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Metro Vancouver politicians approve themselves more pay to cover tax loss Mike Howell

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You probably missed it, but on May 24 your local elected officials agreed to top up the money they earn while sitting as directors on the Metro Vancouver board.

They’re going to spread $130,000 to $150,000 across 40 directors.

Which is hardly worth writing about, right?

Fact is I’m more interested in the “why” than the amount of cash.

So here I go…

The politicians will argue, as board chairperson Sav Dhaliwal did in a telephone conversation, that it’s not a pay increase, but a few bucks to make up for what they stand to lose under a new rule imposed by Canada Revenue Agency.

The financial hit, he noted, is up to 15 per cent.

“If the new legislation wouldn’t have come in, it would have been OK,” said Dhaliwal, a longtime Burnaby city councillor, who is also vice-chairperson of Metro’s finance committee.

“I’m sure the public

knows what it means when people’s salaries or incomes are reduced by 15 per cent.

So this just merely makes up for that 15 per cent.”

Asked how that topup would sit with, for example, an employee at Starbucks who gets a 15 per cent pay cut — or any cut, for that matter — but cannot vote herself a topup, Dhaliwal replied: “I can see people make those arguments, but I don’t think they have the full background on the 15 per cent and how that makes a difference to [an elected official’s] take-home pay. This is a little bit different than us coming back saying we want to give ourselves a raise.”

Dhaliwal, by the way, earns $79,333 as chairperson of the Metro board. That’s in addition to his salary as a Burnaby councillor, which is more than $60,000 per year.

Linda Buchanan earns $39,666 per year as Metro’s vice-chairperson. Buchanan is the mayor of the City of North Vancouver, where her salary is $107,185 per year.

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chairperson earns $397 a month.

• Metro board and committee members get $397 to attend a meeting that lasts up to four hours.

• That $397 climbs to $794 for a meeting that goes more than four hours.

• Daily remuneration is capped at $794.

Now back to this 15 per cent loss…

A Metro staff report that went before the board May 24 explained that $130,000 to $150,000 is required to offset the federal govern-

ment’s elimination of the longstanding one-third tax exemption allowance for civic and provincial politicians.

Effective Jan. 1 of this year, all compensation is now taxed as full income.

The federal government justified the change saying the tax exemption, which was introduced under the Federal Income Tax Act in 1946, provides an advantage that other Canadians don’t enjoy.

An independent panel contracted by the Metro board concluded that “a one-time adjustment for the year 2019 was fair and reasonable given the reduction in compensation for this year due to [Canada Revenue Agency] changes to taxable income.”

The panel didn’t supply a breakdown of what each director will receive.

Dhaliwal said each amount will be determined by number of meetings attended by directors and what each politician’s role is at Metro, whether it be the board’s chairperson, a board committee chairperson or the Electoral Area A director.

But the “one-time adjustment” is said to be just that, with Metro’s chief administrative officer Carol Mason explaining that all municipalities will have adjusted their politicians’ salaries by next year to offset the CRA’s cutback.

The compensation at Metro is meant to reflect the pay in the region.

The topic of a pay increase for directors ignited controversy in March 2018 when the previous board approved a one-time 15 per cent increase to salary remuneration and meeting attendance fees.

The board also approved a retirement allowance based on the concern that directors don’t get pension or retirement funds.

A month after that decision, and facing a public backlash and criticism from some directors, the board voted to rescind the increases and instead agreed that an independent panel examine compensation for directors.

The panel said the current model and formula to establish compensation for the board chairperson, vice-

chairperson, board directors and committee chairs/members should not change.

But it was the panel’s conclusions that led to the board’s approval of the “onetime adjustment” to cover the 15 per cent loss. The board also doubled the Electoral A director’s salary from $11,503 to $24,000 per year.

The question of a retirement allowance remains and the panel successfully recommended that it be answered by the Union of B.C. municipalities. Until then, expect some politicians’ arguments about how they’re underpaid to continue.

Dhaliwal: “Local elected officials do not get compensated fairly.”

Not, he added, when you total up the hours worked, the responsibilities of the job, the policies introduced and — for some — giving up or pausing a more lucrative career to become a politician.

For the record, a Vancouver city councillor pulls in about $90,000 per year, not including money earned for acting or deputy mayor duties, or attending Metro meetings.

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News ‘Dirty Money’ author suggests city create anti-money laundering committee City of Richmond passed series of recommendations in February aimed at preventing money laundering Mike Howell

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The author of two reports that detailed the extent of money laundering in B.C. suggested to Vancouver council May 28 the city consider creating an anti-money laundering committee to review its financial operations.

Dr. Peter German, a retired RCMP deputy commissioner, made the suggestion in response to questions from councillors on what more the city could do to combat money laundering.

“I suspect it’s probably of some value to the city to look at all of your financial operations and the different aspects of it — whether it is taxation, whether it is real estate — and to assess whether or not you’ve got appropriate anti-money laundering controls in

place,” said German, standing at a lectern in the council chamber.

It was German’s first presentation to a city hall in B.C. since the provincial government released his “Dirty Money” reports and announced last week a public inquiry will be held into money laundering in B.C. German emphasized to council he was stating his opinion on what action Vancouver could take to combat money laundering, and not speaking on behalf of the provincial government.

“I don’t think it would hurt to look at some form of an anti-laundering committee to look at the various aspects of your enterprise and say, ‘OK, have we got it covered off?’’’ he said.

“Your auditors or your accountants can do that to a certain extent. The police can do it. But it’s probably worth looking at some form of anti-money laundering committee or working group to take a look at the issue.”

Mayor Kennedy Stewart wouldn’t say whether he supports such a committee, pointing out Police Chief Adam Palmer was expected

Dr. Peter German, the author of the “Dirty Money” reports, spoke to Vancouver city council Tuesday about money laundering.

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to deliver a report on money laundering at next month’s Vancouver Police Board meeting.

“Perhaps it’s better housed within the VPD, but I think we can have a discussion on that in the coming weeks to see how best we manage the administration of going forward with the [public] inquiry,” Stewart told reporters after German’s visit to city hall.

German’s first report in 2018 described a history of money laundering and criminal activity in Lower Mainland casinos. His follow-up report, released earlier this month, revealed thousands of properties worth billions as “high risk” for potential money laundering, tax evasion, or both.

The report looked at the link to money laundering in real estate, luxury cars

and horse racing. German concluded there was no agency or police force with adequate oversight or resources to investigate these suspicious activities.

He made it clear to councillors that he was commissioned by the provincial government to produce the reports, and that the terms of reference for his work did not include reviewing municipal halls.

“I did not — nor did I really have time — to get into the municipal level,” he said, noting however that a tip line produced leads related to building, construction and permits. “It wasn’t directly in my mandate, so we didn’t go there.”

Added German: “I do think it’s probably somewhat virgin territory looking at this at a municipal level.”

German pointed out the City of Richmond passed a series of recommendations in February aimed at preventing money laundering in its city.

One of the actions was to include criminal record checks and other regulations for operators of money exchange businesses.

Richmond also called for

legislative reforms that will “create transparency around beneficial ownership of corporations and land” and to have the B.C. Lottery Corporation place limits on casino purchases.

Requesting Canadian banks be required to ensure the name of the remitter be identified on all bank drafts was another request, which came after Richmond city staff and the Richmond RCMP prepared a report on money laundering for that municipality’s council.

In January, the City of Vancouver announced it would no longer accept cash payments of more than $10,000 from people paying bills in an effort to prevent or deter potential money laundering.

The city received 19 cash payments last year exceeding $10,000.

The city didn’t say what the payments were related to, although the city collected $13 million in cash last year for services such as parking permits, bylaw fines, business licences, municipal taxes and taxes collected on behalf of other authorities. @Howellings

Vancouver Art Gallery suddenly parts ways with executive director Kathleen Bartels Bartels had been leading a fund raising campaign for a new gallery Glen Korstrom

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The Vancouver Art Gallery is about to embark on a new era, given the sudden and unexpected departure of Kathleen Bartels, the gallery’s

executive director for the past 18 years.

