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Missing person reports dominate 1,380 police calls Mike Howell

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Ten temporary modular housing sites built in Vancouver to house people who were previously homeless generated 1,380 police calls over the first eight months of this year.

Statistics obtained from the Vancouver Police Department show the most frequent calls — 233 — were related to missing person files, with 108 alone coming from the New Beginnings complex at 5077 and 5095 Heather St. The same site, which has two buildings with a total of 98 homes, was responsible for generating the most overall calls — 240 from January to August — by one complex.

Across all 10 sites, calls for disturbances (130), which could relate to people arguing or someone playing loud music, and requests to remove unwanted persons (144) who show up to a residence were other incidents at the top of the call list.

A total of 77 calls involved checking on the well-being of a person.

Police responded to New Beginnings for disturbance calls (19), unwanted persons (10), domestic disputes in progress (10), to assist paramedics and firefighters (nine) and check on the well-being of a person (eight).

Police also answered 25 “assist Mental Health Act” calls related to the property.

That type of call typically comes as a request from a doctor or health care worker to help return a person to hospital for treatment, said Sgt. Aaron Roed, a VPD media relations officer.

“Wherever they may be [in the city],” said Roed, who didn’t have a breakdown available of the percentage of calls generated by tenants, management, neighbours or people in the area of the complex on Heather Street.

New Beginnings is located on property owned by three local nations — the Musqueam, Squamish and TsleilWautuh — and the Canada Lands Company. The land used to be home to the RCMP’s B.C. headquarters.

Priority of tenancy in the two buildings is given to

The New Beginnings temporary modular housing complex on Heather Street generated the most police calls of 10 similar sites in Vancouver. Photo DAN TOULGOET

homeless Indigenous people, who make up 40 per cent of Vancouver’s homeless population. One building is strictly for women and the other is co-ed.

Lu’ma Native Housing Society is the non-profit operator of New Beginnings.

Kevin Eaton, the society’s director of housing operations, said staff filed the 108 missing person reports as a standard practice when tenants haven’t been seen for 72 hours.

“It’s not necessarily that

they’re indeed missing,” said Eaton, noting the complex is far removed from neighbourhoods where tenants used to reside.

“This isn’t their typical community, their neighbourhood. So a lot of our folks are sort of migrating back to where they were originally from — whether that’s the East Side, the Downtown Eastside.

They’ll go meander into those areas for a week or two weeks, and then eventually make their way back

to their homes.”

Eaton said nothing untoward happened to the missing tenants in the 108 cases. He said having staff file missing person reports to police provides an extra measure of caution for tenants.

Eaton described disturbance calls as tenants squabbling over something, or a person playing loud music.

He said the type of police calls tell him the housing is working for tenants.

“The shift in change in our folks, in their mentalities and where their particular walk is leading them has definitely been uplifted,” Eaton said.

Roed noted the statistics for all buildings capture the calls to the addresses of the sites, but don’t account for calls that may have occurred one block from a property involving tenants.

The fewest number of calls for police service — nine calls in eight months this year — came from the Reiderman Residences at 7460 and 7430 Heather St. The calls were related to threats (two), disturbances (two) and individual cases

involving a weapon, theft, fraud, property and to check w on the well-being of a person.

The two-building site s in Marpole was the first a of the 10 modular housing complexes to be built m and opened in Vancouver s under a provincial govern- k ment-funded $88-million c program that began two years ago. t The project generated w the most pushback of all a the sites from neighbours i and Vancouver residents, P who held protests outside w the property and at city hall, drafted a petition to stop its s construction and launched w unsuccessful court action. o There were other groups, H including students and church members, who sup- F ported the construction of thee complex, which could be in place for three to five years. A Overall, the statistics d show a low number of calls m for serious crimes at the 10 properties, although P a “home invasion” was d reported in March at Aneki u Housing for Women at 525 Powell St. and a sexual as- c sault in April at Sarah Ross l House at 4480 Kaslo St. w

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to modular housing Six calls to the 10 sites were related to drugs.

Other types of calls at the 10 sites included reports of suspicious circumstances and persons, warrants, mischief, suicidal persons, sudden deaths and a next of kin notification.

Though the statistics cover January to August of this year, not all buildings were open or fully tenanted at the beginning of the year, including Nora Hendrix Place at 258 Union St., which opened in March.

Police statistics for 2018 show a total of 307 calls were generated to eight of the sites, with Aneki Housing for Women and Chartrand Place at 1131 Franklin St. totaling 79 calls each.

Most of the calls at Aneki in 2018 were for disturbances (12) and missing person reports (seven). At Chartrand Place, the most were for disturbances (15) and unwanted persons (11).

The city has said 80 per cent of the 605 tenants living at the 10 properties were previously homeless.

Others were at risk of losing housing or living in precarious housing situations, the city has said.

At each building, nonprofit operators offer access to health and social services, as well as life skills training for tenants, some of whom are living with mental illness, a drug addiction, or both.

At least two meals a day are also provided.

Christine Boyle, a Vancouver city councillor, successfully moved a motion at city hall Sept. 10 to have staff explore the feasibility of allowing temporary modular housing in single and two-family housing zones.

Boyle said the police statistics obtained by the Courier line up with the anecdotal reports she’s heard from operators and tenants of modular housing buildings.

“When people who are homeless — and living a very survival-based life — have a chance to move inside and aren’t needing to rely on small criminal acts just to survive and keep themselves safe, then those

crime numbers go down,” she said.

“I’m glad to see it, of course, and I hope it helps residents in neighbourhoods feel reassured and more comfortable with more of this housing moving into our neighbourhoods.”

Added Boyle: “As we know from countless studies, housing is an important step in helping people put their lives back together.”

The B.C. government released a report Sept. 10 that concluded temporary modular housing in Vancouver and Surrey was improving the quality of life for tenants and reducing their use of emergency services.

The report said the findings were based on a voluntary tenant survey, with a 41 per cent response rate across the seven buildings. Three staff from each building was interviewed.

Participants in the survey included tenants and staff of the Reiderman Residences, Sarah Ross House, Chartrand Place and Aneki Housing for Women. @Howellings

City identifies worker killed in workplace accident Jessica Kerr

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The flag at Vancouver city hall is at half-mast this week as the city mourns the loss of an employee who was killed in a workplace accident over the weekend.

Moreno Cerra was working with one of the city’s engineering street crews at Boundary Road and East Second Avenue Saturday afternoon when it appears a compressor that was being towed somehow broke loose and rolled down the hill.

Cerra was struck by the compressor and suffered devastating injuries.

Emergency crews responded and CPR was performed, but he died at the scene.

Cerra had worked for the city for 17 years.

Watermain and sewer infrastructure work has been taking place in several blocks along Boundary during recent weeks.

“Our sincere condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of Moreno Cerra who passed away on Saturday, Sept. 28.

Thank you for your 17 years of service to the City of Vancouver, Moreno,” the city posted on social media.

The city also took to Twitter in the hopes of identifying a member of the public who helped in the effort to save Cerra’s life Saturday.

“We’ve been made aware that a member of the public kindly assisted at the scene in trying to save the life of our colleague who sadly passed away on Sat-

Moreno Cerra, who worked with the City of Vancouver for 17 years, was killed in a workplace accident Saturday afternoon.

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urday,” the city tweeted. “We would like to contact this person to thank them and offer support.”

Counselling services have been made available for city staff.

Burnaby RCMP, WorkSafeBC and the B.C. Coroners Service are all investigating. The city is also conducting its own investigation into the incident.

— with files from Chris Campbell/Burnaby Now

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It’s been years in the making, but the rezoning application for the redevelopment of the BroadwayCommercial Safeway site has finally been submitted to the City of Vancouver.

Architecture firm Perkins & Will filed the application for 1780 East Broadway on behalf of developer Westbank and property owner Crombie REIT. The application envisions a mixed-use development with residential units (condo, rental and social housing); retail and office space; a childcare facility; a grocery store; and a new public plaza.

The three proposed residential towers are envisioned at 24, 27 and 30 storeys above the retail level, while 520 condo and 160 rental units are included in the project. The public plaza would run parallel to the SkyTrain station.

