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Did a Christmas miracle occur at city hall last week?

At issue was COPE Coun. Jean Swanson’s motion to save the loss of Downtown Eastside hotels

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jack up the rents and force low-income tenants to look elsewhere to live, including on the street.

“They’ll probably be replaced by more expensive units, maybe up to $1,100 a month,” Swanson told council Dec. 10.

She speaks of what she knows, having been a member of the Carnegie Community Action Project for several years. The antipoverty advocacy group conducts regular audits of SROs to find out how much rents have gone up since the previous year.

I last reported on the Action Project’s report in March 2018.

The findings: The average rent of 68 privately owned and operated hotels in the Downtown Eastside shot up by $139 in one year since the organization conducted a similar study in 2016.

That put the price of monthly rent in 2017 at $687, leaving tenants collect-

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I wouldn’t exactly call it a municipal government Christmas miracle.

But what happened Dec. 10 at city council was pretty close to it.

Let me set this up for you…

COPE Coun. Jean Swanson had a motion before council aimed at slowing the loss of some of the last low-income single-roomoccupancy (SRO) hotels in Vancouver.

She named the Avalon, the St. Elmo, the Pacific and the Arno, which she described as some of the better run hotels in the Downtown Eastside. Combined, they account for 180 rooms and rent for about $450 per month.

They’re all for sale and being marketed as “microunits.”

Swanson is worried that any new buyers will want to overhaul the hotels,

The Avalon Hotel on West Pender Street is one of the single-roomoccupancy hotels that COPE Coun. Jean Swanson is worried will be sold, fixed up and displace low-income tenants.

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ing $710 in welfare with $23 left to spend each month on food and other necessities, according to the report.

Swanson acknowledged her motion was basically a repeat of a motion the previous council passed in 2017 to prevent the loss of SROs. But she pointed out nothing had been done yet.

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“We need urgent action by the province to stop the people from being evicted when new owners take over, or we need to be able to do it ourselves if the province won’t,” she said.

Swanson has long said that rents — particularly when they increase — should be tied to the

person’s income, not the market value of a unit.

That’s what she wants done here, and her motion requested Mayor Kennedy Stewart to write an urgent letter to the province to put them on notice — again.

Her motion generated a lot of interest, especially from housing advocates in the Downtown Eastside. In fact, 75 people signed up to speak to council Wednesday, but none showed up.

That’s because on Dec. 10 NPA Coun. Sarah KirbyYung asked this question of Swanson, which I’ve paraphrased: If council were in favour of passing your motion right now, without hearing from speakers the next day, would you agree to that?”

Swanson: “I would.”

Council was unanimous in supporting the motion.

And just like that, 75 people who were going to give up their day — maybe their evening and perhaps another day — didn’t have to show up to city hall to

argue for council to support Swanson’s motion.

Within minutes, it was done.

This is very rare.

Granted some issues are more divisive and attract a variety of viewpoints, but there have been many motions over the years that end up being unanimously supported by council after hours and hours of listening to speakers.

Some readers might see this as silencing the public, characterizing it as the death of democracy.

But Swanson got what she wanted, council was able to get to other business sooner than later and all involved — including media — didn’t have to spend another long day or evening at city hall on one non-controversial issue.

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Vancouver police have shut down a black market retail operation on the city’s East Side, seizing more than $100,000 in stolen clothes and alcohol.

On Nov. 27, police searched a residence near Victoria Drive and East 49th Avenue after getting a tip from an anonymous source that people in the house were selling stolen property.

Media relations officer Sgt. Aaron Roed said officers found the stolen property, which included cases of high-end scotch and cognac as well as designer clothes, laid out on tables and racks in multiple rooms.

Close to $130,000 worth of stolen clothes and purses from more than 20 retailers, including Victoria’s Secret, lululemon, Aritzia, Gap, Eddie Bauer, Zara and Anthropologie, and alcohol was seized.

“This is a large quantity of stolen items, and we are working with several retail-

ers to return their property,” Roed said. “Unfortunately, retail theft happens all over the city.”

He said the items for sale were stolen from stores both in Vancouver and in other areas of the Lower Mainland.

“There were no buyers inside of the residence when the warrant was executed so we don’t know how they gathered information to come to this house to buy the stolen property,” Roed said.

Two people were arrested and have been released pending further investigation. Roed said police anticipate recommending charges of possession of stolen property over $5,000, as well as theft, to Crown counsel in the coming weeks.

He added that the two people arrested were allegedly the ones doing the stealing and selling of the stolen property, and the operation has no connection to anything that is happening in the Downtown Eastside.

Close to $130,000 worth of stolen clothes, purses and alcohol was seized from a home near Victoria Drive and East 49th Avenue. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

With the holiday shopping season in full swing, Vancouver police have been targeting shoplifters.

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ment completed a threeweek project targeting shoplifters in downtown Vancouver that resulted in 25 arrests. Additional

special projects targeting thieves and shoplifters are planned for this month.

Roed said the department launched its Christmas

Crime Team last week.

“We’re working with the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association as well as the Robson Street Business Association gathering information on retail stores that are being targeted,” he said. “Our officers will be inside these stores watching crime happen and arresting [thieves] as they leave.”

Roed said there have been 2,000 reported cases of shoplifting in Vancouver so far this year, which has surpassed last year’s total of 1,930 reported shoplifting incidents.

The actual number could be much higher, however, as many incidents go unreported.

“Shoplifting, minor thefts… are going underreported. We ask anybody, regarding any investigation, and specifically, today, regarding shoplifting and theft, please call the Vancouver police so we have the true numbers on what is happening in our city.” @JessicaEKerr

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More than 30 parking lots across the city will now include extended hours to allow holiday revellers added time to retrieve their vehicles the day after tying one on.

The campaign was rolled out Dec. 12 and represents a partnership between the city, MADD Canada and Preventable.

The 35 lots included in the initiative are spread across downtown, False Creek, Granville Island, Mount Pleasant, Kitsilano, Dunbar and East Vancouver.

In most city-owned lots, residents can extend their overnight parking until 6 p.m. the next day. At most of the city’s on-street parking, cars can be parked until 11 a.m. the next day.

Previously, drivers who parked overnight were required to return to the meter the next morning when paid parking became in effect, either to move their vehicle or add time.

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The City of Vancouver’s point person on housing and homelessness has taken a job in Toronto.

Abi Bond, the city’s managing director of homelessness services and affordable housing programs, announced Dec. 11 on social media and on her Linkedin page that she accepted a job as the City of Toronto’s executive director of its Housing Secreteriat.

“I’m excited to join the City of Toronto as ED of the Housing Secretariat to deliver on their proposed new #HousingTO plan, but sad

This parking lot near the Olympic Village SkyTrain station is among 30-plus locations across Vancouver where vehicle owners can opt to leave their vehicles until 6 p.m. after a night out of revelry.

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by Coun. Lisa Dominato directing staff to expand the “Park Until” option in the city’s parkades to allow vehicles to easily be left overnight, and, to create a low-cost awareness campaign for residents on safe transportation choices.

“Giving residents easy, low-cost options to leave their car overnight when they’ve had too much helps keeps our roads safe all year round,” Dominato said in

a news release. “I am very pleased that as a result of my motion we now have 30 city-controlled parking lots where the ‘Park Until’ functionality is available.”

