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When Vancouver cops go bad… and do good

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I’ve got some heartwarming news and some unsettling news to share about some of Vancouver’s 1,300plus police officers. The unsettling stuff — which involves serious misconduct by officers — comes from the newly released annual report from the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner. The report summarizes files involving Vancouver and other B.C. municipal officers who got out of line in the last couple of years and were disciplined for it. I’ll share one file from Vancouver. Then — before former Vancouver Police Union president Tom Stamatakis takes to Twitter and accuses me of an imbalanced report — I’ll end with some heartwarming stuff from a patrol officer. Yes, heartwarming. You’ll see. First, the troublemakers… The report posted Oct. 22 to the OPCC website summarizes more than two

dozen files involving Vancouver officers, who were either on or off-duty when the incidents occurred. Some involved booze, sexual harassment and use of force, including inappropriate use of a police dog. In one case, a high-ranking officer yelled “profanities and derogatory comments” at officers conducting a check stop. I don’t have space to list each incident because it sheds more light on a story I posted Sept. 25 online about harassment in the VPD workplace. I previously reported that at least 51 VPD officers and 18 civilian staff said they were the subject of workplace harassment at some point between 2017 and 2018. The harassment identified was primarily related to race, gender, ancestry and sexual harassment, according to results of a survey completed last year by VPD officers and staff. Here’s a case from the OPCC report that confirms that: On March 14, 2018, an officer sent a text message that insinuated a forced sexual act. The same officer faced

More than two dozen Vancouver police officers were disciplined last year. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

three other undated allegations of discreditable conduct. That conduct: using “inappropriate” and rude language in the workplace specifically to degrade women, including making a comment to multiple female officers related to a “no dogs allowed” poster in the workplace. “The police officer acknowledged the behaviour and comments were clearly a mistake on his part and put many people in an uncomfortable position,” the report said. “The police officer was transferred to a different patrol squad during the investigation of these allegations.” Discipline: two days of

suspension served concurrently, a verbal reprimand and training or retraining in “respectful workplace or workplace harassment.” Now to that heartwarming stuff I promised… Sandra Glendinning is a VPD patrol sergeant and very active on Twitter. That’s how I came across a story she shared Oct. 15. Glendinning was reﬂecting on a domestic dispute call from her early days on the job. Here’s how she remembered it: “We knock at the door. A young woman answers. Her face is puffed from crying. She holds the door open so we can enter.

Her husband sits on the couch. His face is a scowl. “Their four-month-old is on a play mat, engaged in some unspoken game with their toddler. “I speak to the woman in the hall. Her husband suffered a back injury and can’t work. He’s on disability. It’s ﬁve days until cheque time and they have run out of money for diapers and formula. “She secured a job that day to help with the bills. That’s why they’re ﬁghting. “I confer with my partner. He adds to the story. Their rent takes most of the money. The husband had an extra medical expense that drained their funds. “My partner saw the receipt, and it’s not covered by medical. We go back in the living room. The couple are next to each other on the couch. He cradles the baby, and she plays pat-acake with the toddler. “There is so much love in the room. We provide a list of resources and leave. “I’m driving and my partner tells me to park in the 2500-block East Hastings

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City ready to launch phase two of Broadway Plan Naoibh O’Connor

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The City of Vancouver is ready to launch the second phase of the Broadway Plan now that phase one has concluded and council has approved nine guiding principles for the process. During phase one, dubbed the “listening” phase, residents provided feedback in numerous ways, including through surveys, “walkshops,” open houses and a pop-up lemonade stand. The various activities produced more than 10,300 “engagement contacts,” according to the city. Participants revealed their priorities include preserving and enhancing the distinctive character of each neighbourhood, improving walkability, retaining shopping streets and improving Broadway, which they felt lacks character. Participants were also concerned about renters, businesses and cultural spaces being displaced, and they called for more housing options such as rental and non-market housing close to transit, more job

space close to transit, and amenities and infrastructure to support growth. The nine guiding principles that council endorsed through a three-part motion Oct. 22 include: • to support affordable, diverse, equitable and inclusive complete neighbourhoods • to support Reconciliation with First Nations and urban Indigenous peoples • to foster a robust and diverse economy • to demonstrate leadership in sustainability and resilience • to encourage contextual design • to recognize and enhance the area’s distinctive neighbourhoods and places • to enhance Broadway as a great street • to provide and support healthy transportation options • to create and enhance parks and public spaces. Gil Kelley, the city’s chief planner, said the principles reﬂect the feedback collected over six months. “The input from the community has been invaluable as we work to create a plan

Phase two of the Broadway Plan, which is expected to run through April of 2020, will produce emerging directions for the plan, which will be refined in phase three. Phase four involves finalizing the plan and a council decision, which is anticipated at the end of 2020. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

that will meet their needs and aspirations and take into account citywide planning objectives and policies on key areas such as affordable housing, health and livability, sustainability, transportation and reconciliation,” he said in a press release. Not everyone is happy about the Broadway planning process, however. One person who spoke before council voted argued a vote for the Broadway

