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Vancouver renews call for transit on East First

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Hands up all those people who dream of a day where you can ride a public transit bus along East First Avenue.

Wow, I see there are a lot of you.

Well, I’m happy to report the City of Vancouver is on the case.

In fact, the city has been on the case since 2005 when the Vancouver-University of B.C. Transit Area Plan identified the need for transit service on the East First Avenue corridor.

The idea surfaced again in the 2017 GrandviewWoodlands community plan. The 2017 False Creek Flats area plan also noted new bus service should be provided on Terminal Avenue, which connects to East First Avenue.

So what’s the hold-up?

In short, there’s a ton of planning to do.

First, I want to tell you why I’m writing about this now (other than the fact

that I’ve driven East First Avenue for decades and it’s become incredibly congested with vehicles, many with only the driver inside).

About a month ago, during council debate over calming Prior Street in Strathcona to traffic, there was some broader discussion about bus routes in Vancouver.

East Hastings and Broadway were mentioned.

That’s when Lon LaClaire, the city’s transportation director, informed council that staff recently submitted some info to TransLink about getting bus service on East First Avenue.

I followed up and learned staff’s submission was in regards to TransLink’s Transport 2050 plan, which is in the planning stages and involves the agency collecting feedback from the public and municipal governments.

Some of the key points in the submission, as outlined by the city’s communications staff, were obvious:

East First Avenue, which doesn’t have bus service, is one of Vancouver’s busiest east-west traffic corridors. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

bus service along East First Avenue would fill a transit network gap and connect riders in Burnaby to downtown, and vice-versa.

Staff’s submission also made it clear that any future bus service along East First Avenue should incorporate zero emission buses, which would keep in line with the city’s so-called climate emergency response goals.

I wanted to hear more about staff’s interest, so I spoke to Dale Bracewell, the city’s manager of transportation planning, who cautioned that the submis-

sion was simply that — a submission.

And, he added, that if and when service comes to East First, there will be a whole other level of discussion locally before the first bus rolls along the strip. “[TransLink] told us this was an opportunity to download all of our policy and programs and ideas of the past, so that’s certainly what we wanted to do here for East First Avenue,” he said.

“This is really important to fill a [bus] network gap.”

For those of you familiar

with East First Avenue, you’ve probably got a couple of questions.

Like: How would a bus stay on schedule with the congestion?

And: How much construction would be needed to build bus pull-outs or insets along the road to accommodate bus stops?

Good questions.

And, as expected, they won’t come with definitive answers until TransLink finalizes its 2050 plan. But Bracewell was good enough to look down the road at what may or may not be possible.

On bus stop insets, or leaving the road the way it is: “We would look at both options, to be honest. But it’s not that we would definitely try and expand the road to deal with those bus stops. Depending on which option is preferred, there could be some capital [investment], or it could be fairly easy to introduce.”

On making the buses run on time: “You recognize

obviously the challenge.

However, TransLink does their scheduling based on time of day, amount of vehicle travel time and congestion, and they’re always adjusting that.”

Which brings me to TransLink, which didn’t have much to add, except to confirm they received the City of Vancouver’s submission for the Transport 2050 plan.

“We are reviewing and assessing all Transport 2050 idea submissions from the first phase of engagement over the coming months,” said Dan Mountain, a TransLink media relations staffer, in an email.

“The next phase of engagement for Transport 2050 is in the spring, where the public will be asked to consider trade-offs based on different transportation packages of projects, services and policies.”

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City fast-tracking detox and social housing complex Council unanimously endorsed project but it earned mixed reviews from neighbourhood Naoibh O’Connor

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The city’s new detox and social housing complex in East Vancouver is inching closer to reality.

Construction on the project, which is planned for a large site at Clark Drive and East First Avenue, is anticipated to begin mid to late 2020.

It’s being built on properties at 1636 Clark Dr. and 1321-1395 East First Ave. The City of Vancouver owns the land and Vancouver Coastal Health and B.C. Housing are involved in the project, which is designed to address the affordable housing and addiction crises.

Council approved the rezoning application for the property in a unanimous decision last February, although it was controversial.

That decision paved the way for B.C. Housing to submit a development permit application for the complex, which went

before the Development Permit Board Oct. 28. BC Housing will now consider the Development Permit Board’s revisions.

B.C. Housing is also preparing to submit a building permit application.

While work will likely start next year, it’s difficult to pinpoint when. “…Exact timing is dependent upon the city’s approval of the building permit and tenant relocation. Construction is estimated to be complete approximately 32 months after commencement,” B.C. Housing spokesperson Laura Mathews told the Courier in an email.

The development will produce a 10-storey mixeduse building featuring 97 social housing units, social enterprise space for Indigenous healing and a withdrawal management centre, including up to 20 short-term transitional beds. It will be three to four storeys spanning most of the block between Clark

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and McLean drives, but rise to 10 storeys for the portion of the building facing Clark Drive and six storeys for the portion facing McLean Drive.

The development is being fast-tracked under the city’s Social Housing or Rental Tenure (SHORT) program. Launched in October 2017, the SHORT program is designed to deliver 1,700 units of housing that are affordable to a

“diverse range of incomes” over two years, and reduce development processing times by four weeks.

Faster processing times are possible because a dedicated team of city staff from across different departments work as a single group.

“Median development approval times for SHORT projects are now under 13 weeks. There are 4,389 units currently in

the SHORT pipeline, in all stages of development from rezoning to under construction, with over 900 units under construction,” the City of Vancouver told the Courier. In 2016, the median processing time was 18.5 weeks.

At least 50 per cent of the social housing units in the Clark Drive/East First development are expected to be rented at or below the B.C. Housing Income

Limits (HILs) levels, with the remaining rented at CMHC private rental market rates for Vancouver.

Some existing tenants on the development site will have to move.

At rezoning, there were 22 tenants in 18 units on a portion of the property.

Eviction notices are only sent once the development permit and related building permit have been issued to comply with the Residential Tenancy Act. The project applicant must also adhere to the city’s Tenant Relocation and Protection Policy as a condition of the development permit.

Mathews said that many families and individuals will benefit from the affordable housing and health services the project will deliver.

“We are excited to continue working with Vancouver Coastal Health and the city on moving this project forward,” she wrote. @naoibh

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Participants in last weekend’s Lumière festival were given a glimpse of Vancouver’s past and future, all lit up in neon.

A “Palm Ice Cream” sign was among three refurbished neon signs from decades past that were unveiled in a lighting ceremony outside the Vancouver Art Gallery Nov. 1 to help mark the start of the Lumière festival, which ran Nov. 1 to 3.

The two others were “the Cookie,” which was made for The Cookie Jar company that had locations mostly in downtown Vancouver, and the “R” from the old Ridge Theatre.

The trio of signs will eventually be exhibited inside the former Canada Post building on Georgia Street through a collaboration between Museum of Vancouver and QuadReal Property Group, a global real estate investment, operating and development company.

The signs are part of the Museum of Vancouver’s collection, and QuadReal is redeveloping the 1950s-era post office into an office and retail building rechristened “The Post.” Construction is expected to be finished in a phased completion process between the fall of 2022 and the fall of 2023.

