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Remember that guy who used to be mayor of Vancouver and told us he was going to end “street homelessness” by 2015?

Remember the guy before him who launched something called “Project Civil City” and planned to reduce homelessness by 50 per cent?

Gregor Robertson and Sam Sullivan had some laudable goals.

Were they realistic?

Not, as we discovered, without a considerable amount of cash coming for housing — which never came in the boatloads needed — from the provincial government or the feds.

The stats show homelessness only got worse under Sullivan and Robertson, who were in charge at city hall with majority councils from 2005 to 2018.

In Sullivan’s term, homelessness increased from 1,364 people in 2005 to 1,576 in 2008. Then it reached 2,181 in the last year of Robertson’s reign in 2018.

There were some dips in 2011, 2012 and 2013, only to increase again and get us to 2,223 people counted as homeless in this year’s homeless count in March.

So I was interested to read a news release from the B.C. Liberals June 13 that quoted Sullivan, who is now the Liberal MLA for Vancouver-False Creek and his party’s housing critic.

The headline on the release: “Homelessness in Vancouver continues to rise, despite NDP promises.”

Here’s Sullivan’s quote: “Since the NDP has been in office, Vancouver has seen a 20 per cent increase in its homeless population. This is unacceptable. Instead of creating new units to house vulnerable people as promised, the NDP is failing to meet its commitments and leaving them in the cold.”

That’s a bold statement coming from a former mayor whose plan to cut homelessness by 50 per cent was launched when the very party he now represents was in power in Victoria.

The Liberals did spend millions to build 13 supportive housing sites, bought and renovated a couple dozen single-room-occupancy hotels, leased some former hotels for temporary housing and provided rent supplements to many.

Former mayors Sam Sullivan and Gregor Robertson had some laudable goals to decrease homelessness, but failed. Now Mayor Kennedy Stewart is faced with the same challenge.

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Still it wasn’t enough to turn the tide on homelessness.

While I’m stating facts here, the NDP spent $66 million to provide 606 temporary modular housing units in Vancouver for more than 500 previously homeless people.

In addition, the Horgan government provided me with a detailed list in March of 25 housing projects in development in Vancouver.

We’re talking 2,498 homes.

City staff’s presentation June 12 on this year’s count revealed the new guy at city hall — Kennedy Stewart — and his mixed council have a lot of work to do to achieve a better legacy than their predecessors.

The 2,223 people counted over a 24-hour period in March was an increase of 42 people over last year’s count.

That’s a new all-time high.

For those wondering about how the homeless numbers compared to overall population growth, homelessness grew by two per cent over last year.

Overall population growth was one per cent.

The only real positive sign — if that’s even possible to say when the homeless man outside our office window has been slumped in a chair since I arrived this morning — is that the number of unsheltered dropped from 659 last year to 619 this year.

Unsheltered, by the way, is a term used to describe people living on the street, living in vehicles and “couch surfing.” In other words, a person staying at someone’s place who doesn’t pay rent.

So what’s Stewart got to say about all this?

Well, a lot, as I reported last week.

The main takeaway from what the mayor said is that he’s grateful for the fund-

ing from the provincial government but isn’t happy with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his government.

Homelessness is only going to decrease, he said, if Trudeau comes through with millions of dollars for housing for the city’s most vulnerable.

Unlike Robertson and Sullivan, Stewart has not made any promises or developed any type of Project Civil City-type slogans.

But he repeated a new talking point twice at last week’s news conference that you will undoubtedly hear more of during his term.

It is so new that he had to read it from his speaking notes.

It goes like this: “We need to make sure that homelessness is rare, brief and one-time.”

Not exactly sound bite material.

And it’s ambiguous enough to not have him called out on why he didn’t cut homelessness by 50 per cent, or end street homelessness.

The target here for Stewart is Trudeau.

It was the prime minister’s government that promised at a news conference in Vancouver in November 2017 to spend $40 billion on a 10-year national housing strategy that aims to cut chronic homelessness by 50 per cent.

By Stewart’s count, Vancouver has received $300,000 for housing from the feds since he’s been mayor. That’s about a third of what it costs to buy a fixer-upper in the ’burbs.

Meanwhile, the homeless man is still in the alley outside my office window.

He told me the shelters are full and he wants housing.

His name is Bryn. @Howellings

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Police cleared after violent takedown in gang investigation Use of force to prevent shooting was ‘reasonable and justified,’ says report

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The Independent Investigations Office has cleared a Vancouver police officer of any wrongdoing in a highprofile gang investigation in 2017 that involved a suspect suffering serious injuries during an arrest.

The suspect, whose name was not released, suffered broken ribs, a punctured lung and a liver laceration after the Ford Explorer he was a passenger in crashed into three parked vehicles in south Vancouver.

When the Explorer stopped, the suspect said a police officer — a dog handler — punched him “a few times” in the head and body after a police dog “started grabbing my leg and stuff,” according to a report released June 7 by IIO chief civilian director Ronald Macdonald.

Macdonald concluded from the evidence that the suspect’s injuries occurred during an initial attempt by police in an SUV to stop the Explorer by strik-

ing its door and a second successful attempt by another police-driven SUV that caused the crash.

“It is highly unlikely that an officer would have entered a suspect vehicle believed to be occupied by two potentially violent individuals with at least one firearm, in the manner described by [the suspect],” Macdonald wrote.

“There is no evidence of any injury, superficial or otherwise, attributable to punches.”

Macdonald described the injuries caused by the dog as “minor.”

The crash occurred in the early morning hours of Oct. 26, 2017 after a police-driven SUV rammed the rear of the Explorer hard enough for it to spin out near East 57th Avenue and Windsor Street.

Moments earlier, another police-driven SUV attempted to stop the Explorer near Fraser Street and East 57th Avenue.

The IIO report said the police vehicle made “contact lightly” on the driver’s side of the pursued vehicle.

Project Temper led to seven arrests, the seizure of four guns, ammunition and various charges against what police at the time described as “a violent group.” PHOTO COURTESY VPD

The IIO report did not disclose street names, make of vehicle or other details of what police dubbed Project Temper, a joint investigation with the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of B.C. That information appears in court documents related to the investigation, which ended in seven arrests, the seizure of four guns, ammunition and various charges against what

police at the time described as “a violent group.”

Those documents referred to the passenger in the Explorer as S.K.K., who was a youth at the time.

The documents say S.K.K. and driver Simrat Singh Lally were believed to be on their way to shoot a firearm into the family residence of members of a rival street gang living near the 7100-block of Fraser Street.

Lally, who was 19 at the time, pleaded guilty in December to arson and firearm charges and was sentenced March 8 in B.C. Supreme Court to almost five years in prison.

When interviewed by IIO investigators about the arrest on Oct. 26, 2017, S.K.K. said, “I was on drugs… it’s kind of like a blur, you know. I only remember bits and pieces.”

S.K.K. also told investigators he consumed “maybe a little bit of liquor” and rated his state of intoxication as “around eight, nine” on a scale of one to 10.

The IIO report says police recovered an SKS semi-automatic assault rifle and ammunition in a gun case that had “apparently been thrown from the suspect vehicle through a broken window by the force of the crash.”

Macdonald said the officer in question was justified in his use of force — both in the vehicle collision and the use of his police dog — in the arrest.

“The police were faced with attempting to prevent what they understood to be a planned shooting,” he wrote.

“While the force they used to stop the vehicle was significant, it was reasonable and justified in the circumstances given the significant harm they were attempting to prevent. Indeed, it was their duty to prevent the intended crime.” @Howellings

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Police Chief Adam Palmer has revealed that his officers thwarted several “active shooter” situations in Vancouver over the years but none was related to the Jewish community.

Palmer broke the news to reporters June 13 after a Vancouver Police Board meeting at the Jewish Community Centre, where the audience heard that Jewish people are consistently targeted more for hate crimes than any other group in the city.

“We follow up on threats very quickly, and there have been a number of threats for active shooter type situations — not related to the Jewish community — but related to other places in Vancouver over the years that we have proactively stopped,” the chief told reporters.

“Quite often the media will not hear about those things. You only hear about it when a tragedy happens, but we have thwarted several attempts in our city.”

Palmer said police conduct “active shooter” drills and run evacuation and lockdown exercises at various sites around the city. He didn’t say which ones, but noted the Jewish community requested extra training.

The chief said such training, which also includes a video showing people how to run, hide and fight, assists the Jewish community but

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commonly investigated are related to graffiti, harassment, assaults and suspicious circumstances.

