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Ken Sim wants to run again for Vancouver mayor The NPA’s mayoral candidate in 2018 is back on Twitter and has created a website Mike Howell

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Remember Ken Sim? He’s the guy who came within 957 votes of becoming Vancouver’s mayor in the October 2018 civic election.

But some guy named Kennedy Stewart beat him.

Now Sim wants a rematch.

“I’d like to run again,” he told me by telephone last week while waiting to board a plane in Colorado.

“I’m been walking around the city for the last year-and-a-half and I’ve met a ton of people. It’s been overwhelming the number of people who were supporters of mine, or didn’t support me, who said I should run again and they would support me.”

Sim was the NPA’s mayoral candidate in 2018. But he wouldn’t say whether a run for mayor would be with that party, another party, or as an independent.

Rumours are circulating that he’s forming his own party.

“It’s too early to say,” he said.

But it hasn’t been too early for Sim to return to Twitter and create a website that looks very much like a campaign website, including a section he titled, “What’s important to me.”

He makes four points: • Make housing “more attainable” for everyone across the city.

• Support businesses that are shutting down.

• Protect the environment.

• Improve “the dire situation” in the Downtown Eastside.

I asked him to rate the performance of Stewart and his 10-member council, which includes five councillors he ran with in 2018; Rebecca Bligh has since resigned from the party, leaving the NPA with four councillors.

Sim said he didn’t want

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to point fingers or give letter grades, preferring to answer by saying the city is still a long way out from meeting residents’ needs, including hitting its housing targets.

“Vancouver used to be a place where you could get an education, have a career, start a business, raise a family and enjoy the city,” said Sim, who was born in

Vancouver and is married with four children.

“That’s no longer the case for a lot of people.”

Added Sim: “If the issues I’m passionate about — and most of the city is passionate about — were getting better, then I wouldn’t consider running for mayor.

There would be no point.”

Sim’s announcement that

he wants to run for mayor when the next election isn’t until the fall of 2022 may seem a little early. But Stewart has already declared he will seek re-election.

Sim made it clear that he is not interested in making a provincial or federal run, acknowledging that elections at both government levels are likely to occur before the civic vote in 2022.

“The reason I ran civically wasn’t to be a politician, it was to make a difference in the city that I love,” said Sim, who is the chairperson of seniors’ care service Nurse Next Door and co-founder of Rosemary Rocksalt Bagels.

He’s had a lot of time to reflect on why he didn’t get elected in 2018.

Asked why he lost, Sim said this: “I wouldn’t say I lost. I think I gained some valuable experience and started a conversation. I met over 10,000 people in this city,

and I heard so many stories.

There are a bunch of people who are super concerned.”

Added Sim: “If we had two more days we would have won it. If any one mayoral candidate would have stepped away, we probably would have won it. If we started [our campaign] one week earlier, we could have won it.”

But he didn’t, and Stewart told me last week that he welcomes a rematch.

“He’s a real quality guy, I really like Ken, I’ve talked to him a number of times,” Stewart said.

“I think he’s got the best intentions at heart here.

That said, I’m going to do a better job than he’ll ever do, so I’m going to run again.”

Until then, both men have to get through 2020, 2021 and most of 2022 before any of this really matters. A week is a long time in politics, never mind three years.

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Vancouver police have identified a gap in the record-keeping and sale of high-end boats to people tied to organized crime in the city.

Deputy Chief Laurence Rankin said the information has been supplied to Crown counsel acting on behalf of government in the Cullen Commission of Inquiry to Money Laundering, which began Monday.

“We’ve identified a number of individuals with ties to organized crime that possess pleasure craft operator cards who were operating marine vessels with significant value, but those vessels weren’t registered to them,” Rankin told the Vancouver Police Board Feb. 20.

“So based on that information, we believe it reveals gaps in the record keeping for the sale and purchase of marine vehicles, and that may require and benefit from a review of regulatory processes that exist at this time.”

Rankin said police reviewed 10 years of investigations in Vancouver involving “substantive criminal offences” that had a nexus to money laundering. That research led police to submit 42 files to the inquiry.

The department was asked for follow-up on 29 of those 42 files and given a further request from government lawyers for information on high-end marine vessels in Vancouver.

Meanwhile, Rankin said police continue to work with the City of Vancouver on anti-money laundering measures that will be revealed in a report expected to go before city council in March.

The report will look at ways to enhance the working relationship between the VPD and the City of Vancouver through a number of initiatives, including enhanced financial reporting, Rankin said.

“So more stringent financial reporting in the area of property ownership, in particular real estate

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procurement,” he said, noting police have also helped develop bylaws that regulate the use of cryptocurrency automatic teller machines and money service businesses.

Police believe cryptocurrency, in particular, is a tool used to facilitate money

laundering. A VPD report published in February 2019 said there had been 70 cryptocurrency files reported to Vancouver police in just two months.

“This trend is alarming and should get the attention of every police leader and police board across Canada,

as well as the Canadian government,” said the report, which went before the police board last year.

“The alarming rise in cryptocurrency files is primarily due to the way Bitcoin has been adopted by fraudsters as the instrument of choice to transfer funds.”

The report said unregulated bitcoin automatic teller machines are “an ideal money laundering vehicle.”

Since there are no requirements to register customer details, “it is easy to see how cash can be transferred into bitcoin and vice-versa.”

“A user can also launder an unlimited amount of money using smaller transactions so as not to arouse suspicion, like they would at a regular bank,” the report said “This becomes even easier if a criminal group were to purchase an ATM for a few thousand dollars and put all their cash through that one ATM, laundering the money as many times as required and either profit from or eliminate the transaction fee.”

The issue of money laundering attracted the attention of Vancouver city council in January 2019 when two councillors said citizens were bringing money in suitcases and reusable shopping bags into city hall to pay taxes.

That same month, the City of Vancouver announced it would no longer accept cash payments of more than $10,000 from people paying bills in an effort to prevent or deter potential money laundering.

The city said $10,000 is the limit that aligns with the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre (FINTRAC) reporting requirements for identifying and tracking money laundering.

In May 2019, Peter German — the author of two reports that detailed the extent of money laundering in B.C. — suggested to Vancouver council the city consider creating an anti-money laundering committee to review its financial operations. @Howellings

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By mid-December, there had been 2,000 reported cases of shoplifting in Vancouver in 2019, surpassing 2018’s total of 1,930.

Vehicle break-ins are also on the rise. Vancouver Police Department released its year-end crime stats for 2019 Feb. 19, which saw a 12.9 per cent increase in theft from auto incidents.

And that trend has continued into 2020 — the first seven days of the year saw 258 car break-ins in Vancouver.

The majority of the thefts were concentrated downtown between Main Street and Burrard Street, with pockets in Mount Pleasant, Kitsilano, Fairview, Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Sunset also hit hard by thieves between Jan. 1 and 7. The statistics represent only those break-ins reported to police.

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An ongoing effort targeting property crime in Vancouver’s downtown core has netted police 26 arrests in three months.

“Since December, our patrol officers have been working closely with our partners in retail security around the city,” media relations officer Const. Tania Visintin said in a press release. “We have a common goal, and that is to target violent property crime offenders and protect retailers from financial loss.”

