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Will homelessness go up or down this year in Vancouver?

Mike Howell

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Another year, another homeless count.

This week, hundreds of volunteers in Vancouver and across the region will be counting homeless people over a 24-hour period.

They’ll also speak to the homeless interested in answering a survey about how long they’ve been on the street, where they last lived in a home and the state of their health.

People living in shelters, recreation vehicles and cars will also be counted.

A few months ago, I asked Mayor Kennedy Stewart and Housing Minister Selina Robinson to predict whether this year’s count in the city would find less, more or the same number of people without a home.

Neither politician would make a prediction.

That’s probably because the trend is against them, with homelessness in Vancouver reaching an all-time high last year, with 2,223 people counted over two

days last March.

That statistic always comes with an asterisk. City officials believe the number of people counted each year is an undercount, with up to 20 per cent of homeless not reflected in the total.

City reports show the number of homeless people counted in Vancouver in 2005 was 1,364, then climbed to 1,847 in 2016. The 2,000mark was first reached in 2017 and has incrementally increased since then.

Some argue the numbers have shot up because the general population in the city has grown. The facts are the general population has not increased at the pace that homelessness has in Vancouver.

Some argue most of the homeless people in Vancouver have come from other parts of the country and are attracted to the city’s climate, its resources for poor people and getting a chance at subsidized housing.

The facts are last March’s report on the count showed that a total of 81 per cent of 1,183 homeless people who

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agreed to a survey said they were living in Vancouver when they lost their home.

Of the 19 per cent who weren’t living in Vancouver, 41 were from elsewhere in Metro Vancouver, 72 in other parts of B.C. and 70 outside of B.C. Anyway, the main argument people fighting on behalf of the homeless generally make is that all three levels of government aren’t doing enough to address the problem.

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cial and city governments have for several years built supportive housing buildings, renovated single-room occupancy hotels, turned former hotels into temporary housing, opened year-round shelters and increased rent supplements.

Over the last few years, a total of 11 temporary modular housing sites opened in Vancouver. That includes the city’s first site at Main and Terminal, which opened in February 2017.

Another 58-unit complex

is under development on Copley Street and should open this month. That will mean more than 700 homes have come on stream in less than three years.

Still, homelessness persists.

Provincial and city politicians have pointed to the federal government, saying it needs to get back in the housing game to make real progress in the fight against homelessness.

Some may recall that then-federal housing minister Jean-Yves Duclos was in Vancouver in November 2017 to unveil a $40-billion, 10-year national housing strategy that aims to reduce chronic homelessness by 50 per cent in Canada.

It remained unclear to me at deadline how that translates to Vancouver.

But add it all up — the new buildings, the modular housing, the feds’ commitment, etcetera— and Vancouver and the region should be, or should have been, on its way to moving people off the street.

The drivers, however, of homelessness are still very

much in play: substance abuse and mental health issues, young people aging out of foster care, traumatic life events and chronic poverty mixed with a low vacancy rate, high rents and the loss of single-room occupancy hotels such as the closure of the Balmoral and Regent hotels.

For the first time since Stewart became mayor, he will participate in this year’s homeless count. I wanted to tag along with him, but his office declined my request.

I hope to speak to Stewart after the count to see if his experience on the streets has him any closer to making a prediction about whether homelessness will increase this year.

No matter what he says, we’ll have to wait until preliminary results of the count are released later this year to understand the statistical state of the city’s homelessness in 2020.

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Heron colony returns to Stanley Park for 20th year in a row Online Heron Cam gives the public a bird’s eye view of the resident Pacific Great Blue heron colony Jessica Kerr

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The Stanley Park herons have returned for the 20th consecutive year in the park.

The Pacific Great Blue herons began returning to the stand of trees next to the Vancouver Park Board office in late February.

According to the park board, last year there were an estimated 82 active nests in the colony, three fewer than in 2018. However, those 82 nests resulted in 112 fledglings, 14 more than the year before.

The Stanley Park colony is one of the largest urban colonies in North America.

“The number of active nests and fledglings raised last year is consistent with previous years indicating the nesting site is favourable to the herons’ breeding success,” park board chair Camil Dumont said in a press release.

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In previous years, the first eggs were spotted by the end of March, with the first hatchlings emerging a month later. Heron fledglings usually leave after 60 days, or eight to nine weeks from hatching.

This year, the park board will offer a moderated Facebook Live Q&A, where Stanley Park Ecology Society staff will answer questions about the herons.

SPES will set up a weekly in-person interpretation station at the colony to answer questions and share colony news. Those interested can follow the park board and SPES pages on Facebook to receive updates.

The herons are longtime residents of Stanley Park. The first documented breeding in the park was in 1921 near Brockton Point. They moved into the current location in 2001.

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Updates to the City’s Rental Housing Programs and C-2 Zoning On November 26, 2019, City Council approved the Secured Rental Policy: Incentives for New Rental Housing. The policy approved by Council directed staff to: • Prepare zoning changes to allow mixed-use rental housing development up to six storeys in some commercial areas (C-2 zoning); and • Prepare new standard rental zones to make rezoning for rental housing in limited low density areas faster and easier.

These proposed changes would not apply in recently approved community plan areas (e.g.

Grandview-Woodland, Cambie Corridor, Marpole) and areas where planning programs are underway (e.g. Broadway).

Other minor changes are proposed to C-2 commercial areas, city-wide (including in community plan areas), to enhance retail space and to align strata and rental development regulations.

To learn more about the recently approved rental policy changes and proposed zoning changes to encourage rental housing and share your thoughts, please join us at one of our information sessions or visit our website.

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Residents’ group feeling blue about four-storey rental buildings in Kits Pro-housing group considers measures ‘far too modest’ noconnor@vancourier.com

Blue flagging tape and blue signs. These are the ingredients of a West Kitsilano Residents Association campaign pushing back against upcoming regulation changes city staff have drawn up to help implement rental development policies council adopted last November.

City staff are holding information sessions starting this week outlining the policies and to seek feedback on the regulation changes required to enable them.

Among them are zoning changes to permit buildings up to six storeys in some commercial mixed-use zones (C-2 zoning), which would mean proposals for rental buildings of that height in those areas wouldn’t need to go through a rezoning process, speeding up development times.

