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Tall tales of what goes on in the heights of the city Stories in this issue look at what happens high above our heads The Courier has always tried to look at Vancouver from different angles — capturing voices, conveying perspectives and exploring corners of the city for readers to discover.

For this issue, we’ve decided to examine the city from a different angle, both figuratively and literally: from above.

As Vancouver continues to expand, much of that growth is upwards — shaping how we live, interact with each other

and our surroundings, even how we get rescued in times of emergency.

In fact, there is an entire ecosystem of activity above our heads, from beehives atop the Vancouver Police Department headquarters and eagles that have adapted to city living to highrise window washers and buildings that pierce the skyline. In this issue, you’ll also read about Vancouver’s tallest tree, photogenic seagulls, where you’re most likely

to be attacked by a crow, the challenges of operating a drone within city limits and developers’ seemingly insatiable need to build higher and higher.

With so much of our daily lives spent in front of computers, staring down at our phones or looking at the ground as we shuffle about trying to avoid eye contact with each other, take a moment and look up.

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What it’s like to work hundreds of feet above the city Ben Mussett

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Up in the air, high above the city, Sophi Rose says life feels serene.

“It’s just so calm up there,” the Vancouver-based window washer told the Courier. “Nobody really bothers you. You’re kind of in your own world. If you just take a moment and look around, the city is so beautiful.”

While most Vancouverites spend their days milling around on or near the ground floor of the city, some like Rose earn their keep working at great heights, affording them a daily view of Vancouver that few enjoy.

Originally from Maple Ridge, Rose began washing windows soon after moving to East Vancouver eight years ago.

“I was into rock climbing before that. So, I was used to heights, and I had some experience working with rope, tying knots and stuff,” the 26-year-old said. “But it was a pretty big adjustment once you start working on 30-storey buildings.”

The Private Residences at Hotel Georgia is the tallest building where Rose has ever washed windows.

The 48-storey highrise is currently the third tallest building in Vancouver, though not for long.

The first time she was fastened to a skyscraper, Rose felt her heart pound as she kept checking her harness. “Is this safe?” she recalls thinking at the time.

Despite her initial fears, Rose quickly developed a love for the work.

Then there’s the wind.

The breeze typically picks up as Rose moves higher and sheds the shelter that the surrounding buildings below provide. When exposed like that, the wind can blow her all over the place, says Rose.

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As a crane operator, wind can prove similarly meddlesome for Ryan Clancy. The 37 year old says a blustery day can transform the big panels he routinely moves into virtual kites.

But even with little wind, large cranes are designed

tables outside. People going in and out. Then we had the Vancouver Police Department — they did a stakeout in the casino building that we were building to watch [the brothel] for a couple of weeks.”

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to naturally shift and sway to minimize the amount of torque created, according to Clancy. He says “luffer” cranes, used to lift heavy material and equipment, move the most.

“The first time I ran one of these, I climbed down, and it felt like I was on the high seas for like 10 hours,” said Clancy. “[But] you just adjust to it.”

The Victoria-native is currently working on the 24-storey Westbank development at 400 West Georgia.

It turns out working at

great heights grants window washers and crane operators a unique look into the seedier side of Vancouver.

“A lot of people in condos and office buildings don’t really notice or pay attention to us. So, you definitely see a lot of stuff,” Clancy said.

“We were working on [Parq] casino, and there was a brothel across from us in the new condos,” he continued. “We would see girls having sex on the balcony, and they would wave to us in the morning. You’d see all kinds of guys doing coke on

Jake McGrail’s job might be more comfortable than the work Rose or Clancy do, but the sights are equally spectacular. The third-year UBC student is spending his summer atop Harbour Centre, working as a guest experience ambassador for Vancouver Lookout.

From his 550-foot perch, the 20 year old has a panoramic view of the city and beyond. Many visitors to the observation deck, often tourists coming off the cruise ships, point east toward the highrises of Metrotown and North Burnaby and ask, “Is that Calgary?”

“I have learned a lot about some of the older buildings in the city,” McGrail said, pointing to the Dominion Building and the Sun Tower with its distinct faux-patina steel dome.

“I’ve lived here my whole life, and I’m still learning interesting factoids about the city just by being here.”

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From his downtown post, McGrail can look north and watch the floatplanes take off and land at Coal Harbour.

Reggie Morisset captains some of those flights, giving the Montreal-native one of the best vantages of the city.

“After all these years flying in this area, I still find it exhilarating,” said Morriset, an assistant chief pilot at Harbour Air. After 12 years flying for the company, Morriset is still struck by the sharp contrast between urban life and nature.

“I am always amazed at how the line between civilization and the great outdoors is dramatically drawn, just north of our city limits,” he said. “Nature can be unforgiving, and you get a true sense of its ruthlessness when viewed from above.”

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Roof of Vancouver police station is a hive of activity Mike Howell

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Three floors above the entrance to Vancouver Police Department’s Cambie Street precinct is a sprawling outdoor deck that is more than just a peaceful oasis for officers to have lunch.

It’s also a place for bees to make honey.

And lots of it.

Last August, two colonies of bees living and working in hives in the far corner of the deck, which also serves as a vegetable and flower garden tended by officers and staff, produced 300 pounds of honey.

Not just any honey, but “VPBee honey,” the kind of honey that goes “bee on the call,” as indicated on the lids of the jars of the golden syrup sold to officers and donated to the community.

Sarah Common has heard many puns about the line of work she’s in as CEO and co-founder of Hives For Humanity, but she takes that type of groaninducing comedy in stride.

What really matters to Common is that the bees supplied to the police department do a lot more than produce honey or provide fodder for dad jokes.

It’s how the bees help connect otherwise disconnected communities and serve as a therapeutic outlet for the stressed, the troubled and the disadvantaged that matters to Common.

“The bees are an access point,” she said, sitting at a picnic table on the deck on a recent sunny Wednesday morning. “Bees and gardens can be a connector, and can foster different kinds of relationships. I think it’s amazing that a little spot like this can do that.”

