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Police make 50,000 drug seizures in 29 months

Fentanyl, Viagra and methadone among drugs seized since January 2017 Mike Howell

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So here’s an understatement about the city you live in: there are bucketloads of illicit and prescription drugs on the streets of Vancouver.

That was confirmed in documents accessed through the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act that were posted two weeks ago to the Vancouver Police Department’s website.

The organization or person that requested the documents wanted to see a table or written record of all drugs or illicit substances that police seized between Jan. 1, 2017 and May 16, 2019.

The requester also wanted the cops to provide the type of drug and quantity seized, which they did for the most part. Dollar estimates of some of the drugs’ worth is included in the data.

The headline to this piece gives away the quantity seized.

But to be more precise, the total number of prescription, illicit and “unknown” drugs collected by police over that 29-month period was 50,286.

Yes, 50,286.

That seems like a lot — and it is — but when you factor in that police respond to an average of 740 calls per day, and multiply that number by the 29-month period, you get 640,840 calls for service.

That works out to an average of 13 drug seizures per day in a city that has a population of more than 670,000 people, including many who use and sell illicit and prescription drugs.

So, again, is that a lot?

“That doesn’t seem high,” said Sgt. Jason Robillard, a VPD media relations officer. “I don’t have anything to compare it to, but coming in contact with illicit and non-illicit drugs is a very common occurrence for a patrol officer.”

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The Vancouver Police Department has released data showing it has made 50,000 seizures of illicit and prescription drugs since January 2017. PHOTO COURTESY VANCOUVER POLICE DEPARTMENT

seized in a few sentences.

I wanted to first explain that when I glanced at the data, my goal was to find out which drug was being seized more than any other. But that turned out to be an impossible task because there are too many variables to the data.

For example, I totalled up the number of “fentanyl” seizures at 2,247.

Great, I thought, I’ve got some new data to report on fentanyl, the deadly synthetic

opioid that has been linked to 80 per cent of the overdose deaths in B.C. in recent years.

But then I came across some more data that vaguely described drugs seized as “pills.” There was another category for “powder,” another for “unknown” and another for “liquid.”

Some, or a lot of those pills and powder could be fentanyl. Some of the powder could be chalk.

There’s also a category

with numerous entries for “block/solid,” meaning it was seized in the form of a solid block. The type of drug is not mentioned.

As Robillard explained, each data entry is a result of what a police officer suspects the drug to be and how they choose to record it. If they don’t know what the drug is, then that’s why the recording of the data can be vague.

Keep in mind, he said, this is raw data.

“This is so we can print a label out [at the VPD’s property office] and each label has a bar code so we can track the property,” Robillard said.

“So you just need a general description of what the property is, and each exhibit will have a case number.”

There’s a lot more to each file, he said, and it’s important to note if the seizure ends up being part of a case that goes before the courts or raises a public health concern, then the drug will be analyzed by Health Canada to conclusively determine what type of drug it is.

Other drugs will simply be destroyed.

“You’re looking at 50,000 cases here, it would be crazy to get all of it tested,” Robillard said, pointing to minor cases, including those where drugs are abandoned without an obvious owner. “We would bog down the system.”

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Heroin, cocaine, fentanyl and marijuana are the obvious ones. Police also seized methamphetamines, LSD, “magic mushrooms,” Ecstasy, methadone, morphine, oxycodone, Percocet, Phenacetin, Xanax, benzodiazepines and Viagra.

“Afghan pebble” and “big winny” were others.

Robillard said multiple drugs could have been seized in one investigation, others could have been found when police responded to a non-drug related investigation such as a domestic dispute.

If you’re curious about the data, you can read all 1,481 pages of it on the VPD’s website. I’ll leave it to you to total up the quantity seized of each drug. I’ve done enough math for one day.

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Sexual assaults in Vancouver reach 1,431 over three years Mike Howell

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The number of sexual assaults reported to Vancouver police reached a total of 1,431 between 2016 and 2018, with the largest number responded to in the downtown central business district.

Statistics posted July 3 to the VPD’s website, which included an explanation of the numbers, show there were 399 reports in the district, which includes the bar-heavy Granville strip.

Other neighbourhoods that generated a high volume of reports included the West End (116), Strathcona (104), Mount Pleasant (74), Renfrew-Collingwood (73) and GrandviewWoodland (72).

A category described as “NULL” generated 110 reports. The category represents reports that occurred somewhere in the city but didn’t translate to a neighbourhood on a police computer.

Typically, police said in the explanation, about 80 per cent of sexual assaults are “groping” incidents, where a victim is grabbed by an unknown person who does

not remain at the scene.

The nature of such an offence often makes it difficult to obtain enough evidence to secure a charge, said police in the documents posted in response to a request under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. That fact may explain the low number of charges recommended by police over the three-year span. Of the 1,431 reports, police recommended 271 charges to Crown counsel. (The data doesn’t say how many were approved.)

That low number of recommended charges was despite police concluding that 1,110 of the sexual assault reports were “founded.” Another 50 were deemed “unfounded.”

“You will notice that the number of founded incidents differs greatly from the number of recommended charges,” police said. “It is important to note that there are several reasons a case could be coded as founded without charges.”