“The submission is consistent with the Grandview Woodlands Plan — a mixed use development of retail, housing, office, public spaces and amenities,” Westbank spokesperson Jill Killeen told the Courier in an email. “The proposal has evolved since the pre-application open house

with public consultation and city input. One of the key differences is that the development now accommodates a large plaza on site, at grade, for the benefit of the community. The Safeway store will remain on one level, and be positioned at grade, adjacent to the new plaza.”

Safeway holds a longterm lease on the site that totals more than 50 years.

The Grandview-Woodland Community Plan, which was approved in 2016, allows for “a mixed-use development at a variety of scales, including mid-rise and high-rise components,” as well as residential units, space for a one- or two-storey grocery store, small retail, offices and a public plaza.

Under the policy, buildings that are six storeys above a one- or two-storey retail level are allowed on the perimeter, while heights of 12 to 24-storeys above retail are allowed at “key anchor points within the site.”

Council is able to “consider modest increases in height and density for the delivery of non-market housing to assist with project viability, subject to fit with neighbourhood context,” according to the document.

Bing Thom’s architecture firm was involved in the development plans until he died unexpectedly in 2016.

At a 2016 city council meeting about the neighbourhood’s community plan, Thom said: “We think there’s an opportunity here to create a different kind of, let’s say, mid-density and mid-rise kind of development on this particular block that could be quite interesting for families and encourage a different prototype in terms of buildings in areas that are surrounded by single-family homes.”

Killeen said his input, which the rezoning application characterizes as “nine big ideas” will be reflected in the redevelopment. The ideas talk about subjects including reuniting the Drive, creating a “vibrant local economy,” green urbanism and family space.

“The big ideas from Bing Thom are still very much embedded in the project, and will remain so,” she said.

An open house about the rezoning application is expected to be held this fall.

A public hearing will likely take place sometime next year. @naoibh

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New street name reflects Chinese farming heritage in Vancouver ‘Choy Yuen Crescent’ adopted as the name of new street by Oakridge Centre redevelopment Naoibh O’Connor

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City council approved “Choy Yuen Crescent” as the name for the new public road being created alongside the Oakridge Centre redevelopment at an Oct. 1 meeting.

QuadReal and Westbank are redeveloping the 28-acre site. The new street will run between West 41st Avenue and West 45th Avenue, curving along the western edge of the property.

The City of Vancouver’s civic asset naming committee selected the new name at its July meeting and recommended it go before council for approval.

“Choy Yuen is how Chinese market farmers, who were mostly from Zhongshan (Chungsan in Cantonese) county, would have referred to their operations. Chinese market gardens were an important food resource for the City of Vancouver, supplying the majority of fresh produce

before the large scale importation of vegetables from international sources began in the 1960s,” the naming committee explained in a report outlining the rationale behind the choice.

Market gardens were found throughout Vancouver, including near the Oakridge mall site.

“On the southern slope overlooking the Fraser River and at Musqueam, Chinese market gardens provided needed employment and contributed substantially to the city’s economy. Many of our parks and school sites, Douglas Park and Sir Charles Tupper for instance, were former market gardens,” the report stated.

The selection committee also cited information from UBC professor Henry Yu, who pointed out that prominent Canadian families, such as the Louie family of IGA and London Drugs, were tied to the Zhongshan network of farmers and were from that country themselves.

Chinese market gardens circa 1945.

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“Choy Yuen Crescent recalls the important contribution made by Chinese Canadians to the City of Vancouver and the long-standing relationship of mutual respect and collaboration with Musqueam (who were employed in the gardens on the reserve),” the report concluded.

“Choy Yuen Crescent” was cleared by E-Comm and Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services, which are consulted on new street names to ensure they aren’t duplicates of existing names and they aren’t at risk of being misunderstood in an emergency situation.

However, “Choy Yuen Crescent” wasn’t the first

named considered for the road.

Three years ago, in 2016, the civic asset naming committee approved adding “Otto Landauer” to the name reserve list, and recommended to council that the new road beside the Oakridge redevelopment be called “Landauer Crescent.”

Landauer was a Jewish immigrant who later converted to Catholicism. He was a noted photographer and extensively documented Vancouver’s commercial and industrial growth following the Second World War. It was subsequently decided that the name for the new street should “reflect the history of the neighbourhood.” Members of the current naming committee focused their discussion on “paying tribute to the Chinese market gardens that were known to the area up until the 1940s.”

Felix-Marie Badeau, a co-chair of the naming committee, told the Courier

in a Sept. 27th email that the committee had received feedback from members of the Jewish community who felt Landauer’s name might not be the best fit for the new road.

“Mr. Landauer was certainly an important local photographer who documented the construction of many local landmark buildings and bridges. His contributions were many.

While Mr. Landauer was born Jewish, in 1939, while living in Switzerland, he converted to Catholicism. It seems that he embraced his new faith and adhered loyally to it through the majority of his life,” Badeau wrote.

“The Civic Asset Naming Committee felt that, in recognition of the Jewish community, the name Landauer was not a good fit for the area. Mr. Landauer contributed a great deal to the community and it is possible that his name might yet be used for another asset that is more fitting.” @naoibh

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News Rookie cop resigns over allegations of sexual assault against colleagues Mike Howell

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A rookie Vancouver police officer resigned in March from the department before he could face a disciplinary hearing to respond to numerous allegations of sexual assault against fellow recruits.

The allegations are outlined in an Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner report that tracks complaint files involving municipal police officers opened between April 1 and June 30 of this year.

The case dates back to January 2018, and the incidents occurred at private residences during off-duty gatherings, according to deputy police complaint commissioner Andrea Spindler.

“During an off-duty gathering, a new police officer pushed a female classmate against a wall and grabbed her buttocks while trying to engage her in a kiss,” said the report, which was posted to the complaint commissioner’s website.

“At another off-duty gathering, the police officer

rubbed his hand between the legs of a classmate over her clothing while she was asleep.

The police officer also inappropriately touched two other classmates at a gathering.”

The commissioner determined it was in the public interest to have an external agency — in this case, the New Westminster Police Service — investigate the allegations under the Police Act. In addition, New Westminster’s police chief was appointed as the “discipline authority,” as outlined in the Police Act. That work was done after the completion of a separate criminal investigation.

“Upon review of the [Police Act] investigation, the chief determined the member committed serious misconduct and substantiated four counts of discreditable conduct,” the report said.

“The officer resigned from the Vancouver Police Department prior to the discipline hearing and did not attend the proceedings. The officer’s employment records will reflect that he was dismissed from the Vancouver

A rookie Vancouver police officer resigned from the department before he could face allegations of sexual assault against fellow recruits. PHOTO CHUNG CHOW

Police Department.”

The VPD said in an emailed statement that a criminal investigation was conducted and charges were forwarded to Crown counsel for consideration.

“Crown indicated that there would be no charges as there was no substantial likelihood of conviction,” said Simi Heer, director of the department’s public affairs unit.

Heer said she “couldn’t get into details about the allegations, including where they occurred, due to privacy considerations linked to the OPCC investigation.”

The officer in question was sworn in May 2017.

He would have served some time on the road as part of his field training, and was assigned to a field trainer for the duration, Heer said.

“He did not work unsupervised,” she said. “The officer was reassigned to non-operational administrative duties as soon as the department was notified of the allegations.”

Spindler said by telephone that the officer and the complainants were classmates at the Justice Institute of B.C. “I do know that the department would have put support structures around those [complainants] to ensure they had whatever support that they needed to work through and handle this type of conduct that occurred to them,” she said.

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officer response report’ is required anytime hard physical tactics are used and/or when soft tactics are used that result in injury to the subject,” the report said.

The officers “agreed to the corrective measure of a verbal reprimand for not properly documenting their use of force,” the report said.

The report also provides details of an off-duty transit constable who registered a “fail” reading on a roadside screening device. He received a 90-day immediate roadside prohibition and was suspended without pay for three days.

In another case involving transit officers, a female citizen lodged a complaint after she said two officers dismissed her requests for assistance after being groped on Davie Street by a male.