Mauro Vescera, the museum’s CEO, said the annual light festival was an opportunity to announce the partnership with QuadReal as well as showcase the signs.

“It’s about taking these artifacts, which are really objects of civic history that come with stories, and moving them back into the city,” he said.

“Neon in Vancouver is interesting because it was the neon capital of the world in the ’70s. There were almost 20,000 lights at one point.

They became kind of unpopular because there were too many of them and they were [seen as] light pollution. They fell out of favour.

Twenty years later, they’ve come back and we’re seeing more contemporary neons — they’ve come back into favour. It’s a bit of a cycle.”

The idea of working with QuadReal to have the neon signs installed in the redeveloped former post office a few years from now, Vescera added, is “a great way to tell that story of Vancouver and animate a heritage building.”

Chrystal Burns, senior vice president of retail for QuadReal, said the neon signs fit with The Post’s

i mid-century modern aesthetic and the company w wants the building to be t a “cultural hub” for the neighbourhood. QuadReal w helped with the cost of refurbishing the signs. r “For us, aligning with culture and art and the community means a lot t to us. The fact that the m museum was looking for folks to help them restore and display these gorgeous works of art was right up w our alley… in terms of what i we like to do in our com- A B munities,” she said.

The signs will be installed n in the main level of the building when it’s finished.

“The heritage podium component of The Post will be public spaces and p k retail spaces, including a food hall, which is around 20,000 square feet. This is the area we think that these neon signs will have the most access to the community, and for the public to see them and view them and enjoy them,” Burns told the Courier.

Larissa Jacobson, vice president of retail leasing at QuadReal, added that “it’s important to preserve the building’s heritage and create a vibrant hub for the growing, diverse community of Crosstown.”

“Having these neon signs on display really feeds into the culture aspect and the heritage from the mid-century,” she said.

The Post redevelopment project will also include numerous other heritage elements. The two large castaluminum Arms of Canada

by Pearson Iron Works will remain in their current position on the Georgia side of the building, while the basrelief (carving of a postman in red granite) that dates from 1956 will be reinstalled once construction is completed but it will be placed in a more prominent position on the Hamilton side, facing Queen Elizabeth Plaza. A large interior painted mural and a mosaic tile mural will also be reinstalled.

Signs of the times

Neon signs from Palm Dairy, once known as Crystal Dairy Ltd., date from 1935 to 1955. Palm Dairy franchises, which existed throughout the Lower Mainland, displayed the Palm Dairy logo in various forms of neon including portable signs, according to MoV, although no known photos of the signs from the era exist.

“The Cookie” neon sign, circa 1952, was made for the Cookie Jar company, which had branch locations mostly

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at Canada Post redevelopment in downtown Vancouver. It was donated to the museum.

It originally included the word “Jar” in neon as well, but when the museum acquired it, that portion was damaged and couldn’t be restored.

Neon Products Company of Vancouver manufactured the sign — it was the most prolific manufacturer of neon signs in Western Canada and produced other well-known signs, including ones for Regent Tailors, Aristocratic Restaurants and BowMac. The giant “Ridge” neon sign was installed at the theatre at Arbutus and West 16th between 1949 and 2013, at which point the building was knocked down to make

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The Ridge Theatre was widely known for its repertory cinema and film festivals, as well as for being the only theatre with a crying room for caregivers and babies. The museum

has the entire Ridge sign, but due to time constraints only the “R” has been restored so far. The rest of the sign might be restored for The Post project, although that remains undecided at this time.

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About 115 people attended community meetings about the project.

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The buildup in the area surrounding Oakridge Centre continues with a proposal for an 18-storey market rental building with a four-storey podium at 441 to 475 West 42nd Avenue.

The site, which is currently home to three singlefamily houses, is just off Cambie Street and within the Oakridge Municipal Town Centre cited in the Cambie Corridor Plan.

The Oakridge MTC covers the area around Cambie Street and West 41st Avenue and the City of Vancouver’s goals for it include “increasing height and density to provide social and rental housing opportunities, increasing job space, delivering amenities and establishing buildings that reflect the importance of this transit-oriented, regionally significant hub.”

Urban Solutions Architecture filed the rezoning application for the West 42nd Avenue project on behalf of its client GEC. The proposal features 124 rental units, 20 per cent of which would be below market rental housing as required under the Cambie corridor phase three plan.

Most of the units are proposed to be two to fourbedrooms.

The building would also include a rooftop indoor/ outdoor amenity space and a children’s play area above the podium, a floor space ratio of 6.67, 39 parking stalls, four car-share spaces and 291 bicycle parking spaces.

“Parking and carshare spaces are based on 40 per cent for provision of rental plus 20 per cent based on transit accessibility reductions for a total 60 per cent reduction,” the application states.

Several other building projects are also in the works in the area, including ones at 357 to 475 West 41st Avenue (a 10-storey mixed-use rental building) and 325 to 343 West 41st Avenue (a 22-storey and a 14-storey mixed-use building), as well as two highrises for a site across from Oakridge mall.

Oakridge Centre is also being redeveloped into what its developers have called “a mini-city.”

An open house for Urban Solutions Architecture and GEC’s rezoning application runs from 5 to 7:30 p.m. at the Jewish Community Centre, Nov. 20.

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Red and orange will keep Stewart in office

Maintaining support of federal NDP and Liberal voters has served the mayor well Mike Klassen

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A well-choreographed Twitter exchange on Monday afternoon between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mayor Kennedy Stewart served to reinforce the latter’s claim that important people take his calls.

It is those connections, Stewart argues, that will help resolve the city’s biggest political challenges around housing, rapid transit and the opioid crisis.

These things need federal funding — lots of it.

The tweets were also a kiss off to critics — including yours truly — that argued criticizing the Conservative leader during an election campaign was unwise. The PMO obviously has no issues with it.

I looked at the PM’s Twitter feed, and Stewart was the only exchange with another Canadian political figure since he was re-elected Oct. 21, which elevates

its significance.

Trudeau has strong roots on the West Coast, as most know, and if the PM had his druthers, I bet on some days he would happily govern the country from here if he could. It certainly would give him better access to the Grouse Grind.

Vancouver is fertile ground for the federal Liberals. In fact, you could give a kid only two coloured crayons — red and orange — to draw the city’s political map. If you splurged on a green and blue crayon, too, the kid could then draw Stanley Park and False Creek respectively.

Knowing Vancouver’s political primary colours goes some way to understanding why candidates on the far left and right margins cannot get elected here.

Getting a shout out from the PM to his four-and-ahalf-million Twitter followers is about as good as a first anniversary card the mayor could ask for. It also puts Stewart in good stead with

Kennedy Stewart and Justin Trudeau’s chummy relationship spilled out into the Twitterverse Monday. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

many Liberal voters here, which, barring a political cataclysm, practically guarantees him a second term as mayor.

By now, most will have observed how Stewart likes to govern. Touting his “independent” status, the mayor has limited ability to flex his muscle on council because of the balance of power between the NPA and Green councillors. It has resulted in Stewart emphasizing his collaborative approach, something most

voters are probably pleased with.

