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Here’s what Vancouver police want to do in 2020 Mike Howell

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This just in — cops can be a secretive bunch.

So wouldn’t it be cool if you could find out more about what they’re up to when you see them in your neighbourhood, or in your travels around the city?

Well you actually can, sort of. In fact, you could have been poking in to what they’re doing for years — maybe not the details of an arrest they’re making, but why they’re at St. Paul’s Hospital talking to doctors, or hanging out at luxury car dealerships.

The Vancouver Police Department has released its “strategic business plan” for 2020. The plan, which is available on the VPD’s website, provides an indication of what police will be focused on this year.

It’s a spreadsheet of sorts, with the VPD section identified, activities underway, targeted measures and outcomes. It also tells you who is in charge of those measures and budget implications, if any.

So what are the cops doing at St. Paul’s Hospital?

Recent VPD statistics showed the number of apprehensions police have made of people under the Mental Health Act has increased over the last three years.

So the business plan calls for police to work with St. Paul’s, Vancouver General Hospital and community care services to reduce the number of apprehensions by way of better treatment for people living with a mental illness.

The plan also calls for the same group to work on reducing the time police have to wait with a person before they’re admitted to hospital.

Among the goals: “Work with doctors to modernize the Mental Health Act to allow police to deliver patients to a designated facility rather than to a physician.”

As for officers hanging out at luxury car dealerships, the plan calls for the VPD’s identity theft unit to work with dealerships and banks to reduce the number of fraudulent purchases of high-end vehicles with the use of stolen identities.

This is in line with a B.C. government-commissioned report released in May 2019 that revealed the luxury car

The VPD’s to-do list for 2020 is a long one, and covers everything from tracking detainees to helping “vulnerable individuals” obtain proper identification. FILE PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

sector is being used to launder the proceeds of crime.

The report, conducted by former RCMP officer Peter German, found car dealers in B.C. reporting that people were bringing bags of money or orchestrating multiple small international wire transfers to different accounts to buy cars.

While many of the goals in the plan are expected of a police force — reduce the number of break-ins to homes and businesses — others aren’t and apply to some of the city’s most pressing social issues, including drug addiction and homelessness.

This year, police plan to launch a study with health experts that involves tracking drug users’ recidivism rates after leaving jail and receiving treatment. There’s also a commitment to “educate VPD members on ways to assist those with substance use disorders.”

The department is considering adding a second homeless liaison officer position and listed among its “targeted measures” to increase the number of homeless people “supported into shelters and permanent housing.”

Cybercrime is an area police will continue to spend more time on this year, with

the Cybercrime Unit expected to conduct a “proactive dark web drug project” in partnership with the department’s organized crime section.

The unit’s work will also focus on identifying “critical infrastructure in Vancouver to protect against cyber threats, develop contingency plans and participate in tabletop exercises with representatives from both the private and public sector.”

Some more of the VPD’s goals for 2020: • Initiate combined forces projects targeting human trafficking and firearm traffickers.

• Produce a monthly hate crimes report.

• Assist 150 “vulnerable individuals” obtain official provincial identification.

• Distribute 40 cellphones equipped to call 911 to people without means to afford a phone and whose safety is paramount.

• Conduct a minimum of 30 CounterAttack roadblocks.

• Identify and recruit Indigenous youth to the Indigenous youth cadet program.

• Engage up to 400 youth in “respectful relationships” workshops and sessions.

• Continue to increase

the number of corporate businesses as well as police agencies trained in the LGBTQ2S+ education program.

• Ensure that one or more “significant joint investigation/operations division violent crime projects” are active each month.

• Increase the reporting of domestic violence.

• Reduce the number of offenders wanted on outstanding warrants.

• Increase the number of social media posts that educate the public about cyber threat prevention.

• Create a vending task force to reduce violence in the Downtown Eastside and decrease the number of complaints for unpermitted vending received by the City of Vancouver’s 311 service centre.

• Have a minimum of 175 officers certified in how to conduct a Standardized Field Sobriety Test and another 30 as Drug Recognition experts.

One other thing: If you drive a car, best to adhere to the rules of the road and don’t be a goof because the plan also calls for “increases in ticket production within all traffic squads.”

Mayor expects city’s homeless population to rise Mike Howell

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Mayor Kennedy Stewart says he expects the number of homeless people counted in Vancouver last week will show an increase over last year’s total of 2,223.

If that assessment holds true, then Vancouver will again see record-breaking homeless numbers for a fourth consecutive year, erasing any sign of return-

ing to levels of 2005 when 1,364 people were counted.

Stewart based his prediction on the seven people he met on the street the morning of March 4 after he participated in the count for two hours. He joined a city staff person in making the rounds near the Vancouver Public Library’s main branch.

“If us, as a two-person team — out of the many teams that were out there — ran into seven people on our

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own, then I expect that we’re going to see higher numbers this year overall, which is very dispiriting for everybody,” the mayor said March 5.

Stewart was among several hundred volunteers who participated in a count that ran simultaneously with a regionwide count. Final numbers aren’t expected to be made public until later this year.

The Courier asked Stewart in January to make a prediction about the count, but he

wouldn’t say either way. Now that he has, he knows his critics will point fingers at him for not addressing the crisis.

“My approach since I was elected was to see what I could get out of the federal and provincial governments right away, and we’ve had some success with that,” he said, but noted the provincial government’s latest budget doesn’t provide significant money to build more housing for the homeless.

He said the federal government, meanwhile, has not provided much of the $40 billion promised to be spent across Canada to reduce chronic homelessness by 50 per cent in the country by 2027.

“I’ll just keep pounding on those doors,” the mayor said.

“But that’s why I think there’s some other moves that we’re going to have to make here at the city, and they’re going to be tough

choices for us at council.”

