, the need for more diversity in the department and improving officers’ knowledge of the communities and people they police.

“There is some question as to whether the [Edmonton Police Service] has been able to ensure that its officers have basic knowledge about communities of diversity,” the review said.

“Although race/ethnicity have been the primary lens through which the police practice of street checks has been examined and debated, the lived experi-

The Vancouver Police Board has hired a former Edmonton police superintendent and her company to conduct an independent review of the VPD’s street check practice. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

ences of other persons who are vulnerable, marginal and at-risk must also be considered. This includes person with mental illness, those who are addicted, the homeless and/or who face other challenges.”

Similar criticism in Vancouver emerged when the Vancouver police posted data to its website in May 2018 that showed an overrepresentation of Indigenous and black people being stopped by police officers.

According to the VPD’s 2017 guidelines, the definition of a street check is when an officer stops a per-

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son to conduct an interview or investigation in regards to suspicious activity or a suspected crime.

The interactions take place in public, private or any place police have contact with the public.

‘Sweet and sour kind of hiring’

Dylan Mazur, a community lawyer with the BC Civil Liberties Association, was one of the critics. He called for an independent review that would focus on gathering feedback from people stopped by police.

Montgomery and her co-authors’ review of the Edmonton Police Service involved interviews and focus group sessions with leaders and people in “communities of diversity.”

The scope of the Vancouver review calls for Pyxis to “consult with Indigenous and racialized community members in Vancouver in order to provide the board with research into the impacts of street checks on Indigenous and racialized people,” according to the request for proposal document advertising for the job.

Mazur said the civil liberties association doesn’t question that a former police officer was hired to lead the Vancouver review, but is concerned Montgomery’s previous job could affect consultation with people who were the subject of street checks.

“If the communities don’t have trust in the investigator, then the possibility is there may not be full participation of the communities affected,” said Mazur, who was joined by the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs in asking for the independent review.

“Whoever does this report needs to understand policing and needs to understand the law, for sure. But also needs to have the trust and confidence of the communities that they’re going to be interviewing.”

Chief Bob Chamberlin, vice-president of the Union

of B.C. Indian Chiefs, echoed Mazur’s point about Montgomery’s past life as a police officer and its possible effect on the review.

“It seems to me it’s kind of a sweet and sour kind of hiring when you look at it because certainly the Vancouver Police Department are going to be able to have a level of comfort and confidence in terms of who they’re going to be working with,” he said. “But from the perspective that we’ve been advancing, it’s been about the needs of the community and not so much the police.”

Chamberlin said the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs will play a role in the review.

But he wasn’t sure whether it will be as a liaison to people wanting to share their stories, or in a public advocacy role to ensure reviewers have a clear understanding of the experiences of those checked by police.

Culturally appropriate space, he said, should be made available to make people feel comfortable if they choose to inform the reviewers about their interactions with police.

“They’re going to need the supports to be able to participate because it’s their experience and their message that’s going to be critical for the improvement of this situation and the development of policy,” Chamberlin said.

He noted the review in Edmonton pointed out the incomplete recording of data on street checks and how that hindered the scope of the information available to Montgomery and her co-authors.

He said he’s worried such a data gap in Vancouver — failing to record all street checks is an example he provided—will not give reviewers and the public a clear picture of the number of street checks conducted and why they were done.

“If you don’t have good input, you’re not going to have good output,” Chamberlin said.

‘A look at the books’

The VPD’s data showed police conducted 97,281 street checks between 2008 and 2017. Of those checks, 15 per cent (14,536) were of Indigenous people and more than four per cent (4,365) of black people.

Indigenous people make up just over two per cent of the population in Vancouver, and black people less than one per cent.

The VPD reviewed the data and released a 62-page report in September 2018

that concluded its practice of conducting street checks was not discriminatory.

Even so, the police board adopted a series of recommendations that included additional training for officers, that street check data be released annually and that an officer be assigned to improve communication with the Indigenous community.

The board also requested the police department’s street check standards be formalized into policy so that it adheres with new provincial standards under development.

