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Former Carnegie Community Centre director distills years of priorities to better life in neighbourhood Mike Howell
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As long as I’ve been in this job, I’ve heard countless strategies, ideas, recommendations and plans from well-meaning folks to better conditions for people living in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Doctors, health care workers, housing advocates, community residents, business owners, non-profit leaders, cops and politicians have all weighed in. Still, the poverty persists. But instead of me going back through my files to give you a comprehensive list of remedies to address homelessness, drug addiction, mental illness and the public disorder in the Downtown Eastside, I’m going to devote this space to someone who knows something about the neighbourhood. Michael Clague is the former director of the Carnegie Community Centre. He was also the co-chairperson of the Downtown Eastside
Local Area Planning Committee. Plus, he’s a thoughtful guy and many people respect him. He contacted me recently after reading a story I wrote about the homeless people living in Oppenheimer Park. Attached with his email was his prescription — as collected over the years via studies, reports and field experience from people and organizations within and outside the community — for the Downtown Eastside. He titled it, “It’s not magic.” As I mentioned off the top, Clague acknowledged the ingredients for changing conditions for the better in the Downtown Eastside are well-known and proven. To be sustained, he said, they do require systemic change in policies and practices. In other words, political will. “And they do require new and re-allocated resources,” he said. “The issues are distinct and are fundamentally related. They have to be
The Downtown Eastside has long been a neighbourhood with problems associated to poverty. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET
approached holistically i.e. officials and organizations need to transcend their established boundaries and mandates.” Here is what Clague sent me: Seven priorities 1. Build shelter-rate
housing in the DTES and throughout the city. 2. Raise the shelter rate allowance. 3. Give those currently living in the DTES the option of remaining in the community or relocating to elsewhere in the city.
4. Provide social and health supports within a continuum of care 24/7 in those residences where they are required for the welfare of residents. 5. Provide safe custodial residential care for residents whose condition is such that they are a risk to themselves and to others. This means that people at risk for self-harm and for harm to others are voluntarily and involuntarily living in supervised residences for designated periods of time to ensure they have the best available health care. Advocacy and legal guarantees are designed so that their inherent rights and liberties are respected. 6. Remove restrictions on access to addictive drugs (decriminalize). 7. Design and provide culturally relevant programs and services, especially involving the large Aboriginal community. Six conditions 1. Work respectfully with
and learn from those most affected in the planning and provision of these seven priorities. 2. Build on the strengths inherent in the community. 3. Create volunteer and employment opportunities in the DTES and in the city at large, geared to people’s readiness, emphasizing opportunities to contribute to community life. 4. Recognize and support the community arts as one of the most accessible, proven means for personal and community development. 5. Recognize that the Downtown Eastside can be a healthy, predominately low-income community. 6. Build informed support throughout Vancouver for these measures. This may be old news to many, but possibly news to others. It’s 2019, folks, soon to be 2020. As Clague said, “it’s not magic.” @Howellings
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Laura Saimoto has the type of grace and humility that belies her earliest life experiences. Growing up in Kerrisdale, Laura and sister Deb were usually the only Asians in class. Landowners didn’t want to sell to her father Cy because of his ethnicity. Forced internment had just ended a few years earlier. Yet there was Laura on Nov. 13, with her mother Ritsu and sister Deb, beaming with pride over the same heritage that 70 years earlier made her family outsiders in Canada. Standing in a small but packed room near Alexander Street and Jackson Avenue, Laura was moved to tears as the Vancouver Japanese Language School and Japanese Hall (VJLSJH ) were given a National Historic Site designation by Parks Canada. “We are so deeply joyous and grateful to see this day
come,” Laura said. With roots dating back to 1906, the buildings join a select group in Metro Vancouver — Stanley Park, the Lions Gate Bridge and Gulf of Georgia Cannery in Steveston — to receive such a distinction. They’re the types of designations bestowed upon significant people, places and events that have shaped Canadian history. Three generations of Vancouverites were in attendance last week, ranging from students who attended the school in 1940 to toddlers who call the school home today. “I don’t think there are words for what you’re experiencing today,” said Coun. Lisa Dominato. The first Japanese immigrants arrived near Powell Street in the early 1880s, many of whom worked at the Hastings Sawmill. The school was founded by those early settlers, and Japanese-only instruction was offered until 1919. The pressures of assimila-
Ritsu Saimoto, 86, was a grade one student at the Vancouver Japanese Language School in 1940. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET
tion saw the institution shift to a second-language school, as students attended nearby Strathcona elementary during the day and Japanese instruction from 4 to 5:30 p.m. As the 1920s rolled on and the neighbourhood grew, $40,000 was raised to expand the school and add a community centre. Close to 580 stores operated by Japanese-Canadians existed near Powell Street in 1921.
The hall was completed seven years later. The VJLS-JH was the first and largest of the 50 schools operating before the Second World War, and its art deco look was designed by the same firm, Sharp and Thompson Architects, responsible for UBC’s Point Grey Campus and the Burrard Street Bridge. All the while, the Asahi Baseball team racked up nine championships at the
nearby Powell Grounds, known today as Oppenheimer Park. By 1941, the neighbourhood had about 8,000 Japanese-Canadians living in the area. That number changed dramatically within a year, as forced internment from 1942 to 1949 moved more than 20,000 people away from the coast and into B.C.’s Interior or points further east. Homes and properties were confiscated, while more than 400 business in the area were shuttered. It was against this seemingly hopeless backdrop that community leaders lobbied successfully to retain ownership of the property in 1952. It re-opened a year later, one of the few properties returned to Japanese-Canadians after the war. “We are humbled and grateful for the opportunity to carry on our 113-year history,” Deb Saimoto said, choking back tears. “Together we will not only continue this legacy but we will transform it into an everlasting vision.”
A five-storey wing was added to the property in 2000, followed by the launch of a childcare division in 2012. The buildings were granted heritage status by the city in 1995. The city formally apologized to the Japanese-Canadian community in 2013 for its role during the internment years. “It is imperative that we fight for our rights, it is imperative that we fight for our children so that they have a place of belonging and this building is that legacy,” said Vancouver-Mount Pleasant MLA Melanie Mark. The school and hall’s location, just footsteps from the Oppenheimer Park encampment, were not lost on Vancouver-East MP Jenny Kwan. She praised the Japanese-Canadian community for its inclusiveness, despite the neighbourhood’s challenging conditions. “In their hearts of hearts, they will never embark on a process of displacing people in this community. Their effort exemplifies the best of humankind,” Kwan said.
