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New committee takes on anti-Semitism, apology to South Asians Mike Howell

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Couple of heavy questions for you…

The first one: Should city council formally apologize to the South Asian community for the legislated discrimination enacted decades ago by previous city councils?

The second one: Should city council adopt the definition of anti-Semitism as defined by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance and share it with police, the library, park board and school board?

I’d be interested to hear your answers on both questions because city council will not give an official answer on either question for quite some time.

That’s because the majority of council decided on the evening of July 23 to refer motions from councillors Christine Boyle (on South Asian apology) and Sarah Kirby-Yung (on combatting anti-Semitism) to a new committee.

It’s called the Racial and Ethno-Cultural Equity advisory committee. Council

recently appointed 15 people to the committee. Members are from a visible or cultural minority group.

I reached out to co-chairs Jessica Ga-Wun Leung and Anabel Lopez, but they declined an interview, saying in an email the committee has yet to “start the process of addressing the motions.”

They did not say they had their work cut out for them because they didn’t have to. That was made clear in the council debate and in an interview with Baldwin Wong, a city staff liaison to the committee.

“It is huge,” Wong said of handling the politically sensitive issues. “But we have a very robust group of people on the committee, so I’m very hopeful that they will actually come to some really good recommendations at the end.”

Kirby-Yung’s motion on combatting anti-Semitism didn’t include a timeframe when council should expect a report from the committee.

That’s because Kirby-Yung and her four NPA council colleagues wanted to hear from 50-plus speakers last week and adopt the defini-

Vancouver city council decided July 23 to have a new committee review motions related to combatting anti-Semitism and apologizing to the South Asian community for historical wrongs.

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tion.

Her motion came the same week a Statistics Canada report showed the Jewish community continues to be the most targeted group in the country for hate crimes.

“Depending upon [the committee’s] input, it may or may not go to council,” she said in an email. “If and when a report goes to council, speakers should be able to be heard — as we believe they should have been able to be heard at council at this time.”

Some of the councillors

who agreed to defer the motion to the committee, including Jean Swanson and Adriane Carr, cited the “hundreds” of emails received from Jewish people who were divided on adopting the definition.

An apology to the South Asian community isn’t expected to be as controversial and could occur by next year, if that is the recommendation from the committee and wish of council.

Boyle’s motion requests staff prepare the scope of

work, budget and timeline by the fall to ensure consideration for the 2020 budget process.

It’s unclear how that request will now be handled by the committee, although the committee and staff work together on recommendations for an apology.

Either way, Boyle wants a summary of laws, regulations and policies as far back as the 1890s that details the level of discrimination legislated by previous city councils.

It’s a fact that South Asians weren’t given the right to vote in municipal elections until 1948. It’s also a fact an amendment to the B.C. Elections Act from decades ago considered South Asians “Asian undesirables.”

Like the Chinese, South Asians couldn’t own property in Vancouver and were denied professions in education, law and pharmacy, according to Boyle’s motion.

Apologizing for historical wrongs legislated by previous councils is not new ground for Vancouver politicians.

The Gregor Robertson-led council made formal apologies to the Chinese (in 2018)

and Japanese (in 2013) communities.

The apology to the Chinese was related to injustices dating back to Vancouver’s first civic government, which made it clear at its first meeting in 1886 that “no Chinaman or Indian shall be entitled to vote in any municipal election for the election of mayor or alderman.”

In 1942, the council of the day unanimously passed a motion calling for “the removal of the enemy alien population from the Pacific coast to central parts of Canada,” specifically anyone of Japanese descent without any consideration for place or birth or citizenship.

The city apologized for its complicity, its inaction and for failing to protect residents of Japanese descent. Council also pledged to do all it can to ensure such injustices will not happen again.

Now it’s over to the new council to make its own pledges related to the South Asian and Jewish communities. Which means the committee’s work on these two files can’t happen soon enough.

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News Man sues VPD, claims he was mistakenly beaten and arrested Mike Howell

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A 47-year-old Vancouver man is suing the Vancouver Police Department after he claims he was mistakenly arrested and beaten by officers involved in a hunt for a fugitive accused of shooting a transit cop in January.

