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The politics of banning shark fin in Vancouver Mike Howell

asked staff for an update on the status of a shark fin ban.

That memo is one of many recently dumped on the city’s website. The memos, which cover October, November and December 2018, are either from Mochrie or city manager Sadhu Johnston.

Regular readers will know I’ve mentioned memos from previous months in other columns. Remember the one about the rotting sea lion carcass? How about the one about the mayor’s elevator not going all the way to the top?

As I’ve said before, don’t expect to read anything sensational or revealing, but occasionally you get some insight into an issue such as shark fin and why the city didn’t ban it.

Hence the quote below from a report attached to Mochrie’s memo, which was authored by senior managers Sandra Singh and Kaye Krishna (who has since become a deputy minister in the B.C. government).

“On April 22, 2018, the City of Vancouver issued a public acknowledgement and apology for historical dis-

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Remember that day long ago when then-city councillor Kerry Jang stood up in the council chamber with two packages of shark fin in his hands?

Maybe you don’t.

I do because I happened to be there. Something about working for a living.

It was September 2012.

The packages belonged to Jang’s mother and were purchased more than 40 years ago. Their original price was $14 each. Apparently, the fin is now worth several hundred dollars.

Anyway, Jang wanted a ban across the region on shark fin. He didn’t get it. The City of Vancouver considered it in 2013 “but ultimately did not take action.”

That quoted part of the sentence comes from a memo that deputy city manager Paul Mochrie wrote to the new mayor and council in December 2018.

It was in response to a question from NPA Coun.

Sarah Kirby-Yung, who

his restaurant was one of 19 Vancouver restaurants shamed on a website called stopsharkfinning.net.

In Asian culture, shark fin is seen as a delicacy and symbolizes wealth, power and prestige. It is used mainly in soup and can — as the manager told me in 2012 — cost $50 a bowl.

So what’s next on this issue? According to staff’s report “meaningful engagement would be an important part of any work to advance this issue.”

But that work, the report added, is not in any of this year’s “work plans” for the city departments that oversee arts, culture, community services, development, buildings and licensing.

That’s because the city is waiting to see what happens in Ottawa.

Back in October 2018, Canada’s Senate passed Bill S-238 (Ban on Shark Fin Importation Act). The bill will now go to the House of Commons for debate and vote.

“If adopted there,” the report concluded, “it will prohibit shark finning [the

The City of Vancouver is waiting to see whether a bill will be passed in Ottawa to ban shark fin before considering a Vancouveronly ban on the Asian delicacy. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Asian community” is on board with the ban. This is something I found out in 2012 when I tried to speak to managers of restaurants serving shark fin soup.

“We’re just doing business, we don’t want any trouble,” is what one manager of a popular restaurant in Chinatown told me back then. “If it becomes illegal, then we’ll stop selling it.”

The manager declined to provide his name and asked that his restaurant not be identified. At the time,

crimination against Chinese people in Vancouver, including discrimination against cultural practices and foodrelated businesses,” the report said. “Within the context of the city’s efforts toward reconciliation with diverse communities and the ongoing cultural significance of shark fin for many members of Vancouver’s Asian community, the potential implications of a city-imposed ban on shark fin are complex.”

In other words, not everyone in “Vancouver’s

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Look for a motion next week from Kirby-Yung and Green Party Coun. Michael Wiebe that requests council endorse the bill. Kirby-Yung said she spoke to the head of the B.C. Asian Restaurant Café Owners Association before drafting the motion.

“He was supportive,” she said, noting seven years has passed since Jang first brought a motion to council to ban shark fin. “Perhaps that’s given people time to evolve their thinking and realize that this is not something that we want to be doing.”

Fun fact: The MP who tabled the bill this February is named Fin, as in Fin Donnelly, the NDP MP for Port Moody-Coquitlam, who twice swam down the Fraser River to raise awareness about environmental degradation. @Howellings

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Former Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson has landed a part-time job with an international organization that will see him travel the globe to fight climate change.

The Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy announced Monday that Robertson is now the organization’s ambassador, a role he said is a good fit for him.

“It’s familiar territory,” he told the Courier by telephone, referring to his work as mayor to make Vancouver the “greenest city” in the world.

Robertson, who retired last fall as mayor after a 10year run at city hall, served on the board of the organization while he was mayor. He wouldn’t disclose terms of his contract as ambassador.

“We kept in touch after I stepped down as mayor and they asked me to jump in and help the work of mayors around the world at a more international level,” he said, noting he will be in

New York next week at a “Smart Cities” conference.

The organization of mayors is an alliance of more than 9,000 cities and other agencies, including the United Nations, national governments, members of academia and the private sector.

Robertson’s mandate is to “accelerate collaboration on research, innovation and investment” in cities, according to the news release from the organization.

Asked what that looks like, he said: “A combination of educating partners on the needs of cities to tackle climate change and helping construct the tools to get resources to cities — whether that’s in research dollars or infrastructure funding or public-private partnerships. We need to be more creative.”

Robertson said billions of dollars in promises from governments and other agencies have come out of international climate change conferences that have yet to reach cities.

Former Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson is now the ambassador of the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

He referred to the Paris Agreement and the annual meetings of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

“Right now, the structures aren’t delivering and

a lot of the national and international governments are not tuned in to the needs of cities,” Robertson said.

The news release announcing Robertson’s appointment claims Vancouver has the smallest carbon

footprint per person in North America.

It’s a claim that checks out with the City of Vancouver, which said in an email Monday that “based on a series of environmental performance reports and

data comparisons of emissions from cities, we believe that Vancouver does have the lowest per capita GHG emissions of any major city in North America.”

Some European countries, including Germany, have even smaller carbon footprints per person.

Since he retired as mayor last fall, Robertson said he has been travelling and spending time with family. He said he hasn’t been closely following the work of the new mayor — Kennedy Stewart — and council.

With his appointment as ambassador being part-time, Robertson acknowledged he had some “other projects that I’m working on that you’ll hear more about soon.”

Those projects don’t include politics, he said.

“Nope. I’m taking a break from that, that’s for sure.”

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“I got my fill. I miss all the people I worked with and being on the day-to-day pulse of the city, but it’s a tough job and I’m happy to be on to new things.” @Howellings

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A swastika emblazoned on the roof of a small industrial building in South Vancouver has been painted over after the Courier made inquiries about its origins.

An inspector from the City of Vancouver confirmed May 6 that owners of the building had complied with a request from the city to remove the symbol, although nobody seems to know how it got there in the first place, or how many years it went untouched.

Last week, the Courier was alerted to a white swastika, roughly equivalent in size to a small car, painted on the roof of a building at 8211 Argyle St., south of Marine Drive and just east of the Knight Street Bridge.