Asked to elaborate on those moves, Stewart said he’s drafting a strategy aimed at reducing homelessness but won’t provide details until he speaks further to his advisors about his plan.

The provincial government’s housing ministry said in an email that it has opened 720 “new supportive homes” in Vancouver over the last two years.

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Continued from previous page The majority of those homes are temporary modular housing geared at homeless people and people at risk of homelessness.

The city is set to open another modular building this month on Copley Street. It will have 58 units.

The provincial government also funds 925 permanent shelter spaces, 329 temporary shelter spaces and 145 shelter spaces in Vancouver that are opened during cold weather.

“We recognize that shelters are not a long-term solution and we know there is an immediate need for more supportive homes in Vancouver,” the provincial government said in the email.

“We will continue to work with the City of Vancouver to deliver long-term solutions for people.”

Stewart said five of the seven homeless people he met Wednesday agreed to answer a survey, which includes questions about how long they’ve been homeless and whether they have an addiction.

Four men and one 26-year-old woman agreed to answer the survey. They were all in plain sight on

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the street and around B.C. Place Stadium. All were receiving welfare. “They’re really telling you their whole life story,” the mayor said.

“It was just heartbreaking.”

A new question on the survey this year asked people whether they had experienced a brain injury. Four out of the five people the mayor spoke to said they had suffered a traumatic brain injury.

“One guy was a construction worker who was hit in the head that caused his injury, and after that his life just really fell apart,” he said, noting the man developed a drug addiction.

Stewart said while counting the number of homeless people is important, it’s also crucial to gather information about their condition to help governments and others identify the right solution.

He provided the example of previous counts showing an overrepresentation of Indigenous homeless people. So building more housing that caters to Indigenous people becomes a priority, he said.

“It sounds so clinical, but it does allow for proper planning,” the mayor said.

Added Stewart: “We just need more housing — that’s it.”

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Researchers and health sciences experts from the University of B.C. and Simon Fraser University are helping with the response to the novel coronavirus outbreak, thanks to some federal funding.

UBC announced March 6 it received more than $2.8 million in federal grants to study COVID-19, with a focus on the development, testing and implementation of measures to deal with the spread of the virus.

And the work is a little more personal for one researcher. Sociologist Yue Qian is originally from Wuhan, China — the epicentre of the outbreak that as of March 10 had killed more than 4,000 people and infected more than 110,000 globally.

“When the quarantine was first issued, I was so worried,” Qian said in a

VSB cancels spring break trips

Vancouver students hoping to go to Japan and Europe over spring break will now be staying home.

The Vancouver School Board has cancelled three student trips overseas, over concerns about the new coronavirus.

Two of the planned trips were to Japan and one was to Italy and France, the school district said in an

press release. “I was desperately trying to connect with my family in Wuhan to make sure they were OK. Watching from afar has been really hard.”

Qian, an assistant professor in the UBC department of sociology, said that none of her family members have been infected, but some friends’ families have been less fortunate, with many being hospitalized and some dying from COVID-19.

Qian and her team, which includes sociologist Amy Hanser, will receive $400,468 for a study of the human experiences and mental health consequences of quarantine.

“Getting this funding means a lot to me because I get to conduct research that I care deeply about,” Qian said. “I feel that this is the least I can do to help people in my hometown who are suffering a lot right now.”

And while the team is still in the process of setting up

emailed statement.

“These decisions were made in an abundance of caution and with the utmost consideration of the health and welfare of student travellers and staff, and due to the risk of harm that might occur from COVID-19,” the statement says.

There are 16 student trips planned between now and the end of the school year and each will be considered

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SFU health sciences professor Kelley Lee is leading a project that will help with coordinating the global response to the outbreak.

Lee and her team received $500,000 in funding from CIHR to help define, categorize and track crossborder measures adopted by countries and private companies during the COVID-19 outbreak, as well as

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His team got more than $950,000 to research how best to treat the disease.

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Are small, windowless rooms acceptable bedrooms?

‘Inboard,’ also known as ‘borrowed-light’ bedrooms, allowed under Moderate Income Rental Housing Pilot Program Naoibh O’Connor

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At 6’3” tall, Green Party Coun. Michael Wiebe admitted, at a recent public hearing, he was “struggling” with the design of some of the three-bedroom apartments planned for a rental building on the last block of East Hastings near Boundary Road.

The third bedrooms in some of the suites will be small “inboard” rooms.

Also known as “borrowed light” bedrooms, they’re internal rooms with no exterior wall or windows.

Usually, inboard bedrooms use sliding glass partition walls or clerestory windows — a row of windows above eye level — to provide access to daylight via rooms that have an external wall with windows.

Typically, they haven’t been allowed as part of secured rental projects in Vancouver, although there have been past examples in other types of projects within the city, as well as in other municipalities such as New Westminster.

Now, a handful will be produced in buildings approved under the city’s Moderate Income Rental Housing Pilot Program (MIRHPP), which requires 20 per cent of the residential floor space in such buildings to be reserved for households with incomes between $30,000 and $80,000.

Relaxations in unit sizes and configurations are among concessions offered to developers through the pilot program, the goal of which is to ensure some affordability, as well as some family-sized suites, are built into the projects.

Wiebe said he would barely be able to “fit crossways in either direction” in such a small bedroom, and he prefers rooms with access to fresh air. Nevertheless, he voted in favour of the rezoning application for the East Hastings building, as well as for an application for a similar building by the same developer — PCI Developments — planned for the same block.

