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Election 2019

Mayor ‘optimistic’ Trudeau government will deliver

Councillors Adriane Carr and Lisa Dominato pleased minority government in place in Ottawa Mike Howell

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The consensus from Mayor Kennedy Stewart and councillors representing two civic political parties is that Canadians’ decision Monday to elect a Liberal minority government in Ottawa should bode well for Vancouver.

Stewart noted the Liberals’ commitments on its two-year-old national housing strategy, supporting a permanent transit fund for Metro Vancouver and being open to discussing an expansion of a safe supply of drugs align with the agenda voters elected him on last fall.

“Last night was great news for Vancouver and I expect the new government to deliver on affordable housing, safe supply and a SkyTrain all the way to UBC,” the mayor told the Courier by telephone Tuesday.

But Stewart acknowledged solidifying that alignment will rely on the NDP members of Parliament — reduced to 24 across the country — to support and challenge the Liberals to ensure commitments are rolled out in an impactful way.

He argued both parties are closely aligned on housing, transit and addressing the opioid crisis. Stewart met with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and NDP leader Jagmeet Singh during the campaign and was pleased with their commitments on the issues.

“I’m very optimistic — this is the best chance we’ve had in a very long time for these kinds of investments,” said Stewart, a former longtime NDP MP in Burnaby who ran successfully as an independent to win the city’s mayoral race in October 2018.

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Mayor Kennedy Stewart is optimistic the re-election of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will bode well for Vancouver. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

and most of his Liberal team to Parliament comes just days after Stewart publicly blasted Conservative leader Andrew Scheer, suggesting his election as prime minister would be “a disaster for the city.”

The mayor’s comment was based on expert analysis and his reading of the Conservatives’ platform, which he concluded did not commit to build more affordable housing for Vancouver,

extend the SkyTrain to the University of B.C. or take measures to combat the opioid crisis.

“I call it as I see it,” said Stewart, when asked to reflect on his stand against Scheer and a potential Conservative government.

“I don’t know how long I have as mayor of Vancouver, and you have to pick your spots, and I did.

I got it right this time. I do think that the Conservatives

would have been very bad for Vancouver.”

Green Party Coun. Adriane Carr and NPA Coun.

Lisa Dominato echoed the mayor’s comments about how policies promoted by the Liberals and NDP are in alignment with city issues such as creating more affordable housing.

And both said a minority government should prove to be healthy for democracy, with parties having to work

together to advance policy on housing, transit and drug addiction.

“I am really happy it’s a minority government situation,” Carr told the Courier Tuesday. “Minority governments are better for people, for voters. They require more collaboration rather than bull-headed movement forward on a single agenda.”

Carr said Trudeau didn’t deserve a majority because he reneged on a promise to reform the federal electoral system and bought the Trans Mountain pipeline.

“If you couple that with the shenanigans around Jody Wilson-Raybould, that was really the clincher for me,” said Carr, referring to the SNC-Lavalin affair that saw Wilson-Raybould booted from the Liberals, only to retain her seat in Vancouver-Granville Monday as an independent.

Carr’s hope, she said, is that Trudeau will reach out to the NDP and three Green members of Parliament to advance those parties’ platforms as a trade-off to securing their support in confidence votes in the

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“I hope that one of the requests that’s made is that there is a pullback on Trans Mountain [pipeline expansion] in light of the more clear, compelling and scientific evidence that we have to reduce greenhouse gas emissions radically and quickly,” Carr said.

Added Carr: “If the NDP holds firm on, for example, housing and on transit, and on the opioid crisis, we could be sitting in a very good position as a city.”

Dominato said the election of a minority government signals the need to have members of Parliament work across party lines in order to create policy that responds to needs of cities.

“At a civic level, it’s really important that we are able to work across all party lines to achieve what’s in the best interest of Vancouver,” she said of a council that has a mix of parties, with no majority.

Dominato said she agreed there continues to be alignment of the Liberals’ agenda with city issues, including fighting climate change and strengthening

the economy.

“It’ll be interesting to see, potentially, how the Liberals work with the NDP, with the Greens and others who were elected,” she said.

When asked about her reaction to the mayor’s criticisms last week of Scheer and the Conservatives, Dominato repeated her comment that politicians at all levels of government have to work across party lines to get stuff done.

“We need to be prepared to work with whoever the prime minister is, whoever the government is,” she said.

“We need to be focused on what’s important for Vancouver and how we’re going to get our fair share from Ottawa. In order to do that, we need to focus on having strong relationships with the prime minister, the government, but also with all parties.”

The mayor, meanwhile, plans to go to Ottawa in mid-November to meet with Trudeau and his new ministers to renew his request for funding and policy changes. @howellings

Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg to attend rally in Vancouver Friday Elisia Seeber

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Environmental activist Greta Thunberg will be in Vancouver Friday to take part in a”postelection” climate strike.

Thousands are expected to attend the rally to hear the 16-year-old Swede speak before taking to the streets. Thunberg is known for inspiring the Fridays For Future movement and weekly climate strikes to highlight the need for urgent action aimed at halting climate change.

The teen, who was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, is making big waves across the globe with her emotional environmental speeches.

Friday’s Climate Strike, hosted

by Sustainabiliteens Vancouver, Climate Strike Canada and the David Suzuki Foundation, aims to outline “next steps” for climate strikers across Canada.

Activists are set to gather at the Vancouver Art Gallery at 11 a.m. for welcome speeches before taking to the streets of downtown for a three-kilometre march.

The event follows a Global Climate Strike in September, which saw more than seven

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million people worldwide mobilized to demand climate action, including more than 900,000 people across Canada.

Thousands welcomed Thunberg in Montreal where she was greeted as a “young warrior lady” by Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde, and marchers honoured her with signs declaring, “Make the world Greta again.”

Meanwhile, tens of thousands of Vancouverites came together at Vancouver city hall before marching over the Cambie Street

Bridge and into downtown Sept.

27 to demand action on climate change.

Organizers claim that was “only the beginning.”

At Friday’s event, activists intend to “show that we will continue standing up to those in power for our futures,” according to the Facebook event page.

Organizers say they want the newly elected minority government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to create a Green New Deal that puts science-aligned emission reduction targets into legislation.

Spokesperson Sam Lin says now is the time for cross-party collaboration to battle the climate crisis.