Jason Victor Hernandez filed a notice of civil claim July 30 in B.C. Supreme Court against six unidentified Vancouver officers. He claims they broke his ribs and gave him a concussion as he left a Real Canadian Superstore on Kingsway in Burnaby on Feb. 1.

At the time of the incident, the officers were involved in a Metro Vancouver-wide hunt to capture suspect Daon Gordon Glasgow, who was accused of shooting Const. Josh Harms at Scott Road SkyTrain Station Jan. 30 in Surrey.

Glasgow was 35 at the time, 12 years younger than Hernandez.

Hernandez claims in his lawsuit that he was confronted by a group of officers, some of whom had guns aimed at him.

Police told him to surrender without resisting arrest, the court documents say.

“Mr. Hernandez, who was not armed with anything other than shopping bags, did not resist in any fashion beyond expressing his belief that the police were targeting the wrong individual,” the lawsuit says.

“Despite his compliance, Mr. Hernandez was repeatedly struck by VPD officers during the course of his wrongful arrest, and sustained various injuries, including, but not limited to, abrasions and bruising to his face and body, several broken ribs and a concussion.”

Police officers were involved in a Metro Vancouver-wide hunt to capture suspect Daon Gordon Glasgow (left) who was accused of shooting Const. Josh Harms at Scott Road SkyTrain Station Jan. 30 in Surrey.

Police then handcuffed Hernandez and put him in a Vancouver police vehicle, where he was told he was suspected of being the man wanted for shooting the transit cop.

The lawsuit says Hernandez immediately protested his innocence and offered to provide identification to officers that showed he was not the suspect.

“Despite the fact that Mr. Hernandez bears almost no resemblance to Mr. Glasgow, he was then detained for over five hours while VPD members refused to check his identification or accept his explanation that he was not the person they were seeking,” the lawsuit says.

It was not until his fingerprints were processed and found not to match those of the suspect that he was released, says the lawsuit, claiming the detention was unlawful and caused Hernandez prolonged emotional distress.

The Courier left a message Aug. 2 for Hernandez’s lawyer, Matthew Longay, to supply a photo of his client.

Longay had not returned the message before the Courier’s Tuesday print deadline.

Surrey RCMP arrested Glasgow Feb. 3 at a home in the 7500 block of

Boundary Road. He was charged with several offences related to the shooting of the transit cop, who has since returned to work.

Upon Hernandez’s release, the claim states, VPD officers apologized and offered to provide him temporary accommodations in a nearby hotel. The arrest caused Hernandez to miss an appointment to move into a new residence, the lawsuit says.

“However, despite ongoing assurances to Mr. Hernandez, the VPD failed to follow through with their offer for accommodations and Mr. Hernandez was force to spend a night in the hotel lobby awaiting reservations, which never arrived,” the lawsuit says.

“This callous treatment heightened Mr. Hernandez’s distress with the whole series of events.”

Hernandez is seeking unspecified damages for his injuries, expenses for medical treatment, loss of employment opportunity and for short-term housing.

The VPD, nor the City of Vancouver — which is also named as a defendant — has filed a response to Hernandez’s lawsuit. None of the allegations made

by Hernandez have been proven in court. @Howellings

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Police face probe after shooting Taser, beanbag gun at man Suspect was taken to hospital after arrest outside Patricia Hotel

Mike Howell

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The Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner has ordered an investigation into Vancouver police’s arrest of a man July 30 outside a tourist hotel in the Downtown Eastside.

Deputy Police Complaint Commissioner Andrea Spindler said the agency decided to get involved after reviewing a widely circulated video on social media that captured part of the incident outside the Patricia Hotel in the 400-block of East Hastings Street.

“A member of the public was injured by the actions of police and required transportation to a hospital for care, and the commissioner has determined it’s in the public interest that an investigation be conducted into the matter,” Spindler told the Courier July 31.

The goal of the investigation is to determine whether police committed misconduct in the arrest, which

involved officers firing a Taser and beanbag shotgun several times at the man.

The agency has yet to assign an external police department to conduct the investigation, which will be done under the Police Act. Spindler said the agency was still determining whether the investigation would focus on one officer or others involved in the arrest.

At one point during the incident, at least 12 officers can be seen on amateur video filmed by bystander Al Fowler, a member of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users, which is located across the street from the hotel.