The gallery said in a statement May 28 that associate director Daina Augaitis will be the gallery’s interim director, and that an executive search for a new permanent ex-

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Bartels, the gallery said, “is leaving to pursue other professional and personal interests.”

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News Former Liberal Jody Wilson-Raybould will run as an independent Ben Mussett

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Calling for a less partisan approach to politics, Jody Wilson-Raybould announced she will be running as an independent candidate in the October 2019 federal election.

The former attorney general and first-ever Indigenous cabinet minister made the announcement May 27 at the newly opened Marpole Neighbourhood House in the south end of her Vancouver-Granville riding.

“In this reality, there is less room for overt partisanship in our evolving democracy,” she said. “Rising to these challenges requires Ottawa to operate more openly and transparently in the spirit of non-partisanship with increased cooperation.”

At the same time WilsonRaybould announced her independent run, former Liberal health minister Jane Philpott announced she would also run as an independent this fall in her Ontario riding of Markham-Stouffville.

Disappointed by the Liberal government’s handling of the SNC-Lavalin affair, the two MPs resigned their cabinet posts earlier this year. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ultimately kicked both women out of the Liberal caucus, forcing Wilson-Raybould and Philpott to sit as two of only six members of parlia-

ment without party status.

Trudeau cited broken trust as the reason for the expulsion of two ministers once seen as central figures in his government.

“As an independent, I will be truly free to take the guidance of the citizens of Vancouver-Granville and to represent you,” WilsonRaybould told an audience of supporters, family members and media. “I will not have to try to convince myself that just because this is how it has always been done means it has to continue to be done that way.”

Touching on some of the issues she emphasized in an interview with the Courier last week, Wilson-Raybould suggested she was disappointed with some of the Trudeau government’s record.

“Many important initiatives were advanced both locally and nationally, but I wonder what more could have been accomplished on the big issues of our time if it was a less partisan environment,” she said.

“Climate change is the issue of our generation, and we need to move the conversation forward and develop a plan that is non-partisan, multi-generational. One that will survive the life of any government,” Wilson-Raybould later added to exuberant applause from her supporters.

She also spoke of a need for more action on democratic reform and Indig-

enous reconciliation — two areas, along with an urgent approach to climate change, where Wilson-Raybould said her and Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party, hold similar views.

Since Wilson-Raybould’s expulsion from the Liberal Party, several political observers predicted she would run with the Greens in October, particularly after she attended May’s wedding in April. Following WilsonRaybould’s announcement, May said she had even asked the Vancouver-area MP if she was interested in becoming the leader of the Greens. May said she wasn’t.

But, at her announcement, Wilson-Raybould said she saw her “friend and colleague, Elizabeth May, and the Green Party of Canada as natural and necessary allies.” This desire for non-partisan collaboration extends to all MPs, WilsonRaybould said.

“To be independent does not mean you’re alone working as one. On the contrary, it means you are committed to working with everyone,” she said.

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The ability to adapt is often considered a valuable attribute in a person, but it’s also a useful quality for a building if it’s to survive through the generations.

This year’s Vancouver Heritage Foundation Heritage House Tour pays homage to that idea, with “adaptable heritage” as one of its themes.

“Quite a number of the [homes on the tour] have had either historical adaptations to different uses or have, more recently, been adapted or updated in some way to meet current needs,” explained VHF executive director Judith Mosley.

In some cases, it’s been through division into suites to create more housing or through the addition of basement suites.

“Adaptability is something that is important for older buildings as they go through their life cycle.

It’s often something that happens to them along the way as a way of keeping them relevant,” Mosley said. “Certainly, houses in Vancouver have shown to be very adaptable while still retaining character and that connection to the history of the place. Some sites have been adapted better than others, and in more sympathetic ways than others, but it’s something we talk about on the heritage conserva-

tion side of things — keeping a building in use. Finding a compatible use for it is a really important way for it to have a future.”

The 2019 self-guided tour, which runs June 2, includes the West End’s Weeks House. The 1890s heritage home, located in Barclay Heritage Square, was saved from demolition in the 1990s with several other homes thanks to community efforts.

Mosley calls the homes’ preservation a “very significant success story” for conservation.

“Weeks House, particularly, found new use for a charity — it’s the home of Vancouver Friends for Life Society, and the house format lends itself really well to their programs and to that use,” she said.

Another stop in the West End is a former duplex from the 1930s with three suites.

Two of its units were later converted into a bed and breakfast and early venue for same-sex marriages, before the property was converted back to single-family use.

Granville Montessori school on Granville Street, located where York House school was originally founded, is also part of the tour. Mosley said it began as a large family house that was adapted to a school use, after which it went through a few other iterations before being transformed into the Montessori pre-school.

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celebrates adaptation “The spaces have been adapted and, obviously, the building has been updated but the house format works really well,” she said.

Tour participants can also visit a home where the family chose to add a second floor to what was a modest character bungalow to create the space they needed rather than demolishing it.

“It’s a really clever adaptation that’s retained interior character on the main floor and something that could be a good model for other houses,” explained Mosley, while adding another homeowner whose house is on the tour introduced energy retrofits to improve the home’s efficiency, as well as other updates using a “fairly light touch.” The property retained a lot of character while reducing its carbon footprint quite substantially.

One of the more highprofile stops will be Crofton House where at the heart of the school is what’s called the “old residence.”

The Kerrisdale property started out as a substantial estate and house. The school moved to the site from the West End in the 1940s. The “old residence” served as a boarding house and housed the dining room at one point.

As the school campus grew, needs changed and they no longer have boarders.

The building was recently updated and the spaces were adapted for adminis-

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“But they’ve kept some of the historic spaces and character of the house,” Mosley said.

Key spaces, including the dining room, will be open for viewing on the tour.

Mosley maintains many old buildings are adaptable.

Some of the information that will be shared with tour participants will be around how to plan effectively for changes to happen to a heritage building without destroying its heritage value and character.

“That’s a really important part of the process from our point of view in the heritage field. We really encourage people to think about what is special and important about a particular house or place and how can that still be retained if updates and changes are going to be made,” she said.

The 17th annual selfguided tour, which features 10 historic homes from the 1890s to the 1950s, also includes the Downs Residence and Hirschfeld House. The mid-century modern Downs Residence was designed by architect Barry Downs for his family in 1959. The 1910 Hirschfeld House is a largely original Arts and Crafts-style home.

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Opinion Threat of strike looms as B.C. teachers and province appear far apart on big issues Class size and composition remain stumbling blocks as sides try to hammer out a deal Tracy Sherlock

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It could be a rocky summer between teachers and the province, as they try to hammer out a deal — the first since the teachers won back the right to bargain on class size and composition in 2017.

The employer’s first proposal wipes out their Supreme Court win and could mean the layoff of hundreds of teachers in Metro Vancouver, BCTF president Glen Hansman says.

But the B.C. Public School Employers’ Association (BCPSEA) responded by saying the teachers’ opening proposal is unrealistic, unworkable and very expensive.

The rules governing class size, the number of special needs students in any given class and the number of specialist teachers such as librarians or counsellors were removed by the former

B.C. Liberal government in 2002. Teachers fought to the nation’s highest court, which restored the deleted provisions in November 2016 after a 14-year court battle.

Since the ruling, B.C. has hired 3,700 new teachers to implement the new rules, boosting its education budget $580 million to $6.6 billion.

The province has 60 school districts, each with different rules. Vancouver’s are among the most robust, meaning classes are smaller, there are more specialist teachers and fewer students with special needs in each class. Forty districts have some class composition language, while the remaining 20 have none at all.

Hansman said the employer’s proposal calls for bigger classes in most districts, fewer provisions for special needs students than are in place now in many districts including Vancouver, and no guaranteed numbers of specific specialist teachers like librarians or counsellors.

Teachers are “freaking out,” Hansman said.

“It is jaw-droppingly shocking that the NDP would be bargaining like it’s 2014,” Hansman said.

