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City recommends ‘West Side Plus’ option for Granville Bridge

Project would re-allocate two of existing eight vehicle lanes to pedestrian, wheelchair, stroller and cycling use Naoibh O’Connor

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City staff are recommending a design called “West Side Plus” as the preferred option for the redesign of the Granville Street Bridge. Priced at between $30 and $40 million, it largely focuses on improvements to the west side of the bridge, with some enhancements to the east side sidewalk.

The recommendation comes about four months after staff went to the public for feedback on six possible options. Among those rejected include a “raised centre” proposal tagged at between $45 and $50 million — the most expensive option. While that scheme was initially the staff favourite for its engineering simplicity and from an urban design point of view, Paul Storer, manager of transportation design, said public reaction heavily skewed in favour of West Side Plus.

“The centre one was, in

ways, the good engineering option. It avoided a lot of the complexities around the ramps… but what we ended up hearing from people was that people didn’t think they would feel comfortable between the two directions of moving traffic,” he said.

People also wanted a connection to the water, to be able to look down at False Creek and Granville Island, and they preferred the view afforded from the west side of the bridge compared to the east side.

The redesign project involves re-allocating two of the existing eight vehicle lanes on the bridge to pedestrian, wheelchair, stroller and cycling use.

“West Side Plus” basically doubles the width of the west side sidewalk, makes it accessible, and features places to rest along the way. Next to it, separated by a curb, would be a two-way cycling lane with room for passing. It would be separated from traffic by a barrier.

“The idea behind the

A rendering of “West Side Plus,” which is the preferred option for the redesign of Granville Bridge.

cycling connection is that it would be comfortable for everyone, for all ages, abilities. We’d expect to see families and seniors and people uncomfortable riding feeling comfortable in this facility, because it would have that strong separation from traffic,” Storer said.

The east side sidewalk would also be widened and made accessible in this option, and a protective barrier would be installed.

As well, this option involves improvements to the Hemlock on-ramp.

The redesign is one of the city’s “big moves” to meet its target of having two thirds of all trips being made by walking, biking or transit by 2030.

Constructed between 1951 and 1954, Granville Bridge is a particularly wide bridge that was designed for freeways that were never built. Due to the high speed

of traffic, some pedestrians and cyclists are uncomfortable using the crossings at the on and off ramps. Steps at the crossings also make it inaccessible to some, existing sidewalks are narrow and close to traffic, connections at each end are awkward and there’s no space set aside for cyclists.

But not everyone who weighed in during recent feedback sessions about the six options were in favour of a redesign. About 10 per cent wanted the bridge to be left alone. Storer said that’s not an option.

“We’re in a climate emergency. This is one of those key projects that’s going to help us meet our climate emergency targets and start us moving towards a more sustainable transportation system,” he said. “It’s clear that there’s way too much space on this bridge devoted to motor vehicles.

It’s not an efficient use of that space. By building this, we can get people out of cars and walking or cycling across the bridge. And,

that’s going to get those people out of the way of the people who really do need to drive across.”

Open houses outlining the preferred option begin later this month. Staff will gather feedback and tweak the plan before bringing it before council later this spring. If approved, construction could start in 2021 and take about a year.

The city’s capital plan for 2019 to 2022 already has $25 million allocated for the redesign.

“What we would expect to take the council would be a first phase of a project that would still achieve most of the goals. That probably wouldn’t be the full buildout. That would be within the $25 million allocated within the capital plan,” Storer said.

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Mayor, housing minister won’t predict this year’s homeless count Mike Howell

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Mayor Kennedy Stewart and Housing Minister Selina Robinson refuse to predict whether the city’s annual homeless count in March will show an increase or decrease in the number of people living without a home.

But both politicians say they are working together to secure land, build more homes and find housing for the city’s homeless, including having 3,500 new homes underway or

completed in Vancouver since 2017.

Their efforts come despite more than 2,220 people counted last March as homeless in Vancouver.

It was the biggest population recorded since counts began in Vancouver more than a decade ago.

“I don’t know that we’ve turned the corner yet,” said Robinson, when asked by the Courier at a news conference Jan. 20 about what the numbers will reveal after the city’s homeless count this year.

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late on whether this year’s homeless population will see a dramatic shift either way in the numbers. But the mayor urged the federal government to fulfill its promise to reduce chronic homelessness in Canada by 50 per cent by 2027.

“The federal government really has to do more,” he said, noting he’s made that clear with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland.