The most targeted populations are Jewish, Muslim, LGBTQ2S+, Asian and black people, she added.

Statistics posted to the VPD’s website May 31 related to hate crimes, which were reported in the Courier last week, did not include statistics for hate crime incidents.

An example of a hate crime incident would be a person making hateful comments but not accompanied by a crime such as an assault. Such an incident is considered by police as a “non-criminal action.”

Combining hate crimes

also gets officers familiar with a facility in case they have to respond to an emergency.

“There is no specific threat against the Jewish community or anybody else in Vancouver right now,” he said.

“Having said that, we do have a moderate threat level in Canada for terrorism generally since the attacks that happened in Ottawa [in 2014].”

In a presentation to the police board, Det. Const.

Jacquie Abbott, the VPD’s hate crimes investigator, said hate crimes and hate crime incidents increased from 61 in 2016 to 141 in 2018.

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A hate crime is a criminal offence committed against a person or property motivated by the suspect or suspects’ hate, prejudice or bias against someone’s race, national or ethnic origin, language, colour, religion, sex, age, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other similar factor.

A hate crime incident applies to the same motivation and identifiable group.

In the first quarter of this year, 20 hate crime or

“themed incidents” were reported to Vancouver police. Vandalism and mischief accounted for 40 per cent of the cases.

Last year, Jewish people and property were the main target of hate crimes, followed by the LGTBQ2S+ and black communities. In the first quarter of this year, anti-Asian hate motivated incidents were as common as crimes and incidents in the LGTBQ2S+ community.

The anti-Semitic surge across Canada and across the globe, including recent shootings in Pittsburgh and San Diego, has caused the Jewish community to implement a series of security measures at its community centre and other sites in Vancouver.

That includes the training with VPD, the addition of security guards, cameras, panic buttons, upgrades to doors and locks and installing blast film for windows.

Some of the funding has come from a Justice Canada program for security infrastructure. Vancouver police officers have worked with the Jewish community to secure grants through the program.

Daniel Heydenrych, director of security for the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver, said the community centre and approximately 14 agencies within the community have benefitted from the funding.

“The program is very successful and we really benefit from the VPD’s

support and partnership,” Heydenrych told the board, noting his position was created in 2017.

Nico Slobinsky, director of the Pacific Region for the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, said there is no other community centre in Vancouver that has such a high level of security.

Slobinsky told the board of the good working relationship his agency has with the VPD but urged the community to remain vigilant in what he described as the “distressing rise in antiSemitism globally.”

Slobinsky was born and raised in Argentina, where in his home city of Buenos Aires in 1994, a Jewish community centre was bombed. A total of 85 people were killed and more than 300 people injured.

Slobinsky said his father spent hours at the scene, along with others, searching through the rubble for survivors.

“Families were shattered,” he said. “The Argentinian Jewish community — the sixth largest in the world — was changed forever. And so were the lives of its members.”

Slobinsky said the Jewish community is not immune to such level of hate, noting an anti-Semitic hate crime takes place once every 24 hours in Canada, according to Statistics Canada.

“Let that number sink in for a moment,” he said. @Howellings

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IBI Group Architects has filed a rezoning application on behalf of Jameson Development Corp. to build a 28-storey rental

building on Broadway at Birch Street. An open house about the project, which is envisioned for 2538 Birch St. — formerly 1296 West Broadway on the old Denny’s site — is set for June 27.

The plan is already controversial — critics launched a website at 28floors.com months ago to oppose the tower following a pre-application open house last November. Opponents argue

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a 28-storey building is inappropriate at that location and would set a precedent in South Granville where a community plan isn’t in place.

Supporters insist more rental housing is needed

in a city dealing with a housing crisis.

The developer had secured approval for a 16-storey market rental building in early 2018 but later decided to submit an expression of inter-

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est for the much higher building under the city’s Moderate Income Rental Housing Pilot Program (MIRHPP), which requires 20 per cent of the residential floor space be reserved for households earning between $30,000 and $80,000 a year.

The rezoning application for 2538 Birch St. proposed a mixed-use building with 248 secured rental units, 53 of which would be designated as MIRHPP units, and a floor space ratio of 10.52.

The application refers to the proposed development site as “an ideal location to provide secured market rental housing and moderate income rental housing” since it’s near transit and cycling routes, as well as schools and community centres.

Public benefits, according to the applicant, include: • the fact it will deliver 97 family-sized units of two bedrooms or more • 22 per cent of the overall units will be MIRHPP for moderate income households • the project won’t displace any residents because the site was once home to a restaurant • the provision of outdoor agricultural plots for residents’ use on the fourth floor • amenity spaces for residents, including an outdoor children’s playground • the fact it will be petfriendly with a dedicated pet washing area • there will be a tile mosaic artwork on the northwest corner designed by Musqueam artist Debra Sparrow. It will start at the plaza and rise to 17 storeys.

The open house runs from 5 to 8 p.m., June 27 at the Holiday Inn Hotel at 711 West Broadway. The project is currently scheduled to go before the Urban Design Panel July 10.

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Increased traffic concerns Hastings-Sunrise residents

‘This neighbourhood has become known as a way to shortcut around Hastings’ Jessica Kerr

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Standing on the corner of East Georgia and Penticton streets on a sunny Wednesday morning, Max Richter watches as car after car passes through the intersection.

It’s just after 8 a.m., and a steady stream of vehicles heads west through the quiet Hastings-Sunrise neighbourhood. Most appear to be heading toward busy Nanaimo Street and a line forms as the cars wait for a chance to turn. Richter, an architect who has lived in the neighbourhood for nine years, says traffic volumes and speeds have always been a concern, but it’s been getting busier in recent months.

There was a bit of a reprieve during last year’s closure of the Adanac overpass.

Last spring, the city closed the overpass from Highway 1 to Cassiar temporarily so drivers wouldn’t use it as a shortcut in and out of the city while Fortis B.C. was upgrading its underground gas line along East First Avenue.

That work has been complete for several months, and the overpass re-opened in January. Since then, Richter says, traffic has been even worse. East Georgia is particularly bad for speeding, he says, because it is wider than some of the other side streets.

It is almost two metres wider than Turner Street, which is one block to the north.

“Sometimes they’ll be going well over 60 kilometres an hour,” Richter says of the vehicles he has seen speeding along East Georgia.

“This neighbourhood has become known as a way to shortcut around Hastings.”

On one recent morning, Richter recorded video of a large tour bus making its way along East Georgia towards Nanaimo. One of his neighbours recently conducted their own, informal traffic count — tallying 50 cars in just five minutes one morning.

“You’ll see, sometimes, 15 cars lined up waiting to turn left or right [on to Nanaimo],” Richter said.

And Nanaimo is currently undergoing a number of improvements itself. Work is already underway to upgrade sewer infrastructure along Nanaimo between McGill

Street and Fourth Avenue, while also improving the road to “make it safer and more comfortable for everyone,” according to the city’s website.

Recommended improvements include: removing a travel lane between East Second Avenue and Pandora Street, upgrading pedestrian crossings, installing a painted bike lane and new left-turn lanes down centre of the street.

Richter is concerned that removing a travel lane will lead to bottlenecks along Nanaimo.

Mike Hengeveld lives a few blocks east of Renfrew on East Georgia near Windermere Street. He says traffic started becoming a concern about seven years ago and notes traffic volume, speed and lawlessness as his primary concerns.

He routinely sees drivers going the wrong way around roundabouts, blowing through stop signs and running over the traffic bollards.

“A neighbor reported watching a dude get out of his truck with a [reciprocating saw] and cut a bollard off,” he told the Courier in an email.

Hengeveld says the traffic peaks during the morning and afternoon rush hours.

“There is a steady flow of delivery/work/service vehicles during the day,” he says. “It is a well-established short-cut.”

Hengeveld says he has yet to see any recognition or discussion around how the problem will likely get worse — more volume, more speeders — as the population in the Lower Mainland continues to grow.

A November 2016 traffic study conducted by the city noted that more than 70 per cent of drivers travelling through the neighbourhood during rush hour, westbound in the morning and eastbound in the afternoon, are coming from other cities.

Both Richter and Hengeveld have contacted the city to voice their concerns about the traffic in the neighbourhood.

In an emailed statement from its communications department, the city said it is “committed to working with residents and local stakeholders. We are currently gathering local resident feedback via email and are planning a community workshop in the fall of 2019.