The swastika could not

be seen from the street but remains clearly visible on the N aerial view of Google Maps. t Northern Building v Supply Ltd., whose main n office and operation is a t few blocks away, owns t and uses the property in question. (MH Flooring is misidentified on Google Maps as being located at the site despite actually operating out of the building immediately north of r the property. The company says it has previously b requested Google to fix the error without success.)

When the Courier asked the property owners about fi t the Nazi symbol, they f seemed confused.

Gord Thomas, one of the b owners of Northern Build- i ing Supply, said he thought t an employee had dealt with h it years ago.

“We got graffitied, or whatever, and the city called t and said, ‘There’s somethingm on that roof,’” Thomas said. i “Then we went up there — ‘Holy sh**.’ So, we just t painted it over.” i But when the Couriw er checked on the morning of May 2, the swastika was still there. t b

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“The irony of us having this conversation on the day that we commemorate the Holocaust — it’s a reminder that this is not an uncommon thing in the City of Vancouver, and that there’s always that sort of simmering underbelly of racial intolerance,” Fry said.

“We’re obliged as a society to make a statement, take a stand and not tolerate that kind of behaviour and intimidation.”

Rabbi Dan Moskovitz of Vancouver’s Temple Sholom echoed that sentiment, saying this should again be a moment to remember the horrific legacy the swastika now holds.

“That symbol means something, and we need to remember what it means,” Moskovitz said May 2. He spoke to the Courier just moments after participating in a Holocaust memorial event at the B.C. legislature.

“Canadian forces died to remove not only that symbol but its message of hatred and intolerance and racial superiority from the face of the earth,” he said.

“So, not only should Jews be horrified by it, but all Canadians should [be]. Our troops died to make sure that symbol did not fly over this country or [get] painted on rooftops in Vancouver.”

When the Courier later informed Moskovitz that the building owners had begun removing the swastika, once alerted to it by this newspaper, he was relieved.

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of 8211 Argyle St., said they heard about it as soon as they moved into the neighbourhood three years ago.

Another neighbouring business owner named Thomas, who declined to give his last name, said he told Northern Building Supply employees that the symbol should be removed back in 2017.

“I went down to Northern Building Supply when I was buying some supplies for my shop, and I talked to the staff there.

I said, ‘Hey, there’s this thing on top of the roof, it’s a swastika. I don’t think that’s appropriate,’” Thomas told the Courier.

“They said, ‘No, it’s not a swastika, it’s a Buddhist peace symbol.’”

Thomas said some of the staff “seemed to be aware of it” and a few staff members “had a little chuckle” when he raised the issue.

“I said, ‘I don’t think that’s appropriate. It should be removed,’” explained Thomas. “They said, ‘No, that’s just what it is.’ And that’s kind of where it stayed.”

Gord Thomas, one of the owners of Northern Building Supply, seemed unaware of that interaction and questioned whether it even happened.

By dark coincidence, removal of the Nazi emblem began on the day of Yom Ha’Shoah, otherwise known as Holocaust Remembrance Day. Vancouver Green Party Coun. Pete Fry highlighted that point when contacted by the Courier for comment.

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After the Courier informed Northern Building Supply that the symbol was still visible, Thomas told the newspaper later that day they had immediately begun to paint over the symbol.

The Courier contacted the City of Vancouver about the swastika May 2.

The city responded via email, stating it had “requested that the building owner remove the symbol in accordance with the city’s graffiti bylaw. The building owner committed to removing the symbol as soon as possible.”

When asked when the city first learned about the swastika, and why staff hadn’t followed up to ensure it had been removed, the city said it couldn’t provide answers to those questions: “We have no record of this in our current database. Prior to October 2016 data was captured in our previous permit management system, which is no longer operational.

Pulling information for those years would mean going through it manually and would require significant staff time; going beyond the scope of a media request.”

But Thomas still insists they had removed it years earlier.

“It was painted over before. It must have washed off or something,” he said. “I can’t understand that. I know 100 per cent we did it.”

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News East Hastings development could replace former Yolks and Brave Bull building Three-building, 207-unit, condo/social housing project proposed for stretch of East Hastings by Clark Drive Naoibh O’Connor

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A stretch of buildings west of Clark Drive along East Hastings could be coming down to make way for a three-building development.

Developer Onni Group’s rezoning application for the project, which is being considered under the Downtown Eastside Area Plan, proposes two 11-storey market condo buildings that feature 152 units in total, along with one eightstorey social housing building with 55 units. There would also be ground-level commercial space below all the buildings.

The development, designed by Yamamoto Architecture, would see several buildings from 1220 to 1298 East Hastings St. knocked down.

One at 1298 East Hastings, at the corner of Clark Drive, was built in 1928.

It’s housed restaurants over the years, including Yolks, which relocated a couple of years ago, and Brave Bull’s House of Steaks, which operated for decades. That property was valued at $4.4 million on BC Assessment’s 2019 roll.

At the opposite end of the development site, just before a Chevron station, is a building at 1220 East Hastings, which BC Assessment valued at $5.3 million this year.

One of properties in between those two buildings was valued even higher — $12.8 million for a two-lot parcel at 1268 East Hastings St. Another property, at 1252 Hastings St., was valued at $5.6 million.

The rezoning application is being submitted concurrently with another one for 560 Raymur Ave. because the Downtown Eastside Plan requires rezonings for the two sites to produce at least 20 per cent of all residential units as social housing.

The applicant is proposing to consolidate their 20 per cent requirement into the eight-storey social housing building proposed for the 1200 to 1228 Hastings St. site.

(The Raymur Avenue rezoning application proposes a five-storey condo building with 59 units — 39 two-bedrooms and 20 three-bedrooms.)

Over at the East Hastings development site, the social housing building would be sandwiched between the two market condo buildings.

Each of the three buildings would have its own residential lobby and function independently with the exception of the shared parkade.

“Breaking up the development into smaller buildings also helps achieve the urban design intent of the plan by enliv-

ening East Hastings Street with a small grain of retail frontages that step in response to the sloping grade,” the application’s design rationale states.

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Councillors, mayor show true colours in tackling taxing dilemma By siding with split NPA and supporting local business, Greens gained credibility in political middle where most voters are Mike Klassen

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There are so many stories that derive from Vancouver city council’s split vote in favour of a two per cent shift away from commercial property owners to residential property owners over three years, it’s hard to pick just one.

First, there is the backdrop of the political divisions being sown over property ownership in our city. Putting a fine point on that subject was last weekend’s May Day “billionaire bash” organized by social activists, which had 80 or so marchers traipse through West Point Grey chanting, “From Toronto to B.C., f*** the bourgeoisie” and the classic, “Eat the rich! Feed the poor!”

