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Election 2019

Here’s who’s running in the federal election Liberal (incumbent)

Hedy Fry is the longest serving female MP in Canadian history, having won eight consecutive mandates dating back to 1993.

Originally from the Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago, Fry became a family physician who worked at St. Paul’s Hospital for 20 years after immigrating to Canada.

Fry’s past posts in the healthcare field include president of the Vancouver Medical Association, B.C. Medical Association and the Federation of Medical Women.

The lone rookie MP to have defeated a sitting prime minister, Fry has passed her flare for politics onto her son Pete, who was elected to Vancouver council as a Green Party member, in 2018.

Vancouver Centre

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Ever since Hedy Fry snagged the riding from then-Prime Minister Kim Campbell in 1993, Vancouver-Centre has been a Liberal stronghold. The riding stretches from Stanley Park in the northwest of the city down

NDP

If nothing else, you’ve got to credit Breen Oulette for the depth of his platform. In a field full of mostly vague ideas and incomplete platforms, the 42-year-old Metis lawyer has a litany of campaign pledges that practically flow off the page: end homeless-

Conservative

David Cavey is a lifelong Vancouverite who works in financial planning with TD Canada Trust. Cavey made headlines in the summer over his refusal to march in the Pride Parade, a stance he took to protest the Pride Society banning UBC and the Vancouver Public Library.

Cavey graduated from McGill University with a bachelor of commerce in international management. His website is short on platform specifics, other than to denounce the Liberal track record on taxes and the economy.

Green Party

Jesse Brown has lived in Vancouver for 10 years after growing up in Ladner. He holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from UBC and currently works as executive director of the Vancouver Friends for Life

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With the 2019 federal election in its final stretch, here’s a run down of Vancouver’s six ridings and the candidates vying for your vote on Oct. 21.

to False Creek, includes the downtown core and Coal Harbour, as well as parts of Kitsilano and Mount Pleasant. The riding is bound to the west by Arbutus Street and Fourth Avenue and to the east

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Society. Brown served as the executive director of YouthCO from 2011 to 2016. His platform includes tackling housing affordability and working towards an environmentally sustainable economy. Brown lives in the West End with partner Aaron and two step-daughters.

People’s Party

Louise Kierans is a native of Montreal who moved to the riding in 2016. She holds a degree in economics and industrial relations from McGill University. Kierans has worked in the small business sector for 20 years and in the non-profit sector for more than three decades, managing her father’s law firm and funding and building small businesses.

Libertarian

John Clarke ran as the party’s candidate in the 2015 federal election, the 2013 provincial election and in the 2006 federal election for Vancouver-Centre. He’s one of only two Libertarian candidates running in Vancouver.

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Election 2019 Independent

Independent candidates Lily Bowman and Imtiaz Popat are also running in Vancouver Centre.

Vancouver East

The riding, which includes the Downtown Eastside, Chinatown, Strathcona and Grandview-Woodland neighbourhoods, is known for its working class roots.

Voters have, apart from two brief flirtations with the Liberal party, elected NDP candidates every election since the party was founded back in 1961.

Deputy NDP leader Libby Davies, who held the seat from 1997 to 2015, chose to retire prior to the last election cycle, passing the torch to former NDP MLA Jenny Kwan who won handily. The riding is bound to the west by Main Street, Boundary Road to the east, 16th Avenue to south and the ocean to the north.

NDP (incumbent)

Jenny Kwan is a career politician. She moved to Canada from Hong Kong as a child and, at age 26, became the youngest person

in Vancouver history to be elected to city council. In 1996, she became one of the first Chinese-Canadians to sit in the provincial legislature. After nearly 20 years as the NDP MLA for Vancouver-Mount Pleasant, Kwan easily won the Vancouver East seat in 2015 by more than 8,600 votes. Kwan has also drawn controversy for playing a key role in the ousting of Carole James as provincial NDP party leader in 2010 and for an expense scandal in 2014 over her ex-husband Dan Small having billed the non-profit Portland Hotel Society for a family trip to Disneyland.

Liberal

Rookie candidate Kyle Demes has built a lengthy career in research and research administration, specifically in the areas of ecology and marine biology. Demes holds a PhD in zoology from UBC, where he previously worked as a teaching assistant and research adviser.

Demes is now a director at SFU, where he leads a team in the development of largescale research initiatives. His campaign promises include extending the Broadway subway to UBC, creating

a national speculation and vacancy tax for non-resident, non-Canadians and expanding the First-Time Home Buyer Incentive. Along with his partner Aaron, Demes lives in East Vancouver.

Conservative

Chris Corsetti’s career arc has seen the lifelong Vancouverite work across the legal, financial and securities sectors. He holds a bachelor of arts degree from Simon Fraser University along with a Juris Doctor degree from Bond University in Australia. A father of two, Corsetti has been a member of the Law Society of British Columbia since 2012. His website contains no specifics around his platform other than to “advocate for putting issues that affect families first.”

Green Party

Bridget Burns was born and raised in East Vancouver, where she’s a business owner, server and bartender. Her charitable and volunteer work includes stints with a Downtown Eastside women’s shelter, the Union Gospel Mission, Boys and Girls Club and WISH Drop-in Centre So-

ciety. On the housing front, Burns pledges working towards 25,000 new builds, 15,000 rehabilitated homes every year, co-op housing and rental assistance and tax incentives for purposebuilt rental housing. Burns also stands for decriminalizing drug possession in small amounts as well as a government-funded safe drug supply.

Communist Party

Peter Marcus has never met a ballot he didn’t like.

A retired health care worker and poet, Marcus has run several times for virtually every level of political office.

He centres his campaign around income disparity in the Downtown Eastside, which he refers to as a byproduct of “the capitalist economic crisis.” His platform calls for improvements to social and health services, better transit and instituting living wage union jobs.

Marcus’s platform is not costed, nor does he say how he would implement those changes or improvements.

Marxist-Leninist

Anne Jamieson, a retired nurse with a PhD in sociology, has been with the

party since its inception in 1971. She earned 190 votes in the 2015 election and 318 votes in 2011.

People’s Party

The tenets at the top of Karin Litzcke’s website include: individual freedom, personal responsibility, fairness and respect. It continues on to state that “Canadian culture is worth defending” and that the People’s Party has no place for pandering or political correctness. As for her platform locally, Litzcke believes citizens should be able to sue local and provincial governments for not living up to housing promises. She also believes in decreasing immigration to reduce housing demand.

Litzcke’s professional background includes stints as a writer and a dietician and she holds a bachelor of home economics degree from UBC along with an MBA from the Ivey Business School at the University of Western Ontario.

Libertarian

Gölök Buday’s quest for public office is now well into its second decade. His last foray into the political

sphere came in October 2018, when he finished 20th out of 21 mayoral candidates. Buday’s Linkedin profile suggests he’s a game developer, comedian, illustrator, graphic artist, director and writer.

Buday’s platform includes the following: taking down the central banking system, zero taxes on working people, disbanding CSIS, the CBC and the CRTC, and repealing local rapid transit funding.

