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Kirk LaPointe ofﬁcially announced Monday he will be the NPA’s mayoral candidate in the November civic election. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Kirk LaPointe runs for mayor NPA newcomer challenges incumbent Gregor Robertson for top job at city hall Mike Howell

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The worst kept secret in civic politics was ﬁnally acknowledged Monday: Longtime media executive and former CBC ombudsman Kirk LaPointe conﬁrmed he will be the NPA’s mayoral candidate in the fall election. Almost two months after the Courier revealed LaPointe was interested in seeking a seat with the NPA in this campaign, the 56-year-old former managing editor of the Vancouver Sun made his intentions known Monday morning at a Main Street coffee shop, near the 10th Avenue bike route. “I’ve spent a career asking questions I think the public wants answers to, and now I think

I’m at an age and stage where I can ﬁnd the solutions that the public wants, “ LaPointe told a select group of civic affairs reporters invited to Kafka’s Coffee andTea to learn more about the newly minted NPA leader’s transformation from a career in media to rookie politician. LaPointe used his ﬁrst meeting with reporters to zero in on the need for open government at city hall and to restore public trust that he believes has soured underVision Vancouver’s administration. “I don’t particularly like the culture that now exists in which information [at city hall] is routinely withheld, budget documentation is very opaque, public servants are muzzled — I’d like all of that to change,” he said. At a press conference later in the morning

at the Jack Poole Plaza on the city’s waterfront, LaPointe gave reporters “a taste” of what policies the NPA will roll out in the coming months.The most significant was a freeze on taxes “so we can examine the books and find ways to deliver our services more effectively.” He challenged Mayor Gregor Robertson to “open the books” on the budget to let residents get a line-by-line look at spending — something NPA Coun. George Affleck has called for in council chambers. Other policies would see free WiFi in the city, measures to address child poverty, strategies to reduce burglaries and tackle the ongoing battles between cyclists and motorists. In an effort to run a “clean contest about ideas,” the NPA will have its candidates,

board members and staff sign a code of conduct to steer clear of personal attacks during the campaign. “If they breach that boundary, I will resign as a candidate,” said LaPointe, urging Robertson andVision to sign the same declaration. Child poverty and addressing the needs of the city’s disadvantaged appears to be areas LaPointe will focus on in the coming months. As a child, he said, he grew up in poverty in west Toronto where he never knew his father. He only met his brother when he was seven or eight, his mother having to choose whom she could afford to raise before sending one child to live with relatives in New Brunswick. Continued on page 7

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Kirk LaPointe is a longtime media executive who ofﬁcially announced Monday that he is running as the NPA’s mayoral candidate in the fall election. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Former media guy talks being covered by media LaPointe was managing editor at the Sun

12TH&CAMBIE Mike Howell

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Yep, Kirk LaPointe is the NPA’s mayoral candidate. He made it ofﬁcial Monday morning to ﬁve civic affairs reporters, including yours truly, at a Main Street café. I recommend you go to our website for a more detailed version of my story than appeared on today’s front page.There, you’ll get to read former mayor Larry Campbell’s take on being a rookie politician, which he was when he won a landslide victory with COPE in 2002. (Sadly, I couldn’t print Campbell’s off-the-record comments — which are always hilarious, insightful and pointed — but off the record is off the record.) Anyway, a lot of what LaPointe said Monday is already out there, but I bet some of you are wondering how a longtime media guy is going to be covered by reporters who used to work for him or were taught by him. For the record, I’ve never worked for LaPointe. Colleagues Frances Bula of the Globe and Mail, Jeff Lee of the Vancouver Sun and Emily Jackson of Metro have; Jackson was also taught by him. From what I know of my

colleagues, the coverage will be as it has always been: fair, balanced and unbiased. Lee weighed in on the issue in a blog post Monday, where he disclosed a reference he gave LaPointe on his LinkedIn proﬁle while he was still managing editor at the Sun. “Although I stand behind it, no one, least of all him, should interpret that this will mean he gets soft treatment. Journalists naturally eat their colleagues when they do things like enter politics.”

istration they’ve covered. So I expect that they’re going to be pretty difﬁcult on me at times. And I think that’s fair, that’s their job. My commitment is to keep the dialogue open — that if something is written or said that I consider to be grossly unfair, I’ll mention it to people. But I’m not going to stop talking to them.” LaPointe wasn’t in charge at the Sun when I worked there in 2000-2001. My only previous connection to him is that we talked a few

“My commitment is to keep the dialogue open.” —Kirk LaPointe LaPointe, who is married to a former Sun reporter, was asked by a reporter at a press conference at Jack Poole Plaza — after the sit-down at Kafka’s Coffee and Tea on Main Street — about how he thought such connections would play out in the campaign. “I don’t think it’s going to be an advantage. I know too many of the practitioners in this city and their integrity, and I know that they’re going to want to — in many ways — assert their independence and make it clear that they’re not going to be culpable in the same way of an inside deal in the admin-

times on the phone about a job years ago in Hamilton. He never hired me. Probably a good thing because, well… have you ever been to Hamilton? A little joke there, Hamiltonians. Seriously. Great city, good steel. Of course, the birthplace of Neil Peart and Eugene Levy, too. What else? Of course, yes — go Ti-Cats! Note: LaPointe says he will blogging during the campaign at thevancouveriwant.ca. twitter.com/Howellings

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Program aims to share beekeeping buzz Main Street community garden breaks out in hives Cheryl Rossi