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Aura Ventures Corp., which owns properties on East Hastings Street in Hastings-Sunrise, has filed a civil lawsuit in the Supreme Court of B.C. over ownership of a parking lot B.C. Assessment values at $17.7 million. The City of Vancouver, which says it owns the parking lot, announced last June that it was handing it over for a future women-led housing project. The city is on the land title. Located at 2502 Franklin St., the lot sits between Kamloops and Penticton streets behind the London Drugs on East Hastings. It features about 180 parking spots. Customers of local businesses use the lot, while it also serves as an event space for neighbourhood festivals and fundraising. News the city had offered it up for the housing initiative took businesses and property owners by surprise. At the time of the announcement, the North Hastings Business
Improvement Association questioned the city’s claim of ownership, saying neighbourhood businesses and property owners might have rights to it. Now it looks like that point will be tested in court. Simon Lin of Evolink Law Group filed the civil claim at the end of October on behalf of Aura Ventures Corp., and on behalf of all current owners of what the lawsuit describes as “benefitted properties,” which number about 60 in total. Some of the “benefitted properties” have changed ownership and/or undergone stratification between 1964 to present. Lin is asking that the court certify the civil claim as a class action. Aura Ventures Corp. owns eight lots of land, whose addresses include 2642, 2638, 2632, 2630 and 2626 East Hastings St., which were stratified from one or more of the “benefitted properties.” “In short, we’re seeking a court order that the city
honours the deal — a deal that has been struck for decades. Our claim is that the deal has always been that the property, the parking lot, is held in trust for the collective benefit of all those property owners on Hastings, and those property owners are the beneficiaries of that property,” Lin told the Courier. The claim, filed on Oct. 28, states that the Hastings Sunrise Parking Lot is a collective parking project formally created on or about October 1965 out of 15 legal lots, and that the concept for the parking lot was initiated through a petition under the city’s local improvement procedure bylaw for the benefit of properties located on both sides of East Hastings Street between Nanaimo and Slocan, and the east side of Kamloops Street between Hastings and the lane immediately to the north. The 180 parking spots are intended for the use of owners, tenants and/or customers of benefitted properties, and each benefitted property is
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The City of Vancouver says it owns the parking lot at 2502 Franklin St. and announced it June it was handing it over for future women-led housing project. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET
“Benefitted Properties.” Along with asking that the civil claim be certified as a class action, among the remedies the plaintiff is seeking is a declaration that the owners of the “benefitted properties” are the beneficiaries of the parking lot, and that the land title register be “rectified” with an “in trust” endorsement on the registrations for the 15 lots that make up the parking lot.
In a Courier story published before the claim was filed, the city said it hadn’t found record of a land purchase by businesses, but if records were found, it would discuss how to move forward with those businesses. This week, the city declined to comment as legal proceedings are underway. It is reviewing the claim but has not yet filed a response. None of the claims have been proven in court.
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There was a sense of optimism among staff and politicians at city hall Nov. 14 as the six-month-long “listening phase” of the city-wide plan kicked off. The message centred on creating a plan with residents, particularly First Nations and those who’ve been historically underrep-
resented, and producing a shared vision of what Vancouver should look like over the next few decades. “This early stage of the engagement is probably the most exciting part because we can think about and we can dream about what the city is going to look like,” Mayor Kennedy Stewart said. Chief planner Gil Kelley said much the same.
Public Hearing: December 10, 2019
“As an urban planner, I’m thrilled because I think this is a once-in-a-generation opportunity for this city to articulate a very actionable strategy about what kind of city we want to be in 30 years, or 50 years, and how we get there, including the incremental steps along the way to an articulated vision that is compassionate, about a healthful, joyful city
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Public Hearing: December 12, 2019
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 6 pm Vancouver City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Third Floor, Council Chamber
Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 6 pm Vancouver City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Third Floor, Council Chamber
Vancouver City Council will hold a Public Hearing to consider zoning for these locations:
Vancouver City Council will hold a Public Hearing to consider zoning for these locations:
1. 6161 Cambie Street (Alliance Française) To rezone 6161 Cambie Street from to CD-1 (12) (Comprehensive Development) District to a new CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District, to permit redevelopment with a three-storey building containing the Alliance Française, an existing educational and cultural facility. The proposal also includes commercial uses at grade and office space on the third floor. A building height of 17.2 metres (56.3 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 1.93 are proposed. 2. 319-359 West 49th Avenue To rezone 319-359 West 49th Avenue from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District, to permit the development of a four-and-a-half storey building containing commercial uses at grade and 51 strata residential units. A building height of 18.1 metres (59.4 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 2.30 are proposed. 3. 1102-1134 East Georgia Street To rezone 1102-1134 East Georgia Street from I-2 (Industrial) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District, to permit the development of a four-storey, mixed-use building with a mezzanine level, containing commercial and light industrial uses at grade, 10 social residential units, and 37 strata residential units. A building height of 15.9 metres (52.2 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 2.57 are proposed.
A. 2543-2583 Renfrew Street and 2895 East 10th Avenue To rezone 2543-2583 Renfrew Street and 2895 East 10th Avenue from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) District and C-1 (Commercial) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District, to permit the development of a seven-storey, mixed-use building containing commercial uses at grade and 96 secured rental residential units with 20 per cent of the residential floor area being secured as moderate income units. A building height of 26.2 metres (86 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 3.60 are proposed. B.2603-2655 Renfrew Street To rezone 2603-2655 Renfrew Street from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District, to permit the development of a seven-storey, mixed-use building containing commercial uses at grade and 82 secured rental residential units with 20 per cent of the residential floor area secured as moderate income units. A building height of 25.8 metres (84.5 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 3.54 are proposed.
mate change, of affordability, of an inclusive society, risk from sea level rise and earthquakes, and other things that we’ll be facing in the coming decades.” Councillors, some with reporters in tow, then fanned out across Vancouver for pre-organized meetings with diverse groups — among them neighbourhood organizations, stu-
dents, immigrants, refugees, artists, seniors, Downtown Eastside residents and business people. They were armed with the same five pre-written questions to tease out discussion among participants, including: • what connects them to Vancouver • what their most pressing issue is
C. 1805 Larch Street To rezone 1805 Larch Street from RT-8 (Two-Family Dwelling) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District, to permit the development of a five-storey residential building containing 63 secured rental residential units with 20 per cent of the residential floor area being secured as moderate income units. A building height of 20.5 metres (67.1 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 2.53 are proposed. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THESE APPLICATIONS INCLUDING LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTIES: vancouver.ca/rezapps or 604-873-7038 Anyone who considers themselves affected by the proposed by-law amendments may speak at the Public Hearing. Please register individually beginning at 8:30 am on November 29 until 5 pm on the day of the Public Hearing by emailing publichearing@vancouver.ca or by calling 604-829-4238. You may also register in person at the door between 5:30 and 6 pm on the day of the Public Hearing. You may submit your comments by email to publichearing@vancouver.ca, or by mail to: City of Vancouver, City Clerk’s Office, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 1V4. All submitted comments will be distributed to Council and posted on the City’s website. Please visit vancouver.ca/publichearings for important details. Copies of the draft by-laws will be available for viewing starting November 29 at the City Clerk’s Office in City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, Monday to Friday from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. All meetings of Council are webcast live at vancouver.ca/councilvideo, and minutes of Public Hearings are available at vancouver.ca/councilmeetings (posted approximately two business days after a meeting).
4. 1940 Main Street To rezone 1940 Main Street from IC-2 (Industrial) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District, to permit the development of a six-storey, mixed-use building containing at-grade and belowgrade commercial retail space, 49 strata residential units, and a 37-space, Cityowned childcare facility. A building height of 22.7 metres (74.5 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 3.75 are proposed.