Via parking apps (PayByPhone, EasyPark, HonkMobile) or onsite pay stations and attendants, drivers can plan their parking before a night out or, if needed, have a backup plan if they’ve had too much.

A list of the applicable lots is at easypark.ca.

to leave dedicated friends and colleagues at the City of Vancouver,” she wrote on her Linkedin page.

“I’m proud of the part my team and I have played in delivering new affordable homes in Vancouver. It’s an exciting time to be working in #affordable housing in Canada, but a lot more work to do to create equity for everyone.”

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ing plan is “a comprehensive blueprint for helping more than 341,000 Toronto households,” the release said. The housing plan sets a target of approving 40,000 new affordable rental homes over 10 years.

“We are thrilled to welcome Abigail Bond to the Housing Secretariat and the City of Toronto,” said Toronto Mayor John Tory in the release. “Her deep experience delivering a wide range of policy and programs, including new housing units, will enable us to get more affordable housing built for residents in our city.”

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She said her first reaction was that the police would deal with the situation, but her co-worker told her to get up and look at the monitor.

“And I see someone holding a big sign and I was like, ‘What is that?’ So I run over to her computer and I realize it’s Scotty holding a sign that says ‘Bunny, will U marry me?’ and I just freaked out.”

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6,000-unit Squamish Nation project exempt from speculation tax Frank O’Brien, Peter Mitham, Hayley Woodin biv.com

A Dec. 10 vote among 827 members of the Squamish Nation has put in motion the largest residential development in Vancouver, which is expected to include the tallest towers in the city.

Being built on First Nations reserve land, the 6,000-unit project is exempt from provincial rent controls, the foreign-buyer tax and the so-called speculation tax that governs all other homeowners in Metro Vancouver, a B.C. Ministry of Finance spokesman confirmed.

It is also unfettered from Vancouver taxes, planning and development regulations.

The Senákw project is on 11.7 acres of Squamish Nation land on both sides of the south end of the Burrard Street Bridge. Plans call for a mix of market rental housing and from 1,500 to 2,000 condominiums.

The unusually shaped property, adjacent to the former Molson Brewery on Burrard Street and close to Vanier Park, was the ancestral village of the Squamish Nation. Squamish members were forcibly removed in 1913 and transported to the North Shore and Squamish Valley.

Their homes were burned.

The Squamish Nation reclaimed the land in 2003 after the B.C. Court of Appeal ruled that Canadian Pacific Railway, which had been granted the land for the railway, should return it to the First Nation.

The $3-billion development, considered the largest on First Nations land in B.C. and one of the largest in Canada, will be built in a 50-50 joint-venture agreement with noted Vancouver developer Westbank Development Corp.

Westbank declined comment, referring all questions to the Squamish Nation.

The Squamish voting process, which did not allow access by media or members of the general public, resulted in an 87 per cent approval, with 718 of the 827 voting members of the Squamish Nation in support.

The referendum asked two main questions: whether members approved leasing out three lots in Senákw for 120 years, and whether they were in favour of the proposed development to be undertaken jointly by the Squamish Nation and Westbank.

“The Squamish Nation Council is thrilled with the outcome of this referendum, which was approved by a

landslide,” said Khelsilem, a Squamish Nation councillor and spokesperson. “This is truly a landmark moment in our Nation’s history. The Senákw project will transform the Squamish Nation by providing immense social, cultural and economic benefits to Squamish Nation members for generations to come.”

Based on the proposal, towers would be between 36 and 50 storeys, according to Khelsilem. But to achieve 6,000 homes in 11 towers would require buildings of between 55 to 60 storeys, based on comparison with other residential towers proposed but not yet built in Vancouver.

Currently, the 307-suite Shangri-La Hotel on Georgia Street, at 659 feet and 60 floors, is the tallest building in the city. A proposal from Henson Developments for a site on Nelson Street is for a 60-storey tower with 485 housing units.

“Most of it’s going to be rental. We haven’t decided on the exact mix of strata — if we are going to include it and how much, that’s still to be determined — but we are looking at numbers around 10 to 20 per cent, possibly 30 per cent. But right now that’s going to depend on market conditions and financing,” Khelsilem told BIV. Responding to concerns that Westbank might push for a component of high-end market housing, Khelsilem quipped, “It might not be the development partner; it might be the Squamish Nation, because we’re largely seeing it as an economic development project.”

Most of the project will be market-oriented, with just 150 to 200 rental units currently allocated for Squamish, which has about 3,600 members. Squamish who want to buy strata units will receive preferential pricing.

Despite the reputation of Westbank for high-design and upper-end units, Khelsilem said the focus is on rental and meeting the social needs of the Squamish community.

Reaction to the project, which could break ground in 2021, is mixed.

Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart has called the project “a gift to the city” because of the potential for badly needed rental units.

The Squamish would not be required to apply to the city for approval, a city spokeswoman confirmed in an email.

“We would look forward to continuing our longstanding relationship and work with [Squamish] to support their integration

with the existing community and city service connections,” the email stated.

Condominiums in the project would be exempt from Vancouver’s emptyhomes tax, which was recently increased.

Anne McMullin, president and CEO of the Urban Development Institute, which represents the Vancouver residential development community, had a

note of envy in her voice.

“All the power to them. It is an ambitious project,” she said. “The problem we have in Vancouver is that it can take four to six years to get a rental building approved.”

Local residents have voiced concern and support about the scale of the project. “... [I]t’s sitting in the middle of an important access point into downtown Vancouver,” said Larry Benge, a

project and will collect property taxes from residents, it must contract for the provision of city services.

“Now that we have this clear indication to move forward on the lease and the business partnership, we can start finalizing those kinds of details, then move towards very specific agreements with the city around the kinds of infrastructure,” Khelsilem said.

Kitsilano resident and co-chair of the Coalition of Vancouver Neighbourhoods. “It is a very constricted site, so that presents quite a few issues to be addressed. How do the people who live there get in and out?

What kind of transit upgrades do you need? Certainly the infrastructure around that area would need upgrading.”

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Why carbon taxes is my 2019 story of the year Pipeline protests, climate activists and court cases loomed large this past year Mike Klassen

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The debate over how to control the planet’s carbon emissions has become so central to today’s news cycle that it will be my “story of the year” for 2019. It also has me asking whether government is on the wrong track when it comes to pricing carbon, which I’ll come to in a moment.

First, let’s consider some of 2019’s news headlines.

This week, the COP25 conference in Madrid ended in a stalemate that frustrated climate activists. COP stands for “conference of the parties” under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Almost 200 countries are represented and more than 26,000 participants registered to participate at the conference, including Canadian and B.C. government representatives.

Time Magazine’s Person of the Year is climate activist and face of the so-called Extinction Rebellion movement Greta Thunberg.

Alberta’s Kenney government is in court over its dispute with Ottawa over the implementation of a national carbon tax.

Six B.C. municipalities including Vancouver, Victoria, Squamish and Richmond are intervening to

the Supreme Court case to support the fed’s proposed carbon tax.

The cost of gasoline and the role of B.C.’s carbon tax was hotly debated as fuel prices in Metro Vancouver broke records in the spring.

