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Why doesn’t Vancouver have an auditor general?

Mike Howell

mhowell@vancourier.com

The city needs an integrity commissioner.

Actually, it needs an ethics commissioner.

No, wait a sec… it needs an ombudsperson.

Scratch all that — as of last week, it needs an auditor general!

In my years of typing sentences about the goings-on at city hall, I’ve heard all of the above recommendations.

They’ve come from councillors, city staff, election candidates and lawyer Richard Peck, who is currently among the legal team representing Meng Wanzhou, the Huawei executive fighting extradition to the United States.

Peck called for the integrity commissioner, former NPA Coun. George Affleck and one-time NPA mayoral candidate Kirk LaPointe wanted an ombudsperson and city staff recommended “an integrity or ethics commissioner model.”

None was given the green light.

Now NPA Coun. Colleen Hardwick wants an independent auditor general in place to oversee the city’s finances and operations, noting Vancouver has operating and capital budgets that total close to $2 billion annually.

Hardwick’s nine-page motion tells me she really, really wants an auditor general.

And she believes that an initial office budget of $1 million annually will cover the cost.

She has done a ton of research and pointed out Vancouver is the only major Canadian city that does not have an auditor general’s office — or a comparable city auditor’s office — that is independent of city management.

The key word here being “independent.”

She wants someone in place capable of providing “an essential layer of independent financial and performance oversight of the city’s financial and operational affairs.”

Because right now, as her motion explains, the city’s internal audit process and internal audit division

NPA Coun. Colleen Hardwick wants the city to hire an auditor general who is independent of city management. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

reports to the internal audit management team consisting of the city manager, deputy city manager, director of finance and director of legal services.

That’s a lot of “internal” business (and use of the word “internal” in one sentence) that Hardwick wants to be external. In other words, let someone else look at the books and have that person report to council on the findings.

This way, her motion states, council can hold “itself and city administrators accountable,” which suggests there is a lack of account-

ability at city hall regarding finances and operations.

Is there?

Councillors — and maybe even the mayor and some staff — will certainly have something to say about that suggestion when debate opens Oct. 23 on Hardwick’s motion.

Council was supposed to debate the motion last week, but Hardwick recommended it be moved to another date because she wasn’t feeling well; she was recently in a car accident and suffered a concussion.

While we await debate, it should be noted there is already an auditor general

for local government.

His name is Gordon Ruth.

But Hardwick said Ruth’s role is advisory, not supervisory. And as such, the office does not comment on the policy decisions or objectives of civic politicians, impose requirements, “or duplicate existing financial accountability mechanisms.”

She added that Ruth has publicly stated that his office — which serves 190 local governments — does not have enough resources to conduct more than a few selected performance audits each year.

Now back to the story about Peck’s call for an integrity commissioner…

Back in 2008, the city hired Peck to investigate how a confidential document regarding the Olympic Village was leaked to the media.

The Globe and Mail obtained the document and published a story during the 2008 civic election campaign.

The story revealed council unanimously approved a $100-million loan to ensure construction of the Olympic Village would continue.

The leak became the focal point of the campaign.

Peck looked into the leak as the VPD conducted a simultaneous investigation that, as I revealed, involved several councillors agreeing to a polygraph test.

In the end, no charges were laid and the source of the leak was never found. Peck, however, recommended the city hire an “integrity commissioner,” whose duties would include investigating city councillors who contravene the city’s Code of Conduct.

A commissioner was needed, Peck said, because the oversight and accountability provisions in the city’s Code of Conduct were lacking. The city never hired a commissioner and instead updated its Code of Conduct.

Hardwick’s motion, by the way, makes no mention of the need for polygraph tests to be conducted at city hall, although such a move would not be unprecedented.

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Several road closures in effect Sunday morning Jessica Kerr

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The sixth annual Halloween Parade & Expo will bring ghosts, goblins and family fun to downtown Vancouver this long weekend.

“We are excited to present astonishing arts and performances to kick off a family friendly Halloween celebration for the general public,” Vancouver International Halloween Festival Society director Raymond He said in a news release.

During the Halloween Expo, which runs Oct. 11 to 13, artists will turn Vancouver’s city centre into a 2.5-dimensional wonderland with an outdoor performance in Vancouver Art Gallery’s north plaza and an indoor exhibition at UBC Robson Square.

This year’s performers include anime dance group Zeús LoveLive, video game

bands The Runaway Four and missingNo, a Flamenco dance rendition of Alice in Wonderland, the comics comedy stylings of The Fictionals, Vancouver-based composer and singer/songwriter Lumi Starlight and Fuscia Band.

At the cosplay exhibit, artists will showcase handcrafted costumes.

In all there are about 20 performances and exhibits over three days.

Sunday, Oct. 13 features the annual Grand Halloween Parade.

The parade starts on Howe at Drake Street at 11 a.m. The procession will head north along Howe Street to Smithe and then back along Granville Street, ending at Drake Street.

The parade lineup includes Star Wars 501st Legion, Ghostbusters of B.C., Superheros, as well as ghosts and goblins brought alive via marching bands and dance performances

from diverse mythologies, such as Eire Born Irish Dance, Brazilian Swag, Vancouver Chinese Lion Dance Association and Korean Traditional Arts Society. The parade will feature about 20 groups and 1,000 performers.

In addition to the roads included in the parade route, the northbound lanes of the Granville Bridge will be partially closed from 8:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m.

Drivers heading into downtown are advised to use the Cambie or Burrard bridges instead.

The organizers’ artistic vision for the weekend’s festivities is to advance arts inspired by comics, anime, video games and mythologies from diverse cultures.

In order to celebrate Halloween in a family-friendly way, no blood and gore costumes will be allowed.

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Vancouver-Granville candidates spar over housing, John Kurucz

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Audience members never fail to spice up meetings with elected officials and would-be politicians, and Monday night went precisely according to script.

Hosted by members of

Little Mountain Neighbourhood House, an Oct. 7 Vancouver-Granville allcandidates’ meeting at Eric Hamber secondary largely featured candidates sticking to talking points they’ve clung to, in some cases, for more than four years.

Five of the six candidates

attended, save for People’s Party candidate Naomi Chocyk. Those in attendance included Liberal Taleeb Noormohamed, Independent Jody Wilson-Raybould, the NDP’s Yvonne Hanson, Green Party candidate Louise Boutin and Conservative Zach Segal.

Public Hearing: October 22, 2019 Tuesday, October 22, 2019, at 6 pm City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Third Floor, Council Chamber Vancouver City Council will hold a Public Hearing to consider zoning for these locations: 1. Miscellaneous and Housekeeping Amendments – Zoning and Development By-law, Sign By-law and Rental Housing Stock Official Development Plan By-law To make miscellaneous amendments to the Zoning and Development By-law, the Rental Housing Stock Official Development Plan, and the Sign By-law in order to improve clarity, update terminology or address inadvertent errors or omissions and to better streamline the development review process.