The changes would only apply to commercial areas that haven’t already been touched by community plans or where plans are underway.

The idea is to make it as easy to build a rental building as it is to construct a strata building.

Members of West Kitsilano Residents Association (WKRA), meanwhile, are worried about regulation changes aimed at encouraging four-to-five storey rental developments in low-density areas currently zoned for single-family and duplex homes (RS or RT zoning).

The changes would affect properties that are on or within 150 metres of arterial roads, and within walking distance (400 metres) of transit, shopping, parks and schools. They’re also limited to parts of the city that don’t have community plans or

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where plans are underway.

Up to six storeys could be considered for properties with frontage on arterials such as Fraser Street, as long as they include 20 per cent of the floor area for households earning under $80,000 a year. As with the previous policy, all projects proposed for low-density transition areas would still need to go through individual rezoning processes.

Members of West Kitsilano Residents Association are marking streets that would be affected in their neighbourhood with signs urging residents to share concerns with city hall.

Jan Pierce, a member of WKRA, says the plans affect a large number of homes in the West Kitsilano neighbourhood’s RT-7 and RT-8 character-area zones, many of which house affordable rental suites.

The association estimates about 40 per cent of the West Kits neighbourhood would be impacted since several arterial roads pass through the area such as West Fourth and Macdonald Street.

“When that [rental] report came down [in November], it wasn’t an actual rezoning at that moment.

It’s a policy. So there’s been no neighbourhood consultation and there was no notification of residents,” Pierce said. “That’s when we decided that it really was a priority to inform the people living in the area just what was being proposed.”

(The review of the city’s rental incentives programs did include public consultation.)

The association has

launched what it calls a “Blue Zone” campaign to air its concerns. Members have posted dozens of signs around the neighbourhood, although some have been torn down and had to be replaced.

“We believe there are going to be some really harmful and unintended consequences,” Pierce said, citing the potential loss of character homes, greenspace, mature trees and affordable rental suites.

“Our housing survey shows that there’s about between 800 to 1,300 rental units in the affected streets.

Those rental houses are going to be the most vulnerable to land assembly and redevelopment,” she said.

“The units that are going to go in, they might be market rental — they’re going to be more expensive, smaller and not of the same type. They won’t be as grounded-oriented, and as family-oriented. There are many renters out there, and I’ve spoken to some of them, [who are] really, really worried that they’re going to lose their homes and be evicted.”

Not surprisingly, Abundant Housing Vancouver [AHV], takes the opposite view about the potential for more rental apartment buildings in the city.

While the pro-housing group isn’t plastering the city with posters, it is running an online campaign urging its supporters to show up at the city’s upcoming information sessions and tell the city it’s not going far enough with changes. The group insists six-storey apartments should be allowed “any-

h where within 400 metres of a schools, parks, commercial and transit nodes — not just near the busiest mostpolluted streets.” The group also argues less parking should be required.

Owen Brady, a member C AHV, calls rental policies for RS and RT zones “a small e step in the right direction” w but they’re “far too modest.” a “Given that a rezoning a will still be required, only r four storeys allowed and a only very close to major roads, it’s unlikely that manya rental homes will actually p get built. This will not do e enough to relieve the pres- h sure on existing apartments o as most land in the city will still be reserved exclusively m for millionaires. Single-fam- c ily zoning is intended to be w exclusionary; forcing people t to live near busy, polluted fi roads is not compatible with our values as a city,” he told q b the Courier in an email.

“Those who are fear-mon- t gering about transition zones are the same groups that said allowing duplexes would be a ‘chainsaw massacre.’ Well, it’s been a year and duplexes are still just a small share of permits. The problem renters face is real though: the City is 48 per cent behind on their rental housing target and these policy changes are small, especially compared to the scale of the housing shortage.”

Meanwhile, City of Vancouver staff note that the changes for low-density transition areas, which are illustrated on a city map, aren’t that different from what’s in the Affordable Housing Choices Interim Rezoning Policy enacted in 2012.

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Courier nominated for eight community newspaper awards

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Eight is enough as Vancouver Courier writers, photographers and videographers nabbed an impressive number of nominations for the 2019 BCYCNA Ma Murray Awards.

The B.C. Yukon Community Newspaper Awards celebrate excellence amongst its member newspapers, and have hosted the Ma Murray Awards for almost a century. The winners will be announced at a gala held at the River Rock Casino Resort on April 25.

Among the nominees, Vancouver Shakedown columnist Grant Lawrence received the nod for Arts and Culture Writing for his feature “Thirty years ago, the Cambie was a rite

of passage for Vancouver’s indie rock scene.”

Courier reporter John Kurucz is nominated in the Business Writing category for “Independent garages disappearing amid skyrocketing industrial land prices.”

Kurucz is also nominated for Feature Series for his ongoing reporting on art space closures across the city.

Reporter Mike Howell is also a double nominee. He’s nominated in the Feature Writing category for “One year later, meet the people still living in Downtown Eastside’s Oppenheimer Park.”

Howell is also nominated for the John Collison Memorial Award for Investigative Journalism for his story “From the jungles of Colombia to Oppenheimer

Park, Texas murder suspect living in Downtown Eastside tent city.”

The Courier was also recognized for its work in the digital realm.

Editor Michael Kissinger is nominated in the Breaking News Video category for his video on the spinning chandelier installation under the Granville Bridge.

Kissinger and photographer Dan Toulgoet are also nominated in the Multimedia Story category for “Mural artists bring colour to Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.”

The entire Vancouver Courier crew is also nominated in the Multimedia Series category for the print and online project “Vancouver From Above.”

For a full list of nominees, go to bccommunitynews.com.

Courier writers, photographers and videographers are nominated for eight B.C. Yukon Community Newspaper awards, including best Multimedia Story for “Mural artists bring colour to Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.” PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Plans part of city’s ‘big moves’ to lessen reliance on vehicles Continued from previous page It allowed for consideration of rental projects within roughly a block and a half or 100 metres of an arterial road. Analysis revealed, however, that 100 metres didn’t generally align with a block and a half, which meant potentially allowing consideration for a rezoning on half of a block and not the other half.