Fowler’s video shows the man being hit at least three times by beanbag rounds fired from a shotgun. The video does not capture the man being hit several times with a Taser, which police confirmed occurred before filming began.

Spindler said the extent of the man’s injuries did not meet the threshold of

The Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner has ordered an investigation into Vancouver police’s arrest of a man Tuesday outside the Patricia Hotel. PHOTO SCREENGRAB/AL FOWLER

serious harm, as defined under the Police Act. If they had, the Independent Investigations Office, which investigates police-involved incidents where serious harm or death occurs, would investigate.

Asked whether an investigation would have been

ordered without the video, Spindler said the video is one piece of evidence and that a thorough investigation will be done before any conclusions are reached.

“We’re basing [the investigation]on the circumstances of the information that we’ve reviewed on what

we see in the video and based on the information that we’ve received from the Vancouver Police Department,” she said.

Sgt. Jason Robillard, a VPD media relations officer, said officers used a Taser several times and fired several beanbag rounds from a shotgun at the man before arresting him on the sidewalk near the hotel’s entrance.

Police responded to the hotel after receiving a 911 call from staff concerned about their safety related to what they described as an aggressive male.

The video shows police telling the man several times to roll on to his stomach.

The man eventually complies, only to roll further down the sidewalk and end up on his back.

As of July 31, the 35-yearold Surrey resident, who was believed to be under the influence of drugs at the time of the incident, was still in hospital.

His stay, Robillard said,

was “not related to the beanbag or Taser deployment.”

“The biggest concern was the drugs that he had potentially ingested,” he said, noting charges haven’t been approved against the man.

Police are anticipating a charge of assaulting a police officer related to the man trying to punch an officer, which is not captured in the video.

Lindsay Thomas, the front desk manager of the Patricia Hotel, told the Courier the man was known to staff and was involved in a similar violent incident in February.

Once the investigation is completed, the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner will review the decision. If the agency disagrees with the decision, it can appoint a retired judge to review the matter.

If it is determined that an officer or officers committed misconduct, a range of disciplinary actions can be imposed, ranging from a written reprimand to dismissal. @Howellings

Marpole housing co-op partners with developer on large rental project Ashley-Mar Housing Co-operative and Intracorp Homes involved in proposal for three-tower development Naoibh O’Connor

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Ashley-Mar Housing Co-operative and Intracorp Homes have partnered on a proposal for a three-tower development on the co-op’s acre-and-ahalf site between Cambie and Ash streets. The property, which includes two parcels separated by a lane, is located just south of Marine Drive, not far from Marine Gateway and the Canada Line station.

A rezoning application for the land at 8460 Ash St. and 8495 Cambie St. was filed recently.

If the application is approved, Ashley-Mar’s existing 54 two-storey co-op townhome units would be replaced, and another 71 added, for a total of 125 units in a 14-storey nonmarket building. The other two buildings — one 24 and the other 27 storeys — would provide 457 market rentals units, with the entire project producing a total of 582 units. Some commercial space is included in the development.

Evan Allegretto, Intracorp’s senior vice president of development, thinks it may be the first partnership between a developer

The rezoning proposal envisions a 14-storey non-market building, as well as 24-and 27-storey market rental buildings. RENDERING COURTESY OF INTRACORP HOMES

and a co-op where funding for the majority of costs is through a rental rather than a condo project.

“It’s a good example of [how] the private sector development community can work with a non-market group to try to create a development that hopefully matches council’s objectives on [a] transit [line],” he said. “It’s the first, essentially co-op and rental-only project on transit at this scale. The co-op, if they wanted to, could just renew

their stock today. They could take out a new mortgage to renew their housing.

They came forward and wanted to increase the density. It was their decision.”

An earlier proposal floated late last year envisioned a development that included two 18-storey market condo buildings, with a 15-storey building to house the 54 co-op replacement units and additional affordable housing units, but city staff advised them to pursue a rental application while

maintaining the amount of non-market housing.

“We’ve used every lever we can, from incentives to other policy directives that we could use, to make the project feasible.

The resulting density and tower heights is the result [required] to fund the non-market building,” Allegretto said. “…It’s very hard to get the economics to work to support a large non-market building like the one that we’re proposing on

site because the concrete construction costs are quite high right now.”