The 26 arrests have resulted in 150 criminal charges, including: breach of probation, theft from auto, theft under $5,000, possession of break-in instruments and possession of stolen property.

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When council agreed to allow duplexes in most single-family neighbourhoods on a trial basis, city staff predicted the uptake would be modest. That’s proved correct.

Over the 2019 trial period, the city received 86 duplex applications, which translates to about 23 per cent of all redevelopment applications in single-family (RS) zones.

The information is revealed in a staff report presented to council Feb. 26 after the Courier’s print deadline.

“This modest level of uptake is in line with what was anticipated given that the duplex option was intentionally introduced in a modest way offering the same floor area that is possible for a house,” Neil Hrushowy, assistant director of community planning, writes in the report.

Hrushowy notes that duplexes provide twice as many units as onefamily homes, create new lower-cost homeownership options, create secondary rental suites, and offer better energy efficiency than single-family homes.

He also mentions public engagement over the past year revealed “strong public support for duplexes as a housing choice” in singlefamily neighbourhoods.

A Talk Vancouver survey in 2019 found 88 per cent of the 3,400 respondents agreed or strongly agreed with allowing them.

Hrushowy’s report doesn’t call for any council action — some changes to regulations were made in the spring of 2019 — but suggests existing regulations remain in place.

Staff will, however, be bringing forward a report sometime this year about the possibility of allowing duplexes in RS-3 and RS3A zones as well.

The road to getting to this point wasn’t smooth. Some housing advocates think council hasn’t been aggressive enough in allowing different types of housing in single-family zones, while others have argued forms such as duplexes aren’t creating housing that’s affordable to most Vancouverites and redevelopment has the potential to displace some affordable rental suites.

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In December of 2018, the new council decided not to reverse their predecessors’ decision. Instead, they opted to allow duplexes on a trial basis with staff tracking data such as applications, approvals, pricing and impact on renters, and

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How noble intentions can breed self-righteousness

‘Transient legion of activists’ turning Canada into ‘global battlefield’ is nothing new Mike Klassen

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If you have yet to be impacted by the #ShutDownCanada protests that are stalling tens of thousands of travellers and commuters, or choking supply lines for goods in our ports, don’t worry, it’s only a matter of time before our whole economy feels it.

For those who’ve had a bus re-routed or have been unable to take the West Coast Express, or for others stuck in traffic thanks to protestors occupying an intersection, it might have meant missing a job interview, or being late to pick up a child or a pet from daycare, or giving up any hope of getting to a medical appointment.

The evident lack of concern for an average citizen’s autonomy boils down to the ethical lapse of protest organizers, who believe the nobility of their cause supersedes the interests of other Canadians.

Note the blockading of access points in government offices in Victoria this month — which of course has its own hashtag: #BCGovtShutdown. Someone shared with me a hyperlink to a freely available document that I was shocked to see listed all major government offices in Victoria, including notes on the loca-

tion of building entrances, and the estimated number of protesters needed to block each one of them.

Incredibly, it’s alleged that many protesters involved in the shutdown, or crashed the B.C. Legislative Assembly a few days beforehand, were given the day off from classes by their UVIC professors, who are public employees themselves.

Some of us will recall that government offices have also been the target of terrorism, such as in Oklahoma City where a bomber took 168 lives.

What kind of person thinks to target dozens of government offices to prevent employees moving in or out of a workplace? Or what group or organization is responsible for facilitating the work that went into creating a spreadsheet that pairs protesters with side entrance of a public building?

Through the use of social media, protest organizers can meet and mobilize mass actions while remaining completely anonymous.

It has been astonishing lately to witness just how vulnerable our institutions, ports and transportation networks are. Margareta Dovgal, director of research at Resource Works Society, a B.C.-based non-profit providing information on responsible resource

The techniques used in the current #ShutDownCanada protests that are stalling tens of thousands of travelers and commuters is nothing new, points out columnist Mike Klassen. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

development, is not surprised however.

Dovgal says Canada is an “incredibly great target” for those who seek attention for an array of concerns. I interviewed her for my latest Vancouver Overcast podcast episode.

“I’ve seen how in the environmental space, the fact that Canada has this amazing concern and responsiveness to the public’s needs,” said Dovgal.

“I’ve seen how that characteristic of our governance is easily used by outsiders who

want global and national environmental solutions.”

Indeed, there is plenty of precedent for what she describes.

In his seminal book on the Clayoquot Sound’s “war in the woods” protests of the early 1990s, Environmental Groups and the International Conflict Over the Forests of British Columbia, UBC professor emeritus Bill Stanbury, gives detailed insights into the environmental protest movement.

Stanbury, who died in

2011, was praised by a Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives economist for his “remarkable mind.”

Of the protests, Stanbury wrote that their “noble cause” bred self-righteousness among leaders and fervent followers. “When powerful interest groups become imbued with the idea that the end justifies the means, violations of ethical norms are likely to follow.” He went on to list many of them.

Years before others promoted the idea, Stanbury

documented how protesters “internationalized” domestic environmental disputes, in particular how some American capitalists flush from a boom in the tech sector, poured millions into charitable foundations to support environmental causes in Canada.

Stanbury explains how protesters exploit our legal system too by imposing the cost of their safety on the police and our court system.

Barricades are usually erected in the presence of police, who in turn must protect their civil rights against those who would tear them down.

Stanbury also questioned the ethics of involving children in protests too, calling it “utterly irresponsible” to put them in harm’s way.

No doubt he could have foreseen that the modern face of climate activism would be in her teens.

It’s as if Canadians are resigned to this loss of our sovereignty. As Stanbury noted back in 2000, “the transient legion of activists” taking up their fight on our streets and rail right-of-ways have made our country a “global battlefield.”

••• Listen to the Vancouver Overcast podcast for Mike Klassen interview with Margareta Dovgal atovercastyvr.podbean.com. @MikeKlassen

Don’t turn away from civil unrest — let’s learn from it Ingrid Abbott

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Have the LNG gas line protesters got your attention? They’ve got mine, and they’ve got the attention of our whole country, not only by inconveniencing us, but by affecting the economic livelihood of thousands of workers.

Protesters across the country say they stand in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs who oppose the LNG pipeline going through their unceded lands. They don’t mince words, they plan to shut down Canada, and so far they are succeeding.

Earlier this month, access to Deltaport was successfully shut down for close to 40 hours by a group called the Red Braid Alliance for Decolonization. They handed out pamphlets to truck drivers and 14 members were arrested by Delta police as they enforced a Supreme

Court injunction.

I’ve never heard of the Red Braid Alliance and I bet you haven’t either, but we can’t dismiss groups like this anymore, they are effectively fuelling civil disobedience and it has repercussions for all of us.

Our national railway has been shut down for more than 12 days and our ports are clogged on both sides of the country.

There’s something happening in our cities and in our rural communities.

People are angry and they don’t give a damn who they hurt. You don’t have to be Aboriginal to feel the neglect and hurt First Nations have suffered for decades. This column is not long enough to list all the injustices, and reconciliation is long overdue.

