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Vancouver civic election cost $4.1 million

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Some disappointing and interesting news to report on last fall’s civic election in Vancouver…

First, let’s begin with how much it cost: $4.1 million, which is $1.2 million more than the vote in 2014.

About $1.8 million of that was spent on staffing (including training), another $1.1 million on communications (outreach and postage) and $1 million on technology.

These figures are in a city report that went before city council this week.

The report includes a survey of 2,038 people (1,417 voters and 621 nonvoters) that was conducted as people left the polls on voting day and in the days and weeks following the Oct. 20 vote.

Which brings me to the disappointing news — as if a 39.4 per cent voter turnout, which was lower than the 43.4 per cent in 2014, wasn’t enough to send democracy types into a civic heart of darkness.

In no particular order, let’s all share in the disappointment: • Twenty-nine per cent of respondents said they didn’t know enough about the candidates, so they didn’t vote.

• Twenty-two per cent said they didn’t know enough about the campaign issues.

• Twenty per cent said there were too many candidates.

• Fifteen per cent were dissatisfied with wait times to vote at a polling station.

• Thirteen per cent said they didn’t have time to vote, that casting a ballot didn’t fit into their schedule or they were out of town.

• Eleven per cent said they were not interested or concerned about campaign topics. The same percentage said they didn’t feel like their vote would make a difference.

• Ten per cent said they have a “general dislike” of politics and didn’t like the candidates.

The list goes on and it gets more disappointing, with people saying they didn’t know how or where to vote

The civic election in Vancouver saw 39.4 per cent of eligible voters cast a ballot. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

and that bad weather was another reason for not voting.

Bad weather?

I recall a relatively warm night and no precipitation, particularly in an East Side park while drinking beer with colleagues after we filed our stories.

Some of you voters reading these excuses of non-voters have likely set your hair on fire by now. Some have also probably wondered how someone could take the time

to answer a survey, but not take the time to vote.

The fact is the city has made a concerted effort to get more people to the polls, offering several days of advance voting opportunities, offering a “vote by mail” option and allowing voters to cast a ballot at any polling station.

There was even “curbside voting” for those voters with a disability or illness, which allowed people to vote in a car outside a polling station.

Tonnes of advertising (in newspapers, on buses, on the jumbotron at BC Place), a voters’ guide (in four languages), distributing voter information cards, social media campaigns, reaching out to marginalized people and beefing up the city’s election website were other initiatives in play last fall.

Candidate names placed in random order on the ballot was another move, as was the provincial government’s long-awaited decision to ban union and corporate donations to candidates and parties.

Still, a majority of eligible voters didn’t seem to care enough to vote.

Anyway, here’s some interesting news that may or may not disappoint. That, I suspect, depends on where you live, the language you speak, your age, your education level and the colour of your skin.

Here you go: • Voters tend to be older and significantly more likely to live in southwest and northeast Vancouver, and to have been Canadian citi-

zens for 20 years or more (if not born in Canada).

• Voters are significantly more likely than nonvoters to be male and to be homeowners. They are less likely to be young singles.

• Voters are significantly more likely to have a degree than non-voters and to be employed full-time, self-employed or retired.

• Caucasian Vancouverites are significantly more likely to be voters, while visible minority groups are significantly less likely to be voters.

• Voters tend to have a higher household income than non-voters.

The most interesting news of all, he said selfishly as he was searching for a way to close out this random list and end this piece, is that “news articles were the most common sources relied on for election information.”

Now that’s some good news to end on.

Fist bumps all around to my journo colleagues.

The next civic election is in 2022. @Howellings

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Vancouver city councillors from three different political parties used words such as “uncomfortable” and “perplexed” to describe their reaction to a former city councillor advocating for developers in meetings with Mayor Kennedy Stewart.

The councillors were reacting to a story posted May 9 on the Courier’s website, which revealed former Vison Vancouver councillor Raymond Louie participated in 10 meetings with Stewart between November and March.

“I’m uncomfortable with Raymond Louie seemingly acting as a lobbyist for developers so quickly after his time on council ended,” said OneCity Coun. Christine Boyle in an email to the Courier.

“There was clear public concern that the last council was too cozy with developers. These meetings reinforce the need for a lobbyist register, and a cooling off period after elected officials leave public office.”

Seven of Louie’s meetings were with developers, including Ian Gillespie of Westbank Projects Corp., Bruno and Peter Wall of Wall Financial Corporation and Brian McCauley of Concert Properties.

The meetings were recorded in the mayor’s monthly calendars, which are regularly posted on the city website. The calendars, which cover November to March, didn’t disclose the topic of each meeting.

Louie’s participation in the meetings is in contrast to a major plank in Stewart’s election campaign that called for a 12-month cooling off period for elected officials and city staff before doing any business with the city.

Louie’s term ended last November.

Stewart’s request for a cooling off period and a lobbyist registry received the unanimous support of council in December, but the measures have not been put in place yet. City staff continue to work on the file and have not publicly updated council on progress.

“I’m perplexed that the mayor is knowingly participating in meetings with industry facilitated by former councillor Louie when this is exactly what his conflict of interest motion recommended against — a 12-month ban from former councillors lobbying city hall,” said NPA Coun. Lisa Dominato in an email to the Courier.

Dominato successfully moved a motion in March to have councillors also disclose their calendars.

She said such a move helps build public trust in the democratic process.

Dominato expects the calendars to be made public

by September.