The provincial government responded with legislation to force “transparency” in fuel pricing.

Construction on the much-delayed Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project finally got underway, and four Indigenous groups are back in court to fight the federal approval of that pipeline.

The prospect of a national carbon tax failed to ignite enough antipathy toward it during the federal election to vote the Liberals out of government. One analyst even said the carbon tax was the election’s “big winner.”

Not so fast, says Greg Lyle during a recent presentation in Vancouver.

Lyle is owner of the reputed national polling firm Innovative Research. He revealed that broad-based support for the tax has steadily declined since last year, according to a survey of 1,500 Canadians, from 46 per cent in 2018 down to 38 per cent today.

Forty-five per cent of those polled view carbon pricing as “just another tax

grab that does nothing for the environment.” Hardly a ringing endorsement of what has become a sacrosanct public policy.

British Columbia has had its carbon tax — the only one in the country — since 2008, though in 2018 the NDP government ended the policy of making the tax “revenue neutral.” B.C.’s economy has outperformed other provinces during the past decade, as the tax’s supporters like to point out.

Despite the chorus of international praise B.C. has received for implementing carbon pricing, critics such as energy industry advisor Aldyen Donnelly recently joined me on my Vancouver Overcast podcast to dispute the tax’s effectiveness, while calling for an alternative approach.

Like some early critics, Donnelly considers carbon pricing to be a regressive tax. She points out that it disproportionately impacts people on low incomes.

Studies show that wealthy people will only cause on average twice the amount of carbon emissions than a poor person, while they have 12 to 18 times the disposable income.

She notes that countries such as Denmark and Sweden, where carbon pricing has been in place much longer, has driven up the

cost of home heating to the point where approximately one-fifth of discretionary spending is used just to keep warm.

Donnelly dismisses events like COP25 as the “cocktail circuit” of the environmental movement. Instead of flying over 20,000 people to meet, she says, focus on the biggest carbon emitters.

She says there is data to prove that just 50 companies worldwide produce 50 per cent of all carbon emissions. Over half of these companies are state-owned.

“Lock 50 CEOs in a room and don’t let them out until they come up with a plan to reduce greenhouse gases,” she proposes.

Donnelly uses the example of the two approaches used to remove lead out of gasoline beginning in the mid-1980s. In North America, oil companies were regulated, while in Europe they chose to tax leaded fuels out of existence.

North America beat Europe at removing poisonous lead by a decade.

Donnelly firmly believes that there is a pathway toward reducing carbon emissions through regulations, just as how lead was removed. Perhaps an idea like this will take hold in the decade just around the corner. @MikeKlassen

The debate over how to control the planet’s carbon emissions and whether the government is on the wrong track has become central to today’s news cycle, says Mike Klassen. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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Collective addiction to disposability is killing us Re: “Vancouver bans plastic bags, straws, foam containers and other single-use items,” Nov. 28 How do we correct our collective addiction to disposability when — regardless of scuba divers’ reports of immense tangled plastic messes (not to mention plastic bags found at some of the ocean’s deepest points) — so much of it is not immediately observable, i.e. out of sight, out of mind?

It doesn’t surprise me, as general human mentality collectively allows us to, amongst other forms of blatant pollution, throw non-biodegradables down a dark chute like we’re safely dispensing it into a black-hole singularity to be crushed into nothing.

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And then there’s the astonishing shortsighted selfishness. I observed this last year when a Global TV news reporter randomly asked a young Vancouver man wearing sunglasses what he thought of government restrictions on disposable plastic straws.

“It’s like we’re living in a nanny state, always telling me what I can’t do,” he recklessly retorted.

Astonished by his shortsighted sense of entitlement, I wondered whether he’d be the same sort of individual who’d likely have a sufficiently grand sense of entitlement —i.e. “Like, don’t tell me what I can’t waste or do, dude!” — to permit himself to now, say, deliberately dump a whole box of unused straws into the Georgia Strait, just to stick it to the authorities who’d dare tell him that enough is enough with our gratuitous massive dumps of plastics into our oceans.

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Mayor Kennedy Stewart’s comments about Andrew Scheer during the federal election, Vancouver transit milestones and China Creek skate park’s significant anniversary made headlines in the Courier this past year. PHOTOS DAN TOULGOET

Test your knowledge of this year’s local Courier staff

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How well do you know Vancouver and all that happened here over the past year? We’re putting your agile minds to the test with our annual year-end quiz relating to stories that have run in the pages of the Courier in 2019. For an online version of the quiz, go to vancourier.com.

Good luck.

1. Which well-known performer(s) headlined this year’s 4/20 pot protest/festival? a. Wiz Khalifa b. Cypress Hill c. Snoop Dogg d. Cheech and Chong 2. How many different species of birds can be found in Vancouver? a. more than 25 b. more than 250 c. more than 2,500 d. more than 25,000 3. Vancouver’s Bloedel Conservatory celebrated its 50th anniversary this year.

How many Plexiglass bubbles make up the iconic triodetic dome? a. 1,969 b. 16,386 c. 1,490 d. 140 4. Which prominent Vancouverite was targeted by protesters at this summer’s Rave Against Renovictions? a. Bob Rennie b. Chip Wilson c. Kennedy Stewart d. Loverboy’s Mike Reno

5. Which Vancouver transit line celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2019? a. 99 B-Line b. Millennium Line c. 41st Avenue B-Line d. Canada Line 6. Which fair food was NOT served at the PNE this past summer? a. pickle-flavour cotton candy b. cricket caramel apples c. Tipsy Unicorn d. cheesy ramen dog 7. How old was the Kerrisdale sequoia tree prior to getting cut down in March? a. 50 years b. 70 years c. 90 years d. 110 years 8. A group of moms from the Tri-cities were offering what for free at the annual Pride Parade in August? a. rainbow-coloured cookies b. condoms c. water d. hugs 9. Which anniversary did the Killarney Seniors Centre celebrate in July? a. first b. fifth c. 10th d. 25th 10. Mayor Kennedy Stewart’s answer to the Courier’s question about why he hasn’t set a deadline — like his predecessor Gregor Robertson did — to put an end to homelessness in Vancouver was: a. “I’m not Gregor Robertson, I don’t make promises I can’t keep. Seriously, we’ve got to be realistic here”

b. “I don’t believe it’s my job to set a deadline. That should be up to the prime minister and the premier. They’re the people with the power and the money” c. “I was a boy scout for a long time and the motto is ‘I’ll promise to do my best,’ and that’s exactly what I’m doing” d. “Hey, if the NDP were in power in Ottawa, we would not have a homelessness crisis in this city. We would have $10-aday childcare, too” 11. Outside Benny’s Market, in the 500-block of Union Street in Strathcona, the city dumped a mound of asphalt on the road for what purpose? a. to mark the beginning of construction of a third viaduct that will link the Dunsmuir and Georgia viaducts b. to cover up some cobblestones deemed oppressive by mustachioed cyclists c. to slow cars, bikes and provide a raised sidewalk for pedestrians worried about being run down on the Union/ Adanac bikeway d. to cover up a giant pot hole that turned out to be an unmarked grave used by wise guys in the 1940s to dispose of other wise guys 12. Montizambert Wynd is the name of: a. Green Party Coun. Pete Fry’s pseudonym when travelling abroad. b. a now-defunct East Van recording studio where pan flute master Zamfir recorded an album in the early 1980s that was never released c. a small neighbourhood north of West Vancouver that is part