The origins of this conflict have been brewing for some time. Canadians of all demographics are challenging the status quo,

This is a historic moment that shouldn’t be dismissed, says writer Ingrid Abbott. “Let’s listen, learn and hope for a peaceful and satisfactory end to this current unrest, we all deserve a harmonious homeland.” PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

the establishment and the politicians who pit economics versus the environment.

Not all the protesters are educated on the Wet’suwet’en chiefs complaints. Some people on the front lines don’t know the difference between a

band council and a hereditary chief. They don’t even know what’s in the LNG pipeline; is it natural gas or crude oil, it doesn’t seem to matter.

So who’s inspired to show up and protest?

Outgoing Conservative

party leader Andrew Scheer says protesters need to “check their privilege.” He suggests only the few have time on their hands to protest, in reality most protesters are far from privileged.

Protesters feel disenfranchised from modern society,

with varying agendas like climate change, saving the whales, GMO’s in our food, or women’s rights. They stand in solidarity with anyone they believe is suffering from injustice. This is a potent cocktail for civil unrest, we better get used to it, some of our young people are very angry.

Meanwhile, I sit on the sidelines waiting to see what our politicians will do, because we elected them to deal with highly complicated issues. Even if my only role is as conscientious observer, I won’t be distracted by other world issues such as the coronavirus or the U.S. election campaign. I am present.

For protesters, for police, for politicians and for all of us this is a historic moment, don’t dismiss it. Let’s listen, learn and hope for a peaceful and satisfactory end to this current unrest. We all deserve a harmonious homeland.

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As both a student myself and a teacher, I enjoyed your article in the Vancouver Courier very much.

I was lucky or blessed (depending on your point of view) to have very inspiring professors at university. Not so much in high school in B.C. I did junior high in Toronto and that was a different story.

I still have my notebook from my science course there. I am 66 years old now. I moved to B.C. and was so bored by school here that I was not

a good student in high school. However, I was very fortunate to have incredibly inspiring professors at university. What a difference it makes!

I eventually became a teacher myself (and owned a private school for 20 years) and at one point, I bumped into one of my former students who took me out for dinner and gave me the speech about the two most influential people in his life, his math teacher and myself, his English teacher. I was blown away and so touched. I never dreamed that I made such a difference in someone’s life.

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West Point Grey businesses struggle amid rent hikes, Business owners in Vancouver’s smallest commercial district reporting losses ranging from 20 to 50 per cent John Kurucz

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Vancouver’s smallest commercial district is in big trouble.

You don’t need spreadsheets or a business degree to see what ails the westernmost stretch of West 10th Avenue.

Walking the three blocks spanning Discovery to Tolmie streets, the first thing that pops to mind: “Where is everyone?”

Foot traffic is down significantly. Boarded-up shops with “for lease” signs dot each block. Some business owners are reporting six-digit losses, while others are giving up entirely — not just on that particular street, but on Vancouver altogether.

The Courier spent the better part of last week visiting independent shops and speaking to locals in the West Point Grey Village area, near the entrance to the University of British Columbia.

Many factors contributing to the business crisis are unique to the immediate area. Safeway leaving in November 2018 killed much of the foot traffic. House prices are well beyond the reach of anyone outside the one per cent.

Online shopping is hurting retailers both big and small.

Families are smaller, there are less children and more seniors in the area.

That UBC has grown into a city unto itself has resulted in more and more students opting not to leave campus to shop or eat.

Whether the SkyTrain gets extended to UBC looms large on business owners, planners, residents and investors.

Some shop owners and residents who spoke to the Courier said the retail mix was off, or in need of a refresh. Others suggested the increasing number of Asian families in the area don’t care for the shops and instead take their money to Richmond.

Variables aside, the problems plaguing West

Businesses along West 10th Avenue in West Point Grey are struggling. The Diner’s Reg Lee and Tom Hodgkinson (top right) and pharmacist Safouh El Rayes (bottom right) say the loss of Safeway, increased taxes and shifting demographics are to blame. PHOTOS DAN TOULGOET

Point Grey are also seen in virtually every other part of Vancouver: rents are out control and the tax burden is overwhelming.

‘I’ve never seen anything like this’

Lee Richmond is kind of like the mother hen of the neighbourhood. Owner of the Kaboodles Toy Store between Sasamat and Trimble streets, she’s been in West Point Grey for 40 years. She knows everyone, everyone knows her and she’s been a director with the local BIA since its inception.

That ends soon, as she prepares to close shop and move to another location in Kitsilano. Four shops will soon become three.

“My rent has gone from a couple thousand to well over $10,000 monthly. It’s unbelievable,” Richmond said. “I’ve never seen anything like this in 40 years.

Nothing like this at all.”

Like most businesses in the neighbourhood, Richmond has a triple net lease — she pays rent, property tax, insurance, utilities and all the upkeep.

She opens up her books for the Courier, which shows monthly costs in rent and tax alone: $4,978 in 2007 versus $11,173 last year.

Those numbers exclude wages, insurance and other escalating costs that eat at her bottom line.

Going through the books further shows a $10,000 drop for three consecutive Januarys. Richmond is making $100,000 less during the Christmas season now compared to a decade ago.

Taxes and rent are the primary killers for Rich-

mond, but she recognizes other factors. The online marketplace is a killer. A 2,200 square foot storefront is a relic from a bygone era in Vancouver.

Though now a lawyer, there was a time when Richmond’s daughter contemplated taking over the business.

“I said, ‘Don’t even think about it. I wouldn’t wish this upon you.’ It’s hard work and it’s nerve wracking work,” Richmond said.

Talk of the block

After visiting Richmond, the Courier walked the span of the neighbourhood from west to east and spoke to more than a dozen residents and business owners.

They all point to the Safeway closure in 2018 as a mitigating factor in the area’s current decline. The lot covers a massive footprint in the neighbourhood — close to 130,000 square feet — and its assessed value for 2020 is $125 million. What happens to the lot moving forward remains in question. The land is owned by Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada, while BentallGreenOak is the property manager.

“We have been pursuing a path for the long term redevelopment of the lot,” BentallGreenOak spokesperson Rahim Ladha told the Courier in an email.

“Our efforts remain ongoing and we will be sure to inform our stakeholders and members of the public with future updates.”

Directly across the street from the vacant lot, Reg Lee sits in The Diner alongside chef Tom Hodgkinson and four customers. The

58-year-old, all-things-England diner is soon empty and it stays that way for the balance of the Courier’s visit.

Lee expects, and banks on, three days a week where the total take is $60. He can barely pay his staff. Hodgkinson said the most recent property tax bill was about $30,000 for just over 1,000 square feet.

The only saving grace is that Lee’s wife Stella Shurety owns the property.

“Foot traffic is terrible, absolutely. Safeway was what brought people here,” Lee said. “If you don’t own the land here, you’ve had it.

Impossible.”

Less than 10 metres to the east, a large fluorescent sign that says “Drugs” harkens back to old Vancouver.

Inside is Safouh El Rayes, head pharmacist of Point Grey Pharmacy. The next property over has a for lease sign in the window.

El Rayes is not happy — not with his landlord, the city or the province. He’s been in the area since 1992 and the words “used to be” come up in every second sentence: used to be affordable, used to be vibrant.

