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Police chief, city manager pull in $350,000 each

Mike Howell

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Once again, your police chief and city manager are the best paid city employees.

That’s not really a surprise, since Police Chief Adam Palmer is in charge of a 1,300-plus member police force and responsible for the public safety of a population of more than 630,000 people.

He took in $358,573 last year, an increase of $2,740 over 2017.

City manager Sadhu Johnston is in charge of a workforce of more than 8,000 full-time employees and an annual city operating budget north of $1 billion.

He took in $350,003 last year, an increase of $12,089 over 2017.

Before some of you go into full outrage mode about their salaries, some context here: Ontario’s so-called “sunshine list” for the year 2016 showed thenToronto city manager Peter Wallace pulled in $350,072 and Police Chief Mark Saunders earned $332,511.

I tried to find out the

salary of Edmonton Police Chief Dale McFee, whose first day was Feb. 1, but was told by the Edmonton Police Commission that it wouldn’t release that information, or tell me what his predecessor Rod Knecht earned before he left last year.

Something about “contractual obligations not to release those salaries.”

I know, ridiculous.

Anyway, the good people at city hall in Edmonton were able to tell me their city manager, Linda Cochrane, has a salary of $332,400 this year.

For some more context, a Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives report released in January 2018 revealed that Telus president and CEO Darren Entwistle earned $12,905,331 in total compensation in 2016, which is almost what a Courier reporter makes. I joke.

I’m writing about money this week because it’s that time of the year again when we find out how much the big hitters at city hall earned in 2018.

The city released its an-

Police Chief Adam Palmer and city manager Sadhu Johnston earned more than $350,000 each last year. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

nual Statement of Financial Information March 26. The document lists the surnames and first initial of all city employees who earned more than $75,000 last year. The total payout for employees in that earnings bracket was $284,337,808.

For employees earning less than $75,000 per year, the total payout was $236,020,243. Add both figures and you get a grand total of $520,358,051.

The payouts, by the way, include vacation pay, overtime and gratuity.

The city’s financial document indicates 16 people

received severances in 2018.

It doesn’t say who received severances, or how much.

Regular readers will recall I’ve requested and received this information in previous years, but last year required a request under the Freedom of Information and Privacy Act. I’m having a back-andforth with the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of B.C. and will report back if there’s anything to report.

Now to the money…

I scanned the list of employees in the document and picked out the names of people likely familiar

to readers, including Fire Chief Darrell Reid, who earned $249,380 in 2018.

Park board general manager Malcolm Bromley is another name that would be familiar to many. He earned $292,884, almost as much as chief financial officer Patrice Impey, who collected $295,360 last year.

Others in the $200,000plus club included chief engineer Jerry Dobrovolny ($291,851), director of planning Gil Kelley ($287,680), director of legal services Francie Connell ($292,388), chief technology officer Jessie Adcock ($216,056), general manager of arts, culture and community services Sandra Singh ($252,121) and director of financial initiatives Esther Lee ($204,997).

Bill Aujla, who was general manager of real estate and facilities management until he resigned last summer to join the Aquilini Group, left after earning $243,946.

Kaye Krishna was the city’s general manager of development services, buildings and licensing before leaving this month to become deputy

minister of municipal affairs and housing. Her earnings last year totalled $282,640.

Wendy Au also retired. She served as assistant city manager. Au earned $275,426.

Now to the politicians…

Gregor Robertson retired last year as mayor after earning $178,376.

Eight councillors from Robertson’s administration either retired or didn’t win re-election, with Tim Stevenson taking home the most at $115,997.

Others no longer on council are George Affleck ($91,259), Elizabeth Ball ($91,255), Hector Bremner ($80,101), Heather Deal ($106,498), Kerry Jang ($91,680), Raymond Louie ($106,673) and Andrea Reimer ($91,703).

The payouts vary because of time served, deputy and acting mayor duties, councillor duties and deferred remuneration payments.

The full document, which also lists revenues, expenses and consolidated financial statements, is at vancouver.ca.

For a longer version of this story, go to vancourier.com. @Howellings

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News Diagnosed with work-related cancer, firefighter honoured for service Hundreds pay tribute to colleague Capt. Steve Letourneau at emotional ceremony Mike Howell

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What Capt. Steve Letourneau means to the firefighters he worked with for 35 years was evident Tuesday as more than 200 men and women in uniform jammed into Vancouver City Hall to pay tribute to their colleague.

They were there to see the 58-year-old veteran receive a service medal from Mayor Kennedy Stewart and celebrate a career that ended unexpectedly fourand-a-half years ago.

Cancer is always unexpected.

As he shared in his speech — often pausing to recompose himself as he did — Letourneau was diagnosed with workrelated colorectal cancer on Nov. 6, 2014. The disease has now spread to his spine and is attacking his kidneys.

But you wouldn’t know he was in ill health from looking at him Tuesday as he stood proudly in his uniform at a lectern in the council chamber next to the mayor.

His wife, his parents and relatives looked on from the gallery, as did the councillors from their chairs and many firefighters in the balcony and lobby, including Fire Chief Darrell Reid.

Letourneau smiled

more than he broke down as he spoke.

Still, the news he delivered was heartbreaking.

“My doctors have deemed me as palliative — in other words, terminal,” he said.

One doctor, he continued, said he has months to live. Another said the fact he was still able to walk was a great sign. One other said that everyone has an expiration date.

“With that being said, I’m not here to wimp and whine,” he said, before recognizing the efforts of late firefighter Robert Hall, who died of work-related cancer in 2007, in fighting for compensation for firefighters diagnosed with cancer.

“Many fellow brothers and sisters — firefighters — have received treatments and benefits because of Capt. Robert Hall’s sacrifice. I, myself, am one of them.”

Letourneau, who worked at all 20 firehalls in the city, said he was fortunate to have two families — the one at home and the one at the fire department.

He said despite his diagnosis — and many of the dark days that ensued — he has kept a sense of optimism and humour from what he described as the outpouring of love and prayers.

He went on to tell a story that he thinks explains him quite well.

Capt. Steve Letourneau of Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services, shown here with his wife and parents, received a 35-year service medal at city hall Tuesday. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

“I’m like the poor soul who falls off of a tall building. Each floor goes by and a person leans out and asks, ‘How you doing?’ At each floor, when asked, I smile and say, ‘I’m doing alright, so far.’”

The moral of the story, he said, is: “Smile. Enjoy every moment because, well, you never know how tall your building is.”

He received a standing ovation.

Reid spoke next, saying he was proud to be fire chief in a city that honours people and their families the way Letourneau was being

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In the lobby after the ceremony, Letourneau said he was overwhelmed by the support of his colleagues, who stuck around to shake his hand, embrace him and thank him for his service.

“It was very uplifting for me,” he said, as more firefighters waited to speak to him. “To see them take precious time out of their day and lives to come here to honour my medal award is touching. And it just reaffirms that I made the right choice to join a team that thinks so much of each other.”

Letourneau said he wouldn’t dissuade anyone interested in becoming a firefighter, including a nephew who is close to being hired. Letourneau said the training, including decontamination after a fire, and the equipment is getting better.

“I’ve explained to him that there are serious consequences to your choices,” he said. “I never thought it would be me, but it is me who has cancer. I really have no regrets. I’ve been dealt a bad hand. But in general, it’s been a great, great ride.” @Howellings

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Reid said the tribute wasn’t necessarily to honour how long Letourneau worked, but the way he worked. Letourneau was a member of the fireboat and heavy rescue teams and a respected officer, he said.

“Steve, all your brothers and sisters are jamming this building today because of the way you did those things,” he said, noting other firefighters described him as smart, a great firefighter, awesome officer, witty, tough, strong and brave.

