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SkyTrain from his Surrey home to downtown.

I joined each of them in their commutes and we talked about the price of gas, the environment and the general increase in everything in life and how it was all contributing to people changing their commuting habits.

That was in 2005 at $1.03 a litre.

On my commute to work last Friday, my local station was selling gas for $1.70.9 a litre. I drove past the pump because I got “lucky” last week and filled up my tank at $1.60 a litre.

That fill-up cost me $72. I drive a small four-cylinder car.

It used to cost me under $60 to fill it up. Life is not fair.

So what gives?

It was a question Linda, Ian and Wayne were asking in 2005 and one the Canadian Taxpayers Federation amplified last week in demanding some action from government.

The federation demanded the B.C. government cancel the carbon tax and reduce the Metro Vancou-

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Do you remember when gas cost $1.03 a litre?

I do, he said with a nostalgic sigh.

It was back in 2005.

I wrote a feature story back then about three people trying to spend less or no money on gas in their commutes from the ‘burbs to their jobs in Vancouver.

Linda Muir from Coquitlam got herself one of the first Smart cars available in town. She also had a West Coast Express train pass.

Ian Torgerson, also from Coquitlam, chose to cycle into work and take the West Coast Express on the return trip home.

Wayne Bowes, after he wrote off his Chevy Corsica in a car accident, became a full-time transit user, taking a combination of bus and

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ver TransLink tax to 10 cents per litre.

The federation also wants the federal government to axe the federal excise tax and eliminate “the unfair tax-on-tax.”

Such changes would save Metro Vancouver drivers about 27 cents per litre, the federation estimated.

The reality is such action is not going to happen anytime soon, even though the B.C. minister responsible for jobs, trade and tech-

nology acknowledges the unprecedented gas prices.

“It’s undeniable, drivers are getting gouged at the pump,” said Bruce Ralston in an emailed statement to the Courier.

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“The other 39 cent increase is going to oil and gas companies, who have been getting away with it without having to answer to British Columbians,” the minister said.

Ralston went on to quote Dr. Werner Antweiler of the UBC Sauder School of Business, who has rejected proposals to cut taxes “because it wouldn’t reduce prices for consumers but would be a giant subsidy to the oil industry.”

Added Ralston: “Additionally, it would result in massive cuts to transit investments, which is the exact wrong direction. Our government will continue working hard to make life more affordable while investing in people and the services they depend on.”

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That charge is in connection with an unmarked police vehicle colliding Jan. 6 with a pedestrian in the area of Knight Street and 20th Avenue.

The collision occurred at about 9:30 p.m.

The pedestrian was taken to hospital with serious but not life-threatening injuries.

The IIO sent the file to Crown in November 2018 to consider charges.

Meanwhile, an amendment to the Police Act that aims to eliminate “unnecessary reviews” of IIO cases by Crown passed third reading May 15 and is awaiting Royal Assent.

The change will raise the IIO’s referral standard to Crown, “bringing it in line with the standard used by police in B.C. and clarifying that only cases with a reasonable likelihood of charge approval will be referred to Crown,” according to an April 29 news release from the Ministry of Attorney General.

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A Vancouver police constable has been charged with dangerous driving causing bodily harm in connection with a collision last May that injured a female cyclist.

The B.C. Prosecution Service announced Tuesday that it approved a charge against Luke Bokenfohr, who was on duty May 18, 2018 and operating a police vehicle.

“The charge was approved by an experienced Crown Counsel with no prior or current connection with the officer,” said a news release from the prosecution service.

Bokenfohr’s first appearance in Vancouver Provincial Court is scheduled for June 4.

The collision occurred at approximately 10 p.m. at the intersection of West 46th Avenue and Oak Street. Paramedics transported the cyclist to hospital with what was

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The Independent Investigations Office (IIO) received notification May 1, 2019 from the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner of B.C. that “further information received indicated the injury constituted serious harm,” according to a news release issued May 9 by the IIO. The IIO is an independent agency tasked with investigating all policeinvolved incidents in B.C. where a person suffers serious harm or is killed.

Neither the IIO nor the prosecution service would say whether the police vehicle was marked or emergency lights activated. No detail was provided on the cyclist’s injuries, or age given.

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The legal battle over the park board’s 2017 bylaw banning cetaceans continues with Vancouver Aquarium filing a lawsuit against the park board and City of Vancouver last week claiming breach of contract and millions in financial losses.

The lawsuit, filed in B.C. Supreme Court May 14, almost two years to the day since the ban was imposed, outlines several claims, including a 13 per cent decline in attendance in 2017 and 2018.

Based on 2016 admission rates, the suit claims, the decline equals a loss of nearly $4 million in revenues each year.

According to court documents, since 1955 the aquarium in Stanley Park has operated under a series of licence agreements. The latest agreement has been in place since 1999, but was amended in 2009 and 2011 to allow for a planned $100-million expansion project, which included renovating and expanding the cetacean area.