“The reason the new map looks blockier and chunkier is [because] what we’ve said is either the entire block qualifies because it falls within 150 metres or none of it qualifies because the entire block does not fall within that distance,” explained

planner Graham Anderson.

“So the old map looks very clean and linear because it just applied a very standard buffer alongside each of the arterials. The new one looks chunkier because the block is either in or out, so it makes the map look a little different.”

Senior planner Paula Huber said the plans relate to the city’s “big moves” on climate change, one of which is to create a more walkable city by putting more people where they can get from their homes to jobs, schools and parks more easily by walking or transit, and rely less on private vehicles.

She acknowledged West Kitsilano features some

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RT-7 and RT-8 zones, and some sites in those areas would be eligible for apartments under changed regulations, but there’s also a concentration of pre-1940s homes in Kensington-Cedar Cottage.

“What we’re doing is we’re having another look at those two areas to see exactly how many of those RT sites are captured and whether that opportunity is worthwhile including or whether they should be excluded,” Huber said.

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Anderson added that the map is intended to serve as a general illustration of the types of locations across the city where the policy would enable consideration of rezoning.

“It isn’t meant to be a specific identifier that would absolutely determine eligibility or not. There’s

a range of considerations that, of course, would have to be looked at for any site proposed for rezoning under the policy. The map is really just a communication tool to help everyone understand where, generally, it applies city-wide,” he said.

City of Vancouver information sessions are sched-

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Public hearings are required for the regulations changes for the low-density transition areas, and for the zoning changes for the C-2 (commercial) zones. They are expected to take place later this spring. @naoibh

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Police uncover cache of weapons in Oppenheimer Park

Nine guns, more than 30 knives, machetes, axes all found Feb. 25 John Kurucz

Sgt. Aaron Roed said in a news release.

The weapons were found in plain sight within a communal tent in the park. The tent’s occupant has not been identified.

VPD investigators are now analyzing the cache to determine which weapons are real versus replicas.

Officers were in the area responding to a 9-1-1 call about a domestic dispute in progress in the park, inside a tent.

All in, the VPD’s haul included:

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A cache of weaponry large enough to fuel a massive, armed confrontation was found by police in Oppenheimer Park Feb. 25.

The haul included nine guns, more than 30 knives, two machetes, two axes, a hunting bow, several air rifles and a replica uzi.

“This is a unique seizure because of the size of the stash of weapons in this one location,” Vancouver Police Department spokesperson

• one airsoft Glock handgun • one SKS rifle • one airsoft AR-15 • two 6mm handguns • one silver revolver • suspected replica Uzi • suspected replica rifle receiver • one rifle butt stock sawed off

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• more than a dozen propane tanks • drugs, including powders, pills and liquids • multiple bicycles.

The remaining weapons and drugs are in police custody and will be destroyed.

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Too much talk, not enough action as schools fill to capacity 229 kindergarten students currently waiting for a space in a Vancouver school Tracy Sherlock

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Hundreds of families in Vancouver are scrambling this month, after their kindergarten-aged children didn’t get into their neighbourhood schools.

In 12 of the city’s central schools, there simply isn’t enough room, and parents have to enter a lottery for a kindergarten space.

As of March 2, there were 229 kindergarten students waiting for a space in a Vancouver school.

Brent Toderian, who worked as the chief planner for the city of Vancouver from 2006 to 2012, didn’t win a space for his son, Alexander.

The car-free family made a conscious choice to live in a dense neighbourhood, where everything they need would be in walking distance, including the school.

“The irony of having the one thing that hasn’t worked for that is the school across the street is particularly frustrating and heartbreaking,” Toderian said.

They live near Crosstown elementary — a school that is full, despite being only three years old. Toderian was told 105 kids signed up for 60 spaces.

The full schools are mostly in the city centre —

downtown or in the area surrounding Olympic Village. Many schools in less dense areas have plenty of space. As the city changes and densifies, the anomaly is intensifying. In 2014, there were six full schools, today there are 12.

Every student who lives in Vancouver will eventually be offered a space in a Vancouver school, Vancouver School Board chairperson Janet Fraser said. Siblings get first priority, and this year, all siblings got in to their catchment schools.

Toderian is a consultant to cities around the world and says Vancouver is an “international success story” at getting families to move downtown. The city has done this by requiring developers to build two and three-bedroom condos, building playgrounds and other strategies, Toderian said.

“Other cities would kill to have families downtown,” he said.

But Vancouver’s strategy may have been a tad too successful, too soon, considering the school space crunch. Although given that Elsie Roy elementary, a Yaletown school, has had a wait list for more than a decade, there really has been plenty of time to figure this out.

Former chief planner Brent Toderian recently learned his son was not accepted into Crosstown elementary, despite living within walking distance of the school. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Many students on wait lists will eventually get a place in their neighbourhood school, because some of the students who were accepted will decide to go to French immersion or another “choice” program, or to go to school in another neighbourhood for childcare.

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“We are property rich and cash poor,” she said.

“It’s very unusual for a school district to build and own its own school.”

That’s because building schools is a provincial government responsibility.

But the VSB has already committed to spend its own money on a new school for Coal Harbour and a new, expanded Roberts Annex in the West End. The district was only able to get the money to do so by selling the land underneath the existing Roberts Annex to B.C. Hydro for a new substation, for an undisclosed sum in 2018. At that time, the VSB was told the province didn’t anticipate funding any school spaces downtown in the next 10 years, Fraser said.

The new school at Coal Harbour will open in 2023 as part of a City of Vancouver project including housing and a daycare, Fraser said. A school for Olympic Village is likely at least five years off, even if the education ministry were to shock everyone and approve it when the ministry approves VSB’s capital plan in March.

Toderian wonders why the school board couldn’t rent space in the Tinseltown Mall or in an office building nearby. Fraser says the money for that would have to come out of VSB’s already squeezed operating budget, which would, of course, require cuts to other areas.

The Ministry of Education says it’s VSB’s respon-

sibility to determine how its space is used.

“In just over two years, the ministry has provided nearly $290 million to the VSB for school capital projects, with seismic safety as our top priority, spending one in six of the ministry’s school capital dollars in Vancouver,” the ministry said in an emailed statement.

Fraser acknowledges the province has approved many seismic upgrades, but says they have not recently approved many expansions or new schools.