In 2014, schools closed for a six-week strike when teachers and the province failed to come to a contract agreement.

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But Alan Chell, chair of the BCPSEA board of directors and an elected school trustee in Revelstoke, said one district modelled the BCTF’s proposal and the number of teachers required would be “staggering.”

The teachers’ class composition proposal would see special needs students weighted higher than other students when calculating class sizes, Chell said, calling the idea “completely unrealistic.”

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“We believe that classrooms are complex and they need to be addressed, but we believe the best way to do that is collegially in the school, based on student need,” Chell said. “One of the premises of public education is that it’s equitable around the province.”

Chell said the restored language dates back to the 1990s and needs to be modernized.

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ling, based on the employer’s class size data, and found that hundreds of teachers would be laid off in some Metro districts, Hansman said.

Districts with smaller class sizes and more specialist teachers — such as Vancouver, Surrey, Burnaby, Richmond, Victoria, Sooke, Saanich, Nanaimo and Langley — would be the hardest hit, Hansman said.

Those districts are also home to most of the BCTF membership, he said.

Teachers are asking for the government-mandated two per cent wage increase in each of the next three years, Hansman said.

However, they are also asking to shorten the salary grid to increase wages for new teachers and to add a new level at the top for long-term teachers. Chell said the grid adjustment is equivalent to another seven per cent increase and that teachers have also asked for a four per cent labour market adjustment.

But Hansman said even with those increases, it would only bring B.C. teachers close to the average teacher’s wage across Canada.

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Janet Fraser, chair of the Vancouver School Board, said VSB is in ongoing contact with BCPSEA as bargaining continues.

“My hope is that there is a negotiated agreement with no interruption to student learning,” Fraser said.

Both Chell and Hansman said the same. Bargaining will continue to June 30 and could proceed throughout summer.

After 14 years in court, teachers aren’t going to give up what they won back. At the same time, it’s true things are not equitable across the province.

Teachers want everyone to level up, meeting at the top, while the employer wants those in districts with strong language to concede so that districts without any provisions will gain.

For the sake of everyone — students, parents, teachers, taxpayers — let’s hope common ground is found before school starts again in the fall, not like 2014 when schools were closed for a sixweek strike. Like the 14-year court battle, that’s a situation nobody wants to revisit.

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Shucks to be Grant Lawrence’s wife, say readers Re: “Rubbing salt into the wound of a Vancouver communal dining experience,” May 23.

If Grant Lawrence was asked to explain this dining incident to a child, he might be asked some of the following questions: Why didn’t you ask about what was on the plate before you sampled it? If you already know you don’t like oysters, why not offer them to someone else? Why did you get mad and run away?

To Grant the adult, why didn’t you do a bit of research beforehand such as check out the menu? Maybe ask the restaurant in advance for alternative beverage pairings?

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To Grant the A&E writer, why didn’t you engage the “wine guy” in more conversation about his line of work rather than fence yourself off as a diehard beer drinker (apologies to other beer drinkers)? Just because a server doesn’t take up more time to explain what is on your plate doesn’t mean you can’t ask.

And last question, how will you make this up to your wife????

L. Shalagan, Vancouver ••• So your beer-only columnist attends a celebratory anniversary dinner, with wine pairings and is traumatized by his encounter with a shucked oyster. He indignantly leaves the event and seeks our sympathy in your pages. My condolences to his wife.

Clearly this is a Burger King guy who drifted way out of his comfort zone.

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As soon as I heard about Dr. Ardra Cole and her efforts to keep seniors and their beloved dogs together for as long as possible through her non-profit organization ElderDog, I knew I had to write about her.

It’s one of those stories that restores your faith in humanity when on some days, especially after reading the news, it feels like we’re all doomed. So I was delighted to meet someone putting their efforts into simply making seniors — and senior dogs — happy. Of course what Cole does isn’t simple, which is why ElderDog

is looking to fill several volunteer positions across Greater Vancouver.

Something that makes me happy is summer in Vancouver, which is why stories in this issue of Lifetime include a list of farmers markets and suggestions of where to dine along the SkyTrain system.

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There was a time when summers seemed to last a lifetime but, as I get older, the more quickly they pass each year. My plans for summer 2019 are to get outside as much as I can, pat a few senior dogs and spend as much time with our grandkids as possible.

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ElderDog Canada is a non-profit organization that works to keep seniors and their dogs together for as long as possible SANDRA THOMAS | STHOMAS@VANCOURIER.COM

Keeping seniors and their canine companions together for a long as possible is the mandate of a non-profit group looking for volunteers across Metro Vancouver.

Dr. Ardra Cole, founder and chair of ElderDog Canada, says the extra assistance provided by volunteers allows seniors to keep their dogs at home for as long as possible. To that end, volunteers can help seniors with walks, picking up dog food or transporting their pet to the vet or groomer.

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“We help seniors keep their dogs at home, but it’s labour intensive and we need help,” says Cole. “ElderDog is 100 per cent volunteer driven and there are no fees.”

Volunteer groups are divided by location and are referred to as “pawds.” Other services provided by ElderDog include

ThereÕs a lot of grief and loss when a senior loses a dog temporary foster care — should a senior end up in the hospital, adoption of older dogs if their owner moves to a care home or passes away, and bereavement support.

Cole notes at this time the bereavement support is informal and supplied by volunteers who work in counselling, but she hopes ElderDog will eventually offer more formal services.

“There’s lots of grief and loss when a senior loses a dog,” says Cole, who notes since August she knows of 40 older dogs that have died. “But

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ElderDog offers a community of support.”

The inspiration for ElderDog Canada came as the result of the extensive work Cole and her research partner, Dr. Maura McIntyre, completed as they travelled across Canada talking to family members caring for loved ones with Alzheimer’s disease. Their findings showed the significant role the family dog and other pets play in the caregiving experience.

Another pivotal event that contributed to the creation of ElderDog was the sudden death of Cole’s older brother, after which she adopted his dog, Mister Brown, an aging chocolate Labrador retriever — and her brother’s constant companion. Mister Brown, traumatized by his owner’s death, was also living with an inoperable, crippling, cancerous growth on one of his legs and eventually died of the disease, but not before enjoying his new life in the country.

Due to living with a disability, Henley is home during the day and she also has a supportive partner who helps out with walking canine companions, so volunteering was a natural choice. Pairing elder dogs with seniors is also part of her volunteer duties with ElderDog.

spaniel after the owner moved out of the country and the dog was deemed too old to travel. That dog was placed with another senior.

Cole notes that’s exactly why she launched ElderDog Canada in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, in 2012.

“You get to know the seniors and you get to know their dogs,” says Henley. “Seniors — and senior dogs — can be set in their ways so I need to know they’re a good fit.”

“Sometimes the relationship between a senior and their dog is the only relationship they have,” says Cole. “And we want to help make that last as long as possible.”

So far, Henley has helped re-home a 12-year-old cocker

Cole notes other older dogs are typically not as lucky and are often abandoned.

Considered unadoptable, ill and aging animals often have doubtful futures. Cole says her family’s care of Mister Brown was as rewarding for them as it was enlivening for the tired old dog. Today Mister Brown is the poster boy for the organization.

Jacqueline Henley is one of the few volunteers ElderDog has in Metro Vancouver. Henley says as soon as she heard about the program, she signed up and hopes others will too.

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Are you an older adult looking for a fun, informative and, most importantly, FREE daylong event, that includes talks related to aging, demonstrations and exhibits?

The Vancouver Courier, Providence Health Care and St. Paul’s Foundation have once again partnered to produce the annual Lifetime Seniors Talks + Tables event,

which this year takes place Wednesday, June 5, at VanDusen Botanical Garden. The talks take place in the BMO Great Hall in the visitor’s centre and the exhibits will be found in the Floral Hall.