Nor is he a traditional politician who revels in glad handing his constituents.

Stewart was not known for this as a Burnaby Member of Parliament, either.

While largely symbolic, the mayor recently showed a pragmatic side when he walked back a campaign promise to triple the city’s empty homes tax.

Where Stewart has struggled is the unwillingness to get his hands dirty

on the Oppenheimer Park encampment. Yes, the mayor has floated the idea of legislating control of the site away from the park board to the city, but quickly realized it was a political non-starter and withdrew the plan.

What will be interesting to watch is the city’s collective bargaining process with its major unions, which is happening quietly under the radar. Existing contracts for both inside and outside staff conclude in 2019.

Stewart has always been clear about the need for labour peace and has nothing to gain by inserting himself into the bargaining process. He also owes his mayoralty to the Vancouver District Labour Council that campaigned hard to get him elected.

Vancouver has not had a major labour disruption since the disastrous 2007 strike that closed community centres, libraries and left garbage piled up around the city.

Many of B.C.’s public sector unions are lately show-

ing they are not shy about challenging B.C.’s labourfriendly NDP government.

Job action is happening in a number of communities across the province and, back, home Coast Mountain Bus Company looks to be on a collision course with their unionized workforce.

While it seems pretty unlikely that Stewart’s labour allies could disrupt his time in office, it remains a risk.

As with previous mayors, the most vocal opposition to Stewart will likely come from communities and individuals impacted by new development. But as most of council is strongly aligned with creating more rental housing in the city, once again the mayor just has to ride these conflicts out.

I’ll test my theory in his second and third year in office, but as long as Kennedy Stewart maintains the support of the red team and the orange team, he will hold the chain of office until he’s ready to let it go. @mikeklassen

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So it looks like “phase two” of the Broadway plan has begun, wherein the city keeps what it likes from the first phase of public input that fits with its initial vision of real estate development centered around rapid transit hubs. This seems to be the only urban planning model that successive city councils know. One that has not resulted in more affordable housing or solved worsening traffic issues. The argument that “things would be worse otherwise” is untenable because it assumes a normal housing market where there’s no land speculating or influx of foreign capital.

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The night was cold for Jacob Stewart.

He spent it in a tent in Oppenheimer Park.

He bundled himself in two sleeping bags, which was the best he could do to fight off the cool air blowing through a broken door flap.

“I try to stay positive, even though it’s cold,” he said, sitting in a chair eating a hotdog on a recent October morning.

How do you do that?

“I just think of work and stuff like that. I think about my family, my daughter. She lives in Chilliwack and she’s going to school and she’s doing really good.”

Stewart, 51, is one of dozens of homeless people living in the Downtown Eastside park, which is at the centre of a political and community debate that rages on, with no end in sight.

It has now been one year since the first grouping of tents was pitched.

Police Chief Adam Palmer, who has highlighted the increase in police calls to the park related to violence, weapons seizures and gang activity, wants a court injunction to clear Oppenheimer.

Mayor Kennedy Stewart won’t say whether that’s the best path forward. He continues to say he first wants temporary jurisdiction of Oppenheimer from the park board before proceeding with a plan to end the encampment.

That plan may never be implemented.

In September, a majority of park board commissioners dismissed the mayor’s request, saying they want homelessness, drug addiction, mental illness — all issues linked to poverty — addressed across the city, not just at the park.

The same commissioners rejected park board management’s recommendation to seek an injunction, which was a move commissioners of the day made in 2014 to break up a similar-sized encampment at Oppenheimer.

Meanwhile, the number of campers appears to grow, with more than 100 tents and tarpbased shelters counted Oct. 9, including one used for a drug injection site and another big enough to store a car, only it serves as a church.

Estimates on the number of people living in the tents is based on the agency or person doing the math: the city suggests there is approximately 50, with many tents unoccupied or used for storage; the park’s designated “mayor,” Sandy Parisien, put the number at closer to 70 people during the day, and up to 150 at night.

Stewart, a Nisga’a man whose hometown is 95 kilometres north of Terrace, has lived in the park for two months. He was previous-

Clockwise from top left: Jacob Stewart, Mike Redpath, Daniel Cameron, Chrissy Brett, Sandy Parisien, Amanda Whitefield and Stanley Stump are among the dozens of people still living in Oppenheimer Park. While the city estimates there are approximately 50 people residing in the park, Parisien, the so-called “Mayor of Oppenheimer,” says that number is closer to 70 people during the day and 150 people at night.

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ly in Edmonton, where he resided in a shelter for eight months, while working in construction.

The last place he paid rent was in Prince George.

He proudly said he hasn’t collected welfare for 15 years and came to Vancouver for work, only to get attacked in a McDonald’s restaurant by someone with a steel pipe. He rubbed his right shoulder as he told his story, saying it has almost healed.

Stewart is in touch with Embers, a job agency in the neighbourhood, about returning to work. Prospects, he said, look good, but he is less optimistic about finding a home.

“Some of my buddies used to live here, and they’ve got homes now,” he said, noting he’s talked to housing outreach workers who visit the park. “I keep bugging them, but nothing yet.”

‘Solitary existence’

Standing near the rear doors of the park’s shuttered field house is Mike Redpath, who has been homeless off and on for three years.

Redpath, who believes he’s 32, has lived in the park “intermittently” for six to eight months.

He previously pitched a tent for several months in CRAB Park, near the foot of Main Street.

Originally from Fort St. John, where he grew up on a farm, the trained gas fitter last paid rent in Kamloops, where he lived in a townhouse with his girlfriend.

Then, he said, he got into “a bit of an altercation” with the RCMP, which he claimed ended with an officer being charged with assault causing bodily harm.

“I ended up relapsing after that,” said Redpath, who de-

scribed himself as a recreational drug user until he broke his back in a truck accident near Quesnel almost four years ago.

He developed an addiction to opiates while managing his pain.

Around the same time, his common-law wife died. He was having a tough time financially, mentally and physically, he said, noting he came to Vancouver after a prison stint.

“There’s a little more resources and whatnot to help me be able to get somewhat in a better position in life,” he said, adding that Oppenheimer offers him the closest thing he has to family.

“I found being on the street was a very solitary existence. Half of the people shun you, the other half are scared of you. But no family is perfect, right? There’s a lot of good and a lot of bad here. But it’s no different than any community, really. It’s just a lot more condensed and in your face.”

Redpath stayed on that point, explaining what homelessness does to a person’s mind and spirit.

“The longer you stay alone on the street, the more hostility and resentment you build up,” he said.

“It starts being you against them, whereas once you start being part of the social interaction and the familial interaction on a regular basis, the more you start becoming human and become part of a community again — the more you start doing positive things. It really does seem to make a difference for people.”

He wants housing but his erratic lifestyle has caused him to miss appointments with outreach workers. If he had a home, it would “free up the time to do what I need to do to get moving in the

appropriate direction.”

As for reconnecting with family, Redpath wants to first be in a better place mentally and physically.

“I don’t want to make my burden theirs.”

