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Man without a country Edwin Yobani Zarabia, who claims to be from the jungles of Colombia, lives in a tent in Oppenheimer Park. He is wanted in Texas for a murder he says he did not commit.

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Build a Downtown Eastside for all people to live in

Mike Howell

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Last week in this space I wrote about a prescription for improving life in the Downtown Eastside.

The prescription belongs to Michael Clague, the former director of the Carnegie Community Centre, who also served as a co-chairperson of the Downtown Eastside Local Area Planning Committee.

Clague’s prescription is based on years of studies, reports and field experience from people and organizations within and outside the Downtown Eastside, which is the city’s epicentre for homelessness, drug addiction and people living with a mental illness. He titled it “It’s not magic.”

I won’t reprint it all here, but to summarize, more shelter-rate housing, more care and health supports for residents, more job opportunities and the decriminalization of drugs are key to improving people’s lives.

To get this done though, systemic change in policies

and practices is needed, Clague said in his email to me. As I wrote in my previous piece, he’s referring to the absence of political will here.

I thought about polling a few politicians about Clague’s prescription, but decided against it. Not really sure what more they can tell me that hasn’t already been said.

Frankly, you’ve heard all this before: we need all levels of government to participate, we need to take a holistic approach, we need to engage stakeholders, we need to work with our community partners, etcetera, etcetera.

So let me introduce you to Joel Motherwell, instead.

He’s a Downtown Eastside resident. He read Clague’s prescription and sent me an email with his thoughts.

It’s one person’s take, but it does give some insight into a guy’s life — raw as it has been over the years — in the neighbourhood.

Thankfully, he didn’t mention “stakeholder” once.

I should note Motherwell refers to my prescription in his letter, when he really

Downtown Eastside resident Joel Motherwell says he’s worried about gentrification of the neighbourhood. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

means Clague’s prescription.

The confusion probably has something to do with both of us being Michaels.

I’ve condensed and edited Motherwell’s email for clarity.

“Your prescription is bang-on, sir. I am a longtime resident of the Downtown Eastside ...I won’t say my age, but I am one of the lucky ones.

“I ended up homeless many years ago due to a few bad decisions [I chose to

use cocaine]. That resulted in overly severe punishment from my family, the mother of my child and all of my peers. I was alienated.

“I do not hold any anger for any of them now. In fact, they all did the safest move — to keep any issues clean and far away from their lives.

“I am not writing to tell you my sob story. So I’ll summarize the rest. As a result of many unfortunate things, including an at-

tempted murder, I have been a survivor of the DTES for roughly 15 years now.

“I love East Vancouver now. It’s become my home.

The people, as messed up as they seem, are the most amazing and talented community probably on the planet. But many of us suffer from gentrification [of the neighbourhood].

“I am a very talented musician. Growing up in North Vancouver, I was an accomplished snowboarder for 20-plus years. And I’ve been a writer and painter all my life.

“I was forced into the Downtown Eastside many years ago because like so many artists, we struggle to calm the thoughts and we use drugs.

“Once I was here, believe me when I say that almost every person who has crossed my path, has done what they can to keep me in the DTES. “I’ve spent years never being taken seriously and, most importantly, looked down on because I am financially poor and choose to self-medicate, and not lie about it.

“I haven’t touched cocaine

for 15 years. Never done opiates or fentanyl. I do use crystal meth medicinally.

I don’t smoke marijuana.

You are probably forming an opinion of me now — out of control, prone to mood swings, talk to myself out loud or to demons that follow me. Sorry, I cannot say that is me. I would be lying.

“Anyway, sir, I really like your remedy. It would work!!! I would work and dedicate any or all of my spirit and artistic outlets. I would invest myself in your idea, if I ever had the chance.

“But one problem stands in the way: The other people who live in this city and work very hard at keeping us where we are — the ones who are threatened by our eccentric gifts and genius.

“They keep us here so they may live out their dreary, mediocre lives instead of setting us free and allowing us to do what God ordained us to be and do.

“Build the world that we all get to run in.”

Again, one guy’s take.

A stakeholder, if you will. @Howellings

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Vancouver property owners could face 8.2 per cent tax hike City council to finalize budget at its Dec. 10 meeting

Mike Howell

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The City of Vancouver says property owners can expect the biggest property tax hike — 8.2 per cent — in the past decade, if city council approves all the items listed in its 2020 draft operating budget.

Such a hike next year would be a jump of more than two per cent over this year’s increase of 6.1 per cent. Council set the 6.1 per cent rate partly to reduce the amount of tax paid by businesses.

The tax hike was 4.24 per cent in 2018 and 3.9 per cent in 2017. Taxes between 2012 and 2016 averaged two per cent, with Vancouver at one point having the third lowest property tax increase in the region.

The proposed 8.2 per cent hike is being driven by fixed costs — 3.5 per cent of the overall increase — and 2.4 per cent to “fill service gaps and address risk” such as hiring more police officers and firefight-

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ers ($8.2 million).

A city report says the remaining 2.3 per cent of the overall 8.2 per cent hike is tied to $23.8 million in new investments. That includes $6.8 million to “support and encourage more zero emission buildings in the city, address urban heat islands, plan for sea level

rise challenge and continue tree planting to improve the urban forest canopy.”

An 8.2 per cent hike next year would mean an additional $211 in tax for a median residential property assessed at $1.7 million. For a business property assessed at $976,000, the increase would equate to an addi-

tional $270, the report said.

That hike does not include the anticipated increase in utility fees.

When fees for water, sewer and solid waste fees are added, the total bill for a home assessed at $1.7 million is estimated to cost $354 more than this year. The total increase

for a business assessed at $976,000 would be $406.

For property owners who don’t fall under those assessment levels, or who own a condo instead of a house, the proposed tax hike could mean a higher cost, or none at all.

“While the council-directed property tax increase applies to the overall tax levy, the extent of change, year over year, in an individual property’s tax is determined primarily by how that property’s assessed value has changed relative to the average change within its property class,” the report said.

“Properties with a higher increase in value relative to the average change of their class could experience a much higher increase in property tax beyond the council-directed increase, while properties with a lower increase in value could experience no change or a reduction in property tax.”

As they have done each year, city staff pointed out

in its report that the city does not generate higher property tax revenue because of rising property values. That’s because city council determines the total tax levy to be collected.

“To establish the city’s tax rates, Vancouver city council divides the tax levy by the assessment base provided by B.C. Assessment,” the report said.

“Under this approach, property tax increases are driven by the city’s funding requirement to support the annual budget, not by rising property values.”

Final property taxes and fees for 2020 will be set after council approves a final budget at its Dec. 10 meeting. Council will first meet Dec. 3 to discuss the budget report, which is more than 600 pages.