2. CD-1 Text Amendment: 3560-3570 Hull Street and 2070-2090 East 20th Avenue To amend CD-1 (738) for 3560-3570 Hull Street and 20702090 East 20th Avenue to correct the site area in the by-law.

The amendment would achieve the intent of the initial rezoning approval.

3. CD-1 Rezoning: 1002 Station Street and 250-310 Prior Street (New St. Paul’s Hospital and Health Campus) To rezone 1002 Station Street and 250-310 Prior Street from 1-3 (Industrial) and I-2 (Industrial) Districts to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to allow for a New St. Paul’s Hospital and Health Campus including institutional, office, research, hotel, retail-service, and Indigenous cultural uses, along with limited rental housing for health care workers. The proposal includes a new public plaza and two child care facilities.

Maximum building heights generally ranging from 24 to 61 metres are proposed.

After 70 minutes of promises, pledges and the odd jab, a serious body blow came in the form of this audience question: “What do you think Canadians should think of the current prime minister’s character and leadership?”

Off came the gloves,

with the lead salvo going to Hanson.

“I think he’s a trust fund frat boy who surrounds himself with people who have very specific needs that they want with him and when he fulfills those needs he feels like he’s fulfilling the needs of all Canadians,”

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said the NDP candidate.

Liberal candidate Noormohamed was having none of it and went directly after NDP leader Jagmeet Singh.

“I find that terribly rich coming from a party led by someone who’s played footsie with terrorists, lives in a massive house near [Toronto suburb] Parkdale and drives a very, very large black German luxury automobile,” he said.

Wilson-Raybould began her response by thanking the audience member for the question, which elicited the most laughter of the night.

She went on to suggest politicians in Ottawa are too beholden to party staffers and other insiders, rather than MPs and their constituents.

She did not mention Prime Minister Justin Trudeau by name at any point.

“I can look myself in the mirror every night knowing that I did my job and I stuck with my values and principles,” she said.

Green candidate Boutin suggested paying too much attention to a leader rather than a party is too American.

Conservative candidate Segal got his digs in by saying Trudeau is immature, lacks seriousness and is a laughing stock on the world stage.

The first of two audience questions was less direct, but more to the point. The five candidates were asked to define the term “housing affordability.” Most candidates responded with varying takes on the belief that no more than 30 per cent of monthly income should be spent on housing. Wilson-Raybould didn’t offer a specific number, while Boutin said that formula should be based on individual needs and circumstances.

Hanson noted that using median income in the Vancouver context is a misnomer, and should instead be based on an occupant’s income.

The majority of Monday’s debate was broken into specific themes: climate change, opioids, housing affordability, Indigenous reconciliation, poverty reduction and immigration. Candidates were given 90 seconds to provide answers in front of about 75 audience members, who were by and large pro Wilson-Raybould.

Noormohamed and Segal framed many of their answers in the context of both past and present policies put forth by their respective parties. Wilson-Raybould pushed for more independent voices and collaboration across party lines in Ottawa, while Boutin focused mostly on climate change.

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of a clean drug supply, nor decriminalization.

On immigration, candidates were asked what level of immigration they’re comfortable supporting. No number was asked for specifically and no candidate provided one.

Everyone agreed on welcoming people into the country from across the world, though Segal couched his remarks by saying the numbers should take into account the need to fill gaps in the labour force and economy. Boutin said Canada needs to be more of a leader on the world stage so that people aren’t forced to flee their home countries to begin with.

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Safeway site redevelopment proposed, debate ensues (again)

Plan for Grandview-Woodland project is for three highrises, 520 condos, 160 rental units, grocery store Naoibh O’Connor

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A 2.4-acre East Vancouver site at Broadway and Commercial is the latest, but almost certainly won’t be the last, battleground over what’s the appropriate height and density for a new development in a neighbourhood.

The conflict was sparked last week when a rezoning application was filed for 1780 West Broadway, where a Safeway grocery store with a large parking lot currently sits. The application proposes a mixed-use development featuring three residential towers — 24, 27 and 30 storeys above the retail level — with 520 condo and 160 rental units, retail and office space, a childcare facility, a grocery store and a new public plaza.

Developer Westbank, property owner Crombie REIT and the Perkins and Will architecture firm are behind the GrandviewWoodland project whose “big ideas” were inspired by architect Bing Thom who died in 2016. Safeway has a long-term lease on the site totalling 50 years.

Years in the making

The future of the site has been the subject of years of deliberation. Anger erupted back in 2013 when the City of Vancouver released “emerging directions” for the Grandview-Woodland Community Plan, which suggested the property could be home to towers up to 36 storeys (with other locations in the surrounding area identified for future highrises between 22 and 28 storeys). City and regional policy is to locate higher density around transit. But critics argued those heights were not discussed

or endorsed during public consultation about the plan.

To quell the furor, the City of Vancouver formed a “citizens’ assembly” in 2014 to help re-think the plan.

Two years later, in 2016, council approved the Grandview-Woodland Community Plan. On the Safeway site, it 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 plan, 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 one or two storeys of retail are allowed at “key anchor points within the site.”

Council is, however, 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.”

In 2017, the developer floated a concept for the project that featured 11, 1721 and 24-storey buildings above two-storey podiums.

Now, with towers potentially reaching 24, 27 and 30 storeys above retail, the actual rezoning application differs from that proposal and is earning mixed reviews.

Opposing views

Dorothy Barkley, past president of the Grandview Woodland Area Council (GWAC), and Reilly Wood of Abundant Housing Vancouver (AHV) reflect opposing visions about what should be allowed on the property.

Barkley told the Courier GWAC doesn’t support the application in its cur-

Towers envisioned at 24, 27 and 30 storeys above the retail level are envisioned for the Safeway site at Broadway and Commercial.

rent form and that it would like to see “more modest” heights on the property, as well as a two-storey Safeway, rather than a onestorey store, to make more room for a larger plaza.

(Safeway has insisted on a one-storey store.)

She says GrandviewWoodland is expected to absorb too much density, citing projects such as the recently approved — and controversial — five-storey, 35-unit rental building on Grant Street and the recently approved — and controversial — detox and social housing complex at Clark Drive, which will feature 90 social housing units, a 51-bed withdrawal centre and 20 short-term transitional beds.

“Why can’t we have shared densification across the city? Why can’t we have careful or thoughtful, reasonable densification that enhances neighbourhoods rather than undermines neighbourhoods?” she said.

Barkley maintains Grandview-Woodland already lacks greenspace and amenities, she questions how market rental rates in the proposed Safeway site redevelopment would be affordable to people living in the neighbourhood, and

also argues the development is a bad fit for the community.

“What’s going to happen here is that these towers are being put in the middle of a residential neighbourhood that is immediately surrounded by two-storey co-ops and apartments, one-and-a-half-storey and two-storey houses,” she said. “First off, it just doesn’t fit into the neighbourhood at all. There’s no graduation [in heights], but there’s going to be a tremendous amount of land lift. There’s going to be increased land value with the towers going in.”