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Flowers and veggies sprout from raised beds in a once empty lot next to the Cobalt on Main Street. Non-profit group Hives for Humanity hopes the community garden will buzz with activity when they host a weekly beekeeping mentorship program every Monday from 5 to 6:30 p.m. through November. Sarah Common, a social worker in the Downtown Eastside since 2006, first installed a beehive in the garden next to the supervised drug injection site on East Hastings Street in 2011. She quickly saw sweet results. “The garden space that we have there is really a beautiful respite where people can come in from the chaos of the street and sit under a tree, enjoy the flowers, get their hands in the soil, and bringing bees in there just upped that,” Common said. “We have beekeepers who are Downtown Eastside residents living with poverty, some with addiction, some with mental illness, some homeless, street-entrenched, crime-entrenched, there’s a really wide spectrum, and everybody rises to the opportunity to beekeep and to garden and to be respectful of the bees.” Common and her master beekeeper mother, Julia, founded Hives for Humanity in 2012.They steward 75 hives throughout Vancouver, including two colonies at Milross Gardens next to the Cobalt. “Bees —not just honey bees but bumblebees, mason bees, other tiny little insects, butterflies, hummingbirds — they pollinate close to two-thirds of our food,” Common said. “And urban landscapes have traditionally erased the foraging and the habitat of those pollinating insects.” More than 100 gardens grow beyond the chainlink fence that bounds Milross Gardens. Families pay $20 a year to lease a raised vegetable bed. Hives for Humanity planted the perimeters with pollinizers and created living walls. The non-profit will install mason bee houses next

spring and leave ground unturned for bumblebees. “A lot of bees don’t live in cavities,” Common said. “They live in the ground.” Wannabe beekeepers can observe or get handson. “They can feel what it’s like to hold a frame with 2,000 bees on it and taste honey straight out of the hive, warm from comb,” Common said. Common ﬁrst heard from Amacon, the development company that owns the site, after a representative of the company tasted honey from Hives for Humanity and wanted to install a hive on their ofﬁce’s roof. But Hives for Humanity spied a broader opportunity for hives in Milross Gardens. “Not only was it a great idea but we were really impressed with the strength of what they were doing, just how amazing they are at connecting communities and people within the community, and so we were really inspired by their passion,” said Melissa Howey, development and marketing manager for Amacon. Hives for Humanity aims to create pollinating corridors east to Clark Drive, west down East Hastings to Main Street and then along Cambie Street to CRAB Park. More bees shouldn’t scare anyone, says Common. “People hear bee and they think the thing that has stung them and been horrible to them in the past is a bee and often it was a hornet,” said Common, who adds that there are people who work with Hives for Humanity and are allergic to bee stings. The therapeutic value of beekeeping gives Common the greatest buzz. “You have to be in moment and you have to be thinking about what you’re doing, watching where you’re putting your hands, breathing slowly,” she said. “Not everyone can meditate but maybe some people who can’t meditate can bee keep.” Milross Gardens grows at 989 Main St. For more information on the mentorship program, go to hivesforhumanity.com or milrossgardensonmain.com. twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi

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Continued from page 1 “I have a great deal of understanding of what that life is like to have an empty stomach when you go to school,” he said, noting some days he resorted to eating butter and sugar sandwiches. “And those are people that I would prefer to focus on.” Though known across the country in media circles, having held senior posts at the Hamilton Spectator, National Post and CTV News, LaPointe doesn’t have the public proﬁle of the NPA’s previous mayoral candidates. Now LaPointe will attempt to do what Peter Ladner and Suzanne Anton failed to do in the 2008 and 2011 elections: beat Robertson and his Vision Vancouver team, which has dominated city hall since the centre-left party was elected in 2008. “I’ll admit I’m the underdog,” he said. “I’m the

outsider. I’m the person with fewer resources than my competitor. I happen to have, at this point four months and a day before the vote, a much lower recognition factor.That’s what I have to work on, that’s what the team will work on.” Vision Coun. Heather Deal welcomed LaPointe to the mayoral race but was quick to point out what she said was an NPA record of voting against Vision’s efforts to reduce homelessness, build affordable housing and tackle environmental concerns to make Vancouver the greenest city in the world by 2020. “Mr. LaPointe says he wants to run this campaign on ideas, we look forward to hearing what those ideas are,” Deal told reporters Monday on the back steps of city hall. As for LaPointe’s criticism about the lack of transparency at city hall, Deal urged the NPA leader

to visit the city’s website and examine the budget documents. “All of our public consultation is done online, in person — we have thousands of people giving us input on all of our policies and plans,” she said. “We are very open to the public.” LaPointe said the NPA plans to run enough candidates for council, school board and park board to win majorities. Candidates for those positions are expected to be rolled out over the next few weeks. LaPointe is married to Mary LynnYoung, associate dean of the arts faculty at UBC. LaPointe has two adult children from a previous marriage and a stepdaughter withYoung. The couple lives on the UBC campus. The election is Nov. 15. Note:A longer version of this story can be viewed at vancourier.com twitter.com/Howellings

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Only 27 per cent of university students in mathematics, computer and information sciences are women, according to Statistics Canada in 2009. Wear and Kali would like to that number climb to 50 per cent female engineering undergrads with Canada becoming a technological innovator that can compete globally. “I always worked in a male-dominated ﬁeld,” said Wear. “There are a lot of great men supporting this cause. Separately, I don’t believe we can make the best products, the best companies, the best organizations if we only have 50 per cent of the minds at the table.” Wear hopes having all female participants at the event will help them make friends more easily and create a comfortable atmosphere for experimentation, making mistakes and discovery. Women who are programmers, designers and