“That way people can see the broad range of people and organizations that we meet with on a regular basis,” she said by telephone. “I have been part of meetings with the development community. I’ve met with individuals, I’ve met with residents’ groups, I’ve met with non-profits and it’s really to understand the different issues and challenges to make sure I’m informed.”

Green Party Coun. Pete Fry said he thought Stewart could have been “more circumspect of the optics” of the frequency of Louie’s meetings with developers in the mayor’s office.

“It certainly does fly in the face of what the mayor’s been talking about [regarding conflict of interest rules and a lobbyist registry],” he said.

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Councillors Christine Boyle, Lisa Dominato and Pete Fry all expressed concern with former councillor Raymond Louie’s series of meetings with developers in the mayor’s office. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

said, he didn’t believe there was “anything sinister” that can be concluded from Louie’s presence at city hall.

He also met with Louie, he said, to learn more about the role of a councillor.

“To be totally frank, Raymond has spent a long time in government and is probably looking for where his life now takes him, and what is his role and what is his job and what’s he going to do,” he said. “He’s not going to go back to being a shop steward on a press floor, which is sort of where he was before [he got elected].”

Fry said he and some other councillors met with “a bunch” of developers in December to understand their position around some of the motions being brought to council regarding “renovictions” and the city’s Rental 100 program, which provides incentives to developers to build rental housing.

Louie was not present, he said.

The Courier left several messages for Louie last week but had not heard back from him before the newspaper’s print deadline.

Messages were also left for

several of the developers listed in the calendar, but none returned calls.

Stewart described the former Vision Vancouver councillor’s role in the meetings as “advocating” for developers, although he said he didn’t know if Louie was being paid.

“Raymond’s relationship with the other folks in the room are only known to them,” the mayor told the Courier. “I have no idea what their arrangements are, and you’ll have to ask him about that.”

The mayor said the three

one-on-one meetings with Louie were to seek his expertise on local government experience. Louie served 16 years on council with COPE and Vision and was president of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities and vice-chairperson of the Metro Vancouver agency.

The mayor has also met with a variety of people representing non-profits, residents’ associations, housing advocates, First Nations leaders and members of the Vancouver Fire Fighters union, among others.

“I am glad to see that Mayor Stewart has been meeting with non-profit housing providers and tenant advocacy groups, too,” Boyle said in her email to the Courier. “I can tell you that he is talking about housing all the time. I know he is fiercely committed to tackling the housing affordability crisis.”

Stewart wouldn’t disclose details of his meetings with developers but said he didn’t really know any of them before the election. He said his goal is to get developers to build more rental housing at below market cost. @Howellings

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Province to study North ShoreVancouver rapid transit line Brent Richter

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Think of it. The North Shore to downtown in a matter of minutes. Express service. No traffic.

The province is set to begin the first-ever study into the feasibility of a rapid transit line connecting the North Shore and downtown Vancouver.

Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Claire Trevena announced the feasibility study Tuesday.

“Our government recognizes that commuters on the North Shore are frustrated with congestion,” she said in a release. “With this feasibility study, we are exploring potential solutions that help people move around more easily, which will improve quality of life.”

Former City of North Vancouver mayor Darrell Mussatto began calling for a study into a tunnel under Burrard Inlet, in early 2017.

And North Vancouver-Seymour MLA Jane Thornthwaite has been lobbying for a North Shore SkyTrain link since later that year.

But the study’s genesis is in the Integrated North Shore Transportation Planning Project, which was spearheaded by North Vancouver-Lonsdale MLA

Bowinn Ma in 2018. That project brought together all three levels of government to study and prioritize transportation improvements for the North Shore.

“I’m absolutely thrilled to see us move forward,” Ma said. “This one is definitely a very exciting opportunity for us.”

INSTPP recommended further study of a 3.2-kilometre Lonsdale QuayWaterfront Station tunnel, “which also happens to be the widest, deepest part of Burrard Inlet,” Ma acknowledged.

The study approved by the province this week will consider all possible routes spanning the inlet. The study will be broken up into two pieces. Over the summer, the province and TransLink will determine whether it’s even physically possible to build a tunnel or bridge to Vancouver, how it could plug into the rest of the system, whether the existing and future land use plans could support a rapid transit line with ridership, and some notional costs.

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That’s why the city is working to ensure Vancouver’s emergency preparedness strategy is as coordinated as possible, said Capt. Jonathan Gormick, a spokesperson for Vancouver Fire Rescue.

On a sweltering Friday afternoon, Gormick led the Courier and other local media on a tour of a “disaster staging” site where members of Vancouver’s Heavy Urban Search and Rescue task force, the military and fire rescue teams from outside Vancouver worked together in simulated rescue operations.

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The city puts a lot of time and energy into emergency preparedness, said Gormick, but that’s not necessarily the case among most citizens.

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He added, “It’s better to plan ahead, then wish you’d planned.”

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Caroline Adderson honoured for heritage advocacy Vancouver Heritage Awards handed out to people and projects May 6

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Author and heritage activist Caroline Adderson, who launched the Vancouver Vanishes Facebook page years ago, was among people and projects celebrated at the Vancouver Heritage Awards ceremony May 6.

Adderson was acknowledged with an award of honour “for her leadership and advocacy on issues around the loss of neighbourhood heritage, character and community cohesiveness.”

Presented every other year, the awards, which come in three categories — honour, merit and recognition — acknowledge projects and special accomplishments, including the restoration and rehabilitation of buildings, features and sites. They also recognize work that promotes heritage conservation, public education, advocacy and awareness.

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ver Heritage Commission and two members of the public. Projects must have been completed within the last six years.