In total, the pair of 14-storey East Hastings Street buildings, which were approved under MIRHPP, will produce 212 rental apartments, 43 of which will be for households earning less than $80,000. Five of those 43 apartments will be three-bedroom suites — the third rooms being inboard bedrooms. The smallest will measure approximately 8’1” by 8’2” while others are larger. Three-bedroom moderateincome units will rent for

While the city has approved some small inboard rooms in buildings that qualify under the Moderate Income Rental Housing Pilot Program, such as a new East Hastings development (above), councillors Michael Wiebe, Jean Swanson and Adriane Carr have raised concerns. RENDERING BHA ARCHITECTURE RIGHT PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

about $2,000 a month.

In a follow-up interview after the public hearing, Wiebe explained to the Courier why he isn’t sold on inboard bedrooms.

“We need to ensure that everyone feels valued when they get their space, and that we try to ensure that there’s not different standards for different classes, and that moving forward we find techniques and architecture that allow us to continue to have the mix that we’re going for, which is the family-unit mix,” he said.

“We’re trying to create a more family-friendly city and the livability in the suites doesn’t really meet the kind of threshold that we’re hoping to have for the city. So I’m supportive, obviously, of the affordable projects, the MIRHPP projects, [but], moving forward, I hope we find architectural ways to eliminate the need for inboarding to meet those affordability targets.”

That shrinking feeling

Finding a family-sized, three-bedroom apartment that’s relatively affordable to rent is a daunting, if not impossible, task in Vancouver.

Only about one per cent of the total purpose-built rental stock in the city are homes with three or more bedrooms, according to the City of Vancouver.

While city policy requires that rental projects undergoing rezoning, including MIRHPP ones, include a minimum of 35 per cent family-sized units, defined as those with two or more bedrooms, it doesn’t require a minimum proportion be three bedrooms or larger.

“Delivering a significant number of them in new projects is particularly challenging, especially in noncorner units, and more so at deeply below-market rates,”

the city’s communications department told the Courier in an email.

Given that affordable threebedroom units are in short supply and many families want them, the city decided to consider inboard bedrooms for moderate-income units in MIRHPP buildings “to help address the design and economic challenges of delivering these much-needed larger family-size units.”

If the suite is sprinklered, which is the current code for all new buildings, an egress window is not required. This applies to all multi-family dwellings, including single-family homes with basement suites, according to the city.

But like Wiebe, COPE Coun. Jean Swanson, who voted against the East Hastings buildings for myriad reasons, questions the livability of inboard bedrooms.

She’s especially worried about standards dropping for lower-income people.

“Eight feet by eight feet with no window is more like a closet than a bedroom.

Kids and adults need space to play and keep their stuff and do their work,” she said.

Even Green Party Coun.

Adriane Carr, a fan of MIRHPP because it’s finally creating apartments that middle-income earners can afford, spoke against inboard bedrooms despite voting in favour of the East Hastings Street buildings.

“I will not be speaking in support of the inboard bedrooms. I’m not really a fan of [them]. I like fresh air and light and direct light into people’s rooms,” she said.

NPA Coun. Melissa De Genova countered her council colleagues’ concerns, arguing testing inboard bedrooms through the pilot program is an added benefit.

Renters, she said, are already turning closets or

pantries into bedrooms for their children, so inboard bedrooms are an improvement.

Onboard with inboards

DeGenova is not alone in her defence of the inboard bedrooms. Developers see them as a viable way to create family-sized homes.

Take Bryn Davidson who runs Lanefab, a company that builds laneway homes.

He said developers have long argued that it would be much easier and cheaper to provide three-bedroom units if inboard bedrooms were allowed.

“On the surface, it seems reasonable to insist on windows in bedrooms, but in practice it means you have to have buildings that have much more articulated exteriors (and are therefore more expensive, space consuming, and a bit less energy efficient to build),” he told the Courier in an email.

“I’m guessing they were allowed in the MIRHPP program to keep costs down and get more housing onto limited land.”

Davidson added that in newer buildings fresh air can be provided through a ventilation system and light can come in through an interior window, so developers and builders don’t have to rely on windows for air or light as they did in the past.

Like De Genova, he said many families are already using windowless dens or cold, enclosed balconies as extra bedrooms.

“These are both allowed by the city, but both are substandard relative to inboard bedrooms... so I think the city is being overly uptight in limiting the use of inboards,” he said.

Many loft-style condos, Davidson added, including his, have inboard bedrooms.

His own child’s room has

curtains on two sides.

While many in the architecture and planning community may support a ban on inboards, he’s of the opinion that the city should try everything during a housing crisis.

“I think there are some fears about tenements etc. that are holdovers from the old days... or fears that it’s somehow just a giveaway to developers... but I’m of the general opinion that all housing options should be on the table,” Davidson said. “When it comes to micro-suites or inboard bedrooms, if there end up being problems, then we can always course correct, but we shouldn’t shut down housing options preemptively.”

Tim Grant, vice-president of development for PCI Developments, said the average size of market and moderate income bedrooms in the two East Hastings Street buildings will be 9’9” x 9’10” for master bedrooms, 9’0” x 9’7” for second bedrooms, and 8’2” x 8’1” for third bedrooms.

The measurements, he said, are consistent with PCI’s recently completed, and fully occupied, market rental building at 388 Kaslo St. developed under the City of Vancouver’s secured market rental housing policy.

“The inboard bedrooms are directly adjacent to the living rooms where they have access to shared light, and we have designed them to include internal windows or glazed sliding doors. All bedrooms, including inboard bedrooms, are mechanically ventilated and the size of these bedrooms is consistent with other market rental projects in the area,” he explained in an email.

“Our design team has included suite layouts for all units across both projects, which highlight that all inboard bedrooms can accommodate single, double

or queen beds with bedside tables.”

The East Hastings Street projects are just two of the handful of buildings council has so far approved under MIRHPP. In January, council greenlit a five-storey rental building planned for Stainsbury Avenue near Trout Lake. It will feature five moderate income units with inboard bedrooms. One will measure 8’ by 9’ feet, while the other four will be about 9’ feet by 12’5” in size.