Couch surfing

Daniel Cameron, 27, was in the park on the day of the Courier’s visit. It’s a place he has lived off and on for almost a year. He doesn’t have a tent at the moment, saying he stays on the street or couch surfs, which makes it difficult for him to keep any belongings.

“To be honest, what you see on me is what I own,” he said, dressed in layers of clothing and standing on a pathway near the front of the field house.

Born and raised in Surrey, he used to install cedar fences and work at a pawn shop on Saturdays. He now unlocks smart phones and sells clothes and other items he finds in donation bins.

“I try to help people — give them what I find, or sell it for money,” he said.

Six years ago, he was living in a basement suite in Surrey with his girlfriend. She got “sent back” to California, then he got arrested and was in prison for a month.

When he got released, he couldn’t cover the rent and got evicted. His mother lives in Chilliwack. They don’t talk much.

“Once in a while,” he said. “But not as much as we’d like to see each other. It’s a little distant.”

Cameron, Redpath and Stewart all addressed the issues of danger and safety raised by police, firefighters and politicians. Their answers varied but they downplayed the extent of the crime and violence reported in the media.

“If a family were to walk through here, nobody’s going to bother the family,” Cameron said.

“But that family may see something where someone from here is bothering another person from here. You get what I’m saying? If people are going to do something stupid, they’re going to do it to each other.”

704 police calls

At a Sept. 26 park board meeting, deputy police chief Howard Chow and senior officials from city hall and the fire department delivered presentations to commissioners on the state of the park.

Chow told commissioners that officers responded to 704 calls to Oppenheimer between January and August, which was a significant increase over the 383 answered the previous year.

“Nowhere else in the city would you see this, and we’re talking about very serious types of calls — shootings, weapons calls, firearms calls, overdoses, sex assaults,” he said, noting the drug and crime activity historically associated to Main and Hastings has shifted to the park.

Two weeks ago, a 53-year-old woman was shot in a car on Dunlevy Avenue, which is on the west side of the park.

Police Chief Adam Palmer told reporters Sept. 19 that gangs were vying for control of the park, and they included the United Nations, Wolfpack and Middle Eastern organized crime.

“There’s a whole host of different people jockeying for position in that park, and it’s dangerous and it’s a concern,” said Palmer, whose officers seized 17 weapons from the park between June and August.

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Downtown Eastside’s Oppenheimer Park Deputy fire chief Rob Renning told commissioners that firefighters responded to 20 tent fires since August. They also attended 62 medical calls, including six overdoses and 93 miscellaneous calls.

An order is in place to forbid campers to have heaters, propane tanks, fuel, barbecues and candles in tents, but firefighters continue to find the items, including generators, Renning said.

Deputy city manager Paul Mochrie said the tent city began in October 2018 with a small number of people sleeping in the park. That grew to 25 people by February and 137 by August.

Mochrie said staff doesn’t support a “managed encampment” as a response to the city’s homelessness crisis. More than 2,200 people were counted as homeless in the city’s count in March.

“It is not possible for us as a city to manage an uncontrolled site safely and effectively,” he said, noting staff’s focus is on moving people into housing.

He said 130 people accepted housing offers in August. At the time of his presentation, the city was working with another 55 people in an attempt to find them a home.

He pegged the estimated cost to the city of attending to the park, between January and July, at $817,000. That includes costs for the fire department, police, outreach staff, park rangers, janitorial costs and engineering crews, who do weekday clean-ups of the park.

Mochrie said the cost doesn’t include emergency response by police and firefighters. Ambulance costs were not part of the presentations.

He noted the Oppenheimer Park tent city is the fifth significant encampment in Vancouver since the previous takeover of the park in 2014.

“We don’t expect it will be the last given the challenges with housing and homelessness we’re facing in the region,” said Mochrie, naming off other encampments over the last three years at 58 West Hastings, 950 Main St. and 1100 Franklin St.

Injection site, church on park grounds

Chrissy Brett, who lives off and on at Oppenheimer, attended the same park board meeting.

Like many of the people the Courier spoke to at Oppenheimer, she disputes the police’s framing of the park as dangerous.

“Do you see any gang patches?

Do you see any colours being repped here? Do you see any of these things that people are talking about? I don’t, and I’m here every day.”

Added Brett: “I say that Hastings Street and the alleys and camping out alone is way more unsafe and risky than being part of a community.”

What’s not commonly known by the public about the encamp-

Those living at Oppenheimer Park recently built a church on the grounds. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

ment is it has a hierarchy of sorts that was set up by campers, former campers and volunteers such as Brett.

During a tour of the park, Brett explained the park has a “mayor” and a seven-member “community council.” There is a safety committee in place, too.

The park also has an injection site set up under a patchwork of tarps at the back of the field house. The “church” was built on the East Cordova Street-side of the park. Inside, it features a large carpet, a picture of Jesus Christ, a crucifix and a couple of chairs.

Campers say a pastor from a local church has begun to offer services on Sunday mornings.

Portable toilets have been brought in, various local agencies bring in food — nuns were in the park during the Courier’s visit serving hot dogs — and a nearby storefront offers more food and laundry services.

Brett, who serves as a liaison between campers and city officials, said she lives at Oppenheimer during the week and returns home to Victoria on the weekends.

She’s played the same role at tent cities on Vancouver Island.

The Nuxalk grandmother has dedicated her life to speaking out for Indigenous children and adults, working with a child welfare organization and doing court support work and counselling.

As a child adopted out by a Dawson Creek family during the so-called Sixties Scoop, where Indigenous children were taken from their families and communities and given up for adoption or placed in foster homes, Brett is determined to keep families together.

For others, who end up alone and homeless, she is relentless in her pursuit of politicians and city officials to respond to the crisis, having challenged Chow after he left the park board meeting.

She also caused city council to shut down for the night during a September meeting after she refused to end her speech at the

three-minute time limit. She was calling into question the state of shelters and single-room-occupancy hotels that former campers now live in.

“Shelters are not homes,” she told council, moments before her microphone was cut off by Coun.

Melissa De Genova, who chaired the meeting.

“People deserve basic rights.

Housing is a human right, according to the United Nations.

Shelters say you only deserve to be human between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m.”

‘Mayor’ of Oppenheimer

Sandy Parisien is the “mayor” of the park, and he has been in that role since he first pitched a tent more than a year ago when he was part of “the original six” campers.

Outreach teams recently found Parisien housing at a single-roomoccupancy hotel on Powell Street, which he described as “disgusting” and “the worst place ever.”

But, he said while standing outside the park’s injection site, he plans to be the last person to leave Oppenheimer, having gained the trust of campers to represent them.

He joined Brett at city hall.

At his turn at the microphone, he suggested the park’s population had increased in size because city crews told homeless people in other parks to pack up their stuff and move to Oppenheimer.

“You caused this problem, not us,” he said, pointing his finger at councillors from the lectern. “You put us together, now we’re a family. We live with each other, we help each other and that’s that.”

The Courier put Parisien’s suggestion to the city’s communications staff, who denied such an order was given to city crews, who routinely collect debris and belongings at parks left behind by people.