Police said a case could be still under investigation, noting cases involving forensic analysis can take time. Other reasons are police have not identified an assailant, or

The number of sexual assaults reported to the VPD reached a total of 1,431 between 2016 and 2018. PHOTO MIKE HOWELL

there was not enough evidence to meet the Crown’s charge approval threshold.

Though the central business district generated the highest number of reports, police pointed out the statistics don’t necessarily mean a report downtown means the assault occurred downtown.

For example, a person could have been assaulted on the Granville strip but the victim reported it when returning home to Strathcona or another neighbourhood.

“The Vancouver Police Department therefore does not warrant the accuracy, reliability or completeness of the information provided

in the requested premise history check,” police said.

The highest increase in reports over the three-year span occurred in RenfrewCollingwood, jumping from 17 in 2016 to 31 in 2018.

Kensington-Cedar Cottage and West Point Grey saw the biggest decreases — a drop of six each — in reports from 2017 to 2018.

Of the 24 neighbourhoods identified by police — excluding the NULL category — Musqueam had the lowest number of reports over the three-year span with a total of four.

Sgt. Jason Robillard, a VPD media relations officer,

said sexual assault reports across the city this year are down 17 per cent over last year for the same period.

That’s a five-year low for reported sexual assaults, said Robillard, who acknowledged statistics are based on reports and don’t capture all assaults in the city.

He encouraged victims to come forward, whether it be directly to police or a community victim service program such as Women Against Violence Against Women Rape Crisis Centre.

Under law in B.C., a victim of a sexual offence who is 19 or older can report the crime through a third party and remain anonymous to police.

“If people don’t feel comfortable coming to us, there’s other avenues,” Robillard said. “We’ve been using third-party reporting for over 10 years. It’s a pretty valuable source of intelligence for our investigators, particularly for identification of repeat offenders.”

Goodnight Out Vancouver is another organization that works to prevent harassment and violence against women and focuses on the Granville strip.

Co-founder Stacey Forrester said the 399 sexual assault reports generated in the central business district are alarming and it further justifies the need for organizations such as Goodnight Out. Forrester said it is difficult to quantify how many assaults her group has prevented, but she is confident the work has made the strip safer for women.

“Even staying with someone who is really intoxicated and helping them get a cab, in a way is a prevention tool,” she said, noting Goodnight Out is set to launch again the weekend of July 19.

Forrester said the most common complaint that Goodnight Out receives is related to gropings, especially inside bars where people are assaulted on dance floors.

“People will be in a very large crowd, on a packed dance floor and will feel hands on them but they can’t really pinpoint who it was,” she said. “It’s hard even for the venue staff security inside the club to follow up, never mind when it goes a level up to the police.”

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

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An East Vancouverbased non-profit organization dedicated to reusing and recycling unwanted computers and electronics is in danger of closing its doors this summer.

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Established in 2006, Free Geek Vancouver takes in donated electronics — desktop computers, laptops, tablets and cellphones. Anything that can be reused is refurbished by trained volunteers and then sold in the thrift store, or donated to local non-profits. Anything that cannot be reused is recycled in an environmentally conscious way, saving electronics from the landfill or agencies using hazardous methods to reclaim metals.

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In recent months, however, Free Geek has found itself running in the red, wondering how much longer they will be able to keep paying staff.

“It’s not a good place to be for a non-profit,” said operations manager Robert Pilkington.

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Free Geek, like many organizations and municipalities in Canada, is feeling the pinch following China’s new rules that ban, or seriously restrict, foreign waste.

Pilkington said Free Geek is looking into other revenue streams, recently striking up a partnership with the City of Vancouver, but is in need of donations to help keep the doors open in the meantime.

Additionally, Free Geek is on the lookout for a second-hand three-ton truck that can be used to for pickups. The organization currently pays to rent a truck when needed.

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A 29-unit condominium with a striking design may be built on a large single-family property along the Cambie corridor if council ends up approving a rezoning application that was recently filed.

The project, which is being considered under the Cambie corridor plan, is for a site at 486 West 26th Ave., measuring 67 by 150 feet, which is owned by a small group of investors.

B.C. Assessment valued the property at $9.7 million on the 2019 assessment roll.

Billard Architecture designed the wood-frame, six-storey building proposed for the site.

Its distinctive appearance features a series of colourful ribbon-like sculptural pieces — fins — climbing up the sides of the building facing Cambie and West 26th, as well as similarly coloured glass balcony guard rails. All are set against a black brick exterior.

A children’s play area is featured in the project and units would include 11 onebedrooms, 15 two-bedrooms and three three-bedrooms.

“The project is designed to suit the neighbourhood character of medium-density multi-residential buildings while using modern materials and forms inspired by new residential developments in the community,” Robert Billard, principal of Billard Architecture, told the Courier.

“The design provides a bridge from the midcentury style of the nearby single-family homes in the neighbourhood to the sleek new mid-rise, multi-residential developments in the neighbourhood, creating a cohesive feel for the area.”

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Billard said all of the architectural firm’s projects try to do something a little different from a typical condo in terms of design and, in the case of the West 26th Avenue project, the owners wanted the monarchy to serve as inspiration.