“We call on the new MPs to act like adults, put aside your partisan differences and take action for a safer and more beautiful world for future generations,” Lin said in the statement.

The strike will also feature an announcement about 15 young Canadians who are filing a lawsuit against the Canadian government for “violating” their rights by “knowingly contributing to climate change.”

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News Public Hearing: November 5, 2019 Tuesday, November 5, 2019, at 6 pm Vancouver 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. 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 RM-8A (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)

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, mixed-use 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.

6. 2601-2619 East Hastings Street To rezone 2601-2619 East Hastings Street from C-2C (Commercial and Mixed Use) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District, to permit the development of a six-storey, mixeduse building with 46 secure rental residential units with commercial uses on the ground floor.

A height of 21.9 metres (72 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 3.74 are proposed.

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Hastings-Sunrise residents who’ve spent years waiting for the redevelopment of London Drugs’ property on East Hastings at Penticton Street will have to continue to wait — and it’s not clear for how long.

The company says it’s “still exploring its options.”

London Drugs owns land from Penticton Street to about a half a block to the west of it. Its store remains open on the sprawling property, while buildings on either side have been knocked down in anticipation of redevelopment.

Project plans have changed over time — it was initially expected to be a mixed-use condo building called “the Alba.” Buildings to the west of the store were knocked down.

But that idea was dropped in 2013 due to poor market conditions.

Eventually, the empty lots were turned into a community garden for a few years.

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Sunrise Development Ltd., a subsidiary of London Drugs, had been working on a design for a mixed-use rental project.

In late 2016, a vacant building, which used to house a McDonald’s restaurant at the corner of East Hastings and Penticton on the London Drugs site, was demolished, leaving another empty lot.

In 2017, the community garden was removed and a development application for the mixed-use rental project was expected to be filed in late 2017. That never happened, and the project is in limbo but not yet scrapped.

“The market conditions, city requirements and parking have changed since the original project was envisioned, costed and plans developed,” Wendy Hartley, a London Drugs spokesperson, wrote in an email to the Courier.

Hartley said the city told the company an additional one-metre setback was needed, which resulted in a 990-square-foot reduction to the ground floor of

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Hartley said the city offering up the parking lot for a housing development “was a surprise, and has created confusion,” given the BIA’s comments about the city’s ability to control the land.

“All of this has caused significant delays, confusion and challenges in understanding what is and is no longer possible in the neighbourhood. We remain committed to the neighbourhood and development, but had to get clarity on a number of these issues before being able to proceed. It is very frustrating for us, as we could have had new homes or rentals available in the market, along with a new store experience for our

customers,” she said.

It’s possible a project will go ahead — London Drugs Limited is still leasing property at 2696 Hastings, not far from its existing store, as a potential short-term home should the company get clarification on the future of the development and the impacts of city requirements and parking in the area.

The City of Vancouver told the Courier the application timelines and the scope of the project are determined by the applicant. Once an application is submitted, staff would review the proposal and have the owner hold a pre-application open house to seek comments from the community. @naoibh

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She said it was a new requirement from the original design since the project was envisioned. As a result, the company had to go “back to the drawing board” to see if the project was viable with the new requirement.

“A number of meetings were held, and the city planning department made it clear they would not relax the setback requirement,” Hartley said.

Meanwhile, the city announced, in June of 2019, that it was providing the existing parking lot behind the London Drugs store — cityowned land valued at $17.7 million — for a women-led housing project.

That announcement prompted the Hastings North Business Improvement Association to question ownership of the lot. The BIA indicated neighbourhood businesses and property owners may have rights to it.

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Marpole historical society Naoibh O’Connor

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Yvonne Robinson and Jan Wilson can barely contain their frustration as they stand outside Colbourne House on ivy-covered ground they hoped would be transformed into a community garden for Marpole residents’ use.

The seniors belong to Marpole Museum and Historical Society, which restored Colbourne House, a 900-square-foot working class Dutch Colonial home at 8743 Southwest Marine Dr. For almost 20 years, the society has also been working on plans to create a community garden on a plot of city-owned land just south of the house. It even earned a city grant related to the project in 2011, at which time the society drew up plans. Last spring, however, the group learned the site is now earmarked for a viewing tower — part of the Arbutus Greenway project at the south end of the corridor known as Zone 8 or “The Lookout.”

The society feels the city

Yvonne Robinson and Jan Wilson on the ivy-covered ground south of Colbourne House where they want a community garden.

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has overlooked both its and the neighbourhood’s interests and argues the viewing tower should be erected in Fraser River Park instead.

It’s also worried about the future status of Colbourne House, which is on land leased from the city. The society thinks it deserves heritage designation to help guarantee its future but, last year, the city said that wasn’t possible.

Now the group is going public to outline its grievances.“We realize that perhaps we’re opening a can of worms or a Pandora’s box but after all the years

that we’ve worked on this, we’re frustrated to be ignored, to be sidelined and to have a city so ill-informed,” Robinson told the Courier.

Colbourne House

Tom Thomas built the home in 1912. Henry and May Colbourne bought it in 1936, raising three children on a CPR conductor’s salary. The Colbournes sold the property in 1982.

The person who bought it soon moved away and the house fell into disrepair.

The city took over the land and planned to run a road through it but those plans

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In 1994, the city leased the property to the historical society for 60 years — until 2054.

The society spent subsequent years raising hundreds of thousands of dollars to restore and maintain Colbourne House.

“We’re fundraising nonstop, through one hotdog sale after another, a Christmas fair, [and] music in the garden,” Wilson said.

Colbourne House officially opened to the public in 2005, but still requires ongoing funding to operate.

In response to requests from the society, the city informed the group in 2018 that it won’t “seek ‘protected by Heritage Designation’ status for the property” because it would limit future options for the house and site.

“They have not decided yet what they want to do with the house. In other words, they might bulldoze it and decide [the land] would be better used to put something else here — I have no idea what,” Wilson said.

Plans for the garden, meanwhile, have been years in the making. The society envisioned it back in 2000, but required approvals from the city, the Musqueam and the provincial government.

Society members have faithfully documented all the correspondence over the years — 40 letters, emails and meetings, including when city council approved the grant in 2011.

While the society has a design for the garden, it had been waiting for final approvals before going ahead with the project so members were shocked to learn last spring that the viewing tower would be installed in its place.