He was also known as

a prankster and comedian — “a person with really long stories.” That brought laughs. There was more laughter at his nickname as a hockey player — “No Leftourneau,” because he could only turn right on his skates.

Robert Weeks of the Vancouver Firefighters’ Union told the crowd Letourneau is the department’s most experienced and longest serving firefighter.

In that time, Weeks said, Letourneau made many peoples’ days better.

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A 23-year-old Surrey man is facing arson charges in the incident at Langara College April 1 that closed down the school and saw heavily armed police officers searching the campus.

Nasradin Abdusamad Ali, a student at the school, was arrested Monday afternoon and is now facing one count of arson and one count of possession of incendiary material. Vancouver police media relations officer Const.

Jason Doucette said police anticipate additional charges could be laid in the case.

Just before noon on Monday, Vancouver police and firefighters responded to reports of a suspicious fire at the campus on East 49th Avenue.

“A suspect had allegedly entered the college with improvised incendiary devices,” Doucette said. “It appears at least two devices were detonated, causing fires, before the suspect fled the area.”

Doucette said officers located at least one more “device” in the school.

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unit neutralized that at the scene.”

Police are not aware of any threats made at the school before Monday’s incident. According to the B.C. court registry, an individual with the same name was charged with theft under $5,000 and uttering threats in February 2018.

Those charges were eventually stayed.

Nursing student Bal Sekhon had just finished writing an exam and was heading to the library to study when students were initially evacuated from the science and technology building (also referred to as the T building) and the library. She told the Courier students and staff members were initially allowed back in a short time later.

Sekhon said she was studying for her next exam in the library when, about 20 minutes later at around 12:50 p.m., a police officer came into the library and told students and staff to leave immediately.

“As we were walking out, we saw the guys with the rifles and the helmets walking in.”

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emergency response team was called in and spent the rest of the afternoon and into the evening searching the campus for additional hazards. East 49th between Ontario and Alberta streets was closed for several hours as first responders converged on the campus.

Doucette said police quickly identified Ali as a suspect in the fires and he was arrested just after 4 p.m. in Surrey by Metro Vancouver Transit Police.

He was turned over to the Vancouver police and remains in custody.

Langara cancelled all classes and exams Monday afternoon and evening and closed its other campus on West Broadway. The West Broadway location was open again April 2, but the main campus remained closed. Students, staff and faculty were being allowed back into the school to collect any personal belongings left behind.

The school was scheduled to re-open Wednesday for classes and exams, however, the T building will remain closed until further notice. @JessicaEKerr

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Man charged with assaulting jail guard launches lawsuit Jessica Kerr

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A man facing charges following an altercation in January with a guard at Vancouver’s jail has filed a lawsuit against the City of Vancouver alleging a “vicious assault” that resulted in “permanent and serious injury.”

Vancouver police media relations officer Sgt. Jason Robillard said that Nicholas Joseph O’Hearn was arrested Jan. 24 on a Canadawide warrant.

The 36-year-old was serving a four-year sentence for robbery. He was out on parole at the time and living at a New Westminster halfway house. The warrant for his arrest was issued after he failed to return to the house by his curfew.

“He was picked up on the warrant and arrested by the Vancouver police and he was taken to jail,” Robillard said.

O’Hearn was taken to the Vancouver jail on Cordova at around 5 p.m., Robillard said, adding that “during the processing of him there

was an altercation between him and one of our jail guards… who was assaulted during this altercation.”

Robillard would not comment on the nature of the jail guard’s injuries, but did say that the guard was taken to hospital following the incident.

O’Hearn is now facing charges of assaulting a peace officer and assaulting a peace officer causing bodily harm, as well as a charge of being unlawfully at large.

O’Hearn launched a lawsuit in B.C. Supreme Court March 18. In the Notice of Civil Claim, he describes the incident as a “swarming and piling-on by several officers” and claims he suffered a number of injuries, including cuts to his face, lip and gum line, trauma to the head, and bruising to the ribs and legs.

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It’s unclear what will happen to a Holy Rosary Cathedral proposal to seismically and structurally upgrade the church, located at 646 Richards St., after the Vancouver Heritage Commission raised concerns about the project during a recent review.

Holy Rosary’s renovation plan includes building a 23-storey tower on the portion of the property behind the cathedral, for office and church uses, to help fund the upgrading work.

The proposal is only at the development permit inquiry stage, so a formal application hasn’t been filed. The commission reviewed the project Feb. 25 after City of Vancouver staff determined it had enough merit to go before the panel, which serves as an advisory body to city staff and council.

The commission concluded, among other things, based on the minutes of the meeting, that it couldn’t support plans to redevelop the non-church portion of the Holy Rosary site where the rectory and Rosary Hall are located.

It passed a resolution with several clauses, including that the applicant “explore means by which at least partial retention of the rectory, the Rosary Hall and the elevations along Richards Street can be retained.”

It’s now up to the church whether to incorporate the commission’s

advice or proceed with an application. City staff only make recommendations and do a full review of a project once a formal application is received.

In response to several questions the Courier posed about the proposal and next steps, Holy Rosary’s rector, Rev. Stanley Galvon, emailed this statement: “We are reviewing the comments and suggestions from the Heritage Commission with our consultants and City staff and intend to prepare a response within the next few months. Once that is complete, we will be able to identify a path going forward, including the timeline, preliminary costs, etc.,” he wrote.

The project

The property at 646 Richards St. is zoned Downtown District – Comprehensive Development.

The maximum height permitted in this part of downtown is 300 feet.

Holy Rosary’s proposal involves seismically and structurally upgrading the Cathedral and redeveloping the portion of the property where the rectory and youth activity centre (Rosary Hall) are located.

A 23-storey tower, featuring five storeys for church activity space, and 18 floors on top of that for commercial space, would help fund the upgrading and heritage conservation work.

The property has been associated with the Catholic Church for more than a century.

A small wooden church was built on the site of the current rectory in 1885, according to information on Holy Rosary’s website.

In 1899, the parish began building the current

Cathedral to accommodate growth. The Gothic Revival building opened Dec. 9, 1900, but hasn’t had any major structural work done on it since then.

The rectory was built in 1935 in the English Collegiate style, while the front portion of Rosary Hall was built in 1907 in the Italianate style.

The entire site earned heritage designation in 1974 — the cathedral is listed on the Vancouver Heritage Register (VHR) in the “A” category, although the rectory and Rosary Hall were not evaluated for associated heritage value at that time.

The Holy Rosary website notes there has been some cosmetic work done to the cathedral, “but nothing to ensure that this beautiful building will be around for future generations. The work ahead will be challenging, but it will protect the heritage and the future ministry of the church in Vancouver’s busy downtown core.”

“The cathedral is ready for a seismic upgrade and for some needed maintenance. Currently we are working with developers and with the City of Vancouver to see what can be done, and how to better preserve the heritage that has been handed to us.”

Vancouver Heritage Commission weighs in

The heritage commission’s position on the project, outlined in the minutes of the Feb. 25 meeting, includes concerns about: • the proposed demolition of potentially “A” and “C” VHR registered and designated buildings; • an “incomplete” Statement of Significance for the rectory and hall;

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• concerns with access to natural light in the proposed courtyard.

In its subsequent motion, the commission states the collection of historic buildings, including the Archbishop’s garden behind an iron picket fence in an area in front of the rectory that’s enclosed by the church and Rosary Hall, “are a unique element of urban design in the contemporary city reflective of the historic Catholic community of the area’s vanished working class residential district.”

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Some might think the B.C. Teachers’ Federation’s new president-elect Teri Mooring has her work cut out for her.

With the first contract negotiations since a bitter five-week strike in 2014 underway and a controversial funding review ongoing, the challenges are clear.

But once you get to know Mooring, even a little bit, you get the sense those hurdles won’t get the best of her.

