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Downtown Eastside problems appearing on Musqueam reserve

Wendy John: ‘I think the action of the people who come in is really frightening to our young people’ Mike Howell

mhowell@vancourier.com

Wendy John always has a lot to say.

Which, as a reporter, is refreshing when someone as articulate as John and not afraid to speak her mind switches on a microphone in a public arena.

She did exactly that at the beginning of last Thursday’s Vancouver Police Board meeting, which happened to be held at the Musqueam Cultural Pavilion on the band’s reserve in the southwest of the city.

John is a former chief of the Musqueam and the newest member of the police board, which from time to time meets at a spot other than the VPD’s Cambie Street precinct.

The reserve is her home.

She has lived there 65 of her 70 years and seen the area go from no running water, no indoor plumbing and dirt roads to a community that Assembly of First Na-

tions Chief Perry Bellegarde told her recently no longer resembled a stereotypical reserve.

John agreed.

But, as she explained, there is more work to do to continue building the band’s economy and addressing its social issues, which is an area she focused on in her time at the microphone.

John told an audience that included police Chief Adam Palmer and Mayor Kennedy Stewart of some of the challenges that continue to face the community.

“It doesn’t show when you drive through [a place] like this, but you can talk to any of the [Musqueam] safety patrol that are sitting here and they’ll tell you they’re dealing with the same kinds of things that the police are dealing with outside [the reserve],” said John, who is the band’s chairperson of intergovernmental affairs.

The band still has high rates of alcoholism, drug addiction and problems with

Wendy John speaks at a recent police board meeting. FILE PHOTO

violence, she said, referring to the drug-fuelled mayhem in the Downtown Eastside in her comments.

“So they make relationships in the Downtown Eastside because of the feeling of connectedness [to other Indigenous people] — I believe that’s what happens, I’m not sure, I haven’t done a study — but we’ve got so many people coming in to the community now that it’s almost unmanageable.”

She continued.

“I mean the kind of drug

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dealing, the kind of violence, the kind of…,” she said, pausing before shifting to another thought. “I think the action of the people who come in is really frightening to our young people.”

She praised the relationship the VPD — and its rotating number of wellrespected liaison officers working on the reserve — has developed with the community and the band’s safety patrol.

But it’s still a sore point with John that the Mus-

queam is the only First Nation in Canada that pays for its own policing services — particularly, she added, when an RCMP detachment is located on the University of B.C. campus, “only eight minutes” from the reserve.

“I think it’s unfair,” said John, whose brother Wayne Sparrow is the band’s current chief, and son, Wade, a former police board member.

“I really do support our relationship [with the VPD], but I think it’s wrong that Musqueam is the only community out of 600 [nations] that has to pay to have policing.”

From there, she mentioned a question that she was posed over lunch. She didn’t say who posed the question, but she looked over at board members as she spoke.

The question: If the Musqueam has a reserve in Vancouver, and so many of the homeless and addicted in the Downtown Eastside are

Indigenous, then why not make room for them here?

Her answer: “Well, for one, we are the smallest reserve in the country, so our land base is really small and we have 200 people on our waiting list waiting to get into a house.”

At the end of her speech, she wanted to clear up some misconceptions about the Musqueam related to home ownership, taxes and education.

“There’s a misconception that we get free housing. We don’t get free housing, we don’t get free education. We pay our taxes. All of those things are a misunderstanding of the general public, and we struggle with that every day.”

John was sworn in as a board member back in July.

She can serve up to four years, and another two after that if she is reappointed.

John’s full speech can be viewed on the police board’s livestream at vpd.ca. @Howellings

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Council approves Grandview-Woodland rental building Vote 6-3 in favour of controversial development that will replace four century-old single-family homes Naoibh O’Connor

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Vancouver councillors voted 6-3 in favour of a rezoning application for a five-storey, purpose-built rental building in Grandview-Woodland at the close of a public hearing Sept. 17.

Mayor Kennedy Stewart, NPA councillors Melissa De Genova, Lisa Dominato and Sarah Kirby-Yung, as well as OneCity’s Christine Boyle and the Green Party’s Michael Wiebe supported the rezoning, while COPE Coun. Jean Swanson and Green Party councillors Adriane Carr and Pete Fry opposed it.

Stuart Howard Architects submitted the application for the 35-unit building on behalf of Britannia Ridge Developments.

It had been scaled down from initial plans to address concerns about it being too tall and imposing.

The development will replace four single-family century-old homes located

between 1535 and 1557 Grant St. Rents are anticipated to be affordable to households earning between $70,000 and $150,000 annually.

The proposal was contentious, with many residents who live nearby the site objecting to it.

Grandview-Woodland Area Group and Britannia Woodland Area Group also opposed the project.

All their arguments failed to sway the majority of council, but their objections included: that the project is inappropriate for the site; the slope is too steep; the rents won’t be affordable; the street is too narrow and the design doesn’t fit the character of the neighbourhood.

Opponents also noted that the lots on that block are shorter than typical ones and there isn’t a lane between the homes on Grant Street and the homes to its north on Kitchener Street.

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against the application, there were also some who insisted the building would supply much-needed rental units on a quiet neighbourhood street as the city faces a rental crisis. The citywide vacancy rate is .8 per cent while it’s .4 per cent in Grandview-Woodland.

Before voting, De Genova said the build-

ing will meet the needs of households earning in the $70,000 to $150,000 range, and the applicant would be going beyond what’s required by the city’s tenant relocation policy. She said she empathized with neighbours who would be impacted but the application conformed to the Grandview-Woodland

Community Plan and would produce family housing as well as play space for children.

Boyle remarked that renters deserve to live on “calm, quiet streets, not just arterials” — a sentiment shared by Kirby-Yung — while Dominato said she recognized nearby residents might find the project “challenging” but council also needs to look to the future when making decisions to accommodate growth.

Mayor Stewart said the choice wasn’t to leave the single-family homes standing because a four-storey condo building is allowed by the zoning.

He said a condo project would “blow affordability right out the window.” City staff, he added, had stated that the five-storey rental building proposal does meet city policy.

“I can’t vote against this, otherwise we should go back to the drawing board for these plans,” he said.

Carr said she went back

and forth on a decision right until the end of the hearing, but decided to vote “no” over concerns about affordability, the building’s contextual fit and a desire to retain neighbourhood character.

Swanson said in 1996, 43 per cent of GrandviewWoodland residents were low income, which dropped to 19 per cent in 2016, so a “huge whack” of people have been pushed out.

She said she has “no problem” increasing density in single-family areas if there’s a social purpose, and would have voted “yes” if the application was for temporary modular housing, social housing or a co-op.

Fry didn’t think the building would be a “blockbuster,” as some critics claimed, but the price point was “out of sync with existing neighbourhood demographics” and he was concerned the application didn’t meet the policy objectives of the GrandviewWoodland plan.

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Councillors seek to ‘bridge Mike Howell

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An alliance of NPA and Green Party councillors will introduce a motion at next week’s council meeting that aims to clear Oppenheimer Park of homeless people and get them into housing.

NPA Coun. Sarah Kirby-Yung said the move is meant to “bridge the impasse” between Mayor Kennedy Stewart and the park board, which will not seek a court injunction to remove the campers.

“We’re asking the park board to revisit their injunction decision,” Kirby-Yung told the Courier Tuesday during a break at the Union of B.C. Municipalities Conference at the Vancouver Convention Centre.

Kirby-Yung was joined

by NPA Coun. Lisa Dominato and Green Party Coun. Pete Fry as she spoke to the Courier. Green Party Coun. Michael Wiebe was not present, but the trio said he is leading the motion.

Earlier this month, the park board rebuffed the mayor’s request to cede temporary jurisdiction of Oppenheimer to the city, leaving Stewart without any power to implement a plan to resolve occupation of the park.

The councillors’ move comes the same day park board commissioners John Coupar and Tricia Barker called on park board chairperson Stuart Mackinnon to

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convene a special meeting of the board Sept. 26 related to the deteriorating conditions at Oppenheimer.

“This is more about people than a partisan issue,” said Kirby-Yung, who belongs to the same party as Coupar and Barker.