Billard said the black brick is meant to reference strength and history, while the colourful tempered glass balcony guard rails and metal and coloured glass “fins” are meant to “speak to the jewels of the crown and the Queen herself.”

The design was shown to the Riley Park neighbourhood association, and Billard said members “loved it.”

The firm has become known for designing projects on single-family lots, according to Billard, who calls it “surgical density.”

“It’s definitely possible [to do it]. It’s how you play with the volume and how you play with the unit design to make sure that all the sleeping areas and all the living •

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Billard’s not sure how common such projects are in Vancouver, but he said they are easier for small developers to put together.

“We’re not talking the Onnis and the Bosas and the Westbanks — we’re talking small, three or four people getting together with some money to build housing. They can’t afford to go and buy the next lot, especially if the owner of the next lot knows and tries to drag up the price.”

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After consulting with thousands of people, City of Vancouver staff have drawn up “community values and draft guiding principles” for the Broadway Plan.

Those details will be presented at open houses July 13, 15 and 17.

Kevin McNaney, the city’s assistant director of planning and project director for the Broadway Plan, said staff collected what they heard on a neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood basis during consultation and distilled it down into key themes or values. To create guiding principles for the rest of the plan, they looked at city-wide objectives that need to be met in the area.

“Marrying the values of the neighbourhood plus city-wide objectives gave us some guiding principles. We want to check in with the community at the upcoming open houses to ensure we got those right,” he said.

The planning process for the corridor, which stretches from Clark Drive to Vine Street between West First and 16th Avenues, launched in March.

The study area for the 30-year plan involves four neighbourhoods: False Creek Flats, Fairview, Mount Pleasant and a corner of Kitsilano. The plan will address land use, neighbourhood character, housing, jobs, local business, parks and public space, arts and culture, transportation, utilities, and public benefits around the future subway route — an extension of the Millennium Line from VCC-Clark Station to Arbutus Street. The overall planning process is expected to take two years.

Staff have so far talked with more than 3,000 people, more than 1,990 people have submitted surveys, and 850 comments were posted on maps where participants marked what they cared about or thought was special in their neighbourhoods, and what they wanted to see changed.

More than 250 people also attended 12 “walkshops,” which generated 400 online comments. City staff took part in walking tours for 100 elementary students, they’ve attended two street festivals — most recently the Khatsahlano Festival — and conducted four workshops with interest groups.

One of the things McNaney found surprising so

far is that people don’t really like Broadway itself.

“Everyone sees an opportunity to create an amazing, great street here that’s not quite there yet. That’s one of the most exciting components of this: to have the stretch of the city that’s not just a street — it’s actually a bunch of retailers and small businesses and housing — that can really start to have a character… It’s not quite like some of our other areas like Yaletown or Gastown.

It just doesn’t quite have that character yet that people are looking for.”

McNaney attributed the “huge amount of interest” in the plan to the size of the area.

“It’s quite a large area.

It goes from Clark Drive to Vine and 16th to First — that’s roughly 485 city blocks, which is roughly three times the size of the West End. So, I think it’s the scale, but I also think that people are super interested in the subway construction itself and what that means. That draws them into the broader conversation about the various neighbourhoods and what they value in their neighbourhood, and what they hope to see more of,” he said.

Top issues during the first phase of consultation included housing, concern around displacement of existing renters and small businesses, and a demand for more diverse housing, including below-market and market rental.

“There’s a lot of love of the shopping streets and local retail like Main Street and West Fourth,” McNaney added. “People really love their neighbourhood shopping areas.”

Others highlighted concerns about walkability, especially on Broadway.

They’ve said Broadway lacks character and proposed fixes such as increasing the number of street trees and adding public gathering spaces.

Jobs are also top of mind — the Broadway corridor from Clark to Arbutus has the second-largest concentration of jobs in the province after downtown Vancouver.

“Everyone appreciates how many jobs are here and they’d like to see more jobs concentrated in the area along the transit,” McNaney said, adding “neighbourhood character” has also come up.

Some critics have already complained that the rezon-

ing proposal for a 28-storey tower at Birch and Broadway, which is being considered under the Moderate Income Rental Housing Pilot Program, is being dealt with before the Broadway Plan has been approved.

There has been a lot of interest in the proposal during consultation, according to McNaney, but he noted it preceded the launch of the Broadway Plan and is being

allowed to proceed under council’s interim policy.

As for how the plan will fit into the upcoming citywide plan process, McNaney said they will inform and feed off each other.

Following feedback from the upcoming Broadway Plan open houses, McNaney said staff will modify the community values and guiding principles where necessary, and then bring

open houses run from 12 to 4 p.m. at CityLab at 511 West Broadway on July 13, from 3 to 7 p.m. at Kitsilano Neighbourhood House on July 15 and from 3 to 7 p.m. at Kingsgate Mall July 17.

The information presented at open houses and the survey on the guiding principles and community values will also be available online at vancouver.ca/broadwayplan beginning July 13.

that information to council to affirm because it’s “so critical” to guide the next stage of planning.

The next stage will lead to emerging directions outlined in a draft plan, which will be produced next year. It will lead to further consultation.