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from Vancouver artists community • what they enjoy or makes their life better • what makes their life difficult or creates stress or sadness • what they want the city to know or understand as the planning initiative moves forward. Green Party Coun. Pete Fry headed to Roundhouse Community Centre for a meeting with about 10 artists and with an Indigenous focus. The session was meant to last about an hour but went longer. Part of the meeting was filmed by a videographer. While the formula for the session may have seemed promising, many of the artists assembled weren’t impressed. Only introductions and the first question had been addressed well into the first hour. That’s when criticisms started surfacing about process, including the format, a lack of a traditional welcome, and even the questions themselves, which participants considered “generic” because they didn’t have anything to do with the arts community. They suggested that artists be consulted on what questions should be asked and then scheduling another meeting so their involvement could be meaningful. Some participants also raised concerns that artists’ professional expertise and time wasn’t being valued, while others stressed that all three First Nations — Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh — should be represented at feedback sessions and their participation should be compensated. They added that historical wrongs should be acknowledged and there should be an understanding of “the privilege settlers and people in power have.” Delannah Bowen, executive director for the Downtown Eastside Centre for the Arts, said her community is being eroded. “I don’t understand why the city is giving approval for the gentrification that eradicates the sense of community that we have established over the years,” she said. Bowen, who is AfricanCanadian and Cherokee, hesitated about participating in the session because of being confused about what the plan is. She added that her community has offered feedback in the past to no avail. “It makes people feel ineffective, so ‘why bother’ I’ve heard many times. Because, if we’re in consultation, I don’t want to be a person that just is on the
video camera and not heard and not effective,” she said. “I’ve been coming to city meetings for quite a while, six years at least, and look at the change in my community — it’s quite distasteful. I want to know where this is going to go. We’re sitting here in a circle, we’re not offered an honorarium — our time isn’t [considered] valuable — and are we going to be heard?” Mark Haney, a musician and composer-in-residence at Mountain View Cemetery, was frustrated. Haney, who also runs the Little Chamber Music Series That Could, thought the city was looking for input from professional artists about what it could do with that sector. Had it been a community session, he told the Courier he would have had no complaints but he felt his time was wasted. “I find often dealing with the city, they don’t treat us like professionals. We were asked to set aside an hour of our time for this. We’re five minutes over and I don’t feel like you have, in any way, tapped into the incredible wealth of experience and professionalism here. If you had called eight lawyers to the room, this wouldn’t be how it was going,” he said during the session. “Everyone you’ve invited here is skilled, experienced and professional and we’re never treated like that. It seems like the city is only interested in getting pictures of our events to show how great the city is. You’re getting video of people talking about what connects them to Vancouver. Why ask experts in a field for such general things?... I’m frustrated and upset and I’m sorry if it seems personal but I feel this is just another meeting where the work I do and the communities I’ve worked with are just a tool but no one is listening or caring.” While time constraints and the format didn’t lend itself to a deep discussion, participants were able to touch on some general concerns of artists such as the negative effects of gentrification and colonialism, the difficulty in obtaining grants and lack of funding for artists, disappearing artist venues, and the fact artists — particularly younger ones — are being forced out of Vancouver because it’s unaffordable. For his part, Fry stressed this is only the start of the consultation process and that he understood people’s skepticism about
the planning process. But he pointed out it’s a new council that’s committed to co-creating the plan. He, and a city staff person at the session, also promised to deliver all the feedback and criticism to city hall. After the meeting, Fry told the Courier he could have managed the session better but he welcomed the reaction, acknowledging the
meeting “totally went off the rails” but he called that a good thing because the process could be improved. “It’s a good validation of how much work we need to do and how we need to get there. This was a really great opportunity to get that kind of early feedback that’s saying, ‘No, no, no, no, no… don’t go off in this wrong direction, you
need to actually check your course correction and come at this the right way,’” he said. “It was hugely valuable and a good takeaway for our staff for how we’re going to approach this community differently. This was a really optimistic approach, but it was also a little bit of a tokenizing approach because we tried to wrap it into a
media messaging and a positive spin and, really, this is about serious work and recognizing that we’re a city in crisis in many ways and we need to step up to the plate differently than just smiles and media ops.” More information about the city-wide plan and opportunities for participation can be found at vancouverplan.ca. @naoibh
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In pod we trust: Columnist explores city politics in new podcast First episode of Vancouver Overcast goes behind the scenes of the NPA organization Mike Klassen
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Will the NPA be rocked by its forthcoming board election? How will the public react to the intense growth of the Senakw development in Kitsilano? Is Vancouver’s “woke” voter base too fickle to be counted on at election time? These are some of the questions discussed in a new podcast I launched this month titled Vancouver Overcast. The name is not just a riff on the persistent grey weather conditions we endure here. My goal is to establish a channel where listeners can discover more about Vancouver and hear from some of its thought leaders. There are several fine podcasts providing local perspectives, including the BIV Today business program, Price Talks, the Cambie Report and the Breaker. news podcast among others. The Torontobased Herle Burly podcast — featuring prominent Liberal and Conservative campaign insiders — became my go-to source for
analysis on the federal election. Just as digital streaming services such as Netflix and Disney+ are disrupting TV broadcasting, podcasts (which are short audio programs you can download to a smart phone or home listening device) are now showing strong growth among older audiences who have been slow to embrace the format. 2019 statistics indicate there are more than 750,000 active podcasts and more than 30 million podcast episodes. By comparison, there are more than 23 million YouTube channels, according to a 2018 survey, and hundreds of millions of episodes, if not more. And to think we once complained about having 500 satellite TV channels. The audiences are miniscule when compared to the heyday of big broadcast television events, but so were radio audiences a century ago. The room to grow for this do-it-yourself media culture seems, today at least, positively limitless. My decision to go from a podcast listener to a creator
Mike Klassen says the goal of his new podcast, Vancouver Overcast, is to establish a channel where listeners can discover more about Vancouver and hear from some of its thought leaders. PHOTO ISTOCK
involved a learning curve, but thankfully there are countless resources to guide you on to the medium, within your personal budget. Even with the equipment in place, and an understanding of music licensing and podcast publishing, nothing prepares you better for that first episode than to hit the record button and start talking.