A highlight of this informative day is Dialogue on Aging — a public presentation series with informative speakers, including:

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11:15 A.M. Music for Healthy Aging: Research and Experiences Susan Summers, PhD, MTA Music Therapy Faculty, Capilano University 1:00 P.M. The Brain Health and Wellness Project Paul Blackburn, MD, FRCPC Clinical Instructor, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia; Cambie Older Adult Mental Health Team, Vancouver Coastal Health

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Lifetime Seniors Talks + Tables runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and is FREE — you can visit the information tables and displays from 10 a.m. to 2:15 p.m.

There will be a table with greeters set up at both the visitor centre, which is home to the BMO Theatre, and above by the parking lot outside the Floral Hall.

Dress accordingly. (Fingers crossed the sun will shine.)

No pets allowed, with the exception of service animals.

Bring a snack: Truffles café in the visitor centre sells food and drinks, but it can be busy at peak times.

Also under the topic of “planning ahead,” choose which talk you most want to hear and get there early to ensure you have a seat.

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Commitment, passion, energy, flexibility, creativity and, above all, reliability — these are just some of the qualities that make up a truly great volunteer.

To that end, the Vancouver Courier’s special seniors’ publication Lifetime is launching its fourth annual Senior Volunteer of the Year Award. The award was created to recognize seniors who exemplify those qualities and use them to help others, whether that’s teaching a class, working a cash register at a thrift store, cooking, knitting, helping out at a community centre, well, you name it.

To nominate a senior, find the form at vancourier.com Lifetime is looking for someone who regularly volunteers, is at least 55 years old, and lives and volunteers in the city of Vancouver. Anyone nominated who does not live and volunteer in Vancouver will not qualify to be included.

The winner will be chosen by a diverse panel made

up of Courier staff and volunteers. The top prize has not yet been finalized, but will be worth approximately $500.

So, if you know a special person who willingly gives their time to enrich the lives of others, fill in the nomination form and submit it alongside a supporting letter with details about why the person you’re nominating deserves to win by email to either sthomas@ vancourier.com or mlaventure@vancourier.com, drop by the Courier’s office or mail to Lifetime, 303 West 5th Ave., Vancouver B.C., V5Y 1J6.

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“Cool.”

That was the verdict of our five-year-old granddaughter as the new live action attraction BOOM! at the Britannia Mine Museum came to an end during a media sneak peek May 12.

BOOM! opens June 1 at Britannia Mine Museum But it wasn’t just the kids who were impressed with BOOM!, which uses light, animation and sound to bring the 20-storey, historic Mill building back to life.

Adults, and kids of all ages, were mesmerized as they sat through the 12-minute,

multi-sensory, acoustic adventure, which transports visitors back in time to the 1920s when the mine was booming as the largest copper producer in the British Commonwealth.

The museum is located in Britannia Beach, just south of Squamish along the Sea-toSky Highway.

BOOM!, which opens June 1, is narrated by a young man dressed in miners’ overalls. He spoke to us from a small video screen and described — in easy-tofollow detail — the history of the mine, how the massive machinery in front of us worked to extract copper from the surrounding rock and how the light shining from the mine’s hundreds of windows became a beacon, not only to the community built up around it, which

eventually reached 60,000, but also to sailors out at sea.

THE OLD MACHINE SHOP AT BRITANNIA MINE HAS LOTS OF ORIGINAL PIECES OF MACHINERY ON DISPLAY, INCLUDING SOME WITH WORKING PARTS. PHOTO: SANDRA THOMAS

As our “tour guide” talked us through the workings of the mine, an ancient rail cart, which used to carry rock, came to life. Sparks flew above us as if from a welder’s torch and booming sounds mimicked what once was.

landmark on the highway between Vancouver and Squamish and Whistler.

Following the experience, we were able to explore the vintage white Mill building that looms over the mine and, for many, acts as a

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mineralized rock. It led to the opening of Britannia, one of the largest copper mines in the world at its peak.

The mine opened in 1904 and by 1916 was capable of producing 2,000 tons of ore a day. Over the decades, the mine and surrounding community, which for years was only accessible by boat, thrived and eventually included a bowling alley, tennis courts, a roller skating rink, library and pool hall to keep the isolated residents entertained. Facing increasing operating costs and a faltering economy, the mine closed in 1974.

deserted buildings, that now house displays and attractions, including the Beaty-Lundin Visitor Centre, the main exhibition hall. It showcases theatrical mining displays, a mineral gallery, theatre space, an interactive play area and the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame. But one of the biggest hits with the kids was the old machine shop where they were delighted to discover some of the pieces

The Britannia Mine Museum opened in 2010

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of machinery still have moving parts.

We were also able to clamber aboard a rusted yellow train, which took us deep inside a mining tunnel and we learned about the drills and machines the miners used between 1904 and 1974. The kids really enjoyed this dimly lit part of the tour. It also included some loud sounds of machinery. Much of the revitalization of the mine was completed, and museum opened, in 2010.

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Chelsea Park retirement home provides its residents with an above and beyond home-like atmosphere. By combining the comforts of home with support services

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manager of 9 years at Chelsea Park, said it is all about the personal experience.

Onsite amenities, including the hair dressing salon, multipurpose activity room, and health and wellness centre, offer a variety of quiet and comfortable spaces beyond their own suite. With every organized activity, there is an opportunity for serenity and socialization. Monthly bus excursions take seniors to local hot spots like VanDusen

Botanical Gardens and the Steveston pier for fish and chips.

Home cooked meals, homemade nourishing soups, fresh salads and fresh fruit are offered twice a day, along with weekly housekeeping and linen laundry service.

Though, it is not the convenient amenities, the social activities, or the family-style meals that make Chelsea Park home to its seniors. Karen Dupont, the

“Everyone – the housekeeping staff, the volunteers, and the residents, really care about each other,” Karen added.

“When you are in a warm, intimate environment with people who care about one another, you take in the full experience we have here at Chelsea Park.”

A part of the non-profit organization known as (the) New Chelsea Society, the retirement residence located off Commercial Drive is both Canadian owned and operated. Its staff is driven by the goal to provide safe,

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VANCOUVER Downtown Farmers Market Queen Elizabeth Theatre Plaza — Georgia & Hamilton streets Thursdays from 3 to 7 p.m., June 6 to Oct. 3

GRANVILLE ISLAND FARMERS MARKET The Chain & Forge — Granville Island Thursdays from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., June 6 to Sept. 26

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Christine, a care aide who worked in a psychiatric facility, suffered post-traumatic stress disorder after being sexually assaulted by a patient.

She was later subjected to two psychiatric evaluations as part of a difficult process to secure the supports she needed from WorkSafeBC. “The hoops I had to jump through to prove that my trauma was caused by a workplace incident was almost as traumatizing as the incident itself,” Christine said.

Christine, who did not provide her last name, was one of two care aides to speak at a press conference

at Burnaby’s New Vista Society care home on May 21. The event highlighted two changes — presumptive compensation approvals and successorship protection — to the province’s labour relations code.

of those three days caused this PTSD that I live with now, that would have been a blessing,” Christine said, referring to the day of her attack and the subsequent two days when she continued to work in the same facility.

As of April, care aides such as Christine no longer have to prove a mental health injury was caused on the job.

Publicly funded health-care professionals, along with first responders, 911 dispatchers and nurses, are now presumed to have incurred PTSD or other mental health disorders in the job.

Jennifer Whiteside, secretarybusiness manager of the Hospital Employees’ Union, which represents B.C.’s care aides, praised the move. She said the vast majority of care aides in B.C. report being struck, scratched or spat on at the job.

“I can honestly say, if I didn’t have to prove that the trauma

and in our community,” Whiteside said.

Whiteside also praised a proposed change to B.C.’s labour laws that would protect workers’ subject to so-called “contract flipping” — when an employer changes contracts with a contractor providing services.

Care aides are especially vulnerable to contract flipping, Labour Minister Harry Bains said.

It’s common for care aides to be left without jobs when their employer changes contracts, he said. The employees then have to apply for their jobs again and, Bains said, even if they are rehired, it’s often at a loss of union representation, seniority and pay.