Plan guidelines would be akin to “pouring gasoline on the housing crisis,” while NPA Coun. Colleen Hardwick contended it shouldn’t be a separate exercise — rather it should be incorporated into the city-wide plan. But the mayor, and remaining councillors, were prepared to press ahead. The upcoming phase, which is expected to run through April of 2020, will

produce emerging directions for the plan, which will be reﬁned in phase three. Phase four involves ﬁnalizing the plan and a council decision, which is anticipated at the end of 2020. The Broadway Plan covers the length of Broadway between Clark Drive and Vine Street and First to 16th Avenues. The 30-year plan will deal with transitsupportive land use, housing, job space, transporta-

tion improvements, public space design and amenities around the future Broadway subway. New rezoning applications won’t be considered for the area during the planning process, with some exceptions that include applications that were already in the pipeline, enquiries that received written support from staff within the previous three years, applications for affordable housing such as social or supportive housing, and applications that could be considered under an exceptional circumstance, which receive an exemption from council. Currently, five rezoning applications are under review. There are seven active confidential enquiries and another five confidential enquiries that are inactive but could come forward during the planning process. The Broadway Planning area has a population of 78,000, is the second largest employment area in B.C., with more than 84,400 jobs, and 42 per cent of homes are rental housing.

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Vancouver city council passed a multi-pronged motion last week that suggests the one-year-old Oppenheimer Park tent city in the Downtown Eastside will continue to operate indeﬁnitely. The Oct. 23 motion requests city staff work with the park board to consider adding a community kitchen, laundry, clothes drying spaces and 24-hour sanitation facilities with running water “near Oppenheimer Park.” Oppenheimer residents already have their own unsanctioned drug injection site and campers recently built a “church” in a tarp-covered shelter large enough to store a car. The park board also added portable toilets to the encampment, which reached its one-year anniversary this month, despite 130 people having accepted housing offers in August. Deputy city manager Paul Mochrie made it clear at a September park board meeting city staff doesn’t want to be responsible for managing a permanent encampment.

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But in a telephone interview Oct. 24, Mochrie acknowledged there are elements of council’s motion that would support people living in the park and contribute to the tent city becoming permanent. “That’s certainly a potential implication of this,” he said, noting he understands the intent of council’s motion to provide immediate services for the campers. “Council’s looking at ways to support people while they’re there, so we’re going to have to ﬁgure out what that looks like. But at this stage, my assumption is we’re going to be there for a while.” Council did not request a

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court injunction be sought to clear Oppenheimer, despite the support of the Vancouver Police Department, which has cited concerns about crime and public safety at the park. Police reported a shooting Saturday that occurred on Dunlevy Avenue, which is adjacent to the west side of Oppenheimer. Police said the victim was visiting someone at the park when she was shot in a vehicle. Council’s motion suggested Mayor Kennedy Stewart and city staff were not working “aggressively” enough to pursue land and funding for modular housing, as well as shelter spaces for the winter.

“I don’t want to trash the mayor or the city staff, but the thing is we’ve got to bump up the pressure because it’s not acceptable that homelessness is growing,” said COPE Coun. Jean Swanson, who was responsible for adding the amendments to the motion about the mayor and staff. Vancouver’s homeless population was recorded in March at 2,223 people. Estimates vary on the number of people living in Oppenheimer, with 50 identiﬁed by city staff and up to 150 per night counted by campers at the park. Swanson’s amendments request the mayor and staff “engage in a more coordinated approach” with provincial ministers and staff to work “aggressively” to pursue land and funding for modular housing. She also asked the mayor and city staff to be aggressive in seeking shelter space this winter for more than 600 people, which was the number of people counted as unsheltered in the March homeless count. Swanson acknowledged Stewart has lobbied senior

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continue indeﬁnitely? levels of government for more money for housing, and that city staff have worked overtime with other agencies to ﬁnd housing for people living in Oppenheimer. But, she said, the need for more help on the housing front is bolstered by the full council putting senior levels of government on notice that Vancouver’s growing homelessness is unacceptable. B.C. Housing — the housing arm of the provincial government — said in an email Oct. 24 that it continues to work with the city and park board to “develop short and long-term solutions” for people camping at Oppenheimer and elsewhere in the Downtown Eastside. “While we have opened hundreds of new supportive homes in Vancouver over the last two years, there is very little vacancy across supportive housing buildings in Vancouver,” the statement said. “However, as appropriate units turn over, B.C. Housing continues to offer those spaces to people in Vancouver who are experiencing homelessness, including those camping at Oppenheimer Park.”

The direction chosen by council last week was in contrast to park board management’s request this summer to order people out of Oppenheimer — which failed — and to seek a court injunction to clear the park, which was rejected by park board commissioners. Concerns about crime and the safety of campers and staff working in the park, including police officers and firefighters, have been cited by the police department and city management since the summer. In September, the mayor, who was absent for last week’s vote, requested temporary jurisdiction of Oppenheimer from the park board to execute a plan that could include an injunction, although Stewart has only said “all options are on the table.” The park board rejected the mayor’s request, with park board chairperson Stuart Mackinnon calling instead for a multi-jurisdictional task force to address homelessness across Vancouver. Green Party Coun. Michael Wiebe, who tabled the Oct. 23 motion, said an injunction is “one spoke”

in a comprehensive plan that he wants city staff to develop and present to park board for approval. “Our goal is that next summer, hopefully, we have a park that’s functional,” Wiebe said. “We bring back the positive programming the park board has done, with dinners in the park and dancing in the park — and really trying to make neighbours feel connected.” But Wiebe stressed there is an immediate need to get homeless people — in all parks — the services they need, whether that be housing, treatment services or employment, or all three. NPA Coun. Lisa Dominato said she disagreed with the notion that council is allowing the tent city to operate indeﬁnitely, noting the series of measures requested aim to connect Oppenheimer campers with housing, treatment services and employment. “It signals to the province and to the federal government that we need help, and we have to work together on solutions,” said Dominato. A longer version of this story is at vancourier.com.