Parisien is a member of the Berens River First Nation in Manitoba. As a child, he lived in group homes and children’s care

homes, he said, before working his way west.

“It was bad,” he said. “I remember some of it, but not all of it. I just live every day now trying to help everyone else instead of myself. It’s easier to take from the community than it is to give back.

I’ve got to give back now.”

Taking from community is a reference to him being “in and out of prison my whole life,” noting he was released from Matsqui Institution about two years ago, but recently picked up a new charge and was given a conditional sentence order.

His sister died in Winnipeg of a drug overdose seven months ago.

Parisien’s fiancée, Amanda Whitefield, was with him when the Courier visited. She, too, found housing — about two months ago — but keeps a tent in the park, where she emerged with a bowl of cereal.

Originally from Vancouver Island, the 32-year-old said she once lived with a friend in the Tamura building on Dunlevy Avenue that overlooks the park. She got ill and ended up in hospital for six months, she said.

“I lost my place and my daughter while I was in there,” said Whitefield, noting she had a bad infection in her heart.

She came to Vancouver to attend Rhodes Wellness College on Howe Street, where she was working towards a professional counsellor diploma.

Previously, she said, she taught yoga to at-risk youth.

She, too, uses the word “family” to describe the people in the park, saying, “We watch out for each other, and I don’t feel any more at risk being here since the day I showed up in the Downtown Eastside four years ago.”

‘Calm within the storm’

What’s striking — but not surprising for people who read the city’s annual homeless count reports — is the overrepresentation of Indigenous peoples living

in the park.

“Just like the institutions,” said Stanley Stump, standing outside his tent pitched in the infield of the park’s baseball diamond, where he has lived for about a year.

“We had a jail that could hold 380 guys, and 210 of them were natives.”

Stump, a 47-year-old member of the Anaham Indian Band, spent 15 years of his life in prison.

All of it, he said, points back to the abuse he endured in residential school. He said he and his sister were the only children in his family to go, and the only two to end up with criminal records.

“The abuse was so common that by the time I got to regular school, I had such a high tolerance for pain that I could fight guys who were two grades older than me and win the fight — not by beating them up, but by getting beaten up so much that they’d get tired of beating me up,” he said.

He turned his anger and energy to playing hockey and riding bulls.

He named teams he joined in Quesnel and Portland, saying he played what he described as “Indian hockey, where you play as dirty as you can and try not to get caught.”

He pointed out his third cousin on his mom’s side is Montreal Canadiens goaltender, Carey Price, whose hometown is Anahim Lake, B.C. about a three-hour drive west of where Stump lived.

“I played hockey because it was a sport that allowed me to hurt white kids without going to jail,” he said. “I started taking that frame of mind to the street and started using alcohol, and alcohol brought out the rage inside.”

His last five years in prison were served for his involvement in a home invasion — a crime, he said, he wasn’t proud of, but saw his actions as lashing out at the same community that put him in residential school.

“I didn’t look at myself as the problem,” he said, adding that he met a psychologist working in the prison system who counselled him about the trauma he experienced from six years old until he was 10.

“She opened my mind inside out.”

Stump was released from prison last February and ended up at Oppenheimer, first looking after a friend’s tent, then getting his own.

He said he could return to Anaham, but is not in the frame of mind to do so, wanting to work through his own issues and impart some wisdom on the people he sees struggling in the park and on the street.

“For me, this is the calm within the storm,” he said. “It’s like everything around me is dark, but I’ve got the light and I’m trying to shine it on the people who may, or may not want it.”

Note: This story was originally posted Oct. 15 to the Courier’s website. @Howellings

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Where to pay your respects on Remembrance Day There are events honouring veterans taking place across Vancouver Nov. 11 SANDRA THOMAS sthomas@vancourier.com Pay your respects at a ceremony near you Nov. 11.

NOTE: the city is offering free parking now through Nov. 11 for

vehicles displaying B.C. veteran licence plates. The free parking extends to City of Vancouver parking meters, EasyPark parkades, surface lots and park board operated parking facilities, including Stanley Park, Queen Elizabeth Park and the Vancouver Aquatic Centre, as well as all Vancouver community centres.

NOV. 11 Remembrance Day Ceremonies Victory Square Cenotaph 9:45 to 11:30 a.m.

200 West Hastings St. The city’s largest Remembrance Day ceremony begins at 10 a.m.

The Remembrance Day ceremony at Victory ry y Square is the th h largest in Vancouver. PHOTO: JENNIFER GAUTHIER

with a performance by the Vancouver Bach Youth Choir and Sarabande starting at 9:45 a.m. At 10 a.m. veterans, military marching units and bands will be led to Victory Square by the Vancouver Flag Party for the cenotaph ceremony starting at 10:30 a.m.

Shortly afterward, there will be a combined performance

by Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services and the Regimental Pipes and Drums of the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada.

At 11 a.m. the “Last Post” will be sounded. There will be two minutes of silence, during which a 21-gun salute by the 15th Field Artillery Regiment will be heard from Portside Park.

“Lament and Rouse” will follow. The Royal Canadian Air Force will conduct a flypast moments later, weather permitting.

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“In Flanders Fields” will then be sung by the Bach Youth Choir and Sarabande and wreaths will be placed at the cenotaph. The main parade will march west along Hastings past the reviewing stand between Homer and Richards streets, turn right at Richards, east on Cordova, then south on Cambie.

The veterans section of the parade will march west along Hastings Street past the reviewing stand and disperse. Visit legionbcyukon. ca for more information.

“11” at Mountain View Cemetery Enter the Cemetery on East 39th off Fraser Street, drive straight into the cemetery towards the buildings ahead.

The Celebration Hall is the northern-most building.

Little Chamber Music is proud to again present this unique music and history project, “11.” Part of the Field House Residency (2012 to 2015) with the Vancouver Park Board, “11” was developed over two years. The project included monthly public meetings, a trip to the Library and Archives and War Museum in Ottawa, research at the Vancouver Archives, visits with a 99-year-old D-Day veteran, an installation at the Roundhouse and a performance and event on Remembrance Day, 2014 in Falaise Park, which brought more than 1,000 people together.

“11” was designed and developed to honour and celebrate 11 veterans from Vancouver, including several from the Renfrew Heights Veterans Housing Project and to tell the story and history of the project to other communities in Vancouver. By having each of the 11 instruments in the musical work represent a specific veteran, they pay musical tribute to the bravery and sacrifice of an entire generation. Search for Mountain View Cemetery on facebook.com.

Japanese Canadian War Memorial 10:40 a.m.

Stanley Park near the Pavilion Visit nikkeiplace.org.

Remembrance Day Ceremony at UBC Doors open at 10 a.m.

War Memorial Gym 6081 University Blvd.

This year marks 68 years that the University of British Columbia has hosted a Remembrance Day ceremony. This special ceremony is an opportunity for faculty, staff, students and members of the on and off-campus community to honour and remember all those who served in times of war, military conflict and peace. This year, the Remembrance Day Ceremony at UBC will include short readings, remarks from special guests and musical performances by the UBC

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Opera Ensemble. Everyone is welcome to attend this annual ceremony — doors to the War Memorial Gym will open at 10 a.m. and the ceremony starts at 10:45 a.m. Light refreshments will be served after the ceremony and all are welcome to stay. Visit ceremonies.ubc.ca.