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Coding is not something that happens alone in a dark room. “Nobody ever talks about how creative and collaborative it is,” said SandraWear. “You’re thinking up ideas and ﬁguring out how to make them.You’re creating.” Wear, along with Jot Kali, are the co-organizers of Be Like Ada, an event named after Lord Byron’s daughter, who is considered the ﬁrst female programmer. On July 19, 500 teen girls will take part in an eight-hour coding boot camp with the hope of inspiring more young women to pursue coding in engineering and computer science. Coding, in layman’s terms, is writing instructions for a computer. Different coding languages are used for different purposes, whether it’s computer software, apps or websites.

project managers will be present at the event as role models as well as men who are passionate about the cause. “You can’t be what you can’t see,”Wear explained. One role model, Jessica Weeres, is the chief operating officer of Mathtoons, a company that makes apps allowing teachers to create interactive homework assignments. A graduate of applied mathematics and computer science at UBC, Weeres remembers being the only girl in some classes. “There were no real role models. It’s really hard as a teenage girl to look at a field filled with nerdy guys and say that’s what I want to do,” said Weeres. “[I hope] they leave recognizing that this isn’t some big scary thing that only nerdy guys do, and even if it doesn’t become their career, it will become a part of their tool set that will allow them to open doors.”

Wear believes media in recent years has provided more positive examples of cooler techies, such as The Social Network,The Big Bang Theory and SiliconValley. “I think coming with change as a whole in business is encouraging females to do what excites them and do what they want to do and that there’s no road blocks,” said Marjorie Trithardt, a manager at Microsoft’s Vancouver Development Centre. The theme of the event is “developing coding as a superpower,” based on a quote by Drew Houston, creator of ﬁle sharing platform Dropbox. Wear envisions an online community for girls to engage with one another and the possibility of taking it across Canada. “Coding is as important as reading and writing,” said Wear. “Girls can do this like anyone else.” twitter.com/chrischeungtogo

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Tuesday was a good day for Ericka Stephens-Rennie. It marked the ofﬁcial groundbreaking for Vancouver’s ﬁrst cohousing complex. The development is being built on three properties on East 33rd near Argyle Street in Kensington Cedar-Cottage.The city approved rezoning in March 2013 and the three houses on the land were knocked down in May. Stephens-Rennie will be moving into a two-bedroom, 800-square-foot unit with her husband and son. “What’s neat about this phase is it’s just so tangible now,” she told the Courier before the groundbreaking ceremony. “The work that we’ve been doing this far has all been on paper, whereas with this you can go to the site and watch these big machines work and you can watch the dirt move and it all feels very real now.” Construction is expected to take 14 months.The complex will feature four residential buildings, which are separated from each other, as well as a common courtyard in the centre and

a 6,510-square-foot common house at the back of the property to encourage and promote interaction between residents. The 31 units range from studios to three-bedrooms — two of the three-bedroom suites and a studio are still up for sale, while negotiations are ongoing for two covenanted rental suites. Vision Vancouver Coun. Kerry Jang said cohousing makes good use of land and he expects its popularity to grow. “When you look at the research around the world, even done by the Vancouver Foundation, one of the biggest problems we have in our city is loneliness, lack of connections and things like that. Nuclear families haven’t always worked out that well, and so for a good chunk of folks who are looking for something more, this is an option for them,” he said. “What prevented it before was the fact we had no regulations around it and that’s one of the reasons I pushed for it — to say, OK, if this is going to work for some people, let’s give them choice.That’s been part of our entire housing and homelessness plan — to create a range of housing to suit different pocketbooks and different lifestyles.” Brian Jackson, the city’s manager of planning and

development, attended the groundbreaking, to acknowledge the hard work that went into the seeing the project realized. Jackson said he worked with planners to ﬁnd creative ways to ensure community concerns were addressed, he worked with the applicants to make sure that the city was responding to the unique circumstances of this type of develop-

ment, and city staff toured a cohousing complex in Burnaby to get a full understanding of cohousing and how it differs from co-op or condominium living. “It’s a unique lifestyle, but it is a lifestyle. I don’t know if it’s going to take off as a major style of housing — it’s just another unique housing model that we want to add to the toolbox to provide opportunities for people to

live in Vancouver.” Stephens-Rennie is optimistic about the future of cohousing. “We’re really excited to be taking this step together as a community, with the neighbourhood and with the city,” she said. “We hope this will be just the ﬁrst of many cohousing communities in Vancouver. Our city really needs new affordable and innovative forms

of housing. Cohousing is not the only answer to that. There are housing co-ops that already exist and people in Vancouver are necessarily thinking hard about what other innovative options there are. I’m excited that next year, cohousing will be one of the housing types in the mix for people to choose from.That’s a great step forward for Vancouver.” twitter.com/naoibh