Wilson maintains most Marpole residents aren’t aware of the viewing tower plan, particularly seniors who don’t spend time on phones or computers keeping up with every city development.

While the city held community meetings about Arbutus Greenway’s design, Wilson said she never received any notification specific to the viewing tower or where it was to be installed.

“There hasn’t been one piece of information that’s come from my mailbox that’s told me that this is what the plan is,” she said.

“If you are not on the computer or the websites they want you to be on, you are left out… If you look at [the tower], it’s an enormous structure. It’s an ultra-modern structure. It doesn’t flow

with the feel of Marpole.”

Robinson said Marpole sorely lacks greenspace — neighbouring William Mackie Park, which sits on the other side of Colbourne House, is less than an acre.

“There is so little park in Marpole, it is under-parked to begin with,” she said.

The society envisioned the community garden being a neighbourhood amenity that connected with the heritage home and the park. Given the large — and increasing — number of condo and apartment buildings in the area, Wilson said community gardening space is needed.

“People who live in small buildings around here would love to have the opportunity to have a small plot, and to look after it and run it as a viable interest,” she said.

The pair insist a viewing tower won’t serve the needs of local residents, and that residents have been ignored in the planning process.

Since summer, the society has collected about 300 signatures on a petition asking that the site be used for the community garden rather than the viewing tower.

Robinson remains hopeful the society will get its wish. “I want to be optimistic about this. As I said, this is our last kick at the can because we have done everything we can to push this forward. We have a passion for it … this isn’t for our benefit at the Colbourne House. This is for the community’s benefit, for all the people who live in this vicinity and need some more green space and a garden area where they can socialize and interact.”

The city’s position

For its part, the City of Vancouver says the design vision for Zone 8 on Arbutus Greenway includes a viewing tower/tree house, which will allow people of all abilities to see the Fraser River, Sea Island and the airport. It was one of the most popular design features for the corridor during feedback sessions, according to the city, which explained Zone 8 will also feature community gardens about 130 metres from Colbourne House and, at most, a threeminute walk, roll or cycle.

“During an extensive 16-month public engagement process, almost 80 per cent of respondents supported the design vision for Zone 8. We welcome feedback from the community and look forward to sharing the detailed design in early 2020,” the city wrote in an email to the Courier. Staff

noted the viewing tower/ tree house will likely sit on three city-owned properties south of Colbourne House at 8761, 8771 and 8781 Southwest Marine Dr., although the precise location hasn’t been finalized. Colbourne House won’t be affected.

The 2011 grant, the city added, was for “dialogue between immigrant, First Nations, and [the] local

neighbourhood on heritage and food systems.”

Meanwhile, the development of Zone 8 is subject to council approval and available funding, but the city anticipates the procurement phase in late 2020 for its construction. Construction requires council approval.

As for the historical society’s wish that Colbourne house be given heritage

designation, the city wrote: “The city received inquiries about a heritage designation for Colbourne House and is still looking into the matter.”

Although the society would like the viewing tower to be installed elsewhere, the city says it investigated several options but the only feasible location is on the three city-owned properties.

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William Mackie Park was also not suitable because the viewing tower/tree house would take up too much space in what is a small neighbourhood park,” the city said.

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With Canada’s highly divisive 43rd federal election concluded, the political pundits are attempting to sort out where the power will shift within a new minority Parliament. While there are no new faces among Vancouver MPs, there will surely be impacts felt here at home.

We saw the Liberal Party hold on to government, after enduring months of self-inflicted wounds.

The Conservative Party not only gained seats, but also won the popular vote.

Nonetheless, they are headed back to the Opposition benches.

In Atlantic Canada, MPelect Jenica Atwin gave the Green Party a historic win in Fredericton, NB and a potential new leader once Elizabeth May chooses to retire her role.

The Greens incremental seat gain from two to three, though noteworthy, was overshadowed by the election of lone independent candidate Jody Wilson-Raybould in Vancouver-Granville.

The re-emergence of the Bloc Québécois — giving it third party status — is news that will no doubt haunt Can-

ada’s political scene in this mandate. Bloc leader YvesFrançois Blanchet promised to prioritize Quebec’s interests in his victory speech.

NDP leader Jagmeet Singh gave an overlong victory speech that did not reflect his party’s poor election results. However, Singh’s diminished 24-seat caucus will likely prove critical to the Liberal’s grip on power in a minority Parliament.

In Vancouver, every incumbent MP won their seat. While it might feel like a big nothing burger for our city, some reckless comments during the campaign

by Vancouver’s mayor could have lasting consequences.

Many are still shaking their heads after Kennedy Stewart’s ill-considered statement about Conservative leader Andrew Scheer during the campaign’s home stretch.

For those who missed it, Stewart issued a news release on City of Vancouver letterhead — with no notice to the rest of city council — stating that Scheer would be “a disaster for the city.”

While it probably made the former NDP Member of Parliament and his partisan insiders feel great to say it out loud, it was a political misstep for multiple reasons.

Vancouver’s mayor needlessly kissed goodbye support of more than 120 MPs on the Conservative benches he may need later by stating that Andrew Scheer would be “a disaster for the city,” says Mike Klassen. PHOTO ADRIAN WYLD/CANADIAN PRESS

Firstly, ticking off conservative voters in Vancouver only served to further drive divisions in our city. My rough election night calculation was about 50,000 Vancouverites voted for Conservative candidates, which was approximately the same number who voted Stewart into the mayor’s seat.

Furthermore, Vancouver has a lot of asks on the table that require federal financial support, not the least of which is a multi-billion dol-

lar rapid transit line request.

In a minority Parliament, gaining approval for large funding requests is considerably more challenging when other parts of the country have their hands out.

Stewart needlessly kissed goodbye to getting the support of more than 120 MPs on the Conservative benches he may need later.

The mayor may not have given that much thought beforehand, but Vancouverites should be concerned.

Typically, it is only mayors from Canada’s biggest cities who have enough clout to get meetings with senior government officials such as cabinet ministers, deputies or their staff.

Those with experience in government relations will also know the importance of working with members of the Official Opposition.

When Sam Sullivan became mayor in late 2005, for example, within months he took several trips to

Ottawa where he met with members of the Harper government, as well as meeting with Liberal leader Stéphane Dion and the NDP’s Jack Layton. At the time, COPE and Vision councillors pilloried Sullivan for what they perceived to be pointless junkets out east.