“We realize there are challenges in this area, and look forward to working

with the community to assess a few different concepts for the local street network.”

The city also said it is currently conducting traffic counts in the neighbourhood to help understand the traffic patterns.

“We will present potential mitigations in our network concepts that will be presented to the public in the fall.”

Hastings-Sunrise resident Max Richter says traffic along East Georgia has gotten worse in recent months with more drivers trying to avoid Hastings Street. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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City of Vancouver can learn from Portland’s many charms Art, heritage architecture, transit infrastructure impresses

Mike Klassen

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When spending a number of days with my wife as first-time tourists in Portland, Ore., I chose to explore the Cascadian outpost through the eyes of a city lover. It did not take long for us to be charmed

by Portland, as we took stock of many of its appealing attributes that made a pair of Vancouverites a little jealous.

Our visit took place during the week Vancouver released its damning homelessness numbers, showing significant growth in the number of people either living on the street or without permanent shelter.

Portland has its own significant struggles with homelessness, and currently estimates around 4,100 people are homeless in the metropolitan area on any given day of the year. Those numbers line up with the totals in the Lower Mainland, which in 2017 was calculated to be more than 3,700 homeless.

On more than one occasion, my wife and I were asked what we thought about Portland’s visible

Columnist Mike Klassen and his wife took a trip to Portland, Ore., and they liked what they saw.

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homelessness, and we had to admit that it felt much worse back home in Vancouver, as there is less visible panhandling and open use of hard drugs in Portland.

Not that this makes their homelessness problem any less severe.

The reason why the homelessness issue factored into our Portland observations is that we were struck how placid the downtown area felt when compared to Vancouver. I asked a retailer there why the streets felt fairly empty, and he cited

the homelessness issue as a determining factor.

A major sporting goods company made news here a couple of years ago when their CEO openly lamented moving their headquarters in the downtown due in part to number of people living on the street nearby.

Notwithstanding the city’s homelessness struggles, it is impossible not to love downtown Portland and the growing Pearl District. The city has taken a page from Vancouver by densifying part of its urban

core with new housing, office buildings and retail.

We discovered beautiful public spaces in the Pearl District such as Tanner Springs Park, an “urban marsh” surrounded by midrise towers and planted with native grasses, and large steps that allow you to sit at the water’s edge.

Portland is a foodie’s delight with rows of food trucks and smaller sidewalk carts showcasing an incredible variety of culinary choices.

The civilizing influence of good food and craft bever-

ages makes Portland feel less stuffy than Vancouver, which is still hobbled by outdated liquor regulations and red tape. Oregon proudly promotes its indigenous wine industry, which produces world class Burgundian-style Pinot Noir less than an hour’s drive from the city.

We became envious of the city’s incredible transit amenities, such as its downtown streetcar network. Portland is a transit-lover’s paradise with streets heavily emphasizing walking, transit and cycling. It is hard to imagine half of either Pender or Burrard Street turned over to buses and bikes only, but doing this has transformed Portland for the better.

An aerial tram located on the city’s northwest side transports thousands of health care workers to a large hospital district. The tram was controversial because it spanned a residential neighbourhood, but they went ahead and built it anyway — just like they should up to the Burnaby Mountain SFU campus here.

In a previous column, I made a case for more drinking fountains to satisfy the thirst of our active

citizens. Portland’s fourspigot drinking fountains perfectly execute on that idea — slowly trickling to keep the water cool, tasty and always available for thirsty passersby.

A short ride via Lyft, Uber or by bus takes you across the Willamette River into the trendy Southeast Division neighbourhood.

One of Portland’s charms are its many vibrant town centres, where many young people have flocked for great dining venues and gathering spaces.

My wife and I were also amazed by the courteousness of drivers within the city. Before you set one foot in a crosswalk, traffic quickly rolls to a stop. Leadfooted Vancouver drivers could learn a thing or two from Portlanders.

Where Portland really impressed us is through its collection of sculptures adorning downtown streets.

Through its art, its heritage architecture and the iconic wall painted with the “Keep Portland Weird” slogan, we found the city to be not only visually captivating, but friendly and inviting to neighbours like us from the north. @MikeKlassen

Stacked townhouses a good option in Vancouver, but not beside a hospice Michael Geller

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I recently returned from New York City where I attended a symposium on American experiences related to housing affordability, community and health.

There I learned about non-profit organizations in Los Angeles promoting laneway housing for the homeless and others receiving federal government rent subsidies. One of the organizations, United Dwelling, was awarded $1 million from the LA County Innovation Challenge for its idea to address housing affordability by converting garages into dwelling units.

I also met a co-founder of Nesterly, which promotes home-sharing between different generations. Given the growing need for affordable housing, increased loneliness and hundreds of thousands of empty bedrooms in Metro Vancouver, I see wonderful opportunities for similar initiatives here.

On my return to Vancouver, the results of this year’s homeless count

were announced. I was not the only one disappointed, but not surprised, to hear the number of Vancouver homeless people has again increased. While I am pleased the relocatable modular housing program has accommodated more than 600 formerly homeless people, I do not believe we can ever end homelessness by just building more housing.

Instead, we need to more effectively address the addictions and mental illness that affect many homeless people, as well as offer family reunification programs like that offered by the Salvation Army, and employment programs managed by EMBERS. We also need to work with the federal government since many of our homeless arrived here from other provinces, and more will continue to come if we continue to offer good housing, social programs and supervised injection sites.

Of course, one way to address housing affordability and homelessness is to increase incomes. It

If approved, this proposed stacked-townhouse development at 4575 Granville St. will significantly compromise the peace and enjoyment of residents in a neighbouring hospice, says columnist Michael Geller.

troubles me to see some people oppose minimum hourly wage increases when the minimum wage is less than the GST on their hourly fees.

We also need to do more to prevent homelessness in the future by supporting programs such as KidCare Canada, which helps new mothers learn how to care for their children. Sadly, too many homeless people had terrible upbringings, which contributed to their ending up on the streets.

While I would like to expand on these matters, instead I prefer to address the topic dominating my Twitter feed on my return to Vancouver, namely the rezoning proposal being considered by Vancouver city council to build 21 rental stacked-townhouse units at 4575 Granville St., next to an eight-person hospice.

I should begin by pointing out that I have been a longstanding proponent of more stacked town-

housing in Vancouver since I consider it a good alternative to apartments for families with children.

I am also a proponent of rezoning arterial streets for higher density housing.

While it would be better to locate higher density housing on the streets behind the arterials, away from the noise and fumes, this is often more difficult in the absence of an overall plan.

In the mid-’90s, despite considerable neighbourhood opposition, I rezoned four lots on Oak Street at West 42nd for a seniors’ apartment building. I also rezoned seven lots on West 41st next to Crofton House School for seniors’ apartments.

In the Roundtable on Building Form and Design, which I chaired for the Mayor’s Task Force on Affordable Housing, we proposed upzoning arterial roads and the transition zones behind for higher density housing.

However, I oppose this particular spot-rezoning, albeit within the context of the Interim Rezoning Policy for Affordable Housing

Choices, because it is next to one of the city’s four hospices.

I first learned about the benefits of hospices from Atal Gawande’s book Being Mortal. If you haven’t read it, I highly recommend it.

While I often regard neighbourhood concerns about overlooking increased traffic and parking problems as a camouflage for other concerns, such as not wanting renters in a neighbourhood, in this case I believe the hospice’s concerns to be legitimate.

If approved, the development will significantly compromise the peace and enjoyment of residents, both during and after construction.

I also accept the claim that approval could lead to a complete closure of a hospice that was built only through considerable community effort.

I therefore hope council will refuse this rezoning, noting that there are many more suitable locations where stacked townhouse rental housing can, and should, be built. @michaelgeller

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Re: “How to achieve peak user harmony on the seawall,” June 13.

Maybe let inane, speeding cyclists crash and burn on slick patches of seawall, then post pictures of the aftermath(s) along the route as a warning to other speedsters? How else will they learn? Bike safety and adherence by cyclists to the rules of the road is laughable in Vancouver. The sense of entitlement is palpable from the slurs cyclists give you if, as a pedestrian (not a car!), you get in their way and, heaven forbid, say “watch out!”

Enforcement, sadly, is a (nonexistent) joke, too. We do need traffic cops on the seawall. Yes, really. Or the rest of us

Re: “Trustee wants Cecil Rhodes sign removed from Vancouver school,” June 13.