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Opinion Minors bring major Well-designed cities cash for not being IDed create better health Les Leyne Columnist lleyen@timescolonist.com Underage, undercover liquor inspectors are making busts at an increasing rate, according to the latest report from the liquor control branch. Their forays into restaurants and bars have been so successful that the overall compliance rate is dropping compared to the first year the project was launched. It has been three years since the law was changed to allow the Liquor Control and Licensing Branch to use real minors during inspections, rather than young adults who just looked like minors. The former system had the disadvantage of not allowing any charges to be laid after infractions, since the young agents were of drinking age. Over the years the government sent youthful adults into stores to attempt liquor purchases, the track record of compliance was dismal. The overall compliance rate — the percentage of times an agent was asked to produce two pieces of identification — was 29 per cent. It “clearly indicated an ongoing problem with age verification when purchasing alcohol,” said the branch. So after the law was changed, it started using real minors to attempt purchases, and then levying stiff penalties on outlets when they were successful. The penalties range from a $7,500 fine to a month-long shutdown of the offending establishment. The branch reported an 86 per cent compliance rate the first year it used minors, in 2011-12, but that has dropped to 72 per cent in the most recent year, because they are checking pubs and restaurants regularly, as well, and apparently having a field day. Government liquor stores scored 96 per cent in year one, but slipped to 82 per cent in 2013-14. Private liquor stores scored 83 per cent the first year and 78 per cent last year. They sampled almost four times as many private stores as government stores last year, 130 versus 33, reflecting their shares of the market. The underage agents obtained liquor 28 times at private stores and six times at government stores. Licensed restaurants and bars fared much worse, with compliance rates barely over 50 per cent. Minors bought booze in restaurants 22 times out of the 50 times they tried, and 12 out of the 26 times attempted in bars. Most of the infractions are blamed on inadequate training and

supervision. So overall, the compliance rate is much better than it used to be when no penalties could be imposed even after purported minors found infractions. But it has dropped over three years as they check different venues where booze is served.

Based on 70 infractions found by minor agents last year, most of which carried a fine of $7,500, the plan is to press on. The branch appears to be enthusiastic about using minors as agents, saying it’s an effective and efficient method for enforcing age-of-sale laws. The latest report said as licensees become more aware that minors are being used as agents, the expectation of ID checks should increase the rate at which they are made. Based on 70 infractions found by minor agents last year, most of which carried a minimum fine of $7,500, the plan is to press on. “The LCLB believes that growing awareness of the minors program, together with a strong likelihood of apprehension and significant penalties, has become an effective strategy in preventing the sale of liquor to minors.” The branch said the liquor policy review over the last year confirmed the usefulness of the program.That review also led to a general relaxation of various restrictions on alcohol sales, including what the branch calls new points of entry for minors. Families can eat in some pubs, grocery stores will soon be selling booze, restaurants can serve drinks only after a certain time, spas, cooking schools and galleries will be able to serve drinks, beer garden fences are coming down and liquor will be more generally available. It’s not hard to guess what will happen to the general compliance rate. If it was slipping under the relatively strict old rules, under which 35 inspectors policed more than 10,000 licensed outlets, it will likely drop some more once the more relaxed approach and wider availability come into play. twitter.com/leyneles

Michael Geller Columnist michaelarthurgeller@gmail.com “You know there is something wrong when you need to consume a litre of gas just to purchase a litre of milk.” This was one of the many thoughtprovoking statements I heard at a recent Canadian Institute of Planners conference in New Brunswick. One of the topics was “Public Health and the Built Environment,” and it focused on the different ways community and neighbourhood design can contribute to better health. Given the original purpose of zoning was to improve health, it is a sad irony that in subsequent years it appears to have contributed to many of the new illnesses we face today. Development and building codes were ﬁrst written to combat contagious diseases such as tuberculosis, cholera and yellow fever. By separating noxious industrial and residential uses, and ensuring buildings had access to clean water, daylight and fresh air, city planners assisted medical professionals in curing these ailments. Today we are seeing a rising incidence in chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, osteoarthritis, depression and cancer.Their causes are numerous and complex. However, research is increasingly showing connections between how neighbourhoods and buildings are designed, and the incidence of these diseases. In the Greater Toronto area, some doctors claim they can often assess someone’s health from their postal code. It is not just a question of whether they live in a poor or afﬂuent neighbourhood. It’s also a question of whether it’s “walkable” and well served by transit, or a suburban, car-dependent community. Research carried out by the Heart and Stroke Foundation and other organizations is revealing that money spent on public transit and active community design will ultimately pay dividends in the form of reduced healthcare costs, all other things being equal. Some conference speakers presented alarming maps and statistics illustrating the increase in adult and child obesity across the country over recent decades using Body Mass Index (BMI) as a measure. Doctors will tell you there is a correlation between BMI and chronic diseases, especially diabetes in adults and children. While British Columbia has the lowest obesity rate of any province, it still

increased from approximately 15 per cent of the population to 20 percent from 2000 to 2011. Moreover, health professionals question these statistics since women often under-report weight while men over-report height. In NewYork City, former mayor Michael Bloomberg made it a priority to address community health.While his efforts to restrict the size of sugar-laden drinks are well known, what is less known is how he has promoted active living through design. One of his initiatives was to retain Dr. Karen Lee, a Canadian, to work with architects and planners in the preparation of now internationally-recognized Active Design Guidelines. He also converted roads to bike lanes, public spaces and pedestrian areas.Today NewYorkers are amongst the healthiest Americans. There is no doubt the layout of a neighourhood determines whether you walk, bike or drive a car.While some contributing factors are obvious, such as whether there are shops or community facilities within walking distance, others are more subtle. Slightly wider sidewalks separated by a landscape boulevard encourage walking, as do routes that include high degrees of pedestrian interest. One planner suggested we should think of a sidewalk as a room, with design attention given to walls, ﬂoor and ceiling. Ideally the ceiling is rain protection or a canopy of trees. As I listened to the presentations I was struck by two sad ironies. For decades architects and planners have worked hard to make buildings more accessible for those in wheelchairs.While admirable and necessary, this has had the unintended consequence of making it easier for the rest of us to use elevators instead of stairs. If we try to use the stairs, often the doors to each ﬂoor are locked for security reasons. Security concerns also discourage parents from allowing their children to walk or ride their bikes to school. We need to design safer routes to school and more attractive, well lit stairwells. Furthermore, just as we now undertake environmental impact assessments of new plans and projects, we should also carry out health impact assessments. They could help us all live longer. twitter/ @michaelgeller

The week in num6ers...