Barkley worries a jump in land value will signal the end of the co-ops and modestly priced multi-family residential buildings, and that they’ll be demolished and re-developed.

“What you see is the undermining of the neighbourhood. The entire raison d’être of GrandviewWoodland has been the character, the fit. While we firmly believe in carrying our weight, in so far as carrying or having density, we have a lot of density. We are not like Point Grey, which has virtually none. We’re not like the south side of Vancouver, which has very

little. But we don’t want to become like the West End either,” she said.

Wood’s position contrasts starkly with Barkley’s.

Where she sees too much density, he sees not enough.

“I’m a little concerned that the project is not dense enough. It’s tall (at 24-30 storeys), but it’s not especially dense because the towers are quite thin,” he wrote in an email to the Courier, pointing out the floor space ratio (FSR) proposed is 5.87, which he compared to a six-storey building on the 300 block of East Sixth Avenue in Mount Pleasant, which has an FSR of 4.73.

“This is probably an attempt to mollify some of my more change-averse neighbours, but I’d appreciate more homes on this site.”

Wood also wonders why the city requires so much parking next to a SkyTrain station. The base requirement for the residential portion of the project is 600 spaces.

The developer is actually only proposing 403, 197 fewer than the requirement, but Wood says, “It seems crazy that the city would require so much parking near transit during a climate crisis.”

(Meanwhile, 249 parking spots are proposed for the commercial portion where the base requirement is 183.)

Wood, who lives four blocks from the proposed development site in a onebedroom condo with his partner, moved to Commercial Drive one year ago, but he’s lived in East Vancouver for the last 10 years.

He said he likes new public amenities and services proposed for the develop-

ment such as the public plaza next to the SkyTrain, a hanging garden, daycare spaces, a new Safeway and more stores.

“I think it’s great that so many new neighbours will get to live right next to the SkyTrain, and the project even has 160 units of rental and social housing,” he said.

He disputes criticism that the area is already dense and too congested or suggestions that a new community centre and more greenspace is needed if the project moves forward.

“Commercial and Broadway has surprisingly few homes and offices for such a central location — there are hardly any buildings taller than four storeys nearby.

It’s a little embarrassing for one of the best locations for transit in Western Canada, right at the intersection of two SkyTrain lines. I can’t think of a better location for tall buildings. The neighbourhood has lots of parks and a great new community centre at Trout Lake, it can easily handle a few more people,” he said.

“When I talk with neighbours about how our street has changed over the years, they all say the same thing — the area is gentrifying, and many renters have been replaced by well-off professional couples. I see lots of luxury houses being built and renovated around here, and they’re not required to provide any rental or social homes. So it’s great to see 160 new rental apartments in this development, that’s a lot better than the development that’s already happening.”

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A total of 427 rental units, as well as 78 hotel rooms, are proposed for projects being considered along West 41st near Cambie Street.

A 10-storey mixed-use rental building is proposed for the northeast corner of West 41st Avenue and Alberta Street, while a larger rental project consisting of a 22-storey and a 14-storey mixed-use building,

including hotel units, is envisioned for the northwest corner.

A joint open house was held earlier this week for the pair of rezoning applications, which are being considered under the Cambie Corridor Plan.

Coromandel Properties is the developer on the projects. The sites are a block east of Oakridge Centre.

Plans for the northeast corner at 325 to 343 West 41st Ave. feature 83 rental units, commercial retail

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Plans for the larger project on the northwest corner at 357 to 475 West 41st Ave. feature 344 rental units, commercial space at grade level, hotel use on levels two and three, a floor space ratio of 6.13, 372 underground parking spaces and 669 bicycle spaces.

The hotel portion would include 78 units

— 16 studios, 48-one bedrooms and 14 twobedrooms.

The application states: “Two floors above the retail are proposed for hotel use which could potentially be converted into rental housing and add to the rental supply of the city.”

The Cambie Corridor allows for commercial or retail uses at street level and residential that’s either 100 per cent secured market rental or a combi-

nation of social housing and strata, with a height up to 22 storeys.

“The inclusion of the hotel use was initiated by the applicant and will be evaluated by City staff. In general, the creation of hotel spaces is encouraged by the city’s Interim Hotel Development Policy as there is shortage of hotel spaces in the City. In this case, staff will evaluate it against other policy objectives set out under the Cambie Corridor Plan,”

Karen Hoese, assistant director of the rezoning centre told the Courier in an email.

Hoese said the application is in the early stages of the review process and that feedback from an Oct. 7 open house, input gathered during a Nov. 13 appearance before the city’s Urban Design Panel, as well as a detailed analysis by staff, will help determine the final staff recommendation.

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Last week, I attended the Vancouver Writers Fest evening featuring Malcolm Gladwell in conversation with Lisa Christiansen.

I have been a big fan of Gladwell’s writing ever since his book The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference was published in 2000.

Gladwell’s books are often about solving problems using “lateral thinking.” For those not familiar with the term, it is a more creative approach to finding solutions by viewing a problem in a new and unusual way that is not immediately obvious.

For example, if you’re not strong enough to remove a metal lid from a glass jar, pour hot water on it.

The term lateral thinking was invented in 1967 by Edward de Bono, an English physician, psychologist and author. I learned about him while living in England and have read many of his 57 books, which have greatly influenced my thinking.

One example was my 1971 university thesis that proposed the creation of affordable housing by eliminating the cost of land.

How? By building temporary housing on vacant lots using factory-built modular structures that could be relocated to other vacant sites.

While this idea has recently gained currency, lateral thinking could help us solve other housing affordability challenges facing Vancouver.

Today, there is considerable discussion on building more affordable housing. But why not also explore how to make better use of the housing we already have?

There are thousands of government subsidized family-sized homes in Vancouver. Over the years, families have moved out and others have moved in. But in some instances, residents remain even though their families have grown up and left.

The result is a single person living in a large unit.

These residents are reluctant to leave, especially when there are no smaller apartments available in the complex.

In 2012, the British government tried to solve a similar problem by imposing a “bedroom tax.”

By most accounts, it didn’t work.

Some preferred solutions could be to offer residents a rent supplement to leave or obligate them to share their home with another single person until smaller homes become available.

This would free up a limited amount of subsidized family housing. However, there are other ways to make more efficient use of existing housing.

Recently, the Vancouver and B.C. governments attempted to free up rental units through their so-called empty homes and speculation and vacancy taxes. Many have rightly questioned how much affordable rental housing has been created.

They have also questioned the fairness of taxing homes that are not empty — just occupied less than six months a year.

Meanwhile, it is estimated there could be up to 800,000 empty bedrooms across Metro Vancouver.

While I most certainly am not going to suggest governments now tax these empty bedrooms, they could assist

non-profit organizations and private companies trying to match those seeking affordable housing with those who have empty bedrooms or vacant basement suites.