The mayor, however, admitted the city fell short of

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its rental housing targets last year, particularly the type of housing affordable to lower to middle-income people.

Stewart had also hoped last year’s addition of several modular housing sites for homeless people would see a drop in homelessness, but it didn’t.

Stewart and Robinson made those comments at a news conference to kick off construction of a 102-unit affordable rental home project on Southwest Marine Drive, near Ontario Street.

The project will see 20 homes go to people with annual incomes of no more than $26,000 per year.

Another 51 homes will go to households who earn $25,000 to $73,000 and 31 homes to households with incomes of up to $113,000.

The New Chelsea Society will manage the 102 homes, which will be spread over two six-storey buildings, with studios and one, two and three bedroom homes targeted to families and seniors.

The provincial government is funding the project and the city donated the land, which used to be residential property. The land is worth about $22.7 million.

Robinson said such a project helps reduce homelessness by adding more housing for people currently in supportive housing which, in turn, opens up space for people living on the street.

Supportive housing is housing that gives tenants access to health care and

The city’s homeless count is in March. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

in Surrey, where a strip in Whalley was notorious for homelessness and drug use.

“We’ve made significant inroads and there’s more to do, which is why our government is committed to building thousands more of the modular supportive housing,” Robinson said.

The mayor, meanwhile, said he will travel to Ottawa next month to continue lobbying the federal government for more money and to respond aggressively to the opioid crisis.

The high price of housing coupled with the fentanyl crisis, he said, is creating a deadly combination for the city’s most vulnerable. The mayor continues to push for a “safe supply” drug program for chronic drug users.

“I’m being listened to, I’m getting the meetings, I’m getting the calls, I’m getting the visits,” Stewart said. “That makes me feel like we’re very close.”

counselling as they stabilize from a life lived on the street, or in other precarious living conditions.

The minister used her opening remarks to criticize the previous Liberal government and accused them of ignoring the housing crisis and “as a result, they were leaving people behind.”

Homeless count statistics show there were 1,364 people counted in 2005.

That statistic rose to 2,223 in last March’s count.

Robinson said it was important to understand the state of homelessness in B.C. when the NDP-led government took power in 2017.

She pointed out the government’s temporary modular housing program, which saw 605 units built in Vancouver, eliminated the “Sugar mountain” homeless camp in the Downtown Eastside.

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The results showed: • Take-home drug checking found 89.95 per cent of opioid samples contained fentanyl, while on-site drug checking found 89.14 per cent of samples contained fentanyl.

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The health authority announced Jan. 16 that takehome drug checking strips will soon be available at designated sites throughout the Vancouver Coastal Health region. The decision to offer the take-home testing kits was made after results from a new study showed that take-home drug checking is as accurate as drug checking at a health care facility in identifying opioids contaminated with fentanyl, which is responsible for killing thousands of people in B.C. in recent years.

“We’ve been offering drug checking at community health centres, overdose prevention and supervised consumption sites but we know that not everyone can or wants to go to these sites, especially in light of the stigma that people who use drugs can face,” Dr. Mark Lysyshyn, medical health officer at Vancouver Coastal Health, said in a

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“We know most people who die from overdoses are using alone. Being able to check their drugs for fentanyl may help them make safer choices and ultimately prevent overdoses.”

In Vancouver, strips will be initially available at Insite, Molson overdose prevention site, Overdose Prevention Society, St. Paul’s Hospital overdose prevention site, and the Three Bridges and Robert and Lilly Lee community health centres.

The health authority will also make the strips available in Powell River, the Sunshine Coast and the Sea to Sky corridor. More communities and locations will be added as the program expands.

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City on pace to surpass last year’s homicide rate

Two homicides over weekend bring this month’s total to three Mike Howell

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Two homicides over the weekend along with another one earlier this month have set Vancouver on a pace to surpass the nine murders that occurred in the city for all of 2019.

Homicide rates in the city have been consistently low for the past five years, with 19 being the highest in 2017.

Vancouver saw 16 in 2015, 15 in 2018 and 12 in 2016.

That’s quite a turnaround from the 1990s, when Vancouver investigators dealt with 276 murders from 1990 to 1999, many of which were connected to gang violence.

Sgt. Aaron Roed, a Vancouver police media relations officer, acknowledged the spike in homicides to begin the year. But Roed said they don’t necessarily signal a return to the years where Vancouver’s murder rate was in the double digits.

“In all these situations, we can’t determine when and if they’re going to happen,” he told the Courier Jan. 20.

