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Why MLK got a shout-out at Vancouver council Mike Howell

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Now that the hubbub regarding the five-storey rental building proposed for Kitsilano has subsided, let’s talk about deceased U.S. civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Say what?

Some of you probably heard that King’s words became part of the council record Dec. 18 after council voted 8-3 to approve the 63-unit rental project at Larch Street and West Second Avenue.

OneCity Coun. Christine Boyle, who supported the project, made that happen.

Coincidentally, Boyle is an ordained minister in the United Church of Canada.

King was a Baptist minister.

And, for what it’s worth, the site in question is currently home to a church and King’s older sister’s name was…Christine.

Boyle likely wouldn’t have mentioned the iconic preacher’s name in the chamber had it not been for Kits resident David Hovan quoting King in his Dec. 12 speech to council. Hovan is a 20-year resident of a fourstorey apartment building across the street from the project site.

“Martin Luther King Jr. said, ‘Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly,’” he began his speech.

“The 1805 Larch Street

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development proposal affects me and many of my neighbours directly, and affects the entire west Kitsilano neighbourhood indirectly. I oppose this proposal.”

Hovan, who said his building is 35-feet tall, described the project as “a massive development” that will result in a 67-foot tall brick wall facing his apartment.

“This brick wall is going to be breathing down my neck every day,” said Ho-

van, who noted the project has caused him sleepless nights over the past year and forced him to double up his blood pressure medication.

He went on to state his reasons for his opposition, referring to how a spot rezoning in a neighbourhood is “an infringement of the property rights of the many against a privileged few.” He took that line from the Fordham Law Review.

Hovan cited various doc-

uments he obtained from the city’s planning department through the Freedom of Information and Privacy Act that, he argued, shows how the project contradicts some of the current guidelines for the Moderate Income Rental Housing Program — which is what the Larch Street project falls under.

Hovan requested council refer the project to staff to develop “a less intrusive, better fitting plan, one which would be much bet-

ter for the community than the developer.”

We know now that his request was denied.

Which brings me back to Boyle and King’s words…

In stating her reasons for supporting the project, Boyle referred to Hovan quoting King during the public hearing.

For the record, the quote was from King’s famous letter from a Birmingham jail, where he was in custody for leading a demonstration in 1963 to bring national attention to racist treatment suffered by blacks in Alabama.

Boyle said she read the full letter and pulled this excerpt from it: “I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.”

Then she said this: “My sense of this project is that the injustice in this situation isn’t that the more affordable units are on the ground floor, it’s that so many renters and low-income residents across our city have been limited to living in basement suites with insecure tenure. The injustice isn’t that a neighbourhood may get more neighbours, but that new neighbours have been excluded from so much of our

city for so long.”

She went on to say how the city had a long history, via its zoning rules, of exclusion and “protecting a certain type of character over welcoming those that need a home. We know this and it needs to change.”

With the Larch project, 13 of the 63 units will be for “moderate income households.” In other words, for households that earn between $30,000 and $80,000 per year, an income band Mayor Kennedy Stewart wants to address with the development of more “workforce housing.”

During his speech to council, Hovan was asked by NPA Coun.

Sarah Kirby-Yung — who also supported the project — whether there was any pushback when his four-storey building was constructed in Kitsilano 22 years ago.

His initial response was that realtors at the time told him the city would never allow development west of Larch. It’s too late, he added, to sue those realtors.

Kirby-Yung asked him the pushback question a second time.

“It fits the neighbourhood — my building fits the neighbourhood,” he replied.

“Nobody was upset that my building was built.”

Not even, it seems, the people who moved in. @Howellings

Vancouver Lyft passengers will pay $5 every time they hail a ride Tyler Orton

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What happened: Lyft has revealed its pricing scheme for Metro Vancouver riders Why it matters: Prices may fluctuate depending on additional regulatory fees as well as demand during peak periods Passengers in Metro Vancouver will pay at least $5 every time they jump inside a vehicle operated by ridehailing service Lyft Inc. In addition to a $2.50 base, passengers will also need to cover a $2.50 service fee on top of costs per kilometre and per minute, according to pricing released by Lyft: • Base: $2.50 • Service fee: $2.50 • Cost per km: $0.65 • Cost per minute: $0.33 A ride from Canada Place

in downtown Vancouver to the Walmart outlet near the city’s border with Burnaby would cover 9.5 kilometres and take 22 minutes during mid-morning rush hour, according to Google Maps.

Based on that estimate, a ride with Lyft would cost passengers $18.44 to get from one side of Vancouver to the other but other fees would still apply.

“Lyft is sharing its rider pricing so Metro Vancouverites can get a better understanding of what they can expect when service begins. To note, applicable regulatory fees may be added to these rates,” Lyft said in a statement to Business in Vancouver.

Vancouver city council voted in October to also add additional $0.30 pick-up and drop-off fees between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. for what it describes as its “metro

Passengers in Metro Vancouver will pay at least $5 every time they jump inside a vehicle operated by ride-hailing service Lyft Inc. PHOTO ISTOCK

core” — most of downtown out to Commercial Drive, and north of 16th Avenue.

That additional fee would bring the Walmart trip from downtown up to $18.74.

The province’s Passenger Transportation Board (PTB) requires minimal pricing in B.C. to be based on taxi flag rates within an

operating area.

In Metro Vancouver that runs between $3.25 and $3.95 when someone steps inside a vehicle in addition to prices charged for distance travelled.

Unlike many other jurisdictions, the PTB does not permit ride-hailing services to offer discounts

to passengers.

But the regulatory body will allow these services to raise prices during peak periods as demand swells.

