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Apartment parking spots going unused in Metro Vancouver mhowell@vancourier.com

Urban planning nerds are going wild with recent reports out of city hall and TransLink boasting about walking, biking and transit ridership going up.

If those impressive numbers weren’t intoxicating enough for the active transportation crowd, we also learned Vancouver city staff has come up with “six big moves” to drop carbon emissions by 1.2 million tonnes by the year 2030.

One of those moves is to have two-thirds of trips in Vancouver made by walking, biking or transit. Another move is to have 50 per cent of kilometres driven on Vancouver’s roads to be done in electric vehicles by 2030.

Electric or not, motorists are still going to need somewhere to park, especially as the population of the city and region continues to grow.

Which brings me to another report. This one is called The 2018 Regional Parking Study, which went before Metro Vancouver’s housing committee May 1,

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Exciting, right?

It kind of is because it concludes what a similar 2012 study did: there continues to be an excessive number of parking spots at apartment buildings in the region that are not being filled up with cars.

Prepared by TransLink and Metro Vancouver, the study looked at 73 sites in the region built between 1976 and 2017, including 14 in Vancouver, 11 in Surrey and seven each in Burnaby and Richmond.

Fifty of the apartments were strata, 12 were market rental, seven mixed tenure, three mixed rental and one non-market rental. The majority — 47 — were built between 2014 and 2017.

Data was collected generally after 11 p.m. on weeknights. Researchers also quizzed 1,500 residents for contextual information such as vehicle ownership and willingness to forego a parking stall.

What the study found is that parking supply exceeded utilization by 42 per cent at strata buildings. It was 35

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per cent at market rental sites and 41 per cent for mixed tenure and mixed rental.

The stats come at a time of a heightened discussion around land use, density and how people are going to get around without the region turning into Mad Max. Between 2014 and 2018, 59 per cent of the housing unit starts in the region were apartments, followed by 20 per cent single-detached homes, 13 per cent townhouse/duplex/triplex and seven per cent secondary suites.

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parking spots at apartments.

In fact, Metro Vancouver’s 2040 plan calls for just that, particularly around current or future transit hubs and corridors.

Developers will tell you adding parking is costly, takes up space and adds to the price of housing.

The accompanying Metro Vancouver report to the study will tell you this: “An excessive supply of parking represents an inefficient use of land and capital resources, especially in urban centres and areas along the frequent transit network, and a missed opportunity to reflect evolving transportation choices and to reduce the cost of hous-

ing construction.”

That quote is not just the author sounding off, but emphasizing that such data helps inform municipalities’ planning and engineering staff about changes to parking bylaws, rezoning and development reviews, developing area and neighbourhood plans, corridor planning efforts and street parking.

A question that should have been posed and answered up top of this piece is: Why aren’t residents using these parking spots?

The answer comes in many forms, and was verified in the recent reports from the city and TransLink that showed healthy increases in walking, biking and transit use.

The reasons are many: People are unable to afford a car, find owning a car too expensive, have instead joined a car share service, live close to transit, prefer to park their car on the street, find parking fees costly, can’t stand congestion and prefer to walk or bike for health and environmental reasons.

Skyrocketing gas prices is another.

But of those strata resi-

dents who own one or more vehicles, 83 per cent said they need their parking spots.

Which is not surprising.

Only 25 per cent of the same group who don’t own a vehicle said they would forego a parking spot, with 42 per cent unsure and 34 per cent agreeable to losing the spot.

Finally, the study highlights a challenge that remains unchanged from the 2012 study. The design and current capacity of bicycle parking lockers in apartment buildings are discouraging their use by many residents.

The number one reason, by far: “I’m afraid the bike will be stolen or damaged.”

To which the report said: “From a policy and practice perspective, the same care and attention that is paid to accommodating cars and trucks could easily be applied to the provision of convenient, capacious and secure bicycle parking facilities in new apartment developments.”

The full report, with a list of the apartment sites and all the minutiae of the findings, is at metrovancouver.org. I guarantee you’ll look at parking spots with a keener eye.

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News Plastic straw ban coming spring 2020 Jessica Kerr

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Vancouver city council Monday night approved revised dates for the bans on plastic straws, and foam cups and takeout containers.

The ban on foam cups and takeout containers will go into effect Jan. 1, 2020 while the ban on the unnecessary use of plastic straws will begin in April 2020. Project manager Monica Kosmak told council that further details on the bylaw requirements, including phasing and exemptions for health care needs and accessibility, would come back to council no later than Nov. 30.

The straw ban was initially slated to go into effect June 1, 2019.

“We are committed to working with residents, businesses, non-profits and other levels of government to create lasting change that brings us closer to our goal of becoming a zero water community by 2040 and, in this case, it means providing stakeholders with a bit more time to adjust their business practices,” Mayor Kennedy Stewart said in a news release.

Kosmack said staff will continue to work with individuals who rely on straws for accessibility to allow the bylaw to be structured in a way that would not negatively affect people who rely on plastic straws. Staff is currently looking into including a clause that would require businesses to provide a bendable plastic straw upon request when it is needed for accessibility, while otherwise eliminating the use of other plastic straws.