“But we don’t believe that these [three homicides] are related, so we don’t see this as being a rash.”

On Jan. 18, investigators were called to the parking lot of the Marine Gateway Cineplex at Southwest Marine Drive and Cambie Street after a man was

discovered dead inside a vehicle in the parking lot.

A passerby found the man just before 8:30 p.m. and alerted police.

The victim’s name hasn’t been released, nor has the name of the 45-year-old woman found dead inside her home at 112 Water St., just after 1:30 a.m. Sunday.

Paramedics were unsuccessful in trying to resuscitate the victim.

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The first murder of 2020, meanwhile, is still unsolved as investigators search for the person responsible for killing 62-year-old Jesus Cristobal-Esteban in Oppenheimer Park.

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tor to the park, was beaten in the afternoon of New Year’s Day and died the next day in hospital. Friends told the Courier his death may have been related to an altercation related to a beer.

For the better part of a decade, police in Vancouver and across the country have watched the homicide rate

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Here’s to all our favourite teachers who made a difference Tracy Sherlock

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Sometimes, news about teachers seems all negative. You’ve heard it before: they get too many holidays, there’s never enough support in the classroom, labour negotiations are difficult.

But we’ve all had teachers who have transformed us, changing our lives forever.

What’s the difference a teacher can make? Think back in your own life to your favourite teacher and you’ll instantly know.

That difference usually has nothing to do with the curriculum and everything to do with the connection made with students. Long before it was a buzzword, the most powerful teachers made a point of “personalizing” their classrooms.

The results of a recent Twitter poll I conducted, though certainly not scientific, instantly showed the importance of that human connection. I asked people to remember their favourite teachers and share what made them influential.

“The authenticity of their relationship with me as an awkward kid. Just two people connecting about everything, not just the learning piece,” said Twitter user Shelley Sullivan.

“Without them, don’t know how I would have survived.

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For Twitter user Leann Buteau, it was “their ability to make you feel that you and your voice matters. They made you feel safe when you are struggling as a learner.”

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There was something relatable about them, says Twitter user Mark Reid.

“You learned both with and from them.”

Clearly, it’s not what they taught, it’s how they made you feel.

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What’s the difference a teacher can make? Think back in your own life to your favourite teacher, and you’ll instantly know, says columnist Tracy Sherlock. FILE PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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Twitter user Christa Barberis put it this way: “They were passionate about their courses. You could tell that they enjoyed teaching.”

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me believe in the power of knowing and doing!”

Others talked about teachers who pushed them beyond their comfort zones, into places they found success. I remember most of my teachers fondly, but those who stand out challenged me with high expectations. Being a people pleaser, I didn’t want to disappoint.

Full disclosure — I teach journalism at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. I often think of those who inspired me with their own

teaching.

I remember Mrs. Kaiser, who taught Grade 4 at Trafalgar elementary. Long before it was part of reconciliation — we’re talking the 1970s — Mrs. Kaiser shaped her entire classroom around Indigenous knowledge, sharing with her students the names, cultures and traditions of B.C. First Nations.

Clearly, it was a passion for her, and she made it come alive for her students. I was lucky to have her.

In Grade 8 at Prince of Wales secondary, I had a science teacher named Mr. Maynard, who I will never forget. He made science interesting and accessible, but didn’t put up with slacking. Maybe if I had been lucky enough to have more science and math teachers like him, fun, but rigorous, I’d be a scientist today. He left teaching to become a lawyer, which I’m sure was a gain for the law, but a big loss for education.

And then there was Ed Hundert, who I studied with in Arts One at the University of British Columbia,

an experience I consider to be the absolute finest of all of my education. He taught me to question everything and helped me discover both classic literature and the constant struggle that is being a writer. Many, many years after I graduated from UBC, I went to an event specifically to hear him speak, simply to get back the feeling of deep learning and inquisitiveness he provoked in me.

In my experience, great teachers encourage conversations, even if they’re difficult, but also make sure the classroom is a safe space.

They teach much more than the curriculum — they teach you how to organize yourself, how to be a decent person and, ultimately, how to live a good life by following your values. Sometimes they teach by example.

On that note, here’s one last Twitter share from Lori Paley: “Both of my high school chemistry teachers were inspiring. One for practical tips and the other for blowing things up in class.

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Mysterious historical scrapbook found outside apartment Treasure trove of early 20th century icon Will Rogers memorabilia should be preserved in museum, says finder John Kurucz

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Carl Baird isn’t sure what he’s stepped in, but he thinks it’s something.