What was served up at city council was probably a lot more appetizing, certainly if you are a Vancouver small business owner trying to keep the lights on.

It took a six-to-five vote with three Green and three NPA councilors to approve the tax shift, against the recommendation of city staff. It was arguably council’s most symbolic decision since it was sworn in last November.

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

It was also a shrewd move by the Greens, who are Canada’s ascendant political force after significant victories by their counterparts in the Nanaimo-Ladysmith federal byelection and forming the Official Opposition in Prince Edward Island’s recent election.

By siding with the NPA and supporting local business, the Greens gained cred-

ibility in the political middle where most voters are.

The vote also laid bare the struggle the NPA faces in coming to terms with what it stands for. councillors De Genova and Hardwick both made their case against the shift, but ultimately could not persuade those in their caucus — councillors Dominato, Bligh and Kirby-Yung — who voted along more traditional NPA lines.

No one will be surprised by councillors Boyle and Swanson voting against the tax shift, with the latter leading some of the aforementioned rallies in our city’s wealthiest boroughs.

What may have finally dawned on council after the tax shift vote is that real power at city hall goes to whoever can get six votes in council. Not staff, unions, developers or even

the well-financed mayor’s office can change this.

Left standing in the minority during the tax shift vote was Mayor Kennedy, who showed a side of him we have not seen much of since he took the chain of office: the dyed-in-the-wool partisan.

Unable to win over the majority on council, Stewart reached into his grab bag of lefty talking points and claimed that the beneficiary of the vote would not be thousands of local small businesses, but the lone Walmart store standing near Boundary Road.

“We’re not in a Walmart affordability crisis. We’re in a housing affordability crisis,” said Stewart.

It was a comment he might come to regret.

The mayor claims the city is negotiating with Victoria for some relief to commercial property owners through split assessments.

Small business representatives are no longer waiting for that to happen, after years of inaction on it. Nor should anyone believe that the current provincial government has any interest in providing tax relief to commercial property owners.

Some commercial strips such as those on Broadway

or West 10th Avenue have become veritable ghost towns for retail stores and restaurants. For many small businesses, council’s tax shift has come too late.

Those claiming the shift will exacerbate the city’s housing affordability challenges are overstating if not misrepresenting the actual impact. Much of the new cost will be mitigated by the thousands of new homes being built in the city in coming years. Owners of average-priced homes in the city will see increases costing less than a movie matinee ticket with popcorn and a soft drink thrown in.

Where the real challenges lie is in how the city actually can find efficiencies in the services it provides. Do we know how costs for sewers, sidewalks or roadways stack up here when compared to other cities? How can we harness new applications to drive down costs, such as for issuing licenses and permits?

By broadening its mandates around social programs, is it conceivable that our city’s property taxes will ever stop rising?

That is Vancouver’s taxing dilemma and one that this council must face head on. @MikeKlassen

More car owners are going electric, and for good reason

Rising fuel costs, environmental concerns, government rebates enticing more drivers Michael Geller geller@sfu.ca

Have you been thinking about buying a hybrid or electric car? If so, you are not alone.

With gas prices exceeding $1.70 a litre and growing concerns about air pollution and the impacts of climate change, fuel-efficient and zero emission vehicles are gaining in popularity.

At this year’s Vancouver Auto Show, considerable attention was devoted to PHEVs (plug-in hybrid electric vehicles), BEVs (battery electric vehicles) and FCEVs (fuel cell electric vehicles).

On May 1, a federal program took effect offering rebates to purchasers of nine electric cars and 13 plug-in hybrids. Fully electric cars with starting prices of less than $45,000 are eligible for the full $5,000 rebate. Plug-in hybrids can get up to $2,500 off.

These are in addition to B.C. program rebates announced last year offering $6,000 for a hydrogen fuel-

cell vehicle and up to $5,000 for a new battery electric or plug-in hybrid electric vehicle.

I first drove a hybrid vehicle in 2000. It was an early Prius brought over from Japan to accompany Severn Cullis-Suzuki and my niece and some friends on a bicycle ride across Canada, in a campaign for clean air called Powershift 2000.

After the Prius was introduced in Canada, I purchased one as a car-share vehicle for the burgeoning SFU UniverCity community.

This seemed appropriate since the car-share concept was developed by a parttime SFU student named Tracey Axelsson as a school project. She subsequently co-founded the Co-operative Auto Network in 1997.

Car-sharing has come a long way since then.

When I left the SFU Community Trust in 2007, I traded in a Lexus SUV requiring 20 litres per 100 km for a Prius requiring six litres per 100 km. A neighbour who owned a Porsche, Range Rover and Mercedes

Thanks to government rebates and the rising cost of fuel, electric cars are less cost-prohibitive than they once were, says Michael Geller. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

convertible called me a snob as I first drove by her house.

At the 2010 World Fair in Shanghai, a variety of electric cars were on display and in use. I decided then to one day buy an electric car.

In 2013, Tesla arrived in Vancouver. I booked a test-drive appointment and loved the car, but worried the company might go

broke, until a year-end trip to California where many Teslas were on the road.

Returning to Vancouver, I ordered one for delivery in March 2014, just before expiry of a $5,000 government rebate program.

I have driven it ever since without any problems. My daughter continues to drive the 12-year old Prius. Nei-

ther vehicle requires much maintenance.

A key consideration with an electric car is how to charge it. As noted on the B.C. Hydro website, there are three basic approaches: Levels 1, 2 and DC fast charger.

Level 1 refers to the standard 120-volt outlet found in homes and businesses.

Realistically, this is not a practical way to charge a car on a regular basis.

Level 2 power supply is the same as that provided for a stove or clothes dryer.

Level 2 chargers can be installed in a garage by an electrician at a cost between $800 and $2,000.

The ongoing energy costs for electric cars vary but are often estimated at about $2 per 100 km.

The third type of charging is DC or direct current fast charging using 480-volt.

Increasingly, these chargers are being installed in public facilities and commercial buildings. Charging time for most cars is significantly reduced. While some stations are free, others cost

about three times as much as Level 1 and 2 charging.

Given the federal and provincial rebates, gasoline costs and environmental benefits, I highly recommend buying an electric or plug-in hybrid vehicle.

However, a key consideration is whether it can be easily charged overnight.

While this is relatively easy for those living in single-family houses, it can be more difficult and complicated for those living in older rental or condominium apartments.

I cannot leave this topic without sharing a recent tweet from former city councillor and current chair of the David Suzuki Foundation Peter Ladner.

“If EVs are worth a $5k subsidy, why wouldn’t ebikes and regular bikes get a subsidy? They produce far fewer emissions, promote greater health and are far more affordable. Why do we continue to pamper cars?”