A final plan is expected to go before council at the end of 2020.

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Teens inspire other young people to care about climate change Tracy Sherlock

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Sweden’s Greta Thunberg is an inspiration — one that has galvanized school kids half a world away in Vancouver.

Last year, when she was just 15, Thunberg began a solitary school strike for the climate. Today, the teenager, who openly talks about living with Asperger’s Syndrome, gives speeches to world leaders and is the face of a massive, global movement of young people.

“If you regularly fly around the world, eat meat and dairy, and are living a high-carbon lifestyle, that means you have used up countless people’s remaining carbon budgets,” she told the Brilliant Minds conference in Stockholm in June, a Youtube video shows. “Everyone and everything needs to change…

The bigger your carbon footprint, the bigger your moral duty. To make the change required, we need role models and leaders — people like you.”

Thunberg’s words resonated with Vancouver

student Rebecca Hamilton, 17, who just finished Grade 11 at Lord Byng secondary.

She’s now the Vancouver representative for Climate Strike Canada and Sustainabiliteens — a group of local young people who demand action on the climate crisis by striking from school one Friday each month.

“Growing up in the 21st century, I’ve always been aware of climate change — there has always been this dark cloud sitting on the horizon of my future,” Hamilton said in an interview.

“Nothing else really matters if our planet is destroyed and can’t support life.”

Hamilton, who was born in 2002, says Climate Strike Canada and Sustainabiliteens participate in school strikes one Friday a month and have another goal of building a community of young people who care about climate change.

Hamilton estimates about 3,000 people came out in support of the monthly school strike on May 3. The international website Fridays for Future says more than one million students have taken part in school strikes

Hundreds of students from across the Lower Mainland took to the streets of downtown Vancouver May 3, marching for action on climate change as part of the Climate Strike movement.

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in more than 100 countries.

Strikes have been held in more than 100 cities across Canada, Hamilton said.

“This needs to be our moon launch. This needs to be our wartime mobilization. It’s going to be huge,” Hamilton said.

Earlier this year, both the City of Vancouver and the federal government of Canada declared a climate emergency. That shows

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“While I think it is an important signal for the government to be sending and I think it’s good, we need to see it coupled by real action,” Hamilton said.

“The next day, the federal government goes around and approves the Trans

Mountain pipeline, which I think is totally incompatible with climate emergency.

“We can’t continue to build infrastructure that’s going to continue to fuel this crisis for decades to come. It’s irrational. I was not impressed.”

Under the Paris Agreement, Canada is committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 30 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030. Hamilton and other members of Climate Strike Canada want to see a much larger reduction in that time frame.

“This election needs to be a referendum on climate action — it’s really crucial,” Hamilton said. “We want to make sure that the youth voice is represented and that people vote with climate action as a priority.”

She says her parents are supportive.

“This really scares me,” she said. “I think as young people, it’s really confusing and terrifying to grow up not knowing what our future will look like. They see the impact that has on my mental health and my approach to the world.”

Keep your eye on these young people. They’re determined, scared and definitely going places. In their own way, Thunberg and her followers have already changed the world.

No matter what, their generation will one day run it.

And if they’re successful, maybe their world will be a better place.

Hamilton says she’s in this fight for life. She plans to study Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies after she graduates next year and says although she doesn’t know what her future will hold, it will definitely involve fighting for the climate.

The climate strikers have got big plans for next year, with global action scheduled for September.

“Hopefully millions of people will be taking to the streets, because we need to really reiterate and assert how the time for procrastination is over and we can’t keep delaying,” Hamilton said. “We need massive people power to show that.”

Out of the mouths of babes. I’m quite sure nothing will stop them.

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1. Three generations of the Bruzzese family.

From left, Domenico Bruzzese, Fortunato Bruzzese, Anna Bruzzese, Olivia Raines, Sienna Raines and Sandra Raines.

PHOTO DAN TOULGOET 2. Fortunato Bruzzese at a trade show in 1977.

PHOTO COURTESY OF LA GROTTA DEL FORMAGGIO 3. The sandwiches at La Grotta Del Formaggio

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4. Anna Bruzzese works the cash register at the

deli’s original location on Commercial and First Avenue in 1977.

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Beloved deli celebrates 40 years of sandwich supremacy La Grotta Del Formaggio is one of the longest-running businesses in Little Italy John Kurucz

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Fortunato Bruzzese’s version of the Canadian dream was built on a bun.

There’s no need for fancy fixings or secret sauce — some prosciutto, mozzarella and a dash of spice will do just fine.

“The Europeans, the Italians, that’s still what they want today, and they want nothing else,” Bruzzese tells the Courier.

“They just want to taste the bread and the cheese and the meat.”

That type of simplicity is central to the story of how a family of Italian immigrants came to Canada 56 years ago, applied some elbow grease and entrepreneurial spirit, and built a multi-generational business from the ground up.

A staple of Little Italy and Metro Vancouver’s Italian community at large, La Grotta Del Formaggio, which translates to “the cheese grotto,” celebrates 40 years of business at the end of the month at its location on Commercial Drive and Second Avenue.