It looks valuable, smells valuable and has the hallmarks of a kitschy, historic gold mine.

Two years ago around this time, Baird happened upon an abandoned dossier with newspaper clippings and other ephemera centred solely around the life of U.S. newspaperman, philosopher and actor Will Rogers.

Across dozens of pages resembling a scrapbook, pristinely preserved newspaper clippings from upwards of a century ago speak to Rogers’ life, his thoughts on the world and, ultimately, his death. Era-specific ads promoting life in the Midwest, whiskey, stoves and even cattle ranching are also found in the scrapbook.

“This is ‘USA! USA!’ beyond belief,” Baird told the Courier. “Imagine in 100 years finding a Wayne Gretzky scrapbook in Florida or Hawaii. It’s wild.”

Baird’s apartment building near Main and 19th is slated for redevelopment in the coming months, and he’s looking to purge some belongings before inevitably moving to a smaller place.

Among the items that must go is the Rogers scrapbook, though Baird isn’t sure what “go” means just yet. Getting some money for the scrapbook would be nice, but that’s not necessarily Baird’s end game.

“I think it’s a treasure. I’m

Carl Baird found this book of Will Rogers’ memorabilia two years ago and doesn’t know what to do with it. More photos at vancourier.com. PHOTOS DAN TOULGOET

not sure what you’d get for this in an auction, but I’m not sure you can put a dollar value to this,” Baird said.

Hailing from Oklahoma and born in 1879, Rogers was a renaissance man in every sense of the term. He was cast in 71 films — both of the silent and “talkie” variety — and had more than 4,000 published articles in newspapers across the U.S. He frequently appeared on radio broadcasts and could be seen hobnobbing with Charlie Chaplin and U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower, before he became president.

Many of the clippings in Baird’s possession start with a headline reading “Will Rogers Said,” followed by Rogers’ musings on life.

His thoughts combine wit, satire and the kind of

outlook befitting of a man who had travelled the world numerous times, eschewed politics and stood up for the everyman.

Some examples: “We are here just for a spell and then pass on. So get a few laughs and do the best you can. Live your life so that whenever you lose it, you are ahead.”

“Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can’t buy enough to eat.”

“Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like.”

Rogers died Aug. 15, 1935 in an Alaskan plane crash alongside famed aviator Wiley Post. His death was commemorated across the U.S., as statues went

up and schools were named after him.

A reported 100,000 people attended his funeral.

“I was shocked to hear of the tragedy which has taken Will Rogers and Wiley Post from us,” Roosevelt was quoted as saying one day after Rogers’ death. “Will was an old friend of mine, a humourist and philosopher beloved by all.”

It was only in death that Rogers had some semblance of a connection to Vancouver outside of Baird’s discovery. According to an anthology of stories published between 1931 and 1956, Rogers’ body was temporarily stored at YVR — four years after it was built — as his mortal remains were in transit back to the U.S. Smaller planes rarely flew at night at the time, so Rog-

ers’ final voyage had to be broken down over legs. A reporter from Seattle caught wind of the story and came up to Vancouver to confirm Rogers’ remains were, in fact, being secretly held in a locked hangar.

None of this was on Baird’s radar until two years ago around this time. He found the scrapbook leaning against a tree near his apartment in the pouring rain.

Baird said the scrapbook would have likely disintegrated that night had he not picked it up.

He reckons the previous owner was taking it to a nearby antique store and forgot it. Or, perhaps the book was appraised as being worthless and the owner left it outside.

Baird has repeatedly contacted the Will Rog-

ers Memorial Museum in Oklahoma and received no response. The Smithsonian Institution has also turned down Baird’s offer to donate the scrapbook. b So now the scrapbook is condemned to a type of historical purgatory, and Baird doesn’t know what to do. Having it sit on his shelf does little for Baird, the preservation of history or those interested in early 20th b century Americana.

“This has to be protected, something has to be done with this,” Baird insists.

“I’ve never put any thought into how much it would be worth — I have no idea and I wouldn’t want to sell it.

I want it archived to some degree — photographed, talked about and for people to enjoy it.” @JohnKurucz

Why is this city councillor visiting every neighbourhood this year?

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NPA Coun. Colleen Hardwick is launching a 50-neighbourhood, year-long tour of the city this month, beginning in Marpole, to collect feedback about where residents think density should be located. The boundaries of the 50 neighbourhoods were defined through an exercise she did with UBC geography students in 2015. Hardwick’s endeavour coincides with the beginning of the city-wide plan, known as the Vancouver Plan, which launched with a “listening phase” in November. Last July, Hardwick was the only councillor to vote against every clause in a motion dealing with the city-wide

plan’s budget and process.