The councillors made it clear they want “decampment” of the park, but not without housing and services in place for the homeless, whose numbers continue to grow and fluctuate; a city estimate two weeks ago had 40 people sleeping in Oppenheimer.

They want the mayor to write a follow-up letter to the park board expressing council’s concerns about various health and safety issues in Oppenheimer and the need to resolve them swiftly.

None of the councillors were consulted in the mayor’s initial move in early Septem-

ber to have the park board cede temporary jurisdiction of Oppenheimer to the city.

The councillors’ motion, which was shared with the Courier, requests the park board take “all reasonable steps within its jurisdictional power and work collaboratively with the city to facilitate the decampment of those currently living in the park.”

Some other requests include: • The city, in partnership with “key partners,” create a cross-jurisdictional homeless outreach services team that serves to connect unsheltered and sheltered people to housing, health and support services.

• The city and park board look to expand the initial success of the “park stewardship program,” which aims to provide daily access for homeless people to showers and washrooms.

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clear last week that the department supported the park board or city seeking an injunction to remove people from the park.

The crime in the park and surrounding area has escalated, they said, speaking to reporters prior to a weekend where three shootings occurred in the Downtown Eastside.

“We’re seeing a shift of street-level gangs moving over to Oppenheimer Park fighting amongst one and other, and also intimidating people that live in the park,” said the chief, noting gangs represented include the United Nations, Wolfpack and Middle Eastern organized crime.

“There’s a whole host of different people jockeying for position in that park, and it’s dangerous and it’s a concern.”

Fry, who lives in Strathcona, said he has been inundated with calls from people who are stressed about the conditions at Oppenheimer Park and the public disorder across the Downtown Eastside.

“They’re looking to us — their elected people — to do something,” he said.

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His government, he said, is doing “its level best to address tent encampments as they emerge.”

“We’ve done so in Maple Ridge, we’ve done so in Victoria, we’ve done so in Surrey and in Nanaimo,” he said. “The Vancouver challenge is a significant one, and we stand ready to work with Mayor Kennedy Stewart and his council.”

Asked whether he would support the city seeking a court injunction to clear the park, Horgan said he would await the decisions by the city before providing a response.

The mayor has said in recent weeks that he and his staff continue to meet with provincial and federal government officials to secure more funding for housing in Vancouver — “even if I don’t have anything I can do formally around Oppenheimer.”

Stewart told reporters Sept. 19 that he didn’t “do the hypotheticals” when asked if he would seek an injunction — if the park board revisited ceding temporary jurisdiction to the city.

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Dominato suggested emergency funding come from the provincial government to access and operate a low-barrier shelter for the campers, whom the police have said are being preyed on by gangsters and known criminals.

Premier John Horgan would not commit to such a request when asked by the Courier, during a separate news conference at the convention centre, whether the provincial government would buy a building or provide money for services for the campers.

“Certainly, we’re working with the City of Vancouver and the parks board as best we can,” he said. “These are issues that are squarely in the lap of the City of Vancouver.”

The premier said his government has committed to $7 billion in housing initiatives over the next three years, and provided funding for the city’s 10 temporary modular housing sites.

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Condo owner takes offence to Airbnb rental’s risqué business John Kurucz

was being filmed.

“It’s nothing you can prove, but even just the nuisance of seeing what was going on on the balcony where they were humping chairs, getting into sexual poses and doing lap dances and all that — you knew what was going to be going down,” Skene said.

The photo shoot was a symptom of a much larger problem for Skene and his neighbours in southeast Vancouver. They suggest their condo complex in the River District is rife with illegal short-term rentals that consistently skirt the city’s bylaws.

And due to the shortterm nature of those stays, parties, smoking, noise at all hours and drug use are

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Todd Skene hadn’t planned on having the birds and the bees talk with his four-year-old son.

That changed Sept. 14.

Two women wearing next to nothing were bumping and grinding on an apartment balcony 20 feet from his son’s window.

It was 11 a.m., and they were posing for photos taken by two men. Skene suggested the photo shoot then turned into a porn film shoot in the accompanying room.

Skene provided photos to the Courier of the photo shoot, but the Courier chose not to publish them.

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Todd Skene on his balcony, about 20 feet away from where a risqué photoshoot was seen by his four-year-old son. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

allowed to happen with little recourse, says Skene.

“It’s all great for the people staying there, it’s not

good for us,” Skene said.

“For the most part, it’s been fairly quiet. But sometimes, there’s no control. You

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Property Tax Exemptions for 2020 The City of Vancouver hereby gives notice of the intention of City Council to exempt certain eligible not-for-profit properties used for senior citizens housing from taxation for one year (2020 taxation year).

A bylaw will be brought forward to Council on October 1, 2019 in accordance with Sections 396(1)(g) and 396F of the Vancouver Charter.

The properties to be considered for exemption in 2020, including an estimate of the amount of City taxes that would be imposed without the exemption for 2020 and the following two years, are shown in the table below.

ESTIMATED TAXES 2020 ($)

ESTIMATED TAXES 2021 ($)

ESTIMATED TAXES 2022 ($)

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Baptist Foundation of BC

266-772-26-0000

15,400

15,800

16,300

Baptist Foundation of BC

631-232-04-0000

99,600

102,600

105,700

Baptist Foundation of BC

765-266-06-0000

36,400

37,500

38,600

Beulah Garden Homes Society

634-300-04-0000

15,900

16,400

16,900

Beulah Garden Homes Society

634-300-52-0000

36,900

38,000

39,100

Beulah Garden Homes Society

634-300-92-0000

38,500

39,600

40,800

Brightside Community Homes Foundation

605-113-66-0000

19,900

20,400

21,100

Brightside Community Homes Foundation

638-077-07-0000

14,600

15,000

15,500

Brightside Community Homes Foundation

641-234-20-0000

17,000

17,500

18,000

Brightside Community Homes Foundation

645-194-47-0000

14,700

15,200

15,600

Brightside Community Homes Foundation

648-078-05-0000

8,000

8,200

8,400

Brightside Community Homes Foundation

665-230-68-0000

12,500

12,800

13,200

Brightside Community Homes Foundation

670-230-83-0000

8,100

8,400

8,600

Brightside Community Homes Foundation

670-230-89-0000

13,400

13,800

14,200

Brightside Community Homes Foundation

683-230-82-0000

10,800

11,100

11,400

Brightside Community Homes Foundation

722-283-48-0000

44,100

45,400

46,800

Broadway Pentecostal Benevolent Association BC

650-274-27-0000

28,700

29,500

30,400

Calling Ministries

710-072-06-0000

104,300

107,500

110,700

Chau Luen Kon Sol Society of Vancouver

192-592-92-0000

25,600

26,400

27,200

Christ Church of China

192-592-04-0000

17,000

17,500

18,000

Columbus Charities Association

306-720-45-0000

28,600

29,400

30,300

Finnish Canadian Rest Home Association

828-251-94-0000

22,800

23,500

24,200

Finnish Canadian Rest Home Association

828-258-06-0000

11,100

11,400

11,800

King Edward Court Society

710-072-95-0000

56,500

58,200

60,000

M Kopernik Nicolaus Copernicus Fdtn

817-300-22-0000

7,100

7,400

7,600

Mennonite Sr Citizens Society of BC

755-237-51-0000

65,100

67,100

69,100

New Chelsea Society

270-670-95-0000

18,700

19,300

19,800

New Chelsea Society

693-253-64-0000

41,300

42,600

43,800

Parish of St Paul Vancouver

609-117-44-0000

40,700

41,900

43,100

Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vancouver

596-196-49-0000

12,700

13,100

13,500

Society for Christian Care of Elderly

613-119-54-0000

117,700

121,200

124,800

Soroptomist Club of Vancouver BC

683-165-54-0000

12,600

13,000

13,300

South Amherst Housing Society

244-805-96-0000

8,300

8,600

8,900

THE V E L Housing Society

577-259-06-0000

13,500

13,900

14,300

THE V E L Housing Society

596-250-04-0000

9,500

9,800

10,100

Ukrainian Senior Citizens Housing Society

300-810-95-0000

15,500

16,000

16,500

Vancouver Kiwanis Senior Citizens Housing Society

125-832-84-0000

18,400

19,000

19,600

Vancouver Kiwanis Senior Citizens Housing Society

300-811-05-0000

14,300

14,800

15,200

1,095,800

1,128,800

1,162,400

TOTAL

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get these yahoos in there and you don’t know what they’re going to do.”