A third MIRHPP project at Larch and West Second Avenue, which was approved late last year, will include one three-bedroom moderate-income unit with an inboard bedroom measuring roughly 8’3” by 8’3”.

Developer Richard Wittstock of Domus Homes maintains allowing inboard bedrooms is a good way to enable more affordable family-sized suites. Wittstock also has personal experience with small spaces. When his daughter was a newborn, her room was a five by eight-foot walk-in closet.

“I think we need a range of unit types and styles to serve families that need to be housed. I don’t have any issue in principle with inboard bedrooms,” he told the Courier.

“Typically you try to make them feel like funky flexible loft spaces with sliding glass panel doors.

The glass panel doors help to get natural light into the bedrooms. But often people like these precisely because they don’t have an outside window... they prefer the dark and quiet for sleeping.”

Wittstock said he’s built hundreds of units with inboard bedrooms in Gastown and Mount Pleasant in the past and, most recently, in New Westminster.

“They sold and rent like hotcakes — people really like them if they’re done right.”

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City must plan ahead for economic impact of coronavirus Local governments have role to play in preparing communities for what happens in weeks and months to come Mike Klassen

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It has been a while since Vancouver has faced a shock to its system like the fear and economic impact stoked by the COVID-19 novel coronavirus.

In the face of its latest threat, the city can either be stopped in its tracks or show what it means to be truly resilient.

I think back to June 15, 2011, when our downtown core was rocked by a cataclysmic riot at the end of game seven of the Stanley Cup Finals. Crowds charging through the streets left a wake of shattered storefront windows, looting, vehicles set ablaze and millions of dollars in property damage.

It’s said that the City of Vancouver — full of hubris after the success of the Winter Olympics a year before — earned itself $1 billion worth of negative publicity that night. In the riot’s immediate aftermath, what became apparent is that the city had failed to learn a lesson from the nearly identical experience of the 1994 Stanley Cup riot.

A report on that riot commissioned by the city and B.C.’s Attorney General contained more than 100 recommendations that, had city officials

read before the 2011 mayhem, might have prevented the embarrassing and costly eruption from happening at all. Though city officials pushed back hard against allegations that they were in any way responsible, the fact remained that the report and its recommendations had collected dust for more than a decade.

Now with the elevated concern brought by COVID-19, the City of Vancouver faces another shock that this time could batter the local economy.

With talk of delaying the cruise ship season and a disruption in travellers from China and elsewhere, Canada and Metro Vancouver in particular stand to see billions in lost revenue.

Jobs and businesses that were already impacted by activists aiming to “shut down” the country’s economy, face a new existential threat.

While we may get through the coming weeks without any major clusters of the virus wreaking havoc on our healthcare system, having too much toilet paper and rice supplies may be the least of our concerns.

Local governments have a role to play in preparing our communities for what happens in the weeks or

No one at the city should sit idly by as conventions get cancelled, concert tours are postponed, or festivals get put on hiatus due concerns over COVID-19, says Mike Klassen. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

months to come. Each has a duty to support the tourism and trade that drives our economy.

No one at the city should sit idly by as conventions get cancelled, concert tours are postponed, or festivals get put on hiatus. It’s time to plan ahead.

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global pandemic by inviting neighbouring municipalities, as well as other levels of government, to commit to a coordinated response.

By successfully recovering from the economic impacts of the coronavirus, Vancouver can and should be a model for other jurisdictions.

Council can champion for new resources to promote the city’s brand.

That effort would help to

resuscitate the business community, which includes hotels, restaurants, travel companies and tourist destinations.

A large part of Vancouver’s economy involves our hospitals and healthcare sector, and they are a huge asset when it comes to fighting the economic and reputational impacts of a pandemic.

Health sciences conducted in our city — such as heart, brain and cancer

research — ultimately add to our longevity and quality of life here. Factor in our active population and low prevalence of smoking, and Vancouver should be in the running for the healthiest city on Earth rather than the greenest.

While city officials might have not thought through the consequences of hosting a hockey playoffs street party, they must heed the lessons from these recurring outbreaks.

With COVID-19, Vancouver faces its third threat by a respiratory virus in less than two decades. With SARS in 2003 and the H1N1 virus in 2009, aggressive measures by local health officials to identify and isolate each virus reduced the spread and minimized fatalities.

I’m sure everyone has their fingers crossed for a hat trick by the B.C. Centre for Disease Control.

Furthermore, in our cosmopolitan city, with its many connections to all corners of the globe, we should be preparing for when not if another pandemic occurs.

On the surface Vancouver might appear resilient, but we cannot risk ignoring our economic health, too. @MikeKlassen

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Despite vacant storefronts, many West Point Grey businesses still thriving Re: “West Point Grey businesses struggle amid continued rent hikes, taxes and uncertainty,” Feb. 26.

I read your article with great interest as I am involved in a West Point Grey business and live in the neighbourhood.

While the story contains factual information about rent hikes and empty stores, it failed to recognize those businesses, including ours, who are still thriving.

We have been located in this business district for the past 53 years, building upon return customers and generations of those customers.

Perhaps you could have done a broader walk on the street, visited the shops that are open — Quadro Framing, West 10th Eyes, Mix the Bakery, Moricotta, Home Hardware, Gild & Co., Bean Around the World, Urban Yarns or us, Van Yperen Jewellers, to name a few.

What keeps us open? Maybe more

reasonable landlords or services that bring the “destination” shopper looking for the personal attention that shopping online or in a big box store won’t provide.

Yes, Vancouver needs to sort out property taxation so that small business isn’t being taxed for the highest density on each property, but all of us need to consider where we shop and what those purchases online do to our community and what we want for where we live.