For Toderian, the economic benefits of having families living downtown far outweigh the costs of building new schools. The closer people live to their workplaces, the more economic benefits, like lower transportation costs and better public health, a city and province can realize, he said.

That big picture is important and it falls on all levels of government to consider it when making fiscal decisions. Rather than spend more time talking about who should pay for it, all levels of government should collaborate to find a creative solution. Vancouver has changed — and the powers that be need to change with it.

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Your informative article on Cadillac Fairview’s proposed office tower beside Waterfront Station appeared alongside an article about how the highest and best use form of commercial property taxation is harming small businesses. Interestingly, Cadillac Fairview, who owns Waterfront Station is not paying property taxes based on highest and best use but on its current rental revenue stream only. This is because, according to the BC Assessment Authority, the Waterfront Station is a heritage building and future development rights, if any, are unclear at this point.

With no holding costs, Cadillac Fairview can do the citizens of Vancouver a big favour and wait until the city’s Central Waterfront Plan currently underway is complete. This last piece of prime waterfront in the downtown deserves an overall plan. Such a plan could preserve great outdoor spaces including this proposed office site, which is a very special urban space graced by the two heritage buildings, open to spectacular mountain views, and is

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Boxer Leo Sammarelli was paralyzed after a 2017 shooting. The former national lightweight champion will lead a small contingent of wheelchair boxers into the ring at Coquitlam’s Hard Rock Casino to demonstrate the adaptive version of their sport. “It totally transformed my perception of boxing. You have to develop the chair skills because, without them, you’re a sitting duck. You have to keep your head moving.” PHOTOS DAN TOULGOET

Paralyzed in targeted shooting, boxer returns to the ring Bullets knocked Vancover boxer Leo Sammarelli down, but it didn’t kill his passion for the sport Mario Bartel

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Vancouver boxer Leo Sammarelli was well on his way to to turning pro when a bullet pierced the eighth vertebra in his back and left him paralyzed.

Now, an adaptive form of the sport is giving him purpose.

On March 21, the North Vancouver native and former national lightweight champion will lead a small contingent of wheelchair boxers into the ring at Coquitlam’s Hard Rock Casino to demonstrate the adaptive version of their sport as part of the Hard Knocks at the Hard Rock professional card.

It’s a twist in Sammarelli’s life path he never would have envisioned three years ago as he dragged his shattered body, bleeding from four bullet wounds to his torso, back and leg across a North Vancouver road to the safety of his car.

Sammarelli, 25, admits his life had taken a dark turn after his father passed away suddenly in 2015 while on vacation in Italy.

Sammarelli started partying a lot and hanging out with the “wrong crowd” as he struggled to come to terms with his loss. And though he continued to train to compete at the 2017 nationals, he said his heart wasn’t in it.

Sammarelli, who was then working in home renovations and landscaping, said he was a victim of mistaken identity.

Police said he was one of

two shooting victims within an hour of each other, both believed to be targeted — the other, a 29-year-old known gangster Brinderjeet Justin Bhangu, died in Surrey.

While a suspect was arrested in Bhangu’s shooting and eventually convicted of manslaughter, Sammarelli said his case remains unsolved.

Sgt. Peter DeVries of the North Vancouver RCMP confirmed there’s been no update to the incident.

Sammarelli said as he recovered from his wounds, his athlete’s instinct to get up, brush himself off and get back into the ring convinced him he would be able to walk out of the hospital in a month.

“The hard truth was accepting that I wouldn’t,” said Sammarelli, who endured several surgeries to repair damage to his abdomen but could do nothing for the paralysis in his legs.

Sammarelli’s journey to recovery started small. He did bicep curls in his bed with a three pound weight. Then he moved on to the next challenge and then the next.

“It had a snowball effect,” he said.

Though Sammarelli had slimmed to 90 pounds while at G.F. Strong Rehabilitation Centre in Vancouver, friends and family encouraged him to keep working to strengthen his body. The regimen also bolstered his spirit as every workout rewarded him with a sense of accomplishment.

“Getting these victories brought me back to the fire I’d had before,” he said.

Passion for the ring

Sammarelli’s love for boxing was ignited when he was 15 and living with an uncle in Italy’s Puglia region. He played soccer and other team sports but it was a visit to a tiny boxing gym that really set ablaze his athletic passion.

Sammarelli said he thrived on testing himself in training, hitting the heavy bag, taking instruction from the coach — an old friend of his father — then translating that to sparring sessions.

“There was nothing better than the sense of individual accomplishment,” he said.

Sammarelli had immediate success in the ring. He won an inter-regional competition in Italy. He stopped all five of his opponents from around the southern part of the country and cemented his commitment to the sport.

“It really pushed me in a way that encouraged me to do more,” he said.

Upon his return to Canada to finish high school, Sammarelli started training at the North Burnaby Boxing Club. He won provincial Golden Gloves titles and, in 2014, he became Canada’s WBC national amateur lightweight champion. He set his sights on the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and, possibly, a pro career after that.

To take his training to another level, Sammarelli packed his gym bag and headed to California so he could learn at the famed

Wild Card Boxing Club in Hollywood that had produced champions such as Julio Cesar Chavez and Manny Pacquiao. A chance to spar with two-time Olympic gold medallist and double world champion Vasyl Lomachenko told him he was on the right path.

“It was like going against Muhammad Ali or Michael Jordan, or shooting golf against Tiger Woods,” Sammarelli said. “It taught me the lessons of being determined and staying hungry.”

Seeking solace

Sammarelli’s gunshot wounds healed into scars, but the hurt in his soul persisted.

Seeking solace, he travelled with a friend to Cambodia to help distribute medical supplies, a task close to his heart as his late father had worked in the medical field. Sammarelli said it was an eye-opening experience.

“It transformed the mentality I was having,” he said.

“It showed me a lot was possible.”

When he returned to North Vancouver, Sammarelli found peace in nature. He strapped himself into a fibreglass seat and took up paranordic skiing along nearby mountain trails. He eventually got so good at it, he won a silver medal at the Canada Winter Games and bronze medals at the U.S. paranordic national championships.