The number of years NPA mayoral candidate Kirk LaPointe spent as managing editor of the Vancouver Sun.

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The number of times underage agents hired by the provincial government managed to purchase alcohol last year without being asked for ID.

The percentage of university students enrolled in math or computer sciences who are female, according to Stats Canada.

The number of acts performing on eight different stages at the Vancouver Folk Festival this weekend.

The percentage of Canadians diagnosed with HIV who are aboriginal, despite only making up five per cent of the overall population.

In metres, the diameter of a 700-year-old Western red cedar tree accessible via a four-hour hike from Lynn Headwaters Park.

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To the editor: Re: “Promised park nowhere in sight,” June 13. Nobody should be surprised that Vancouver city council is stonewalling on delivering any False Creek parkspace until the Vision-led initiative to implode the viaducts ﬁnally comes to fruition. Any parkspace created west of Main Street will be accompanied by eliminating acres of an inner city park and community gardens east of Main along the south side of Strathcona Park with the full approval of the park board, not the ﬁrst time the city and park board will have removed East Side parkspace to pursue personal agendas. The city’s desire to demolish the best access to downtown started years ago with the unanimous council decision to extendThornton Street south combined with the re-alignment of Scotia Street just north of Great NorthernWay. Half of the overpass transversing the BNSF rail yards has already been built and when complete they will add thousands of more rat-running vehicles to East Side streets and bike routes.The city has already adopted reports and applied for federal funding to fast track construction of overpasses on Prior and Malkin, which will be widened in order to accommodate increased truck volumes. It’s all part of Vision’s ongoing plans to

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July 16, 1978: Mary McCaslin and Jim Ringer headline the inaugural Vancouver Folk Festival in Stanley Park, put on in part by organizers of the Winnipeg Folk Fest. Despite the rain, the concert was deemed a success and moved to Jericho Beach the following year, where the free-spirited, volunteer-driven music festival has called home the third weekend of July ever since. This year’s diverse lineup of 60 artists includes such acts as Joan Baez, Amos Lee, Great Lake Swimmers, Born Ruffians, Ozomatli, Brasstronaut and Wintersleep.

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densify and carve up East Side neighbourhoods with more vehicle trafﬁc and roads not less. In typical city council bungling, construction of the Thornton Street overpass began before a deal was ﬁnalized with the landowners. But hey, at least there’s a fake island at the sinkhole Olympic Village. George Brissette, Vancouver

Habitat not for all humanity

To the editor: Re: “Habitat Island wildlife now includes party animals,” July 9. I am glad Christopher Cheung brought this to the attention of your readers. I have been taking our grandchildren to Habitat Island for many years and they called it “Treasurer Island” where they picked up shells and pebbles and occasionally coins.They also loved to throw rocks into the water and make big splashes! In recent years, we saw people drinking and smoking on the island which has become a “beer garden” and “smoking lounge.” Luckily we haven’t seen any needles, so far! I hope the VPD will enforce the no drinking law in public spaces and ﬁne the offenders $230. Let’s keep Habitat Island a tranquil place for non-party animals to enjoy. Kelly Ip, Vancouver

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July 17, 1964: A sculptor hired to kill a killer whale for research purposes by the director of the Vancouver Aquarium botches the job after hitting a five-metre long male orca with a harpoon launched from Saturna Island. After the whale refused to die, it was dragged to a makeshift pen at Burrard dry docks. Nicknamed Moby Doll by staff who mistook him for female, he was the first member of his species ever exhibited in captivity and became an instant international media sensation. Moby Doll died 87 days later after developing a skin disease from the low salinity in the harbour water and a fungal disease of the lungs. A moratorium on capturing orcas was implemented in 1976.

COURIER COLUMN: “Mayor’s marital mess dirties the NPA,” July 11. Chris Childs: This is par for the course for the NPA/Socred/BC Liberal ilk.They’re in the game for keeps and absolutely no tactic is too underhanded, devious or off limits to them.They run to destroy. It’s good to be King @Jason_E_King: I still say no one but a few “insiders” would have even heard about this if not for Vision PR. themsteri @teririch: I agree with you.Vision screwed up and are trying to spin as “bad” NPA, again.What I find more disturbing the “alleged” threats Magee made against Macdonald. Adele Chow @adele_chow: Handled badly by both parties. Let’s move on. Not important to be discussing anymore.

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COURIER STORY: “Dive group aims to hit the bottom,” July 11. Gary MacDonald:Want to know how the ARSBC put the health of hundreds of volunteers at risk by having them work unknowingly with toxic materials? See ChristineWood’s story in the Coast Reporter about how the Canadian government just spent almost a million dollars cleaning a ship the [Artificial Reef Society of B.C.] has sworn for five years is clean.Who can believe what the ARSBC says? And why did the Underwater Council of B.C. recently pull its support for this project? COURIER COLUMN: “Sounds of silence a challenge in the city,” July 9. airden @deg:When the ouzo starts to flow, my old Greek neighbours are louder than any leaf blower or motorcycle.