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East Van bar going to court to recover 40k of seized whisky Fets Whisky Kitchen was raided by B.C.’s Liquor and Cannabis Regulation Branch in 2018 Jessica Kerr

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The Vancouver bar that had $40,000 in whisky seized by the B.C. government nearly two years ago is going to court to try to get it back. In January 2018, Fets Whisky Kitchen, which has been a Commercial Drive mainstay since 1986, was raided by B.C.’s Liquor and Cannabis Regulation Branch. According to documents ﬁled in B.C. Supreme Court earlier this month, the branch received an anonymous tip in December 2017 that certain licensees were selling Scotch Malt Whisky Society products. The Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS) is a membershipbased service that specializes in rare and exceptional single cask whiskies. In B.C., licenced bars, restaurants and pubs are required to purchase any liquor through the B.C. Liquor Distribution Branch (LDB). Although SMWS products are lawfully imported into the province and are available for sale to the public at some private liquor stores, under the government’s regulations licensees cannot purchase alcohol from private purveyors. SMWS products are not available through the LDB. As a result of the tip, the branch investigated Fets, as

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well as the Grand Hotel in Nanaimo, and Little Jumbo and the Union Club in Victoria. In late December 2017, two liquor inspectors were instructed to conduct a “covert inspection” to confirm whether or not Fets stocked and sold SMWS whisky. The inspectors visited Fets and successfully ordered and paid for a SMWS whisky. The SMWS whisky was not immediately seized, but on Jan. 18, 2018 inspectors executed simultaneous raids at all four establishments. The liquor inspectors, accompanied by Vancouver police officers, arrived at Fets at 10 a.m. that day — one hour before the restaurant is permitted to sell alcohol — to conduct the search and question Allura Fergie, who owns the establishment along with husband Eric Fergie, over the lunch rush and into the afternoon. Over the course of five hours, the inspectors seized 242 bottles of Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS) single malt whisky. The couple was subsequently served with a notice that Fets was in contravention of the Liquor Control and Licensing Act. Earlier this year, the Fergies were fined $3,000 following a two-day hearing at the regulation branch office in Vancouver. The couple asked for the decision to be reconsidered, and in September the branch

issued a second decision reafﬁrming the ﬁne. The couple is also required to post a sign in the restaurant showing that a monetary penalty had been imposed. The Fergies, however, launched legal action Oct. 7 of this year to have the decision reviewed by a judge. In addition to getting the seized whisky back, the couple is petitioning the court to have the branch’s decision quashed. They argue that the Liquor Control and Cannabis Regulation Branch breached their Charter rights and conducted the enforcement hearing in a “procedurally unfair manner.” According to the court documents, the search was done without a warrant and inspectors failed to inform

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Allura Fergie of her Charter rights before beginning the interrogation. Fets argues that under the branch’s own regulations the inspectors should have seized the SMWS immediately rather than return to do so almost a month later. They also argue that inspectors should have obtained a search warrant and provided Allura Fergie with a Charter caution, advising her that she was not required to speak with liquor inspectors and could get a lawyer. The petition to the court also argues that the decision maker “literally pre-judged the entirety of the Enforcement Hearing, rendering the two days of hearing time that would follow her decision a sham, and depriving the Licensee of a fair hear-

ing… The [significance] of this breach of natural justice cannot be overstated.” Ahead of the hearing earlier this year, the Fergies requested a number of documents related to the investigation and search. The couple was told they would have to make a Freedom of Information request. After several months, and more than one extension, they received a series of heavily redacted documents just before the enforcement hearing was scheduled to take place. According to the petition to the court, the documents confirmed the “existence of an internal LDB briefing note and various emails setting out the particulars, approvals, and planning consideration by the LDB in advance of the search and seizure.” The Fergies requested that the documents be included in the evidence presented at the enforcement hearing, and the subsequent reconsideration, but were told they could not be accepted because any documentation had to be submitted at least two weeks before the hearing. The petition argues that the decision maker made a determination on the two issues at the heart of the Fergies’ case, that the inspectors did not have the authority to seize the liquor on Jan. 18, 2018 and that their Charter rights should have applied, without hearing any submis-

sions on them. j “These breaches of the most basic aspects of natural justice, to be heard and to have a case decided by a decision maker with an open mind, were denied,” the petition reads. In an interview with the Courier, Eric Fergie called the hearing “a sham” and “a farce.” The couple does not deny they were stocking SMWS whisky at the restaurant. In fact, Eric Fergie said, many of the bottles that were seized were on the shelves during previous liquor inspections — Fets was subject to 21 inspections over ﬁve years before the 2018 raid and never had an issue. The establishment was never cited for contravening the Liquor Control and Licensing Act. He also said that Fets is not an outlier in the industry. “There is not a day a bar or restaurant in this province that has a specialty program, be it cocktail, craft beer, spirits or wine, does not buy outside of the system so that they can continue doing what they love to do, which is what their customers want. If we are no longer allowed to offer any form of choice to our clientele we don’t have an industry.” None of the claims have been proven in court. The Liquor and Cannabis Regulation Branch has not yet ﬁled a response.