With a triple net lease in place, El Rayes is paying about $14,000 a month to remain afloat. He’s furious with the “best and highest” use model of assessment that taxes the unoccupied air above his pharmacy.

“Now, tell me what kind of business can survive that? How many prescriptions do you have to fill for that?” El Rayes asks.

“The problem is this: why would you charge me for something above me when there’s nothing above me?

It’s greed.”

Across the street at Varsity Shoe Repair, Victor Tran is seated in his storefront, reading a book.

He brings that point up specifically when the Courier asks how business is. Tran points to a shelving unit normally packed with four shelves worth of shoes. No more than five pairs are on display.

Tran’s been in the neighbourhood for 15 years and his survival is based solely on having no staff. His 530-square-foot space costs him about $25,000 a year.

“I used to be really busy in the wintertime,” Tran said. “Now, as you could see, I was sitting there reading a book.”

Changing demographics

Further west near the intersection of Trimble and West 10th, two storefronts have sat vacant for roughly four years. A pair of medical clinics are closing, which is particularly worrisome for seniors who spoke to the Courier.

Arguably the most ubiquitous Canadian business imaginable, Tim Hortons closed its location at Trimble and West 10th last month after a decade in the neighbourhood.

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Mohammed’s 380 square feet costs him about $2,000 a month. Business is down 10 per cent so far this year.

Mohammed and others who spoke to the Courier for this story suggest there’s been an influx of Asian homeowners in the area who simply prefer to shop elsewhere.

“The big change that’s happened is this crazy, almost uncontrolled redevelopment knocking down all the houses,” added Peter Munns, who’s lived at Tolmie and West Sixth Avenue for four decades.

“The people who are buying them, and I hate to say this, they are Asian and they don’t shop here. So there’s a change in the demographics and how this area works.”

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This graph shows the incremental increase in the percentage of Mandarin speaking residents over a 15-year period in Point Grey. COURTESY OF CITY OF VANCOUVER.

The city’s historical tracking of the area suggests that West Point Grey has 30 per cent more seniors than children as of 2016. Over time, there has been a decline in the population with English origins and an increase of those with Chinese origins. Seventeen per cent of the population has some knowledge of Mandarin, a number that jumped by 12 per cent between 2001 and 2016. Across the rest of Vancouver, that number remained at seven per cent from 2001 to 2011 and increased to 11 per cent in 2016.

Taxes, taxes, taxes

In an interview Monday, Mayor Kennedy Stewart said he’s spoken to members of the BIA and is

aware of the issues facing the small neighbourhood.

More density is needed, along with a commitment to extend the SkyTrain all the way out to UBC. Stewart added that a split assessment model of taxation, one that the province balked at this week, would be a game changer.

The majority of business owners the Courier spoke to lived outside of Vancouver, though Didier Facchin is in the unique position of renting a home and owning a business in West Point Grey. He pays more than $2,000 for an 800 square foot apartment and roughly $6,000 monthly for his 780 square foot coffee shop, the Figaro Café + Bakery.

Located between Trimble and Discovery streets, Fac-

chin’s business has been there for four years.

“The base rent is almost the same as four years ago,” Facchin said. “It’s the taxes — they’ve gone up 40 per cent every year. The rent is not that bad. It’s the commercial taxes.”

Facchin’s business is down 25 per cent since Safeway left. He and his partner have an eightmonth-old son who could likely celebrate his second birthday in another city.

“What we’re paying now, it’s not sustainable,” Facchin said. “We are a young family. I’ve seen it over the last four years with my customers who are young families. They just leave, they don’t stay in Vancouver. It’s not possible.” @JohnKurucz

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Mayor blasts provincial tax relief pitch What was announced by the province Monday as an interim tax relief measure for small business and the arts sector is being panned by City of Vancouver council members and staff as unrealistic, short sighted and simply not doable.

The province’s proposed fix to deal with huge property tax bills and triple net leases is temporary and puts the onus on individual municipalities to debate tax rates across large swaths of the commercial sector.

In Vancouver, that means staff and council would have to make those decisions in a piecemeal fashion across thousands of businesses.

The city’s preference, and the preference of other Lower Mainland municipalities, is for a new property tax class to be created that would ease tax levels on small businesses with undeveloped air above them.

Currently, one and twostorey buildings are hit with property tax bills that reflect the undeveloped potential above them — effectively, a tax on air.

The city wants a separate tax class for those properties specifically, so the tax burden could be lessened and based on a property’s current use rather than its future development potential. It’s a tax model commonly referred to as split assessment.

That’s not what Vancouver got, and Mayor Kennedy Stewart isn’t happy about, nor are some of his fellow councillors.

“There’s a huge gap

favour of the province’s pitch, getting it done in time could be impossible. Bylaw changes are needed by April 22. Having staff draft the bylaw and do the requisite public feedback with the business sector in two months puts the city’s finance staff in a bind.

“It would require literally each municipality to go through thousands of different properties and determine who would be eligible, so [there’s] a lot of room for inequity.

And also administratively, it’s almost impossible to achieve,” NPA Coun. Sarah Kirby-Yung told the Courier Tuesday.

The split assessment model has the backing of a wide range of policy makers: chief financial officers from Vancouver, Burnaby, Coquitlam, North Vancouver, Richmond, Surrey and West Vancouver. It’s also received support from the Lower Mainland chambers of commerce and boards of trade and the B.C. Chamber of Commerce. Several resolutions on the issue have received support from the Union of B.C. Municipalities.

Kirby-Yung likened the tax proposal to the recent introduction of ride hailing.

“When municipalities started going it alone and looking at putting it in, we saw very quickly a patchwork of regulations developing that would have been inconsistent,” she said. “That’s not what we want to achieve here. You want taxation to be predictable and consistent and equitable.”

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The province’s tax proposal includes the following: • a base tax year of 2015 or later to use as comparison to the current taxation year. To put that in perspective, a municipality where property values began to spike in 2017 could choose 2016 as the base year.

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• the increase in value must be to the land, rather than improvements to a building.

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heritage building. Norfolk concluded the proposed tower failed to relate respectfully to both historic buildings.

More than five years and a redesign later — a result of criticism from various groups, individuals, and the city’s Urban Design Panel — Norfolk’s opinion hasn’t changed.

That was clear at a Feb. 18 open house about the revised plans for what Cadillac Fairview is calling “The Crystal at Waterfront Square” and what opponents, including Norfolk, have dubbed Icepick 2.

The redesign still envisions a 26-storey building, but it’s been shifted away from the street and tucked behind Waterfront Station, views to the north are clearer through the building, there’s a public viewing terrace on the fourth floor that’s larger than the building’s floor plate, and there’s a public plaza at street level with the ability to create a future pedestrian and vehicle connection through it to the waterfront.

But Norfolk maintains the tower’s redesign is only “marginally” better than the previous plan, and it’s still inappropriate for the site.

“It’s too big in its relationship in the context of the two heritage buildings either side.

It basically disrespects them,” he told the Courier. “It is far too big. I’m all in favour of a very contemporary design but it is not the right building for that location, as the hub study indicates, in its current form.”