“It was super important to feel competitive again,

to get a victory for myself,” Sammarelli said, adding he also took up hand cycling so he could ride in the 122-km Whistler Gran Fondo. Last September, he completed the ride in just over eight hours.

It was some of Sammarelli’s old boxing friends who encouraged him to return to the gym. He said he had no idea how that would work with his wheelchair, but as he started hitting the bags, his old instincts came back.

“I found a different way to train,” he said. “It was a way to keep pushing myself and boundaries.”

A new challenge

Sammarelli said he didn’t know adaptive boxing was a possibility until he connected through social media with the Adaptive Boxing Organization, which is advocating for the sport to be recognized in the Paralympics.

Sammarelli said he has met — online — wheelchair boxers from Africa, India and across North America and Europe. He said while the sport is still working to codify a common set of rules to take into account the various levels of disability, bouts are structured just like amateur able-bodied matches, with combatants donning 12-ounce gloves for three, three-minute rounds.

Other than being strapped into a lightweight sports chair with cambered wheels and an anti-tip mechanism at the back, fighters duck, weave, jab and defend just like their fully-mobile counterparts.

Sammarelli said the

biggest adjustment was learning to generate power entirely from his upper body rather than using the rotation of his hips to transfer energy from his legs.

“It totally transformed my perception of boxing,” he said. “You have to develop the chair skills because, without them, you’re a sitting duck. You have to keep your head moving.”

Last year, Sammarelli launched the non-profit West Coast Wheelchair Adaptive Boxing Society to promote the sport and provide opportunities to adaptive athletes, some of whom will be at the Hard Rock event to showcase their skills and raise awareness. Partial proceeds will go towards attaining proper equipment and coaching.

Sammarelli said while the gunman may have cut down his aspirations to become a professional boxer, his journey back to the sport he loves is helping him deal with that loss while providing him a new path forward.

“When I leave the gym, I leave refreshed,” he said.

“The boxing community is what helped me get to where I am, and this is the way I can help them. We don’t want to turn anyone away who wants to box.”

Hard Knocks at the Hard Rock will feature several local boxers, including Canadian light heavyweight champions Sabri Faruk making his pro debut.

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As we stride up the steep slope in single file, the only sounds are the creak of snowshoes and the crunch of snow. The carbon steel crampons dig into the hardpack, and our heavy breath billows out as clouds of vapour. Mountain hemlocks tower above us, their branches weighted down with thick dollops of snow.

Up here on Mount Seymour, high above the city, winter is alive and well.

Each year, Metro Vancouver’s Water Services department operates watershed snowshoe tours, providing the public with a rare glimpse into where our water comes from.

A watershed is a drainage basin where rain and snowmelt collects and can be used to supply a community with drinking water. The Metro Vancouver watershed is comprised of three separate catchments: the Capilano, Seymour and Coquitlam, which together cover an area 150 times the size of Stanley Park. These three reservoirs collect the region’s eight metres of annual precipitation and provide more than a billion litres of water each day for Metro Vancouver’s 2.5 million residents.

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tion Reserve, south of the Seymour Falls Dam, which was constructed in 1961 and has the capacity to hold 32 billion litres of water. Our group includes two guides, several urban planning students, one adventurous senior and a couple dressed in matching snowboard outfits.

We follow the First Lake and Dog Mountain trails, clomping up and over snowdrifts and ducking under branches of Douglas fir, their needles tipped with droplets of water. At the top of a ridge, we stop to catch our breath, and it’s bracingly quiet — a silent stillness we rarely experience in the city.

All three of the watersheds are usually off-limits to the public, in order to maintain a pristine environment for collecting, filtering and storing our drinking water. This also provides a sanctuary for stands of old-growth forest and many species of animals, including ravens, pine martens, black bears and mountain goats — there’s even a reintroduced population of Roosevelt elk. In some ways, it’s like an ecosystem preserved and frozen in time.

Back in 1927, the Capilano and Seymour watersheds were recognized as essential for Vancouver’s water quality and were leased to the Greater Vancouver Water District (GVWD).

The rent is one dollar, per catchment, per year, and the lease is for 999 years.

The first commissioner of the GVWD, Earnest Albert Cleveland — who the Cleveland Dam is named after — made a clear connection between commercial logging in the watershed and diminished water quality, and brought a halt to all logging operations in the area.

He reportedly stated, “They will log that watershed over my dead body.”

After Cleveland passed away in 1952, that’s exactly what they did.

Under the guise of “forest management,” “fire risk reduction” and “improving and protecting the wateryielding characteristics of the land,” the GVWD permitted logging companies to resume harvesting the forests.

Over the following decades, more than 300 kilometres of logging roads were constructed within the watershed and countless trees were felled. The removal of these trees destabilized the soil, causing silt-filled runoff to empty into the watersheds and slowly decrease the quality of the water. Public outcry eventually motivated the GVWD to conduct an inquiry in 1991, and in 1999, all logging in the watershed was suspended.

Not all B.C. communities are as fortunate as us in this

regard. Logging companies are moving into watersheds from the Sunshine Coast to the Kootenays, always seeking out new sources of timber. Residents in Peachland regularly face boil-water advisories, due to landslides caused by deforestation.

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At our final stop of the snowshoe tour, a dense fog rolls in, turning everything 50 shades of white. A raven swoops through the mist as one of our guides pulls out a thermos and pours us all mugs of steaming hot chocolate. The murky, brown liquid is a stark reminder of the 2006 boil-water advisory, and a contrast to the clean, clear water we often take for granted. @DrewClarkeBC Metro Vancouver operates winter watershed tours each year between February and March and summer tours between July and August. More info at metrovancouver.org/ events/watershed-tours.

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WW2 veteran survived 57 combat missions as tail gunner on a B-17 John LeClair shared memories after chance meeting at the Mesa-based, Arizona Commemorative Air Force Museum SANDRA THOMAS sthomas@vancourier.com Sitting in a chair under the oversized wing of a B-17G “Flying Fortress” at the Mesa-based, Arizona Commemorative Air Force Museum, Second World War veteran John LeClair signed his name to a panel of the bomb bay door.

LeClair’s is not the only signature gracing the panel — his is on display beside those of other surviving Second World War air force veterans, whose sometimes scrawling script is testament to their age.