of Electoral Area A d. the diplomat from the British Solomon Islands who recently moved to Vancouver and is seriously considering a mayoral run with the Non-Partisan Association in 2022 13. Vancouver city hall has seen a significant increase in the number of security guards working on the days that city council meets in the chamber. What was the city’s rationale for the increase? a. there had been increased acts of aggression and disruption which created anxiety for councillors, city staff and the public. It also interfered with the democratic process. b. “We’ve collected so much tax money over the years that we had to spend it somewhere” c. the guards were cheaper than buying and installing stand-up desks for all city councillors to hide behind in the event of an act of aggression d. Kerry Jang, who often referred to his East Van tough guy roots in the council chamber, is no longer on council 14. Vancouverites still can’t swim in False Creek because: a. green guru David Suzuki and world-renowned Swedish environmentalist Greta Thunberg are secretly building a zero emission underwater city that will tentatively be called Suzberg b. someone spotted a rare Cyprinodon diabolis (a.k.a. Devils Hole Pupfish) near Science World and the park board was adamant about not disturbing the little sucker’s habitat c. it’s polluted d. shirtless chubby sailors

don’t want shirtless chubby swimmers getting in their way as they criss-cross the Creek in search of the perfect spot to get blessed from the sun 15. The City of Vancouver recently renewed its call for what type of service on East First Avenue? a. hot dog stands b. armoured car services to get pedestrians from one side of the street to the other c. bus service d. doctors specializing in treating the mounting cases of motorists suffering from deep vein thrombosis brought on by sitting in idling cars for hours 16. Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney visited Vancouver in August to do what? a. go swimming in False Creek b. sign a sister city agreement with the City of Vancouver c. visit the Insite drug injection site and tour the Downtown Eastside d. promote the opening of a Philly cheesesteak franchise, the first one of its kind in Canada.

17. The City of Vancouver celebrated its 10th anniversary of the opening of its 311 call service. Name one of the most bizarre questions to call takers: a. What species of ducks swim in Lost Lagoon at Stanley Park, and are they edible? b. How do I get rid of the snake in my basement? c. What time is it? d. all of the above 18. Which Vancouver city councillor said this: “A year ago, Vancouverites voted for

change, and in my opinion that change has not been achieved.” a. Sarah Kirby-Yung b. Lisa Dominato c. Melissa De Genova d. Colleen Hardwick 19. The number of reported thefts from vehicles in Vancouver between January and September was: a. 2,000 b. 14,445 c. 12,312 d. 9,888 20. What’s the name of Vancouver’s first officially licenced cannabis dispensary? a. Dave’s Not Here, Man b. One Toke Over the Line c. Evergreen Cannabis Society d. Buds and Bureaucracy 21. How long does it take House of Dolls owner Kristen Dickson to clean each of her life-like sex dolls after they’re used by clients? a. two days b. three hours c. a month d. a week 22. Vancouver animal law lawyer Victoria Shroff has heard of which of the following cases going to court in Canada? a. misplaced horse semen b. a marauding raccoon c. a horse defamation lawsuit d. all of the above 23. Located in Stanley Park, how tall is Vancouver’s tallest tree? a. 63.6 metres b. 420 metres c. 69.99 metres d. 97.29 metres

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news with our 2019 year-end quiz 24. According to park board rangers, which of these behaviours is not considered dangerous while cycling the Seawall? a. stopping on the bike path to take a selfie b. riding too fast c. hosting a drum circle at Third Beach d. ignoring the one-way travel transition point near Second Beach 25. Roughly how many cigarette butts are tossed on Vancouver streets each day? a. 10,000 b. 1,000,000 c. 500,000 d. 93

26. The Vancouver Canucks are celebrating 50 years as a franchise this year. How many Stanley Cups has the team won? a. none b. one c. three d. can we talk about that Mark Messier signing?

27. An infamous statue was removed from a Clark Drive plaza on Sept. 9, 2014. What was its name? a. Statue McStatueface b. Penis Satan c. The Dude d. Gregor Robertson 28. The China Creek skatepark celebrated a big birthday this year. How old is it? a. 40 b. 30 c. 80 d. 55 29. The Empty Homes Tax rate was set at one per cent

of assessed taxable value when it was implemented.

This term, city council debated whether to increase it.

Did council vote to: a. scrap it and forego the $38plus million it generates each year b. keep it at one per cent c. bump it up to 1.25 per cent d. increase it to 1.9 per cent 30. What makes up more than 50 per cent of Vancouver’s greenhouse gas emissions? a. cars b. flatulence c. industry d. buildings 31. On federal election night, which candidate wore a red dress, red ankle boots and popped a champagne bottle in the parking lot before dancing into her election celebration to Tina Turner’s “Simply the Best”? a. Joyce Murray b. Harjit Sajjan c. Hedy Fry d. Jody Wilson-Raybould 32. What happened to a giant letter C from the former Canada Post building? a. thieves stole it for scrap metal b. it’s in a history buff’s East Side apartment c. it’s been installed as a spinning art piece under Cambie Bridge d. environmental activists gave it to Swedish teen Greta Thunberg during her visit to Vancouver this year for use in climate crisis marches 33. “You can make any buildings you want but the planet is on fire…” Who said this?

a. Mayor Kennedy Stewart b. environmentalist David Suzuki c. chief planner Gil Kelley d. developer Rick Gregory 34. One of the reasons city council rejected a proposed townhouse rental development in Shaughnessy this past June was because it would be constructed next to: a. a hospice b. York House private school c. a $30-million mansion d. Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China 35. What topped Heritage Vancouver Society’s 2019 Top 10 Watch List? a. single-family homes b. cheap rents c. the Heart of Mount Pleasant d. Chinatown 36. What is the anticipated cost of the city-wide plan for the years 2019 to 2022? a. more than $25 million b. nearly $18 million c. it’s priceless d. the city’s sanity 37. This year, the city sold a portion of a lane that sits between two buildings on a planned development site on Broadway near Granville to a developer. How much did it go for? a. $5 million b. almost $3.8 million c. $1 d. $1 million 38. What was the name of the 1980s band in which Vancouver mayor Kennedy Stewart played bass? a. Boot Sauce

b. Amendment to the Amendment c. State of Mind d. Merlin’s Wizard 39. Who was the only Vancouver incumbent to get more votes in the 2019 federal election than in the 2015 election? a. Hedy Fry b. Jenny Kwan c. Jody Wilson-Raybould d. Don Davies 40. Which local media personality was inducted into the B.C. Entertainment Hall of Fame in 2019 and received a star on Granville Street’s Star Walk? a. Stephen Quinn b. Nardwuar the Human Serviette c. Bernie Pascal d. Canucks mascot Finn 41. During the federal election, Vancouver mayor Kennedy Stewart came under fire by some for saying Conservative leader Andrew Scheer as prime minister would be: a. “a disaster for the city” b. “a kick to the nards” c. “worse than gonorrhea” d. “Harper-esque” 42. During the federal election, Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart said he would be campaigning for which Vancouver candidate? a. Jenny Kwan b. Tamara Taggart c. Jody Wilson-Raybould d. “None of your damn business” 43. In addition to a garden, the roof of the Vancouver Police Department on Cambie Street is home to what?