On the waterfront

Norfolk is referring to the City of Vancouver’s Central Waterfront Hub Framework, completed more than a decade ago to guide future planning in the area, which stretches from the Convention Centre to about Carrall Street between Cordova and the waterfront. Aside from Cadillac Fairview, landowners include PavCo, the Port and the Vancouver Whitecaps.

A drawing within the framework document shows an 11-storey building on the site at 555 West Cordova, although it describes the drawing as an “Illustrative Concept Plan” for “illustrative purposes only and that a variety of alternative approaches to the layout and form of development could be considered in further planning work…”

The overall vision outlined in the framework includes an extension of Granville Street to the north and a Cordova connector that would run from Cordova Street north past Cadillac Fairview’s site through the proposed public plaza. The connector may

The redesign of the tower proposed for 555 West Cordova.

not be a conventional road, but such details still have to be worked out through further waterfront planning, which has been re-initiated.

Background technical work is underway, in partnership with the Port and landowners, looking at issues such as sea level rise, local transportation and rail transportation.

The next phase of planning work is expected to begin later this year.

Norfolk is also a member of the Downtown Waterfront Working Group, a group that includes retired planners and architects, some of whom were involved in helping to create the framework. The group has been active in opposing Cadillac Fairview’s plans, questioning its appropriateness and arguing numerous issues need to be worked out, such as the allocation of public, cultural space and greenways, transit expansion requirements, distribution of density, land uses and infrastructure, before any development, including at 555 West Cordova, is permitted in the waterfront area.

“First things first. You’ve got to get the planning right,” Norfolk said.

Kevin McNaney, the City of Vancouver’s director of special projects, which includes the Waterfront Hub planning area, said all landowners in the area have been encouraged to wait until planning is completed, but developers and landowners have property development rights under current zoning and can submit proposals.

“They’re applying under the zoning and we’re obliged to assess the application through the Development Permit Board,” he said.

“But we do think, like everyone does, there’s a bigger vision here. Can this proceed? Yes, it can proceed and we are considering it. It will go to Development Permit Board, but there is more planning to be done.”

Currently, the development application is scheduled to go before the DPB for a decision May 25.

McNaney notes that while the illustrated plan in the Central Waterfront Hub Framework shows an 11-storey building on the

site, “it’s very clear it’s an illustrative plan of one way the hub could be built out.”

“This proposal is not inconsistent with that, but it’s different than the illustrative plan in the study itself. But it was always intended just to be illustrative. It’s suggestive of this is how it might look, and it says right beside it that other configurations can be considered,” he said.

McNaney said the proposal has to stand on its own right and go before bodies including the Urban Design Panel and the heritage commission, of which Norfolk is no longer a member. They will offer advice and then city staff will make recommendations to the Development Permit Board. “They can approve it, they can approve it with conditions, and they can turn it down. It’s at their discretion as the decision-makers from council,” he said.

Case for building now

Tom Knoepfel, senior vice president of the western portfolio for Cadillac Fairview, maintains this is the right time to move forward with the application and that the proposed height is appropriate.

“We feel that 26 storeys works for the site. We are not maxing out our floor space ratio allowance and it’s about creating space that brings jobs to Vancouver. With the location being directly adjacent to our prime transit hub, we think it makes sense to create as much job space as we can,” he said.

Knoepfel added that the building site is part of the Downtown Official Community Plan District and, as such, is permissible.

“Our building doesn’t preclude any work on the hub lands which [are] adjacent to us. That can still proceed. We are providing a road easement to that area as well — our building doesn’t preclude that from happening in the future.”

Knoepfel added that they’ve been involved in “significant” consultation about the project, including a working session with the Urban Design Panel in 2015 and further public consultation in late 2015.

“That’s why you see the

building having shifted further in behind the station and, [we] really focused on the public space, the public plaza. We heard that was very important to people. Now we’re taking what is currently a parking lot and creating a beautiful public space out of it.”

Gordon Gill of the Chicago-based firm Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill Architecture, which designed the tower, believes some past criticisms were valid and he maintains the latest iteration is much improved as a result.

“The comments from the UDP made this building better. Some of the comments that we’ve heard, and the public comments that we received, have made the building better…”

Charles Gauthier, president and CEO of the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association, dropped by the open house to offer support.

The organization backs the overall proposal due to the scarcity of office space.

Gauthier told the Courier 60 per cent of the space in buildings currently under construction, which will come on stream over the next four to five years, has been pre-leased.

“By the time this thing gets through the cycle, it’s going to be three or five years before it’s actually completed and open. So we’re going to need that — there’s so much demand for job space. And, I think, Cadillac Fairview has done an excellent job in terms of taking all the comments that they’ve received in the first go-round,” he said.

“They’ve got a building that’s respectful of the heritage building. We’ve seen this where you’ve got new buildings beside heritage buildings throughout the downtown area.”

Gauthier doesn’t see any reason to delay the project.

“Wait? For how long?

You know, unfortunately, city processes take a long time. Are we going to hold all redevelopment, all development, because we’re waiting for the city to complete a plan? I don’t agree with that approach.”

Norfolk, meanwhile, still wants the proposed building’s scale to be reconsidered and reduced to something more in the range of 11 storeys. He’s hopeful the development application won’t be approved.

“I have every hope that the staff first, and then the Development Permit Board itself, will stick with city policy that the hub study has to be completed before anything is approved for a site in this position,” he said.

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News Overdose calls increase despite drop in deaths Mike Howell

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The number of people who died of a drug overdose in British Columbia in 2019 decreased by 36 per cent from the previous year but emergency calls for overdoses increased by two per cent.

Statistics released Monday by the B.C. Coroners Service at a news conference in Victoria revealed 981 people died of an overdose in the province last year, a decrease from 1,543 in 2018 and 1,495 in 2017.

In Vancouver, 245 people died last year.

At the same time, calls answered by paramedics to overdoses increased by two per cent in 2019 over the average of 24,000 per year, said Lance Stephenson, director of patient care delivery with B.C. Emergency Health Services.

“I can only speculate that we’re doing a better job at saving lives of the people that are overdosing,” said Stephenson, noting that prior to the widespread emergence of fentanyl in 2016, paramedics responded to 10,000 to 12,000 overdose calls per year in the province.

Stephenson said paramedics have been averaging 16 overdose calls per day in B.C. but that increases to 130 per day on welfare cheque day and the days that follow users collecting social assistance.

The conclusion from health experts for the decrease in deaths is that harm reduction measures such as the widespread use of the overdose-reversing drug naloxone, medication-assisted treatment and the opening of drug injection sites helped keep people alive.

In addition, B.C. Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said some drug users have developed a tolerance to fentanyl, the synthetic opioid connected to 85 per cent of the 981 deaths in 2019 and 87 per cent of deaths in 2018.

“As fentanyl flooded the streets, and people were not used to it, we saw a lot of people die — even people who had long-term opioid addictions,” Henry told reporters.

“We do see people who are now dependent on fentanyl, and it’s even more challenging in some cases for people to recover from fentanyl addiction than from other opioid addictions. So the challenge has become worse in many ways.”