The Courier talked to Hardwick about her tour, what she wants to accomplish, whether it’s a rebuke of how she thinks the city-wide plan is being handled, and how her council colleagues and staff at city hall are greeting it. Hardwick says she plans to share her findings with the planning department and the public.

What is the point of your tour of neighbourhoods?

I’ve been quite vocal in my concern about the direction that the new reboot of the city-wide plan is taking.

It’s certainly different than what I had been working towards over these years.

I’m very familiar with the

prior City Plan that was developed through the ’90s and the community visions that were approved by council in 2005. There has been a real distance between neighbourhood planning and a broader, what I consider top-down deterministic, approach to planning, which, if you look at the way that the city currently is approaching it, [is] values-driven. They’re working from a values-down [approach] and looking at the city in the aggregate. I tend to look at things through the lens of community and neighbourhood planning, and then bringing that upwards to the fullness of the city.

This sounds like a commentary on, or a rebuke of,

how the city-wide plan is being handled.

I don’t want to rebuke them. I want to work with them. When we did the [city-wide plan] launch, we went out to various different places. I went with staff to a place on 41st Avenue to meet with people from Arbutus Ridge, Kerrisdale and Shaughnessy — that’s what got picked out for me.

We had a really productive roundtable session where some of the folks brought out the fact that they had this council-approved ARKS [Arbutus Ridge, Kerrisdale, Shaughnessy] community vision from 2005. That’s when it struck me — I said this is something that we should be doing in every

single neighbourhood of the city. I had given the 50-neighbourhoods exercise, which was a UBC geography project that I did, to [chief planner] Gil Kelley and the planning department. I had been talking to the people in citizen engagement and then it just struck me — if I’m going to talk the talk, I better walk the walk.

What do city staff and fellow city councillors think about your tour?

I’ve talked to a few people. I certainly talked to [the city] citizen engagement [team]. I’ve certainly talked with the planning department. I’m expecting to have cooperation for getting help with things like

maps, but I’m not really asking them to do much.

It’s really something that I want to do and then I will share everything transparently that comes out of these sessions in the hopes that it will help incentivize people to get more involved in their neighbourhood.

How is it different than what the city will be doing for the city-wide plan?

If you look at what they’re doing, it’s very stakeholder oriented… what I’ve been seeing is not neighbourhoodlocation based, it’s stakeholder based. It’s values driven… in terms of looking at our focus on diversity and social issues, accelerating action on Continued next page

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Q&A with Colleen Hardwick Continued from previous page climate change, addressing affordability and housing, protecting and building our economy. These are all looking at things through the lens of what are the values that we are going to apply on the city, and we’re going to interact with stakeholder groups that are involved in each of these areas. My concern has been that there’s not been enough emphasis put on the people of the city… I am generally concerned that we talk about the public in the abstract. When we get into dealing with them in the particular, we see them as NIMBYs or as obstacles to change or however it’s being characterized. I don’t think that’s constructive. I would rather go out to the neighbourhoods and say, “Hey, the city has to grow.

We need to increase density.

Where could your neighbourhood accommodate 500 to 1,000 new dwelling units over the next decade?”

A criticism of neighbourhood open houses is they sometimes [only] attract people who live in a neighbourhood. With consultation, sometimes you may also want to talk to people who might want to live in a neighbourhood in the future.

I don’t represent people that might want to live in the neighbourhood. Our job under the [Vancouver] Charter and democratic theory is to

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to be honest, because I feel that I haven’t been able to get through to people about my concerns.

represent our constituents, which are the people that live within our boundaries.

I have to believe that the people that are living within our boundaries are thinking about their children and their children’s children, and they’re not close-minded to more people coming in. This is why the exercise, though, needs to ask the people that live there where they think population increase can be best accommodated.

You’ve been criticized for representing views of older, well-established West Side homeowners who perhaps aren’t keen on density or high buildings. How do you feel about that criticism?

I think it’s bogus. I think it’s the narrative of the people that are promoting the property development industry. It is about growth promotion as opposed to growth management. I differentiate between the two.

That’s a convenient label and it’s just not true. I’m not going to get into the nonsense that goes on Twitter, in particular. It’s very counterproductive. I’m not going to go and engage in those discussions. It does annoy me a little bit. It does annoy me being misrepresented.