Mooring, 56, was a Grade 6 and 7 teacher for 20 years at, as she puts it, “a fairly high-needs school,” in Quesnel, a town of about 10,000 people on the road between Williams Lake and Prince George in B.C.’s Cariboo region.

In her teens, she worked at the town’s pulp and paper mill, where her father was the local union president. Her mother was a teacher and she says both parents highly valued education. They always instilled in her the belief that she would need a career and to look after herself.

After high school, she went to the College of New Caledonia in Prince George and then got married and had the first of her three children.

Soon after, Mooring qualified with her teaching certification at the Simon Fraser University campus in Prince George. Teachers didn’t need a full degree at that time, but over the next eight years, she completed hers at SFU and had two more children.

Throughout, she was teaching young adolescents, raising her own children and serving as a union staff representative. After teachers in B.C. unionized in 1988, there wasn’t a year she didn’t have a position within the union, she said.

After finishing her bachelor’s degree, Mooring promised her kids she would wait until they finished Grade 12 before pursuing her master’s degree.

But then the University of Northern B.C. offered a masters in counselling and curriculum and she couldn’t resist.

“I had to do it,” she says. “With apologies to my children.”

Teri Mooring will become president of the B.C. Teachers’ Federation in June. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Mooring’s two adult children, Josh and Jasmine, live in Dawson Creek. Josh has two daughters, Emma and Sydney. Her youngest child, son Colby, was killed in a car accident at age 17 in 2006.

When Mooring embarked on her educational journey, she says she “never had any inkling” she would be leading the province’s 43,000 teachers one day.

“I never anticipated in a million years that I would end up being the BCTF president,” Mooring said. “I’ve learned not to limit myself.

That’s not meant to sound arrogant, it’s just that a lot of unanticipated things have happened along the way that I could never have predicted.”

For fun, Mooring does hot yoga, runs along the seawall and is a passionate reader.

She takes over from BCTF president Glen Hansman when his threeyear term ends in June.

Hansman and Mooring were both elected as BCTF members at large in 2009.

At the time, Mooring was president of the teachers’ association in Quesnel, a

post she held for five years.

Hansman was president of the Vancouver Elementary School Teachers’ Association (VESTA). They didn’t know each other well, but Hansman remembers visiting her office.

“It was a different world than what I had known at VESTA in that she was the only person in the Quesnel office, which was a small thing beside the highway with only one way in and out of the office, and where she had to do everything,” Hansman said.

He says Mooring will “do great things as president.”

“Teri knows her values.

[She’s] smart, tenacious, articulate, thoughtful and committed to public education, teachers, teaching as a profession and the students we serve,” Hansman said.

In the few months remaining before taking over the helm, Mooring is the co-lead negotiator in the teachers’ collective bargaining for their contract, which expires June 30.

She says a wage increase is critical, because of the shortage of teachers in ru-

ral areas and the shortage of teachers on call across the province.

“What we are continuing to see, because of that, is that students with special needs are being asked to stay home when their teacher or educational assistant is ill,” she said.

“We’re also continuing to see specialist teachers are being pulled from their jobs to fill in for classrooms and that means students with special needs continue to lose out on programming and supports. That’s still an issue everywhere.”

There are hundreds of people teaching in B.C. classrooms today who don’t have a teaching certification — a number that has quadrupled since the teachers’ court win in 2016, Mooring said.

For the first time, BCTF can bargain provincially for class size caps — there is no provincial language for Grades 4 to 12 and some districts don’t have their own rules. As far as the number of students with special needs who can be in a single class, 20 of the province’s 60 districts have no rules.

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43,000 teachers While 20 have strong rules and another 20 could see improvement, she said.

Making that equitable is “key at the negotiation table,” Mooring said.

Earlier this year, the province put a one-year hold on implementing proposed changes to the funding for students with special needs, from a per-student basis to a so-called “prevalence model,” based on averages.

“At our AGM, the prevalence model for funding special education was a topic of big concern and teachers

are very united on opposing that model,” she said. “Part of the issue is that the education funding review panel didn’t consider increasing the funding for special education. If you couple that with a prevalence model, we have a lot of concerns.”

Mooring is encouraged by the recent doctors’ settlement in B.C., which includes 8.8 per cent increases over three years and contains money for recruitment and retention, she said.

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put in place and we’d really like to see some of that,” Mooring said.

Ideas include loan forgiveness, tuition repayment or other strategies to attract teachers to the province.

They’ve held 20 bargaining sessions so far, with 40 more scheduled before the end of June. Mooring is optimistic a deal will be done by then.

“That’s lots of time for us to get a deal,” Mooring said.

The province’s 538,000 public school students, their parents and their teachers all certainly hope she’s right.

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A 21-year-old Vancouver man who conspired with a teenager to set fire to a Kerrisdale real estate office in 2017 and participate in a drive-by shooting has been sentenced to almost five years in prison.

Simrat Singh Lally, who was arrested last year as part of a police crackdown on gang violence, pleaded guilty in December to arson and firearm charges and was sentenced March 8 in B.C. Supreme Court.

“Both the shooting conspiracy and the arson conspiracy carried with them the very real potential for property destruction, serious injury and death,” wrote Justice William Ehrcke in his reasons for judgment posted March 29 on the court’s website.

“The fact that these potential harms did not occur is not due to any mitigating factors attributable to Mr. Lally, but rather to good police work.”

Lally, who had no previous criminal record and is a former cashier at Superstore, was 19 going on 20 at the time of the offences. He was arrested with four other men and two 17-year-old boys in a wide-ranging investigation dubbed Project Temper.

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The investigation involved the Vancouver Police Department and the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of B.C. and concluded with the seven arrests, the seizure of four guns, ammunition and various charges.

At the conclusion of the investigation, Supt. Mike Porteous of the Vancouver police told reporters the project resulted in the dismantling of a violent group that was based in the city.

The charges related to Lally date back to October 2017.

The offence of conspiring to commit arson occurred after the purported leader of the group, Taqdir Singh Gill, wanted a fire set to a Kerrisdale real estate office.

Gill had a conflict with a person associated to the office, the document said.

The office was targeted because Gill believed the person’s son owed a significant amount of money to “Gill’s criminal bosses whom he often referred to in intercepted communication as the ‘cartel,’” the court document says.

Gill, who has since pleaded guilty to arson and firearms charges and was sentenced to six years in prison, hired a youth referred to as J.L. to commit the arson.

Lally agreed to drive J.L. to the real estate office on Oct. 13, 2017 in his Ford Explorer to commit the arson.

Shortly before midnight, police stopped the Explorer in the 2000-block of West 41st Avenue, around the corner from the real estate office.

Police found two red jerry cans filled with gasoline on the floor behind the passenger seat. They also found a gym bag with a blowtorch inside.

Police did not arrest J.L and Lally, but towed the Explorer. The next day, J.L. made a second attempt to commit the arson. Police stopped a vehicle driven by another man, who was with J.L., and seized gasoline and “incendiary devices.”

That same month, Gill, Lally, a youth referred to in the court document as S.K.K. and other persons conspired to shoot a firearm into the family residence of what the court document said were members of a rival street gang living near the 7100-block Fraser Street.

Lally agreed to drive S.K.K. to do the shooting but was stopped by police in the early morning hours of Oct. 26, 2017 shortly before the crime occurred.

Police seized a loaded CZ-858 rifle from the vehicle, which they said was an Explorer. The court documents aren’t clear whether it was the same Explorer seized in connection with the arson.

Police said the gun had a magazine with 26 cartridges and its safety was in the

“fire” position.

The arrest was not without incident. The vehicle fled after an officer switched on his emergency lights near Fraser Street and 57th Avenue.

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A month later, police executed a search warrant at Lally’s house in south Vancouver and found a sports bag in his bedroom containing a shotgun.