The VPD’s report said it was “unrealistic and overly simplistic to expect racial and gender population statistics to align uniformly with crime data.”

For example, the report continued, women make up half of the population and men make up the other half.

However, men commit approximately 80 per cent of crime, the report said.

In addition, the overrepresentation of specific groups within street check data is “not unique to visible minority communities,” said the report, noting that white people made up 46 per cent of Vancouver’s population in 2016, but accounted for 57 per cent of street checks.

In contrast, Asians make up almost 40 per cent of the population in Vancouver but were checked six per cent of the time.

Police Chief Adam Palmer told reporters after the police board ordered a review in September that he welcomed “a look at the books” and that “we’re fine with that.”

Montgomery’s work as a consultant has taken her across the country and world, including to Pakistan and China where she was involved in “building gender responsive justice policy and practice” and measures to combat gender-based violence.

She’s led management training and conducted a staffing review for the VPD and a recruit curriculum review at the Justice Institute of B.C. She was involved in the development of United Nations guidelines on justice for child victims and witnesses of crimes and the establishment of the Afghan Police Women’s Network.

Montgomery was a gender advisor to the Ottawa Police Service’s gender audit and helped lead a regional research study on how the governments and justice systems of Thailand and Vietnam address sexual violence.

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Performing arts festival continues to PuSh the envelope And for other reasons Vancouver is awesome this week

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PuSh International Performing Arts Festival

The PuSh Festival expands the horizons of Vancouver artists and audiences with work that is visionary, genre-bending, multi-disciplined, startling and original. The festival showcases acclaimed international, Canadian and local artists and mixes them together with an alchemy that inspires audiences, rejuvenates artists, stimulates the industry and forges productive relationships around the globe.

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Dine Out Vancouver

Now in its 17th year, the annual restaurant and food festival is back to tantalize locals and visitors to Vancouver, with an array of special menus and event programming across the city. Menus for 2019 are available at $15, $25, $35 and $45, and are offered for dinners, lunches and even brunches.

You can also find plenty of spots serving vegetarian fare, or with gluten-free options.

Popular Dine Out Vancouver events include the food cart feast of Street Food City, World Chef Exchange dinners, the Grand Tasting and more.

Jan. 18 to Feb. 3 At 305 participating restaurants dineoutvancouver.com

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There won’t be another eclipse like this until 2021, so make a date with space this weekend.

Jan. 20, 6:30 to 10:30 p.m.

Planetarium show 7 to 8 p.m., eclipse happens 8:41 to 9:43 p.m.

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Yellow Is Forbidden

A hit at last year’s Vancouver International Film Festival, this is a revealing documentary about Chinese superstar fashion designer Guo Pei, whose glittering designs are featured in a current exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery (ending Jan 20). Showing Guo at home and at work in preparations for her make-

or-break Paris runway show, the film celebrates her artistry and suggests her importance both in China and globally.

Jan. 17, 4:30 p.m. (also showing Jan. 25, 29 and 31) VIFF Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour St. viff.org

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This month, there’s a new way to enjoy the diverse culinary offerings of Vancouver, quite literally by the spoonful. The first-ever Vancouver Soup Festival features numerous bowls of warming goodness at participating restaurants across the region.

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Celebrated South Vancouver historian succumbs to cancer John Kurucz

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Ken MacLeod was always a stickler for details.

He spent 12 years researching and writing an 800-page book about the history of South Vancouver.

Published in 2012, The Story of South Vancouver and John Oliver High School remains the lone definitive guide to the South Slope in the Vancouver Public Library system.

When MacLeod wasn’t pouring over the minutiae of his old stomping grounds, he found time to lead 30 guided tours throughout Europe for Armed Forces members.

He also coached more than 60 teams during his time as a high school teacher and painstakingly researched his family tree back 600 years.

A renaissance man and the leading voice on all things South Vancouver history, MacLeod died Dec. 27, 2018 after battling lung cancer. He was 74.

MacLeod was laid to

rest last weekend on Vancouver Island.

“We lost a really good guy,” fellow South Van resident and writer Rob Howatson told the Courier.