Under proposed labour code changes that are up for a final vote in the legislature next week, new contractors would be required to respect existing unions and collective agreements in workplaces.

“Care aides put themselves at risk every day on the job in our long-term care system and in our hospitals

Jhove Satumera, a care aide who works at a facility on the North Shore, said she was been subjected to several contract flips.

“For the last 16 years, we were always afraid that contract flipping was around the corner, that everyone would be laid off and we would have to start all over — again and again,” she said. “I was worried I wouldn’t see the seniors I care for again. Like every care aide I know, I love my job and I love the seniors we care for.”

When a contract was flipped, Satumera said she was rehired, but as a non-unionized worker and making half her previous wages. The care aides had to re-unionize every time, she said.

“Each one was distressful and scary,” she said.

RAJ CHOUHAN (CENTRE LEFT) AND HARRY BAINS (CENTRE RIGHT) TOUTED THEIR GOVERNMENTÕS LABOUR CODE CHANGES AT A PRESS CONFERENCE IN BURNABY. PHOTO: KELVIN GAWLEY

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Here’s how much riders will pay come Canada Day LINDSAY WILLIAM-ROSS | CONTRIBUTING WRITER

While we’ll be busy celebrating Canada Day July 1, TransLink will also be rolling out their annual fare increases.

As of July 1, TransLink fares will increase by five to 10 cents for single-use fares, bringing a one-zone adult fare up to $3, a two-zone adult fare to $4.25 and a three-zone adult fare to $5.75 per ride.

Similarly, the concession fare rate will also go up five cents a ride at all the zone levels.

For Compass Card users, the “stored value” rate will increase by 10 cents at each zone and rate level. A DayPass will be $10.50 for an adult in all zones, while the concession rate goes up to $8.25 — that’s a 25-cent increase.

TRANSIT USERS WILL PAY MORE PER RIDE AS OF JULY 1.

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Lastly, monthly passes will also cost more — $2 to $3 per month overall. Adult onezone goes from $95 to $98, two-zone from $128 to $131

As of July 1, TransLink fares will increase by five to 10 cents... and the three-zone from $174 to $177. The concession rate for a monthly pass (all zones) will jump from $54 to $56.

All told, TransLink monthly pass users will be forking out $24 to $36 more each for the next year.

“These modest increases are helping to fund the biggest transportation expansion in the region’s history,” TransLink said of its annual fare changes in a news release.

As part of its 10-year vision phase two plan, TransLink will continue to raise fares annually and riders can

expect increases of 10 to 15 cents a single fare and 50 cents to $1 on monthly passes (in addition to any increases approved as part of phase one) in both 2020 and 2021.

To this end, TransLink is also increasing revenues through property taxes, parking sales tax and other measures, aimed at being “balanced across Metro Vancouver residents, affecting transit users, drivers, property owners and real estate developers.”

TransLink says the fare increases are part of the $43 million per year funding that will represent about five per cent of the total of phase two plan funding.

What’s in the phase two plan?

That includes the Millennium Line Broadway Extension, Surrey-Newton-Guildford LRT, Expo/Millennium Line upgrades program and additional operating capital for road work, walking and cycling infrastructure, and bus and rail operations.

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Enjoy an epic SkyTrain food crawl across Metro Vancouver New online map features popular eateries close to transit LINDSAY WILLIAM-ROSS | CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Feel like taking on a couple of epic food crawls across Metro Vancouver? These new maps, created in partnership between TransLink and WestCoastFood, can be your guide to using SkyTrain lines to get to dining and brewpub destinations.

Called Dine the Line, the new offering features a guide each for the Expo Line, Millennium Line and Canada Line (plus the SeaBus).

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Aimed at locals and visitors alike, the guides easily link food fans to the best of the region and make getting there a breeze — just add a Compass card to the recipe.

Hop on the Millennium Line and explore breweries

and eats in Vancouver, Burnaby and Coquitlam.

Use the Expo Line to go on a global eating spree, starring everything from Italian at CinCin in Vancouver to Indian at Mahaveer Chef’s Choice in Surrey — with stops for Mexican at El Santo in New West and Korean at Hanwoori in Burnaby — to name a few.

dining and brewpub neighbourhoods and we want people to use transit to get there,” TransLink CEO Kevin Desmond said in a press release. “Transit connects our communities in so many ways and we want transit to be the way that residents and tourists discover culinary hubs throughout our great city.”

Lastly, the Canada Line and SeaBus will take you from dim sum to dinner, kicking off at the awardwinning Chef Tony in Richmond to the comfort eats classic Burgoo in North Vancouver.

“Embarking on a Dine the Line tour is like having a local guide who knows the best spots to eat in the city, and best of all, they’re accessible by transit,” added Ty Speer, CEO of Tourism Vancouver.

“We want people to get out there and experience Metro Vancouver’s unique

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Vancouver landmark is offering an exclusive tea in celebration of its anniversary

LINDSAY WILLIAM-ROSS | CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Downtown Vancouver’s skyline and lifestyle was forever changed when the current Hotel Vancouver was officially opened on May 29, 1939.

King George VI and Queen Elizabeth did the honours for the momentous occasion in the city’s history, and now the venue — the third Hotel Vancouver — is marking its 80th anniversary with a limited-edition afternoon tea offering.

Launched May 2 and running through Sept. 1, the 80th Anniversary Afternoon Tea at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver pays homage to the hotel’s storied past and the culinary treats of its founding era.

Call for reservations: 604-662-1900 While the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver has taken guests on journeys fuelled by whimsy and imagination over the last few years for tea-time, drawing inspiration from anything from board games to fairy tales, the menu for the 80th Anniversary Afternoon Tea is steeped in tradition.

Classic English and raisinstudded scones anchor the tiered tea towers, complete with clotted cream, strawberry preserves, and orange marmalade — the latter a more fruit-dense and lightly sweet concoction than the grocery store version.

Sandwiches evoke tradition and include a tomato spread with dill fromage frais topped with cucumber; beef shank with horseradish and blue cheese; shrimp and lobster; a smoked

salmon roll-up dusted with beet; and a classic Coronation Chicken Salad.

The sweet treats are presented in an elegant steamer-trunk style box and dazzle the eye and the palate, thanks to dustings of edible gold, charming shapes and the sheer wattage of sugary bounty — this is a big teatime feast.

Nibble on a Battenberg cake (shaped like a suitcase with a gold handle), spoon up raspberry trifle, and tuck into a treacle tart. There is also an Earl Grey eclair, a creme brulee macaron, and a linzer torte (a jam cookie sandwich).

Make sure to save room for some dessert (although we’re told it’s pretty normal to pack at least a few goodies from the trays to take home) and save some time to check out the vintage photos on display around the Library Room of Notch8, where tea is served, for a trip down the Hotel Vancouver’s memory lane.

Pair your tea meal with a pot of your choice of the Fairmont’s LOT 35 teas. You can veer to the traditional, such as the Liza Hill Darjeeling, Creamy Early Grey, or Imperial Breakfast, or go for something herbal or green. For kids, not only can you pare down the big flavours of the sandwich course (swapping in the simpler ham and cheese and PB & J) but the kiddos can also opt to get their own pot of hot chocolate — with a side of whipped cream, of course.

For others needing dietary accommodation for tea service, the kitchen can serve up vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free options with advance notice; just be sure to include the request at booking time.

While afternoon tea has been a custom for centuries now, the 80th Anniversary Afternoon is only on offer for the summer.

Sittings are held at 11 a.m. and 1 and 3 p.m. daily. Adults cost $59 and children 12 and under are $29.50. Call 604-662-1900 for reservations.

The Fairmont Hotel Vancouver is located at 900 West Georgia St. Afternoon Tea is served at Notch8 in their Library Room.

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Residents rally for CRAB Park Jessica Kerr

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A large group of residents made the trek from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside to the park board office in Stanley Park Monday night to speak to the significance of CRAB Park to the community and the need for an Indigenous healing centre.