“The female victim saw a marked transit police vehicle stopped at a red light,” the report said. “She approached and knocked on the window and told the officer sitting in the passenger seat what had happened and pointed to her boyfriend who could be seen to be following the suspect.

The transit officer dismissed her requests for assistance.”

One officer was given a written reprimand and the other a verbal reprimand.

Both officers provided letters of apology to the complainant and have taken customer service training “to better their communication skills,” the report said.

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A special municipal constable working as a jail guard allegedly used her personal cell phone to take an “inappropriate photograph” of a male prisoner in his cell, the report said.

The guard then showed it to another guard.

“The [guard] then showed it to the jail nurse, who advised her that it was inappropriate and to delete it,” said the report, noting the guard admitted to the allegation and was given a written reprimand.

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Police appeal for witnesses after two targeted shootings

There have been five shootings in Vancouver over the past week John Kurucz

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Vancouver police are investigating a pair of targeted shootings that happened within four hours of one another Sunday morning.

The first shooting occurred around midnight near Kingsway and Gladstone Street, when a 44-year-old Vancouver man was shot multiple times outside the New Mandarin Seafood Restaurant.

By 4:30 a.m. Sunday, a second man was shot in the Downtown Eastside near East Hastings and Heatley Avenue. He’s been identified as a 35-year-old Surrey resident.

The two victims were in hospital as of Monday

morning with serious injuries.

“Both of these people are known to the police.

We have had dealings with them in the past,” Vancouver Police Department media spokesperson Sgt. Aaron Roed told the Courier Monday morning.

There have been five shootings in Vancouver over the past week, four of which happened in the Downtown Eastside.

The first two shootings happened on Sept. 22 within two hours of one another — one just before 4 p.m., near East Hastings Street and Dunlevy Avenue, and the second around 6 p.m. in the area of East Pender and Abbott streets — followed by the Sept. 23 incident at

the Grand Union Hotel at 6:30 a.m.

Three arrests have since been made in relation to two of those shootings.

A targeted shooting death happened in Surrey around 6 p.m. on Saturday night, hours before the two incidents in Vancouver.

“We’re not correlating if the two are related to any

other shootings,” Roed said.

No information has been provided around suspect descriptions. Roed wouldn’t say if the suspects fled in a vehicle or on foot in either instance.

Deputy Chief Howard Chow told reporters last week that a turf war is brewing in the Downtown Eastside that’s pitting new gangs

against old players. Howard said both groups are preying upon those who remain in tents at Oppenheimer Park.

Roed stopped short of suggesting Sunday’s shootings were linked to the criminal element operating near Oppenheimer.

“We’re not linking them to any specific gang due to the ongoing investigation,”

he said. “We also don’t believe these are related to the ongoing gang conflict in the Downtown Eastside.”

Anyone with information about Sunday’s shootings is asked to call the Vancouver Police Major Crime Section at 604-717-2541 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-2228477. @JohnKurucz

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A tiny school nestled near Pacific Spirit Park is the latest Vancouver school to face threat of closure.

Queen Elizabeth Annex, on Crown Street near King Edward, is a French immersion annex; a small school for kindergarten to Grade 3.

Vancouver School Board trustees voted to consider the school’s closure last week, saying the French school board needs the space and the QEA students can all fit into nearby Jules Quesnel elementary, where QEA students already go for Grades 4 to 7.

For QEA parents Kate Hood and Rebecca Pitfield, the idea of closing the school is “infuriating.”

“We’ve already heard that there are families now after this news who are thinking of leaving our school,” Hood said. “When you’re continuously told that your school is going to be closing, it’s hard to build confidence in a parent community.”

The annex was also on a

school closure list in 2016 and in 2008.

Both Hood and Pitfield have preschoolers who plan to attend the annex, children at the annex and older children who have moved on to Jules Quesnel elementary, where they say all flexible space will be lost if the schools combine.

VSB chair Janet Fraser says trustees have to make a lot of difficult decisions and that education comes with a lot of emotion.

“Like many things in the VSB, this is a complex issue because there are certain things which are within our control and there are things that are beyond our control,” Fraser said.

She’s talking about money for building new schools and making older schools safer in an earthquake. The ministry makes those decisions, not the VSB. The VSB has been looking for ways to pay some of those expenses itself, but in May the board voted to take school closures off the table and it has a policy against selling school lands.

“The VSB is under a lot of

QEA parents Kate Hood (right) and Rebecca Pitfield are worried over the prospect of the school’s closure. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

pressure from the ministry,” Pitfield said. “They’re desperate to get these schools up to snuff on seismic upgrading.”

Forty schools in Vancouver are at high risk in an earthquake, and the district pays millions extra each year to keep those old schools maintained.

The French school board, the Conseil Scolaire Francophone, educates students whose first language is French, which is different from French immersion, where students learn to speak French. The Constitu-

tion guarantees that people who speak French as a first language and their children have the right to be educated in French.

In Vancouver, CSF schools are extremely over crowded, particularly on the city’s West Side. In 2016, the B.C. Supreme Court ordered B.C. to help the CSF get school sites and pay for leases in some areas, including the West Side.

This is where QEA comes in — the province looked at Vancouver schools and picked the annex as a good site for a new French school

based on its location, the low number of students who attend the school (68) and the fact the school is rated as unsafe in an earthquake, a staff memo to the VSB says.

QEA and its site would be leased to the CSF, the memo says. The CSF already leases three VSB annexes that have recently closed: Laurier, Henderson and Maquinna.

Those annexes closed when parents chose to register their children elsewhere.

Fraser sees QEA as a “unique circumstance,” similar to the deal the board made with BC Hydro to sell the land underneath Lord Roberts Annex in the West End for $75 million. BC Hydro will build an underground substation and the VSB will use the money to build two new schools.

Shaun Kalley, president of the Vancouver District Parents’ Association, says the entire debate may be unnecessary because the city has plans for a new French-language school in the Heather Lands. He’s concerned the school board isn’t being transparent about why it

wants to close the annex.

“It seems like rather than the stated rationale being the reason that trustees are interested in pursuing this, it’s the opportunity to see a capital investment in the district,” Kalley said. “I have to assume that the ministry has put some sort of compensation on the table for turning QEA over to the CSF.” Pitfield said VSB has to close the school before they can even begin to negotiate a lease.

“What happens when they close it? Are they going to give it to the highest bidder?”

Pitfield said.

About 740 people have signed a petition to keep the annex open, and the earliest it would close is July 2020.

It’s the small size of QEA that makes it such a special place, Pitfield and Hood say.

“It’s amazing for kids with anxiety or any sensitivities,” Pitfield said. “When you’re in kindergarten to Grade 3, the most important thing is a nurturing environment and you can’t buy that.”

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As horrific as a heart attack may be, there’s a linear health care approach to see the experience through from the initial incident, to outpatient care and recovery.

But when you replace the words “heart attack” with “drug overdose,” the same methods don’t apply.

That’s because until very recently, no such system existed. There was little continuity or information exchange between a psychiatrist, counsellor or care facility to track an overdose patient’s path towards recovery.

The newly established Regional Addictions Program has been set up specifically to do just that. The program represents a partnership between Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) and Providence Health Care.

“Historically, we would have a lot of our clinics where you’d have doctors who provided care for people with addictions, we’ve run detox facilities and those services were not well integrated — we didn’t follow

people,” VCH chief medical health officer Dr. Patricia Daly told the Courier.

The addictions program is still in its infancy, though Daly laid out its origins and its structure.

As with all plans, the program starts with money.

Provincial and federal funds flowing into VCH are helping train more people who can prescribe methadone or Suboxone, and outreach teams are forming to track people across the spectrum of care.

An example of that outreach work was unveiled in early September. Vancouver firefighters are partnering with VCH outreach teams to make house calls to those who’ve recently overdosed in the hopes of then connecting those people with support services and treatment.

In one week alone, the team contacted 22 patients who recently overdosed, 21 of whom consented to an introduction to VCH’s Overdose Outreach Team.

The really heavy lifting for the addictions program comes by way of data and information collection, along with trying to align the myr-

Vancouver Coastal Health chief medical health officer Dr. Patricia Daly outlined the parameters of the Regional Addictions Program.