The 2020 budget is pegged at $1.6 billion, a $111-million increase over this year’s budget. More than half of the budget is funded by property tax. @Howellings

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It almost defies logic that a press conference be held to advise people against groping or making unwanted sexual advances, but here we are.

The Vancouver Police Department, along with Metro Vancouver Transit Police and reps from the Barwatch program, did just that Tuesday morning as they rolled out a new campaign called “Hands Off!” The announcement came in light of 250 investigations between the VPD and transit police into unwanted sexual contact in public places from the onset of 2018 until last week.

The campaign wasn’t rolled out because the numbers are increasing — they’re consistent with stats from years past — but due to the fact that the incidents keep happening.

“Probably every single girl I know or has worked for me in the past 10 years has had some sort of experience to report on this,” Barwatch spokesperson Kendra Belsheim said.

The campaign will see posters rolled out at bus stops, on SkyTrain cars and at the roughly 30 bars affiliated with Barwatch located along the Granville Strip and in both Yaletown in Gastown.

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“We have offenders and had the highest amount of victims who come from all reports (399), followed by walks of life, all ages, all sociothe West End (116) and economic backgrounds,” said Strathcona (104). About VPD media spokesperson Sgt. 80 per cent of those sexual Steve Addison. “This is not assaults were related to a crime that is restricted to groping incidents.

Hampton advised against any one age, demographic or gender. It affects everybody.” bystanders intervening in @JohnKurucz any incident on transit,

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Vancouver police now believe the woman shot near Oppenheimer Park last month was accidentally shot by her own son.

Police began investigating the incident after the victim, a 53-year-old Powell River woman, turned up at the hospital Oct. 26 claiming that she had been shot while in a vehicle on Dunlevy Avenue near Oppenheimer Park. Police said it was determined that the woman was visiting a man who was staying in the encampment at the park.

She required surgery as a result of her injury and has since left Vancouver.

Media relations officer Sgt. Steve Addison said Nov. 22 that investigators quickly identified the woman’s son as the shooter and believe he accidentally discharged the gun while speaking to her near the vehicle. The suspect, a man in his 30s, was arrested by police later that week for

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another violent offence. At that time, officers seized the gun that is believed to have been used in the shooting.

“VPD investigators worked diligently for the past month to solve this crime, which caused significant concern in the community and drew more negative attention to the park,” Addison said. “Although we now know what happened, unfortunately everyone involved, including the victim, has been unwilling to cooperate with the police investigation.”

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Better watch out for secret Santa pyramid scheme fraud

Vancouver victim lost $7,500 in scam that promises big returns Staff writer

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A Vancouver resident who lost $7,500 in a secret-sister, pay-it-forward pyramid scheme has Mainland B.C.’s Better Business Bureau (BBB) issuing a warning for the holiday season.

According to a BBB press

release, the scheme was recommended to the victim by a friend on Facebook. She was instructed to pay $5,000, recruit two people to join and then eventually she’d receive $40,000. She also had the option of putting in $2,500, recruiting one person for a $20,000 return.

The BBB said the fraudsters tricked the victim into

believing her payment was a legal, non-taxable gift that must be paid in cash and couldn’t be deposited into a bank account. They also had to keep it a secret, with all communication done through an encrypted text messaging app called Telegram where members would use code names.

BBB said the schemes

usually start with a convincing email or social media invitation. The secret sister scheme and gifting circle participants were only required to provide name, address and personal information to a few friends and add it to an existing list of strangers from the internet.

Participants then buy and ship gifts to unknown in-

dividuals, anticipating they will receive the promised number of gifts in return.

The great expectation is a big disappointment when nothing comes back.

“A pay-it-forward scheme, secret sister campaign, secret Santa or holiday gift exchange among strangers might seem like innocent fun, but it is really a pyramid scheme and this is illegal in Canada,” said BBB’s Karla Davis. “Just like any other pyramid scheme, they rely on the recruitment of individuals to keep the scam afloat. Once people stop participating in the gift exchange, the gift supply stops as well, and leaves hundreds of disappointed people without the money they hoped for and the gifts they were promised.”

There’s more danger, too.

Giving out personal information such as a mailing address or an email account can mean future scams or identity theft by cyber thieves.

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“No matter the claim or guarantees, pyramid schemes will not make you rich. You will receive little to no money back on your ‘investment’ or gift exchange,” said the release.

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Here’s how Vancouver is getting ready for winter John Kurucz

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A press conference earlier this month at the city works yard had a bit of Soviet-era, Cold War flare to it.

Those shows of force from decades ago featured all manner of tanks, rocket launchers and the like neatly arranged for the public, so as to tell the rest of the world, “We are ready.”

The City of Vancouver did the same thing but to a far lesser extent on a brisk November morning, lining up carefully parked snowplows next to massive salt piles weighing 2,000 metric tons.

Different era, same message: “We are ready.”

By the numbers, the city’s winter weather response looks this: • 71 vehicles outfitted for snow and ice response.

• 10,000 metric tons of salt.

• Two new multi-purpose vehicles to clear pedestrian paths.

• Seven new trucks to support road clearing.

• Hundreds of personnel.

• More than 45,000 catch basins that need love, attention, adoption and quirky names. Some of the basins already adopted by Vancouverites have monikers such as “Grate Expectations,” “Live Inlet Die” and “Kevin Basin.”

Many of the issues flagged at the press conference centred on long-standing talking points: which streets get cleared first, the need to have sidewalks cleared by 10 a.m. and a reminder to check on neighbours who are elderly or live with mobility challenges.

The news of the day included the purchase of new equipment to help clear pedestrian and cycling paths, along with a revised system of snowplowing that will see drivers tackle routes more consistently and quickly across the city.

“In years past they found some routes took much longer to pass because of traffic volumes,” said Erin Hoess, the city’s manager of street operations.

Hoess noted the city works with a Vancouverspecific meteorologist to monitor weather patterns.

The long-range forecast doesn’t appear to be calling for a Snowmageddonesque winter like the one Vancouverites endured in 2016/17.

About $1.5 million is budgeted for snow preparation — outfitting vehicles, training staff — and that figure is separate from the money spent once the snow falls for a prolonged period. The park board doesn’t have a set dollar figure for snow removal and uses funds from its op-

erational budget, said park operations manager Amit Gandha.

Snow-clearing priorities include arterials, emergency and transit routes, priority hills and schools and heavily-used bike routes. Side streets are only cleared in the event of prolonged frozen snaps once the main priority roads are clear.

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VSB mulls changes to food programs for vulnerable children Partnerships with the food industry to train students remain off the table Tracy Sherlock

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Kids need to be fed in order to focus at school. That’s a fact everyone can agree on.

But the Vancouver School Board’s food services are much more complicated than just feeding hungry children. The district has 15 different nutrition programs at 119 sites, runs seven teaching cafeterias and oversees 30 commercial kitchens, a report commissioned

by VSB staff found.