a. a chicken coop b. beehives c. a bench made of repurposed VPD billy clubs from the 1920s d. a domesticated badger named Palmer in honour of Police Chief Adam Palmer 44. What activity does COPE councillor Jean Swanson often do during council meetings? a. play Candy Crush on her phone b. knit c. solve Sudoku puzzles d. draw unflattering cartoons of NPA councillor Melissa De Genova 45. What did the City of Vancouver NOT vote to ban this year? a. foam take-out containers b. fireworks c. plastic shopping bags d. leaf blowers 46. What is the name of the mobile bookstore that now occupies a bricks and mortar location in Hastings Sunrise? a. Iron Dog Books b. Word to Your Mother c. Van-Couver Reads d. East Vancouver Knowledge Emporium and Other Intriguing Ephemera 47. Legendary local bassist Stephen Hamm (Slow, Canned Hammed, the Evaporators) is now focussing on a one-man band project in which he plays what instrument? a. the spoons b. alto saxophone c. the theremin d. the kazoo 48. Every fall, thousands of

people descend upon Cambridge Street to take photos of what phenomenon? a. mating squirrels b. colourful autumn leaves c. the annual tour of soon-tobe demolished houses d. a doggy fashion show in honour of deceased celebrity canine Ru-Pug 49. Although it’s referred to as Vancouver’s oldest bar, the Cambie has gone by several other names in its history.

Which is not one of those names? a. the Gastown Inn b. the Carleton c. the Hangover Tavern d. the James Dean Saloon 50. In an effort to curb the littering of cigarette butts, the City of Vancouver employed the charms of sad looking mascot resembling a cigarette. What was the mascot’s name? a. Ashley b. Cig Vicious c. Nomore Butts d. Nick O. Teen

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Get lit at Winter Solstice Lantern Festival And four other reasons Vancouver is awesome this week Lindsay William-Ross

Williams’ charming and delightful score. Watch young Kevin McAllister make the most of his time stuck at home — and foil some crooks — in Chicago after his family accidentally leaves him behind over the holidays.

When: Dec. 20, 7 p.m.

Where: Orpheum Theatre, 601 Smithe St. vancouversymphony.ca

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Winter Solstice Lantern Festival

Greet the official arrival of winter with this timehonoured tradition. For the past 35 years, the annual festival has illuminated the dark sky with lanterns, fire, singing, drumming, music and dancing. There are also lantern-making classes.

When: Dec. 21 at 5:30 p.m.

Where: Processions leave from Performance Works on Granville Island and Roundhouse Community Centre in Yaletown secretlantern.org

Dorg’s Christmas Singa-Long

This year marks 46 years of the Christmas carol singa-long held on Vancouver’s West Side on Dec. 23. This year, the organizer hopes to hit the group’s goal of fundraising more than $250,000 for the Salvation Army’s Vancouver Harbour Light.

The carolling group of about 50 men will be out in force singing on the streets of West

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Point Grey and Kitsilano.

They take the same carolling route every year: up West Fourth Avenue to Alma Street, from Alma Street to West Broadway, and east along West Broadway for five or six blocks.

When: Dec. 23, 8:30 p.m.

Where: West Point Grey and Kitsilano

throughout Gastown, you can enjoy a unique temporary art installation that will light up the night in a different way — keep your eyes on the Leckie Building. Listen to choirs carolling for a cause in the neighbourhood.

When: Dec. 19-20, 5 to 8 p.m.

Where: Gastown gastown.org

Gastown Not-So-Silent Nights

Home Alone with the VSO

Stroll the streets, shop and get into the spirit of the season in Gastown. In addition to twinkling lights hung

Experience the comical film with enchanting sound as the VSO performs renowned composer John

Plant-Based Vancouver Holiday Market

Head to the Juice Truck’s Main Street location for this three-day pop-up shop celebrating all things plant-based. Get some goodies or items for enjoying over the Christmas break or for giving as gifts. Vendors include NutMeg Mylk, Kula Kitchen, Eat the Dishes, Yoggu, Earnest Ice Cream, Say Hello Sweets, the HABIT Project and more.

When: Dec. 20 to 22 Where: The Juice Truck, 4236 Main St. facebook.com —With files from Elana Shepert and Elisia Seeber

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Here’s what’s open on Christmas Day in Vancouver

Go for a ski, skate, movie or drink Go for a rip, bud

John Kurucz

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The presents are open and the celebratory meal is down the hatch.

Your family is starting to annoy you and it’s high time to leave the house.

Fear not, for these places are open on Christmas Day.

Strap on the blades and go for a rip at any number of public skating sessions across the city.

• Trout Lake: 50 and Better Skate (10 a.m.), public skates at 11:45 a.m. and again at 1:30 p.m.

• Hillcrest: public skate at 2:30 p.m.

• Kerrisdale Cyclone Taylor Arena: public skate at noon.

• The Robson Square Ice Rink is also open from noon to 5 p.m. Skating is free and skate rentals go for $5.

Better yourself

Heroes don’t take days off and nor should you.

The following park board fitness centres are open:

Hillcrest, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Kitsilano, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Trout Lake, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; West End, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The pool at Hillcrest will also be open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Vancouver Aquarium

Among other things, there’s an exhibit about snakes and why we fear them.

Snakes and Jesus, together at last. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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The folks at Run Adventures Vancouver will host their third annual Christmas Day Run around Stanley Park.

Both 5k and 10k runs will be in the offing starting at 9:30 a.m. at the Laughing Statues in Morton Park near English Bay. Routes will be published on Facebook closer to go time, but the 5k will likely include small sections of the seawall and Lost Lagoon. The 10k will be a mix of the seawall and trails in Stanley Park.

All abilities are welcome.

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Test people’s goodwill and holiday cheer by combining karaoke and buses on a threehour tour of the city while singing. Fully decorated Gray Line Westcoast Sightseeing buses roll through Stanley Park, English Bay, VanDusen Botanical Garden, St. Paul’s Hospital and Canuck Place holiday light displays.

The singing tour runs 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. and tickets range in price between $30 and $60. Admission to the Festival of Lights at VanDusen Botanical Garden and Bright Nights at Stanley Park is included.

Eat, drink, be merry, spend

The fancy downtown hotels have dining options out the wazoo, with holiday pricing fully in tow.

• The Four Seasons hosts a lunch buffet from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. for $105 per

person ($50 for kids under 12) and a dinner from 5 to 10 p.m. for ($115 per person, $55 for kids under 12).

• If you’ve got a $200 palette, then the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver buffet dinner is right up your alley.

It runs 5 to 9 p.m. and kids between the ages of six and 12 get in for $99.

• ARC Restaurant at the Fairmont Waterfront will have a three-course meal, along with live music and other festive favourites, running 5:30 to 10 p.m. It’ll run you $109 for adults, or $55 for kids aged three to 12.