The bag contained four shotgun cartridges, four latex gloves and an empty .22-calibre ammunition box. In the attic of the garage, police found a cartridge magazine for a CZ-858 rifle — the same type of rifle police seized in October — loaded with 18 rounds of ammunition.

Police also found three Ziploc bags with 71 rounds of “loose ammunition,” including other rifle and nine-millimetre cartridges.

Lally had never been licensed or authorized to possess firearms, or a holder of a registration certificate to possess a firearm.

In sentencing Lally, Ehrcke gave him a credit of 20 days for the 13 days he initially spent in custody. For the arson charge, he was sentenced to six months less 20 days. For the conspiracy to discharge a firearm into a residence, he was sentenced to four years. And for the possession of firearm charge, he got six months.

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“I hope that Mr. Lally is sincere in the determination he expressed to the court and to his family today to lead a crime-free and productive life in the future,” Ehrcke said.

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This renowned Haida artist is carving a totem pole in an East Van garage Clarence Mills’ art has made its way to the Louvre, Kate Middleton and Prince William Grant Lawrence

with the first animal at the beginning of the totem, “not to be mistaken for the bottom,” as Mills explained.

“At the beginning is a beaver, and then a moon, and then a raven, and then a sun and finally an eagle.” It’s a stunning piece of art. Mills has no idea where the totem will end up once he’s done.

Originally from Skidegate, Mills’ grandfather was Hereditary Chief Skedans.

An uncle first showed Mills the ways of Haida art when he was 18 years old. He has been professionally carving ever since, a career that spans more than 40 years.

When I asked how many totems he’s carved over that time, Mills guessed “maybe 30 or 40?” His art is on display around the world.

“I got to carve a totem for Expo 86 at the Folk Life Pavilion,” Mills told me. “I carved that totem on site at Expo from July to September, showing people the craft of the Haida.”

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It’s not every day you spot an actual totem pole being carved in an East Van garage. My kids and I took a detour down an alley last week on the way to school, in order to avoid a nasty dog that had chased my son. I’m so glad we did.

As we passed an open garage door, I couldn’t help but notice a beautiful, gleaming, 20-foot totem pole, lying faces up. A man was carving various parts of the totem.

Of course I had to stop and chat. I was stunned to learn the man wielding the adze — a carving tool that hasn’t changed in centuries — was none other than world renowned Haida carver Clarence Mills. He’s been carving this particular totem on and off for about five or six years.

After sizing me up for a moment, Mills kindly took me through his totem, carved from gorgeous western red cedar. He started

long enjoyable stay,” Mills said. “I met the mayor, the president and the vice-president of France, and visited the Canadian Embassy, too.”

Another one of Mills’ totems stands in Brisbane, Australia, commissioned for Expo 88.

For the better part of 20 years, Mills gave carving demos on Granville Island before retiring from the public eye about three years ago. A friend offered his East Van garage as an alternative space for Mills to carve, which is where I found him on a sunny spring morning.

The smell of the cedar chips was alluring.

“This will be one of the last totems I carve, I think,” said Mills as he chipped away with his adze. “It’s a long process. I’m 60 years old now, and I think I’ve carved enough. I used to be able to carve all day long, but now my hands start to shake after about two hours. It’s time for me to go home to Haida Gwaii. I’ve accomplished a head full of dreams,

Haida artist Clarence Mills is carving what he thinks will be one of his last totem poles in a friend’s East Van garage.

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“I delivered that totem to Paris, and it was a two-week

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Baden’s art shines lens on the beautiful and banal Vancouver Art Gallery exhibit explores form, humour and the absurd

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There’s a section of the Vancouver Art Gallery that looks like it was hit by a tornado.

A bunch of dollies are somehow interconnected, cheap mattresses are configured in a fortress-like fashion and a mirror swallows your reflection whole.

Is this heady, highconcept art or just a bunch of absurdity to make you pause, think and laugh?

The answer is found somewhere in the middle.

Rolled out March 9 at the VAG, Mowry Baden’s 15-piece exhibit represents 50 years of re-defining the ordinary and giving life to the unextraordinary.

Take Cheap Sleeps Columbine, for example, a series of low-cost mattresses stacked on top of one another that resemble a fort made at a 10-year-old’s sleepover party.

“It’s a sheltered enclosure, something that has bargain references, but

Vancouver Art Gallery curator Grant Arnold atop Mowry Baden’s piece “Prone Gyres.” PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

the bed plays off the place where you’re sick or you’re having sex,” explains VAG curator Grant Arnold.

“There’s a notion of comfort being provided but on very basic terms.”

Then there’s Marsupial, a wheelbarrow with cloth wrapped over top of it in

a dome-like shape. Once inside, the viewer’s sense of sound and sight is completely limited and distorted.

“It’s not like these works don’t have any meaning, but there is a kind of openendedness to it,” Arnold said. “And it does really foreground the fact that

meaning comes out of the interaction between the viewer and the work.”

A former Vancouverite and UBC professor, Baden’s been at it in the art world since the 1960s. He received the Governor General’s Award for Visual and Media Arts in 2006. His

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Arnold said Baden’s work shifted from the sheer abstract to an emphasis on the visual side as his career progressed, though one constant has remained.

“His work has always been about how we perceive space, how we relate to space, how our bodies react to space,” Arnold said.

Created in 2011, Ukulele reinforces that point.

The piece has next to nothing in common with the stringed instrument, and is instead a dark enclosure that shoots ping pong balls at the viewer.

Calyx, on the other hand, is a mirror-like creation that can give the viewer a mild LSD flashback. The 2008 piece has a sensor that measures the viewer’s height and then distorts that reflected image into a series of psychedelic shapes and colours before disappearing entirely.

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2. Kramer, a moluccan cockatoo, is known as the conservatory’s showman.

3. Bloedel staff bring out plates of food for the hungry resident birds.

Bloedel Conservatory marks 50 years

Budgets cuts and sagging attendance nearly closed conservatory a decade ago Jessica Kerr

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It’s time for the morning feeding at Bloedel Conservatory at Queen Elizabeth Park. A cacophony of bird sounds echoes throughout the building, and a colourful array of feathered friends flock to the feeding area as manager Agnes Romses brings out the morning feast.

There are plates filled with chopped berries, grapes and bananas, peas and corn, greens and grains, and a pile of tiny beetle larva that is cultivated at Bloedel specifically for the birds.

“Sometimes I make a joke that the birds are eating better than us,” Romses says.

There are about 150 freeflying birds that live under the dome and another 11 larger birds —parrots,

macaws and cockatoos — perched throughout the conservatory. Some are as old as the iconic building, which overlooks the city from Little Mountain and celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.

Watching Romses play, interact and even cuddle with some of the resident birds, you’d never know that she once had a deep fear of those same birds.

Romses started her career with the park board in the early 1990s. When the opportunity to move into management at Bloedel came up, she was initially resistant to the idea. She had done a six-month stint at the conservatory years before and was bitten by a macaw — it almost broke her finger. After taking the job, she was initially nervous around the birds until one reached out.

“I was working around his perch,” she says, pointing to Nelson, a bright green dwarf macaw. “And he jumped on my shoulder and I said, ‘OK, he’s not biting me’…

And he said, ‘I love you, baby’ very clearly.”

Now Romses, who is still several years away from

retirement, can’t imagine working anywhere else.

“It’s so rewarding that, to me, I even ask myself, ‘How am I going to be able to retire?’ I’ll be missing such a big piece of my life.”

Early days

Located in Queen Elizabeth Park atop Little Mountain, the futuristic domed conservatory sits at the geographic centre, and highest point, of the city. The dome houses three simulated climates — tropical rain forest, sub-tropical forest and desert — the more than 150 exotic birds and hundreds of species of plants.