The report calls for changes to those programs, but board chair Janet Fraser wants everyone to know no decisions have been made yet. Trustees decided Monday evening to put off a vote on whether to go to public consultation until December.

If approved, decisions would be made in the coming months, perhaps by June.

Thousands of hungry kids are fed every day in VSB schools, sometimes breakfast, sometimes a hot lunch and sometimes a delivered meal. Those meals are provided in 32 Vancouver

schools in neighbourhoods identified as vulnerable.

The report recommends changing the hot lunch program, in which meals prepared in house by VSB staff, to a delivered meals program.

The money saved could feed about 340 more children every day, the report says. That’s good news, as long as the program remains stigma free and the food is nutritious and delicious. Today, families pay what they can, and money is collected in envelopes, which are often returned empty. That system likely means some children whose families can afford to pay are eating for free, but it also ensures that children whose families cannot afford to pay are not singled out. That anonymity is important to maintain.

In addition, each year about 500 secondary school students are trained — at seven Vancouver high schools — in culinary arts to eventually become red seal chefs.

The report recommends reducing the number of schools offering chef training to two, plus building a pos-

The Vancouver school district has 15 different nutrition programs at 119 sites, runs seven teaching cafeterias and oversees 30 commercial kitchens. FILE PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

sible “centre of excellence” and contracting out the work in non-teaching kitchens.

Why? Apparently fewer students are choosing to take the culinary arts program, and the kitchen facilities need at least $250,000 in immediate repairs and millions more in ongoing upkeep.

Years of tight budgets have left school kitchens in disrepair, with two of them, at King George and Total Education secondary schools, closed because they were unsafe, the report says.

To be clear, secondary

schools still have foods classes, where students learn how to cook.

It’s ironic that our city’s restaurants are crying out for workers, but students are not choosing this field.

Students do learn about career options and the labour market, said Aaron Davis, VSB director of instruction in school services. But their parents want their children to go to university, he said.

“A lot of our parent population don’t always see the appeal of working in the trades,” Davis said.

Meanwhile, there are thousands of restaurant industry jobs going unfilled, in our foodie city, a 2018 B.C. Restaurant and Food Services Association (BCRFA) report says.

“In line with the worldwide shortage of skilled chefs and cooks, British Columbia suffers from a lack of qualified professionals due to the reputation of long hours, low pay and a challenging culture,” the report says.

The high cost of living and low unemployment exacerbate the shortage.

But the BCRFA lists as a long-term solution that it should “actively foster… careers in restaurants and encourag(e) young people to try their culinary skills.”

The BCRFA and VSB might want to work together on this — Davis said there are already partnerships in existence.

“We do have highly innovative teaching programs in our school where we partner with industry in a variety of industrial fields,” Davis said.

“So, it would be something that absolutely we would

be interested in pursuing if there are partners that are willing.”

Trustees have not yet accepted the report’s recommendations. Rather, they will vote on whether to seek public opinion on the district’s food services overall, before making any decisions.

“We want to remain education focused and feed hungry children,” Fraser said.

Earlier this year, I wrote about two in-school programs where students grow their own food to feed their communities. Thankfully, those programs are not part of this report and would not be affected if changes go ahead.

VSB should not consider any changes that would add a stigma to children receiving free meals at school or reduce the number of students receiving meals at school. That’s a no-brainer.

As far as the training programs go, an innovative partnership with the food industry might be able to keep a vibrant training program alive in as many schools as possible.

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From jungles of Colombia to Oppenheimer Park, Texas Refugee board ‘not satisfied’ Edwin Yobani Zarabia linked to cold case

2004 while in Ontario.

One was for assault, the other assault with a weapon, although the “minimal sentences he received indicate the offences involved a very minor level of violence,” King wrote.

Those convictions and the murder warrant were main arguments the government put forward to keep Zarabia in custody. The government also argued Zarabia would go underground, if and when authorities determined his nationality and he had to be deported.

Mike Howell

mhowell@vancourier.com

The man sitting at a picnic table in Oppenheimer Park is sipping coffee from a paper cup and smoking a cigarette as he talks about what his 41-year-old life has become.

His name is Edwin Yobani Zarabia.

He just spent another night in a tent in the park, where he’s lived for several months and become part of a growing homeless community of campers.

“It’s not really good, but it’s not really bad,” said Zarabia of his life in Oppenheimer.

The sun has come up, his girlfriend is still asleep and some of his neighbours are standing outside a charity’s kitchen window on Dunlevy Avenue to get free coffee and food.

City crews are removing garbage from the encampment, park rangers are making their rounds and police officers are on hand to keep the peace.

Squawking seagulls seem to be everywhere.

The encampment, which has been at the centre of a political and community debate for months, recently passed its oneyear anniversary mark.

The dozens of tents and campers observed by the Courier Nov. 13 confirm it continues to thrive, despite efforts from the city, province and others who found housing this summer for more than 100 people.

But Zarabia’s stay here is somewhat immaterial to his story of coming to Canada, which is shrouded in mystery and high drama involving several countries, immigration officials and law enforcement.

Documents from the Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada Border Services Agency, the San Antonio Police Department, along with photographs and excerpts of medical records, provide a captivating narrative of Zarabia’s journey.

What stands out most is this: He is wanted for the murder of a woman in Texas that occurred 19 years ago, with the San Antonio Police Department confirming last week that the warrant is still active.

Zarabia, who has repeatedly told authorities he is from Colombia and denies his involvement in the murder, said police are looking for the wrong man, and that he was never in San Antonio.

He also denied he was deported from Texas in 1999 to Mexico after being convicted of a trespassing charge — a key link police have relied on in the murder case.

‘Not satisfied’ Zarabia is murderer

Edwin Yobani Zarabia, who is wanted in Texas for a murder dating back 19 years ago, lives in a tent in Oppenheimer Park.

PHOTO MIKE HOWELL

“That’s not true, that’s wrong,” he said, speaking softly in English, his words coloured by a thick Spanish accent. “I was never deported from the United States to Mexico. They said, ‘You killed the person Lilita.’ I told them, ‘Why I have to come from far away to kill somebody? You really think I crazy, or what you think about?’

I don’t know this person. I don’t know what peoples talking about.

I’m not the killer.”

‘Ligature strangulation’

The body of Lilita Easter Moke, 47, was found March 7, 2000 behind a bar in the basement of what police described as a mansion on West Lynwood Avenue in San Antonio.

Tenants discovered Moke lying face up and in “an advanced state of decomposition,” according to the arrest warrant issued June 10, 2000.

“It was discovered by investigating officers that [Moke’s] arms were bound behind her with some type of cord,” the warrant said.

“The cord was also tied around her neck.”

A pathologist with the Bexar County Forensic Science Center ruled the cause of death “ligature strangulation.”