Just one more consideration. @michaelgeller

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Congratulations, Vancouver Courier, on your BC Community Newspaper awards — richly deserved. (Although I have to admit I wish my favourite “Kudos and Kvetches” had also won an award!)

And congratulations on being part of the collaborative journalism project Spotlight: Child Welfare (“Tuition waivers help break cycle of poverty for former foster children,” May 2). I’m so glad your first article was on a positive initiative — the tuition waivers for former foster children — as we so often hear about problems with the system, and seldom give credit where it is due.

I look forward to reading the rest of the stories covered by this project.

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From horse defamation to rogue raccoons, they’ve seen it all Vancouver legal eagles bring expertise to UBC in September

John Kurucz

ship of animals. She also lobbies for animals to be present in certain housing situations.

“There are definitely animal scholars and other lawyers who have said animals are the last of the marginalized to obtain rights,” Prince said. “Women had to fight for rights, people of colour had to fight for rights, people who are on the margins of society had to fight for their rights.

Really, we are just at the beginning of thinking about animals as having rights.”

Animal law is a relatively new practice, having only been offered for the first time in the U.S. in 1977.

It first arrived on western shores at UBC in 2004, followed by a University of Victoria course in 2007.

Prince and Shroff have intermittently taught the course locally since 2014, at times together and other times separately.

The course was last taught at UBC in 2017, Shroff said. The amount of electives available to law school faculty is such that some programs aren’t offered every year.

“Hundreds of law students petitioned to have this course offered again,” Prince said.

“It’s quite extraordinary to me to see the real growing interest in this field.”

Admissions for the course have yet to open, though details will be posted online at allard.ubc.ca.

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Animal owners can be a very particular bunch.

Of all the people in Vancouver, Victoria Shroff can testify to that point.

Misplaced horse semen, a marauding raccoon and even a horse defamation case — Shroff has seen it all.

“People get very quirky about their animals,” Shroff told the Courier. “There’s a lot of competition. It gets fierce, it gets ugly.”

Shroff is one of the few lawyers in Vancouver, if not B.C., who specializes exclusively in animal law.

Alongside fellow lawyer Amber Prince, the pair will lead an animal law course at the University of B.C.’s Allard School of Law in September.

Shroff defines the practice of animal law as “any time an animal intersects with the law,” and she very intentionally leaves the parameters open ended.

The specifics of animal law are indeed a bit of a dog’s breakfast, and Shroff rattles off a number of different hypotheticals to prove the amorphous nature of her practice.

If a breeder somehow screws up a deal, the case’s focal point may be an animal, but the legalities focus on contract law.

If abuse is involved, animal cruelty laws are applied.

Vancouver lawyers Victoria Shroff (left) and Amber Prince will teach Animal Law at UBC’s Allard School of Law in September.

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Municipal bylaws come into play, as does the Criminal Code or Wildlife Act. Both Shroff and Prince have worked alongside the SPCA on some cases and vice versa.

Most high-profile animal law cases concern dog bites, but Shroff has been involved with some truly bizarre stuff.

There was the case of horse semen that was purchased, but went missing before the transaction was completed (it was the courier’s fault).

Someone defamed a horse by publicly claiming it was “problematic,” so naturally, that one ended in court, too.

With other examples, Shroff can’t say too much.

“One involved a township and garbage and a raccoon and a neighbour,” she said.

Shroff has been active in animal law since 2000 and can count on one hand the others in her field with the same specialization.

Prince, on the other hand, is a lawyer with the Atira Women’s Resource Society

whose training focused specifically on animal law.

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Elementary students get lesson in animal empathy Animal law lawyer Victoria Shroff teaches the ABC’s of empathy John Kurucz

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Leila is not your typical rock star.

Though surrounded by people who pine to touch her, Leila doesn’t crave the mass attention or the amped-up emotions of her admirers.

Be calm, don’t grab or pick her up and be kind towards her. These are the first lessons imparted over an hour-long discussion led

by Vancouver animal law lawyer Victoria Shroff.

“Let’s think about how we want to be treated, how we want to treat dogs and how we want to treat all creatures,” Shroff says moments into the discussion.

It’s worth noting at this point that Leila is a 12-yearold bichon frise/shih tzu

mix, and her admirers are a group of nine and 10 year olds at Kitsilano’s Henry Hudson elementary.

Shroff is on hand on a late April morning to build upon a program she calls Paws of Empathy. It’s her 10th lesson at a Metro Vancouver school, where she speaks with elementary aged kids about animal ethics and animal law and, of course, animal empathy.

Shroff is one of the first and longest-serving animal law practitioners in Canada, and she’ll lead animal law courses at UBC this fall.

Shroff’s lessons weave through universal truths that apply not only to dogs, but to people, other animals and Earth itself. Parallels are drawn between a person or a dog’s need for exercise, food and drink, and medical care.

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“They also need to be loved,” said one student.

“That’s a huge one,” Shroff responds.

Humour enters the picture when students are asked why they shouldn’t scare animals and particu-

larly Leila in this case, as she’s surrounded by 20plus enthusiastic onlookers.

“Because she can’t go into court and bark and defend herself,” one young whippersnapper says.

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during the lesson the student plays on Shroff’s standing as a lawyer.

“You’re very litigious today,” Shroff responds.

The kids are asked for pledges to show empathy, and the responses that come back are all over the place: offers to help siblings with homework, to give money to a homeless person or cook dinner for the family.

Shroff then works her message into the kids’ everyday curriculum.

Students need to use their math skills to calculate the amount of dog food needed in a month and how those portions will be allocated. Science comes into play as students talk about Leila’s curious nature, wandering about the classroom. Social studies and humanities are reflected when

kids list the jobs dogs do: helping the visually impaired or others living with post-traumatic stress disorder and police dogs.

As the morning winds down, pearls of wisdom are imparted around sharing and avoiding jealousy. A jar with an uneven amount of candy is produced and the class is tasked with divvying it up. One student suggests the extras go to Courier photographer Dan Toulgoet.

Shroff leaves the class asking kids to once again pledge to their furry friends, their families and themselves.

“You start with one person being kind… don’t wait for somebody else to make the first move in being kind,” Shroff said. “You can be that person, you can show that empathy.” @JohnKurucz

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Endangered frog making a comeback in B.C. Jessica Kerr

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Efforts to conserve the local population of Oregon spotted frogs, the most endangered amphibian in Canada, has taken a leap in the right direction.

The Vancouver Aquarium recently transferred 1,400 tadpoles to the Fraser Valley — 1,240 were released into a suitable native habitat while 160 were taken to the Greater Vancouver Zoo where they will continue to grow before being released this fall.

The aquarium has been working with Amphibian Ark and the Oregon Spotted Frog Recovery Team since 2010, raising and releasing more than 21,000 Oregon spotted frog tadpoles.