Once a quarry that provided the rocks used to build many of the city’s first streets, the land was handed over to the park board in 1939 to be turned into a park. Trees were planted on the northern slope starting in 1949 and the sunken gardens, planted in the former quarries, were unveiled in the early 1960s.

Park board commissioner John Coupar has a special connection to Bloedel. His father, Charles Coupar, served as the conservatory’s first director and, as a child,

John attended the official opening with his parents.

Flipping through binders filled with historical reports, articles and memorabilia, Coupar is an authority on Bloedel’s colourful history.

By the mid-’60s, plans for the conservatory started to take shape.

Stuart Lefeaux, who was superintendent of the park board at the time, and deputy superintendent Bill Livingstone had a vision of creating something that would enhance Vancouver’s image — a home for tropical plants and birds that would be both educational and an attraction.

Original plans included the conservatory and plaza, as well as a “Museum of the Woods” and a planetarium.

While some of those plans didn’t exactly come to fruition — the planetarium ended up at Vanier Park and there is no Museum of the Woods — it was full steam ahead on the conservatory.

There was, however, the matter of paying for the project. Livingstone had developed a friendship with Prentice Bloedel, a leader in the timber industry at the time. As the story goes, Liv-

ingstone was visiting Bloedel at his home on Bainbridge Island in Washington state.

The two men were having lunch one day when Livingstone mentioned the vision for the conservatory.

“And the story that I heard was that he [Bloedel] said ‘Well, how much do you think it will be?’ and [Livingstone] said, ‘I think, it would be a little over a million dollars’ and Prentice Bloedel said to him ‘Well, I can handle that,’” says Coupar.

That $1.4-million donation would be the equivalent of more than $10.5 million today.

Designing a dome

The original drawings for the conservatory show a more traditional building design. However, Lefeaux was in Montreal for Expo ’67 and was inspired by the design of the U.S. pavilion — a large geodesic dome designed by renowned American architect-inventor Buckminster Fuller.

Local architecture firm Underwood, McKinley, Cameron, Wilson and Smith led the design of the conservatory, which was the first large triodetic

dome conservatory in Canada and remains the largest single-structure conservatory in the country.

It is 140 feet in diameter, 70 feet high and covers 16,386 square feet of display area. The dome is made up of 2,324 pieces of five-inch extruded aluminum tubing and 1,490 Plexiglas bubbles of 32 different sizes.

The design of the dome eliminates the need for support columns, leaving the interior views open and unimpeded.

It took just 10 days to erect the aluminum frame, but construction of the entire building and plaza took 18 months to complete.

Opening day

Bloedel Conservatory opened on Dec. 6, 1969 with an official ceremony that included speeches from then mayor Tom Campbell and Prentice Bloedel.

The park board chair at the time, Andy Livingstone, served as MC and Bloedel’s wife Virginia unveiled a sculpture that the couple gifted to the city — Henry Moore’s Knife-Edge, Two Piece still stands in the plaza outside the conservatory.

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of birds, plants and stinky flowers

The sculpture was cast in bronze four times before the mould was destroyed with the other versions residing in the House of Lords in London, the Rockefeller estate in New York and on Henry Moore’s estate in the English countryside.

In the beginning, the Bloedel proved a popular attraction. In its first year open, half a million people went through the doors. That would change, however.

Saving the conservatory

Several decades later, facing an almost $3-million cut to its budget, Vancouver Park Board commissioners voted to close the conservatory. A staff report from November 2009 cited reduced attendance and increased maintenance costs resulting in the conservatory being subsidized by the park board to the tune of about $250,000 annually, as well as the need for “significant capital funds” to upgrade the aging building.

When Coupar heard news of the impending closure, he was in disbelief.

Disbelief turned into action.

“All of a sudden I became the face of it and we formed this group… we called it Friends of the Bloedel.”

The small group set its sights on saving the conservatory — they created a brochure to help promote Bloedel, talked to the media, people raised money and, behind the scenes, started working on a proposal that would see Vancouver Botanical Garden Association, which runs VanDusen Botanical Garden, take over the conservatory.

The planned closure was supposed to take place following the 2010 Winter Games. However, the closure was postponed and, in July, the park board agreed to turn operations over to the association in partnership with Friends of the Bloedel.

The group was ultimately recognized for its efforts. In 2013, Friends of the Bloedel received a Heritage Commission Award of Honour from the City of Vancouver, “for their advocacy and successful efforts to save and revitalize the Bloedel Conservatory at Queen Elizabeth Park.”’

And for Coupar, he says the experience inspired him to run for park board commissioner. He was first elected in 2011 and is now serving his third term on the board.

“I would have never gotten into politics… I was interested in political science in college and I always followed politics… that’s really what propelled me to do it.”

Roof refresh

With the conservatory saved, it was time to tackle the roof. At more than 40 years old at the time, the roof was starting to show its age.

Many of the bubbles had started to crack and leak.

The 2014 roof replacement project, which cost $2.4 million, almost twice as much as the original construction, took more than seven months to complete and required some particular precautions. Special scaffolding that would cover but not touch the dome was erected and then wrapped in a protective covering.

Netting was installed inside the dome to catch any falling debris, as well as keep the resident birds in and outside birds out.

Flora and Fauna

While Bloedel has a plethora of exotic plants — including rare Mexican Horncones, a coffee tree, large Candelabra Cactus and, of course, the minor celebrity corpse flower, dubbed Uncle Fester, which bloomed for the first time this past summer and drew record crowds — the birds are by far the biggest draw for the conservatory.

“Some people come back so often that they know all the birds and they have their favourites,” Romses says.

At 57 years old, Casey, a yellow-crowned parrot, is the oldest bird in the conservatory and its longest standing resident.

“I think Casey has been here pretty much since the beginning,” Romses says, stepping into the bird’s area and trying to coax her off her perch.

Monty, a princess parrot and Casey’s boyfriend, stands guard nearby.

“We got a female princess parrot hoping that Monty would have a friend because he said he wanted a friend but, no, that’s his real first love,” Romses says pointing to Casey.

Known as the conservatory’s showman, Kramer, a moluccan cockatoo, is one of the most intelligent, and chatty, of all the birds.

He knows more than 40 words and phrases, can string together five or six words in a row and, Romses says, knows the concept of cause and effect.

He has also proved to be a bit of a challenge for Romses. When birds such as Kramer get bored, they can act out in a bid for more attention. A couple of years ago, she says, Kramer got down from his perch and made his way into the gift shop area near the entrance.

“He had managed to climb the glass shelves… he never broke anything but chewed through everything he could get,” Romses recalls. “And when I found him there he kept saying, ‘Kramer is a good bird.

Yup, yup. I am a good bird.

I am a good bird.’”

Bright future

Possible changes are afoot at the conservatory, says Coupar.

“One of the exciting things that is happening is

the [VBGA] has passed a resolution to help support [funding] a visitors centre at the front of Bloedel,” he says, adding that the group is proposing a temporary visitors centre where they could have a small education classroom.

“The idea is to tie the tropical rainforest with the temperate rainforest and how important the rainforest is,” he says.

There are also plans to bring Uncle Fester back. In July 2018, Bloedel superintendent Bruce McDonald told the Courier he would like to display the nowfamous corpse flower, which attracted 17,000 visitors to the conservatory in just over a week, while it’s in its leaf phase. It’s expected to bloom again in the next five to 10 years.

Looking back, what sticks out most for Coupar, who saw the construction and opening of Bloedel as a young Vancouverite, was how it changed the feeling of the city.

“It certainly kind of made my life bigger than it was before… I remember going up there at night and [thinking] almost anything is possible in Vancouver.” @JessicaEKerr

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The numbers that have bounced around Erin Emiru’s world border on unimaginable, well past the breaking point of even the strongest among us.

Eight different psychoactive medications, 14 mental health hospitalizations, two abusive relationships, a suicide attempt, too many rats to count and more psychiatrists than she cares to remember.