Zarabia’s name, however, is not on the warrant. Police identified Antonio Diaz Lisenber as the suspect, which Canadian documents allege was one of four aliases used

by Zarabia.

Police believe Zarabia and Lisenber are the same man because fingerprints taken from Lisenber in 1999 related to a criminal trespassing charge in Texas match the fingerprints Zarabia provided to Canadian authorities.

Furthermore, a resident of the West Lynwood Avenue house — Marco Alanis — positively identified Lisenber in a photograph.

Alanis, whose family owned the property, told police Lisenber

lived at the house and worked as a gardener, but vanished March 1, 2000.

Four poorly scanned copies of photographs included in the documents appear to be Zarabia, although he only identified one when shown by the Courier, and believed it was taken in Canada.

Another key piece in the case against Zarabia is “hairs microscopically matching [Moke’s] were found on the clothing and bed sheets of [Lisenber]” at the house, the warrant said.

Moke, who was a seniors’ caregiver at the time of her death, didn’t live at the West Lynwood Avenue mansion, which is located in a leafy neighbourhood with expansive homes and boulevards similar to Shaughnessy. She resided a few blocks away at her family’s home and often walked to a grocery store on a main road in the area called San Pedro Avenue.

“When she would see gardeners working on yards, [she] would always say something or yell at them,” the warrant said. “[Moke] did not like the noise that was made by lawnmowers.”

A lawnmower was on the front lawn of the West Lynwood Avenue house on the day Lisenber vanished, but the lawn had not been mowed, according to Alanis’s statement to police.

Man without a country

Why Zarabia has not been returned to Texas to face a murder charge is complicated.

But it is based on the Canadian government’s decision not to extradite him, and an Immigration and Refugee Board ruling in 2016 that concluded Zarabia is likely not the killer.

Though Zarabia has told authorities he is from Colombia, the Colombian government has no records of him and found the birth certificate he provided upon entry to Canada in 2003 to be bogus.

The Mexican government also

has no records of Zarabia, a short, sturdy man with deep set brown eyes, wide nose, a mess of thick black hair and a noticeable scar on his forehead.

Fingerprint searches done via Interpol in Panama, Ecuador, Guatemala, Venezuela, Belize, Brazil, Chile, Guyana, Paraguay, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Honduras also came up negative.

And with no immigration status in the United States, the Canadian Minister of Public Safety refuses to deport Zarabia to Texas to face the murder charge.

He is, effectively, a man without a country.

“This creates an unresolvable dilemma for Mr. Zarabia,” wrote Immigration and Refugee Board panel member Leanne King in her May 2016 decision to release Zarabia from jail.

Zarabia had been in custody from 2014 to 2016, having been arrested after Canadian authorities learned of the Texas murder warrant.

Prior to his arrest, he said, he worked at two IHOP restaurants — one in Vancouver, the other in Richmond — and lived in an apartment in New Westminster.

In 2006, three years after he entered Canada at Fort Erie, Ont. and claimed refugee status, Canada’s refugee protection division declared Zarabia a convention refugee.

He was on his way to becoming a permanent resident when Canada Border Services Agency agents arrested him at gunpoint outside an IHOP in Richmond.

The Canadian government, represented by the Minister of Public Safety’s office, requested Zarabia remain in custody after his arrest because his nationality was unknown.

In addition, his refugee status had been revoked — not because of the Texas warrant, but because of two criminal convictions in

King disputed much of the Canadian government’s evidence — and the lack of it — in her ruling. She pointed out that a warrant issued does not necessarily mean the person named has committed the crime.

“I am not satisfied that Mr. Zarabia is likely the person who committed the murder in Texas,” she said.

On the criminal trespassing charge in Texas in 1999: “It is clear from the evidence that Mr. Zarabia was in San An- — tonio, Texas in October through December 1999, and was convicted of criminal trespass. This, however, is the only reliable evidence before me connecting Mr. Zarabia to any event in the U.S. Mr. Zarabia denies this event and does not believe he was there.”

King goes on to say that medical evidence of physical and psychological trauma Zarabia experienced since 1999 “indicates there are likely medical reasons he cannot remember this event.”

On the photograph that resident Marco Alanis saw to identify Lisenber: “There is no explanation about what picture was identified, or where it came from. Had it been in the possession of the police detective, or was it in the possession of Alanis? Without an explanation about what photograph was identified by the witness Alanis, and where that photograph came from, there is no credible or trustworthy evidence upon which I can conclude that Mr. Zarabia was the person identified by the witness.”

On the hair that microscopically matched the victim’s found in the room where Alanis said Lisenber was staying: “This is not forensic evidence linking Mr. Zarabia to the victim, this is witness evidence based on a photograph and the allegations of the witness Alanis about where someone who the police identified as Lisenber had been living a week earlier.”

Added King: “There is no information that any forensic evidence from Mr. Zarabia [a.k.a. Lisenber] such as his fingerprints, or his hair was found at the crime scene.”

Zarabia described King as a person with “good spirit” for releasing him, but said the consequences of his arrest have left him in despair.

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murder suspect living in Downtown Eastside tent city “Since I was arrested,” he said, “my beautiful life I tried to make… everything is going down now. Look at me now. I’ve never had to sleep in a park like this.”

what they did, go ahead. I don’t really care. I have nothing to lose.”

‘A beautiful person’

Colombian drug cartel

The documents obtained by the Courier show Zarabia has experienced trauma, lives with mental illness and suffers from memory loss, as alluded to by King in her explanation of why he couldn’t remember the trespassing charge in 1999.

The story he tells — some of it corroborated in documents, some of it not — is that he has suffered greatly since his family was killed by a Colombian drug cartel when he was eight years old.

He said his father refused to the sell the family’s property to the cartel, so they burned down the family home with the family inside; Zarabia was the only one to escape.

He claims to be from a tribe in the jungles of Colombia and was able to travel through Central America after he joined the cartel — not by choice, but by necessity to stay alive.

His job was to deliver “samples” of cocaine to potential customers, never getting caught because of his age and his smarts, he said, noting his work took him eventually to Mexico.

As he got older, he wanted to separate himself from the cartel and crossed the border illegally into the United States. He mentioned staying in a small town in Texas, but denied he was ever in San Antonio, which is 240 kilometres from the Mexican border.

“People told me not to go there because it was too close to the border,” he said about his worry of being deported.

Asked why it is then that a resident of the mansion identified him as a gardener at the West Lynwood Avenue property, Zarabia replied: “I want to know.”

He was equally challenged to explain why police linked him to the homicide.

“This is a very good question. I have the same question myself.”

While in the United States, he said, he worked in a restaurant in Chicago, before moving to Miami.

There, he said, he met a pastor at a church.

He told the pastor about his past and what happened to his family. A few days later, he returned to the church to meet with the pastor, only to be taken at gunpoint from what he believes were cartel members.