Vancouver Granville

The city’s newest riding was created by taking chunks of Vancouver-Centre (38 per cent), Vancouver-Quadra (18 per cent), Vancouver-South (26 per cent) and Vancouver-Kingsway (19 per cent); ridings that, respectively, voted in two Liberals, one Conservative and one NDPer in 2011. The district includes all or major portions of the Marpole, Oakridge, Shaughnessy, South Cambie, Fairview and Riley Park-Little Mountain neighbourhoods. Jody Wilson-Raybould became the first MP for the riding in 2015 as a Liberal.

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Independent (incumbent) Where to begin with Jody Wilson-Raybould? She began her legal career as a crown prosecutor in Vancouver and later served as an adviser at the B.C. Treaty Commission. She’s Canada’s former justice minister and attorney general, and was elected regional chief of the B.C. Assembly of First Nations in 2009. She alleged undue pressure from senior Liberals over the SNC-Lavalin scandal, and resigned from Cabinet in February. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau booted her from the Liberal Party in April.

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Taleeb Noormohamed is hoping his third time’s the charm. The 42-year-old ran unsuccessfully in the 2011 federal election with the Liberals as the party’s candidate on the North Shore. Noormohamed was vying to be Vision Vancouver’s mayoral candidate in the 2018 election but withdrew his candidacy due to health concerns. Prior to getting involved in politics and business, Noormohamed worked for the Privy Council in Ottawa. In 2005, he was director of the Air India Review Secretariat and senior adviser to Bob Rae. He’s served on numerous boards, including Lions Gate Hospital and Covenant House Vancouver. Noormohamed studied international relations at Princeton University and geography at Oxford University. His campaign talking points are centred on housing, transit and climate change.

NDP

Yvonne Hanson’s campaign talking points include climate change, income dis-

parity and affordable housing. At just 24, she’s among the youngest of the dozens of candidates running across Vancouver’s six ridings. Born in Vancouver and raised in Squamish, Hanson moved back to Vancouver after high school to attend post-secondary and earn a degree in political science from Simon Fraser University.

Conservative

Zach Segal is a fourthgeneration Vancouverite whose family has lived in the city for more than 100 years. Segal holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from UBC and a master’s of arts in international relations from the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies. He worked extensively for the federal Conservatives when the party was in power, in the ministries of defence and transportation. Segal is employed by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

Green Party

Louise Boutin works as a realtor on Vancouver’s West Side and comes from a 20-year background in computer sciences. She ran as a Green candidate in the 2011 federal election in Vancouver-Kingsway, along with a run for school board trustee in the 2011 municipal election. Most recently, Boutin was the Green candidate for Vancouver-Fairview in the 2017 provincial election. Boutin’s volunteer work goes back decades, and she’s aligned those efforts with the Kensington Community Centre Association, Big Sisters and the Alzheimer Society of B.C. Boutin’s platform focuses on environmental stewardship, renewable energy and green technology.

People’s Party

Naomi Chocyk previously worked as a constituency

staffer for Wilson-Raybould L and is now running against her. Chocyk doesn’t maintainf a website listing her backa ground or education. Her i Facebook page emphasizes m all of the PPC’s main talking B points: lower immigration, H reduce government spending f and lower taxes.

F J Vancouver Kingsway c Vancouver-Kingsway, a much like the provincial rid- i ing of Vancouver-Kingsway,c has a long history of electing a NDP candidates. The NDP t has won 12 of the 18 elec- T tions held since the riding g was formed in 1953, alt though voters once re-elected a Liberal, David Emer- C son, who promptly crossed the floor to become a Tory t m cabinet minister. More than half the population of a the riding are immigrants, fl and Vancouver-Kingsway o has the distinction of being fi s home to the most Budt dhists per capita of any w riding in Canada. The riding has been represented m by the NDP’s Don Davies n since 2008 and includes the Renfrew Heights and i c Collingwood neighbouri hoods, along with major north-south arterials such as n Victoria, Knight, Fraser and i Main streets.

NDP (incumbent)

What Fry is to Vancouver Centre, Don Davies is to Vancouver Kingsway. He’s been the riding’s MP since 2008 and comfortably won the 2015 race by 8,000 votes. Davies’ most recent post was as the NDP’s health critic. Prior to that he served as Official Opposition Critic for International Trade, Citizenship and Immigration and Multiculturalism, and Public Safety and National Security.

Davies worked as a lawyer, labour representative and policy adviser prior to his entry in public life. He holds a bachelor of arts degree in political science and a degree in law.

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Helen Quan immigrated to Canada from Taiwan more than 40 years ago and speaks three languages fluently. A single mother of two, Quan started her first business in 1983 while studying at McGill University. From 1983 to 1993, she was the owner and general manager of Le Wok International Restaurant Group.

Quan moved to Vancouver in 1993 and now runs a consultancy that helps new immigrants establish businesses. Her charitable efforts include stints with St. John’s

Lawrence Taylor is a cross country skiing official, works in health science regulation and is a caretaker for a peer-led meditation group in East Vancouver. He also shares a name with one the greatest linebackers in NFL history. Climate change is the big talking point in Taylor’s platform, along with changing the tone of political discourse. Taylor holds degrees from both Simon Fraser University and Western University and focuses his fiscal policies around working towards a post-carbon, postresource extraction economy.

Communist Party

Kimball Cariou has run provincially and federally since the 1990s, though he’s never received even one per cent of the vote in any election. He garnered 445 votes in the 2015 federal race, the second-lowest total

Marxist-Leninist

Donna Petersen has run either provincially or federally since the early 2000s but has failed to garner even one per cent of the vote in each attempt. Petersen was born in Vancouver and is an education worker and activist. Petersen made headlines in 2005 during the teachers’ strike after preventing buses from leaving the Burnaby Transit Centre while she picketed.

People’s Party

Ian Torn is an Alberta transplant who moved to B.C. in 2006. He’s a graduate of the Art Institute of Vancouver and works in the gaming industry. He cites the following as pillars of his campaign: a stable democracy, a safe and secure nation, freedom of speech and freedom of religion, community, and a better quality of life.

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Vancouver City Council will hold a Public Hearing to consider zoning for these locations: 1. Amendments to Repair and Clarify Basement and Cellar Regulations for New Houses in RS Zones To amend the Zoning and Development Bylaw, including some RS (One-Family Dwelling) District Schedules, to repair and clarify the regulations for the construction of basements and cellars in new houses. The proposed changes will strengthen the regulations and better align them with the objectives intended when zoning changes were made in 2009 to permit the construction of full basements and cellars and improve the livability of basements and secondary suites. These changes are a part of a wider review of current regulations for houses and secondary suites as a part of implementing the Housing Vancouver Strategy and Three-Year Action Plan.

