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Did you know Vancouver has a new Indigenous relations manager?

Mike Howell

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Did you know the city has a new Indigenous relations manager?

Neither did I. I thought maybe I missed a news release from the city. But after doing a search of my email inbox (I tend to keep everything), nothing came up. That’s because the city, which has promoted reconciliation in a big way in recent years, decided — for some inexplicable reason — not to make a big deal about the hiring in September.

Anyway, her name is Katelyn Crabtree, who replaces Ginger GosnellMyers, who resigned in March 2018 to focus on completing her master’s degree in public policy at Simon Fraser University and to run the mayoral campaign of Squamish hereditary chief, Ian Campbell.

Campbell, as regular readers will know, was Vision Vancouver’s candidate but withdrew from the race

in September, citing “my complicated personal journey” as a reason.

I found out that Crabtree was on the job after reading a memo dated Sept. 12, 2018 from city manager Sadhu Johnston to the previous mayor and council. That memo is now public and appears on the city’s website.

I’ve alerted readers to the city manager’s memos in previous pieces in this space. Another dump of memos is now available for viewing. Don’t expect to read anything sensational or revealing but occasionally—as I discovered with the appointment of Crabtree — there is some news to report.

Before I get to some of the other news nuggets, a bit more on Crabtree…

She’s a member of the Nlaka’pamux Nation and most recently served as an associate at JFK Law, specializing in Aboriginal law.

She also worked with the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry while obtaining her law degree.

Her role — as was Gos-

Katelyn Crabtree became the city’s second-ever Indigenous relations manager in September. PHOTO CITY OF VANCOUVER

nell-Myers as the city’s first Indigenous relations manager — will be to “continue to work to strengthen local First Nations and Urban Indigenous relations, and embed reconciliation into the city’s processes, policies and decision-making.”

That’s what Johnston said.

What else did he say?

Well, let’s take a look at a few of the other memos…

In a memo Johnston sent to council prior to the 2018 civic election, he attached a report from chief election officer Rosemary Hagiwara.

It focused on how city staff was ensuring “the integrity of voting” in the election.

Get this — the ballot tabulators used in the election and in the 2017 byelection were certified by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. (Insert joke here about Russia meddling in U.S. election). Hagiwara said the certification “is extremely rigorous, involving testing of all aspects of the election system by U.S. federallycertified test labs, including security protocols.”

Johnston’s memos from July to September 2018 cover a variety of topics, including an update on whether False Creek will be swimmable this year, the removal of clothing donation bins from city streets, the reinstallation of the birds sculptures at

the Olympic Village and the mayor’s elevator.

The mayor’s elevator?

Last July, Johnston was keeping council up to date on why the mayor’s elevator didn’t go all the way to the top. The memo doesn’t identify how long the mayor’s elevator was out of service, but the problem with it was enough of a concern to alert councillors, who also used the elevator.

Johnston attached a letter from Paul Hsu of the city’s real estate and facilities management division, who explained something was wrong with the elevator’s motor.

“The elevator company regrets the length of time it has taken to repair this elevator and have been responsive in doing everything they are able to help expedite, but this has been one of those situations where it has been difficult to resolve,” Hsu said. “They have not stopped working on fixing the elevators since the day it was reported to them.”

The report did not mention any problems with the

stairs at city hall.

I’ve got one more for you…

Remember then-mayor Gregor Robertson’s goal to become the greenest city in the world by 2020? Well, the most recent update to council on that goal shows the city has made some great gains but still has some work to do.

That would explain the memo to council last July that explained the “Greenest City Logo” would no longer include “2020” or — for some reason — “access to nature.”

Johnston: “The city has already surpassed many of the 2020 targets and are on track to achieve more by 2020. However, a few targets such as our GHG reduction of 33 per cent by 2020 will not be reached by 2020. Even with significant population growth, we are trending in the right direction and will eventually meet this target.”

That’s all for now, folks.

To read more of Johnston’s memos, go to vancouver.ca @Howellings

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City no longer accepts cash payments of more than $10,000 City says 19 cash payments made last year exceeded $10,000 each Mike Howell

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The City of Vancouver announced Jan. 31 that it will no longer accept cash payments of more than $10,000 from people paying bills in an effort to prevent or deter potential money laundering that two city councillors suggested last week could be occurring at city hall.

In a news release, the city said $10,000 is the limit that aligns with the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre (FINTRAC) reporting requirements for identifying and tracking money that was potentially made through proceeds of crime and spent as if it was legitimately earned.

The city decided not to implement an all-out ban on cash payments because residents would need fair warning, according to an email from Melanie Kerr, the city’s director of financial services, who was not available for an interview.

“We’ll be looking at that as part of the [city] council direction to review our processes and methods of payment accepted by the city,” Kerr said in the email.

“There is a much larger number of smaller value cash transactions between the public and the city. So if we were to implement a total ban on cash payments, we would need to provide some notice and have a transition plan in place prior to announcing that.”

Kerr said the city received 19 cash payments last year exceeding $10,000. Three of those payments were for business licences, the others for property tax, according to the City of Vancouver.

The city collected $13 million in cash last year for services such as parking permits, bylaw fines, business licences, municipal taxes and taxes collected on behalf of other authorities.

Kerr said the city received eight cash payments last year for the empty homes tax, totalling $32,000. But, she added, none exceeded

The City of Vancouver announced Jan. 31 it will no longer accept cash payments of more than $10,000 from people paying bills in an effort to prevent or deter potential money laundering that two city councillors suggested last week could be occurring at city hall.

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$10,000. She said the average cash payment for property tax is $1,700.

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The move to implement

the $10,000 threshold comes despite the fact municipalities are not required to report large cash transactions to FINTRAC, which is Canada’s financial intelligence unit. Vancouver police told the Courier last week they had not received any reports over the last five years from the city regarding suspicious transactions at city hall.

Councillors Melissa De Genova and Adriane Carr said in the council chamber Jan. 29 — and provided more detail to the Courier the next day— that they knew of four incidents at city hall involving people carrying large sums of cash into city hall in suitcases and reusable shopping bags.

In three of the cases, the money was purported to be used to pay taxes, according to the councillors.

Carr said she heard about the suitcases from members of the public and De Genova said she personally saw two people with two reusable shopping bags filled with money.

“I’m not saying that all cash that comes in to the City of Vancouver is laundered, is the proceeds of crime,” De Genova said.

“However, I think we can definitely deter and prevent that, or limit that by at least having some types of checks and balances.”

Kerr told the Courier in a separate email earlier in the week “there has definitely not been anyone bringing money to city hall in a suitcase.”

Council unanimously approved Jan. 29 a series of recommendations to prevent and deter potential money laundering at the city and in local businesses, including authorize staff to take any necessary security measures in the interest of public safety and to consult with police in a review of the “process and methods of payment accepted by the City of Vancouver.”

City staff is expected to give council a progress report before the end of the year. @Howellings

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The location of the annual 4/20 pot protest is once again up for discussion and at least one park board commissioner is hoping to see it move on from Sunset Beach.

Non-Partisan Association commissioner Tricia Barker is set to bring forward a motion at the next meeting that would see the park board ask city council to continue to look at different venues for the event “in order to move this event to a more appropriate location that will not cause disruption to West End area residents, seawall users and Vancouver Aquatic Centre patrons, with the goal of having this event relocated by 2020.”

Barker said that she has nothing against cannabis or the movement, it’s just about following the rules in place.

“It’s never had a permit to be there and it keeps on operating and, especially during the campaign, I found a lot of people were really upset [with] the fact that, you know, we have bylaws, we have rules and people can come in and just disregard that… For me it is a pretty simple premise, there’s no smoking in parks and we should actually go along with that.”

The annual “smoke out” has been taking place in Vancouver since 1995 and up until 2016 it had been held at Vancouver Art Gallery. As the event grew in popularity, it outgrew the space and a decision was made in early 2016 to move 4/20 to Sunset Beach.

However, the park board commissioners at the time were not on board with the move.