He said they took him to a highrise building, placed a hood over his head and threw him from a fifth-floor balcony. It was punishment, he said, for deserting the cartel.

He said he broke multiple bones in his body, suffered a skull fracture and was in Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami for several months, before ending up in New

The mansion in San Antonio where the body of Lilita Moke was discovered in March 2000. PHOTO GOOGLE MAPS

York for surgery.

A transcript of an Immigration and Refugee Board hearing in 2015 noted Zarabia’s lawyer at the time attempted to obtain copies in 2010 of his client’s hospital stay in Miami.

But, the lawyer said, the records were destroyed.

Medical records referred to in King’s ruling note that Zarabia was in Bellevue Hospital in New York in 2001 “following a fall from a fifth-floor balcony.”

A medical assessment report done four years later in Vancouver pointed out Zarabia told U.S. doctors the fall had been an accident.

“Now, in 2005, he was telling doctors [in Vancouver] he was pushed,” the assessment said.

“He also reported that Colombian drug dealers had been looking for him and trying to kill him in both the U.S. and Canada, and had been seen three times in Canada.”

The doctors questioned whether Zarabia was experiencing paranoid delusions. They prescribed Prozac, Ativan, Olanzapine and Trazadone. He was also given morphine for his chronic pain.

The documents show Zarabia has been diagnosed with complex post-traumatic stress, a severe personality disorder and major depression.

A Canadian psychiatrist wrote: “The information available to us paints a picture of a man who has experienced profound physical and psychological trauma beginning in childhood. It is our sense that Mr. Zarabia has lived a marginal existence whilst in Canada.

He appears to have been homeless much of the time, often living in graveyards.”

‘I’m not guilty of anything’

It was in New York, Zarabia said, that he met a Canadian doctor who recommended he seek refugee status in Canada. Records show he crossed the border in April 2003 at Fort Erie, Ont. The documents indicate he spent a couple of years in Ontario

before heading west to Vancouver.

By 2009, Zarabia appeared to be settling in to a more stable life, as a psychiatrist from the New Westminster Mental Health Centre wrote in a report.

The psychiatrist noted Zarabia met regularly with his primary therapist and psychiatrist, and that he kept appointments and took his medications.

“His mental status and functional abilities have greatly improved since the start of treatment in November 2008,” the psychiatrist said.

“He demonstrates insight into his difficulties and has been very proactive with respect to a variety of issues and rehabilitation services. He is currently working part-time and enrolled in a computer course this summer, which will also assist him with literacy challenges.

“He has made good use of community resources. He has successfully maintained safe housing. In summary, we believe Mr. Zarabia has made significant progress, and demonstrated a high level of responsibility in his recovery.”

That same year, he was attending weekly therapy sessions at the Vancouver Association for Survivors of Torture. A letter from the organization stated, “Mr. Zarabia had made tremendous progress in his healing process and had ceased to self-harm.”

That was 10 years ago.

He now lives in a tent, doesn’t have a work permit or a job, and survives on close to $600 per month in welfare.

It was the arrest in 2014, he repeated, that sent him in a downward spiral. He wants to sue the United States government for changing the trajectory of his life.

“The United States has to know that I’m in this life, that I’m here,” he said, motioning with his hands at the tents all around him. “I have no business with the United States. Never I have business.

I have nothing to hide. Inside me, I feel free. I’m not guilty of anything. So if the United States wants to destroy me more than

Jose Alfonsin has lived for almost 20 years wanting justice for his older sister, Lilita.

Though he understands the position of Canadian authorities, and learned from the Courier of Zarabia’s mental state and living conditions, Alfonsin wants Zarabia returned to Texas to stand trial.

“It’s disheartening that the Canadian immigration [panel member] did not retain him for longer in order for the U.S. Department of Justice and the San Antonio Police Department to do their work,” he told the Courier by telephone last week.

“It’s been unfortunate. We pray that the proper officials hopefully one day see it worthy for him to be extradited and face the charge.”

Alfonsin said he was concerned that a fugitive was free in Vancouver and worried that another innocent person could become a victim, although he acknowledged a person is innocent until proven guilty.

“The evidence that [police] found at the time, everything points to him,” he said.

He described his sister, who was single and had no children, as a lover of life, who liked to dance and travel. She was a certified nurse’s aide and once worked in the hotel industry in Chicago, St. Louis and San Antonio.

“She was a beautiful person, but very independent and preferred her space,” he said. “She really did not have a social circle.”

Alfonsin said he learned of his sister’s murder while watching television on a night his family was hosting a political fundraiser for a state representative.

Lilita wasn’t reported missing at the time, but the description of the woman given on the breaking news report suggested it might be Lilita, who is a half-sister to Alfonsin. He was familiar with the home on West Lynwood Avenue, noting it belonged to a doctor and his wife.

“They had described my sister — what she wore, and everything,” he said, noting he immediately called the medical examiner’s office. “They called me the next day to say it was in fact her, based on dental records. They couldn’t identify the body, otherwise.”

Alfonsin mentioned Det. John Kellogg a few times when he spoke to the Courier, noting he was the lead investigator at the time of his sister’s murder. The Courier reached Kellogg by telephone last week. He is now a patrol sergeant with the San Antonio Police Department.

“The Alfonsins — they lost their sister, so they have a hole in their family,” he said. “And that hole is never going to be filled back in, knowing that the guy is somewhere where everyone knows he’s at, and nothing has happened.”

Added Kellogg: “That just makes that hole get bigger until something happens to fill in the pain. And I don’t think that pain is going to be filled, even when he’s picked up and brought to justice — should that happen — they’re still going to be hurt.”

‘I die so many times’

When Zarabia was released from immigration custody three years ago, the documents indicated his lawyer would help him find “suitable housing.”

Zarabia said he ended up in a single-room-occupancy hotel on Granville Street, but only stayed briefly because of “illegal activity” happening with some of the tenants.

He sought refuge in Stanley Park, where he lived for several months. He spent time on the streets in other parts of the city until he set up a tent at Oppenheimer.

At one point, he said, he secured housing at the Flint Hotel on Powell Street until a man shot him with a BB gun. He didn’t bother to fight back and returned to Oppenheimer, where he said people generally leave him alone.

He is confident he could find a job, but doesn’t want to work illegally, he said, fearing he could get arrested and put in jail again.

Without status or a work permit, he said, he can’t better his life.

He printed his full name — Edwin Yobani Zarabia — in a reporter’s notebook to emphasize he’s not lying about his real name.

He also produced a photocopy of personal ID, with his photo.

A condition of his release is that he reports monthly to the Canada Border Services Agency, which he said he has done for three years.

In the meantime, immigration officials continue their search to determine Zarabia’s nationality.

He’s has told them he is willing to return to Colombia, or any other country that will take him — if he can’t get his refugee status back in Canada.