What she’s referring to is the breaking down of barriers between police officers and people who have had trouble with the law, experienced homelessness or are living with a mental illness, or a drug addiction.

Beekeeping workshops that have brought together officers and Downtown Eastside residents who fit

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into those categories are an example of that fostering of relationships, she said.

“The hope is that when those officers are on the beat, or responding to crises in our city, is that they have another kind of relationship to hold,” Common said.

“The long-term goal is that we build connection through nature, and through the experience of caring for things outside of ourselves.”

The program is in its fifth year, and each year the num-

ber of bees has grown and so has the amount of honey.

None was produced the first year because of a late start, but the 300 pounds harvested last year was a record.

At harvest time this summer, it’s anticipated that 120,000 bees will be active in the two hives before the honey is extracted and put into jars.

Sales topped $3,000 last year, said Const. Alison Bale, who is head of the department’s gardening committee. Prices range from $4

for a 45-millilitre jar to $20 for a 266-millilitre jar.

“Lots of people get it as Christmas presents,” said Bale, who works out of the VPD’s education and training unit when she’s not volunteering in the garden.

“We’re down to about a dozen jars until the fall. It sells out really quickly.”

The honey is not sold to the public.

Some of the honey is donated, but all proceeds from the sales go to Hives for Humanity, which has 19 apiaries in the city, including the Downtown Eastside and the Yukon shelter, which is down the block from the VPD’s Cambie Street precinct.

Coincidentally, the VPD garden, which is spread over a few plots on the deck, produces enough vegetables that twice a week a large bin of the fresh kale, tomatoes, onions, garlic and other food is donated to the Yukon shelter’s kitchen.

Police also donate fresh veggies to the Urban Native Youth Association.

Blueberries and strawber-

ries are also grown, along with a variety of pollinator plants that serve the bees well. In fact, Bale said, the honey “tastes like flowers.”

On the day of the Courier’s visit, volunteers Phil Laflamme and Leslie Williams from Hives For Humanity were inspecting the hives. The consensus was the bees looked healthy and that signals a good year.

They were doing this as officers started to gather for lunch. Various sounds of birds carried across the deck. A hummingbird hovered near a fence.

Bale agreed that people walking on the streets below probably have no idea of the tranquil setting.

She joked she doesn’t want anyone to know it exists.

Common has a more philosophical take on the space.

“Our culture is go-gogo, busy, keep moving and looking down. And what we hope the bees and the garden do is get people looking up at each other and connecting through nature.” @Howellings

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Meet city’s tallest tree: a 130-year-old fir named ‘Doug’ Many of the tallest and biggest trees in Canada are found in Vancouver

John Kurucz

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There’s a race going on in the eastern portion of Stanley Park that doesn’t get the attention of, say, the BMO or Scotiabank marathons of the world.

In this case, participants are roughly 130 years old and slower than dirt.

Most of them are named “Doug.”

Enter what’s colloquially known among naturalists as “Second Chance Grove,” a somewhat unspectacular cluster of forest that’s home to Vancouver’s tallest tree.

A short jaunt south from Beaver Lake, the towering tree measures 63.6 metres — the equivalent of more than five standard sized TransLink buses stacked end to end, 10 metres taller than city hall and twice as tall as the iconic Lee Building at Broadway and Main.

The Douglas fir is referred to as the “Second Chance Tree,” given its history growing out of the ashes of the Great Fire of 1886, which nearly incinerated the entire city.

But with a series of neighbouring trees in its immediate vicinity, why does nature gift this particular specimen with such a lofty distinction?

“The short answer is they are all about 63 metres

because they’re growing together as a group,” explains Ira Sutherland, a PhD student in UBC’s faculty of forestry. “These trees are adapted to grow in the lightlimited environments of the West Coast, so they’re competing with each other to stay ahead of each other so they don’t get left behind in the shade.”

Sutherland, as it turns out, is a big deal in the big tree community. He studies them, writes about them, climbs them and measures them.

He’s also chair of the B.C. BigTree Registry, an ad hoc group of conservationists, professional foresters and ex-government employees who scour the province in search of the next big one.

Sutherland’s knowledge of trees, particularly the big ones, is encyclopedic.

But before rattling off specifics, some housekeeping is needed first.

To that point, tallest doesn’t mean biggest and vice versa. Tallest is calculated by measuring from top to bottom, but biggest is determined by an aggregate score taking into account a tree’s height, its diameter as measured at breast height and the width of the tree’s crown.

Outside of dropping a

Vancouver’s tallest tree is a Douglas fir that measures 63.6 metres in height. It’s referred to as the “Second Chance Tree,” given its history growing out of the ashes of the Great Fire of 1886, which nearly incinerated the entire city. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

tape measure from top to bottom, tall trees are measured using a system called Lidar. Similar in function to radar, a Lidar instrument is typically mounted to a plane or helicopter and sends laser signals to the ground. The amount of time it takes the laser to bounce back to the instrument determines the tree’s height.

Without further ado, a list of highlights: • Tallest tree in Canada: a Sitka Spruce, about 96 metres high and roughly

600 years old, located in the Carmanah Valley on Vancouver Island.

• Tallest tree in Vancouver history: a Douglas fir recorded in Kerrisdale in 1886 measured about 122 metres tall — the equivalent distance from home plate to the centre field wall in most major league baseball parks.

• Tallest tree in Metro Vancouver history: referred to as the “Lynn Valley Tree,” this Douglas fir measured 126 metres in 1902. The region’s

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• Tallest existing tree in Metro Vancouver: a Douglas fir named the Temple Giant that’s 86 metres high and found in the Seymour Valley.

• Biggest big leaf maple tree in Canada: it’s near the Hollow Tree in Stanley Park (29 metres in height and 3.4 metres in diameter).

• Biggest red alder in Canada: near the concession stand at Third Beach (24.6 metres).

• Oldest tree in Vancouver: Sutherland suggests it’s likely a red cedar in Stanley Park that’s stood for 600 years if not longer. Higher elevations on the North Shore are home to trees that are believed to be upwards of 1,500 years old.