“On behalf of the Board, I would like to express our grave concerns that this took place without the knowledge of the elected Board of Commissioners,” Sarah Kirby-Yung, who was board chair at the time, wrote in a letter to then-Mayor Gregor Robertson. “Consequently, I think it is important to clearly inform you of the position of the Vancouver Park Board, which has serious concerns regarding this illegal, unsanctioned, and unpermitted event.

The annual 4/20 “smoke out” has been held at Sunset Beach since 2016. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

The Board does not support 4/20 taking place at Sunset Beach.”

In the letter, Kirby-Yung asked the mayor to direct city staff to work with organizers to identify an alternate location. Commissioners went a step further in 2017 and adopted a resolution to not approve or permit any future 4/20 and/or cannabis events on any park board property, despite staff recommending that commissioners issue a permit for the annual event.

In March 2017, city council considered a motion to work with organizers to identify another location but deferred the motion back to staff for consideration pending the legalization of cannabis.

In light of the legalization of recreational cannabis, which went into force last October, Barker would like to see council revisit the idea.

Organizer Dana Larsen said that other locations have been considered but finding another suitable location for an event of that size is difficult. An estimated 40,000 people attended last year’s rally.

“We thought about a lot of different parks in the city, really, there was a few different spots that we looked at and thought about but mostly they were either too small or not particularly accessible or difficult for safety purposes,” he said, adding the PNE was considered as a potential location back in 2017 but the idea was ultimately rejected by the PNE board.

“In my opinion that’s one of the only other places in the city that would be suitable for something like this…,” Larsen said. “We’re fine at Sunset Beach. It’s a great

venue. If it was any other kind of event they’d be happy to give us a permit.

It’s really just bias and stigma against users that is the root of the issue here, in my opinion.”

Even with the legalization of the recreational use of marijuana, Larsen said the 4/20 event is still a protest.

“There’s been some positive changes to the cannabis laws. Our work is by no means done and there’s plenty of flaws and problems and punishments and restrictions under this legal regime that have to be dealt with,” he told the Courier Feb. 1, adding that he was about to head to a pot protest at city hall “to try and stop the city from shutting down some of the dispensaries that are serving medical patients who have no alternative at this point.

“There’s still ongoing issues and even when things are legal it doesn’t mean that there’s no room left to protest or complain.”

In her motion, which will be considered at the Feb. 11 park board meeting, Barker would also like to see staff look into options to preclude the sale of cannabis and cannabis-related products at the 2019 event.

She also wants staff to look at ways to minimize the impacts on West End residents “in regard to air quality, noise and music levels, traffic disruption and restricted access to the seawall.”

“We close down that part of the seawall, we close down the aquatic centre, the roads are closed down in that area for these thousands of people,” Barker said.

“If you’re going to hold a big function like that, the policing, the road closures, citizens are going to get pretty upset.”

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NPA fails to meet deadline to file election documents Mike Howell

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The Non-Partisan Association and its mayoral candidate in the October 2018 municipal election — Ken Sim — failed to file their financial disclosure statements with Elections B.C. before the deadline and have been penalized with $3,000 in fines, according to Elections B.C. Under the Local Elections Campaign Financing Act, disclosure statements must be filed with B.C.’s chief election officer within 90 days after general voting day for an election. The filing deadline for the Oct. 20, 2018 election was Jan. 18.

Elections B.C. issued a news release Tuesday saying the NPA’s main campaign, school board campaign and the campaign of Sim, who finished runner-up to independent candidate Kennedy Stewart, failed to meet the deadline.

As a result, the campaigns were fined $500 each and have until Feb. 19 to file.

Disclosure statements for park board candidate John Coupar and council candidate Sarah Kirby-Yung, who were both elected, were filed after the Jan. 18 deadline.

Their campaigns were penalized $500 each, as was the campaign of NPA school board candidate Chris Qiu. NPA president Gregory Baker told the Courier Tuesday that all financial disclosure statements for the party and Sim will be filed by the Feb. 19 deadline. The party

has already paid $1,500 of the $3,000 in fines, he said.

“You know what, it is incredibly complicated and it’s just taking us a lot longer to complete it than we anticipated just by virtue of the fact that there are new rules and we have a lot of transactions,” said Baker, estimating the party raised close to $1 million and spent almost the same in the election.

The “new rules” he referred to are the ban on corporate and union donations.

Baker estimated the party had more than 4,000 donors, including those who donated to campaigns of the candidates and the party as a whole.

None of the other Vancouver parties or organizations that had candidates in the election failed to meet the first deadline to file financial disclosure statements. Aside from the NPA, an independent mayoral candidate named Spike was the only other candidate in Vancouver who failed to meet the Jan. 18 deadline.

Baker said it was “a fair question” to ask why the NPA couldn’t meet the deadline when all other Vancouver parties did. He again cited the number of transactions, suggesting the party had “probably more than almost all the others parties combined.”

Added Baker: “To our financial agent’s credit, he’s just being very, very thorough. We do not want to make any mistakes.”

Elections B.C. posted all disclosure statements from the Oct. 20 election to its

website Tuesday.

Stewart won the race for Vancouver mayor after raising $244,005 and spending $320,228. The documents say 975 people contributed less than $100 for a total of $32,299.

The documents posted by Elections B.C. also included third party advertising sponsors, including the Vancouver and District Labour Council, which endorsed Stewart and 26 other Vancouver candidates in the election.

The council disclosed it spent $8,432.10 on brochures, pamphlets, flyers and the internet in the Vancouver campaign. The documents do not capture the pre-campaign period spending of the council.

In October, for example, the council told the Courier it had spent more than $25,000 on brochures and social media advertising and was paying the salaries of four workers seconded from their respective unions to work on the campaign to get Stewart and the other candidates elected.

Stephen von Sychowski, the president of the VDLC, said Tuesday the council filed what was required under the legislation. The four workers were not doing advertising work, he said, noting they were recruiting volunteers and organizing door-to-door campaigns.

“This is one of the things that came up several times during the campaign period, and we had a number of discussions with our lawyer and Elections B.C. about it

to make sure that we were clarified on it,” he said. “[The four workers] weren’t actually going out and doing any advertising work, or producing advertising, or things like that.”

The Green Party, which elected three councillors, raised $83,760 and spent $84,298 on its main campaign. In the school board race, the Greens raised $30,952 and spent $34,849.

COPE, which elected Jean Swanson to council, raised $129,321 on its entire campaign and spent $127,353.

OneCity, which elected Christine Boyle to council, raised $66,129 and spent $78,224 on its main campaign. For its school board campaign, the party raised $42,125 and spent $51,216.

Vision Vancouver raised $253,035 on its main campaign and spent $215,297.

The party raised $49,004 for its school board campaign and spent $48,768. School trustee candidate Allan Wong was the party’s only candidate to get elected.

If the NPA fails to meet the Feb. 19 deadline to file how much it raised and spent in the 2018 campaign, then the party will be disqualified from running candidates in the next election and could face a fine of $20,000.

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Are You Ready for Public Hearing: Snow and Ice? February 20, 2019 Be prepared and know how to respond: • Prepare your snow gear early: Make sure you have shovels, snow boots, snow tires, and salt.

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Wednesday, February 20, 2019, at 6 pm City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Third Floor, Council Chamber Vancouver City Council will hold a Public Hearing to consider rezoning for this location: 1. 1636 Clark Drive and 1321-1395 East 1st Avenue To rezone 1636 Clark Drive and 1321-1395 East 1st Avenue from I-2 (Industrial) and RM-4N (Multiple Dwelling) Districts to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District, to permit the development of a 10-storey, mixed-use building containing 90 social housing units, a social enterprise space and a withdrawal management centre with up to 20 short-term transitional beds. The site is located in the Britannia-Woodland sub-area of the Grandview-Woodland Community Plan. A height of 36.6 metres (120 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 3.22 are proposed.