• The Westin Bayshore hosts a brunch buffet noon to 3 p.m. complete with bellinis, mimosas, pig and turkey. It’s $75 a pop for adults and $35 for kids aged six to 12. Dinner runs from 5 p.m. until closing time and costs $85 per person.

Chanukah on Ice

In keeping with the all Disney, all the time feel of the holidays, Hanukkah is happening at Hillcrest.

Frozen Chanukah on Ice runs noon to 2 p.m. at the Hillcrest, complete with visits from Elsa and Olaf.

There will be latkes, doughnuts, games, crafts and even a live, ice menorah carving.

Tickets are $10 in advance or $15 at the door.

Be quiet

Christmas gifts and Hollywood have a lot in common: lots of plastic, little substance and fleeting fast. In that spirit, Cineplex Odeon Theatres across Vancouver are open on Christmas, including: Fifth Avenue Cinemas, 2110 Burrard St. (ages 19 plus only); Scotiabank Theatre Vancouver, 900 Burrard St. and Cineplex Cinemas Marine Gateway and VIP, 452 South West Marine Dr.

So you’ve given up

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Flight with Santa lets kids be kids Air Transat and the Children’s Wish Foundation ensure sick kids enjoy their flight to the ‘North Pole’ Sandra Thomas

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Just letting kids be kids.

That’s the impetus that drives the annual Flight with Santa, which sees children living with lifethreatening illnesses or serious genetic and neurological conditions board an Air Transat flight for a trip to the “North Pole” in search of the Jolly Old Elf. Stephen Hansen-Langmann, dad to six-year-old Lausanne and three-year old Kaiden, explained Lausanne had a liver transplant as a baby. It was mom Sue Kyoung Choi who donated part of her liver to Lausanne. The family got involved with the Children’s Wish Foundation last year.

“Lausanne was born with a very rare disease named biliary atresia so she had a liver transplant at 18 months,” said HansenLangmann. “Those first 18 months, I hate to say it, but it was, ‘Is she going to live?’

And now she’s four-and-ahalf years post-transplant.”

Hansen-Langmann said the follow-up appointments are also gruelling. Because the medication Lausanne must take is so hard on the kidneys, those have to be monitored by way of glomerular filtration rate tests at the hospital once a year,

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Choi said the couple is grateful to Air Transat and the Children’s Wish Foundation for giving them the opportunity to have the Flight for Santa experience as a family.

“When we were in the hospital, we never thought about anything outside the hospital,” said Choi. “But, now we’re here.”

“When we see her today, and she’s playing around other kids,” said HansenLangmann, “we talk about it with other parents and they say, ‘Oh, she looks so normal.’ And we say, she is normal.”

This is the 15th year Air Transat has partnered with the foundation to offer the Flight with Santa Claus and on the same day of the Vancouver flight earlier this month, similar trips also took off from Toronto, Montreal and Paris. Prior to the flight excited children, siblings, parents and caregivers had their faces painted, chose treats from the cookie bar, had a holiday photo taken, read books, coloured, had visits from service dogs dressed in their holiday best, and came face-to-face with princesses and characters from their favourite movies. Little girls and boys were wide-eyed as they met with Elsa from Frozen and Moana from Moana, as well as a living gingerbread man and woman.

The flight is paid for from Air Transat’s Small Change, Big Hearts program, which asks travellers on their flights to donate any spare change they have. Thanks to the program, this year Air Transat was able to donate $100,000 to the Children’s Wish Foundation. To date, Air Transat has donated $6 million to the foundation since the partnership started — Make-A-Wish Canada joined forces with the Children’s Wish Foundation in October 2019.

Also on the flight was 14-year-old Jacob Bredenhof from Abbotsford. Jacob was a talented basketball player when he was diagnosed with osteosarcoma in his femur. The cancer of the bone spread into a 23-centimetre-long tumor at the bottom of his left femur and in October 2018, surgeons removed his upper leg and knee, leaving just eight centimetres of his

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1. Daimen Mott gets a visit from Santa Claus while aboard the Air Transat/Children’s Wish Foundation Flight with Santa Dec. 4.

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2. From left to right, parents Sue Kyoung Choi and Stephen Hansen-Langmann took part in the Flight with Santa at YVR, with daughter Lausanne and son Kaiden.

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3. 14-year-old Jacob Bredenhof from Abbotsford had an opportunity to share a joke with Santa. PHOTO SANDRA THOMAS

femur, and reattaching his ankle joint and foot to the remaining bone.

The teenager didn’t let walking with a cane slow him down and he was obviously having a great time during the pre-party and flight, joking with Santa and his family.

Simon Rochette, manager of in-flight experience with Air Transat, said flight attendants and crew members also donate their time each year for the flight.

“But, so many of them volunteer we have to go by seniority,” said Rochette.

“That’s how popular this day is.”

Chris Kotsopoulos, co-CEO at Make-A-Wish

Canada, describes the annual Flight with Santa Claus as a “magical day that brings incredible joy to children diagnosed with a life-threatening illness.”

“It allows children and their families to create special holiday memories to cherish for years to come.”

Meanwhile, Jill Slattery, a communications specialist with Children’s Wish Foundation, said so many families applied for the flight this year, to make it fair the foundation held a lottery.

“And these are the lucky ones here,” said Slattery.

“These kids spend so much time in hospitals, we just want them to be kids again for a day.”

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Arts & Entertainment VANCOUVER SHAKEDOWN

Vancouver Is Awesome founder moves to more awesome city

What does it say about Vancouver when one of its biggest boosters pulls up stakes and moves out?

Grant Lawrence

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The issue surrounding affordability in Vancouver is nothing new. No matter what your opinion or your income, the one thing most everyone can agree on is that Vancouver is an expensive place to live.

That fact was driven home again recently, when Bob Kronbauer, founder and editor of popular website Vancouver Is Awesome, which shares office space and owners with the Courier, moved out of the city he has passionately repped for more than a decade. Bob, his wife Katie and son Arlo have joined an exodus of young families feeling Vancouver’s financial pinch. They have relocated to a much smaller, more affordable town. Kronbauer now makes the commute into the city four days a week.

“I came to the conclusion that I wouldn’t be able to own a house in Vancouver a couple years ago, and I have already mourned that fact,” Kron-

bauer told me last week. “We could have bought a condo, but I grew up in Vernon, in a house, I wanted my son to have the same freedoms and joys that come along with that.

I’m buying him a drum kit for his birthday this weekend.

We’re planting a tree that we’ll watch grow over the years that we live here.”

Back in his early 20s, after a short stay in Vancouver, Kronbauer moved to Southern California.

He immersed himself in the skateboard industry, landing a gig working for Spike Jonze’s company Girl Skateboards. He returned to Vancouver in the early 2000s, and thought that, compared to L.A., Vancouver felt like Shangri La. He couldn’t figure out what all the complaining was about.

“I was like, ‘This is the best!’ and everyone else was like, ‘This is No Fun City!’” he told the Courier in 2017.

Around the same time Kronobauer returned from the states, Vancouver was also considering whether it

Vancouver Is Awesome founder Bob Kronbauer with dog Frankie, his wife Katie and son Arlo at their new home that’s not in Vancouver. PHOTO COURTESY OF BOB KRONBAUER

should put in a bid to host the 2010 Winter Olympics.