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At a time when there is a lot of darkness surrounding Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside neighbourhood, the annual Heart of the City Festival aims to hold up the light of the community. “We really want to come up from underneath and hold the light of the community and let the community hold the light, too,” said Terry Hunter, executive director at Vancouver Moving Theatre, which produces the annual festival along with Carnegie Community Centre and the Association of United Ukrainian Canadians. “It’s a very metaphoric theme but it really enables us to express a lot of things about this community that we’re able to shine a positive light but also grapple with the darkness,” he said. This year marks the 16th edition of the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival. This year’s event, Holding the Light, which runs until Nov. 10, features 12 days of music, stories, theatre, cultural celebrations, ﬁlms, gallery exhibits and history walks. There are more than 100 events taking place at more than 40 locations throughout the Downtown Eastside. The festival’s mandate is to promote, present and facilitate the development of artists, art forms, cultural traditions, history and stories of the neighbourhood. It involves a wide range of professional, emerging and student artists, and art lovers. More than 1,000 local artists and Downtown Eastside residents took part in last year’s festival. This year’s edition

features Opening Doors – Vancouver’s East End 2019. Directed by Donna Spencer, Opening Doors features the dramatization of selected stories from Daphne Marlatt and Carole Itter’s book Opening Doors. In the late 1970s, Marlatt and Itter collected and penned 50 oral histories of the Strathcona neighbourhood. Opening Doors was ﬁrst published as a double issue of Sound Heritage in 1979. Other highlights of this year’s festival include: • SRO: a play by Middle of the Sky (also known as Brenda Prince), which tells the story of an Indigenous woman trapped in a Downtown Eastside SRO and her efforts to escape her circumstances. The play is presented in parallel with the SRO Indigenous Women’s Project, a weeklong residency featuring visual art, ceremony, discussion and live performance led by Renae Morriseau and Sophie Merasty. • tszan: a passionate story about language and how it forms identity following the journey of a woman and her quest to reclaim her language. tszan (to make things better) is written and performed by Yvonne Wallace (Lilwat) and directed by Jefferson Guzman. • Home, Homelessness and the Culture In-Between: a week-long residency exploring the challenges and hopes of residents of the singleroom occupancy hotels in the Downtown Eastside. Led by Renae Morriseau and Sophie Merasty, it features an array of activities including visual art, facilitated discussions, ceremony and theatre.

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Where’s the school Olympic Village parents were promised? Tracy Sherlock

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Kindergarten registration in Vancouver starts Nov. 1. But Lisa McAllister, who lives in Olympic Village and doesn’t own a car, doesn’t have a neighbourhood school to register her daughter. Instead, she will walk 30 minutes from her home to sign up at Simon Fraser elementary, on West 15th Avenue between Cambie and Main, where she will ultimately have to win a lottery to get her daughter in. “Do I have to buy a car to get my kids to school? That seems absurd,” McAllister said. The Olympics have come and gone, nearly a decade ago, and city plans have long called for a school to be built in Olympic Village by 2020. But despite the land being available and the school board asking for the money to build a school since 2007, the province hasn’t agreed. Ground has yet to be broken, there is no project in the works.

For McAllister, who also has a one year old, the school is the heart of a community. “I think our community is really missing that and I think that we deserve to have that for our kids,” McAllister said. Kids from Olympic Village go to many different schools throughout Vancouver. The eight kids who aged out of McAllister’s daughter’s daycare to kindergarten this fall went to eight different elementary schools. That makes it tough to carpool, tough to arrange childcare, tough to maintain friendships, tough for older kids to get any measure of independence and tough to build a community. City councillor Lisa Dominato, who was a school trustee before turning to city council, put forward a motion last month, asking city staff to create a “fast-track” process to approve schools. The motion, which passed, calls for the city to consider leasing the designated land adjacent to Hinge Park at the foot of

Lisa McAllister (left) and Fiorella Pinillos (right) are Olympic Village parents with kids at Creekside Preschool. PHOTO TRACY SHERLOCK

Columbia Street to the VSB for a nominal sum to expedite construction and to consider building a modular school. “I think it’s critically important that the province look at this, both in the context of our local priorities, but also provincial priorities in terms of reducing our carbon footprint and supporting walkable neighbourhoods,” Dominato said. The Olympic Village school is caught in a power struggle between the province and the Vancouver School Board. The province

usually pays for schools to be built, while it’s the role of the school board to manage enrolment and catchment areas. Simon Fraser elementary has been bursting at the seams since at least 2013, when 88 kindergarten students signed up for 44 spaces. Last year, 105 signed up. Five other nearby schools are also squeezed for space. McAllister and a group of neighbourhood parents want the VSB to look at creative solutions, such as building a temporary

modular school or sending neighbourhood kids by bus to another school with room. “I think if we are creative, we could find a mutually acceptable interim solution,” McAllister said. Education Minister Rob Fleming said it was only this past June that the VSB identified an Olympic Village school as its number one request. He touted the province’s announcements of $272 million for badly needed seismic upgrades in the city’s schools. He agreed that parts of Vancouver are densifying, but said enrolment is not forecasted to grow in the city’s schools. “…[T]he Vancouver School Board has a large number of surplus seats with many schools operating below their intended capacities. Three hundred and fifty of these surplus seats are within two kilometers of Olympic Village,” Fleming said in an emailed response. Those extra seats are at Crosstown, Nightingale and Mount Pleasant elementary schools, the ministry said.