Chinatown Memorial 12:30 to 1 p.m.

Chinatown at the corner of Keefer and Columbia streets The Chinatown service commemorates the struggles and sacrifices of the early Chinese pioneers, along with those of Chinese Canadian military.

CRAB Park Remembrance Day Ceremony 10: 30 a.m.

CRAB Park East Waterfront and Main Street Grandview Park Remembrance Day Ceremony 10:45 a.m.

1200 block of Commercial Drive Royal Vancouver Yacht Club Ceremony 10:45 a.m.

Royal Vancouver Yacht Club 3811 Point Grey Rd. (can be viewed from Hastings Mill Park) South Vancouver Veteran’s Council Ceremony 10:30 a.m.

South Memorial Park East 41st Avenue and Windsor Street

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Poppies and feathers installed on city hall lawn

Remembrance Day installation honours Canadian veterans COURIER STAFF For the th h second time tii in weeks, stu tudents u have converged on Vancouver city tyy hall.

But this th h time, tii instead of hoisti ting i signs protesti ting i climate change, these th h stu tudents u installed more than th h 2,500 poppies on the th h grounds of city tyy hall at th the h corner of West 12th th h Avenue and Cambie Str treet r — just days before Remembrance Day. It’s the th h fifth th h year in a row stu tudents u from Shaughnessy Elementary School have installed a display of red poppies on the th h grounds as a way to honour veterans who served Canada in many different war effort rts. t The poppies were handmade by the th h stu tudents u with th h many of the th h red flowers made from recycled materials and under the th h directi tion i of teacher Carla Pace.

Thank you to those who have served, and to those who continue to serve.

We will never forget.

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As part rtt of the th h project, Grade 5 stu tudent u Sienna Bell wrote in part rt, t “The poppy is a symbol for remembering those th h who sacrificed their th h lives for our futu tures. u We have been doing this th h art rtt insti tillati i tion i for five or more years now.

We are lucky to have the th h peace we have today and want to honour those th h veterans.”

Sienna also wrote that th h each year the th h stu tudents u att ttempt t to learn more about th those h who served and their th h personal stories. Those stories have been typed tyy up, covered in plasti tic i and erected among the th h poppies and feath thers. h “We have added some of those th h stories th this h year focussing on Indigenous veterans,” wrote Sienna. “That is why we added the th h red feath thers h made from duct tape. Lest we forget.”

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`Tis the season to visit Seattle The Kimpton Alexis Hotel makes an ideal basecamp while exploring the Emerald City SANDRA THOMAS sthomas@vancourier.com Our driver took no time getting us to the stadium and we were in hysterics as he drove up and over curbs at a much faster speed than we expected. Bonus, we had just arrived in Seattle and hadn’t had time to buy any American money, so we were happy to discover that pedicab drivers now take credit cards. And, as locals are well aware, it takes a lot more than a little rain to keep Seahawks fans home, so the game continued with all the enthusiasm the Number 12s are famous for.

Walking towards CenturyLink Field from our hotel in Seattle for a pre-season game between the Seattle Seahawks and our beloved Oakland Raiders, the skies opened and it was as if someone from above had turned on a tap — with full force.

But, sideways rain or not, we were determined to enjoy this game and quickly turned to a plan B and hailed down a passing pedicab, of which there were many to choose from.

The game was a lot of fun, despite the Raiders’ loss — and rain — and it was a great way to kick off 48 hours in the Emerald City.

We made the Kimpton Alexis Hotel our base camp for the weekend and, located a short walk from both Pioneer Square and Pike Place Market, it’s so centrally located we never used our car again until we checked out two days later and headed home. The Alexis is also a short walk to the waterfront and Seattle Ferry Terminal, where it’s

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remains staunch, so every morning I’d check out the chalk board near the food and water bowls in the lobby to take note of which pampered pooches were in-house.

The Alexis is a boutique hotel with only 121 guestrooms, which were recently treated to a $14 million revamp. Our room had a working fire place, was way larger than expected and boasted a bathtub/ shower room reminiscent of a high-end spa. As well, the wave-like bathroom tiles in the washroom evoke moving water and were chosen to act as a reminder of nearby Puget Sound.

Another thoughtful addition to our room and one sure to appeal not only to baby boomers, but also hipsters, was the Marshall Bluetooth speaker, created to look just like a vintage Marshall amp, which we used to enjoy our playlists.

Complementing the renovations, and completely unrelated, is the recent removal of the Alaskan Way Viaduct, which opened up the view from the Alexis to the Seattle Great Wheel and

Pet feeding station at Alexis Hotel.

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Pier 57, a popular waterfront area, famous for its seafood restaurants, shopping and the Seattle Aquarium, which houses six major exhibits, Window on Washington Waters, Life on the Edge, Pacific Coral Reef, Birds & Shores, the Underwater Dome and Marine Mammals.

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The Prince exhibit at Museum of Pop Culture (formerly EMP Museum) If you’re a Prince fan, you’ll be purple with joy getting a first-hand look at some of the iconic artifacts included in this exhibit, including a Prince guitar, two outfits from the movie Purple Rain and photos on loan from photographers hired over the years to capture his legendarily theatrical image.

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The Christmas Ship Parade of Boats takes place on Dec.

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Center’s Winterfest. This free event will feature live mixing by DJ Arson Nicki and a visual light display by VJ Baryonyx, to be projected onto Seattle Center’s International Fountain. The night will culminate with the annual New Year’s Eve fireworks display from atop the iconic Space Needle.

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Could this be Vancouver’s first jam space in a residential building?

John Kurucz

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At first blush, the development proposal for an empty lot near West Seventh Avenue and Fir Street isn’t the stuff of headlines: 11 storeys, 43 units and a few townhomes.

But it’s what accompanies those details that should grab the attention of Vancouver musicians regardless of where they live in the city.

In what’s shaping up to become the first development of its kind in the city, the building’s first two floors will include rehearsal spaces, a recording studio and small performance space.

For those about to rock, the West Side salutes you. At least that’s the city’s hope.

“We’re trying to make something that works given the loss of space we’ve seen for music,” said Alix Sales, the city’s head of cultural spaces.

The Solterra Development Corp. is behind the proposal, along with architectural firm IBI Group, for the land at 1616 West Seventh Ave. The application is conditional under the area’s existing zoning — it may be allowed but requires a decision by the Development Permit Board.

That’s where density bonusing enters the question, a process of give and take between the city and developers where the municipality will leverage amenities — affordable housing, park space or purpose-built rental units — against the developer’s

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request for more density.

Given the city’s dwindling amount of dedicated arts space, staff are now asking the development community to include the arts in the development process.

Preliminary plans for the first two floors of the building include 6,000 square feet that would include 10 or more rehearsal rooms, a recording studio and a performance space that will fit

60 to 70 people. Sales and fellow cultural planner Kristen Lambertson foresee the performance space accommodating the odd gig, but mostly used for rehearsal and as a meeting space.