2. Cambie Townhouse Rezonings (Items a to e) To rezone the following sites from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) and RT-1 (Two-Family Dwelling) Districts (as indicated) to RM8A (Multiple Dwelling) District to permit townhouse development with a floor space ratio (FSR) up to 1.2. If rezoning is approved, a subsequent development permit process would be undertaken individually for each site and entail review of a proposed form of development. a) 6288-6290 Ash Street (RT-1 to RM-8A) b) 376-392 West 45th Avenue (RS-1 to RM-8A) c) 615-623 West 31st Avenue (RS-1 to RM-8A) d) 643-683 West 31st Avenue (RS-1 to RM-8A)

4. 582-588 West King Edward Avenue To rezone 582-588 West King Edward Avenue from RS-1 (OneFamily Dwelling) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District, to permit the development of a four-and-a-half-storey residential building with 36 strata-titled units, including townhouses at the lane. A height of 18.6 metres (61 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 1.96 are proposed.

5. 835-837 East Hastings Street To rezone 835-837 East Hastings Street from M-1 (Industrial) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District, to permit the development of a six-storey, mixeduse building with 39 seniors social housing units and commercial uses on the ground floor. A height of 22.4 metres (73.6 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 4.33 are proposed.

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Vancouver Quadra

The Vancouver Quadra riding is home to UBC and some of Vancouver’s most affluent residents. Since electing Prime Minister John Turner in 1984, the riding has consistently sent a Liberal MP to Ottawa. Its borders encompass the university endowment lands, Dunbar, Southlands, most of Kitsilano and parts of Kerrisdale.

Liberal (incumbent)

Incumbent Joyce Murray is a former provincial environment and government services minister and was elected as an MP in 2008 after first running two years earlier.

Murray came in second place behind Justin Trudeau to be the new party leader in 2013 and was appointed president of the Treasury Board and Minister of Digital Government in early 2019. Before entering politics, she worked with an international reforestation company that Murray says has planted roughly 1.5 billion trees.

Conservative

Kathleen Dixon’s CV is all over the place — “business executive, professional geologist, entrepreneur, a classically trained singer, athlete and outdoor enthusiast,” it reads.

Dixon holds a bachelor of science degree from UBC and MBA from the University of Durham, England. She’s been a professional geologist since 1996 and is vice president of investment banking with A&D Advisory Group, where she works in mergers and acquisitions. If elected, Dixon says she’ll work towards balanced budgets, strengthening interprovincial trade and lowering personal taxes.

NDP

Leigh Kenny is a veteran and mother of three. Her platform speaks to healthy, green communities, bolstering housing affordability and building more affordable housing.

Green Party

Geoff Wright has spent a lot of time in school. He holds a PhD in ergonomics, a master’s degree in human factors engineering and a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering. The Dunbar resident is a registered professional engineer and he’s taught at both UBC and the University of Toronto. He’s worked in research with the Department of National Defence and in the field of health safety with the City of Vancouver and with Ontario’s Ministry of Labour. Environmental sustainability and stewardship are Wright’s main talking points. He has five kids.

People’s Party

Sandra Filosof-Schipper grew up in Oakridge after her family immigrated to Canada from Turkey when she was a child.

Filosof-Schipper is listed as a member of the executive council of the Libertarian Party of B.C. and she believes in small government and the establishment of two tax streams: 15 per cent for those who make under $100,000 and 25 per cent for those over that income threshold. She pledges to defund the CBC and believes in selective immigration policies — giving priority to persecuted minorities such as Yazidi Christians and LGBTQ people from the Middle East and Uyghur Muslims in Asia.

Independent

Austen Erhardt is running as an independent candidate.

Vancouver South

Vancouver South is a centre for Vancouver’s Asian community and houses the city’s Punjabi market. The riding is also a battleground for the Liberals and Conservatives, having elected Liberal incumbent Ujjal Dosanjh by a margin of only 20 votes in 2008. Since then its representation has alternated between the Liberals and the Tories, and has been represented by Liberal MP Harjit Sajjan since 2015. The riding includes the neighbourhoods of Fraserview, Champlain Heights, Killarney and South Vancouver.

Liberal (incumbent)

Harjit Sajjan is a former Vancouver police officer and decorated combat veteran.

Sajjan served as Minister of Defence in the Trudeau government and moved from India to Canada with his family at the age of five. Sajjan was a VPD member for 11 years, based primarily in his home riding, and finished his policing career as a detective with the gang crime unit. Sajjan is also the first Sikh to command a Canadian army regiment — a reserve regiment known as the Duke of Connaught’s Own. As a member of the regiment, Sajjan participated in four military deployments: one to Bosnia and three to Afghanistan.

Conservative

Wai Young is looking to win back the seat she held from 2011 to 2015. Having lost to Sajjan in the last election, Young tried her hand in running for mayor under the Coalition Vancouver banner in 2018. She finished fourth with 11,872 votes in the 19-person race. Her mayoral campaign included talking points around lower taxes,

scrapping bike lanes and reducing the amount of garbage and syringes on city streets.

Young is a foster mother to seven kids and a recipient of the Queens Diamond Jubilee Medal. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in sociology from UBC and has lived in South Vancouver for 45 years.

NDP

Sean McQuillan works in the TV and film sector and is a member of Vancouver’s film technicians union.

He’s a graduate of Langara College’s Studio 58 program and holds a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Alberta. McQuillan, who is of Cree Metis ancestry, is campaigning on promises to bolster affordable childcare and housing and universal pharmacare.

trustee, Zaichkowsky was elected in the October 2017 byelection but chose to not run again almost a year later to the day. Zaichkowsky was moving homes at the time and couldn’t commit the necessary hours to public life, but she’s now had a change of heart. She was born and raised in Vancouver, attending Sir Guy Carleton elementary, Killarney secondary and UBC. Zaichkowsky received her PhD from UCLA in marketing, with minors in

Green Party

Judy Zaichkowsky is looking to resurrect a political career that lasted little more than a year. A former Vancouver school board

psychology and statistics.

She holds a master’s degree in consumer studies from the University of Guelph.

People’s Party

Alain Deng is registered as the PPC candidate, though he has no website and his social media channels contain no biographical information nor platform promises.

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Concerns over special needs students and class composition Tracy Sherlock

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The way students with special needs are counted for class composition in Vancouver could change next year, after an arbitration ruling earlier this summer.

About 3,000 students in Vancouver are being reconsidered to determine if they will still count for class composition rules, said Katharine Shipley, president of the Vancouver Secondary Teachers’ Association. That includes about 1,000 students with autism spectrum disorder and about 2,000 with learning disabilities, Shipley said.

It’s all related to the teachers’ 2016 court win, which restored class size and class composition rules stripped from B.C. teachers’ contracts in 2002. After the court restored the old provisions, teachers and the government met to try to agree on how special needs definitions had changed, with an eye to updating the language. They couldn’t agree, so the matter was referred to arbitration.

Two types of special needs that have changed significantly in the past two decades are autism and learning disabilities. The old definition of autism did not include, as it does today, an entire spectrum of people, including those who have Asperger syndrome or other less severe forms of autism.

The number of students in B.C. who were classified as having autism in 2001 was 1,312, but by 2016 there were 8,459, the arbitrator’s report says. The increase has many causes, including changes in diagnostic criteria and increasing awareness, but prevalence was increasing before the change in diagnostic criteria, an expert witness said.