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iad of service providers into one integrated system of care.

It’s a big ask, given that many treatment providers operate outside the health authority’s jurisdiction and oversight.

Some of those treatment options aren’t based on best practices or scientific consensus, and instead focus on faith-based models of care or complete abstinence.

“If you were someone let’s say, who had a child who had an addiction and you Googled ‘Where can I get care?’ what might come up on your screen is a lot of private residential care facilities, recovery homes

that don’t have oversight from the health authority necessarily,” Daly said.

Getting to the addictions program’s launch is more than five years in the making and dates back to 2013, when consultation began around VCH’s “Second Generation Strategy” for the Downtown Eastside. The plan called for a restructuring of services in the impoverished neighbourhood and stressed the need for integrated care at DTES health centres.

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Daly explained the lag in service delivery and integration is largely because the field of addictions care is relatively new; training doctors and others in the field takes time.

“If you said to me, how’s the system doing at managing people with opioid addiction, how many have you gotten on methadone or Suboxone, how many are alive? …We haven’t tracked that very well, so we can’t give you those kind of metrics,” Daly said.

Where does Daly see the program in September 2020?

For starters, Daly wants more people in treatment and indicators around their progress through treatment.

She wants hard numbers on how many beds are being provided for specific programs and how the overdose numbers are being managed. Like many others, Daly also advocates for a regulated, clean supply of drugs for chronic users.

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The panel released its findings in April 2018.

“There is a need to eliminate silos, ensure standards are in place, ensure governance and accountability, evidence-based treatment, and that program outcomes are provincially evaluated and monitored,” the report said.

Fast forward to July, when Daly delivered her annual report on the opioid crisis.

“At a time when they are most vulnerable, people with addictions and their families must navigate a complex and fragmented system of care that includes programs that may not make use of evidence-based treatment or employ best practices,” Daly wrote in her report issued July 26.

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that file is based on the fact that 389 people died of a drug overdose in Vancouver last year, with the majority linked to fentanyl.

There were 42 deaths in 2010.

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The drug question is the easiest of the three to answer for the Conservatives, whose unsuccessful court battles in the Harper years to shut down the Insite supervised injection site on East Hastings are widely known in Vancouver.

Scheer is to the point on his party’s position, leaving no room for nuance or ambiguity: “decriminalization of drugs is a terrible idea, and one that we will not ever consider going forward.”

That’s what Scheer told reporters in Montreal last week during a campaign stop when pressed about his approach to drug addiction. He was reminded that peer-reviewed studies show injection sites and other harm reduction measures save lives.

“I’ve also said that it’s much more beneficial to people who suffer from addictions to have a robust recovery plan, and that the focus of government should be on getting people off of dangerous and harmful narcotics, not maintaining a life of addiction,” he said.

Comments like that are what Stewart called a “show-stopper” for him.

But the mayor made the point that party leaders and the national media are focused on decriminalization as if it’s the same thing as a safe supply, which it is not.

For Stewart, the goal is to get an exemption under Canada’s Health Act to extend what already exists at the Crosstown Clinic on West Hastings, where doctors prescribe and supply chronic drug users with medical grade heroin and hydromorphone.

— It’s the only clinic in North America that offers this.

As the mayor explained, an exemption would allow a nurse, nurse practitioner or specially trained staff member at a non-profit to prescribe and distribute clean drugs.

“Conservatives wouldn’t do this, but I think a federal Liberal majority or minority, I think could get it done,” the mayor said.

“That’s my feeling. And we need to do it. And, really, what’s the big deal? You know, like why not try it?”

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The analysis Kennedy Stewart will be able to provide political observers once Canadians choose a new government in Ottawa this month will be unlike that of any Vancouver mayor in recent history.

The part of his brain wired from years of study and practice as a political science professor at Simon Fraser University and as a seven-year NDP MP will be charged with political thought once a winner is declared.

His perspective will be unique.

Kind of like a front-row spectator with a player’s knowledge.

It was Stewart’s experience as an academic and profile as a pipeline-opposing federal politician that helped earn the unionendorsed independent candidate 49,705 votes to win the mayor’s race last October.

But it is not, as Stewart knows, analysis or references to his time in Ottawa that Vancouver residents want from him. What they want is action on three files: housing, transit and the opioid crisis.

Stewart’s mayoral campaign was run largely on his promise to bring more affordable housing to Vancouver, secure funding for a SkyTrain extension from Arbutus to the University of B.C. and reduce the number of people dying from drug overdoses.

To achieve those goals, he has made it clear — like his predecessors Gregor Robertson and Sam Sullivan did — that the provincial and federal governments have to show Vancouver the money.

That’s why this election is of keen importance to Stewart.

He knows that making an impact on housing, transit and the overdose crisis in the remaining three years of his term depends largely on a solid relationship with the party in power in Ottawa.

Same goes for his relationship with the NDP-led government in Victoria, which Stewart has praised for providing $88 million for temporary modular housing.

Mayor Kennedy Stewart met with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last November and this August. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

He’s also been publicly appreciative of the 40 per cent funding commitment to the region’s mayors’ 10year transportation plan and continued investments to combat the opioid crisis.

Much of that happened under the previous Robertson-led administration.

Stewart’s NDP lineage, however, has put him in the room and on the phone with Premier John Horgan and his ministers as he lobbies for more funding on these files.

But it is the federal election that occupies the mayor’s mind these days, and has for some time, he said in a recent interview from his office at city hall.

“We had a very deliberate plan going in to this election to meet with party leaders and to tell them during those meetings what our priorities were, and to repeat those priorities in the media and try to punch through at the national level to affect the campaigns,” he said, sitting on a couch in front of a window that offers a partial view of downtown.

In his short time as mayor, Stewart and his staff established strong links with the federal Liberals, although some might argue that relationship was a carry-over from the Robertson administration.

Whatever the reason — and Stewart’s seven years on the Hill was surely a factor in getting past the first date stage — the relationship appeared to be flourishing as the Liberals’

term came to a close.

The mayor pointed out he had a 40-minute meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a Vancouver hotel within the first month of him being sworn in as mayor.

He met again with Trudeau at city hall in August, and they’ve talked twice on the phone. His staff was and still is on the phone with the prime minister’s office every week, he said, noting transit, housing and the opioid crisis are topics.

Stewart also met with Marc Garneau, who was Trudeau’s transportation minister until Parliament was dissolved for the election, and Francois-Philippe Champagne, who served as minister of infrastructure and communities.

But it is Jean-Yves Duclos, who served as federal housing minister, who has been the most frequent visitor of Trudeau’s now-dissolved cabinet to Vancouver.

Stewart has had “unprecedented access” to Duclos.

He met with him five times, including in August when the minister announced $184 million towards the construction of 1,100 homes in Vancouver aimed at singles and families earning between $30,000 and $80,000 annually.

“If we hadn’t have had that housing announcement in August, I would not be very complimentary,” said the mayor, when asked whether the Liberals’ values

and agenda aligned with his.

“On the housing, I think the agenda probably aligns.

However, we need more. It sounds so trite to say that, but I need more. I would have liked to have a half a billion dollar announcement in August — $184 million was great, but there’s huge need here.”

With public opinion polls showing the Liberals with a slight lead over the Conservatives, Stewart might be best to solely focus his next three weeks on enhancing those relationships with the Liberals and ignore the other parties.

But the seasoned politician, who has operated for the most part at city hall as a diplomat with his council of mixed parties and agendas, is careful not to make assumptions or endorsements that could take his agenda sideways.

“The way I look at it is, you never write anybody off,” he said.

“You always try to find places where you can build these partnerships and where you can find common ground. That is not easy because you might disagree on 95 per cent of things, but you’ve got to make the five per cent work.”

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Aside from Trudeau, Stewart has met with Green Party leader Elizabeth May, whom he knows well; they were arrested together on Burnaby Mountain last year

for disrupting construction work at a Trans Mountain facility.

NDP leader Jagmeet Singh, who inherited the mayor’s Burnaby-South riding after he won a byelection in February, is another colleague and met with Stewart last week at city hall.