But the VSB says Crosstown will be full within the next few years, so it’s not a long-term solution. Mount Pleasant only has room for 60 more students, which isn’t enough to hold the Olympic Village child population, and Nightingale has room for 163. While it is within two kilometres of Olympic Village, Nightingale, near Kingsway and 12th Avenue, is a 30-minute walk away from Olympic Village, along one of the city’s busiest corridors. It doesn’t sound like Fleming plans to fund a school anytime soon. Parents are frustrated. “There’s a small chance a new school might be here for my son, who is now one,” McAllister said. “There’s almost a whole generation here that’s being punished through no fault of their own.” The powers that be must ﬁnd a solution for a neighbourhood school in Olympic Village before another generation of kids spends their elementary school lives separated, isolated and far from home.

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Courier counted 25 for-lease signs along a 10-block span on Granville Street recently John Kurucz

conversation in her barber shop’s three chairs. Petan said the neighbourhood’s business mix is totally uneven — too many high-end furniture stores and not enough of anything else. “This is so sad. When we ﬁrst opened, people were coming from everywhere. You don’t see so many people buzzing around South Granville anymore, even in the summer,” Petan said. “I keep asking ‘Where are all the people?’”

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A once-in-a-generation bloodletting is killing small, independent business in one of the city’s marquee commercial districts, leaving dozens of Vancouverites without a job before year’s end. Bound by the area spanning West Sixth to West 16th avenues, the South Granville shopping district is seeing a massive exodus. In the last month alone, the Ouisi Bistro, West Restaurant and women’s clothing store Plum announced closures. The Ouisi closed Oct. 26, Plum was done around the same time and West will close on New Year’s Eve. That’s 65 years’ worth of neighbourhood business gone. Plum and the Ouisi are owned by Vancouverites and staff dozens who live in the city as well. “I don’t think I’d recommend my daughters to go and become entrepreneurs, at least in this city,” Plum co-owner Ed Des Roches told the Courier. “In small business, things change so fast and there’s so much disruption nowadays that it’s impossible to enter into an enterprise thinking that this is what you’re going to do to support your family.” The Courier counted 25 for-lease signs along a 10-block span on Granville Street and spoke to numerous business owners. Circumstances differ slightly in each case, but there are common talking points uniting them all: skyrocketing property taxes, fractured lease negotiations and minimum wage increases are killing them. Des Roches once had nine stores across B.C. and Alberta, employing close to 2,000 people. Most of Des Roches’ employees were women and he paid millions in property taxes in Vancouver, Kelowna, Victoria and Calgary. Six of his stores closed this year, resulting in 65 job losses. His Kitsilano store closed in 2018 after 37 years, while his shop at Granville and 12th had been there for close to two decades. There are mitigating circumstances in Des Roches’ case above and beyond property taxes, of which he pays $60,000 annually. Changing trends in women’s fashion and off-shore production have forced the business to change and, at 68, Des Roches is looking to retire. The provincial NDP’s

Owners of independent businesses in South Granville say the city’s high property taxes, labour costs and exorbitant leases are forcing them out of the neighbourhood PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

phased minimum wage increase — from $11.35 last year to $15.20 by 2021 — adds close to 40 per cent to Des Roches’ ﬁxed costs. Des Roches and others who spoke to the Courier noted the minimum wage increase also tacks on additional costs for an employer once the wage goes up: employment insurance, Canada Pension Plan, vacation pay and Workers Compensation Board premiums. “I invested quite a bit of money to try and accommodate that and make changes in the company, but I was never seeing a return on it so that put us quite a bit into debt,” Des Roches said. “We really haven’t been making money for a number of years. I’ve had the business up for sale for the last couple of years and nobody’s interested.” Rob Clarke owned the Ouisi Bistro since it opened on Granville and 14th in 1994. The area’s lone live music venue went silent on Oct. 26 as a result of lease negotiations that would have doubled his costs. Sixteen people are out of a job, all of whom live in Vancouver. Clarke said every cost in his world has gone up beyond a point that can be recouped: property taxes, food costs, insurance, utilities and garbage pickup. Even televising sports on the bar’s TVs has become more expensive, after Bell and Rogers increased fees for establishments with liquor licences. But it’s the minimum wage hikes in particular that have killed Clarke’s business model. He and others in the food service industry argue that because servers can make big money in tips, the

minimum wage increases have thrown the financials out of balance. “The minimum wage increase was the final straw that broke the camel’s back — we’ve had three successive wage increases in 30 months,” he said. “The last one in June, that was it. We were killed.” Clarke agrees with Des Roches’ suggestion that young people shouldn’t risk entering the small business sector in Vancouver. His eldest daughter recently moved from Vancouver once she graduated from high school, as will his 14-year-old son. Clarke will leave town once his youngest has graduated. “It’s critical,” Clarke said of the precarious business climate on South Granville. “We’ve been trying to warn the city about this for years. The system is broken.” Owen Knowlton is the restaurant director at West Restaurant and has worked there for 15 of its 20 years. He didn’t get into any financial specifics other than to say the restaurant’s closure comes as a result of failed lease re-negotiations. All of the affected staffers are being offered jobs at other establishments that operate under the Toptable Group banner. In the 60 years that Knowlton, Clarke and Des Roches have been in the area collectively, they’ve never seen the amount of turnover, vacancy or uncertainty they see today. “What was expected from this area 15 years ago, it never made it,” Knowlton said in an interview. “A lot of South Granville is changing. A lot of the high-end galleries and all of the nice establishments have kind of moved on. It’s a different feel here nowadays.”