We miss all the businesses that have left West 10th Avenue, and we are unhappy with the empty stores, but we are STILL STANDING! We continue to participate in local events, charities and work hard to keep our businesses viable.

Perhaps creating projects that don’t allow empty stores to languish, displaying local art, pop-up shops, things that generate more interest on the block would help — certainly we are open to ideas.

Now is the time for people to support their local businesses so that we can survive and thrive, we ask that people living in our neighbourhood take a walk, stop in, see what can be purchased locally, get to know us, we are here.

Marilyn Giles, Vancouver

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Meet Canucks’ Canadian tuxedo-wearing most valuable fan Jay Aikenhead brings fun and Canadiana to his home team hype machine Grant Lawrence

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The Vancouver Canucks have a new MVP, and his name isn’t Hughes or Petterson. He’s a beauty in a Canadian tuxedo named Jay Aikenhead. Last month, Aikenhead won the title of Canucks Fan MVP, and now he’s competing against other fans around the league for a chance to attend the Stanley Cup Finals.

Aikenhead is a diehard, born-and-raised Canucks fan who grew up blocks from the Pacific Coliseum. Some of his earliest memories are walking to the rink with his dad, Ian, to see the explosive Pavel Bure-era Canucks of the 1990s. These days, Aikenhead’s favourite is the Canucks’ all-star rookie defenseman Quinn Hughes.

“Watching Hughes play has been a real treat this season,” Aikenhead raved.

“The kid’s edges are some of the best in the league.”

If you’re a hockey fan, you may already know Aikenhead without realizing it.

If you’ve been to a Canucks game lately and noticed a particularly large and rambunctious bunch of fans

in the upper corner of the stands, waving around signs and giant head cutouts of various Canucks and chanting generally upbeat slogans, you’ll know that’s the Canucks’ organic fan section called the Larscheiders.

They’re named after the Canucks’ passionate former radio and TV colour man Tommy Larscheid. The Larscheiders try to make the live Canucks experience more fun, and it’s working.

This is the Larscheiders’ fourth year, and it’s become a very hot ticket just to be seated amongst them.

Aikenhead is usually right in the middle of the section, notable for his thick black beard, flat brimmed baseball cap and big smile.

“I’ve been involved with the Larscheiders since day one,” Aikenhead told me. “I create most of the visual material you see up in our section and help out with some of the Canucks’ game-day operations with regards to the Larscheiders. The thinking is that the game should be fun, where we all come together as a community to spread the passion for the team that brings us closer.”

Aikenhead’s positive ap-

Jay Aikenhead and his signs are a fixture at Canucks games as well as the World Juniors. PHOTO COURTESY OF JAY AIKENHEAD

proach to hockey fandom stretches back further than the Larscheiders. If you’ve watched Team Canada at the World Junior Hockey Championship over the last several years, you may have noticed a whole group of “beauties” dressed in double denim, their jean jackets covered in vintage hockey patches. They’re usually down by the glass, holding up bold and basic signage with Canadian-friendly words and phrases such as “BEAUTY,” “SORRY,”

“TOQUE” and “2 BEER” neatly written out in capital letters. Yes, that’s Aikenhead and his hockey buddies.

“We wanted a specific look that we thought represented us personally as Canadian hockey fans,” said Aikenhead of the World Juniors experience. “The goal was to tease out Canadiana as best we could beyond just wearing a red or white jersey, and we thought of patching up some denim with hockey crests for the ultimate Canadian tuxedo.”

The tradition started in Malmo, Sweden, in 2014.

It happened again in 2016 in Helsinki, and 2019 in Vancouver. At every tournament, Aikenhead and his crew received plenty of media exposure.

“Unfortunately, we missed out on this year’s tournament in Ostrava,” Aikenhead said. “But we are planning on going to Gothenburg in 2022 and potentially Novosibirsk in 2023.”

When he’s not cheering on the Canucks or Team Canada, Aikenhead is the director of hockey operations for East Vancouver Minor Hockey, the system he grew up playing in. My six-year-old son is in now in that system, and like the rest of the kids, he reveres “Coach Jay.” For the past few months, Aikenhead has been involved in the fan contest, hosted by Upper Deck Hockey on Twitter. Aikenhead was crowned Canucks Fan MVP in February.

“With the privilege of being the Canucks Fan MVP, I get a printed hockey card with my picture on it,” Aikenhead mused. “Now I’m entered into the Ulti-

mate MVP pool versus fans representing 22 other NHL teams.”

Voting for this stage of the contest is happening now until March 15. To vote for Aikenhead, all you have to do is like his tweet at @upperdeckhockey. He’s hoping your likes will take him right to the Stanley Cup Finals.

“I’m stoked at what I am getting as the Canucks MVP, but having the grand prize would be amazing.”

And how about that Canucks team he’s cheered so passionately for his entire life? What does the Fan MVP think of his squad’s chances of finally making the playoffs?

“It’s looking tight with the injuries we’ve sustained, but thanks to new players like J.T. Miller and Quinn Hughes, we have a good chance,” Aikenhead said.

“The future is bright either way, and The Larscheiders are certainly excited to be in the building for meaningful games coming up.”

Aikenhead hopes that kind of positivity takes him, and his Canucks, all the way to the Stanley Cup Final. @grantlawrence

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Finding common ground between Indigenous people a world away Sabrina Furminger

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Marie Clements had never pondered the similarities between Indigenous people in Canada and Afghanistan until a fateful day in 2009 when she was flipping through a magazine and glimpsed something familiar in a photo essay from 6,000 miles away.

“I was looking at these amazing photographs of Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan, which itself is a contradictory thing for me, and I was really drawn in to these faces of Indigenous people from another country and started thinking, in certain angles, [the Afghani people] look like Indigenous people from Canada,” says the Vancouver-based Métis filmmaker and playwright.