The majority of surviving Second World War veterans are in their late 90s. The war, which began Sept. 1, 1939, ended in September 1945.

“They asked me to sign my name and anything else I wanted to write and add it to the bomb bay door,” LeClair told me moments after signing his name. “So,

I signed my name, the base I flew out of and how many missions I flew.”

missions, LeClair said they were all so perilous it’s hard to choose just one.

The veteran was a tail gunner on a B-17 and flew 57 combat missions out of Italy with the 15th Air Force, Second Bomb Group, 96th Squadron.

“I don’t think I can name one particular mission, but Munich, Germany was a really tough mission,” said LeClair. “Vienna, Austria was also a tough mission, but we got shot at on every mission so they were all dangerous. I always worried it could be my last mission.”

According to the American Air Museum, the group’s missions included bombing targets that included marshalling yards, airdromes, troop concentrations, bridges, docks and shipping depots.

Among the group’s many historic accomplishments, it participated in the defeat of Axis forces in Tunisia in 1943, and preparations for the invasion of Sicily, May to July 1943.

LeClair served with the air force from 1939 through 1944 and part of 1945.

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Coronavirus and spring break: What’s a family to do?

Travel gets tricky for Grant Lawrence and his crew amid current health concerns Grant Lawrence

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“DON’T LICK THAT!” That’s what I shouted at my four-year-old daughter when I caught her casually caressing the bench in my son’s hockey locker room with her tongue. My immediate thought was, “What if she does that on the plane?”

If, like me, you’re planning on travelling with your family during spring break, maybe you’ve had similar thoughts. Hopefully your kid isn’t as tonguecurious as mine, but in light of the global health emergency triggered by the coronavirus, you’ve probably discussed your travel plans with your partner and maybe your kids.

How could you not?

The Japanese prime minister’s request for a monthlong total school closure, impacting millions of children and their families, was a shocking development.

It went into effect for most of Japan March 2. Tokyo Disneyland is also closed.

As of March 2, there were 233 confirmed coronavirus cases in Japan, a country of 126 million people.

The question the media morbidly loves to pose whenever something like this occurs elsewhere is: Could such measures

happen here? Or close to it? Could Disneyland shut down if an outbreak hits Southern California? My son would kill me if we missed out on the newly opened Star Wars Land, but maybe it’s better to pass on C3PO than pass around COVID-19.

Miss out on Star Wars Land you must not, advises Jenn Franzen, a Vancouver travel agent with 14 years experience, who has navigated her clients through SARS, H1N1 and, now, the coronavirus.

“I have a two and five year old. Would I go to Mexico right now? Yes. Would I go to the U.S.A. right now? Yes. Would I go to China right now? No. The U.S.A., with the current situation? One hundred per cent,” Franzen assured me. “As long as there is not an advisory on the Canadian government travel site, and no one in my family has a compromised immune system, then yes, I would take my family [to Disneyland].”

A recent parenting article in the New York Times agreed, stating that families should feel “very comfortable” travelling to places such as California or Florida during spring break.

“I think travelling in the U.S. is fine right now,” Dr. Yvonne Maldonado, an

May the hand sanitizer be with you, says Grant Lawrence, as he embarks on a trip to Disneyland’s Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge during spring break. PHOTO ISTOCK

infectious disease specialist from Stanford University, told the Times in a Feb. 26 story, before adding the caveat, “but the situation is extremely fluid.” The article also recommends that families with spring break travel plans should be “prepared to pivot at a moment’s notice.”

What does that mean?

Cancel? Proceed with plans?

Or burn rubber backing out of the Disneyland parking lot? I polled both Twitter and a Facebook parenting group I belong to, asking

whether anyone is changing their vacation plans due to the virus outbreak.

On Twitter, the results were pretty much split down the middle between “travel as planned” and “stay home.” On the Facebook parenting group, the results were much more divided: 75 per cent of respondents said they would travel during spring break as planned. Only 13 per cent would stay home because of the virus (another 12 per cent responded that they were staying home, but not

because of the virus).

Of those polled, one commented they had already postponed a spring break trip to Vietnam in favour of Mexico, while another admitted they had postponed their planned vacation to Italy for a year.

I’ll admit it, the coronavirus scares me. My daughter enjoys licking things in public places for god’s sake.

Since coronavirus is spreading around the planet via air travel, logic would suggest planes and airports should be avoided. But air travel is so absolutely entrenched in many of our 21st century lives.

“This is more dangerous that the flu. Very definitely,” Dr. Bruce Aylward, the World Health Organization’s senior adviser to the director general, told the CBC on Sunday. Aylward, a Canadian, stressed that the concern over COVID-19 was not fear mongering, and not an overreaction. He also suggested while washing your hands is important, sometimes hand sanitizer is best, especially when your only option is a public washroom, like in an airport or on a plane.

“You go into the bathroom and [you’re] touching… all sorts of things,” said Aylward. “So hand sanitizer in the pocket is

often the easiest thing.”

So what happens if you cancel your trip?

“Travel insurance through most providers does not allow refunds on non-refundable holidays unless there is a government-issued travel advisory,” Franzen told me.

“So if someone was thinking about cancelling their trip to Mexico or Disneyland, they would likely be out of pocket.”

The coronavirus has already provided plenty of planning headaches for Franzen.

“This past month, I have spent many hours on hold with airlines and hotels, trying to help my clients figure out if they are going to cancel or not,” Franzen said.

“Hold times are insanely long with most airlines and hotels because of this.”

As of now, we will cautiously proceed with our spring break plans, meeting up with my wife’s parents in Southern California. But to quote my father-in-law, a retired immunologist from the University of Toronto, “We will continue to monitor the situation closely. Not very satisfying, but these are the tentative times in which we find ourselves.”

Enjoy spring break, and may the hand sanitizer be with you. @grantlawrence

Ballet BC takes a stab at new retelling of Romeo and Juliet And four other reasons Vancouver is awesome this week Lindsay William-Ross vancouverisawesome.com

Ballet BC: Romeo and Juliet

For centuries, this tale of tragic star-crossed lovers has inspired many an artist.

Compelling in its timeless relevance, this deeply human story captures audiences with enduring themes of love, fate and family. In Romeo and Juliet, choreographer Medhi Walerski offers a fresh and bold retelling of this classic story of forbidden love that continues to resonate today.