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YouthCO. “It’s obviously a more manageable illness.” But youth continue to contract HIV andYouthCO believes rates can be reduced with peer education. Only people aged 30 and younger staff the grassroots organization and provide peer education for youth living with or at risk of contracting HIV and hepatitis C. “The founders of YouthCO felt that creating a space for that youth voice, the whole ‘nothing about us without us’ attitude, they thought that was lacking and wanted to ﬁll the need by creating a safe place where they could have their voice be heard,” Brown said. According to the Public Health Agency of Canada, youth between the ages of 15 and 29 years old account for approximately 26 per cent of all HIVpositive cases. In 2007, 55 per cent of new hepatitis C infections in Canada were among youth. YouthCO recently ended its weekday dropin program where young people received individual support from staff because of funding changes from the provincial government

and Vancouver Coastal Health. But VCH recently provided funding for a full-time HIV support worker who will help youth with difficulties that include housing, addiction or engaging in a relationship with an HIV-positive person. YouthCO aims to reach communities most affected by HIV. It provides an education and leadership program for young, gay and trans men. “Historically, there’s more HIV in the gay community, so gay men make up over 50 per cent of new diagnoses of HIV,” Brown said. YouthCO also offers a workshop by and for indigenous youth throughout B.C. “The stat is aboriginal people make up five per cent of the population but approximately 15 per cent of new HIV diagnoses,” Brown said. The workshop considers colonization as a factor in health problems for aboriginal people and aims to help aboriginal youth feel more confident and to take responsibility for their

health and the health of their community. YouthCO reaches 5,000 young people each year with workshops on sexual health and harm reduction. It trains youth leaders as peer educators for their communities and friend networks.YouthCO also provides scholarship to HIV-positive youth. B.C. excels as one of the few provinces where HIV infection rates are dropping. Brown attributes this success to good government support. “I really hope that B.C. can be the ﬁrst place in the world that has an AIDS-free generation,” he said. “That’s not necessarily HIV-free, but through increased education and support we feel that you can get to zero with AIDS diagnoses.” Fundraising is more important than ever as money from the Public Health Agency of Canada and VCH has dwindled. YouthCO raised nearly $20,000 at its 20th anniversary celebration July 10. For more information about YouthCO, its volunteering opportunities and workshop, see youthco.org. twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi

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Woodland Park was full of girls late Thursday morning. Some sat cross-legged around their drums, intently watching Joy Mullen — better known in the local music scene as “Joy on Drums” — hit her snare. Over by the shade of the trees, another group pumped the air with their ﬁsts, mic in opposite hand, and mouthed words to faint music coming from their instructor’s smartphone as they learned about stage presence. As Sarah Cordingley, one of the organizers of Girls Rock Camp Vancouver, watched, she remembered her ﬁrst experience with an all-girl musical group when she joined the Vernon Girls Trumpet Band at age 11. “It was a really, really positive thing for me,” she said. “It didn’t have any politics behind it, it was a very oldfashioned, military drumming band but it was just so fun to play with other girls.” Even still, it never oc-

curred to Cordingley a few years later that she, a music lover, could actually be in a rock band herself, instead resorting to playing supporting roles such as photographer/girlfriend. “I felt really on the outside,” she remembered. Evidently it wasn’t just Cordingley who felt there was a wall to climb as a woman wanting to play rock ’n’ roll.The first Girls Rock Camp started in Portland, Ore. in 200, a city where embers of the Pacific Northwest feminist punk rock movement of the 1990s still glowed. Other cities across the U.S. soon followed suit and, in 2007, the Girls Rock Camp Alliance network became official at a Portland-based conference that included representatives from five American camps along with two European ones.The focus of the camps, now also held in Iceland and South America, is to help girls build self-esteem through musical creation. It’s the sixth year for the Vancouver version and while it may seem North American society has flung doors

1. Girls Rock Camp Vancouver organizer Sarah Cordingley (second from left) hangs out Thursday afternoon with campers Harriet Dykstra, Jazzy Wij and Myriam Dykstra. 2 Ainsley Watts, 11, works on her shredding.. See more photos at vancourier.com or scan this page with the Layar app. PHOTOS REBECCA BLISSETT

open to women in the music industry, Cordingley says there’s still much work to do. “There are so many more women musicians now than there was ﬁve or 10 years ago, but there’s still not a lot of female audio engineers or female sound techs,” she said, adding that ﬁnding a woman to work the board at the camp’s wrap-up showcase every year at the RioTheatre is a challenge. “We want to open up these avenues for girls and stop this kind of nonsense that stops them from doing it.When I walk down the street with a

couple of snare drums that I’m going to ﬁx, some people look at me like it’s a novelty — ‘Oh, there’s a girl with drums, isn’t that something.’ I don’t understand why, or what the difference is between a woman carrying drums or a man. I don’t want to be a novelty, I just want to play the drums.” Cordingley, who is also the music director at University of B.C. radio station CiTR, said she ﬁnds it frustrating to continually witness the over-sexualization of female musicians. “Why does it have to be a

‘hot chick drummer’ rather than ‘oh, that person is a good drummer’? If you’re a woman who’s playing an instrument, are you going to be judged differently than a man? I think so,” Cordingley said. “It’s really a big thing because Rock Camp is not about proving anything. It’s about expressing yourself and the whole idea here is not to create little virtuosic solo machines, it’s more about taking up space, being loud, feeling conﬁdent.” Thirty-two girls between the ages of eight and 17 attend Rock Camp every

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year in the space donated by the Urban NativeYouth Association (in return, camp organizers reserve 10 spots for First Nations girls) and the instruments are either brought from home by the campers, provided by the camp organizers and their friends, or donated by organizations such as Music B.C. Between learning an instrument to perform at the wrap showcase concert at the Rio Theatre Saturday night, the week-long camp is jammed with workshops that range from songwriting to self-defense. Cordingley doesn’t see Girls Rock Camp going away any time soon. “Maybe one day there won’t be the need to have a rock camp, when women and minorities and people of colour and people of different sexual or gender identities are not excluded from rock music in such a complete way in the big mainstream picture,” she said. “We don’t want to box people into stereotypical roles where you need to look a certain way. It’s unattainable and ridiculous and boring.”