The similarities gave Clements pause and elicited a stream of questions. “What do we have in common, these two Indigenous cultures that are ancient, that are still here, that have survived many wars? What don’t we

have in common? What is it that we have in common?

What happens if we’re in the same room together? What is that dialogue?”

Those questions led Clements to first write, and ultimately direct, Red Snow. The film stars Asivak Koostachin as Dylan Nadazeau, a Gwich’in soldier serving in the Canadian Army who is captured by the Taliban. The film was shot on location in the Northwest Territories and the interior of British Columbia, with Cache Creek and Kamloops stepping in for Afghanistan, and it includes dialogue in Gwich’in, Inuvialuktun, Pashto and English.

Red Snow premiered at the 2019 Vancouver International Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award for Most Popular Canadian Film. Last week, it won three awards at the 2020 Vancouver International Women in Film Festival (Best Screenplay, Best Direction and Best Feature) and on March 13, it screens once more, this time at Inter-

Red Snow stars Asivak Koostachin as a Gwich’in soldier serving in the Canadian Army who is captured by the Taliban.

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national Village Cinemas.

Red Snow is a film about journeys — between cultures, across an unforgiving landscape, in the rift created by colonialism. It also represented something of an adventure for cast and crew, beginning with the north, where they shot the scenes that unfold in flashbacks from Dylan’s teen years.

“When you see the snow in Red Snow, know that it was really cold,” says Clements.

On the first day of shooting in Dettah, she had to borrow boots and furs from people in the community because her Vancouver gear just didn’t cut it. “We shot in minus 51 on some days. There were so many circumstances where your breath would freeze before you’d even exhaled. The wind would cut through you.”

But supported as they were by the community, the Red Snow cast and crew “leaned into” the challeng-

es, according to Clements.

As for the Afghanistan scenes, the B.C. interior proved to be a worthy stand-in.

“Our [cultural] consultant Bashir saw our location photos on the wall and he said, ‘These are reference photos [from Afghanistan]’ and I said, ‘No, they’re photos of Cache Creek and Kamloops,’” says Clements.

What is most powerful to her though is the spiritual connection between the two seemingly different settings: Canada’s far north and the Afghan desert.

“There’s something really connected to being in the tundra and being in the desert, and exploring those connections in extreme opposites and that also bear witness to each other across miles and miles and miles,” says Clements.

Red Snow is Clements’ first action-drama, but it isn’t her first film, or deeply moving story. Her awardwinning documentary The Road Forward used musical numbers and moving

interviews to tell the story of the Native Voice newspaper.

She also wrote the libretto for Missing, the chamber opera that amplified the stories of murdered and missing Indigenous women.

These works don’t seem to have a lot in common, and yet they’re all about imprinting a profound story on a willing audience, says Clements.

“As a storyteller, what most storytellers want to do is to place the story inside of you,” says Clements. “Often, we experience stories on the screen and stage, but you want the witness to take it away with them, to think about it, to be impacted by it, or have it reoccur in you so that the story keeps on being told in an individual’s mind.”

She adds, “I’ve heard a few people say as we were touring [Red Snow] to different festivals, ‘Oh, I didn’t expect this — I didn’t expect it to be told this way.’ I love that. I love that comment.”

Red Snow screens March 13, 7 p.m. at Cineplex Odeon International Village Cinemas.

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March doesn’t necessarily always come in like a lion and out like a lamb, sometimes it just rains for two weeks in a row.

But true Vancouverites don’t let a little rain slow them down, especially when there are things to do and people to see. And, after determining the risk from COVID-19 is minimal, several large-scale events in the city are going ahead as planned.

Here’s a list of just some of the events taking place in Vancouver this month.

MONSTER JAM March 14 and 15 Pacific Coliseum at the PNE 100 North Renfrew St. Whether you’re taking the grandkids or are a fan of Grave Digger, Dragon and Scooby Doo all on your own, Monster Jam is the place to see 12,000-pound trucks and the world-class athletes who drive them and tear up the

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Vince Hemingson says older women are some of his favourite subjects to photograph naked SANDRA THOMAS | STHOMAS@VANCOURIER.COM

Vancouver photographer Vince Hemingson says his latest body of work, “The Nude in the Landscape” series frames the human figure in the natural environment of the Pacific Northwest, “from its beaches and shorelines, to its rivers and streams, forests and mountainsides, encompassing every season, spring, summer, autumn and winter.”

Photographer celebrates women with nude photos

Hemingson says the black and white photos of naked women “juxtapose the delicacy and fragility of the female form against the scale and rugged grandeur of the landscape, contrasting the textures and tones between those two elements, and examining the relationship between the viewer and the subject.”

Curious as to how — and why — Hemingson began photographing women in their natural state, Lifetime

had some questions for the artist about his craft.

When did you first know you wanted to become a photographer?

I learned how to process film and use a darkroom in high school in Qualicum Beach on Vancouver Island. (Thank you, Dr. Beard). It was a transformative experience to see images emerge in a tray of developer and added a powerful alchemical and magical element to the process of making art. At the time I don’t think I ever considered it as a career.

But I was always an avid amateur photographer. As a college student, I travelled to Poland with (Canadian writer and commentator) Stan Persky and did the principal photography for his book, At the Lenin Shipyard: Poland and the Rise of the Solidarity Trade Union.

Working with National Geographic in the late nineties and early 2000’s on a documentary series, I found photography a welcome diversion from the responsibilities of being a producer, writer and reluctant on-camera host. After some early success with stock images I thought that in a perfect world, I’d much prefer to focus on photography.

When did you decide to start shooting nudes — and why?