So Jennifer Reddy wants to erase some history, the name — at a Vancouver school — of Cecil Rhodes. Perhaps, too, the two B.C. students now at Oxford on Rhodes scholarships (about $150,000 each) should be asked to come home and return whatever funds they still have available to them.

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‘Heart of Mount Pleasant’ tops Heritage V Quirky mix of older buildings, longtime businesses, affordable artist spaces and diverse demographics makes neighbourhood unique and vulnerable Naoibh O’Connor

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The old Mount Pleasant village at Main Street between Sixth and 12th avenues, combined with the triangle block formed by Main, Broadway and Kingsway, form what Heritage Vancouver Society refers to as “The Heart of Mount Pleasant,” which has acted as the “hub” of the neighbourhood since it began to develop in the 1880s.

Its ongoing value lies in the older buildings, diversity of longtime businesses, affordable artist spaces and the diverse demographics, according to Bill Yuen, the organization’s executive director.

Like many, Yuen appreciates the quirky mix of what’s offered.

“You have the book store, which I really enjoy going to — Pulpfiction books.

It’s great that people walk in there and they all know the owner or the people working there. It’s almost familial,” he said.

“I quite enjoy the triangle building. It’s rather important. Obviously, there’s a lot of history in the building, but upstairs there’s a lot of artist studios that are affordable for artists. Downstairs, there’s Gene’s [café], of course, which is quite a beloved space. It’s a wonderful corner that people can use.

People sit outside — there’s a lot of activity outside. It’s quite a wonderful building.”

What the area will look and feel like in the future remains uncertain, however. That concern, along with its importance to a lot of people, is why Heritage Vancouver Society (HVS) ranked “The Heart of Mount Pleasant” as No. 1 on its 2019 Top 10 watch list. The list — the organization’s 19th — was released June 20.

Uncertainty around how the Broadway Plan, which is underway, will unfold was a key factor in the decision, and also why “Broadway Neighbourhoods” earned the No. 2 position.

“The heart of Mount Pleasant and the other Broadway Neighbourhoods are key areas that are distinct and beloved,” the watch list states.

“The combinations of small local businesses, streetscapes, public gathering spaces, demographics, more affordable spaces and older buildings make them

Important historic buildings in the heart of Mount Pleasant include the Ashnola apartments at 2152 Main St., the Royal Bank/ Goh Ballet building at 2345 Main St. and the Lee Building at Broadway and Main. PHOTOS DAN TOULGOET

significant for the benefit of the public.”

But advocates worry about what could be lost if heritage concerns, including the idea of “living neighbourhoods,” aren’t given due consideration during the city’s planning processes, Yuen said.

Launched in March, the Broadway Plan, which will take two years to complete, covers the Broadway corridor from Clark Drive to Vine Street between West First and 16th avenues, traversing four neighbourhoods — False Creek Flats, Fairview, Mount Pleasant and a corner of Kitsilano.

It will address subjects such as housing, job space, and social and cultural amenities around the future subway route — an extension of the Millennium Line from VCC-Clark Station to Arbutus Street. Six stations are

planned — five on Broadway, potentially at Main, Cambie, Oak, Granville and Arbutus. Conservationists fear the stations could intensify development pressure.

The Broadway Plan is not the only large-scale planning program underway that will impact neighbourhoods.

A city-wide plan is also in the works. Council directed staff to start developing it last November.

“We’re talking about big impacts on neighbourhoods — on what constitutes a neighbourhood. We’re not just talking about historic buildings that people care about. This is much bigger,” Yuen said.

“With Mount Pleasant, we’re talking about the nature of the small businesses and the type of commercial identity that’s there. We’re talking about the demographic mix that is already there, there’s

income mix and businesses that serve those different demographics. There’s artists, there’s affordable spaces. All those things come up when you think, ‘OK, is everything going to be demolished to make way for bigger buildings around the station area?’

This is really important for, not just people who are interested in local history or historic architecture, but for people who care about that neighbourhood and use that neighbourhood.”

Heart under threat

Important historic buildings in the heart of Mount Pleasant include • the Ashnola apartments at 2152 Main St. • the Royal Bank/Goh Ballet building at 2345 Main St. • the Lee Building at Broadway and Main • the Bank of Montreal at 2490 Main St. • Belvedere Court at 2539

Main St. • Wenonah Apartments at 2703 Main St. • the Vernon Block at 225 to 245 East Broadway • Williams Block at 154 East Seventh • Western Front at 303 East Eighth • Quebec Manor at 101 East Seventh • the building at Eighth and Main • and two brewery buildings at Scotia at Sixth and Seventh.

The 13 buildings are on the Heritage Register, but only four have an official legal designation.

Alyssa Myshok, co-founder of Mount Pleasant Heritage Group, is as concerned as Heritage Vancouver about the buildings, how they contribute to the neighbourhood and the area’s future. The group helped the society put together the position paper on “The Heart of Mount Pleasant.”

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Top 10 list outline why particular entries were chosen — the threat against them, their significance, HVS’s position and actions the public can take.

For Myshok, the heart of Mount Pleasant’s “humanscale” buildings and long history combine to produce its character.

“There’s such a story contained in all those buildings about how Mount Pleasant came together.

It was built around the streetcar so it’s almost like the first suburb built around public transit,” she said.

While the neighbourhood’s 2010 community plan emphasizes the importance of its character, Myshok maintains nothing’s been put in place to protect it.

“The heart really is under threat. Development has been really taking off in Mount Pleasant, of course, because it’s been more accessible for developers… It is heartbreaking that here is a really treasured part of not only Mount Pleasant, but of the city, [and] that the city hasn’t stood up to recognize [it],” she said.

“Now we’re going into the Broadway corridor plan.

So far, nothing that the city has put forth has really said [that] this is a critical part of what Mount Pleasant means in the community, it’s important to the city, and we need to ensure it remains as such — at scale, with a community feel, [and] retains that character.”

Aside from getting involved with the Mount Pleasant Heritage Group, both Heritage Vancouver and Myshok encourage residents to take part in the Broadway planning process to share what aspects they think are important and should be preserved.

“Show up, attend the [Broadway Plan meetings], participate in them, and tell the city what is valuable about that area and what they feel should be kept,” Yuen said.

“I want to emphasize, even though this is Heritage Vancouver’s Top 10, this goes way beyond the historic buildings. It could be that the older buildings allow for more affordable rents — [it’s] anything that you value on that street. If you go to yoga, if you buy ice cream, if you sit and have a beer, if you have coffee — that local mom-andpop business, they might get pushed out.”

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Vancouver Society’s 2019 watch list Regards to Broadway

“Broadway Neighbourhoods,” earned the No. 2 position on the watch list since numerous blocks along that route between Clark and Vine are subject to the Broadway planning process.

Heritage Vancouver says it supports “a progressive, performance-based planning process that truly listens to residents and does not have any preconceived notions of how transitoriented neighbourhoods should look and feel.”

Yuen said residents’ participation in public consultation is key to ensure critical features are preserved.

“There’s a responsibility for residents to communicate properly what is important, aside from saying there’s a specific architectural look, which is important too, but that’s not the only thing,” he said.

“On the West Side, we hear that the neighbourhood is hollowing out, there’s less people there and [fewer] kids going to school, so how do you bring back what makes up that neighbourhood? What is

The Fairmont Building is No. 7 on Heritage Vancouver Society’s watch list. Read more about the top 10 list at vancourier.com. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

really important in terms of neighbourhood character?”

Unique elements in the Broadway neighbourhoods, according to Heritage Vancouver, include the groceries in Kitsilano’s Greektown, the “pleasant” walkability of mixed-use Fairview slopes, Main Street’s “trendy” retail and casual street life, and the “dense leafy character of Mount Pleasant.”

The organization also calls attention to “First Nations’ activity on the slopes long before 1890 when the first road was built and became a major colonial thoroughfare.”

“This rich history has left numerous unusual architectural and place-making assets, along with many intangible patterns of daily use,” states the organization, highlighting

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the BowMac sign, the Main Street Triangle, the collection of outdoor stores around the old MEC site, “Dingbat” apartments — low-rise stucco walk-up apartments, often with parking underneath at the main level — at Granville Street, and one of Vancouver’s first low-energy townhomes at Vine Street. “[They] all represent important times and move-

ments that deserve attention and protection. These are just a handful of examples in a long list of important sites. Few of these areas, buildings, signs and stores are protected in any legal or policy sense.”