“This approach would really allow the city to reduce the majority of plastic straws while ensuring accessibility and inclusion,” she said.

“What we’re thinking here is rebranding a plastic straw as an accessibility adaptive aid.”

The single-use item reduction strategy was first introduced in June 2017 and, after consultation with businesses and the public, it was adopted by council in June 2018 as part of the Zero Waste 2040 Strategic Plan.

The city is also continuing to look into banning other items, including plastic and paper shopping bags, disposable cups and single-use utensils. Kosmack said more details on the bylaw requirements for banning those

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“Waste from single-use items, such as cups and take-out containers, make up about 50 per cent of all items collected in public waste bins and are a significant portion of the litter found on Vancouver streets,” Jerry Dobrovolny, general manager of engineering services, said in a news release. “Given that single-use compostable plastic items are not designed to biodegrade when littered in the natural environment and are not accepted in the City’s Green Bin program, the issue of compostable single-use items is quite complex and needs the involvement of higher levels of government to address needs around regulation and technical details.”

Council also approved forwarding a resolution to this year’s Union of B.C. Municipalities convention requesting the provincial government develop a set of standards for compostable single-use items to ensure they, among other things, are designed to fully biodegrade if littered and align with provincial composting infrastructure.

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News Public Hearing May 14, 2019

Public Hearing: May 16, 2019

Tuesday, May 14, 2019 at 6 pm City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Third Floor, Council Chamber

Thursday, May 16, 2019 at 6 pm City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Third Floor, Council Chamber

Vancouver City Council will hold a Public Hearing to consider zoning for these locations:

Vancouver City Council will hold a Public Hearing to consider zoning for these locations:

1. 959 East 35th Avenue (Bramble Store) To add the existing building at 959 East 35th Avenue (Bramble Store) to the Vancouver Heritage Register in the ‘B’ evaluation category, designate the exterior of the existing building as protected heritage property, and to enter into a Heritage Revitalization Agreement to secure the rehabilitation and long-term preservation of the heritage building.

A.188-198 West King Edward Avenue To rezone 188-198 West King Edward Avenue from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) District to RM-8AN (Multiple Dwelling) District to permit a townhouse development with a floor space ratio (FSR) up to 1.2. The form of development will be reviewed through a subsequent development permit process.

2. 2525 Carolina Street (The Carolina) To add the existing building at 2525 Carolina Street (The Carolina) to the Vancouver Heritage Register in the ‘B’ evaluation category and to designate the exterior of the existing building as protected heritage property.

3. 2082-2088 Charles Street To amend the Heritage Revitalization Agreement for 2082-2088 Charles Street in order to permit an increase in density while retaining the benefit of by-law variances as provided for in the Heritage Revitalization Agreement.

4. 8180-8188 Champlain Crescent To amend CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District (117) for 8180-8188 Champlain Crescent (Champlain Heights) to create a sub-area in which limited additional Cultural and Recreational, Office, Retail, and Service uses would be permitted.

5. 8636-8656 Oak Street To rezone 8636-8656 Oak Street from RM-3A (Multiple Dwelling) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of two six storey residential buildings with 91 rental housing units. A height of 19.8 metres (65 feet) and an FSR of 2.5 are proposed.

6. 4906-4970 Quebec Street To rezone 4906-4970 Quebec Street from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) District to CD 1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a sixstorey residential building with 55 strata units over two levels of underground parking. A height of 20.31 metres (66.5 feet) and an FSR of 2.31 are proposed.

7. 2202-2218 Main Street and 206 East 6th Avenue To rezone 2202-2218 Main Street and 206 East 6th Avenue from IC-2 (Industrial) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit development of a six-storey mixed-use building with at-grade and below-grade commercial retail space and 63 strata-titled residential units. A height of 22.6 metres (74 feet) and an FSR of 4.31 are proposed.

B. 6750-6770 Oak Street and 975 West 52nd Avenue To rezone 6750-6770 Oak Street and 975 West 52nd Avenue from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) District to RM-8AN (Multiple Dwelling) District to permit a townhouse development with a floor space ratio (FSR) up to 1.2. The form of development will be reviewed through a subsequent development permit process.

C. 514-530 West 59th Avenue To rezone 514-530 West 59th Avenue from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) District to RM-8A (Multiple Dwelling) District to permit a townhouse development with a floor space ratio (FSR) up to 1.2. The form of development will be reviewed through a subsequent development permit process.

D. 847-867 West 28th Avenue To rezone 847-867 West 28th Avenue from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) District to RM-8A (Multiple Dwelling) District to permit a townhouse development with a floor space ratio (FSR) up to 1.2. The form of development will be reviewed through a subsequent development permit process.

E. 717-743 West 28th Avenue To rezone 717-743 West 28th Avenue from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) District to RM-8A (Multiple Dwelling) District to permit a townhouse development with a floor space ratio (FSR) up to 1.2. The form of development will be reviewed through a subsequent development permit process.