Separated in age by roughly two decades, Howatson came to know MacLeod around John Oliver centennial celebrations in 2012.

Howatson is a fellow John Oliver grad and helped with the exhaustive proofreading process required to pour over 800-plus pages of history.

“He had incredible stamina and he needed that because it took him 12 years to write the book — he really went down the rabbit hole,” Howatson said.

“He’d find one thread and it lead to another thread, with each of those threads being a different story or a different person to interview. I’m told he had a whole room in his house full of interview tapes and research materials.”

Despite MacLeod’s reverence for his home turf, he left Vancouver relatively early in life. A John Oliver grad in 1962, he pursued

If there was ever an unanswered question about South Vancouver, Ken MacLeod was the man for the job. PHOTO ROB HOWATSON

a teaching degree at UBC before moving to Salmon Arm by his mid-20s. Longform, historical narratives quickly became MacLeod’s wheelhouse in the early ’70s and his first project was to trace his family roots back to 14th century Scotland.

Armed Forces history then became MacLeod’s bailiwick, leading to his involvement as military advisor for the 2000 offering, Encyclopedia of British Columbia. MacLeod went on

to head up 29 tours overseas for veterans, revisiting Canadian battlefields, cemeteries and commemorative sites.

For those efforts, MacLeod received the Veterans Affairs Canada Commendation, was awarded the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal and made an honourary lifetime member of the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada and the South Saskatchewan Regiment.

“He loved to share his knowledge,” MacLeod’s

sister Edie Kernighan told the Courier. “He worked on things off and on, but he always had a bunch of irons in the fire.”

MacLeod’s principal iron in the fire was always his old alma mater. He helped establish the John Oliver Historical Society in 1999, with the initial goal being a modest book that would take little time to write.

The furthest thing from quick and easy would emerge, as MacLeod travelled down several rabbit holes across B.C. that all somehow led back to John Oliver through upwards of 500 interviews.

MacLeod’s research uncovered the story of sprinter Barbara Howard, who became Canada’s first black female athlete to compete internationally in 1938.

MacLeod hobnobbed with billionaire Jimmy Pattison (John Oliver class of 1947) and managed to track down other alumni from long before his time at the school.

He gave readers a glimpse into life in South Vancouver before the Second World

War, when the area was primarily used for farming and residents were referred to as “stump jumpers.”

He made a point of keeping all ages of alumni up to date through an e-newsletter and organized yearly class reunions.

“He loved high school and I think it gave him a focus and a purpose,” Kernighan said. “He could join all kinds of things and he made so many friends. He absolutely thought high school was wonderful, like it was the be all, end all. He was really attached to the school.”

MacLeod’s works are in the process of being digitized and his legacy going forward at John Oliver will be twofold: through the establishment of a scholarship in his name, and through ongoing efforts to create a standalone space for the all his memorabilia at the school. Those interested in donating towards those efforts can do so through the school’s PAC, via: John Oliver PAC, 530 East 41st Ave., Vancouver, B.C., V5W 1P3. @JohnKurucz

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Have you been to Seattle lately? Last weekend, I made my first trek to the Emerald City in too many years. The occasion was a concert with my band the Smugglers and Seattle rock legends the Young Fresh Fellows. I was shocked at the changes the City of Grunge has gone through in the years since I had last hung out in its music circles.

Back when I was a teenager, the famed Seattle music scene that would change the world was just starting to break. It was the late 1980s, and Vancouver was often treated to the first touring tastes of soon-to-bedubbed grunge bands such as Mudhoney, Nirvana, Tad and the Screaming Trees — all signed to the famed Sub Pop Records.

The hairy, flannel-clad musicians would make the three-hour trek north to rock out in Vancouver venues such as the Town Pump, Club Soda, UBC’s Student Union Ballroom and the Commodore.

For my young band, it suddenly made a lot more sense to make the short, easy drive to Seattle rather than the epic, Game of Thrones-like 10-hour slog to Calgary. And so the Smugglers did, weekend after weekend, living up to our band name by slipping across the border in our rust-bucket VW van to play with the likes of Gas Huffer, Girl Trouble and Flop, in happening Seattle haunts such as the Crocodile Café, the OK Hotel, the Vogue and the Off Ramp.