Note: This interview has been edited and condensed. A longer version is at vancourier.com.

How much influence do you think your efforts will have?

I’m the only planner on council — I have both historical perspective, academic and professional relevance to the subject area…

I’m concerned a lot of the time that there isn’t enough knowledge. When I was pushing for the city-wide plan reboot, I don’t think that probably half of council even knew about the prior city plans or any of the history in this. So there’s a certain amount of frustration for me,

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Post-parade lion dances You won’t want to miss the lion dances throughout Chinatown after the parade. As a Chinese New Year tradition to promote good fortune for the year, some lions will be visiting shops and businesses in Chinatown to perform a celebratory dance to bring good luck and prosperity.

The dancing starts right after the parade and will run from approximately 2 to 4 p.m.

Vancouver Chinatown Spring Festival — Cultural Fair By popular demand, the Cultural Fair will be held on both Jan. 25 and 26, with multicultural performances, special lion dance grand finale, martial arts demonstration and more at Sun Yat-Sen Plaza, 50 East Pender St.

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All events of the 2020 Vancouver Chinatown Spring Festival are open to the public. The Chinese New Year Parade and the Cultural Fair are free to attend.

April 4: Grave Sweeping activation

YELLOW PERIL: THE CELESTIAL ELEMENTS Yellow Peril: The Celestial Elements is a visual art exhibit inspired by the Chinese Five Elemental forces,“seized by the urgent tensions between Queer Chinese diasporic identities.” The exhibit is a collection of multi-channel installations, including visual and sculptural activations created to provoke a cosmic encounter of our living past and present as we“race towards a healing future.”

“These elemental activations attempt to collapse the linear temporality to dislodge an emotional, spiritual, cosmological, and metaphysical enunciation of our Queer‘Chineseness.’ Rather than focus on the trauma that queer people of colour face, this project is fundamentally an invitation to an exuberant celebration of queerness that is unabashedly Chinese.”

Yellow Peril is at SUM Gallery, 425-268 Keefer St., from Feb. 1 to April 18.

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If you have a conscience, and you care about the very soul of our city — those shops where the person behind the counter knows your name, where they make your coffee just the way you like it, or put aside the record you’ve been searching for, or cut your hair just right, or custom-craft a pair of boots that you’ll wear forever, or picks just the right read for your book club, or pours you a pint of IPA brewed 10 feet away — then you’ll have no doubt heard of the crisis independent business owners and non-profits face in this city.

The threat is massive, complicated, and overflowing with bureaucratic, buckpassing bulls***.

The first major problem is a horrid arrangement known as the “triple-net lease,” which appears to have existed since the beginning of time, back when what you built on the land — say, a car wash — might be worth more than the actual land itself. Most Vancouver businesses are forced into that aptly named net in order to operate in this town.

Once you understand how a triple-net lease works, you’d have to wonder if Scrooge, Mr. Burns, Dr. Evil and Stalin all put their heads together to come up with such a “deal.”

Here’s how it works: YOU, the independent retailer, pay your LANDLORD’S property taxes.

Let me repeat that: in a triple-net lease, an upside down real estate shell game, YOU pay the property taxes on land and a building that you DO NOT own, and equity you will never benefit from. But that’s not all. The other poisoned prongs of the triple-net lease are that you also get to pay your landlord’s property insurance, and the building maintenance fees.

And that’s all on top of your monthly lease/rental payment.

How’s that for the ultimate grift? Another name for this type of agreement is the “carefree lease.” Damn

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right it’s carefree: for your landlord, rolling around in your constant flow of cash while you roll around in a barrel and suspenders.

None of the real estate experts I spoke to could figure out exactly when the triplenet lease, a North Americawide practice, came into place, but it was probably sometime around the era depicted in Upton Sinclair’s 1906 book The Jungle.

But wait — it gets worse.

Up, up and away

Say you run your own bookstore, which has been an integral community hub for years. Your bookstore is in a run-down, one-storey building that your landlord never maintains, but it’s in a busy, tony, commercial neighbourhood with lots of foot traffic. The financial death knell in that last sentence is “one storey.”

Your store is caught in a domino effect created in part by lack of real estate, the need for housing and the city’s constant search for more.

Where can we go but up?

Because of an outrageous assessment policy called “highest and best use,” it means that your little bookstore in the dilapidated building is responsible for paying your landowner’s property tax on whatever that land might be zoned for: three storeys, six storeys, 10 storeys, 20 storeys.