Meanwhile, Metro Vancouver’s Mayors’ Council voted on Dec. 13 in favour of pursuing a regional business licence for ride-hailing services rather than the patchwork system of municipal licences that had previously been in the works.

All the mayors — save for Surrey Mayor Doug McCallum — supported the motion.

Lyft said that it’s still awaiting a licence to operate from the PTB but that it was pleased with Mayors’ Council vote.

Once the provincial licence has been secured, Lyft said it would then work to get municipal licences before launching services.

BIV has also reached out to Uber Technologies Inc., Vancouver-based Kater Technologies Inc. and Richmond-based Gokabu Group Holdings Inc., which operates the Kabu Ride app, for updates on their pricing and will update the story as those prices are provided. *** On Dec. 16, the Passenger Transportation Board announced it had given the nod to Green Coast Ventures Inc., a Tofino-based company operating under the name Whistle, as the first government-approved ride-hailing service in the province.

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99 year old receives first honorary high school diploma in B.C.

Irene Russell was forced to abandon her studies in Grade 11 after her parents died John Kurucz

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Irene Russell is officially all grown up, and she’s even got a fancy piece of paper to prove it.

Next stop — university.

Two months shy of her 100th birthday, Russell was feted by family, friends and the Magee secondary school community with a historic, provincial first.

Russell, nee Heggie, became the first person in B.C. to receive an honourary high school diploma.

It came roughly eight decades after Russell was forced to abandon her studies after her Grade 11 year in 1938. She did so after both her parents died, leaving Russell to care for her four siblings.

Russell would then go on to a career with B.C. Tel and have five children, all of whom attended mom’s big day on Dec. 18.

“We really, really appreciate this. A truly lasting memory,” son Lee said,

choking back tears.

Setting up the event was a process just two months in the making, in a rare instance where the wheels of bureaucracy moved at an accelerated pace.

Sons Lee and Dave brought up mom’s impending 100th trip around the sun at Thanksgiving dinner, when it was noted that Russell had never formally graduated. Magee science teacher Renate Lehmann caught wind of the story and passed it along to principal Andrew Schofield.

From there, Russell’s story was forwarded to the ministry of education.

Within two weeks, Education Minister Rob Fleming signed off on what would became a piece of B.C. history.

“I think she’s a beautiful person,” Schofield said.

“She makes [for] a wonderful representative for Magee secondary and public education. It’s an honour to be able to do this for her and for the family.”

Irene Russell, 99, received B.C.’s first honorary high school diploma at Magee secondary school on Dec. 18. VSB Superintendent Suzanne Hoffman was on hand for the ceremony.

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Russell’s recollections of pre-war life are admittedly a bit sketchy. The family home was on King Edward Avenue and she met future husband Herbert at Maple Grove Park on Marine Drive. She attended Quilchena elementary and

Point Grey junior high before her time at Magee.

Herbert entered the picture when Russell was 11 years old.

“He came and asked me to be his partner in a threelegged race at a Sunday school picnic,” Russell re-

called. “That was quite exciting. He always walked me home after young people’s meetings from church.”

When asked for eraspecific memories, Russell is quick to point out “of course, there was no television back then.”

Silent film actress Clara Bow was the “it girl” of the time, and all the girls pined over her hairstyle and short skirts.

Herbert joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1940, setting the template for generations of his family to come. He left military life in 1944 and began a career in aviation with TransCanada Air Lines, which would later be renamed Air Canada.

Virtually every member of the Russell family went on to careers in aviation, mechanics or teaching. The first family home, a fourbedroom house on Valour Street in Winnipeg, cost $3,333.

“Eleven cities and at least 30 moves. That’s an airline family,” Russell’s son Dave said.

Russell turns 100 on Feb. 8, 2020. Her future plans include a potential crack at post-secondary life.

“I just might like to try that,” she said. @JohnKurucz

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Public Hearing: January 21, 2020

Public Hearing: January 23, 2020

Tuesday, January 21, 2020, at 6 pm City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Third Floor, Council Chamber

Thursday, January 23, 2020, at 6 pm 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. Miscellaneous Amendments - Zoning and Development By-law and Sign Fee By-law To make miscellaneous amendments to the Zoning and Development By-law and the Sign Fee By-law to improve clarity, update references and correct inadvertent errors or omissions.

A. 505 Smithe Street To amend CD-1 (442) (Comprehensive Development) District to increase the maximum permitted floor area by 50.2 square metres to allow for the addition of mezzanines in a ground-floor retail unit.

2. 188 East 6th Avenue To amend CD-1 (719) (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the addition of a social service centre (the Mid-Main Community Health Clinic) as well as a structural change to the roof slab. An increase in the maximum building height by 0.14 metres (0.5 feet) to 30.94 metres and an increase in floor space ratio (FSR) of 0.13 to 3.43 are proposed.

3. 1956-1990 Stainsbury Avenue To rezone 1956-1990 Stainsbury Avenue (including a portion of a City laneway) from RS-1A (One-Family Dwelling) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a five-storey residential building, with 80 secured rental housing units with 20 per cent of the residential floor area being secured as moderate income units. A building height of 18 metres (59.2 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 2.67 are proposed.

4. 3600 East Hastings Street To rezone 3600 East Hastings Street from C-2C (Commercial) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a 14-storey mixed-use building with commercial uses at grade and 94 secured rental housing units, with 20 per cent of the residential floor area being secured as moderate income units. A building height of 46.6 metres (152.9 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 7.14 are proposed.

5. 3680 East Hastings Street To rezone 3680 East Hastings Street from C-2C (Commercial) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a 14-storey mixed-use building with commercial uses at grade and 118 secured rental housing units, with 20 per cent of the residential floor area being secured as moderate income units. A building height of 48.8 metres (160.2 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 6.96 are proposed.