F. 653-683 West 31st Avenue To rezone 653-683 West 31st Avenue from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) District to RM-8A (Multiple Dwelling) District to permit a townhouse development with a floor space ratio (FSR) up to 1.2. The form of development will be reviewed through a subsequent development permit process.

G. 916-926 West 32nd Avenue To rezone 916-926 West 32nd Avenue from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) District to RM-8A (Multiple Dwelling) District to permit a townhouse development with a floor space ratio (FSR) up to 1.2. The form of development will be reviewed through a subsequent development permit process.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THESE APPLICATIONS INCLUDING LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTIES: vancouver.ca/rezapps or 604-873-7038

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Anyone who considers themselves affected by the proposed by-law amendments may speak at the Public Hearing. Please register individually beginning at 8:30 am on May 3 until 5 pm on the day of the Public Hearing by emailing publichearing@vancouver.ca or by calling 604-829-4238. You may also register in person at the door between 5:30 and 6 pm on the day of the Public Hearing. You may submit your comments 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. Please visit vancouver.ca/publichearings for important details.

Copies of the draft by-laws will be available for viewing starting May 3 at the City Clerk’s Office in City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, Monday to Friday from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. All meetings of Council are webcast live at vancouver.ca/councilvideo, and minutes of Public Hearings are available at vancouver.ca/councilmeetings (posted approximately two business days after a meeting). For real time information on the progress of City Council meetings, visit vancouver.ca/speaker-wait-times or @VanCityClerk on Twitter.

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City approves Tax cut means homeowners will pay 6.1 per cent more in property tax Mike Howell

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The good news for owners of commercial property Monday was that Vancouver city council voted 6-5 to reduce their tax bill by two per cent over the next three years.

The bad news for homeowners is that reduction means the 4.5 per cent property tax hike council initially approved in December for this year is now 6.1 per cent.

How can council do that?

Under law, council had until the end of April to finalize its $1.5-billion budget. Back in December when council voted on the budget, it also requested staff study the feasibility of a two per cent tax shift from commercial properties to homeowners.

Staff recommended Monday against the tax shift for various reasons, including not being able to guarantee that savings from a reduced tax bill would be passed on from a landlord to a small business owner.

A blanket two per cent tax shift from commercial to residential reduces property tax for all commercial properties, without considering whether they need any tax relief, — the staff report said.

A majority decision to vote against the staff recommendation clearly disappointed Mayor Kennedy Stewart, who opposed the move with councillors Melissa De Genova, Colleen Hardwick, Jean Swanson and Christine Boyle.

“The fact that we’re going to have a residential property tax hike of one per cent and that’s going to hit some people that can least afford it while this provides a tax cut to large companies — I can’t balance that,” Stewart said.

Walmart, for example, is expected to receive at least a $13,000 savings.

“We’ve worked so hard to make housing more affordable, but yet this motion kind of signals the opposite,” the mayor continued. “I don’t think the vast majority of people, when they read about this, are going to be very happy.”

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News tax break for businesses property owners Stewart and the four councillors wanted to stick with staff’s recommendation, which noted work continues with an xintergovernmental group to provide targeted and time-limited tax relief to commercial property owners.

That group is also yexamining creating small business classes and offering more “split assessments,” which aim to tax residential development potential at a residential rate, while taxing the business portion of a building at a business rate.

All of council was clear they wanted to support wsmall businesses and to keep them from closing in a city deemed one of the most unaffordable in the world. That included Dominato, who described the shift as “modest.”

She said it would be one per cent this year, followed by .5 per cent in 2020 and another .5 per cent in 2021. She provided a table to the Courier after the vote that showed the owner of a home assessed at $1 million would pay another $23 on top of the initial $52 increase.

For a commercial property of the same value, the savings would be $90.

“The small businesses are really fundamental to the character of our community, to our city, and when I talked to homeowners about [a tax shift], it was welcomed — they understand that it might be $40 or $80 more on their property tax,” Dominato said.

“I didn’t feel there was a divide of homeowners versus businesses. It was very much that we value our small businesses, we value having jobs in our community so people can work here and live here.”

Council made its decision after hearing from business groups from

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across the city, particularly business improvement associations. All urged council to support a two per cent tax shift, citing concerns about businesses going under, or close to it.

Michelle Barile, executive director of the West Broadway Business Improvement Association, told council that commercial property owners are also business owners. She said taxes are unsustainable and unequitable for merchants when compared to homeowners.

“Seventy-five businesses have closed on West Broadway since 2015 — that’s over 25 per cent of our area, so we should put up a sign that says, ‘Sorry, we’re dead’ because that’s what it looks like right now,” she said, clarifying to council later that increases in taxes was the main reason for closures.

Council also heard from Dr. Stanley Hamilton, who was the chairperson of two property tax policy review commissions. In

2007, the commission recommended a five-year tax shift and the council of the day approved it, moving $23.8 million in taxes from commercial properties to homeowners.

