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Mayor and council get 2.3 per cent pay raise Mike Howell

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You’ll be happy/sad/outraged/nonplussed to know that your mayor and 10 city councillors received pay raises to begin 2020.

They’re all getting a boost of 2.3 per cent.

So that means Mayor Kennedy Stewart’s salary increases from $174,257 to $178,265 this year.

Councillors’ salaries jump from $86,266 to $88,250.

For regular readers, the increases should not come as a surprise.

As I’ve reported over the years, a previous council decided long ago — based on an independent panel’s recommendation in 1995 — that pay increases would kick in each Jan. 1.

Last year, the boost was 2.7 per cent.

Increases fluctuate and have involved formulas that factor in the Consumer Price Index (CPI), a separate calculation for the mayor’s salary, the average weekly wage in B.C. and

data from Statistics Canada.

In 2014, for example, it was a 3.24 per cent increase. In 2015, it was 0.82 per cent.

The information I received last week from the city’s communications department said the pay hikes represented the increase in CPI for 12 months ending October 2019.

It just so happens the raises kicked in less than a month after council decided on how much property taxes should be increased for the coming year.

For the record, property taxes are going up seven per cent in 2020. They went up 6.1 per cent last year.

I’m guessing you probably have a question that goes something like this: So how does council rationalize raising taxes while at the same time accepting a pay increase?

Great question.

For some reason, I have former Vision Vancouver councillor Geoff Meggs’ voice in my head, telling me that I can’t join the two — that, as mentioned, the

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decision to boost salaries was made back in 1995 by an independent panel.

That may be true, but there’s nothing stopping the mayor and councillors from putting a freeze on pay increases. But would they be right to do so?

Before you answer that question, it’s important to understand what Vancouver council’s counterparts in other major Canadian cities

are earning.

I did a quick search and learned Edmonton mayor Don Iveson’s salary for 2019 was $205,340. Councillors in that city were paid $116,011 last year.

Toronto mayor John Tory’s salary was $197,316 in 2019, and councillors earned $117,163.

I should point out that I’m specifically focusing on salaries here.

In Vancouver council’s case, I’m not including transportation allowances, office budgets, money earned as Metro Vancouver directors or any deputy or acting mayor duties.

That’s another story.

I wanted to get back to the question of raising taxes while boosting salaries. I sent an email to the mayor and 10 councillors last week, realizing some are still on a break.

Four councillors were good enough to reply.

That included COPE Coun. Jean Swanson, who said she has donated about $27,000 of her salary since being elected in October 2018 to various non-profits and topped up some of her political assistant’s pay.

She also used some of the money to buy food for homeless people living in Oppenheimer Park.

“I think we get enough money, as it is,” Swanson said.

Coun. Rebecca Bligh, who recently resigned from the NPA, said she would

“forgo any increase especially after an unreasonable and excessive tax increase of seven per cent less than a month ago.”

Added Bligh: “That said, my cost of living will go up this year and every year, as will everyone’s. We need to ensure this job is financially doable for all future elected officials, including people who may have limited finances like single parent-income families and the like.”

NPA Coun. Sarah KirbyYung said the pay increases are in line with the practice of annual increases for the city’s union and exempt staff “and is also a practice commonly followed by the private sector.”

“I did not support the seven per cent property tax hike as it raised rates higher than the CPI or reasonable cost increases,” Kirby-Yung said.

“Seven per cent is more than threefold the CPI, which is the typical salary adjustment residents would receive if they actually do receive a salary increase.”

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News 258 car break-ins in first week of 2020 Mike Howell

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New statistics generated by the Vancouver Police Department show 258 vehicles were broken into in the first seven days of this year.

The majority of the thefts were concentrated downtown between Main Street and Burrard Street, according to the VPD’s most recent “crime heat maps” posted on its website.

Pockets of Mount Pleasant, Kitsilano, Fairview,

Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Sunset were also hit hard by thieves between Jan. 1 and 7. The statistics represent only those breakins reported to police.