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1 July 16 to 18, 2014 1. Described by some as “the Jimi Hendrix of violin,” Jaron Freeman-Fox at least hasn’t been called “theYngwie Malmsteen of violin.” Unfortunately his press people felt the need to use the term “violinovator,” which we cannot get behind. Anyway… Freeman-Fox will bring his strings to the Emerald July 16, 8:30 p.m. along with his band the Opposite of Everything for an evening that promises to mix ethereal folk music with Indian ragas, klezmer punk and latin-infused funk. 2. Standup comedian Suzanne Westenhoefer and singer-songwriter Kate Reid join forces for “an evening of queer song and humour” July 17, 7:30 p.m. at the WISE Hall. For more info and advanced tickets, go to soundandfuries.com/concerts. 3. Baltimore musical duo Wye Oak shakes things up on its latest album, Shriek. Drummer Andy Stack adds more keyboards to his repertoire, while singer-guitarist Jenn Wasner mostly drops her six-string in favour of bass.The enchanting result is less indie rock, more synth pop. Hear for yourself when Wye Oak plays Venue July 16 with guests Pattern is Movement.Tickets at Red Cat Records and ticketmaster.ca. 4. Billed as “an immersive site-speciﬁc journey ﬁlled with musical and theatrical intrigue,” The Orpheus Project is a multi-disciplinary look at the Orpheus stories, where audience members explore the nooks and crannies of the Cultch to uncover “secret rooms, mysterious music, interactive vignettes and moments of surprising beauty.” Sounds like a typical day at the Courier. Presented by Music on Main, The Orpheus Project runs July 17 to 20 at the Cultch.Tickets and details at the cultch.com. For video and web content, scan page using the Layar app.

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While the emergence of a new candidate can be an exciting time for civic affairs reporters who often toil away in dark rooms wearing tan chinos trying to make the minutiae of municipal politics appear slightly more sexy than an egg salad sandwich left in a hot car for an afternoon, it can be a windfall of inspiration for headline writers. A new candidate represents an opportunity to employ a slew of new puns and sly pop culture references into headlines, which is often the only glimmer of light at the end of the dark tunnel of page layout. In a word, a new candidate represents hope. Which is why we’re stoked about Kirk LaPointe ofﬁcially announcing he’s running as the NPA mayoral candidate in the Nov. 15 election againstVisionVancouver incumbent Gregor Robertson, and not just because the two candidates are certiﬁable manthers who are pretty easy on the eyes. LaPointe brings with him a wealth of media experience but also a fairly malleable name when it comes to headlines. We expect to see a few “Kirk gives the mayor a few LaPointers” headlines after a particularly heated debate. On the other hand, if LaPointe fumbles in the debate, you might see “LaPointe blank range” or “Grosse LaPointe blank” or “LaPointe break.” “LaPointe and shoot” is another no-brainer. As is “Power LaPointe presentation.” And while we’d advise headline writers against picking the low hanging

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Brasstronaut touches down at Folk Fest Other acts performing at 37th annual event include Joan Baez,Andrew Bird,Alejandro Escovedo STATE OF THE ARTS Cheryl Rossi

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Tariq Hussain saw a documentary about Andrew Bird a couple of years ago, so he’s excited Brasstronaut, the Vancouver-based band Hussain plays lap steel and electric guitar in, will play a workshop with Bird this weekend at the Vancouver Folk Music Festival. “I’m super excited,” Hussain said. “And just the whole vibe of it is so much fun because you get to be around all your friends.”

It’s Brasstronaut’s ﬁrst gig at Folk Fest, although the band has been making music for seven years. Pianist and vocalist Edo Van Breemen and trumpeter Bryan Davies played around town as a duo, added Brennan Saul on drums and John Walsh on bass.Then for a show at the Biltmore in 2009, they asked Hussain and Sam Davidson, who plays clarinet and electronic wind synthesizer, to join them. “We did that one [gig] and I think everyone was like, ‘Hey that’s pretty cool. Maybe you should keep going in that direction,’” Hussain said. “Over the years

Brasstronaut plays Folk Fest July 18 to 20 at Jericho Beach Park.