The Courier recently visited the deli and spoke to three generations of the family to get the Bruzzese backstory, the shop’s daily

sandwich tally (hint: it’s a lot) and a who’s who list of celebrity customers.

was mostly men working at nearby construction sites or automotive shops.

Family business

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Bruzzese was born in southern Italy in 1948 to a family of entrepreneurs — everyone owned a shop, either in the food or electronics businesses.

He came to Canada in 1963, landing first in Montreal. Bruzzese married his wife, Anna, in 1975, two kids showed up soon after (Domenico and Sandra) and the family was in Vancouver by 1977.

The deli’s first location opened at Commercial and First Avenue that same year.

Rent was $300 a month at the time.

“In the beginning, we have more of a competition from Italian stores,” Bruzzese recalls. “It was Italian stores on every corner.”

Day one of the new deli, and their current location, was July 29, 1979, at a time when the multi-ethnic offerings that now dot the Drive were sparse, at best.

Business in those early days was all Italian, all day.

Sandwiches consisting of a Portuguese bun, meat and cheese went for $3. Olive oil, pasta and meat, and other old-world offerings ruled the day until the mid-’90s. The clientele

It was the seemingly innocuous addition of a sandwich bar around 1996 that forever changed the deli’s fortunes.

“We just threw in a sandwich fridge with eight compartments in it, trying to figure out what to put in the sandwiches,” says daughter Sandra.

“I remember us thinking about the Italian picnics — pickled eggplant, roasted peppers. We didn’t have a huge plan behind it. We just did it.”

Oh they did it alright, and that shift to sandwiches was sublime. Somewhere between 200 and 300 sandwiches go out the door every day and the celebrity clientele list has included Mark Messier, Seth Rogen, Danny Glover, Martin Short and Shannon Tweed.

Customers come across Metro Vancouver and line up sometimes 10-plus people deep, waiting upwards of 15 minutes for those breaded works of art.

“They sit down, eat and come back and tell us, ‘This is the best sandwich ever,’” Bruzzese says. “It makes you feel like you’re doing something right.”

The sandwich craze was

only part of the Bruzzese boon. The business diversified into the wholesale and catering sectors, attracting big-name chef clients such as Rob Feenie, John Bishop and Christine Cushing.

Michael Buble’s family is on the family’s catering list.

Domenico heads up the wholesale division for the family, while Sandra and Anna look after the catering side. All in, about 40 people are employed across the company, and seven people run the day-to-day at the deli.

“We had good contacts and my dad already had all the clientele on his own because he did what the big companies wouldn’t do — deliver on a Sunday, deliver at seven o’clock at night, deliver whenever they wanted,” Sandra says.

Change, as it always does, kept coming. Bruzzese bolstered his deli to include products from around the world, and his cheese selection on the day of the Courier’s visit boasted offerings from Greece to Norway, from Spain to Salt Spring Island.

All of this comes with next to nothing spent on advertising. Social media helps on that front, but Bruzzese believes in the physical, eye-to-eye contact afforded by a small store.

He’s able to explain why certain items are priced the way they are, and the ingredients, colours and process involved in his product.

La Grotta Del Formaggio is not where you go for cheap, low-quality stuff. There are no sales or blowout deals. High-quality is the name of the game, without exception.

To wit, there’s a type of pasta in his shop called Rustichella d’Abruzzo that’s made in a specific part of Italy, by a specific group of farmers who use specific types of flour and seed. It takes two months for the pasta to be prepared from scratch.

“We’ve always had specialty products,” Domenico explains. “We’ve never had the lowest, cheapest pasta.

Quality is our niche.”

Taste of Europe

There are also intangibles that factor into La Grotta Del Formaggio’s success.

Walking into the place looks, feels and smells like Europe.

Magazines and other media by the front door are all printed in Italian, just the same way you’d see them at a store in the old country.

And Bruzzese is as Italian as they come. He speaks with his hands, always adjusting his suit jacket to find a perfect fit. His words

come through a heavy accent that’s musical in its cadence. He loves soccer — AC Milan is his club of choice — and match days are the only times you won’t see Bruzzese in the shop.

Anna describes the business’s success like this: “We don’t count the hours, but we work long hours.” Domenico suggests the deli is the longest-running shop on the block, if not the entire Little Italy community.

Which brings up prospects for the future. Sandra’s 14-year-old daughter Olivia is ho-hum about becoming a third-generation employee, although she’s helped work the counter on busy days.

“I’ve been coming here since I was born,” she says.

“And it still looks the same.”

The Courier then brings up the “R” word. Talk of retirement is met with laughter from the entire family.

“This way, he stays out of my way,” Anna quips.

Bruzzese will be 71 later this year and, save for soccer games, is in the deli seven days a week. That won’t change unless his knees go.

“When you keep working and you keep up exercise, you keep your mind open,” he said. “When you sit down, your head isn’t working anymore. That’s what getting old is.” @JohnKurucz

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Border crisis inspires Vancouver filmmaker’s horror flick Culture Shock Sabrina Furminger

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Gigi Saul Guerrero read the original script for Culture Shock and told the studio it wasn’t Mexican enough, and it needed to be.