With learning disabilities, it’s even more complicated.

When the language was developed, there was a special needs category that included moderate and severe learning disabilities. Today, that same category includes students with mild learning disabilities.

The arbitrator decided that only students who would have been included

About 3,000 students in Vancouver are being reconsidered to determine if they will still count for class composition rules.

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under the 1995 definitions should count in terms of class composition.

That means in order to count for class composition, a student with a learning disability must have “a discrepancy of two or more years on grade equivalent scores.” More recent definitions would include a range of students who might need extra time or be slower to process information. Students with autism will also be reconsidered for class composition rules, based on the old definitions.

The Vancouver School

Board is auditing student files to determine which students would meet the 1995 definitions, but says it doesn’t know what the review will change.

“We are still undertaking a review of the implications of the arbitration award and have not determined the impacts on class composition at this time,” VSB associate superintendent Carmen Batista said in an emailed response.

Other smaller districts have completed their audits and found that about 30 to 40 per cent of students with

autism spectrum disorder and learning disabilities no longer counted for class composition, Shipley said.

Today in Vancouver schools, if a classroom has more than two students with special needs, the class size is reduced, Shipley said.

“If many of these kids no longer count for remedy or composition, that will have an impact on whether or not our class sizes are reduced,” Shipley said.

It’s important to note the students won’t lose their designation or any services they receive. Any changes would not be made this year, but could take effect next fall.

If the contract had not been stripped in 2002, surely the rules would have evolved along with our expanding knowledge of autism spectrum disorder and learning disabilities. The rules would likely have been slightly different for students with milder disabilities — perhaps not a limit of two per class, but maybe a limit of four per class, or some similar compromise.

Jill Barclay, president of Vancouver Elementary

School Teachers’ Association, said teachers are very concerned.

“We don’t know how many [students] will no longer count,” Barclay said.

“The concern is that it negates a lot of our class size and composition language.

Those students are still in your class, they still need the support, they still need resource teachers, but class sizes could get bigger.”

In the best of all possible worlds, teachers and their employer would have sat down and worked out a viable compromise.

But given we don’t live in a utopia — even this teacher-friendly NDP government has not reached a contract deal with teachers and has proposed moving to a prevalence funding model that would render moot the class composition language teachers fought in court for more than a decade for — we may soon land in a world where some kids with special needs simply “don’t count” for class composition, and that’s definitely not a step forward.

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Jody Wilson-Raybould’s run as independent will test popularity with voters Mike Howell

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If there is one story Vancouverites follow election night, it will be the same one many Canadians have been captivated by for the better part of a year: the saga of Jody Wilson-Raybould and what comes next in her political life.

The nation will get an answer Oct. 21.

Not in recent history in Vancouver has there been a more dramatic showdown to emerge in a federal election, particularly with such a riveting back story.

Wilson-Raybould’s unforeseen shift from Liberal cabinet minister to independent candidate has been well publicized since she resigned from cabinet in February over the SNCLavalin affair, and was subsequently removed from the Liberal caucus.

The media storm that raged for several months subsided as summer approached, only to rise again in mid-August with the release of a report from federal ethics commissioner Mario Dion.

In his report, Dion concluded that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau violated the Conflict of Interest Act by improperly pressuring Wilson-Raybould to prevent SNC-Lavalin from being prosecuted in a corruption and fraud case.

Her reaction: “Vindication of the independent role of the Attorney General,” she said in an emailed statement that was circulated widely to media and via social media.

Her pledge: “Personally, I remain committed to doing politics differently and engaging in important discussions in a way that honours what is best about Canada, to work across party lines and to continue to do the best job I can as the independent Member of Parliament for VancouverGranville.”

It is Wilson-Raybould’s run as an independent — and against the Liberal Party machine that she belonged to in the 2015 race — that will test the strength of her public story and stated convictions of a candidate without a party.

She anticipated the questions to come and addressed some of them in a letter posted on her website, which is largely designed in black and white fonts and colours, shedding the

(Far right) Jody Wilson-Raybould’s run as an independent candidate in Vancouver-Granville against Liberal Taleeb Noormohamed (far left) is the big story to watch in the city’s six ridings. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Liberal red of her 2015 campaign.

Wilson-Raybould is also dressed in black and white in a prominent photo that accompanies her letter titled, “Why I’m running as an independent.”

Is she suggesting there is no grey area in her politics?

“As you consider your vote in October 2019, some may tell you that a vote for JWR is a wasted vote,” she wrote. “Nothing could be further from the truth. I can assure you, in this period of transition, that a vote for JWR will ensure that you have a strong independent voice in Ottawa who will work with whichever party is in power, and with MPs of all political stripes, for the betterment of VancouverGranville and our country.”

What Wilson-Raybould doesn’t address is how she will convince her Liberal supporters in 2015, who gave her 44 per cent of the vote, to stick with her as an independent in 2019.

Dr. Allan Tupper, a University of B.C. politics professor, said Canadian voters tend to vote for candidates who belong to parties. A party’s brand — what it stands for, who it represents — and the ability to form government are reasons, Tupper said.

“Parties remain central vehicles and most people see politics through parties,” he said. “Equally, people look at parties — not everyone, but many people — as the sort of bringer of things to ridings.”

The 2015 election results for Vancouver-Granville

show the NDP and the Conservatives were almost deadlocked for second place at 26.9 per cent and 26.1 per cent of the vote, respectively.

“Those votes aren’t going away, to a degree,” Tupper said. “[Wilson-Raybould] has to knock off a lot of Liberals to do this, and shift a lot of some people from other parties.”

Added Tupper: “There’s a lot of questions going on there. How far that name recognition carries you is also hard to tell. Her presence will be a force in this, one way or the other. How it’s going to divide out, we don’t know.”

Tech entrepreneur Taleeb Noormohamed, whose bid to become Vision Vancouver’s mayoral candidate in 2018 was cut short by a heart problem, is the Liberal candidate in the race.

He’s not only battling to keep the Liberal votes won by Wilson-Raybould in 2015, but — as alluded to by Tupper — keeping an eye on the NDP’s Yvonne Hanson and the Conservatives’ Zach Segal.

The Greens’ Louise Boutin’s campaign, meanwhile, is at a noticeable disadvantage, with Green Party leader Elizabeth May publicly stating she supports Wilson-Raybould.

May has pledged the same allegiance to Jane Philpott, another ousted Liberal cabinet minister, who is running as an independent in Ontario (Markham-Stouffville).

May’s support for both

candidates extended to her speaking at an event — “A night for independent voices” — in September at the Hellenic community centre in Vancouver, which featured Wilson-Raybould and Philpott.

“I believe that Canada needs more strong female voices like theirs speaking out against political party backroom operators and standing up for more honesty and transparency in government,” May said in an email last week to the Courier.

Whether May’s support is a factor in the race is an unknown for Tupper, who pointed out the VancouverGranville riding’s political temperature has only been tested once.