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Years after social housing was demolished on the Little Mountain site, there’s some progress in redevelopment plans for the site, although the entire buildout is still expected to take more than 10 years.

Social housing units, as well as an eight-storey, mixed-use, market residential building are in the works.

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by email to publichearing@vancouver.ca, or by mail to: City of Vancouver, City Clerk’s Office, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 1V4. All submitted comments will be distributed to Council and posted on the City’s website.

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plication for the market residential building was reviewed by the Urban Design Panel Feb. 6.

Comments from the public are being accepted until Feb. 8.

The building is proposed for 5299 Main St. at 37th, on the southeast corner of the property. Plans envision seven levels of market residential units — for a total of 126 units — above one level of commercial space at grade level. There would also be 218 parking spaces on two levels of underground parking.

The firm B+H Architects is involved in the project, which would be the first market residential building in phase one of the redevelopment.

In its design rationale, B+H Architects says the building’s curved exterior is in response to three mature Norway Maples lining Main Street — the façade curves around the trees and the curvature expressed in the rest of the building originates from that.

The overall development

Rezoning for the 15-acre Little Mountain site was approved in 2016, years after hundreds of units of social housing, which were built in 1954, were knocked down. Most families were relocated to other social housing but critics have long complained about the lack of headway on the site.

The overall plan for the property is to produce about 1,300 market housing units and 282 social housing units. Ultimately, there will be 14 residential buildings and three mixed-use buildings ranging from three-storey townhouses to 12-storey mid-rise buildings.

In 2015, before rezoning was approved, a five-storey building featuring 53 social housing units for seniors was opened to “accelerate” the addition of social housing on the property for former residents still living on the site or relocated elsewhere, according to the City of Vancouver.

In all, there will be four phases of development.

Five phases are mentioned in the rezoning report but two — phases two and four — will be combined. It will likely take more than a decade until the entire development is completed. Holborn determines when its applications for individual buildings are submitted to the city.

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Mountain redevelopment starts to pick up the pace Social housing

All the social housing is planned for the first two phases. Holborn recently submitted a development application for an eight-storey building with 63 social housing rental units over one storey of commercial space at 155 East 37th Ave. — the southeast corner of the site. B.C. Housing will manage the building.

The Urban Design Panel supported the application with recommendations to improve it. The applicant’s response to meet those

conditions is expected in early 2019.Another social housing building, which would be built next to the 63-unit complex, is in the pre-application stage. It would feature 48 units, owned by the City of Vancouver and operated by a non-profit partner, with a neighbourhood house and daycare centre at grade level. The two remaining social housing buildings are planned for phase two of the development.

Timeline

Construction of the

Mount Pleasant ‘affordable’ rental housing project breaks ground A nine-storey building that’s geared towards households earning low to moderate incomes will open at Main and Sixth Avenue in about two-and-a-half years. Half of the 145 units will be suitable for families.

The City of Vancouver, the Vancouver Affordable Housing Agency and Catalyst Community Developments Society (CCDS), a non-profit real estate developer, are involved in the project at 188 East Sixth Ave., which marked its ground breaking Jan. 31.

Units include 29 studios, 43 one-bedrooms, 43 twobedrooms and 30 threebedrooms.

One-third will rent at B.C. Housing’s Housing Income Limits (HILs) rates, while the remaining units will rent at a minimum of 10 per cent below current market rates.

Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart called it a “great day” for affordable housing in Vancouver, saying that he is particularly pleased that half the homes are family units.

“Housing affordability is council’s number one priority and this new building will provide affordable homes for hundreds of people in Vancouver and ensure residents, especially families, can stay rliving and working in the city,” he said.

Stewart added that working with non-profit societies is the best way to build

homes for low- and middleincome households.

Robin Petri, vice president of development at CCDS, said the project will deliver critically needed below-market housing to families living and working in Vancouver.

“These are people who may have had a hard time finding affordable housing and either living in stressful financial condition or considering moving out of the city to somewhere less expensive. As a non-profit that develops, owns and operates below-market rental housing in British Columbia, Catalyst knows how important it is to have secure, affordable homes in our community,” she said.

“We know from experience that residents who have a home offering longterm stability and rent that is affordable to their income can experience a significant and wide-ranging improvement in their quality of life.”

Petri said rents are set up such that households are not paying more than a third of their income on rent.

Rents for studios, for example, would range from $1,000 to $1,320, which associate to incomes of $41,520 to $52,800.

Rents for three-bedroom units would range from $1,700 to $2,970, which relate to incomes of $68,000 to $118,000.

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first building of market homes will take place at the same time as the two non-market buildings in phase one, but will be completed after the nonmarket buildings.

The City of Vancouver also anticipates Holborn will submit more development applications early this year.

A 46-unit temporary modular housing building

currently sits on the Little Mountain site, on a phase two parcel that will be developed into non-market housing.

It’s expected to remain for about three years while permanent social housing is being constructed.

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Opinion Increased screen time leading to more developmentally delayed children Tracy Sherlock

The study recognizes that children with delays might be using screens more than their peers, but concludes it’s more likely that increased screen time leads to developmental delays and not the other way around.

B.C.’s provincial health officer Bonnie Henry released another report last week with more troubling statistics about our little ones. In increasing numbers, children are showing up to kindergarten vulnerable in one or more developmental areas, the report says.

It uses the Early Development Instrument, a survey that measures five areas that predict adult health: physical health and wellbeing, language and cognitive development, social competence, emotional maturity and communication skills and general knowledge.

Over the past decade, the results of this assessment have declined for B.C.’s littlest humans.

In Vancouver, more than one-third of kindergarten students are vulnerable in at least one of these areas and the number of children who are vulnerable in two

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Children’s use of smart phones and other screens — such as TV and video games — could be making them less emotionally and socially ready to start school, a pair of recent reports shows.

When youngsters spend a lot of time watching screens, it’s linked to delays reaching developmental milestones, says a new study published by Sheri Madigan in JAMA Pediatrics. More than 2,000 Calgary toddlers were assessed several times up to their fifth birthdays between 2011 and 2016. The two year olds watched screens an average of 2.4 hours every day, the three year olds watched them 3.6 hours a day and the five year olds, who would have just started kindergarten, watched them 1.6 hours a day.

There’s a pediatric guideline that children ought to spend no more than one hour a day watching highquality programs, the study says. Excessive screen time can hinder children’s ability to develop optimally, it says.

A pair of recent studies show increased screen time, be it on smartphones, computers, TV or playing video games, could be making kids less emotionally and socially ready to start school.

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or more areas is growing.

The report singles out the emotional maturity and social competence areas as being particular weaknesses in B.C. Poverty is a factor in many cases, the report says.

It doesn’t take a genius to put two and two together and arrive at the idea that kids are more socially and emotionally immature and vulnerable because they’ve spent too much time looking at screens and not

enough outside playing with other children or being read to by their parents.

I’d even go so far as to say it likely doesn’t help that mom and dad (and even grandma and grandpa) probably pay more attention to their own screens than to their children.

The early years of a child’s life are critical to their development and it’s essential that they have strong bonds with other

people including lots of communication and physical activity.

While Henry’s report mostly shows that British Columbians are very healthy, it found that “hazardous drinking” is on the rise, particularly among young women, that British Columbians don’t think their mental health is very good and they’re not particularly satisfied with their lives, and that the opioid crisis is reducing the overall life expectancy, primarily among young males and Indigenous people.

Given that addiction and mental health are closely related, and that Henry’s report says mental illness costs Canada about $51 billion a year, it would seem worth it to do anything to make sure children get off to the best start in their lives, and yet, in B.C., some of the indicators for young children are worsening.

One of Henry’s seven recommendations is specifically to increase support for government programs and policies that focus on health among women, children, youth and families.

Schools, pre-schools and high-quality daycares have a very important role to play ensuring children are not vulnerable as they begin, and progress, through the education system.

That’s one reason the $10-a-day child care campaign in B.C. was focused on ensuring subsidized and new day care spots would be in high-quality centres.