“When we looked at this in 2007, we felt that the share paid by business was simply too high compared with other municipalities across the country and that’s why we recommended the shift,” said Hamilton, a retired professor of real estate from the Sauder School of Business at University of B.C. “I’m not convinced that it’s too high right now.”

Added Hamilton: “I just want you to know I’m not the Grinch that’s stealing Christmas here. I do have sympathy to the small businesses, I have sympathy for big businesses. I also have sympathy for the residential sector. You don’t have an easy problem here.”

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

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“Shock, horror, outrage — and a bit of ‘Here we go, again.’”

Those were Rabbi Dan Moskovitz’s first thoughts after he heard a shooting at a San Diego synagogue had left one person dead and three others injured on April 27, the last day of Passover.

“It’s becoming all too familiar… not just in the Jewish community following Pittsburgh, but in faith communities all around the world,” said Moskovitz, the senior rabbi at Vancouver’s Temple Sholom.

“It feels like the new normal, and there’s nothing normal about it.”

Saturday’s shooting is the latest in a recent string of deadly attacks on places of worship across the globe. On Easter Sunday, terrorists in Sri Lanka targeted churchgoers and tourists in a spate of bombings that killed 253 people. Nearly six months before, a gunman murdered 11 worshippers at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh.

Moskovitz says the Rabbinical Association of Vancouver and the B.C. Interfaith Council are in the early stages of planning a large, multi-faith demonstration to show “there’s no place for hate in Vancouver.” He hopes the event

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Synagogues in Vancouver have long taken significant security measures to protect their staff and congregants.

Most keep their doors locked, requiring visitors to identify themselves through an intercom before entering.

But after the Pittsburgh attack, Moskovitz said all synagogues and Jewish centres in the city went through “security audits.”

“We convened our security committee after Pittsburgh, and they’ve been meeting pretty regularly since,” said Moskovitz, when reached by phone on Monday.

He says Temple Sholom now practises more evacuation drills to ensure staff and schoolchildren know what route to get out of the building and where to regroup in the event of an emergency.

In a statement to the Courier, the Vancouver Police Department said there was no heightened threat to the city’s synagogues since the San Diego attack.

“We have been in contact with [Jewish] community leaders to ensure the community feels safe and supported,” said Const. Jason Doucette.

Ezra Shanken, the chief executive officer of the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver, emphasized the support the Jewish community receives from law enforcement.

“I cannot play down how vital the partnership is between our Jewish community and law enforcement,” said Shanken. “We work very closely with them as we work to ensure that we’re doing everything we can to make our institutions the safest that they can be.”

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On Monday, two days after the San Diego attack, B’nai Brith Canada released its annual report on anti-Semitism detailing an ongoing rise of anti-Semitic incidents in Canada over the past five years. The report recorded more than 2,000 acts of bigotry towards Jews last year, a 16 per cent increase from 2017.

British Columbia saw a particularly dramatic uptick in documented anti-Semitic events in 2018, experiencing a 126 per cent increase from the year before.

“We are experiencing a disturbing new normal when it comes to antiSemitism in this country, with expressions of antiJewish hatred surfacing in regions that are typically less prone to such prejudices,” said Michael Mostyn, chief executive officer of B’nai Brith Canada.

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Opinion Tuition waivers help break cycle of poverty for former foster children Tracy Sherlock

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There are at least 800 students studying at colleges and universities across B.C., who wouldn’t have been able to do so a few years ago. That’s because, in 2013, a few universities, spurred on by child advocate Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond and led by Vancouver Island University, decided to give former foster children free tuition.

In 2017, the then-new NDP government ran with this initiative, announcing tuition would be free at all public post-sectondary schools, for people aged 19 to 26, who had been in government care for at least two years.

There were 189 students studying under the universityfunded program in 2017 — today the number is 806.

Despite that huge growth, there’s even more demand from former foster kids who don’t meet the criteria. Several universities have stepped up for those folks — removing the age limit and paying for it out of their own budgets.

That’s not insignificant — at VIU, their first class

of 19 former foster children in 2013 had an average age of 29. At UBC’s Vancouver campus this year, 32 students are on tuition waivers — 15 on the government waiver and 17 who are on UBC’s more flexible waiver.

Universities have found that supporting these young people through their educations resonates with donors.

At VIU, they’ve found a donor who pays for all of their textbooks and have raised enough money to give each student a cheque to help with expenses every semester.

Recently, B.C. Premier John Horgan commended this program for providing hope and opportunity.

“The province is also a parent. The province also has a responsibility to those children who, over time, without any responsibility themselves, become wards of the state — children that are the responsibility of the government,” Horgan said. “[These students are] developing skills to make a better life for themselves, a better future for their community and making B.C. stronger for the effort. It helps break a cycle of poverty and hope-

Tia Schaefer, a third-year student in the child and youth care program at VIU, hadn’t even considered university until she learned about the tuition waivers. PHOTO TRACY SHERLOCK

lessness that I believe is the responsibility of all of us.”

Breaking those cycles is important. So often, when children in foster care appear in the news, it’s because of a tragedy. But here, the province is allowing these students to create amazing futures for themselves, something that they may have never imagined.