And yet despite decades of internal and external strife, Emiru has found a way to shine.

The 40-year-old is approaching six years of wedded bliss and holds a master’s degree in neuroscience. Emiru has worked to surround herself with a supportive circle of friends and coworkers.

And, like any self-respecting Vancouverite, she loves yoga.

“I’ve got connections now,” Emiru tells the Courier.

For long stretches of Emiru’s life, connection was the enemy. She’s lived with schizophrenia since her early teenage years and purposely distanced herself from friends and family as the condition progressed.

“When I’m ill, I withdraw.

I don’t want to interact with anyone,” Emiru said.

The lone connections Emiru maintained were the voices in her head. They were benevolent to begin with, but turned on her after the age of 12. The voices yelled at her, eventually convincing Emiru to selfharm and attempt suicide.

Somewhere in the background, Emiru believed a homicidal sniper tracked her every move.

Schizophrenia became the norm in Emiru’s teenage years and early 20s, though it was difficult, if not impossible, for anyone around her to tell.

“I’ve always been perceived as very shy and quiet, kept to myself,” she said. “I did very well in school and I have a feeling that had my schoolwork been affected, someone would have intervened earlier. When you’re getting straight A-pluses, people don’t tend to question your mental health.”

Emiru was in her early 20s when she moved to Vancouver from her home in New Brunswick in order to study neuroscience at the University of B.C. The cross-continental trek was as much about pursuing education as it was trying to

Erin Emiru has overcome 14 mental health hospitalizations in her life and now works as a peer support worker with Vancouver Coastal Health. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

flee from her condition.

“I moved so far away partly in hopes of leaving it behind,” Emiru recalled.

“But in my first month here, I saw my new psychiatrist and he, within 10 minutes of meeting me, certified me to Riverview.”

Emiru convinced herself the mechanics of her brain were being interrupted by rats inside her head. Those rats followed her to psychiatric wards at Riverview and Vancouver General hospitals. It was at VGH where Emiru would continually smash her head against a wall in an attempt to bleed the rats out. From 2001 to 2014, Emiru had 14 mental health hospitalizations, many lasting months at a time. During this period, eight different medications were tried, along with multiple doses of many. In a frustrating cycle, progress and good times would spiral into psychotic episodes.

Emiru didn’t stop pushing forward despite the vortex of chaos in her world.

She continued studying at UBC, eventually graduating with a master’s degree in neuroscience. Emiru is now peer support worker with Vancouver Coastal Health’s Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) team and works with people living through mental health and addiction challenges.

She published a personal memoir, When Quietness Came: A Neuroscientist’s Personal Journey With Schizophrenia, and serves as a keynote speaker at conferences concerning mental health.

“Hope grows by giving hope to other people,” Emiru said.

Emiru is this year’s Courage To Come Back Award recipient in the mental health category, recognizing her commitment to those living with mental illness.

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celebrated as part of the awards gala at the Vancouver Convention Centre on April 24.

All of this comes despite the short-sighted doubt instilled in her by one of the many psychiatrists Emiru has seen over the past two decades. There’s been so many, Emiru has since lost count.

“I would definitely go back to the psychiatrist who told me I would never be a productive member of society and tell him of my accomplishments,” Emiru said. “It would be a case of telling him, ‘Don’t say this to anyone else, because it can turn out to not be true.’

Saying anything so negative to someone can take away hope. Why take away hope?”

Those who’ve witnessed Emiru’s journey consider her a beacon of hope. Her nomination package for the Courage To Come Back Awards is full of testimonials from those who have seen her at various stages of her life.

A nurse at VGH at the time, Leanne Maylam met Emiru in the mid-2000s and consistently saw Emiru at her worst. Emiru was dubbed “Houdini” because of her uncanny ability to free herself from the restraints needed to prevent her from self-harming.

The pair now work together on the ACT team.

“I admire Erin. Through her courage, strength and tenacity, she has turned her struggle with her own mental health into a symbol of hope for those with their own struggles,” Maylam wrote.

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“I don’t like the word ‘recover,’ because it’s looking backwards — it’s asking what can I recover from my past and bring in to my present? No one can bring anything from the past to the present — it’s gone,” Emiru said. “But you can discover by looking to the future and saying, ‘OK, what do I have in my hands right at this moment and how do I discover what I can do with it?’”

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Julie Tamiko Manning is no fan of clichés, but she’ll lean on them when necessary.

For starters, she outlines the “Japanese-Canadian way” as a type of genteel approach to conflict-resolution that, above all else, stresses the need to never rock the boat.

Tamiko Manning then, somewhat hesitantly, references Spanish-Italian philosopher George Santayana for this nugget of truth: “Those who cannot remem-

ber the past are condemned to repeat it.”

The Montreal native does so with good reason. Tamiko Manning’s family members, second-generation JapaneseCanadians known as Nisei, and others in her community were interred during the Second World War. Alongside fellow Japanese-Canadian Matt Miwa, Tamiko Manning brings the award-winning play The Tashme Project: The Living Archives to Vancouver.

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the 75-minute show weaves together stories from 20 interview subjects from across Canada who were just kids at the time of internment.

“A lot of them had a lot of joy to express in those memories,” Tamiko Manning said. “As unjust as the internment was, they remember it being a community because they were all of a certain age. They were coming from small towns where the Japanese people were minorities and there was a lot of prejudice.”

Opened in 1942, the

Tashme Internment Camp was located south of Hope and operated until 1946. It was specifically placed away from the coast, spanning 1,200 acres and sandwiched into an isolated valley in the mountains. At its height, Tashme was the largest internment camp in Canada and home to more than 2,600 people who were resettled after the war.

In Tamiko Manning’s case, her family laid down roots in Farnham, just east of Montreal.

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between Tamiko Manning and Miwa portraying themselves and the Nisei interview subjects, all of whom are in their 70s, 80s and 90s.

That said, Tamiko Manning says the target audience of her play is the third and fourth generation JapaneseCanadians who may not know what happened to their ancestors 75 years ago.

“I think third and fourth generations are asking themselves, ‘What does it mean to be Japanese-Canadian?’”

Tamiko Manning said.

“And because intermarriage between Japanese and non-Japanese is so high, lots of people are half, a quarter or an eighth Japanese, so nobody looks Japanese anymore. But that doesn’t mean that you’re not and that doesn’t mean these stories don’t belong to you.”

A longer version of this story is at vancourier.com.

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Vancouver wrestling comedy pulls no punches Sabrina Furminger

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In the wrestling world, no one wants to be a paper champion.

Paper champions don’t earn their titles the old fashioned way (i.e. by clobbering their opponents in the ring with a folding chair or a diving back elbow drop).

Instead, they receive their titles through forfeit or disqualification, neither of which is especially bragworthy — and so, in the competitive, hyper-masculine world of professional wrestling, paper champions aren’t really considered champions at all.

But while paper champions are shaky at best in the wrestling realm, they’re a solid premise for a scripted comedy.

Brady Roberts has rubbed shoulders with plenty of champions in his day, including a few of the paper variety.

The Vancouver-based actor and producer is the creative mastermind behind

Paper Champions, a Telus Original series that has its premiere at the Rio Theatre this weekend.

Roberts is in his early 30s, and he spent nearly half his life on the independent wrestling circuit. He started training at 14, was travelling the world by 15 and, at 17, was one of the youngest wrestlers to ever try out for the WWE (he lied about his age).

The independent wrestling scene is “very much like the underground music scene,” according to Roberts.

“You’re playing crappy clubs and community centres and piling six guys into a van and sleeping three guys in one bed in a shitty hotel room,” says Roberts.

“It’s kind of a travelling, low-budget rock star life. I always thought there was such a great show there because there are so many wild characters in wrestling — almost unbelievable characters, to be honest.”