Ocean Wise Conservation Association (parent organization of Vancouver Aquarium) claims the keeping and display of cetaceans at the aquarium is allowed under the agreement and by enacting the cetacean ban in 2017 the park board interfered with the permitted uses of the agreement and with the aquarium’s “ability to carry out the day-to-day administration of the Marine Science Centre without interference from the park board.”

Under the amended agreement, the aquarium pays two licence fees — a fixed annual fee of $150,000, which increases by $25,000 every five years, and a monthly fee based on a percentage of food and beverage sales. Prior to the 2009 amendment, the aquarium paid a single fixed annual fee of $40,000.

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The lawsuit states, since 2012 the total annual fee paid by the aquarium has exceeded $1.5 million.

“Despite changes to its permitted uses under the licence agreement, the Vancouver Aquarium has continued to pay combined annual licence fees to the park board and city in excess of $290,000.”

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The first phase of the $100-million project, which included $2.75 million spent on improving facilities and system for cetaceans, was completed in 2014. The second phase, which included the expansion of cetacean habitats, was scheduled to begin in the fall of 2017.

Park board commissioners voted 6-1 on May 15, 2017 to ban the importation of new cetaceans to city parks and prohibit performances.

Ocean Wise claims that as a result of the cetacean ban that spring, the aquarium had to write off $2.2 million in design and consulting costs in planning for a “Canada’s Arctic” habitat for cetaceans; lost a $7.5-million private donation that had been previously committed in support of the new exhibit; and, incurred additional costs to alter the plans for the

second phase of the expansion and repurpose existing facilities to be used by other aquatic animals.

The lawsuit claims the City of Vancouver had “actual or reasonable knowledge” of the park board’s impending bylaw and failed to take steps to prevent its enactment.

“As a result of the bylaw amendment, together with the city’s acquiescence or failure to prevent the wrongful interference, the Vancouver Aquarium has suffered and continues to suffer loss and damage…”

Ocean Wise is seeking an unspecified amount in damages. None of the claims have been proven in court and the city and park board have not yet filed a response.

“The park board is reviewing the claim with legal counsel and considering its options going forward,” the board said in an email to the Courier. “The park board will have no further comment while this matter is before the courts.”

Ocean Wise issued a similar statement when contacted by the Courier.

“As this matter is currently before the B.C. Supreme Court, Ocean Wise is not in a position to provide additional details on this proceeding at this time.”

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Recognizing street smarts Ben Mussett

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Joy Phelps feels like she’s blossomed.

The Ontario native credits her recent transformation to the Street Degree in Overdose Prevention program — a first-of-its-kind peertraining course that places a unique emphasis on the lived experience of current and former drug users.

“I feel like I’ve gotten another chance to do something I’m good at, which is taking care of people,” said Phelps, who began working at the Molson Overdose Prevention Site, near Main and Hastings, about six months ago.

The Street Degree program, a joint venture between the Portland Hotel Society (PHS) and Vancouver Coastal Health, combines traditional harm reduction training with the street smarts of people like Phelps, who have personally survived the overdose crisis and saved the lives of many of their peers along the way — all without any prior medical training.

“We wanted to support [current and former drug users] with training in a differ-

ent way,” said Jonathan Orr, manager of PHS Overdose Prevention Sites. He cofounded the Street Degree program alongside Sally Kupp, a clinical educator at Vancouver Coastal Health.

“Instead of top-down training where we come and teach them, we wanted to flip it around and have them design the courses, teach the courses, select what topics they wanted to be taught and really put that peer model forward,” Orr said.

Since the program’s launch in 2017, more than 300 peers from 19 different organizations have participated in Street Degree courses. Phelps is one of 14 to have graduated with a Street Degree certificate after completing at least 10 of the 22 available courses.

Embracing the peer support model, the founders of Street Degree wanted to abandon the stigma that prevails in more institutionalized harm reduction settings.

“We needed to learn from them, and show them that we were learning from them, to value their knowledge and say, ‘We’re standing alongside you,’” said Orr. “That

knowledge is powerful and important and equal to the knowledge that you would get from a paramedic.”

Street Degree courses feature everything from conflict de-escalation to confidencebuilding exercises such as motivational speaking — a personal favourite of Phelps.

Kupp and Orr hope Street Degree graduates will find it easier to secure employment and other opportunities going forward now that their knowledge and experience is formally recognized with a certificate.

But Phelps doesn’t appear to be going anywhere soon.

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I love what I do,” she said about her job at Molson, one of two overdose prevention sites run by PHS. When asked what her plans are for the future, Phelps flashed her engagement ring.

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On the same day new provincial data showed most drug-related deaths occur in private residences, local health agencies announced a research project that works toward combatting that very phenomenon.