Break-ins to vehicles in Vancouver have steadily increased over the last decade, as the Courier reported in October 2019. Between January and September of 2019, the number of break-ins to vehicles totalled 12,312.

Compared to the same nine-month period in 2010, that was a 99.8 per cent

increase. Year-end vehicle break-in statistics for 2019 were not available on the VPD’s website.

In other property crime that occurred over the same seven-day stretch this year, the VPD maps show there were 11 vehicles stolen and 16 stolen vehicles recovered.

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Mayor Stewart to earn $178,265 this year Continued from previous page Added Kirby-Yung: “Council needs to consider the mounting overall costs facing our residents and businesses. We have food costs, condo insurance, transportation costs all going up. If council continues to raise taxes at these high rates, we are going to significantly and negatively impact people’s ability to manage in our city and our small businesses’ ability to survive.”

Green Party Coun. Pete

Fry said the 2.3 per cent pay increase is marginally higher than the average two per cent raises for city staff this year.

“So I don’t think the amount is inconsistent in that context, nor that councillors are particularly overpaid,” Fry said.

“I would support linking council salary increases to average city employee increases.”

Added Fry: “I don’t think freezing councillor wages —

should they increase taxes — would be very practical or especially productive, since the obvious corollary of that would be wage increases only as a ‘reward’ for freezing or lowering taxes. Our job is to make sound decisions to support the functionality, livability, sustainability and growth of our city.”

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On this day, however, it’s not the only thing she’s savouring.

Cheung, along with a handful of residents, staff, board members, a slew of local and provincial politicians, and representatives from Vancouver Coastal Health, are celebrating the completion of the care home’s 10-storey replacement building on Union Street, which opened just before Christmas and is now home to 127 seniors.

They’re also marking the launch of phase two of the redevelopment project, which will see the construction of an adjoining three-storey, 97-bed pavilion that’s expected to be finished in 2021.

The seniors’ new digs are superior to their old ones.

Wide hallways and wide doors create easy access for walkers and wheelchairs, while each resident enjoys a private room and private bathroom with shower.

Meals are brought up to dining rooms located on each floor so the elderly don’t need to make the

time-consuming and tiring elevator trip downstairs three times a day to eat.

“Memory boxes” at the entrance of each room hold treasures that add a personal touch to spaces. Activities at the home include Mahjong, arts and crafts, religious services and celebrations of cultural festivals.

Residents’ average age is 88, while 50 per cent are more than 90 years old.

Six residents are over 100, with the oldest being 105.

Average lengths of stay are a little under five years. Many of the residents are totally dependent and half have mild to severe dementia.

Since the care home opened its doors in 1978, thanks to the efforts of a group of Chinese business people, it’s served more than 1,600 seniors. The redevelopment has been years in the making.

The late architect Joe Wai and his firm JYW Architecture designed the $72.9-million project. BC Housing kicked in up to $52 million, Cathay Care Home Society contributed $11.2 million in land equity and $5.7 million of its capital reserves, while it’s

also fundraising $5 million.

Vancouver Coastal Health is providing operating funds to support the 192 publicly funded beds — 32 are private pay.

Minister of Health Adrian Dix called the 10-storey building “spectacular” and described the start of construction on phase two a “major step forward.”

“The Villa Cathay, the new and enhanced facility, will make sure seniors are treated with dignity and respect for their cultural needs,” he said.

Lisa Donovan, chair of the care home society board whose father Dr. Harry Fan founded Villa Cathay Care Home, also spoke.

“There are many building enhancements that greatly improve our ability to provide person-centred care,” she said. “We are also able to meet the holistic needs of residents. The new building allows residents to experience a much higher degree of comfort and privacy.”

The project is part of a 10-year rejuvenation strategy for long-term care across Vancouver Coastal Health.