Tia Schaefer, a third-year student in the child and youth care program at VIU

who is using a tuition waiver, said when she turned 19 and lost her government support, she worked in several part-time and full-time jobs, scrambling to make ends meet. She wasn’t even able to consider university until she learned about the tuition waivers. Today, she’s a year out from graduation and considering grad school — if she can afford it. (Grad schools are — so far — not covered by tuition waivers.)

Advanced Education Minister Melanie Mark, who is herself a former youth in care and an Indigenous person, recognizes these students’ potential, saying these students are going to have a chance to be doctors, nurses, tradespeople — futures that are now within reach.

“I feel like we’re just planting seeds and really trying to culture promising young people who were from care,” Mark said. “I will continue to do advocacy to get the supports that young people need, along with Minister Conroy, from the Ministry for Children and Families.”

While the tuition waiver story is for the most part positive, there are other aspects of child welfare that are not.

Over the next few months, a group of journalists will be digging into some of the challenges, as part of a journalism collaboration called Spotlight: Child Welfare, which aims to deepen and improve reporting on B.C.’s childwelfare system. The team includes journalists from several publications, including Vancouver Courier, the

Discourse, the Tyee, Star Metro, Black Press, National Observer and freelance journalists and filmmakers.

Look for related stories about education and others about the cost of foster care versus the cost of supporting families to stay together, audits of child welfare service organizations and much more.

The solutions-based project is funded in part by the Vancouver Foundation, with some support for evaluation from Kwantlen Polytechnic University and, of course, the participating media companies, including Vancouver Courier. The project was initiated by the Discourse, and Discourse reporter Brielle Morgan is managing it.

Stories will be published throughout the summer and into September.

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Vancouver roller sports groups rally for rink time Roller derby participants forced out to the Fraser Valley for available floor time John Kurucz

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Scores of young people who live for jams, blocks and booty bumps are in a jam themselves.

It’s not the type of jam they want.

Members of the Vancouver Junior Roller Derby (VJRD) are inviting any and all wheeled-sports aficionados to the Robson Square rink on Sunday, May 5 for an event that’s a bit of everything: it’s a protest, a celebration and a call to action to make room for wheeledsports in Vancouver.

“We’ve had exactly the same problem since the league started, but this is a problem for all leagues,” VJRD chair Laura Drummond told the Courier.

“The adult leagues are suffering, and we have teams that started in Vancouver where team members now have to drive out to Chilliwack.”

The VJRD was established in 2013, and its players range in age between six and 18. Many live in Vancouver, specifically Mount Pleasant, though the league draws from across the region.

The membership numbers are capped at 50 — two or three teams — not by choice, but by space.

The Mount Pleasant Community Centre is ground zero for the bulk of a season that runs from September to June, but it’s too small.

League play moves to the rink at Trout Lake for a two-and-a-half month period once the ice is out during May and June.

“An ice rink is ideal for us — there is plenty of space, we’ve got a place for people to watch and it’s concrete.

It’s everything we need,” said Drummond’s 18-yearold daughter Ashlyn, who captains the league’s senior team known as the Scream Punks. “We could expand in that space and we can grow, but then we’re forced back into Mount Pleasant in September, where we’re restricted. We can’t take more kids.”

The rules of engagement in flat-track roller derby include a pair of 30-minute periods, during which two-minute “jams” are conducted to score points.

Jammers put points on the board by getting by the hips of their opposing

Ashlyn Drummond and others in the Vancouver Junior Roller Derby are holding a rally for more wheeled sports space at the Robson Square rink on Sunday, May 5. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

blockers. Body contact is involved, but only for those over the age of 12.

Beginner level roller derby, minus body contact, is offered for young kids

or adults new to the sport.

But being new to the sport is a non-starter at this point due to a lack of space and a year-long waitlist to get into the league.

Vancouver School Board facilities are off the table, given the potential for floor damage. Floor hockey, for example, is only permitted when plastic shafts and blades are used.

Vancouver Park Board is somewhat stuck in the middle of the discussion.

While priority is given to non-profit, minor sport groups such as the VJRD, individual community centre associations have their own guidelines for programming and priority.

In the winter months, dry floor user groups are left in the cold because of hockey and other ice sports. That’s left Ashlyn, who lives in New West, and others like her driving out to Cloverdale or Chilliwack to get their derby on.

“There are a lot of misunderstanding about floor damage and it’s hard to communicate to people about how rollerskating is quite OK on floors,” Laura Drummond said. “Floor hockey can really damage floors and yet they’re allowed in and we have this reputation. So part of this upcoming rally is communicating to people that we’re OK in your space.”

If the Drummond gals had their druthers, a new rink would be built somewhere in Vancouver that could be shared equitably among all user groups.

Rink specs — roughly 200 feet long by 85 feet wide — are the sweet spot for roller derby. Unfortunately for the Drummonds, those are the same dimensions needed for hockey and lacrosse.