Conservative leader Andrew Scheer, who was in Metro Vancouver last Friday, has yet to make time for Stewart, whom he knows from his Speaker of the House duties in the House of Commons.

The closest the mayor has gotten to Scheer was a handshake and a few words during a Vaisakhi event in April at the Ross Street Temple in south Vancouver.

But Stewart said he has outlined his priorities with Ed Fast, the former Harperera cabinet minister, who is seeking re-election in Abbotsford and has the ear of Scheer.

So what did they tell him?

More specifically, which leader promised to deliver on his request for more money for housing?

Did any commit to the $4 billion to extend the soon-to-be built Broadway subway from its endpoint at Arbutus to the University of B.C.?

And who is going to allow an exemption under the federal Health Act to enable a widespread clean supply of drugs to be prescribed to chronic users?

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In his most recent meeting with Trudeau, Stewart said, he showed the prime minister the exact clause in the Health Act that he needs waived to make it happen.

What was Trudeau’s response?

The mayor cited privacy and wouldn’t get into detail, but added: “I did feel quite buoyed by the whole thing.

In fact there was also a push from his side for me to do more, so I thought that’s good.”

Do more?

“To push more nationally for these changes.”

But isn’t he the prime minister?

“If you’re leading at any level, if you just go out on your own, it’s a lot harder,” Stewart said. “So if you get support [from other politicians] on pushes for things, it’s easier for them to move forward with change.”

Trudeau told Global News Sept. 24 in an interview in Richmond that “we’re not looking at full decriminalization at all right now.”

That made headlines.

Buried in the news reports was Trudeau’s first response on the drug issue: “We’re moving forward on things that actually work — whether it’s safe consumption, safe supply, harm reduction.”

The Greens are calling for decriminalization of drugs, and May has promised to declare a public health emergency, if her party forms government.

And Jesse Brown, the party’s candidate in Vancouver-Centre, told the Courier he supports the mayor’s push to extend the Crosstown Clinic model across the city.

“Enough is enough, too many people are dying,” said Brown, who is execu-

tive director of the Vancouver Friends for Life Society.

The Greens also pledge to boost funding to community organizations to test drugs and support drug users, as well as increase supports for people living with mental illness.

Singh told reporters at city hall last week that the NDP will also call a public health emergency “on day one” of forming government.

Asked about amending the Health Act to allow for a safe supply of drugs, Singh said he was “open to anything that we can do to save lives” and has “the backing of evidence and experts.”

“If there’s evidence that supports a policy that saves people’s lives, we’ve got to be open to that discussion,” he said, standing in the parking lot outside the back doors of city hall.

“I’ve committed to changing our approach, which has been to criminalize addiction. That should not continue and I’ve made that clear commitment that I would not do that.”

Affordable housing

On housing, the NDP leader is promising a $5-billion investment to build 500,000 homes in Canada over the next 10 years, with half of those homes completed within five years.

A promise the mayor described as “pretty impressive.”

Five billion dollars, though?

“That’s right, and that’s the kind of investment we need,” Stewart said.

Singh was back in Vancouver Sunday, where he campaigned with Don Davies, who has served as the NDP MP for VancouverKingsway since 2008.

Davies has used his reelection bid to criticize the

Liberals’ record on affordable housing and Trudeau’s $40-billion, 10-year national housing strategy that was unveiled in Vancouver in 2017.

In an email to the Courier, Davies noted the parliamentary budget officer showed the Liberals spending on affordable housing was “19 per cent lower as a percentage of GDP under the Trudeau Liberals than it was under Stephen Harper.”

“Housing experts have also confirmed that spending on housing is at an historic low as a share of the federal budget,” Davies said.

“They’ve revealed that funding for social housing remains stagnant.

And they’ve exposed how the Liberals inflate their numbers by treating existing programs as new ones, counting hypothetical money, and presenting provincial spending as their own.”

The Conservatives rolled out a “four-point plan” last week that promises to make home ownership “more affordable.” That plan includes amending the socalled mortgage stress test to ensure first-time buyers can get a mortgage.

Scheer’s party also promises to increase amortization periods on insured mortgages to 30 years for firsttime homebuyers to lower monthly payments.

An inquiry into money laundering in the real estate sector and making surplus federal real estate available for development to increase the supply of housing are other measures.

Wai Young, who is campaigning to get her old seat back in Vancouver-South for the Conservatives, said her party understands the

needs of Vancouverites when it comes to housing.

Like Davies, she was critical of the Liberals, accusing Trudeau’s government of putting “barriers” in place that have prevented prospective homebuyers to get into the market, or switch mortgages.

“Their heavy-handed mortgage stress test, their raising of mortgage insurance premiums, and their punishing new taxes on middle-class Canadians have made it harder to realize the dream of home ownership,” Young said in an email to the Courier.

The Greens’ Brown lives in the Vancouver-Centre riding, where he rents a two-bedroom apartment with his partner in Coal Harbour for $1,900 a month.

He moved in 11 years ago and estimates it would cost close to $3,000, if the apartment went on the market today.

Earlier this month, the B.C. Non-Profit Housing Association released the “Canadian Rental Housing Index,” which showed 48 per cent of households in Vancouver-Centre were spending more than 30 per cent of their income on rent and utilities.

Another 26 per cent of households were spending more than 50 per cent, making the riding one of the most expensive in the country for a renter.

Coincidentally, it is the same riding the mayor lives and rents in with his wife, and where he ran unsuccessfully as the NDP candidate in the 2004 federal election against longtime Liberal incumbent Hedy Fry. Among Brown’s solutions to the affordable housing crisis is to increase the num-

ber of co-ops and purposebuilt rentals that ensure tenants don’t spend more than 30 per cent on rent.

He, as his party’s platform does, reflects back to the 1970s and the-then federal government’s tax incentives for developers to build rental homes.

That’s how a big chunk of the West End was built, said Brown, adding that the federal government has to return to that program.

His party calls for a series of measures to address the housing crisis, including direct investments, changes to tax policies and lending and granting programs.

The party would also allow the Canada Infrastructure Bank to fund new housing and restore existing stock. It would increase the National Housing CoInvestment Fund by $750 million for new builds and boost the Canada Housing Benefit by $750 million to provide rent assistance to 125,000 households.

How much of that money works its way to Vancouver is unknown. The same vagueness is found in the housing plans of the NDP and Conservatives.

It’s by design.

The lack of specifics on how one city would benefit is typical of national parties, which don’t want to play cities and provinces against each other as voters go to the polls.

The Liberals, meanwhile, plan to continue with their national housing strategy, which has included initiatives in Vancouver, according to a progress report on the strategy released in August.

One of those Vancouver projects is the $184 million Stewart mentioned for 1,100 units of affordable housing to be built by the

Community Land Trust. Of that money, $114 million is in low-cost loans.

The loans approach to funding housing is what Thom Armstrong, the executive director of the Community Land Trust and the Co-op Housing Federation of B.C., told the Courier in August was “an absolute game-changer for us.”

The loans are amortized over 50 years but lock the first 10 years at a 1.5 per cent mortgage rate, as opposed to the 19 per cent Armstrong paid when he developed his first co-op in Saskatoon in 1982.

One of the Land Trust’s projects at 3183 Pierview Cres. received $53 million from the federal government to build 140 homes.

Vancouver housing projects and the amount of money in direct investment or loans listed in the report include: • Cressey Development’s 111 rental units on East 18th Avenue ($40 million).

• Catalyst’s 145-unit project at 188 East Sixth Ave. ($48.5 million).

• $15.2 million for a 36unit project at 1037 West King Edward Ave. • $12.1 million for the Covenant House expansion, and $11.7 million for the 63-unit Union Gospel Mission redevelopment.

The Vancouver Affordable Housing Agency also received $3.3 million towards the development of 600 units, and something called the “Vancity initiative” received $6 million to help develop 2,500 units.

More numbers is what Kyle Demes, the Liberals’ candidate in VancouverEast, provided to the Courier in an email in response to his party’s housing platform.

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Permanent transit fund pitched Continued from previous page He claimed that when the housing strategy reaches its 10-year end date, it will have helped more than 600,000 Canadians “find safe and affordable places to live.”