Heritage Vancouver insists it’s not against change, it’s not opposed to the rapid transit line and it’s not against the Broadway planning process. Rather, it argues, it’s important to retain and enhance neighbourhood character, while allowing growth to occur.

“We’re not saying you need to keep everything, but we need to identify what’s important to keep,” Yuen said.

For the society, “a successful Broadway area plan that respects existing neighbourhoods may require careful control of land use and block by black negotiation in order to retain important concentrations of intangible patterns.”

Heritage Vancouver’s overall watch list, meanwhile, varies from specific sites to particular parts of the city to how heritage, in general, can be protected.

The complete list includes: The Heart of Mount Pleasant 2. Broadway Neighbourhoods 3. Maritime Museum 4. Dunbar Theatre 5. Punjabi Market 6. 525 Great Northern Way 7. Fairmont Building 8. Legacy of Expo 86 9. Japantown 10. Protecting Vancouver’s Heritage Yuen said the society’s overall goal with its annual list is to show the range of heritage in Vancouver, to expand the definition of heritage to beyond the buildings themselves — although they are important — to include how they support life in the city, and to underscore that there’s a lot at risk if important sites and features of the city are lost.

“The [watch list] is to make people realize a lot of [these issues are] quite relevant to them because the heritage that we’re speaking of affects a broad range of interests,” he said.

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KUDOS & KVETCHES Artist’s rendering of Centerm following the expansion. A new crane was added to the terminal in spring 2017. No additional cranes will be added.

About the projects: These two projects will help accommodate trade coming in and out of Canada in containers, such as imported clothing, food and electronics, and exports such as pulp, paper, lumber and specialty grains.

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City spins its depressing homeless count numbers in the most Vancouver way possible The city released the latest stats on homeless numbers in Vancouver last week, and they’re not pretty. They’re not even ruggedly handsome or have a nice personality.

According to the preliminary results from the City of Vancouver Homeless Count, a whopping 2,223 people were identified as experiencing homelessness this year — a two per cent increase from last year. For those of you keeping tabs, that number is an all-time high since the city started keeping record of such things in 2002 — meaning there has never been more homeless people in Vancouver than there is now.

But you wouldn’t necessarily know that from the less-than-gloomy spin put on the city’s press release.

Titled “Homeless Count results show a slowing in the growth of homelessness in Vancouver over the last two years,” it tells of the “bold actions” taken by the city that “are making an impact on the numbers of people experiencing homelessness in Vancouver.”

We get it. No one wants to wear the fact that homeless is at an all-time high,

especially after building hundreds of temporary modular housing units, which also means that the number of homeless people would be waaaaaay worse if said housing wasn’t built.

But let’s not sugar-coat it by focusing on the fact that a two per cent growth in homeless numbers is slower than previous years and thus something to rally around.

If the number of murders was at an all-time high in Vancouver, would police trumpet the fact they’ve slowed the growth of murders over the previous year?

This might sound unrealistic, but it would be refreshing to see city use one of the following headlines for once when announcing homelessness is at an alltime high in the city: • Despite our efforts, it is clearly not enough • We really thought we had a handle of this….

• The system is not working • Can it get any worse?

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• Sure, the growth of homelessness is slowing, but it’s really nothing to be proud of • F*****************k. @KudosKvetches

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bring her designs to life.

Wolf Circus is now sold online, as well as in stores in five provinces. the U.S, Asia, Europe, Puerto Rico and Australia.

The company got another boost this month, winning a $100,000 award through the Fashion Institute of Technology’s Design Entrepreneur program in New York City. Morrison not only took home the grand prize

but won it the first year the program allowed entrants from outside the U.S. She applied, and was accepted, along with 25 other designers to take part in FIT’s brand building program. She spent a month in New York learning about everything from finances to branding and marketing.

Once that was complete, participants had to put together a business plan.

“It was the most work I’ve ever put into something in my life,” Morrison said.

She was chosen as one of several finalists and presented her plan, first to a small group in a board room, and then to a larger audience that included some heavy weights of the fashion industry — designer Tommy Hilfiger, Marc Schneider, CEO of Ken-

neth Cole, Thomas Ott, chief merchant at Saks Off 5th and Gilt, and Henri Zirpolo, senior designer at Rag & Bone.

“It was definitely nerve wracking but it was also so exciting as well,” Morrison said.

She was awarded the $100,000 prize that, she said, will be used to help Wolf Circus continue to grow. @JessicaEKerr

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What started as an afterschool project among friends has turned into a busy, full-time career for Fiona Morrison.

It was 2011. Morrison was in her second year studying entrepreneurship and business at the University of Victoria when she started making necklaces and selling them to her friends.

“It was totally just a very spur of the moment, fun side project,” she said on the phone from an L.A. business trip. “I kind of call it an afterschool project. It was just something that I started doing on the side instead of getting a real job at the time.”

She didn’t know anything about jewelry at the time and learned a lot from watching videos on YouTube.

“I was incredibly motived,” she said. “The reason I picked jewelry was because I noticed a really

big gap in the market in Victoria. There was just no affordable really cool, bold jewelry that was making a statement but was also affordable for my friends.”

She called her business, a line of demi-fine jewelry, Wolf Circus. In 2015, she moved to Vancouver and is now based in Gastown.

The idea took off, in part, by a turn of events south of the border.

In the fall of 2016, Wolf Circus released a new necklace depicting the outline of a woman’s breasts.

It was initially meant to be a “cheeky fun little thing,” Morrison said.

“A few months later, [Donald] Trump gets elected and then [sales of] the boob necklace just totally picked up and really put our brand on the map,” she said, adding that it gave people the ability to make a statement with their jewelry.

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Lisa Suggitt’s new business venture Pink Flamingo Pop-Ups opened its doors on East 11th Avenue last weekend.

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Street is mostly nothing.

Suggitt and her husband are the only constants, while other people only show up periodically — similar to how J. Peterman, Newman and the Soup Nazi came and went in 1990s New York City.

None of this is by accident and is instead central to the Pink Flamingo Pop-Ups ethos.

Located just west of Main and 11th Avenue, the pop-up shop opened its doors for the first time June 15.

Seven vendors divvied up the floor plan, selling everything from clothes and hats to furniture and trinkets.

Come this week, those same vendors are all gone.

“It’s almost like we’re competing with the markets in town, but we don’t want to be seen that way — we want to be a shared retail space,” Suggitt said.

“We want people to feel like they can have their own little store down here that is their space.”

Suggitt’s shared-space retailers can come and go as they please: spaces are rented for a day, a weekend, or week. Those stays max out at five months, though vendors can renew after the fact. Plots range in size between roughly 100 and 400 square feet. At the high end, a 364-squre foot space costs about $1,900 per month.

Day rates go for as little as $30 and a $200 de-

posit is required.

Retailers, however, must be in retail through and through to satisfy zoning and licensing requirements: no tattoo artists, manufacturers, hairdressers or food prep is allowed, nor can renters make any modifications to the building.

Curtains and other separators can shift the use of the space, changing it from seven spots down to four, if needed. Suggitt also owns the business above her new pop-up shop, a roller skate shop called RollerGirl.ca.

Come December, Suggitt is banking on attracting the crafters and artisans of Vancouver. In the meantime, clothing companies are her bread and butter.

“Unless you really know a brand and how those clothes fit, you need to try them on,” she said. “And some women need a mirror so they can see how their butt looks in jeans.”

Suggitt is targeting transient, new and online businesses — they need not worry about leases, exorbitant rents or property taxes.

It’s the latter point that pushed Suggitt in this direction to begin with. Her property taxes have gone up $10,000 over the last two years. Once home to a furniture store, the building 75 feet away from hers on the southwest corner of Main and 11th has been empty for around two years. The asking price for new tenants in what

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“So many of our neighbours have left. People can’t afford to be in this neighbourhood,” Suggitt said. “We’re doing this because property taxes have gone up by thousands of dollars for us.

Rent’s going up. We like the side of it where we can offer affordable spaces to small businesses.”

Besides a pop-up further south on Main Street — one that’s smaller and more expensive — Suggitt can’t think of any other business similar to hers in Vancouver. Her clientele are predominantly young entrepreneurs in their 30s who are almost exclusively women.

Those people aren’t flocking to the larger, more established retailers, largely because there’s so few left. It’s for that reason the lack of stability in Suggitt’s business model isn’t really a big deal.