The riding covers a large swath of the Granville, Oak and Cambie corridors from the north arm of the Fraser River to West Sixth Avenue and was created for the 2015 race.

Party strongholds

The races for Vancouver’s five other ridings aren’t likely to capture the nation’s attention, with the NDP’s Jenny Kwan in VancouverEast and the NDP’s Don Davies in Vancouver-Kingsway looking to maintain the party’s strongholds in the city.

Trudeau, however, has visited Vancouver-Kingsway at least twice in recent months, giving a boost to the campaign of Liberal newcomer Tamara Taggart, a former television broadcaster.

Speaking to the Liberals’ dominance of Vancouver in

previous elections, Tupper pointed out the Liberals’ percentage of the vote in Vancouver-Quadra (59 per cent for Joyce Murray, who is seeking re-election) and Vancouver-Centre (56 per cent for Hedy Fry, also seeking re-election) was the highest of all six ridings in the 2015 race.

Trading places

While those ridings appear safe for the Liberals, Vancouver-South appears less certain because of the party’s history of trading places with the Conservatives, including the party’s candidate Wai Young, who is campaigning to win back a seat she held from 2011 to 2015.

Harjit Sajjan, a former Vancouver police officer who served as Trudeau’s defence minister, is the Liberal incumbent. He won 49 per cent of the vote to Young’s 34 per cent in the 2015 race.

“That one is tough to tell, it’s bounced around, it’s been highly competitive,” Tupper said.

Key issues

More broadly, questions Vancouverites will be asking before they cast a ballot is whether the Trudeau government delivered on key issues identified by voters in 2015: affordable housing, the environment, transit, the opioid crisis and reconciliation with Indigenous peoples.

The Trudeau government’s purchase of the Trans Mountain pipeline will be top of mind for

many voters in Vancouver, many of whom attended the 100,000-strong climate strike march Sept. 27 from city hall to the art gallery.

Tupper noted many voters live in parts of the city where they can see oil tankers in Vancouver waters, and can envision what an increase in tanker traffic — the result of twinning an existing pipeline to Burnaby — would look like from their windows.

Also to be considered is the weight of criticism Indigenous leaders have levelled at the Trudeau government for not delivering on reconciliation and, most recently, a decision to fight a court decision related to the compensation of First Nations children and their families.

In a recent essay in the Globe and Mail, WilsonRaybould said progress was made on Indigenous issues. But the former regional chief of the Assembly of First Nations for British Columbia added “we still cannot say with confidence that the ship’s course has been shifted sufficiently to turn it in a new direction — away from denial and toward unqualified recognition.”

The recent black face controversy involving Trudeau could be another factor in how people to choose their candidate, with Tupper noting the diversity of opinions from the public, with many enraged at the Liberal leader.

Green machine

Another story to watch in Vancouver is whether the Greens get more than 10 per cent of the vote. The party’s highest percentage in 2015 was nine per cent in Vancouver-East, followed by six per cent in Vancouver-Centre and three per cent across the board in the other ridings.

Tupper said there has been a lot of talk and articles written about how the Greens are looking to take votes nationally from the NDP. But that remains to be seen, he said.

“People are saying all kinds of things about the weakening NDP and the strengthening Greens,” he said. “And Vancouver would be one place you’d figure you’d see a Green coming up, but it’s not talked about very much. It’s surprising.”

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panded event area, new onsite food vendors and a new timed ticket system. Thanks to this year’s theme, you’ll be off on a journey to help Anna the hummingbird and her friends lift the “hootenanny” glowing spell cast over the garden by a tricky old owl, collecting treats along the way.

When: Oct. 17 to 27 Where: VanDusen Botanical Garden, 5251 Oak St. vandusengarden.org

Drags Benny

There are two things Vancouver unquestionably loves: brunch and drag queens.

Those two fabulous worlds

collide this month when Eat North’s lively Drags Benny arrives in town for a one-day only (and one-of-a-kind) drag brunch event in support of the Vancouver Pride Society. Food can make the brunch, but when it comes to Drags Benny, this is true breakfast theatre — the entertainment will also feature a lineup of some of the B.C.’s top drag performers working the room while you eat.

When: Oct. 20, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Where: Fairmont Hotel Waterfront, 900 Canada Place eatnorth.com

Vancouverites are invited to celebrate the history and future of Bloedel Conservatory with live music and tropical cocktails. The tiki-themed event features music by Robin Layne and the Rhythm Makers, hors d’oeuvres by Granville Island Catering and a variety of signature tropical rum cocktails and non-alcoholic drinks.

When: Oct. 18, 7 to 10 p.m.

Where: Bloedel Conservatory, 4600 Cambie St. vancouver.ca

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Gather with families, friends and coworkers to celebrate, honour and remember those touched by cancer.

The Light the Night Walk begins at the scenic Lumberman’s Arch in Stanley Park and will feature beautiful lanterns. A remembrance ceremony takes place following onsite registration.

When: Oct. 19. Registration begins at 5 p.m.

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South Granville building with Broadway subway entrance proposed Naoibh O’Connor

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The northeast corner of Broadway and Granville is poised to be transformed.

PCI Developments has filed a development permit application for 1465 to 1489 West Broadway at Granville Street for a five-storey mixed-used building with an entrance on the southwest corner of the site for one of the stops on the Broadway subway extension.

The application includes plans for ground-level retail space and financial institution use, and six storeys of below-grade parking with access from the lane.

The development site features an existing four-storey office building, constructed in 1957, whose main floor is home to an RBC branch.

It’s moving out in November. The building is otherwise vacant.

The development site also features a single-storey building across the alley to the east with a few restaurants, including one of the Memphis Blues barbecue houses.

Those business are aware of the plans, according to PCI. In accordance with their leases, the company says, the businesses will be officially notified within the next 30 days of lease termination effective January 2020.

Current zoning on the site allows for a five-storey building with office, residential and/or retail. Under that zoning, the application is conditional so it might be allowed but it requires a development permit board decision. Demolition is expected to start this December, subject to city permitting, and the project is anticipated to take about three years to complete.

Artist rendering of the building and subway entrance. RENDERING COURTESY OF PCI DEVELOPMENTS

But details of the plan, including the time it takes to complete the project, may change.

Through the Broadway Plan, the site might be identified for greater density, which is why the current development permit application includes six levels of underground parking and an extra elevator core for future consideration. Once the Broadway Plan is completed, PCI will amend its development plans to suit the plan’s outcome.

The subway

On Sept. 18, the provincial government announced the six new stops for the Broadway subway route — an extension of the Millennium Line from VCC-Clark Station to Arbutus Street, including the stop for South Granville. Full-scale construction of the subway is expected to begin in 2020 and be complete by 2025.

Last March, Jerry Dobrovolny, the city’s outgoing general manager of engineering, told the Courier that on opening day,

with its new connection from Commercial Drive to Arbutus that will replace the B-Line system, it will carry the equivalent of 12 lanes of car traffic in each direction.

Ultimately, it will carry the equivalent of 35 lanes of car traffic in each direction.