A statistic that wasn’t shared Monday and is still being researched is how

Overdose calls in B.C. increased last year, despite a drop in overdose deaths. In Vancouver, 245 people died, a drop from 395 in 2018 and 375 in 2017. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

many overdose survivors now have a long-lasting brain injury or associated injury to almost dying.

The B.C. Centre for Disease Control will soon release data on this unknown statistic, according to Dr. Perry Kendall, who recently retired as provincial health officer, and attended Monday’s news conference.

“We’re only just beginning to really understand the full impact of this emergency and what the long-term effects will be on those who survived,” said Kendall, who is now co-interim executive director at the B.C. Centre on Substance Use. “What we do know already is many hundreds of overdose survivors will need a lifetime of care and the resulting health-socialjustice system supports that we will need will be a tremendous burden on all British Columbians.”

The 981 deaths recorded last year, which are expected to rise once further toxicology reports are completed, almost matches the 990 that occurred in the province in 2016 — the year the provincial government declared a public health emergency.

The 990 deaths recorded that year were a substantial increase from the 529 in 2015 and 369 in 2014. Overdoses killed 334 people in 2013 and 270 in 2012 in B.C. It was on Thanksgiving Day in 2014 in Vancouver when the presence of fentanyl became a widespread concern to health experts.

That’s when the opioid was detected in an unusually high number of overdoses at the Insite supervised injection site on East Hastings.

The Courier asked Kendall in a telephone interview after the news conference whether the reduction in overdose deaths last year is at all connected to the fact there are now fewer drug users in the province.

The question was based on the fact that more than 5,000 people died in B.C. of a drug overdose between 2016 and 2019, with Vancouver seeing the highest

number of deaths.

The B.C. Centre for Disease Control, using data from 2015, estimated the number of injection drug users in Vancouver at 8,500 people.

Province-wide estimates were not available at press time.

“That’s a good question, the answer is we don’t really know,” said Kendall, although he added that it is likely among the factors that explain a decrease in deaths, but not the major reason.

Judy Darcy, the Minister of Mental Health and Addictions, said the decrease in deaths is encouraging, but acknowledged the government has to continue with its initiatives to reduce the death toll.

“We still saw 981 people die last year — that’s two or three people every single day in British Columbia,” she told reporters in a news conference separate from the release of the overdose death statistics.

“We are not giving up, we are not slowing down. This is still a public health emergency and our overdose response as a government will continue firing on all cylinders.”

She said the combination of naloxone, injection sites and medication-assisted treatment — where 3,500 people have been prescribed opioid agonist treatment since July 2017 — are among the reasons that averted more than 5,000

deaths since the crisis began.

Darcy said calls to decriminalize drugs is a decision that can only be taken by the federal government.

On the call for a “safe supply” of drugs, the minister said the B.C. government has significantly scaled up access to prescription alternatives to street drugs.

“We hope to be making an announcement soon with the federal government about increased access to other forms of safe prescription medications,” she said.

At Monday’s news conference, Chief Coroner Lisa Lapointe said 747 of the 981 who died last year were men, between 30 and 60 years old, and 234 were women.

They ranged in age from 13 to 76.

Lapointe shared brief stories of some of those who died, including a 42-year-old woman who was living with a mental illness and addiction.

“She was found deceased in the living room of her home by her child,” said Lapointe, noting toxicology tests confirmed fentanyl and amphetamines were detected in her blood.

“She is survived and grieved by her husband and two children.”

Added Lapointe: “Those who died of drug toxicity this year are more than statistics. They’re people, they were loved, they had hopes and dreams and challenges just like the rest of us.”

Meanwhile, the First Nations Health Authority is expected to release data in the coming weeks about the impact the overdose crisis is having on Indigenous peoples in B.C. Data released in August 2017 showed Indigenous peoples are three times more likely to die from a drug overdose than a non-First Nations person and five times more likely to overdose.

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Japan Food Fair

Send your tastebuds on a trip to Japan without leaving Vancouver, thanks to the annual Japan Food Fair.

Hosted by the Vancouver Buddhist Temple, this spring bazaar-style event features heaps of traditional Japanese fare such as maki (roll) sushi, nigiri sushi, chicken teriyaki, ohagi (sweet sticky rice balls), manju (Japanese steamed cake), udon noodles and more, all at affordable prices. Admission is free, and the event is family-friendly.

Organizers suggest showing up early, as tables fill up fast.

When: March 1, noon to 2 p.m.

Where: Vancouver Buddhist Temple, 220 Jackson Ave. vancouverbuddhisttemple.com

Singin’ In My Soul

The power of gospel music together with the magnificent sound of 130 impassioned singers is sure to spark joy and gladness as Good Noise Vancouver Gospel Choir presents its annual Black History Month concert.

“Singin’ In My Soul” will feature music ranging from powerful arrangements of traditional spirituals to contemporary gospel music.

When: Feb. 29 at 7:30 p.m.

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Who let the dogs out?

YOU did, of course, because you and your fourlegged friend are taking part in Vancouver’s Biggest Dog Meet-Up. It’s the eighth installation of the ongoing event — and the first of 2020 — that finds all dogs and their people invited to gather to enjoy each other’s company. “Bring all the dogs, no dogs left behind,” say organizers.

When: March 1, noon to 4 p.m.

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Vegan Week

Here in Vancouver it’s pretty easy to live that plantbased life, thanks to restaurants that either specialize in vegan eats or the many that offer vegan-friendly dishes. Now a few of our popular veg-centric eateries have signed on to take part in the city’s inaugural Vegan Week. It’s an initiative out of Portland, Ore. that aims to get more people out and trying vegan food available across the city. You’ll find Vegan Week offerings at Vancouver’s Nuba, Beetbox, Tacofino, Old Bird and Bandidas Taqueria.

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Why it took Rob Nesbitt 25 years to complete his new album

Victoria rocker puts decades’ worth of teen angst, unrequited love and obsession into epic concept album Grant Lawrence

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If you blinked in the early 1990s, you might have easily missed the flash of power pop brilliance that was Bum, a hugely underrated four-piece rock band from Victoria. In 1993, they released their debut album, Wanna Smash Sensation. It is absolutely one of the greatest records I’ve ever heard in my 30 years of music journalism.

All four members of the band were pure talents, but it was Bum member Rob Nesbitt, guitarist, co-lead singer and one of the principal songwriters, who was arguably the tortured genius/ Brian Wilson of the band.

Within a year of the release of that classic debut, Nesbitt left Bum, shocking fans from B.C. to Barcelona (Bum was and probably still are huge in Spain, the one place on Earth they were truly appreciated).

Ever since, Nesbitt has been working on a solo album. That record finally came out in January. Entitled Mine Would Be The Sun, it was released under the artist name The Suitesixteen. It is Nesbitt’s magnum opus — searing, propulsive, emotional and highly melodic power pop, combining the best of Cheap Trick, the Descendents and Bum, released in a unique triple gatefold,

double vinyl package that comes complete with a 50page book and beautiful photography. Nesbitt performs all the vocals and most of the guitars on the record.