Last week, I received an email from someone in Salt Lake City, Utah working on a start-up that would match homeowners with empty bedrooms and renters seeking rental housing. He saw that I had been promoting this concept for years and wondered why it hadn’t taken off.

I referred him to Nesterly. io — a new Boston start-up that appears to be successfully helping seniors with extra accommodation to connect with younger people seeking housing and willing to help out around the house.

I also told him about Empty Nests, a new Vancouver-based social enterprise initiative.

It, too, is designing a secure and trustworthy computer-based program to connect households with spare rooms and millennials needing affordable housing and able to help with chores.

I also told him about HomeSharers, a 1980s program initiated by former Vancouver alderwoman Marguerite Ford that successfully matched seniors with seniors until its CMHC funding dried up, and Hollyburn Family Services’ ongoing efforts to create a seniors’ home sharing registry on the North Shore.

When he asked me why such a worthwhile concept has not taken off, I told him to think about how long it took before they started to put wheels on luggage.

Now I am wondering how Gladwell might respond. @michaelgeller

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I always read your articles with interest. Here I would like to address poor use of English (which I believe should not be justified just because many speak, or write, that way). You started your article with: “Wendy John always has a lot to say.

Which, as a reporter, is refreshing...”

With these words you implied that Wendy John was a reporter, which she was not.

And the editor did not pick that up (him/ herself used to such language?)

People often learn how to use the language from newspapers.

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Music ensemble gives voice to victims of sexual abuse

‘My goal is for each concert to have something meaningful to say about the experience of survivorhood’ Jessica Kerr

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A new musical ensemble hopes to entertain audiences while changing how society views victims of sexual violence.

“My goal is for each concert to have something meaningful to say about the experience of survivorhood, or to communicate a message that matters,” says Katelin Coleman, founder of Artemis Musicians’ Society. “It doesn’t always have to be serious. I also think that just being on stage and out as who we are, that’s already quite a powerful message in and of itself.

Survivors do normal stuff.

Survivors ride bikes, watch television and go to parties. They do normal shit.

They’re normal people.”

The group is named after Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi, an Italian Baroque painter who was widely respected and sought-after in the 1600s.

She was raped by another painter when she was 12 — he was charged and convicted after she testified against him in court — and much of her work depicted strong and suffering women from myths and the Bible.

“The subject of sexual violence is also visible — often in a coded way, of course — in much of her art, so she was making art through the lens of survivorhood many centuries before such a perspective would be considered allowable,” Coleman says.

The 29-year-old professional bassoonist put a call out on Facebook in January to form an ensemble comprised and run by musicians who have been the victim of sexual abuse or assault.

The post got well over 100 likes and comments,

Coleman says, and she received about 30 messages from musicians from around the world who had also been sexually assaulted or abused at some point in their lives.

“I found it touching how many people wanted to share something about what had happened [to them],” she told the Courier.

“The responses that I got in writing were often quite cathartic and quite emotional and [brought] them some relief to see this happening.”

Coleman eventually connected with two local musicians — oboist Morgan Zentner and violinist Joanna Lee — along with writer/ poet Julie Barrera, to form Artemis, which combines contemporary and historical classical music with spoken word poetry.

Coleman says the ensemble’s upcoming Oct. 15 performance, “On Loneliness,” explores the survivors’ journey from loneliness and isolation to togetherness and the power of community.

It’s a journey Coleman knows well.

Survivor’s story

Coleman was sexually abused by a relative from a young age. She says she doesn’t remember exactly when it started, but her earliest clear memories of it are from around age five. It was always disguised as play.

“I remember growing up as a kid and just feeling like I could never belong, somehow, for that reason,” she says. “No matter how well liked I was or how well I was doing or whatever, there was just this filth that would separate me from other people forever.”

She says she told her parents about the abuse

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when she was 10. It wasn’t happening anymore at that point and, Coleman says, her parents’ response was to tell her that she hadn’t done anything wrong but she probably shouldn’t tell anyone else about it. It was never talked about again.

“It was this thing that… made me less human than other people,” she says, adding that having a role model, who had gone through the same thing, might have helped.

“The abuse was bad, but it was more the feeling of not belonging in the world because of it that was painful.”

At the same time, Coleman, who grew up in Burnaby, developed a love of music and excelled at it.

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switched to bassoon at the urging of her band teacher.

“He talked up the bassoon like it was the coolest instrument,” she says.

After high school, she studied at McGill University where she completed a bachelor’s in bassoon performance and went to Europe, playing with several orchestras, including the Danish Radio National Symphony Orchestra, as well as the Odense Symphony Orchestra.

While working in Copenhagen, she says she was sexually assaulted by a fellow musician who started making unwanted advances about a month after she joined the orchestra.

Coleman says she immediately reported it to the orchestra, but nothing was done. When her contract expired at the end of 2015, she says, she was dropped

from the orchestra with no communication. No one told Coleman her contract wasn’t being renewed; she heard through friends that she had been replaced by a less experienced man.

Her residency permit was attached to her employment so she was forced to return to Vancouver.

“Losing that [life] under those circumstances and coming back here and not really have much musical work, was just very, very traumatic,” Coleman says.

She questioned whether she should give up music and find a new career path, but found herself unable to let it go.

Fighting back

Artemis Musician’s Society performed their first concert in May at Vancouver’s Sawdust Collector —

a weekly interdisciplinary performance series.

Their message was clear: “If this concert made you uncomfortable you should maybe think about your attitude because we’re here and we’re not going away and there’s nothing wrong with us,” Coleman says.

“Our primary goal is to fight back against the very real stigma — and resulting oppression — that surrounds survivors by wearing our survival publicly and with pride,” Coleman says. “Through positive representation, we believe we can both serve as role models for others still struggling in secrecy, and begin to shift the shame of sexual violence away from the survivor and onto the perpetrator.”

She has big ideas for the future of Artemis Musicians’ Society — she’d like to see the quartet take their act on the road, start an annual festival that attracts musicians from around the world, or establish an all-survivors orchestra.

In addition to helping others, Coleman says she has personally gained something from starting Artemis.

“I feel like a person whose contribution means [something] and I have a way to contribute to this artistic world that I care about that doesn’t feel like it’s going to sucker punch me. It doesn’t feel like it’s just an exploitative charade. It feels real. It feels authentic.” @JessicaEKerr Artemis Musicians’ Society performs Tuesday, Oct. 15 at Notional Space (1523 East Pender St.)

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B.C. Ferries has added more than 90 extra sailings to deal with the deluge of long weekend travellers. PHOTO ISTOCK

B.C. Ferries adds extra sailings this weekend Thanksgiving traditionally busiest time of year for walk-ons Elana Shepert

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B.C. Ferries will add 93 extra sailings for Thanksgiving long weekend on routes between Metro Vancouver, Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast.

The ferry operator notes that Thanksgiving long weekend is traditionally the busiest weekend of the year for walk-on traffic. As a result, some of the sailings may reach passenger capacity and some walk-on passengers may have to wait for the next sailing.