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City’s first ‘cohousing lite’ housing project close to breaking ground Group recruiting new members as rising construction costs squeezed some members out Naoibh O’Connor

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Pushing forward an innovative housing project in a pricey market such as Vancouver takes a level of commitment few have the capacity to maintain over the longterm. But Kathy Sayers is among those who’ve persevered through

such an effort.

Sayers is a founding member of Our Urban Village, a “cohousing lite” initiative being completed through a partnership with developer Tomo Spaces Inc. City council approved the rezoning application for the project in July of 2018 following a public hearing that took place years after the

idea was first imagined.

For the unfamiliar, “cohousing” is a collaborative form of living where similarly minded people create a home together. Residents own private units in a larger building but also share spaces within the complex.

Some cohousing buildings include a few rental units.

Decisions are made by

consensus, residents share duties around the building and they often meet for common meals.

To produce a traditional cohousing building, group members act as developers, but Our Urban Village came up with the “cohousing lite” model where a developer owns the land until the complex is completed.

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The developer also controls design and building plans to help streamline the process, yet still collaborates with the group. For instance, the group had a lot of input on the common spaces but won’t get a say on finishes.

Prices for cohousing units typically reflect market rates of other condos within the neighbourhood.

Only one traditional cohousing building has been successfully constructed in the city in East Vancouver, while construction on another one is underway in Riley Park.

Sayers expects ground will be broken for Our Urban Village’s complex, which is being built on a site at Main Street and Ontario Place, this spring.

But it’s taken dedication and patience to get the project to this stage. Hurdles still to be cleared include recruiting new members to the group.

Sayers, who began working on the project four-and-a-half-years ago, said construction costs shot up by about 30 per cent in 2018, which squeezed some members out.

Sayers is one of only two original members. A couple profiled in a Courier story about the project in January of 2018 dropped out and moved to Nanaimo into another cohousing community.

When Sayers helped form the group in 2015, she said prices per square foot were about $700, while new builds were in the $1,200 to $1,500 range the last time she looked at the stats.

“It didn’t quite double, but you can imagine the families that joined us were not thinking [this was possible], and it was a very quick runup, too. You couldn’t adjust.

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The project’s pricing target is between about $1,100 and $1,200 per square foot, according to Sayers.

“We’re market price, there’s no way around it.

Don’t forget we have 1,100 square feet of common space, plus a massive bike room, plus a shared laundry space and a guest room,” she said.

“All that adds up to over 2,000 square feet. That’s why cohousing is never below market because you have to do the common space.”

Half of Our Urban Village’s 12 units are available — the group needs seven units to be spoken for to get the construction loan for the building after which they’ll still have about two years to secure members for the remaining units — a studio, three three-bedrooms and two two-bedrooms.

Sayers maintains interest in the cohousing concept is high and, since the building is close to being realized, she’s convinced it will appeal to those already sold on the community-minded lifestyle.

“For me, it really is a philosophy. I think there’s a longing [in] all of us for a sense of community, and to make it something that provides an alternative and is a good way to live,” she said.

“I mean, once these things are built, people don’t move out. Like Capitol Hill [cohousing in Seattle] is now almost four years [old] — not one person has left. That’s in the States where people change a lot. And, in Langley, there’s second generations that have bought into [the WindSong cohousing complex]. So once you get them built [it’s great]. It’s getting them built that’s a bitch. It’s a good way to live.” @naoibh

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News Mayor: BMO misled police in arrest of Indigenous man, granddaughter Mike Howell

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Mayor Kennedy Stewart is accusing a branch of a major Canadian bank of misleading Vancouver police in a 911 call that led to an Indigenous man and his 12-year-old granddaughter being handcuffed last month.

“I felt sick when I first heard about this incident and I find it unacceptable that the Bank of Montreal turned what should have been a positive occasion into one that reinforces our colonial past,” said Stewart in a statement issued Jan. 13.

“I am sad for the long-term impacts this may have on the child, her family and the broader community. BMO needs to do right by this family, take full responsibility for their actions and ensure this does not happen again.”