For her part, Adderson has spent years lamenting the loss of character homes in Vancouver.

She advocates for their preservation by lobbying the city and through efforts such as the Vancouver Vanishes Facebook page, which features posts about heritage homes in her West Side neighbourhood that have been or will be knocked down, and a 2015 book of essays entitled Vancouver Vanishes: Narratives of Demolition and Removal.

We asked Adderson, who was out of town, via email what the award means to her and what conservation measures she’d like to see in Vancouver.

Were you surprised to be nominated for and win the award, and what does it mean to you?

I knew I’d been nominated, but didn’t actu-

do more to encourage their preservation?

Caroline Adderson has spent years documenting the loss of character homes in Vancouver and pushing for conservation measures.

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ally expect the award since my concerns go beyond heritage preservation and, as your next question suggests, I’ve been a vocal critic of city’s inaction on demolition. While I appreciate being recognized for years of volunteer work, I mainly

hope that this award will bring some attention back to this ongoing issue.

You have been, at times, quite critical of the City of Vancouver’s efforts to preserve heritage homes. Do you still think the city could

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Absolutely! In 2018, Vancouver issued 832 demolition permits, more than 80 per cent to replace a livable home for a much larger and more expensive one. We now know the full environmental cost of this trend thanks to a UBC report issued last year. The new house would have to stand for 168 years to recover construction impacts, three times as long as it’s built to last. If we want an affordable and sustainable city, then council should revisit the 2017 Character Home Zoning Review. Widely supported by the public, it proposed reducing the allowable floor area of new construction such as in our vibrant RT-zones, thereby eliminating the primary cause of demolition: luxury redevelopment.

Are you more optimistic or more pessimistic since you started working on the issue?

Pessimistic, I’m sorry to say. I saw how close council came in 2017 to passing

effective policy. Then they shelved it. There are many competing interests in this issue and, sadly, the profit motive usually wins.

Are you still chronicling heritage homes that have been knocked down? If so, how many have you recorded?

I’m still posting demolitions on the Facebook page, though irregularly now.

The demolition rate hasn’t declined, but my energy level has!

What do you think the members of the public who are interested in preserving the city’s heritage homes can or should do?

They can join neighbourhood and heritage organizations. They should also let their elected representatives at all levels of government know how they feel. Call 3-1-1. Send an email. They count every complaint even if they don’t respond.

For a full list of the other Vancouver Heritage Awards recipients, go to vancourier.com.

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Neighbourhood spring cleanup parties sweep across city

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Vancouver’s neighbourhoods will be getting a little spring cleaning.

The city is inviting Vancouverites to the annual Spring Neighbourhood Cleanup parties — the annual clean-up initiative launched May 4 in Kitsilano.

For more than 24 years, residents have come

together every year to help clean up neighbourhoods throughout Vancouver with more than 20,000 people participating annually.

“As a coastal city, it is important for all of us to properly dispose of our waste so that we can help protect our waterways, shorelines and marine habitat,” Mayor Kennedy Stewart said in a news release. “I am proud of the

PEACE AHEAD We have an enormous power for self-destruction because we have no power for living in peace, knowing the way to live – the art of living, which requires freedom, justice and peace to survive. We do not know how to do this.

Sharing is the key. To help us, an extraordinary event is taking place: the emergence of Maitreya, the World Teacher, and His group, the Masters of Wisdom.

thousands of volunteers who pitch in to keep our city clean and I’d like to invite all residents to get involved.”

2019 Spring/Summer Major Cleanup dates: • May 18: GrandviewWoodland • May 25: Strathcona • May 25: Fraser Street between 41st and 50th avenues • June 8: Great Canadian

Shoreline Cleanup – Hinge Park • June 15: Victoria Drive between 32nd and 55th avenues “The Neighbourhood Cleanup Party is something that businesses and residents look forward to,” said Jane McFadden, executive director of the West Fourth Business Improvement Association. “It is great to see our neighbourhood

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Vancouver trustees take school closures off the table… for now Tracy Sherlock

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Parents across Vancouver are likely heaving heavy sighs of relief after school trustees took school closures off the table, at least until September.

But it’s hard to believe they’re off the table forever, given that the Vancouver School Board’s space and safety issues are still extreme.

Several old, dilapidated schools have been deemed unsafe if an earthquake hits, and the district pays millions extra each year to keep those old schools maintained. VSB staff claims at least 10,000 empty seats, mostly in the city’s East Side schools, while newer schools downtown and in neighbourhoods with a lot of development are busting at the seams.

In February, the VSB released a draft plan for its $7.6 billion in lands and buildings that analyzed what would happen if up to 28 different schools in the district closed.

Last week, VSB trustees voted to remove a recommendation from that plan

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that would have seen a closure list created by September.

We’ve been here, done that.

In 2016, the VSB also took school closures off the table when the then-Liberal government changed a requirement for school districts to be 95 per cent full.

The entire process of discussing closures was fraught with anxiety and tension — the school board ended up fired, several staff members went on medical leaves and bullying allegations were made as a result.

This time around, dad Shaun Kalley, chair of Vancouver District Parents Association (DPAC), says he’s not convinced the issue is dead.

“I’m not celebrating yet,” Kalley said. “I’m really hoping for a stronger statement from either the board or staff to ensure that the intent of taking the recommendation out really is to keep closures off the table at least through the end of the next school year.”

When asked directly to respond to parents’ concerns, Patricia MacNeil, the VSB’s communications

There are 40 schools in the city that are at high risk in an earthquake that have not yet been considered for upgrades.