Park board commissioners unanimously approved a motion from COPE’s John Irwin that will ask Vancouver Fraser Port Authority to invest in the park in light of the impending expansion of neighbouring Centerm container terminal, including expanding the park, establishing a healing centre and improving access, especially for people with mobility issues.

Irwin’s motion, which was deferred from the May 13 meeting to allow residents to speak to it, asks the port authority to work with the City of Vancouver, park board and First Nations, on a plan for the central waterfront area, including CRAB Park, that would give equitable access to “expanded, high-quality greenspace,” explore the feasibility of an Indigenous healing/cultural centre, create and enhance significant shoreline habitat, and put a city-wide focus on expanding waterfront park access.

The park is located at the foot of Main Street. It is one of few parks in the Downtown Eastside and the only one with waterfront access.

“I just really would like to speak to the importance of this entire thing actually happening, in terms of preserving community autonomy for folks in the DTES, giving them somewhere to go that’s not the utmost chaos we see living in that neighbourhood,

in general,” said Eris Nyx, who lives and works in the Downtown Eastside.

Many speakers stressed the importance of establishing a peer-led healing centre in the park.

“This healing centre is essential for our people,” said Gunargie O’Sullivan. “I hear the word reconciliation being thrown around like the words love and hate. I don’t believe you understand what reconciliation entails or who it’s addressing,” The park is also already home to a memorial to some of the Downtown Eastside’s missing and murdered women.

The idea of an Indigenous healing centre in the city is not new. Longtime activist Wendy Pedersen, who was involved in the Downtown Eastside local area plan, which was approved by city council in 2014, told commissioners it has been talked about in the community for decades and is included in the plan.

This is not the first time the park board has approached the port authority about expanding CRAB Park. Two years ago, in May 2017, the board sent a letter to the port authority proposing expanding four acres to the west into a little-used parking lot.

The Centerm expansion project, which was approved last spring, will expand the terminal’s footprint by 15 per cent and increase the number of containers it can handle by two-thirds. The project includes a westward expansion of the terminal area and a reconfiguration of the terminal, as well as off-terminal road and rail improvements.

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

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Public Hearing: June 11, 2019 Tuesday, June 11, 2019, at 6 pm Vancouver City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Third Floor, Council Chamber Vancouver City Council will hold a Public Hearing to consider zoning for this location: 1. Regulation Redesign To amend the Zoning and Development By-law to simplify and update regulations, provide clarifications, and remove gendered terminology, and to amend various Official Development Plans and the Parking By-law to update references. Also to repeal various land use and development policy and guideline documents which are outdated or superseded.

2. 2006 Whyte Avenue (Bell Residence) To designate as protected heritage property the structure and exterior of the existing building at 2006 Whyte Avenue which is listed on the Vancouver Heritage Register in the ‘B’ evaluation category.

Development Permit Board Meeting: June 10 The Development Permit Board and Advisory Panel will meet: Monday, June 10, 2019 at 3 pm Vancouver City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Ground Floor, Town Hall Meeting Room To consider the following development permit application: 2880 Venables Street To develop an all-weather playing field; construct bleachers, viewing platforms, retaining wall and storage; revise the parking and loading layout and tree retention or replacement options for the Lombardy Poplars at the west side of the site.

TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM: kathy.cermeno@vancouver.ca 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.

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

3. 1008 West 52nd Avenue To rezone 1008 West 52nd Avenue from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) District to RM-8AN (Multiple Dwelling) District to permit a townhouse development with a floor space ratio (FSR) up to 1.2. The form of development will be reviewed through a subsequent development permit process.

4. 6218-6230 Oak Street To rezone 6218-6230 Oak Street from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) District to RM-8AN (Multiple Dwelling) District to permit a townhouse development with a floor space ratio (FSR) up to 1.2. The form of development will be reviewed through a subsequent development permit process.

5. 404-434 West 23rd Avenue To rezone 404-434 West 23rd Avenue from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) District to RM-8A (Multiple Dwelling) District to permit a townhouse development with a floor space ratio (FSR) up to 1.2. The form of development will be reviewed through a subsequent development permit process.

Anyone who considers themselves affected by the proposed by-law amendments may speak at the Public Hearing. Please register individually beginning at 8:30 am on May 31 until 5 pm on the day of the Public Hearing by emailing publichearing@vancouver.ca or by calling 604-829-4238. You may also register in person at the door between 5:30 and 6 pm on the day of the Public Hearing. You may submit your comments by email to publichearing@vancouver.ca, or by mail to: City of Vancouver, City Clerk’s Office, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 1V4.

All submitted comments will be distributed to Council and posted on the City’s website. Please visit vancouver.ca/publichearings for important details.

Copies of the draft by-laws will be available for viewing starting May 31 at the City Clerk’s Office in City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, Monday to Friday from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. All meetings of Council are webcast live at vancouver.ca/ councilvideo, and minutes of Public Hearings are available at vancouver.ca/councilmeetings (posted approximately two business days after a meeting). For real time information on the progress of City Council meetings, visit vancouver.ca/speaker-wait-times or @VanCityClerk on Twitter.

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1. VSO music director Otto Tausk celebrates one year on the job as of July 1, and the symphony orchestra wraps up centennial celebrations with a performance at the Orpheum June 11.

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2. Models in 1967 with Wendy

Hamper (violin), Layne Powell (bass) and Dennis Miller (tuba).

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Vancouver Symphony Orchestra celebrates 100 years of making music June 11 Orpheum performance rounds out VSO’s yearlong centennial celebration John Kurucz

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J. Warren Long has withstood two global recessions, a wage freeze, four bosses, a massive reno job, one bankruptcy and a few work stoppages.

He’s done it all the while balancing an oversized piece of wood between his legs for hours at a time, requiring the 69-year-old to follow a steady daily regimen of stretching and yoga.

It may sound like hell to some, but Long wouldn’t have it any other way.

The Kits resident has been a Vancouver Symphony Orchestra member since 1974, making him the second-longest tenured member of a community that’s in the midst of 100th anniversary celebrations.

The year-long party bookends with a centennial celebration at the Orpheum on June 11. “I think June 11 will be a watermark moment,” Long says. “To have an organization that’s lasted this long, and has been supported by the community while serving the community, that’s important.”

A member of the symphony’s bass section, Long was just 24 when his career was set, and his arrival coincided

with the VSO’s Golden Age — then-music director Kazuyoshi Akiyama was leading the orchestra through a slew of overseas tours and sold-out performances.

Timing was everything for Long, given that 42 years would pass before another spot opened in the symphony’s bass section.

“Within my first month on the job, we were touring Japan,” Long recalls. “I had stars in my eyes. It was a very exciting period.”

Highs and lows

Excitement and innovation has indeed filled the symphony over the years.

Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland and Glenn Gould all popped into town for spot gigs. Stanley Park’s Malkin Bowl was created, in part, to house outdoor symphony performances. Junos and Grammys were won by orchestra members. The symphony’s first concert master, appointed in 1919, was a woman (Kathleen Ada Carapata), and the first concert happened Jan. 26 of the same year.

But for all that light, there’s also been considerable shade.

There was the “Save the Orpheum” campaign of the early to mid ’70s that

successfully prevented the Granville Street concert hall and VSO’s home base from kissing the wrecking ball. The 1980/81 season bordered on disastrous, as wide-spread work stoppages saw CUPE members picketing outside the Orpheum and forcing three dozen concerts off site.

Attendance dropped by half and deficits rose.

Within three years, seasons were shortened, staff was cut and orchestra salaries were frozen.

While Expo 86 provided a short-lived reprieve, 1988 was the year the Titanic met the iceberg: a $2.3 million deficit, bankruptcy fears, and a wholesale resignation by the board and then maestro Rudolph Barshai.

Government bailouts, including a campaign led by former Vancouver mayor Gordon Campbell, got the band back in black, but the fallout was massive: donors dried up, season ticket holders lost six-figure investments and the province kicked in $600,000 to pay off bank loans.