It was a bold move for Guerrero, at the time an emerging Vancouver filmmaker who’d recently signed with an American agent and was in the midst

of her first negotiation with a big-deal Hollywood production house — in this case, Blumhouse, which was producing an anthology series of feature-length horror films for Hulu and was on the hunt for directors.

One of Blumhouse’s scripts (then titled The Crossing, and ultimately titled Culture Shock) dealt with the mistreatment of migrants at the Mexico-

United States border. It’s a topic that Guerrero — a Mexican immigrant to Canada — had dealt with in 2014 in her critically acclaimed grindhouse short film, El Gigante.

This previous experience piqued Blumhouse’s interest, and after it screened El Gigante, the studio sent Guerrero the script so that she could pitch them on it.

“I read it, and while I

knew deep in my heart that this was the movie I had to make my first feature, it was lacking was a lot of authenticity,” says Guerrero. “It was lacking strong Mexican characters.”

Guerrero wanted to direct Culture Shock enough to take the biggest risk of her career: criticize the creative before she had the job.

“I told Blumhouse, ‘Look guys, this is a great idea, but

pening and also entertain people.”

Culture Shock represents several significant firsts for Guerrero: first time directing a feature-length film, first time premiering a film at a red carpet screening in Hollywood and first time directing in two languages.

“I was the only creative head on the Blumhouse and Hulu side that was of Hispanic descent,” adds Guerrero. “The amount of trust they had in me was so overwhelming but it felt right. I’m so heartbroken about what is going on at the border. I could tell everybody was heartbroken about what people are doing to each other, and everybody wanted to tell this story. Everybody was ready to tackle something this ambitious.”

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

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I promise you, if you hire me, I’m going to make this so Mexican, I’m going to make this so Mexicano, it’s going to be appreciated, and here is a two-page sheet with all my proposed changes,’ and they let me go for it,” says Guerrero.

The end result premiered on Hulu, fittingly, on the Fourth of July. Culture Shock stars Martha Higareda as Marisol, a young Mexican woman in pursuit of the American Dream, who crosses illegally into the United States, only to find herself in an American nightmare.

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Crippling tax burden could close Beaumont Studios by year’s end Executive director thinks arts and culture sectors should be eligible for exemption on property taxes or some form of tax abatement John Kurucz

jkurucz@vancourier.com

January 2020 should be a pretty sweet time in Jude Kusnierz’s life.

She should be celebrating 15 years in business at Mount Pleasant’s Beaumont Studios. Kusnierz should be expanding what is one of the largest arts businesses in Vancouver, and one of the few big ones left in Mount Pleasant, or anywhere on the city’s West Side.

Should is the operative word here.

Instead, Kusnierz is left wondering if the business will even make it into the new year.

Property taxes are killing what is a hugely successful enterprise. Of the dozens of arts spaces spread over two buildings on West Fifth Avenue, the vacancy rate hovers at less than five per cent. Close to 100 artists of all stripes work out of there, of which about 80 per cent are full-time artists.

The large performance space that accommodates about 200 people is booked solid almost every weekend.

But when your overhead reaches well into six figures, the financials stop making sense. Kusnierz’s business operates under a triple-net lease, which means paying for property tax, the lease and maintenance. Those monthly costs are in the range of $34,000, of which 90 per cent is accounted for in property tax. The Beaumont property was assessed at $15 million as of July 2018 — $14.9 million for the land, $74,700 for the buildings.

“That’s what we’re dealing with here,” said Kusnierz, who serves as

Beaumont Studios’ executive director Jude Kusnierz says that without some help from the province or the city, her studio will likely close by January 2020. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

executive director at Beaumont. “[The city] doesn’t want us to be taking up this space, they want us to be a four-storey high rise.

We’re not using our density to our fullest capacity, according to the city.”

Kusnierz launched a final letter-writing campaign to the city on July 8, two days before council received updates on the city’s budget and small business assessment and taxation.

More than 1,000 letters of support had been received in less than 24 hours.

Kusnierz wants one of two things from the city for her business and others in the arts and culture sectors: a full exemption on property taxes or some form of tax abatement.

Those types of exemptions are almost exclusively given only to non-profits, institutions, hospitals or religious organizations.

So why should an arts hub get one?

“If you want there to be just a bunch of four-storey, highrise gaming companies in this neighbourhood, then let us go,” Kusnierz explained. “This is one of the last brick and mortar spaces that allows artists to produce shows and actually build their craft and their businesses. These are people making a living, paying taxes, doing their art and sustaining as a full-time business in the arts.”

Kusnierz has received two grants from the city over the last five years, to-

talling $150,000. Finding $150,000 in other matching funds was needed before those grants were allotted, and acquiring that necessary capital happened earlier this year.

The intervening years between 2014 and 2019 have seen some cost increases passed down to tenants, who, Kusnierz says, have been largely understanding.

A 110-square-foot studio that cost $500 in 2014 now goes for around $800.

Those cost pressures have pushed Kusnierz to a breaking point where she can’t continue offloading costs to her tenants. Without some form of government intervention, Beaumont will likely close in January.

“Every studio in these

two buildings, we subsidize by a couple thousand dollars a month because of what’s happened in the last couple years,” Kusnierz said. “But we need to make another $37,000 a month for operational costs.”