“Those who really need [stability] are not our clients,” Suggitt said. “With the changes happening in the retail environment anyway, retail is moving towards a less stable model. People are not getting 20-year leases anymore, and big companies are closing everywhere.” @JohnKurucz The Pink Flamingo is located at 187 East 11th Ave.

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No butts about it: tossing your cigarette on the ground is unacceptable Vancouver smokers toss one million butts a day onto our sidewalks and streets Grant Lawrence

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You know the scene: you’re strolling past a pub, bar or park bench, and suddenly you have to walk across a bunch of discarded cigarette butts. This wholly negative issue is especially prevalent in our dry season: there’s no rain to wash those butts away — not that that is any kind of solution.

As usual, improperly tossed cigarette butts come down to the responsibility of the smoker, and the hard evidence is all around us.

According to Jerry Dobrovolny, the city’s manager of engineering services, Vancouver smokers toss one million butts a day onto our sidewalks and streets. One million! A day! It feels like about 900,000 of those are in East Vancouver where I live.

Weirdly, the non-smoking laws that came into effect in the 1980s and ’90s, which banned smoking in the workplace, followed a few years later in bars and restaurants, actually added to the problem of butts on the street. Before the ban, if you smoked in a bar or a restaurant, you used the ashtray at your table, which would be cleared by a server and thrown in the garbage.

The non-smoking laws forced smokers onto the sidewalk, where they most often snub out their butts onto the pavement or toss them into the street. Even that abhorrent social ill is based on good intention: More than a century ago, the snubbing of cigarettes under the toe of your shoe, or flicking them into the gutter, was considered not only good etiquette but a safety practice. Back in

The city recently made available thousands of free pocket ashtrays for smokers to store their butts rather than snub out on the ground. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

1910, if you didn’t snub out your cigarette, you could burn down Chicago.

Times have changed, but smokers’ habits haven’t.

Aimee Braun is the general manager of the Brighton, a pub in the heart of Hastings Sunrise. Her establishment has received complaints from neighbouring businesses upset about the proliferation of cigarette butts on the sidewalk.

I asked Braun if she had some sort of ashtray for her customers to use while smoking on the street.

“We used to,” she replied. “Someone from the local [Business Improvement Association] brought us an ashtray bucket, but it got stolen. Or at least it disappeared, anyway.”

A few ashtray buckets

have apparently gone missing from the Brighton. So what do they do about the littered butts in lieu of an ashtray?

“If they’re really bad, we’ll sweep them into the gutter so the street sweeper can get them,” Braun told me.

I recounted that scenario back to an aghast Dobrovolny at city hall.

“Sweeping cigarette butts into the street or the gutter is exactly what you should not be doing,” he said.

“Street sweeper trucks are irregular, and cigarette butts are a major source of unsightly litter and pollution.”

Dobrovolny claims that once a cigarette butt is washed down a storm drain, it’s a fairly straight path to our surrounding rivers, beaches and ocean. At a recent press conference on

the subject, Dobrovolny also noted that butts are not biodegradable and contain such toxic ingredients as microplastics, arsenic and lead.

“Cigarette butts are a huge hazard for our marine environment,” Dobrovolny said. “Our city crews empty garbage cans. They don’t sweep sidewalks, which is why we need cooperation and partnership with businesses like the bar you mentioned.”

Jordan Stewart has owned and operated Guilt and Co., a cool venue in the heart of Gastown, since it opened in 2010. Before that, he owned Chill Winston directly upstairs.

“We used to put out ashtrays,” Stewart told me.

“But if you can believe it, they would be looted by

Downtown Eastsiders. If it was raining, that made an unholy mess. These days, we sweep up the sidewalk at the end of the night and put the butts in the trash.”

Stewart likens sweeping cigarette butts to shoveling snow.

“It’s about being a good neighbor,” he said.

Earlier this month, Dobrovolny and the city launched a new initiative to help smokers with their toxic littering. The city has manufactured several thousand pocket ashtrays with the hopes that smokers will now tuck their butts into these little packets and properly dispose of the contents in the trash. The packets are available for free at most community centres, at city hall and the visitors centre.

Stewart is skeptical.

“Regardless of how conscientious the smoker may be, and so many seem to not be, nobody really wants to carry a smelly packet of garbage around with them,” he said.

Stewart brought up another idea that would involve Vancouver’s huge population of crows.

“In Europe, they have been training crows to collect cigarette butts. The crow gets a bit of food in exchange for a butt.”

That was something I had to look into, and it’s true.

In the coastal country of the Netherlands, six billion cigarette butts are tossed into the streets and canals yearly. It’s a major problem.

A Dutch team came up with the idea of the Crowbar, a station that would allow a crow to return a cigarette butt, and when an internal camera recognizes it, the Crowbar releases a treat for the crow.

Unfortunately, after a year of research and development, the team ended the project due to lack of money, and the unintended and unknown impact that gross cigarette butts might have on unsuspecting crows.

Yes, it seems that cig filters are so toxic that we should not even risk training crows to collect them.

Sorry, Canuck. Almost had a legit gig for you.

So that brings us back to the smokers: Will you take responsibility for your habit? Will you properly dispose of your garbage?

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Child’s Play is serious business for David Lewis

Vancouver actor plays opposite Aubrey Plaza — and Chucky — in horror series reboot Sabrina Furminger

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David Lewis knows that Chucky the doll isn’t really a killer. Lewis has been an actor for decades.

He’s acted in horror films.

He played a serial killer in Evangeline. He’s won a Leo Award. He knows that make-believe is just that, and that props — including creepy-looking dolls like Chucky — can’t kill him.

But that wealth of knowledge and experience didn’t stop Lewis from nearly jumping out of his skin several times while filming Child’s Play, the reboot of the 1980s horror series that hits theatres on June 21.

Like its predecessors, Child’s Play is about the fraught relationship between a kid (in this case, named Andy and portrayed

by Gabriel Bateman) and his murderous doll, Chucky. Parks and Recreation star Aubrey Plaza plays Andy’s mom, Karen, and Lewis plays Shane, Karen’s boyfriend.

In the new film, Chucky is voiced by Mark Hamill, and while the Star Wars star wasn’t present when the movie went to camera in Vancouver last year, Chucky the doll was there for all of it — and that doll made an impression on Lewis.

“They’ve got six or seven of the dolls and they’re two-and-a-half-feet tall, and

sometimes they’d just be left around the set by the prop department, and it would scare the crap out of me,” Lewis says.

“I’d turn around and it would be there and it’s got this face and it’s looking right at you,” says Lewis, whose credits include Unspeakable, Played and Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. “I experienced legitimate jump-scares probably four or five times. One time, a member of the crew saw me jump and started laughing and said, ‘Yeah, that’s happened to me, too.’”

OG Child’s Play films and the reboot lean into that special quality that makes rational adults like Lewis jump at the sight of a sinister-looking doll. “We cling to these dolls when we’re little and they’re security blankets for us, and what happens when that turns on its head and it’s not a security blanket anymore, and it becomes something that wants to hurt us…”

Lewis trails off. “Man, that’s terrifying.”

Where the reboot diverges from the original spate of films is in how the doll becomes an instrument of evil, says Lewis. “In the original, the doll was possessed by the soul of a murderer, but this time, the doll is AI,” he says, adding that the film delves into society’s relationship with AI and how dependent we are on it. “It’s all growing too quickly. Will we know when to stop it? Are we even capable of stopping it?”

Filming Child’s Play wasn’t non-stop terror for Lewis, though. He’s got a lot of joy wrapped up in it, too, beginning with the presence of Luke Skywalker.

“[Mark Hamill]’s been voicing the Joker for years, and every move they’ve made with this project has added another layer of goodness to it,” he says.

“I know that, when you’re redoing these types of shows, the fan base can be like, ‘What are you doing to our franchise?! You’re changing it and we don’t like change!’ There’s a lot of ownership with this sort of stuff, and I understand that, but when they attached Mark Hamill to it, I think a lot of people will give it a chance now, and they should.”

Filming took place on a soundstage, on location in the Fraser Valley, and at “that iconic red brick building in the West End where everyone who lives in the West End has to live for at least a month.”

Lewis worked mostly with Plaza, who he describes as a “quirky, interesting, funny, weird, charming human being,” and Bateman. “[He’s] 13 going on 34.

He’s so good. The cameras would stop rolling and he’s running around the set like a normal kid, but when the cameras were rolling, this kid was dialed in.”