For the debut, I enlisted the help of two friends to talk about city politics. George Affleck is a former two-term NPA councillor who co-hosts his own current events podcast, Unspun, at TheOrca.ca. He joined me along with Rob McDowell, a two-time city NPA council candidate and frequent podcast collaborator with urban planner and former NPA councillor
Gordon Price. Any plans to ease into podcasting went out the window when Affleck warned me he had a family commitment to keep, and we had just about 45 minutes before he had to leave. So, with just seconds to adjust the mic levels, I pressed the bright red record button and our discussion began on a range of heady topics. Though the conversation may have been impromptu, I am pleased that during our talk I gained new perspectives from my guests. Some of the most animated discussion surrounded the Vancouver NPA political organization. Currently, five of the 11 members of city council were elected under the NPA banner. This coming Monday, the association is holding a determinative board election that will (once again) shape its future as a local political force. Affleck and McDowell, who both have long experience with the organization, lamented how many times the NPA with the help of its board wrongfooted itself before elections. Too often,
they argued, board members put their own political priorities ahead of supporting the elected caucus, or focusing on voter outreach and fundraising to keep the association relevant and sustainable. “It’s really hard to find people who want to be behind the scenes for four years. Most of them are just wannabe politicians,” Affleck contends. “The only governance the board of the NPA should be doing is the governance of the NPA — get away from the people who are elected.” Their concerns about the organization could fall on deaf ears, however. Several NPA board candidates for Monday’s contest come from fringe elector organizations that failed to elect a single representative last year. For more on my conversation with Affleck and McDowell and for future discussions with interesting people from our region, I invite you to subscribe to the Vancouver Overcast podcast, available now on all popular streaming services. @MikeKlassen
Weighing the pros and cons of strata property ownership in Vancouver
Condos can be ideal arrangement for single-family homeowners Michael Geller geller@sfu.ca
Do you know the difference between a strata development and condominium development? There is no difference. While condominium is the term generally used for strata properties in other provinces — in B.C. the two terms are interchangeable, although condominium is often wrongly used to refer to an apartment, as distinct from a townhouse. In fact, townhouses are usually condominiums, as are duplexes and even some detached houses. There are also commercial, industrial and mixeduse strata developments. In my neighbourhood, horses live in strata-titled stables. In a condominium, owners own their individual strata lots and together own the common property and assets as a strata corporation. Private balconies and patios are designated ‘limited common property’ for exclusive use. British Columbia enacted
the first Strata-Title Act in 1966. However, it wasn’t until the early 1970s that condominiums became popular. To date, approximately 29,000 Strata Corporations comprising 500,000 units have been created, housing 1.5 million of B.C.’s five million residents. Although the first condominiums were developed primarily for those seeking an affordable alternative to a single-family house, today condominiums appeal to a much broader range of households, especially those selling for tens of millions of dollars. While many single-family homeowners have reservations about strata living, it can be the ideal arrangement. Owners generally enjoy a more carefree lifestyle, with less worry about individual maintenance and repairs. There can also be a greater sense of community, especially in smaller projects. While some regard strata fees as an additional cost, they cover items a singlefamily homeowner would normally pay including
Although the first condos were developed primarily for those seeking an affordable alternative to a single-family house, today condominiums appeal to a much broader range of households. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET
home insurance, municipal fees, repairs and maintenance. There is also a prudent contingency reserve. In British Columbia, condominium residents must abide by the Strata Property Act and bylaws. While the province has developed standard bylaws, I recently discovered they may not adequately address emerging issues, such as smoking and short-term rentals. Most British Columbians do not smoke tobacco and
do not want to be exposed to second-hand smoke. Strata owners and residents can ensure smoke-free environments by passing strata bylaws or rules to restrict or ban smoking. An issue is whether these restrictions should apply to just common areas, or within individual homes as well. Furthermore, do they also apply to vaping and marijuana smoked for pleasure or medical purposes. The provincial govern-
ment has prepared some helpful information on bylaws to addressing smoking. It advises that if a strata council wants to try and ban smoking in individual units, it should seek expert legal advice. Strata bylaws can limit the number or percentage of residential strata lots that may be rented or limit the length of time they may be rented. This often applies to Airbnb. Again, the province has prepared useful information on this as well. Given our affordable rental housing crisis, the B.C. government and some municipalities are now discouraging stratas from placing restrictions on longterm rentals. I do not agree with this. Condominiums should be treated as a type of ownership housing, not a means to increase rental supply. Investors who purchase units with the sole intention of renting often have different priorities than owneroccupiers.
Governments should allow strata corporations to decide on long term rentals. Short term rentals, such as Airbnb are another concern. Increasingly, many condominiums are banning them since they often negatively impact the quality of life for other residents. A year ago, the provincial government passed legislation increasing the fine a strata corporation can impose from $200 a week to $1,000 a day for owners not complying with a strata bylaw limiting or banning short-term rentals. As Vancouver’s planners encourage more duplexes, smaller infill developments, and other forms of multifamily housing, condominium living will become even more prevalent. While it may not be for everyone, most condominium residents will tell you the pros generally outweigh the cons. Especially when they don’t have to deal with leaky roofs, bats in the attic, or racoons under the deck. @michaelgeller
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Remembering Chinatown’s legendary Marco Polo
Exclusive excerpt from Aaron Chapman’s new book Vancouver After Dark Former Courier contributor Aaron Chapman’s new book, Vancouver After Dark: The Wild History of a City’s Nightlife, published by Arsenal Pulp Press, delivers on its title’s promise. Over the course of 246 colourful pages, Chapman dishes on this city’s most famous and infamous entertainment venues over the years. In this exclusive excerpt, he looks back at The Marco Polo, the legendary Chinatown hotspot that hosted the likes of Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx and a scintillating Nina Simone before eventually closing in 1982. ••• On the night of Nov. 18, 1964, the Marco Polo nightclub at 90 East Pender St. hosted its gala grand opening. Harvey Lowe, looking sharp in a suit and tie, took to the stage to emcee. Once the owner of the Smilin’ Buddha Cabaret, Lowe was more widely known to the public as both a radio host and a world champion of the yoyo during his childhood in the early 1930s. Tonight, as he emceed, Lowe whirled his yo-yos back and forth, up high and down low. One expected to see him pick off the drinking glasses along the tables in the front row. These were well-worn tricks he had once displayed at talent shows as a kid and now continued to perform during his nightclub appearances. The shtick might have worn a bit thin by the mid-1960s, but on this night, Lowe earned a healthy round of applause from the full house. Waiting in the wings was Ayako Hosokawa, a singer who’d come direct from Japan. Vocalists were backed by the house band, the Marco Polo Orchestra, featuring local bandleader Carse Sneddon. The Marco Polo promoted this night’s entertainment as “Canada’s only Oriental Revue,” showcasing a floor show that featured “a glamorous line of Chinese Beauties” called the China Dolls.1 If all that wasn’t enough to satisfy, a 300-pound barbecued whole pig was the centrepiece of the restaurant’s massive Chinese smorgasbord. Chinatown had never seen anything quite like it. Among all the clubs that have existed in Chinatown over the years — including its many nameless illegal gambling and opium dens from the very early days — the Marco Polo is perhaps the most legendary nightspot in the neighbourhood’s history. The club became one of the city’s significant live entertainment venues of the 1960s and ’70s. Although local popular opinion might deem the Cave, the Palomar and Isy’s to be the city’s pre-eminent supper clubs, the Marco Polo, a late arrival on the scene, quickly acquired an audience and atmosphere all its own. Between 1904 and 1917, 90 East Pender St. housed the terminal station for the Great Northern Railway. When the train line was decommissioned, the track was removed, and by the 1950s, the station’s walls and foundation were repurposed to build the Forbidden City, a Chinese restaurant owned by Jimmy Lee, who also owned the May-Ling Club at 442 Main St. In 1959, Lee consulted a Chinatown fortune teller, who advised him it would be a bad year for business. Although he hadn’t experienced any problems with the business, this ominous warning made him fearful, and he sold the Forbidden City. By 1964, the space was given new life as the Marco Polo theatre restaurant by owners Victor Louie and his brothers. The brothers were from one of the most successful Chinese Canadian families in the city. Their grandfather H.Y. Louie had
1 1. The Platters performing at the Marco Polo. 2. Owner Victor Louie samples his chef’s offering from Marco Polo’s 14-page menu 3. The Marco Polo occupied 90 East Pender for decades until moving to North Vancouver in 1982.