6. Rezoning of Certain Properties in the Nanaimo Sub-area of the GrandviewWoodland Community Plan and Related Plan Amendments To rezone portions of the 2300-block of Charles Street and the 2300-block of Kitchener Street from RT-5 and RT-5N (Duplex and Multiple Dwellings) Districts to C-2 (Commercial) and RM-8A (Multiple Dwellings) Districts, and to rezone portions of the 2400-block of East 12th Avenue, the 2800-block of Nanaimo Street and the 2400-block of North Grandview Highway from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) and RT-5N Districts to RM-8A and RM-12N Districts. And to make related policy amendments to the Grandview, Broadway-Commercial and Nanaimo Sub-areas of the Grandview-Woodland Community Plan.

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D. 2209-2249 East Broadway To rezone 2209-2249 East Broadway from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a six-storey residential building containing 87 market strata housing units.

A building height of 21.5 metres (70.5 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 2.65 are proposed.

E. 8420 Kerr Street and 3104-3130 Southeast Marine Drive To rezone 8420 Kerr Street and 3104-3130 Southeast Marine Drive from M-1B (Industrial) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District, to permit the development of a seven-storey residential building containing 83 market strata units on the northern portion of the site, and to transfer the southern portion of the site to the City for social housing purposes, to be developed by the City in the future as townhomes. A maximum building height of 24.9 metres (81.7 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 1.28 are proposed on the northern portion of the site.

F. 1980 Foley Street To amend CD-1 (402) (Comprehensive Development) District for 1980 Foley Street to increase the maximum building height from 36.6 metres to 65.6 metres (120.1 feet to 215.2 feet) to permit the development of a 13-storey office building.

The proposal includes ground-floor retail and restaurant space and a floor area of 48,158 square metres (518,369 square feet).

G. 878-898 West Broadway To rezone 878-898 West Broadway from C-3A (Commercial) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District, to permit the development of two mid-rise commercial towers at 11 storeys and 13 storeys with hotel use and commercialretail use at grade. A maximum building height of 42.3 metres (138.8 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 8.96 are proposed.

You may participate in the Public Hearing either by speaking or submitting comments that will be distributed to the Mayor and Councillors. All spoken and written comments will be publically accessible on the city of Vancouver’s website with your full name attached.

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. To speak, please register individually beginning at 8:30 am on January 10 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. Please visit vancouver.ca/publichearings for important details.

Copies of the draft by-laws will be available for viewing starting January 10 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). For real time information on the progress of City Council meetings, visit vancouver.ca/speaker-wait-times or @VanCityClerk on Twitter.

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C. 514 West 61st Avenue To rezone 514 West 61st Avenue from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) District to RM-8A (Multiple Dwelling) District to permit a townhouse development with a floor space ratio (FSR) up to 1.2. If the rezoning is approved, a subsequent development permit process will be undertaken and entail a review of the proposed form of development.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THESE APPLICATIONS INCLUDING LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTIES: vancouver.ca/rezapps or 604-873-7038

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B. 916-926 West 32nd Avenue To rezone 916-926 West 32nd Avenue from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) District to RM-8A (Multiple Dwelling) District to permit a townhouse development with a floor space ratio (FSR) up to 1.2. If the rezoning is approved, a subsequent development permit process will be undertaken and entail a review of the proposed form of development.

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

Visit: vancouver.ca Phone: 3-1-1 TTY: 7-1-1

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Here’s what you need to know to send your tree off into the great unknown.

The city’s annual tree chipping service run by Lions Club volunteers runs Jan. 4 and Jan. 5, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Remove all tinsel and decorations before ridding yourself of the tree and bring cash or a non-perishable food donation to the following locations: • Kerrisdale Community Ice Rink parking lot (5670 East Blvd., north of 41st Avenue) • Kitsilano Beach parking lot (Cornwall Avenue and Arbutus Street) • Sunset Beach upper parking lot (Beach Avenue and Broughton Street) • Trout Lake Community Centre parking lot (3360 Victoria Dr., south of East 12th Avenue)

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Set out your tree by 7 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 11 to ensure pick up.

Make sure to remove all decorations and tinsel; lay the tree on its side; leave the tree loose (no bags, string, or rope) and don’t put your tree inside your green bin.

Jan. 11 and 12 is also a designated leaf collection weekend. Leaves should be set out in paper yard waste bags or in store-bought bins (to a maximum of 100 litres) by 7 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 11.

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A suggested minimum donation of $5 is asked, with proceeds going towards kids attending Thunderbird elementary school.

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Remembering a tireless advocate for the underdog

Jamie Lee Hamilton died Dec. 23 Sandra Thomas

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I met Jamie Lee Hamilton just weeks after starting at the Courier, almost 20 years ago.

And even though our professional friendship ended some years ago, I continued to admire her tenacity and determination to hold (many) politicians’ feet to the fire. So I was shocked and saddened to hear of her death from cancer early Monday morning, Dec. 23, at Cottage Hospice. Jamie Lee was 64.

It was that determination, which some might also describe as “stubbornness,” that also led to the end of our relationship. Years ago, Jamie Lee was offended by a column a colleague had written, which both she and I found homophobic, and she called

Jamie Lee Hamilton died Dec. 23 at Cottage Hospice. She was 64.

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me out on Twitter for not quitting my job in protest.

Those who knew Jamie Lee understood that with her there was no grey area when it came to social justice — or injustice. And when I refused to quit my job, she was pissed — and that was that for our previously, friendly working relationship.