Lewis savoured the opportunity to watch director Lars Klevberg and his team construct jump-scares.

“They’d have somebody walk in front of the camera at the very last second as the camera is pushing in on a character,” says Lewis. “I jumped. You’re going to jump. There’s an art to this and they nailed it.”

Child’s Play opens in theatres June 21.

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Arts & Entertainment Who to see at this year’s jazz fest to make yourself seem more cultured Courier staff

The TD Vancouver International Jazz Fest is not only a buffet of sonic delights for music aficionados to sink their sharpened teeth into, June 21 to July 1, it’s also a chance for non-music aficionados to claim they like jazz and thus seem more cultured and interesting in the ongoing mating dance of life. But with 1,800 artists, 300 performances, 35 venues and more than 150 free shows, it’s a lot to navigate.

So here’s a few ear-bending performances to put on your radar and help you in journey to become a better you.

The Comet Is Coming

June 21, 9 p.m. at the Imperial

The name conjures up what we’ll probably yell during the ensuing apocalypse, but these London-based musical cosmonauts are really a glimpse into the future with their spacey algorithm of jazz, electronica, funk and

The Roots

psychedelic rock — reaffirming that space is indeed the place.

June 28 8 p.m. at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre

Most people might know them as The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon’s house band, but the Roots have a long and prolific career pushing the boundaries of hip hop with a live show that’s not to be missed.

Wu-Tang Clan

June 23, 8 p.m. at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre

Kicking down the doors of hip hop 25 years ago with their martial arts-informed opus Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), Wu-Tang Clan were larger than life from the outset. There’s a lot of them and they’ll need to be reckoned with when they fill the Queen Elizabeth Theatre stage.

Elisapie

June 23, 8 p.m. at Performance Works

Singing in three languages, the Montreal-based Inuk singer, film director and activist uses English to explore folk, French for more romantic writing and Inuktitut to speak about Indigenous culture. Throw in some ’70s rock, Indigenous folk music and the

London-based The Comet is Coming get cosmic June 21 at the Imperial.

moody cool of Tom Waits and Morphine and you’ve got a sure-to-be enchanting show.

his quintet Migration for an electro-acoustic journey.

Antonio Sánchez & Migration

June 28, 8 p.m. at Performance Works

June 26. 8 p.m. at CapU

With a resume that speaks volumes, this fivetime Grammy award-winning drummer and composer of the score of 2014’s Oscar-winning film Birdman, flaps his wings with

Davina and the Vagabonds

Drawing comparisons to Etta James, Amy Winehouse and Billie Holiday, Davina and the Vagabonds are sure to please with their retro-infused gumbo of New Orleans jazz, Memphis soul and gospel.

Brian Jackson Plays Songs from the Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson Songbook June 29, 8 p.m. at Performance Works

Keyboard player and flutist Brian Jackson was a big part of the soulful jazz soundtracks that backed many of the spoken word masterpieces by late poet Gil Scott-Heron, most notably “The Bottle.” Jackson pays homage to his frequent collaborator and continues his legacy with this latest project.

Herbie Hancock

June 29, 8 p.m. at

Queen Elizabeth Theatre

Sadly, there are fewer and fewer jazz legends left, but Herbie Hancock is one of them. Catch the continually evolving pianist/keyboardist and composer with his quartet.

We Just Stole a Car

June 29, noon, main stage of David Lam Park

This local shape-shifting super group, featuring members of Malleus Trio, Jo Passed, Only a Visitor and Freak Dream, is an enjoyable free-for-all, with bursts of improvisation, modern composition and Indonesian gamelan music.

Blick Bassy

June 29, 5:15 p.m., main stage of David Lam Park

The Cameroon-born, Paris-based guitarist/vocalist combines African traditions, bossa nova, blues and politics.

A potent and entertaining mix.

More info at coastaljazz.ca.

Five things to see, do and celebrate at this week’s Queer Arts Festival John Kurucz

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It’s not kismet that this year’s Queer Arts Festival ends on the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots.

Flashback to June 28, 1969 in New York City, in what was the touchstone moment for gay rights in both the U.S. and Canada.

Police raided an underground gay bar in Manhattan and all hell broke loose. Violent counter demonstrations broke out in the aftermath. It was high time for America, and the world at large, to take a long look in the mirror.

Within a year, the first gay pride marches were happening in major U.S. cities.

Canada decriminalized homosexuality in 1969. Gay rights groups were operating across North America

by 1971. In that spirit, the Courier presents five things to see and do over the course of the festival, which runs June 17 to 28 at the Roundhouse Arts Centre.

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Dialing in the diaspora

Crown the Queen

Teiya Kasahara riffs on gender, stereotypes and expectations against an operatic backdrop in her production of The Queen in Me. The show runs at 7 p.m. on both June 21 and 22 and recalls Kasahara’s time as a professional opera singer and how they reconciles those experiences as a queer, feminist, person of colour.

The TKO trio

Happening now and running daily until June 22, the TKO Lab experience is a female-centred music production drop-in

Teiya Kasahara’s production of The Queen in Me runs June 21 and 22. PHOTO PAUL WONG

lab for queer, Indigenous and allied youth. The free workshops are led by Kinnie Starr, DJ O Show and Tiffany Moses, who help participants with hands-on training in poetry, spoken word, DJing processes and

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The festival’s 12-day run wraps up with shaker central in the form of the Stonewall 50: Glitter is Forever Party.

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of what helped spawn modern-day Pride events, the Glitter is Forever party’s tagline is “Stonewall was a riot — now, we dance!”

Festival passes, dates, times and more info is available online at queerartsfestival.com.

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Signing up in advance is encouraged and info on how to do so is online at

The Frank Theatre Company gives a voice to experiences of refugees and immigrants in the LGBTQ+ community with a performance of Diaspora. The paywhat-you-can performance is rolled out in text, video and physical theatre formats, asking audiences to examine and look beyond what it means to be a member of the community outside of the western world. The performance will be by led Frank’s artistic director Fay Nass, along with immigrant artists and community members. Diaspora is slated for 7 p.m. on June 25.

closing night with a celebration of queer backstories and narratives from yesteryear. Those stories will be woven together by local narrators Monica Meneghetti and Jaye Simpson and some of the nation’s more wellknown composers including. The show gets rolling at 7 p.m. on June 28.

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And they’re off... the corgis, that is.

Watch these adorable pups race the track at Hastings Racecourse. The event will also offer food trucks, craft beer and live music trackside all afternoon long.

Cheer on the pooches who are vying for prizes, and the glory on these “dog days of summer.”

June 22-23 Hastings Racecourse, 188 North Renfrew St. hastingsracecourse.com

Strathcona Street Party

Hot time, summer in the city, and there are a few different ways to get out and enjoy the city’s colourful communities, including the Strathcona Street Party.

Find live painting stations, new murals, dance battles, DJs and Hoops by DSU Hoop & Flow Club, food trucks and even an all-ages, licensed craft beer garden (thanks VCBW!).

June 22, noon to 8 p.m.

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Calling all vintage motorcycle owners and admirers! Check out all the select rare motorcycles on display, browse the wares of several vendors and mingle with your fellow vintage bike fans. A $10 bike registration gets you a free lunch as well as entry in a draw to win one of three prizes.

June 23, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Deeley Motorcycle Exhibition, 1875 Boundary Rd. facebook.com

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Are we hosers getting hosed when it comes to craft beer?

U.S. options put B.C. to shame Reaon Ford The Growler

How is it that even pharmacies in the U.S. have growler fill stations, but B.C. liquor stores don’t? PHOTO REAON FORD

They say it’s a great time to be a craft beer lover in B.C., but you don’t have to drive far to discover we

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of options that don’t exist here — from breweries and bottle shops, to growler fills at bars, gas stations, and even pharmacies.

For those who aren’t familiar, bottle shops are like our own cold beer and wine stores — but on steroids.

You can mix and match your own six-pack, fill a glass or a growler from a wide selection of breweries, even grab a cold one from the cooler and crack it open in-store. The shops also act as gathering places where suds-sippers can meet and mingle.

At first, I was only curious. But as the highway wound its way farther south, I became jealous. Even a rustic tavern in Crescent, Ore. — an unincorporated community of 581 people — welcomes travellers with a wooden statue of a sasquatch clutching a giant mug, and a sign reading: “Now filling growlers.” How could a world-class city like Vancouver be upstaged by a bump in the road 50 miles south of Bend?