In February 2018, the B.C. government announced a three-year, $1-billion child care plan, based on quality, affordability and accessibility.

If it’s done right, this should be a good investment that could help to turn around these troubling trends.

Every $1 spent on early childhood development and care saves up to $9 in future spending on health, social and justice services, Henry’s report says.

After all, children enrolled in high-quality daycare centres don’t spend their days glued to screens — they’re busy playing with other kids, developing their social and motor skills. The longawaited poverty reduction plan won’t hurt either — once it’s finally released.

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City’s cross to bear Re: “Is the current location of the East Van cross on shaky ground?” Jan. 22.

The state of public art in Vancouver is strange and, at times, ill: gaudy fake trees, real trees with cars on top, the ladder to nowhere, giant birds and, most of all, the East Van cross.

The high-art elites of our city feed expensive bones to their pals in the form of city funds. Renegade developers profiteer, in the form of write-offs, by erecting tasteless pieces of garbage.

Why can’t we try and get these funds to our city’s mass of underground artists and creatives, in the form of creative space subsidies, or traditional and cultural art spaces?

The cross at Clark and Great North-

ern Way is disgusting. Not only has the city and artist successfully ripped a piece of cultural identity from a geographic, marginalized and generational community, the image has been handed over to a new group, that which displaced the community whose identity they’ve stolen.

They’ve warped and ruined the meaning of the East Van image entirely.

Why, in this day and age, would our city think it prudent to erect a symbol of Christianity? It’s a symbol of oppression, war, tyranny and colonialism made to look over some of the poorest parts of our city.

The state of Vancouver public art reflects the perspective of those who sit at the top of the glass towers — fiscally irresponsible, tasteless and completely removed from the realities, not just of our cities artists and creatives, but of our communities as a whole.

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News Report reveals chaotic scene at police shooting outside Canadian Tire VPD officers cleared in shooting death of Daniel Peter Rintoul in 2016 Mike Howell

fired shots at Rintoul until he went down. Officer 1 “staggered slightly and fell to his knees.” Seconds later, he collapsed onto his back, the report said.

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The Independent Investigations Office has cleared Vancouver police officers of any wrongdoing in the November 2016 shooting death of a 430-pound man who stabbed a police officer and a store clerk while attempting to steal a rifle at a Canadian Tire store on Grandview Highway.

The agency released its decision Feb. 1 and the report reveals a chaotic scene in which officers struggled to subdue Daniel Peter Rintoul after he emerged from the store armed with a knife and a large can of bear spray on the afternoon of Nov. 10, 2016.

Rintoul, who was 38 at the time of his death, isn’t identified by name in the report. But the B.C. Coroners Service confirmed four days after the shooting that Rintoul was the man shot by police outside the Canadian Tire on Grandview Highway, near Renfrew Street.

Three officers — identified only as officers 1, 2 and 4 in the report — fired 10 bullets from their pistols at Rintoul, with nine of the rounds hitting him. Rintoul was also hit twice with a Taser, five “rubber bullet” rounds from an Arwen gun and pepper spray. He died at the scene.

“The objective evidence demonstrates that [the man] posed a threat of deadly force to members of the public, who may have been in the store and possibly coming out, and to the lives of the officers present who later gave statements regarding their individual threat assessments,” said the report signed by Chief Civilian Director Ronald

‘Finish me off’

Dozens of police officers from Vancouver and the RCMP rushed to a Canadian Tire store on Grandview Highway Nov. 10, 2016 to respond to reports of a man robbing the store. Police killed the man outside the store’s front door. PHOTO MIKE HOWELL

J. MacDonald and lawyer Clinton J. Sadlemyer of the investigations office.

“All of that evidence supports the reasonableness and necessity of the decisions by officers 1, 2 and 4 to shoot. Officers 1, 2 and 4 acted as required by their duties and in accordance with the law. The evidence collected does not provide grounds to consider any charges against any officer.”

The force used by police occurred outside the store.

Inside, Rintoul had already sprayed Mace at a 53-yearold store clerk at the “gun desk” and cut his face and head with a knife. The store’s video surveillance showed Rintoul “breaking open the glass gun case and trying to load a long gun,” the report said.

‘Just do what I say’

He left the desk without a gun but was carrying a can of bear spray. A customer in the store said he saw the man coming down an escalator. He told investiga-

tors “the next thing, he had his arm around me and he showed me his knife [and] said…‘Just do what I say, and you won’t get hurt.’”

Store video showed the customer being guided by Rintoul, who was holding a knife on the customer’s shoulder. On the day of the incident, which began just after 3 p.m., Vancouver police issued a news release saying an 82-year-old customer had been taken hostage.

The report doesn’t give the customer’s age, but said he was left unharmed by Rintoul moments before he left the store to be met by officers 1 and 2, one of whom was armed with a rifle (which investigators learned later wasn’t loaded).

The officers identified themselves as police, told Rintoul to “go down” and that if he had a weapon, he should “drop it.” Rintoul started to spray the officers with Mace as officer 2 fired his Taser at him. He “went down,” the report said.

Witness accounts, in-

cluding one from a person who kicked Rintoul in an attempt to help with the arrest, said officers got on top of Rintoul but were unable to handcuff him. One witness questioned, “How can anybody be that strong?”

The same witness said it looked like Rintoul was trying to get away.

“The video makes it clear that [the man] could not be controlled, likely because of his size,” the report said. “It appeared as though the few body blows the police were using to control him had no effect at all. The [man] took hold of officer 1 and started stabbing his face and shoulder. Officer 1 pushed [the police] rifle away slightly with his foot and [the man] rolled on top of him. As officer 1 struggled to get free from [the man’s] grasp, he stabbed his stomach.”

The officer then rolled away, stood up and unholstered his pistol. So did his partner. Both officers

At this point, Rintoul began repeatedly shouting “finish me off” as officer 2 continued to point his pistol at him. Between them, the officers had already fired seven shots at Rintoul.

More officers arrived on the scene, with one spraying a small canister of pepper spray at Rintoul.

Rintoul was still yelling to police to “finish me” and spraying bear Mace at officers. He started to roll his body towards the line of officers and it appeared he was attempting to stand up, the report said. While this was happening, two officers took hold of officer 1’s arms and dragged him several metres from Rintoul, “leaving a trail of blood.”

An officer — identified as officer 4 in the report — fired a round from a pistol at Rintoul. Another officer fired three rounds from an Arwen gun. Rintoul continued to spray bear Mace at the officers. Officer 4 fired two more shots at Rintoul, whose “left leg came over his right leg and he was fully face down and motionless.”

An officer then used his Taser on Rintoul and put him in handcuffs. He died at the scene.

The Courier attempted to reach Rintoul’s mother in Calgary to comment on the report’s conclusions, but she did not return a call before this story was published.

Vancouver police declined to release the status of the officer who was stabbed in the incident until a later date.

Officers refuse interviews

The report noted the completion of the investigation was delayed because of court action that related to “a difference of opinion that arose between the VPD witness officers and the IIO.” The main issue was over an interpretation of a clause in the Police Act, which mandates that a witness officer must fully cooperate with an IIO investigation.

“The officers’ position was that they should be entitled, among other things, to review third party video of the incident prior to being required to give a statement,” the report said.

“The IIO took the position that it was up to an investigative body, in this case the IIO, to determine when video would be shown to a witness, if at all.”

The IIO commenced court action to require witness officers to give statements without conditions.

In October 2018, a B.C. Supreme Court decision ruled in the IIO’s favour and ordered seven officers to attend for interviews with investigators.

The report, however, notes officers 2 and 4 — who were two of the officers who shot Rintoul with their pistols — declined to provide “statements, notes, reports or data, as in their right.”

A memorandum of understanding between the IIO and B.C. police agencies, and consistent with the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, states that officers who are subject of an investigation are not compelled to provide a statement.

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News Appeal denied in case of former cop convicted of sexual exploitation James Fisher launched an appeal of his sentence for breach of trust

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A former Vancouver cop convicted of breach of trust and sexual exploitation this week had his appeal denied in B.C. Court of Appeal.