I was a painter before I was a photographer, so to do a figure class with a nude model seemed the most natural thing in the world. I started shooting nudes again specifically because I was photographing people with large tattoos and extensive body art. In most cases the best way to see and appreciate the tattoo was without the distraction of clothes.

How do you find your models?

Friends, acquaintances, casting calls, people I’ve never met before on the street. I now have the luxury of having people

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range of representations of ages, shapes and diversity of ethnicities.

approach me because they’ve seen my work and would like to collaborate.

You shoot all shapes and sizes, was that always the plan?

Initially, almost all of the models I was working with were agency models and fine-art figure models used to posing nude. They were almost all in their mid-twenties and very fit. And I was hiring them because I was an unknown photographer.

But once I had a body of work I began calling Nude in the Landscape, my propensity to overthink everything came to the fore. What’s nude, who is nude, what does the nude represent? What is the landscape? As the years went by, I became fascinated by the passage of time and photographing the ebb and flow of the seasons. Women’s lives have seasons as well. The cultural anthropologist in me liked the idea of the Paleolithic trinity of Maiden, Mother and Crone to illustrate the seasons in a woman’s life.

This was difficult initially.

I had to convince a lot of women that they would look wonderful as art. The first few friends I photographed in their forties and fifties gifted And I noticed quite quickly me with their trust and their that while women might photographs inspired a lot admire and love some of of women to pose. The work my earliest work, they were became much more powerful somewhat distanced from the and meaningful and spoke to nudes because I was portraying a much larger audience. culturally accepted notions of idealized female bodies. Which Your admiration for older women shows up in your wasn’t my intent, as I was hiring models who were willing work. What is it about an older woman that makes to shoot nudes. them such great subjects?

I’m an increasingly older man myself. None of the ...nudes of women in my life have women in become any less beautiful their sixties and to me as they have aged. In most cases, their confidence, seventies are life experience, wisdom, and beyond rare. self-acceptance makes them even more beautiful. It’s I then started asking friends shocking to me that we see so to pose for me and started few representations in art of women past a certain age. seeking out a much larger

There are almost no fine art nudes of post-menopausal women, and nudes of women in their sixties and seventies are beyond rare. That saddens me.

If art represents who we are as a culture and, allegedly, our highest ideals and aspirations, what does it say about us that we — and by “we” I mean mostly white, privileged men of a certain vintage because they’re still the gatekeepers of the art world — don’t represent, venerate and elevate art that portrays women who are no longer physically fertile, but who are the heart and soul of our lives and communities?

And, of course, the same goes for women of colour or women who don’t appear in fashion magazines.

with regards to women’s rights and human rights.

It’s corporate sexism and misogyny at its worst. It’s about controlling women Where does your work appear? by policing and controlling On the occasional gallery wall their bodies. and my website. Sadly, my work on social media platforms One of your most famous photos is dubbed, The Tree is relentlessly censored and of Life and includes more deleted. I am shadow banned than a dozen women. How on Facebook and Instagram. I am constantly threatened with long did it take you to pose permanent deletion. As a result, all of those women in such a way?

I self-censor. It’s deplorable.

My background in film and It’s about placing corporate television comes in handy profits above women’s rights when directing large groups. and human rights. The socalled “Community Standards” I start at one end and then give directions across violate Canadian law as it pertains to female nipples. But the frame. It takes about it’s also about placating some of a minute per person to the worst regimes in the world construct a pose. After four hours of that my brain has used up all of its bandwidth.

On a personal note, it’s great to spend time on a photo shoot with a women who knows all my pop-culture references!

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As I basked in the sun at a picnic table outside Jalapeno Bucks: Buckin’ Good BBQ & Burritos in Mesa, Arizona on a glorious January day, I couldn’t help but think about the weather back home.

one stop of many on what’s known as the Fresh Foodie Trail: Routes to Roots, an agricultural-based, self-guided tour that allows visitors and locals to experience Mesa, considered the culinary gateway to Greater Phoenix.

It rained 22 days in a row in Vancouver in January, making it the fifth dampest month on record since 1937.

The city also received 34 centimetres (more than a foot) of snow in just one week — but not here in Mesa.

The popular barbecue joint, set against the backdrop of a wave of orange trees, began more than 35 years ago when Duaine and Dianne Burden opened a roadside stand selling homemade salsa.

Jalapeno Bucks, which describes its menu offerings as “new wave Mexican food and BuzzSaw Brand BBQ,” is just

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Other stops we were able to fit in on our tour of the Fresh Foodie Trail, included: THE ORANGE PATCH OK, I’m just going to start by saying that if you stop at the Orange Patch and don’t try the freshly squeezed orange juice, you’ll regret it — possibly forever.

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The farm store is massive and, besides selling apparel, gifts, olive oil and appropriate food pairings, it includes Del Piero, a Tuscan-inspired eatery, Superstition Coffee, which smelled divine on the day we visited, and Olive Spa shop, which sells olive-oil based skin care and beauty products.

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With suburban development creeping ever closer, in the late 1990s the Johnston family began looking for ways to preserve their farm.

It was in 2000 when Joe began collaborating with a land planner, landscape architects, the Town of Gilbert and community developers to create this “present-day village that honours the farming traditions of the past.”

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Home ice has been a significant advantage for the Vancouver Canucks this season. One of the elements of that home ice advantage, the raucous atmosphere inside Rogers Arena, could be in jeopardy.

Around the world, countries are taking precautionary measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, colloquially known as coronavirus. In many cases, these precautionary measures have had an impact on professional sporting events, with many teams in Europe playing games in empty arenas and stadiums.

Italy, which is the epicentre of Europe’s coronavirus outbreak, has imposed a nationwide lockdown.

While the initial plan was for sporting events to continue without fans in attendance, they have now suspended all sporting events until, at minimum, April 3.