Before he left for Ottawa, Sullivan would notify members of the city’s corporate management team to give him their list of issues to take to the feds. One item Sullivan’s travels helped to resolve was the stubborn problem of illegal moorage in False Creek, which fell under federal jurisdiction and left the city unable to deal with marine polluters.

Today, Vancouver faces more monumental challenges by comparison. How we will ever resolve the city’s disastrous opioid crisis, for example, will depend upon our ability to deal with it as a whole country.

Didn’t we just toss out a municipal government that would grandstand every time it did not get what it wanted from Ottawa?

For his sake and Vancouver’s, our mayor would be wise to put away the Vision playbook, and work to build support beyond his traditional political base.

Leading minority government will be Trudeau’s biggest test Kirk LaPointe biv.com

He will never be the prime minister he wanted us to believe he is — the offences won’t erase, even if their memories will abate — but Justin Trudeau’s political survival Monday is testament to the resilience of privilege.

No matter that he broke promises and practices and gave his supporters cause to doubt his feminism and tolerance, he had built sufficient equity to sustain the political equivalent of a market correction. What’s more, no one else was there to take it from him if he wasn’t going to take it from himself.

His governance ahead will not so much walk on thin ice as skate on it. He need not court and wed the New Democrats; instead he can borrow from the playbook of Stephen Harper a decade ago and act as if in a majority until some foolhardy party decides we need another election.

The result was not what the Liberals expected a year ago when they were in a solid lead in polls, but better

than what they anticipated six months ago when the SNC-Lavalin affair cost him two cabinet ministers and a dozen points in public standing. Even when disturbing images emerged of him in blackface and brownface as the campaign commenced, there was a wobble but nothing like a buckling.

Experts will tell you there is the greatest likelihood of salvaging a relationship if an apology is absolute and there is a request for forgiveness. Trudeau now has first-hand expertise, and in a tentative measure Canadians forgave and some even forgot Monday. (Had Jody Wilson-Raybould not won, he would be truly getting away with it.)

It helped that his most significant opponent, Andrew Scheer of the Conservatives, had his own baggage to lug around: personal beliefs at odds with general Canadian progressiveness, the lingering weight of Harper that planted suspicion, questions about his resumé and passports, and a demeanour that didn’t

Trudeau’s political survival is testament to the resilience of privilege, says Kirk LaPointe. PHOTO PAUL CHIASSON/CANADIAN PRESS

particularly produce a galvanic skin response. As Monday’s results suggest, this was his election to lose and that is exactly what he did. He can crow about diminishing a majority government, and about his party earning more votes, but he must know he was the odds-on favourite who did not cross the true finish line first.

It also helped that Trudeau’s second-most sig-

nificant opponent, Jagmeet Singh of the New Democratic Party, foundered as leader in his first two years and found traction only in his last two weeks. As Monday’s results suggest, even in our instant gratification world there can be way too little and way too late. He is going to wield only so much power as Trudeau confers in a minority, and that might not be much.

But now that Trudeau has apologized and asked for forgiveness, his next step is to make amends. How he will govern with a minority will be his largest test by far, because his campaign and that of Scheer will be remembered for the prickliness and disrespect.

To some degree this despondent campaign was about picking the least dislikable major party leader.

It certainly wasn’t about choosing the most likable ideas, because there weren’t any.

The Liberals limped away Monday without holding one-third support of the electorate, a historic low that ought to spur soulsearching. The Conservatives had barely more support. As long as we have a five- or six-party system, there is no urgency for the frontrunners to gaze into their navels. The math of the country means you can win without winning big.

That being said, Trudeau will face a task internally and externally to convince his party he isn’t prone to further squandering its position and to prove to the country that he can lead without having to dominate.

Many underestimated his capacity to rebound from scandal and mistakes as the campaign started, so it makes little sense to underestimate him now.

Kirk LaPointe is editor-inchief of Business in Vancouver and vice-president, editorial, of Glacier Media.

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Unfiltered opinion about cigarette butts Re: “How Vancouver’s anti-cigarette butt crusade reached Poland,” Oct. 17.

There is a simple way to cut down on the number of cigarette butts littering our streets and that is to put a deposit on the filters. A deposit of five cents per filtered cigarette, refunded when the filters are returned, should do the trick. To recover administrative costs, only four of the five cents should be refunded. At the same time, we might as well put a deposit on the wrappers. To prevent an enormous number of old butts being cashed in, new cigarettes could be coloured or marked in some way.

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Here’s to another seemingly non-partisan pre-election cover story in the latest edition of the Courier. I have been paying attention to aspects of the campaign through various media channels but held out hope that the Courier would come through with a helpful guide to many of the local candidates running in the upcoming federal election. And you did!

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Federal election night in Vancouver

The 2019 federal election has come and gone, and Courier photographers were there to capture the excitement, anticipation, celebrations and defeat.

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2. Wilson-Raybould gives her victory speech after winning Vancouver-Granville. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

3. Liberal MP Hedy Fry celebrates her re-election in Vancouver-Centre. PHOTO KEVIN HILL 4. Vancouver-South Liberal MP Harjit Sajjan takes a selfie with his supporters after his re-election victory. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET 5. Liberal MP Joyce Murray was all smiles after getting re-elected in Vancouver-Quadra.

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6. Vancouver-Kingsway NDP incumbent Don Davies poses for pictures with supporters at his victory party. PHOTO KEVIN HILL 7. Vancouver-East NDP incumbent Jenny Kwan celebrates her re-election win.

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8. Don Davies’ election night party kept with the NDP’s orange theme. PHOTO KEVIN HILL 9. Vancouver-South Conservative candidate Wai Young speaks to media after her loss Monday night.

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They said it: Quotable quotes from candidates and their supporters on election night “Holy, moly.”

—Independent MP-elect Jody Wilson-Raybould as she took the stage at the Hellenic Centre Monday night to celebrate her win in Vancouver-Granville.

“Probably TMX was the only one that I heard more than anything else. I didn’t hear anything about the black, brownface at the door and I heard from three people about SNC-Lavalin, so it wasn’t a big issue for me in this riding.”

—Liberal MP for Vancouver-Centre Hedy Fry on controversies “I always know it’s going to be an uphill battle.