Those unbelievable characters inspire and power Paper Champions. The series centers on Audrey (played

Paul Lazenby, Kylee Bush and Brady Roberts star in Paper Champions, which screens at the Rio Theatre April 7.

by Kylee Bush), an unhappy, struggling novelist who inherits a failing wrestling company — the focus of a local cable access show — when her estranged father dies of a heart attack.

“Audrey is coming into this all-male, toxically masculine world of pro wrestling, and these wrestlers are like, ‘Who is this chick?

Why are we going to listen to her? What does she know about wrestling?’ They see her very much as a paper champion,” says Roberts, who portrays an ego-driven network producer.

Roberts says he wit-

nessed that kind of behaviour when he was on the pro wrestling circuit.

“We really didn’t see many women in the locker room, and that created a toxically masculine environment,” says Roberts.

“Now, the game is changing. WWE, especially in the last couple of years, has put more emphasis on women’s wrestling, but it still isn’t equal. I tried to incorporate as much of that [into the show] as possible.”

Roberts’ priority with Paper Champions is making people laugh; he likens the conceit of the series to 30 Rock.

“You see the wrestling show they produce only a little bit,” says Roberts. “I just want people to laugh.

The show isn’t really about wrestling. It’s about these characters that have a dream.

They’re not particularly great at what they do, but they’re trying really hard, and I feel like that’s important.”

In this way, Paper Champions is reflective of Roberts’ own experience trying to break into the WWE. “I had many tryouts at WWE but I never received a full-time job offer, so it’s hard when you’re an actor or wrestler or entertainer and you can turn your television on and watch your friends every week on a big TV,” he says.

“There’s a lot of cool stuff about that, but it’s also difficult to swallow. I want people to feel inspired about continuing to chase their dreams, whatever it is — that’s what the show is about.”

Last October, Roberts and his team headed to Calgary to film Paper Champions’ seven 10-minute episodes in a defunct elementary school

that they transformed into a wrestling arena.

Shooting in Calgary was particularly meaningful for Roberts, who’d moved to Cowtown at age 18 to study wrestling at a school operated by WWE legend Lance Storm.

“People come from all over the world to train there, and there’s a two-year waiting list to get in,” says Roberts, adding that Storm and 20 of his students (all dressed in full wrestling regalia) make a cameo appearance in Paper Champions.

“To return to Calgary at age 31 to film a show that was inspired by my 10 years wrestling was really cool.”

Paper Champions also features former pro wrestler and stuntman Paul Lazenby, Adam Kozlick, Patrick Gerber, Peter Chao and TunjiTaylor Lewis. The series was directed by Theo Kim. Paper Champions will screen in its entirety April 7 at the Rio Theatre; tickets at eventbrite.com.

Good Girls Don’t celebrates kids who make their own rules

Sabrina Furminger

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Ana De Lara wasn’t a bad girl, but by her parents’ estimation, she wasn’t exactly obedient, either.

She liked to play sports, something that vexed and perplexed her mom and dad, who immigrated to Vancouver from the Philippines and considered athletics to be unladylike.

And so De Lara’s mom, in a fit of frustration, told her young daughter that playing sports would result in — well, a significant change to her genitals.

“It was one of those things where she had said no to playing sports because it was unladylike, and I still wanted to do it, and so she countered with, ‘Well, if you keep doing it, you’ll turn into a boy,’” says De Lara in a recent phone interview. “It

wasn’t that she believed it or it’s a Filipino belief. It was just a parent using a scare tactic to get you to obey when you’re not.”

But De Lara didn’t obey her parents. She played softball and basketball and dreamed of being the first woman to play in the NBA. But there was a small part of her that believed her mom’s dire warning.

“I would look between my legs to see if a penis was growing there,” she says, laughing. “But I still kept playing sports. I did things that weren’t ladylike.”

Alas, De Lara didn’t ever make it to the NBA. “What crushed my dream was an article in Seventeen Magazine about being realistic about your dreams, and the example they used was if you’re 5’2” and you want to play basketball professionally, rethink it,” she said.

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Instead, the actor and filmmaker mined this formative childhood experience for Good Girls Don’t, the short film she wrote and directed that screens April 7 and 8 as part of the 2019 Reel 2 Real Film Festival for Youth.

Good Girls Don’t tells the

story of 10-year-old Marilou (played by Evryle Ebora), who loves basketball despite her mother’s claims that she’ll grow muscles and “a pee pee, like a boy” if she plays sports. In order to play, she has to convince her hyper-religious parents to sign a school permission

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The film also stars Lorne Cardinal (Corner Gas), Jane McLean, John Emmet Tracy, Carolyne Maraghi, and Shaughnessy Redden as Jesus.

“I believe in the saying that you should write from a place that you know,” says De Lara, adding she knows how hard it can be for FilipinoCanadian actors to get cast in film and television projects.

“When I came out of theatre school, there were no roles for Filipinos. Just none. I think if there were any roles I was auditioning for, they’d be for other ethnicities or it would just say ‘open ethnicity.’ I got discouraged. The roles you do get, they don’t challenge you. They’re so small. You can’t develop your skills. So one of the things that I wanted to do with this film was give opportunities to Filipinos so that they could have the opportunities that I didn’t have.”

De Lara also wanted to tell a story that isn’t usually told on screen: that of a Filipino Canadian family.

“You don’t often see the

Filipino Canadian family on the Canadian screen,” says De Lara, who won an award from the Motion Picture Production Industry Association of B.C. (MPPIA) to make the film.

“You see other ethnicities. You see South Asian, Chinese, Japanese, but not Filipino. It’s exciting for me to do that. They’re underrepresented for sure.”

Speaking of Filipino Canadian families, what does De Lara’s think of the film?

“My family loves it,” she says. “My mom is very proud of it. She’s very supportive.”

Good Girls Don’t screens April 7 and 8 as part of the 2019 Reel 2 Real Film Festival for Youth. The festival is programmed with kids and young people in mind, and includes screenings of feature-length and short films as well as workshops and a youth media conference. Other local films in the fest include Beauty, a National Film Board of Canada documentary by Christina Willings about five gender-creative kids, and Amanda Cole’s Biddaaban (The Dawn Comes), which won Best Short at VIFF. Tickets and full schedule at r2rfestival.org.

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B.C. and Ontario have waged many a battle over which province claims the title of Hollywood North.

For the 2017-18 fiscal year, at least, that moniker clearly goes to the West Coast.

The volume of film and TV production in B.C.

reached $3.58 billion in the last fiscal year, according to the Canadian Media Producers Association’s (CMPA) Profile 2018 report released March 28.

That’s up 20.6 per cent from a year earlier when production volume reached $2.97 billion.

Ontario was No. 2 in the country, accounting for $2.89 billion in film and TV production

volume, down 4.9 per cent from the $3.031 billion that came in a year earlier.

Film and TV production across Canada grew 5.9 per cent year over year, from $8.42 billion to $8.92 billion.

“These impressive numbers illustrate that our incredibly skilled workforce, underpinned by strong production infrastructure, have built Canada’s industry into one of the world’s

foremost production sectors,” CMPA president and CEO Reynolds Mastin said in a statement.

“However, the numbers show there are clouds forming on the horizon, which require attention if we are to strive for a balanced sector, where Canadian and international productions reinforce one another, and where there is opportunity for Cana-

dian stories to thrive in the digital era.”

Mastin’s remarks refer to the drop in domestic film and TV productions last year, which fell 8.8 per cent year over year from $3.3 billion to $3.04 billion.

Foreign production volume, meanwhile, increased 26.3 per cent to hit $4.77 billion.

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‘Nucks were better and worse than predicted As the Canucks’ season winds down, looking back at the highs and lows of 2018-19

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Heading into the 2018-19 season, the pundits and the analytical models all seemed to agree: the Canucks were going to be bad.