It’s the kind of setup usually seen on the city’s East Side.

So why the West Side now?

“We have to be really opportunistic about where those spaces are depending on where the opportunity

comes,” Sales said. “In East Vancouver, we haven’t got a lot of increased density and when we do, it’s often quite rightly for social housing or childcare.”

A public feedback session was held in July, when area residents mostly opposed the building’s size and its potential to block view corridors.

The proposal is by no means a done deal. It’s subject to a public feedback process

that ends Nov. 15, along with a development permit board hearing on Jan. 20, 2020.

“This is so new for us,” Sales said. “We’ve not done it before, which is we’ve done so much consultation to try and ask, ‘Why can’t we make this work, why can’t we come up with a shared music space?”

Feedback can be sent until Nov. 15 to project facilitator Chris Miller via chris.miller@vancouver.ca.

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Very Vancouver. Back for its seventh year, this rendition of the East Van Panto is written by Marcus Youssef and directed by Stephen Drover.

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Vancouver Tap Dance Society (Left) FADO delivers a healthy serving of Portuguese sorrow to the Firehall Arts Centre Nov. 21 to Dec. 14. (Right) Minowin explores Indigneous identity through dance Nov. 20 to 24 at the Cultch.

Nov. 30 at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, 6265 Crescent Rd. Tickets: earlymusic.bc.ca

Make the angels dance

The Chor Leoni men’s choir is going to make the angels dance on Dec. 21.

The evening’s program for Angels Dance includes traditional holiday music from across Europe, Canada, the southwest and Appalachia, along with dancers from the Arts Umbrella Dance Company. Musicians getting in on the act include Tina Chang (piano), Vivian Chen (harp), Ed Henderson (guitar) and Katie Rife (percussion).

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Europe in 10 days

You can enjoy all the culture of Europe without the 10-hour flight through the Cinematheque’s 22nd annual European Union Film Festival. Films from 25 countries will be featured during the festival’s run, including heartwarming titles such as Metal Heart, Me, Myself and My Dead Wife

and Eternal Winter. Lovely.

Nov. 22 to Dec. 2 at the Cinematheque, 1131 Howe St. Tickets: thecinematheque.ca

Disney on Ice gives it 110 per cent

There was a time when the mere appearance of Mickey and Minnie on a sheet of ice alone would bring the crowd to its feet.

But in 2019, Disney’s go-tos simply won’t do in isolation. And so, Disney on Ice’s Mickey’s Search Party is now a multi-level performance piece including acrobats, aerial stunts, video projections, skeletons and

even stilts. The storyline for Mickey’s Search Party features Mickey and pals as they follow Captain Hook’s treasure map for clues to find Tinker Bell after he attempts to capture her magic. Clever cross-promotion dictates that the whole slate of Disney-Pixar characters be involved somehow, so be prepared for guest spots from the likes of Coco, Frozen, Moana, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Toy Story and The Little Mermaid.

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Ghosts and the holiday season go together like two peas in a pod. The Firehall Arts Centre hosts Elaine Ávila’s new play, FADO, beginning Nov. 21 and the show is described as a “tale of love and ghosts” set against the “saddest music in the world.” Billed as part concert and part theatre, FADO follows the story of a young Portuguese woman confronting her country’s fascist past and her own identity. In a related plot twist, Fado is the national music of Portugal and translates to the English word,“fate.”

Nov. 21 to Dec. 14 at Firehall Arts Centre, 280 East Cordova St. Tickets: firehallartscentre.ca.

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Indigenous dance gets a contemporary twist Nov. 20 to 24 via a performance dubbed Mînowin. Performed by the Dancers of Damelahamid, the show is described as “an innovative multimedia dance work about rebirth and transformation.” The performance piece marries narration, movement, song and projections as the danc-

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Scenes from East Vancouver’s Grant Lawrence

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On Halloween night, I posted a photo on social media that showed a huge throng of trick-or-treaters lining up to get onto our front porch.

The pic captured just a small portion of what would eventually be about 1,150 costumed kids that tromped down our walkway to received a piece of candy from our house on Halloween night. We know that to be true, because we bought 1,250 pieces, and we had about 50 pieces left at the end of the night, and I only personally ate about 50.

Reaction to that photo was swift and immediate.

Most people were shocked, many asking the question, “What do you do to get 1,000 kids?” Others assumed incorrectly that we had to be that one house that was giving out the legendary Halloween goldmine of “full sized chocolate bars.” Nope, just the regular-sized mini

Columnist Grant Lawrence lives on Trinity Street and saw 1,150 costumed kids at his house alone. PHOTO GRANT LAWRENCE

chocolate bars.

Here’s the thing, which I’ve shared in this space before. My family lives on Trinity Street, which is a very festive, communityminded, six-block stretch in the Burrardview enclave of East Vancouver. The street is better known for its near-20-year tradition of the Trinity Lights holiday displays, when many houses test the city’s power grid by going full Griswold for the month of December.

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I know the history behind the light displays, which began as a reaction to a tragic double-home invasion in the neighbourhood in 1999. Cate Jones, who has lived on Trinity Street for 30 years, spearheaded the dazzling displays as a way to make the neighbourhood feel safe again, and to bring people out of their homes and meet their neighbours.

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We’ve lived in this trick or treaters’ paradise for seven years, but I didn’t know the history behind our famed Halloween hootenannies.

I called Cate Jones again.

She told me that Trinity Street has always been decorative for both Halloween

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Halloween hotspot and Christmas, but unlike the Yuletide light displays, which came from a specific idea, the popularity growth of Halloween has been organic.

“I saw a Facebook memory from 2008 pop up the other day,” Jones told me. “That year, we had 500 kids. Now it’s easily double that, so it’s been slowly building over the decades. A few years ago it exploded. The media took notice, there’s positive word of mouth, a lot of younger families have moved to the area, and now the event just fuels itself.”

Jones also pointed out that Trinity Street is relatively flat and walkable for young children, with approachable, easy-to-access houses on either side.

As one of those residents, our family gets into the supernatural swing of things, decorating our front yard and making sure we have enough candy to cover more than 1,000 kids (mostly thanks to my mom and her Costco membership). And while it can be overwhelming to serve that many children in the space

of about four hours, seeing the creativity of kids’ costumes en masse is amazing.

I’ve realized that Halloween night is also an opportunity to grasp the zeitgeist of whatever the hell kids are into these days.

The most popular getups this year involved the video game Fortnite, Disney’s multi-pronged franchise Descendants and, for whatever reason, Super Mario Brothers. Other perennial mainstays were Batman, Captain America, Rapunzel, Elsa and ninjas. Down this year were zombies, Star Wars and Paw Patrol.

The most creative costumes are always the homemade ones, and this year the best was a 20-foot tree, a B.C. Ferry and a fully operational vending machine. The cheekiest response of the night came from a young teenager who was seemingly without costume. I asked her what she was dressed as. Mini Snickers bar already safely in hand, she replied, “I’m an off-brand Ariana Grande.”

Trick or treating at the height of the monster mash was thrilling for our six-

year-old son who slithered through the crowds in his snake costume, but proved a little much for our threeyear-old daughter in her Princess Jasmine costume.