“We’ve had people who’ve been generous with their time and brought us up in conversation, but the reality is, there’s been no movement on new space,” Laura Drummond said. “I’m really cognizant that part of this is a long-term plan… but that’s long term. In the interim, what’s going to happen is we could lose a lot of these leagues because they’re unable to grow, plan and effectively develop their long-term players.”

Sunday’s rally, which coincides with International Roller Derby Day, rolls from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Robson Square rink.

An online petition lobbying the city and park board for more space is online at you.leadnow.ca.

Annual Jane’s Walk goes to the dogs Naoibh O’Connor

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Lady Byng likes walks, possibly more than most.

It’s a good thing since she’ll be helping lead one along with her two humans, Carla Pellegrini and Jake Winn, this weekend as part of the annual Jane’s Walk in Vancouver.

Lady Byng is a mutt, originally from central Mexico.

Pellegrini and Winn have shared their home with the dog for just over a year after adopting her from a small rescue organization called Mex-Can Pet Partners based in Victoria.

“She loves walks, and she loves playing with other dogs even more than she likes walks,” Pellegrini said.

“And she loves going into stores that are dog friendly and give her treats.”

Named after the NHL trophy for sportsmanship, Lady Byng is active — she was recently screened as a therapy dog and does volunteer work visiting residents at Central City Lodge.

She also goes with Pellegrini to her co-working

space every day rather than sit at home.

The couple recently heard of Jane’s Walk and decided it could be a great experience.

“We thought it would be fun to meet other dog owners in the city who like to include their dog in their lives as much as possible,” Pellegrini said.

“We personally have a list of all the stores and breweries and dog parks that we’ve found over the last four years of living here that are really great to bring dogs to. We thought we’d be able to share that with other people and also learn from their tips as well.”

Jane’s Walk is named after urban activist Jane Jacobs who wrote the 1961 book The Death and Life of Great American Cities. The citizen-led walks, organized in urban areas around the world on the first weekend in May, “encourage people to share stories about their neighbourhoods, discover unseen aspects of their communities, and use walking as a way to connect

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with their neighbours.”

More than 30 walks are planned in Vancouver between May 3 and 5, including a Jericho Lands site walk to get people familiar with the 90-acre property that’s poised to be developed; “Mow it or grow it” about homeowners who grow annuals, perennials and food on their property rather than grass; “Trust Me, they’re Cool!

(An Exploration of Underutilized Parkades)”; “West

End Walkabout in Song and Verse”; and the one Pellegrini, Winn and Lady Byng are staging on May 4 called “Urban Canine.”

It starts at Charleson Dog Park near the waterfall, wanders its way through Mount Pleasant and ends up at Main Street Brewery.

Pellegrini said one of the best parts of walking your dog is it’s a conversation starter and forces you to interact with other people.

“Without a dog, you might

just keep your head down and not really interact with your neighbours or your community members,” she said.

She said the quantity and variety of parks are among attributes that make for a dog-friendly city.

“Around here in Vancouver, there’s lots of closed-in ones, which are good for dogs that maybe aren’t as good off the leash. But there are also a lot of big open spaces, and beaches, and parks with water, so the diversity of places where you can bring your dog is great. I’ve found people, in general, are really friendly with dogs, and [so are] store owners… work places are really great to bring a dog. I bring her every day. It saves us a lot of money and it’s also really nice – therapeutic for all my colleagues.”

But there’s one policy change Pellegrini thinks would make the city even better — being able to bring dogs like hers on transit.

TransLink’s pets’ policy allows small dogs, cats, rabbits and small fur-bearing or feathered animals on transit,

but they must be contained in small, hand-held cages.

Larger dogs are allowed only if they are assistant animals, although they need to wear a harness and be leashed.

“I’m very fortunate to be able to live in walking distance of my workplace, and a lot of what I do in the city, but when I do need to take her somewhere, not owning a car is a challenge and definitely limits what we can do together. Being able to take your dog on transit would be a huge boost in helping make Vancouver more dog friendly,” Pellegrini said.

Those who plan to join the Urban Canine walk should bring water for their dogs and make sure they’re friendly and happy to walk with others. Registration isn’t required. It runs from 11 to noon on May 4.

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Lucky Lager, Lionel Richie and community love on display at awards Grant Lawrence

won a trophy for a story I did on the history of the West Fourth Avenue hippie scene. This year, I was invited back to the bash, having landed a nomination for a column I plunked out on renowned Canadian sculptors Mary-Ann Liu and Paul Slipper.

As you walk in to the River Rock show palace lobby, you are greeted by giant framed photos of the stars who have rocked that stage: Lionel Richie, Andre Philippe Gagnon, Joan Rivers and Bob Saget.

Inside the showroom, a gigantic disco ball the size of a small planet hangs overhead while you find your way to your circular table, Golden Globes style. Instead of bottles of champagne on ice, my wife loved that we received an endless supply of wines from Tinhorn Creek out of Oliver, B.C. I personally appreciated that the bar was also serving ice-cold cans of Lucky Lager.