The co-op, which has been working with Intracorp to develop the project for about three-and-a-half years, was established in the 1980s. Although the mortgage was paid off recently, redevelopment plans means the co-op will still have to take on another small mortgage.

Co-op spokesperson Ryuji Kita said members decided to rebuild because the homes were getting older, amenities were lacking and taxes were going up.

“And we thought it was in our best interest to seek out a different style of building,” he said.

Some members were initially concerned because the layout will be different, with units in a taller building rather in a townhouse format like what exists now.

“But, all in all, right now everyone’s on board,” Kita said.

Allegretto maintains it’s a good location for the development because it’s south of Marine Drive. The land south of the site is all industrial, so the impact to the neighbourhood, in his opinion, is minimized.

If council approves the de-

velopment, and the process is “extremely smooth,” construction could start in early 2021. It would take two and a half to three years to complete. The co-op building would be finished first.

The tenant relocation plan that’s being proposed would allow existing co-op members to move anywhere and Intracorp would top up their rent to an agreed-upon threshold. They would be able to return to similar units in the new development at their same rates.

“So there’s zero displacement and everyone there is treated really well,” Allegretto said.

Kita said having to relocate during construction worried some members, especially those with children who want to remain in the same school catchment.

“There were a lot of questions but Intracorp is working well with us. They’ve got a third party that’s going to come an interview all of us and make sure we’re all located in an area that works well,” he said.

Kita said the membership is also working on how to sustain a community feel in a different style of building.

That will include having an amenity room where members can gather.

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Twin Heart Animal Sanctuary launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise funds to help make the sanctuary safer and more comfortable for Shira, a blind sheep. PHOTO DIANE NICHOLSON

Fundraiser launched to help blind sheep ‘Shira is a special soul and we’d like to help her live out the rest of her years in peace’ Jessica Kerr

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A B.C. animal sanctuary is looking for help making one of its newest residents a little more comfortable.

Diane and Harry Nicholson opened Twin Heart Animal Sanctuary in Tappen, B.C., which is near Salmon Arm, three-and-ahalf years ago.

Both grew up in Vancouver — Diane, a life-long animal lover, even worked at the Stanley Park children’s zoo as a teen. But the couple wanted to get away from city life. They eventually settled in Tappen where they found a property that seemed perfectly suited for an animal sanctuary. Today they have more than 30 rescued farm animals, but one of their most recent additions requires a bit more care.

About a month ago, Diane saw an online ad advertising a free sheep.

“As soon as I see that, I know what’s going to happen because people are always looking for older animals for dog food,” she said. “People who like to feed their dogs raw meat find these animals… and kill them for dog food.”

Diane contacted the seller and was able to rescue the sheep, Shira, who was in rough shape. At six-years old Shira, a hair sheep, was likely bred every year of her life, Diane said, and soon after giving birth would have her babies taken away.

“Year after year she gave birth to lambs, and year after year she grieved their loss,” Diane said.

When Shira arrived at Twin Heart, she had recently given birth to twin ewe lambs. Diane said they tried to get the lambs as well, but the farmer wanted to keep

them for breeding.

Shira’s udder was swollen from the sudden weaning, she was emaciated and her belly was distended due to a worm infection, her coat was greasy and her skin was yellow and flaky. Shira is also blind.

“She was frightened, not being able to see, and missing her babies,” Diane said, adding that Shira also appeared happy being outside.

She had been kept in a barn for the past year because the farmer didn’t know that Shira was blind when they bought her and had no safe area outside.

With the current set up at Twin Heart, Shira must be kept tied up when she’s outside during the day, which allows her to roam to some extent but keeps her safe from falling off a drop-off from a retaining wall on the property.

Diane said she attends to Shira at least 15 times a day — moving her from the hay to the grass, and closer to two goats, Koni and Keitou, and a donkey that also live at the sanctuary.

Diane recently launched an online fundraiser aimed at raising $5,000 to purchase 30 sheep panels to go around the retaining wall, which would allow Shira to safely roam free. The money would also help fund the construction of a new shelter for Shira and her goat and donkey companions. They are currently housed in a trailer that’s meant for emergencies.

“Shira is a special soul and we’d like to help her live out the rest of her years in peace and with a feeling of joy,” Diane said.