CBC News broke the story Jan. 9 involving Maxwell Johnson and his granddaughter, who were at the Bank of Montreal branch at Burrard and Dunsmuir streets Dec. 20 to open a bank account for the girl.

The CBC story said Johnson, 56, and his granddaughter used governmentissued Indian Status cards, his birth certificate and her medical card in an attempt to open an account.

The story said an employee of the bank became suspicious and later asked Johnson and his granddaughter to come upstairs, where they were met by two Vancouver police officers.

“They came over and grabbed me and my granddaughter, took us to a police vehicle and handcuffed both of us, told us we were being detained and read us our rights,” Johnson told CBC reporter Angela Sterritt.

Johnson lives in Bella Bella, home to the Heiltsuk.

The Bank of Montreal issued a statement via Twitter in response to the story, saying the bank was reviewing what occurred, how it was handled and planned to use it as “a learning opportunity.”

“We value our long and special relationship with Indigenous communities,”

the tweet said. “Recently, an incident occurred that does not reflect us at our best. We deeply regret this and unequivocally apologize to all.”

The mayor, who doubles as chairperson of the Vancouver Police Board, said the officers and Police Chief Adam Palmer have apologized for the incident.

Stewart said Palmer “feels as badly as I do about how the misleading information provided by BMO staff led the officers who responded to take actions they did.”

The VPD said in a statement to the Courier that officers were called to the bank to investigate a fraud in progress.

“Both individuals who were identified by the bank as suspects were initially handcuffed while officers investigated the claim,” the VPD said.

“Officers confirmed the identity of the two individuals and confirmed that no criminal activity had occurred. The individuals were released and officers continued to complete the investigation and closed the call.”

The VPD statement provided a link to a television interview conducted by CBC with Palmer, who said the suspects were initially described as a 50-year-old South Asian man and a 16-year-old South Asian girl.

Palmer said his officers were acting in good faith on the information supplied to them from the bank. He noted the officers are from diverse communities and were not racially profiling Johnson and his granddaughter.

“It takes a while to get to the bottom of these things, it doesn’t happen instantaneously,” the chief told CBC. “It’s a very unfortunate situation and we’re very sorry the way that this all played out. Nobody wants to see a young girl in handcuffs — or anybody in handcuffs — when we know now after doing the investigation that there was no crime.”

Stewart said the incident will be reviewed by the po-

lice board, which oversees department policy. Two of the members of the board are Indigenous.

“I will have more to report as this process unfolds at the board, but what is clear right now is that no young person doing something as innocent as opening their first bank account should ever be put in this situation,” the mayor said.

“I will do everything I can

to make sure this doesn’t happen again.”

The VPD says its officers receive what is described as “cultural competency training.”

“This training is ongoing and always advancing,” the statement said. “The VPD are always looking at ways to be better at what we do, and how to deal with each situation, especially sensitive issues and cultural differences.”

A 56-year-old Indigenous man and his 12-year-old granddaughter were arrested Dec. 20 at the Bank of Montreal’s downtown branch.

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Vancouver hampered by city hall’s status quo mindset Mike Klassen

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Welcome to 2020, Vancouver. The optimist in me sees the new decade as one filled with promise — provided we have the right leadership.

Yet, the City of Vancouver’s recent record-breaking tax increase is an indication of a frustrating lack of new ideas and direction within the bureaucracy. Council’s fortunes look relatively bleak as long as the city administration remains mired in status quo thinking.

We see how transformative leadership has brought positive change to other local institutions.

Last July, for example, TransLink was awarded the 2019 Outstanding Public Transportation System Achievement Award by the American Public Transportation Association. Under the leadership of CEO Kevin Desmond, the transportation authority has pushed past the controversies that dogged it to build a reliable and sustainable system.

The arrival of several new RapidBus routes and the successful 11th hour labour negotiations with two of its unionized workforces are just some recent accomplishments.