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emigrated from China, around the time the Marco Polo was still a railway station, and become a produce wholesaler. Their uncle Tong Louie was owner of the London Drugs and IGA supermarket chains. Another uncle, Tim Louie, had become a judge and police commissioner. However, the Marco Polo didn’t cater exclusively to Chinese Canadians. The name alone seemed to convey that non-Asian Canadian diners were more than welcome to come and explore Chinese cuisine. With its 14-page menu, the club offered a seemingly endless variety of dishes — at a time when dining choices in Vancouver were nowhere near as varied as they are today. “You could usually rely on Chinatown being a good option for restaurants,” recalls legendary local radio DJ Red Robinson, who had ample opportunity to sample restaurants while broadcasting from practically everywhere across the Lower Mainland over the years. Back then, Robinson recalls, “there was nothing. The White Lunch? It was just diner food! Just boiled stuff, and maybe some tapioca pudding to finish, with the little eyes staring back at you! Trader Vic’s was a big deal when it opened, because before that, the benchmark places in Vancouver were the Devonshire Hotel restaurant or the Georgia. So Chinatown was always an option and welcome relief, with places like the Mandarin Gardens, the Ho Ho, and the On On. What was different was the Marco Polo was a cross between those places with Chinese food, but it also had the shows.” The Cave and Isy’s featured more of the A-list performers in town, but the Marco Polo hosted many varied and notable acts. Hip American comedians Richard Pryor and Redd Foxx performed at the Marco Polo, as did musical comedy nightclub mainstays like Pete Barbutti. The club also hosted groups such as the 5th Dimension and Sly and the Family Stone, as well as retro acts like the Platters and Bill Haley & His Comets. But it was a March 1968 engagement at the club by Nina Simone that was perhaps the most notable of all the shows at the Marco Polo. It even caught the attention of Vancouver Sun columnist Denny Boyd. Boyd wasn’t a regular music reviewer and tended to enjoy the more mainstream style of entertainers, like Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra, and he wasn’t normally inclined
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2 to offer effusive praise about any musical performer — but even he was bowled over. “In this day of kiss-blowing entertainers, who beg their audiences for love, Nina is an iconoclast,” Boyd wrote. “A glorious singer and sensitive pianist, she thrilled a Marco Polo audience into respectful silence last night. She doesn’t smile because she is totally absorbed in her music, none of which is frivolous. When she finishes a song there simply isn’t another word to be said about the subject.”2 During Simone’s set at the Marco Polo, an audience member unexpectedly spoke up and questioned her right to sing songs that criticized racial injustice while she was in Canada, where, the patron apparently insisted, there wasn’t the same kind of discrimination. Simone’s reaction was immediate: “Literally shaking with emotion,” Boyd wrote, “she reduced him to ashes with a fiery outburst in which she attempted to bring him up to date. Go see her, and hear her message.” If there was one newspaper columnist who was completely at home at the Marco Polo it was Vancouver Sun entertainment editor Alex MacGillivray. If the Cave was Jack Wasserman’s beat, then the Marco Polo was surely MacGillivray’s. He wrote regular dispatches about the wide variety of entertainment on display at the club. But his writing did not always please everyone. “In one review in the newspaper, he gave the China Dolls a bad review,” recalls his daughter, Caroline MacGillivray. “The next time he came into the Marco Polo, Pamela Hong from the China Dolls walked up and needled him about it, and really told him off.” MacGillivray must have made amends somehow — they eventually married and Pamela gave birth to Caroline. And for Caroline, it was always a treat for her as a child to visit the place where her parents first met. “It was my favourite restaurant. I loved the smorgasbord and the almond cookies,” she recalls. By the mid-1970s, the Marco Polo greatly reduced the number of shows they offered. As the Cave also experienced around that time, the era of the supper club acts was coming to an end, and with it, so did the clubs themselves. The Marco Polo continued to function as a popular restaurant for a few more years but moved to North Vancouver in spring
1982. When the Marco Polo closed in Chinatown, it seemed to mark the end of a unique time in the history of Vancouver’s nightlife, especially for those who had been moved by the performances they’d seen in the club — people like Denny Boyd, who would never forgot that Nina Simone show, and believed that the Marco Polo closing, after the closure of the Cave a year before, marked the end of an era. Boyd delivered a passionate eulogy for the Marco Polo in the Vancouver Sun, lamenting how quickly the city had changed, and expressing cautious optimism about where he thought the city was heading. “It wasn’t too long ago that this was nightclub city,” he wrote. “You could go downtown with a $20 bill in your pocket and see a class act. Uptown we got the major acts at the Cave and Isy’s. Downtown, we got the new acts, plus gold coin beef and steamed broccoli, at the Marco Polo.”3 “Talent broke at the Marco,” he continued. “The bad ones are forgotten, but some went onto stardom. They were new, they were hungry, and they worked hard at the Marco Polo, and they respected your entertainment dollar. It was a fun place, and there aren’t any fun places left. Maybe I’m missing something. Maybe Vancouver doesn’t want to chuckle any more. Maybe the climate’s too wet and the economy’s too dry for laughing. All I know is I never saw a bank tower I liked.” In 1983, the Marco Polo building was demolished. A new structure was erected on the site that currently houses one of the campuses of Vancouver Film School. —Aaron Chapman John Mackie, “This Day in History: 1964,” Vancouver Sun, Nov. 16, 2012, 2. 2. Denny Boyd’s column, Vancouver Sun, March 8 1968, 23. 3. Denny Boyd, “The Curtain Drops on Marco Polo,” Vancouver Sun, January 27, 1982, 3. See related story on page 20. 1.
Central Studios (856 Seymour) hosts a book launch party for Vancouver After Dark Nov. 28, 7 p.m. In keeping with the book’s theme, it will be a “Throwback Thursday”-style club night featuring music, comedy and more. Details at facebook.com.
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Volunteers will blanket SkyTrain stops across Vancouver and Richmond this weekend in search of blankets, among other things. Blanket B.C. Society’s annual Drive on the Line campaign runs Nov. 22 and 23 at eight Canada Line stops: Waterfront Station, Vancouver City Centre, YaletownRoundhouse, BroadwayCity Hall, Oakridge-41st, Marine Drive, Bridgeport and Lansdowne. Roughly 200 volunteers will be stationed at those stops to take donations of socks, scarves, mittens, toques and blankets.
All donated items will then be divided up and distributed to more than 100 shelter programs and organizations that work with impoverished individuals and families throughout Metro Vancouver, the Fraser Valley, Vancouver Island and Sunshine Coast. Last year’s event collected more than 5,000 blankets, 1,200 articles of clothing more than $7,500. All in, the drive has distributed close to 500,000 blankets and warm clothing to shelter programs, First Nations communities and families in need over its 11-year history. Details at blanketbc.org. —Courier staff
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It’s been 25 years since the opening of the first Aunt Leah’s Christmas tree lot on Granville Street and 54th Avenue in Vancouver. Since then, the initiative, which is the major fundraiser for the charity that helps kids in, and aging out of, the foster care system, has expanded to include six locations throughout Metro Vancouver. And with just days to go until the tree lots open for the season on Nov. 21, Aunt Leah’s is looking for hundreds of volunteers to help out. “Each year it’s an honour to bring together such a large and diverse community of volunteers to support foster kids, moms and babies at our Christmas Tree Lots,” Hope Rayson, volunteer coordinator, said in a press release. “We have students, individuals and groups signing up to help out. “This year is particularly special as it’s our 25th anniversary, and we now have three generations of families who have come together to help make the tree lot the success that it is.” It is estimated that half of young people in B.C.’s foster care system will experience homelessness. For the past 30 years, Aunt Leah’s has been aiming to provide family-like support that
It’s been 25 years since Aunt Leah’s opened its first Christmas tree lot in Vancouver on Granville Street and 54th Avenue. FILE PHOTO DAN TOULGOET
includes housing, financial help, life skills and emotional care for young adults aging out of foster care. As well, they work with young mothers at risk of having their children put in foster care to give them the skills to be able to keep their babies out of the system. “Currently, B.C.’s foster care system is not only a pipeline into future homelessness, but also a pipeline from and back to itself, due to early and unplanned pregnancies,” said Sarah Stewart, Aunt Leah’s executive director. “Aunt Leah’s has responded to this crisis by helping young women in need — who we know can succeed when surrounded by supportive allies and resources — thus preventing another generation of children and babies from entering the system.”