There was so much public discourse at the time that then mayor Larry Campbell held a citywide plebiscite that saw a record number of citizens turn up at the polls.

Somewhat surprisingly, the “yes” side won by nearly two-thirds, and the rest is gold medal memories.

A few years after that vote, Kronbauer decided to do something else for the city,

founding the then-ultra-positive Vancouver Is Awesome website on Valentine’s Day 2008. Over the last 10 years, it has grown into an empire of sorts, spinning off into books, podcasts, a T-shirt line, award-nominated TV shows and a massive reach on social media.

How is it that a person who has arguably done so much to boost the morale of this city can’t live here?

“I don't feel like the city

owes me anything for ‘passionately repping’ it for all those years while I was a renter,” Kronbauer told me.

“I made good money off of that ‘repping,’ and I continue to do so. We made the decision as a family. The kid had a veto, but he wanted to move. I feel extra good about us all having a say in it, and it not being about yanking the kid out of his school and away from his friends so we could own a home.”

It could be argued that Vancouver’s affordability crisis has been a great thing for small towns. With the influx of young families comes new businesses such as breweries, restaurants and tourism ventures. As such, many smaller towns in B.C. are experiencing renaissancelike upswings in economy, culture and livelihood.

And despite what you may hear about Vancouver, it’s apparently still awesome.

Newcomers continue to flood in, searching for places to rent and own, as they have done since this city was

incorporated. Why? Vancouver has always been viewed by those looking in as a great place to live — expensive, “no fun” or otherwise.

As for Kronbauer, the man who promotes the awesomeness of Vancouver for a living, he seemingly has no regrets on leaving it, or spending his first Christmas in a decade outside of the city limits.

“I'm so happy to have moved out of the city,” he exclaimed. “No mixed emotions about it. I'd be driving out to the sticks on the weekends to fish and camp, so I basically just flipped that schedule upside down. Now I drive into town during the week and live in the sticks on the weekend. My son also gets to see his grandma every day as opposed to every month. And my house feels like a palace!”

Kronbauer and I haven’t always agreed on some of the issues facing this city, but we can agree on this: home is where the heart is. @grantlawrence

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Drink this: Santa’s Sac by Bridge Brewing Co. Rob Mangelsdorf editor@thegrowler.ca

With Christmas approaching, I thought it might be appropriate to get into the spirit with a holiday-themed beer this week — so I decided to have a taste of Santa’s Sac,

by Bridge Brewing Co. While the label says golden strong ale, Santa’s Sac comes across as more of a Belgian tripel, with its pronounced notes of banana and clove. Santa’s Sac also lacks the creaminess and gushing carbonation of a traditional Belgian golden strong. In fact, there’s barely any head at all. It does deliver loads of fruity, spicy flavour, however, climaxing with a dry, slightly astringent finish that is deeply pleasing.

This ballsy Belgian ale clocks in at a boozy 10.0 per cent ABV. Not everyone will be able to handle Santa’s Sac, but don’t let the high alcohol content put you off — you’d be nuts not to give Santa’s Sac a try, at

Santa’s Sac deliver loads of fruity, spicy flavour, climaxing with a dry, slightly astringent finish that is deeply pleasing.

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Arts & Entertainment THE SHOWBIZ

How film about two Indigenous women in East Van found success in the U.S. Sabrina Furminger

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I’m inclined to title this column “The unlikely success of The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open,” but I keep tripping over the word “unlikely.” It assigns a value judgment about Vancouver independent film that I’m uncomfortable to concede (i.e. that it should be at all surprising when a locally shot indie is both a commercial and critical success).

And yet the fact remains that the trajectory of The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open has been remarkable — and, yes, maybe even a little unlikely for an independent feature film shot over five days in East Vancouver in early 2018.

The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open was written and directed by Kathleen Hepburn (Never Steady, Never Still) and ElleMáijá Tailfeathers (cəsnaɁm, the city before the city). Their collaboration follows two Indigenous women who are strangers to each other — Rosie, portrayed by Violet Nelson, and Áila, portrayed

by Tailfeathers — and the 100 minutes they spend together one rainy day in East Vancouver after one of the two women experiences partner violence.

Their story is told in one take — beautifully shot on grainy 16mm by cinematographer Norm Li — and it is somehow both intimate and infinite, a meditation on womanhood and motherhood and class and colonialism and how we can support each other across the vastness of individual traumas. It’s based on an actual experience that Tail-

Violet Nelson and Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers star in The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open.

feathers had with a stranger a few years ago who was, like Nelson’s Rosie, bloodied and barefoot and heavily pregnant.

The film had its world premiere in February at the Berlin International Film Festival, won an honorable mention for Best Canadian Feature Film at the venerable Toronto International Film Festival, and was acquired by ARRAY, the distribution company helmed by Golden Globesnominated director Ava DuVernay (Selma, 13th).

This relationship with ARRAY led to a series of experiences that rarely befall Vancouver indie films and filmmakers.

The film enjoyed a limited run of theatrical screenings across the United States before being added to American Netflix (it’s also available on Netflix in the UK, Australia and New Zealand, and will hit CBC in the new year). It received glowing reviews in publications such as the Los Angeles Times, Variety, Vogue and the New York Times. The filmmakers visited the ARRAY Creative Campus in L.A. and gave dozens of media interviews,

including some on live television, accompanied by DuVernay herself.

On American Thanksgiving, the film was the reason the hash tag #TheBodyRemembers went viral in the States. DuVernay invited Americans to use the hash tag to acknowledge the Indigenous nations whose land they occupy, and they did, trending #TheBodyRemembers higher than the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

“It means so much to know that this film about two Indigenous women in East Vancouver resonates with audiences all over the world, and also that a company like ARRAY sees value in this story,” says Tailfeathers. She notes that DuVernay originally founded ARRAY because “there wasn’t a strong enough belief in the stories that black women were telling, and she knew that there was an audience for her work and she decided to build her own way, and build new paths for distribution.”

The fact that the Vancouver filmmakers — who sought to tell their screen story in a new and different way, prioritizing mutual

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“It’s such a surreal experience just knowing that there are different ways of doing things, and I think that reflects our own process in making this film,” says Tailfeathers. “Nothing about this film has been conventional.”

Success like what The Body Remembers When The World Broke Open has experienced this year is unlikely when you play be the old rules — but when you reinvent the system? Market the film in different way?

Make community building a priority? Commit yourself to uplifting and amplifying marginalized voices? Success is more than likely; it’s a byproduct of the journey.

And it’s the kind of journey that imprints itself on a filmmaker, according to Hepburn.

“I don’t think it’s ever going to be the same for me again,” she says. “I know we can’t repeat this exact experience on another project, but as a person and as a filmmaker, I’ve realized how rewarding it is to build collaborating and community engagement and mentorship into storytelling and distribution. I think the experience of this film will make me consider what that looks like every step of the way from here on out.”

On Boxing Day, The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open screens at VIFF Vancity Theatre as part of Canada’s Top Ten. The travelling film festival is curated by TIFF and showcases the most remarkable Canadian films of the year. Tickets at VIFF.org.