If re-elected, the party will immediately expand the first-time home buyer incentive “to provide more help to communities in the greater Vancouver area by allowing homes valued at up to $789K to qualify,” Demes said.

A national speculation and vacancy tax for “nonresident, non-Canadians” will also be put in place, said Demes, a director in charge of research at Simon Fraser University.

“The Liberal plan will create a new generation of housing in Canada,” he said.

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On transit, the mayor is not alone in his push for $4 billion to get the Broadway subway extended from Arbutus to the University of B.C. (The first 5.7 kilometres of the line is fully funded and expected to open in 2025.)

He’s got the region’s mayors on his side, with more than 20 of them challenging federal leaders and parties in this campaign to establish a permanent transit fund.

They made a push last week at the Union of B.C. Municipalities’ convention in Vancouver, where they held a news conference to warn that a SkyTrain extension to UBC is a “at risk,” if the federal government fails to fund the project.

Same goes for a SkyTrain extension from Surrey to Langley and other projects outlined in the mayors’ third phase of their 10-year transportation plan for Metro Vancouver.

New Westminster Mayor Jonathan Cote, chairperson of the mayors’ council on regional transportation, led the news conference and said a delay in funding would only increase congestion on the roads and further crowd transit systems.

“Any federal party that wants to be serious about addressing climate change, also has to be serious about investing in public transit,” said Cote, noting transit ridership has grown 20 per cent in less than three years and one million more people are expected to move to the region over the next 20 years.

The Courier asked Cote

New Westminster Mayor Jonathan Cote with some of the region’s mayors at a news conference calling for a permanent federal fund for public transit. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

how he would rate the Liberals’ record on the transit file.

“I would definitely say a lot of the successes we’re seeing in Metro Vancouver here today are a result of both the provincial and federal governments stepping up to the plate with respect to funding over the last four years,” he said.

“So I would say the current government definitely was a major funding partner to make phase one and phase two [of the mayors’ 10-year plan] a reality. But we’re hoping, regardless of the party, we can get all of the parties saying they’re willing to step up to help support the future phases.”

The NDP’s Davies seems to be on board, with him saying his party would create “a permanent, direct, allocation-based funding mechanism to modernize and expand public transit in communities across Canada, with an emphasis on scaling up low carbon transit projects.”

But he didn’t directly say whether the NDP would spend $4 billion for a SkyTrain extension to UBC. Neither did his party’s leader when asked last week at city hall, although his response was favourable.

“Mayor Kennedy Stewart made it very clear that that’s a priority for him, and I want to make it clear that a New Democratic government would support those types of investments,” Singh said.

The Greens’ Brown, a former UBC student, said his party would pay for a SkyTrain extension from Arbutus to his alma mater with “probably increased tax on corporate entities, by ending subsidies on oil and gas companies and going after off-shore tax money that’s been evaded.”

The Liberals’ Demes

was non-committal in his response, saying vaguely that “a re-elected Liberal government will continue to support local decision making when it comes to which projects municipalities and transit agencies want to build and want funded.”

The Conservatives’ Young didn’t mention public transit in her response, only saying the Trudeau government “failed to build much-needed infrastructure in Vancouver, and especially in Vancouver-South.”

Her leader was in Coquitlam last Friday, the same day an estimated 100,000 people marched in Vancouver to protest government inaction on tackling climate change.

Scheer did not attend the march but instead announced promises to build three infrastructure projects across the country, including a subway extension in Ontario and replacing the George Massey Tunnel.

The projects, he said, would reduce congestion and deliver faster commute times for everyone, “whether you drive or catch public transit,” he said in a news release that accompanied his news conference.

Later that day, Cote took to Twitter to comment: “Probably the most tone deaf response to today’s #climatestrike.”

Climate change

Stewart said fighting climate change is on his agenda, too.

But he believes city voters are looking to him to respond to Vancouver’s housing crisis, reduce drug overdose deaths and lobby for improved transit.

“People kind of associate different jobs with different levels of government,” he said. “If you asked [voters], ‘What’s the mayor of

Vancouver responsible for?’

They wouldn’t say climate change.”

Added Stewart: “I agree, this is a very big national issue — pipelines, carbon taxes, Paris Agreement, all that kind of stuff. I understand that — nationally — this is what people are focused on.”

Since Stewart was elected, he has tied investing in more public transit and building affordable housing around transit hubs as measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

He pointed out city council — led by OneCity Coun.

Christine Boyle — has declared a “climate emergency” in Vancouver, and city staff continues to work on initiatives and ambitious targets to reduce pollution.

As well, cycling, walking and transit trips are up across the city.

The mayor will not say who he will get his vote in this election, although it’s pretty much a given he wouldn’t abandon his NDP colleagues at the polls.

He’s been campaigning for Jenny Kwan in Vancouver-East, his former seat-mate in the House of Commons. He voted in the NDP’s Vancouver-Centre nomination race, too.

And it was probably not a coincidence that he wore an orange tie on the day Singh visited city hall.

Regardless of the election results, Stewart has already booked a hotel room in Ottawa and will travel there within the first month of a winner being declared.

His focus will be on the prime minister’s ministerial orders.

“There is a period of time when the prime minister — whoever it is — is writing ministerial letters and [those letters] are the ministers’ orders for the term that they’re the minister,” the mayor explained.

“So I would like to try to get in and get my stuff written in their letters. Because once they’re set, it’s very hard to change them. So, for example, if I could get written in the health minister’s letter ‘enable safe supply,’ that would be great.”

So who should Vancouverites vote for?

“When I’m asked about who I’m going to vote for, most people kind of assume it [will be NDP]. But what I’m going to say is whoever is delivering the most for the city, that’s who people should vote for.”

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Nardwuar’s star shines at surreal ceremony Beloved radio host inducted into B.C. Entertainment Hall of Fame

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On Sunday, Sept. 29, close to 700 people showed up to celebrate one of Vancouver’s wildest and weirdest.

It was the public induction ceremony into the B.C. Entertainment Hall of Fame for journalist/musician/radio host Nardwuar the Human Serviette and it happened on a sunny afternoon in the dark and hallowed Commodore Ballroom.

Just outside, between the Commodore and the Orpheum, you’ll find Nardwuar’s newly embedded star in the concrete on Granville Street’s star walk. When I showed up just before the doors of the Commodore opened at noon, the lineup to get in stretched all the way down Granville and around the corner onto Smithe.

Upon entrance, in the first of what would be an afternoon of surreal sights and sounds, attendees were greeted by a glistening ice sculpture of Nardwuar. The sculpture was a surprise gift to Nardwuar from the staff at the Commodore, who were all adorned in matching Nardwuar T-shirts.

The induction party really did have it all, including being a rare Commodore occasion that was both free and all ages. It was amazing to see so many children gleefully turning the Commodore’s famous bouncing dance floor into a giant bouncy castle for one day.

At 1 p.m., and with the crowd at the Commodore bubbling with anticipation, MC, author, Courier contributor and raconteur Aaron Chapman took the stage to welcome everyone, followed by president of the B.C. Entertainment Hall of Fame Rob Haynes, and vice president Howard Blank. Both officially inducted Nardwuar into the hall, which includes Nardwuar’s framed picture on the Starwall in the Orpheum Theatre, his bronze star on Granville Street and a

Mayor Kennedy Stewart proclaimed Sunday, Sept. 29 as Nardwuar Day in Vancouver. PHOTO JENNIFER VAN HOUTEN

framed certificate.

After that, there was another surprise guest. Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart emerged from behind the curtain to officially proclaim Sunday, Sept. 29, 2019 as “Nardwuar Day” in Vancouver. It must be the only proclamation in Vancouver’s history that cites, in framed and sealed print, Lady Gaga, Iggy Pop and Pierre Elliott Trudeau, all of whom Nardwuar has interviewed, as well as Fugazi, Mudhoney and the Gruesomes, all of whom Nardwuar has put on gigs for. The mayor read the proclamation aloud, and the crowd went wild.