That’s right, you are not only paying your landlord’s property tax, but for some bizarre

reason no one I could find could explain, your business is paying property tax on the potential of residential units that don’t exist.

And therein lies yet another burn: I’m no real estate expert but, if I understand this correctly, once a new building is constructed with, say, 30 condos and new retail spaces below, sometimes, according to one analyst I spoke to, the taxes can actually come down.

“Obviously, taxes shouldn’t exist until the building is there,” recently retired retail strategist Stan Boniferro told me in a phone call. He’s also an expert on lease agreements. “To tax on what isn’t there is a straight up money grab on the city’s part. It is absolutely ludicrous.”

Coquitlam mayor Richard Stewart is also very passionate about this issue and wants to see change on the provincial level, which controls property assessments.

“Businesses should not be responsible for ‘highest and best use,’” said Stewart. “It’s ridiculous that those are the rules we have to abide by. I don’t want that tax.”

Help is on the way?

On Jan. 17, the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing issued a press release boasting the headline “Tax relief coming for small businesses, non-profits.”

It promised legislation this spring that will apparently “give municipalities

the ability to provide property tax relief to small businesses and organizations that they identify as paying high property taxes.”

The press release goes on to detail that the government will be “easing the tax burden for tenants responsible for property taxes through their commercial leases.”

Coquitlam’s Mayor Stewart is quick to caution calling the proposed legislation a “tax relief.” What actually might happen, he fears, is that the existing taxes will be shifted from one business to another.

“I’m worried it will cause other problems for many other businesses,” he said.

“Which businesses get the tax break? It could mean municipalities are going to be forced to choose their favourite children, so to speak.”

Jude Kusnierz is the executive and creative director and founder of Beaumont Studios, a large arts space, studio and venue at West Fifth and Alberta. As previously reported in the Courier, she has been actively involved in the hunt for tax relief and tax exemptions for non-profits like hers for the past five years.

Since 2014, her landlord’s property tax, which she pays, has increased from $45,000 to $110,000. She funnels her landlord $37,000 a month so she can stay in business. She’s also in the midst of bringing together several non-profit arts programs to create a citywide arts sector. The Beaumont was recently approved for a “crisis grant” from the city to stay in business.

Nowhere in the province’s press release does it mention anything about landlords paying their own property tax.

And even though Kusnierz at the Beaumont is caught up in a triple-net lease, she manages to have a positive outlook.

“The system is very slow moving, but we’re so far into this, I honestly have faith in this Vancouver city council,” Kusnierz told me. “I have to believe that something is finally going to happen.”

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Hughes and Markstrom head to their first AllStar Game at different points in their careers

Meanwhile, Elias Pettersson seeks redemption at Skills Competition

Backhand Sauce Daniel Wagner

For a long time, Jacob Markstrom was considered a blue chip prospect, the type of prospect teams dream of drafting. He was selected with the first pick of the second round at the 2008 draft, but his post-draft dominance in the Swedish Hockey League and the World Junior Championships had teams kicking themselves that they hadn’t taken him in the first round.

The problem is, a blue chip prospect isn’t supposed to be a blue chip prospect for a long time. Blue chip prospects are supposed to make a quick jump to the NHL, where they’re no longer prospects at all.

Instead, Markstrom took a long, arduous path. He bounced between the NHL and AHL for years with the Florida Panthers, then spent almost a full season in the AHL with the Utica Comets after his trade to the Canucks. Markstrom didn’t become a full-time starter in the NHL until the 201718 season, when he was 27 years old. That wasn’t the path he was expected to take when he was named one of the best goaltending prospects in the world all those years ago.

While it was a long road, at least Markstrom arrived at his destination. Markstrom was the third goaltender selected in the 2008 draft, and the two goaltenders that went in the first round, Chet Pickard and Tom McCollum, have combined for three NHL games. Meanwhile, Markstrom, nearly 12 years after he was drafted, will head to his first-ever NHL All-Star Game this week.

At the other end of the spectrum is Quinn Hughes, who was also a blue chip prospect, but spent a lot less time as one.

Hughes is nearly 10 years younger than Markstrom, but they’re heading to their first ever NHL All-Star Game together. Hughes was drafted in the first round in 2018 and spent just one season as a Canucks prospect before becoming a Canucks star.