Every election is an uphill battle. You never know what’s going to happen and you never know if people are paying attention and I don’t think they are. Perhaps there are other issues that are more important to them and clearly that’s the case.”

—Vancouver-South Conservative candidate Wai Young “I think the divisions, as far as I’m concerned, of this country have been caused by the people

who have always caused divisions in this country. A Conservative party that seeks to pit one political party against each other in a way that is very negative. And therefore, by doing it, they’ve pitted regions against each other. I mean, when we were trying to get things done as a government over the last three or four years, the Conservative provincial governments didn’t want to work with us on housing and on infrastructure. They were playing political games constantly and that’s kind of sad because the people in their provinces lost out.”

—Liberal MP for Vancouver-Centre Hedy Fry “Obviously there’s going to be another election in 18, 24 or 36 months. Minority Parliaments generally don’t go the whole four years. I wouldn’t mind if it did, but if we don’t, I think we’re well positioned to come out even stronger in the next election.”

—Vancouver-Kingsway NDP MP Don Davies “Right now we have a lot of people who are still considering voting Liberal and they’re feeling really bad about it because they feel like they have to vote strategically. They don’t

actually want to vote Liberal, but they’re feeling coerced by the fear of having a Conservative government.”

—Vancouver-Granville NDP candidate Yvonne Hanson hours before the polls closed “I thought it was odd because I thought Don had a lock on the riding, given that he’s worked it hard, he’s got a national profile and he’s got a lot of ethnic groups that he works very hard with.”

—Former Vancouver-Kingsway MP Ian Waddell on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau beginning his election campaign alongside Tamara Taggart in Don Davies’ riding.

“All 338 seats [in the House of Commons] should matter, should mean something because every seat represents so many different voices of constituents, and I’m going to continue to be a loud voice.”

—Independent MP-elect Jody Wilson-Raybould to reporters in a scrum following her victory speech Monday night at the Hellenic Centre.

“Perhaps tonight we have not had the results we wanted or we expected, which is a majority

government, but we have a minority government. Liberals can work with anyone that shares our values and we’re ready to roll up our sleeves and work with other parliamentarians in the House who share our values to get the kinds of things that we promised to get done.”

—Liberal MP for Vancouver Centre Hedy Fry “I tried to share the values and principles of the Conservative Party, because this is not a standard we should have in Canada for a prime minister. So, I’m a little sad tonight, to be honest, that this is where Canada’s at, despite all of the issues we’ve had with this government. But, for some reason Canadians think that’s OK. —Conservative Party candidate Wai Young on election night after losing the riding of Vancouver-South to Liberal incumbent Harjit Sajjan “I congratulate the Liberal party for their minority government. I do think that the best laws and the best policies come from a minority government situation.”

—Independent MP-elect Jody Wilson-Raybould in her speech to supporters at the Hellenic Centre Monday night

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This week, Canadians elected a Liberal minority government. While the result was not surprising, there were surprises on election night.

Lisa Raitt, one of the Conservatives’ most thoughtful parliamentarians lost her seat. Ralph Goodale, Saskatchewan’s lone Liberal, lost, resulting in no elected Liberal MPs from either Saskatchewan or Alberta.

In Quebec, a party that wants to separate from the rest of Canada, increased its seat count from 10 to 32, primarily at the expense of the NDP. This certainly is a politically polarized country.

While Liberal-turned-Independent Jane Philpott lost her seat, locally Jody-Wilson Raybould won, as did Hedy Fry, Joyce Murray, Harjit Sajjan, Jenny Kwan and Don Davies.

It was an awful election campaign. The stump speeches and debates were often unforgivably cringe worthy, as was the mudslinging. For most of us, it was a relief to see it end.

During the campaign, the parties often tried to bribe us with our own money.

Many promises were made that were not costed and unlikely to be implemented.

Considerable discussion took place regarding affordable housing and the three major parties made numerous housing-related promises. Let’s look at some of them.

The Liberals promised to keep their first-time buyer incentive. This is essentially a shared-equity mortgage program like those implemented in U.K. and elsewhere. While these programs helped some firsttime buyers buy a home, they also resulted in people buying more expensive homes. Since the Liberals will form government, I expect this promise to be kept.

Liberals also promised to create a national tax on vacant residential properties owned by non-Canadians who don’t live in Canada.

As someone very concerned about the unintended consequences of Vancouver’s and B.C.’s so-called empty and vacant home taxes, I worry about this.

What will be the definition of a vacant residential property? Is it a dwelling that’s never occupied, or a furnished second home occupied less than six months a year? If it is the latter, I hope this promise is not kept.

The Liberals also promised to work with others to crack down on financial crime in the real estate sector. This is long overdue

and let’s hope this campaign promise is now kept.

The Liberals promised to build new, purpose-built, accessible and affordable housing for veterans and others. There is no doubt housing affordability across Canada was exacerbated when the Conservative government cancelled many federal programs in the early 1990s.

More federal money is desperately required, especially since many of Vancouver’s homeless and others seeking subsidized housing have arrived in our city from elsewhere across Canada.

The NDP, who may well play a small role in this minority government, promised an additional $5 billion to fund new affordable housing during its first 18 months in office. This is not going to happen.

It also promised to create half a million quality, affordable housing units over the next 10 years. That’s 50,000 units a year.

To put this in perspective, in 2017, housing starts hit a 10-year high at 221,000, and the 2019 estimate is for less than 200,000.

While it is not clear what the NDP meant when it said “it will create” this housing, this promise is now academic.

The NDP also promised to waive the federal

portion of the GST/HST for new affordable rental units. This is something I support since currently developers must pay GST on the construction of a rental unit, but not a condominium unit, since GST is paid by the buyer.

Let’s hope the NDP can convince the Liberals to make this happen.

The Conservatives promised to change the federal government’s “stress test” and, like the NDP, increase amortization periods on CMHC-insured mortgages to 30 years. CMHC’s CEO Evan Siddall, who was appointed CEO by a Conservative government, referred to these promises as “reckless myopia.” Don’t hold your breath waiting for this to happen.

While the Liberals made a lot of promises during the past four years, their promises did not always lead to actions.

As noted by one national TV anchor, the election campaign shined a flashlight on the deplorable conditions of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, which shocked many Canadians.