The Broadway Plan

The Broadway corridor, which stretches from Clark Drive to Vine Street between West First and 16th Avenues, has the secondlargest concentration of jobs in the province after downtown Vancouver.

Last March, the city launched the Broadway planning process, which is expected to take two years.

It involves four neighbourhoods — False Creek Flats, Fairview, Mount Pleasant and a corner of Kitsilano — and the 30-year plan will address issues such as land use, neighbourhood character, housing, jobs, local business, parks and public space, arts and culture, transportation, utilities, and public benefits around the subway extension.

PCI Developments, in a

statement about its office building project, said its vision is to create “a transitoriented, urban centre with access to transit and amenities that will enhance the quality of life for office tenants, transit users, visitors and residents.”

“PCI Developments is working with the City of Vancouver to achieve shared transit-oriented development objectives and support the region’s sustainability goals.

Mixed-use density supports transit demand at peak- and off-peak hours and optimizes public investment in precious transit infrastructure,” Tim Grant, PCI’s vice president of development, said in the release.

“If the city’s Broadway Plan identifies our site for greater density, additional office space and rental residential would be well suited to this prominent, transitoriented location.”

The application, which the Urban Design Panel reviewed Oct. 2, goes before the Development Permit Board Dec. 9. The architecture firm involved is Musson Cattell Mackay Partnership.

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Anti-butt crusade reaches Poland Grant Lawrence

rette butts. They collected cigarette butts in a bottle and posted the picture on Twitter, and launched the hashtag #FillTheBottle.

Since then, the hashtag has gone viral, causing hundreds of people to clean up as a protest to the flood of cigarette butt litter.

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There’s an old saying in rock ‘n’ roll: Always play your heart out because you never know who’s in the room. The same goes for writing: You never know who’s reading.

Case in point: A few months ago, I wrote a piece venting my frustration at the proliferation of irresponsibly discarded cigarette butts all over Vancouver sidewalks, roads, parks and beaches.

According to the city, Vancouver smokers litter an atrocious one million butts every day, which is a weird irony that has emerged from our ever-tightening nonsmoking laws.

When smoking was allowed in restaurants and bars, pretty much everyone used an ashtray. Now people smoke outside and flick their butts into the street. Most of those butts end up in our waterways, into our oceans and onto our beaches.

The Ocean Conservancy has stated that butts account for one in every five pieces of trash washed up on shore, which makes cigarette butts the most littered item on the planet.

And the filters are toxic and non-biodegradable.

I heard from plenty of Vancouverites on both sides of this burning issue, including some smokers who actually defended their actions. One smoker told me he flicked his butts “because it’s fun.”

I was surprised to receive an email on the subject from Bogna Haponiuk. Originally from Warsaw, Poland, she’s currently an engineering student studying in Vienna, Austria. Somehow, she read

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After reading Grant Lawrence’s column about cigarette butts, Bogna Haponiuk (middle) was inspired to create a Cigarette Butts Cleanup Calculator. PHOTO COURTESY OF BOGNA HAPONIUK

my column and wrote me a note about something she created called the Cigarette Butts Cleanup Calculator.

I had to know more, so I reached out to Haponiuk via email.

How could you relate to my column way over in Vienna?

I actually was in Kraków, Poland at that time. I must admit that I hadn’t really noticed that many cigarette butts on the ground.

Reading your article led me to take a walk. I was absolutely shocked to see how omnipresent the butts are, and how easy it was to fill nine jars with a thousand cigarette butts. I decided that we need to speak up about this issue and show people how ubiquitous this type of pollution is. The walk led me to build a tool to raise awareness about the problem. That’s when I started reading more about the problem of cigarette butt pollution. I read through dozens of articles detailing why this is so common, and what could be done about it. I was looking for solutions, and the crow training you mentioned in your

article definitely caught my interest.

Right, that was a Dutch initiative where they were going to train crows to collect butts, but among other reasons, they cancelled the program because it would have been too hazardous for the health of crows, which says a lot. What surprised you most in your research?

The thing that surprised me the most is that more than two in three smoked cigarettes are flicked to the ground, which means that the problem is not about ashtrays. Here in Europe they are installed everywhere, but most cigarette butts are dropped within 10 feet from an ashtray. The problem is the widespread acceptance and viewpoint that cigarette butts are not trash.

You mentioned that you filled jars with cigarette butts. That’s an actual clean up initiative, isn’t it?

Yes, on July 31, three French teenagers started a campaign against ciga-

Tell me about the tool you built. What is the Cigarette Butts Cleanup Calculator? How does it work?

I built it together with the Omni Calculator Project, which is a site that allows you to solve every day problems through calculation. The Cigarette Butts Cleanup Calculator shows you what will be the tangible effects of your cleanup, whether it’s a one-off thing or a regular commitment. My tool tells you not only how many cigarette butts you’re able to pick up in a given time, but also how many litres of ocean water you will save from contamination, and how many pounds of plastic litter will not wind up on our beaches. Small contributions add up to huge numbers; for example, by committing to collecting butts just 20 minutes a week, you’ll save 5,000 litres of water in a year.

Wow, that’s very inspiring when you put it like that. Thank you for reading and thanks for your efforts, Bogna!

What’s next for you?

I will continue spreading awareness on this issue, but I’m also planning to build more calculators that help people solve their problems. Canadians might be interested in my Snow Load Calculator, after all, winter is coming. :) @grantlawrence

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Neighbourhood woes affecting Downtown Eastside venues John Kurucz

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Mo Tarmohamed is out to the tune of roughly $60,000, if not more.

It’s not on account of a guys’ trip to Las Vegas, home renovations or a vehicle purchase.

It’s the price he pays to own a business in the Downtown Eastside.

Tarmohamed bought the Rickshaw Theatre in 2011, knowing full well its location just steps east of Main and Hastings could be bad for business.

He had little idea at the time that the area would deteriorate to the point it now has.

“It was somewhat tolerable before, but that’s because we’ve normalized it so much,” Tarmohamed said. “What’s tolerable to us, should not be tolerable.

It was bad eight years ago, and even then I thought it wasn’t normal. Now it’s 10fold worse.”

Tarmohamed estimates his 2018 losses were between $50,000 and $75,000, solely because bands don’t want to be in the area. Tarmohamed sees tours that landed at the Rickshaw in years past go elsewhere, typically to the Venue on Granville Street.

In some cases, those tours won’t come to Vancouver at all.

Tarmohamed follows up with booking agents and promoters, asking why those shows aren’t coming. The reasons are almost always the same.

“The bands that do come here, they’re like a deer caught in the headlights. These are guys from Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit and New York who are saying, ‘Whoa, this is crazy,’” Tarmohamed said.

It doesn’t help his busi-

Rickshaw Theatre owner Mo Tarmohamed estimates he lost $50,000 to $75,000 last year due to bands not wanting to perform in the Downtown Eastside. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

nesses that musicians the world over post videos and photos on social media of needles, feces and scores of people intoxicated in the immediate vicinity of his venue.

Last summer, a band loaded in the back alley of the Rickshaw as a drug user pretended to be playing darts — except the darts were needles and the dartboard was a telephone poll near the band’s tour van.