In August, James Fisher, 61, was sentenced to 20 months in prison and two years of probation after pleading guilty to two counts of breach of trust and one count of sexual exploitation. Fisher was arrested and charged in 2016 after he kissed two witnesses, a 17-year-old girl and a 21-year-old woman, who were witnesses in prostitution ring cases he worked on.

He was sentenced to 90 days for the sexual exploitation charge, 12 months for one breach of trust charge, to be served concurrently, and another eight months for the second breach of trust charge.

Fisher launched an appeal of his sentence arguing that the judge put “undue weight on the victim impact statement of one victim”

and said that the eightmonth sentence for the second breach of trust charge was “demonstrably unfit.”

According to court documents, Fisher joined the Vancouver Police Department in 1988 and “became a highly decorated and accomplished investigator.” He mostly worked in the department’s special investigation units such as the gang task force and the coordinated law enforcement unit. He worked for Criminal Intelligence Service Canada in Ottawa as the national coordinator for Asia Organized Crime and created a working group to formalize the sharing of information on Asian organized crime between federal and municipal investigators in B.C. and Alberta. Fisher also did work on human smuggling.

He received many awards and commendations for his work.

In 2011, he was transferred to the department’s counter exploitation unit, which investigates prostitution-related offences,

James Fisher accepts a 2014 Community Safety and Crime Prevention award for work with the VPD’s counter exploitation unit from then-Attorney General and Minister of Justice Suzanne.

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“The CEU directs its officers not to meet alone with female victims and witnesses,” the court of appeal ruling reads.

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According to the ruling, Fisher kissed the 17-yearold witness on three separate occasions between August and December 2015.

He kissed the 21-year-old once in December 2015.

Both women told other police officers or a support

worker about the incidents, and in 2016 an investigation ensued. Fisher was arrested on Dec. 28, 2016 and immediately suspended. He subsequently retired from the VPD. Fisher pleaded guilty to all three charges in March 2018 and was sentenced in August.

In handing down the sentence, Judge Robert Hamilton noted that while reference letters spoke highly of Fisher, he had a “hidden side” and that the offences he committed appeared irreconcilable with his personal and professional accomplishments.

“The sentencing judge noted that the offences had already had catastrophic consequences for the appellant’s career, reputation, marriage, and postretirement career prospects.

He said he would take into account the price the appellant had already paid for his crimes, but that he ought to have known he would pay that price when he committed the offences,” the court of appeal ruling reads.

In his appeal, Fisher argued that the judge erred in accepting the victim impact statement of the 21-yearold victim without properly scrutinizing it. He said that the sentence imposed in the second count of breach of trust was “disproportionate considering the gravity of the offence and his degree of responsibility” and called it “unduly harsh.” Fisher argued that the judge “did not take into account the difficult circumstances in prison for a police officer.”

The trio of Court of Appeal judges did not agree.

“This is a tragic case,” wrote Justice Nicole J. Garson. “It was tragic for the victims who had grown to trust and admire a senior police officer who did all that he could to help improve their lives and bring to justice those who abused them. He worked tirelessly to do so. To experience the appellant as just another man seeking sexual favours from them must have been a breach of trust of the highest order.” @JessicaEKerr

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Racism on vacation

The next day, in Bergen Norway, we ascended Mount Floyen, and on the peak was a sign proudly announcing nine recently born goats. Each had been given a name, and the black goat was named Obama.

We didn’t stay long enough DR. DAVIDICUS WONG davidicuswong.wordpress.com. in the country to find out if When my kids were young, town of Alesund, we saw a racist attitudes are endemic teacher talking to a group the happiest place on or if people just don’t realize of high school students. For what demeaning public signs earth (besides home) was a moment, I thought they say about them. As a society Disneyland. were talking about us. and community, we need to Now that they’re in their reach out to every member 20s, our favourite place for a Later it felt that they were and ensure all are supported grown-up family Christmas all watching us. Finally, we in health and well-being. learned that their assignment It takes a village to care for is Hawaii. Though we’re all Vancouver-born, Hawaiians was to take photos of every person within it. tourists — and those of us treat us as if we were born there and speak only English who looked Chinese or half- As individuals, we share a Chinese stood out. An hour responsibility to connect to (and a bit of Hawaiian) to and support one another. In us. Families with mixtures of later, while walking around many neighbourhoods and all ethnicities are welcome. It the harbour, we were approached by a motorboat particularly in apartment feels like home. buildings, many do not with two elementary school We had a different feel a sense of belonging boys. They pointed at us, experience travelling with or connection. We tend laughed and mockingly cousins last August in made the gesture of bowing to see other people as “The Other” — a person Norway. In a public square in the stereotypical Asian who is different, strange, fashion. of shops in the seaside

Subtle and not-so-subtle racism a reminder people see us as ‘the Others’

In Bergen, Norway, we ascended Mount Floyen, and on the peak was a sign proudly announcing nine recently born goats. Each had been given a name, and the black goat was named Obama.

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We can pre-judge others whom we don’t know based on their accents, skin colour, clothing, body shape and gender. We can make broad, sweeping and inaccurate assumptions based on outward appearances alone.

We don’t give ourselves the opportunity to connect on a truly human level. We sell ourselves short — and we all miss out.

We are all a part of a greater whole, members of a family supported by a network of friends, neighbours and peers. We are part of a community, citizens of this country and members of humankind, connected to all living things, a part of nature and this planet. My dream for a healthier community and society is for every individual to hear and believe the words, “You belong here.”

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Stanley Park walking tour focusses on the trees, plants and bushes used for centuries by Coast Salish people SANDRA THOMAS sthomas@vancourier.com Standing on the trail that circles Beaver Lake in Stanley Park on a soggy February afternoon, interpretive guide Candice Campo explained some of the healing and practical uses of just one of the many trees we passed while on our Talking Trees walking tour.

As Campo spoke, a small bird flittered over and settled briefly on her hand before darting away.

Moments later, as Campo moved along the trail, a black squirrel scampered along a tree branch over her head, while a flock of several dozen small birds briefly surrounded her before flying off. It was a scene straight out of the fairy tale Cinderella and, for a brief moment, I expected small woodland animals and birds to surround Campo and

begin making her a dress out of the surrounding foliage.

Instead, Campo and guide Alfonso Salinas continued to educate our group about how vital indigenous trees and plants were to the survival of the First Nation peoples of southern B.C. The Talking Trees walk is just one of the activities offered by Talaysay Tours. The company was founded in 2002 by Campo whose ancestral name, “xets’emits’a,” translates to “to always be there,” along with her husband Larry Campo and brother Jonathan Clark Sr., whose ancestral name is “Tecumseh.” Clark and Candice Campo, who follow a matriarchal system, are members of the Wolf Clan, in xenichen (Queens Reach at the head

Candice Campo, co-owner of Talaysay Tours, leading a Talking Trees walking tour in Stanley Park.

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of Jervis inlet) through their grandmother and identify with their grandfather’s clan muyuk (grizzly bear) of tsunay (Deserted Bay).

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Through often humorous stories, Campo and Salinas educated us about how every tree and plant is deemed sacred, in part because they supported local Indigenous societies for generations. As we walked, we learned the medicinal and practical uses of the bark, sap, leaves and roots of many of the trees and plants in Stanley Park, including centuries-old red

cedars, Douglas fir trees and berry bushes, all of which have been historically harvested by Skwxu7mesh Uxwumixw — Coast Salish people — for food, medicine, art, lodging and canoe building.

Halfway through the tour, Campo also served us a traditional tea made from Indigenous ingredients, which we enjoyed both for its taste and warmth on such a damp, drizzly day.

Near the end of our tour Campo stopped by the tall trunk of a cedar tree, which was weeping a light grey sap from its bark and had each of us scrape off a tiny piece to smell and taste.

Campo then explained how

important these trees were to relatives of hers who were forced into residential schools.