On May 15, Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) and the B.C. Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) announced a pilot project that provides take-home testing kits to people who use drugs.

The kits determine whether drugs are contaminated with fentanyl or a fentanylanalogue, which produces a similar response to fentanyl.

Ideally, the kits encourage users with drugs that test positive to take more caution and not use alone.

Drug testing is already administered by trained technicians at Coastal Health sites in Vancouver, but researchers want to see whether users can successfully test for drugs on their own.

“We see signals that people do want this information, that they do change their behaviour… when they have that information,” said Dr. Mark Lysyshyn, a medical health officer at VCH. “We believe [the drug-testing kits] will prevent overdoses.”

According to the new B.C. Coroners’ Service report, fentanyl or its analogues were a factor in approximately 85 per cent of all overdose deaths in the province in the

first quarter of 2019. The latest provincial statistics also a revealed that nearly nine out i t of 10 drug-related deaths in the first three months of t this year occurred indoors, C mostly in private residences. a Lysyshyn believes the major- l ity of those deaths happened i because users were alone andr could not be revived with naloxone. No deaths were c recorded at any supervised- s consumption or overdose- i prevention sites, according to s i the coroners’ report.

Each take-home kit con- p tains five free drug-testing s strips. To test for fentanyl- v contamination, people mix s a small amount of the drug s in a few drops of water and t then insert the strip, which c should indicate whether fentanyl or an analogue is u t present within seconds, similar to a home pregnancyf test. The kits can be picked 9 t up at Insite, the Molson Overdose Prevention Site, — the Overdose Prevention i Society and the St. Paul’s v Hospital overdose preven- o L tion site, as well as seven different locations throughout the southern interior of l s the province.

While Lysyshyn believes s the kits could save lives, he s acknowledged the druga testing strips have significant t limitations. They only test p for fentanyl or fentanyl-ana- d logues, not other dangerous a substances that show up in i Vancouver-area opioids, sucht as benzo analogues which t can knock out users for hours at a time. They also don’t a indicate how much fentanyl t may be present in the drug. d M o d a p s fi m r

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home drug-testing kits Nor are the test-strips always successful in detecting traces of carfentanil, a tranquillizer typically used to sedate large animals.

Carfentanil has experienced a recent resurgence in the local opioid market, according to last week’s coroners’ report.

“It does cross-react with carfentanil, but it’s less sensitive to carfentanil than it is to fentanyl,” Lysyshyn said. “The other problem is because carfentanil is so potent, when it’s present in street drugs it’s present in a very low amount. So, we are seeing situations where the strip will be negative, but then later we’ll find out that carfentanil was present.”

Since most regular opioid users already expect what they’re buying to contain fentanyl — Lysyshyn said 90 per cent of all opioids they checked tested positive — the take-home drug-testing strips might prove most valuable to people who use other drugs, according to Lysyshyn.

“We see much lower levels of contamination in some other drug types like stimulants or ecstasy,” he said. “So, the strips may actually be more useful in those situations where the person is not expecting, not desiring to take an opioid — and it could be devastating if they took fentanyl because they’re not tolerant and they’re not prepared.”

The new coroners’ report also details what many on the frontlines of the overdose crisis have long known.

Men are dying much more often than women in overdoses where fentanyl or an analogue was nearly always present.

There was one bright spot among the report’s findings. In the first three months of this year, drugrelated deaths in British

Columbia were down about 32 per cent from the same time last year.

Between January and the end of March, 268 British Columbians died from fatal overdoses. In 2018, that number was 395.

However, Leslie McBain, co-founder of Moms Stop the Harm, a Canada-wide network of parents who have lost their children to drug-related deaths and advocate for stronger government action on the overdose crisis, said she’s not necessarily encouraged by the latest figures.

“Statistically, it looks significant, but let’s wait three more months and see what happens,” said McBain, who lost her only child, Jordan, to an opioid overdose in 2014. “I’m just thinking it might be a blip.”

Rather than take-home drug-testing kits or the recent decline in overdose deaths, what brings McBain the most hope is the federal government’s decision this week to expand injectable opioid-replacement treatment and add diacetylmorphine (heroin) to its List of Drugs for an Urgent Public Health Need, two moves that bring the government closer to a policy of safe supply.

Both McBain and Lysyhyn agree safe supply is the only solution to the overdose crisis, while Lysyshyn said measures such as drug-testing strips are mere “Band-Aids.”

“Everybody in the know knows that that is the bottom line. That is the only way we’re going to stop the overdose crisis,” McBain said. “Everything else we do, whether it’s test strips, safe consumption sites, naloxone — nothing is going to stop it until we have safe supply. Period.” @benjaminmussett

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Rollout of public inquiry politically advantageous to NDP Mike Klassen

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Four years ago this week, in my first effort as a regular Vancouver Courier columnist, I explained why neither provincial nor municipal politicians would dare intervene in the real estate market in order to drive down home prices.