And this year, the recovery team saw promising signs with population increases at the release sites.

Survey results are still coming in, but early findings show juvenile and adult Oregon spotted frogs, as well

as egg masses, at five of the seven release sites. One site showed a record number this year.

At the aquarium’s release site, 23 juveniles and two small frogs were found.

Four of the frogs were third generation born in human care — a first-time discovery for the recovery team.

“The early results from this year’s survey are really encouraging,” Kris Rossing, senior aquarium biologist, said in a news release.

“While the frogs are not of breeding age yet, this is a great indication that the tadpoles we’re releasing are maturing.

“We’re really hopeful that next year we’ll see egg masses at our release site.”

Early last century, there were hundreds of thousands of Oregon spotted frogs from northern California in B.C.’s Fraser Valley. Historically, in B.C., the frogs were found between South Surrey and Hope but numbers have declined as much as 90 per cent due to habitat destruction,

the introduction of non-native species, such as Eastern Canada’s bull frog and reed canary grass, increased pollution and disease.

Oregon spotted frogs spend most of their lives in the water and require connected wetlands and floodplains for habitat.

Vancouver Aquarium joined B.C.’s Oregon Spotted Frog Recovery Team in 2000. A group of biologists and land managers in B.C. are coordinating efforts to conserve, manage and recover the Oregon spotted frog in Canada. In 2007, the aquarium started collecting the eggs to establish an aquarium-based assurance population.

Three years later, in 2010, the aquarium became the world pioneer in breeding the Oregon spotted frog in human care.

“Every year we learn more about the species, including its reproductive needs, which helps us continually refine and optimize our breeding practices

Bird is the word next week Jessica Kerr

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Vancouver will celebrate its feathered friends with a weeklong series of events starting this weekend.

Stanley Park Ecology Society will kick off Vancouver Bird Week May 11 with a colourful bird parade along Lost Lagoon.

“Vancouver is fortunate to be on the doorstep of Canada’s premier birding hot spot and the abundance of birds was cause to celebrate,” Dr. Rob Butler, chair of the Vancouver Bird Advisory Committee, said in a news release.

“Bird Week is our way of helping everyone become more aware of birds around the city.”

There are more than 250 species of birds in Vancouver, and Bird Week events aim to get residents better acquainted with them. Events include bird “language” training, a hawk and owl show, a bird photography workshop, a wing taxidermy workshop and a hipster bird walk.

Coordinated by the Stanley Park Ecology Society and run by the advisory committee, the inaugural Vancouver Bird Week took flight in 2014, inspired by World

Migratory Bird Day, a United Nations-sponsored initiative that highlights the importance of birds as key indicators of the health of the environment.

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The parade starts above Stanley Park Nature House at 3 p.m.

For more information visit vancouverbirdweek.ca. @JessicaEKerr

and contribute to the wild population,” Rossing said. “At the same time, more and more people are learning about frogs, the important role they play in the ecosystem, and how we all can help with conservation efforts. While the road to recovery for the Oregon spotted frog will be long, these results let us know we’re on the right path.” @JessicaEKerr

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All you self-centred babies don’t need Uber — you just really, really want it A few weeks ago, we annoyed a large contingent of the easily annoyed population with our column about people not understanding the difference between wants and needs.

Actually, our column was about the absence of rideservices such as Uber and Lyft — services we’ve enjoyed and aren’t opposed to, by the way.

Specifically, the column was about inconvenienced people, many of them journalists oddly enough, taking to social media to vent their frustrations about long taxi lineups at the airport, and resorting to the common refrain “We NEED ride sharing NOW!” And that’s what we took umbrage with — the notion that people need it, and the levels of exasperation used in expressing this fallacy.

We’d like Wi-Fi that actually works whenever we take BC Ferries, but are we complaining on social media that “We NEED Wi-Fi on BC Ferries NOW”? No. Partially because the crappy Wi-Fi prevents us from using

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social media on our ferry rides, but mostly because it’s a convenience we want rather than one we actually need.

Let’s use another analogy: Insta-pots.

They’re supposedly great and convenient and can cook a chicken in a fraction of the time as a clunky old oven, and we didn’t even know they existed until a few years ago. But imagine that the government hasn’t let Instapots on the market just yet because they want to properly vet them, or maybe the government is in the pocket of the oven industry and is

dragging its feet. Whatever the case, just because you don’t have the convenience of an Insta-pot like your neighbours to the south doesn’t mean you NEED one — and no amount of taking pictures of your food cooking agonizingly slowly in an oven and posting it on the internet with a snarky comment is going to change that.

Which brings us to our last point: privilege.

Not everyone can afford the luxury of taking a taxi or ride-sharing service. And those who work in those jobs don’t make a heck of a lot of money. So instead of demanding for the expansion of a low-paying industry where there’s no stability or benefits to better serve you and make your life more convenient, and conflating what you want with what you need, why not put your energy in publicly calling for improved job conditions in that industry or better public transit or later hours for the SkyTrain — something that benefits more than just you. @KudosKvetches

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New music program wants more women, non-binary producers in the mix Grant Lawrence

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If you were to name some of Canada’s most famous music producers — those who control both the creative and technical direction of an album — you might come up with Victoria’s David Foster (Celine Dion, Michael Bublé, Rod Stewart) or Vancouver’s Bob Rock (Metallica, AC/ DC, the Tragically Hip) or maybe Toronto’s Ben Mink (k.d. lang, Feist, Barenaked Ladies).

It’s no coincidence they’re all men, because fewer than five per cent of music producers in Canada are women or non-binary.

Of the 39 Producer of the Year awards that have been handed out at the Junos, women have picked up that trophy a mere five times.

Winners have included Alanis Morissette, Diana Krall and Joni Mitchell.

At the East Coast Music Awards, Erin Costello won Producer of the Year in 2018. She was the first woman to win the award since they added the category in 2011. A woman has never won for music production at the Western Canadian Music Awards.

A few years ago, major music awards on both sides of the border faced backlash from several prominent female musicians and industry members for seemingly failing to reflect or promote gender equality. In particular, technical categories for music producers and engineers have been male dominated for as long as anyone can remember.

Allan Reid, the president and CEO of the Juno Awards, has been aware of the issue for years, but points to the submissions the Junos receive in the categories for producers and engineers.

“We get 70 to 80 submissions, but we get single digits from females,” Reid told Maclean’s Magazine in 2017. “So it speaks to the larger challenges in the industry. Is that a career path that women are picking in this industry? When you go to Nimbus in Vancouver and Metalworks Studio or Trebas Institute in Toronto and look at those courses, the majority of those students are usually male. There are definitely women there, but it’s highly a malebased course.”