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director, said “there is not a school closure list envisioned at this time.”

MacNeil pointed to VSB policy, which says the board may decide to permanently close a school, as long as it completes a public consultation process and informs the minister of education.

The VSB updated all of its policies last year and the new school closure policy has a shorter timeline than what used to be in place.

“It would not surprise me

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if other, targeted recommendations for closure come forward,” Kalley said. “But we — that is, everyone including the board, district staff, and parents — really need to start having the bigger conversations on the [facilities plan] now that the opportunity is open to us to do so.”

There are 40 schools in the city that are at high risk in an earthquake that have not yet been considered for upgrades. Enrolment across the city is also complex — while some

schools have low enrolment, others, like Henry Hudson, where the VSB recently decided to phase out French immersion, don’t have enough room for neighbourhood kids.

The Ministry of Education had been sticking with a rule that it would not pay for any more upgrades than there were bums in seats.

But Education Minister Rob Fleming turned that on its head in April, when he wrote a letter to trustees saying his government doesn’t want to close schools — it wants to build and expand them.

At their next general meeting, on April 26, trustees took the school closure recommendation off the table.

Kalley recognizes someone has to pay for this. While Fleming’s letter moved away from closures, it didn’t explicitly say the province would pay for seismic upgrades in schools with low enrolment. Ways to raise money should be part of the larger conversation, Kalley said.

The parent group is taking the government at its word and pressing trustees

to challenge the status quo.

“Be bold in your thinking and set a progressive agenda that shows true understanding of the educational and community needs of students in Vancouver,” an open letter from the DPAC to trustees says. It urges trustees to create their own vision and formula for calculating capacity, based on what is best for student success, regardless of Ministry of Education constraints.

“We hope that formula would include community space for out-of-school childcare, wraparound programming that supports students and their families, and complimentary non-profit programs,” the letter states. “The formula should also factor in vulnerability indexes and class composition needs.

It should make allowances for art and music spaces, libraries, and other spaces that are not appropriately considered under the previous ministry formula.”

If the board did that, Kalley said, it could become a leader and a beacon for other districts.

Imagine that.

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Development industry doesn’t care about affordability Re: “Lower Mainland’s presale home absorption rate sees dismal April: report,” online, May 6.

The Courier’s recent article about home presales in the Lower Mainland quotes that “approximately 5,000 concrete units within 17 development projects have postponed their sales launches and are instead opting to await for more favourable market conditions.”

The development industry lobby has been opining for years that its primary goal is to make housing more affordable — and the only solution to make housing cheaper is to build more supply. Fast forward, sales have softened and prices have dipped. If the development industry had truly been trying to create affordability shouldn’t it be hailing this downturn in prices?

The fact that developers are now holding back

supply awaiting the return of higher house prices before selling suggests that the industry had simply been virtue signaling all along.

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Re: “Swastika being removed from roof of South Vancouver building,” May 6.

The swastika is indeed a symbol that far predates the Nazi use of it in Germany, but there were at least three things the Nazis did to change it. One, they always painted it black. Two, they always placed it at an angle (that is, the “arms” don’t point out straight).

And three, they placed it with the arms facing clockwise. Looking at the photograph in the news article, the symbol was painted white, and appears to be straight with the edge of the building. So it’s not clear if this was intended to be a Nazi symbol. That’s my opinion.

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1. This 44-foot piece of red cedar will be unveiled at the Vancouver School Board office on West Broadway in late June as part of National Indigenous Peoples Day celebrations. 2. Chrystal Sparrow is one of four Indigenous artists tasked with carving a trio of welcome posts that will be erected outside the Vancouver School Board office and at the carving pavilion adjacent to Britannia secondary. 3. An assortment of tools, including slicks, draw knives, bent blades, curved knives, chainsaws and an adze. 4. Musqueam Indian Band member William Dan is carving one of two welcome posts that will be erected at the carving pavilion adjacent to Britannia secondary. See photo gallery at vancourier.com.

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Meet the Indigenous carvers behind three new welcome posts Spiritual connection between carvers and ancient cedar

John Kurucz

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James Harry needs to cut deep in order to bring out the light.

Flanked by an adze, a chainsaw and a slick, Harry is outside the Vancouver School Board office on a late winter day when the Courier visits.

He carves several inches into a pristine piece of red cedar, first removing the outer bark, then the inner bark to reveal a palette of red and yellow hues emblematic of one of B.C.’s most revered types of wood.

Estimated to be around 300 years old, the tree was in the ground for decades before the Spanish, and then the English, first entered B.C.’s coastal waters.

That same piece of wood will tower over Vancouver’s skyline for generations, long after Harry and every other living Vancouverite is gone.

The symbolism involved isn’t accidental.

“This tree is so old, working with it is very meditative,” Harry said. “As soon as you get into the deep parts of the tree, you’re reading into the past. It’s a very spiritual connection.”

Rather than simply shaping and cutting a

piece of old-growth timber, Harry is quite literally carving a legacy.

Alongside his father, Xwalacktun, and two other Indigenous artists, Harry is involved in a VSB project that will see three welcome posts erected: a single, 44-foot post at the district office on West Broadway, and two others measuring roughly 20 feet each at the carving pavilion adjacent to Britannia secondary.

Members of the Musqueam Indian Band — Chrystal Sparrow and William Dan — are carving the two pieces at Britannia, while Harry and his father, members of the Squamish First Nation, are crafting the 44-foot centrepiece.