Due to what was likely sheer overexposure, the Smugglers eventually got signed to Seattle’s other “Pop” label: Popllama Products, home to such underrated Seattle rock legends as the Young Fresh Fellows, the Squirrels and, later, the Presidents of the United States of America.

The Smugglers motored up and down the I-5 so many times in the 1990s that

Grant Lawrence (second from left) and his band the Smugglers played the annual Seattle Pop Punk Festival along with the Young Fresh Fellows this past weekend.

when we were finally invited to return this month to play the annual Seattle Pop Punk Festival, I opted to take the enticing 26-minute flight down rather than battle the border and the Interstate.

Word to the wise: Flying to Seattle from Vancouver is dumb. When you factor in the time to and from the airports, along with check in, security and wait times, you actually spend more hours in transit than you do driving, not to mention the heavier carbon footprint. Most of my band members left Vancouver after me and arrived in Seattle before me, then proceeded to let me hear about it the rest of the weekend.

My first indication Seattle still identifies as a music town was in Sea-Tac International Airport. A famed local musician greeted me over the airport’s PA system: “Hi I’m John Roderick from the Long Winters.

Welcome to Seattle! I hope you enjoy these local music selections while spending time at our rockin’ airport.”

I heard a similar greeting from Duff McKagan, formerly of such Seattle bands as the Fartz and the Fastbacks (he now plays bass in LA band Guns N’ Roses).

There was also a Pearl Jam poster exhibit. And this was just the airport.

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called El Corazon, which I quickly realized was a rebrand of the classic grungeera club the Off Ramp.

Besides the name, absolutely nothing had changed within the crusty venue’s black walls plastered with a million band stickers.

In the 1990s, the Off Ramp’s neighbourhood was a fairly industrialized area of low-rise buildings just outside of downtown, buttressed by the I-5 on one side and the Dog House, a notorious 24-hour diner, on the other.

These days, somehow the dirty ol’ club remains, surrounded by glistening condo towers and new hotels.

For eats, we mostly traversed across the many bridges that cross the I-5’s eight lanes of noisy traffic that slice through Seattle like a dagger. On the other side of the bridge is the now utterly happening Capitol Hill neighbourhood, which in the 1990s was the cheap rent district and has now exploded into a hipster haven.

Luckily for me, my friend Frank Leone from New York flew in for the gig. Frank always knows the greatest eateries in any town (check him out on Instagram @ironsnax), and Seattle was no different.

Thanks to Frank, we enjoyed the yummy industrialchic Thai brunch spot Soi;

General Porpoise, a charming hole in the wall that serves delicious handmade doughnuts; Central Smoke, an informal counter-serve Texas-style barbecue joint; and Nue, a bustling “global street food” café.

Next to Nue, you’ll find a really cool hideaway called Porchlight Coffee and Records, which offers exactly that. Keep going another few feet and you’ll find Old School Frozen Custard. In between the doughnut, custard and record shops is an endless froth of craft breweries.

Music is still omnipresent amongst Seattle’s artisan food and beer. Vancouver band Mother Mother has a big upcoming show at Neumos, another classic grungeera venue in the heart of Capitol Hill (originally named Moe’s) still surviving 25 years later. Telephone poles lining the streets are plastered thick with gig posters, as if Facebook Events had never been invented.

Our gig with the Young Fresh Fellows, a band that formed in the early 1980s and who I consider to be Seattle’s best, delivered on all fronts. Fifty years after Jimi Hendrix, 40 years after the Young Fresh Fellows and 30 years after Nirvana, Seattle is still a music town. @grantlawrence

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Cinematheque brings B.C. film classics to the big screen Sabrina Furminger

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If the Cinematheque’s series The Image Before Us: A History of Film in British Columbia feels educational, that’s because it is. But in this case, schooling costs far less than regular tuition and comes with the best popcorn in the city.