The curtains then opened to reveal Nardwuar with his arms outstretched, grabbing the mic in a ball of extremely grateful energy, thanking pretty much everyone in the room, over and over.

He then rolled into his “Video Vault,” which was a greatest hits of sorts of his 32 years of interviews, including clips from former Prime Minister Jean Chretien, Roots drummer Quest Love and, of course, Snoop Dogg, from arguably Nardwuar’s most famous series of inter-

views. The Video Vault also doubled as a kind of manic evangelical sermon, Nardwuar preaching to the fully converted that if he can do it, anyone can. He constantly urged younger participants to organize their own all-ages gigs, like he did for the first time in 1987.

The crowd loved it and appreciated the sentiment, though many fully understood that Nardwuar is a true original, a special breed, and there’s no one like him.

And it isn’t a Nardwuar show without more surprise guests. Once the Video Vault (finally) wrapped up, Nardwuar’s band the Evaporators took to the stage to play such hits as “I Gotta Rash,” “Addicted to Cheese” and “Nard Nest.” Halfway through the sweaty show, Nardwuar welcomed Vancouver broadcasting legend Jim Robson onto the stage.

From 1970 to 1999, Robson was the voice of the Canucks and called some of the most famous moments in Vancouver hockey history.

He was also one of the many media luminaries who signed on to back Nardwuar getting his own star.

At 84 years old, Robson was completely game to take part in the Evaporators garage-punk shenanigans.

He even joined the band on vocals for a bizarre cover of the Vancouver Break and Wheel earworm jingle from a TV ad Robson did in 1985.

It was hilarious, amazing and totally surreal.

Robson watched the rest of the Evaporators show from the side stage, sitting beside my three-year-old daughter. Both were mesmerized by the antics transpiring on stage. Later, one parent described the show as “Fred Penner on acid.”

During the last Evaporators’ song, Nardwuar leapt into the outstretched arms of the audience, which crowd surfed him across the dance floor, all the way down the stairs, past security and out the front doors to his star out on Granville, then all the way back upstairs and back onto the stage, as the band — Stephen Hamm from Slow on bass, Nick Thomas from the Smugglers on guitar and Shawn Mrazek from Flash Bastard on drums — played on. And it was all broadcast live on Instagram.

When the Evaporators show concluded, the event was far from over. After quickly getting changed, Nardwuar was rushed to the front of a massive lineup of fans for a “meet and greet” in front of a Nardwuar banner and the framed induction and proclamation documents. It lasted for hours.

My wife and kids and I slipped out of the Commodore much earlier, all of us fully exhausted, sitting down at an outdoor café on Granville Street to recover. Over an hour later, we spotted a young teenage boy walking up Granville with his dad.

The kid was grinning from ear to ear, proudly clutching a signed Evaporators’ record and Nardwuar poster. And that’s what it’s all about.

Congratulations Nardwuar, and doot doola doot doo! @grantlawrence

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exposed in this film,” says Cassini. “I feel like it’s an extended private moment to a certain degree, of which I’m a big fan in the work and the process.”

In Daughter, Cassini plays Jim, a father traumatized by the sudden death of his teenage daughter. Jim is wealthy and, instead of working through his grief with his wife (played by Cassini’s real-life wife, Jenn Maclean-Angus), he deadens his pain with bourbon, expensive hotel rooms and escorts — until one long night, when the escort who knocks on his hotel room door bears more than a passing resemblance to his dead daughter.

Daughter marks the feature film directorial debut of Anthony Shim, a longtime actor and teacher who started writing Daughter in order to jumpstart his filmmaking career.

“I wrote a lot of really bad stuff, but then I started writing this one-act play about a man in a hotel room separated from his family, and it just felt so easy, even though I’m not a father and I’m not a 26-year-old escort,” says Shim. “There was something about these characters that I really liked.

I’ve always been drawn to human emotion, human relationships and the drama that exists in everyday life that doesn’t get much attention.”

Shim knew pretty quickly that he had something special with Daughter, and he asked Cassini to read

the script and offer his thoughts.

“I responded to the sophistication and the maturity of the script instantly,” says Cassini. “It was undeniable for me, and that’s when I said to him, ‘We could make this film right now.’”

There was something about Jim and the circumstances of his sadness that lodged under Cassini’s skin.

“I really cared about Jim and the first time we did a table read... it was electric.

After that reading, we all looked around and said, ‘Holy shit, we have something here,’” he said.

Cassini signed on to star and produce, and the team shot the film on a low budget, careful not to sacrifice production value or Shim’s unique storytelling voice.

“I said to Anthony, ‘I want you to make your movie, and I’m on board if it’s your movie,’” says Cassini.

Shim’s movie — which has its premiere this weekend at VIFF’s venerable B.C. Spotlight Gala — gave Cassini the opportunity to play the type of role he normally only gets to play on stage.

“I’ve done some incredible roles on stage, but in order to be the lead of a movie, some of those scripts, if they’re really incredible, are going to go to stars, so that’s where the independent film world can really sustain an actor like myself,” says Cassini. “When I read this, I thought, ‘This is why

I became an actor.’ It’s challenging on every level.

It challenges me to bring my humanity to the role, to bring my vulnerability places that, if you love acting, you love to go.”

One aspect of Daughter that required extra care from the production team was a storyline involving cyber-bullying and sexual violence among teens.

“There were a lot of conversations with the actors who play those characters, because they’re of that age,” says Shim. “I would ask them, ‘Is it crazy for a girl to be passed out and a guy to take a picture of them?’ And they’d say, ‘No, that’s the norm, and it’s not with evil intent, people see something that looks funny to them and they take a picture.’ But from that moment on, what happens is beyond their control.”

Cassini concedes that it’s heavy stuff.

“Anthony and I always talked about making a film that might be difficult to watch but has a strong resonance when it’s over,” says Cassini. “I love these films that get under your skin.”

Daughter also stars Jordyn Ashley Olson, Ryan Robbins, Gabrielle Rose and Camille Sullivan.

Daughter screens Oct. 5 and 8 as part of the 2019 Vancouver International Film Festival. Tickets are at viff.org.

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Decorate your sugar skull before Mexican Day of the Dead

And four other reasons Vancouver is awesome this week Lindsay William-Ross

reservations. Just spend an afternoon like a French person!

When: Oct. 7, 5 to 8 p.m.

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Sugar Skulls and Pan de Muerto Nights

Join Metate Bake Shop every Thursday in October for a fun night of sugar skull decorating and delicious Pan de Muerto (Mexican Day of the Dead Bread).

Bring your friends and family and learn more about this beautiful tradition. If you’d like to decorate your very own sugar skull, register for their “Sugar Skull Workshop” via Eventbrite.

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Fall 2019 Record Convention

Record collectors and music lovers, you’ll be spinning with delight at this semi-annual event that’s packed to the brim with records, CDs and music memorabilia galore.

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Oktoberfest at Vancouver Alpen Club

Every Thursday night in October, Metate Bake Shop hosts a night of sugar skull decorating and delicious Pan de Muerto (Mexican Day of the Dead Bread). PHOTO METATE BAKE SHOP/FACEBOOK. The Alpen Club hosts its annual Oktoberfest celebrations over the next three weekends. PHOTO VANCOUVER ALPEN CLUB/FACEBOOK

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This is “das original” Vancouver Oktoberfest that you can’t leave off the list.

Held at the historic Alpen Club, the event stretches over three weekends of beer, food, music and fun.

Dress up, dance and raise a few glasses in the German tradition. Regular tickets $35 (plus taxes) include admission to the Oktoberfest, while VIP tickets $80 (plus taxes) include admission and access to a designated area that provides a delicious German buffet and a server who takes care of your drinks all night long (drinks not included in the prices).

When: Oct. 4 to 5, 11 to 12 and 18 to 19. Doors open at 7:30 p.m.

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KUDOS & KVETCHES

Are millennials germophobes or are we just out-of-touch slobs?

Now that we’ve reached the charming-borderingon-annoying-curmudgeon stage of our rapidly declining lives, we’ve started to notice a thing going on with the young folks at our office. No, not the fact they are constantly staring at their phones or shuffle their feet while they walk or look blankly at us when we make hilarious references to Bootsauce songs and albums — we’re over that — it’s their cleaning habits. Specifically, they are fastidious when it comes to anything food or drink related. Painfully so.