Let’s hope that over the next four years, we will see more federal money to improve the DTES and Vancouver’s rampant housing affordability crisis. @michaelgeller

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Hospital Show mines medical drama tropes for comedy

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Actors playing doctors on television is ubiquitous network fare.

But actors playing actors playing doctors on television at once is revolutionary and comedy gold.

Such is the conceit of Hospital Show, a locally shot digital series that hits the web on Oct. 24.

The series features reallife episodic television veterans Sara Canning (Remedy), Adrian Holmes (19-2), Jordan Connor (Riverdale) and Enid-Raye Adams (You Me Her) as the high-strung but immensely likeable stars of a highly rated medical drama called Critical Condition.

Hospital Show is the creation of Adam Greydon Reid, a child star (You Can’t Do That on Television) turned adult actor and commercial director who appears in the show as Will, an insecure, near-genius alcoholic who plays the same on television.

“I’ve been an actor all

my life and it’s the world I know and love. I’ve always wanted to portray that world in the way that it is, which is a workplace,” says Reid.

Acting, he says, is “a job, and I’ve always thought that having a workplace comedy set in the world of a show would be great because it would humanize the whole process.”

Reid chose to set his workplace comedy in a medical drama because of what he describes as the inherent irony of the situation.

“There are all sorts of reasons why actors go into acting and I think a lot of times it’s because there’s some healing that needs to take place,” says Reid.

“I thought the idea of wounded, broken, deluded, narcissistic, addicted people who have problems but are pretending to be healers is rich with comedy.”

Canning shines as Charlie, a med school dropout turned medical drama star whose existential crisis puts the future of Critical

Hospital Show debuts online on Thursday, Oct. 24 .

Condition in jeopardy. Canadian Screen Award winner Holmes plays Critical Condition’s top-billed actor, Rich, who, as the series opens, is worried about the state of his genitals. Connor — who has garnered a globespanning fanbase playing Sweet Pea on Riverdale — is perfectly cast as the social media obsessed millennial, Vince.

Hospital Show demonstrates something that Reid has long believed about

Vancouver’s dramatic actors: namely that, given the chance to do comedy, local actors bring the funny.

“I’ve already heard executives watch this and say, ‘I had no idea that these actors could do comedy like this,’ and I’m like, ‘They’re good actors, so they can do anything,’” says Reid.

“These actors are mostly used to doing heavy dramas and serious science fiction, because that’s what Vancouver does mostly. But

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when we had the rehearsals, I told them, ‘Don’t worry about being funny; play your characters as earnestly and seriously as you can.’

The scenarios are ridiculous and absurd, but as actors playing actors, they’re serious about them. Their job is to be truthful to the material, and in doing so, they’re absolutely hilarious.”

Hospital Show was designed as a serialized hybrid web series/mini-series/one hour comedy. It will first hit the web via 10, five-to-seven-minute weekly episodes, beginning with two episodes on Oct. 24.

Reid and Co. shot Hospital Show over seven days in early 2019 at the Bridge Studios and at Riverview Hospital.

The series was funded in part by the Independent Production Fund, the Bell Fund and Telus.

“The fact that the money exists, and the fact that you can go out and pitch an idea and put something together that’s your own vision is a miracle and a gift,” says

Reid. “You get a lot of nos in this business, and at a certain point you have to decide to do something on your own and see what happens and funds like these allow for that.”

For Reid, Hospital Show represents a watershed moment that brought him back to his roots.

“I went to film school 25 years ago and the minute I got out of film school, I went to work for other people,” says Reid. “I realized through Hospital Show that I’d stopped telling my own stories the minute I graduated from film school.

For me, this was an opportunity to go, ‘What do I want to do? What’s my voice? How do I express it again?’ I rediscovered my own voice.”

Hospital Show also features Lynda Boyd (Republic of Doyle) as a cutthroat showrunner, Motive star and episodic television director Kristin Lehman as a wizened makeup artist, and Valerie Tian as Vince’s social media foil.

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East Side Culture Crawl forums speak to artist displacement, affordability and other barriers

John Kurucz

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If there’s no culture left to crawl to, then what’s the point?

It’s a question Esther Rausenberg has wrestled with for 12 years.

Rausenberg is the executive and artistic director of the Eastside Culture Crawl, a multi-disciplinary art showcase established in 1997 that attracts tens of thousands to the area bound by Columbia Street, First Avenue, Victoria Drive and the waterfront.

This year’s show will deviate from its past format, in that politics will be in play right alongside printmaking, photos and painting.

Two days’ worth of workshops are scheduled this weekend where the topics of conversation will be solely about displacement, property tax, leases and land use.

Displacement Forum & Exhibition runs Oct. 25 and 26 at the Dudoc Vancouver location on Frances Street.

The Culture Crawl happens Nov. 14 to 17.

In a perfect world, Rausenberg would be focused exclusively on the Culture Crawl alone.

“Non-profit organizations are so stretched out, so overextended and even with us, with this survey and forum, it’s off the side of our desks,” Rausenberg said.

“It really then starts to take away from the real purpose of our organization, which is to present the visual artists and connect them with the public. This is not what I thought I would be doing.

I should be programming.”

The survey Rausenberg references is called “City Without Art? No Net Loss+.” The report won’t be released until Oct. 25, though Rausenberg shared some findings.

More than 320 art spaces were identified in the Culture Crawl’s catchment area and 317 people responded to survey questions around

costs, leases and pressures.

“Seventy-eight per cent of the artists surveyed said they plan on moving because the rents are going up or the building is being redeveloped,” Rausenberg said.

Two studios announced closures in the last month alone, displacing about 100 creatives. Clark Drive Studios closed its doors Oct. 1 after 17 years, while Acme Studios closes at the end of October after 11 years near Hastings and Columbia streets.

Land speculation and the corresponding huge cost increases were to blame in both instances.

Alex Waber is a commercial photographer who managed one of the gallery spaces at Acme for nine of its 11 years in the Downtown Eastside.

The gallery’s closure is largely tied to the deteriorating conditions in the neighbourhood. As the problems around open drug use, theft and crime worsened, more and more people left the studio.

The owner’s overhead got to a point where costs couldn’t be recouped from the few artists who remained. At its peak, 50 to 60 artists inhabited Acme’s 16 studio spaces, and Waber knows of only a few people who’ve found new places to go.