I met Jamie Lee after set-

ting up a meeting to interview her about the closing of Grandma’s House on Pandora Street, a safe haven she created in the Downtown Eastside for sex trade workers, which was closed by police in 2000. Jamie Lee had been charged with running a common bawdy house and she told me at that time she started the house as a way to

2020 CHRISTMAS TREE RECYCLING IN VANCOUVER

Saturday, January 4 and Sunday, January 5 10 am to 4 pm TREE CHIPPING EVENT LOCATIONS • • • •

Kerrisdale Community Ice Rink parking lot Kitsilano Beach parking lot Sunset Beach upper parking lot Trout Lake Community Centre parking lot Please remove all decorations and tinsel!

Donations of cash and non-perishable food will be accepted and distributed to local charities.

CURBSIDE RESIDENTIAL PICK UP Christmas trees will be collected the weekend of January 11-12.

Set out your tree before 7 am on January 11 for pick up. Trees should be set out on their own and laid on their sides. Do not place your tree inside your Green Bin or bag or bundle it.

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keep sex trade workers safe at a time she was convinced there was a serial killer stalking women in the Downtown Eastside — and she was right.

In 2002, pig farmer Robert “Willy” Pickton was arrested and charged with two counts of first-degree murder. In 2005, Pickton was charged with the first-degree murder of 27 women and, in 2007, was convicted of six counts of second-degree murder.

But that all happened after Jamie Lee had been hollering from the rooftops that something was wrong, that marginalized women were disappearing in alarming numbers, and that the mayor and council of the day were more concerned about an arsonist setting fire to garages on the city’s West Side than the almost 70 women who had vanished.

Out of frustration on a rainy day in 1998, Jamie Lee dragged four garbage bags up the steps of city hall, before she emptied the contents out in front of waiting media. There, scattered across the steps, were 67 stiletto heels, one for each woman from the Downtown Eastside Hamilton believed to be missing.

But it wasn’t just sex-trade workers who Jamie Lee championed. Her activism was far reaching and included the fight for trans rights, Indigenous peoples, the homeless and those living in poverty in the Downtown Eastside.

She also turned her ire to what she called the “poverty pimps” running non-profit agencies and politicians at all three levels of government she thought needed to be held accountable.

It was that passion that pushed her to run for office, and in 1996 Jamie Lee became the first transgender person to seek public office in Canada. Jamie Lee also later ran for school board

and park board, which is when she took on the moniker of “Queen of the Parks.”

On a personal note, Jamie Lee was also a great source of juicy news tips and gossip and kept me in the loop of any bureaucratic scandals she perceived taking place in the Downtown Eastside, an area of the city she loved and called home.

It was Jamie Lee’s concern about sex-trade workers that convinced her — to convince me — that I literally had to walk a mile in their shoes.

Jamie Lee was alarmed that volunteers from a Christian school in the Fraser Valley were pushing sex-trade workers further into the more dangerous shadows due to their efforts. Which was how I found myself at yet another one of Jamie Lee’s odd collection of rental spaces, this time in a warehouse just north of Hastings Street, with her applying my makeup and (gigantic) blonde wig. Jamie Lee then decided my name for the evening should be “Shiloh,” and we set off to do some street walking.

We weren’t anywhere close to a main street when a car slowed to a stop near us and the passenger window slid down. With Jamie Lee’s encouragement, and much to her amusement, I tottered over to the car in a pair of borrowed high-heels and leather skirt. In response to a question from the driver about price, I purposely offered a number that immediately killed the negotiations and I’ll never forget what Jamie Lee said to me as I walked back towards her.

“Oh honey,” she said with that laugh. “You’d make a terrible sex-trade worker, but I give you points for effort.”

Not 10 minutes later, we were approached by a group of four young volunteers offering us hot chocolate, and

I could see Jamie Lee raise one eyebrow towards me, with a “told you so” smile on her face.

I wrote a feature story about that night that garnered me a Canadian Community Newspaper Award, but that wasn’t the only time a news tip from Jamie Lee ended up with me winning a journalism award — after again spending hours in an awkwardly sexual situation. Jamie Lee was furious a porn theatre on Main Street was charging sex-trade workers extra money to enter the theatre and had taken the doors off the stalls in the women’s bathroom.

So, on a Saturday afternoon, we paid our money and entered the Venus Theatre and, let’s just say, everything she had told me was true.

Jamie Lee had forewarned me I’d likely see some live sex acts and people smoking drugs, but I still wasn’t quite prepared for what unfolded in the next hour or more.

After witnessing some pretty lewd sexual acts, it was one scene that stood out to me and demonstrated just how much Jamie Lee was appreciated for her activism. As we walked along the floor at the front of theatre, a woman was performing oral sex on a man who at the same time was smoking crack. The woman glanced at us as we walked passed and, after recognizing Jamie Lee, momentarily stopped what she was doing and yelled over, “Thank you for everything you do for us. I love you.”

In response, Jamie Lee replied, “You too dear, are you OK?” Then she whispered to me, “We need to help them, because no one else will.”

That’s the image of her I will always remember — Jamie Lee, standing tall in front of a movie screen showing porn — and, as always, championing the underdog.

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Moderate income housing projects face public hearings in new year Naoibh O’Connor

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Vancouver council referred another three rezoning applications under the city’s Moderate Income Rental Housing Pilot Program (MIRHPP) to public hearings in the new year.

The referrals were made at council’s Dec. 10 meeting. The public hearings get underway Jan. 21.

Council already approved the first three of 20 projects allowed under the pilot program in December — two on Renfrew Street in East Vancouver and, despite significant pushback from neighbouring residents, one on Larch Street on the city’s West Side.