Germany has gone even further with its top hockey league, the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. It’s outright cancelled the remainder of the DEL season, citing a prohibition against gatherings of more than 1,000 people. There will be no German champion this season.

The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) has cancelled all March tournaments, including the Women’s World Hockey Championship. April’s Under-18 Championship, an essential event in the scouting calendar for NHL teams preparing for the draft, could be next to get cancelled.

These are understandable precautions to take to avoid the spread of the highly contagious disease, which is already bouncing from country to country and costing thousands of lives.

Professional leagues in North America, including the NHL, are not talking about cancelling games or seasons just yet, but the coronavirus has already had an impact on the NHL. Santa Clara County, which encompasses San Jose, has placed a ban on public gatherings of more than 1,000 people for the next three weeks, which will affect three San Jose Sharks home games. The Sharks are investigating the possibility of playing games at a neutral site, rescheduling the games, or playing them in an empty arena.

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Canucks captain Bo Horvat says playing hockey games in an empty arena would be “awful.” PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

about the possibility of playing in an empty arena. “As a player’s perspective, that’s who you do it for — you do it for your teammates, obviously, and your organization — but you obviously do it for your fans. To perform in front of an empty stadium would be terrible… There would be no life, it would be dead out there.”

Any large gathering of people is a potential vector for spreading the virus, but the NHL also wants to avoid the disease spreading among its players.

The NHL instituted a policy limiting access to locker rooms for the media and other non-essential staff.

That led to awkward press conferences with players after the Canucks’ game on Sunday, where a distance of six feet was observed, though Tyler Toffoli smiled and said, “I like it,” when asked what he thought about the format.

The concerns are understandable.

Consider the 2014-15 season, which saw an outbreak of mumps across multiple NHL teams. Twenty-four players from five teams were diagnosed with mumps, as were two on-ice officials. A second mumps outbreak struck during the 2016-17 season, Canucks for dropping two games to the Columbus Blue Jackets. Those were the only two regulation wins for the Blue Jackets over their past 15 games, as they’ve been struggling with injuries.

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Like mumps, COVID-19 is a contagious virus that passes from person to person via close personal contact. In hockey, there’s a lot of close personal contact; the hard checks and puck battles are part of the appeal of the sport, and it’s easy to see how a viral infection could quickly spread through the NHL ranks.

Other than during the 2004-05 lockout, there is just one year the Stanley Cup wasn’t awarded in its history: the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918.

The 1919 Stanley Cup Final was cancelled after five games when most of the Montreal Canadiens’ roster was hospitalized with the flu, leaving just three players healthy. Canadiens defenceman Joe Hall died of pneumonia four days after the Stanley Cup Final was cancelled.

While the coronavirus isn’t as deadly as the Spanish Flu, the NHL still needs to take precautions to avoid the spread of the disease. If the NHL needs to play in front of empty arenas and with the media barred from the locker room in order for the season to continue, so be it. heading into Tuesday’s meeting with the New York Islanders, he had 14 points.

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WHERE: CROATIAN CULTURAL CENTRE 3250 Commercial Dr., Vancouver WHEN: Friday, March 20 th 9am - 9pm st Saturday, March 21 9am - 6pm Sunday, March 22 nd 9am - 5pm WHAT: Amazing selections of the following brands

Miz Mooz I Bueno l Vionic Joseph Siebel I Romika l Sperry Gadea I LODI I Think! I Lemon Jelly Bernie Mev I Pikolinos I Grundland Roberto Capucci I CAT I SPRING STEP Bussola I Orenge I KEDS Huge selection of leather handbags and luggage.

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BONUS SIZES: For this sale, we will have an additional 1000 pairs of shoes ranging from sizes 36-46 womens and mens!

Bring a friend and family member, there is something for everyone!

All forms of payment are accepted VISA, MC, Amex, Debit and Cash The sale is primarily women’s size 37 (7/US) and Men’s 41 (8/US) Facebook/YVRShoeSampleSale

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NOTICE OF SALE OR DISPOSAL OF ABANDONED PROPERTY Personal property of Gillian Ann Willis, deceased, left at Suite 52, 1425 Lamey’s Mill Road, Vancouver, BC. Includes furniture, collectibles, and household goods. The landlord is Magnet Investments Inc, PO Box 49, Chester, NS, B0J 1J0.

The items will be disposed of after 30 days of the notice being served or posted, unless the person being notified takes the items, or establishes a right to the items, or makes a dispute resolution application with the Residential Tenancy Branch, or makes an application in the Supreme Court to establish their rights to the items.

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ANTIQUES SHOW & SALE Saturday, Mar. 21, 2020, 9am-5pm Sunday, Mar. 22, 2020, 9am-3pm Heritage Park 4410 Luckakuck Way Chilliwack, BC (Exit 116 off Highway 1) WE SUPPORT THE CANADIAN CANCER “KID’S CAMP” AND CKNW KID’S FUND Admission: $5 • Parking by Donation • ATM on site ANTIQUE SHOW Sunday, Mar 29th Vancouver Flea Market 703 Terminal Ave, Van Have something to sell?

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FURNITURE All Furniture Will Be Sold Or Disposed Of We will be selling/disposing of a mattress, box spring, clothes, kitchenware, tables, chairs, trinkets, pictures etc.

The tenant was Tony Pruden from suite 907 − 1225 Cardero Street, Vancouver, BC, V6G 2H8.

The landlord is Maple Leaf Property Management, 102 − 1225 Cardero Street, Vancouver, BC, V6G 2H8.

The items will be disposed of after 30 days of the notice being served or posted, unless the person being notified takes the items, or establishes a right to the items, or makes a dispute resolution application with the Residential Tenancy Branch, or makes an application in the Supreme Court to establish their right to the items.

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