The organization started selling Christmas trees in the 1990s when government funding was cut. It turned into a viable social enterprise and sales have continued to grow every year, and it has become a holiday tradition for many Metro Vancouver families. There are three locations in Vancouver, as well as lots in North Vancouver, Coquitlam and Burnaby. The lots will be open from Nov. 21 until Dec. 23, or until supplies last. For locations, or to pre-order a tree online, visit auntleahs.org/socialenterprise/tree-lots. To volunteer, go to auntleahs. org/treelotsignup, or contact Hope Rayson at 604-5251204 (ext. 252) or email hrayson@auntleahs.org. @JessicaEKerr
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Hoffman is second-highest paid superintendent in Metro Vancouver Salaries released for Vancouver’s top earners in education JohnKurucz
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Size matters for Metro Vancouver’s top education staffers. That’s because the bigger the district, the bigger the paycheque for superintendents. Income numbers released by the Vancouver School Board (VSB) last week show that superintendent Suzanne Hoffman made $276,397 for the period between July 1, 2018 and June 30, 2019. Statement of Financial Information (SOFI) numbers are released annually by government bodies and list all employees — except for cops — who earn in excess of $75,000 along with their expenses. Of the Metro Vancouver districts with the highest student populations — Surrey, Vancouver, Coquitlam and Burnaby — only Vancouver has released current salary figures. The most recent statistics from the other three districts cover the fiscal year running from July 1, 2017 to June 30, 2018. Despite that lack of
current numbers, Surrey superintendent Jordan Tinney leads the pack in terms of salary after collecting $281,018 during the previous fiscal year. Tinney, a former VSB deputy superintendent from 2010 to 2012, also claimed $59,441 in expenses. Burnaby superintendent Gina Niccoli-Moen earned $240,827 and claimed $11,475 in expenses, while Coquitlam superintendent Patricia Gartland earned $226,407. Gartland’s expense totals were $87,690. Hoffman’s expense claims were relatively low — $16,576 — compared to her regional contemporaries. VSB spokesperson Jiana Chow explained that Hoffman’s expenses were related to “conferences, professional development, memberships and travel.” A pair of district staffers involved in recruitment claimed the highest expense totals for all VSB employees: district principal Barbara Onstad ($43,715) and Iris Leung, manager of international business ($43,267). Leung led the way on last
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• Former chief engineer Jerry Dobrovolny: $291,851. Principals at schools across the city made, on average, made in the range of $100,000 to $130,000. Some trades workers — electricians, painters, steamfitters, plumbers, for example — earned between $80,000 and $90,000. Those figures are on par with teachers’ salaries in some cases. And then there were the lowly politicians. Despite receiving more votes that anyone who ran in 2018 election, school board chair Janet Fraser collected $30,356 for her efforts. The other totals are a mish-mash of both former and past trustees, due the fiscal year cut-off in relation to last October’s election. Other trustees earned anywhere from $9,700 to $28,000. @JohnKurucz
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tance of dignity and choice.” Last year, Wong cofounded Employ to Empower, a registered charity that supports people living in the Downtown Eastside by providing access to development and entrepreneurial resources, such as affordable microloans and business mentorship, with the goal of having a long-term impact of their personal and economic well-being. Employ to Empower also facilitates the Street Store. The Street Store has opened every Christmas without fail since 2014. Since then, more than 200 volunteers have helped distribute more than 40,0000 clothing donations to more than 5,000 residents. This year, the Street Store is due to open Dec. 15 with
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Singing the blues on Broadway Naoibh O’Connor
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On the first Friday of November, Park Heffelfinger and George Siu, business partners who run Memphis Blues’ flagship location on Broadway near Granville Street, received the notice they were dreading — official termination of their lease. Their restaurant is in a building at 1465 West Broadway — one of two older buildings being knocked down to make way for a new office building, which will also feature an entrance for one of the stops on the Broadway subway extension. Due to a demolition clause, they were given 90 days to get out. It’s been tough news to accept because they’ve operated the southern barbecue restaurant at that location for 18 years, and they initially thought the development and subway stop would only involve the four-storey office building on the corner, at 1489 West Broadway, where a Royal Bank branch is located. In the summer, however, they realized an eviction notice for their one-storey building next to the Royal Bank site, which is also home to a Chinese restaurant and a breakfast place, might be coming. They heard rumblings about a potential sale of their building. At that point, they were leasing on a month-to-month basis, but they say the owner asked them to sign another lease and suggested they’d have a better chance at getting some form of compensation if they did. Chesterton Property Management, which couldn’t be reached by the Courier, is the owner. In early September, one of the affected businesses arranged a meeting with a provincial government consultant working on the subway project, which Heffelfinger and Siu sat in on. Siu said he felt there was a hint some form of compensation might be forthcom-
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ing, although a follow-up email indicated the province didn’t want to “insert” itself in the existing relationship they had with their landlord. That representative then recused himself from further discussions because he’d met Siu years ago and referred him to a colleague. (Heffelfinger and Siu plan to meet that person soon and hope for a positive outcome.) Meanwhile, exact plans for the site emerged in mid-September and early October. On Sept. 18, the provincial government publicly announced one of the Broadway subway extension stops would be at Broadway and Granville. Not long afterwards, the Courier published a story revealing PCI Developments was proposing a five-storey office building on properties at 1465 to 1489 West Broadway, which would include an entrance to the station. The Courier contacted the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure, which is responsible for the subway project, near the end of October to ask about the project and possible compensation for existing business owners. The ministry stated in an email that “the property was already in the process of being redeveloped, providing an opportunity to integrate the station into a future new building.” “The arrangements with
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focus on their Commercial Drive operation, they could rent space in a commercial kitchen and operate what’s known as a “ghost restaurant” by sticking to a delivery-only service model or they could re-locate their Broadway site — a massive financial undertaking. Along with storage costs, it would be months of work before they could re-open. They’d either have to lease a new space and build from scratch, forcing them to deal with construction, inspection and permitting headaches, all of which Heffelfinger estimates could cost as much as half a million dollars, or they could buy an existing restaurant — their preference — which would still require cosmetic changes and cost as much as $250,000. The expense isn’t the only factor to consider — finding a good location that draws clientele, and that isn’t at risk of demolition, is tricky in Vancouver. Heffelfinger and Siu have already talked to realtors about options. Not much is available. “We’re not giving up because we want to see what’s out there and see if there is a location that we could use. We’re going to try because it’s a serious brand issue for us. It’s about keeping that brand presence and keeping the brand looking healthy and moving along,” Heffelfinger said. “So anybody out there who knows of anything please let us know because these restaurant spaces get snapped up pretty quick when they come along.” When the Courier asked the City of Vancouver if it would, generally speaking, offer any help to businesses that were evicted or displaced because of construction of the Broadway subway stations, the city said in an email that it “will work with the province to understand which businesses need to be relocated and will explore ways to expedite building permits that will be required.” @naoibh
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Aaron Chapman’s latest book, Vancouver After Dark: the Wild History of a City’s Nightlife, pours out the sagas of dozens of nightclubs, bars and dance halls through the decades. PHOTO MIKE DERAKHSHAN
When you sink into the stories vividly portrayed in the new book Vancouver After Dark: the Wild History of a City’s Nightlife, it’s hard to imagine this town ever took on the moniker of “No Fun City.” Author and Courier contributor Aaron Chapman has previously written
about Vancouver nightlife in his award-winning book Live At the Commodore and his bestselling debut Liquor, Lust, and the Law (about the Penthouse). This time he has vastly expanded his scope, pouring out the sagas of dozens of nightclubs, bars and dance halls through the ages, every place from the Cave to the Starfish Room, Oil Can Harry’s to the Smilin’ Buddha. It’s a book you can enjoy reading from page one onward, or opening at any section and reading about, say, the outrageous history of Gary Taylor’s Rock Room, or the blurry goings on at the
Pig and Whistle. Throughout the book are rare and sometimes never-before-seen photos, as well as an incredible array of posters. Chapman — also a musician who performed at several of Vancouver’s most famous venues — has clearly emerged as this city’s foremost historian of the entertainment circuit. In advance of the book’s launch party on Thursday, Nov. 28, I caught up with the ever-affable author.