Beer advocate Christopher Pierce, the man behind the popular @Portland_Beer Twitter account agrees: our corner of Cascadia has some catching up to do.

“It seems like everybody [in Oregon] is doing the growler fill thing,” he says.

“Whether it’s your local grocery store, or there’s even some places that are like gas station-growler fill places, just little mom and pop shops.”

And don’t get him started on the selection at those stores.

“The place where I buy my meat and my bread and my pizzas, they’ve got between 900 and a thousand craft beers,” Pierce says.

“They hired somebody who was a beer expert to run the place, and it’s a tiny grocery store, and everything’s refrigerated. It has a larger selection than any bottle shop that I think I’ve ever seen in Vancouver.”

I didn’t make it as far as Arizona on my trip, but the Park Plaza Liquor & Deli in Prescott is a perfect example of the kind of meccas we’re missing. The 15,000-square-foot property includes a liquor store, restaurant, bar and cigar lounge, with more than 1,000 beers. Fill growlers?

Duh. Build your own sixpack? Yep. Purchase kegs?

Why not! How about drink and smoke a cigar while you shop? WHAMMY. So why don’t we have anything like that here?

The new assistant manager of Firefly Fine Wines and Ales in Vancouver points to licensing, legislation and a lack of political will in B.C. “No one’s running on a platform of ‘I’m going to free beer’ and I don’t think anybody ever will,” says Farees Kara. “Personally, I think what needs to be done is look at it as [an absence of] consumer advocacy.

CAMRA was fantastic in B.C. in trying, but even they’ve gotten away from advocacy. There doesn’t seem to be any organization that’s willing to fight for the rights of consumers and to fight for what we want. It’s all about taxation and regulation.”

Kara says some local beerbased businesses have done a good job of expanding their offerings, like Jak’s Beer Wine Spirits. And he says the owners of Firefly are also taking a page from America’s playbook with plans for a major expansion of their Cambie Street location.

“We’re gonna make it a craft beer destination… a good third of the store will be craft beer,” he says.

“It will be probably be one of the biggest spaces allocated to craft beer in Western Canada. Maybe all of Canada.”

He’s gunning for up to 5,000 sq. ft. of selling space. But of course, size isn’t everything.

“We plan to have taps,” says Kara. “We plan to have a private tasting room.

So if a brewery wanted to come and do an event with some snacks and some beer, we’d be able to accommodate them, just like many places do for wine and spirits. We basically want to elevate beer to where wine is. There’s no reason why someone shouldn’t be able to come in and say, OK, you’ve got four taps, can I get a sample of each one before I buy some bottles?”

To find out what we’re missing, you don’t need to spend two weeks crisscrossing the West Coast like I did, or go all the way to Arizona. Just head to Bellingham, which is home to 13 breweries, a slew of dive bars and live music venues pouring local brews, as well as the famous Elizabeth Station bottle shop. But consider yourself warned: once you’ve had a taste of the craft beer experience in other parts of the Pacific Northwest, it will surely leave you thirsting for more.

For more beery adventures, go to thegrowler.ca.

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Five things Canucks can do with 10th overall pick at the 2019 NHL Entry Draft On the eve of the draft, the Canucks options are still wide open

Backhand Sauce Daniel Wagner

The pressure is on general manager Jim Benning.

The Canucks have missed the playoffs in four straight seasons, and Benning is entering the final year of his contract.

While Canucks owner Francesco Aquilini has publicly preached patience, that patience could quickly run out, particularly with the emergence last season of Elias Pettersson as a bonafide star.

On top of that, the 2019 NHL Entry Draft is in Vancouver, with Canucks fans expected to fill Rogers Arena on Friday night, watching in nervous excitement to find out who Benning will take with the 10th overall pick. He’s hit home runs with one of his top-10 picks in Pettersson, and appears to have another in Quinn Hughes, but Jake Virtanen and Olli Juolevi seem to be, at best, bloop singles. This is a pick that Benning needs to get right.

What will Benning do with the pick?

He has several options, and I don’t just mean the prospects that will be available.

With the pressure on, Benning could go multiple different directions with the 10th overall pick.

1. Trade up

Benning has already said he won’t trade up at the draft, as he’s comfortable with the quality of players who will be available at 10th overall. That said, would he really turn down the chance to pick Bowen Byram, the consensus top defenceman available, if the right offer came along?

It’s easy to imagine such a scenario: the Chicago Blackhawks, picking third overall, could go with centre Alex Turcotte after picking three defencemen in the first round in the last two drafts. The Colorado Avalanche have promising prospects on defence in Cale Makar and Conor Timmins, so they could see value in trading down to still get an impact forward at 10th overall and pick up an extra pick or two along the way.

2. Trade down

If the Canucks want a defenceman at the draft, and there’s good reason to believe they do, their best bet might be to trade down from 10th overall into the teens or

Stick-taps & Glove-drops • A tap of the stick to the Canucks for hosting their training camp in Victoria this year, as well as a preseason game in Abbotsford.

While a little inconvenient for some fans (and members of the media), it does give fans in other areas of B.C. a chance to see their favourite team in person.

Although GM Jim Benning has already said he won’t trade up at the draft, would he really turn down the chance to pick defenceman Bowen Byram if the opportunity arose?

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20s, where several quality defencemen are expected to still be available. By doing so, they could add more picks to be made in front of their hometown fans and build more depth into their prospect pool.

3. Trade for a veteran

With the pressure on to make the playoffs and several immediate needs on the Canucks roster, Benning could make a splash at the draft by not picking in the first round at all. The Canucks have been involved in a similar splash by a host city, trading Cory Schneider to the New Jersey Devils for the ninth overall pick in 2013, with the draft in New Jersey.

The Canucks particularly need a toppairing defenceman, with reports that contract negotiations have broken down with Alexander Edler. To get that caliber of player, it might take the 10th overall pick, though the Canucks might be more willing to part with their 2020 first round pick to get a deal done.

4. Trade for a prospect

Any player the Canucks pick at 10th overall is likely going to be at least a year away from making the NHL, barring a particularly impressive training camp. With that in mind, the Canucks might want a prospect with a quicker path to the NHL to give them some more immediate help. Is

• I’m dropping the gloves with the Canucks’ 50th anniversary jersey reveal. Not for the jerseys themselves (though I’m not fond of the heritage third jersey), but because it was done with so little fanfare.

there a deal to be made for a top prospect that is about to break through to the NHL? We’ve already seen a similar deal, with the New York Rangers trading two draft picks for Adam Fox, one of the top defencemen in the NCAA last season. A deal involving the 10th overall pick would have to be for an even more impressive prospect, but it’s worth considering.

5. Use the pick

This is the easiest and possibly best path for the Canucks, who have to keep the focus on the future despite the pressure on Benning. The Canucks could get a fantastic forward prospect at 10th, such as the creative and hard-working Peyton Krebs, the goal-scoring phenom Cole Caufield, the jack-of-all-trades Matthew Boldy, or the speedy and skilled Alex Newhook. There’s even a chance that an elite talent like Vasili Podkolzin or Dylan Cozens slips to 10th overall.

Getting the right player with the 10th overall pick might not make the Canucks any better next season, but it could set them up for a very successful future.

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Only twenty-two homes in Vancouver’s most coveted urban village.

NOW SE L L I NG – 5 HOM E S SOL D OPE N I NG W E E K E N D A small community of 1,2 & 3 bedroom homes, located at the corner of West Broadway & Larch. Find yourself steps to sandy beaches, some of the cities best restaurants and plenty of great local shops. Proudly developed by a

T Y PE

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SIZE

PR IC E

201

2 Bed + 2 Bath + Flex

S

1170 SF

$ 1,689,900

206

1 Bed + 1 Bath + Flex

E

720 SF

$ 979,900

303

2 Bed + 2 Bath + Flex

NW Corner

1345 SF

$ 1,999,900

PH6

3 Bed + 2 Bath + Flex

SE Corner

1400 SF

$ 2,599,900

TH2

1 Bed + 1.5 Bath + Flex

E

895 SF

$ 1,199,900

Sales Centre located in Kerrisdale at 2094 W 41st Avenue Open daily from 12 – 5pm except Fridays, or by appointment

604.336.9350

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The developer reserves the right to make changes, modifications or substitutes to the building design, should they be necessary. This is not an offering for sale and such an offering can only be made after filing a disclosure statement. E.&O.E.

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W Broadway

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