After being jostled a few times, she demanded to be returned to her castle at once.

Dennis Campardo and his family have lived on the street since the late 1990s.

“It’s intense, but it’s a lot of fun,” he told me. “I think we’re lucky to have this strong tradition, because it’s something that’s missing from a lot of neighbourhoods.”

Twenty years ago, the Campardos bought a novelty Halloween door matt that screams when you step on it. “It’s just a simple little censor and two batteries, but it still works,” Campardo mused. “My wife and I figure that 20,000 kids have stepped on that matt over the years, which is pretty amazing when you think about it.”

Here’s hoping that Halloween will take on a life of its own in your neighbourhood, too. BOO! @grantlawrence

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The Shipment delivers big budget thrills in a little package Sabrina Furminger

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There’s a formula to making an indie short film.

You shoot on a weekend.

You crew up with volunteers.

You power your production with passion, creativity, and a never-say-die attitude.

Where money is involved, you cut every single corner.

The Shipment didn’t follow that formula.

The Shipment was directed

by Bobby Bala and screens this week as part of the 23rd annual Vancouver Asian Film Festival. The film tells the story of a grief-stricken space trucker (Van Helsing’s Aleks Paunovic) who agrees to traf-

fic 200 alien slaves so that his young daughter won’t have to grow up on a busted ship.

While The Shipment is technically an indie short (it wasn’t produced by a studio, and its run time is less than 30 minutes), it doesn’t have much else in common with the other films that typically populate the indie short category.

With its slick visual effects, big cast, Canadian stars (besides Paunovic, there’s Continuum’s Omari Newton and pro-wrestler turned actor Robert Maillet), sweeping original score composed by Crispin Hands and performed by the Vancouver Film Orchestra, and pulledfrom-the-headlines theme

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“I wanted to tell the story of an everyday, blue collar guy, and how he’s torn between doing the right thing and what’s needed,” says Bala. It’s a story that people in this galaxy know all too well, notes Bala. “There are people smuggling other people across the border from Mexico. They have their own reasons for doing that work.

A lot of them are probably bad people, but some of them are probably good people stuck in a bad situation.”

Bala financed The Shipment through his home theatre seating biz and shot

his actors in Vancouver. He employed artists in Mexico, Colombia and Iceland to bring his concept artwork to life after finding Vancouver visual effects companies to be prohibitively expensive.

Bala is happy with the film, but given the chance to do it all over again, he’d go in with a clearer sense of budget and time.

“You get so deep into it that quitting is never an option. I didn’t know what I was getting into and the only way out is forward and you finally come out the other side.”

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Bala came out of the program determined to make a film. He drew inspiration from a galaxy far, far away.

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Edler and Meyers proving to be a dynamic defensive duo

Canucks defensive pairing has been the team’s most pleasant surprise

Backhand Sauce Daniel Wagner

Take one aging veteran defenceman, whose injuries have taken a toll on him in recent years. Even as he’s continued to put up points, his play has quietly been on the decline.

Add a big-name free agent defenceman, whose signing was excoriated by the hockey analytics world, as he’s consistently given up far more defensively than he ever contributes offensively.

Put them together and what do you get?

One of the best defence pairings in the NHL. The Canucks have been one of the best teams in the NHL to start the 2019-20 season, racking up goals and rattling off wins. There’s plenty of credit to go around: the top line of J.T. Miller, Brock Boeser and Elias Pettersson has been dominant, the goaltending of Jacob Markstrom and Thatcher Demko has been lights out, and the Quinn Hughes-quarterbacked power play is one of the best in the league.

The impact of the Canucks’ top pairing on defence, however, should not be overlooked. Alex Edler and Tyler Myers have been playing big minutes in all situations with fantastic results.

Edler is the longest-tenured player on the Canucks, having played with the same team since his rookie year in 2006-07. The age is starting to show in the touches of gray in his beard and in a decline in his offensive game at even-strength that was partially masked by his production on the power play.

At least, that was the case until this season.

Likewise, Myers has been a conundrum in the NHL for years, as his fantastic, Calder-winning rookie season was followed by years of middling play and point totals.

Flaws in his defensive game had Winnipeg Jets fans pulling their hair out at times and according to some metrics, Myers is a below-replacement level defenceman; you could arguably find a better defenceman on the waiver wire or in the AHL. But not this season.

Whether because the strengths and flaws of Edler and Myers perfectly balance each other or because the rumours of each of their demises were greatly exaggerated, the two defencemen have been a perfect match.

Edler and Myers have been offensively dominant. The pairing has been on the ice for 71.95 shot attempts per 60 minutes at five on five, which leads all pairings that have played at least 100 minutes together. Combine that with solid numbers defensively and you have

Stick-taps & Glove-drops • A tap of the stick to Elias Pettersson, who was named the NHL’s First Star of the Week last week after nine points in four games.

• I’m dropping the gloves with Don Cherry, who reacted to Scott Sabourin of the Ottawa Senators getting knocked unconscious with, “He just got knocked out, that’s all,” when we know more than ever the danger of head injuries and concussions.

The acquisition of Tyler Myers is proving to be a wise move for the Canucks. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Big Numbers a pairing that tilts the ice in the right direction for more than 20 minutes per game.

It’s not just quantity of shots either.

When Edler and Myers are on the ice, the Canucks create dangerous scoring chances, with the bulk of the shots coming from the most dangerous areas on the ice, as shown in heatmaps from HockeyViz.com. According to HockeyViz, the Canucks have created scoring chances that are 27 per cent more dangerous than league average with Edler and Myers on the ice.

That stems from how dangerous Edler and Myers have been in transition with their ability to move the puck up ice with their skating or passing.

“It starts with how you’re defending the rush,” said Myers on Monday. “What we’ve talked about at the very start at camp, we’re a very aggressive team defensively and I think it’s allowing us to have more offence.

Combine that with some of the guys we have up front, with the plays they can make, [the puck is] going in for us right now.”

Head coach Travis Green likewise credits

their defensive game for how dangerous the Canucks have been offensively when they’ve been on the ice.

“They take away time and space, and they’ve got a long reach,” said Green.

“I think that allows us not to spend as much time in your own zone… People get enamoured with offense and points, but not spending time in your zone means you’re spending it in the other team’s zone.”

Combine that with the fact that Edler and Myers typically play in a matchup role, facing some of the best forwards the opposition has to offer. When they’re on the ice, Edler and Myers typically force them to spend most of the game defending in their own zone. It’s one of the biggest reasons the Canucks have been so successful to start the season.

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

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• 99 J.T. Miller has been unreal through

the first 14 games of his time with the Canucks, who have out-shot the opposition by 99 shot attempts with Miller on the ice at five on five. That leads the Canucks and is tied for the top mark in the NHL with the Philadelphia Flyers’ Sean Couturier

• 4.11 Elias Pettersson has been great on the power play, but even better at even-strength. As of Tuesday, his 4.11 points per 60 minutes at five on five was third in the NHL, behind only Brad Marchand and David Pastrnak of the Boston Bruins.

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