Between Thursday, Oct. 10 and Tuesday, Oct. 15, B.C. Ferries is adding: • 74 extra sailings on the Vancouver-Victoria route (Tsawwassen-Swartz Bay), the most popular route in the fleet, including: 6 a.m. departures from Swartz Bay and Tsawwassen on Oct. 11, 12, 14 and 15 • 13 extra sailings on the West Vancouver-Nanaimo route (Horseshoe Bay-Departure Bay) • six extra sailings on the

West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast route (Horseshoe Bay-Langdale) B.C. Ferries states that the most popular travel times are Thursday and Friday afternoons, as well as Saturday morning for traffic moving from the Tsawwassen and Horseshoe Bay terminals to Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast.

However, the most popular travel day will be Thanksgiving Monday, with traffic returning from the Departure Bay, Swartz Bay and Langdale terminals.

Vehicle passengers are advised to make a reservation in advance in order to ensure sailing of choice.

Customers with reservations should plan to arrive at the terminal 45 to 60 minutes before their scheduled departure. In addition, B.C. Ferries suggests arriving about 45 minutes prior to the scheduled sailing for walk-on passengers.

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Thanksgiving and the power of appreciation When is enough, enough?

balance with one negative.

I’ve asked couples and parents to come up with five positive comments for every criticism they express at home. They at first realize that it becomes such an effort to come up with so many positive comments that they hold their tongues with the negatives.

DAVIDICUS WONG davidicuswong.wordpress.com What’s your favourite holiday?

We don’t do this often enough.

If you ask kids this month, they are likely to answer, “Halloween!”

The human brain has a natural negativity bias. We notice more what is wrong than what is good.

Mine is Thanksgiving.

Like Christmas, it’s a time we can gather with our loved ones and express appreciation for one another. Unless you’re American — or a Canadian who celebrates Black Friday — Thanksgiving does not require a frenzy of shopping.

And if you’re lucky enough to celebrate with a big family feast, you’re not likely to gain as much weight or drink too much as with the traditions of Christmas.

Thanksgiving prompts us to collectively reflect on the good in our lives — the many important people and things we take for granted.

We are attuned to pick up on things that are out of place or we just don’t like — in our environment, in others and in our selves.

Noticing potential dangers or longing for things we lack had great survival value for our species, but can make us overly anxious when our lives are generally safe — and unsatisfied when we really have enough.

Our negativity bias is great for business.

Our negativity bias is great for business. What we have seems not enough. We crave for the new iPhone, new clothes and expensive rides.

Consumerism capitalizes on our dissatisfaction with what we have, and the commercial world convinces us that happiness is to be found in looking better and having more.

We can only be happy when we appreciate what we have today. Our negativity bias, when it highlights danger and challenge and ignores our personal resources, can

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But in modern neuroscience, we know that we can change the way we think. As Canadian neuropsychologist Donald Hebb said, “Neurons that fire together wire together.”

Once we start looking for more positives in others, the more we will see.

And when everyone in the family starts hearing more compliments than criticisms, their relationships will improve and the home can become a haven of positive affection. The gift of Thanksgiving is the power of appreciation. It’s an attitude and a perspective

that can foster personal happiness and improve our relationships. Appreciation — like love and forgiveness — is a twice-blessed gift. Expressing our appreciation for others makes us feel happier, and feeling appreciated makes others happier.

This year, I’m starting a new Thanksgiving tradition by sending a note to the people in my life whom I most appreciate — those who make a positive difference to me and others.

I invite you to embrace the healing attitude of gratitude and start your own tradition. The best place to start is at home, in your neighbourhood, at school and at work.

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South Granville Seniors Centre turns 40 Free anniversary event takes place Oct. 18 SANDRA THOMAS sthomas@vancourier.com The South Granville Seniors Centre is celebrating 40 years of assisting older adults with more than 40 programs that focus on wellness, socialization and education.

It was in 1979 when the centre opened and began offering healthy lunches three times a week, exercise programs, education classes, cultural programing, information and referral services.

The centre now runs an outreach program once a week that offers numerous social, educational and recreational activities for more than 80 Spanishspeaking seniors.

Located in the basement of Trinity Anglican Church on West 12th Avenue at Hemlock, the centre is considered a home-away-from-home

for many seniors in the neighbourhood, largely in part to the 120 permanent volunteers and 200 casual volunteers who spend approximately 8,000 hours a year to help run the programs and events.

The goal of the independent, non-profit, drop-in community centre is to improve the well being and quality of life for seniors — many who live on low incomes and are socially isolated — from the Fairview district, which includes the South Granville neighbourhood and several surrounding communities.

Serving more than 1,500 seniors, the centre has a reputation for being a welcoming, inclusive and vibrant space for seniors (55 and older) of all backgrounds. Centre

staff and volunteers also embrace multiculturalism and work to respond to the interests of its diverse membership.

To celebrate four decades of service, the South Granville Seniors Centre invites the public and community partners to its 40th anniversary open house, Friday, Oct. 18 from 1 to 3 p.m. Opening remarks will be given by independent federal candidate Jody Wilson-Raybould, city councillors Lisa Dominato and Jean Swanson, and others. The open house is free, open to the public and includes cake. Guests will also have an opportunity to take a tour of the centre and interact with program leaders.

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Vancouverites are invited to celebrate the history and future of Bloedel Conservatory Oct. 18 with live music and tropical cocktails. The plant and bird sanctuary, located in Queen Elizabeth Park atop Little Mountain, opened to the public Dec. 6, 1969 and soon became popular, with half a million people visiting in its first year. Constructed through a donation from Prentice Bloedel, the conservatory was dedicated

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The futuristic domed building now houses three simulated climates — tropical rain forest, subtropical forest and desert — for the more than 120 exotic birds and hundreds of species of plants.

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Climate action protesters promise more disruptions Ten people arrested Monday night after refusing to leave the Burrard Bridge John Kurucz

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Monday’s protest and closure of the Burrard Bridge won’t be the last, organizers say.

Between 100 and 200 people convened on the centre span of the bridge Monday morning amid signs that read, “Seas are rising, so are we,” and “Change or die.”

“In this great turning we shall learn to lead in love,” protesters sang.

The protest also included an impromptu game of road hockey, toddlers playing soccer and Indigenous groups singing and drumming.

The group behind the Oct. 7 protest, Extinction Rebellion, says it is rebelling against the Canadian government to force measurable action on climate change.

“Everyone here is terrified about their future,” said volunteer organizer Laura Fash. “The reason we’re causing disruption is because we’ve tried everything

else. We’ve tried campaigns, we’ve tried voting, we’ve tried leaflets and petitions and nothing has worked.

This is a crisis.”

Fash is a 25-year-old recent graduate from UBC, where she studied biology and philosophy. She’s unsure of where her career path will take her and attributes that uncertainty solely to climate change.

“This is a future of accelerating change that is nothing like the world my parents grew up in or institutions like UBC were built to prepare us for, so how do you begin to navigate that?