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There were 19,651 classes in B.C. with four or more students with special needs in 2019, up from 17,466 last year Tracy Sherlock

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Although the government spends $6.6 billion on education and has hired 4,000 new teachers since the teachers’ win in Canada’s Supreme Court, there are still thousands of classes in the province with more than three students with special needs, government statistics released July 25 show.

Vancouver alone has 2,015 classes with more than three students with special needs and 740 classes with more than seven students with special needs.

Despite those numbers, the success of students with special needs is showing a “dramatic leap” with 75 per cent of students with special needs graduating from high school and classes much smaller since the teachers’ court win, said B.C.’s Minister of Education Rob Fleming.

“The addition of 500 special education teachers in the school system, more educational psychologists and 4,000 more teachers overall means more one-on-one time

with students,” Fleming said.

“I think it’s a good story, especially for new parents enrolling their children in B.C.’s public education system for the first time.

They can have a high degree of confidence that, whether their kid has special learning needs or not, there are more services in B.C. schools today than over previous generations. Smaller class sizes benefit every learner.”

B.C. Teachers’ Federation president Teri Mooring said the data shows some improvement to class size, but not in the numbers of students with special needs in each classroom.

“We are concerned that classes are continuing to become more complex,” she said. “That’s been a concern of ours for some time and that concern has not changed.”

Mooring said the extra money now in the education system is a result of the restored contracts, rising enrolment and salary increases.

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Vancouver has 2,015 classes with more than three students with special needs and 740 classes with more than seven students with special needs. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

— when most teachers are on vacation — and when, as reported earlier this spring, the numbers usually come out in March or April.

This year is different because the teachers’ contract expired June 30 and mediation is underway. Statistics about class composition — the number of students with special needs in each class — are deeply entwined with the negotiations. The two sides are far apart and it’s the issue of class composition that separates them.

Fleming said the delay was because of accuracy.

“It was important to get it right,” Fleming said.

This year there were 19,651 classes in B.C. with four or more students with special needs, up from 17,466 last year, the statistics show. There were 4,183 classes with seven or more students with special needs, up from 3,474 last year.

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On that note, the rate of students on the autism spectrum has increased from 0.2 per cent in 2001-02 to 1.9 per cent of all students today, the government says.

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with four or more students with special needs rose from 23 per cent of all classes to 26 per cent, while the classes with seven or more students with special needs stayed the same at five per cent.

The number of classrooms supported by an education assistant — a trained support worker for students with special needs who is not a teacher — rose by 2,000, the statistics show.

There are no provincewide rules about the number of special needs students that can be in any one class.

If provincial rules are implemented, school districts like Vancouver, where there is robust contract language about class size and class composition, could lose out, while districts without any rules could come out ahead.

A controversial report released in December called for some of the funding for students with special needs to be allocated using a prevalence model — the expected number of students with special needs — rather than funding specific students.

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Arguably one of the more colourful events in the city, Vancouver Mural Festival has returned for its fourth year of wall-towall paint and parties.

This year’s program started Aug. 1 with 10 days of events culminating on Aug. 10 with the massive Mount Pleasant Street Party and concert at Jonathan Rogers Park.

“There’s so much, and we really want to try to have stuff that’s interesting to everyone,” said the festival’s executive director David Vertesi.

Twenty-five new murals will be completed in time for the Aug. 10 street party. This year’s lineup of artists includes worldrenowned muralists and street artists, such as Australia’s Fintan Magee, ONEQ from Japan, Germany’s SatOne and Medianeras, who hails

from Argentina, as well as local talents KC Hall and Pablo Zamudio.

The festival has partnered with Burrard Arts Foundation to bring Shepard Fairey’s exhibit, Facing the Giant: 3 Decades of Dissent, to Vancouver as part of this year’s Mural Festival.

Fairey is an American contemporary street artist, graphic designer, activist, illustrator and founder of Obey Clothing, who’s arguably best known for his iconic “Hope” poster of Barack Obama.

The exhibit celebrates the 30th anniversary of Obey and “represents a dialogue between the 19-year-old punk beginnings of Shepard Fairey and his current life as a 49-year-old artist, activist, punk, father, and husband who’s journeyed through trials both metaphorically and literally.”