Ramin Rahim moved into the neighbourhood 10 years ago and had to wait months for an opening near West Sixth and Granville where his fine arts and antiques business Ramin and Sons sits. He spoke to the Courier on a day when three forlease signs are displayed on his block alone. Rahim’s store will close as soon as he gets rid of all his inventory. He has to be out by March 2020 at the latest, when his lease ends. Taxes and the minimum wage increase have been Ramin and Sons’ death knell. Clientele is down, overhead is up and hiring staff is impossible. “It is really sad what is happening here,” Rahim said. South Granville Business Improvement Association executive director Ivy Haisell said problems facing the neighbourhood only became apparent in May. Until then, vacancy rates were among the lowest in the city, hovering around 10 per cent. Haisell isn’t sure what changed last spring, but says speculative purchasing or development tied to the Broadway Subway announcement — which will have a stop at Broadway and Granville — isn’t to blame. Instead, a confluence of factors have all come to surface at the same time: affordability is out of whack for both business and residents, the area’s aging demographic isn’t spending as much and getting the necessary permits from city hall is a drawn out, onerous process. Legacy businesses — butchers, florists, produce stands — left the area in the last decade or two, and the children of those business

owners either didn’t want to take over or couldn’t afford to, Haisell added. Like others, Haisell says property taxes and the B.C. Assessment model of “best and highest use” for a plot of land is having devastating effects on locally-owned, independent business. The national and multi-national companies in the area — Starbucks, McDonald’s and the Brick, for example — are largely unaffected, or have a higher threshold to absorb the myriad of cost increases. “The situation is critical,” Haisell said. “It’s not just in my area, it’s across the city. It’s just starting to hit South Granville and it’s really hard to do business.” Haisell has looked into who owns the land in her area and suggests it’s largely the children of offshore investors. That second generation lives in the city, while their parents don’t, and those young people are making a living by running their parents’ investment properties. Rosanna Petan has been in the area since 1999, ﬁrst working alongside her dad and then eventually taking over his business, Frank’s Barber Shop. Her father established the business near West 15th and Granville in 1968 before it moved to its current location on West 11th Avenue, steps away from Granville Street. She’s one of the few lucky ones in that her property taxes have remained relatively consistent since taking over the shop in 2004. Petan’s landlord owns several businesses on the corner of the block and is “very fair” when it comes to rent increases. Still, the changing face of the area is a daily source of

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The city is working on a study that looks at the issues Petan and others have cited and a report is expected to go to council in November. Along with South Granville, ﬁve other shopping districts in the city are being examined: Collingwood, Commercial Drive, Hastings North (East Village), Marpole and West Broadway. The report will focus on the seven-year period from 2012 until now and key in on business indicators such as: challenges the small business sector faces, the amount of change seen in those six districts, a review of best practices from other cities and suggestions for future policy decisions. Bizmap is an online tool that’s based on info collected by the city, Small Business B.C. and BIAs. Data is combed from previous census information, and the website provides info on neighbourhood-speciﬁc demographics, rents, lease rates, populations and density. Bizmap indicates 387 businesses operate in South Granville, and retail (at 37 per cent) is the dominant industry in the area. The website says average lease rates hover between $28 and $65 per square foot, but those who spoke to the Courier for this story place those numbers between $75 and $110. By comparison, the leases rates on Robson Street are $140 per square foot, $60 in downtown, $41 on West Broadway and $29 in Mount Pleasant. Clarke’s negotiations to keep the Ouisi going saw him faced with an offer of close to $100 per square foot. He balked, and now after 25 years, he’ll walk. “It is laughable. I’m done,” Clarke said. @JohnKurucz

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Michelle Muldoon grew up watching westerns with her dad. She loved the grittiness, the realism and the shoot-outs that populated ﬁlms such as The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Two Mules for Sister Sara. It wasn’t until much later, when Muldoon was already working in the Vancouver ﬁlm industry as a writer, director and AD, that she took a long moment to contemplate how women had been represented in the genre she loved. And what Muldoon realized during that moment of pondering was bad, ugly and not very good at all. “What we’ve seen with women in westerns is what we call the Madonna-whore complex, where you’re either the hooker in the saloon or you’re the long-suffering, dedicated wife at the farm-

house,” says Muldoon. “If you’re not those two, you’re not in it. There have been dynamic female characters throughout in some way — Sharon Stone in Unforgiven comes to mind — but they’ve always been an offshoot of those roles.” But you won’t find any of those character types in Last Stand to Nowhere, even though it features an allfemale cast and is undeniably a western. The locally shot short film — which Muldoon wrote and directed — takes the story of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and re-tells it with women characters. Chelah Horsdal (The Man in the High Castle) stars as Wylona Earp, Johannah Newmarch (When Calls the Heart) plays Doc Holliday and Luvia Petersen (Continuum) portrays Ida Clanton. “It’s not only the most retold story in westerns, it is

Michelle Muldoon’s Last Stand to Nowhere takes the story of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and re-tells it with women characters.

the most well-known internationally in westerns, and it’s almost become mythological,” says Muldoon. “I knew that if I wanted to tell a western that any audience anywhere would have some grounding in, and therefore could question with me, it would be this story. “People treat the Gunﬁght at the O.K. Corral as a historical fact, but the story that we run with was told by