That Vancouver even has some old-growth forest remaining is a fact Sutherland likes to stress both as a point of pride and to counter some of the doom and gloom around forestry in general. The stretch of forest that runs along the western edge of UBC and along the banks of the Fraser River south to Marine Drive is home to 400-year-old trees. Stanley Park contains trees that date back six centuries.

“A lot of people I engage with are really surprised to learn there’s any old growth forest at all,” Sutherland said. “I think that might come from decades of rhetoric that we’re cutting down the last of the white rhinos or that we’re driving these large trees extinct. It’s small in percentage compared to the historical extent, but there’s enough left that we should still have hope that there is still old growth left.”

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Proposed 60-storey residential tower would be among city’s tallest Naoibh O’Connor

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Iconic. Simple. Clean.

That’s how architect Gwyn Vose of IBI Group describes the 60-storey residential tower Henson Developments is proposing for 1059 to 1075 Nelson St. near Thurlow Street in the city’s West End. If the project is approved, it will be among the tallest buildings in Vancouver, reaching a height of 555.5 feet — or 585.5 feet to the top of its

total of 485 units, including 113 social housing units, 49 market rentals and 323 market condos, was unveiled at an open house last week. Its wavy shape frames a curvy column of greenery down its centre.

Vose, representing IBI Group at the open house, says the tower’s design is reminiscent of the coastline. “Tall buildings want to be simple and elegant,” he added.

The building’s proposed height puts it on par with the neighbouring “Butterfly”

appurtenance (the part of the structure above the highest occupied level where mechanical equipment that supports the building is located).

Tom Wright of U.K.based WKK Architecture designed the Nelson Street tower, which is being built to Passive House standards, while Vancouver-based IBI Group is the executive architect whose role is to help the design architect with local policies and regulations.

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Several city policies regulate building height in Vancouver, explained Jason Olinek, the City of Vancouver’s acting assistant director of planning for development planning.

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The Higher Buildings Policy is another regulation governing height. It’s a set of guidelines used in conjunction with other policies for reviewing buildings seeking significant increases over existing height limits.

Adopted in 1997, and amended several times, the policy identifies areas and sites where consideration can be given for buildings that are taller than the general downtown zoning height limits or for those entering the Queen Elizabeth Park or other council approved view corridors.

How does Vancouver measure up?

How many storeys a building’s height equates to depends on a variety of factors including the type of use, such as office or residential whose floor-to-ceiling heights differ, the type of construction, the preferences of the developer and architect, and root-top appurtenances.

“Tall,” however, is relative when you consider the height of the highest skyscrapers in Canada and the rest of the world.

Vancouver’s policies mean even Burnaby is exceeding this city on the tall

building front.

Onni Group’s 64-storey highrise at 2 Gilmore Place will be 708 feet from the lobby level to the top of the appurtenance. When it’s completed, it will be the tallest residential tower in Western Canada.

That will eventually be surpassed by Concord Pacific’s planned new 65-storey building on the old Sears site at Metrotown, which will hit 723 feet.

At 2,717 feet, however, Dubai’s 163-storey Burj Khalifa in the United Arab Emirates would tower over those buildings, as would Shanghai Tower in China, which is 128 floors and reaches 2,073 feet. Abraj AlBait Clock Tower in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, measures 1,971 feet with 120 floors.

But really tall buildings need a large floor plate, noted Vose, and require more elevators to bring people up and down, which takes away from saleable space.

Vose, however, isn’t concerned that Vancouver isn’t competing with international cities like Dubai in the race for the highest tower.

He’s pleased that Vancouver’s urban planning approach, dubbed Vancouverism, has produced slim, smaller footprint buildings with a lot of space between them.

“I think it’s a good idea to have thinner towers with smaller floor plates,” he said. “It’s what’s made Vancouver what it is, and Vancouver is a pretty amazing place because of that.”

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

Vancouver tall towers

• Shangri-la (659 feet) at 1128 West Georgia. Completed 2008 • Trump Tower (616 feet) at 1161 West Georgia. Completed 2017 • The Butterfly (556 feet) at 969 Burrard St. Under Construction • 1075 Nelson (555.5 feet). Proposed • 1133 Melville (550 feet) “The Stack” office building.

Under Construction • One Burrard Place (550 feet). Under Construction • 601 Beach (535 feet). Proposed • Private residences of Hotel Georgia (518 feet) at 667 Howe St. Completed 2013 • Vancouver House (507 feet). Under Construction • 1450 West Georgia (497.3 feet). Proposed • One Wall Centre (491 feet). Completed 2001 • Shaw Tower (489 feet). Completed 2004 • Harbour Centre (481 feet). Completed 1977

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Vancouver’s high-angle rescue team goes above and beyond Jessica Kerr

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When emergencies happen high above the city’s streets, it’s often Vancouver’s Special Operations Team that comes to the rescue.

The team of firefighters trains for emergency situations involving things such as tower cranes, high-rise buildings and bridges, using highangle rope rescue techniques.

The team uses a system of ropes, harnesses and pulleys to access and extract people from precarious situations, often dealing with a medical emergency at the same time, and bring them back down to earth.

The dedicated team was first established in the early 1990s. At that time, it exclusively trained in high-angle rope rescue techniques.

Since then, they have added other rescue disciplines and now oversee confined space rescues, trench rescues and water rescues in the city.

“We also oversee the structural collapse and earthquake or disaster management aspect of rescue within the city,” said A/Lt. Christopher Won, who has been with the team since 2007.

While the team might not get calls daily, weekly, or even monthly — the team was called out just eight times last year —they have to be ready to respond at any time.

Training, training, training

“One of the paradoxes of the technical rescue world is because the frequency of rescues is not very high, we have to make up for that experience through a lot of training,” Won said, adding that, for example, the team doesn’t do as much first aid training because, as firefighters, they use those skills daily.

The department has its dedicated training facility near Strathcona Park, which includes a fourstorey burn tower, but the team takes training sessions out into the real world as much as possible.