The exhibit opens Aug. 8 at the BAF Gallery (2 – 258 East First Ave.) and

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• VMF Flash Tattoo: starting at noon on Friday 24 tattoo artists will create “lightning speed permanent ink masterpieces” on hundreds of people. The event runs from noon until 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday at 65 East Sixth Ave. The piece de resistance of the festival is the Mount Pleasant Street Party on Saturday, Aug. 10 from noon to 7 p.m. Fourteen-plus blocks are closed to traffic on and around Main Street for the day to play host to live art, street dance battles, graffiti jams, four beer gardens and two music stages, as well

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focused on was how incredibly resilient they were, how much strength they had, and how, in the case of somebody like Tyler, even though he wanted to come back, he realized he needed to focus on his own healing, and I think that’s really mature and also something valuable to share with others,” says Eastwood.

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“A few of the families had negative experiences with the media and were wary of us at first, but that changed because we were around for so long. They saw we were interested in building relationships, and that we weren’t there to harvest their story like a commodity.”

Eastwood and Frison never asked the survivors and the families to talk about the crash that had upended their lives, but many brought it up regardless.

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Kevin Eastwood didn’t fully understand the allure of hockey until he spent time in multiple rural Saskatchewan towns that had been impacted by the Humboldt Broncos tragedy.

The Vancouver filmmaker and his co-director Lucas Frison spent nearly 11 months filming Humboldt: The New Season.

Their documentary airs on CBC Television on Aug. 15 and explores the aftermath of the April 2018 bus crash that killed 16 junior hockey players and injured 13.

Eastwood — whose filmography includes After the Sirens (about the PTSD epidemic among first responders), The Death Debate, and two seasons of the award-winning television series Emergency Room: Life + Death at VGH — didn’t grow up playing hockey. He describes himself as somewhat removed from hockey fandom and not fully grasping how or why hockey came to reign as Canada’s national pastime.

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“Hockey embodies all the same things that I love cinema for: people in a big room experiencing something emotionally at

the same time,” marvels Eastwood.

Humboldt: The New Season isn’t really about hockey. It’s not a sports documentary.

It’s not even about that horrible April day when the Broncos’ bus collided with a speeding semi-trailer that had failed to yield at a flashing stop sign.

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particularly attentive and kept our wine glasses filled as we spent three leisurely hours on the water meandering from Lund to Homfray Lodge.

Our Pacific Coastal Cruises “cruise” meant spending our days on the water and our nights in the comfort of Homfray Lodge, where we were treated to delicious gourmet meals and had our choice of daily activities.

The owners, staff and crew of Homfray Lodge take their role as caretakers of the surrounding forests and waters very seriously and to that end, source their food and beverages locally, package food in reusable containers, offer vegetarian options, reduce, reuse and recycle, partner with the Commercial Bear Viewing Association and offset their carbon footprint by protecting 3,124 square metres of the rainforest in the Toba Valley.

We spent our Saturday cruising aboard the Pacific Bear for almost six hours, during which at one point we were almost surrounded by a massive pod of Pacific White Sided dolphins that seemed to reach from one side of the inlet to the other.

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And then it was back to Homfray Lodge, which was built in 2008 and reimagined in 2017 as an all-inclusive wilderness destination. A visit to the all-inclusive lodge as part of a Pacific Coastal Cruises package includes Powell River Airport transfers, cruising on the Pacific Bear, three meals and unlimited snacks a day, wine and beer, eco-boat tours, seasonal grizzly bear viewing, yoga, hikes and kayaking.

Desolation Sound was named by Captain George Vancouver after he sailed into its waters in 1792 and our cruise followed much of the same route he and his crew ventured, the difference being the Pacific Bear includes a state-of-theart navigation system — and wine.

Despite those differences, I can only imagine Captain Vancouver’s response to the But the real gasps came rugged beauty of the area when we spotted a black was very similar to ours. A bear gorging itself on visit to Desolation Sound is mussels clinging to rocks a good reminder not only of along the shore. Absolutely just how vast this province unperturbed by our is, but also how absolutely presence, the bear lumbered vital it is to protect these from rock to rock shredding stunning wilderness areas large clumps of mussels from over-development. with its massive claws and And I think the dolphins, teeth as easily as if they were bears, whales and eagles of the area would agree. sunflower seeds.