The Canada Border Services Agency refused to discuss his case.

The waiting has taken its toll on Zarabia, who confided through tears that he has considered buying enough fentanyl to kill himself.

At the same time, he added, he tries to stay strong.

“I go for a walk with my girlfriend,” he said of how he fills his days. “We go to different shelters, find some clothes. Go to laundry. I go see my doctor, take my medication. Sometimes, I go to library. My girlfriend try to teach me a little bit computer. Try to keep busy.”

Does he have hope?

“I have it, but it’s not enough.

It’s only a spiritual hope I have. So it looks like I come from the dark to the light. Back and forth. I die so many times, then I come back.

From the dark to the light. So I continue this way.” @Howellings

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Condo tower and office building proposed near Oakridge Centre A 32-storey market residential tower and 12-storey office building over a fourstorey podium are proposed for a block of land directly opposite Oakridge Centre.

Vivagrand Developments and IBI Group are behind the rezoning application for the project at 5812 to 5844 Cambie St., which was submitted under the Cambie Corridor plan.

If approved, it would

produce 257 condo units, 106,342 sq. feet of office space, 11,599 sq. feet of retail space, a 37-space public childcare facility that’s 5,802 sq. feet and a 5,912-sq.-foot youth centre.

The site, located between West 42 and West 43rd Avenue, is within the Oakridge Municipal Town Centre — the area around West 41st Avenue and Cambie Street — which is designated for

Public Hearing: December 10, 2019

increased heights, various types of housing, job space and amenities. It’s across from a Canada Line stop.

Numerous projects are in the works for the area around the mall, which is also being redeveloped.

They include: • an 18-storey market rental building with a fourstorey podium at 441 to 475 West 42nd Ave. • a 10-storey mixed-use

rental building at 357 to 475 West 41st Ave. • a 22-storey and a 14-storey mixed-use building at 325 to 343 West 41st Ave. • two highrises for a site at 5740 Cambie St. An open house about the rezoning proposal for 5812 to 5844 Cambie St. runs from 5 to 7:30 p.m., Feb. 5, 2020, at the Peretz Centre, 6184 Ash St. —Courier staff

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. 1102-1138 East Georgia Street To rezone 1102-1138 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.

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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.

For real time information on the progress of City Council meetings, visit vancouver.ca/speaker-wait-times or @VanCityClerk on Twitter.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON PUBLIC HEARINGS, INCLUDING REGISTERING TO SPEAK: vancouver.ca/publichearings

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News Revelopment proposal for Marpole gas station Granville Street project would feature 55 condos, office and retail space An 11-storey mixed-use building is being considered for a former Esso gas station site on Granville Street between West 70th and 71st avenues.

GBL Architects has filed a rezoning application for the project imagined for a now vacant lot at 8655 Granville St. The application is being considered under the Marpole Community Plan.

The building would feature retail space at street level, office space on the second floor and 55 condos with a mix of one, two and three-bedroom units. There would also be 73 underground parking spaces and 110 bicycle spaces.

Its design was inspired by

the idea of “layered rocks, carved and etched by ocean waves through millions of years,” according to the application.

BC Assessment valued the property, which measures 158 by 95.5 feet, at $21.5 million on its 2019 assessment roll, up from $18.3 million the previous year.

The property was purchased for $20 million in November of 2017.

An open house about the proposal for 8655 Granville St. runs from 5 to 7:30 p.m. at Marpole Neighbourhood House, Feb. 3, 2020.

Several former gas station sites have been bought in recent years to be redeveloped.

One proposal by Wes-

Group, which is in the rezoning phase, envisions a six-storey condo at 3220 Cambie St. at West 16th Ave. The site used to be home to a Chevron gas station. BC Assessment valued that property at $19 million on its 2019 assessment roll.

A 33-storey residential tower, meanwhile, is en-

visioned for a site at 1698 West Georgia at Bidwell St. The property also used to be home to a gas station.

The proposal is still in the rezoning phase. The property was assessed at $98.3 million on the 2019 BC Assessment roll, up from $65.5 million in 2017.

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ICBC urges drivers to prepare for winter before the snow hits Vancouver

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According to ICBC, vehicle casualty crashes due to driving too fast for the conditions increase by a staggering 87 per cent across B.C. in December compared to October — casualty crashes are crashes where at least one person was injured or killed.

As drivers approach winter, parts of the province are already starting to see snowfall while other areas are experiencing heavy rain.

ICBC is urging drivers to do their part to prevent crashes by preparing their vehicle for winter weather and adjusting their driving when challenging conditions arrive.

In bad weather, they suggest drivers slow down, increase their following distance and allow extra travel time, especially since Environment Canada is calling for a cold weather system to move into the region this week. According to Matt MacDonald, a meteorologist with Environment Canada, Vancouver could see some flurries as a result and the mountains could see five to 10 centimetres of snowfall.

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Each year on Vancouver Island, the number of casualty crashes due to driving too fast for the conditions increases by 55 per cent in December compared to October (40 vs.

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Each year in the Southern Interior, the number of casualty crashes due to driving too fast for the conditions increases fourfold in December compared to October (85 vs. 20 crashes).

Each year in the North Central region, the number of casualty crashes due to driving too fast for the conditions more than doubles in December compared to October (34 vs. 14 crashes).

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Legend of John Mann loomed large

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Spirit of the West frontman remembered for influence on future musicians Grant Lawrence

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Last week, when it was announced that the great and beloved John Mann passed away from the effects of earlyonset Alzheimer’s at age 57, the Canadian arts and culture community went into a collective state of mourning.

Remembrances poured forth like open taps of Guinness from coast to coast.

Mann the musician, the actor, the activist, the father and the

John Mann’s grad write-up in Hillside secondary’s 1980 yearbook.

PHOTO COURTESY OF NIGEL BENNETT

husband was a hero to countless Canadians, including me.

I was lucky enough to attend the same high school as Mann. Even though we didn’t walk the halls of Hillside secondary at the same time — Mann graduated in 1980, I graduated in 1989 — it could be argued that even back

then, his artistic aftershocks were felt for generations.

When I entered the halls of the now-demolished Hillside secondary on the mountainside of West Vancouver, I was a pimple-faced 12-yearold anxiety case. Mann had been out of high school for a couple of years, but his

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legend loomed large. Even then, he was considered a J Renaissance man(n) of sorts.

In his graduating year, he played on both the senior boys’ rugby and basketball teams, served as chairman of the grad committee and, most notably, emerged as an untouchable musical theatre star — the person everyone who ever entered the Hillside drama program would be measured against.

In 1980, he starred in Hillside’s yearly theatre production opposite Mike Killeen, now one of my colleagues at CBC Vancouver, where Killeen anchors the suppertime TV newscast.