Won said the Port of Vancouver allows the team

to train with gantry cranes that load the shipping containers on and off the ships.

“We also have a really good relationship with some of the real estate development companies in town that build the highrises so we try to use them when the weather’s good, get up on the tower cranes.”

Incidents involving tower cranes, often rescuing a crane operator who is in medical distress and unable to climb down, are some of the team’s higher profile rescues. But as Won reflects on his more than 10 years with the team, it’s other kinds of calls that have stuck with him.

“The ones that stand out are sometimes people who have chosen to go out into the high-angle environment and then realized halfway through that it wasn’t such a great idea,” he said. “So whether they were trying to get that perfect Instagram photo or they went hiking and they realized they were up on the side of a bluff and they got themselves into trouble.”

Won said the explanations he’s heard over the years usually tend to be “fairly convoluted.”

“One was out at UBC above Wreck Beach where there’s very steep slopes…

[Someone decided to] climb naked from the beach trying to find a shortcut back to where they hid their alcohol or something and it just…

The nakedness and the alcohol and the climbing up the bluff, it doesn’t line up to me to a good decision, but [they] decided it was a good idea.”

Higher ground

The ever-increasing height of buildings in the city has meant new challenges for the team.

When the Shangri-La, currently the tallest high-rise in the city at 659 feet (201 metres), was completed in 2008, the department had to not only purchase longer ropes, but also had to get permission to use them.

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“Because of [the height of] the Shangri-La we’ve had to order and maintain 600-foot ropes,” Won said.

“So we had to get a variance to clear that with WorkSafe that we could use these extra-long ropes simply because the length of the [standard] rope wouldn’t reach the ground if it was only 300 feet.”

Higher buildings and longer ropes raise new questions.

“At the end of the day, once a building gets permitted to go up a certain number of floors, we look at well, do we have the capability?

And if we don’t, how do we perform these rescues?” @JessicaEKerr A longer version of this story is at vancourier.com.

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How Vancouver eagles have adapted to living in the city Ben Mussett

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Diana Seear might know more about Vancouver’s bald eagles than anyone else in the city.

During nesting season, which runs February to August, the Kitsilano resident says she visits the city’s eagle nests nearly “every single night” to check in on one of the most unorthodox creatures to call Vancouver home.

“I know those eagles better than I know my children,” she joked about an eagle pair that nests near her house in a cotton wood tree.

The personalized licence plates on Seear’s Mercedes Benz read “EGL-RSQ.” On a sunny day in May, Seear, a volunteer educator at the Hancock Wildlife Foundation, took the Courier on a tour of Vancouver’s eagle nests, typically found in wooded enclaves along the city’s shoreline. Eagles prefer nesting near the water, where the birds can feed on nearby fish and other beachcombing prey.

Seear counts approximately 20 nests currently dotted across Vancouver, including several in Stanley Park and the forested lands surrounding the University of British Columbia. But only 14 of those nests are actively in use by an eagle pair — the remainder previously abandoned due to structural issues or, in some

cases, human disturbance, according to Seear.

Keeping track of individual birds is challenging, so eagle experts typically monitor the population by counting active nests, how many eggs those nests produce and the number of chicks to successfully fledge that year.

While monogamous, eagles will quickly replace a mate if one goes missing. Though their partners might change, the firmly territorial male birds typically stick with the same nest year after year when possible.

Vancouver’s eagle population remains modest, but the urban birds have come a long way since the 1960s when experts say there were only one or two nests across the entire city. Back then, fishermen in Alaska — where local eagles return every summer for the annual salmon runs — believed the birds were a threat to their catch and hunted them widely, significantly depleting their population along the West Coast.

Meanwhile, the widespread use of the pesticide DDT only exacerbated the North American eagle’s mid-20th century decline.

Recognizing DDT’s harmful effects on humans and wildlife, Canada and the United States banned the use the pesticide in the early 1970s. Soon after, the U.S. government labelled the eagle an endangered species.

surrounding development.

“The eagles keep returning to the nest, but it has not been successful since the development started a few years ago,” she later explained. “There are six more nests in the area that deserve to be protected from disturbance or development.”

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One of approximately 20 eagle nests currently dotted across Vancouver, including several in Stanley Park and the forested lands surrounding the University of British Columbia.

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In the ensuing decades, their population rebounded, leading the American government to remove the bald eagle from the endangered species list in 2007.

City living

One might wonder why some eagles choose a busy, growing city like Vancouver over life in the wild. Food is likely the most significant reason.

“In an urban area, the food availability is high,” said Ariane Comeau, conservation manager for the Stanley Park Ecology Society. Comeau said Vancouver’s eagles feed on everything from other birds, small mammals and fish to organic scraps and compost.

The Vancouver Landfill in Delta is a major attrac-

tion for Metro Vancouver’s eagles, as those witness to their massive flocks along Highway 99 can attest.

But while city eagles may enjoy a wider array of food than those in the wild, life in Vancouver presents numerous challenges. Habitat loss is number one.

Just a few weeks ago, the Courier reported on a local tree-cutting company fined $18,000 for felling a tree in Dunbar that was home to an eagle’s nest back in 2017. The following year, the same company allegedly destroyed another eagle’s nest in the Hastings-Sunrise neighbourhood.

During our tour, Seear pointed out a nest on the UBC Endowment Lands at 16th Avenue she says is currently threatened by

The proposed bike park expansion at Vanier Park would result in the loss of another eagle’s nest, which the park board plans to replace with a so-called eagle nesting pole nearby.

David Hancock, a noted authority on eagles whose foundation has facilitated previous “raptor mitigation,” says these alternatives to natural nests have a high success rate. However, Seear, one of the Hancock Wildlife Foundation’s most dedicated volunteers, remains skeptical after witnessing some eagles hesitate to engage with nesting poles in the past.

Still, the park board believes Vancouver can strike a successful balance between environment and recreation at Vanier Park.