The series launched five years ago as an extension of an Emily Carr University fourth-year seminar about the history of film in B.C. The professor, Harry Killas, was on the board of the Cinematheque at the time, and in building the film list for his seminar, he realized he had a bona fide series on his hands, one that featured “films about British Columbians by British Columbians.”

And so Killas pitched his film series to the Cinematheque, and five years later it remains one of the most comprehensive surveys of B.C. film on the cultural calendar.

This year’s edition kicked off earlier this week with an

evening of shorts, travelogues and the scandalous (for its time) Waiting for Caroline — about a woman caught between lovers in Vancouver and Quebec — and runs until the end of April.

The Image Before Us takes its name from a documentary by filmmaker and film historian Colin Browne, which ran in the Vancouver Pavilion at Expo 86 and wove together clips and images from the city’s earliest days.

“Colin made the argument in the film that all of these images of resource extraction and the excitement of building a new city and tourism really didn’t talk to the political and social realities of Vancouverites in their own habitat,” says Killas, adding that it’s why the series “puts a lens on people who want to tell people stories from here.”

It’s an almost revolutionary stance in a city where the multi-billion-dollar film and television industry largely serves stories written by and for people in other countries.

“Independent filmmak-

Totem: The Return of the G’psgolox Pole screens at the Cinematheque as part of its annual B.C. film series The Image Before Us.

ing, by which we define as strictly independent, meaning it’s by bootstrap filmmakers or with some of the systems that are in place, has actually gotten harder [in B.C.],” says Killas.

“There are a lot of filmmakers who made one or two feature-length films, and then moved into television or moved out of the field entirely because they couldn’t get their next film made.”

“Of course, you can go

make a movie on your iPhone on the weekend, but if you’re trying to do something that’s longform, it takes a lot of time and it still takes a group of people and resources.”

Thus, Killas wants to put B.C. films in front of B.C. audiences.

“One of the questions I’d like audiences to have is, ‘How do we not know about these films?’ And the answer is that, in most

cases, they’re not celebrated, and they’re not widely available.”

The 2019 edition of The Image Before Us pays tribute to filmmaker (and founder of CKVU-TV, now Citytv) Daryl Duke, with screenings of 1973’s I Heard the Owl Call My Name — about an Anglican priest assigned to a remote Kwakwaka’wakw community in Northern B.C. — and The Silent Partner, a 1978 heist thriller that stars Elliott Gould as a bank teller who hatches a clever scheme to misappropriate a large chunk of cash, and features a young John Candy.

The series also features a pair of films about B.C.’s First Nations communities seeking to repatriate sacred objects removed to faraway countries (2003’s Totem: The Return of the G’psgolox Pole and 2007’s Totem: Return and Renewal). Two films screen in conjunction with Black History Month (2010’s Mighty Jerome, about African-Canadian track legend Harry Jerome,

and Hogan’s Alley, a 1994 short film about the largely untold story about a local African-Canadian neighbourhood that was demolished to make way for the Georgia Viaduct). Other films include Jonathan Tammuz’s Leo Awardwinning Rupert’s Land, Orphan Black writer Aubrey Nealon’s early short film Abe’s Manhood (headlined

by Pure star Ryan Robbins) and Phillip Borsos’ boy-and-his-dog survival film Far From Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog. “Many of the filmmakers here have been fashion-forward with respect to issues of the day,” says Killas.

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The Image Before Us is at the Cinematheque until the end of April; tickets and info at thecinematheque.ca.

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Is the future bright for Vancouver renters?

Q&A: The Courier talks to Karen Sawatzky, the city’s former Renters Advisory Committee chair

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never worked out, so I can’t afford to buy.

Karen Sawatzky chaired the City of Vancouver’s Renters Advisory Committee for three-and-a-half years. The committee formed in late 2014, through a motion from then-Coun. Andrea Reimer, and began meeting in April of 2015 to advise council and increase awareness of renters’ issues.

Like other non-statutory advisory committees, it disbanded after the end of the previous council’s term in October of 2018. Once the current council decides which advisory committees it wants to have, a call for applications will be put out.

In the meantime, the Courier talked to Sawatzky, a lifelong renter, about what she feels the committee accomplished over its tenure and what she thinks about the future for renters in Vancouver.