How do you plot a future where there is no path set?”

Fash asked.

She spoke to the Courier under a series of tarps, all of which required some form of plastic in the production chain. The vast majority of those on the bridge were wearing boots, windbreakers and water-repellent clothing that required oil or plastic products.

Fash was asked how she reconciles this.

The protest group Extinction Rebellion closed the Burrard Bridge for most of the day Oct. 7. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

“This speaks to the systemic nature of the problem,” she said. “The oil and gas industry that is such an enormous piece of this is in every single piece of our lives and that’s why it’s so hard for us to break away from this. It’s like having an addiction problem.”

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bridge sees 10,000 walking and cycling trips on a busy summer day.

Traffic on the nearby Granville Bridge seemed largely unaffected by Monday’s protest.

Ten people were eventually arrested around 10 p.m. and face charges for obstruction of justice after refusing to leave.

When asked what she’d say to annoyed commuters having to re-route around the bridge, Fash responded:

“We are really sorry to those people in Vancouver. We’re just like you. We are also being disrupted by this. We don’t want to be here in the freezing cold rain, but we have to be because this is a crisis.”

Fellow Extinction Rebellion organizer Dana James spoke to the crowd from a series of prepared notes on her cellphone. She’s pushing for the federal government to immediately create a citizens’ assembly for climate and ecological justice and to implement solutions. James suggests the federal government is willfully lying to Canadians about the extent of climate change.

She and Fash hint at the fact that Monday’s protest won’t be the group’s last.

It was organized by a core group of about 50 to 60 people over the summer months.

“Empirical evidence shows [protesting] is the most effective way to achieve the rapid political and economic change we

need,” James said.

Joanne Gary is a bit of an outlier in the group. Most protesters appeared to be in their 20s, 30s and 40s, while Gary is 70. Others in her age group were largely absent from Monday’s protest.

“They are clearly not thinking about it,” Gary said. “It’s not polite conversation yet. They’re not seeing beyond their own noses.”

Gary drove in from Richmond to attend the protest, largely because her dog was with her. Gary wrestled with that decision, but says driving made the most sense logistically.

Gary is asked how a protest in Vancouver can affect real change among the globe’s foremost polluters: countries such as the U.S., China and India.

“I want people to see that this protest is along a continuum. Governments will register this. This is a prod. This isn’t an ask,” Gary said. @johnkurucz

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Vixen by Strange Fellows Brewing Rob Mangelsdorf editor@thegrowler.ca

If you’re unfamiliar with Strange Fellows’ Fellowship program, you seriously need to change that. The East Van Belgian-influenced brewery has been putting out some of its best releases as part of this limited release beer club.

You get exclusive access to eight bottles of four limited release beers, free swag, tasting room discounts and, arguably the best part, free admission to exclusive Fellowship tasting events.

Plus you get a cool pin to let everyone know you’re better than them. I’ve been a member the past two years, and the latest release, Vixen, has convinced me to re-up for next year.

Here Strange Fellows has taken its award-winning Reynard oud bruin (basically a Belgian-style sour brown ale) and aged it in French oak with ripe cherries. The result is absolutely sublime and legitimately stacks up against the Belgian originals it is inspired by. The nose is tart and tannic with notes of cherry, molasses, vanilla and vinegar. The flavour is rich with complexity: there’s cherry, dark fruit, oak, red wine, tobacco, leather — all of it perfectly in balance, every facet of this beer complementing each other. Imagine eating

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Another rehearsal space bites the dust John Kurucz

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One of Vancouver’s oldest rehearsal spaces is no more.

Clark Drive Studios shut its doors Oct. 1 after 17 years in operation near the north end of Clark Drive.

The studio’s closure follows all the precursors that have killed numerous creative spaces in Vancouver: rents that rise beyond control, leases that don’t exceed two years and land owners happy to cash in on speculation galore.

Rick Welin took over the space in 2004, two years after the studio was established.

At the time, Welin charged bands $175 per month, and his monthly lease payments were about $1,700. The equivalent numbers 15 years later are no longer viable.

Welin’s lease expired Oct. 1, when the monthly rate was $3,500. The owners wanted to up that number to $5,000.

With a triple net lease — paying for property tax, the lease and maintenance — Welin would be shelling out around $6,000 per month.

“There’s been lots of crying,” Welin said. “This has screwed up 30 people’s lives. It’s gone from 30 people who had a nice, casual creative environment to ‘Holy f*** we’ve been f***ed by rampant greed.’”

Former Bif Naked guitarist Doug Fury moved into the facility, which includes two recording studios and four rehearsal rooms, shortly after Welin took over.

About 250 bands, mostly

Rick Welin and Doug Fury. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

from Vancouver, have recorded albums at the studio since its inception — Bif Naked, Econoline Crush, Los Furios, Pride Tiger and members of DOA. The rehearsal space has been home to about 100 bands over that time. One group has had the same room for 14 years, and the average stay was somewhere around six years.

“Anyone I’ve told that this room is closing can’t believe it’s coming to an end,” Fury said. “We’ve been the steady Eddie that’s been around for so long. We’ve always been rock solid.”

Welin said the land his studio sat on belongs to a family-run investment company. B.C. Assessment records show the property is part of a larger parcel all under single ownership spanning half a city block near Frances Street and Clark Drive. That land’s 2019 assessed value was just under $30 million.

Welin said each subsequent lease negotiation was done in two-year increments, with $500 increases each time. Those numbers were

still doable until this year’s negotiations fell through.

“We didn’t move in the past because it’s been at a reasonable price — but the building is condemnable,” Welin said. “They were giving us cheap rent because they knew the building was unfit for inhabitation. We were desperate enough to be in a building that was probably not safe.”

Both Welin and Fury say they’ve had few problems — one noise complaint in 15 years — with Vancouver police or the city in their time in the neighbourhood. In fact, the pair suggest the studio played a part in revitalizing the area, in that constant foot traffic and activity near the studio pushed any crime away.

The city passed three sprawling pieces of arts and culture legislation in early September. Among the key highlights was a push to preserve 800,000 square feet of “affordable, preserved, renewed, expanded, or new city-owned, non-profit and private space” over the next decade. The plans also call for no net loss of existing

spaces, along with more than $1 million for reconciliation and decolonization programs and other revenue streams for those who identify as marginalized or underrepresented in Vancouver’s arts scenes.

Studies that helped shape those policies found 16 studios housing about 300 artists either closed or faced closure in the last year. The cause?

“Dramatic property tax and rent increases, competition with higher-value land uses, and development pressure,” reads a city staff report.

Staff reviewed property taxes for 11 of the studio sites and found an average tax increase of more than 77 per cent over the past five years. One studio owner said those changes have resulted in a rent increase of more than $60,000 per year.

Welin said there’s little the city can do to help for-profit arts businesses, outside of tax breaks. Last year, his property taxes jumped from $8,500 to $13,500.