“This sap is also a form of nutrition. I was very fortunate to be born in ’73 and I did not go to residential schools,” said Campo. “I was very lucky, but some of my older cousins and older friends did and they said they used to sneak out of the residential school into the forest and eat the sap.”

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No shortage of good deeds in minor hockey on and off the ice Vancouver hockey team rallies around coach in need of a kidney

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A few months ago, I wrote a story in this space about our family’s experience in the Vancouver Minor Hockey Association.

My wife and I found our five-year-old’s entrance into the world of minor hockey overwhelming and confusing. Some readers thought I was too critical.

Two recent incidents have gone a long way to fortify my goodwill towards the association.

A few weeks ago, my wife and I made two big mistakes: we forgot to lock our car, and we forgot to take our son’s hockey bag into the house. As is the case pretty much any time we forget to lock the car on our street at night, it was rifled through, and this time, my son’s hockey bag was stolen, filled with his equipment from head to toe.

My son was in shock, and my wife and I were angry, disappointed and frustrated. Since these thieves visit our block pretty much nightly, trying their luck on door handles, I decided to try to appeal to the thief by leaving our car unlocked again.

I posted a note, asking if they would please consider returning the bag full of children’s hockey equip-

VMHA coach Stephen Gillis (right) hasn’t missed a practice or a game yet, in an effort to not allow his disease to get in the way of what he loves doing most — coaching his team.

ment — no questions asked — thank you. (An American friend noted that only in Canada would the victim of a theft leave a please-and-thank-you note for the thief.)

The plan backfired. The thief was back the next night, threw stuff around the car again, and did not return the hockey bag. To

add insult to injury, they refused to steal any of the CDs by my band the Smugglers, which I left in clear view.

Then the most amazing thing happened: Lawrence Leong, the parent-volunteer-manager of my son’s division, got the word out.

My son’s little five-yearold teammates and their

parents rallied as true teammates do. Together, they rooted through their basements and closets and hockey bags and came up with enough hand-medown gear to outfit three kids, let alone my son.

When we arrived at the rink to find a new bag stuffed with gear for my son, it was all I could

do to not go full Wayne Gretzky-being-tradedto-LA and weep in the middle of the dressing room. My son (and my wife and I) learned a lot about the strength of a team on and off the ice through this incident, and we have a lot more thank you notes to write.

While that stolen gear story warms the heart, when it comes to little hockey players doing good, it’s the saga of VMHA coach Stephen Gillis that is truly worthy of your attention, and your clicks.

Earlier this season, Gillis, the coach of the VMHA’s peewee team the Spirit, decided to enrol his team in the Chevy Good Deeds Cup competition, a national initiative to encourage young hockey teams to do good things in their community. It was decided after a team vote that the Spirit would support a family in need over the holidays.

While the team raised money for the family, another story emerged: Coach Gillis was battling a serious kidney disease and needed a living donor. The team made a video entitled “Please help us help our coach.” It quickly went viral.

Coach Gillis still hasn’t found a kidney match,

but you can imagine how proud he was when the Spirit became the only B.C. team to make it to the national top-10 semifinals for the 2019 Good Deeds Cup. For the team to move on and become one of the top-three finalists, they need you to view their team’s complete YouTube video until the end of the day on Feb. 9 at tinyurl.com/vanminor.

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Unfortunately, Coach Gillis’s kidneys have gotten worse. Last Friday, he had tubes inserted into his chest for dialysis treatment. And yet, the next morning at 6 a.m., Gillis was on the ice at the Spirits’ practice. In fact, despite his condition, Gillis hasn’t missed a practice or a game yet, in an effort to not allow his disease to get in the way of what he loves doing most — coaching his team.

The winning team of the Chevy Good Deeds Cup receives $100,000 for the charity of their choice, a winner’s ceremony in their hometown and a feature on Hockey Night In Canada.

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More money, more greenspace, according to UBC study Forestry researcher Lorien Nesbitt studied 10 major U.S. cities, aims to continue study in Canada John Kurucz

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New research out of the University of B.C. suggests Vancouverites living near greenspace are more likely to be flush with green in their wallets.

Those findings come from UBC forestry researcher Lorien Nesbitt, the lead author of a study examining the spread of greenspace across 10 major U.S. cities in relation to the income and education levels of those living near them.

Nesbitt’s research looked at census data and detailed aerial imagery in locales such as New York City, Chicago, Indianapolis and Los Angeles, while sussing out socioeconomic indicators around income, education or racial background.

“When you have trees in these neighbourhoods, they provide all sorts of benefits: psychological health, physical health and climate change adaptation benefits,” Nesbitt told the Courier.

No Canadian cities were included in the study due to the lack of highresolution aerial images or satellite photography.

Because of that, Nesbitt focuses on the Vancouver context through data that is available: the urban tree canopy and the amount of park space in the city.

Nesbitt’s rule of thumb suggests every resident should be within a 10-minute walk to a park.

On the surface, Vancouver checks out just fine on that metric, with Nesbitt suggesting most Vancouverites can walk to a park within five minutes.

What that park looks like and includes, however, is another matter.

“Wealthier neighbourhoods are nearer to the big natural areas like Pacific Spirit Park and Stanley Park,” Nesbitt said.

Similar findings can be found in the city’s overall tree canopy. Nesbitt suggests more affluent areas of town — Dunbar and Point Grey — have far more trees

UBC researchers are uncovering links between access to vegetation and income and education levels.

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So why does that matter?

“People who are less privileged are more likely

to have lower health outcomes and to be more vulnerable to climate change impacts,” Nesbitt said.

To that end, Nesbitt’s study showed Indianapolis

residents without a high school diploma had less access to vegetation, while those in L.A. and New York City with post-secondary education had more.

Translating any sort of division along ethnic lines in Vancouver is not without its challenges, Nesbitt said, largely because ethnic clusters are more prevalent in the U.S. than in Canada.

Nesbitt points to Seattle as the closest comparable to Vancouver on that front.

“In Seattle people of Latino heritage were less likely to have access and I’m not sure how that would play out within our ethnic mix in Vancouver, but it’s very possible that we would see some of those relationships,” she said.

Nesbitt now hopes to further her research in Vancouver and other Canadian cities, while encouraging inclusion in the civic planning process.

“The people who live in those neighbourhoods should really be a part of making the decisions about what gets planted and where,” Nesbitt said.

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Sparking environmental change in Hollywood North Sabrina Furminger

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Showbiz can be dirty — and, for once, we’re not talking about smut (although there’s plenty of that in showbiz, too).

The film and television industry is all about creation — of magical movie moments, jobs, stars and box office revenue. But it also creates megatons of waste — dirty, dirty waste — even on sets where the entertainment product is wholesome and clean.

Bulky diesel generators spew emissions into the atmosphere. Garbage bins overflow with half-eaten food and plastic containers. Gasguzzling vehicles cart actors and equipment and props to far-flung locations. Once filming is over, elaborate sets are sent to rot in landfills.

Hollywood North? More like Hollywood Hellscape.

This careless behaviour has been industry-standard since the dawn of cinema, says Jennifer Sandoval of Green Spark Group.

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a consultancy firm, and the only one of its kind in Canada. Founded by Zena Harris in 2014, Green Spark works with studios and green partners in Vancouver and Los Angeles to make their productions more sustainable.

“On a production, everybody is super focused on what they have to do, and when you try to add one or two things on there — ‘How about setting up a recycling system?’ — nobody wants to do it,” says Sandoval. “It requires a behavioural change, and that can be the hardest thing to try to do.”

But the industry can no longer afford to hold tight to outdated, unsustainable practices — not if it wants to save money and, you know, not actively destroy our ailing planet.

On Jan. 17, Vancouver city council unanimously voted to declare a climate emergency in the city.

“While it sounds scary, it validates what we’re doing, because there is an urgency to act right now,” says Sandoval. “If you can’t really

Thanks to consultancy firm Green Spark Group, more and more Vancouver-shot productions are trying to lessen their environmental footprint.

see the risks in front of you, it’s hard to act. This boosts the work we’re doing.”