Leigh Parker lives next to the suite in question along with his wife. He’s a bit more forgiving than Skene and usually waits for the wafts of pot smoke or loud parties to subside. That’s in large part due to the fact he doesn’t have kids.

Parker didn’t see the Sept. 14 incident, but another neighbour did. Parker has since seen the photos Skene took of the photo shoot.

“That’s way beyond the line,” Parker said. “It’s not fair. I agreed with him there.”

The city’s bylaws around short-term rentals require a business licence and proof that rentals take place in a permanent residence. Those rentals cannot exceed 30 consecutive days, and non-compliance can result in fines of up to $1,000 a pop. Short-term rentals are only permitted in secondary homes or basements suites if the operator lives there full time.

That’s where Skene and Parker get agitated.

Their complex opened in August 2018 and they’ve since seen the owners of the suite three times.

Parker spoke with the owners last year and was told they live on one of the Gulf Islands. He suggested one of the owners is a realtor and therefore knew that bylaws were being broken.

“They told us, ‘Oh yeah, we’ll be using it on the weekends or for business when we’re over,’ but they’re not,” Parker said.

“They had this plan right from the beginning.”

The Airbnb listing for the

apartment was removed by Sept. 18. Prior to it being removed, it was listed as a rooftop setting, ideal for an artsy couple. User reviews were uniformly positive from travellers across the Pacific Northwest. The suite was listed for $299 per night.

Airbnb spokesperson Lindsey Scully said the suite owners had a business licence. A city staff member told the Courier the suite is under investigation.

“Airbnb takes reports of violations of our Community Standards very seriously and will investigate complaints shared with us through our neighbour tool,” Scully said in a prepared statement issued to the Courier.

Scully said Airbnb is the lone short-term rental company working with the city to provide information that can be cross-referenced for investigations, such as business licences and addresses.

Skene suggests that shortterm rental loopholes are happening across the city, particularly in newer developments with new strata councils.

His council’s annual general meeting happens in late October, at which point Skene is hopeful the strata will adopt financial penalties designed to punish those who operate outside the city’s bylaws. His neighbour agrees.

“It’s a new strata and they’re still getting their feet underneath them,” Parker said. “My argument and Todd’s argument is that the city should be doing more.”

Residents can report concerns about short-term rentals by calling 311, via the VanConnect app or vancouver.ca.

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Station locations have been revealed for the six stops along the Broadway Subway project that will link the transit system between VCC Clark station and Arbutus Street.

The province announced the stops Sept. 18, and construction begins next year.

The routing includes: • Great Northern Way: on the east side of Thornton Street, just north of Great Northern Way. “This station creates better access to Emily Carr University of Art and Design’s Great Northern Way Campus and the emerging creative economy hub in the False Creek Flats,” the province said in a news release.

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The interim station names were chosen for wayfinding purposes and are not considered final, according to the province.

Station design plans will be released next summer, along with the contractor tasked with building and designing the project.

Construction on the 5.7-kilometre extension of the Millennium Line begins next year. The line is expected to be in service by 2025. @johnkurucz

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Climate change remains top issue as politicians emit hot air Unclear if environmental policies will play a role in determining next government Mike Klassen

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Care to guess what the so-called “ballot question” will be for voters in the 2019 federal election?

Surprisingly, it might not be the economy or healthcare — issues voters traditionally care about most.

Even the topic of immigration, fanned by the leader of the upstart Peoples Party of Canada Maxime Bernier, is barely registering.

You might surmise it was about racism after last week’s revelations about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. All of a sudden, the world was obsessed with his very unfortunate “brownface” episode.

Practically lost in the news cycle was a survey of residents and business leaders sponsored by the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade. The poll conducted by the Evi Mustel Group indicated almost half (49 per cent) of voters in Metro Vancouver listed environmental concerns as their top issue.

In second place came the

economy (27 per cent) and affordability (21 per cent).

What Mustel’s poll told us largely aligns with other surveys, and according to political insiders I have spoken to, what parties are hearing on many doorsteps across the country.

Climate change is very much on our collective mind.

Yet, with all that focus on public anxiety about the environment, it is hard to predict whether it will have a significant impact on the seat count in the House of Commons.

You might think Liberalheld ridings are hanging in the balance because the government bought the Trans Mountain Pipeline, but polls show the party in a veritable horse race with Andrew Scheer’s Conservatives.

With their determination to axe the carbon tax, no one is pegging the Tories as the top choice of environmentalists either.

In the backdrop of Canada’s federal election campaign comes an emerging youth climate move-

Last week, students staged a “climate strike” in Vancouver, with more planned for Sept. 27. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

ment with a media-savvy spokesperson, 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg.

Students at home and abroad have been staging “climate strikes,” and occupying public places with dramatic “die-ins” where young people lay lifeless on the ground. One took place last Friday in Downtown Vancouver with more climate strikes planned for Sept. 27.

The day-long School Strike for Climate is even

being supported by the B.C. Teachers Federation, who have circulated a set of recommendations to educators on how to support students in their climate protest.

While many young people are acting out on climate change, the majority of voters are reticent to follow their example. The answer for this may lie in a purported “iron law” around climate policy.

The iron law — a term coined by Roger Pielke, Jr., an environmental studies

professor and Forbes magazine columnist — dictates that while people are often willing to pay some price for achieving environmental objectives, that willingness has its limits.

In B.C., we see this phenomenon when the public blasts fuel taxes or pricey run-of-river energy projects, regardless of their environmental benefits.

Pielke — who believes climate change is happening as a result of human emissions of greenhouse gases, and that we must respond to the threat posed by it — has nevertheless been highly critical of climate science’s lack of progress on decarbonization and activists’ “apocalyptic messaging.”

By speaking out, he has earned the wrath of many environmentalists. Pielke even has his own dossier prepared by the DeSmog blog.

In a recent column, he points out the “yawning gap” between climate rhetoric and action. If decarbonization is the goal, Pielke writes, a 2019 study

by PwC clearly indicates we are nowhere near achiev-

ing the GHG reductions needed to keep the planet cool.

“PwC tells us that we need to average a greater than 11 per cent rate of decarbonization for the remainder of this century to achieve deep decarbonization. No one knows how to do this.

“We are currently at a 1.6 per cent annual rate of decarbonization. If we are to ever get close to 11-percent-plus we will have to learn how to achieve two per cent, three per cent, four per cent, and so on.

It is far more important to figure out how to start meeting the decarbonization challenge, than it is to know how it will end.”

Let’s learn to walk before we run, in other words.

The “exhortation to act in the absence of practical actions,” argues Pielke, is impeding progress on fighting climate change.

Canadians looking for real solutions to the climate crisis, should therefore be forgiven if their ballot choice is “none of the above.” @MikeKlassen

Real estate advisor urges conference goers to ‘Jurock’ this way

Ozzie Jurock’s annual conference full of investment advice, life philosophy and predictions Michael Geller geller@sfu.ca

“If you have a living room, start living in it.”

“Enjoy your own reality show. Don’t watch somebody else’s.”

“Over 65 with all your assets in a $2-million home?

Sell it and live.”

“Over 70? These are crazy times. Protect what you have. Keep half your portfolio in cash.”

“To survive in 2020 and beyond, become a student for the rest of your life.”

“Don’t eat kale. Eat steak. Die from something tasty.”

These are just a few of the brainchilds offered by Ozzie Jurock at his 27th annual Real Estate Outlook 2020 conference held at the Sheraton Wall Centre this past Saturday. (Full disclosure: Glacier Media was a sponsor of the event.)

German-born, 75-yearold Jurock is a legend for many in the real estate industry, and regular listeners to Michael Campbell’s Money Talks program on CKNW. Once the national

president of Canada’s largest real estate brokerage firm, today he is an entrepreneur, real estate advisor, author and highly soughtafter public speaker.

At his annual spring and fall conferences, he dispenses his own brand of real estate advice, life philosophy and oftentimes surprisingly accurate predictions to hundreds of people who pay good money to attend.