To qualify under the MIRHPP, proposals must devote 20 per cent of the residential floor area to units for moderate income households earning between $30,000 and $80,000. Average starting rates for moderate income

rental units for East Side buildings are $950 for studios for average household incomes of $38,000; $1,200 for one bedrooms for households incomes of $48,000; $1,600 for two-bedrooms for household incomes of $64,000; and $2,000 for threebedrooms for household incomes of $80,000.

January’s public hearings will deal with PCI Developments’ rezoning applications for a pair of 14-storey buildings on East Hastings Street — one at the corner of Boundary Road and the other at the corner of Kootenay Street. The projects faced general neighbourhood opposition at a joint open house last June, along with some support.

Together, the two East Hastings buildings would create a total of 212 rental apartments, 43 of which would be for moderate income households — the one at 3680 East Hastings

at Boundary Road would produce 118 rental units, 24 for moderate income households, while the one at 3600 East Hastings at Kootenay would produce 94 rental units, 19 for moderate income households.

Carscadden Stokes McDonald Architects submitted the third rezoning application going to public hearing Jan. 21.

It’s for a site at 1956 to

1990 Stainsbury Ave. near Trout Lake. The proposal is for a five-storey building. Approximately 13 of the 80 rental units proposed would be for moderate income households About 59 people attended a May open house.

The city received 67 responses about the project through comment sheets, letters, emails and online comment forms.

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Foggy and fun memories of city’s legendary watering holes Mike Klassen

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The arrival of a New Year and a new decade brings nostalgia for the old times of our past. For a moment at least, fond memories and former companions can come into sharp view.

A new book by former Courier contributor Aaron Chapman, Vancouver After Dark: the Wild History of a City’s Nightlife, has inspired a trip down memory lane where I am reminded of the deep connections we form with a place through its many watering holes, dance floors and music halls.

Chapman documents venues from a bygone era that helped form Vancouver’s “DNA.” He also aims to debunk the city’s “No Fun City” label.

“There’s always been something going on.

There’s plenty of fun to be had [here in Vancouver],” says Chapman. “In fact, if I sat down with my doctor, he’d probably tell me I’ve had far too much fun in the last 20 years.”

I confess to having too much fun in my youth as well, including at some of the venues described in the book, and many others that were omitted.

During the early 1980s as a UBC student, some of my social life was divided between West Side bars, including Bimini’s, the King’s Head and Jerry’s Cove.

On campus in the basement of the SUB building there was The Pit, a pub I remember for a scent of stale beer and a momentous night of dancing to Vancouver ska pioneers the Villains.

For a few years, the Side Door bar on West Broadway was a hangout. Not surprisingly, the venue set a record for the most policedispatched calls of any West Side liquor establishment, probably because of its unfortunate location among apartment buildings.

The impending arrival of Expo 86 brought about changes in B.C.’s famously punitive liquor laws, such as allowing Sunday openings for bars and liquor stores. Thankfully, buying a beer on a Sunday did not seriously tear at Vancouver’s moral fabric, though apparently some today think getting wine in a grocery store would.

What also followed Expo 86 was a golden age of live music clubs, such as the Town Pump in Gastown, and the pivotal years of the

Mike Klassen recalls the golden age of live music clubs after Expo 86, which included the pivotal years of the Railway Club located on Dunsmuir Street. FILE PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Railway Club located on Dunsmuir Street.

Chapman devotes a chapter to the former, noting some of the incredible music acts — both local and from abroad — that took the stage. At the bar affectionately referred to as the Town Dump, I remember seeing the very first local performance of the Tragically Hip. I admit I was hardly paying any attention to the

new act until singer Gordon Downie — then sporting a head of long, wavy hair — just owned the place with an amazing performance I’ll never forget.

There’s a chapter in Vancouver After Dark describing the Marine Club, a Homer Street dive beloved by many. This was the place my friends and I would wind up at after a few pints, to play pool, drink more beer and listen to old-timer

Frank Lewis sing and play his Hammond organ.

Apart from its unpretentiousness, there was nothing special about the place other than you had to push a buzzer to be let in, like at some prohibition era speakeasy.

Memories flood in of the Railway Club, with the doorman Stan controlling crowds, and the Real McKenzies — of which Chapman was a member —

ripping up the bandstand.

Many recollections come to me about the Commodore Ballroom, such as attending “Budstock” and its famous 10 Bands for 10 Bucks lineup. It’s where I saw Foo Fighters play their first Vancouver gig, and where I interviewed Cheap Trick guitar hero Rick Nielsen back stage.

I’ll never forget the powerhouse Pleasure Barons show there, featuring underground all-stars Mojo Nixon, Dave Alvin and Country Dick Montana, who would later die of a heart attack on-stage at the Longhorn Pub in Whistler.

The Rose and Thorne pub — a.k.a. The Rat — on Richards Street was a regular haunt for years. As were the many nights dancing at Luv-a-Fair and the rare times I visited Graceland.

Pick up Chapman’s book to read about that venue’s connection to a legendary B.C. MLA. I remember nights at 86 Street, the Cruel Elephant and the Gandy Dancer among others, and too many after hours meals at Bino’s and Frescos.

What a city. What fun we had. Happy New Year! @MikeKlassen

Spare some pity for the incompetence that gave city its latest tax outrage Kirk LaPointe

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The most predictable response to Vancouver council’s decision to raise property taxes seven per cent this year (nearly eight per cent if utilities are included) is visceral infuriation. After all, how many of us will experience that growth in income, that leapfrogging over inflation, or that easy access to revenue to slake our thirst for spending?

Then there is the typically Canadian, sorry-to-quarrel, happy-to-be-relieved-ofa-worse-fate response.