Joe McLeod, park development project manager, said the city has worked with the Hancock Foundation, the provincial government and other environmental consultants to “inform the project with some good, strong scientific underpinning.”

“We don’t want the eagles to abandon the area entirely,” McLeod said.

“The idea is to put [the nesting pole] right, kind of nestled in the woodlot itself to try to create a bit more of a buffer from a lot of the park activities and also surrounding activities like the Burrard Bridge, the Vancouver Museum and some of the other louder infrastructure that’s around.”

Vancouver residents can provide feedback on the proposed bike park expansion through an online survey until mid-June. McLeod says staff expects to present the final project plan to the park board on June 24.

Apart from habitat loss, urban eagles also face several other unique threats.

Every year, eagles in Metro Vancouver are electrocuted after landing on power poles, while others suffer poisoning from lead or rodenticide.

Despite these challenges, Vancouver’s eagles have adapted to life in a big city, says Mike Mackintosh, a former park board wildlife manager.

“It’s really encouraging that some of these species that you would think would be so sensitive about things have managed to coexist successfully in areas of high human activity,” he said.

“Humans are a problem for every species,” continued Mackintosh. “Let’s face it.” @benjaminmussett

Vancouver seagulls developing taste for high-end dining Elisia Seeber

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Seagulls are known to be opportunistic scavengers, swooping down to steal a fry off a table, but some Vancouver gulls have learnt a slightly more sophisticated way to fill their bellies.

They tap on the windows of high-rise buildings hoping a friendly human will hand them a snack.

A hotspot for the behaviour is the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel, and tourists seem to love it, with many visitors sharing their experiences on social media. The Glaucous-winged Gull — the most abundant gull on the B.C. coast — is larger than your average seagull and “quite handsome,” depending on whom you ask.

Nicola Marrison, Fairmont Gold manager at the waterfront hotel, said no one could remember exactly when gulls started knocking on the glass,

but it’s been an issue since the hotel opened in 1991.

One particular gull has become quite the star attraction.

“There are several seagulls that routinely knock on the windows for food scraps — we’ve named our favourite Jerry,” Marrison said.

“Jerry’s regular perch is on the Fairmont Gold railing on the ninth floor, and he causes a little more commotion when food is around.”

She said staff had to clear tables on the patio with lightning speed, before the seagulls swooped in to get the scraps.

At the moment, the hotel doesn’t have a strict policy on feeding the birds.

“Every now and then we get the odd guest feeding the seagulls for the photo opportunity, so we are diligent in having conversations with guests where applicable,” Marrison said.

A recent hotel guest, Georges Levesque, was lucky enough to see the cleverness

Guests of the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel often share their encounters with seagulls on Instagram.

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of one of the gulls firsthand when it paid him a visit at the window of his 20th floor room a few weeks ago.

He was so impressed he filmed the bird and posted two videos on YouTube.

Levesque, who lives in Montreal, was in town for a work convention and stayed at the hotel for three nights.

And each day, without fail, the gull — presumably Jerry — turned up to say hello.

“It coincided with me opening the window to get a little air and within five minutes of doing that he was at the window,” Levesque told the Courier. “It was only when he pecked on the window that I turned and noticed he was there. I was excited because he’s quite large and really quite handsome for a seagull.”

With all the seriousness of life often getting in the way, Levesque said the experience was refreshing and fun.

“I just think it was adorable. He’s quite the character,” he said. “I think we sometimes don’t pay attention to seagulls, but both my kids and my staff saw the bird in a different light. It was just a nice lightness to the day.”

Louise Blight, adjunct associate professor at the University of Victoria, who was the lead researcher on the study “A century of change in Glaucous-winged Gulls,” says she’s witnessed firsthand the behaviour of seagulls

around high-rise buildings in downtown Vancouver.

“They have learnt from somebody somewhere that seeing a person in the window means food,” she says.

“It will be happening in urban environments where people have fed them from windows in high-rises before.

They are doing it because we taught them to. They are clever birds and they’ve learnt that this works for them.”

While the gulls may stop by windows now and then for a quick feed, Blight says fish is still their preferred choice of food.

“They like to eat fish and that’s what they do best on.

They prefer bringing fish to their chicks, which is not the easier option,” Blight says.

She encourages people to enjoy the experience if a gull taps on their window, but advises it’s best not to feed them.

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Let’s not mislead each other into thinking that electric cars are not only virtuous, but cost-saving. They are not.

I’ve seen many articles in the past few weeks about the cost savings a commuter would realize by getting an electric car. So far, none of those articles have mentioned the real cost of an electric car, only the fuel costs. You still have to buy the car, pay the purchase tax and maintenance.

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Electric “fuel” per year is estimated to be $317 from Coquitlam. Total cost per year is $4,317. Don’t forget the cost to install a charging station in your garage.

Now, keep your junker and pay $1,730 in fuel and the equivalent of $100/month in maintenance. Total cost per year: $2,930.

Suddenly the electric vehicle is costing you money, isn’t it?

Let’s say you are willing to pay extra to save the environment. Kudos. Where is the electricity coming from? Will we need to destroy more habitat for hydroelectric dams? Maybe build a nuclear power plant?

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Jessica Kerr

buildings are and are unlikely to fly into them.

Another threat is the ubiquitous house cat.

“There tends to be lots of cats roaming around that people keep as pets but let outside, and cats invariably kills lots of birds every year,” Freeman said.

The city has made an effort to make Vancouver more bird friendly. In 2015, council adopted a bird strategy, which includes birdfriendly design guidelines aimed at making tall buildings more visible to birds.

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Some soar high above the city, while others stay a little bit more down to earth, but there is no shortage of feathered friends flying around Vancouver.

There are more than 250 species of birds that can be found in Vancouver — some are long-term residents, and others just stop by on their way to another destination. Arguably the city’s most popular resident bird is Anna’s hummingbird — voted the city’s Official Bird in 2017, beating out the varied thrush, northern flicker and spotted towhee.

Now a year-round resident, Anna’s hummingbird is a relative newcomer to Vancouver.