Vancouver musician and producer Jane Aurora is spearheading a new program called the Producers Lounge, an initiative dedicated to elevating female and non-binary music producers, mixers and engineers into viable careers.

Vancouver musician and producer Jane Aurora is trying to change that. This spring, Aurora is spearheading a new program called the Producers Lounge, an initiative dedicated to elevating female and non-binary music producers, mixers and engineers into viable careers.

The Producers Lounge is supported by Creative B.C. and the Province of British Columbia.

“Until recently, so many decision-making roles in music, both industry and creative, have been dominated by men,” said Aurora, who has 20 years’ experience in the industry, including producing. “It’s a positive time to take action toward change. This program is about getting down to work, not only stating the statistical lack of gender equity, but providing a pathway toward equality.”

BIPOC (black and Indigenous persons of colour) and LGBTQI2-S are strongly encouraged to apply.

From June to August, successful applicants will have the opportunity to attend events and workshops in Vancouver recording spaces such as Monarch and Blue Light Studios.

Intensive master classes for more experienced producers will take place at the new Capsule Studios, which opens in July.

Participants will get the chance to work with both local and world-class female and non-binary producers and engineers, including Sylvia Massy (Johnny Cash, Red Hot Chili Peppers), Elisa Pangsaeng (Said the Whale, You Say Party, Hey Ocean), Alysha Brilla

(a Juno-nominated selfproducer) and the brilliant singer-songwriter and producer Rae Spoon.

Most workshops and master classes are free to those who make it into the program.

The application process is open now, and the window is short, closing May 15. You can apply on the Producers Lounge Facebook page. The schedule will be announced at the end of May. “Applicants fill out a basic questionnaire identifying their skill level and interests, which, at the same time, allows us to obtain valuable information about the active female and non-binary producers in B.C.,” said Aurora.

“Aside from the questionnaire, we require an uploaded track to demonstrate their ability. From there, the selection of successful applicants will be decided by a panel of B.C. music industry professionals.”

Aurora believes that with some music gear businesses still sporting names such as Audio Bro and Gear Slutz, the industry still has a long way to go, but with programs such as the Producers Lounge, positive change is upon us.

“At this stage, becoming a producer or engineer takes a very active choice of a passionate woman or non-binary identifying person busting through this cultural barrier,” Aurora said. “However, there are more and more of us, and times are changing.

I’m excited to be alive in a time where I have the opportunity to be part of a new chapter in the evolution of music production.” @grantlawrence

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age-friendly fitness New senior-friendly fitness area opens at Vancouver’s Memorial South Park JESSICA KERR jkerr@vancourier.com It’s been more than two years in the making, but on May 1, Vancouver Park Board officially opened the city’s first accessible, age-friendly outdoor fitness facility at Memorial South Park.

Surveys distributed during public consultation showed 97 per cent of respondents supported the idea of a new fitness area at the park. And a large crowd of seniors were at the park last week to try out the equipment.

“We are all getting older and we can stay fit the entire time,” park board commissioner Tricia Barker told the crowd eagerly waiting to try it out.

“This is good for everybody,” said John Bal, a member of the tai chi group that meets daily in the park, who first approached Kirby-Yung about the idea.

“This is good for everybody.”

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Back in October 2016, park board commissioners passed a motion directing staff to look into potential locations to install seniorfriendly exercise equipment in local parks. Former commissioner, and current city councillor, Sarah Kirby-Yung brought forward the motion after she was approached with the idea by a group of active seniors who regularly meet at the park.

The new area at Memorial South has a number of pieces of fitness equipment that seniors, or people of any age, can use regardless of physical limitations. It includes assisted row/push up bars, cardio stepper, two tai chi wheels, two

After consulting with the public, a year later park board staff came back with a report recommending the board approve establishing the outdoor fitness facility at Memorial South Park.

“...an 80-yearold muscle cell can still get strong.”

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hand cyclers and a sensory walking path with handrails.

Barker, who also works as a personal trainer for seniors and people with terminal illnesses, in addition to her role as a park board commissioner, stressed the importance of staying active as you age.

“I can understand the benefits of this type of work for seniors and what it can do to really help our aging population,” she said of the addition to Memorial South Park.

“A muscle cell doesn’t know how old it is, so that means an 80-year-old muscle cell can still get strong.”

Nine other parks in Vancouver have some form of outdoor exercise equipment — China Creek, Douglas, Fraserview, Kitsilano, Memorial South Prince Edward, Second Beach at Stanley Park, Slidey Slides and Tisdall.

Tisdall, however, is the only one that features equipment that is considered “age friendly.”

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My mom isn’t here for Mother’s Day, but I’ll honour her just the same DR. DAVIDICUS WONG davidicuswong.wordpress.com Visiting the cemetery each week reminds me of what matters most in life.

When we remember who we have loved and lost, and recognize that all lives — even our own — will someday come to an end, the multitude of tasks that consume our days and the real and imagined dramas that engage our emotions are revealed as distractions from the marrow and meaning of life.

This time of the year has become bittersweet for myself, and many others.

I remember my own mother, who died suddenly in 2003, and I remember my patients who are mothers: young mothers fully engaged in the busiest, most stressful times of their lives looking after every detail of their infants’ and young children’s wellbeing; mothers of teens and young adults who will never stop giving and worrying about their children; and mothers with critical health conditions whose remaining time with their families is painfully precious.

My mom was uniquely ethical and generous.

She always did what she believed to be right and just, and she gave more than she got.

But when we think about it, giving more than you get is part of the lengthy job description of every mother. In spite of some progress in gender equality, mothers today still take on more than their share of maintaining the home and caring for their children.

Children can never pay back their mothers for the

selfless care that began nine months before their births and continued through uncounted sleepless nights during infancy, or a lifetime of meals prepared and clothing purchased, picked up and laundered.

I appreciated how my mother loved and accepted me just as I was.

She expected from her children a high standard of behaviour, but forgave us when we faltered. We didn’t have to be perfect to be loved. She saw the best in us and nurtured our potential.

This day, let us remember and honour all mothers.

At my mother’s resting place, my sister and I chose these words, “Her legacy of love endures.”

We honour our mother by giving forward to all who touch our lives, the love she gave to us and many others.

When you are being hard on yourself, judging yourself too harshly, beating yourself up for your failings or just think you’re not good enough, give to yourself what you need the most — a good dose of motherly selfcompassion. Remember you were loved just the way you are and with the eyes of a good mother, you are beautiful.

Honour your mother by being the best version of yourself — and loving others as she has loved you.

Dr. Davidicus Wong is a family physician. His Healthwise Column appears regularly in this paper. For more on achieving your positive potential in life, read his blog at davidicuswong. wordpress.com.