Welin and Fury will ultimately look for another space next year, but rehearsal rooms won’t be part of the new business model. They’ll still record bands, but their rehearsal room business will be replaced by those who work in animation or video.

“Going back home my family in Ontario is always in the back of my mind, but when things like this happen, you think maybe it’s time to speed up the process,” Fury said.

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Remembering the Muffs’ Kim Shattuck Grant Lawrence

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The international underground music community went into collective mourning last week when news emerged Oct. 2 of the death of L.A. rocker Kim Shattuck.

Shattuck had been the lead singer of the beloved band the Muffs for the past 29 years. She died at age 56 after a mostly secret twoyear battle with ALS. The Muffs last-ever performance of their long, international career was in Vancouver, playing with my band the Smugglers, at the Commodore Ballroom, May 13, 2017, just a few months before Shattuck’s diagnosis.

For her 35 years in rock ‘n’ roll, Shattuck personified cool. She was the complete package: an excellent singer, guitarist and songwriter who had an inherent knack for melody and hooks. Shattuck was also brazenly confident — a high energy, tall, beautiful and tough front person, usually clad in her signature “baby doll” dresses and thigh-high stockings.

Shattuck’s vocal screams were also legendary, introducing her guitar solos and punctuating choruses. And while almost every lead singer has made an attempt at a cool howl, Shattuck’s scream was no question among the best ever in rock ‘n’ roll.

I knew personally this musical force of nature for 30 years. I consider Shattuck a mentor, a hero and, most importantly, a friend.

In 1989, when I was still in high school, I snuck into the 86th Street Music Hall to see the Pandoras, a ’60s-style band that Shattuck had been the bassist in since 1985. I was also there to help budding music journalist and high school pal Nardwuar the Human

Kim Shattuck and her band the Muffs performed at the Commodore in 2017. It would be their final show. PHOTO PAUL CLARKE

Serviette film an interview.

Shattuck proceeded to give a hilariously profane and sexually charged interview during which she flagrantly hit on Nardwuar to the point of propositioning him, to his obvious physical discomfort.

After the Pandoras took a horrible turn to glam metal, Shattuck quit to form the Muffs. She wrote to Nardwuar about the new band, which would specialize in major chords and high-energy pop punk — music that swam against the prevailing currents of the emerging grunge era.

She sent us a six-song demo cassette, and we flipped out over what we heard.

At the time, Nardwuar and I were working on releasing a Canada versus U.S. compilation LP entitled Clam Chowder and Ice versus Big Macs and Bombers. We asked Kim for a Muffs’ track, and to our extreme delight she said yes.

“Get Me Out Of Here” became the first Muffs’ song to be released to the world, on Nardwuar Records in 1991.

The Muffs toured up the West Coast for the first time.

In what appears to be a group effort, we booked them a gig at the Cruel Elephant on Granville Street, where they performed alongside Young Youth, a one-off all-star band of Vancouver punks that included bassist Stephen Hamm of Slow, Tankhog and the Evaporators.

The Muffs were a blur of explosive energy that night, blowing everyone in the small crowd away. They were also a hell of a lot of fun to hang out and party with after the show.

In the short time that followed, the Muffs gained rapid momentum. They released their self-tilted first album in 1993 on Warner Brothers Records, a rare major label debut. And while it failed to yield any big breakthrough singles, many critics and underground music fans including myself consider it a landmark pop-punk record that has stood the test of time.

The Vancouver connection would pop up a couple years later, again thanks in part to Nardwuar. During a CiTR Radio interview with the Muffs in 1994, after chatting about various bands, affable bassist Ronnie Barnett asked Nardwuar, “What about cub?”

That led to a wild North American tour with the Muffs and cub, Vancouver’s all female “cuddlecore” sensations.

The tour was so successful it concluded with Barnett and cub lead singer Lisa Marr eloping in Las Vegas.

When the Smugglers decided to reunite in 2017, we were delighted when the Muffs agreed to play with us at the Commodore.

The Muffs delivered in a major way that night,

playing fan favourites from their entire catalogue to an adoring, sold out audience, many of whom had flown in for the show from as far away as England, Japan and across North America.

No one could have guessed then that it would be the Muffs’ final performance.

In October 2017, Shattuck noticed she was losing her grip in her left hand. After doctors blamed it on everything from carpal tunnel syndrome to a pinched nerve in her neck, she eventually received the devastating diagnosis of ALS. Both her father and aunt had died from the same disease.

And even though the physical toll happened rapidly, Shattuck and her Muffs bandmates — Barnett on bass and Roy McDonald on drums — managed to create a final album, the band’s seventh. Shattuck was still able to oversee all production and design, and once again wrote all of the songs. No Holiday will be released Oct. 18.

Few knew Shattuck was sick outside of her closest circle of band mates, family and friends, and that’s the way she wanted it. I was shocked to learn after her death she couldn’t move or talk for the last year and a half, because we commonly got in touch online. Despite not being able to type or speak, Shattuck was able to communicate using an incredible device called a Tobii Eye Tracker.

According to Barnett, Shattuck handled her fatal diagnosis with grace and humour. And she could still smile right up until the end. She leaves behind her husband of 16 years, a legacy of undeniably great rock ‘n’ roll and a legion of fans from around the world who will never forget the impact of Kim Shattuck.

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

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When: Oct. 11, noon to 7 p.m.

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will make a Vancouver stop this week to play all of the Ruby Vroom album live.

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Matty Matheson: Happy Vulnerable Tasty Sadness Happy Tour

Munchies star and celebrated renegade Canadian chef Matty Matheson is in town with his Happy Vulnerable Tasty Sadness Happy Tour. The 19+ live appearance matinee show at the Commodore Ballroom will be much of what you love about Matty and his passion for food on TV, in person.

When: Oct. 12, 2 p.m.

Where: Commodore Ballroom, 868 Granville St. commodoreballroom.com

HauntedTrolleyTour Chilly nights, early sunsets and Halloween on the horizon means it’s time to get spooky. See which Vancouver haunts are actually haunted on this

ghostly trek through the city and its stories. Go bump in the night as your trolley trundles through Stanley Park, Gastown, Shaughnessy and more. You will drive by eerie locations and hear gruesome stories about Seaforth Armory, Sylvia Hotel and Leg in Boot Square, plus pause at Mountain View Cemetery.

When: Oct. 11 to 31 Where: Tour departs from 999 Canada Place Way westcoastsightseeing.com

Seasons in the Park 30th Anniversary Menu

Longstanding Vancouver dining destination Seasons in the Park will mark its 30th anniversary this fall with a special limited-edition menu. The prix-fixe menu will honour the milestone by bringing back fan favourites and classic dishes from the restaurant’s launch.

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Canucks defenceman Troy Stecher is starting from the bottom again

Steady blueliner getting minimal minutes to start the season

Backhand Sauce Daniel Wagner

Every season, it seems Troy Stecher needs to prove himself again as an NHL defenceman.