The good news kept coming last spring from YVR, which under the leadership of CEO Craig Richmond was awarded the best airport in North America for the 10th year in a row by air travel review site Skytrax’s annual World Airport Awards. The Skytrax awards are based on votes from a staggering 13.73 million passengers around the world.

Across B.C., thanks to a new school curriculum, public education is taking a leap into the 21st Century, though aging school infrastructure (particularly in Vancouver) and the BCTF’s lack of progress in contract negotiations still ties the hands of our teachers.

At the beginning of the month, a City of Vancouver media representative speaking about their socalled Greenest City 2020 initiative was asked why so

The city council elected in 2018 that thought the table was set for change has been served up cold leftovers from the previous administration, says columnist Mike Klassen. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

many of the city’s targets for this year were not met. The answer may surprise you.

In a post on Twitter, the city responded by saying: “The over-arching goal of becoming greenest city in the world is not quantifiable, so in that sense it’s aspirational.”

So, the fact that so much of the city’s branding, print collateral and every waste collection container that was emblazoned with “Greenest City 2020” was all about being “aspirational”?

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Just like the promise to end homelessness by 2015, it is time to put the Greenest City pledge in the dustbin, along with the rest of Gregor Robertson’s Vision party marketing schemes.

The council elected in 2018 that thought the table was set for change has been served up cold leftovers from the previous administration.

Coun. Colleen Hardwick even commented how she thought Vancouverites voted for change in 2018.

That’s only partly true,

however. While the majority of votes for mayor went to other candidates, Kennedy Stewart still squeaked through as the status quo candidate who would uphold and build upon Robertson’s plan.

Stewart has also employed some of the similar tactics used by his predecessor, such as having glossy marketing videos produced to promote him, name dropping friends in higher office and posing for pictures with international leaders.

The mayor also took the unprecedented step of announcing his 2022 reelection campaign barely a year into office.

Which of his accomplishments as mayor he plans to run on is not clear, but shaving a percentage point off your seven per cent property tax increase probably won’t cut it.

Vancouver took an indirect hit from Port Coquitlam mayor Brad West, who boasted online about his council’s approval of a comparatively tiny tax increase.

According to West, PoCo

approved a “0.48 per cent increase for residents, 0.11 per cent for local businesses, all while making unprecedented investments in infrastructure and core services.”

Ouch. That hurts if you live in Vancouver.

But getting trolled by a suburban mayor is the least of the indignities the city will suffer if it sticks with the status quo.

Vancouver’s challenges are well documented, whether it is housing affordability, decay in the Downtown Eastside and the opioid crisis, transportation gridlock, or the bureaucratic inertia that stalls progress on all the above.

That does not mean, however, we cannot adopt new approaches to dealing with them.

After nearly a decade running city hall, Vision will have left an indelible mark on how the administration is formed and operates.

All the more reason council should be looking for ways to hit the reset button at 12th and Cambie in this term. @MikeKlassen

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‘City is full of people like Thomas Brown’ Re: “Why another Indigenous man went to jail in Vancouver,” 12th & Cambie, Jan. 7.

Well written and absolutely true. Many people are far too quick to condemn these people when, in fact, they have hardly had a chance in life. Add mental illness and the situation becomes even worse.

The city is full of people like Thomas Brown. Rather than being helped, they have been swept “under the rug,” society preferring to ignore their existence. But they are everywhere if you would only look.

Inadequate housing. Totally inadequate support services. Lots of talk but no action.

Certainly, very little compassion. And it is only going to get worse.

Patrick Couling via online comments ••• Where to even begin to fix these terrible problems in Aboriginal communities? The poverty industry will of course call for more money (though it will never be enough money). The con men will call for longer jail sentences. In the meantime, has anything gotten measurably better? Anything? The Musqueum are one of the wealthiest indigenous communities in Canada, earning $64 million in 2018 and having an accumulated surplus of $356 million that year.

Yet people drop out of school as children, routinely see violence and substance abuse and crime from young ages, etc., as per the story. If most of a person’s role models are chaotic then how can this ever improve?