Too much tax revenue was at stake, I argued, not to mention it would be politically risky. When home equity begins to wither away, property owners are quick to blame their elected officials.

May 2015 marked the mid-point of the B.C. Liberal mandate under Christy Clark’s leadership, and Mayor Gregor Robertson’s Vision party had just been re-elected to their third majority term in Vancouver.

Both governments boasted about how strong the economy was performing,

which was driven in part by a red-hot real estate market.

The irrationality of the real estate market during that period, with its doubledigit spikes in annual property assessments, ultimately led each government to implement policies meant to cool things off.

It would be more than a year before Vancouver’s empty home tax and B.C.’s foreign buyers’ tax were put in place.

The beauty of these policies is that they targeted groups the public perceived were at the root of housing unaffordability — property speculators and foreigners (read: immigrants from mainland China). The resulting policies were popular as a result, even if the politicians who brought them forward were not.

Robertson and Clark were ultimately both frustrated in their attempts to tame the real estate dragon, and have since left politics.

Now it is Premier John Horgan and Mayor Kennedy Stewart who are hoping not to get burned. The former has announced a public inquiry into money launder-

Don’t expect a public inquiry to end money laundering or make housing more affordable, says columnist Mike Klassen.

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ing with an unlimited budget and a two-year timeline to conduct business.

How public support for the inquiry got drummed up was too cute by half. Legislative reporter Rob Shaw lauded the NDP’s strategy in his Postmedia podcast.

“Commissioning Peter German to do not one but two reports,” explained Shaw, “tying it into the drug

overdose [issue], tying it into the real estate market [and] luxury vehicles… crafting those on a timeline that lands you halfway through the mandate, and then getting your union contacts, the BCGEU, to whip up public support for an inquiry.

Acquiesce to the inquiry as if you really didn’t want it but the people want it, and hit that two-year timeline to

bring it in right before the next election.”

“If you started with a blank piece of paper at the beginning of the NDP mandate and crafted a way to do this, it would be exactly like what we’ve got,” the reporter added.

Indeed, the B.C. Government Employees’ Union has been pumping its #PublicInquiryNow campaign since last January, and also commissioned a poll on the issue.

Coincidentally, it was at that time when newly elected OneCity councillor Christine Boyle announced her intention to ask council to support a public inquiry modeled after Charbonneau Commission. Kennedy Stewart convinced Boyle to remove any references to Charbonneau in her motion, citing the fact that the Quebec inquiry focused heavily on corruption in local government.

Stewart clearly did not want to put the City of Vancouver in the crosshairs of a public inquiry.

As a side note, it is interesting that Boyle’s council run was endorsed by her friend Attorney General

David Eby, the province’s point man on tackling “dirty money” that allegedly gets washed through B.C. real estate and casinos.

While the B.C. NDP is hoping that many from the B.C. Liberal opposition bench are caught in the dragnet of a public inquiry, it could lead to some awkward moments for the current government.

In 2003, prior to taking office, Horgan, along with business partner John Heaney, through their government relations firm, successfully lobbied Vancouver city council to allow slot machines at the Plaza of Nations casino.

The public inquiry will undoubtedly shed light on countless overlapping connections like these to gambling and real estate, on all sides of the political spectrum.

Here are my safe bets for the inquiry — it will become a media circus, and a lot of lawyers will get fat off of that lack of a spending cap set by the province.

Regrettably, what it will not end is money laundering in B.C., or make housing here more affordable. @MikeKlassen

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The undated photo, possibly taken in the 1970s, is blurry, but the two-storey building featured in it will likely be familiar to many longtime Vancouverites thanks to its vibrant blue colour and exterior decorated with distinctive white columns.

The building, located prominently on the southwest corner of East Hastings and Clark Drive, was later repainted a sandstone colour, which, with the columns, was designed to evoke the Parthenon.

Both colour schemes made sense as it was home to the Greek Village — a restaurant run by the Cavadas family between 1960 and 1985, although their association with the property dates back many more decades.

But the building may soon be demolished, along with a few others to the west of it. Developer Onni Group has filed a rezoning application. If approved, it would produce a threebuilding, 207-unit condo and social housing project designed by Yamamoto Architecture on five lots between 1220 and 1298 East Hastings.

While the building at 1298 East Hastings has more recently been home to Brave Bull’s House of Steaks and, briefly, Yolks, news of the proposed redevelopment sparked a flood of memories for Linda Shirley (née Cavadas) since her family’s association with the property was the longest — almost 60 years.

Linda’s recollections tell a sliver of Vancouver’s history and offer a glimpse into the life of an immigrant family and its descendants who helped build this city.