I think it’s an interesting time here in the city to look back and see what we’ve lost. These places were important not just because great talent, or world-renowned performers played in them — it’s where we as Vancouverites went to meet and interact with one another. No city is a museum that remains preserved. But when these places disappear, it changes the DNA.
What was the thought process in deciding to write about such a vast variety of clubs over such a long period of time?
I wanted to focus on the places that weren’t just an everyday bar, but nightclubs that had live music and
How did you choose which clubs to write about?
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century city nightlife entertainment. Or clubs that were kind of pivotal places, where something interesting happened, that reflected what Vancouver was like at the time. Every generation has their own favourite places. Vancouverites of a certain age might still fondly recall nights at the Cave, while their grandkids might miss the Luv-A-Fair or Graceland. People still talk about these old clubs fondly. They had value and meant something. While I thoroughly loved reading about the history of places like the Retinal Circus, the Town Pump, Isy’s, and so many others, I was surprised to read that you didn’t include the Savoy or the Railway, both owned by the same family. Why was that? Did they ban your former band the Real McKenzies or something?
If you could transport yourself back to the heyday of any of the clubs you write about in Vancouver After Dark, which one would you most want to hang out at?
That’s a tough question. There’d be so many to choose from. How great would it be to step back in time and catch Richard Pryor doing a set at the Marco Polo in Chinatown. Or to grab a cab and head over to the Cave to see Anthony Newley with a 20-piece band. Or to have been a fly on the wall at some of the first saloons in Vancouver, just to hear the conversations of people around the bar. How great would it have been to be one of a dozen people in the audience to see what would become the biggest comedy duo of the 1970s — Cheech and Chong — do their first show together at a dive on Main Street. In a way, I hope with the book people can take that time machine and come back without a hangover.
What do you think of the present and future nightlife in Vancouver, specifically with regards to live music? Is it over?
Not at all. One thing I try to stress in the book is that Vancouver has never been “No Fun City.” There’s stuff happening every night of the week. Lots of times there are two or three good shows to be at on any given night. I think Vancouver sometimes needs somebody to tell people, “Hey, the party isn’t over there — it’s down here.” Sometimes you just need a guide or somebody to let you know where things are happening. Sometimes the places to be weren’t always at the popular clubs of the period. In a way, it’s never been as easy, and it’s never been as hard. But there are still some fascinating and talented people on stage and off making places happen right now.
A shot of Richard’s on Richards in its 1980s heyday. PHOTO COURTESY OF HOWARD BLANK
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Ho ho, no, not at all. The book by no means is an encyclopedia of all the bars and watering holes in the city. There are a couple of places like the Savoy (a.k.a. the Gastown Music Hall) that could have made the cut. The book specifically spotlights places that aren’t around anymore, and the Railway is still very
much there — as is the Yale. They are different now, and maybe their styles or formats have changed, but their stories aren’t over yet.
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Julia Ivanova’s 2007 documentary Fatherhood Dreams was an ensemble piece, but over the years, her thoughts would regu-
larly drift back to one of the participants more than the others. Fatherhood Dreams followed three Vancouver families with gay dads as they built their families — via surrogacy, adoption
and co-parenting — shortly after Canada became the fourth country in the world to legalize same-sex unions. Ivanova trained her camera on newlyweds Randy and Drew as they adopted baby Jack, and Scott as he con-
nected with a surrogate to have twins Ella and Mac. But it was little Zea — the four-year-old daughter of Stephen and lesbian couple Coreen and Wendy — who imprinted herself most on Ivanova.
When the filmmaker asked Zea if she ever found it confusing to have two moms and one dad, the four-year-old scoffed at the idea and replied, “I’m the luckiest ever because I have the most parents.” “She was the most adorable child who ever lived on the surface of the Earth,” says Ivanova now.