Hank Von Hell, former frontman of Norwegian rock band Turbonegro, played the Rickshaw in late August and was initially scheduled to perform somewhere between 60 to 80 minutes. Von Hell cut his set to 40 minutes so he could “get the hell out of the neighbourhood, not the venue,” according to Tarmohamed.

Tarmohamed’s property taxes have doubled since 2011, and he characterizes the value for service as “diminishing.” Condos built in the blocks around the venue over the last three years have

exacerbated the problem, creating a cluster-like effect right outside his doors.

He doesn’t begrudge drug users themselves, but characterizes the response from the police and all levels of government as non-existent. Tarmohamed said he has stopped calling the city or VPD for assistance because they never show up.

“It feels like abandonment. It feels like they don’t really care about what goes on here,” Tarmohamed said.

“They probably do at some level, but not enough to really do anything about it.”

There goes the neighbourhood

The Courier attempted to speak with several Downtown Eastside promoters and venue owners to gauge what business and crowds are like in light of the deterioration of the DTES neighbourhood.

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Imperial. Both venues are a stone’s throw from Main and Hastings. Imperial general manager Peter Gordon provided the Courier with a brief statement that read, “I can only say that we strive to provide a great positive shareable experience to all of our guests.”

Everyone who agreed to an interview said business is down, but crime and violence are up substantially.

Foot traffic is also on the decrease and young women in particular increasingly won’t travel to shows by themselves. Musicians from other countries who tour the world for a living are overwhelmed by what they see.

Wendythirteen has worked in music promotion for 20 years, having booked shows at numerous venues across the Downtown Eastside, many of which closed around the arrival of the 2010 Winter Olympics.

She now promotes gigs at Pats Pub near Hastings Street and Dunlevy Avenue, where a 50-year-old Surrey man was shot Sept. 22.

Two more shootings in the DTES followed over the next 15 hours.

She was verbally attacked by a handful of young gang members while working at Pats the night before: words were exchanged, bottles were thrown and threats were made.

It’s in this context that Wendythirteen has seen one of the biggest shifts in the neighbourhood over the last three years. She says a code that once existed even among hardened criminals and drug users — don’t use in front of kids, don’t steal in your own neighbourhood, leave the elderly alone — has vanished.

Wendythirteen suggests her attackers on Sept. 21 were likely all around the age of 20.

“I’m a tough girl, but there’s a lot of knives and machetes around these days,” she said. “The entitlement and the rudeness of the addict these days is beyond anything I’ve seen.”

Her crowds are decreasing, though hard numbers weren’t provided. Wendythirteen attributes those dips to two factors: young people leaving the city because of unaffordability and fear of the neighbourhood. Her punk and metal crowds aren’t as affected as the older people who take in jazz and blues gigs.

Owners of the Patricia Hotel, where Pat’s Pub is located, Daryl Nelson and his sister Lindsay Thomas appeared before the Vancouver Police Board in mid-July, asking for help because of increased theft and violence in the area.

Jason Puder and Abelardo Mayoral-Fierros have 25 years’ worth of promoting between them, a span that’s seen the two Vancouverites bring more than 1,500

shows to Vancouver venues: the Rickshaw, Astoria, Pats Pub, Pub 340, Red Room and along the Granville Strip.

The majority of Puder’s bookings are at the Astoria, where thousands of dollars’ worth of musical equipment was stolen from a vehicle on Sept. 20. In mid-August, Puder witnessed a man ride his bike through a crowd outside the venue while shooting bear spray at everyone in the vicinity.

Three fires in surrounding properties happened around the same time.

Puder also organizes Western Canada’s largest metal, punk and hardcore gathering, the Modified Ghost Festival. The 2018 iteration was the festival’s most successful over its four-year run, drawing people from across the globe.

The five-day festival wasn’t 20 minutes old when someone tried to break into a tour bus parked next to the Rickshaw.

“The people that had weeklong passes — some from the States, some from Europe, some from other parts of Canada — they were totally mind boggled,” Puder said. “It’s one thing if you’re here for a night, it’s another if you’re in the area every night for five days.”

Mayoral-Fierros’ experiences in the area are largely the same. International bands usually revert to sarcasm and mockery when they arrive at venues to cover up their initial reticence to perform in the area.

It’s after that point that the difficult questions arise.

“First it’s shock,” he said. “Then the comments come around, ‘Why doesn’t someone do something about this?’” @JohnKurucz

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Joel de la Fuente plays an inarguably nasty man on Amazon Prime’s The Man in the High Castle. The locally shot series — which is loosely based on the cult favourite novel by Philip K. Dick and kicks off its final season in November — presents an alternate version of history in which the Allies lost the Second World War and North America is now divided into the Greater Nazi Reich and the Japanese Pacific States.

De la Fuente’s character is Inspector Takeshi Kido, the cold and calculating head of the Japanese law enforcement machine, and he’s genuinely enjoyed every second he’s worn Kido’s wire-rimmed glasses and hunted down members of the Resistance.

But there’s another character that’s intrigued and nourished De la Fuente for even longer than Kido.

And, unlike Kido, this character is based on a real person and inarguably a hero of the Resistance.

That real-life hero is Gordon Hirabayashi, and beginning this week, Vancouver theatre audiences will finally have the chance to meet De la Fuente’s take on Hirabayashi in a oneman play entitled Hold These Truths. The play was written

by Jeanne Sakata and follows Hirabayashi from a precocious five year old growing up in a Quaker community in Washington State to his principled resistance to Japanese American internment during the Second World War, and to the landmark court case that bears his name: Hirabayashi v. United States.

In the one-man play Hold These Truths, Joel de la Fuente plays Gordon Hirabayashi, whose principled resistance to Japanese American internment led to a landmark court case.

“In the United States, I feel like everybody needs to know who Gordon is, and nobody does,” says De la Fuente. He’s played Hirabayashi in multiple productions of Hold These Truths and was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance in 2013. “It’s a truly inspiring and remarkable story set in the darkest of times. Sadly, when have we ever needed to hear a story about such dark times as now?”

Hirabayashi was born in Seattle in 1918, and in 1942, he became one of three Japanese Americans to openly defy internment.

He turned himself into the FBI and invited prosecution so that he could appeal it all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The court ruled against him, and he hitchhiked to prison in Arizona to serve 90 days.

Later, Hirabayashi spent a year in federal prison for refusing induction into the armed forces because he asserted that having to renounce allegiance to

the Emperor of Japan was racially discriminatory.

Four decades after the war, when a political science professor uncovered evidence that the government knew back in 1942 that there was no military reason for the exclusion order, Hirabayashi’s case was reopened, and the Court of Appeals overturned his criminal conviction.

Hirabayashi died in January 2012, and in May of that year, he was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama.

“What’s fun about this show is that Gordon looks like someone that so many people at that point of time thought were not heroes, and yet he’s heroic,” says De la Fuente.

That’s not a misprint: De la Fuente really did use the word “fun” when describing a show that delves into one of the (many) dark chapters in American history.