Kusnierz said she’s been in talks with virtually every council member, and while some lifelines have been suggested, few have been implemented.

Kusnierz said the two per cent tax shift from commercial to residential represents a savings of about $1,000 a year.

“It’s nothing,” she said.

Coun. Michael Wiebe spoke to the Courier in midJune, after Kusnierz reached out to him for help. Wiebe operates Eight ½ restaurant

in Mount Pleasant and is a member of the Vancouver Art House Society, which helped galvanize last year’s Save the Rio campaign.

Among the ideas Wiebe offered was the prospect of split assessment, which would help weed out huge speculative pressures. The model works by valuing and taxing properties based on their actual use, rather than B.C. Assessment’s preference for highest and best use.

Wiebe and others at the city and province are looking at creating a new property class that would include a 10-year tax abatement. Organizations that provide arts and culture services would have to prove their commitment to arts and culture over at least a decade in order to qualify for those tax breaks.

“This is something we looked at with the Rio Theatre and others.

The goal is that that will be the Rio Theatre for 10 years and Beaumont can be Beaumont for 10 years,” Wiebe explained.

If someone wanted to develop, they would have to pay the benefit they got for every year prior plus a penalty. It would be very expensive for a developer to develop.”

A lot of those changes, however, take time.

Kusnierz doesn’t have much of that left.

“We can’t take any more money out of our tenants,” she said. “We can only rent this place out so much, there are only so many Thursday and Friday evenings when people are using the space. And we can’t keep asking the landlord to keep giving discounts. The glory days are over.” @JohnKurucz

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Killarney Seniors Centre celebrates one year anniversary Event included plaque presentation recognizing the Southeast Vancouver Seniors Arts and Culture Centre Society SANDRA THOMAS sthomas@vancourier.com

George Grant, Lorna Gibbs and Barbara Messiah, on behalf of husband Bert Messiah, accept a plaque of recognition, which is also dedicated to Keith Jacobson and Joan Wright.

PHOTO: DAN TOULGOET

When the Killarney Seniors Centre opened last June, a politician-heavy ribboncutting ceremony was held to mark the occasion.

Southeast Vancouver Seniors Arts and Culture Centre Society — the true driving force behind the completion of the long-awaited facility.

That ceremony was attended by many members of the community, speeches were made and backs were slapped.

Darren Peterson, the park board’s manager of recreation for Vancouver’s East Side, gave a few words before presenting a plaque recognizing the extraordinary efforts of the society and, in particular, the work of

It was a very different atmosphere July 4, 2019, when a much smaller group of seniors gathered

Keith Jacobson

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George Grant, Lorna Gibbs, Joan Wright, Bert Messiah and Keith Jacobson, who unfortunately died in June 2016 before ground broke on the project just seven months later. Due to ailing health, Bert Messiah was represented at the ceremony by his wife Barbara Messiah, while Wright was unable to attend.

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getting the seniors centre built. “And there isn’t one person here who didn’t bring benefit to our group.

I can’t believe your loyalty and support.”

Gibbs, standing at a table in front of a shelf sporting a portrait of Jacobson, told the group there is no plaque large enough to thank all of the people involved in making the centre a reality after almost 20 years.

Grant said the completion of the centre means a lot to the community.

“I have learned something from every one of you here,” said Gibbs, noting Jacobson was a huge part of the society’s success in

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“I had to be sure that I knew where the project was at any one time and there were people responsible for it. I had to develop a whole set of instructions,” says McCrindle. “We took it upon ourselves to do the project, to fund it, and to present it to the government of Canada.”

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The Crown Collection includes more than 7,000 objects... nothing. The association recently learned that after years of putting the finishing touches on its project, the Canadian Embroidery Tapestry had been accepted into Canada’s Crown Collection.

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Many of the items in the Crown Collection are used to furnish the country’s official residences, such as Rideau Hall.

Three golden ribbons wind and twist across the panels — representing the Trans-Canada Highway, railway and the Great Trail — uniting the country, according to McCrindle.

...we’re hoping that it will be in an area that is accessible by the general public.

“We don’t know where they’re planning to put this, but we’re hoping that it will be in an area that is accessible by the general public,” says McCrindle.

Across two large panels Canadians from all over the country have left their mark through embroidery.

The project features a maple tree at its centre, with birds representing the country’s different provinces and territories hanging off its branches.

“There’s rainfall coming down in the West Coast and the totem poles and the forest going into the prairie land,” she says. “Moving a little bit further east, we get into the Peace Tower of the Parliament Buildings and the East Coast fishery and the lobster.”

Helen McCrindle of West Vancouver poses with the Canadian Embroidery Tapestry. The two-panel piece, which features the talents of embroiderers from across the country, was recently accepted into Canada’s Crown Collection.

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The Canadian Embroidery Tapestry is currently stationed at a framing shop in West Vancouver, as final arrangements are made before it makes its way to its final destination in Ottawa.

Asked what it means to have the piece accepted into the Crown Collection, McCrindle touches on the theme of bringing people together and not letting things grow apart.

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Michael DiPietro’s first NHL start was one of the oddest stories of last season.