In 2012, he told attendees to expect Christy Clark’s government to win the forthcoming provincial election and plan accordingly. In 2016, he correctly predicted Trump’s victory and expects him to be reelected.

Given the political events unfolding in our federal election, he is no longer certain whether Trudeau or Scheer will win. But he does predict a minority government. He is quite certain the NDP will win the next provincial election.

Over the years, Jurock has helped a lot of ordinary people make money by investing in real estate. When asked what is now going to

Ozzie Jurock got his audience up and moving before his final presentation. PHOTO MICHAEL GELLER

happen to the Vancouver housing market, he responds there is no Vancouver housing market. There are many markets.

There is a single-family market that performs differently from the multi-family market. There is a rental market and condominium market.

Downtown Vancouver is not the same as Maple Ridge, Port Coquitlam or West Vancouver.

For the past decade, Jurock has told investors to buy in Phoenix. Today, he maintains it is still a good

place to invest, along with other American cities such as Dallas, Houston and, more recently, Seattle.

Closer to home, while prices have softened considerably over the past 18 months, Jurock remains bullish on Vancouver and many British Columbia regions. He expects a third of the 300,000 Canadian Chinese in Hong Kong to eventually come back to Canada.

He observes that 70 per cent of Canadians say they would like to retire in British Columbia, and this

bodes well for many retirement communities on Vancouver Island, the Sunshine Coast, the Kootenays and Okanagan.

Approximately 60,000 people move to B.C. every year, and this is expected to increase to 75,000 and higher.

Jurock was joined by a variety of experts, including an engaging Englishman who travels across America buying distressed properties, tax deeds and liens at auctions. His recent purchases included a $10,000 eightunit multifamily project in Indiana that he fixed up and now rents for $850 per month per unit.

Another speaker, who owns an Edmonton property management firm, asked landlords in the audience how many of them give their tenants an annual Christmas gift. Quite a few did.

For 15 years, Jurock has been urging business owners to buy their own offices, and invest in industrial space, mobile home parks, mini-storage and prime recreational property.

Don’t buy hotel condos, time-shares or ski resorts that do not have golf and other year-round activities.

Over the years, he has urged his audiences to buy rental properties, but only if they offer positive cash flow.

He agreed with apartment realtor David Goodman that we can expect more apartment buildings to come to market since long-time owners are fed up with new government regulations that don’t allow rent increases to cover costs, or tenant removal to carry out renovations.

Observing how the retail industry is changing, Jurock advised investors to avoid traditional retail centres, but invest in inner-city warehouses to store all that “next-day-delivery” product.

Jurock concluded the day by observing that real estate markets have come and gone for thousands of years, but we only have one life to live.

So, live it to the full, and take the occasional bubble bath.

Oh yes, and drink beer. He is German after all. @michaelgeller

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Thanks for demystifying all of the compassionate and thoughtful actions that go on behind the scenes in our thriving public school system in B.C. It’s simple-minded to just assume the worst about seven-year university educated professionals who mostly teach because they love it and care about kids. The holidays are nice (and necessary to reclaim the energy required to perform every day), but we certainly don’t do it for the pay in one of the most expensive cities in the world to live. And I can tell you that it’s hard to survive in this profession long-term unless you are truly motivated for the right reasons.

Next, we’ll have to get you out to one of the many events going on in our next

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Coby via comments section ••• Every year parents are burdened for hundreds of hours where teachers are not actually teaching. Whether it be the monthly “pro-D” days, the now two-week spring break, two weeks at Christmas, this first week of classes where nothing is actually taught, or the last two weeks of class where the teachers are shutting down their classrooms so... you guessed it, nothing is actually taught. The teachers seem to have great excuses for all of this not-teaching. But they also have those two months off in summer time when preparation is supposed to be happening.

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Both new and long-established gangs are preying upon DTES residents and Oppenheimer encampment John Kurucz

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Three people were shot inside the span of 15 hours, a gang turf war is taking root in the Downtown Eastside and Vancouver police are now officially calling for a court-ordered injunction to clear the tents and campers out of Oppenheimer Park.

In the midst of the latest round of violence in the Downtown Eastside, Vancouver Police Department Deputy Chief Howard Chow told reporters Monday, Sept. 23 that the VPD supports an injunction to remove campers from the park who are subject to skyrocketing levels of crime, not just in the park, but across the Downtown Eastside.

It’s the first time this year a public agency has publicly stated support for court intervention. The Vancouver Park Board doesn’t support an injunction, and Mayor Kennedy Stewart remains non-committal on such court action.

Chow’s comments came after three shootings in the Downtown Eastside within 15 hours spanning mid-day Sunday to Monday morning.

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There were three shootings in the DTES in 15 hours, the last one being at the Grand Union Hotel at 74 West Hastings St. Monday morning. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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The victim in the first shooting is a 50-year-old Surrey man who is in hospital with serious injuries. A 28-year-old Langley man and 25-year-old Surrey man were injured in the second shooting and were transported to hospital with nonlife threatening injuries.

The Monday morning incident sent a 50-year-old Vancouver man to hospital with serious injuries. On Tuesday, police announced two suspects were in custody related to Monday’s shooting.

“The intelligence that we’re getting is that there is a gang conflict that’s taking place,” Chow said. “And it’s that drug turf war that’s going on where everybody

is vying for that piece of the action. That’s what Oppenheimer has created. It has destabilized that park, which never had those issues.”

Chow added that new gangs are showing up in Vancouver specifically looking to capitalize on those camped out at Oppenheimer Park and other vulnerable residents in the DTES. In years past, individual blocks within the Downtown Eastside were split between rivalling factions.

More than 700 calls for service have happened around the park this year: sexual assaults, stabbings, and shootings and overdoses. It’s a number Chow referred to as “astonishing.”

“It’s a very controlled type of atmosphere in terms of the gang turf as well as the drug turf and how it’s

broken apart,” Chow said.

“But now what’s happened is you’ve got a whole new entity, that being Oppenheimer Park, and a whole new host of clients that are there that are preyed upon.

Police Chief Adam Palmer echoed similar comments to the Courier late last week: the United Nations gang, Wolf Pack, Middle Eastern crime syndicates and other independent gangs are operating in the area.

Green Party Coun. Pete Fry told the Courier in early August that new gangs were operating in the park’s periphery as well.

When asked specifically about an injunction on Sept. 19, Palmer’s response was, “It is time to move down that road.”

On Monday, Chow said,

“We support an injunction.”

Chow said those gangs are moving into the area specifically to prey upon the vulnerable populations living in the DTES. “It’s drawing our police resources over to Oppenheimer and virtually leaving the Downtown Eastside unchecked, unpoliced,” Chow said. “That’s where the issues are with how Oppenheimer has a direct nexus to the level of violence that’s going on in our city right now.”

The city was granted injunctions twice at Oppenheimer, first in 2008 and again in 2014.

What difference did it make?

“It disrupted the activities there, it cleared out the park,” Chow said. “The criminal element went back to wherever they were and oftentimes they’re not even from the Vancouver area, they’re not even from the Downtown Eastside. They’re seeing this as a market that’s been untapped in the past.”

The most recent count from city officials estimated 40 homeless people remain in the park. The park board’s response has been to reject an injunction to clear the park and instead call on the city to create a multi-jurisdictional task force on homelessness.

More recently, the mayor requested the park board temporarily cede jurisdiction of the park to the city.

That would have given the city an ability to seek an

injunction, though the park board refused in a letter sent to Stewart on Sept. 18.

The mayor has only stated he has a plan for the park that may or may not include seeking an injunction.

Park board chairperson Stuart Mackinnon and two other commissioners have said they wouldn’t support giving the city temporary jurisdiction over the park.

There’s been a steady flow of statistics, metrics and media briefings from the VPD around the DTES throughout the last four months in particular.

Some of those numbers include: • 87 per cent increase in emergency calls to the park from June to August when compared to the same period last year.

• five swarming attacks on VPD members who were trying to make arrests in the DTES in the past six weeks.

• 453 firearms seized in Vancouver this year, with almost half — 223 — seized in the policing district that includes Oppenheimer Park and the Downtown Eastside.

• 17 weapons seized in Oppenheimer between June and August. In the wider area of the Downtown Eastside, a total of 476 weapons were seized over the same three months.