“Fifty years ago you wouldn’t have found any of them in B.C., and you actually wouldn’t have found any of them in Washington state or Oregon, but in the last 50 years they’ve moved up from California and now they are happily living in Vancouver,” said Benjamin Freeman, a biologist and post-doctoral fellow with UBC’s Banting and Biodiversity Research Centre.

Human activity drew hummingbirds north up the coast, with reports of them as far north as south eastern Alaska.

“Basically people made life better for hummingbirds by planting flowers that people like because

The city’s official bird, the Anna’s hummingbird, is a relative newcomer to Vancouver. Fifty years ago, they were nowhere to be found in British Columbia. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

they’re pretty, but that also hummingbirds like because they provide food,” Freeman said, adding that more people also started putting out hummingbird feeders.

“Those changes have put a lot more hummingbird food out in the environment and hummingbirds have capitalized on that and have moved in.”

Animal behaviour

As much as human city dwellers have a different way of life from their rural counterparts, birds’ behaviour has changed as cities have grown around them.

“They absolutely behave differently to take advantage of what’s available in the city,” Freeman said. “You see that a lot with things like the seagulls. In the city,

they eat trash and they’ll nest on rooftops and they’re really kind of a city bird that eats food scraps… but in less populated areas they’re ocean birds and they eat fish that they catch in the open water.”

Most birds are quite particular in where they will build a nest, and the birds of Vancouver are no different.

While some, such as eagles, herons and crows, take to the trees, others take advantage of the concrete jungle.

Seagulls, which typically nest in open spaces, hunker down on flat rooftops around the city. And the ever-growing number of high rises going up makes for the perfect nesting spot for birds that prefer the nooks and crannies of cliffs.

“One bird that’s very cool that also nests in buildings

because they resemble cliffs is the peregrine falcon,” Freeman said. “Before humans came along, they would nest almost exclusively in cliff faces and now they’ll nest in high rise buildings… Before people came along there would be a cliff face and if you had an area with a lot of cliffs you might have a peregrine falcon nesting there and also pigeons, and now we’ve kind of recreated that with high rises.”

The peregrine falcon doesn’t nest in Vancouver, but it does frequent the city throughout the year and was bestowed with Official Bird status in 2016. It is known for its speed and hunting prowess. Freeman said when it’s diving the falcon can reach speeds of up to 200 mile per hour,

and it can appear seemingly out of nowhere, snatching up an unsuspecting bird, typically pigeons, which also nest on building ledges, on the ground and in the air.

Urban threats

There are several threats that are unique to birds living in, and flying through, cities.

Those tall buildings that some birds call home can also prove to be deadly obstacles for birds that are just passing through.

High rises with a lot of glass are the worst for migrating birds, many of which typically fly at night.

“The glass is so reflective and birds don’t see it at night and they just fly full speed into it,” Freeman said, adding that resident birds know where all the

Feathered friends

Freeman says there are ways Vancouverites can make life a little easier for the city’s winged residents.

“I think the number one thing you can do is get to know a couple of the birds,” he said. “I think every person in Vancouver should be able to know the names of, start with fives species of birds in Vancouver, or 10 if you’re feeling a bit more ambitious… If you get to know the hummingbirds or the sparrows or the ducks you see in your neighbourhood or your local pond, then you’ll start to appreciate them.

“What they need is space and to be left alone most of the time, but really what the birds need are advocates for them and you become an advocate when you get to know them.” @JessicaEKerr

This online mapping system tracks crow attacks across Vancouver Crowtrax provides information and online therapy in a click Michael Kissinger

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Jim O’Leary usually dons a beige Tilley hat when commuting to his job at Langara College — not for casual, middle-age-man fashion purposes but survival.

O’Leary thinks the hat deters aerial attacks from a particularly cranky crow that’s been known to swoop down on unsuspecting pedestrians leaving and entering the Joyce SkyTrain station.

And he should know. He’s the creator of Crowtrax, an open-source Geographic Information System (GIS), which he developed as a Continuing Studies instructor to map crow attacks across Vancouver.

With nesting season run-

ning April to July, getting dive-bombed by a protective crow has become a rite of passage for most Vancouverites.

Over the years, O’Leary has heard it all — from attacks that draw blood and talons caught in victims’ hair to roving gangs of the winged marauders that chase their targets for blocks.

When he launched the site in 2016, it garnered about 800 reports — now he receives approximately 1,500 accounts of “human/crow interaction” a year. According the Crowtrax data, danger zones include downtown and the West End, which doesn’t surprise O’Leary.

“Where you have more people, you have more restaurants and, inevitably, you have a French fry on

Densely populated areas such as downtown and the West End are hotspots for crow attacks. SCREEN GRAB

the sidewalk, and that’s what crows like,” he says.

“In the downtown area, in particular, the sidewalks are very narrow so the trees are very close to buildings, and the crows like the tall

leafy trees. So when you get tall leafy trees very close to people and restaurants, you’re going to get a lot of crow/human interaction.”

Last year, Crowtrax added a new feature

where users could indicate whether or not their avian encounter was with local winged-celebrity Canuck the crow. However, the feature has failed to take off, admits O’Leary.

“Maybe people don’t realize it’s Canuck the crow, or maybe it’s that Canuck the crow doesn’t attack many people.”

While tracking airborne assaults has provided O’Leary insight into crow behaviour, it’s also given him a window into the soul of those on the receiving end of such attacks.

“Looking at the reports over the years, I think there’s a sense of therapy,” he says.

“It’s not like when you see a dog growling, where you can prepare. Crows gener-

ally attack you from behind.

And it’s very offending. And people have a need to say, ‘I’m a person and this is what happened to me.’”

O’Leary, who vets all the reports before they go up on the map, says he’s noticed another common online behaviour of humans.

“There were a lot of bogus reports at the start.

Someone would report, ‘A crow followed me into a bar and ran off with my girlfriend’ — that sort of thing. So I didn’t want to have those up [on the site] because it takes away from the credibility.”