What are the main goals you feel the renters committee accomplished over its term?

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You’ve described yourself as a lifelong renter. Is that because you prefer renting or because you, too, have been priced out of the market?

Priced out. There were times in my life when I came close to being able to buy when I was married and had a two-income household. Through various circumstances that

One of the things I feel best about is putting a lot of pressure in various ways, through our various functions, [on government] and to start ongoing meetings with staff to put a focus on building more purposebuilt rental housing.

We need purpose-built, long-term, secure rental housing. Secondary suites don’t cut it. They’re important, but they don’t cut it as something to rely on. Rented condos don’t cut it either.

Putting that point across, and also saying that in order to have enough rental housing to fix the vacancy rate, we need to be able to build rental housing in a lot more areas than are currently allowed — drawing attention to the inequities of land use in the city and saying apartments are a totally legitimate and valid form of housing just like any other form of housing.

To make special rules, and to have all these special requirements about apartment buildings that are not applied to detached houses, is a form of discrimination against renters. We were always trying to convey those messages. The previous

to shift… I don’t know whether it’s still shifted under the new political climate that we’re in now.

But over the last couple years, thanks to lots of different groups, we’ve seen a shift towards recognizing the need for purpose-built rental housing and that we need to do everything that we can to make policy changes to get it built.

What do you think about advocacy groups such as the Vancouver Tenants Union? Do you think their members’ advocacy has helped speed up progress for renters’ rights?

Karen Sawatzky, the former chair of the city’s Renters Advisory Committee, hopes to see more purpose-built rental housing constructed. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

council really had a priority on rental housing. They expressed that in documents before the Renters Advisory Committee was created.

But what we brought to it was to really say that the vacancy rate is a serious issue and a lot of that is under [council’s] control. [Council has] the power to address this by making it easier and more possible to build

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What did you find most frustrating about the debate in the last few years about how to improve renters’ lives?

The lack of recognition of how desperately needed more secure, purpose-built rental housing is. We have a shortage of something, as reflected in the vacancy rate, that people say is a human right. Still, we have all these arguments about whether or not apartments can be built in certain places, and put all these conditions on how they should look. There’s a contradiction there between saying housing is a human right, which I completely agree that it is, and yet saying you can’t build the housing there or there or there. Or that [a proposed building] shades my back yard, or it needs to have this pitch of roof or I don’t like the tiles — and making it go through this long rezoning process, with a design review and everything. And they wonder why it takes so long to address the shortage.

What did you find most encouraging?

That a lot more people got active in talking about [renters’ issues]. That the focus was beginning

Yeah. We need all different types of renter advocacy groups. The Vancouver Tenants Union tends to focus on existing rental housing and on efforts to change the regulations that affect rental housing. That’s good and that’s needed because regulations are important, but we also need renters groups that focus on pushing for more rental housing to address the shortage.

Do you think the recently released recommendations by the B.C. Rental Housing Task Force struck the right balance between the interests of renters and landlords?

There are a lot of good recommendations in that report. For myself, personally — I’m not speaking on behalf of the [former] renters advisory committee on this issue — but I think it was the correct decision not to [recommend to] implement vacancy control because we need more rental housing. That would have had a negative effect on the creation of more rental housing. I know a lot of renter advocacy groups are very disappointed in that decision but I think it was the correct one.

Regulations are important — very important, but all the regulations in the world are not going to solve a shortage. That is one of the roots of the problem that renters have — a lack of rental housing. With the best regulations and the best enforcement, renters are still going to be at the mercy of landlords if there’s such a scarcity of housing.

In terms of the coming year, are there any new initiatives you hope will happen to improve the situation for renters in Vancouver?

I hope the city finds a way to meet its own rental

unit targets, but I can’t say I’m optimistic about that, given all the effort that is now going to have to go into the city plan and also just looking at what this council has said and done so far on housing.