“During its ‘Greek Village Restaurant’ days (in the ’60s and ’70s) it was THE place for seamen off the boats to come and dance the night away... and it was a favourite hangout for wellknown newspaper people like James Barber and Denny Boyd. My mom baked all of the Greek pastries (even though she wasn’t Greek... she was a farm girl of Ukrainian heritage) and people coveted her recipes... which she wouldn’t give away! Famous Greek performers ate there, too, including Nana Mouskouri and Theodorakis,” she told the Courier in an email.

Recently, Linda, who

Left: Constantine (Gus) and Effie Cavadas. Right: A photo of the Cavadas family in front of the Greek Village taken in the early 1980s.

Back row, left to right: Angela, Linda, and Linda’s husband Michael. Front row, left to right: Linda’s older daughter Joanna, her dad John Cavadas, her younger daughter, Adena, and her mother, Pauline. More photos at vancourier.com. PHOTOS COURTESY OF LINDA SHIRLEY

turned 70 on May 14, and her younger sister, Angela Cavadas, stopped by the site where they reflected on its history with their family.

Neither were surprised by the redevelopment plans.

“They’re going to knock it down whether I like it or not, right?” Linda told the Courier.

“To me, it’s sad, just in general, that so many historical buildings are being torn down and replaced.

But I did notice on the [development] sign that they are planning to put some social housing in there — that’s a really good thing.

Life changes, what can you do? Things change so you have to accept that.”

Linda was, nonetheless, nostalgic.

“I mentioned it to my girls who are 45 and 41. It was like their second home when they were growing up, so they were quite sentimental about it,” she said, while surveying the building from across the street. “I find it a bit emotional... It actually hasn’t changed that much at all on the outside. Those pillars are the pillars my dad put up [during a renovation]… I believe that’s the original awning, too, that they just painted over top. None of the top has changed — all the apartments are still the same.”

Angela, meanwhile, expects to be “a bit sad” when it’s knocked down.

“I kind of resigned myself to it a long time ago. I was expecting it to happen sooner, actually. When I saw them sprucing up the building a bit, I thought maybe they’re going to lease it out again for a little while but, yeah, it’s mixed feelings — you kind of have to resign yourself to [redevelopment]

and yet I do feel a little bit emotional about it.”

Tracing history

The original building permit for the site was issued to Mrs. Effie Cavadas — Linda and Angela’s grandmother — on Dec. 5, 1927.

W. James is noted as the builder, while the value is listed at $5,500.

Effie and her husband Constantine (better known as Gus) Cavadas had immigrated to Vancouver around 1910. They originally ran a shop on Commercial Drive before buying the East Hastings property where they erected a building.

The couple initially operated Roseland Sweets/Confectionary out of it before switching their business to Conn’s Café — named after Constantine — sometime in the 1930s. In 1960, their son John Cavadas, and his friend Bob Gillespie, turned it into the Greek Village. It was Vancouver’s first Greek restaurant, according to Linda.

The family sold the property in 1985 for about $200,000 when John became ill. He died of cancer in 1988.

Linda and Frank Lum then ran Brave Bull’s House of Steaks out of the building until 2012 when they sold the site to a developer. Yolks operated in it for a short time before relocating in 2017.

B.C. Assessment valued the property at $4.4 million on its 2019 assessment roll.

Despite the passing of more than 90 years, the building’s form is much the same as it was when it was first constructed — square-shaped except for a corner cut diagonally

where the current entrance is located. A fire insurance map from January 1930 illustrates that fact.

Today, the columns on the outside of the building remain but the exterior has been painted a grey tone, the restaurant space vacant.

Making memories

Linda’s memories of the building were forged at a young age.

In the early 1950s, she lived in its second-floor apartments with her parents, John and Pauline, and sister Angela, before they moved to veterans’ housing in Renfrew Heights when she was about four or five.

Her grandparents also lived in the apartments while running their business. (They stayed in the residences for the remainder of their lives, Gus until the mid to late 1960s and Effie until the early 1970s.)

When she was older, Linda, now CEO and head of School at the Arts Connection and Renaissance Kids Early Learning Centres, worked with her father at the Greek Village on weekends and during summer breaks, while her sister, now a concert violinist, helped support the business during its final years.

For both women, it represents both happy and challenging times — running a restaurant is tough work and the business struggled at the end.

But the fond memories are vivid for Linda.

She recalls the restaurant being divided into two areas — the dining room and another big room where customers, many of whom were Greek seamen, danced.

“They would dance

all the Greek dances and they’d throw dishes at the walls — and glasses,” she said. “My dad used to buy glasses by the case because every night they’d [break] dozens and dozens of them.

You’d go in at the end of the night with a big push broom and sweep them all up. It became a home away from home for a lot of the seamen because they would come here and they couldn’t speak English.”

Despite having been born in Canada, her father John spoke fluent Greek, which proved useful to seaman wanting to contact their families back home.