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Horatio Spafford writes: “When peace like a river attendeth my way... whatever my lot ,You have taught me to say: it is well, it is well with my soul” Watch that short WWI WW W video clip and be encouraged to bring peace into your Christmas festivity.

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Canucks’ quest to make the playoffs isn’t getting any easier Pacific Division just got tougher with the addition of Taylor Hall

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Taylor Hall desperately wants to make the playoffs, which makes him a great fit for the Arizona Coyotes, a team that hasn’t made the playoffs in the last seven seasons, but is trending in the right direction this season.

The Coyotes made a bold move acquiring Hall, particularly so early, with more than half the season remaining to be played. That gives Hall plenty of time to find chemistry with linemates and make a significant impact on the Coyotes’ play to be the top team in the Pacific Division. As an added bonus, the rental of Hall didn’t cost them a single player off their roster, just a handful of middling prospects, along with a pair of picks.

Even the first-round pick in the trade is top-three protected just in case the Coyotes find themselves out of the playoffs and win the draft lottery.

That means the Pacific Division just got a whole lot tougher for the Vancouver Canucks.

Hall is just a season removed from winning the Hart Trophy as the NHL’s most valuable player and his 25 points at the time of the trade immediately made him the Coyotes highest-scoring player. The Coyotes instantly became a more dangerous team, adding high-end star power to their already-impressive depth.

For Hall, he went straight from a team that was second-last in the Eastern Conference with 25 points to a team tied for first in the Pacific Division with 42 points. For a player that has seen just five playoff games in his entire 10-year career, the trade was a welcome development.

It’s not a welcome development for the Canucks, who have yet to face the Coyotes this season, so all three of their meetings this year will be with the newly improved Coyotes. But the Canucks have more than just the Coyotes to worry about in the Pacific.

The Calgary Flames just went on a sevengame winning streak to leap past them in the standings and are starting to look like the top-end team they were predicted to be heading into the season.

The Vegas Golden Knights likewise look like one of the best teams in the Western Conference after a mid-November lull saw them dip in the standings. They just steamrolled the Canucks on the weekend with their relentless attack.

With the Coyotes, Flames and Golden Knights hitting their stride, the Canucks will be in tough to be one of the top-three teams

Stick-taps & Glove-drops • I’m dropping the gloves with the NHL

All-Star Ballot for not including rookie wunderkind Quinn Hughes as an option, instead requiring him to be written in to vote for him. Hughes is currently third among rookies in scoring.

• A tap of the stick to Marc Crawford,

who responded to allegations of abusive conduct from former players with a clear understanding of what he did wrong, a sincere apology, and an outline of the steps he has already taken over the last decade to improve himself as a person and coach, which included counseling. His statement should be seen as a perfect example of how others in the hockey community should respond.

Jay Beagle and the Canucks will play the Phoenix Coyotes three times this season.

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in the Pacific to secure a playoff spot without relying on the Wild Card. That’s not to mention the Edmonton Oilers, who have hit on hard times in December, but are still at the top of the Pacific thanks to the blistering pace they set to start the season.

Beyond their competition in the Pacific Division, the Canucks’ biggest obstacle to making the playoffs is the Canucks.

After a stellar start to the season in October, the Canucks have gone on a serious slide, unable to string together more than two wins in a row since Oct. 17. Heading into Tuesday’s game against the Montreal Canadiens, the Canucks had won just three of their last 15 games in regulation.

The Canucks are trending in the wrong direction, which becomes starkly evident when you look at their underlying statistics over the course of the season. The team’s corsi, which is a statistic measuring shot attempts for and against, was among the best in the league through October, then came

crashing down in November. While they bounced back a little in early December, the Canucks are back below 50 per cent in shot share: at five on five they’re getting consistently outplayed by their opponents.

The team’s only saving grace has been their power play, which has been a bit streaky, but still one of the best in the league. When the power play’s not clicking, however, the Canucks aren’t winning.

The Canucks have won just two games all season when the power play has failed to score, and one of those wins was by the skin of their teeth in the shootout.

The Canucks need to get their house in order in a hurry, because the rest of the Pacific Division isn’t waiting around for them.

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fantastic sophomore season at Northeastern University continued with another two-point night on the weekend.

He’s tied for the goals-scoring lead in the NCAA with 13 goals and has the outright lead in goals-per-game with 0.76.

• 11 Tyler Motte set a new record for most

hits in a single game by a Canucks forward during Sunday’s game against the Vegas Golden Knights. Perhaps that’s because he and his linemates never had the puck — the Canucks were out-shot 11 to 3 when Motte was on the ice — but at least he was engaging physically.

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“The last thing I remember is setting up a fireworks show at a car racing event on Vancouver Island when suddenly, it started to rain,” Jon Sedman, 41, doesn’t remember when the race car crushed him. He doesn’t remember his eightmonth pregnant girlfriend, Christa Meissner, going into labour prematurely when she learned of the accident, not knowing if he would live long enough to be a father.

“The last thing I remember is setting up a fireworks show at a car racing event on Vancouver Island when suddenly, it started to rain,” says Jon. “The fireworks needed to be kept dry, so I went and put a plastic tarp over them.”

As he started to walk back to his truck, in a split second, one of the race cars lost control. It veered off the track, flipped and landed on top of Jon.

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JON’S STORY

EXPERT COORDINATION OF CARE

“When Jon arrived, he had multi-system trauma which takes a lot of coordination of care and a lot of different subspecialists to manage,” says Dr. Naisan Garraway, Medical Director of the Trauma Program at VGH. Jon’s injuries were extensive: he had a pelvic fracture with a vascular injury, splenic injury, c-spine ligamentous injuries, nerve injury to his leg and brain trauma.

Before surgery, while Jon lay unconscious in the ER, Christa sat beside him holding his hand as the contractions were becoming more frequent.

“I said, We’re gonna make it through this one way or another,” says Christa. Jon was then taken in for surgery and Christa was transferred to her planned birthing hospital.

Ten physicians from six different specialties worked together to care for Jon and save his life.

“In BC, Jon could only have received this type of specialized and expert treatment at VGH,” says Dr. Emilie Joos, one of Jon’s trauma surgeons at VGH.

“I just remember kind of waking up and, and hearing some lady say, you’re at VGH, you’ve been in an accident,” says Jon. A TWIST OF FATE While Jon was undergoing surgery for his lifethreatening injuries, his partner, Christa, was giving birth. In a twist of fate, at the same time one of Jon’s trauma surgeons was working on him, that surgeon’s husband was helping Christa while she was delivering her baby.

A month later, Jon was woken from his medically induced coma — a necessity to allow his body to heal. He awoke to meet his healthy son for the first time. Christa had waited so they could name him together — they chose Kayden Meissner-Sedman.

REHAB AND RECOVERY Jon survived, however, the road to recovery would be a long and arduous one. While the couple once thought Jon may never walk again, he has defied the odds and is walking and getting stronger every day.

Thanks to the care he received, Jon is now living at home again. While he still requires ongoing physiotherapy and has a long road ahead of him, Jon is grateful to be alive.

JON HONOURS HIS MEDICAL TEAM AS HIS ANGELS “My angels are the trauma team, all the doctors at VGH, and the first responders…everybody who worked hard to get me to where I am today.”

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