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Man behind Vancouver’s iconic Kripps Pharmacy gives his prescription for longevity John Kurucz

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It would be easy for Stephen Kripps to look back.

Just days shy of his 100th birthday, the Oakridge resident has yarns aplenty: his Second World War service, being the first vitamin supplement supplier in Vancouver, rubbing shoulders with B.C.’s longest-serving premier W.A.C. Bennett.

Not so fast.

Kripps wants to talk about what his next 100 years on the planet will look like.

“I think the second centennial will be a lot easier, because you don’t have to go to school anymore, you don’t have to learn how to tie your shoelaces, you don’t have to memorize so many things,” Kripps told the Courier.

The Kripps family entered Vancouver lore in 1947, with the opening of Kripps Pharmacy on Granville and Nelson streets.

The pharmacy’s classic “Drugs” neon sign was a fixture at that intersection for decades.

Seventy-plus years later, the business continues in Kerrisdale after moving out of downtown in 2007.

Kripps passes the century mark on Jan. 19.

Only last month did he finally decide to retire.

“You don’t have to go to work anymore,” Kripps said.

“You just keep sailing.”

Kripps was born in Hampton, Sask. to immigrant parents from Ukraine. He was a year into his studies in pharmacy when drafted into military service.

He served as a lab tech on a hospital ship off the U.K. coast, bringing some of the most severely wounded troops back to Canada.

Kripps estimates he made around 20 crossAtlantic trips during his service, which began at the age of 21.

He had to grow up fast.

“We went to Ottawa for advanced training before leaving,” Kripps recalled.

“The sergeant major from the First World War called us all out onto a field and said, ‘Tomorrow I’m going to make soldiers out of you.’ It was 20-mile route march with full pack, which was 70 pounds and we’re not

Stephen Kripps opened Kripps Pharmacy on Granville and Nelson streets in 1947. It has since moved to Kerrisdale. Kripps retired earlier this month. TOP LEFT PHOTO DAN TOULGOET HISTORIC PHOTOS COURTESY OF KRIPPS PHARMACY

even broken in yet. Of course, I thought, ‘I’m a Prairie guy, I’m tough, I’m going to make it back.’ And I did.”

Kripps made it back to Canada in 1945 and married his sweetheart Agnes in June 1946. Agnes would go on to serve as a Social Credit MLA for Vancouver South from 1969 to 1972 and was instrumental in the establishment of the B.C. Day holiday in the early 1970s.

Vancouver came calling in 1947, and Kripps found himself working at the Owl Drug Store pharmacy, where he caught wind the owner might want to sell. A quick conversation and handshake later and Kripps Pharmacy was born.

He paid $14,000 for the business while living at an East Vancouver rooming house. Rent was $30 a month.

The original family home, which Kripps still lives in today, was

bought six decades ago for $60,000. Its assessed

value is now well into the seven figures.

“Granville Street was just a little outskirt back

then,” Kripps said.

“There was nothing around.”

Kripps’s training as both a lab tech and pharmacist was his ace in the hole, and he developed vitamin supplements long before the gym bro health craze made #gainz an annoying hashtag on social media.

He coasted into semiretirement in 1977, handing the business over to his daughter and sonin-law. Kripps continued working Saturdays up until the onset of 2020.

“I needed time to golf,” Kripps quipped.

Kripps kept researching, reading and expanding his knowledge base well into his golden years.

His biggest hope for the next century is to erase refined sugar from everyone’s diets.

He’d stand on rooftops if he could to make it so, going so far as telling the Courier team who visited him that they had together entered into a pact to make refined sugar yesterday’s news. “Refined sugar, this is the biggest problem facing humanity,” Kripps maintains.

Kripps ditched refined sugar 40 years ago and felt no withdrawal symptoms within three to four weeks.

So is that to suggest there will be no cake on his big day come next week?

“I’ll cheat for cake,” Kripps responds. @johnkurucz

Century of wisdom The Courier picked Kripps’s brain for nuggets of truth from someone who has seen 99.9 trips around the sun.