When The X-Files returned to Vancouver in 2015 to film its highly anticipated 10th season, showrunner Chris Carter announced early on he wanted his production to be aggressively green. Green Spark worked with Carter and Fox (the studio, not Mulder) to divert 81 per cent of its waste from landfills. “He was a pioneer,” says Sandoval. In 2016, Carter was recognized with VIFF’s Industry Builder Award for his vision and

leadership.

For The X-Files’ 11th season, Green Spark and Fox upped the stakes by developing a food distribution program that diverted uneaten food to homeless shelters and transitional houses for domestic violence survivors.

The distribution program was so successful that Fox started getting calls from other studios. “Everybody wanted to do it,” says Sandoval.

Last year, the program donated nearly 3,000 meals to the Lookout Emergency Aid Society.

Green Spark works closely with productionassistant-turned-recyclingguru Kelsey Evans to divert sets from dumps, and with alternative portable power companies to supplement, if not entirely replace, the massive diesel generators that are mainstays on local film sets. They’ve developed open source documents and videos with Creative B.C. so that micro-budget productions that might not be able to afford a consultant can still make their show or series as green as can be.

They teach carbon literacy courses, and encourage productions to utilize electric vehicles for transport (an initiative jumpstarted by The Magicians production manager Clara George).

Sometimes, Green Spark’s main task is simply standing in the food tent on set and helping people figure out which item goes in which bin. “Some people just throw everything into the first bin they see,” says Sandoval.

It’s difficult to change attitudes and behaviour, she

says. But what keeps many productions from making changes in the first place — money — is what ultimately wins them over.

“Even switching from single water bottles to using those big ones and everybody brings their own, the average savings is over $50,000 for a production,” says Sandoval.

Participation in green initiatives is voluntary, and there’s no penalty for productions that stick to the old ways.

“It’s hard for productions to get motivated,” says Sandoval, who is currently spending her days on the set of the fourth season of The Man in the High Castle.

“Even with the anti-harassment stuff, they’re now required to have information sessions for every production. That’s all over North America. We’ve attached ourselves to that and said, ‘OK, there’s respect in the workplace, but you need to also have respect for your workplace.’”

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Travelling alongside Catanna, Aika and Zach, Kristen Dickson’s upcoming trip to Vancouver will combine business and pleasure on a level never before seen in the city’s history.

Dickson is the owner and founder of House of Dolls, a sex doll rental service in Kamloops that opened in early December.

She’ll be in town this weekend for the annual Naughty But Nice Sex Show at the Vancouver Convention Centre to spread the gospel of the doll — courting prospective franchisees who may want a piece of the action and even renting out her dolls to a few frisky Vancouverites.

If there was ever an example to validate the saying “sex sells,” Dickson’s story is it. Her website crashed for several days after it went live late last year and Dickson now has “astronomically large” bandwidth to keep up with demand.

“The last few months have been crazy,” Dickson tells the Courier by phone.

Dickson’s business model goes something like this: customers comb through her website and choose from eight, life-like dolls — both male and female — which are then rented from her home-based business and taken to a remote location for a 24-hour period.

The dolls are transported in a carrier that resembles a guitar case.

The going rate for a day of doll time is $249, plus a $500 deposit, and Dickson’s clientele is quite literally all over the map.

One fellow from California booked his ski trip near Kamloops specifically so

Kristen Dickson, who opened Kamloops’ House of Dolls rental service in December, will be at this weekend’s Naughty But Nice Sex Show with a few of her dolls.

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he could spend time with one of Dickson’s dolls.

Customers include seniors, couples, gay people, straight people, those with physical disabilities and others who are trying to figure out their sexuality.

Dickson says approximately 70 per cent of her customers are men, although she has not had any female clients come in by themselves to rent a doll.

“I’ve had young, physically attractive, normal looking people that you would think would have no need to find someone to entertain them,” Dickson said. “It’s curiosity.”

Made out of thermoplastic rubber, the dolls weigh between 60 and 90 pounds and are between five and six feet tall. Each one costs Dickson between $1,600 and $3,500 to purchase and, of course, they each have names: Marriah,

Sadie, Zach and Chanel.

Victoria is the newest addition to the group.

Indeed, whatever itch you may need scratched, Dickson has the doll or body type for you.

“You can get anything you want — whatever somebody’s desire is, you can get that,” she said.

Dickson uses antimicrobial soap to clean the dolls after each rental and has an internal camera just to be safe. Cleaning time usually last three hours a pop.

“You have to powder their skin with talcum powder to make sure there’s a soft, realistic feel. And their hair and makeup have to be touched up again,” she said.

Taking care of business

Dickson says her neighbours know about the business and are supportive, though she did face

some online criticism when her website launched. A 38-year-old mother of two kids aged two and six, Dickson tells her kids the dolls are just like mannequins seen in a department store — the only difference is that mommy just so happens to rent her mannequins out.

Dickson’s last job was in management at a Walmart in Kamloops and before that, she ran a short-lived escort service.

Last summer’s brouhaha over a sex doll brothel in Toronto — it never opened — was Dickson’s sign that it was time to act in B.C. She lawyered up, made sure her idea was above board and now pays a $196 annual licensing fee for a business that’s designated as “rental of adult novelty items.”

Kamloops’ business licence inspector Dave Jones said he and other city bureaucrats reached out to several

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provincial health agencies when Dickson’s application came up, but none had any regulations regarding sex doll businesses.

As such, House of Dolls has been legit since the day it opened on Dec. 5, 2018.

“The business is current and in good standing with the City of Kamloops,” Jones told the Courier.

Two other similar business types were attempted in Toronto last year, but neither exist at this point.

Rumours of a sex doll brothel in Vancouver — reportedly called Bella Dolls — made headlines late last year, but sources have told the Courier the business isn’t currently operating and may not re-open. The Courier asked the company for comment, but received no response.

The city hasn’t received any business licence applications from companies attempting to operate a sex doll brothel and no one contacted by the Courier could point to a similar business operating anywhere in Canada.

A city spokesperson also told the Courier Dickson’s business model in Kamloops could not be replicated in Vancouver. Instead of operating out of her home, Dickson’s business would be classified as an adult entertainment store — the city’s zoning and licensing specs would require Dickson to set up shop in a commercial area. The license fee for such a business in Vancouver is $375.

So to recap, hundreds of Dickson’s customers have no problem with sex dolls, her neighbours say they’re on board, the City of Kamloops is cool with them and, in theory, the City of Vancouver could be too.

What do we make of all this?

Doctor approved

Dr. Jessica O’Reilly makes a living travelling the world talking about sex and, like Dickson, she’ll also be at the Naughty But Nice Sex Show this weekend.

In her line of work, O’Reilly helps couples and individuals get over the proverbial humps inhibiting their sex lives.

O’Reilly says sex dolls can help in any number of different scenarios: premature ejaculation, understanding one’s sexuality or in situations where two partners have different libidos.

In other cases, it could simply be couples looking for a different type of spice that wasn’t previously on the rack.

“If you have all party’s consent, I believe you can do what suits you. I don’t think an object or a specific piece of technology would be problematic,” O’Reilly told the Courier by phone from a speaking engagement in Miami.

When O’Reilly is asked whether the dolls ruin our collective moral compass, she responds by adding two words to any of those hypothetical objections.

“Instead of saying ‘it’s too much,’ what you’re really saying is ‘it’s too much for me,’” O’Reilly said.

“I don’t think you want to assign your reactions, because those reactions are emotional, they’re personal and they vary from person to person.”

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Shoes, glorious shoes! Sneaker Con, the “greatest sneaker show on earth” is coming to Vancouver for the very first time. This roving sneaker pop-up sale event hits the Vancouver Convention Centre for one day only, packed with shopping, rare finds, activities and more for sneakerheads.