All three welcome posts will be unveiled as part of National Indigenous Peoples Day events on June 21.

“My dream is that these pieces are going to be medicine for our children for the next 150 years,” said Chas Desjarlais, Vancouver’s district vice principal of Indigenous education. “Cedar is looked at as medicine in Coast Salish culture, and I see it as medicine, too.

This medicine is going to inform our young people going forward about the

strength and resiliency of Indigenous peoples.”

Harry and Xwalacktun’s piece is divided into thirds, with father taking the top portion and son accounting for the bottom. School-aged kids will inform the middle part of the post as the school year progresses and they learn about Indigenous themes and customs.

Harry’s portion shows a bear holding onto a female figure, while an eagle sits above. The female is a teaching figure and the bear represents protection.

“We talk about the eagles as our grandfathers,” Harry, 29, explained. “The eagle can fly so high, it’s considered a messenger to the creator. The eagle can often transform into a thunderbird, a mythical creature, and convey those messages to our ancestors.”

Xwalacktun’s contribution to the post sees a thunderbird reaching over a globe, symbolizing the need to preserve the natural world. The inclusion of a frog conveys notions of ancient wisdom.

At 61, Xwalacktun has carved since his childhood and taught Harry since his son was five. Paying it forward to younger generations is a central theme to

all three posts and came up repeatedly in each interview the Courier conducted.

“We have to meet in the middle if we’re talking about truth and reconciliation,” Xwalacktun said.

“On this centre part, we’re going to represent all groups of people, students and community members. Anyone can have their input.”

Mind, body, spirit

The project’s genesis came last year, not by board directive, but rather informal conversations among district staff led by Indigenous education teacher Davita Marsden. A request for proposals was sent to three local First Nations — Squamish, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh — along with rough parameters for the end goal: decolonizing Vancouver school properties, highlighting reconciliation in education, ensuring gender balance in the artists and posts themselves, and bringing local customs to bear.

Students from across the city visited the carvers throughout March and April to provide ideas and guidance for the middle portions of each piece. The leftover shavings from each carving will be repurposed into smaller art pieces for

students, or burned off in a ceremonial fire.

The project budget is about $200,000, and as Xwalacktun points out, the finished works will not be totem poles.

“The Salish people here, we’re not totem pole carvers, we are house post carvers,” he said. “The three poles represent mind, body, spirit.

You need all those three things to be a whole human.”

Mother, grandmother and sister

Chrystal Sparrow’s welcome figure plays on a similar marriage of the past and present, with an eye on intergenerational knowledge. Four generations of her family were fishermen, whether for food, custom, or commercially.

Her piece is a female figure adorned with a cedar hat and cloak, while imagery depicting salmon and orca are woven throughout.

The cedar patchwork represents numerous Indigenous customs and the figure is all things woman — mother, grandmother and sister.

“To me this is a great opportunity, not only as female carver, which there aren’t very many of, but this is an opportunity to share my view of my family history with

orca and salmon,” she said.

Chrystal’s history is such that her great grandfather inspired her, her dad began teaching her and her brother Chris, a semi-master carver, is now helping to refine those skills.

“When people see my art, they smile and they love it,” Chris said. “I like that my three kids are going to grow up seeing this.

It will always be there.”

At 69, William Dan is the eldest carver of the bunch.

His great grand uncle was Chief August Jack Khahtsahlano, whose anglicized surname became the namesake for Kitsilano.

Dan completed his fist carving, a 10-inch piece blending eagle and bear imagery, when he was 12.

“It was elation. I gave it my grandmother,” Dan recalled.

His contribution to the project will be the accompanying male figure that stands alongside the Sparrow siblings’ work at Britannia. Dan’s post will show a man with outstretched hands, gifting salmon to those around him.

“When the kids come by, I’ll put in an orca, a salmon, or whatever they want,” said.

“That way they can step back and say, ‘I did that.’”

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Vancouver Park Board names plaza in honour of Grace McCarthy Jessica Kerr

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The area surrounding Bloedel Conservatory at Queen Elizabeth Park will soon be known as Grace McCarthy Plaza in honour of the former park board commissioner who went on to become an icon of B.C. politics.

Park board commissioners voted Monday night to name the plaza in honour of McCarthy, who died in May 2017 at the age of 89.

Her daughter, Mary McCarthy Parsons, was on hand for the decision.

“I’m very, very pleased about this,” she told commissioners. “Our family is very pleased. My dad, Ray, who had his 95th birthday last week, is just delighted.”

McCarthy was first elected to Vancouver Park Board in 1960, serving as a commissioner until 1966. While on park board she served as the first female vice chair, helped secure open spaces for park development and led an effort to coordinate recreational activities for people with disabilities. She also campaigned to turn part of the abandoned Shaugh-

nessy Golf Course into a botanical garden, which is now known as VanDusen Botanical Garden.

“The legacies of Grace McCarthy can be seen across the city, and include the Stanley Park Christmas train and the lights on the Lion’s Gate Bridge,” park board staff said in a report. “In retirement, Ms. McCarthy started the CH.I.L.D. Foundation, which has raised millions in research funds for children suffering from Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis and liver disorders.”

After six years as a park board commissioner, McCarthy was elected MLA for Vancouver-Little Mountain in 1966 with the Social Credit party. She was reelected four times between 1969 and 1986.

“Her storied political career saw many substantial achievements, including becoming the first female Deputy Premier in Canada, and successfully lobbying the federal government to introduce a law allowing unmarried women to apply for mortgages without a male guarantor” the staff report states.