How did your service in the Second World War shape the person you became?

I was pretty hardened. We brought in a doctor whose hospital was bombed overseas. He got what we called shellshock back in those days and we brought him in a padded cell to Montreal. I delivered him to the hospital and the wife and daughter came to see him. He did not know his wife or daughter. If that doesn’t hit the heart, nothing will.

How did you cope with the things you saw and experienced once you got home to Canada?

You just go at it … you just go at it.

What were the most common ailments you saw when you first entered the pharmacy profession?

Coughs, colds, injuries, skin infections.

A lot of the same things you see today.

People will always hurt themselves.

cinations came, another huge thing.

You’re healthy at almost 100, what do you attribute that to?

Kripps motions towards a business card that reads: “Genes (no control over this); good digestion (no liquids with food); no refined sugar; take Kripps supplements and I love my work [and] helping others.”

You have four children who have all excelled in their careers (lawyer, librarian, nutritionist and retired teacher).

How do you explain their success?

I’m Ukrainian. When the parents came here, education was the key. Education was pounded in our heads. Mom and Dad continuously told us we needed an education.

You have a cannabis plant growing in your window. Please explain.

I’m just growing it to see what happens with it. I don’t use it, but it’s an interesting plant. Marijuana is medicine. It’s been here for thousands of years. There are less side effects than some of the more powerful drugs.

What kind of qualities do you look for in a friend?

It’s automatic — you take to people or you don’t. You’re my friend.

What are the biggest changes in the 70 years you’ve been in the medical field?

A tincture of iodine was in every house in 1947. It went out of favour after a while.

Antibiotics was a big thing that started towards the end of the war. And then vac-

How do you get over the hump if you’re having a bad day?

I don’t usually have a bad day. I don’t know how to explain that. I guess I’m an eternal optimist. Both my dad and mom were that way.

How do you deal with regret?

You quickly forget about it. Never carry a grudge.

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And, yes, I’m calling it a blizzard, since those are generally defined as “a severe snowstorm with high winds and low visibility.”

That’s exactly what got dropped on Vancouver Sunday night — fast, cold, hard and Hoth-like, with accumulations of snow anywhere from five to 20 centimetres in what felt like a matter of minutes.

I know that for a fact, because it took my family many hours to make the treacherous trek from my parents’ place on the North Shore to our home in East Van, a drive that usually takes minutes.

Not so in a bonafide West Coast blizzard. Cars were spun out and smashed up everywhere. Hazard lights blinked in ditches and shoulders as if warning others: do not proceed.

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In an attempt to avoid the pile-ups, we turned off on Lonsdale Avenue to try and make it to the lower, flatter, shoreline road that would lead us to the Iron Workers Memorial Bridge.

There was only one problem: Lonsdale is also downhill all the way, and once we reached the steeper parts of LoLo (um, that’s Lower Lonsdale, peeps) driving once again became treacherous. See, this is what those judgmental, frostbitten Easterners forget when they tease us: we live on the sides of mountains.

After years of driving through horrific winter storms throughout North America and Europe on tour with my band the Smugglers, if there’s one thing I’ve learned about snowstorm driving, it’s this: you gotta keep your wheels moving,

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This past Sunday night, it took us hours to finally reach the on-ramp of the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge, but it was another sea of red blinking hazard lights, cars at a gridlocked standstill, tires spinning. We made the call to steadily roll past the lineup and under the highway, to snake around to the lesserused Dollarton on-ramp, which was mostly downhill instead of up.

Eventually, we entered the inching, single-lane southbound traffic flow of the bridge, which was a surreal experience onto itself. Cars were stalled at various angles everywhere.

Other on-ramps were totally blocked, and the long incline up the bridge was littered with vehicles of all sizes that didn’t make it, including a huge semi blocking two lanes and, weirdly enough, several Teslas.