John also helped many get their citizenship and gave them work, some of them boarding upstairs after Effie and Gus died.

“My dad would have lineups of young seamen at the counter, at the bar, asking him to make their phone connections for them through the operator because they couldn’t speak English to do it. He would help them make those connections,” Linda said. “When I got a bit older, I would help him with some of his office work, and I used to cashier here during the summer. I remember the pages and pages-long phone bills because of all these longdistance phone calls that he would make for them.”

While Angela doesn’t recall living in the building because she was too young, she remembers spending a lot of time at the restaurant.

Both sisters recall the days the PNE parade used to travel along Hastings Street, passing by the Greek Village. The family would set up tables on the sidewalk to sell food to spectators.

But the building is also

associated with other wellknown members of their extended family.

Prior to World War II, the apartments above the business served as rehearsal space for the Musical Calangis Family — John’s first cousins.

George Calangis, a conductor, mandolinist and banjo player, who was born in Vancouver in 1916, played music with his five sisters — Geneva, Angelina, Mary, Helen, and Ethel — at a young age. They performed in the U.S. and on CBC radio. After the war, George led the Commodore Ballroom orchestra until the mid-1950s, while three of his sisters remained active in music, teaching and playing for the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, including Angelina who married wellknown musician John Avison.

“They used to rehearse up here,” Linda said, pointing to the building’s second floor. “The streetcars used to come because it was a big interchange, so people used to gather on the street down below and listen to them rehearsing upstairs in the apartments.”

During her recent visit to the site, as cars and trucks sped through the intersection, Linda said the area became much more industrialized in the years before her family sold the property.

The changes in the neighbourhood helped spell the end of the Greek Village. During its latter years, many restaurants opened in Kitsilano, West Fourth and Broadway, drawing customers away. The recession also hit in the 1980s, while fewer ships came into port because of strikes at the dock, which further affected business.

“My dad probably should have let it go a few years earlier but he hung on to it for sentimental value. He was struggling and it made it very difficult, and then, of course, he got quite sick with cancer.”

Those difficult days are a distant memory now and Linda described her visit to the property last week as a “very sentimental day.”

When she parked in the back lot, she noticed the door to the old kitchen was open, so she peeked in.

“It’s been all revamped, but what came flashing back to me, visually and mentally, was a picture of my grandfather when he was in his early 80s, sitting in a chair in the kitchen with a bucket in front of him, peeling potatoes,” she said.

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“You… don’t drink wine?” He stopped short of adding, “So then why the hell are you at this dinner?”

I was beginning to think the same thing.

The first course arrived as the wine guy was in the middle of a loquacious spiel about the pairing — something about the airy scent of the rosé reminding us of the lost summers of our youth.

The description went on for so long that the food server clearly didn’t want to bust in to tell us about the first course, but everyone could see it was a single oyster on the half-shell balanced on a small garnish heaping of what I assumed was couscous. My wife thought the garnish was either a bed of finely minced radish or possibly something called rémoulade.

Oysters really aren’t my thing either, but I was determined to go with the flow as much as possible for my wife’s sake.

I quickly popped the raw oyster into my mouth and then scooped up the entire

garnish to mask the taste.

Within seconds my lips, tongue and throat felt like they were on fire. I winced in discomfort, then gagged and coughed. I leaned over and loudly spat onto the plate what I hadn’t swallowed.

I looked up, teary eyed, as a table full of strangers came into focus. They were staring at me with various expressions of disgust and bemusement. My wife immediately checked to see if I was choking on the oyster.

“Salt!” I rasped. “I ate… a pile… of salt!”

Yes, it turns out that the garnish heap was neither couscous, radish or rémoulade, but rather a mound of raw, coarse and colourfully speckled sea salt.

Thoroughly embarrassed and horking violently, I excused myself to the washroom where I repeatedly tried to wash my mouth out to little relief.

Eventually, I returned to a table full of inquisitive eyes.

I leaned over to the wine guy and whispered hoarsely, “I ate the pile of salt that was under the oyster.”

He once again turned to look at me incredulously.

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a Vancouver communal dining experience He took a moment to possibly stifle a laugh, and asked, “Do you… go out?”

I gritted my saltencrusted teeth. I then turned to my wife and said under my breath, “Let’s get the hell out of here.”

“We’ve pre-paid $200 for this,” my wife whispered back. “It’s our anniversary!”

“Who serves something on a plate that is inedible, with no warning? Let’s go.”

My wife heard what the

wine guy had said to me.

She thought about it for a few moments while I continued to hack and spit into my serviette.

“OK,” she said. “Let’s go.”

As we got up to leave, the wine guy popped up from his seat.

“Where are you two going?” he asked urgently.

“We’re leaving,” I replied.

“What? For real?” He grabbed me by my shoulder.

I spun around and sum-

moned the toughest glare I could from my punk rock past.