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Mother’s Day is coming up this weekend, and for the first time ever, Ikea Richmond is offering high tea to go with your Tänkvärd.

Tickets are good for two people and include a selection of sandwiches, pastries and Ikea’s own blend of teas. Guests will be able to choose from savoury treats such as a Swedish gravid lax tea sandwich or a cheese and leek pie with caramelized onions. Sweet treats on the menu include mini cinnamon buns, lemon lingonberry squares and Swedish almond cake.

Two seatings are scheduled — the first at 1 p.m. and a second at 3 p.m. Tickets can be purchased from the Ikea Richmond restaurant and are $24.99 a pair for Ikea Family members or $29.99 for non-members.

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She built this city: How architect Cornelia Hahn Oberlander shaped Vancouver

City Dreamers documents work of Oberlander and three other trailblazing female architects

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If Cornelia Hahn Oberlander had listened to her mother and enrolled in horticulture school instead of the landscape architecture program at Harvard, Vancouver would probably look very different.

Consider the list of spaces that Oberlander designed and shaped in her 70-plus-year career as a landscape architect: the paths and reflecting pool at the Museum of Anthropology, the rooftop garden at the Vancouver Public Library, the Visitors Centre at VanDusen Botanical Garden and the Robson Square stramps (inclining stairs with an integrated ramp) and Law Courts complex (which she designed with frequent collaborator Arthur Erickson).

These are spaces where Vancouverites have walked, lunched, paused and pondered — where urban dwellers have interfaced with the natural world.

But we wouldn’t have had these spaces had Oberlander taken her mother’s advice and pursued a path that was, in the early 1940s, far more respectable for women than that of landscape architecture.

Instead, Oberlander broke into a traditionally male profession and changed the landscape of the city.

Oberlander’s story is one of four told in City Dreamers, a feature-length documentary from Montreal filmmaker Joseph Hillel that screens this week at the 2019 DOXA Documentary Film Festival.

The film offers a glimpse into the careers of four trailblazing urban architects of the 20th century. Besides Oberlander, there’s Phyllis Lambert (one of the Bronfman heirs), Blanche Lemco van Ginkel and Denise Scott Brown.

“I could have done four different films,” says Hillel on the phone from Montreal. “Each of them deserves a film. The challenge was to have one voice and to find that trajectory.”

But Hillel found that trajectory and narrative arc, and the result is a film that simultaneously showcases the unique voices and paths of each architect while spotlighting the multitude of ways in which their stories are similar: often the only women in their graduating classes and architectural firms, facing

subtle and blatant sexism in an industry that benefitted from their singular visions and expertise and hard work but seemed intent on holding back the glory.

These women shaped cityscapes and skylines. They built communities, both in their cities and in architecture. And they didn’t let the bastards get them down.

“They’re passionate,” says Hillel. “And they’re all still working hard... They’re between 87 and 97. They have very busy schedules. They like to control the discourse.

It wasn’t easy to arrange interviews, but once I was in their company, they were so generous with their stories and time.”

In the film, Hillel accompanies the 97-year-old Oberlander to the garden she designed at the Museum of Anthropology, where she notes that she selected many of the garden’s plants because they’re abundant in Haida Gwaii, and she wanted to bring Haida Gwaii to the MOA. Landscape architecture is the art and science of the possible, she says — and parks should be for anyone.

Oberlander appears to have a very different reaction when she and Hillel visit the stramps at Robson Square later in the film.

Walking up the stramps, she calls it a forgotten oasis, and expresses her displeasure with the state of the flowers and the paving stones to a surveyor who clearly has no idea who she is.

Oberlander is also visibly unhappy that people are camped out in the park, but only because they have nowhere else to go. “There is no affordable housing in this city,” she says.

Hillel follows up Oberlander’s point with including a visual effects sequence that demonstrates how the Vancouver skyline has changed since the 1960s.

“I was inspired to do that after seeing the pictures of what it looked like before, and when I arrived and looked at that skyline I thought, ‘Wow, this is a forest of buildings, but that doesn’t mean there are places for people to live,’” says Hillel.

“There are people who can’t rent there. There are people who are being forced to live outside of the city.

And Cornelia and the other women make us see that the

city should be for everyone.

It’s not only for the wealthy people. It’s not only for an elite. We should be concerned about that because cities are getting bigger and we have to follow that rhythm and make it livable and listen to the people

who have been thinking about this for decades.”

City Dreamers screens May 11 at the Cinematheque as part of the 2019 DOXA Documentary Film Festival.

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Neil Young returns to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, the location of his first solo live performance in Vancouver in 1971, for a twonight run. Joining the iconic 73-year-old “Harvest Moon” singersongwriter will be an impressive opener, rocker Elvis Costello, who will also hit the stage solo.

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Heart attack victim thanks paramedic who saved his life a year ago Episode of Paramedics: Life on the Line airs May 14 on Knowledge Network John Kurucz

hell,” is how Leland later recalled the experience to his cardiologist.

That Leland even made it to a cardiologist comes in large part thanks to Will Riordon, an advanced care paramedic with B.C. Emergency Health Services.

Riordon was one of three first responders who treated Leland who, at first blush, didn’t exhibit the usual signs of a heart attack. Diagnostic testing soon revealed the severity of the situation and Leland was en route to St. Paul’s Hospital within minutes.

“The bad news is that you’re having a heart attack,” Riordon told his patient, mere moments after first meeting him. “The good news is that you’re looking well and handling it well. I’m going to get you to specialty care immediately.”

On May 7, the pair met for the first time since Riordon offered those words of hope, and the Courier was given an exclusive invite to the reunion. The pair’s story will be documented in an episode of the Knowledge Network

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Life caught up with Michael Leland right around this time last year.

It was the morning of May 3, 2018 and the 60-year-old was lying on the floor of his Downtown Eastside apartment, unable to walk and barely able to reach a phone.

The perceived stigma of calling an ambulance weighed on Leland’s mind as he flirted with death for the fifth time in his life.

“My strength started to leave me. I knew that something was really wrong,” Leland said. “It’s really hard to phone 911. I didn’t want them coming for nothing.”

It was far from nothing.

Leland was in the midst of a massive cardiac arrest. It was his second heart scare, and he’d also endured three strokes previously. A 16-day hospital stay later revealed Leland’s heart was a total mess: two 100 per cent blockages and a pair of others assessed at 90 per cent.

“There were no bright lights, I guess I’m going to

Michael Leland, left, was reunited with paramedic Will Riordon May 7, almost one year to the day that Riordon saved his life.

series Paramedics: Life on the Line, which airs May 14.

Leland wanted details of the meeting, and the upcoming episode, to be made public for a very specific reason.