It was understandable: they were losing the two best players in franchise history in the Sedins, with no sure successors to their first-line roles. In addition, they were bringing back the exact same defence that had struggled the season before and a starting goaltender that, at best, had been league-average in what was the best season of his career.

So, the pundits and analytics were in concert: the Canucks would likely finish near the bottom of the Pacific Division and the Western Conference. On average, the experts predicted the Canucks would finish with around 78 points, eighth in the Pacific, and 28th in the NHL. After all, who was going to score?

Who was going to get the puck out of the defensive zone? And who was going to keep the puck out of the Canucks’ net?

The Canucks have been better than any of the experts could have predicted, but they’ve also been worse, and exactly the same.

Heading into Tuesday’s game against the San Jose Sharks, the Canucks were sitting on 78 points, the exact average of what the experts predicted. With three games remaining to play, the most points the Canucks could earn is 84, assuming they won on Tuesday. Another, perhaps more likely, possibility is that the Canucks lose all three games and finish exactly where everyone thought they would.

And yet, this season didn’t feel as dire as that point total suggests and it started

Based on his efforts alone, rookie forward Elias Pettersson made the Canucks’ season better than the last. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

at the beginning: the first game of the season.

Elias Pettersson set the tone for the 2018-19 season in his very first game in the NHL. Against what would prove to be the best team in the Pacific, Pettersson announced his arrival in the NHL in the most emphatic way possible, ripping his very first shot past Calgary’s Mike Smith with an authority. It was unstoppable and, for a time, so was the optimism in the Canucks’ fanbase.

Without Pettersson’s debut, the 201819 season suddenly took on a different tone. Pettersson alone made this season better than the last, as even a losing season carried with it hope for the future.

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“It put a lot of hope in fans’ eyes,” said Bo Horvat on Tuesday. “It brought life to the group, even in the room. For him to have the year he’s having at such a young age, we’re lucky to have him.”

Along with Pettersson, there was the continued progression of Horvat and Brock Boeser, the resurgence of Alex Edler and, most surprisingly, the impressive performance of Jacob Markstrom, emerging as a legitimate number one goaltender.

The highs, however, were matched by some grievous lows. There was the eight-game losing streak in November, the numerous injuries to impact players, and the struggles when anyone other than Markstrom was in net.

The biggest way the season was worse than expected is how it showed just how far away their defence is from being that of a true contender. Injuries to Edler and Chris Tanev exposed their lack of depth, and the Canucks seemed to wake up to the need for an overhaul, trading Michael Del Zotto and Erik Gudbranson.

It’s also important to understand that the reason the Canucks were in the playoff race for so long had less to do with them and more to do with the Pacific Division and Western Conference, which were a hot mess for most of the season.

The Canucks are not going to finish eighth in the Pacific or 28th in the NHL like the experts predicted, but only because of the disastrous seasons of the Los Angeles Kings and the Anaheim Ducks.

In the end, the season was nothing like what we thought it would be, despite the Canucks finishing right where most people thought they would finish. The journey to get there was entirely unexpected.

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Stick-taps & Glove-drops • A tap of the stick to the Canucks for getting Christian Aquilini out on the ice for Tuesday’s game day skate. The joyful nephew of Canucks co-owner Paolo Aquilini is on the autism spectrum and works as a dressing room attendant at Rogers Arena. The players clearly love him and cheered him on as he scored a couple goals on Jacob Markstrom in warm-up.

Big Numbers • 3 Heading into Tuesday, the Canucks had won just three games in regulation over their last 27 games.

While they eked out a few overtime and shootout wins in that time, that’s not an encouraging record.

• 1 Elias Pettersson has had a phenomenal season and looks poised to be even better next season, but heading into Tuesday had just one goal in his last 20 games. It’s looking like he’ll finish the season just short of 30 goals.

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THE GROWLER: DRINK THIS

Streetnames Saison by Nanaimo’s White Sails Brewing Rob Mangelsdorf editor@thegrowler.ca

It’s easy to get stuck in the Vancouver bubble.

The city has everything you need, usually within walking distance, so why bother venturing further afield? Worldclass restaurants? Check!

Killer coffee? Cheque! The best dang bunch of craft breweries just about anywhere? Checkity-czechingcheck! I mean, have you been east of Boundary lately?

I hear people drive pickup trucks and have these things called “yards.” Weird.

This may come as a shock to many bubble-dwelling Vancouverites, but there is, in fact, life beyond the city’s borders. This week I encourage you to embrace the unfamiliar and explore the many delights that exist all

over this great big delicious province of ours.

Where better to do just that than the exotic seaside city of Nanaimo! The ol’ Harbour City is going through a bit of renaissance, lately. It doesn’t smell nearly as bad as it used to, and acid wash jeans are back in fashion, so things are really looking up!

Nanaimo’s downtown is actually pretty cool; with some decent restaurants and pubs, lots of historic buildings, and a shockingly awesome record store, it’s a far cry from the neverending strip mall hell you see from the highway. And while much of Nanaimo might still be helplessly clinging to the 1990s, thankfully the beer is legit.

At the edge of downtown, White Sails Brewing has

From good ol’ Nanaimo, White Sails Brewing’s Streetnames Saison puts a little pepper and kaffir lime into its classic Belgian farmhouse ale.

been putting out some pretty decent beers for the past four years now. It doesn’t seem to get much recognition in the Vancouver bubble, but it’s managed to pick up a ton of awards in recent years, including a few gold medals at the World

Beer Awards for its Snake Island Cascadian Dark Ale, Mt. Benson IPA and Belgian Witbier.

Streetnames Saison is White Sails’ take on the classic Belgian farmhouse ale, with the addition of kaffir lime and pepper.

Saisons are normally a little tart and peppery, so it’s a natural choice, in many ways. Thankfully, they didn’t go overboard with the spices; Streetnames is a well-balanced, extremely refreshing beer that’s perfect for these unseasonably warm days. The citrus and pepper are pronounced, but not overpowering, while the malt character is light with notes of wheat and biscuit.

By the way, the beer gets its name from the many ridiculous street names in and around Nanaimo, such as Jingle Pot Road, Dingle Bingle Hill and Tiggly-Wiggly Road. Story goes that former Nanaimo mayor (and parttime amateur pirate) Frank Ney let his young children and his drinking buddies name many of the streets around town.

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Aroma: Citrus, pepper, wheat, spice.

Flavour: Citrus, pepper, wheat, biscuit, spice, clove, slightly tart, earthy, floral hop notes, mild hop bitterness.

Body/finish: Light bodied with a dry, tart finish.

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3.98/EA

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6.98/EA

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Everland Organic Coconut Oil, 500ml

Mazola Corn Oil, 2.84l

Mcgavins White or Whole WJKVN BPKVd, 567g

17.98/EA

3.98/EA

5.98/EA

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Dan D Pak Coconut Cream,400ml

Rogers White Sugar, 4kg

Dan D Pak Roasted Cashews, 1kg

O’tasty Frozen Dumplings, 567g

Purex Double Roll BVNJ tiOOMK, 12O

5.00

5.00

4.98/EA

1.48/EA

1.98/EA

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Knax Gherkins Pickles, 1.5L

Santa Cruz Organic lKmSTVdKO, 946mX

Emma Italian pKKXKd tSmVNSKO, 796mX

General Mills Kids Cereal, 526-591g

Milka Assorted Chocolate Bars, 100g

Bonesa Sliced Sauerkraut, 1L

98¢/EA

98¢/100G

$

1.28/EA

4.98/EA

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Athena Sea Salt, 750g

Nescafe Rich YTONVTN cSffKK, 170g

Everland Coconut Water wiNJ pMXQ, 520mX

Beef Pastrami

1.68/EA

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19.98/EA

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