And like past concept albums of infatuation, such as the Who’s Quadrophenia or Joel Plaskett’s Ashtray Rock, Nesbitt’s Mine Would Be The Sun dives deep into teenage angst and first love, Maple Ridge style, where Nesbitt spent his teen years obsessing over a girl who quickly moved on. Nesbitt never did. Until now.

Congratulations on this release. It’s an awesome record, but why did it take 25 years to make?

Every aspect of this piece — from writing, production, art direction, selection of specialty paper stock, writing and rewriting the book — all of it was given as much attention possible. I’ve spent most of my musical life on the punk side of the fence, which comes with limitations. Some are financial.

You have no money — and studio time is expensive. So you rush. You settle for takes or sounds that might not be the best because the clock is ticking. I grew up obsessed with records like Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours and Def Leppard’s Pyromania — albums that took a solid

is to understand and express this in a cogent manner.

I’ve never seen anything quite like the physical packaging of this project. What inspired it?

Rob Nesbitt spent 25 years working on his new album, Mine Would Be The Sun, under the guise of The Suitesixteen. PHOTO WENDY NESBITT

year of work to complete. I believed you could hear the care and attention to detail in the final product and so it became my dream to work on something career-defining that took as long as it took to get it right. With Mine Would Be The Sun I did that.

I read that you spent your life savings on this record. Is that true?

Close to it, yeah. A lot of studio time, ferries, hotels, gear, hiring drummers… that money is gone. Then the design of the packaging began. There is no way to tally the cost of this. It can’t be done. Too many hours.

There is a dollar amount that could compensate me, but I won’t ever see it.

Why is this particular project so deeply important to you?

Without my knowing it, writing songs about this girl was a way for me to understand what happened in our relationship and why.

I wanted to be healed and this was self-therapy, essentially. But as the project grew in scale, I realized I was talking about the nature of love itself. People tend to dismiss adolescent emotional experiences, or at least diminish them. I feel the opposite. During that time of life one is on the precipice of everything for the first time. First time experiences are almost always the most impactful, the most formative. I feel that the very reason for my being

This was originally planned as a hardcover book with records glued into the covers.

Once I began researching, I found that no one in North America could produce what I was looking for, so the book had to morph. I was adamant that the package be a selfcontained thing: all the parts had to sit together and not become separated. I ended up with the triple gatefold sleeve. Nothing quite like it has ever been done. In the end, it probably would have been cheaper to get those books made.

You’ve done a deep dive into a one-sided teenage romance from 35 years ago.

What does your wife of 25 years think of your lifelong obsession with another woman?

My wife Wendy — who did the photography for this record — is an incredible woman. I told her about this “problem” on our first date.

It was the subject of 98 per cent of my songs in Bum. The ghost of this other person drifted through every corner of our relationship.

But Wendy is kind and she

loves me. My music makes her cry — not because she is jealous or hurt by my feelings for this THING I’ve been grappling with for most of my life. She cries because she knows me and it hurts her to hear and see how deep this wound went.

On the flipside, what does Rhona, the woman who is the subject of this project, think of all this?

She doesn’t seem to have any real interest, which I get — this relationship meant WAY more to me than it did to her. It must seem kind of creepy on some level but I don’t think she’s troubled by it. With all my heart, I hope not. The creation of this thing cured me of — again — a “wound” that I was desperate for decades to be free of. I made this music as a part intellectual examination/ part exorcism. I intensely re-lived these moments from my past as I created the music and the book. Mine Would Be The Sun made me live in that moment to free me from it.

Mine Would Be The Sun is limited to 500 physical copies and is not available in stores. To purchase a copy for $60 before shipping, go to the Suitesixteen’s Facebook or Bandcamp page.

••• A longer version of this story is at vancourier.com.

UBC musuem and Musqueam explore nature and culture… digitally Beaty Biodiversity Museum exhibit receives Governor General’s History Award Drew Clarke

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An exhibit at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum at the University of B.C. has received the Governor General’s History Award for Excellence in Museums. The exhibit, Sturgeon Harpoon Knowledge Web, is a collaboration between the museum and the Musqueam First Nation, and explores the interconnectedness between nature, culture, language and technology.

The museum is perhaps best known for its 82 foot blue whale skeleton — the largest in Canada — which hangs at the entrance to the underground bunker containing more than two million natural history specimens.

The Sturgeon Harpoon exhibit relies less on physical specimens, and exists mostly in the digital realm, with online interactive elements and

virtual reality checkpoints within the museum.

The only two physical specimens in the exhibit are unique, in that the public can actually touch them.

“These are our first unsupervised, touchable exhibits at the museum,” says exhibits manager Yukiko Stranger-Galey, gesturing to a display of reeds. “There’s so many different ways of learning and they say that touch and smell can trigger memories.”

She runs her fingers across the reed’s rough surface, which is covered in microscopic silica crystals.

“This scouring rush was used like sandpaper in the process of making the sturgeon harpoon.”

The harpoon is a traditional Musqueam fishing tool which has not been built or used for generations, due to a self-imposed moratorium on harvesting

Yukiko Stranger-Galey, exhibits manager at UBC’s Beaty Biodiversity Museum. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

sturgeon. The fish, which was declared a species at risk in 1994, is the largest freshwater species in North America. It can grow up to six metres long, weigh up to 600 kilograms and live to more than 100 years.

A 35-foot-long sturgeon harpoon has been created

by Morgan Guerin, and will eventually be on display

in the exhibition, once it clears the museum’s strict quarantine process. Guerin, who is a fisheries officer and elected councillor for the Musqueam, built the tool by drawing upon the oral history of his band.

For the purposes of the exhibition, the harpoon functions as a window into an interconnected web

of knowledge. “We took the harpoon as our starting point, and from there, picked a few species to illustrate the connections between culture, technology and language,” says Stranger-Galey.

The ongoing exhibition will act as an extension and evolution of oral history for both the Musqueam and the wider public.

“This is a living exhibition, which we’ll continue to add to,” says StrangerGaley. “We hope that over time, other Musqueam knowledge-keepers will have information they wish to share, to help build this digital repository.”

Visitors to the museum can also use their digital devices to access an interactive, virtual element of the exhibit. At two locations in the museum, users can peer through the screens of their phones or tablets to glimpse

a 360 degree view of a natural environment.

The first location transports the viewer to a heavily wooded forest, the second to the bottom of a river, filled with salmon, sea lions and, you guessed it, sturgeon. Hovering just above one of the sturgeon is the tip of a harpoon, and if visitors tilt their phone or tablet screens up, they can see the surface of the river, the bottom of a canoe and the fisherman on the other end of the harpoon.

“It’s amazing to think that there could be a sturgeon in the river right now that was alive a hundred years ago,” says StrangerGaley. “Imagine the memories they might hold.”

The Beaty Biodiversity Museum is located at 2212 Main Mall, University of British Columbia. More info at beatymuseum.ubc.ca. @DrewClarkeBC

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A Typical Fairytale isn’t a typical fairytale.

Sure, the locally produced short film ticks many of the boxes we’re used to seeing in proto-Disney fairytales: a king and queen in love, a princess in crisis, a fairy godmother, a narrative arc is recounted in rhyming couplets by a kindly, disembodied voice.