• 150 stolen bikes, worth more than $100,000, recovered from a warehouse three blocks east of Oppenheimer Park on Sept. 11. @JohnKurucz

‘Deteriorating level of public safety’ in Oppenheimer Park Mike Howell

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Vancouver police renewed their concern Sept. 19 about what they described as “the deteriorating level of public safety” in the tent-occupied Oppenheimer Park in the Downtown Eastside.

Emergency calls to the park increased by 87 per cent from June to August when compared to the same period last year, said police in a news release.

“Since the beginning of the year, there has been a significant spike in crime and street disorder stemming out of Oppenheimer Park, and sprawling into the Downtown Eastside,” said Deputy Chief Howard Chow, who has regularly been posting photos on Twitter of weapons seized in the Downtown Eastside.

“We are seeing a substantial increase in violent crime, and officers have seized a significant amount of weapons, including firearms.”

So far this year, police have seized 453 firearms in Vancouver. Almost half — 223 — were seized in the policing district that includes Oppenheimer Park and the Downtown Eastside.

Police said 17 weapons were seized in Oppenheimer between June and August. In the wider area of the Downtown Eastside, which the department’s beat enforcement team patrols, a total of 476 weapons were seized over the same three months.

Photos and a video released by the VPD Sept. 19 show a variety of weapons, including handguns, rifles, bats, bear spray, swords and a pellet gun that resembles

Police released photos showing the number of weapons seized in Vancouver this year, with almost half in the policing district that includes the Downtown Eastside. PHOTO VPD

an assault rifle.

“We first raised this issue publicly in July, and it has only gotten worse,” Chow said.

“In my 30-plus years with the VPD, I have never seen such high numbers of weap-

ons seized in one district alone. The numbers almost average out to one gun each day so far this year. I am also very concerned about the high levels of aggression we are seeing towards police.”

Assaults in the policing district have increased from 19 last year to 32 this year.

This past weekend, patrol officers had bystanders throw bottles at them as they responded to a call in Oppenheimer Park.

Police also said gangs are vying for territory in the park, “which is creating a dangerous and volatile situation for residents in the park and surrounding area.”

The most recent count from city officials estimated 40 homeless people remain in the park. The park board’s response has been to reject an injunction to clear the park and instead call on the city to create a multi-jurisdictional task force on homelessness.

In 2014, the city successfully sought an injunction to remove people from the park and place the majority in a

former hotel and in shelters.

Police arrested five people but no one was charged.

More recently, Mayor Kennedy Stewart has requested the park board temporarily cede jurisdiction of the park to the city.

That would give the city an ability to seek an injunction, although the mayor has only stated he has a plan for the park that may or may not include seeking an injunction.

Park board chairperson Stuart Mackinnon and two other commissioners have said they wouldn’t support giving the city temporary jurisdiction over the park.

“Simply removing people from Oppenheimer Park, which may force them onto the streets, back lanes and into other parks is not the solution,” Mackinnon said at a Sept. 6 news conference. @Howellings

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Police Chief Adam Palmer is defending his department’s role in the Downtown Eastside after a study released Sept. 18 says policing strategies are creating barriers for drug users to access overdose prevention sites.

Palmer said there is no other police department in North America that is more open to health care approaches to drug use than the VPD, despite the findings of the study authored by researchers at the University of B.C. and the B.C. Centre for Substance Use. “We are big supporters of the four pillars [drug strategy],” he told reporters Sept.

19 following a Vancouver Police Board meeting in which a deputy chief spoke to a separate issue of the escalating violence and drug activity at the tent-occupied Oppenheimer Park.

The chief said he hadn’t read the entire study, but had reviewed a three-page briefing document by his department.

“It’s kind of ironic that we were standing here today talking about violence in the Downtown Eastside and Oppenheimer Park,” he said.

“This report is just really one micro-focused issue.”

The study, which was published in the International Journal of Drug Policy, outlined a series of concerns based on more than 200 hours of research in and around overdose prevention sites and interviews with 72 drug users.

The majority of participants described having negative interactions with police in the neighbourhood, which created a lack of trust between them and officers, the study said.

“Such interactions were linked to participants’ structural vulnerability — including being harassed while using [drugs] outside, being forcefully displaced while sleeping outside, and having tents, tarps and other belongings disposed of while unhoused — and reinforced their marginality and drug-related risks,” the study said.

Study authors recommended the VPD reduce car and foot patrols in the Downtown Eastside and stay away from areas around overdose prevention sites.

They also want police to stop the enforcement of court-ordered restrictions that prevent people from returning to an area — where previously arrested — that has an

overdose prevention site.

Palmer pointed again to the violence at Oppenheimer Park in his response to the recommendations of fewer patrols.

“We have to be concerned about all the public safety issues, not just that one very specific issue that the report looked at,” said the chief, noting he was disappointed the department wasn’t consulted in the study, but has since scheduled a meeting with the authors.

The chief’s comments came prior to a weekend of violence in the Downtown Eastside, where three shootings occurred over a 15-hour period.

Police believe the shootings may be linked to gang activity.

The Downtown Eastside is the epicentre of the overdose drug death crisis in Canada. In Vancouver last year, 389 people died of a drug overdose.

The B.C. Centre for Disease Control, using data from 2015, estimated the number of injection drug users in Vancouver at 8,500 people, many of whom reside in the Downtown Eastside.

The VPD has a policy where it doesn’t attend overdose calls unless one occurs in plain view of an officer or an officer is requested to accompany other emergency personnel, including paramedics.

VPD officers are equipped with the overdosereversing drug naloxone in spray form, and have used it to revive victims of an overdose.

Given the heavy police presence in the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood, the report said, there remains an “ongoing risk” of police being at the scene of an overdose.

“In these cases, we recommend police not get involved — including, not running warrants, arresting, or searching individuals — unless it is to administer naloxone,” the report said.

The report points to one case where an officer accompanied a paramedic on a call inside an overdose prevention site.

“While the officer’s assistance was requested by the paramedic, individuals accessing the service were visibly surprised and unsettled by the presence of law enforcement within a space they viewed as safe from arrest,” the report said.

“Such remaking of space by the officer and the paramedic reinforced fears

of arrest from the majority of those present, including individuals who were breaching area restrictions to access the service.”

The report ties its concerns about policing strategies to gentrification of the Downtown Eastside, citing complaints from “condoowning residents, visitors and businesses” as reasons for an increase in policing.

“The Downtown Eastside is experiencing an influx of high-end condominiums whose placement overlaps with the main economies of the drug scene,” the report said.

“Such gentrification efforts have also been paired with mechanisms of urban control, including private security guards, security cameras, and local policing.”

Palmer said the department has supported the city’s four pillars drug strategy — harm reduction, prevention, treatment and enforcement — since the Insite supervised injection site opened near Main and Hastings in 2003.

In addition, the VPD is on record of supporting a so-called “safe drug supply”

— doctor-prescribed medical grade heroin and other opioids to chronic users.

The chief noted police don’t arrest people for simple drug possession unless it’s tied to another event.

The study, in fact, shows drug charges have dropped in Vancouver from 5,183 in 2006 to 1,629 in 2017.

One of the study authors — the B.C. Centre on Substance Abuse — recommended in February that “heroin compassion clubs” be set up in Vancouver and across the province to reduce the mounting number of overdose deaths.

Such a model would allow a heroin user to join what would most likely be a nonprofit organization to buy medical-grade heroin instead of relying on fentanyl-laced heroin from the streets.

Health Canada told the Courier in an email in February that the centre’s recommendation for compassion clubs would be considered as part of the larger work of studying “medication-assisted treatments as an alternative to toxic street drugs.” @Howellings

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Notice is hereby given that the Homalco First Nation has called a Vote in accordance with the Homalco Community Ratification Process on the matter of determining if Registered Voters approve the Homalco Land Code and Individual Agreement.

The following question will be asked of the Registered Voters of Homalco First Nation by Ballot: “Do you approve the Homalco Land Code dated for reference July 31, 2019 and the Individual Agreement with Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada?”

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Dayton Boots Factory among attractions on Vancouver Heritage Foundation event on Sept. 28 Naoibh O’Connor

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Dayton Boots Factory owner Eric Hutchingame didn’t need much convincing to agree to have the seven-decade-old business become a stop on Vancouver Heritage Foundation’s upcoming Grandview Heritage Tour.