Wyatt Earp to screenwriter Stuart Lake in the later years of his life, so it’s not really history because we only have that one person’s recollection of his role,” adds Muldoon. Last Stand to Nowhere was ﬁnanced through crowdfunding and went to camera in 2018. Shooting (both ﬁlmic and of the gun-slinging variety) took place at the Jamestown Movie Set in Langley, where Hallmark’s

historical family drama When Calls the Heart also ﬁlms. “There was a point on set where I looked at a couple of people with me at the monitors and said, ‘This just feels so normal to me, is it just me?’ And everyone around me said, ‘No, this feels normal,’” says Muldoon. “No one had a problem buying into women gunslingers because these actresses brought a universal quality to everything they did.” Muldoon’s Last Stand journey hasn’t all been smooth sailing. From the get-go, she’s encountered pushback, primarily from “older gentlemen who grew up with the story.” “That’s been the hardest part for me to realize that, as a Canadian, Americans don’t see this as a mythological tale. They think this is their history that I’ve messed with, so I want to cut the people who have pushed

back some slack on that.” Last month, Muldoon was the lone Canadian filmmaker invited to attend the venerable Almeria Western Film Festival in Spain. The festival takes place in Tabernas, in a replica Wild West town that was built for Sergio Leone’s For a Few Dollars More. Muldoon’s experience in Spain taught her that, as a filmmaker dedicated to producing women-driven westerns, she’s an outlier. She also learned that the appetite for films like Last Stand to Nowhere is very much alive. “The line I kept hearing was, ‘You’re very brave to have made this,’ and the festival director thanked me for making this film and said he wants to see more women in westerns,” says Muldoon. “We were shown by this renowned and trailblazing western film festival that we belong, and that’s something we’ll carry with us forever.”

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sons, most fans at the games seemed more entertained with what was on their phone than what was on the ice. This year’s home opener was clearly a special night, and fans throughout the arena loved it, though it’s hard to clap with a phone in your hand. But the colourful bunch near the rafters in sections 325 and 326 were all on their feet, going absolutely bananas with banners, signs, costumes and an array of colourful Canucks uniforms through the decades. Then I noticed the banner on the back wall: It read “Larscheiders,” and featured a smiling photo of the Canucks’ legendary colour commentator of 27 years, the great Tommy Larscheid. His broadcasting passion was simply unmatched, and I absolutely loved listening to him. It was his ﬁre in the belly that allegedly cost Larscheid his job, when he apparently showed too much pure fervour in a live, pre-game speech on the radio during the 2010 playoffs. The series ended badly, with the Canucks getting the skate boot from the Blackhawks, who went on to win the Stanley Cup. At age 70, Larscheid was supposedly forced to hang ’em up. Cut to March 2016. That’s when local sports writer Rob Williams wrote a scathing article about what a pathetic experience attending a Canucks game had become, stating that the “once raucous arena has the atmosphere of a library,” and went on to state that from the moment the Canucks’ 2011 Cup run ended, “the atmosphere has been dying a slow death ever since.” Someone in Canucks’ management agreed and got in touch with Williams

The Larscheiders make a lot of noise. PHOTO DEVIN MANKY

about coming up with a tangible idea to create something similar to the Southsiders, an organic fan group that helps create the electric atmosphere often found at Whitecaps soccer games. Williams brought on his hockey buddy and East Van childhood friend Carlo Bodrogi to co-found their own fan group. They started with a Facebook page and soon had more than 100 interested fans. The unnamed bunch made their loud and colourful debut in the rafters of a Canucks/Jets game in December 2016. They were an instant hit, and momentum has steadily grown, but they didn’t ﬁnd their name until their second year. Williams and Bodrogi realized that the passion they were trying to bring back was largely extinguished when Larscheid was ushered from the airwaves. “After we picked the name, Rob and I sat down for coffee at the Oakridge White Spot with Tommy, and he wholeheartedly supported the endeavour and spent almost two hours telling us old stories,” explained Bodrogi. “Our hearts exploded. Larscheid’s straight-talking passion is what made him different from all the other voices, and we felt that his energy was exactly what we wanted to embody. It’s been a big success ever since, which real fans from

an array of backgrounds and ages have ﬂocked to.” Any fan can join the Larscheider, which are in their third season, as long as they follow the group’s 10 commandments of conduct, some of which include: • Stand the entire game and react to what’s happening on the ice. • Watch the game! Put your signs down and your phone away. • It’s not about us. It’s about supporting the Canucks and having fun, not telling others how great we are. • Chants should be clever and/or have the goal of spreading through the arena. The Larscheiders also have zero tolerance for anything considered racist, sexist or in poor taste. Also, Alex Ovechkin clearly doesn’t suck, so don’t yell that he does. The group also points out they are not just about a cheap ticket and an expensive drunk. It’s about being engaged with this year’s surprisingly good Canucks team and having fun at the rink again. The Larcheiders’ next game is Thursday Nov. 14, when Vancouver takes on Dallas. Maybe 79-year-old Tommy Larscheid himself will be living it up in the stands, on his feet and cheering with that group of Canucks fans who share both his name and his passion for the game.