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Karen adds the multicultural diversity of this East Vancouver community is also very much embraced by Chelsea Park.

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An unusually large number of restricted free agents haven’t been signed this off-season, including some of the best players in the NHL. Mitch Marner was 11th in league scoring last season with 94 points. Brayden Point was right behind him with 92 points and was sixth in goalscoring with 41 goals.

Other top RFA forwards that have yet to be signed include Mikko Rantanen, Matthew Tkachuk, Patrik Laine, Kyle Connor, Travis Konecny and Colin White. Then there’s the defencemen like Zach Werenski, who had 44 points last season, Ivan Provorov, who was sixth in the NHL in ice time per game, and Charlie McAvoy, the new number one defenceman for the Boston Bruins.

This group of RFAs have limited leverage, as they haven’t played in the NHL long enough to be eligible for salary arbitration, a process that brings in an independent arbitrator to decide on a fair contract. Teams generally try to take advantage of that lack of leverage to sign players to team-friendly contracts that extract the most value possible.

There’s one other player that belongs in the above list: the Vancouver Canucks’ Brock Boeser.

Boeser has quickly established himself as a crucial part of the Canucks core, forming a formidable one-two punch on the top line with Elias Pettersson. While his health has hindered his ability to rack up goals in his first two seasons, he looks like he’ll be a perennial 30-goal scorer capable of flirting with 40 goals throughout his career.

That makes Boeser’s contract a crucial one for the Canucks. It could set the baseline for other parts of the Canucks core that will come up for contract renewal in the near future, like Elias Pettersson and Quinn Hughes. A long-term contract could secure Boeser’s services at a cheap cap hit for years to come, while a shortterm contract could save them money for a few years, but potentially cost them more when he needs a new deal.

Making matters more complicated is the other big-name stars still waiting for new contracts. Teams and agents alike seem to be waiting for the first deal to be signed to set the market.

Talks around the league suggest that the deal everyone is waiting for is Marner’s. The Toronto Maple Leafs winger

• 33 – One thing that might weigh on the minds of Canucks’ management is that Boeser has yet to play a full season in the NHL. He’s missed 33 games over the last two seasons. Admittedly, some of those games were missed due to freak injuries, but durability might be a concern that makes them consider a short-term contract.

• 0.83 – Brock Boeser has tallied 0.83 points per game thus far in his career, better than both Matthew Tkachuk and Patrik Laine, but a step below Mikko Rantanen and Brayden Point.

Mitch Marner’s next contract will shape the future of many RFAs, including the Canucks’ Brock Boeser.

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is rumoured to be asking for everything from a short-term bridge deal worth $10 million per year to an equivalent to teammate Auston Matthews’ five-year deal worth $11.634 million per year. Neither particularly appeals to the Leafs, who would rather lock up Marner long term for somewhere south of $10 million per year or pay a lot less on a bridge deal.

With that kind of hefty asking price, Marner will likely set the ceiling for the rest of the big-name RFAs, including Boeser. Rantanen and Point will likely come in with cap hits a little under Marner’s, with Tkachuk, Laine, and Boeser making up the next group. What Marner signs for could have a trickle-down effect, as agents revamp their asking price.

For instance, if Marner does sign for $11 million, perhaps the agents for Rantanen and Point will feel comfortable asking for $9.5-10 million for their clients. Will that up the asking price for the likes of Tkachuk, Laine, and Boeser to $8 or 8.5 million?

That would hurt the Canucks, who are likely counting on a cap hit closer to $7

million for Boeser, which would be easier to fit into their current salary cap structure.

The other difficulty of waiting for Marner’s contract is that it could take a long time. While this group of RFAs don’t have much leverage, they do have one card they can play: the holdout.

Teams around the league are preparing for the possibility of starting training camp with an RFA or two left unsigned, as one of the few pressure points players can push is the threat of not playing.

Considering how crucial each of these players is to the success of their teams, it’s a potent threat. It becomes a game of chicken, with each party waiting to see who blinks first. Is a holdout likely for Boeser? Hopefully not, but it’s a possibility that can’t be ignored as his contract negotiations stretch further and further into the summer.

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