“John was a standout in our drama class,” remembered Killeen. “We were in the musical Oklahoma together, directed by Bill Elliott. I was Curly, John was Jud Fry, and

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at West Van high school so we sang the duet ‘Poor Jud’ together. Well… John sang. What a voice. He was such a tireless and remarkable performer and, above all, a wonderful person. We will all miss him so much.”

It was drama teacher Bill Elliott who was one of the first to realize the volcanic talent bubbling within Mann. Elliott mentored Mann with his singing and acting, and taught him how to project that mighty voice to the back of the gymnasium-turned-theatre without a microphone — all traits we would see come together in one unstoppable force later on in Spirit of the West’s unmatched live shows.

“Many of us were fortunate to have John as a classmate,” Nigel Bennett told me. Bennett is another Hillside grad who is now an environmentalist and author. Bennett credits Mann with opening up the suburban school to the insurgent sounds from across the bridge in downtown Vancouver.

“John was instrumental in so many ways by bringing life-changing music to our ears even before forming Spirit of the West,” Bennett said. “During high school, John brought in cutting edge bands like the Skulls [featuring a young Joey ‘Shithead’ Keithley], and Art Bergmann’s the Young Canadians to perform at lunch hour mini-concerts.” Other bands that performed at Hillside in 1980 included Doug and the Slugs, the Modernettes and the Subhumans.

A few years after Mann graduated, a very curious and energized student named John Ruskin enrolled at Hillside. He would eventually become the famous interviewer Nardwuar the Human Serviette. Ruskin followed the school’s tradition of booking live, alternative bands such as Grapes of Wrath, the Villains, the Enigmas and Art Bergmann’s new band, Poisoned.

“I noticed that the Young Canadians thanked Hillside secondary school in the liner notes of their 1980 This Is Your Life EP,” Nardwuar said. “I was shocked! Being the president of student council I decided they would be a great band for the first dance of the year. Those liner notes inspired me to do my first-ever interview! So, on Sept. 26, 1985, I did it!”

The sheer volume of live, original music that played Hillside dances in the 1980s had a profound impact on many students who formed

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PHOTO COURTESY OF GEOFFREY KELLY

their own bands, including Nardwuar’s the Evaporators, She Stole My Beer, the Grames Brothers, the Hip Waiders, On the Go (featuring John Collins of the New Pornographers), Big Yellow Taxi, Memory Day, the Adam Woodall Band and Fourth Floor — a Hillside band that put out their own record when they were in Grade 11. I co-founded the Smugglers at Hillside in 1988.

Meanwhile, in the early 1980s, Mann had formed an alt-folk band called Evesdropper with an Argyle secondary grad from Lynn Valley named Geoffrey Kelly. Their first gigs were in places such as the Squarerigger Pub in West Van, the newly opened Whistler Square and the soon-to-beclosing Soft Rock Café.

“They did something I wouldn’t have thought could happen,” recalled Andrew Hillhouse, another Hillside grad and member of the band Mad Pudding. “I found myself in the Soft Rock Café and Evesdropper had kids dancing and singing along with songs that had jig and reel breaks instead of guitar solos, songs that spoke of current topical issues in the tradition of the best folk revival.”

A few years later, the band changed its name to Spirit of the West. I was a friend of Mann’s younger brother Rob at the time.

Rob gave me a cassette of the band’s album Tripping Up The Stairs. I distinctly remember rewinding the tape, over and over again, specifically on track five, a Geoffrey Kelly-penned song called “The Crawl.” I put my ear down to the speaker to make sure I was hearing the lyrics correctly:

“Park Royal Hotel, The Rusty Gull, Squarerigger and Queen’s Cross/We’d started out with eight good boys but half had gotten lost/And you’ll never keep the lads together when their eyes begin to rove,/And there was just the three of us that made it to Deep Cove.”

This time it was my turn to be shocked. Was this band writing about my town, my North Shore, the place where I grew up? Lifting my head from the speaker, it dawned on me that if they could do it, I could do it, too. Ever since, I have been writing about where I come from, for better or worse. (As a side note, amazingly, besides the Park Royal Hotel, every North Shore pub immortalized in “The Crawl” — from the Troller to the Raven — is still in operation some 35 years later.) But Mann and Spirit’s influence was not relegated to the North Shore, or the West Coast.

“Spirit of the West played instruments that we recognized,” said Alan Doyle of St. John’s, Newfoundland band Great Big Sea on the CBC last week. “We never saw anyone present folk music the way John could present and front folk music.

It really gave us an appreciation about our own backyard and not being tempted to write songs about the beach in California or something.

We learned very quickly from Spirit of the West that we could be ourselves and people would love us for it.”

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Vancouver-set punk rock love story premieres at Whistler

Writer-director S.B. Edwards brings punk ethos to Fall Back Down Sabrina Furminger

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Fall Back Down may very well be Canada’s first punk rock love story.

It may not be, though.

Filmmaker S.B. Edwards is wary to describe her directorial debut as such.

“I would love if it is the first punk rock love story,” says the Vancouver-based writer and director. “I don’t know how to mine Canada and the Internet to know for sure. But it is different from anything else.”

And the fact remains that narrative films that reflect the Canadian punk scene are few and far between (Hard Core Logo was fantastic and basically a love story between friends, concedes Edwards), and neither Edwards nor the Whistler Film Festival (who will present the world premiere of Fall Back Down next week) nor yours truly could find any other examples of homegrown punk rock rom-coms.

So — unless proven otherwise — Fall Back Down stands very much alone.

Fall Back Down stars Andrew Dunbar as Nick, a black bloc anarchist who ends up taking a shitty job in a sweatshop after his heart is broken by a fellow activist.

On his first day, he meets Reena (Aadila Dosani), who is sarcastic and headstrong and immediately clashes with Nick in all things — until they find evidence of a murder and have to try to get along in order to stay alive.

Fall Back Down is steamy.

It’s funny. It touches on depression, trauma, fear and the exploitation of people who have limited employment options for reasons outside of their control. It subverts expectations about punks and rom-coms. It features Joe Keithley, frontman of the Canadian punk band DOA, and slam poet and playwright Omari Newton, in supporting roles. It’s messy. It’s indie.

In other words, Fall Back Down is legit punk cinema.

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Andrew Dunbar and Aadila Dosani star in S.B. Edwards’ punk rock rom-com Fall Back Down.

“I come from punk roots and I’ve been an activist and political since my teens, and I wasn’t seeing that on any screens,” says Edwards.

“It’s a little trendier now to be an activist, but many people have made really hard choices and given things up [for this life]. I’ve pulled out a little bit because I wanted to work in this business, but I have so much admiration for people who are doing all this work. They’re getting

arrested, and that affects their ability to be hired. They go above and beyond, and they’re so brave, and then they’re not respected at all.”

Edwards sought out funding for Fall Back Down for nearly a decade. “The stats have been accurately reflected for women,” says Edwards. “I definitely found it harder to get anywhere with anything.”