It started in his rookie year, when he was a standout in the 2016 preseason, clearly demonstrating he belonged in the NHL, but still got cut and sent to the Utica Comets in the AHL. He didn’t stay long: Stecher played four games with the Comets before a Chris Tanev injury necessitated a call-up.

Once back in the Canucks’ lineup, Stecher quickly proved he belonged there.

More than that, Stecher was named the team’s best defenceman at the end of his rookie season after leading all Canucks defencemen in scoring and providing reliable defence in his own zone. In a dreadful season — the Canucks set a new franchise low in goal scoring — Stecher provided one of the few positive signs for the future.

In his second season, however, Stecher had to prove himself all over again to a new head coach: Travis Green. To start the 2017-18 season, Stecher was back on the third pairing, averaging around 16 minutes in ice time per game over his first 20 games.

As the season progressed, Stecher earned his way up the lineup, finishing the season back on the top pairing with Alex Edler.

This was partly because of injuries — Tanev was once again out of the lineup — but also because Stecher proved himself as a legitimate top-four defenceman. Over the final 10 games of the season, Stecher averaged over 22 minutes per game, including a high of 27 minutes in a late-season game against the Edmonton Oilers.

That’s why it was surprising to see him start the 2018-19 season back on the third pairing, averaging the lowest ice time among Canucks’ defencemen over the first half of the season, with limited time on special teams. Stecher was even a healthy scratch for a game in November, which didn’t sit well with the pride of Richmond, B.C. “You’re never happy when you come out of the lineup, you’re pretty pissed off, doesn’t matter who you are,” said Stecher at the time. “You come back in, you definitely

Stick-taps & Glove-drops • I am dropping the gloves with too many men. The Canucks had just three too many men penalties in the 2018-19 season as a whole; they’ve matched that in just their first two games, an example of their sloppy start to the season.

• A tap of the stick to Alex Biega, who was traded to the Detroit Red Wings this week. Biega was well-loved in the Canucks locker room and deserves NHL ice time that he just wasn’t going to get in Vancouver. All the best to the Bulldog as he continues his career in the Red Wings organization.

Once again, Troy Stecher is forced to scrap it out for a more prominent role on the Canucks blue line.

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want to make a statement that you belong in the lineup.”

He certainly did make a statement: over the back half of the season, Stecher led the Canucks in ice time and was trusted as one of the team’s top penalty killers. While injuries gave Stecher the opportunity to play more minutes, his play on the ice showed that he deserved those minutes.

It certainly looks like a pattern: Stecher starts each season in a depth role and finishes each season on the top pairing. Then, at the start of the following season, Stecher finds himself back at square one.

The pattern is repeating itself this season.

In each of the Canucks’ first two games of the 2019-20 season, Stecher played less than 11 minutes for the first time in his career, except two games where he was injured early on and missed the rest of the game. Stecher is yet again on the third pairing to start a season and playing less than ever.

He’s a victim of circumstance: the newlysigned Tyler Myers is on the top pairing with Alex Edler, while the steady Tanev has been matched with rookie Quinn Hughes,

who has played big minutes early on. That leaves Stecher with Jordie Benn.

Stecher could make up for those minutes on special teams, but the Canucks are using Myers over Stecher on the penalty kill. Over the last three seasons, Stecher has been on the ice for the lowest rate of goals against on the penalty kill among Canucks’ defencemen, but it seems he’ll need to earn his spot on special teams all over again.

Even if Stecher is on the third pairing, it seems like the Canucks could spread the minutes around more evenly than they have so far. The Canucks are loath to use forwards on both the power play and penalty kill; perhaps they should do the same with Myers, who has historically not been good shorthanded. That way, Stecher could play a larger role before he (seemingly inevitably) gets promoted to the top pairing by the end of the season.

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

Big Numbers • 5.03 Over the past three seasons, Troy Stecher has been on the ice for 5.03 goals against per hour while on the penalty kill. Among NHL defencemen with at least 200 shorthanded minutes in that time, only 10 other defencemen have been on the ice for a lower rate of goals against.

• .933 Canucks prospect goaltender Arturs Silovs is off to a strong start in the OHL this season. The 2019 sixthround pick has a .933 save percentage in his first three games with two wins and his only loss coming in the shootout.

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ROHLOFF, Peter Friedrich September 23, 1941 − September 18, 2019 It is with deep sorrow that we announce the passing of Peter after a two−year battle with pancreatic cancer. He was a loving husband to his wife of 54 years, Elfriede, and caring father of his two children − daughter, Susannah (Jason Moore), and son, Daniel (Allison Mounsey). He leaves his adored grandchildren, Max and Mia Moore, and Elliott, Tessa, and Megan Rohloff.

Peter was born in Greifswald, Germany, but the family was relocated to Lübeck at the end of the war. While studying English and Geography at the University of Hamburg, a student from Vancouver convinced Peter to apply for a scholarship to UBC, where he met Elfriede Richter. They returned to Germany to complete their studies and were married in 1965. They then moved back to Vancouver, where Peter finished his PDP at SFU. In January of 1971, Peter started his 30−year career as a teacher at Sir Winston Churchill Secondary. He soon started an after−school string group, developed a full orchestra curriculum, and, eventually, conducted the school choirs.

He pioneered the VSB Strings program, preparing elementary school kids for high school orchestra.

With a newborn daughter, the family moved to Burnaby in 1973. In 1975, his son arrived. Over the next decade, Peter took courses to further his music education, showed astonishing carpentry skills in renovating his house, took his family on cross−country camping journeys, trips to visit family in Germany, and skiing or sailing adventures. On a years’ leave in 1998, he and Elfriede went on a 7−month journey around the world by sea and by train. After retirement, they travelled extensively, most notably through the Northwest Passage to Greenland and Antarctica via the Falkland Islands.

Peter was always involved in music. He organized and played in various quartets and ensembles. He conducted church, community, and club choirs, led the Intermediate VYSO, and started the Johann Strauss Ensemble. Peter was especially passionate about a series of Baroque music concerts that he organized for seven seasons at Redeemer Lutheran Church. He sang with Chor Leoni, played in the West Coast Symphony, and started a music publishing company to promote local composers, as well as music that his grandfather and great uncles composed.

We are very thankful for the excellent care that Peter received at Burnaby Hospital and St. Michael’s Hospice. In lieu of flowers, Peter would want you to support the local classical music scene. A celebration of life will be held on October 26, at 10 am at First Lutheran Church, 5745 Wales Street, Vancouver, with a reception to follow.

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Pursuant to Rule 1-004(J) and (K) NMRA and by Order of the Court, the above-named Defendants are hereby notified that Passaic River Capital, LLC, Plaintiff in this matter, has filed a civil action against you in the above-entitled Court and cause, the general object thereof being to foreclose liens on assets owned by Enerpulse Technologies, Inc. and Enerpulse, Inc. Unless you serve a pleading or motion in response to the complaint in said cause on or before 30 days after the last publication date of this notice, judgment by default will be entered against you.

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