Fine with the toes being amputated because we still have our fingers. This is the reaction our council would like us to experience and seems eager to trot out: yes, it could have been 8.3 per cent (9.2 per cent with utilities), but we went to the mat to bring it down, down, down on behalf of you, the taxpayers. Happy holidays.

Along the way amid the justification for the tripleinflation-rate whammy has come the explanation that the city needs to compen-

sate for its languid approach to, say, the climate emergency — even though the mantra of the city for a decade has been to boast an ambition and bestow the funds to be the world’s greenest. Was that just fake news?

And, naturally, when someone like Coun. Pete Fry says it’s clear our infrastructure needs an upgrade, we could just as easily say it would have been clear to any would-be councillor that said infrastructure was in disrepair in, oh, September 2018, during the heat of the last election campaign.

Funny, can’t recall any of them campaigning to spend a lot of money to meet said need.

But no, infuriation and relief are not the most appropriate responses. To me, the situation deserves a combination of pity and compassion.

Pity for the incompetence of ferreting through a $1.6 billion budget and not finding material savings before layering on the new council’s pet projects. It takes inherent unskillful-

Kirk LaPointe says Vancouver’s property tax increase should be met with a combination of pity and compassion.

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ness to do so — that is, to do nothing, to be oblivious to the obvious, to lack the savvy to age out some of the city’s spending so it can usher in youthful initiative.

It is akin to hoarding tried and trodden shoes as you open boxes of new kicks.

Thus the council deserves

our pity, as does it deserve compassion in this piteous state. For whom among us hasn’t been an utter failure in a pivotal moment? When the call came, who hasn’t fumbled? Who dares say it was one’s spontaneous reflex to assert leadership when a vexing situation

arose and public clamour was apparent?

It is true, as Coun. Colleen Hardwick asserted, that people did not cast ballots last year with the expectation of being socked with a seven per cent solution.

It wouldn’t have gotten anyone elected, of course, and it seems council is now of the view it won’t get anyone unelected. Hold that thought.

For some time now, our mayor has not had to worry about where the money would come from — in academia, in Parliament, and now in municipal office.

He has a generous salary, a terrific MP’s pension in the wings and a tenured job to return to at Simon Fraser University when he so chooses. In my examination of his contribution to the discussion on the proposed municipal budget, I did not sense ingrained lament of the imminent impact on property owners or of any concern about downstream effects.

We can now expect a spate of evictions of tenants and miserly maintenance

of their residences, now that cumulative increases have reached nearly 16 per cent over three years. And it is true: taxes have been suppressed for political purpose, needs have built up under the skin and we are now into a protracted lancing of the boil. But the greater quality of leadership needed at our city hall is to dispense with outmoded spending, with the same diligence that it applied to the concoction of new programs and staffing, no matter how worthy. We need scrupulousness and scruples. But no, that’s not how this council rolls — at least, not a majority of it, not to this point.

Weaker beings would have wilted in the outcry, sought refuge in risk aversion, and pandered to the masses. Let the record show: this council stood firm in the face of widespread hostility, and for that we should acknowledge and remember its unique talent.

Kirk LaPointe is editor-inchief of Business in Vancouver and vice-president, editorial, of Glacier Media.

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Developers winning

Re: “New Vancouver firefighters, cops to be hired under 7 per cent tax hike,” Dec. 17.

Councillor Swanson wants to abolish poverty, but this vote will make more Vancouver homeowners poorer. Why not increase the reserve or auxiliary forces of the police and the firemen? The regular police, firemen and teachers are the highest paid city employees and they keep asking for raises every time their contract expires. They are not public servants anymore —they have become the bold and demanding employee always threatening to strike against their employers — the city taxpayers.

Flora DeCanya, Vancouver

Re: “Vancouver council approves measures to encourage development of rental housing,” Nov. 27.

Great that council is trying to supply rental units. Not great that only the upper middle class can afford these rents.

We have watched as developers have restricted low rent units to a minimum, then reduced that during construction. Olympic Village was a travesty. Old council, I know.

Current policy is no different — $2,000 a month for one bedroom is bloody awful. Land costs are inflated and taxes on property are prohibitive. No one is winning here but the developers. Which is pretty much been standard in Vancouver throughout my lifetime. That never changes, no matter who’s in city council.

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As we head into 2020, we thought it would interesting to look back at the decade that was — specifically the start of it all. While 2010 might not seem that long ago for many of us, sorting through all the photos from that year was surprising to see how much Vancouver has changed. Here’s a look at what Vancouver in 2010 looked like in the pages of the Courier. More photos at vancourier.com.

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2. Stephen Colbert brought his right wing alter ego and satirical program The Colbert Report to Vancouver’s Creekside Park during the Olympics. Colbert is now the host of The Late Show on CBS. 3. Olympic village condos for sale.

4. Ron Richings takes a bike ride along the Arbutus corridor before it became the Arbutus Greenway.

5. The Opsal Steel building at 97 East Second Ave. prior to a massive renovation and becoming Steel Toad Brewing and later Brewhall.

6. Then-Mayor Gregor Robertson declares April 27, 2010 “Canucks Day.” PHOTOS BY DAN TOULGOET

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7. After much controversy and predictions of Armageddon, the Burrard Bridge bike lane experiment marked its millionth cyclist in the summer of 2010, coinciding with city council voting to make the lanes permanent. The Burrard Bridge is now the busiest dedicated bike route on the continent.

8. A shot of the former Little Mountain housing project for low-income families a year after it was demolished.

9. Ryan Zammit holds one of his clucky friends after the city approves new regulations allowing backyard chickens.

10. While a new retractable roof was getting installed at B.C. Place, the old Empire Stadium site was transformed into a temporary field for the B.C. Lions’ 2010 season.