“We weathered those storms and the public embraced us despite what we were going through,” Long said. “There’s always been commitment from the pub-

lic to support us. Maybe the audiences have varied, but the commitment and resolve have always been good.”

New blood

Like Long, Monica Pegis’ arrival within the orchestra is nicely timed. She’s the VSO’s newest member, having joined the first violin ranks in January after two years of occasional fill-in work.

She joins the orchestra in the midst of a 20 per cent increase in ticket sales and donations over the last two years.

“My first gig after winning the job, I don’t even remember because I was on such a buzz of adrenaline,” Pegis says. “My colleagues were clearly happy that I was chosen because they knew me a little bit and liked me, I think. It was such a warm, exciting feeling.”

Those warm and fuzzy feelings were not always so. The audition process was, in Pegis’ words, “pure hell.” One moment she’s up, the next second she’s down. Managing muscles, expectations, highs and lows are all part of the deal over the course of an eight-hour day that’s mostly hurry up and wait.

On the topic of highs and lows, Pegis is asked whether every one of the 71-member

orchestra has to be pals. Musicians can be a temperamental bunch, though great art can also be borne out of friction.

“You’re going to be sharing a stand with some of these people for potentially 20, 30 years, so everyone makes an effort to get along.

It makes showing up to work day in, day out, when you work that closely, so much more pleasant,” Pegis said.

Passing the baton

Newly-minted music director Otto Tausk takes a different tact.

“If you get to know the individual musicians too well, it also becomes more difficult to be the conductor,” Tausk said. “If you want to correct some things and you happen to know that someone’s mother is ill, for example, you might not approach it the same way. Sometimes it’s better not to know and just focus on the music.”

Like the orchestra as a whole, Tausk is also approaching a milestone — his one-year anniversary as musical director falls on Canada Day after an 18-year run by former head honcho Bramwell Tovey.

It becomes clear within moments of talking to Tausk that musical director and musician are two very

different animals. Where Pegis and Long require warming up all day before a show, Tausk needs nothing.

“I could be writing an email, on the phone or in a meeting five minutes before the concert. I do not need to sit down and warm up,” the 49-year-old Dutch national said. “I don’t know where it comes from, but I hope it stays that way.”

Rather looking ahead to another century, Tausk is instead following a threeyear vision: his opening season is the honeymoon, year two is about implementing a plan and the third year will require assessment and reflection.

Besides, he doesn’t see the orchestra going anywhere anytime soon.

“A musician in front of you, giving her or his soul in that sound, is going to be an experience,” Tausk said.

“You can’t find that experience somewhere else. That’s why I’m not worried about music being able to survive.” @JohnKurucz The VSO’s June 11 performance will include works by Bach, Bernstein, Morlock, Tchaikovsky and more. Tickets are online at vancouversymphony.ca.

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Sunscreen debates heats up online Grant Lawrence

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You may remember the viral commencement speech from the 1990s that started with two simple words of advice for graduates: “Wear sunscreen.”

Twenty years later, sunscreen has become ubiquitous in our warming, hot, sunny summers, even here on the supposedly soggy West Coast. The sun’s rays are harmful, we are told over and over again, and we need to protect ourselves.

The proof is in the death: almost everyone knows someone who has died from melanoma cancer (most cases are from sun exposure or the equivalent, while some cases occur from other means). As of last year, the U.S. Cancer Institute reported that melanoma cases have tripled since 1970. The most at-risk are white men.

So lather up, but with what?

Recently, we’ve been hearing more and more about both the unintended environmental and human health impacts of certain

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widely available sunscreens.

When a friend saw me lathering up my kids in SPF 60 before going to the park in the middle of the summer, he chastised me.

“Why would you smother your children’s skin in dangerous chemicals?” he questioned. “The rays of the sun are perfectly natural, and a valuable source of vitamin D.” He pushed his point by saying, “In the heat of the day, cover up the kids with some comfortable, appropriate clothing. It’s much better for their health.”

I’ll clarify that this friend was extremely tanned, spends his winters in Mexico, and is not a doctor. But his words had an impact on me.

What is worse, covering yourself and your kids in a chemical sunscreen every day from mid-May to mid-September or none at all and risk dangerous solar radiation?

Is there a healthy alternative?

I recently asked what other parents’ sunscreen practices are on social media, and was blasted back with the power of a thousand suns, many parents jumping to conclusions, assuming I was not properly looking after my children — one going so far as to compare those that are anti-sunscreen to anti-vaxxers, and thought I was crowd sourcing opinions on my kids’ health.

Other parents’ responses ranged from “no sunscreen, ever” to “SPF 70 every day” to “UV-protected sun hats and clothing sold at MEC.” When I asked what sunscreen brands parents chose, one response was “sunscreen is crazy expensive, so whatever is on sale,” while a few others swear by Goddess Garden, which uses natural plant-based ingredients and minerals as opposed to chemicals. Essentially, the thinking is that mineral-based sunscreens reflect the sun by sitting on top of your skin, whereas chemical sunscreens absorb into your skin.

One mother told me she makes her own sunscreen, based on a recipe that includes zinc oxide powder, coconut oil and other natural ingredients. (For the record, the Canadian Dermatology Association does not recommend making your own sunscreen.)

And what about the environmental havoc chemical sunscreens are supposedly

reeking on oceans, lakes and rivers? Last summer, it was suggested by the Vancouver Sun that sunscreen could be the culprit in the “slowly dying” Cowichan River, the cumulative result of thousands of summer tubing enthusiasts leaving a sheen of sunscreen on the water surface that could be impacting all natural river life, from the insects to the fish, birds, amphibians and plant life.

Also last summer, Hawaii became the first U.S. state to ban sunscreens that contain oxybenzone and octinoxate, both of which have been proven to be extremely harmful and deadly to coral reefs.

At least the Cowichan River and other B.C. waterways and beaches get a break in the winter. In many tropical places, sunscreenlathered bodies hit the water all year long. Key West has followed Hawaii’s lead, and it looks like Miami Beach is following (bathing) suit.

If you care, and you wear sunscreen, that’s a lot to consider for both your body, your kids and the environment.

So this summer, when you slop on the sunscreen at the beach, the waterpark or the river, please take a few moments to make sure your sunscreen is safe for you, your kids and our natural world. What is your choice? @grantlawrence A longer version of this story is at vancourier.com.

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Film explores death of Colten Boushie and treatment of Indigenous people

nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up screens at Vancity Theatre Sabrina Furminger

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Tasha Hubbard began work on her documentary about Colten Boushie mere days after the young Cree man was shot and killed by a white farmer in rural Saskatchewan.

Hubbard had never met Boushie, who was 22 years old when Gerald Stanley shot him in the back of the head after Boushie and his friends had driven onto Stanley’s property. Like Boushie, Hubbard is Cree, and familiar with the longsimmering tension between Canada’s Indigenous people and the justice system. And she had an in: her father is married to Boushie’s mother’s cousin.

Hubbard wanted to be the one to tell Boushie’s story and follow his family as the case moved through the justice system.

“Given the fact that Indigenous people are not treated fairly in the justice system, given the history, we knew there’d be some

challenges,” says Hubbard on the phone from Edmonton, where she’s an associate professor at the University of Alberta. “The hope was to shine a light on this issue, which has been in existence since the beginning of Canada, which Indigenous people for decades now have been calling for change. I felt in my gut that this was going to change things, and I didn’t know what that would mean.”

But Hubbard never expected that the all-white jury would acquit Stanley, nor did she foresee the innumerable ways in which the trial and verdict would expose systemic racism and galvanize a protest movement.

“We actually only had two days budgeted for posttrial to wrap things up and see how the family responded to what I’d assumed was going to be at least a manslaughter verdict,” says Hubbard. “When it was an acquittal, it changed everything.”