With the pedal to the metal and still only averaging 20 km an hour, we had to zigzag our little private Jetta carefully between wiped out cars until we luckily made the apex of the bridge. That’s when we let out a massive sigh of relief, and rolled down the empty, snowy southern bridge deck into East Van. There were a few more hurdles and local short cuts that needed to be made with admitted fishtailing abandon to actually get to our house, but we made it.

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Quinn Hughes a big boon to Canucks defence, but bottom pairing holding them back

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The Canucks have significantly revamped its defence corps over the last year. General manager Jim Benning evidently made a new year’s resolution for 2019: let go of past mistakes and move forward.

That meant moving on from several defencemen he acquired, such as Michael Del Zotto, Erik Gudbranson and Derrick Pouliot. Gudbranson, in particular, was a big move. The Gudbranson trade with the Florida Panthers was a signature move for Benning, but he stopped throwing good money after bad and instead finagled Tanner Pearson from the Pittsburgh Penguins in exchange for the hulking defenceman.

The Canucks also let Ben Hutton and Luke Schenn go in free agency, then traded Alex Biega to the Detroit Red Wings after he didn’t make the team out of training camp. That’s a lot of turnover, though the Canucks retained long-time veterans Alex Edler and Chris Tanev and 25-year-old Troy Stecher.

In place of the departing defencemen came rookie Quinn Hughes, high-priced free agent signing Tyler Myers, veteran free agent Jordie Benn and depth signing Oscar Fantenberg.

Of the four new defencemen, Hughes is undoubtedly the most important. The 20

year old is already the quarterback of the Canucks’ first power play unit, easing the ice-time burden on Edler, and is one of the top-scoring defencemen in the NHL. He’s on pace to set a new franchise record in scoring from a Canucks defenceman and could even threaten Elias Pettersson’s franchise record in rookie points set last season.

Hughes’ importance to the Canucks is readily apparent on the ice, where his thrilling rushes and dangerous dashes have made him a key component of the Canucks’ offensive attack. Beyond just the offence, however, Hughes is eating up big minutes — he leads all rookies in ice time with more than 21 minutes per game — because his coaches know they can trust him defensively.

We can see the impact of Hughes on the Canucks by taking a peek behind the curtain at his underlying numbers. In this case, we’re going to look at “expected goals,” a statistic that aims to find how many goals a team or player “should” score given the quantity and quality of shots they create.

If we look at the Canucks’ defence pairings that have spent at least 20 minutes together at five on five this season and rank them by Expected Goals Percentage (xGF per cent), we immediately see a pattern. An xGF per cent over 50 per cent means the Canucks have out-chanced their opposition with that pairing on the ice — the only three pairings about 50 per cent all have Hughes on the left side.

After Hughes, there are three pairings with Edler. The Canucks’ franchise record holder for points from a defenceman has

been supplanted on the power play by Hughes, but still plays big and difficult minutes. He starts more often in the defensive zone than Hughes and has played less with the Canucks’ top line, so it’s still impressive that his pairings this season are hovering near 50 per cent.

The bottom pairing, on the other hand, has struggled. The signing of Benn in the summer was meant to shore up the bottom pair, but instead, he’s sunk it, significantly dragging down the performance of his defence partners. It’s a far cry from how he performed with the Montreal Canadiens last season, where he was frequently relied upon to play up the lineup and more than held his own.

Benn has been a frequent healthy scratch of late in favour of Fantenberg, who saw

some early success when he entered the lineup. Fantenberg is a quieter and safer defenceman, but as he’s played more games, the flaws have started to show. Too often Fantenberg and his defence partner get pinned in their own end of the rink for long stretches and eventually get burned.

The Canucks have had defensive troubles beyond just Benn and Fantenberg, and have been a little too reliant on goaltenders Jacob Markstrom and Thatcher Demko to bail them out of tough jams. The issue is that none of the Canucks’ right side defencemen seem to mesh well with either Benn or Fantenberg, which makes it tough to rely on the bottom pair for regular minutes.

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