it’s really become more and more of a collaboration. It’s been a nice evolution.” Linda Tanaka, artistic director of Folk Fest, is a big fan. “I’ve been listening

to their music for a while but the more I listen to it the more I feel it’s so fresh and unique,” said “Just the instrumentation, the nice melodies, the jazz inﬂuence

in there. It’s refreshing. I just like their textured and layered sounds.” With Van Breemen currently based in NewYork City and Saul in Winnipeg, band members have been emailing tracks for the sextet’s forthcoming third album back and forth. Hussain says the new songs advance Brasstronaut’s ﬂavour with more of a dance beat.The band will bust out three new songs at its four appearances on Folk Fest stages throughout the weekend, including a Saturday evening slot. Brasstronaut’s ﬁrst release, Mount Chimaera, was longlisted for the 2010 Polaris Music Prize and “Hearts Trompet” from that album garnered a 2010 SOCAN Echo Songwriting Prize. The band’s 2012 follow-up, Mean Sun, includes dreamy, lush, orchestral pop songs. Brasstronaut has toured North America and Europe and received acclaim from music critics at the BBC, the U.K.’s Independent newspaper and the Toronto Star. As for other acts performing at this year’s Folk Fest, Hussain says he’s looking forward to seeing his friends Corbin Murdoch and Jenny Ritter. Hussain once opened up for Alejandro Escovedo in Calgary and wants to see what the singer/songwriter

is up to now. Also on his list are Mokoomba, the Zimbabwean band Brasstronaut will share a workshop stage with, as well as Born Rufﬁans, Great Lake Swimmers and Jay Malinowski and the Deadcoast. More than 60 artists will perform at the 37th annual festival, including folk goddess Joan Baez for the ﬁrst time. Ferron and First Nations grandmothers dressed in woven cedar bark robes will welcome festivalgoers at 4:30 p.m. Friday after the traditional Musqueam greeting. Tanaka says the festival will include more art than in previous years, with Loco Moto Arts projecting images onto Jericho Beach Park’s trees, and more interactive activities for kids. Tanaka noted children aged 12 and under enter free of charge when accompanied by an adult. She also emphasized that the festival features a special viewing platform for people with disabilities at the main stage and caregivers for people with disabilities also get in free. The Vancouver Folk Music Festival runs July 18 to 20 at Jericho Beach Park. For more information, see thefestival.bc.ca. twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi

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Advanced Lynn Creek hiking trail leads to massive cedars HIKING Mike Hanafin

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1 1. On the west side of Lynn Creek, a giant cedar stands about four kilometres from trailhead. 2. In a self-portrait, author Mike Hanaﬁn stands at the base of the largest of the giant cedars. PHOTOS MIKE HANAFIN

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majestic specimen worthy of the dozens of photos you’ll likely take. However, it is not perfect, and this is the only reason the cedar is still standing. Look up about 20 metres to the cleft where the tree twists and splits into two spires, each with broken tops. Logging crews spared split trees like this because their wood was not deemed the same quality as un-split cedars. The cedar is surrounded by second growth trees more than 100 years old that all look like twigs in comparison. About 25 metres downhill, a giant Douglas fir is perched on the edge of a cliff. It’s also worth a look before returning back uphill. Retracing your steps to the main trail, you can turn left and head back home. Or you can turn right and follow the CedarTreeTrail for another hour (over 1.5 kilometres) to visit a second, slightly smaller giant cedar. To this point, the trail is already for confident hikers but the next portion of the hike, should you continue, is only recommended for experienced and properly equipped hikers. And never do it alone. Many sections of the trail are steep and treacherous. Mike Hanafin is an avid backcountry hiker who can see the forest and the trees. twitter.

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huge cedar stumps that offer a hint of what this forest used to look like before the clear-cut logging of the early 1900s.There are also remnants of a few old log cabins and campsites hidden in the trees. The CedarTreeTrail starts as a wide gravel path but quickly narrows to dirt, rocks, roots and cedar planks that roughly follow the remains of a century-old logging road. Follow the yellow tree markers to avoid losing the trail. At the first major creek crossing (on a sturdy new bridge), you can see the destruction caused by a rock and mudslide that washed out the trail a few years ago. Look to the right for pieces of the previous plank bridge. Two more creeks (neither with a bridge) require careful rock-hopping. Shortly after climbing out of the gully of the second bridgeless creek, look for a rock cairn on the right. Turn right and follow orange flagging tape along a downhill trail, which takes you over, under and around fallen trees for 10 minutes until you reach the biggest tree you might ever see in your lifetime. This monstrous old-growth western red cedar is close to five metres in diameter and approximately 700 years old. It’s truly an awe-inspiring and

Giant Cedars Hike

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Summer may be glorious, but rain can fall any time of year in Vancouver.The next time the wet weather gets you down, thank it for the rainforests we have here in southwestern B.C. This climate has produced some of the largest trees on Earth, and the rainforest around the city is blessed with numerous giants — the biggest of which still stand along a little-used trail on the west side of Lynn Creek. For the price (none) of a four-hour hike, you can give a cedar colossus a hug some future rainy day. Or even on a sunny day this week. But keep in mind you’ll need at least a few people to get your arms completely around these giants. The west side of Lynn Creek used to be more popular for hiking before Lynn Headwaters Regional Park on the east side was opened to the public in 1985.These days, the base of Mt. Fromme has been taken over by numerous mountain bike trails. But the old hiking trail remains; it’s fairly well marked, though a little grown-over in spots and a little sketchy at some creek crossings.This is not a hike for novices. The trailhead for this hike is the Baden-Powell Trail entrance on the west side of the Lynn Headwaters Park road.The hike begins with a series of staircases that ascend a cliff, with a total of 210 steps by my count. Once this lung-buster is completed, you emerge in the rainforest. There are numerous routes to get you to the largest of the giant trees. The simplest route is to take the Baden-Powell Trail west to the Mountain Highway gravel road, turn right, and follow the road uphill until you see a sign on the right for the Cedar Tree Trail. However, you can also take a more interesting series of multi-use trails popular with bikers (Lower Griffen Switchbacks, Lower Griffen and Upper Griffen) to get to the same spot. Just remember to stay right at every intersection. Also, be on the lookout for mountain bikers, some of whom helped build and maintain these trails. Along the way you’ll see

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