When: March 4 to 7, 8 p.m.

Where: Queen Elizabeth Theatre, 630 Hamilton St. balletbc.com

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enth annual Curry Cup on March 9. The event is devoted to the oft-unsung art of curry and put on by the Chefs’ Table Society of B.C. and the Mount Pleasant BIA. Your ticket includes tastings for all of the curries, as well as beverage and dessert samples to round out the evening of savoury feasting.

When: March 9, 6:30 to 9 p.m.

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Jericho Beach Park Bird Walk

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Ballet BC’s Romeo and Juliet is at Queen Elizabeth Theatre until March 7. PHOTO MICHAEL SLOBODIAN

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FLEUR connects elite industry professionals and celebrity influencers with the public in a magical environment. Guests are able to choose from a variety of matrimonial activities including a panel discussion led

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When: March 8, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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Walk In Her Shoes is a fun, family-friendly, annual community event that finds Vancouver women, men, children — even their dogs — joining together to walk 10,000 steps along the False Creek Seawall. The walk is done in solidarity with women and girls around the globe who are forced to walk 10,000 steps every day to fetch the necessities of life, such as water and food.

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Investigating the death of a beer baron

Vancouver director Deborah Wainwright gets a front row seat to New Brunswick’s trial of the century Sabrina Furminger

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The name “Oland” might not mean much on this side of the country, but in New Brunswick, it’s a pretty big deal.

The Olands — along with the Irvings and the McCains — are one of the wealthiest and most powerful families in New Brunswick.

Their place in the Canadian pantheon of wealth and privilege was secured in 1867, when Susannah Oland founded Moosehead Breweries.

Six generations later, the Olands still own Moosehead. But in recent years, they’re perhaps better known for the 2011 murder of their patriarch Richard Oland than for their pale ales — or for the fact that Richard’s son Dennis was initially convicted of his murder.

Richard’s murder is the starting point for The Oland Murder, a four-part documentary series that premieres March 5 on CBC. Vancouver director Deborah Wainwright spent three years interviewing members of the Oland

family, as well as journalists, legal experts and the former police chief of Saint John.

The result is a series that paints a dynamic portrait of the otherwise media-shy Oland family, as well as the controversy-laden investigation and trials.

“The murder happened in 2011, but I have to be honest, it didn’t leave much of an impression on me, because I’m not a beer drinker and I’m not from the Maritimes,” says Wainwright.

It wasn’t until 2014, when Dennis — who was alleged to be the last person to see his father alive — was charged with second-degree murder that Wainwright’s attention was truly piqued.

“Patricide is so shocking,” says Wainwright. “It’s Shakespearean.”

In 2015, Dennis was released to stand for retrial after serving 10 months in prison, and Wainwright reached out to the Oland family.

“Gaining access really required a gentle hand,” recalls Wainwright. “I think they felt like they had not been treated well in the media. They had decided they were going to get through this together, head

The Oland Murder airs Thursday, March 5 at 9 p.m. on CBC. PHOTO SEVEN KNOTS MEDIA INC

down, closed lip, and then in comes this person from Vancouver who doesn’t know anything about them as a family.”

What Wainwright offered was “an unbiased look at what was going on.”

“They did know that it was going to be both sides of the story,” she said. “They knew we were reaching out to the Crown and the police to ensure that it was a balanced story,

and that there were going to be some uncomfortable moments for them if they decided to do this. But I think a lot of it was lucky timing and the fact that I was from the other side of the country.”

Wainwright spent nearly three years in Saint John, which has a population of 70,000 people. She describes the city as having “a very small town feel.”

“It would always startle

me when everyone seemed to know everyone, and they all have an opinion about this case,” Wainwright said.

While much of Wainwright’s focus was on Dennis Oland, his father Richard was never far from her mind. Richard had been struck more than 40 times by an unidentified hammertype weapon.

For the first two weeks of the trial, Wainwright says a steady stream of police

officers took to the stand to testify about the grisliness of the murder and the gruesomeness of the crime scene.

“It was difficult to hear how all of these people had come in to look at Richard Oland when he was at his most vulnerable,” says Wainwright.

“It was upsetting. I felt so sad that there he lay and person after person came in, some of them simply to take a look.”

Wainwright has her own theories about who killed Richard Oland, but she’s keeping them to herself.

“We worked hard to craft a story that’s truthful, fair, and balanced, and I would hate to prime the viewers to look for some sort of bias,” says Wainwright.

That said, Wainwright adds: “I think that somebody got away with murder, and I think that unless there’s a deathbed confession by someone, we’ll never really know what happened to Richard Oland.”

The Oland Murder airs Thursday, March 5 at 9 p.m. on CBC Television and will also be available weekly on CBC Gem.

Bringing solace to those dealing with death Vancouver photographer’s website allows users to reflect on the end of days

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Josh Neufeld has a special affinity for turkey necks.

It’s not that they taste particularly good, nor were they a staple on his plate since childhood.

Neufeld’s late father Dietmar loved the neck. It was his go-to whenever turkey was served at a holiday meal.

Dietmar died in September 2015 after a brief battle with cancer. Thanksgiving dinner that year was the first family gathering after Dietmar’s death.

“I sat in his spot and in his honour, I ate the whole neck and blubbered like a buffoon because it was like ‘OK, this is our life now,’” Josh recalled. “It’s four Christmases later, but still that feeling doesn’t change. It sucks.”

Outside of the culinary nod, Neufeld continues to pay tribute to his father in a manner that’s profoundly

personal, yet completely universal.

Neufeld’s website Grief Narratives invites people the world over to share their photos, thoughts, feelings and emotions as they experience death in their own unique way.

The online platform has garnered interest across Europe and as far away as South Africa. The site was born partly out of Neufeld’s experience photographing the end of his dad’s life, a project called Meeting Mortality.

Across roughly 30 photos, Neufeld documented the final 19 days of his father’s life in hospital.

“My dad never did see the photos, which really messes with my head,” said Neufeld, a professional photographer by trade.