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Kith and Kin by Steel & Oak Brewing Co./Brassneck Brewery

Rob Mangelsdorf editor@thegrowler.ca

We may be living in the post-truth era, but if there’s one thing that’s universally accepted as fact, it’s that Brassneck makes fantastic beer. and if you see something with its logo on it at the beer store, then you buy it.

Brassneck doesn’t really bottle or can its beer, and even draft taps are hard to find —pretty much every drop Conrad Gmoser and his team brews gets sucked up by the thirsty patrons at the Main Street tasting room. As a result, Brassneck’s packaged product is usually limited to the one-off collabs it does with other breweries.

New Westminster’s Steel & Oak, meanwhile, might be one of the most criminally underappreciated breweries in the province (in my humble opinion), so when I saw both of their logos on the same tall can, it was a no-brainer.

The result of this delicious collaboration is Kith and Kin, a Norwegian farmhouse ale utilizing that crazy kveik yeast all the kids are talking about these days.

Why is it crazy? Well, it ferments at an insanely high temperature for a very short period of time, resulting in some really interesting

tropical fruit characteristics.

No one had heard of the stuff two years ago, and now everyone’s brewing with it.

Kveik. So hot right now.

Anyway, first thing’s first: yes, Kith and Kin is delicious and you should go buy some right now before it’s all gone (or I drink it all).

Aroma-wise, it’s super fragrant with massive fruit and citrus notes. More like power chords, really. And given the beer’s opaque nature, if you had told me it was a hazy pale ale, I probably would have believed

you. But beer style guidelines are largely subjective nonsense, anyhow.

Naturally, there’s lots of fruit flavour to be had here. Mandarin orange, melon and tangerine jump right out, but there’s some passion fruit and even a bit of pineapple in there, too.

There’s an interesting spice character to it, as well. Not quite peppery like a saison, and not quite clove-y like hefeweizen. It’s subdued, but very complementary.

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Canucks literally can’t afford to be buyers at the trade deadline Backhand Sauce Daniel Wagner

Heading into the 2018-19 NHL season, the idea that the Canucks might be buyers at the trade deadline would have been laughable. It didn’t matter if you were an old-school hockey man, a gambling expert or an analytical nerd: there was a general consensus that the Canucks were going to finish last place in the Pacific Division and near the bottom of the NHL standings.

It was completely understandable: the Canucks had just lost the two best players in franchise history to retirement and the only potential replacement was a skinny 19-year-old kid. In free agency, they spent money and term to upgrade the bottom of the roster with three bottom-six forwards, and didn’t change anything on defence or in net, despite allowing the sixth most goals against last season.

There was every reason to beleive that the Canucks would be worse than last season.

Teams en route to the NHL basement and a potential top pick in the draft are very clearly sellers at the trade deadline. The expectation was that the Canucks would look to move some of their veterans for draft picks and/or prospects — preferably picks, as the 2019 NHL Entry Draft is in Vancouver, so the more picks they can make in front of their home fans, the better.

Instead of plummeting to the basement, however, the Canucks find themselves in an unusual situation: in a playoff race.

That skinny 19-year-old kid shocked everyone by immediately establishing himself as one of the best young stars in the NHL. Elias Pettersson, now 20, leads the Canucks in goals and points, providing the offensive boost they needed with the Sedins gone.

Meanwhile, Jacob Markstrom has gone from a borderline backup to a legitimate number one goaltender this season. Where he once had a tendency to allow early, backbreaking goals, Markstrom has started stealing games for the Canucks and consistently gives his team a chance to win.

Those two developments, more than any

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other, have fuelled the Canucks rise into playoff contention. Heading into Tuesday’s game against the defending Stanley Cup champion Washington Capitals, the Canucks were sitting in the second wild card spot in the Western Conference, albeit having played more games than the teams chasing them.

Teams in the playoff picture don’t generally sell at the trade deadline and doing so is tantamount to an admission to your team that management doesn’t believe in them.

The Canucks are unlikely to be buyers either. There are several reasons why: they lack depth at both forward and defence, every advanced statistic suggests they’re currently over-achieving and not ready for a true Stanley Cup run, and Alex Edler’s injury on Monday could be devastating to their defence corps.

There’s one big reason, however, that overshadows them all: even if they wanted to be buyers, the Canucks couldn’t afford to be.

The currency at the trade deadline is simple: prospects and picks. If you want to acquire a roster player to help you make a playoff run, you’re going to have to sacrifice some of your future for present gain.

While the Canucks have some great prospects in their system — Quinn

Hughes, Olli Juolevi, Jonathan Dahlen, Tyler Madden and Michael DiPietro, to name a few — what they lack is any sort of surplus of prospects at any one position. It’s best to trade from a position of strength, and they don’t have one in their prospect pool.

As for picks, GM Jim Benning has explicitly stated he won’t trade any draft picks from the upcoming draft. That could be because the draft will be held in Vancouver or because he recognizes the Canucks still need more youth in the system to be competitive in future years; either way, the Canucks won’t be parting with picks.

In other words, the Canucks are coming to the deadline with an empty wallet. They literally can’t afford to be buyers. Neither will they be sellers. There is a third option, however: barter. Benning has expressed an interest in making “hockey trades” that exchange roster players, hoping to find a better fit or small upgrade around the fringes of the roster. Just don’t expect a blockbuster deal.

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

• I’m dropping the gloves with the hockey gods, specifically whichever deity oversees injuries.

The Canucks were finally healthy, then Sven Baertschi was sent home from their road trip with a vague medical issue, Alex Edler suffered an ugly-looking facial injury and Thatcher Demko tweaked his groin, necessitating an emergency call-up of Michael DiPietro.

• A tap of the stick to Jacob Markstrom and Elias Pettersson, who prevented fans in Philadelphia from taking pictures of Alex Edler’s gruesome-looking injury. They made their way around the glass, politely asking fans to put their phones away out of respect.

Big Numbers • 11.634 Auston Matthews signed a five-year contract extension with the Toronto Maple Leafs with an average annual value of $11.634 million. In a couple years, you can expect that to be the starting point in negotiations with Elias Pettersson.

• 0 Zero teams made the playoffs last season with a negative goal differential. Heading into Tuesday, the Canucks had a goal differential of minus-11, so that’s an area of concern.

Government seeks corporate sponsor to put brand on BC Place Initiative comes seven years after the B.C. government rejected Telus’s $40-million proposal Glen Korstrom

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B.C. Place Stadium’s new roof cost taxpayers $563 million.

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BC Place Stadium could be rebranded with the name of a corporate sponsor in exchange for tens of millions of dollars that would fund government programs, the B.C. government announced Feb. 4.

This latest initiative comes nearly seven years after the province rejected an offer by Telus Corp. to provide a reported $40 million for naming rights on the stadium.

Then Jobs, Tourism

and Innovation Minister Pat Bell said he did not think the offer was a good deal for taxpayers, and that B.C. residents like the name the way it is.

B.C.’s new NDP government, and Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture Lisa Beare, however, are now keen to find a corporate sponsor for the venue.

Her government has given B.C. Pavilion Corporation (PavCo) approval to issue a request for proposals to select a naming-rights sponsor for BC Place.

The naming rights would help PavCo offset operational costs. The Crown corporation is budgeting to generate $116.4 million in revenue in the 201920 fiscal year. It is also projecting that it will have a $6,142,000 deficit.

“This naming rights sponsorship opportunity will make more funds available for government to improve the services that British Columbians count on,” Beare said in a release.

“We believe this is an excellent time to look for the right corporate partner

for this important facility in B.C., and through that sponsorship, generate significant benefit for British Columbians.”

The B.C. government expects PavCo to manage the process in consultation and with appropriate approvals from the government.

BC Place first opened in 1983 and it has a maximum seating capacity of about 54,500. It is home to the B.C. Lions and the Vancouver Whitecaps, and hosts concerts and trade shows. @GlenKorstrom

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THE VANCOUVER COURIER T H U R SDAY, F E B RUA RY 7 , 2 0 1 9

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Bulk Russet Potato Washington

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