At barely 20 years old, Hughes is already the Canucks’ best defenceman and a key reason why the team is first in the Pacific

Stick-taps & Glove-drops • A tap of the stick to the Canucks for

bringing back the popular Young Stars prospect tournament in Penticton. The Canucks prospects will face the prospects from the Winnipeg Jets, Calgary Flames, and Edmonton Oilers prior to the start of training camp next season.

• I’m dropping the gloves with the Pacific

Division, which is way too tight for the Canucks and their fans to get comfortable in first place. Four teams are tied with 57 points, one point behind the Canucks. It’s still going to be a tough battle to make the playoffs.

Jacob Markstrom’s road to his first All-Star Game has been a long one. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Division at the All-Star break. The hectic schedule of the NHL — they play twice as many games as in college hockey — means that Hughes has barely had enough time to grasp just how well his rookie season is going.

“I’m just worried about tonight and then tomorrow, day-by-day,” said Hughes before the Canucks’ game against the San Jose Sharks on Saturday. “As it gets closer... it’ll probably sink in. For me right now, I think I’ve done a really good job of sticking to the moment.”

Fortunately for Hughes and Markstrom, they’ll have someone along for the ride at All-Star Weekend in St. Louis that has some previous experience with being an All-Star: grizzled veteran, 21-year-old Elias Pettersson.

Pettersson, like Hughes, spent very little time as a blue chip prospect and is already heading to his second All-Star Weekend, where he’ll look for a little redemption.

While Pettersson fit right in at last year’s All-Star Weekend, including an impressive

performance in the Fastest Skater competition, there’s one thing still stuck in his craw.

In the Puck Control Relay, Pettersson did the one thing you’re not supposed to do: he lost control of the puck. On the very first obstacle, deking through a series of pucks, the puck slipped off his stick and slid to the boards.

He tried to make up for the error with some razzle-dazzle on a later obstacle, flipping the puck through his legs, but the damage was done. When asked about the skills competition, that error was at the forefront of his mind.

So, don’t look for Pettersson to challenge Connor McDavid for fastest skater this weekend. Instead, he’s likely looking to dominate in puck control.

Hughes could be a candidate for the Puck Control Relay as well, with his slick skating and hands. As for Markstrom, he has little choice: the goaltenders will take part on the Save Streak event and little else at the Skills Competition.

Big Numbers • 58 The Canucks entered the All-Star

break with 58 points in 49 games, landing them first in the Pacific Division. At this time last year, the Canucks had 52 points in two more games, so they’re on pace for a significantly better season.

• 51 With 51 points in 49 games, Elias

Pettersson leads the Canucks in scoring and is 15th in the NHL. The Canucks have four players in the top-50 in scoring: Pettersson, J.T. Miller, Brock Boeser and Bo Horvat.

VPD officer Meghan Agosta headed to NHL All Star weekend John Kurucz

jkurucz@vancourier.com

Meghan Agosta is getting another crack at those damn Americans.

The three-time Olympic gold medallist has been selected to take part in the three-on-three Elite Women’s contest during NHL All Star weekend in St. Louis on Jan. 24.

The ice hockey game pits Team Canada versus the U.S., a rivalry the Vancouver Police Department constable has mucho familiarity with.

Agosta has faced off against the American side numerous times over her 16-year international career,

besting the Yanks at the 2010 and 2014 Olympics.

The Canadians dusted off the Swedes 4-1 in the 2006 gold medal final.

The Americans won the 2018 gold medal game 3-2 in a shootout, with Agosta finishing the tournament with five points in five games.

Agosta’s most impressive showing for the red and white came on home turf, when she led the Canadians to gold in 2010 with a tournament-leading 15 points (nine goals and six assists).

That offensive smoke show led Agosta to garner the Most Valuable Player and Best Forward awards.

Agosta took a break from

Meghan Agosta is bound for the NHL All Star Game on Jan. 24. Photo SUBMITTED

the national team following the 2014 Games to join the

Vancouver Police Department, and has previously

told the Courier she intends to represent Canada at the

2022 Olympics in China.

Canada’s roster come next week is rounded out by Mélodie Daoust, Rebecca Johnston, Sarah Nurse, Marie-Philip Poulin, Natalie Spooner, Blayre Turnbull, Renata Fast, Laura Fortino, Ann-Renée Desbiens and head coach Jayna Hefford.

The 20 players on the two teams have combined for 39 Olympic and 109 World Championship medals.

The game will be played over two, 10-minute periods followed by a three-minute overtime session in the event of a tie.

The game will be aired on both CBC and Sportsnet beginning at 4:30 p.m. @JohnKurucz

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