The event was hosted by the affable local sports television hosts Jody Vance and Perry Solkowski. Both

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You may not know it, but every year, several hundred reporters, editors, publishers, photographers and columnists from publications just like this one all gather together in the glittering showroom of the River Rock Casino in Richmond.

There, we celebrate each other, with trophies and copious amounts of free booze, thanks to the BC & Yukon Community NewsMedia Association.

The event is called the Ma Murray Awards, named after “Canada’s crusty queen of publishing” (as she was called in the latest book to be written about her).

Margaret “Ma” Murray was an infamously sharptongued and often coarse columnist, editor and publisher for several community newspapers throughout B.C. in the 20th century.

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Over the course of the night, community newspapers such as the Hope Standard, the Trail Times and the Squamish Chief all won various awards.

And while the newspaper business is not always the most lucrative of pursuits in modern times, the people

were smart, funny, at ease, and kept the long, long list of awards moving at a steady clip.

One particular highlight was when a winner wished his wife, who was at home, a happy birthday. To many a guffaw from the crowd, Solkowski and Vance pointed out that, since the awards show wasn’t on TV, his wife couldn’t hear him and maybe, since the evening included a three-

that filled that room on Saturday night are passionate, talented storytellers, who believe very much in the spirit of community and the power of the press.

It was great to run into media folk that I have met in my travels around B.C., from proud papers such as the Powell River Peak, the Prince Rupert Northern View and Valemount’s Rocky Mountain Goat. I took particular pride in seeing my venerable hometown paper the North Shore News win several awards, including the gold medal in the category of Newspaper Excellence.

As the debaucherous night stumbled forth, it became clear that the Ma Murray Awards are a huge reason to let loose for a lot of the nominees who had come in from smaller towns for the weekend.

Out in the lobby, while my wife and I posed for a selfie back dropped by the giant Lionel Richie picture, a very drunken, disheveled fellow from an interior B.C. newspaper that I shall not name shouted, “Hey, I wanna to do that!” He then

insisted on replicating the picture with my wife and Lionel Richie. I think he may have mistook Jill and her very colourful dress for a River Rock showgirl.

That was only slightly less awkward than my conversation with one of the sponsors, once I realized who they represented: the Trans Mountain Pipeline.

“Yeah, well, good luck with that.” “Don’t need your luck, buddy, but thanks.” “I guess we’ll see about that, won’t we?”

“You’re damn right we’ll see.” “NO, WE WON’T.” “YES, WE WILL.” Oh, and that award I was nominated for? Alas, eight cans of Lucky Lager proved only to predict a hangover.

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Iconic wooden roller coaster named one of the top coasters in the world SANDRA THOMAS sthomas@vancourier.com The much beloved — and feared — wooden roller coaster at Playland at the PNE was recently ranked number 12 in the world out of the top 100 for 2018.

The poll was conducted by Ello Coaster, one of world’s foremost roller coaster enthusiast websites — and was the only Canadian coaster included in the survey.

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The Vancouver Courier came away with a bevy of awards over the weekend at the annual Ma Murray Community News Media Awards, held at the River Rock Casino, April 28.

Presented by the B.C. & Yukon Community NewsMedia Association, the annual event awards the best and brightest in community journalism in B.C. and the Yukon.

Reporter John Kurucz won gold in Business Writing for his story on how local small businesses are dealing with the ever increasing cost of doing business in the city.

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You don’t need to be South Asian to recognize the collective bravery of Jeeti, Kira and Salakshana Pooni.

When they were children, the sisters were sexually assaulted repeatedly over a number of years by an elder male relative.

Decades passed. The sisters broke their silence and filed charges against their abuser. They shared their story with Vancouver filmmaker Baljit Sangra for her documentary Because We Are Girls. They’re undeniably and inarguably brave.

But I am South Asian.

I screened Because We Are Girls through the lens of my cultural heritage, and I can tell you that Indian culture is conservative. It frames girls as lesser beings, avoids discussions around sex, places blame for abuse on the victims and demands respect for male elders.

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becomes startling and audacious and revolutionary.

“In the South Asian community, we have a hard time talking about taboo subjects, and sex shouldn’t be a taboo subject,” says Sangra. “If we can’t talk about sex, how are we going to talk about sexual violence?”

Thus, Sangra’s featurelength documentary film, which had its world premiere last week at the Hot Docs Festival in Toronto, and will open the 2019 DOXA Documentary Film Festival this week, is something of a conversation starter for the South Asian community.

It’s also the document of a family that immigrated to Canada in the early 1970s and settled in Williams Lake.

“I wanted to establish some context,” says Sangra.

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“Bollywood influenced their notions of romantic love and female roles,” says Pooni. In turn, these notions informed how they responded to — and kept silent about — the sexual abuse.

Because We Are Girls isn’t intended to skewer or condemn South Asian culture, adds Sangra.

“Coming from the same background as [the Poonis], I understood a lot, and I was really careful about how this film was going to portray [the culture]. I absolutely did not want any stereotypes. It would be easy to do a film like this and slam the culture. But it’s very layered.”