“There really is humour in this story,” he contends.

“This show focuses on the

personal, and Gordon was always surprisingly disarming. He was constantly coming up against people who thought they did and would dislike him and couldn’t help but be disarmed and charmed by this man who never saw himself as an activist. I think he saw himself as having principles, which were very clear to him. He was constantly disarming people with how much they had in common.”

It’s the kind of lesson that can’t be told in history books with any nuance, according to De la Fuente.

“In the theatre, you’re breathing shared air,” he says. “In the sharing of that, hopefully you’re mutually transported to a place of sharing where you share not just air but outrage, laughter, relief, and although everyone may have a slightly different reaction to things, you’re sharing it together.”

Hirabayashi’s story isn’t altogether unknown in Vancouver. It’s been central in several seminal works by Kokoro Dance, the iconic local butoh dance company that was co-founded in 1986 by Jay Hirabayashi, Gordon’s son.

This is why a portion of the proceeds from Hold These Truths’ ticket sales will benefit Kokoro Dance, as well as the Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre and the University of British Columbia’s Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies department.

Hold These Truths is at the Cultch Oct. 20 to Nov. 2.

Tickets and more information at thecultch.com.

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Let’s atone for our treatment of French teachers

Last Wednesday was Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, and we realized we had forgotten to atone for one of the many terrible things we’ve done in the past, as is tradition at K&K. So in honour of atonement rituals in religions everywhere, we would like to revive our yearly atonement series, begging forgiveness for past mistakes, misdeeds, egregious errors in judgment and moments of all-around douchiness. Once again, we’re sorry.

In high school, we had a student teacher for a few months in our French class.

She was noticeably older

than the student teachers we were used to and she dressed in rather dated clothes. When a fellow classmate asked her how old she was, the older student teacher made the fatal mistake of trying to sound cool and replied, “Old enough to a have seen and done a lot of things.”

Smelling blood in the water, the class responded with snorts and mocking “ooooohs” and “ahhhhhhhs.” And from that day on, we made the student teacher’s life a living hell.

On the final day of her teaching assignment, she handed out evaluation sheets

for students to provide feedback anonymously so she could reflect and improve upon her teaching skills.

Needless to say, the feedback we provided was less than helpful. In fact, in the final comment box asking if there was anything we wanted to add, we wrote, rather insensitively, “Get a new wardrobe. The Mary Tyler Moore Show has been off the air for years.”

Later in the day, we heard the student teacher had handed out the same evaluation forms to another class but prefaced it by saying, “And there’s no need to

comment on what I wear.

If I could afford to buy new clothes, I would.”

Sorry, older student teacher whose wardrobe we mocked from the safety of an anonymous evaluation form. You deserved better feedback and a less personally damaging teaching experience. Sorry, high school French teachers in general, for being such a terrible student who never saw you as people with inner lives but caricatures of authority who made poor fashion and career choices. We were horrible. So very horrible. @KudosKvetches

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The 2019-20 Canucks have gotten off to a slow start.

That’s not a slow start in the sense of wins and losses, or in the sense that stars like Elias Pettersson and Brock Boeser have yet to hit their stride. It’s a slow start in the sense that they’ve barely played any games.

Through the first two weeks of the season, the Canucks played just four times, and have had three-day breaks twice already between games. Compare that to the 2018-19 season, when the team didn’t have a three-day break between games until early November.

There are both positives and negatives to a slow start to the season. The long breaks mean the Canucks have been fully rested heading into each game, with time to nurse minor injuries. It also means more time for practices and working on systems early in the season. The downside is that it can be tough to get into a rhythm with so few games early on.

“You’d like to get into it right away at the beginning of the season, to be honest,” said Bo Horvat on Tuesday before facing the Detroit Red Wings, “and kind of have the breaks when you need them down the stretch.”

Veteran centre Jay Beagle, however,

has seen many different schedules over the years and knows that there are pros and cons to every one. “It’s felt a little bit weird,” said Beagle. “You look around the league and there’s teams playing probably seven or eight games already and we’ve got four. You would’ve liked that little bit of rest time maybe in February or March, but the schedule is always different, you never complain about the schedule... and it’s nice to get the practices and then really work on some system stuff, so you use it as a tool.”

“The guys like playing games,” said head coach Travis Green. “Practising can get a little stale. It’s important, but I think if anything, our guys are excited to get going and play some more games.”

The Canucks have been good on their homestand, but their competition should be taken into account. The Los Angeles Kings could be the worst team in the Pacific Division this season, particularly if they keep trotting out a past-his-prime Jonathan Quick in net. The Philadelphia Flyers are a strong team, but their wild travel schedule saw them start the season in Prague in the Czech Republic as part of the NHL Global Series, and the team was dealing with illnesses, fatigue and dehydration. Then there’s the Red Wings, who are essentially a one-line team with little depth anywhere in their lineup.

That’s two teams heading to the NHL’s basement and eking out a shootout win over the one competitive team that was exhausted from international travel.

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Stick-taps & Glove-drops • A tap of the stick to Josh Bowman, a 34-year-old firefighter and goaltender, whose custom set of goalie gear is a replica of Kirk McLean’s. Captain Kirk himself borrowed Bowman’s gear for the Canucks home opener and it was a blast of nostalgia to see him skate out in his vintage setup.

An unusually relaxed schedule has meant Elias Pettersson and the Canucks have had it fairly easy. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

how the Canucks performed — their 8-2 drubbing of the Kings in their home opener was as dominant a win as we’ve seen from the Canucks in years — but it’s hard to assess just how good they are until they’ve faced a tougher test. That test could start on their upcoming road trip.

The Canucks face the defending Stanley Cup Champions on Thursday, then have their first back-to-backs this weekend, with the added challenge of both being morning games on the East Coast. Those can be a tough challenge even before you factor in jet lag, as the morning games disrupt the normal game day routine of players and teams.

The team won’t have a three-day gap between games again until early December, with a particularly challenging schedule in November. That means we’ll have a much better idea of how competitive the Canucks will be this season in about a month’s time.

The players, however, are looking forward to the amped up schedule.

“Obviously, it hasn’t been the grind by any means at the beginning here,” said Horvat. “But it’s going to start to get to that point. It’s good that we’ve had a lot of practice time, getting used to our systems and new guys coming in, but we’re ready to play a lot of hockey right now.”

• I am dropping the gloves with the NHL’s stat-tracking. Founders of hockey analytics site Evolving Hockey, Josh and Luke Younggren, drew attention this week to how shot locations are showing up as much further out from the net than in past seasons, a seemingly minor change that wreaks havoc with public analytics work, which depends on shot location data.

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

Big Numbers • 8 The Canucks’ 8-2 win over the Kings in their home opener was only the second time the Canucks have scored 8 goals in a game since the 2009-10 season. Even the Presidents’ Trophywinning 2010-11 and 2011-12 teams didn’t manage that feat.

• 6 The six-goal win was the largest margin of victory for the Canucks since the 2017-18 season, when they shutout the Dallas Stars in a 6-0 win on Feb. 11, 2018.

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