He called it an “obvious, comfortable fit.” After all, Dayton Boots has been a longtime fixture in the neighbourhood.

Charlie Wohlford founded the business in 1946, which moved into its purpose-built building at 2250 East Hastings near Nanaimo in 1949.

Wohlford’s son Wayne and grandson Ray were also involved in its operation — the three generations ran it for 50 years.

Dayton Boots Factory, and its neon “Boots by Dayton” sign on the building’s exterior, also earned a VHF Places that Matter plaque in 2012.

Eric and Catherine Hutch-

ingame took over the brand and building as tenants — they don’t own the building — in 2016.

Eric Hutchingame said its inclusion on the tour is important because it’s notable for both its structure and the fact it’s been in business for decades.

“If all you did was focus on the buildings, then you could get that done in a ghost town.

But the ghost town certainly wouldn’t give you the authenticity and the flavour and the experience of an ongoing business,” he said.

Much of what’s done in the shop is the same as it was from 1949 on, although some safety and business practices have obviously changed over time.

“We’ve kept what we felt was valuable. We’ve honoured our heritage but not been hostage to it,” Hutchingame said. “Going to Dayton is the real deal instead of going to a building that used to be something else with a bunch of photos.”

The Dayton Boots Factory on East Hastings. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

The Grandview Heritage Tour, which runs Sept. 28, is a self-guided tour of 10 sites located between East Hastings Street and East First Avenue and Clark Drive and Nanaimo Street.

Aside from Dayton, the sites include five private homes, among them one of the first Vancouver Specials to be renovated, St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, Templeton secondary school and the Indigenous carving centre at the Britannia Community Services Centre.

Kathryn Morrow, a VHF spokesperson, said it will be easy for ticket holders to participate whether they’re travelling by foot, bicycle, transit or car, because all the stops are within a few blocks of each other. Each participant will be provided a brochure and map with addresses and information about each site.

She noted that Grandview was one of earliest suburbs in Vancouver.

“It’s diverse and it has a lot to offer. There’s a lot

of legacy businesses in the area, a lot of historic homes of varying sizes,” she said.

“We’re trying to show a variety of historic places in that neighbourhood — public buildings, community spaces… It’s [about] showing different types of heritage places that are in Grandview.”

Morrow said those who enjoy seeing homes will get “a really nice selection of character homes,” while architect Stephanie Robb renovated the Vancouver Special that’s on the tour, which she bought in the late 1990s. “[Robb] went through quite a process to get permission from the city to be able to actually convert a Vancouver Special into a modern space. It’s really amazing on the inside,” Morrow said.

“There’s also some exclusive experiences that people will get to enjoy. At Dayton Boots Factory, you’ll be able to actually go into their pro-

duction area and get private tours of that, and the carving centre at Britannia Community Services Centre, we’re going to have that open for ticket holders as well, which isn’t normally open to the public.

The Catholic Church, meanwhile, is both a religious building, which was constructed in 1938, and a historic 1909 mansion known as “Wilga.”

“This [tour] offers a different take on a house tour — you get to do some exclusive experiences, you get to learn about businesses and community spaces as well as houses. It offers a more diverse selection [of places,] and a better idea of how a neighbourhood developed versus just one person’s house,” Morrow explained.

For more details about the heritage tour, which runs from noon to 5 p.m., Sept. 28, or to buy a ticket go to vancouverheritagefoundation.org. @naoibh

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entry numbers, which will be noted on parade day. As well, an additional fine will be added if the group is over the number of marchers originally indicated on their application. ! If any person or group has a parade infraction, depending upon the severity of the infraction, they may be asked to not participate the following year. Groups must read the parade guidelines, ensure they send a representative to the parade safety briefing and adhere to the safety rules.

The VPS does observe the entries in the staging area and watch the parade footage post-parade to look for infractions. ! Review the rate card for changes. There will be no more early bird rates. The new rates are an average between early and late rates.

The VPS is committed to making the parade accessible to LGBTQAI2S+ organizations and community groups, therefore, rate increases have been applied with this lens. If you belong to an LGBTQAI2S+ community group and need assistance, contact the society’s Community Partnerships Coordinator at scarter@ vancouverpride.ca.

PARADE APPLICANT CRITERIA For the past four years, each parade application has been reviewed and scored on a matrix by a parade working group made up of volunteer community members. The matrix is based on the parade application form questions and points are awarded for the following: ! Description of parade entry plan, including elements that will add meaning and/ or fun for parade viewers. ! Can your organization demonstrate that it has policies around sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, antidiscrimination, anti-bullying, diversity, etc.? ! What initiatives does your organization engage in that supports the LGBTQAI2S+ community throughout the year — internally within your organization and externally in the community at large? ! How do your values align with the Vancouver Pride Society values? ! Does your organization have any recent incidents of homophobia or transphobia and if so, was this rectified or not? ! Has your organization had a parade infraction?

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Word Vancouver 2019: A Free Festival of Reading & Writing

Word nerds, this one’s for you. Avid readers, creative writers and literature lovers will want to head to Library Square in downtown Vancouver for a day of literary fun on Sunday, with programming and other events for several days prior. Panels, author talks, readings, workshops and plenty of chances to get to know books and authors of all kinds.

When: Sept. 24 to 29 Where: Various venues (main event Sept. 29 at

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Vancouver Etsy: Made In Canada Market

It’s never been easier to shop local, thanks to Etsy’s Made in Canada Market.

Across the nation, markets showcasing handmade and artisan goods will be doing a one-day pop-up, including right here in Vancouver.

Shoppers will find vintage goods, handmade wares, supplies, fine art, jewelry, children’s items and much more.

When: Sept. 28, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Where: Robson Square, 800 Robson St. facebook.com

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Major University seeks participants for national hearing study.

Connect Hearing and Professor Mark Fenske at the University of Guelph are seeking participants who are over 50 years of age, have never worn hearing aids and have not had a hearing test in the last 24 months, for a hearing study that investigates factors that can influence better hearing.

Study Parameters The researchers will examine listening in a range of situations, from one-on-one, to group conversations, watching TV and wider social contexts like supermarkets and other noisy environments, and how it effects connection and socialization.

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It is estimated that 46% of people aged 45 to 87 have some degree of hearing loss, but most do not seek a solution right away. In this study you’ll be playing an important part in determining the key factors around identifying hearing loss and what influences the decision to seek treatment.

You can register to be a part of this major new hearing study † by calling: 1.888.242.4892 or visiting connecthearing.ca/hearing-study *Wingfield, A., Tun, P. A., & McCoy, S. L. (2005). Hearing Loss in Older Adulthood: What It Is and How It Interacts With Cognitive Performance. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 14(3), 144–148. † Study participants must be over 50 yearsofageandhaveneverwornhearingaids.Nofeesandnopurchasenecessary.RegisteredundertheCollegeofSpeechandHearingHealthProfessionalsofBC.VAC,WCBaccepted.1.Cruickshanks,K.L.,Wiley,T.L.,Tweed,T.S.,Klein,B.E.K., Klein, R, Mares-Perlman, J. A., & Nondahl, D. M. (1998). Prevalence of Hearing Loss in Older Adults in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin: The Epidemiology of Hearing Loss Study. Am. J. Epidemiol. 148 (9), 879-886. 2. National Institutes of Health. (2010).

Everyone is doing it, so you can too... podcasting, that is. If you are brimming with ideas for the downloadable airwaves but need to harness that genius, this is the event for you.

Podcasting 101 will break it down from interviewing and broadcasting skills to editing and distributing, too.

When: Sept. 28, noon to 3:30 p.m.

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Vancouver Sustenance Festival

Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Sustenance Festival is an initiative of the Vancouver Park Board featuring food, art and culture events, including intercultural celebrations, community meals, workshops and dialogues. The

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Documentary unravels mystery of immigrant’s suicide Sabrina Furminger

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Shi-Ming Deng died by suicide in a Vancouver apartment in 2005. His roommate found him dead on the floor, surrounded by pills and clutching a deportation letter that ordered his return to China.