“This is not an evil neighbourhood. It’s not all bad down here, and people have to know that,” he said. “It’s really, really important to know. Lots of us have made poor decisions previously in our life — it’s how you decide to atone [for] them

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He looks and sounds healthy on the day he thanks paramedic Riordon.

“I’ve been doing this for 20 years, and there is no end of reward that I obtain from engagements like dealing with Mike,” Riordon said. “For him to come and re-iterate that for me… was fantastic.”

Unlike his recent past, Leland is pretty sure of what tomorrow and next week will look like. He’ll continue speaking to young people about the dangers of the path he took and will continue working with the Binners’ Project.

“When I was younger, I used to have to go out to my yard to see if my vehicle was smacked or dented,” Leland said. “I couldn’t even remember driving home. Now that’s an asshole, when you’re putting everybody at risk like that. I began to realize that there were things we could do down here that people appreciated. I hadn’t had that most of my life. When you realize you’ve got something to contribute, you realize it’s worth contributing.” @JohnKurucz

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Leland is brutally honest in recounting his life story.

He lost his job as a commercial fishermen 20-plus years ago and spent most of his adult life as a “raging alcoholic.” Leland says he drastically cut back on the drinking eight years ago, still has a sip every once in a while and hasn’t been drunk in more than a half decade.

“Everything that I’ve

gotten at this point in life is earned in that sense of the word,” Leland said. “I’ve lived a hard life and lived it fast. When I was fishing, the boat would come to dock, we would end up in the bar and I would stay in the bar until the boat left again.”

Leland’s been binning in the Downtown Eastside for 21 years and maintains an active role in the Binners’ Project, a social advocacy group that encourages recycling and making ends meet by collecting other people’s waste.

His previous life entailed walking or cycling upwards of 50 kilometres every day — out to West Vancouver and back — to make, at best, $40 a day.

Leland has inevitably slowed down since last year’s setback, but the fact he’s even alive is extraordinary. Walking seven feet was impossible for the first three weeks after he was discharged from St. Paul’s, although now he puts in 20 to 30 blocks a day.

On the day of the Courier’s visit, Leland is lean and his teeth are a glowing white.

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There are some Canucks fans that are enlightened souls, content to let the past stay in the past. Old rivalries and past slights are now just water under the bridge. All is forgiven — can’t we all just get along?

Every other Canucks fan still hates the Boston Bruins.

It’s not necessary to rehash all the reasons why Canucks fans can’t stand the Bruins, but it all stems from the 2011 Stanley Cup Final. It’s not just that the Bruins won and the Canucks lost, but all the cheap shots, devastating injuries and trash-talking along the way, combined with a narrative in the media that cast the Canucks as the villains. Time and distance haven’t changed that narrative — few would paint Tim Thomas as the humble hero over Roberto Luongo now — but Canucks fans have long memories.

It’s understandable that the refrain I keep hearing from Canucks fans in these playoffs is, “Anyone but the Bruins.”

It doesn’t help that the Bruins are led by some familiar faces. Most of the 2010-11 Bruins have moved on to other teams or retired, but Brad Marchand is their leading scorer, followed closely by the likes of David Krejci and Patrice Bergeron, while Zdeno Chara still patrols the Bruins blueline for 22-plus minutes per game.

The Bruins also stand as a stark reminder of what the Canucks haven’t done since 2011. While the Canucks haven’t won a playoff series since their run to the Stanley Cup Final, the Bruins got back to the Final in 2013 and bounced back from missing the playoffs for a couple seasons with the type of quick re-tool on the fly that the Canucks attempted but failed.

Now the Bruins are Stanley Cup favourites, particularly after the powerhouse Tampa Bay Lightning were surprisingly swept by the Columbus Blue Jackets in the first round. The Bruins summarily dispatched those same Blue Jackets in six games in the second round to get to the Eastern Conference Finals. There, they’ll be facing the upstart Carolina Hurricanes.

The Hurricanes have already won

Stick-taps & Glove-drops • A tap of the stick to Daniel and Henrik Sedin, who completed their first ever marathons on Sunday at the Vancouver Marathon. The twins ran even splits over the first half of the race — literally the exact same time of 1:28:52 — before Daniel pulled away in the second half to beat his brother with a time of 3:11:42, which is not far off the qualifying times for the Boston Marathon.

Sebastian Aho and the Carolina Hurricanes have given fans plenty to cheer about, even ones normally loyal to the Canucks. PHOTO JONATHAN HAYWARD/CANADIAN PRESS

over a lot of new fans with their exuberant post-game “Storm Surge” celebrations during the regular season. They’ve long been darlings of the fancy stats aficionados, as the Hurricanes have embraced analytics as a small market team, with former hockey blogger Eric Tulsky in a senior role in hockey operations. Now they’ve also won over the old school crowd with all the intangibles they love: hard work, grit, determination, heart and leadership.

Most of all, the Hurricanes are the polar opposite of the Bruins. They’re the David to the Bruins’ Goliath, the underdog versus the favourite, the team that’s been in Carolina for just over 20 years versus the Original Six behemoth, the small market versus the hockey hotbed, the lowest payroll in the NHL versus one of the highest, the likeable “Bunch of Jerks” versus the literal bunch of jerks.

Also, unlike the Bruins, the Hurricanes didn’t make the playoffs in nine straight seasons. It’s a lot easier to like a team that hasn’t had a long string of success.

Frankly, Boston sports fans have • I’m dropping the gloves with Michael DiPietro’s ankle. Canucks prospect DiPietro and the Ottawa 67’s were on the verge of an historic achievement: sweeping through the OHL Playoffs. Instead, DiPietro suffered a high ankle sprain and the 67’s lost their next game 7-2 with backup Cedrick Andree in net.

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16.3 According to salary cap site CapFriendly, the Carolina

won enough championships in recent years. In the last 20 years, the New England Patriots have won six Super Bowls, the Boston Red Sox have won four World Series, the Boston Celtics have won an NBA Championship and, of course, the Bruins have won the Stanley Cup. That’s quite enough, thanks.

The Hurricanes are coming off a sweep of the New York Islanders in the second round, and their underlying analytics have been just as dominant in the playoffs as they were during the regular season. The Bruins will be the favourites, but the matchup is about as even as it could be. There might be no better chance to stop the Bruins from winning their second Stanley Cup in the last 10 years.

It seems clear: if you weren’t already cheering for the Carolina Hurricanes in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, now is the time to start.

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Hurricanes are just short of $16.3 million under the cap.

They’re easily the team with the lowest cap hit in the league, nearly $2 million lower than the next lowest team.

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99 The Hurricanes barely snuck into a Wild Card spot in the Eastern Conference with 99 points, but that same number of points would have had them one point out of first in the Central Division in the West. That should provide some perspective on just how good the Hurricanes are.

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