“Get your hand off me.”

The owner rushed over as a brouhaha began to unfold in front of his dining room. He shuffled all of us outside onto the sidewalk.

I fumed and hacked a few doors down while the wine guy pleaded his case and my wife explained things to the owner, who apologized and kindly promised a refund.

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My wife and I managed to salvage our anniversary dinner by sliding into a popular restaurant a block away, table for two. My throat was still burning and I was desperate for a beer.

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Arts & Entertainment Park board puts moratorium on hosting new commercial events

It will likely be a few years before Vancouver could see any new largescale events coming to one of the city’s parks.

Vancouver Park Board voted last week to put a moratorium on introducing any new commercial initiatives until after the board has updated, and approved, its special events guidelines. Any existing events, and new events that

are considered charitable or non-profit, will be allowed to continue. However, the park board will not consider any applications for new commercial events until after the guidelines, which were last updated and approved in 2003, are revamped.

That means if events such as last year’s Skookum music festival and the Vancouver Mural Fest concert in Jonathan Rogers Park, Diner en Blanc and the annual Lululemon SeaWheeze half marathon

were proposed this year, the board would not entertain the application until after the guidelines are updated.

Octavio Silva, manager of business development, estimated updating the guidelines will take about 12 to 15 months to complete.

Paul Runnals, an owner of BrandLive, the event production company behind last year’s Skookum Festival in Stanley Park, among other events, spoke at the May 13 meeting and urged commissioners to continue to allow

new commercial events while updating the guidelines.

“We support the need for an updated and balanced strategy towards the hosting of public and private events, which is respectful of the rich and historical importance of certain sites to the local First Nations, while still making space available for free and community events,” he said.

“However, this strategy must also facilitate private events that support the meeting and convention sector, as well as commercial events that bring

in significant cultural, economic, tourism and employment benefits to the city, to local businesses and to local residents.”

The park board issues approximately 1,300 event permits a year. Most of them, roughly 94 per cent, are recurring events that happen on an annual basis.

The remaining six per cent are new initiatives and of those, 12 per cent were new commercial events last year — Skookum, the mural fest concert and Bacio Rosso

Gourmet Cabaret Cirque in Queen Elizabeth Park.

Commercial events, with 15 taking place in parks in 2018, make up about one per cent of the total number of events that take place in parks annually. However, that one per cent brings in 44 per cent of the park board’s revenue generated from hosting events — $238,500 last year.

The motion passed in a 5-2 vote with NPA commissioners John Coupar and Tricia Barker in opposition.

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TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM: kathy.cermeno@vancouver.ca or 604-873-7770 6. 708-796 Renfrew Street To rezone 708-796 Renfrew Street from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of two five-storey residential buildings with 73 rental units. A height of 16.3 metres (53.5 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 2.07 are proposed.

7. 4575 Granville Street To rezone 4575 Granville Street from RS-5 (One-Family Dwelling) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District, to permit the development of a 3 1/2-storey townhouse development containing a total of 21 secured market rental housing units. A height of 12.6 metres (41 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 1.33 are proposed.

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Said the Whale pay it forward with high school tour John Kurucz

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Tyler Bancroft is in a good place.

He’s a Juno winner, a dad and the owner of a No. 1 record in Canada.

Perhaps most impressive of all is that, at 34, the lifelong Vancouverite can still afford to live here.

“I’m a walking, talking example of someone who is raising a family within 10 minutes from downtown, and I make all of my income from music,” Bancroft said. “Yes, I am struggling, but I’m happy and I feel successful. I think it’s important to showcase that for young people.”

Showcase he will and then some.

Earlier this month, Bancroft and his bandmates in Said the Whale embarked on a 12-gig tour of schools across Metro Vancouver — two in Vancouver proper — for free.

Each school will get upwards of $1,000 from each show, plus any money raised from corporate sponsors and crowdfunding. All that money will go back into each school’s music program.

The month-long venture will likely end up seeing the band pay out of pocket, though the trio has no intention of recouping any costs.

In a marketplace where it takes thousands of streams to even make a buck, Said the Whale’s month of May seems like madness.

“In Vancouver, you really aren’t surrounded by any sort of success stories of artists making it,” Bancroft said. “You’re surrounded by real estate agents, doctors and people bitching about housing prices. I think it’s important to show people what’s possible.”

Said the Whale embarked on a similar tour eight years ago and raised about $3,000 for schools in Vancouver, Surrey and North Van through a partnership with the charity MusicCounts.

They’re going it alone this time out, but the intention is the same — to show teenagers that a future in the arts is possible.

“I’m a f***ing terrible guitar player and it shows,” Bancroft said.

“But music was a huge part of my life growing up.”

Ironically, Bancroft

wasn’t a band kid in high school. He and bandmate Ben Worcester, both Eric Hamber grads, were into musical theatre.