Thanks to a series of unfortunate events that would make Lemony Snicket jealous, the 19-year-old DiPietro made his NHL debut against the San Jose Sharks, the highest-scoring team in the Western Conference.

DiPietro is a solid prospect, proving himself with another great season in the OHL and a lights-out performance in the World Juniors for Team Canada, where he posted a .952 save percentage and a tournamentleading 1.23 goals against average. He wasn’t, however, ready for the NHL. The Sharks lit up DiPietro for seven goals on 24 shots, including three goals on the first five shots he faced. What made it worse is that DiPietro didn’t have an escape hatch: Jacob Markstrom was on the bench, but wasn’t game-ready with an injury suffered during the morning skate. DiPietro was the Canucks’ only option.

“Everybody talks about the size and the speed and how hard shots will be,” said DiPietro about the experience, “but not many people talk about how much higher the IQ is and how much faster things occur, how something is always generated and things are done with a purpose.”

DiPietro took the tough experience in stride and has already made adjustments to his game, though he admits he tried to rush some of those adjustments and struggled when he first got back to the OHL. “Sometimes you can get a little ahead of yourself, you want to just fix everything at once, but it’ll eventually happen with time,” he said. “That’ll come with experience. I’m not going to fix it just in one day and I’m not going to snap my fingers and everything’s fixed. I know it takes time and I’m ready to put the work in.”

Meanwhile, the Canucks have made adjustments as well, hoping to avoid putting an unprepared goaltender into a similar situation next season.

The reason why DiPietro got the start is simple: the Canucks ran out of goaltenders.

AHL veteran Richard Bachman suffered a season-ending injury in December and wasn’t replaced with a goaltender on an NHL contract. Canucks general manager

Don Cherry. PHOTO WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Stick-taps & Glove-drops • I’m dropping the gloves with Steve Simmons for erroneously reporting that Don Cherry wouldn’t be back next season on Hockey Night in Canada. While it’s long past time Cherry retired, rumour-mongering doesn’t help anyone.

• A tap of the stick to the Canucks prospects invited to represent their countries at the World Junior Summer Showcase: Jett Woo, Carson Focht, Nils Hoglander and Toni Utunen.

Big Numbers Michael DiPietro with former Canuck Chris Higgins at a Canucks prospect development camp.

PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Jim Benning traded backup Anders Nilsson to the Ottawa Senators in order to call up Thatcher Demko to the NHL, but the goaltender that came back in the trade, Mike McKenna, was claimed off waivers by the Philadelphia Flyers.

That left just three goaltenders on an NHL contract: Markstrom, Demko and DiPietro. Demko suffered an injury a week before the game against the Sharks, Markstrom was pulled out for a lower-body injury and DiPietro was the only one left.

Thanks to a couple signings over the last few months, the Canucks look a little more prepared heading into next season.

In April, the Canucks signed Jake Kielly, who was a finalist for the Mike Richter Award as the NCAA’s best goaltender last season. Then, on the first day of free agency, the Canucks added 26-year-old Zane McIntyre, an experienced AHL goaltender with a pinch of NHL experience.

Along with Markstrom, Demko, DiPietro and Bachman, that makes six goaltenders on NHL contracts for the

Canucks, which should provide ample coverage at both the NHL and AHL level in case of injuries.

Markstrom and Demko should split starts in the NHL, while DiPietro and McIntyre should do the same for the Utica Comets in the AHL. Kielly will most likely start for the Kalamazoo Wings in the ECHL. That leaves Bachman either filling a mentor role as a third goaltender in Utica or getting loaned to another AHL team.

If either Markstrom or Demko gets injured, the Canucks will have three clear options for a callup in DiPietro, McIntyre and Bachman. It’s possible that DiPietro will get another chance in the NHL next season, but this time the Canucks can take their time and make sure he’s ready first.

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

Kawhi Leonard’s L.A. Clippers to play Dallas Mavericks in Vancouver this October

Kawhi Leonard’s new team, the Los Angeles Clippers, will be in town Oct. 17 for a preseason game against the Dallas Mavericks at Rogers Arena. PHOTO WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Kawhi watch is coming to Vancouver this fall. The former Toronto Raptor and MVP recently jumped ship to the L.A. Clippers, and they’ll be tipping off against the Dallas Mavericks in a preseason game at Rogers Arena Oct. 17.

It will be the seventh NBA Canada Series. It will also mark the Clippers’ second appearance in NBA Canada

• 2 After signing Reid Boucher, Brogan Rafferty and Josh Teves on Tuesday, the Canucks have two restricted free agents remaining to re-signed: Brock Boeser and Nikolay Goldobin.

• 6.9 Contract projections from hockey analytics site Evolving Hockey predict a seven-year contract for Boeser worth approximately $6.9 million per year.

Reid Boucher. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Series and the first appearance for the Mavericks.

“We are thrilled to be a part of the NBA Canada Series for the first time,” said Dallas Mavericks head coach Rick Carlisle in a press release. “Vancouver is a very special city and we look forward to playing in front of their great fans again.”

Approximately a quarter of a million Canadians have attended 13 games in five cities since NBA Canada Series launched in 2012.

Tickets will go on sale Thursday, July 25. To register for presale ticket access, go to NBA.com/CanadaSeries.

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