In June 2017, less than

Grace McCarthy, who served as a Vancouver park commissioner for six years before going on to become the long-time Socred MLA for Vancouver-Little Mountain, died in May 2017 at the age of 89.

a month after McCarthy’s death, park board commissioners voted to direct staff to work with her family to identify an outdoor space to recognize her contributions to the park board, the city and province.

This week, staff came back with a recommendation to name the plaza sur-

rounding Bloedel Conservatory, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary, Grace McCarthy Plaza.

“This high profile and much-loved plaza is located in the heart of the park and at the highest peak in the city, making it a popular viewpoint and destination for Vancouver citizens and

visitors alike,” the staff report states. “The location is strongly associated with Ms. McCarthy’s legacy as she was instrumental in seeing the Bloedel Conservatory built.”

Board chair Stuart Mackinnon said it is fitting to honour McCarthy’s legacy at Bloedel Conservatory.

“It’s not only the highest point in Vancouver, outside a botanical garden that Ms. McCarthy supported with all of her passion that she brought, but it also overlooks the constituency that Ms. McCarthy represented for so many years, and that’s, of course, Vancouver-Little Mountain.”

Staff will now develop signs and landscaping, in consultation with McCarthy’s family, with a plan to hold a public event to celebrate the commemoration later this year.

CRAB park motion deferred

Commissioners voted May 13 to defer a motion that would see the park board lobby Vancouver Fraser Port Authority to invest in upgrading CRAB Park and expanding waterfront park access in the city

to the next meeting to allow members of the community to speak to the board.

The motion brought forward by COPE commissioner John Irwin asks the port authority to work with the park board, City of Vancouver, Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations “on future planning processes and opportunities for the Centre Waterfront area, including CRAB Park” with a focus on exploring the feasibility of building a new healing centre or cultural centre, which was part of the original vision for the park when Crab Water for Life Society and the Aboriginal Front Door Society lobbied for its creation in the 1980s.

Eighteen people, including Coun. Jean Swanson, had requested to speak to the motion. Members of the public are only allowed to speak to items that are being considered at the committee meeting. Typically, motions from park board commissioners are discussed during the regular board meeting, which immediately follows the committee meeting.

The next park board meeting is May 27.

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For more than 25 years, Mike Bryden was an ad man. When people asked Bryden why he chose advertising as a career, the fine arts grad always said it was because it allowed him to act like a kid and get paid for it. Over the years, he was a graphic designer, an art director and a creative director. In 2010, Bryden co-founded the Gastown ad agency Dead Famous.

Life changed in 2013, when Bryden and his wife had a little girl named Lucy.

“When our daughter was born, I started looking at the world a little differently,” recalls Bryden, an East Van resident and former amateur musician.

“Playing songs for Lucy when she was a baby triggered a desire to put a focus on my music, which had been more of a side gig while I worked in visual arts and communications.”

In 2017, Bryden decided to go for it. He sold his shares in his advertising company and jumped into the world of children’s entertainment with both clown feet.

“I had a desire to create something that was meaningful and possibly longer lasting [than an ad campaign,]” Bryden says.

“It may sound cliché, but I wanted do something for our younger generation, to try and expand their minds a bit and, hopefully, make them smile.”

Bryden’s live show is multi-disciplinary: It’s part storytelling, part music and part drawing, sung at times in French and English.

Two-and-half years ago, Mike Bryden got out of the advertising business to try children’s entertainment on for size.

His songs, such as “Don’t Count Your Chickens,” “Doggy Day” and “When the Cat’s Away,” are all based on proverbs or common sayings.

The mix of music and drawing is a direct influence of Mr. Dressup, arguably Canada’s greatest children’s entertainer, who popped open the Tickle Trunk and our imagination at 10:30 a.m. weekdays on CBC TV for decades.

“Mr. Dressup was my absolute favourite performer, 100 per cent,” Bryden says.

“I used to wish that he was my father — no offence to my real dad — and I still love him and miss him.”

Mr. Dressup, a.k.a. Ernie Coombs, died in 2001.

Like Mr. Dressup, Bryden uses a large sketchbook to illustrate the characters in his songs before he starts to sing.

“I find it amazing how some kids gravitate to the music while others get lost in the illustrations,” he says.

And in our age of distraction, how does he keep kids focused?

“My philosophy on capturing attention is to provide as many ways as possible for children to connect with the craft and be engaged,” Bryden says. “I use stories, wordplay, music, visuals, a few props, physical movements and as many laughs as I can squeeze in.”

With his daughter Lucy currently in French Immersion kindergarten and afterschool care, Bryden has seen firsthand the skills it takes to engage children over short and long periods of time.

“Entertaining kids can be exhausting,” he says. “I have such a great respect for the professionals who work in childcare and primary education.”

Bryden is now two years into his mid-life career pivot. And even though he has to supplement his income with freelance graphic design work and home reno jobs, with the release of his

debut children’s album this spring, he has no regrets.

“I find children’s entertainment extremely rewarding. Kids are amazing to be around and they make the best audiences. They will never lie to you. You can tell right away if you’re losing them. I always have a setlist ready for each show, but I rarely play it in exactly the same order. You need to be ready to duck and dodge and turn things around quickly — to change the mood if things go off the rails. And things can go terribly wrong, very quickly, as any parent has witnessed.” @grantlawrence Bryden’s Sing Song Sayings album release party is on Sunday, June 23 at the Havana Theatre on Commercial Drive. There will be two shows: 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. (to fit in nap time). Tickets will be available through Havana or at mikebryden.com.