How everything changed is reflected in Hubbard’s

Tasha Hubbard’s documentary, nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up, showcases the love, resilience and activism of the Boushie family.

documentary, nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up. The feature-length film, which was produced through the National Film Board of Canada and won Best Canadian Feature at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival and the Colin Low Award for Canadian

Documentary at DOXA Documentary Film Festival, begins a weeklong run at Vancity Theatre May 31. nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up introduces audiences to Boushie’s family and friends — most notably his mother, Debbie Baptiste, and his sister, Jade Tootoosis — and Boushie’s life on the Red Pheasant reserve in rural Saskatchewan.

“This family is a loving family, and Colten was deeply loved,” says Hubbard. “He was so helpful.

If something needed to be done, he’d show up without being asked and he’d pitch in and help. That got lost in the whole media storm of this story. The stereotypes got applied, and the online hate started. I want people to think about that, about what it would be like to lose your child in those circumstances and then to wake up the next morning and see the people you live with in your community and this province and this country celebrating that young man’s death.”

nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up highlights this ugliness and provides historical context. It highlights the systemic racism that leads to apparent miscarriages of justice and creates a situation where Indigenous people are murdered or incarcerated at alarming and disproportionate rates.

“I had a high-ranking RCMP officer tell me, ‘We know there are these problems,’ so, OK, let’s fix them,” says Hubbard. “That comes at recruitment. This is a country that doesn’t want to think about whiteness. Indigenous people have always been looked at as the problem, and the systems have been created to keep that the case. The systems have been created to keep Indigenous people in poverty, to apply the stereotypes that have been in existence since the beginning and that haven’t gone anywhere.”

Hubbard’s film also showcases the love, resilience and activism of the Boushie family. Hubbard accompanied Tootoosis

and Baptiste to the United Nations in New York City, where Tootoosis addressed the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues about her brother’s death and how Indigenous people are treated by the Canadian justice system.

“What this family has been through is just atrocious, and I think it would be understandable if they just gave up on everybody, but they’ve taken their grief and anger and they keep trying to turn it into love and turn it into understanding and turn it into advocacy for others,” says Hubbard.

“In their deepest grief, they thought about other people, other young people, my child’s generation, my grandchild’s generation,” she adds. “It’s remarkable, and it deserves to be witnessed.

I hope people are willing to come and witness that.” nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up screens May 31 to June 5 at Vancity Theatre.

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Hey, word nerds: Vancouver Writers Fest is hosting a book sale And four other reasons Vancouver is awesome this week

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Vancouver Writers Fest Book Sale Spectacular!

snacks available for purchase. Entry is free.

June 2, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Heritage Hall, 3102 Main St. writersfest.bc.ca

Japan Market Early Summer Fair

Book nerds, this one’s for you: Shop from thousands of books from the Vancouver Writers Fest’s archives, including paperback and hardcover titles from the past 30 years.

Pick up your favourite bestsellers, local favourites and award-winners across fiction, nonfiction and YA/youth categories. Plus, there will be pop-up vendors and beer, wine and

Jump right into Japanese culture through music, entertainment, vendors and demos at the Japan Market. This popular event is moving outdoors to Robson Square, which means more room to roam around and more great vendors to check out. Learn about health and wellness, enjoy Japanese eats, shop for crafts and products and more.

June 2, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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Archive Consignment Warehouse Sale

Kick fast fashion to the curb and get into some pre-loved clothing at this two-day consignment sale. Archive brings together real Vancouverites with clothes they’re ready to part with for one big warehouse sale. Public shopping is on Saturday, while a VIP shopping and panel discussion event goes down on Friday evening.

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Dim Sum After Dark

Celebrate Asian Heritage Month with the Vancouver Asian Film Festival for an evening of late night dim sum and a screening of Ang

Lee’s spicy, edgy film Lust, Caution. Definitely an adults-only event.

May 31, 8:30 p.m.

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Cher in concert

If you could turn back time, would you go see Cher in concert? Well, no need to get the time machine, because you better believe the one-named megastar is hitting the stage at Rogers Arena this week as part of her “Here We Go Again” Tour. Cher will be joined by special guests Nile Rodgers and Chic.

May 30, 7:30 p.m.

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The Stanley Cup Final matchup between the Boston Bruins and St. Louis Blues is drawing in viewers in the United States, with around 5.15 million viewers taking in Game 1. In Canada, however, more and more sports fans are tuning out the NHL and tuning into the NBA. With their extraordinary playoff run, the Toronto Raptors keep breaking ratings records in Canada — 3.8 million people were tuned in when Kawhi Leonard hit his incredible, seemingly physics-defying buzzer beater in Game 7 against the Philadelphia 76ers in the Eastern Conference semifinal, making it the most watched NBA game of all time in Canada. An average of 2.2 million people watched the entire game.

The Raptors broke that record not long after. Their series-clinching Game 6 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks in the Eastern Conference Final drew an average viewership of 3.1 million, with a peak of 5.3 million viewers in the final minute of the closely contested 100-94 game.

Those are the two highest-rated NBA games in Canadian history, and it’s easy to imagine the upcoming finals between the Raptors and the dynastic Golden State Warriors eclipsing those numbers yet again.

Meanwhile, the Stanley Cup playoffs ratings in Canada have lagged behind the Raptors in the later rounds of the playoffs, which is unprecedented. More Canadians are watching basketball in May than hockey.

Really, we shouldn’t be surprised.

It certainly doesn’t help that all of the Canadian teams were knocked out of the Stanley Cup Playoffs in the first round.

That immediately took a large chunk of the viewing audience out of the picture, with the ratings hitting their nadir in the secondround series between the Dallas Stars and St. Louis Blues. An afternoon game in that series had an estimated audience of 331,000 in Canada.

Last year’s Stanley Cup Final drew an average of 2.7 million viewers in Canada, and that series had the compelling storyline of Alex Ovechkin competing to win his first cup and the underdog tale of the expansion Vegas Golden Knights making the final in

• 20 It doesn’t help the NHL’s case that the Blues looked outmatched by the Bruins in Game 1. The Blues managed just 20 shots on goal, while the Bruins had 38.

• 6.8 The Raptors hit a peak of 5.3 million viewers for their Game 6 win over the Bucks, but according to Sportsnet, 6.8 million Canadians watched at least part of the game. That doesn’t include viewers that may have streamed the game online.

The Toronto Raptors NBA playoff run led by Kyle Lowry (left) and Kawhi Leonard has given Canadian sports fans something to cheer about. PHOTO FRANK GUNN/CANADIAN PRESS

their very first season. This year’s final lacks those storylines and star power and will struggle to reach those same numbers.

The Boston Bruins are an Original Six team, which usually has some cachet, but they could be the most disliked team in Canada. Besides, Boston teams have won quite enough championships in recent years. No one wants to tune in to watch them win one more.

The St. Louis Blues are a talented team, but they were also the least-compelling team in the playoffs. They play a boring style of hockey, and the only interesting narrative surrounding their team is they were in last place in the NHL earlier in the season.

Oh, and they have a team dog named Barclay. He’s fun — the Blues are not.

What other storyline is there? It’s a rematch of the 1970 Stanley Cup Final, which featured the most overrated goal in NHL history: Bobby Orr’s “flying” goal.

It’s hard to get excited about a rematch of a series from 49 years ago.

The Raptors, in comparison, are extremely compelling. They’re in the NBA

Finals for the first time in their history.

They have the incredible Kawhi Leonard making a bid for being named the best all-around player in basketball, who has delivered a series of iconic moments.

They’re an underdog against the Warriors, who are looking to three-peat as champions, but that just makes them all the more compelling.

Some sports fans, particularly in B.C., resent the Raptors because they’ve been “shoved down our throats” by the media. But when it comes to the NBA, on which teams should Canadian media be focussed? Where else should the coverage begin except for the only team that actually plays in Canada? Now a Canadian team is poised to win the NBA championship for the first time ever. How can you not tune in to see that?

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Stick-taps and Glove-drops • A tap of the stick to Richmond’s own Troy Stecher, who brought home a silver medal from Slovakia.

He had three points in nine games with Team Canada, who fell to Finland in the gold medal game.

• I’m dropping the gloves with the Aquilinis, who own the Canucks.

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