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Elias Pettersson is building a more sustainable foundation for future success

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One of the rarely discussed secrets of Elias Pettersson’s rookie season is that he was extremely unlikely to repeat his incredible performance. The Canucks’ phenom came roaring out of the gate, scoring a highlightreel goal on the first shot of his career. He had 10 goals in his first 10 games, leading to comparisons to some of the all-time greats in NHL history. Even though he slowed down in the back half of the season, he broke franchise records and led all rookies in scoring by six goals and 21 points. There was just one issue: the way he scored goals just wasn’t sustainable. Pettersson’s shot is ridiculous, with a lightning-fast release that still gets a lot of power behind the puck and propels it with pinpoint accuracy. Even with that shot in mind, however, his shooting percentage was abnormally high. Pettersson scored on 19.4 per cent of his shots. Essentially, one out of every five shots on goal from Pettersson hit the back of the net. That ranked sixth in the NHL last season among players with at least 100 shots on goal. The simple truth is that players don’t maintain a shooting percentage that high from season to season, even the best players in the NHL. Steven Stamkos, who has a 60-goal season under his belt, is a good example. He had a shooting percentage similar to Pettersson’s last season — 19.2 per cent — but the season before that, he shot at a more pedestrian 12.7 per cent. So, it should come as no surprise that Pettersson isn’t racking up goals the same way he did last season. A lot had to go right for Pettersson to score the way he did as a rookie: sometimes it’s a matter of inches determining whether a shot goes into the top corner or gets snagged by the goaltender’s glove or misses the net entirely. In addition, defences and goaltenders were unprepared for his skill and shot last season. Now, teams are keying in on Pettersson, giving him less time and space with the puck and nullifying the threat of his one-timer on the power play. Fortunately, Pettersson has adapted. He’s weaponized the defensive attention he’s received as the focal point of the Canucks’ offence and used it to

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Elias Pettersson has adapted his game this season by weaponizing the defensive attention he’s received as the focal point of the Canucks’ offence and using it to make everyone around him better. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

make everyone around him better. “Now they know who I am, they know what I am capable of,” said Pettersson early in the season. “I think maybe they are putting more focus on me. It’s up to me to come up with new ways to beat them.” He has. Instead of a stone-cold sniper, racking up goals, Pettersson has kicked off his sophomore season by becoming an elite playmaker. Pettersson is tied with Leon Draisaitl for the NHL lead in primary assists, the pass that leads directly to a goal. It’s a more sustainable way for him to rack up points than relying on a shooting percentage binge and, as a result, the Canucks are signiﬁcantly out-scoring their opposition with Pettersson on the ice. Pettersson hasn’t shied away from the physicality as teams have tried to get him off his game and frustrate him. Instead, he’s welcomed it. “I think it’s good they want to get me off [my game], to get in my head,” he said to The Athletic Vancouver. “It means they’re worried about me... I see it as a good thing. I just try to make them focus on me too much, make them angry, try to draw a penalty or something.”

More often than not, Pettersson draws that focus towards himself, then sets up a teammate, who suddenly has a lot more time with the puck to score himself. Now his line with J.T. Miller and Brock Boeser is legitimately one of the best lines in the NHL. Some Canucks fans have questioned why Pettersson isn’t scoring at will like he seemed to do in his rookie season, but that’s the wrong perspective. That he’s scoring at a better than point-pergame rate while his shooting percentage is a lot closer to the league average is an extremely positive sign.

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The Lands File Number for this application is 2412084. Comments on this application may be submitted in two ways: 1) Online via the Applications and Reasons for Decision Database website at: https://comment.nrs.gov.bc.ca/applications 2) By mail to the Senior Land Officer at 200 – 10428 153rd Street, Surrey, BC V3R 1E1. Comments will be received by the Ministry of Forests Lands and Natural Resource Operations until November 29, 2019. Comments received after this date may not be considered.

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Take notice that Lehigh Hanson Materials Limited from Vancouver, BC, has applied to the Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development (FLNROD), Surrey for a miscellaneous Crown land lease situated on Provincial Crown land located at the foot of Oak Street – South, unsurveyed Crown foreshore or land covered by water being part of the bed of the Fraser River, NWD, containing 0.08 hectares, more or less.

PRACTICAL NURSING

The following vehicles will be seized due to nonpayment of storage fees unless claimed by a person who establishes a legal right to the said property, per the Warehouse Lien Act, by Precise ParkLink Inc. 6993 Antrim Ave. Burnaby BC, as of November 3, 2019: 2006 PONTIAC MONTANA, van, grey 1GMDV23L46D231050. Abandoned and owned by BERNARD LEDUC, former resident of 205-1450 MARINE DR SW, VANCOUVER BC, V6P 5Z9. Amount Owing $1540. 2010 MAZDA 3, 4door sedan, grey, JM1BL1S55A1114845. Abandoned and owned by SAM DONALD WONG, former resident of 2301450 MARINE DR SW, VANCOUVER BC, V6P 5Z9. Amount owing $3360.

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All advertising published in this newspaper is accepted on the premise that the merchandise and services offered are accurately described and willingly sold to buyers at the advertised prices. Advertisers are aware of these conditions. Advertising that does not conform to these standards or that is deceptive or misleading, is never knowingly accepted. If any reader encounters non-compliance with these standards we ask that you inform the Publisher of this newspaper and The Advertising Standards Council of B.C. OMISSION AND ERROR: The publishers do not guarantee the insertion of a particular advertisement on a specified date, or at all, although every effort will be made to meet the wishes of the advertisers. Further, the publishers do not accept liability for any loss of damage caused by an error or inaccuracy in the printing of an advertisement beyond the amount paid for the space actually occupied by the portion of the advertisement in which the error occurred. Any corrections of changes will be made in the next available issue. The Vancouver Courier will be responsible for only one incorrect insertion with liability limited to that portion of the advertisement affected by the error. Request for adjustments or corrections on charges must be made within 30 days of the ad’s expiration. For best results please check your ad for accuracy the first day it appears. Refunds made only after 7 business days notice!

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