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Never do we see an empty salad container, piece of discarded vegetable or loose chia seed dirtying the car we’re in. It’s always remnants of stinky fast food, chip bags, sugary frappuccinos and energy drinks that look like an Ed Hardy T-shirt in liquid form.

So to recap: Car-sharing services are great. But a lot of the people who use them are abnormally short, messy, lazy and probably going die early deaths because of all the crap they put into their body and the likelihood they’ll be impaled by their steering wheel when they stop too quickly because they’ve spilt coffee all over their newly purchased clothes. @KudosKvetches

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Not Ian Hanomansing short, but verging on Ewok short.

Sure, we’re a little on the tall side (attractively so) but just about every time we get into a car, the driver’s seat is pulled so close to the steering wheel it’s as if a four-year-old with a booster seat booked the car before us.

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Vancouver filmmaker Karen Lam Actors of colour take their place in iconic film scenes in Sandra Oh, Inspiration

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They are some of the most iconic images in the history of film: Scarlett O’Hara, standing tall and dirty in the middle of a field, vowing to God that she will never go hungry again. Alex and his fellow droogs on a couch in the Korova Milk Bar, druglaced beverages in hand.

Carrie the blood-covered prom queen. Princess Leia, blaster in hand, peeking out from behind a corner and revealing herself to be the face of courage in a galaxy far, far away.

These moments and characters have become part of pop culture, and in every instance, the actors featured in these scenes were white.

But now, we can see what these iconic films look and feel like when people from marginalized communities are given the opportunity to inhabit them, and we have Sandra Oh to thank.

Oh is an icon herself.

The Canadian-born actress is known for roles in films such as Double Happiness and television series Grey’s Anatomy and Killing Eve. Earlier this year, she made history as the first actress of Asian descent to win multiple Golden Globes, the first person of Asian descent to host the ceremony and the first woman of Asian descent in 39 years to win the Globe for Best Actress in a Television Drama (for Killing Eve).

It was during Oh’s opening monologue that she uttered the words that set social media ablaze: “I said yes to the fear of being on this stage tonight because I wanted to be here to look out into this audience and witness this moment of change,” she said. “Because I see you, and I see you — all these faces of change. And now, so will everyone else.”

That moment, and Oh’s career leading up to it, inspired Vancouver filmmaker Karen Lam’s short film, the aptly titled Sandra Oh, Inspiration.

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The four-minute film was written and directed

by Lam and produced by the National Film Board of Canada. It features actors from traditionally marginalized communities — Simon Chin, Dejan Loyola, Elfina Luk, Jaymee Mak, Ingrid Nilson, Valerie Tian and Mayumi Yoshida — speaking about the influence that Oh’s work has had on their careers, and then inhabiting roles in live action tableaus inspired by A Clockwork Orange, Carrie, Gone With the Wind and Star Wars: A New Hope.

Sandra Oh, Inspiration had its world premiere on April 27 at the 2019 Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards Gala in Ottawa, where Oh received the National Arts Centre Award. Every winner was honoured with a tribute film, and while the other films (honouring esteemed Canadians such as Colm Feore and Rick Mercer) were fairly straightforward montage- and interviewdriven shorts, Lam said

that Oh told the NFB that she was open to something different.

“She told the NFB that I had free rein to make this film for her, and she saw it as a gift,” says Lam. “She took her power and made space for me to be able to do whatever I wanted to do.”

Sandra Oh, Inspiration represents something of a departure for Lam. The Vancouver filmmaker typically makes horror films, such as Evangeline, which opened the 2014 Vancouver International Women in Film Festival, and the upcoming The Curse of Willow Song, which will bring the real-life horror show that’s the Vancouver housing crisis into the horror genre.

“I haven’t actually worked with Sandra before, and because my films tend to be genre and horror, I thought it was a peculiar match, but the more I thought about it and did research on her and delved into her work and her interviews, it resonated,” says Lam.

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Karen Lam’s short film, Sandra Oh, Inspiration, puts actors of colour in iconic movie scenes including A Clockwork Orange, Carrie, Gone With the Wind and Star Wars: A New Hope.

“I think cultural identity and representation on screen hasn’t been a huge push in my own creative process until more recently when I realized that, if I didn’t say it, then who would — and for me, it’s, ‘How do I do this from a genre lens?’”

Lam drew inspiration from Oh’s Golden Globes speech. “When she said, ‘I see you,’ this is what we were playing with as the un-

derlying thread through the whole process,” says Lam. “The film was meant for her and everything she’s advocating for in the industry.”

Lam didn’t have the opportunity to speak with Oh that night in Ottawa, but the very next day, she received some feedback in what she describes as “the most Canadiana moment ever” — from Rick Mercer in the airport lounge.

“I went over to introduce myself and he said, ‘Sandra loved the film, she was cheering and crying at the end,’ and I thought to myself, ‘I just heard this from Rick Mercer, this is so weird!’”

Watch Sandra Oh, Inspiration online at nfb.ca/film/sandra-ohinspiration/.

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Shadows, Strings and Other Things: The Enchanting Theatre of Puppets

The Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at UBC presents a dramatic new exhibition that reveals our enduring fascination with storytelling. This enchanting exhibition illustrates the role puppets have played around the world in the transmission of cultural knowledge, stories and values from generation to generation and features more than 250 puppets, old and new, from 15 countries.