Neufeld hatched the idea in the spring of 2015 upon visiting a dying relative in California. His uncle was

Josh Neufeld documented his father’s death through a series of photographs called “Meeting Mortality.” PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

simultaneously battling Parkinson’s disease and cancer and sat the roughly 50 family members down to prepare them for the end.

“You walk away from a conversation like that and

you’re like, OK, that really realigns priorities and shifts perspective and helps you look at life a little differently,” Neufeld said.

Volunteering at a hospice was to be Neufeld’s next

step but Dietmar fell ill before his son could find a volunteer placement.

Dietmar was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer on July 13 and died Sept. 9. He was 66.

He was the department head of classical, near eastern and religious studies at UBC, an avid cyclist and loved taking the piss.

“Him and I would spend hours out by the fire chatting,” Neufeld recalled. “He could go deep about anything religious and he taught ancient Greek language. But then he could also sit there and shoot the shit about the most meaningless, stupid stuff.”

Documenting the end was done so with Dietmar’s blessing. He also came up with the name “Meeting Mortality.” Neufeld discussed the idea with his mom and three sisters and got a buy-in, though not totally.

“My oldest sister doesn’t really like to look at those photos,” Neufeld said. “But I think they just understood where it was coming from.”

Neufeld has since gone on to photograph the end of days for other families.

Last year, he interviewed 22 people about their experiences confronting mortality, taking photos as they spoke.

He hopes to expand Grief Narratives into a multimedia platform where users can pay tribute to loved ones via text, photos, video and other media.

It’s a project not necessarily intended to normalize death, but to give community and a space to reflect for those who need it.

“I hope it becomes something people use and find value in,” he said. “I’m trying to show people that it’s an option. It’s not going to be for everyone.”

Neufeld’s work is online at griefnarratives.com.

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Bo Horvat is playing a central role in the Canucks’ power play success

Surrounded by high-end skill, the captain leads the Canucks in power play goals

Backhand Sauce Daniel Wagner

Two years ago, Brock Boeser stepped into the lineup as a rookie and immediately became the Canucks’ best weapon on the power play.

He used his fantastic shot — and some savvy setups from the Sedins — to rack up 10 power play goals in his rookie season.

Last season, it was Elias Pettersson’s turn, lighting up the NHL with his devastating one-timer from the top of the right faceoff circle. He scored 10 power play goals to lead the Canucks in his rookie year.

Heading into the 2019-20 season, Canucks fans were excited to see what Boeser and Pettersson could do with the addition of rookie defenceman Quinn Hughes passing them the puck from the point. Add in an experienced playmaker with the man advantage in J.T. Miller and it was easy to anticipate what would happen: the two fantastic finishers at the faceoff circles would drive home goal after goal.

Instead, the player leading the Canucks in power play goals is a little more surprising: Bo Horvat.

The Canucks’ captain has 11 power play goals through 65 games, breaking his career high of 10 from two seasons ago. Perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising at all: Horvat’s 10 power play goals two seasons ago tied Boeser for the team lead.

“It doesn’t surprise me,” said head coach Travis Green. “He’s playing that bumper spot, there’s a lot of loose pucks, he’s a big strong guy, he’s got good hands.”

Horvat’s role on the power play is either in the bumper in the high slot or down low in front of the net, screening the goaltender.

It frequently involves a lot of battles with defencemen and other penalty killers for position.

“It’s funny, it’s not the most popular position, but it’s where you score,” said J.T. Miller. “He’s always around the net, rebounds, he’s got a hell of a wrist shot, good release.”

The Canucks have scored 11 goals on 31 power play opportunities in their last 11 games, an impressive 35.5 per cent success rate. Four of those 11 goals have come off the stick of Horvat. A change in formation has helped the Canucks move the puck a little more crisply and it’s given Horvat more opportunities.

“We changed positions a little bit,” said Miller. “I’m on the wall instead of the goal line now. I think it changes the dynamic of the power play a little bit, we have a bunch

Stick-taps & Glove-drops • A tap of the stick to Vasili Podkolzin, who scored his first KHL playoff goal this week.

After a strong finish to the regular season, Podkolzin has two points in two playoff games so far.

• I’m dropping the gloves with Colin Campbell, the director of hockey operations for the NHL. He joked, “I called Don Waddell in the second intermission and said, ‘Can’t one of those two guys please come back?’” regarding the Carolina Hurricanes’ recent emergency goaltender situation.

Given how the NHL has been so blasé about concussions, joking about forcing a concussed goaltender back into action is in poor taste, if nothing else.

Big Numbers • 73 Heading into Wednesday’s game

Bo Horvat has been a surprising addition to Vancouver’s power play this year. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET.

of lefties ready to shoot with a righty at the goal line and we’ve been having success with that.”

As a lefty in the middle of the ice, Horvat is ready and available for quick one-timers from passes from Miller, who has been very effective on the left side of the ice.

“It’s easier for a setup guy when he always does the little loop and always comes down with speed,” said Pettersson. “We’ve been talking to the [penalty killers] and they say that’s hard to defend.”

Horvat has also had success finishing plays from the left side. As penalty kills cheat towards Pettersson to take away his one-timer, that has opened up space in the middle.

“We’re just trying to take advantage of that, if they put the guy on me, that means another guy is gonna be open,” said Pettersson. “They’re gonna flex out to me, which

means a hole in the middle is going to open up or somewhere else.”

Those holes opening up don’t mean anything if you don’t have a player that can take advantage of them and that’s where Horvat has excelled.

“I have really good players feeding me the puck,” said Horvat. “It’s just trying to hit those holes, trying to hit those seams to get open.”

While Horvat was humble in his assessment of the power play, crediting his teammates more than anyone else, Miller made it clear that Horvat has been key to their success.

“Look at some of the best power players in the league and you know, some of their most important guys are playing in the middle,” said Miller. “He’s got a nose for the net, strong on his stick: you need a guy like that in the middle.”

against the Arizona Coyotes, the Canucks’ chances of making the playoffs were 73 per cent according to HockeyViz.com.

That may sound underwhelming, but it’s the sixth-highest odds in the Western Conference.

• 21 Horvat may lead the Canucks in

power play goals, but rookie Quinn Hughes leads the way in power play assists with 21, good for sixth in the NHL.

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Liberte Classic Yogurt, 650g

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1.58/EA

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