To report a crow attack or see crow hotspots across the city, go to giscourses. net/crowtrax/crowtrax.html. @Midlifeman1

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From cinematic tourism commercials and savvy real estate promos to social media-obsessed millennials and obnoxiously over-thetop wedding videos — are there any other kind? — aerial drone footage is having a moment.

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realtors. He’s also the cofounder of LiDAR Canada, which focuses on mapping, search and rescue, and engineering applications.

Business is soaring for Ross and his 11 drones, which cost from a few hundred dollars to $110,000, but so, too, is the number of amateur drone operators who ignore federal regulations and act recklessly for that perfect shot in hopes of setting the internet on fire.

“Jesus, open Instagram, it’s everywhere,” says Ross.

“Probably my biggest complaint is that there’s these rules and regulations that we’re all supposed to abide

by. And many people don’t, and they get these fantastic illegal shots of Vancouver.

You see them all over Instagram, looking a thousand feet up, looking straight down over the Lions Gate Bridge. You are directly in the flight path. And larger social media outlets in Vancouver — I’m not going to name names, but pretty much all of them — they’ll share these photos and they’ll get a bajillion likes and get new followers, and Transport Canada is not going after these people. It’s frustrating, and it’s everywhere.”

Ross says getting caught

breaking the law could be financially devastating to a commercial operator such as himself, but for viral video thrill seekers, enforcement is lacking and not enough of a deterrent.

According to Transport Canada stats, in 2017, six people were issued fines ranging from $250 to $2,000, for violation of drone regulations in the Pacific Region (Transport Canada doesn’t compile statistics by province or municipality). In 2018, only one person was fined in the region and, in the first three months on 2019, two people received fines.

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… here’s what you need to know New federal drone regulations, which came into effect June 1, require operators of any drone between 250 grams and 25 kilograms, whether commercial or recreational, to pass an online exam and get a pilot’s certificate. They also have to register their drones and mark them with the registration number.

Drones must also be flown: • where operators can see them at all times • below 122 metres (400 feet) in the air • away from bystanders, at a minimum horizontal distance of 30 metres for basic operations • away from emergency operations and advertised events • away from airports and heliports (5.6 kilometres from airports, 1.9 kilometres from heliports) • far away from other aircraft.

Vancouver has its own set of challenges for flying drones — you can’t. At least without permission from Nav Canada, says Ross, since Vancouver is controlled airspace. Harbour

Air controls the space when its float planes are in operation, and YVR controls the airspace the rest of the time.

To shoot drone footage in Vancouver, Ross also needs written permission from the property he intends to fly over. Once the permissions are in place, and he’s given Nav Canada at least 48 hours’ notice of when and where he plans to fly, he needs a crew of a least two people — a ground supervisor and a pilot. He also has to cone off a 100foot perimeter that acts as a takeoff and landing zone that no one else can enter.

The drone can’t cross any roads either. It basically travels up and down, and once it lands, Ross has to call air traffic control to tell them he’s done.

If he wants to fly over a city park, however, it’s a whole other level of bureaucracy and permits dealing with the city and the park board.

“It’s really tricky [with parks],” Ross says. “There are migratory bird situations… they involve a

biologist usually. It’s a nightmare.”

The density of Vancouver is also prohibitive to shooting drone footage.

The simple fact is there’s not enough room to fly drones legally downtown, says Ross.

On the other hand, the city is surrounded by water.

“So if you have access to a boat and/or a dock and you can secure a chunk of water to fly over, that’s a huge perk,” says Ross.

Of course, it’s not all friendly skies. Ross has had his drones attacked by seagulls while flying over St. Paul’s hospital. He’s also had to reprimand construction workers who thought it would be funny to shoot their nail guns at his airborne craft.

However, the most common obstacle in the flight path of shooting drone footage in the city is a very Vancouver one.

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One year ago, the Washington Capitals scored their way to the Stanley Cup, putting to bed the old adage that “defence wins championships.” They weren’t the worst team defensively, but their biggest strength was obvious: potent offence from elite scoring talent such as Alex Ovechkin, Evgeny Kuznetsov and Nicklas Backstrom.

This year, however, it’s back to the blueline for the Boston Bruins and St. Louis Blues, the two teams in the Stanley Cup Final. Sure, the Bruins and Blues can score — the Bruins dropped seven goals on the Blues in Game 2 — but the strength of both teams lies in their defence.

During the regular season, the Bruins and Blues, were two of the stingiest teams in the league. The Bruins allowed the third fewest goals against and the Blues allowed the fifth fewest.

Part of the reason for that stinginess came from their goaltending, but it also has a lot to do with the quantity and quality of shots given up by the skaters in front of them.

The Bruins and Blues were second and third in expected goals against at five on five in the regular season, according to hockey analytics site Natural Stat Trick, and that has nothing to do with their goaltending.

What’s intriguing, with the 2019 NHL Entry Draft less than a month away, is where the Bruins and Blues’ top defencemen were drafted.

The Blues are led by Alex Pietrangelo, who was drafted fourth overall: a minute-munching number one defenceman with 15 points in the playoffs. But they also have Colton Parayko, drafted in the third round in 2012, who has been just as important as Pietrangelo, if not more so, given the way he’s helped shut down opposing forwards all playoffs.

Apart from the aging Jay Bouwmeester, who was picked by the Florida Panthers third overall way back in 2002, the rest of the Blues defence is from outside the first round: Joel Edmundson and Vince Dunn were second-round picks, Robert Bortuzzo was a third-round pick, and Carl Gunnarsson was a seventh-round pick.

As for the Bruins, they have just one first-round pick among their regular defenceman: 2016 14th overall pick Charlie McAvoy, who leads the Bruins in ice time.

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That’s a lot of very good defencemen that came from outside the first round, which is reflected by other teams around the NHL. The league’s top-scoring defenceman in the regular season, Brent Burns, was a late second-round pick, and the second-highest was Mark Giordano, who went undrafted. A surprising number of the best defencemen in the NHL were selected outside the first round.