Sangra met middle sister Jeeti years ago, after a screening of her documentary Warrior Boyz (which examined the ecosystem of Indo-Canadian gangs in the Lower Mainland). The two became friends and, later, Sangra leapt at the opportu-

nity to make a documentary about the sisters. She filmed them over three years, beginning with a hearing at the Supreme Court in Williams Lake.

“Just to be on this journey with them and to bear witness to all of that has been very empowering for me,” says Sangra. She was still with them in late 2017, when #metoo became a movement. “I watched the #metoo movement unfold and recognized that the sisters were part of the #metoo movement, and voices of the #metoo movement.

“This changed me for life,” adds Sangra. “I know that after this movie, I’m going to invest a lot of time and energy in, ‘How do we take this movie out in the communities and get panels, get discussions, get allies?’ I’m in. Jeeti is in. It’s going to be our time.”

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In a shocking development, Canucks centre Elias Pettersson has been named a finalist for the Calder Memorial Trophy as the NHL’s rookie of the year.

Okay, so that’s less “shocking” and more “inevitable.” Pettersson was hoisted up as the sure-fire winner of the Calder about a month into his rookie year after he scored 10 goals in his first 10 games.

Even after his scoring pace slowed down in the second half of the season, Pettersson was still the odds-on favourite to win the Calder, with the Hockey News even speculating that he could be the first rookie since Teemu Selanne to win the Calder with a clean sweep of first-place votes from the Professional Hockey Writers’ Association.

We already know that won’t be happening. New York Islanders’ reporter Arthur Staple revealed on Twitter that his top Calder vote went to Dallas Stars defenceman Miro Heiskanen, adding, “I didn’t think anyone was close.”

Heiskanen, for the record, was not one of the three finalists, who were rounded out by St. Louis Blues goaltender Jordan Binnington and Buffalo Sabres defenceman Rasmus Dahlin.

It’s likely that a few other scribes will give Binnington first-place votes for putting the Blues on his back at the beginning of January and carrying them into the playoffs, but only playing 37 games all season will hurt his chances to upset Pettersson. Others might give the nod to Dahlin, who had one of the greatest

Elias Pettersson’s Rookie of the Year nomination gives the Canucks two-straight seasons with a Calder finalist. Brock Boeser finished second in the voting to Mathew Barzal last season.

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seasons by an 18-year-old defenceman in NHL history. His 44 points are second only to Phil Housley among 18-year-old defencemen all-time.

Still, it’s hard to imagine Pettersson losing the Calder. He led all rookies in scoring by a wide margin, with 28 goals and 66 points in 71 games. In the process, he broke the Canucks’ franchise record for rookie scoring held by Pavel Bure and Ivan Hlinka. He almost singlehandedly made the Canucks competitive, stepping directly in as their first-line centre. He was both a human highlight reel and a responsible, two-way forward, with

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Pettersson’s nomination gives the Canucks two-straight seasons with a Calder finalist. Brock Boeser finished second in the voting to Mathew Barzal last season, even earning a couple first-place votes to help spoil Barzal’s potential clean sweep.

It’s relatively rare that a team has two Calder nominees in back-to-back years, but the Canucks could do one better: they could have Calder nominees in three-straight years.

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Only one team since NHL expansion in 1967 has had rookies finish in the top-three of Calder voting. The New York Rangers had Brad Park, Bill Fairbairn and Gilles Villemure nominated from 1969 to 1971, and none of those three won the award. No other team has done it since, though a couple teams have come close.

The Pittsburgh Penguins had three rookies nominated in two years, with Sidney Crosby finishing second to Alex Ovechkin in 2006, then Evgeni Malkin winning in 2007, beating out his teammate Jordan Staal. Likewise, Patrick Kane won the award ahead of his Chicago Blackhawks teammate Jonathan Toews in 2008, with Kris Versteeg finishing third in Calder voting the following year.

Both the Penguins and Blackhawks were able to quickly take that influx of rookie talent and turn it into Stanley Cups. The Penguins won in 2009, just two years after Malkin’s Calder win, with the Blackhawks winning 2010, two years after Kane won the Calder. Both teams have since won two more cups.

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Chicken Legs, Back Attached in Bag

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Beef Inside Round Roast, AAA

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1.68/LB

1.48/LB

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14.98/EA

3.98/EA

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1.38/EA

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4.98/EA

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Dan D Pak Pistachios with Sea Salt, 800g

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Rogers White Sugar, 4kg

Armstrong Cheese Sticks, 280g

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8.98/EA

1.98/EA

2.48/EA

4.00

3.98/EA

1.98/EA

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Elias Liquid Honey Squeeze Bottle, 1Kg

Dan D Pak Oats, 1kg Bag

Santa Cruz Organic lKmRSTdKN, 946mV

Elements Pure Coconut Water, 1L

Hengstenberg Knax Crunchy Gherkins, 1.5L

Bonesa Sliced Sauerkraut, 1L

2.98/EA

14.98/EA

1.28/EA

2.88/EA

$

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$

Everland Whole Pitted Dates, 454g

Oeliments Organic Maca Powder, 454g

Athena Sea Salt, 750g

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