He was buried in a local cemetery at the request of the police, and his elderly parents in Beijing didn’t learn about his death until months later, when they received a typed letter from the Canadian government and a small box containing his belongings.

Naturally, Shi-Ming’s parents — Qian Hui Deng and Xue Mei Li — had a lot of questions. Why did Shi-Ming take his own life?

Why had he received a deportation order? And how did two banknotes dated after Shi-Ming’s death wind up in his belongings?

The parents’ desperate search for answers powers The World is Bright, Ying Wang’s feature-length documentary that premieres this weekend at the 2019 Vancouver International Film Festival.

Wang followed ShiMing’s parents for more than a decade as they pieced together a picture of their son’s life as well as the arguably broken immigra-

tion system that failed to recognize his mental illness.

The documentary was edited down from hundreds of hours of footage. It is at once a mystery, a family story, a David versus Goliath tale, a condemnation of a federal agencies acting without any real oversight and a snapshot of the mental health challenges faced by immigrants to Canada.

“This film has many layers,” says Wang. “It shows that there’s a problem with the law, and it shows the mental health issues, and it shows where we can take action. But you can also see there’s a lot of complexity, even behind Shi-Ming’s case.

It’s not black and white.”

Immigrants to Canada experience psychosis at rates two to five times higher than non-immigrants, and yet it’s rarely discussed nor taken into consideration by the government agencies that serve them, says Wang.

Wang first learned about Shi-Ming in 2007, when his parents journeyed from Beijing to Vancouver and held a press conference where they laid out the mysteries of ShiMing’s death and demanded answers from the various federal agencies involved.

Wang says she felt an immediate connection to Shi-Ming and his family: she too was from Beijing, and

had come to Canada as an international student. She too had direct experience with mental illness; her sister — the subject of her first film — had battled a severe eating disorder and suicidal ideation. Wang wanted to be the one to tell Shi-Ming’s story, and approached the family through the Vancouver-area lawyer who’d agreed to take their case.

“During my first meeting with the parents, I told them about how documentary is done here — how the filmmaker follows the story and tells it how they want to tell it, and they understood it completely,” says Wang.

The World is Bright premieres at a time when immigration has become a hot-button issue in the Canadian federal election, most notably with the antiimmigration stance of the People’s Party of Canada.

“Whenever bad things happen in the world, the political view and attitudes towards immigrants change, and politicians use it to get votes,” says Wang. “People who are permanent residents pay taxes but they don’t have a right t vote, and so the issues around immigration law aren’t well known because the people the laws are affecting are second-class citizens.”

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Oktoberfest is nigh, so it seems appropriate to have something big and German this week. Beer styles such as marzen, festbier and festbock were designed specifically for Oktoberfest and are basically different ways of describing essentially the same beer: a darker, maltier and boozier variant of the Munich helles lager, designed to get you super wasted while singing songs and eating bratwurst.

You see, German engineering is all about efficiency, and these smooth, malty lagers — especially when imbibed from one-litre steins — will get you drunk in a very efficient manner. It’s science!

Persephone and Steel & Oak — two breweries that love their lagers — teamed up to brew this festbock and put their own West Coast spin on the traditional German style. In addition to using B.C. Gambrinus malt, it was aged on toasted Douglas fir chips imparting a slightly woody almost citrus character. Cracker and toffee notes

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Unlike traditional German festbock, Holzhausen is amber in colour and lighter in malt character. The fine print on the label describes it as a maibock/hellesbock,

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Bill Richardson revisits West End in latest book

Gentrification, development and Christmastime figure into extended love letter to disappearing community Grant Lawrence

really liked my colleagues, and although it was tedious, there was never any doubt about the expectation. I’d recommend it to anyone.

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Bill Richardson is one of Canada’s great humourists, best known for authoring 14 books — some for adults, some for children — and for his years hosting the beloved CBC Radio program Richardson’s Roundup. He’s also lived in Vancouver’s West End neighbourhood, off and on, since 1978.

This year, Richardson, now 64, has returned with I Saw Three Ships: West End Stories, a beautiful, brilliant, hilarious collection of seasonal short stories set in Vancouver’s most densely populated neighbourhood.

You’ve lived in and out of the West End for many years. What keeps you coming back?

It’s very familiar and village-like to me. A big reason I live in the West End now is because my partner Bill Pechet lives there, and he’s very devoted to the place. We’ve never lived together in the almost 20 years we’ve been allied. I’ve had 10 addresses, and he’s never moved, not once. As things now stand, it’s a twominute walk between our places west of Denman. I’m a bit of a hermit but, inevitably, when I venture out, I’ll see someone I know, and have a short exchange and I can still feel like I’m in society without having to work at it.

The book has been described as a kind of last hurrah or love letter for a disappearing community in the West End. How so?

Truth be told, that’s the publisher’s blurb, but I’m somewhat sharing of the sentiment. These stories are expanded versions of a few of the many I’ve written for Christmas/holiday occasions over the years. They’re all set in the West End or reference the West End

But you no longer work there?

I left the dishwashing job because I had to deal with family stuff in Winnipeg and also because I had this other job offer at University of Manitoba that took some pressure off. Now and again someone recognized me at Whole Foods, but it was never uncomfortable.

Bill Richardson’s I Saw Three Ships: West End Stories is a hilarious collection of seasonal short stories set in Vancouver’s most densely populated neighbourhood. PHOTO BILL PECHET

substantially. Some I hauled from the 20th century and transplanted into almost 2020. So, naturally, the big questions of this specific moment, about gentrification and development and displacement, come into play. Change is unsettling, but as the climate emergency deepens I find the reshaping of the urban landscape less and less fret worthy.

Are the stories based on actual West Enders and experiences, or are they purely fictional?

I’m not a big fan of Christmas in any of its guises, but Bill and I love to tour around the West End and check out the tinsel festooned lobbies, the

more garish the better. I’m genuinely fond of them, the evidence of tradition and caring, and that makes its way into one of the stories.

None of the stories are autobiographical, exactly, but the recurring characters, the three magi of the book, Philip, Gary and Bonnie, have certain preoccupations that were once my own.

They’re all people entering the later stages of middle age, the age when one confronts past failures and emerging frailties.

You mentioned gentrification and development.

What is your take on the current state of Denman Street?

I find Denman Street a bit depressing because I

remember the palmy days when there were galleries and cinemas and performing venues: places that acknowledged the possibility of the soul, in other words.

There are still small independent retailers but — dollar stores excepted — you can’t actually buy anything on Denman that doesn’t lead to excreting. And, of course, that’s because the rents are so absurd. No one could set up a bookstore, or a button shop, or a curio emporium, and make a go of it — but that’s endemic to the city as whole. I shop at the No Frills because the lighting is so flattering, and I can routinely be found at Shoppers, on a date night with Bill, checking our respective blood pressures.

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My local bar is Buckstop, which is open late. It’s a good place to take the pulse of the neighbourhood.

You accepted a dishwashing gig at Whole Foods in the West End. Why? I needed a job. Both because I needed the dough and because I was going stir crazy at home. Whole Foods was having a hiring fair, so I went. I was the oldest person by about 40 years. I knew I’d be a disaster if I had to work with the public, so I asked if they had any openings for dishwashers. They did, and they hired me, and I was so grateful. I would do it again in a heartbeat. It was physical, social after a fashion, I

What is your Manitoba connection?

I grew up in Winnipeg, and when my father became ill in 2012, I moved back.

Circumstances too cluttered to get into led to buying a house west of the city, quite a long way west, and I continue to spend swaths of time there. It’s a beautiful, unsung part of the world. I go for walks.

I listen to the birds. I stare into the middle distance and wait for the next season of Stranger Things. I have a job at the U of M as a writer in residence, so my Manitoba time this year will last through the end of November.

Where do you want to live out your days — in the West End or Manitoba?

I’m not sure how much longer I’ll be able to keep up the back and forth. If circumstances allow, I want to be buried in Manitoba, in the little country cemetery near my house. It’s a place of great peace. I expect that as I age, and as my requirements become more specific and more medically directed, I’ll be in Vancouver and, yes, probably in the West End. I Saw Three Ships: West End Stories by Bill Richardson is available now through Talonbooks. @grantlawrence

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Nardwuar celebrates Hall of Fame induction with free show Media personality’s star is born on Granville Street’s walk of fame Ben Bengtson

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A conversation with Nardwuar the Human Serviette is like getting to chat with a historian of stuff nobody else bothers to dig into.