I think the last council was aware that, in order to meet its own targets, it was going to have to change things internally — and that’s part of why it launched Making Room and tried to speed up permitting etc. This council does not seem particularly interested in Making Room or expanding the area where apartment buildings can be built without going through a long and expensive rezoning process — at least not until a new city plan is in place that has that as a goal, which I’m not at all sure will be the outcome of the plan, four or so years down the road.

I’m also not sure the majority of new council backs the new housing strategy that was approved in 2017, including its unit targets — that would be an interesting thing to hear from all of them.

Of course, the mayor campaigned on exceeding those targets — if or how that will be possible given the new make-up of council and their priorities is not clear. But I hope they do find a way to meet those targets and also that renters participate extensively and deeply in the citywide plan process.

Is the future bright for renters in Vancouver?

I’m not feeling very optimistic, myself, about the future for renters in Vancouver. But renters need to keep working and pushing all levels of government to change things so that renters can stay and continue to live in Vancouver and continue to make contributions to Vancouver that they do, including to our economy, but also to all of our institutions and communities. Renters need to keep fighting. I’m not feeling super optimistic but I think the changes the provincial government has made in the last couple years — I feel good about those, but at other levels I don’t feel so optimistic.

This interview has been edited and condensed. @naoibh

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Travis Green expects a lot out of Nikolay Goldobin

Canucks head coach talks about his ‘honest love’ approach

Backhand Sauce Daniel Wagner

Snoopy may have turned his into a swinging pad, but, for most people, the doghouse isn’t where they want to be.

That’s where Nikolay Goldobin finds himself halfway through his first full season in the NHL. The skilled playmaker may be fourth on the Canucks in points, but questions remain about his commitment to the defensive side of the game and his ability to put up points without Elias Pettersson as his centre.

As a result, Goldobin has been a healthy scratch for several games and has frequently found himself stapled to the bench in the third period.

On Sunday against the Florida Panthers, Goldobin was relegated to the worst part of the bench in the third period: in the middle, next to the defencemen. When you’re in that spot, the coach isn’t expecting anything more from you for the rest of the game.

You’re not even on call to open and close the bench door for your teammates.

At Tuesday’s practice, Goldobin was the odd man out in line rushes, another healthy scratch likely to follow.

Canucks head coach Travis Green tends to take a tough love approach to his players. If you’re not playing up to the standards he expects or, worse, keep making the same mistakes night after night, your ice time will get slashed and you are likely to end up sitting in the press box for a couple nights.

“I wouldn’t say tough love, it’s just

Skilled playmaker Nikolay Goldobin may be fourth on the Canucks in points, but for much of the season he’s been in coach Travis Green’s doghouse. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

honest love,” said Green. “I like Goldy, I’ve said it all along... He’s got to improve, though. The onus is on the player, it goes back to the player all the time.”

“We’ve said from day one that we want to develop our young players into players we can win with and there’s certain qualities that you have to have to win,” he added. “[Goldobin] needs to improve in certain areas and, when we see that, we’ll be happier.”

Some of the Canucks can attest to Green’s “honest love”: guys like Ben Hutton and Sven Baertschi have been subject to it in the past.

“He expects a lot from everybody,” said Baertschi. “But if you’re talking skilled guys, he expects even more. He expects that skill side of the game to be great, but then on the other side you’ve still gotta play hard, and you’ve gotta compete, and you’ve gotta play well defensively.”

Baertschi ended up a healthy scratch while he was still producing points, but Green expected more out of the skilled winger. So, he sat in the press box for a game in mid-February.

“Goldy and I are fairly similar in the ways that we play,” said Baertschi. “Some-

times, maybe you forget about certain details in the game or you’re not quite as hard on pucks and obviously that’s going to stick out to the coaching staff.”

Baertschi was quick to say that there’s “nothing to worry about” when it comes to Goldobin.

“He’s still young and he’s such a talented guy. He’s incredible,” he said.

“You can only ask for consistency. I think every single person in their life has days where things aren’t going as well and everybody can relate to that. It’s the same with hockey players, we’re just humans.”

Meanwhile, Hutton was a frequent healthy scratch last season and, when he was in the lineup, was relegated mostly to the third pairing, with limited time on special teams. By the end of the season, Green was blunt about his disappointment with Hutton, emphasizing that his six points weren’t enough and questioning his skating and conditioning.