This should be readily apparent to the Canucks. Their top-four defencemen last season were a third-round pick (Alex Edler), a fifth-round pick (Ben Hutton) and two undrafted college free agent signings (Chris Tanev and Troy Stecher). That’s about to change with the addition of seventh-overall pick Quinn Hughes, but the Canucks badly need to find more quality NHL defencemen at the draft, particularly with Edler and Tanev succumbing to age and injuries.

Since Hutton, the Canucks have found just two NHL-caliber defencemen outside of the first round: Nikita Tryamkin and Gustav Forsling, both in 2014. Unfortunately, neither are playing for the Canucks; Tryamkin bolted for the KHL, while Forsling was traded to the Chicago Blackhawks for Adam Clendening.

The Canucks have chosen not to sign two defencemen they picked in 2017, Kristoffer Gunnarsson and Matt Brassard, but they still have high hopes for Jett Woo, and it’s possible that Guillaume Brisebois or Toni Utunen could play a few games in the NHL, but are they going to have the impact of someone like Parayko or Krug? That needs to be the aim for the Canucks as they continue to rebuild their defence.

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Twenty-five years of Music Waste Music event that began as a protest has outlasted them all Grant Lawrence

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In the spring of 1994, an event called Music Waste began as a single night of musical protest against the annual Music West Festival, considered by some local musicians to be too corporate and exclusive. To play Music West, which at one point was one of the largest music industry events in Canada, musicians were required to pay a fee to apply, with no guarantee of actually playing the festival.

When four like-minded alternative Vancouver bands — SMAK, Zolty Cracker, Terror of Tiny Town and Knock Down Ginger — all paid to play Music West in the spring of ’94 but were turned down, they funnelled their frustration into an event all their own. The show was at the Station Street Arts Centre near Main and Prior. They went head to head with Music West and, just like that, Music Waste was born.

“It went really well,” recalls Kris Wood, who at the time was in SMAK. Since 2006, Wood has been a professional touring musician in his band Blackberry Wood. He’s largely credited

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with spearheading Music Waste but can’t remember who coined the name. “It could have been Geoff Berner from Tiny Town.

Sounds like something he would say.”

Berner is now a worldtravelling klezmer punk accordionist, activist and author, and has fond memories of that first night of Music Waste.

“I remember that we had a great time and nobody made any money to speak of, as per usual,” says Berner. “I remember feeling good that we were doing our own thing, outside of the crappy music industry circle jerk. I felt like we had the better music. Like a

Salon des Refusés.”

A reporter from Chart Magazine was in attendance and wrote up a glowing review in the national publication, spreading the word of Music Waste across the country.

“That first year we had our four bands,” says Wood. “In 1995, we put out a call for submissions, and we got 80 bands. By 1996, we had 250 bands.”

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More than 70 bands play across the city at this year’s festival in our music scene, and it’s true. I’m happy to see that continuing with Music Waste to this day.”

Music Waste’s 25th anniversary festival is this weekend (Thursday. June 6 to Sunday, June 9) at

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to say we’re staying stagnant — we are all really committed to pushing the festival to evolve in terms of genre, inclusivity and safety.

Generally, we want it to be evolving at the cutting edge of the DIY community.”

This year’s festival features more than 70 bands, including Music Waste veterans such as Apollo Ghosts, Woolworm and Devours, along with exciting newcomers such as Akita, Megamall and Debt. The entire schedule is posted now at musicwaste.ca.

And even though the organizers are quick to point out that Music Waste has never been about commercial success, past Music Waste alumni that have gone on to international acclaim include Japandroids, Mac DeMarco and Black Mountain.

True to Music Waste’s original roots in protest, it’s still free to submit your band for consideration.

Rather than charging artists to submit, Music Waste divides up the revenue from the festival, paying each artist equally. But in an ironic twist, just like that fallen corporate ogre Music West, there is no guarantee your band will get in to Music Waste these days, either.

“We get a ton of submissions every year, and we have to make a lot of really tough choices,” says Corbo.

“Only like a quarter of the bands get in. But I would never want to discourage anyone from applying. The good news for anyone who gets turned down is that you can still be part of the festival. We encourage Go Your Own Waste (GYOW) shows. Basically, you can just put on whatever show you want, and as long as you accept Music Waste passes at the door, we will promote it as part of the festival.”

Kris Wood is proud his counter-festival is still going strong.

“Darren Atwater gave me a great piece of advice,” says Wood. “He said if you want to keep Music Waste going, you have to give it away. You have to pass it on to those who are the most enthusiastic and the most energized

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Atwater, who now lives in England, remembers that Terminal City’s Granville Street office space served as a home base for Music Waste for years, until the festival went on hiatus in 1998 after a rash of venue closures across the city.

Music Waste returned in 2004, resurrected with help again from Atwater, this time with festival directors Sarah Cordingley and Cameron Reed at the helm.

“I was fresh out of journalism school and I became an intern at Terminal City,” says Cordingley. “John Cow and Darren Atwater had the idea to revive Music Waste and I did what I could to help out.

I didn’t even know what Music Waste was, but my band Channels 3 and 4 got to play that year. I was introduced to so many great bands and people that I adore to this day. It was such a funny, sincere, and not-to-serious event that I was hooked.”

Over the years, Cordingley and Reed expanded the festival, adding Comedy Waste and Art Waste. Both directors have since moved on. Cordingley is an elementary school music teacher, and Reed is the director of marketing for Arts and Crafts Records in Toronto.

Music Waste is still going strong as an independent, non-profit, music, art and comedy festival that is entirely volunteer organized and run, and has lasted far longer than the festival it criticized.

Music West is now but a faint memory in the annals of Vancouver rock history, fading out in the late 2000s under the moniker of New Music West.

Natalie Corbo is a current Music Waste organizer who has been with the festival for three years and says the goal is to keep it affordable and inclusive.

“Music Waste isn’t trying to get bigger, or make a profit, or any of the things that are kind of ironically represented by our ‘80s Business’ theme this year,” Corbo says. “That’s not

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