A maestro of the extensively researched interview, the long-time CiTR radio host, media personality and YouTube star simultaneously dazzles, impresses, disarms and scares his subjects when he presents them with meaningful gifts, precious ephemera from their past, or dishes out obscure facts about the individual’s former life before stardom struck. When he interviewed Questlove in 2013 and gave him an old poster from the musician’s formative days, the Roots’ drummer could only laugh with reverence. “Where did you find this?” Questlove asked, before trailing off, lost in the poster’s nostalgic glow.

Sometimes the questions are charmingly irreverent, silly, but always somehow forge a higher, hilarious purpose. When Nardwuar interviewed rapper Travis Scott in 2015, he asked the hiphop star, “How do you keep your pants up when you’re performing? It’s incredible.”

Scott’s drawn-out, monosyllabic response (“Belt”), delivered while staring directly into the camera, has since become the stuff of meme and internet legend — so popular in fact that scores of young and extremely online teens have taken to mimicking the interaction on the popular TikTok app, which allows people to make short music and lip-sync videos.

“That totally blows me away. I love that,” Nardwuar says during an interview from a booth at his beloved Tomahawk Restaurant on the North Shore, as he swipes through his phone and shows off some of the

Media legend Nardwuar the Human Serviette has been inducted into the B.C. Entertainment Hall of Fame. He’s celebrating the milestone with a free all-ages concert at the Commodore, not far from where his star was added to Granville Street’s walk of fame. LEFT PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

creations people have made in his honour on the video platform. People signal their admiration for Nardwuar in other ways, too. It can range from the photographs people take and post online of their costumes imitating Nardwuar’s signature red-checkered pants and askew tartan tam every Halloween, or even those who encounter him out in the wild and tell him they’ve followed in his footsteps by seeking their own gigs at CiTR radio station, where he has hosted a weekly show since 1987. “If I can do it, anyone can do it,” he says.

After 32 years of “trying,” as he puts it, the honours keep coming. Nardwuar is being inducted into the B.C. Entertainment Hall of Fame. For someone who has spent the last threeplus decades meeting and interviewing some of the biggest names in music — not to mention startling plenty of politicians along the way— Nardwuar says his mother is the main one who comes to mind in relation to his induction.

“I immediately thought I have to dedicate this to my mom, who’s unfortunately no longer here, but I know she’d be very stoked,” he says. “She

actually inspired me by taking me to the North Shore Historical Society when I was younger, so she instilled this sense of history — and she wrote a book about Gastown’s Gassy Jack!”

A campaign was led by friend and fellow West Vancouver musical maven and Courier columnist Grant Lawrence to assemble Nardwuar’s closest friends and confidantes, including Tomahawk owner Chuck Chamberlain, to secretly nominate him. In addition to a shiny new bronze star on Granville Street baring Nardwuar’s name, the local media icon is also organizing a celebratory all-ages show, called Nard Gets A Star!, on Sept. 29. The free event, which kicks off at 1 p.m. at Commodore Ballroom, will feature a video vault showcasing a compilation of some of Nardwuar’s most notable interviews, a live performance featuring Nardwuar and his band, the Evaporators, as well as a meet-and-greet with the man himself.

Nardwuar organized his first all-ages gig in 1987, when he was 19 years old.

Described in an August 1987 edition of the North Shore News as a “six-band blowout” called Barbarella

Psychadella, the concert wouldn’t have been so far removed from the type of live performance Nardwuar strives to organize or promote today. “I’m still doing it to inspire people,” he says.

And while his star status is literally cemented due to the Hall of Fame induction, Nardwuar still wants more. “I’m still trying. I’m still trying to win the Juno, I’m still trying to win the Emmy, the Academy Award. I’m still trying, just in life.”

He reflects just as much on the big fish he hasn’t landed yet as he does on the amazing interviews — Snoop Dogg, Lady Gaga, former prime minister Jean Chrétien — he’s already pulled off.

“I’m still no closer to that Paul McCartney interview, or Kanye West interview, or Little Richard interview, or Barack Obama interview,” he says, stopping to note that Questlove was “this close” to getting him connected with Obama’s people.

On possibly nabbing McCartney for an interview, a Fab Four member who has been interviewed “many, many times,” Nardwuar promises he’d be himself. Like a historian leafing through the

back pages of history, he would do his best to snuff out the stuff that most might never think to ask Sir Paul.

“I would like to ask him about some of the 78 records that inspired him,” he says. “John Lennon’s dad made a record and I would love to bring him that record and say,

“Nard gets a Star,” plus Nardwuar’s Video Vault, the Evaporators and Nardwuar Meet ‘n’ Greet takes place Sept. 29, 1 p.m. at the Commodore Ballroom.

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4. Jacob Markstrom has a better backup The Canucks’ number one goaltender took a step forward last season as a reliable starter, giving the Canucks a chance to win almost every single night. Unfortunately, his backups didn’t do the same. This season, with prospect Thatcher Demko graduating to the NHL, that should change, giving the Canucks solid goaltending every single night.

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The Canucks have a lot riding on the 2019-20 season. This is particularly true for Jim Benning, who is entering his sixth season as general manager. With the Canucks missing the playoffs in four-straight seasons, Benning is on the hot seat.

The truth is, general managers tend not to last long in the NHL. Just eight of the league’s 31 GMs have been on the job longer than Benning: the NHL tends to go through GMs like paper napkins, discarding them as soon as they’ve served their purpose. And then, when a new GM job opens up, recycling those old GMs and reusing them, citing “previous experience.”

For Benning, this coming season is crucial. Not only is he looking to avoid missing the playoffs for a fifth-straight season — the first time that would happen in Canucks franchise history — but he’s also hoping that his gamble to trade a first-round pick for forward J.T. Miller doesn’t blow up in his face.

As recompense for Miller, the Tampa Bay Lightning will get either the Canucks’ 2020 or 2021 first-round pick. If the Canucks make the playoffs this season, the Lightning get the 2020 pick, but the Canucks will likely feel it was worth it. If they miss the playoffs, the Lightning get the 2021 pick,

Pessimism:

Hot off his Calder Trophy-winning season, Elias Pettersson stronger, faster and more determined than ever. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

which isn’t lottery protected: worst-case scenario, it could be the first-overall pick.

As I said, there’s a lot riding on the 201920 season, which kicks off in less than a week. Fortunately for the Canucks, there are some significant reasons for optimism and only a few reasons for pessimism.

Optimism:

1. Quinn Hughes is the real deal The Canucks’ rookie defenceman looks even better than his five-game audition last season. Canucks fans haven’t seen anything approaching his smooth skating and offensive creativity since Christian Ehrhoff, and Hughes is still just 19 years old.

2. A battle-tested Elias Pettersson is ready to take the next step At 19, he led the Canucks in scoring, broke franchise rookie records, and won the Calder Trophy, but Pettersson is a perfectionist and isn’t satisfied. He’s stronger, faster and more determined than ever.

3. Benning’s veteran acquisitions will make a difference The off-season additions of J.T. Miller, Micheal Ferland, Tyler Myers, and Jordie Benn provide upgrades at key positions of need. While you can question the acquisition cost for Miller and Myers, they do make the team better.

1. Canucks offence could still be topheavy The top two lines, anchored by core forwards Pettersson, Brock Boeser, and Bo Horvat, should be able to compete with any team in the NHL. The question is whether the Canucks have enough scoring depth on the third and fourth lines, which are centred by the defence-first Brandon Sutter and Jay Beagle.

2. Still questions on defence The additions of Quinn, Myers and Benn represent upgrades on the blueline, but the Canucks will still depend a lot on aging veterans Alex Edler and Chris Tanev, who have been unable to stay healthy over the last few seasons.

3. Is the depth there in case of injury?

For the last four seasons, the Canucks have claimed to have enough depth to deal with injuries and at the end of each of those seasons, they’ve lamented that they didn’t. Will this season be different? Can the likes of Adam Gaudette, Zack MacEwen, Olli Juolevi and Brogan Rafferty provide the impactful depth the Canucks have been missing?

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