11. In January 2010, owner Cathy Duthie Legate closed beloved Duthie Books on West Fourth Avenue after 52 years in business.

12. Author and historian Chuck Davis in his home office that he affectionately nicknamed “the world’s largest gerbil’s nest.” He died later that year on Nov. 20, 2010. PHOTOS BY DAN TOULGOET

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Longtime book publisher has had three addresses in 10 months

Brian Kaufman’s Anvil Press pushed to the edge of the city amid continuous real estate setbacks John Kurucz

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Brian Kaufman’s LinkedIn page lists a knowledge base in copywriting, publishing, writing and journalism.

In other words, Kaufman is a words guy through and through.

That comes with the territory after three decades in publishing.

And so when the topic of real estate comes up, the head honcho of Anvil Press has no shortage of choice descriptors: “A seething cesspool of developer speculation and greed” is one particularly hot take.

Kaufman’s publishing house is changing postal codes for the third time this year, having fallen victim to a new kind of Vancouver special — sketchy leases, sketchy development plans and sketchy rents.

Anvil Press began 2019 in False Creek Flats, a neighbourhood Kaufman worked in for 14 years. He bookends the year with two moves in South Vancouver.

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Anvil Press publisher Brian Kaufman in the midst of packing up for the third move he’s had to make this year. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

will be a third of the size of its False Creeks Flats location and twice the rent.

“It feels like we’ve been pushed out of our neighbourhood,” Kaufman said.

“We’re still barely a Vancouver publisher, but we don’t

feel like we’re operating out of our ’hood, or where our roots are, anymore.”

Anvil Press has been a Vancouver-owned company for three decades as of this year. There were a series of moves in the early days, but

they were minor relocations of six blocks here, 10 blocks there in Mount Pleasant.

The old digs on East First Avenue became home base in 2004. Kaufman described the area as pretty desolate at the time, save for

some auto repair shops and a few manufacturing outfits.

Walking alone at night wasn’t the best idea.

That began to shift around 2014. Red Truck Brewery’s arrival in the neighbourhood was the canary in the coal mine. Art galleries punted from South Granville started to move in, then came the condos, followed by the new Emily Carr campus.

Kaufman knew trouble was afoot.

“It was around that time where you felt that the neighbourhood was changing,” Kaufman said.

The longtime owner of the building Kaufman shared with Talonbooks sold around the time Red Truck arrived. Rent went up immediately to keep up with property taxes, Kaufman was told.

This year’s lease renewal included a clause to double his rent, so off to South Vancouver Kaufman went.

Anvil’s stay near the Vancouver Transfer Station was short lived, the result of a sublet that ended because of bigtime rent increases.

So now Kaufman and

his two co-workers move to yet another joint near the southern most point on Granville Street.

The added kick in the crotch?

He had to move four days before Christmas.

“A lot of people are leaving or folding up the tent and leaving Vancouver altogether,” Kaufman said.

“You feel like you’re getting to a breaking point.”

Moving out of Vancouver isn’t really an option Kaufman wants to pursue.

His other project, subTerrain Magazine, is dependent on city grant money. If he leaves Vancouver, about $12,000 in subsidies goes up in smoke.

Kaufman says he’s looked at industrial property in all corners of the city, and sticker shock has become the norm.

“Vancouver has gone completely crazy everywhere,” Kaufman laments.

“It doesn’t really matter where you are. We were looking at places down by the Fraser River and all the way to Burnaby and everybody wants downtown rates.” @JohnKurucz

Vancouver author recounts 140 years of real estate horror stories

Land of Destiny is available now via Anvil Press John Kurucz

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It’s a book chronicling 140 years of real estate calamity, colossal greed and even “skullduggery,” yet its name is Land of Destiny.

When explaining the title, author Jesse Donaldson’s voice straddles between black humour, disbelief and a faint touch of hopelessness.

Land of Destiny, as it turns out, was how the city was marketed to newcomers in a 1910 magazine clipping.

“It looked no different than the stuff you’d see in real estate brochures today,” Donaldson said. “It was fascinating to go back through all of this stuff over 130 years and seeing the same kinds of things being said, not just about affordability, but the rhetoric around the real estate industry.”

The recurring themes that pop up throughout Land of Destiny are the worst of the worst: Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) employees amassing vast wealth through deception

Jesse Donaldson’s new book, Land of Destiny, chronicles the shady history of Vancouver real estate.

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and insider trading, outright lies and political corruption spanning decades.

So what’s different now?

“I was fascinated by how little things have changed,” Donaldson said.

Donaldson’s book covers the time period spanning 1862 — the time of the first land sale in the West End — up until Expo ’86 with good reason. As Donald-

son explains, the forces of corruption and greed that led up to 1986 are still very much at play today.

“Politically, we were naïve at best about what happens when you let rich people do whatever they want, and that’s what happened during the recession in the 1980s,” Donaldson said. “That’s permeated every element of our society here.”

It took Donaldson about a year to write and research the book, and when asked for the most obscene nugget of greed he uncovered, he paused.

“That’s a competitive category,” Donaldson replied.

The 37-year-old settles on the story of how the CPR made its way to Vancouver, despite many believing and investing in the

fact that the rail line would end in Port Moody.

According to Donaldson, the skullduggery began in 1881. Word of the line ending in Port Moody got out and investors quickly scooped up and subsequently flipped that land for huge profits.

Angered by the fact that others were making money and not them, CPR officials quickly swooped in and began their backroom dealings with provincial and city officials.

The terminus ended up in Port Moody, but the trunk line — where all the goods and people ended up — was extended to Coal Harbour.