The film was ultimately produced through Tele-

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and was bombarded with accusations of discrimination when she posted the crew call to a film production board. Then there was the experience of shooting a complicated, multi-location film in only 14 days.

“We were just living minute to minute, which is punk rock ethos, and we paid everyone, which was really important to me,” says Edwards. “It was what I wanted to do, and when we got that opportunity, I felt like I had arrived at what my DNA and my heart and my brain all want, and they all work together and play.”

Fall Back Down also stars Kira Clavell, Paula Shaw, Jacky Lai, Raj Lal, Kalvin Olafson, Donia Kash, Rob Hakesley, Seth Ranaweera and Nixon James.

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film’s Talent to Watch micro-budget program, with ample support from Cineworks, the Vancouver based, artist-run production and exhibition centre that support independent storytellers like Edwards.

Despite the production support, Edwards acknowledges the budget wasn’t what she’d initially hoped for 10 years ago.

“I work in film and television, and I was working on a sci-fi show where a hallway was going to have a higher budget than my whole movie,” says Edwards. “It’s hard, but I’m really proud of how it turned out because so many things were stacked against it.”

Edwards laughs as she describes the experience of filming Fall Back Down as “total hell. I say that jokingly now, but it was really full on.”

The hell began shortly before filming, when Edwards decided she wanted to fill at least half of the crew positions with women

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Come out for some family fun at the 16th annual Vancouver Santa Claus Parade, which will feature more than 40 marching bands, choirs, festive floats and community groups. While the parade kicks off at noon, the two-hour lead-up will include free family fun at Christmas Square in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery. After the parade, families can head to

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He’s back! Vancouver chef Nitzan Cohen is reviving his popular Mensch. Jewish Delicatessen after a long hiatus, with two nights of his signature hot pastrami.

Night one is this week, where he’ll be slicing up his hand-crafted and hand-sliced hot pastrami piled high on fresh rye bread, and other deli eats such as beet-cured lox on bagels with fresh labneh.

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Writer Lindy West has become a household name for her fierce, funny and forthright analyses of contemporary culture.

She’ll be in Vancouver this week to discuss her newest book, The Witches Are Coming, with professor and Secret Feminist Agenda host Hannah McGregor for an electric conversation on feminism, misogyny and meme culture in our precarious political moment.

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Quinn Hughes already looks like an elite power play quarterback Canucks’ rookie sensation is among league leaders in power play points

Backhand Sauce Daniel Wagner

The Canucks’ power play has a tendency towards inconsistency, but when it works, it really works. That was aptly demonstrated last week, when the Canucks went five for six on the power play against the Nashville Predators, feasting on a penalty kill that seemingly had no answer for the Canucks’ top unit.

With a 26.2 per cent success rate, the Canucks are fourth in the NHL in power play percentage. They look even better, however, since making a key change eight games into the season. Since moving rookie defenceman Quinn Hughes to the first power play unit, the Canucks have gone 22 for 73 on the power play. That leads the NHL in power play goals in that span and their 30.1 per cent success rate is second only to the Tampa Bay Lightning.

There’s simply no denying the impact that Hughes has had on the Canucks’ power play, which becomes readily apparent when you look at the league leaders in power play points.

After Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl, who have been ludicrously good for the Edmonton Oilers, the Canucks’ Elias Pettersson is tied for third in power play points with David Pastrnak of the Boston Bruins. Close behind in fifth is Hughes, with 13 power play points in 24 games.

In case you missed it, that means Hughes leads all NHL defencemen in power play scoring.

Keep in mind, Hughes just turned 20 last month. The Canucks drafted Hughes just over a year ago. For him to be leading all NHL defencemen in power play points this early in his NHL career is nothing short of astonishing.

“As far as creativity, as far as being able to find the open guy, Hughes will be better than [Alex] Edler almost immediately on the power play,” said ex-NHLer-turnedbroadcaster Ray Ferraro at the end of last season. “That’s what he does.”

Quarterbacking an NHL power play isn’t an easy task, and Hughes has had his growing pains, but he’s quickly adapted.

“He’s come a long way in learning how to be a top guy on the power play and move the puck and when to shoot and when to pass,” said J.T. Miller to reporters after the Canucks beat the Capitals in a shootout no the weekend. “It’s way different than college — way less room and guys are way more responsible in their

Stick-taps & Glove-drops • I’m dropping the gloves with Bill Peters,

current head coach for the Calgary Flames (though he could well be fired by press time).

Akim Aliu, who was coached by Peters with the AHL’s Rockford IceHogs, went public this week with allegations that Peters used racial slurs to Aliu, claims that were corroborated by two of Aliu’s teammates.

• A tap of the stick to Aliu and others who

have come out this week and discussed publicly the abuses they’ve faced from their coaches. There is a toxic undercurrent in hockey culture that needs to be rooted out.

Rookie Quinn Hughes leads all NHL defencemen in power play scoring this year. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Big Numbers structure — and we told him it’s not going to be easy and he’s definitely doing a good job kind of hanging out in the middle of the ice and making good decisions.”

For Hughes, it’s not always about the spectacular play — though he’s made a few of those — but the little moments: the quick feet to chase down a puck and keep it in at the blue line; the smart pass to give a teammate more time and space with the puck; the lateral movement to open up passing and shooting lanes for himself and his teammates.

What’s most remarkable is that it seems like Hughes has yet to even fully hit his stride. The Canucks and Hughes have yet to fully figure out how to best use his elite skating ability on their power play breakout, which too often gets bogged down in the neutral zone. If they can sort out their breakout, they’ll be able to get set up more consistently in the offensive zone, leading to more opportunities to rack up goals.

In other words, there’s still work to be

done and room to improve, something Hughes himself would readily admit.

“I’m feeling pretty confident, but at the same time, I’m not satisfied,” said Hughes.

With a total of 18 points in his first 24 games of the season, Hughes is on pace for 61 points in his rookie year. That would rank seventh all-time for rookie defencemen, just behind Chris Chellios and Ray Bourque. It would also threaten Doug Lidster’s franchise record 63 points from a defenceman.

Is Hughes likely to reach those heights?

It seems like far too much to ask and Hughes is likely to slow down as the tough NHL schedule wears him down, but it’s still a remarkable beginning to his NHL career.

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• 13 Elias Pettersson is tough for opposing teams to contain legally, so they often have to do it illegally. Pettersson has drawn 15 penalties, second only to Brady Tkachuk, but Tkachuk has also taken six minor penalties and one major penalty; Pettersson has taken just two minor penalties, giving him a league-leading penalty differential of plus-13.

• 17 At the other end of the spectrum is

Alex Edler, who leads the league in minor penalties with 17. While he’s also drawn eight minor penalties, his minus-nine penalty differential is still third worst in the NHL.

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