With no formal training in place, at least in the school setting, Bancroft opted for the DIY punk route instead. Though he doesn’t remember why they were there, Bancroft recalls a random visit to his high school from the pop punk outfit Gob as the transformative experience that set in motion the charitable route his band is taking today.

“There was a huge crowd of people around them. I didn’t get to meet them, but that was really, really exciting for me,” Bancroft said.

The philanthropic efforts of the three-piece, which is rounded out by keyboardist Jaycelyn Brown, will continue for the rest of the year and into 2020.

A soon-to-be-launched contest will net a highschool aged band an opening slot at Said the Whale’s gig at Malkin Bowl in September. The top-20 finalists will all be included on a compilation CD, while the final five will get a day-long mentorship session with the band.

A kiosk will be set up at the Sept. 6 show to get those young bands exposure.

“I applied for my first FACTOR grant when I was 13. I was denied,” Bancroft said. “When I was in high school, I had to apply to the Business Development Bank of Canada for a $3,000 loan to make a CD. I would have f***ing killed to have a contest like this.”

Bancroft’s band will bookend 2019 by launching a biannual grant program that will see $5,000 given to young bands each year through 2024.

The intake process begins after Said the Whale’s performance at Malkin Bowl and the money will be doled out in November, and then again next spring.

“We have an obligation to support our community and to do some good,” Bancroft said.

For more information, go to gofundme.com/ support-young-artists-inbc-with-said-the-whale. @JohnKurucz

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NHL’s officiating problems in the playoffs don’t end at big blown calls There are deep rooted issues with the way NHL games are refereed

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When all goes well for the NHL, the referees and the calls they make recede into the background. This is particularly true in the playoffs, when the adage, “Let the players play” comes into full effect. In the playoffs, the NHL rulebook, like the pirate’s code in Pirates of the Caribbean, is more what you’d call “guidelines” than actual rules.

Unfortunately for the NHL, the officiating in the playoffs has taken centre stage thanks to a series of controversial calls. Somehow, a couple of the biggest botched calls have benefitted one team: the San Jose Sharks.

The Sharks won their first-round series against the Vegas Golden Knights partly because of a five-minute major called on what should have been, at most, a twominute minor. The Sharks, down by three goals in Game 7, scored four goals on the five-minute power play.

In Game 3 against the St. Louis Blues in the Western Conference Final, the Sharks scored the overtime winner off a missed hand pass. There’s no denying the refs blew the call, and the NHL didn’t even try to deny it.

“That was the wrong call,” said NHL executive VP Colin Campbell. “It’s should’ve been a whistle if the referee had seen it live... It’s so unfair that the game ended that way. The wrong way.”

Those are two egregious calls that significantly affected the results of key playoff games. You can blame some combination of incompetence, the speed of the game and natural human error for these mistakes, but that will do little to assuage the anger of aggrieved fans.

Purposeful decisions made by referees (and their bosses in the NHL front office) to “let the players play” and to manage games instead of just calling the rules as written is cause for concern.

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These big mistakes, however, are not the biggest problem. Mistakes are unavoidable, to a certain extent. No amount of video review will entirely remove human error and endless reviews cause more problems. For example, look to another controversial call that benefitted the Sharks: the Avalanche had a goal in Game 7 of their second-round series overturned because of a video review that spotted Gabriel Landeskog a millimetre offside as he attempted to open the gate at his bench for a line change. He wasn’t involved in the play and had no effect on the goal, but the endeavour to remove human error instead removed a piece of human excellence.

The bigger issue is the intentional, purposeful decisions made by referees (and

their bosses in the NHL front office) to “let the players play” and to manage games instead of just calling the rules as written. Letting the players play doesn’t actually let the players play. Instead, it only leads to more clutching, grabbing, hooking, and holding that goes uncalled, limiting the ability of the league’s best players to play their best.

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Similarly, the hand pass that led to the Sharks game-winning goal in Game 3 against the Blues only happened because Timo Meier was blatantly tripped by Jay Bouwmeester a moment earlier. That obvious trip was about to go uncalled and it was the only reason Meier was on the ice with the puck by his hand in the first place. If he wasn’t tripped, Meier could have stepped around Bouwmeester and passed the puck legally with his stick instead.

Hockey fans have become inured to these types of missed calls, but they’re far more frequent than the big blown calls that cause so much controversy, and the result is a slower, less entertaining and more dangerous game. Too often, referees are more concerned with keeping things even than making the right calls.

In the regular season, teams that drew the most penalties also got called for the most penalties, while the teams that drew fewer got called for fewer. There’s a very clear correlation between the two, when there’s no reason there should be. Why don’t faster, more talented teams draw more penalties than they take? It’s “game management,” where refs feel compelled to keep things “fair” and “even” by balancing out penalties between two teams instead of just calling the penalties as they occur.

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