“One person has given up on the city and is moving away and I’m sure she’s not alone,” Waber said.

That person Waber cites is most definitely not alone.

Rausenberg began seeing artists leave Vancouver about seven years ago, and those issues get worse year over year. She suggests 400,000 square feet of arts production space has been lost in Vancouver over the last decade.

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“You’re not going to have a show to go to at some point.”

For its part, the city is trying to get a handle on the forces dogging Vancouver’s arts scene.

Three massive pieces of arts and culture legislation were passed in early September, calling for everything from a designated arts district to hiring a dedicated music staffer and asking the music industry to help as well.

There’s also a call to preserve 800,000 square feet of affordable arts spaces in the city over the next 10 years.

Many of the points raised in the three reports will take years to accomplish, if they’re accomplished at all.

The property tax quandary, arguably the biggest problem of them all, requires input from the province and B.C. Assessment.

And so the Courier asked Alix Sales, the city’s head of cultural spaces, what help Vancouver’s artists can expect in the short term, or what they can do to help themselves.

Sales commends the work Rausenberg is doing and encourages residents to participate in any and all feedback channels and public forums.

Changes will soon be forthcoming to the special events licensing process for gigs and other performances in warehouses and other off-the-beaten path spaces.

In the meantime, Sales stresses the need for artists to know who their landlords are and to understand the ins and outs of a lease: who pays what, how long the lease term is for and any clause that may allow for renegotiation.

“That is something we are thinking about constantly,” Sales said.

For info on this weekend’s forums, along with times and locations, log on to culturecrawl.ca. @JohnKurucz

Eastside Culture Crawl Society’s Esther Rausenberg at 901 Main St., which has been devoid of artists for years, and photographer Alex Waber at Acme Studios, which closes Oct. 31. PHOTOS DAN TOULGOET

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“For people who are lining up, the Macallan 25-year-old usually sells out; the Glen Grant 18-year-old historically sells out too,” says Shaw.

“The new Ardbeg 19-year-old is one of the oldest Ardbegs we’ve had in a long time, and I think those will go very quickly too.”

For Shaw, Nov. 2, 2019, is the day she gets to raise a glass to customers when BC Liquor Stores unveils its popular annual Premium Spirit Release.

The Premium Spirit Release also allows Shaw to share some of their newer finds from around the world. “We want to offer customers something new they haven’t tried before.”

Along with a global selection of whiskies Shaw has helped to discover, there are other premium spirits, including rums, gins, tequilas and liqueurs available during the event.

“It’s really popular with our customers. Every year it gets bigger,” she says.

That’s because the release is an opportunity to get your hands on rare whiskies and spirits.

This year’s “Rarities” – which are only available for purchase by registering your name for an in-store draw that includes Bowmore 50-year-old 1965 ($45,000), which will be drawn at the Park Royal Signature BC Liquor Store on Friday, Nov. 1, 2019, at 8 p.m.

This year’s event also includes whisky offerings from England, France, India and Japan.

“Japanese whisky is a hot trend right now,” she says.

Prefer bourbon? Taste some of the limited-edition bourbons. Shaw says single cask bourbon also usually sells out quickly, “because people realize what a unique opportunity it is to get these whiskies and that they will never be seen again.” Shaw also sourced and personally selected some single cask scotches as well a single cask Patron tequila.

This year’s Premium Spirit Release also includes tasting events at several liquor stores.

“We have brand ambassadors and master distillers. We have master blender Don Liverpool coming from J.P. Wiser, and he’s going to talk about Canadian whisky,” she says.

Want to try something different this holiday season? Shaw recommends Gran Patron Smoky ($269.99).

“First of all, I love tequila, and this is almost like a version of mezcal because of the smokiness, so it’s unique for Patron.”

Along with stocking up your own cellar, the Premium Spirit Release is also an excellent opportunity to discover the perfect gift for scotch or spirits lovers and the 108-page brochure, available at bcliquorstores.com, is an excellent guide to find something unique for every taste on your list.

If you’re new to scotch, Shaw recommends starting with the Glenmorangie Allta ($154.99).

“Glenmorangie single malts are always one of my favourites. They are very approachable with lots of honey and citrus flavours and is not peated. The Allta is true to the Glenmorangie style.”

There is also an in-store draw for the chance to purchase The Macallan Genesis 72-year-old ($78,000), The Macallan Exceptional Single Cask 9064 ($600), and The Macallan 30-year-old ($4,350) which will be held at the 39th and Cambie Signature BC Liquor Store on Thursday, Oct. 31, 2019, at 8 p.m.

Tickets are handed out at 5 p.m. on the day of the draw and customers must be present at the time to win the opportunity to purchase the Rarities.

Of course, it’s the more modestly priced – but equally coveted – bottles that draw the most attention during the Premium Spirit Release.

Shaw recently worked with Dr. Don Liverpool to help create J.P. Wiser’s Rare Cask Series Seven Rebels, which costs $69.99 and was created exclusively for BC Liquor Stores. “I can’t tell you how many whisky variations we went through to come up with this whisky. Usually, whiskies are sweet and easy drinking – we wanted this one to be more complex and layered with flavours. I highly recommend it.”

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Back in the 1980s, when Whistler Village was brand new, it was the place to party on the weekend if you were a teenager. On Friday afternoons, my friends and I would pile out of high school and into my Plymouth Valiant. I’d slam the push button transmission into drive and hit Highway 99 with the Young Canadians blasting from the stereo.

We’d sneak into Whistler venues such as the Boot Pub, Buffalo Bill’s and the Longhorn Saloon and crash for the night at chalets owned by friends’ parents in subdivisions such as Alpine Meadows, Blueberry Hill or, if we were lucky, in some ski bunny den of sin down near the Husky station.

The next afternoon, we’d stumble over to the tiny and packed South Side Deli for a heavily hung-over brunch.

And if it was warm enough, later that afternoon, my braver and better-looking friends would jump into Lost Lake naked. Then we’d start the whole process over again before heading home on Sunday.

Skip ahead 30 years, and a lot has changed for my Whistler weekend getaways. My family now visits the largest and busiest ski resort in North American for one weekend a year, every October, for the Whistler Writers Festival, which occurred last weekend.