t “She was the smartest. s Even then, I wondered what she would be like in h c 10 or 12 years.” t That lingering question ultimately led to My s Dads, My Moms and Me, d Ivanova’s follow-up to Fatherhood Dreams, which t screens at the Rio Theatre t Nov. 30 as part of the Reeli i Causes film series. c Ivanova wanted audiences to find out what happened “to these children w
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aren’t toddlers anymore. Raising them is almost over in some of the cases.” In some ways, the families seem transformed beyond recognition. Randy’s sunny optimism is all but gone. Adorable toddler Jake is now a moody teenager who doesn’t want to appear on camera after the first day of filming. “I appreciated that he wasn’t masking his moods or his opinions,” says Ivanova. “He was very straightforward with me. But that was challenging because I had zero control.” Scott and the twins have moved from Vancouver to Halifax. Scott is now married to a man who has legally adopted the twins and the pair are living their best lives as dedicated hockey dads. “I admire Scott’s humour and joy and ongoing pleasure of being the father,” says Ivanova. Little Zea is now teenaged Zea, and she and her moms and dad now wrestle with profound health challenges. But Ivanova says the challenges have united the family. “That was absolutely unexpected to me how the depths of their relationship and their love for each other, and
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Few musicians have been in as many bands as Stephen Hamm. So many that the imposing bassist’s resumé reads like an abridged history of Vancouver’s independent music scene: Slow, Tankhog, Ogre, Roots Roundup, Jungle, Canned Hamm, the Power Failures, Sunday Morning, the Evaporators. Now, Hamm has opened his mind’s eye to focus on more solitary pursuits — namely his one-man band and new album, Theremin Man, which, as the name suggests, showcases the misunderstood early 20th century electronic instrument known as the theremin. Patented in 1928 by Russian inventor Léon Theremin, the futuristic sounding device relies on two metal antennas that react to the position of the performer’s hands, which control pitch and volume without actually touching the instrument. The result is a ghostly, voice-like sound, which seemed custommade for campy 1950s sci-fi movies such as The Day the Earth Stood Still and Forbidden Planet. The Beach Boys’ single “Good Vibrations” and the theme from the original Star Trek TV show are often wrongly cited for featuring the theremin, while guitarist Jimmy Page notably dabbled with one in Led Zeppelin’s concert film The Song Remains the Same. For Hamm, playing the theremin began more as a diversion when, five years
ago, he found for the first time in his life he wasn’t in a band. “I love collaborating with people, but after this long career or whatever I’ve had, this time I just wanted to do something by myself,” Hamm says. So he began teaching himself the unruly instrument via YouTube videos and incorporating it in his solo performances for added flare. Gradually, however, it began to seep into the forefront of his music. “The instrument started to speak to me,” says Hamm. “It sounds like it’s from another world... It’s music from the ether.” Two summers ago, Hamm took the plunge into full-blown theremin devotee — travelling to France for a weeklong music academy featuring theremin master Carolina Eyck. All of which invites the question, what kind of people attend a weeklong theremin academy in France? “There are people from classical backgrounds,” says Hamm, “there was a guy from Paris who was an electronic nerd, there were a bunch of moms and dads, there was a cool kid from Switzerland who was into punk rock, a guy from Spain — from all over Europe all these oddballs and just lovely people,” says Hamm. If Hamm sounds like he’s achieved a level of Zen through his theremin-fuelled journey across the cosmos, that’s because he has. The veteran musician is even comfortable admitting his new album has a distinct
New Age vibe to it, particularly the droney, psychedelic single “Space Sister.” “Oh yeah,” says Hamm enthusiastically when pressed on his celestial explorations. “I’m a big meditator. I’m also very interested in the Unarious foundation, which is a group out of California and they are all about communing with the space brothers and creating art and finding your past lives through art.” He adds, “But the instrument told me what it wants to play and that’s what came.” Hamm says he also likes the portability and ease of being in a one-man band with a theremin under his arm. Although it might seem worlds away from his punk rock past, his new musical universe is not so distant, he says. “As I get older, I realize that my time on this planet is finite, and I found I was able to re-establish a sense of play in my life, which had been missing for a while. [The theremin] allowed me to be a kid again and play. It allowed me to connect with why I started playing music in the first place, which is that place that’s like meditation. And this instrument is like meditation in that you get lost and your mind shuts off and that’s a fantastic thing. That’s the reason I played punk rock in the first place. Same thing. Shut your mind off.” Stephen Hamm celebrates the release of Theremin Man, Nov. 23 at Lana Lou’s, 362 Powell St.
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When you’re following a sports team, it’s easy to get caught up in the game-to-game results, riding a rollercoaster of emotion through an entire season. A win fills you with elation and optimism — a loss, crushing disappointment. This doesn’t just apply to fans. When Canucks head coach Travis Green was asked to assess the Canucks’ season after a loss to the Dallas Stars last week, he had to catch himself before he spoke. “I think you’re catching me on a night when we lost a hockey game,” he said. “If you asked me after the Nashville game, I’d probably be a little more optimistic.” The Canucks are on a bit of a losing skid. At the time, the Nashville game Green referenced was their only win in their last six games. But instead of looking at a small chunk of games, let’s look at the season as a whole. The Canucks just passed the quarter mark of the 2019-20 season, which is a good time to take a step back and look at the big picture. The team’s hot start in October put them in a strong position, to the point that even with their struggles in November, they’re still hanging around the top of the Pacific Division. Heading into Tuesday’s game against the Dallas Stars, the Canucks were third in the Pacific with a 10-7-4 record and a plus-10 goal differential. Beyond the results of wins and losses, however, there are some positive signs in the Canucks’ underlying statistics. For instance, the Canucks are second in the NHL in score-adjusted corsi percentage. Some might ask, what is corsi and why does it matter? Corsi is a measure of shot attempts for and against at five on five. A percentage above 50 per cent indicates that a team is out-shooting their opposition, which is a useful proxy for puck possession: if you’re taking more shot attempts than the other team, then you have the puck more than they do. The reason corsi matters is that it is more useful for predicting future wins and losses than a team’s current record or even their current goal differential. That means the Canucks’ 53.62 per cent corsi, second behind only the Carolina Hurricanes, suggests the team should out-score their opponents over the rest of the season and, accordingly, win more than they lose. We can also look at another advanced
Stick-taps & Glove-drops • A tap of the stick to the Hockey Hall of Fame class of 2019, who were inducted on Monday. The six inductees: Canadian hockey legend Hayley Wickenheiser, NHL stars Guy Carbonneau and Sergei Zubov, trailblazing Soviet defector Vaclav Nedomansky, Penguins GM Jim Rutherford, and all-time great NCAA coach Jerry York. • I’m dropping the gloves with Garnet Hathaway of the Washington Capitals, who crossed a pretty big line on Monday when, during an altercation with Erik Gudbranson of the Anaheim Ducks, spat on the former Canuck. Brad Marchand likely would have recommended he lick him instead.
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statistic, expected goals, which adds a measure of shot quality to the basic corsi statistic. The Canucks are third in the NHL in expected goals percentage, meaning they’re not just out-shooting their opposition but out-chancing them as well. The Canucks are creating more grade-A scoring chances than their opponents. To go with the Canucks’ strong numbers at five on five, their special teams have been among the league’s best. The power play is sixth in the NHL, scoring on 24.7 per cent of their opportunities, while they also boast a top-10 penalty kill, if just barely. At 83.6 per cent, the Canucks are 10th in the league. A lot of the Canucks’ success comes from the performance of their stars. As of Tuesday, Elias Pettersson was tied for 10th in NHL scoring with 25 points in 21 games. His linemates, Brock Boeser and J.T. Miller, are not far behind, tied for 24th with
20 points each. Star rookie Quinn Hughes is tied for second in scoring among rookies, with 14 points in 20 games, behind only Cale Makar. Defensively, the Canucks are in the top 10 of shots against, largely thanks to their revamped defence corps that has been more effective at transitioning the puck up ice so the team spends less time in the defensive zone. Finally, there’s the goaltending, which has been solid all season and even spectacular at times. The average save percentage this season is .908: both Jacob Markstrom and Thatcher Demko have been well above average at .914 and .916, respectively.
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Big Numbers • 26 With both Brandon Sutter and Jay Beagle out of the lineup, Bo Horvat had a whopping 26 faceoff wins on Nov. 16 against the Colorado Avalanche. According to the Canucks, that’s two short of the Canucks’ record of 28 faceoff wins by Mark Messier. The NHL record? 33 wins, held by none other than current Canucks head coach Travis Green.
• 17 Canucks prospect Petrus Palmu is currently second in the Finnish Liiga in points per game. His seven goals and 17 points in 12 games suggests it’s far too early to dismiss the 22-year-old winger as a potential NHLer behind only Brad Marchand and David Pastrnak of the Boston Bruins.
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