“It’s tough on you mentally, it’s tough on your confidence,” said Hutton. “I’ve tried to talk to Goldy, just let him know that I’ve been there, and the biggest thing I thought was confidence. Don’t take away your confidence to make plays, to play your type of hockey.”

Hutton and Baertschi responded to the tough love approach, improving their game whether in-season or during the off-season.

The question now is how Goldobin will respond.

For daily Canucks news and views, go to Pass It to Bulis at vancourier.com.

World Juniors tournament nets roughly $40 million in business

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Average ice times and power play percentages are giving way to an entirely different set of metrics now that the Finns have marched out of town with gold medals in tow.

After the conclusion of the World Junior Hockey Championships, the Courier reached out to Hockey Canada, the city and tournament organizers to get a glimpse of numbers not found on stat sheets: attendance, economic impacts and ticket sales.

Hockey Canada spokesperson Dean McIntosh said preliminary estimates suggest between $35 and $45 million was kicked up in Vancouver bars, hotels, restaurants and in the rink itself over the course of the 11-day tournament.

The numbers in Victoria sit between $10 and $15 million, and those totals cover the timeframe from the day the tournament was awarded to the two cities on Dec. 1, 2016 up until the conclusion of Saturday night’s final.

The 2006 competition in Vancouver, Kelowna and Kamloops drummed up about $80 million.

This year’s tournament, however, was far more spread out. Pre-tournament games and training camps were held across Vancouver Island, Metro Vancouver and in Kamloops and Kelowna. Hockey Canada’s financial target was in the neighbourhood of $50 million worth of economic spinoffs for the entirety of B.C.

Switzerland and Russia face off during the World Juniors at Rogers Arena. Hockey Canada says preliminary estimates suggest between $35 and $45 million was kicked up in Vancouver bars, hotels, restaurants and in the rink itself over the course of the 11-day tournament. PHOTO MICHAEL KISSINGER

“Right now, based on what we know, that would be a very reasonable estimate based on past economic impact as well as current assessment on attendance and tickets,” McIntosh told the Courier Jan. 8.

About 304,000 bums were in seats in both cities, representing a per-game average attendance of 12,640 in Vancouver and 6,078 in the provincial capital.

The 2006 tournament boasted local attendance in the neighbourhood of 325,000, while last year’s competition in Buffalo struggled to move past the 200,000 mark.

Part of the paltry attendance at last year’s event was a lack of uptick in ticket packages that got fans into virtually any game they wanted. That didn’t happen this year, as just shy of 12,000 full tournament packages were sold in Vancouver and 4,000 more in Victoria. Average upper bowl prices ranged between $30 and $50.

Playing half the tournament in a nonNHL arena helped keep rental costs down, McIntosh said.

Even after Canada’s flukey 2-1 loss to the Finns in the quarterfinals, the final

four games had an average attendance of about 14,500.

“I’ve spoken with the hotels, they didn’t see a drop off once Canada was knocked out — their rooms were already pre-booked and Hockey Canada had already pre-sold all the tickets,” said Michelle Collens, the city’s manager of sport hosting.

Collens said the period running November to February is the city’s leanest from a tourism perspective. She was at Rogers Arena and in the downtown core each day of the tournament and saw packed bars and restaurants.

“For this time of year on a Thursday night, or whatever day it was, places were jamming people in and we were so excited to see the business,” Collens said.

Organizing committee co-chair Ron Toigo was admittedly “hockey-ed out” when reached by the Courier Jan. 7. The Vancouver Giants’ majority owner was also still bummed about the home team’s quarterfinal loss, which marked the first time Canada didn’t medal when the tourney was on home soil.

But for all the things within Toigo’s control, he was pretty pleased.

“This was an extremely successful tournament — I’d say it was one of the best from a measuring stick of player experience, fan experience, the dollars and cents, volume of people,” Toigo said. “Whatever format you want to use for measurement, I think we’re going to check off all of them.” @JohnKurucz

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