But while A Typical Fairytale looks and sounds like other fairytales we’ve seen play out on screen before, it isn’t — because once upon a time, a group of Vancouverites decided to produce a transgender fairytale.

And in this particular fairytale, “happily ever after” doesn’t require any slaying of dragons, love’s first kiss, or reinforcement of gender norms. It means loving your child, and giving them the freedom to live their truth.

“There are so many tropes to play with in the fairytale world,” says Annette Reilly.

Reilly directed, produced and co-stars in A Typical Fairytale, which was written by Jessica McLeod and screens March 6 at the 2020 Vancouver International Women in Film Festival. “Fairytales can be problematic, especially what they teach young girls. This film went beyond that [concept of] happily ever after and continued that story in the real world.”

A Typical Fairytale tells the story of Sherry (Reilly), Larry (Brendan Taylor), and their child, Princess (Ameko Eks Mass Carroll). Princess grows up insisting that she’s a boy, but her protests only cause conflict with her parents. It takes a visit from a fairy godmother (Amy Fox) for the family to find harmony and for Princess to

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Reilly said she knew she had to direct McLeod’s script as soon as she read it. She found beauty in the rhyming couplets, and the fact that this type of story hadn’t before been told in the fairytale realm. She saw the potential for it to touch people — especially trans kids and their families.

“I grew up in Alberta knowing nothing about any of this,” says Reilly. “I’m queer, but I didn’t have the language to figure out what that meant.

I never really felt like my sexuality or my preferences mattered. It’s only been in the last five or six years that I’ve had the language and started meeting people and working within more queer and LGBTQ communities.”

Reilly and co. found their lead child in Carroll. In 2017, Carroll — who is gender-fluid — made history as the first potential nominee in both the male and female categories at the Leo Awards for a starring role in the short film Limina.

For the pivotal role of the fairy godmother, Reilly cast Fox, who’d created and starred in The Switch, the first sitcom on the planet to feature a transgender lead.

“Amy walked into the audition and had this absurd quirkiness and playfulness,” says Reilly. “What really hit me — I get goose-bumps remembering it — was when she said the words, ‘[Gender’s] not something a doctor decides.’ It was so deep and so connected that I might as well have just told her right there that she was cast.”

A Typical Fairytale has been riding the film festival circuit since its premiere in 2018.

Reilly says the feedback has been mostly positive. “[But] I’ve noticed a very big lack of festival acceptances in certain areas of the world. I find the biggest support in our festival run has been the west coast of Canada and the States, a little bit in New York, Toronto — definitely the more progressive areas.

“I think it’s a matter of opening people to compassion for other humans, and opening hearts,” she adds.

“What we can do is educate. We can send out these messages of love.”

The 2020 Vancouver International Women in Film Festival runs March 3 to 8 at Vancity Theatre. Tickets and schedule at viwff.ca.

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March Madness: Markstrom’s injury comes at exactly the wrong time Canucks face their toughest stretch of the season next month

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By their standards, the Canucks have been very fortunate when it comes to injuries this season. While they’ve had some long-term injuries, they’ve mostly avoided injuries to their top players. That’s particularly true on defence, where the oft-injured Chris Tanev has played every game this season.

Their most significant injury came to Brock Boeser, a rib cartilage fracture that is expected to keep him out of the lineup for the rest of the regular season. The Canucks covered for that injury with the trade for Tyler Toffoli, a capable top-six winger that should be able to fill in the hole left by Boeser and improve the team significantly when Boeser returns.

On Monday, however, Canucks Nation got news of an injury that could change the course of the season: Jacob Markstrom could be out of the lineup for three to four weeks with a knee injury.

It couldn’t come at a worse time, as the Canucks are about to embark on their most difficult stretch of the season, a mad March that will likely decide their playoff fate.

The Canucks have had a fairly easy schedule over the past couple months.

They’ve had just two sets of back to back games in the last two months and had the bye week in January to help them stay well-rested. Their toughest month was November, and it showed in their record, going 5-7-3.

While the Canucks played 15 games in 30 days in November, March is just that extra bit tougher: 16 games in 30 days.

The first game of the month will be the second game of a back-to-back weekend.

That sets the tone for three more backto-backs during the month of March. At one point near the end of the month, the Canucks will play six games in just nine nights, a mix of home and road games that could clinch them the playoffs or send them teetering to the edge of the Wild Card race.

What makes these March games even more significant is that half of their games are within the Pacific Division. They’ll play two games against the Arizona Coyotes that could decide the Coyotes playoff fate, and also games against the Calgary Flames and Vegas Golden Knights. These will be crucial games — sometimes referred to as four-point games — for determining where the Canucks finish in the Pacific Division standings.

While some of the Canucks don’t like to

Stick-taps & Glove-drops • A tap of the stick to Troy Stecher, who was thrilled when he didn’t get traded on Monday. “I’m a lifelong Canucks fan and they have no Stanley Cup,” said Stecher to reporters in Montreal. “I think it would be really cool to bring a Stanley Cup to Vancouver. That’s part of my bucket list as a hockey player.”

• A stick-tap to Louis Domingue’s father,

who drove from his home near Montreal to bring his son his old blue and white goalie gear from the Tampa Bay Lightning so he wouldn’t look out of place among the Canucks with his red and black Devils’ gear.

Big Numbers • 42 Dale Tallon had 42 assists as a rookie

If Jacob Markstrom is only out for a brief period of time and can return mid-March, it might not be a problem, but if not, the Canucks face a difficult challenge. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

think too far ahead when it comes to the schedule, others are well aware of the upcoming challenge. Quinn Hughes, who will play twice as many games this season as he did in college hockey last season, knows that he needs to prepare carefully.

“In March when you play 16 games, it’s gonna wear on everyone here, especially me,” said Hughes. “I’m just gonna have to figure that out.”

The bigger issue for the Canucks is the loss of Markstrom. If Markstrom is only out for a brief period of time and can return mid-March, it might not be a problem, but if not, the Canucks face a difficult challenge.

The Canucks believe in Thatcher Demko, but with the heavy schedule, including four back-to-backs, the Canucks need two trustworthy goaltenders, not just one.

“Our team has confidence in [Demko],”

said Canucks GM Jim Benning on Monday. “This is an opportunity for him to step in and play like he’s played for us all year.

It’s not a perfect situation but it is what it is and it’s going to be a great opportunity for Thatcher.”

Along with the opportunity for Demko comes the need to give starts to Louis Domingue, who the Canucks picked up at the trade deadline. While Domingue has NHL experience, he’s struggled with the New Jersey Devils this season, with an ugly .882 save percentage.

“He is a player with experience that can come in and help support Thatcher,” said Benning, “and he can play games for us and be competitive if we need him.”

The Canucks have to hope that’s true or March Madness could quickly turn to sadness for Canucks fans.

defenceman in the Canucks’ first season, a record that still stands, albeit temporarily.

Quinn Hughes had 41 assists heading into Tuesday’s game against the Montreal Canadiens.

• 88 According to HockeyViz.com, the

Canucks had an 88 per cent chance of making the playoffs coming out of the trade deadline, the fifth-best odds in the Western Conference.

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