Lies, cover-ups and vast sums of money kept enough mouths shut for the plan to go off without a hitch.

“Nobody saw this coming,” Donaldson said.

“Suddenly, the CPR built this railway line to Port Moody, everybody was celebrating and then they said, ‘Just kidding, we’re actually going to keep going.’ It ended up in court for years

and all the investors in Port Moody lost their shirts and all the friends of the CPR executives made an obscene amount of money.”

Donaldson says he’s been asked numerous times about how to fix what plagues real estate in Vancouver, to which he responds “the answer is so unsexy.”

New policies and regulations around rent controls, better housing projects that serve more people and strong legislation around money laundering and asset disclosure are a good start, Donaldson said.

All three levels of government need to first agree on the scope of the problem, and then collectively act on it.

“The challenges we’re facing aren’t new, they’re just bigger,” Donaldson said. “The volume has been turned up and the velocity has gone up but it’s all the same kinds of people doing the same kinds of things.”

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What Canucks fans can look forward to seeing in 2020 Canucks will look to make playoffs and avoid draft lottery

Backhand Sauce Daniel Wagner

2019 was pretty rough on Canucks fans.

It saw the Canucks slide down the standings and finish well outside the playoffs. All that fans could look forward to was the draft lottery where, once again, three other teams were announced as winners, dropping the Canucks down a spot in the draft order.

There were also plenty of positives. Elias Pettersson won the Calder Trophy as rookie of the year in 2019. The draft, held in Vancouver, saw the Canucks select another exciting prospect in Vasili Podkolzin in the first round, then find some intriguing prospects like Nils Höglander on day two. Fans saw the debut of Quinn Hughes last season, then thrilled to see him kick off his rookie season in earnest in October.

What does 2020 hold for the Canucks and their fans? Let’s look ahead at what’s to come.

On Jan. 4, the Canucks will host their ’90s night, celebrating the players and teams from that era in a game, fittingly, against the New York Rangers. With the Canucks scheduled to wear their black skate jerseys, it will look and sound a lot like 1994 at Rogers Arena, hopefully with a better result.

On Jan. 24, the NHL All-Star Skills Competition will take place in St. Louis, with the All-Star Game to follow on Jan. 25.

Two years ago, Brock Boeser dominated the weekend, winning the Accuracy Shooting competition, then earning MVP honours in the game itself. Last year, Elias Pettersson surprisingly held his own in the Fastest Skater competition, stride for stride with the likes of Connor McDavid and Jack Eichel.

Who will star for the Canucks at the 2020 All-Star Weekend? Pettersson is a good bet to go back, but Quinn Hughes also deserves the All-Star nod. Dark horse candidates: Boeser, J.T. Miller and Jacob Markstrom.

In February, the main event is Sedin Week, as the Canucks will take an entire week to honour Daniel and Henrik Sedin, including their jersey retirement night on Feb. 12 against an appropriate opponent: the Chicago Blackhawks. It’s sure to be an emotional night seeing 22 and 33 raised to the rafters; hopefully the Canucks take inspiration from the pre-game ceremony similar to how they performed after Alex Burrows was added to the Ring of Honour earlier this season.

Another big event in February is the trade deadline, with the Canucks aiming to be in a position to buy at the deadline instead of sell. That will be tough given their salary

Stick-taps & Glove-drops • A tap of the stick to Vancouver photographer Rich Lam, who made CNN’s list of the top 100 photos of the decade for his iconic photo of a young couple kissing on the street during the 2011 Stanley Cup riot.

• The Utica Comets deserve a stick-tap as well, as they’re still among the top teams in the AHL this season. It helps that they have a legitimate NHL talent in Sven Baertschi, a high-end AHL star in Reid Boucher, and a lights-out rookie on defence, Brogan Rafferty.

Big Numbers • 56 The Canucks record for most points Rookie defenceman Quinn Hughes deserves serious consideration for the 2020 All-Star Weekend.

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cap situation, so if the Canucks find themselves in the playoff race in mid-February, don’t be surprised if they look to shed some salary heading into the deadline.

Alternatively, the Canucks could find themselves sliding down the standings in February. While the pressure is on to make the playoffs, being a seller at the deadline might be the best option long term. Would the Canucks pull the trigger on a Markstrom trade or finally move Chris Tanev?

The Canucks are hoping they won’t have to make that kind of decision.

The Canucks will have a few other theme nights and events in March: March 6 will be 2000s night and March 27 will celebrate the 2010s, while the Canucks For Kids Fund telethon will be on March 10 and Hockey is For Everyone night on March 25. The big question is what will April hold for the Canucks?

Will the Canucks be back in the playoffs

for the first time since 2015? Or will fans have nothing to look forward to but another draft lottery, hoping against hope that the Canucks land in the top-three in what is shaping up to be one of the best drafts in years?

The moves the Canucks made in 2019 made it clear that their aim is to make the playoffs in 2020. If they can pull it off, fans will be thrilled, but it will come with a new set of questions: can the young Canucks perform in the playoffs? Will they win a playoff round for the first time since 2011?

Hopefully, in hindsight, 2020 will be remembered as the beginning of a new era for the Canucks.

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

by a rookie defenceman is the longestheld record in team history: it was set in their inaugural season back in 1970-71 by Dale Tallon with 56 points. That record could be in jeopardy, with Quinn Hughes already in the top-10 in scoring from a Canucks rookie defenceman before the season is half over.

• 66 Hughes could even threaten the

overall rookie record for scoring, set just last season by Elias Pettersson, who put up 66 points in 71 games. If Hughes can stay healthy, that record isn’t out of the realm of possibility. Also a possibility: a second-straight Calder Trophy for the Canucks.

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