Fall and spring are still considered Whistler’s shoulder seasons, but you can hardly tell, since the village was bustling with tourists from around the world. And while there’s no skiing yet, Whistler in October is beautiful. Blazing autumn leaves splash colour throughout the village and surrounding

A young Grant Lawrence (centre with glasses) experienced many walks of shame in Whistler, now he leads nature walks at the Whistler Writers Festival. TOP PHOTO COURTESY OF PETER WINTER. BOTTOM PHOTO PAUL SHORE

mountainsides.

Now in its 18th year, the Whistler Writers Festival has grown to become one of the best reader and writer summits in Canada. That’s thanks to the hard work of festival director, founder and author Stella Harvey and her dedicated army of volunteers.

For the past few years, I’ve hosted an event at the festival called the “Author’s Lake Walk,” which gets authors and attendees into Whistler’s great outdoors on Sunday at 9 a.m. for a hike to Lost Lake and back. When I was a teenager that was roughly the time I’d be enduring one of my many head-pounding Whistler Walks of Shame.

On the Lake Walk, warmed by hot chocolate and muffins, we pause for thought-provoking readings in beautiful natural settings.

And no one has jumped into the lake naked. Yet.

With my wife and little kids now in tow, I never set foot in Whistler’s party bars anymore. Instead of trying to score tickets for the Beat Farmers at Buffalo Bill’s, now I’m grappling for tickets for Norman Foote’s sold-out children’s concert at the Maury Young Arts Centre. Show time 1 p.m.

Instead of swilling warm Black Label beer in the bushes so the RCMP wouldn’t catch us, I’m now partaking in something called a Treetrek Tour on Blackcomb Mountain with my family, a guided “journey high among the treetops” on a series of suspension bridges, suspended staircases and platforms. It was nice but, admittedly, a bit odd having a New Zealander guide from literally the other side of the planet explaining your own backyard.

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A lot has to go right for the Canucks to make the 2020 playoffs. Elias Pettersson has to be even better in his sophomore season than he was as a rookie. The team’s overhauled defence has to quickly gel together in their all-new pairings. High-priced trade acquisition J.T. Miller has to perform in a top-six role.

Early in the season, most of those things have gone right. Pettersson has struggled at times, but is still a point-per-game player, the defence looks much-improved from last season, and Miller has quickly exceeded expectations, leading the team in goals and points. As a result, the Canucks are off to a strong start.

As of Tuesday, the Canucks had won five of their last six games and were sitting seventh in the Western Conference, with a plus-eight goal differential that ranked fifth in the NHL. They wouldn’t be anywhere near that spot in the standings, however, without the goaltending of Jacob Markstrom and Thatcher Demko.

The combined save percentages of the Canucks’ two goaltenders heading into Tuesday’s game against the Detroit Red Wings was .932, good for fourth in the NHL, behind only the goaltending of the Arizona Coyotes, Anaheim Ducks and Boston Bruins. Markstrom got things off to a strong start as the team’s number one before taking a personal leave for a week, while Demko was even better in his absence, posting a .943 save percentage in three starts.

The Canucks have needed that exceptional goaltending in several games, notably their shootout wins over the Philadelphia Flyers and defending Stanley Cup Champion St. Louis Blues. Against the Blues, Demko had to be perfect in the shootout, stopping all five shooters he faced after making 34 saves in regulation and overtime.

Both Markstrom and Demko have been exceptional, keeping the Canucks in every single game. They’ve been particularly good on the penalty kill, which has only allowed two goals in 27 opportunities. The Canucks have a 92.6 per cent penalty kill percentage, second only behind the San Jose Sharks.

Part of that could be attributed to the skaters on the penalty kill, but the Canucks have actually allowed a higher than average number of scoring chances while shorthanded, including the fifth highest rate of high-danger chances, according to analytics site Natural Stat Trick. The biggest reason the penalty kill has been successful has been

Stick-taps & Glove-drops • I am dropping the gloves with the Canucks for sitting Adam Gaudette in the press box. The young centre earned his spot on the roster with his preseason performance, but has only been in the lineup for three of the Canucks’ nine games. If he’s not going to play, he should be in the AHL playing big minutes.

• A tap of the stick to the Utica Comets.

The Canucks’ AHL affiliate has rattled off five straight wins to start the season, outscoring their opponents 29-11. It helps to have bonafide NHLers like Sven Baertschi and Nikolay Goldobin on the roster, but prospects like Kole Lind and Zack MacEwen have played a big role in the hot start as well.

Jacob Markstrom has been exceptional in net for the Canucks this season. And so has his backup Thatcher Demko. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

the goaltending.

The Canucks have gotten a combined .957 save percentage on the penalty kill so far this season, which is otherworldly.

Markstrom has a .966 save percentage while shorthanded, while Demko is at .941. The downside is that’s unlikely to continue: it’s just not possible for a goaltender to maintain a save percentage that high on the penalty kill over a full season. The highest last season was Andrei Vasilevskiy, at .911, so the Canucks will need to patch up their penalty kill to keep from crashing too hard when the inevitable regression comes.

We can look at another statistic to get a more holistic view of how good the goaltending has been for the Canucks. Goals Saved Above Average (GSAA) from analytics site Evolving-Hockey.com includes all situations — even-strength, penalty kill and power play — and also includes a measure of the shot quality that goaltenders have faced.

Essentially, it compares how a goaltender has performed compared to how a league-

average goaltender would perform facing the same quality of shots.

Markstrom and Demko rank eighth and ninth among the 49 NHL goaltenders that have faced at least 100 shot attempts this season.

The goaltenders on the chart below are just the ones whose GSAA is above zero.

Approximately half of NHL goaltenders have a GSAA below zero, which is typically how averages work: half above-average, half below-average. It’s not just that Markstrom and Demko are well above average, it’s that they both are: the exceptional performance of both goaltenders means there’s little-tono dropoff from the starter to the backup.

The Canucks can depend on both goaltenders to give them a chance to win.

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Big Numbers • 2.25 Nikolay Goldobin currently leads the AHL in points per game at 2.25 after putting up nine points in his first four games of the season. Teammates Sven Baertschi and Reid Boucher are close behind at 2.00 points per game.

• 13 Canucks prospect Carson Focht is off to a blazing hot start to his WHL season, with seven goals and 13 points in just eight games. The centre was drafted in his second year of eligibility in the fifth round at the 2019 draft in Vancouver.

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