On a number of occasions, we have found ourselves in the unfortunate position of waiting to use our office’s kitchen sink while watching a millennial spend several minutes rinsing out their coffee cup. Normally, we would chalk this up to a case of OCD, but it’s happened to us a number of times, with different young people rinsing their coffee cups for longer than it takes us to have a shower.

A colleague of ours noticed a similar behaviour recently, while waiting for a young’un to rinse her apple.

How long is too long to rinse out a coffee cup? PHOTO ISTOCK

It took five minutes. And she didn’t even take an Instagram shot of it afterwards.

So what’s going on?

We have a few theories.

Theory #1: Millennials don’t have a clue about washing dishes or apples because they grew up protected from such harsh realities by their parents who worried that subjecting them to house work could be triggering.

Theory #2: Millennials haven’t been exposed to as much dirt, rot and germs as previous free-range generations and are rightfully extra careful about the cleanliness of their coffee cups and apples.

Theory #3: Older generations (read: us) are

filthy. They only started recognizing the importance of condoms in the 1980s, their hair can go unwashed for days, hand soap still seems “trendy” and the only reason to rinse a coffee cup or apple for more than five seconds, if at all, is if it smells or looks funky.

The thing is, it’s possible that all three theories are correct. Or maybe we’ve overlooked something… just like so many people overlooked the raw intensity of Bootsauce’s Sleeping Bootie.

Seriously, though. Let us know if you have any other theories about this generational divide in our office kitchen before we totally lose our mind. @KudoKvetches

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It’s hard to carve out a roster spot in the NHL. There are thousands upon thousands of hockey players who dream of reaching those heights. You can be the best player on your team in youth hockey and one of the best in the league in junior hockey and still struggle to stay in the NHL. Players who don’t become point producers need to find another niche to justify their spot in the lineup. Those at the bottom of the lineup normally don’t get a lot of ice time at even strength, so they have to provide value in other ways.

In the past, this has included enforcers, whose job was to drop the gloves to “protect” their teammates. Fourth-liners are frequently praised for being good teammates and a presence in the locker room, primarily because if they’re not good teammates, they’re easily replaceable with players who are.

Another way players at the bottom of the lineup can find a niche is by being solid defensively. If they’re not going to score, they can at least prevent the other team from scoring when they’re on the ice.

Frequently, that means becoming a specialist on the penalty kill.

The Canucks have several of these types of players, such as Brandon Sutter and Jay Beagle, their third and fourth-line centres. While Sutter has had flashes of offence in the past, he and Beagle have made their hay in the NHL as faceoff specialists and penalty killers.

What’s interesting about the Canucks’ approach to the penalty kill, however, is that they almost exclusively use bottomsix forwards. Beagle and Sutter led the Canucks in shorthanded ice time per game last season, followed by fellow bottom-six forwards Markus Granlund, Tyler Motte and Tim Schaller. After that is Loui Eriksson, who started last season on the top line with Elias Pettersson, but didn’t get added to the penalty kill until after he was demoted from Pettersson’s line.

The lone top-six forward who spent any significant time on the Canucks’ penalty kill last season was Bo Horvat, who finished eighth in shorthanded ice time among Canucks forwards. He only played on the kill out of necessity, because Sutter and Beagle were injured.

Coach Travis Green suggests it’s both a matter of the personnel available and his

• I am dropping the gloves with the rest of the NHL for not claiming more players off waivers. Several teams, like the Edmonton Oilers and Detroit Red Wings were too timid with some very ugly-looking rosters, refusing the opportunity to improve at no cost.

• A tap of the stick to the Canucks, however, for taking the calculated risk of waiving Sven Baertschi, Nikolay Goldobin and Alex Biega at the time when teams are least likely to make a claim. If they were going to waive them, they picked the right time to do it.

While Brandon Sutter has had flashes of offence in the past, he has made his hay in the NHL as a faceoff specialist and penalty killer. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

own coaching philosophy.

“Sutter’s an elite penalty killer. In a perfect world, I think you spread the minutes around your team a lot easier if your top guys aren’t your penalty killers,” said Green. “But we’re here to win. If our top guys are better penalty killers, then I’d probably try to find a way to fit them in as well.”

While bottom-six forwards often have to specialize in defence and penalty killing, there’s no reason why skilled forwards with more offensive upside can’t also kill penalties. In fact, around the NHL, you’ll see plenty of top-tier forwards hitting the ice for both sides of special teams: power play and penalty kill.

Sean Couturier, Patrice Bergeron, Ryan O’Reilly and Aleksander Barkov are just a few of the first-line centres around the NHL who are also among their team leaders in ice time on the penalty kill.

Barkov, Brad Marchand, Mitch Marner and Brayden Point all had more than 90 points last season, but still saw significant time shorthanded.

Horvat’s two-way game has taken huge strides over the past couple seasons.

There’s a reason Pettersson has been

compared to Pavel Datsyuk beyond his magic hands: his defensive game is far more refined than your typical 20 year old. J.T. Miller, Micheal Ferland, Tanner Pearson — is there any reason why they can’t play on the penalty kill?

It’s not a pointless question: If you can get penalty killing out of some of your top-six forwards, that frees you up to add more skill to the bottom-six, instead of loading up on defensive forwards, as the Canucks have. It’s the reason why Sven Baertschi was cut from the Canucks and sent to the Utica Comets: after losing his spot on the power play, the Canucks reasoned that if didn’t play on the penalty kill, he had no spot on the team.

Could the Canucks get more out of their lineup if they didn’t depend entirely on their bottom-six for defence and penalty killing? That’s certainly the trend around the NHL, while the Canucks have held to a more old-school mentality.

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Big Numbers • 2018 Bo Horvat led the NHL in faceoffs taken last season, with a whopping 2018 draws. With the addition of J.T. Miller, a capable faceoff man in his own right, to his line and a healthy Brandon Sutter and Jay Beagle, that number should drop significantly this season.

• 179 The forward who led the Canucks in overall shorthanded ice time last season was Markus Granlund, who played just over 179 minutes at five on four. The Canucks let Granlund go to free agency, where he was signed by the Edmonton Oilers.

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STORY Three-year-old Thariq Daya was an active boy who loved riding his bike and playing soccer. So when he began developing symptoms like a fever and slight limp, doctors attributed it to the effects of cold and flu season.

Then one day in February 2018, Thariq’s heart started racing and he wasn’t able to walk properly. He was rushed to BC Children’s Hospital by ambulance. Within three days, the family received news that brought his mom, Shawna, to her knees – he was diagnosed with stage 4, high-risk neuroblastoma.

Neuroblastoma is a rare form of childhood cancer that begins in certain types of nerve tissue. As is often the case, Thariq’s illness started in the adrenal glands; it then

spread to other parts of his body, including his stomach, skull, pelvis, and legs. As the disease progressed, his symptoms worsened to the point where he wasn’t walking, talking, eating, or playing.

“When they found the mass, I tried to tell myself all the other things it could be. I was hysterical,” Shawna recalls. “That was the heart-wrenching, stomach-twisting moment. I cried a lot.”

At BC Children’s Hospital, Thariq quickly began an intensive treatment plan that would last a total of 18 to 24 months. It includes multiple chemotherapy induction cycles, two stem-cell transplants, daily radiation for a month, and, beginning in 2019, six months of immunotherapy.

“My life was perfect, almost too good.

Life comes with ups and downs. Well this was our down,” Shawna remembers. “We have been through awful moments in chemotherapy and transplant. I would take all of those moments over hearing ‘your son has cancer’ again.”

Shawna, whose other kids are aged 7, 5 and 1, says that despite the inevitable heartache and worry that go along with her family’s situation, they feel very grateful for the care they are receiving at BC Children’s Hospital.

“I have so much trust in everyone there,” Shawna says. “I’m thankful for how close and loving they all are with all the patients.

Thariq likes going to play there. He doesn’t see it as a scary place.”

Together, we can support research that will help more kids like Thariq. Learn more at bcchf.ca