May 16 to Oct. 14 Museum of Anthropology, 6393 NW Marine Dr. moa.ubc.ca

13th Annual Spot Prawn Festival

To celebrate the short-lived span when this oceanic delicacy can be found in B.C.’s waters, the Spot Prawn Festival returns to Fisherman’s Wharf for a day of feasting and fun. Chefs will prepare chowder made with spot prawns fresh off the boat. You can also line up to get your own spot prawns to enjoy at home fresh off the boats at the dock.

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Over the last four seasons, the Canucks have been one of the worst teams in the NHL. Only two teams have fewer wins and points over those four seasons and one of them is the Vegas Golden Knights, who have only been in existence for two of those seasons.

Despite the Canucks’ struggles, however, the highest they’ve picked in the NHL Entry Draft is fifth overall.

In fact, the Canucks haven’t picked higher than fifth since 1999, when they drafted Daniel and Henrik Sedin.

The draft lottery hasn’t been kind to the Canucks. While they’ve never finished dead last in the league, which would give them the highest odds of picking first overall, they’ve still finished second and third last in the past four years. The draft lottery decides which teams will have the first three picks in the draft and the Canucks have never landed in one of those spots.

The NHL adjusted the odds of winning the draft lottery to deter tanking back in 2014, but it’s still surprising the Canucks haven’t had their number drawn at least once in the last four years.

In fact, the odds of the Canucks not finishing with one of the top three spots is 26.1 per cent: about one-in-four odds.

That means the Canucks have missed out on the likes of Connor McDavid, Jack Eichel, Auston Matthews and Patrik Laine. None of those players, however, are currently in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. In fact, the four teams in the Conference Finals haven’t really benefitted from winning the draft lottery at all.

Only one of those teams has picked in the top-three over the last eight years as a result of winning the draft lottery: the Carolina Hurricanes, who picked Andrei Svechnikov second overall in 2018. Svechnikov has been good for the Hurricanes, but he also just turned 19 and has missed half the playoffs with a concussion. At the

The Boston Bruins got arguably the best player in the 2014 draft, David Pastrnak, at 25th overall. PHOTO DARRYL DYCK/CANADIAN PRESS

very least, he’s not one of the primary drivers of their success.

Apart from Svechnikov, the Hurricanes haven’t won at the draft lottery.

They were in a similar boat to the Canucks a few years ago, picking fifth overall twice and seventh overall once from 2013 to 2015.

The Boston Bruins have picked in the top-10 twice in the last decade, taking Dougie Hamilton ninth overall in 2011 and Tyler Seguin second overall in 2010. Both Hamilton and Seguin have been traded since then and none of the players that came back in those trades are currently on the team.

The St. Louis Blues won the draft lottery back in 2006, taking Erik Johnson first overall, but he was traded to the Colorado Avalanche in 2011.

They did draft Alex Pietrangelo fourth overall in 2008, but haven’t picked above 14th overall since then.

Then there’s the San Jose Sharks, who haven’t picked higher than ninth overall since 2005.

The key for all four teams has been drafting well despite never winning the lottery. The Sharks added core players with their two ninth overall picks, Logan Couture and Timo Meier, and found Kevin Labanc in the sixth round. The Blues got star Vladimir Tarasenko in the middle of the first round along with

Jaden Schwartz, and got stud defenceman Colton Parayko in the third round.

The Bruins got arguably the best player in the 2014 draft, David Pastrnak, at 25th overall and nabbed Charlie McAvoy, their number one defenceman, in the middle of the first round.

They also drafted key defencemen Brandon Carlo in the second round and Danton Heinen in the fourth round.

Finally, the Hurricanes found firstline centre Sebastian Aho in the second round in 2015, top-pairing defenceman Jaccob Slavin in the fourth round in 2012, and breakout rookie Warren Foegele in the third round in 2014.

After watching teams win the Stanley Cup after rebuilding with first overall picks like Sidney Crosby, Patrick Kane and Alex Ovechkin, it’s refreshing to see four teams that constructed their teams without draft lottery luck on their side. It’s also a good sign for teams like the Canucks that have similarly struggled at the lottery: with some smart drafting and careful roster construction, the Canucks could follow in their footsteps.

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

Big Numbers • 13 Heading into Game 3 of the Conference Finals, Logan Couture led the playoffs in goals and points, with a whopping 13 goals in 16 games. He has to be considered one of the favourites for the Conn Smythe.

• 7 There have been plenty of upsets in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, but the Conference finalists aren’t too surprising to stat-heads. All four teams finished in the top-seven in expected goal percentage this season, one of the leading advanced statistics.

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Lorne was born in Winnipeg Manitoba on 22 October, 1948. He was the second of three boys born to Al and Sybil Smith; Greg, Lorne, and Howie.

As an “Air Force Brat” he attended many schools; St. Thomas, ON, Portage la Prairie, MB, Alliston, ON, Camp Borden, ON, Winnipeg, MB, and North Vancouver, BC in 1965. He graduated from high school in North Vancouver in 1967.

He worked in a Danish furniture store on 4th Avenue in Vancouver until the downturn of the 80’s. He worked maintenance at The 2400 Hotel on Kingsway. Lorne and April met in 1989, they moved to Westbank in 1992, where he worked at Weston Bakeries; they were married in 1996; they moved to Vermilion, Alberta in 2000 where he worked at the bakery in the Co-Op Grocery; and they returned to Vancouver in 2004, where Lorne worked for Quest Food Recovery. Lorne and April moved to Salmon Arm in 2017, where Lorne retired and enjoyed his soccer, his puzzles, his cat and his garden.

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